Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Let brotherly love continue.
I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some.
Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.”
Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?
But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.
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