Epistula ad Philippenses

Let us then persevere unceasingly in our hope.[*](Perseverance) and in the pledge of our righteousness, that is in Christ Jesus, who bare our sins in his own body on the tree, who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, but for our sakes, that we might live in him, he endured all things.

Let us then be imitators of his endurance, and if we suffer for his name’s sake let us glorify him. For this is the example which he gave us in himself, and this is what we have believed.