¹⁷ Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

²⁴ and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

³ Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong.

⁴ The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.

⁹ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend -- from counsel of the soul.

¹⁶ And Jonathan son of Saul riseth, and goeth unto David to the forest, and strengtheneth his hand in God,

³ thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;

¹² Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

¹³ but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice -- exulting;

³ Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.

⁴ Say to the hastened of heart, `Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.'

² All joy count `it', my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;

⁸ therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,

¹² for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.

³ that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set,

⁹ in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

¹⁰ because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that `is' in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.

¹¹ Stedfast `is' the word: For if we died together -- we also shall live together;

¹² if we do endure together -- we shall also reign together; if we deny `him', he also shall deny us;

¹³ if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.

¹¹ And he saith, `If Aram be stronger than I, then thou hast been to me for salvation, and if the Bene-Ammon be stronger than thou, then I have come to give salvation to thee;

¹² be strong and strengthen thyself for our people, and for the cities of our God, and Jehovah doth that which is good in His eyes.'