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\v 6 You will hear about wars that are close and wars that are far away, but do not let that trouble you. Keep in mind that God has said that those things must happen. But when they happen, it will not mean that the end of the world has come!
\v 7 peoples will attack each other, and kings will lead armies against each other. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
\v 7 Nations will attack each other, and kings will lead armies against each other. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
\v 8 These things will happen first, but they will be like when a woman starts to suffer pain before she gives birth to a child.
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\v 9 "More bad things will happen. People who oppose you will take you away to suffer and die. People who live in all the peoples will hate you because you believe in me.
\v 9 "More bad things will happen. People who oppose you will take you away to suffer and die. All the nations will hate you because you believe in me.
\v 10 Also, many people will stop believing because of the way they will suffer. They will betray their own fellow believers and will hate each other.
\v 11 Many will come saying that they are prophets, but they will be lying, and they will deceive many people.
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\v 12 Because more and more people will disobey God's laws, many believers will no longer love each other.
\v 13 But all those who keep on believing to the end of their lives, God will save them.
\v 14 Furthermore, believers will preach the good news about how God is ruling in every part of the world, in order to announce it to all peoples. Then the end of the world will come.
\v 14 Furthermore, believers will preach the good news about how God is ruling in every part of the world, in order to announce it to all the nations. Then the end of the world will come.
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\v 31 "When the Son of Man comes again in his brilliant light and brings all his angels, he will sit as king on his throne to judge everyone.
\v 32 Everyone from all the peoples will be gathered in front of him. Then he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates his sheep from his goats.
\v 32 Everyone from all the nations will be gathered in front of him. Then he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates his sheep from his goats.
\v 33 He will put the righteous people on his right and the unrighteous ones on his left, just like sheep and goats.
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\v 18 Then Jesus came close to them and said, "My Father has given me all authority over everything and everyone in heaven and on earth.
\v 19 So go, and use my authority to teach my message to people of all peoples so that they may become my disciples. Baptize them to be under the authority of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
\v 19 So go, and use my authority to teach my message to all the nations so that they may become my disciples. Baptize them to be under the authority of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
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\v 20 Teach them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember that I will be with you always, until the end of this age."

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\v 41 The other ten disciples later heard about what James and John had requested. So they said they were unhappy with the two disciples.
\v 42 Then Jesus called them all together and said, "You know that kings and others who rule over people enjoy showing that they are powerful. You also know that their officials enjoy commanding others.
\v 42 Then Jesus called them all together and said, "You know that kings and others who rule over the Gentiles enjoy showing that they are powerful. You also know that their officials enjoy commanding others.
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\v 43 But do not be like them! On the contrary, all those among you who want God to consider them great must become like servants to the rest of you.
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\v 7 When you hear the sound of soldiers fighting battles, or when you hear news about wars that are far away, do not be troubled. These things will definitely happen. But when they do happen, do not think that God will finish all that he has planned at that time!
\v 8 Groups who live in various countries will fight each other, and various kings and leaders will fight each other. There will also be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines. Yet, when these things happen, people will have only just begun to suffer. These first things that they suffer will be like the first pains a woman suffers who is about to bear a child. They will suffer much more after that.
\v 8 Nations will fight each other, and various kings and leaders will fight each other. There will also be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines. Yet, when these things happen, people will have only just begun to suffer. These first things that they suffer will be like the first pains a woman suffers who is about to bear a child. They will suffer much more after that.
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\v 31 Jesus took the twelve disciples to a place by themselves and said to them, "Listen carefully! We are now going up to Jerusalem. While we are there, everything that the prophets wrote long ago about me, the Son of Man, will be accomplished.
\v 32 My enemies will put me into the power of the non-Jews. They will mock me, treat me with disdain, and spit on me.
\v 32 My enemies will give me over to the power of those who are not Jews. They will mock me, treat me with disdain, and spit on me.
\v 33 They will whip me and then they will kill me. But on the third day after that I will become alive again."
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\v 10 "Various peoples will attack each other, and various kings will fight each other.
\v 11 And in various places there will be great earthquakes, as well as famines and terrible diseases. Many things will happen that will cause people to be very afraid, and people will see strange things in the sky that will show that something very important is going to happen.
\v 10 "Nations will attack other nations, and many kings will fight against each other.
\v 11 And in many places there will be great earthquakes, famines, and terrible diseases. Many things will happen that will cause people to be very afraid, and people will see strange things in the sky that will show that something very important is going to happen.
