The Lord Jehovah has sworn by His holiness that the days are coming that He will lift you up with meat hooks, and the last of you with hooks for fishing.
God is not a man that He should lie, or a son of man that He should repent. Has He said, and shall He not do it? And has He spoken, and shall He not make it good?
But we ought to thank God always concerning you, brothers, having been loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth,