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His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

“When the Counselorhas come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

I and the Father are one.”

Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

“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.”

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

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

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,— — read the full passage →

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.

As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!” — read the full passage →

“As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

“Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.

For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

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?”

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

“Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.

The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!” — read the full passage →

Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.

They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God’s creation, says these things:

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

And, “You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, — read the full passage →

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom: — read the full passage →

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; — read the full passage →

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

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.

Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, — read the full passage →

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

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.

that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.

For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.

Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.