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| 26.If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27.but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28.Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. |
| 29.How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? |
30.For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." 31.It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32.Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering. 33.Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. 34.You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.
35.So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. 36.You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 37.For in just a very little while,
"He who is coming will come
and will not delay.
38.But my righteous one will
live by faith.
And if he shrinks back,
I will not be pleased with him."
39.But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved. |
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| But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.
They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth—men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
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