For he says, &#8220;<i><b>I heard you at the acceptable timeb>, <b>and in the day of salvation I helped youb>i>.&#8221;<n id="1" /> Look, now is <b><i>the acceptable timei>b>; look, now is <b><i>the day of salvationi>b>!

<p class="poetry">For<n id="1" /> he has raised up<n id="2" /> a horn of salvation<n id="3" /> for us in the house of his servant David,<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">to give his people knowledge of salvation<n id="1" /> through the forgiveness<n id="2" /> of their sins.p>

And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

But since we are of the day, we must stay sober <i>by putting on the breastplatei><n id="1" /> of faith and love and as <i>a helmeti> our hope <i>for salvationi>.<n id="2" />

For God did not destine us for wrath<n id="1" /> but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

But in your case, dear friends, even though we speak like this, we are convinced of better things relating to salvation.

<p class="bodytext">Concerning this salvation,<n id="1" /> the prophets<n id="2" /> who predicted the grace that would come to you<n id="3" /> searched and investigated carefully.

Brothers,<n id="1" /> descendants<n id="2" /> of Abraham&#8217;s family,<n id="3" /> and those Gentiles among you who fear God,<n id="4" /> the message<n id="5" /> of this salvation has been sent to us.

Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is important<n id="1" /> for your survival.<n id="2" /> For not one of you will lose a hair from his head.&#8221;

and by not being intimidated in any way by your opponents. This is<n id="1" /> a sign of their<n id="2" /> destruction, but of your salvation &#8211; a sign which<n id="3" /> is from God.

So I endure all things for the sake of those chosen by God,<n id="1" /> that they too may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus and its eternal glory.<n id="2" />

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

She followed behind Paul and us and kept crying out,<n id="1" /> &#8220;These men are servants<n id="2" /> of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way<n id="3" /> of salvation.&#8221;<n id="4" />

But if we are afflicted,<n id="1" /> it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

And when<n id="1" /> you heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation) &#8211; when you believed in Christ<n id="2" /> &#8211; you were marked with the seal<n id="3" /> of the promised Holy Spirit,<n id="4" />

For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist,<n id="1" /> in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer<n id="2" /> of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you<n id="1" /> about our common salvation, I now feel compelled<n id="2" /> instead to write to encourage<n id="3" /> you to contend earnestly<n id="4" /> for the faith<n id="5" /> that was once for all<n id="6" /> entrusted to the saints.<n id="7" />

They went out and proclaimed everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs.]]p>