Then the king of the North will come, cast up a siege ramp and capture a well-fortified city; and the forces of the South will not stand their ground, not even their choicest troops, for there will be no strength to make a stand.

In due time

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin

by the sacrifice of Himself.

For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you

Ungodly

But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,

and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,
“The Deliverer will come from Zion,
He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”

How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the

path of sinners,

Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!

realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers

instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,

and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand

marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

General references

one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.