“In your patience endurance you will win your souls.”

Note how in the chiasmus this statement parallels the earlier “It will turn out to you for a testimony” (Luke 21:13). By their patient endurance as they gave testimony to Him and endured persecution they would gain in its fullest realisation the eternal life that they have received through Jesus. They will not lose their souls (Luke 12:5; see especially Mark 8:36). So the essence of these verses is twofold. The dreadful persecutions that must be faced and the certain security of all who are in Christ.

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