³ When my cry came to your ears you gave me an answer, and made me great with strength in my soul.

⁷ For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.

¹³ I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

⁶ For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

¹¹ For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.

⁶ You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,

¹ <Of David.> The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

³⁹ But the Lord is the saviour of the upright: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

¹¹ For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;

¹² That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me.

¹³ You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

¹⁶ For which cause we do not give way to weariness; but though our outer man is getting feebler, our inner man is made new day by day.

¹¹ So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.

⁷ For this cause, brothers, in all our trouble and grief we were comforted about you because of your faith;