"Therefore,keep up your courage,men,for I believeGodthat it will turnout exactlyas I have been told.
They roseearlyin the morningand wentout to the wildernessof Tekoa;and when they wentout, Jehoshaphatstoodand said,"Listento me, O Judahand inhabitantsof Jerusalem,putyour trustin the LORDyour Godand you will be established.Putyour trustin His prophetsand succeed."
"Godis not a man,that He should lie,Nora sonof man,that He should repent;Has He said,and will He not doit? Or has He spoken,and will He not makeit good?
"And blessed[is] she who believedthat there would be a fulfillmentof what had been spokento her by the Lord."
But the centurionwas morepersuadedby the pilotand the captain of the shipthanby what was being saidby Paul.
Allof them were encouragedand they themselvesalso tookfood.
For thisreasonI alsosufferthese things,but I am not ashamed;for I knowwhomI have believedand I am convincedthat He is ableto guardwhat I have entrustedto Him untilthat day.
