Reference: Kingdom of God
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The Biblical writers assume that the Creator of the heavens and the earth must needs be also the everlasting Ruler of the same. The universe is God's dominion, and every creature therein is subject to His power. And so the Hebrew poets conceive God as immanent in all natural phenomena. Wind and storm, fire and earthquake, lightnings and torrents of waters are but so many signs of the activity of the Almighty Ruler of the world (Ps 18:7-15; 68:7-18; 104). The same heavenly Power is also the supreme Sovereign of men and nations. 'The kingdom is Jehovah's, and he is the ruler over the nations' (Ps 22:28). 'Jehovah is king over all the earth' (Zec 14:9). 'He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the Inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers
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Who like thee among the gods, O Jehovah? who like thee magnified in in holiness, wonderful in praise, doing a wonder?
Now I knew that Jehovah is great above all gods; for in the word they acted proudly over them.
And ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These the words which thou shalt speak to the sons of Israel.
For thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God: in thee Jehovah thy God chose to be to him a people of property from all the peoples which are upon the face of the earth.
The Most High distributing the nations, In his dispersing the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel.
And Jehovah will say to Samuel, Hear to the voice of the people to all which they will say to thee: for not thee did they reject, but me they rejected from reigning over them.
And if ye will not hear to the voice of Jehovah, and rebel against the mouth of Jehovah, and the hand of the Lord was against you and your fathers. Also now stand ye and see this great word which Jehovah does before your eyes. read more. Is it not the harvest of wheat this day? I will call to Jehovah and he will give voices and rain; and know ye and see that your wickedness is great which ye did in the eyes of Jehovah to ask for you a king. And Samuel will call to Jehovah, and Jehovah will give voices and rain in that day: and all the people will be greatly afraid of Jehovah and Samuel. And all the people will say to Samuel, Pray for thy servants to Jehovah thy God, and we shall not die; for we added upon all our sins the wickedness to ask for us a king. And Samuel will say to the people, Ye shall not be afraid: ye did all this wickedness: but ye shall not turn aside from after Jehovah, and serve ye Jehovah with all your heart. And ye shall not turn aside: for after vanities which will not profit, and they will not deliver, for they are vanities. For Jehovah will not cast off his people on account of his great name, for Jehovah willed to make you to him for a people. Also I, far be it to me sinning against Jehovah ceasing to pray for you: and I taught you in the good and straight way. But fear ye Jehovah, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for see what he magnified with you. And if doing evil, ye shall do evil, also ye, also your king; ye shall perish.
And it will be moved and the earth will tremble, and the foundations of the mountains will be moved and they will shake, for it was kindled to him. A smoke went up in his anger, and fire from his mouth will consume, and coals were kindled from it. read more. And he will incline the heavens and come down: and gloom under his feet And he will ride upon a cherub, and will fly: and he will fly upon the wings of the wind. He will set darkness his covering; his tent round about him darknesses of waters, thick clouds. From the brightness before him the clouds passed over, hail and coals of fire. And Jehovah will thunder in the heavens, and the Most High will give his voice; hail and coals of fire. And he will send his arrows and scatter them; and he increased lightnings, and he will discomfit them. And the channels of waters will be seen, and the foundations of the habitable globe will be uncovered from thy rebuke, O Jehovah, from the breathing of the spirit of thine anger.
For to Jehovah the kingdom, and he rules among the nations.
O God, in thy going forth before thy people, in thy stepping in the desert. Silence. The earth shook, also the heavens dropped from the face of God, this Sinai from the face of God, the God of Israel. read more. Thou wilt scatter a rain of abundance, O God, to thine inheritance, and being weary thou didst make it firm. Thy living ones dwelt in it: thou wilt prepare in thy goodness for the poor, O God. Jehovah will give the word: to those announcing good news a great army. Kings of armies will flee away, they will flee away, and she resting in the house will divide the spoil If ye shall lie down within the stalls, the wings of the dove being covered with silver, and her wing feathers with yellowness of gold. In the Almighty scattering kings in it, it shall be snow white in Salmon. The mountain of God the mountain of Basilan; the mountain of height the mountain of Bashan. Wherefore will ye lie in wait, ye mountains of heights? the mountain God desired to dwell in it: also Jehovah will dwell forever. The chariot of God twice ten thousand thousands upon thousands: Jehovah among them, Sinai in the holy place. Thou didst go up to height, thou didst take captive captivity: thou didst receive gifts in man, also those turning away, for Jehovah God to dwell.
