Isaiah 2:1-5

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The Mountain of the Lord

2 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

²^(A)It shall come to pass in the latter days
    that ^(B)the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and ^(C)all the nations shall flow to it,
³    and ^(D)many peoples shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
    and that we may walk in his paths.”
For ^(E)out of Zion shall go forth the law,^[a]
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴He shall judge between the nations,
    and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
^(F)and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
^(G)nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    neither shall they learn war anymore.

⁵O house of Jacob,
come, let us walk
in ^(H)the light of the Lord.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 2:3 Or teaching

Romans 13:8-14

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Fulfilling the Law Through Love

⁸^(A)Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for ^(B)the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. ⁹For the commandments, ^(C)“You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: ^(D)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” ¹⁰Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore ^(E)love is the fulfilling of the law.

¹¹Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you ^(F)to wake from sleep. ^(G)For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. ¹²^(H)The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us ^(I)cast off ^(J)the works of darkness and ^(K)put on the armor of light. ¹³^(L)Let us walk properly as in the daytime, ^(M)not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, ^(N)not in quarreling and jealousy. ¹⁴But ^(O)put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, ^(P)to gratify its desires.

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Matthew 24:36-44

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No One Knows That Day and Hour

³⁶“But concerning that day and hour ^(A)no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, ^(B)nor the Son,^[a] ^(C)but the Father only. ³⁷^(D)For as were the days of Noah, ^(E)so will be the coming of the Son of Man. ³⁸^(F)For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, ^(G)marrying and giving in marriage, until ^(H)the day when Noah entered the ark, ³⁹and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, ^(I)so will be the coming of the Son of Man. ⁴⁰Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. ⁴¹^(J)Two women will be grinding ^(K)at the mill; one will be taken and one left. ⁴²Therefore, ^(L)stay awake, for you do not know on what day ^(M)your Lord is coming. ⁴³^(N)But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night ^(O)the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴Therefore you also must be ^(P)ready, for ^(Q)the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.