²⁴ God, by whom you have been marked out in his purpose, is unchanging and will make it complete.

⁹ God is true, through whom you have been given a part with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

³ But the Lord is true, who will give you strength and keep you safe from evil.

¹⁹ God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?

¹ O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of power; your purposes in the past have been made true and certain in effect.

¹⁰ And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;

⁹ Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;

¹³ If we are without faith, still he keeps faith, for he will never be untrue to himself.

³³ He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.

²³ They are new every morning; great is your good faith.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

¹² So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.

³ Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;

² In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;

² I will give worship before your holy Temple, praising your name for your mercy and for your unchanging faith: for you have made your word greater than all your name.

³⁰ And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory.

⁹ Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

¹⁴ These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is the Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are named, marked out, and true.

¹⁰ Your righteousness has not been folded away in my heart; I have made clear your true word and your salvation; I have not kept secret your mercy or your faith from the great meeting.

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

² For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.

¹⁵ But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.

⁵ Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and your strong purpose is as high as the clouds.

³¹ For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.

² To make clear your mercy in the morning, and your unchanging faith every night;

⁵ For the Lord is good, and his mercy is never-ending; his faith is unchanging through all generations.

⁶ Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:

⁷ Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.

²⁴ The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:

²⁵ To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.

²⁶ This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations.

³² For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.

²⁰ You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.

²⁴ Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?

¹³ You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

¹⁴ And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,

¹⁷ So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;

¹⁸ So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;