"Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:" 1 Peter 4:12

"Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before," Philippians 3:13

"He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee," Luke 24:6

"Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)" Romans 10:23