In the year king Uzziah died, and I shall see Jehovah sitting upon his throne, high and lifted up, and his train filling the temple. And seraphs standing from above to it; six wings, six wings to one; with two he will cover his face, and with two he will cover his feet, and with two he will fly. read more. And this called to this, and said, Holy, holy, holy, Jehovah of armies: all the earth full of his glory.
Thou didst multiply the nation, thou didst not increase the joy: they rejoiced before thee according to the joy in harvest as they will exalt in their dividing the spoil.
To the increase of his dominion and to peace no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to prepare it and to support it in judgment and in justice from now and even to forever: the zeal of Jehovah of armies will do this.
And a rod shall come forth from the stock of Jesse, and a sprout shall blossom from his roots: And the spirit of Jehovah resting upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of Jehovah: read more. His sweet odor in the fear of Jehovah: and not according to the seeing of his eyes shall he judge, and not according to the hearing of his ears shall he decide. And he judged the powerless with justice, and he decided in straightness for the humble of the earth: and he struck the earth with the rod of his mouth, and by the spirit of his lips he will slay the unjust. And justice was the girding of his loins, and truth the girding of his loins. The wolf dwelt with the lamb; and the panther will lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together, and a little boy leading with them. And the heifer and the bear shall feed together, and their young shall lie down; and the lion shall eat straw as the ox. And the suckling was delighted upon the hole of the asp, and upon the viper's deu the weaned directed his hand. They shall not do evil, and they shall not destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth full of the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters covering to the sea. And there was in that day a root of Jesse which stood for a signal of the peoples; to him shall the nations seek, and his rest was glory.
Behold, the day of Jehovah coming fierce and overflowing, and burning anger to set the earth for desolation: and he will destroy the sinner out of it. For the stars of the heavens and the giants of the sky shall not shine their light: the sun was darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
The burden of Egypt Behold, Jehovah riding upon a swift cloud and coming to Egypt: and the vanities of Egypt moved to and fro from his face, and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst And I aroused Egypt against Egypt, and they warred a man against his brother, and a man against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
And all the army of the heavens melted, and the heavens shall roll together as a book, and all their army shall fall away as the leaf falling from the vine, and as a falling from the fig tree. For my sword was drunk in the heavens: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of destruction for judgment
He sitting upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants as locusts; he stretching out the heavens as fine cloth, and he will extend them as a tent to dwell in:
For behold me creating new heavens and a new earth: and the former things shall not be remembered, and they shall not come upon the heart
For as the new heavens and the new earth which I made, standing before me, says Jehovah, so shall stand your seed and your name.
And they served Jehovah their God, and David their king whom I will raise up to them.
And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, Son of man, behold the house of Israel saying, The vision which he saw is for many days, and for the times afar off he prophesied. read more. For this, say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: No more shall my words be protracted, for I will speak the word and it shall be done, says the Lord Jehovah.
And I raised up one shepherd over them, and he fed them, my servant David; he shall feed them and he shall be to them for shepherd.
And my servant David a king over them; and one shepherd shall be to all of them: and in my judgments they shall go and they shall watch my laws and do them.
And he changes the times and the seasons; removing kings and setting up kings; giving wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those knowing understanding.
At that time were beaten small at once, the iron, the burnt clay, the brass, the silver and the gold, and they were as the chaff of the threshing-floor of summer; and the wind lifted them up and all place was not found for them: and the stone striking against the image was for a great rock, and filled all the earth.
And from men driving thee out, and with beasts of the open field thy dwelling: and they shall feed to thee the grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee till that thou shalt know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and to whom he will, he will give it
I was seeing even till thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days sat, his garment white as snow, and the hair of his head as pure wool: his throne a flame of fire, his wheels a burning fire. A river of fire flowed and went out from before him: thousands of thousands will wait upon him, and myriads of myriads will stand before him: the tribunal sat, and the books were opened. read more. I was seeing at that time from the voice of the great words that the horn was speaking: I was seeing even till that the beast was killed and its body destroyed, and it was given to the burning fire. And the rest of the beasts they took away their power: and length in life was given to them for a season and time. I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as the Son of man he came, and turning even to the Ancient of days; and they brought him near before him.
I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as the Son of man he came, and turning even to the Ancient of days; and they brought him near before him. And to him was given dominion, power and honor, and a kingdom; and all peoples and nations and tongues shall serve to him: his power an eternal power that shall not pass away, and his kingdom which shall not be destroyed.
