For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in Heaven.

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

For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

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.

And also if anyone competes, he is not crowned unless he competes lawfully.

Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear so that none of you should show evidence of falling short.

The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory about to be revealed:

Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make sure of your calling and election, for if you do these things you will not ever stumble;

And from the days of John the Immerser until now the kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

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.

To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.