you shall say to him: Long life and peace to you, peace to your house, and peace to all that you have!

For His anger is but for a moment; in His favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

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

Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you continue to abide in My Word, you are truly My disciples.

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall happen unto you.

When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced, and encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord.

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.

Watch, stand fast in the faith, be like men, be strong.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head, Christ,

from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every individual does its part, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

Therefore take up all the armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Stand firm therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Only, let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,

Therefore, my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, beloved.

if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under Heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold fast to the origin of our Foundation steadfast to the end,

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

Let us hold fast the confession of the hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

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.

You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware also that you not be led away with the error of the wicked, and fall from your own steadfastness.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not at all know what hour I will come upon you.

Behold, I am coming quickly. Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.