2 Thessalonians 2:5

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.

Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

But you watch. “Behold, I have told you all things beforehand.

This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”

As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?

“Behold, I have told you beforehand.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

They told him, “We only have here five loaves and two fish.”

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.

He settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept.

Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty toward Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.

Watch and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of Yahweh’s house.”

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

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

Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a plunder to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me.

Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

Go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.’ Behold, I have told you.”

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.

“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”

But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.’

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”