therefore.

Romans 2:4, 5
Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you to repentance? . . .

Romans 9:22, 23
What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction? . . .

Numbers 14:18-22
The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He visits the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.' . . .

Deuteronomy 32:39-43
See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand. . . .

Joshua 23:15, 16
But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you. . . .

Psalm 58:10, 11
The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked. . . .

Psalm 78:49-52
He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity--a band of destroying angels. . . .

Psalm 136:15-22
but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His loving devotion endures forever. . . .

Isaiah 66:14
When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.

severity.

if thou.

Romans 2:7
To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.

Luke 8:15
But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.

John 8:31
So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.

John 15:4-10
Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. . . .

Acts 11:23
When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.

Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. "We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God, " they said.

1 Corinthians 15:2
By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

Galatians 6:9
Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest, if we do not give up.

1 Thessalonians 3:5, 8
For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and caused our labor to be in vain. . . .

Hebrews 3:6, 14
But Christ is faithful as the Son over God's house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast. . . .

Hebrews 10:23, 35-39
Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful. . . .

1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.

Jude 1:20, 21
But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, . . .

otherwise.

Ezekiel 3:20
Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.

Ezekiel 18:24
But when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die.

Ezekiel 33:17-19
Yet your people say, 'The way of the LORD is not just.' But it is their way that is not just. . . .

Matthew 3:9, 10
And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. . . .

John 15:2
He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

Revelation 2:5
Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.