So when the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until a more opportune time.

until the day he was taken up to heaven, after he had given orders by the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

because of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now.

When they had crossed over the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus,

I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.

But we passionately want each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of your hope until the end,

because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets.

Paul looked directly at the council and said, “Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience before God to this day.”

But we will not boast beyond certain limits, but will confine our boasting according to the limits of the work to which God has appointed us, that reaches even as far as you.

For we were not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach as far as you, because we were the first to reach as far as you with the gospel about Christ.

And to the one who conquers and who continues in my deeds until the end, I will give him authority over the nations –

“Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees until we have put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

Then the winepress was stomped outside the city, and blood poured out of the winepress up to the height of horses’ bridles for a distance of almost two hundred miles.

(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection.