2 Thessalonians 2:10

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh; “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.

But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.

Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”