The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished:
Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, said the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD. His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire on his enemies...
That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
James 4:1-2 From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not.
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you.
He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows saving he that receives it.
