Epistle to the Romans (Long Version)
Chapter 3: Pray Instead That I May Achieve Martyrdom
You have never envied anyone; you have taught others. Now I desire that those things may be confirmed by your conduct, which in your instructions you enjoin on others. Only request on my behalf both inner and outer strength, that I may not only speak, but truly will, so that I may not merely be called a Christian, but really found to be one. For if I am truly found a Christian, I may also be called one, and be deemed faithful, when I shall no longer appear to the world. Nothing visible is eternal. "For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal." The Christian is not the result of persuasion, but of power. When he is hated by the world, he is loved by God. For says the Scripture, "If you were of this world, the world would love its own; but now you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it: continue in fellowship with me."