35 So, do not become discouraged when they cause you to suffer {you are persecuted}, because if you continue to trust in God, he will greatly reward you. 36 You must patiently continue to trust in him in order that, because of your doing what God wants you to do, he will give you what he has promised. 37 You must do that since a prophet wrote in the Scriptures that God said about the Messiah,

In just a short time the one I promised would come will surely come;

he will not delay coming.

38 But those whom I have summoned, who act righteously, must continually live trusting in me,

because if they, in a cowardly manner, cease to trust in me, I

◄will not be pleased/will be angry► with them.

39 But we are not ones who in a cowardly manner stop trusting in God, with the result that God will severely punish us. Instead, we are ones who trust in him, with the result that God will save us [SYN] eternally.