because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Above all, you do well if you recognize this: No prophecy of scripture ever comes about by the prophet’s own imagination,

We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.

Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges

For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.