2 Thessalonians Cross References - Goodspeed

¹ Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the Thessalonian church in union with God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; ² God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace. ³ We always have to thank God for you, brothers, as it is right that we should, because your faith is growing so wonderfully and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. ⁴ As a result, we ourselves speak of you with pride in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in the face of all the persecutions and troubles you are having to endure. ⁵ This is a proof of God's justice in judging, and it is to prove you worthy of the Kingdom of God, for the sake of which you are suffering, ⁶ since God considers it only just to repay with suffering those who are making you suffer ⁷ and to give rest to you who are suffering and to us, when our Lord Jesus appears from heaven, with his mighty angels ⁸ in a blaze of fire, and takes vengeance on the godless who will not listen to the good news of our Lord Jesus. ⁹ They will be punished with eternal ruin and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and his glorious might, ¹⁰ when on that Day he comes to be honored in his people, and wondered at in all who believe in him—because our testimony has been confirmed in you. ¹¹ To this end we always pray for you too, asking our God to find you worthy of the call he has given you, and by his power to fulfil every desire you may have for goodness, and every effort of your faith, ¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and you in him, by the blessing of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ "Blessed are those who have endured persecution for their uprightness, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them! ¹¹ "Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account. ¹² Be glad and exult over it, for you will be richly rewarded in heaven, for that is the way they persecuted the prophets who went before you!

²² Many will say to me on that Day, 'Lord! Lord! Was it not in your name that we prophesied, and by your name that we drove out demons, and by your name that we did many mighty acts?' ²³ Then I will say to them plainly, 'I never knew you! Go away from me, you who do wrong!'

³⁹ The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels. ⁴⁰ So just as the weeds are gathered up and burned, this is what will happen at the close of the age; ⁴¹ the Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather up out of his kingdom all the causes of sin and the wrongdoers ⁴² and throw them into the blazing furnace; there they will wail and grind their teeth. ⁴³ Then the upright will shine out like the sun, in their Father's kingdom. Let him who has ears listen!

²⁷ For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in his Father's glory, and then he will repay everyone for what he has done.

¹³ Then the king said to his attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness, there to weep and grind his teeth.'

³⁰ Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will lament when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, in all his power and splendor.

³⁶ But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father.

³¹ "When the Son of Man comes in his splendor, with all his angels with him, he will take his seat on his glorious throne,

⁴¹ Then he will say to those at his left, 'Begone, you accursed people, to the everlasting fire destined for the devil and his angels!

⁴⁶ Then they will go away to everlasting punishment, and the upright to everlasting life."

²⁴ The Son of Man is to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born!"

⁶⁴ Jesus said to him, "It is true. But I tell you you will soon see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty and coming upon the clouds of the sky!"

²⁸ The ground of itself is productive, putting forth first a blade, then a head, then fully developed wheat in the head.

³⁸ For if anyone is ashamed of me and my teachings in this unfaithful and sinful age, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when he comes back in his Father's glory, with the holy angels."

⁴³ If your hand makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life maimed, than go with both your hands to the pit, into the fire that cannot be put out. ⁴⁴ OMITTED TEXT ⁴⁵ And if your foot makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life crippled, than be thrown with both your feet into the pit. ⁴⁶ OMITTED TEXT ⁴⁷ And if your eye makes you fall, tear it out. You might better get into the Kingdom of God with only one eye than be thrown with both your eyes into the pit, ⁴⁸ where the worm that feeds upon them never dies and the fire is never put out. ⁴⁹ Everyone must be seasoned with fire.

⁶² But Jesus said, "I am! and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty and coming in the clouds of the sky!"

¹² I tell you, on that Day Sodom will fare better than that town!

³² Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen to give you the kingdom.

²⁷ And he will say to you, 'I do not know where you come from. Get away from me, all you wrongdoers!'

³² But we had to celebrate and be glad, because your brother was dead, and has come to life, and was lost and is found!' "

²⁵ And Abraham said, 'My child, remember that you received your blessings in your lifetime, and Lazarus had his misfortunes in his; and now he is being comforted here, while you are in anguish.

