Luke 4:5

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

“ ‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a solemn rest for you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

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

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

“You, O king, saw, and behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its appearance was terrifying.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.