³ Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. ^(A)You have heaped up treasure in the last days.

⁵ But in accordance with your hardness and your ^[a]impenitent heart ^(A)you are ^[b]treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Be Patient and Persevering

⁷ Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. ⁸ You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord ^[a]is at hand.

^8 (A)But the cowardly, ^[a]unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in ^(B)the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

¹⁵ And anyone not found written in the Book of Life ^(A)was cast into the lake of fire.

³ knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, ^(A)walking according to their own lusts,

¹⁷ And their message will spread like cancer. ^(A)Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort,

The Lord’s Reign in Zion^(A)