²⁵ And Abraham said, 'My child, remember that you received your blessings in your lifetime, and Lazarus had his misfortunes in his; and now he is being comforted here, while you are in anguish. ²⁶ Besides there is a great chasm set between you and us, so that those who want to go over from this side to you cannot, and they cannot cross from your side to us.'

⁵ The apostles said to the Master, "Give us more faith."

³⁰ It will be like that on the day when the Son of Man appears.

³⁵ but those who are thought worthy to attain that other world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are married.

³⁶ But you must be vigilant and always pray that you may succeed in escaping all this that is going to happen, and in standing in the presence of the Son of Man."

³ Everything came into existence through him, and apart from him nothing came to be.

⁵¹ And he said to him, "I tell you all, you will see heaven opened and God's angels going up, and coming down to the Son of Man!"

¹⁹ And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.

¹⁴ Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him, "See! You are well again. Give up sin, or something worse may happen to you."

²⁷ You must not work for the food that perishes, but for that which lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has authorized him to do so." ²⁸ Then they said to him, "What must we do to carry out God's work?" ²⁹ Jesus answered them, "The work God has for you is to believe in the messenger that he has sent to you."

¹⁹ Then they said to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father too."

⁴ When Jesus received it he said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but is for the honor of God, that through it the Son of God may be honored."

² Any branch of mine that does not bear fruit he trims away, and he prunes every branch that bears fruit, to make it bear more.

¹⁰ all that is mine is yours and what is yours is mine—and they have done me honor.

²¹ Let them all be one. Just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am with you, let them be in union with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. ²² I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one just as we are, ²³ I in union with them and you with me, so that they may be perfectly unified, and the world may recognize that you sent me and that you love them just as you loved me. ²⁴ Father, I wish to have those whom you have given me with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me, for you loved me before the creation of the world. ²⁵ Righteous Father, though the world did not know you, I knew you, and these men knew that you had sent me. ²⁶ I have made your self known to them and I will do so still, so that the love which you have had for me may be in their hearts, and I may be there also."

¹¹ and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into the sky? This very Jesus who has been caught up from you into heaven will come in just the way that you have seen him go up to heaven."

⁷ So God's message continued to spread; the number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a great many priests accepted the faith.

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out plainly, and said, "God's message had to be told to you first, but since you thrust it off and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the heathen.

²² reassuring the disciples and encouraging them to stand by the faith and reminding them that we have to undergo many hardships to get into the Kingdom of God.

¹ He went to Derbe and Lystra also. At Lystra there was a disciple named Timothy whose mother was a Jewish Christian while his father was a Greek,

⁵ through whom we have received God's favor and been commissioned in his name to urge obedience and faith upon all the heathen,

⁷ to all those in Rome whom God loves, who are called to be his people; God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace. ⁸ First I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the news of your faith is spreading all over the world. ⁹ As God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in spreading the good news of his Son, I never fail to mention you when I pray,

²⁸ And just as they refused to recognize God any longer, God has abandoned them to unworthy impulses and indecent conduct.

⁵ But in your obstinacy and impenitence you are storing up wrath for yourself on the Day of Wrath, when the justice of God will burst forth.

⁷ Those who by persistently doing right strive for glory, honor, and immortality will have eternal life,

⁷ Those who by persistently doing right strive for glory, honor, and immortality will have eternal life, ⁸ but self-seeking people who are disloyal to the truth and responsive only to what is wrong will experience anger and fury,

³ More than that, we ought to glory in our troubles, for we know that trouble produces endurance, ⁴ and endurance, character, and character, hope, ⁵ and hope will not disappoint us. For, through the holy Spirit that has been given us, God's love has flooded our hearts.

¹⁶ Do you not know that when you submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness?

¹⁷ and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too.

²⁵ But when we hope for something that we do not see, we wait persistently for it.

³⁰ and those whom he has predestined he calls, and those whom he calls he makes upright, and those whom he makes upright he glorifies.

²³ so as to show all the wealth of his glory in dealing with the objects of his mercy, whom he has prepared from the beginning to share his glory, ²⁴ including us whom he has called not only from among the Jews but from among the heathen?

¹⁶ It is true, they have not all accepted the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what we have told?"

¹² Be happy in your hope, steadfast in time of trouble, persistent in prayer.

¹⁸ For I will venture to speak only of what Christ has accomplished through me in winning the heathen to obedience, by word and action,

²⁶ and at the command of the eternal God made known through the writings of the prophets to all the heathen, to lead them to obedience and faith—

³ God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace. ⁴ I am always thanking God about you, for the blessing God has given you through Christ Jesus.

⁶ So your experience has confirmed the testimony that I bore to Christ,

⁸ and at the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ he will insure your complete vindication.

¹³ the quality of everyone's work will appear, for the Day will show it. For the Day will break in fire, and the fire will test the quality of everyone's work.

¹⁷ Only, everyone must continue in the station which the Lord has appointed for him, and in which he was when God's call came to him. This is the rule I make in all the churches.

³⁴ Return to your sober sense as you ought, and stop sinning, for some of you are utterly ignorant about God. To your shame I say so.

¹⁹ The Son of God, Christ Jesus, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus, Timothy, and I, you have not found wavering between "Yes" and "No." With him it has always been "Yes,"

¹⁷ For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison,

¹⁴ If I did express some pride in you to him, I have had no reason to be ashamed of it, but just as all I said to you was true, my boasting before Titus has also proved true.

⁹ You know how gracious the Lord Jesus Christ was. Though he was rich, he became poor for your sake, in order that by his poverty you might become rich.

² for I know how willing you are to help in it; I boast of you for it to the people in Macedonia, telling them that Greece has been ready since last year, and your enthusiasm has been a stimulus to most of them.

⁴ for if some people from Macedonia come with me, and find that you are not ready, it will humiliate me—to say nothing of you—for having expressed such confidence.

⁵ I destroy arguments and every obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God, and I take captive every thought and make it obey Christ,

⁴ Even if he was crucified through weakness, by the power of God he is alive. For we are weak as he was, but you will find that by the power of God we will be alive as he is.

²⁴ and they praised God for me.

¹ You senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, when you had Jesus Christ shown crucified right before your eyes?

⁸ But formerly, in your ignorance of God, you were slaves to gods that really did not exist,

² God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

⁵ He foreordained us to become his sons through Jesus Christ, in fulfilment of his generous purpose, ⁶ so that we might praise the splendid blessing which he has given us through his beloved Son.

⁹ He has given us perfect insight into his secret purpose and understanding of it, in following out the design he planned to carry out in Christ,

¹² to win praise for his glory, by having been the first to believe in Christ.

¹⁴ which is the advance installment of our inheritance, so that we may get full possession of it, and praise his glory for it.

¹⁶ never cease to thank God for you when I mention you in my prayers.

¹⁸ enlightening the eyes of your mind so that you may know what the hope is to which he calls you, and how gloriously rich his inheritance is among God's people, ¹⁹ and how surpassingly great his power is for us who believe; like the mighty strength ²⁰ he exerted in raising Christ from the dead, and seating him at his right hand in heaven,

⁷ to show the incomparable wealth of his mercy throughout the ages to come by his goodness to us through Christ Jesus.

¹⁰ so that the many-sided wisdom of God may now through the church be made known to the rulers and authorities in heaven,

¹⁴ For this reason I kneel before the Father ¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven or on earth takes its name, ¹⁶ and beg him out of his wealth of glory to strengthen you mightily through his Spirit in your inner nature

¹⁶ and beg him out of his wealth of glory to strengthen you mightily through his Spirit in your inner nature ¹⁷ and through your faith to let Christ in his love make his home in your hearts. Your roots must be deep and your foundations strong, ¹⁸ so that you and all God's people may be strong enough to grasp what breadth, length, height, and depth mean, ¹⁹ and to understand Christ's love, so far beyond our understanding, so that you may be filled with the very fulness of God. ²⁰ To him who by the exertion of his power within us can do unutterably more than all we ask or imagine, ²¹ be glory through the church and through Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever. Amen.

¹ So I, the prisoner for the Lord's sake, appeal to you to live lives worthy of the summons you have received;

²⁰ always give thanks for everything to God our Father, as followers of our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁶ For I am certain that he who has begun the good work in you will finish it for the Day of Jesus Christ. ⁷ And I have a right to feel in this way about you all, because both when I am in prison and when I am defending and vindicating our right to preach the good news, I have you in my heart as all sharing that privilege with me.

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may grow richer and richer in knowledge and perfect insight,

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may grow richer and richer in knowledge and perfect insight, ¹⁰ so that you may have a sense of what is vital, and may be men of transparent character and blameless life, in preparation for the Day of Christ, ¹¹ with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

²⁸ Never for a moment falter before your opponents, for your fearlessness will be a sure sign for them of their coming destruction, but to you it will be an omen, from God himself, of your deliverance.

⁹ That is why God has so greatly exalted him, and given him the name above all others, ¹⁰ so that in the name of Jesus everyone should kneel, in heaven and on earth and in the underworld, ¹¹ and everyone should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, and thus glorify God the Father.

¹³ For it is God who in his good will is at work in your hearts, inspiring your will and your action.

⁹ and be known to be united to him, with any uprightness I may have not based on law but coming through faith in Christ—the uprightness that comes from God through faith.

¹⁴ I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.

¹⁹ They are doomed to destruction: their appetites are their god; they glory in their shame; they are absorbed in earthly matters.

⁹ That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is, ¹⁰ so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God. ¹¹ Then, so mighty is his majesty, he will nerve you perfectly with strength for the cheerful exercise of endurance and forbearance in every situation, ¹² and you will thank the Father who has entitled you to share the lot of God's people in the realm of light.

¹² and you will thank the Father who has entitled you to share the lot of God's people in the realm of light. ¹³ He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us into the realm of his dear Son,

¹⁶ for it was through him that everything was created in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, angelic thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

⁹ For it is in him that all the fulness of God's nature lives embodied, ¹⁰ and in union with him you too are filled with it. He is the head of all your principalities and dominions.

²⁵ For the man who wrongs anyone will be paid back for the wrong he has done; there will be no exceptions.

¹ Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the Thessalonian church in union with God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; God bless you and give you peace. ² We always thank God for you all when we mention you in our prayers,

² We always thank God for you all when we mention you in our prayers, ³ for we can never forget before our God and Father your energetic faith, your loving service, and your unwavering expectation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

³ for we can never forget before our God and Father your energetic faith, your loving service, and your unwavering expectation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

³ for we can never forget before our God and Father your energetic faith, your loving service, and your unwavering expectation of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴ For we know, brothers whom God so loves, that he has chosen you, ⁵ for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction—you know the kind of life we lived among you for your good.

⁵ for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction—you know the kind of life we lived among you for your good. ⁶ And you followed the example set by us and by the Lord, for though our message brought you great trouble, you welcomed it with joy inspired by the holy Spirit, ⁷ so that you set an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Greece. ⁸ For the Lord's message has rung out from you not only over Macedonia and Greece, but the story of your belief in God has gone everywhere, so that we never need to mention it. ⁹ For when people speak of us, they tell what a welcome you gave us, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a true and living God, ¹⁰ and to wait for the coming from heaven of his Son, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, our deliverer from God's coming wrath.

¹ You know yourselves, brothers, that our visit to you was far from ineffectual.

¹² to make your lives worthy of God who invites you into his kingdom and his glory. ¹³ We for our part constantly thank God for another reason too—because when you received God's message from our lips, you welcomed it not as the message of men but as the message of God, as it really is, which does its work in the hearts of you believers.

¹³ We for our part constantly thank God for another reason too—because when you received God's message from our lips, you welcomed it not as the message of men but as the message of God, as it really is, which does its work in the hearts of you believers. ¹⁴ For you, brothers, followed the example of God's churches in Judea that are in union with Christ Jesus, for you in your turn had to bear the same ill-treatment from your neighbors as they did from the Jews,

¹⁹ For what hope or happiness shall we have or what prize to be proud of in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes, except you?

² and I sent my brother Timothy, a servant of God in preaching the good news of the Christ, to strengthen you in your faith ³ and encourage you not to be led astray, any of you, in all these troubles. You know yourselves that this is what we must expect, ⁴ for when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were going to have trouble, and it came true, as you know. ⁵ That was why, when I could not bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for I was afraid that the tempter might have tempted you and all our labor might be lost. ⁶ But now that Timothy has just come back to me from you, and brought me good news of your faith and love, and told me how kindly you think of me and that you long to see me just as much as I long to see you,

⁶ But now that Timothy has just come back to me from you, and brought me good news of your faith and love, and told me how kindly you think of me and that you long to see me just as much as I long to see you, ⁷ I feel encouraged, brothers, about you, in spite of all my distress and trouble, at your faith, ⁸ for now I can really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord. ⁹ For how can I thank God enough for you, for all the happiness you make me feel in the presence of our God,

⁹ For how can I thank God enough for you, for all the happiness you make me feel in the presence of our God, ¹⁰ as I pray night and day with intense earnestness that I may see your faces and supply what is lacking in your faith? ¹¹ May our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus open my way to you! ¹² May the Lord make your love for one another and for all men wide and full like my love for you,

¹² May the Lord make your love for one another and for all men wide and full like my love for you, ¹³ so that your hearts may be strong and faultlessly pure in the sight of our God and Father, when our Lord Jesus appears with all his saints!

¹ Now, brothers, we ask and entreat you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to live as you learned from us that you must live, to please God—as indeed you are doing, only do it more and more.

⁵ not to gratify his passion, like the heathen who know nothing of God.

⁹ You do not need to have anyone write to you about brotherly love, for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another, ¹⁰ and you are doing it to all the brothers all over Macedonia. But we do entreat you, brothers, to surpass yourselves

¹⁶ For the Lord himself, at the summons, when the archangel calls and God's trumpet sounds, will come down from heaven, and first those who died in union with Christ will rise; ¹⁷ then those of us who are still living will be caught up with them on clouds into the air to meet the Lord, and so we shall be with the Lord forever.

³ When people say, "What peace and security!" then suddenly destruction will be upon them, like birth-pains upon a woman about to give birth to a child, and there will be no escape.

⁵ This is a proof of God's justice in judging, and it is to prove you worthy of the Kingdom of God, for the sake of which you are suffering, ⁶ since God considers it only just to repay with suffering those who are making you suffer ⁷ and to give rest to you who are suffering and to us, when our Lord Jesus appears from heaven, with his mighty angels

¹⁰ when on that Day he comes to be honored in his people, and wondered at in all who believe in him—because our testimony has been confirmed in you. ¹¹ To this end we always pray for you too, asking our God to find you worthy of the call he has given you, and by his power to fulfil every desire you may have for goodness, and every effort of your faith, ¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and you in him, by the blessing of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ Then the embodiment of disobedience will make his appearance, and the Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of his mouth and annihilate him by his appearance and arrival.

¹³ We always have to thank God for you, brothers whom the Lord so loves, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved through consecration by the Spirit and through faith in the truth, ¹⁴ and called you to it through our preaching of the good news, so that you may share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ May the Lord guide your hearts into a sense of God's love and into a steadfastness like Christ's.

¹² This is why I am suffering as I am, but I am not ashamed of it, for I know whom I have trusted and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have intrusted to him for that Day.

¹⁸ The Lord grant that he may be shown mercy by the Lord on that Day! And you know well enough how he helped me at Ephesus.

¹² If we endure, we will reign with him! If we disown him, he will also disown us!

⁸ Now the crown of uprightness awaits me, which the Lord, the upright judge, will award me on that Day, and not only me but also all who have loved and hoped for his appearing.

¹¹ For God's mercy has appeared and brought salvation to all men,

¹³ while we wait for the fulfilment of our blessed hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus.

⁴ But when the goodness and kindness of God our Savior were revealed, ⁵ he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit, ⁶ which he has poured out upon us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ so that we might be made upright through his mercy and become possessors of eternal life in fulfilment of our hope.

³ how can we escape if we pay no attention to such a salvation as this? It was first proclaimed by the Lord himself, and it was guaranteed to us by those who heard him,

¹ Therefore, my fellow-Christians, who have likewise heard the heavenly invitation, observe how faithful Jesus, the commissioner and high priest of our religion,

¹ We ought therefore to fear that when the promise of admission to his Rest is still open, some one of you may be found to have failed to reach it.

⁹ So there must still be a promised Sabbath of Rest for God's people.

¹¹ Let us, therefore, make every effort to be admitted to that Rest, so that none of us may fail through such disobedience as theirs.

