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The lines of purpose in your lives never grow slack, tightly tied as they are to your future in heaven, kept taut by hope. The Message is as true among you today as when you first heard it. It doesn't diminish or weaken over time.

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the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel

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because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

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You do this because you are looking forward to the joys of heaven--as you have been ever since you first heard the truth of the Good News.