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Yes, and I ask you, my true companion, help these women since they have contended at my side in the cause of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my co-workers, whose names are in the book of life.
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Believers Who Have Died
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.
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So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”
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And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?
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A Sabbath-Rest for the People of God
Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.
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Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’” And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.
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And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”
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Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience,
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For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.
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There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;
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for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.
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Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.
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As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.
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This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence:
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Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets, ‘I will not impose any other burden on you,
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The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.
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Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.
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And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
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Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.”
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The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.
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(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.
