Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart.
But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary in doing good.
And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
Therefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not become weary.
For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.
who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.
although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech—
Now concerning virgins: I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgment as one whom the Lord in His mercy has made trustworthy.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,
But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.
‘You said, “Woe is me now! For the Lord has added grief to my sorrow. I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.” ’
Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart,
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?