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| 26.If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27.but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28.Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. |
| 29.How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? |
30.For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." 31.It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32.Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering. 33.Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. 34.You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.
35.So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. 36.You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 37.For in just a very little while,
"He who is coming will come
and will not delay.
38.But my righteous one will
live by faith.
And if he shrinks back,
I will not be pleased with him."
39.But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved. |
| Hebrews 10:26-39 |
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| If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. |
| 1 Corinthians 13 |
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