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unfeeling, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good,(A)

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18 for they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, indulging their own ungodly lusts.”(A)

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31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.(A)

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21 Sibling will betray sibling to death and a father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

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14 They have eyes full of adultery,[a] insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!

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  1. 2.14 Gk adulteress; or longing for an adulteress

11 Women[a] likewise must be serious, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.

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  1. 3.11 Or Women deacons or Wives

The Testing of Jesus

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tested by the devil.

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23 At the end of their rule,
    when the transgressions have reached their full measure,
a king of bold countenance shall arise,
    skilled in intrigue.

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And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus.

When I saw her, I was greatly amazed.(A)

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because they shed the blood of saints and prophets,
    you have given them blood to drink.
It is what they deserve!”

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17 so that no one can buy or sell who does not have the brand, that is, the name of the beast or the number for its name.(A)

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15 and it was allowed to give breath[a] to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast could even speak and cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

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  1. 13.15 Or spirit

16 These are grumblers and malcontents; they indulge their lusts;[a] their mouths utter bombastic nonsense, flattering people to their own advantage.(A)

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  1. 16 Other ancient authorities read their own lusts

First of all you must understand this, that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and indulging their own lusts(A)

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But you have dishonored the poor person. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into the courts?(A)

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Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or enslaved to much wine; they are to teach what is good,(A)

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but he must be hospitable,[a] a lover of goodness, self-controlled, upright, devout, and restrained,

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  1. 1.8 Gk a friend of foreigners

Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.

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But if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.(A)

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Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer,[a] and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.(A)

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  1. 7.5 Other ancient authorities read fasting and prayer

70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.”(A)

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The Law and the Kingdom of God

14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they ridiculed him.(A)

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16 “Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”(A)

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15 But he rebelled against him by sending ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Can one escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape?(A) 16 As I live, says the Lord God, surely in the place where the king resides who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant with him he broke—in Babylon he shall die.(B) 17 Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in war, when ramps are cast up and siege walls built to cut off many lives.(C) 18 Because he despised the oath and broke the covenant, because he gave his hand and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.(D) 19 Therefore thus says the Lord God: As I live, I will surely return upon his head my oath that he despised and my covenant that he broke.

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14 The descendants of those who oppressed you
    shall come bending low to you,
and all who despised you
    shall bow down at your feet;
they shall call you the City of the Lord,
    the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.(A)

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