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\v 12 But before all these things happen, they will arrest you, treat you badly, hand you over to the synagogues for trial, and hand you over to the prisons. They will put you on trial in the presence of kings and high government authorities because you follow me.
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\v 25 "At this time, strange things will happen to the sun, the moon, and the stars. And on earth, peoples will become very frightened, and they will become confused because of the roaring ocean and its huge waves.
\v 25 "At this time, strange things will happen to the sun, the moon, and the stars. And on earth, the nations will become very frightened, and they will become confused because of the roaring ocean and its huge waves.
\v 26 People will be so afraid that they will faint, because they are waiting for what will happen next in the world. The stars in the sky will have to leave from their usual places.
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\v 1 Then the whole group got up and took him to Pilate, the Roman governor.
\v 2 They accused him in front of Pilate: "We have seen this fellow causing trouble by telling lies to our people. He has been telling them to not pay taxes to Caesar, the Roman emperor. Also, he has been saying that he is the Christ, a king!"
\v 2 They accused him in front of Pilate: "We have seen this fellow causing trouble by telling the people that they should not pay taxes to Caesar, the Roman emperor. Also, he has been saying that he is the Christ, a king!"
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\v 1 A man named Lazarus fell very sick. He lived in the village of Bethany where Mary and Martha lived.
\v 2 This is the same Mary who later would pour perfume on the Lord to show her love and honor of him, and would wipe his feet with her hair. It was her brother Lazarus who was sick.

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\v 23 After Peter and John left the council, they went to the other believers and told them everything that the chief priests and Jewish elders had said to them.
\v 24 When the believers heard this, they all agreed as they prayed to God together, "O Lord! You made the sky, the earth and the oceans, and everything in them.
\v 25 The Holy Spirit caused our ancestor, King David, who served you, to write these words:
\q 'Why did the peoples of the world become angry
\q 'Why did the nations of the world become angry
\q and the Israelite people plan uselessly against God?
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\v 6 Later God told Abraham, 'Your descendants will go and live in a foreign country. They will live there for four hundred years, and during that time their leaders will mistreat your descendants and force them to work as slaves.
\v 7 'But I will punish the people who make them work as slaves. After that, your descendants will leave that land, and they will come and worship me in this land.'
\v 7 'But I will punish the nation who make them work as slaves. After that, your descendants will leave that land, and they will come and worship me in this land.'
\v 8 Then God commanded that every male in Abraham's household and all of his male descendants should be circumcised to show that they all belonged to God. Later Abraham's son, Isaac, was born, and on the eighth day of Isaac's life, Abraham circumcised him. Later Isaac's son, Jacob, was born. Jacob was the father of the twelve men whom we Jews call the patriarchs, our forefathers.
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\v 8 So, because of those miracles that had been done, many people in that city greatly rejoiced.
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\v 9 There was a man in that city whose name was Simon. He had been practicing sorcery for a long time, and he amazed the people in the district of Samaria with his magic. He claimed he was "Simon the Great One!"
\v 10 All the people there, both ordinary and important people, listened to him. They were saying, "This man is the Great Power of God."
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\v 34 So Peter began to speak to them. He said, "Now I understand that it is true that God does not favor only certain groups of people.
\v 35 Instead, from every people he accepts everyone who honors him and who does what pleases him.
\v 35 Instead, from every people he accepts everyone who honors him and who does what pleases him.
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\v 36 You know the message that God sent to us Israelites. He proclaimed to us the good news that he would cause people to have peace with him because of what Jesus Christ has done. This Jesus is Lord not only over us Israelites. He is also the Lord who rules over all people.
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\v 14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard about that, they were very upset, so they tore their own clothes. They rushed among the people, shouting,
\v 15 "Men, you must not kill those bulls to worship us! We are not gods! We are just human beings with the same feelings as you! We have come to tell you some good news! We have come to tell you about the God who is all-powerful. He wants you to stop worshiping other gods, because they cannot help you. This true God made the heavens, the earth, the oceans, and everything in them.
\v 16 In the past, all of you non-Jewish people worshiped whatever gods that you wanted to. God let you worship them, because you did not know him.
\v 16 In the past, all of you non-Jewish people worshiped whatever gods that you wanted to. God let them live as they wanted to live.
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\v 17 But he has shown us that he acts kindly toward us. He is the one who causes it to rain and causes crops to grow. He is the one who gives you plenty of food, and fills your hearts with joy."
