Remember You are in a Battle

2 Esdras Chapter 7:42He answered me, and said, This present life is not the end where much glory doth abide; therefore have they prayed for the weak.43 But the day of doom shall be the end of this time, and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is past,44 Intemperance is at an end, infidelity is cut off, righteousness is grown, and truth is sprung up.45 Then shall no man be able to save him that is destroyed, nor to oppress him that hath gotten the victory.

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2Esdras7:57 Then answered he me, and said, This is the condition of the battle, which man that is born upon the earth shall fight;58 That, if he be overcome, he shall suffer as thou hast said: but if he get the victory, he shall receive the thing that I say.
59 For this is the life whereof Moses spake unto the people while he lived, saying, Choose thee life, that thou mayest live.

1 Maccabees 3:44“Then was the congregation gathered together, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask mercy and compassion.”

Ecclesiasticus 37:15“And above all this pray to the most High, that he will direct thy way in truth.”