15 ¶ And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
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14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: