² and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.^(A)

⁶ But Christ was faithful as a Son over his household. And we are that household if we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast.^[a](A)

¹⁴ For we have become participants in Christ if we hold firmly until the end the reality^[a] that we had at the start.^(A)