So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.  For,

“In just a little while,    he who is coming will come    and will not delay.”

And,

“But my righteous one will live by faith.    And I take no pleasure    in the one who shrinks back.”

But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

Hebrews 10:35-11:1