And to him was given dominion, power and honor, and a kingdom; and all peoples and nations and tongues shall serve to him: his power an eternal power that shall not pass away, and his kingdom which shall not be destroyed.
Afterward the sons of Israel shall turn back and they sought Jehovah their God, and David their king; and they trembled at Jehovah and at his goodness in the last of the days.
Are ye not as the sons of the Cushites to me, O sons of Israel? says Jehovah. Did I not bring up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the rovers from Caphtor, and Aram from Kir?
And it was in the last of the days the mountain of the house of Jehovah will be prepared upon the head of the mountains, and it was lifted up above the hills, and peoples flowed to it. And many nations went and said, Come, and we will go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us from his ways, and we will go in his paths: from Zion will instruction go forth, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem. read more. And he judged between many peoples, and he admonished to strong nations even to far off; and they beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall no more learn war. And they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none terrifying: for the mouth of Jehovah of armies spake. For all peoples shall go each in the name of his God, and will go in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever.
For this, wait for me, says Jehovah, to the day of my rising up for a testimony: for my judgment is to assemble the nations for my gathering the kingdoms to pour upon them my wrath, all the burning of mine anger: for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be devoured.
And Jehovah was for king over all the earth: in that day Jehovah shall be one, and his name one.
From then Jesus began to proclaim, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.
Happy the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens.
Happy they driven out for justice: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens.
For I say to you, That except your justice abound more than the scribes and Pharisees, ye should not come into the kingdom of the heavens.
And John having heard in prison the works of Christ, having sent two of his disciples, He said to him, Art thou he coming, or should we look for another? read more. And Jesus having answered said to them, Having gone, announce to John what ye hear and see: The blind receive sight, and the lame walk, the leprous are cleansed, and the deaf bear, the dead are roused, and the poor have good news announced. And happy is he who shall not give cause of offence in me.
Verily I say to you, in the begotten of women has there not risen a greater than John the Immerser; but the less in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.
And having answered, he said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.
Verily I say to you, Some are standing here, who should not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
And said, Truly I say to you, Except ye be turned, and become as young children, ye should not come into the kingdom of the heavens.
And Jesus said to them, Verily I say to you, That ye having followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man should sit upon the throne of his glory, shall be seated ye also upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
And Jesus said to them, Verily I say to you, That ye having followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man should sit upon the throne of his glory, shall be seated ye also upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
But what seems to you A man had two children; and having come to the first, he said, Child, retire to-day, work in my vineyard. And he, having answered, said, I will not; but afterward, having felt regret, he departed. read more. And having come to the second, he said likewise. And he, having answered, said, I, Lord: and he departed not. Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Truly I say to you, that publicans and harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of justice, and ye believed him not: and the publicans and harlots believed him; and ye, seeing, repented not afterwards, to believe him.
For this I say to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation doing its fruits.
And Jesus, having answered, spake to them in parables, saying, The kingdom of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made a nuptial feast for his son. read more. And he sent his servants to those having been called to the nuptial feast: and they would not come. And again, he sent other servants, saying, Say to the called: Behold, I have prepared my supper; my bulls and stall-fed killed, and all prepared: come to the nuptials. And they, not having heeded, departed, one truly to his own field, and one to his traffic: And the rest, having seized his servants, were insolent, and killed them. And the king, having heard, was angry, and having sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Then says he to his servants, Truly the nuptial feast is prepared, and those called were not worthy. Go ye, therefore, to the passages of the ways, and as many as ye should find, call to the nuptial feast. And those servants, having come to the ways, gathered together all, as many as they found, also both the evil and good, and the nuptial feast was filled with the reclining. And the king, having come in to behold the reclining, saw there a man not clad with the garment of the wedding: And he says to him, Friend, how camest thou in here, not having a garment of the nuptial feast? And he was muzzled. Then said the king to his servants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him away, and cast ye him into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, and few chosen.
