¹¹ Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

⁴ For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.

¹⁰ or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, `to thresh' in hope of partaking.

¹¹ And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we `first' believed.

⁵ Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour.

²³ Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned unto him;

²⁹ But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

²⁵ not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting `one another'; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.

³⁷ For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry.