For all these things are for your sake, so that the grace that is including more and more people may cause thanksgiving to increase to the glory of God.

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in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength.

I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.

The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.

Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.

and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival.

Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and the endurance of Christ.

For the law appoints as high priests men subject to weakness, but the word of solemn affirmation that came after the law appoints a son made perfect forever.

For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.

Remember your leaders, who spoke God’s message to you; reflect on the outcome of their lives and imitate their faith.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.

Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.

Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.

Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah’s rebellion.

Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy aloud, and blessed are those who hear and obey the things written in it, because the time is near!