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24 For false messiahs[a] and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.(A)

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  1. 24.24 Or christs

The coming of the lawless one is apparent in the working of Satan, who uses all power, signs, lying wonders,(A) 10 and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(B) 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false,(C)

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22 False messiahs[a] and false prophets will appear and produce signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.(A)

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  1. 13.22 Or christs

13 It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of all,(A) 14 and by the signs that it is allowed to perform on behalf of the beast it deceives the inhabitants of earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that had been wounded by the sword[a] and yet lived,(B)

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  1. 13.14 Or that had received the plague of the sword

11 And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.(A)

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False Prophets and Their Punishment

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive opinions. They will even deny the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.(A) Even so, many will follow their debaucheries, and because of these teachers[a] the way of truth will be maligned. And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.(B)

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  1. 2.2 Gk because of them

A Tree and Its Fruit

15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.(A)

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For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah!’[a] and they will lead many astray.

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  1. 24.5 Or the Christ

17 You therefore, beloved, since you are forewarned, beware that you are not carried away with the error of the lawless and lose your own stability.(A)

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13 [a]“If prophets or those who divine by dreams appear among you and show you omens or portents,(A)

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  1. 13.1 13.2 in Heb

20 And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed in its presence the signs by which he deceived those who had received the brand of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

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28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.(A) 29 My Father, in regard to what he has given me, is greater than all,[a] and no one can snatch them out of the Father’s hand.(B) 30 The Father and I are one.”

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  1. 10.29 Other ancient authorities read What my Father has given me is greater than all else or My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all

Also, it was allowed to wage war on the saints and to conquer them.[a] It was given authority over every tribe and people and language and nation,(A) and all the inhabitants of the earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered.[b](B)

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  1. 13.7 Other ancient authorities lack this sentence
  2. 13.8 Or written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered from the foundation of the world

The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.(A)

10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven proclaiming,

“Now have come the salvation and the power
    and the kingdom of our God
    and the authority of his Messiah,[a]
for the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down,
    who accuses them day and night before our God.(B)
11 But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb
    and by the word of their testimony,
for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.(C)

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  1. 12.10 Gk Christ

18 We know that those who are born of God do not sin, but the one who was born of God protects them, and the evil one does not touch them.[a](A)

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  1. 5.18 Other ancient authorities read protects himself, and the evil one does not touch him

19 But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who calls on the name of the Lord turn away from wickedness.”(A)

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39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me but raise it up on the last day.(A)

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37 Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me I will never drive away,(A)

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who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.(A)

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15 What has become of the goodwill you felt? For I testify that, had it been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

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28 We know that all things work together[a] for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.(A) 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.[b](B) 30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.(C)

God’s Love in Christ Jesus

31 What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?(D) 32 He who did not withhold his own Son but gave him up for all of us, how will he not with him also give us everything else? 33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.(E) 34 Who is to condemn? It is Christ[c] who died, or rather, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.(F) 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? 36 As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all day long;
    we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”(G)

37 No, in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us.(H) 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,(I) 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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  1. 8.28 Other ancient authorities read God makes all things work together or in all things God works
  2. 8.29 Gk among many brothers
  3. 8.34 Other ancient authorities read Christ Jesus

18 If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.(A)

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16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia; he was eager to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.(A)

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