If someone spreads false teachings and does not agree with sound words (that is, those of our Lord Jesus Christ) and with the teaching that accords with godliness,

– whose appearing the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, will reveal at the right time.

I have had great joy and encouragement because of your love, for the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

However, without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your good deed would not be out of compulsion, but from your own willingness.

Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.

For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

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

When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.

By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped as he leaned on his staff.

Brotherly love must continue.

By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.

I want you to recall both the predictions foretold by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

Now to the one who is able to keep you from falling, and to cause you to stand, rejoicing, without blemish before his glorious presence,

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 merchants who sold these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep and mourn,

He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them “humankind.”

After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God for 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.

The Lord regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was highly offended.

These are the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.