For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

When I arrive, whomever you may approve, I will send them with letters to carry your gift to Jerusalem;

and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I may go.

So let no one despise him. But send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

We have sent along with him the brother whose fame in the things of the gospel has spread through all the churches;

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have often tested and found diligent in many things, but now even more diligent because of his great confidence in you.

But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, as I was saying, you may be prepared;

Certainly I have not taken advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you, have I?

I urged Titus to go, and I sent the brother with him. Titus did not take any advantage of you, did he? Did we not conduct ourselves in the same spirit and walk in the same steps?

Paul, an apostle (not sent from men nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

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

Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may know about us, and that he may comfort your hearts.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, so that I also may be encouraged when I learn of your condition.

Therefore I hope to send him immediately, as soon as I see how things go with me;

But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my need;

Therefore I have sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you.

for even in Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for my needs.

But I have received everything in full and have an abundance; I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you have sent, a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me greet you.

For I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts;

and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you as to your faith,

For this reason, when I could endure it no longer, I also sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter might have tempted you, and our labor would be in vain.

For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,

and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound doctrine which you have been following.

If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness,

Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,

But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict.

This testimony is true. For this reason reprove them severely so that they may be sound in the faith,

But as for you, speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine.

Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance.

sound in speech which is beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make every effort to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

I have sent him back to you in person, that is, sending my very heart,

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

Therefore there was born even of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many descendants as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

and to the blast of a trumpet and the sound of words which sound was such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them.

In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?

Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water?

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things into which angels long to look.

or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right.

The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer.

By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John,

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet,

saying, “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters.

After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.”

And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.

Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in midheaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!”

They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle.

but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as He preached to His servants the prophets.

And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate; and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore.Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems, and on his heads were blasphemous names.

And I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder, and the voice which I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps.

And the sound of harpists and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters will not be heard in you any longer; and no craftsman of any craft will be found in you any longer; and the sound of a mill will not be heard in you any longer;

Then I heard something like the voice of a great multitude and like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, saying,“Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns.

and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore.

And he said to me, “These words are faithful and true”; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show to His bond-servants the things which must soon take place.

“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”