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but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God which proveth our hearts.

even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

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

so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

if so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,

he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.

So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours.

The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.

neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, the which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; [so do I now].

O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto [thee], turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

And like as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-workers.

having become by so much better than the angels, as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they.

how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;

For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honour than the house.

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:

he again defineth a certain day, saying in David, after so long a time, Today, as it hath been before said, Today if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts.