16节关于忍受艰难时刻的圣经经文，以及那个意为“坚守”的词

The New Testament word for endurance means remaining under something, not getting through it. Hypomone is built from two parts — under, and stay — and it describes a position held rather than an activity performed. That is a different subject from coping, and it changes what these verses are offering. Nobody in them is promised an exit; they are told what it is possible to do while the weight is still there. The sixteen passages below follow that: the…