being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:
that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, (even) Christ,
but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.
for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end: