⁴⁶ And ^(A)these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

²⁵ Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so ^(A)that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! ^(B)Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, ^(A)choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether ^(B)the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of ^[a]the River, or ^(C)the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. ^(D)But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

^15 (A)Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I will return and have compassion on them ^(B)and bring them back, everyone to his heritage and everyone to his land.

^23 (A)For there stood by me this night an angel of the God to whom I belong and ^(B)whom I serve,

⁵ which is ^(A)manifest^[a] evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, ^(B)for which you also suffer; ^6 (C)since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with ^[b]tribulation those who trouble you, ⁷ and to give you who are troubled ^(D)rest with us when ^(E)the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, ⁸ in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. ^9 (F)These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and ^(G)from the glory of His power, ¹⁰ when He comes, in that Day, ^(H)to be ^(I)glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who ^[c]believe, because our testimony among you was believed.