⁹ and when he was fully qualified, he became a source of unending salvation for all who obey him,

¹⁵ And so after waiting patiently, he received what God had promised him.

²⁸ so the Christ too, after being offered in sacrifice once for all to carry away the sins of many, will appear again but without any burden of sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him to come and save them.

²⁷ but only the dreadful prospect of judgment and that blazing indignation which is to devour God's enemies.

²⁹ How much worse a punishment do you think will anyone deserve who tramples the Son of God underfoot, and treats as worthless the blood of the agreement by which he has been purified, and outrages God's spirit of mercy? ³⁰ For we know who it is that has said, "Vengeance belongs to me! I will pay back!" and in another place, "The Lord will be the judge of his people!"

³² But you must remember those early days when after you had received the light you had to go through a great struggle with persecution, ³³ sometimes being actually exposed as a public spectacle to insults and violence, and sometimes showing yourselves ready to share the lot of those in that condition.

³⁶ but you will need endurance if you are to carry out God's will and receive the blessing he has promised.

⁸ Faith enabled Abraham to obey when God summoned him to leave his home for a region which he was to have for his own, and to leave home without knowing where he was going.

¹ Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered, ² fixing our eyes upon Jesus, our leader and example in faith, who in place of the happiness that belonged to him, submitted to a cross, caring nothing for its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

² fixing our eyes upon Jesus, our leader and example in faith, who in place of the happiness that belonged to him, submitted to a cross, caring nothing for its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Think of the opposition that he encountered from those sinners against themselves, if you would not grow weary and faint-hearted.

²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.

³ for you know that the testing of your faith leads to steadfastness, ⁴ and steadfastness must have full play, so that you may be fully and perfectly developed without any defects.

⁷ So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer has to wait for the precious crop from the ground, and be patient with it, until it gets the early and the late rains. ⁸ You must have patience too; you must keep up your courage, for the coming of the Lord is close at hand.

¹¹ Why, we call those who showed such endurance happy! You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen what the Lord brought out of it, for the Lord is very kind and merciful.

² whom God the Father has chosen and predestined by the consecration of the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ, and to be sprinkled with his blood; God bless you and give you perfect peace.

⁷ they are to show that your faith when tested is found to be more precious than gold, which though it is perishable is tested with fire, and they will bring you praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. ⁸ You must love him, though you have not seen him, but since you believe in him though you do not now see him, rejoice with triumphant, unutterable joy

²² Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily,

⁹ But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light;

⁶ like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham, and called him Master. You are true daughters of hers, if you do right and are unafraid.

²² who has gone to heaven and is at God's right hand, with angels, hierarchies, and powers made subject to him.

¹⁴ If you are being abused for the sake of Christ, you are blessed, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.

¹⁴ If you are being abused for the sake of Christ, you are blessed, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you. ¹⁵ For no one of you must suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or revolutionist, ¹⁶ but if a man suffers for being a Christian, he must not be ashamed of it, but must do honor to God through that name. ¹⁷ For the time has come for the judgment to begin with the household of God, and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who refuse God's good news?

¹⁷ For the time has come for the judgment to begin with the household of God, and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who refuse God's good news? ¹⁸ If it is hard for the upright man to be saved, what will become of the godless and sinful?

¹⁰ And God, the giver of all mercy, who through your union with Christ has called you to his eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while will himself make you perfect, steadfast, and strong.

⁵ For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, ⁶ knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety,

⁶ knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety, ⁷ piety with a spirit of brotherhood, and the spirit of brotherhood with love. ⁸ For if you have these qualities in their fulness, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive when it comes to the understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For whoever lacks these qualities is blind or near-sighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his former sins. ¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, make all the greater efforts to make God's call and choice of you certain. For if you have these qualities, you will never stumble,

¹³ Yet I think it right, as long as I live in my present tent, to arouse you by a reminder,

¹⁷ Such men are dried-up springs, clouds driven before the storm, and they are doomed to utter darkness.

⁷ But by the same command the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, and are kept for the day when godless men are to be judged and destroyed.

