Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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The Wicked One
1 Concerning the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ and our being
gathered together to be with him: I
beg you, my brothers, note
2 not to be so
easily confused in your thinking or
upset by the claim that the Day of
the Lord has come. Perhaps it is
thought that we said this while
prophesying or preaching, or that
we wrote it in a letter.
3 Do not let
anyone deceive you in any way. For
the Day will not come until the final
Rebellion takes place and the
Wicked One appears, who is destined
to hell.
4 He will oppose every
so-called god or object of worship
and will put himself above them all.
He will even go in and sit down in
God's Temple and claim to be God. note
5 Don't you remember? I told you
all this while I was with you.
6 Yet
there is something that keeps this
from happening now, and you know
what it is. At the proper time, then,
the Wicked One will appear.
7 The
Mysterious Wickedness is already at
work, but what is going to happen
will not happen until the one who
holds it back is taken out of the way.
8 Then the Wicked One will be revealed,
but when the Lord Jesus
comes, he will kill him with the
breath from his mouth and destroy
him with his dazzling presence. note
9 The Wicked One will come with the
power of Satan and perform all
kinds of false miracles and wonders, note
10 and use every kind of wicked deceit
on those who will perish. They
will perish because they did not welcome
and love the truth so as to be
saved.
11 And so God sends the
power of error to work in them so
that they believe what is false.
12 The
result is that all who have not believed
the truth, but have taken
pleasure in sin, will be condemned.
You Are Chosen for Salvation
13 We must thank God at all times
for you, brothers, you whom the
Lord loves. For God chose you as the
first note to be saved by the Spirit's
power to make you his holy people
and by your faith in the truth.
14 God
called you to this through the Good
News we preached to you; he called
you to possess your share of the glory
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 So
then, our brothers, stand firm and
hold on to those truths which we
taught you, both in our preaching
and in our letter.
16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself
and God our Father, who loved
us and in his grace gave us unfailing
courage and a firm hope,
17 encourage
you and strengthen you to always
do and say what is good.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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