Conquest of the Land

²⁰ “Behold, I am going to send ^(A)an angel before you to guard you along the way and ^(B)to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

^15 [a]But not one has ^(A)done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And ^[b]why the one? He was seeking a ^(B)godly offspring. Be careful then about your spirit, and see that none of you deals ^(C)treacherously against the wife of your youth. ¹⁶ “For ^[c]I hate ^[d](D)divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “and ^[e]him who covers his garment with ^(E)violence,” says the Lord of armies. “So be careful about your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.”

³⁷ But in all these things we overwhelmingly ^(A)conquer through ^(B)Him who loved us.

²⁰ For if, after they have ^(A)escaped the defilements of the world by ^(B)the knowledge of the ^(C)Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again ^(D)entangled in them and are overcome, ^(E)the last state has become worse for them than the first.

^7 (A)The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ^(B)To the one who overcomes, I will grant to eat from ^(C)the tree of life, which is in the ^(D)Paradise of God.’

^11 (A)The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ^(B)The one who overcomes will not be hurt by the ^(C)second death.’