¹ For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong:

¹³ And you, my brothers, do not get tired of well-doing.

⁹ And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

³ And you have the power of waiting, and have undergone trouble because of my name, without weariness.

¹³ For this reason it is my prayer that you may not become feeble because of my troubles for you, which are your glory.

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.

⁶ Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.

²⁵ Now about virgins I have no orders from the Lord: but I give my opinion as one to whom the Lord has given mercy to be true to him.

¹⁰ In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.

³ Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.

¹³ Though I had said violent words against God, and done cruel acts, causing great trouble: but I was given mercy, because I did it without knowledge, not having faith;

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

⁷ Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:

¹⁸ But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace;

¹² Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,

³⁰ Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;