4 For whatever was written in former days ^ywas written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

10 Does he not certainly speak ^vfor our sake? It was written for our sake, because ^wthe plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.

11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.