Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity?
that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim; as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused; to do his deed—strange is his deed! and to work his work—alien is his work!
When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers.
when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.
But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
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