¹⁰ The Day of the Lord will come like a thief; on it the heavens will pass away with a roar, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth and all its works will melt away. ¹¹ If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what holy and pious lives you ought to lead, ¹² while you await and hasten the coming of the Day of God, which will cause the heavens to burn up and dissolve and the heavenly bodies to blaze and melt.

¹⁸ You must grow in the blessing and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory to him now and forever.

¹³ wild sea waves foaming up their own shame; wandering stars doomed forever to utter darkness. ¹⁴ Of them also Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, when he said, "See! The Lord comes with his holy myriads ¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the godless of all the godless deeds they have done, and of all the harsh things that godless sinners have said against him."

⁴ John to the seven churches in Asia, blessing and peace to you from him who is and was and is coming, and from the seven spirits before his throne,

⁷ See! He is coming on the clouds, and every eye will see him, even the men who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will lament over him. So it is to be, Amen.

⁴ Yet you have a few at Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me clad in white, for they deserve to.

¹⁰ and have made them a kingdom of priests for our God, and they are to reign over the earth."

¹⁰ They cried out in a loud voice, "Holy and true Master, how long is it to be before you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?"

¹⁶ And they said to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and conceal us from the sight of him who is seated on the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb, ¹⁷ for the great day of their anger has come, and who can escape?"

¹¹ Then all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four animals, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, ¹² saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen!"

¹⁴ I said to him, "You know, my lord." He said to me, "They are the people who come through the great persecution, who have washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ That is why they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he who is seated on the throne will shelter them. ¹⁶ They will never be hungry or thirsty again, and never again will the sun or any burning heat distress them, ¹⁷ for the Lamb who is in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

¹⁸ The heathen were enraged, but now your anger has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your slaves the prophets and your people high and low who revere your name, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth!"

¹⁰ shall drink the wine of God's wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of his anger, and be tortured with fire and brimstone before the eyes of the holy angels and the Lamb. ¹¹ The smoke of their torture will go up forever and ever, and they will have no rest night or day—these worshipers of the animal and its statue, and any who bear the mark of its name." ¹² On this fact rests the endurance of God's people, who obey God's commands and cling to their faith in Jesus. ¹³ Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: Blessed are the dead who from this time forth die as Christians!" "Yes!" answers the Spirit, "Let them rest from their toil, for what they have done will go with them!"

⁴ Who will not fear and give glory to your name, Lord? For you alone are holy. All the heathen will come and worship before you, for the justice of your sentences has now been shown."

⁵ Then I heard the angel of the waters say, "You are just in pronouncing this sentence, you who are and were, the Holy One; ⁶ for they shed the blood of your people and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink, as they deserve." ⁷ And I heard the altar answer, "Yes, Lord God Almighty! Your sentences are true and just."

²⁰ Gloat over her, heaven! and all you people of God, apostles, and prophets, for God has avenged you upon her!"

²⁴ and in you was found the blood of prophets, God's people, and all who have been slaughtered on the earth."

² for his judgments are sound and upright. For he has passed judgment upon the great idolatress who corrupted the earth with her idolatry, and he has avenged the blood of his slaves upon her!"

¹⁰ and the devil who led them astray was flung into the fiery, sulphurous lake, where the animal and the false prophet were, there to be tortured day and night forever and ever. ¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne with a being seated on it from whose presence earth and sky fled so far that they could not be found.

¹⁴ Then death and Hades were flung into the fiery lake. This is the second death—the fiery lake.

¹⁴ Then death and Hades were flung into the fiery lake. This is the second death—the fiery lake. ¹⁵ Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was flung into the fiery lake.

⁴ and he will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no death any longer, nor any grief or crying or pain. The old order has passed away."

⁸ But the cowardly, unfaithful, and polluted—murderers, immoral people, those who practice magic or idolatry, and all liars will find themselves in the burning lake of fire and brimstone. This is the second death."

⁶ "These words are trustworthy and true," he said to me; "For the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show his slaves what must happen very soon.

⁹ But he said to me, "You must not do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers the prophets and the men who heed the words of this book. Worship God!

¹⁵ The dogs, those who practice magic or immorality, murderers, idolaters, and anyone who loves falsehood or tells lies will be shut out of it. ¹⁶ "I, Jesus, sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am of the line and family of David, I am the bright morning star."