“I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”

Now Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life.

He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.