for our gospel came to you not with mere words but also with power and with the holy Spirit, with ample conviction on our part (you know what we were to you, for your own good),

We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed on and triumph, as in your own case,

Because

while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ.

Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

Meekness

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;

He will not wrangle or shout, no one will hear his voice in the streets.

I appeal to you myself by the gentleness and consideration of Christ ??the Paul who is 'humble enough to your face when he is with you, but outspoken enough when he gets away from you.'

Right

And now for these enemies of mine who objected to me reigning over them ??bring them here and slay them in my presence.' "

in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

calling to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne and from the anger of the Lamb;

the nations were enraged, but thine anger has come; the time has come for the dead to be judged, the time for rewarding thy servants the prophets, and the saints who reverence thy name, both low and high, the time for destroying the destroyers of the earth."

Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, who shouted aloud to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, "Come, gather for the great banquet of God,

and whoever was not found enrolled in the book of Life was flung into the lake of fire ??which is the second death, the lake of fire.

General references

For he must reign until all his foes are put under his feet.