“‘People from other nations will pass by this city. They will ask one another, “Why has the Lord done such a thing to this great city?”

Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan – each one for his iniquity.

It will happen in one day (a day known to the Lord); not in the day or the night, but in the evening there will be light.

This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

And if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would be saved. But because of the elect, whom he chose, he has cut them short.

This is the one about whom it is written, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

He commanded us to preach to the people and to warn them that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.

Those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.

But any woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is one and the same thing as having a shaved head.

For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.

Each one of you should give just as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, because God loves a cheerful giver.

But even if we (or an angel from heaven) should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be condemned to hell!

Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.

Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

For the hidden power of lawlessness is already at work. However, the one who holds him back will do so until he is taken out of the way,

But he must ask in faith without doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed around by the wind.

Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.