This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD…But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him.” (Jeremiah 17:5-7 NIV)

We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first. (Hebrews 3:14 NIV)