“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1).

“I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him” (Deuteronomy 18:18).

“For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise” (Hebrews 10:36).

“For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands” (Psalm 92:4).

“O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days” (Psalm 90:14).