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I know a person in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows.(A)

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17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will be with the Lord forever.(A)

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Paul Sent to the Gentiles

17 “After I had returned to Jerusalem and while I was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance(A)

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11 And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!(A)

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At once I was in the spirit,[a] and there in heaven stood a throne, with one seated on the throne!(A)

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  1. 4.2 Or in the Spirit

And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule[a] all the nations with a scepter of iron. But her child was snatched away and taken to God and to his throne,(A)

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  1. 12.5 Or to shepherd

24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.(A)

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22 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me, yet I cannot say which I will choose. 23 I am hard pressed between the two: my desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better,(A)

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10 He who descended is the same one who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things.)

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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working[a] through love.(A)

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  1. 5.6 Or made effective

22 and I was still unknown by sight to the churches of Judea that are in Christ;(A)

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Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless, indeed, you fail to meet the test!(A)

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And I know that such a person—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows— was caught up into paradise and heard things that are not to be told, that no mortal is permitted to repeat. On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses.

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21 For our sake God made the one who knew no sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.(A)

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17 So if anyone is in Christ, there[a] is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being![b](A)

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  1. 5.17 Or that person
  2. 5.17 Other ancient authorities read everything has become new

So we are always confident, even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord— for we walk by faith, not by sight.(A) Yes, we do have confidence, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

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30 In contrast, God is why you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,(A)

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Greet Andronicus and Junia,[a] my fellow Israelites who were in prison with me; they are prominent among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.

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  1. 16.7 Or Junias; other ancient authorities read Julia

Life in the Spirit

Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.(A)

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the apostles[a] learned of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding region,(A)

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  1. 14.6 Gk they

39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; the eunuch saw him no more and went on his way rejoicing.(A) 40 But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he was passing through the region he proclaimed the good news to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

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Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.(A) I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

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56 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me and I in them.(A)

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51 While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.[a](A)

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  1. 24.51 Other ancient authorities lack and was carried up into heaven

Abominations in the Temple

In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there.(A) I looked, and there was a figure that looked like a man;[a] below what appeared to be its loins the figure was fire, and above the loins it was like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming amber.(B) It stretched out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, to the seat of the image of jealousy that provokes to jealousy.(C)

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  1. 8.2 Gk: Heb like fire