Sermon Tone Analysis
Overall tone of the sermon
This automated analysis scores the text on the likely presence of emotional, language, and social tones. There are no right or wrong scores; this is just an indication of tones readers or listeners may pick up from the text.
A score of 0.5 or higher indicates the tone is likely present.
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Joy
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Confident
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Openness
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Conscientiousness
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Agreeableness
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In 10:32-35, the author drew attention to the suffering that at least some in the audience had experienced in the past:
Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when
you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering...
So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded ().
Here we see that the author praised his audience for their strength when they were persecuted in “those earlier days after [they] had [first] received the light.”
But he also encouraged them not to “throw away [their] confidence.”
The Greek term translated “confidence” here is parrēsia, which in many contexts means “courage,” “boldness,” or
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