Chapter VIII.—Persevere in hope and...

Chapter VIII.—Persevere in hope and patience.

Let us then continually persevere in our hope, and the earnest of our righteousness, which is Jesus Christ, “who bore our sins in His own body on the tree,” ³⁸⁴ “who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth,” ³⁸⁵ but endured all things for us, that we might live in Him. ³⁸⁶ Let us then be imitators of His patience; and if we suffer ³⁸⁷ for His name’s sake, let us glorify Him. ³⁸⁸ For He has set us this example ³⁸⁹ in Himself, and we have believed that such is the case.

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1 Pet. ii. 24.

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1 Pet. ii. 22.

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Comp. 1 John iv. 9.

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Comp. Acts v. 41; 1 Pet. iv. 16.

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Some read, “we glorify Him.”

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Comp. 1 Pet. ii. 21.