Randolf Salamat

Achieving perseverance

James 1:4 (NIV)
Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

2 Corinthians 7:2-16

2 Corinthians 7:2-16 (NIV)
Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one.

On being sorrow

2 Corinthians 7:10 (NKJV)
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

What we are often sorrow of

Luke 12:22-34 (NKJV)
Then He said to His disciples, Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on.

2 Corinthians 7:10

2 Corinthians 7:10 (MSG)
Distress that drives us to God does that. It turns us around. It gets us back in the way of salvation. We never regret that kind of pain. But those who let distress drive them away from God are full of regrets, end up on a deathbed of regrets.

Renewed strength

Isaiah 40:31 (NET)
But those who wait for the Lord’s help find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles’ wings, they run without growing weary, they walk without getting tired.

Galatians 5:1

Galatians 5:1 (NIV)
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

John 1:19

John 1:19 (NET)
Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”