Persevere in Hope and Patience.
The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians — Polycarp
Let us then continually persevere in our hope, and the earnest of our righteousness, which is Jesus Christ, "who bore our sins in His own body on the tree," [384] "who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth," [385] but endured all things for us, that we might live in Him. [386] Let us then be imitators of His patience; and if we suffer [387] for His name's sake, let us glorify Him. [388] For He has set us this example [389] in Himself, and we have believed that such is the case.
Footnotes:

[384] 1 Pet. ii. 24.

[385] 1 Pet. ii. 22.

[386] Comp. 1 John 4:9.

[387] Comp. Acts 5:41; 1 Pet. iv. 16.

[388] Some read, "we glorify Him."

[389] Comp. 1 Pet. ii. 21.

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