I believed, even when I said: “I am greatly afflicted.”
A lying witness will perish, but a man who listens will speak forever.
We have the same spirit of faith. As it is written, “I believed, and therefore I have spoken.” So we also believe and therefore speak,
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
For we have not followed cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.
For no prophecy ever came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.