Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.
Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Gospel which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.