142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

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142 Your righteousness is everlasting
    and your law is true.(A)

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18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

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God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity

18 The wrath of God(A) is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,

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But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

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But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil,(A) there will be wrath and anger.(B)

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Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

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For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Jews[a](A) on behalf of God’s truth, so that the promises(B) made to the patriarchs might be confirmed

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 15:8 Greek circumcision

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

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Love does not delight in evil(A) but rejoices with the truth.(B)

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O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

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Faith or Works of the Law

You foolish(A) Galatians!(B) Who has bewitched you?(C) Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.(D)

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Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

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You were running a good race.(A) Who cut in on you(B) to keep you from obeying the truth?

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15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

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15 Instead, speaking the truth in love,(A) we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head,(B) that is, Christ.

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21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

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21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.

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For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

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For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back(A) will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed,(B) whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth(C) and destroy by the splendor of his coming.(D) The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan(E) works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders(F) that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing.(G) They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(H) 11 For this reason God sends them(I) a powerful delusion(J) so that they will believe the lie(K) 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.(L)

Stand Firm

13 But we ought always to thank God for you,(M) brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits[a](N) to be saved(O) through the sanctifying work of the Spirit(P) and through belief in the truth.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 2:13 Some manuscripts because from the beginning God chose you

Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

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who wants(A) all people(B) to be saved(C) and to come to a knowledge of the truth.(D)

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14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

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14 However, I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors(A) as a follower of the Way,(B) which they call a sect.(C) I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets,(D)

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