And Jesus having answered, said to them, See lest any lead you astray. For many shall come upon my name, saying, I am Christ; and deceive many. read more. And ye will be about to hear of wars and rumors of war: see, be not terrified; for all must be, but the end is not yet. For nation shall be raised up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines, and plagues, and shakings in places. And all these the beginning of anguish. Then shall they deliver you to pressure, and they shall kill you: and ye shall be hated by all nations, for my name. And then shall many be offended, and they shall deliver up one another, and they shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall be raised up, and deceive many. And because anxiety shall increase, the love of many shall be cooled. But he having persevered to the end, this shall be saved. And this good news of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in the whole habitable globe for a witness to all nations: and then shall the end come. Therefore, when ye see the abomination of devastation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, (let him reading, understand:) Then let them in Judea flee to the mountain; He upon the house-tops, let him not come down to take away anything out of his house: And he in the field, let him not turn back to take up his garments: And woe to those having in the womb, and to those giving suck, in those days! And pray that your flight be not in winter, nor in the sabbath. For then shall be great pressure, such as has not been from the beginning of the world till now, nor should be. And except those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the chosen, those days shall be shortened. Then if any say to you, Behold, here Christ, or there; believe ye not. For false Christs, and false prophets, shall be raised up, and give great signs and wonders; so as to deceive, if possible, also the chosen. Behold, I have told you beforehand. If therefore they should say to you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth; Behold, in the store-houses, believe ye not. For as the lightning comes forth from the sunrisings, and shines to the descents; so also shall be the arrival of the Son of man. For wherever be the fall, there will the eagles be gathered together. And quickly after the pressure of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heavens, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;
And quickly after the pressure of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heavens, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;
And quickly after the pressure of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heavens, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken; And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall the tribes of the earth lament bitterly, and they shall see the Son of man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and much glory.
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall the tribes of the earth lament bitterly, and they shall see the Son of man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and much glory. And he shall send his messengers, with the great voice of the trumpet, and they shall bring together his chosen from the four winds, from the extremities of the heavens to the extremities.
And he shall send his messengers, with the great voice of the trumpet, and they shall bring together his chosen from the four winds, from the extremities of the heavens to the extremities.
And I say to you, that I drink not from henceforth of this fruit of the vine, even till that day when I drink it new with you, in the kingdom of my Father.
And I say to you, that I drink not from henceforth of this fruit of the vine, even till that day when I drink it new with you, in the kingdom of my Father.
And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother, casting a large sweep-net in the sea: for they were fishermen.
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth; And he sleep, and should rise night and day, and the seed should sprout, and be raised; how, he knows not. read more. For the earth bears fruit spontaneously; first the grass, then the ear, then the full wheat in the ear. But when the fruit should yield, quickly he sends the sickle, for the harvest is brought forward.
And it shall not be so among you: but whoever should wish to be great among you, shall be your attendant: And whoever of you should wish to be the first, he shall be the servant of all.
Truly I say to you that I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, till that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
And Zacharias his father, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying, Praised the Lord God of Israel; for he reviewed and he has made a redemption for his people, read more. And he raised up a horn of salvation to us in the house of David, his servant; As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, from forever: Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all hating us; To do mercy with our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant: The oath which he sware to Abraham our father, To give to us, fearlessly, delivered from the hands of our enemies, To serve him in sanctity and justice before him all the days of our life. And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; To give knowledge of salvation to his people, in remission of their sins. Through the bowels of mercy of our God; by which the rising of the sun of sublimity has reviewed us, To shine forth to those in darkness and sitting in the shadow of death, to direct our feet in the way of peace.
And, behold, a man was in Jerusalem, the name to him Simeon; and this man just and cautious, waiting the consolation of Israel : and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it was intimated to him by the Holy Spirit, not to see death, before he should see the Christ of the Lord. read more. And he came in the Spirit to the temple : and in the parents bringing in the child Jesus, for them to do according to the custom of the law for him, And be took him into his arms, and praised God, and said : Now Lord, thou wilt loose thy servant, according to thy word, in peace : For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, Which thou bast prepared before the face of all peoples: A light for the revelation of the nations, and the glory of thy people Israel. And Joseph and his mother were wondering at the things spoken of him. And Simeon praised them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, he is laid for the fall and rising up of many in Israel; and for a sign spoken against; (And also a spear shall pass through the soul of thyself,) so that the reasonings from many hearts might be revealed. And Anna was a prophetess, daughter of flannel, of the tribe of Aser : she advanced in many days, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity; And she a widow of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, with fastings and supplications serving night and day. And she having stood at that hour, confessed to the Lord, and spake concerning him to all awaiting redemption in Jerusalem.
