2 Cor 7v8-10 8 For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. 9 As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.

2 Cor 7v8-10 8Want, al het ek julle ook deur die brief bedroef gemaak, is ek nie jammer nie, al was ek ook jammer. Want ek sien dat daardie brief, al was dit vir 'n kort tydjie, julle bedroef gemaak het. 9Nou is ek bly, nie omdat julle bedroef was nie, maar omdat julle bedroef was tot bekering, want julle was bedroef volgens die wil van God, sodat julle deur ons in niks skade gely het nie.

2 Tim 4v6-8 6For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. 7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

Romans 4 v 18 - 20 18Hy het teen hoop op hoop geglo dat hy vader sou word van baie volke volgens wat gesê was: So sal jou nageslag wees. 19En sonder om te verswak in die geloof het hy, al was hy omtrent honderd jaar oud, nie gelet op sy eie liggaam wat alreeds verstorwe was, en op die verstorwe toestand van die moederskoot van Sara nie.

Romans 4 v18 - 20 18In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” 19He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. 17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.

11 "Ek is die goeie herder. Die goeie herder lê sy lewe af vir die skape. 12 'n Huurling is geen herder nie, en dit is nie sy eie skape nie. As hy 'n wolf sien kom, los hy die skape en hardloop weg, en die wolf vang die skape en jaag die trop uitmekaar. 13 Hy is 'n huurling en bekommer hom nie oor die skape nie. 14 "Ek is die goeie herder. Ek ken my skape, en my skape ken My, 15 net soos die Vader My ken en Ek die Vader ken; en Ek lê my lewe af vir die skape. 16 Ek het nog ander skape, wat nie van hierdie kraal is nie. Ek moet hulle ook lei. Hulle sal na my stem luister, en hulle sal een kudde wees met een herder. 17 "Die Vader het My lief omdat Ek my lewe aflê om dit weer op te neem.