Hebrews 3:14

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English

If we can only keep our grip on the sure thing we started out with, we’re in this with Christ for the long haul.

These words keep ringing in our ears:

Today, please listen;

don’t turn a deaf ear as in the bitter uprising.

For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.

For we have become participants in Christ if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start.

For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.

For we have become partners of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of our commitment steadfast until the end,

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

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