saying, `This man began to build, but could not finish.'
The heavy rain descends, the swollen torrents come, and the winds blow and burst upon the house, and it falls; and disastrous is the fall.«
lest perhaps, when he has laid the foundation and is unable to finish, all who see it shall begin to jeer at him,
Or what king, marching to encounter another king in war, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand men to meet the one who is advancing against him with twenty thousand?
But it is by faith that My righteous servant shall live; and if he shrinks back, My soul takes no pleasure in him.«
But we long for each of you to continue to manifest the same earnestness, with a view to your enjoying fulness of hope to the very End;
Keep guard over yourselves, so that you may not lose the results of your good deeds, but may receive back a full reward.
