1 Thessalonians 1:8-10
Holman Christian Standard Bible
8 For the Lord’s message rang out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place that your faith[a](A) in God has gone out. Therefore, we don’t need to say anything, 9 for they themselves report[b] what kind of reception(B) we had from you: how you turned(C) to God from idols(D) to serve the living(E) and true(F) God 10 and to wait(G) for His Son(H) from heaven, whom He raised from the dead(I)—Jesus, who rescues us(J) from the coming wrath.(K)
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- 1 Thessalonians 1:8 Or in every place news of your faith
- 1 Thessalonians 1:9 Lit report about us
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4
Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Man of Lawlessness
2 Now concerning the coming(A) of our Lord(B) Jesus Christ and our being gathered to Him: We ask you, brothers, 2 not to be easily upset in mind or troubled, either by a spirit(C) or by a message or by a letter as if from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord[a](D) has come.(E) 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy[b] comes first and the man of lawlessness[c] is revealed, the son of destruction. 4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god(F) or object of worship,(G) so that he sits[d] in God’s sanctuary,[e] publicizing that he himself is God.
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- 2 Thessalonians 2:2 Other mss read Christ
- 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Or rebellion
- 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Other mss read man of sin
- 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Other mss add as God
- 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Or temple
Jude 20-23
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Exhortation and Benediction
20 But you, dear friends, as you build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit,(A) 21 keep yourselves in the love of God,(B) expecting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life. 22 Have mercy on those who doubt; 23 save others by snatching them from the fire;(C) have mercy on others but with fear,(D) hating(E) even the garment(F) defiled by the flesh.
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Revelation 21:1-8
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The New Creation
21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth,(A) for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea no longer existed.(B) 2 I also saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,(C) prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.(D)
3 Then I heard a loud voice from the throne:[a]
Look! God’s dwelling[b] is with humanity,
and He will live with them.
They will be His people,(E)
and God Himself will be with them
and be their God.[c]
4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.(F)
Death will no longer exist;(G)
grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer,(H)
because the previous things[d] have passed away.(I)
5 Then the One seated on the throne said, “Look! I am making everything new.” He also said, “Write, because these words[e] are faithful and true.”(J) 6 And He said to me, “It is done!(K) I am the Alpha and the Omega,(L) the Beginning and the End.(M) I will give water as a gift to the thirsty(N) from the spring of life.(O) 7 The victor(P) will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.(Q) 8 But the cowards, unbelievers,[f] vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur,(R) which is the second death.”
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- Revelation 21:3 Other mss read from heaven
- Revelation 21:3 Or tent, or tabernacle
- Revelation 21:3 Other mss omit and be their God
- Revelation 21:4 Or the first things
- Revelation 21:5 Other mss add of God
- Revelation 21:8 Other mss add the sinful
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