Are you making light of the word "endureth"?
No. Why are you asking that?
Are you interpreting this as an absoloute?
This?
for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life,
Yes. I consider the final judgement to be absolute.
v.
Do you believe that we who have eternal salvation believe we no longer have to endure temptation, and can sin as much as we want because we already are secure?
How many sincere believers do you know that feel this way? I attend a church full of secure believers, and there the hardest working group I've ever been with.
Knowing we're already secure in our eternal life, does not flip off a switch inside of us, and we head for the TV and the couch with our remotes to wait for the end.
JH :-)