For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.
Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord:
This is my comfort in my affliction that thy promise gives me life.
And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain upon tablets, so he may run who reads it.
Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Now these things happened to them as a warning, but they were written down for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages has come.
remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore gird up your minds, be sober, set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.