¶ Therefore seeing that we have such an office, even as mercy is come on us, we faint not:
¶ He put forth a similitude unto them, signifying that men ought always to pray, and not to be weary, saying:
What is Paul? what thing is apollo? but ministers by whom ye believed even as the Lord gave every man grace.
¶ As concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet give I counsel as one that hath obtained of the Lord to be faithful.
¶ Seeing then that we have such trust we use great boldness,
which hath made us able to minister the new testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit: For the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
¶ Wherefore we are not wearied, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Nevertheless all things are of God, which hath reconciled us unto himself by Iesus Christ, and hath given unto us the office to preach the atonement.
Let us do good, and let us not faint. For when the time is come we shall reap without weariness.
Wherefore I desire, that ye faint not because of mine tribulations which I suffer for you: which is your praise.
I can do all things thorow the help of Christ, which strengtheneth me.
Brethren be not weary in well doing.
and put me in office, when before I was a blasphemer, and a persecuter, and a tyrant. Nevertheless I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief:
Consider therefore how that he endured such speaking against him of sinners, lest ye should be wearied and faint in your minds.
which in time past were not a people, yet are now the people of God, which were not under mercy: but now have obtained mercy.
And hast suffered, and hast patience: and for my name's sake hast laboured and hast not fainted.