John 12:26
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26 Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.(A)
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1 Samuel 2:30
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30 Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: I promised that your family and the family of your ancestor should go in and out before me forever, but now the Lord declares: Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be treated with contempt.(A)
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Galatians 1:10
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10 Am I now seeking human approval or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ.(A)
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Colossians 3:24
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24 since you know that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you serve the Lord Christ.(A)
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John 17:24
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24 Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.(A)
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Romans 1:1
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Salutation
1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
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John 10:27
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27 My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.(A)
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2 Corinthians 5:8
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8 Yes, we do have confidence, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
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Jude
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Salutation
1 Jude,[a] a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James,
To those who are called, who are beloved[b] in[c] God the Father and kept safe for[d] Jesus Christ:(A)
2 May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.
Occasion of the Letter
3 Beloved, while eagerly preparing to write to you about the salvation we share, I find it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith that was once and for all handed on to the saints.(B) 4 For certain intruders have stolen in among you, people who long ago were designated for this condemnation as ungodly, who pervert the grace of our God into debauchery and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.[e](C)
Judgment on False Teachers
5 Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, once and for all, that Jesus, who saved[f] a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.(D) 6 And the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day.(E) 7 Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust,[g] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.(F)
8 Yet in the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority, and slander the glorious ones.[h](G) 9 But when the archangel Michael disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a condemnation of slander[i] against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”(H) 10 But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct. 11 Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain and abandon themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain and perish in Korah’s rebellion.(I) 12 These are blots[j] on your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves.[k] They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;(J) 13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.(K)
14 It was also about these that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “See, the Lord is coming[l] with ten thousands of his holy ones,(L) 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly[m] 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.” 16 These are grumblers and malcontents; they indulge their lusts;[n] their mouths utter bombastic nonsense, flattering people to their own advantage.(M)
Warnings and Exhortations
17 But you, beloved, must remember the words previously spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 18 for they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, indulging their own ungodly lusts.”(N) 19 It is these worldly people, devoid of the Spirit, who are causing divisions. 20 But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;(O) 21 keep yourselves in the love of God; look forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to[o] eternal life.(P) 22 And have mercy on some who are wavering; 23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; and have mercy on still others with fear, hating even the tunic defiled by their bodies.[p](Q)
Benediction
24 Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to make you stand without blemish in the presence of his glory with rejoicing,(R) 25 to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.(S)
Footnotes
- 1 Gk Judas
- 1 Other ancient authorities read sanctified
- 1 Or by
- 1 Or by
- 4 Or the only Master and our Lord Jesus Christ
- 5 Other ancient authorities read informed, that the Lord who once and for all saved
- 7 Gk went after other flesh
- 8 Or angels; Gk glories
- 9 Or condemnation for blasphemy
- 12 Or reefs
- 12 Or without fear. They are shepherds who care only for themselves
- 14 Gk came
- 15 Other ancient authorities read everyone
- 16 Other ancient authorities read their own lusts
- 21 Gk Christ to
- 23 Gk by the flesh
1 John 5:3
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3 For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,(A)
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2 Peter 1:1
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Salutation
1 Simeon[a] Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who have received a faith as equally honorable as ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
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- 1.1 Other ancient authorities read Simon
1 Thessalonians 4:17-18
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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.(A) 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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2 Corinthians 4:5
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5 For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’s sake.(A)
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Luke 6:46
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The Two Foundations
46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I tell you?(A)
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Proverbs 27:18
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18 Anyone who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
and anyone who takes care of a master will be honored.(A)
Philippians 1:23
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23 I am hard pressed between the two: my desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better,(A)
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Romans 14:18
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18 The one who serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and has human approval.(A)
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John 15:20
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20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘Slaves are not greater than their master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.(A)
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John 14:21-23
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21 They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”(A) 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.(B)
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John 14:3
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3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.(A)
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Psalm 91:15
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15 When they call to me, I will answer them;
I will be with them in trouble;
I will rescue them and honor them.(A)
Psalm 17:15
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15 As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness;
when I awake I shall be satisfied, beholding your likeness.(A)
Revelation 14:4
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4 It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins; these follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from humankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb,(A)
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Ephesians 5:1-2
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5 1
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- 5.2 Other ancient authorities read you
John 21:22
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22 Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!”(A)
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