Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the Lord and turn to him! Let all the nations worship you!

Give the king long life! Make his lifetime span several generations!

Take a good look! This is what the wicked are like, those who always have it so easy and get richer and richer.

Sing to the Lord, for he has done magnificent things, let this be known throughout the earth!

This is the plan I have devised for the whole earth; my hand is ready to strike all the nations.”

He is the one who reduces rulers to nothing; he makes the earth’s leaders insignificant.

(3:31) “King Nebuchadnezzar, to all peoples, nations, and language groups that live in all the land: Peace and prosperity!

Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and language groups who were living in all the land: “Peace and prosperity!

and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)

because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.

For though we live as human beings, we do not wage war according to human standards,

for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, but are made powerful by God for tearing down strongholds. We tear down arguments

tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age,

Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

Sheol below is stirred up about you, ready to meet you when you arrive. It rouses the spirits of the dead for you, all the former leaders of the earth; it makes all the former kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately and said, “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

who will not receive in this age a hundred times as much – homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions – and in the age to come, eternal life.

Therefore when I was planning to do this, I did not do so without thinking about what I was doing, did I? Or do I make my plans according to mere human standards so that I would be saying both “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?

He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,