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and to give relief to the afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels(A)

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13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who from now on die in the Lord.” “Yes,”[a] says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them.”(A)

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  1. 14.13 Other ancient authorities lack Yes

27 “For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay everyone for what has been done.(A)

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16 “It is I, Jesus, who sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”(A)

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14 It was also about these that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “See, the Lord is coming[a] with ten thousands of his holy ones,(A) 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly[b] of all the deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

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  1. 14 Gk came
  2. 15 Other ancient authorities read everyone

13 while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior,[a] Jesus Christ.(A)

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  1. 2.13 Or of the great God and our Savior

17 For our slight, momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure,(A)

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he will wipe every tear from their eyes.
Death will be no more;
mourning and crying and pain will be no more,
for[a] the first things have passed away.”(A)

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  1. 21.4 Other ancient authorities lack for

17 and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if we in fact suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.(A)

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30 it will be like that on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

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The Judgment of the Nations

31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.(A)

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39 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.(A) 40 Just as the weeds are collected and burned up with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.(B) 41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all causes of sin[a] and all evildoers,(C) 42 and they will throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.(D) 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let anyone with ears[b] listen!(E)

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  1. 13.41 Or stumbling
  2. 13.43 Other ancient authorities add to hear

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace
    and rest on their couches.(A)

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but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters the prophets and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”

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And he said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true, for the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place.”(A)

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The Dead Are Judged

11 Then I saw a great white throne and the one who sat on it; the earth and the heaven fled from his[a] presence, and no place was found for them.(A)

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  1. 20.11 Gk the

14 I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.” Then he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.(A)

15 For this reason they are before the throne of God
    and worship him day and night within his temple,
    and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.(B)
16 They will hunger no more and thirst no more;
    the sun will not strike them,
    nor any scorching heat,(C)
17 for the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd,
    and he will guide them to springs of the water of life,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”(D)

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Look! He is coming with the clouds;
    every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him,
    and all the tribes of the earth will wail on account of him.

So it is to be. Amen.(A)

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22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.(A)

Good Stewards of God’s Grace

Since, therefore, Christ suffered in the flesh,[a] arm yourselves also with the same intention (for whoever has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin),(B)

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  1. 4.1 Other ancient authorities add for us or for you

28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.(A)

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11 Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall through such disobedience as theirs.

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So then, a Sabbath rest still remains for the people of God,

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The Rest That God Promised

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest is still open, let us take care that none of you should seem to have failed to reach it.(A)

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12 if we endure, we will also reign with him;
if we deny him, he will also deny us;(A)

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16 For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first.(A) 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.(B)

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