1 Corinthians 15:58

58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Ver. 58. Always abounding, &c. ] This will strengthen faith, as the often knocking upon a stake fastens it. When faith bears fruit upward, it will take root downward.

Forasmuch as ye know ] Bestir you therefore. It troubled a martyr at the stake that he should then go to a place where he should ever be receiving wages and do no more work. It will repent us (if it were possible to repent in heaven) that we began no sooner, wrought no harder.