35 So do not throw away your confidence, since it holds a great reward for you.

36 For you need endurance, so that after you have done God's will you can receive what he has promised.

37 For "in a very little whilethe one who is coming will returnand will not delay;

38 but my righteous one will live by faith,and if he turns back,my soul will take no pleasure in him."

39 Now, we do not belong to those who turn back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.