²⁸ Just as I watched over them to uproot and to tear them down, to demolish and to destroy, and to cause disaster, so will I be attentive to build and to plant them,”^(A) says the Lord.

⁶ I am sure of this, that He who started a good work^(A) in you^[a] will carry it on to completion^(B) until the day of Christ Jesus.