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Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. For them the second death holds no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him a thousand years.

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11 “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches. Whoever is victorious will not be harmed by the second death.

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He has made us a Kingdom of priests for God his Father. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.

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14 Then death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death.

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10 And you have caused them to become
    a Kingdom of priests for our God.
    And they will reign[a] on the earth.”

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Footnotes

  1. 5:10 Some manuscripts read they are reigning.

12 If we endure hardship,
    we will reign with him.
If we deny him,
    he will deny us.

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But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests,[a] a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:9 Greek a royal priesthood.

12 And blessed are those who wait and remain until the end of the 1,335 days!

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Jesus Is Coming

“Look, I am coming soon! Blessed are those who obey the words of prophecy written in this book.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 22:7 Or scroll; also in 22:9, 10, 18, 19.

“But cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practice witchcraft, idol worshipers, and all liars—their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

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Then I saw thrones, and the people sitting on them had been given the authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony about Jesus and for proclaiming the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his statue, nor accepted his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They all came to life again, and they reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

This is the first resurrection. (The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years had ended.)

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13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this down: Blessed are those who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they are blessed indeed, for they will rest from their hard work; for their good deeds follow them!”

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A Living Sacrifice to God

12 And so, dear brothers and sisters,[a] I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 12:1a Greek brothers.
  2. 12:1b Or This is your spiritual worship; or This is your reasonable service.

17 And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

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Parable of the Great Feast

15 Hearing this, a man sitting at the table with Jesus exclaimed, “What a blessing it will be to attend a banquet[a] in the Kingdom of God!”

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Footnotes

  1. 14:15 Greek to eat bread.

And you are living stones that God is building into his spiritual temple. What’s more, you are his holy priests.[a] Through the mediation of Jesus Christ, you offer spiritual sacrifices that please God.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:5 Greek holy priesthood.

You will be called priests of the Lord,
    ministers of our God.
You will feed on the treasures of the nations
    and boast in their riches.

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All who remain in Zion
    will be a holy people—
those who survive the destruction of Jerusalem
    and are recorded among the living.

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