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

While people are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless.

Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.

Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.

They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,

and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; see that they lack nothing.

like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end."

Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.'

And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

And again in this passage he said, "They shall not enter my rest."

and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain."

not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.