⁸ For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

²³ Then when he arrived and ^[a]witnessed ^(A)the grace of God, he rejoiced and began to encourage them all with ^[b]resolute heart to remain true to the Lord;

²⁸ so Christ also, having been ^(A)offered once to ^(B)bear the sins of many, will appear ^(C)a second time for ^(D)salvation ^(E)without reference to sin, to those who ^(F)eagerly await Him.

¹⁴ For we have become partakers of Christ ^(A)if we keep the beginning of our ^[a](B)commitment firm until the end,

¹⁵ But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word ^[a]with a good and virtuous heart, and hold it firmly, and produce fruit with ^[b]perseverance.

⁵ Now she who is actually a ^(A)widow and has been left alone ^(B)has set her hope on God, and she continues in ^(C)requests and prayers night and day.

³ and you have ^[a]perseverance and have endured ^(A)on account of My name, and have not become weary.