18 The blameless spend their days under the Lord’s care,(A)
    and their inheritance will endure forever.(B)

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18 The Lord knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

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For the Lord watches over(A) the way of the righteous,
    but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.(B)

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For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

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23 For the wages of sin is death,(A) but the gift of God is eternal life(B) in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 6:23 Or through

23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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17 But from everlasting to everlasting
    the Lord’s love is with those who fear him,
    and his righteousness with their children’s children(A)

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17 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;

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19 Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm,(A) sealed with this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,”(B) and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord(C) must turn away from wickedness.”

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19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

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24 You guide(A) me with your counsel,(B)
    and afterward you will take me into glory.

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24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

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Why should I fear(A) when evil days come,
    when wicked deceivers surround me—

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Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

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I will be glad and rejoice in your love,
    for you saw my affliction(A)
    and knew the anguish(B) of my soul.

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I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

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And I will appoint my two witnesses,(A) and they will prophesy for 1,260 days,(B) clothed in sackcloth.”(C) They are “the two olive trees”(D) and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.”[a](E) If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies.(F) This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 11:4 See Zech. 4:3,11,14.

And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

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25 And this is what he promised us—eternal life.(A)

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25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

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and into an inheritance(A) that can never perish, spoil or fade.(B) This inheritance is kept in heaven for you,(C) who through faith are shielded by God’s power(D) until the coming of the salvation(E) that is ready to be revealed(F) in the last time.

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To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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Preach(A) the word;(B) be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke(C) and encourage(D)—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.(E) Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.(F) They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.(G)

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Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

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But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.(A) People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,(B) boastful, proud,(C) abusive,(D) disobedient to their parents,(E) ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous,(F) rash, conceited,(G) lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness(H) but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.(I)

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This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

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