But when thou art called, having gone, recline in the last place; that when he having called thee come, might say to thee, Friend, mount up higher; then shall honour be to thee beore them reclining with thee. For whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be exalted. read more. And he also said to him having called him, When thou makest a breakfast or supper, call not thy friends, nor thy rich neighbors, nor thy brethren; lest they call thee in return, and a giving back be to thee. But when thou makest an entertainment, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: And happy shalt thou be; for they have not to give back to thee: for it shall be given back to thee at the rising up of the just. And a certain of them having reclined together, having heard these things, said to him, Happy he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. And he said to him, A certain man made a great supper and called many; And he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to the called, Come; for all things are already prepared. And from one they all began to conciliate. The first said to him, I bought a field, and have necessity to go and see it: I ask thee, have me pardoned. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I ask thee, have me pardoned. And another said, I have married wife, and therefore I cannot come. And approaching, that servant announced to his lord these things. Then the master of the house, angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly into the streets and quarters of the city, and bring in hither the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, it has been done as thou hest commanded, and yet there is place. And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the ways and hedges, and compel to come in, that my house may be filled up. For I say to you, That none of those men called shall taste of my supper.
And having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God comes, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God comes not with observation:
And having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God comes, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God comes not with observation:
Likewise also the cup after supping, saying, This the cup, the new covenant in my blood, poured out for you:
For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth were by Jesus Christ.
Jesus answered and said to him, Amen, amen, I say to thee, Except any one be born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Jesus says to him, Truly, truly, I say to thee, Except any one be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot come into the kingdom of God.
And he said to them, Ye are from below I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father, except by me.
Render them holy in thy truth: thy word is truth.
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, my servants had contended, that I be not delivered to the Jews; and now my kingdom is not hence.
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, my servants had contended, that I be not delivered to the Jews; and now my kingdom is not hence. Then said Pilate to him, Art thou not then king? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world, that I testify to the truth. Every one being of the truth hears my voice.
Then said Pilate to him, Art thou not then king? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world, that I testify to the truth. Every one being of the truth hears my voice.
Whom heaven must truly receive till time of restoration of all which God spake by the mouth of all his holy prophets from forever.
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
And the God of peace will rub together Satan under your feet swiftly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you.
Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
For he must reign, till he put all enemies under his feet.
For we know that if our earthly house of the tent were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For also in this we groan, longing to have our dwelling from heaven put on: read more. If also being even clothed we shall not be found naked. For also being in the tent we groan, being loaded: since we wish not to be unclothed, but to be clothed, that the mortal should be swallowed up of life. And he having brought us about to this same, God, he having also given us the pledge of the Spirit. Therefore being always confident, and knowing that, being at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, and not by external appearance:) And we are confident, and are contented rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home in the Lord. Wherefore also let us seek the honour, whether being at home, whether being absent, to be pleasing to him. For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ; that each might receive the things for the body, for what he did, good or bad.
Envyings, slaughters, drunkenness, revelries, and the like: to these which I foretell you, as I have also said before, that they doing such shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Which is the pledge of our inheritance for the redemption of the acquisition, to the praise of his glory.
For this ye are knowing, that every fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Returning thanks to the Father, having rendered us fitting for the portion of the lot of the holy in light: Who saved us from the power of darkness, and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of his love:
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up, so also God by Jesus Christ will bring with him them having slept. For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we the living being left at the arrival of the Lord shall not get beforehand with them having slept. read more. For the Lord himself in the word of command, in the voice of the archangel, shall descend from heaven: and the dead in Christ shall be raised first: Then we the living being left shall be snatched up together with them in the clouds, to the meeting of the Lord in the air: and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort ye one another with these words.
And we ask you, brethren, concerning the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our assembling together to him, For you not to be quickly shaken in mind, neither be disturbed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle as by us, as that the day of Christ has drawn near. read more. Let none deceive you in any manner: for, except an apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who being opposed and lifted up above all called God, or which is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, yet being with you, I spake these to you And now ye know the withholding for him to be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity is already energetic: only he withholding, even till he be out of the midst. And then shall the Lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the spirit of his mouth, and leave unemployed in the splendor of his arrival: Whose arrival is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood, And in all deceit of iniquity in the lost; because they received not the love of the truth, for them to be saved. And for this, God shall send them the energy of error, for them to believe in falsehood: That all might be judged not believing the truth but contented in iniquity.
And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and save for his heavenly kingdom: to whom the glory for the times of times. Amen.
In saying new, he has made the first old. And that made old and becoming weak is near destruction.
In saying new, he has made the first old. And that made old and becoming weak is near destruction.
But ye have come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, To the assembly of people, and church of the firstborn, transcribed in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and. to the spirits of the just perfected, read more. And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than Abel.
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom unmoved; we should have grace by which we might serve God acceptably, with reverence and circumspection:
My little children, we should not love in word, neither in tongue; but in work and truth. And in this we know that we are of the truth, and we will yield our hearts before him.
And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, and we know him true, and we are in him true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.