希伯來書10:32-39

10:32 你們要追念往日，蒙了光照以後所忍受大爭戰的各樣苦難：
10:33 一面被毀謗，遭患難，成了戲景，叫眾人觀看；一面陪伴那些受這樣苦難的人。
10:34 因為你們體恤了那些被捆鎖的人，並且你們的家業被人搶去，也甘心忍受，知道自己有更美長存的家業。
10:35 所以，你們不可丟棄勇敢的心；存這樣的心必得大賞賜。
10:36 你們必須忍耐，使你們行完了上帝的旨意，就可以得著所應許的。
10:37 因為還有一點點時候，那要來的就來，並不遲延；
10:38 只是義人（有古卷：我的義人）必因信得生。他若退後，我心裡就不喜歡他。
10:39 我們卻不是退後入沉淪的那等人，乃是有信心以致靈魂得救的人。

³² Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering. ³³ Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. ³⁴ You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. ³⁵ So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.
³⁶ You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. ³⁷ For,

“In just a little while,
    he who is coming will come
    and will not delay.”

³⁸ And,

“But my righteous one will live by faith.
    And I take no pleasure
    in the one who shrinks back.”

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

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     末世的迫切性，再次由自裡行間跳出來！尤其是為義受逼迫的時候，更是讓聖徒想到上帝國快快實現的迫切性！也因為對末世的救恩實現的肯定，就可以勇敢忍受眼前的苦楚，因為心中有盼望！

    正如這裡所說：「一面被毀謗，遭患難，成了戲景，叫眾人觀看；一面陪伴那些受這樣苦難的人。因為你們體恤了那些被捆鎖的人，並且你們的家業被人搶去，也甘心忍受，知道自己有更美長存的家業。」

    當我們望見那美好的應許，就要勇敢忍受限在的景況，因為這一切都要過去，上帝的國必定真真實實的實現，正如作者在此殷殷的述說：「因為還有一點點時候，那要來的就來，並不遲延；只是義人（有古卷：我的義人）必因信得生。他若退後，我心裡就不喜歡他。我們卻不是退後入沉淪的那等人，乃是有信心以致靈魂得救的人。」

    是的！上帝恆保守，聖徒的恆忍就有意義了！