Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.
Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.
Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;
But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone,
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay;
This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,
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