and being fully assured that what He had promised He is also able to perform.

And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I believe and therefore I speak, we also believe and therefore speak,

For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep safe what I have committed to Him until that Day.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were foreigners and pilgrims on the earth.

For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.

And I give them eternal life, and they shall never ever perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come; all are yours.

And you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.

So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.

We are confident, yes, preferring rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I do not know.

And no wonder; for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.

far above all rule and authority and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.

Put on all the armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against rulers, against authorities, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in the heavenlies.

For by Him all things were created that are in Heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

having disarmed rulers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

who has gone into Heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.