This section closes with another benediction. The “God of all grace” might be “the all-gracious God” or “the God from whom all gifts come”—either way, it is a good beginning for a benediction! This God has set as your goal “his eternal glory in Christ Jesus,” meaning participation in the blessings of the end. “Once you have suffered a little while” is just two words in Greek: oligon, “little,” and pathontas, “having suffered.” The “little” could modify the participle, meaning that you have suffered