‘For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed:  for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.’

‘And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.’

‘And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.’