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\v 1 Five days later Ananias the high priest went down there from Jerusalem, along with some other Jewish elders and a speechmaker whose name was Tertullus. There they told the governor what Paul had done that they thought was wrong.
\v 2 The governor commanded Paul to be brought in. When Paul arrived, Tertullus began to accuse him. He said to the governor, "Honorable Governor Felix, during the many years that you have ruled us, we have lived well. By planning wisely, you have improved many things in this province.
\v 2 The governor commanded Paul to be brought in. When Paul arrived, Tertullus began to accuse him. He said to the governor, "Honorable Governor Felix, during the many years that you have ruled us, we have lived well. By planning wisely, you have improved many things in this nation.
\v 3 Therefore, Governor Felix, we always thank you for everything that you have done for all of us, wherever you have done those things.
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\v 10 Then the governor motioned with his hand to Paul that he should speak. So Paul replied, and said, "Governor Felix, I know that you have judged this Jewish province for many years. Therefore I gladly defend myself. I know that you will listen to me and will judge me fairly.
\v 10 Then the governor motioned with his hand to Paul that he should speak. So Paul replied, and said, "Governor Felix, I know that you have judged this Jewish nation for many years. Therefore I gladly defend myself. I know that you will listen to me and will judge me fairly.
\v 11 You know that it has not been more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship God.
\v 12 No one can say that they saw me arguing with anyone in the temple courts because I did not do that. No one can say that they saw me causing people to riot in any Jewish synagogue or causing trouble anywhere else in Jerusalem, because I did not do that.
\v 13 So they cannot prove to you the things about which they are now accusing me.
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\v 4 "All my fellow Jews know about how I have conducted my life from the time I was a child. They know how I lived in the city where I was born and also later in Jerusalem.
\v 4 "All my fellow Jews know about how I have conducted my life from the time I was a child. They know how I lived my life from the beginning in my own nation, and also how I lived when I was in Jerusalem.
\v 5 They have known me from my very beginning, and they could tell you, if they wanted to, that since I was very young I obeyed the most rigid customs of our religion very carefully. I lived just like the other Pharisees.
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\v 18 The Roman authorities questioned me and wanted to release me, because I had not done any bad thing for which I should be executed.
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\v 19 But when the Jewish leaders there spoke against the desire of the Romans to set me free, I had to request that the emperor judge me here in Rome. But my reason for doing that was not that I wanted to accuse our leaders about anything.
\v 19 But when the Jewish leaders there spoke against the desire of the Romans to set me free, I had to request that the emperor judge me here in Rome. But my reason for doing that was not because I wanted to accuse our own people or their leaders about anything.
\v 20 So I have requested you to come here so that I can tell you why I am a prisoner. It is because I believe in what the people of Israel confidently expect God will do for us."
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\v 4 As to his divine nature, it was powerfully shown that he is God's own Son. God showed this when his Holy Spirit caused him to become alive again after he died. He is Jesus Christ our Lord.
\v 5 He has shown us great kindness and appointed us to be apostles. He did that in order that many among all the peoples would believe in him and obey him.
\v 5 He has shown us great kindness and appointed us to be apostles. He did that in order that many among all the nations would believe in him and obey him.
\v 6 You believers who are living in Rome are included among those whom God has chosen to belong to Jesus Christ.
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\v 10 But God will praise, honor, and give peace to every person who habitually does good deeds. He will certainly do this for the Jews because he chose them as his special people, but he will also do it for the non-Jews.
\v 11 God will do this fairly, because he pays no attention to how important anyone is.
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\v 12 Although non-Jews do not have the laws that God gave to Moses and still sin without having a law, God will bring them to ruin forever. And he will also punish all the Jews who have disobeyed his law, because he will judge them according to what the law says.
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\v 13 Those who have only heard about God's law are not righteous before God. No, it is those who have followed the law and obey its commands, they are the ones who will be righteous when they stand before God. Only those who have obeyed God's law are the ones that God makes righteous.
\v 14 Whenever the non-Jews, who do not have the law of God, follow those laws because they obeyed them by the light of nature, they prove that they have a law within themselves, even though they never had the laws that God gave to Moses.
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\v 15 They show that they know in their own minds what God commands in his law, for each person in his very own conscience either accuses himself of bad behavior or defends himself.
\v 16 God will punish them at the time when he will judge people according to what they have thought and done secretly. He will judge people by authorizing Christ Jesus to judge them. This is what I tell people when I preach the good news to them.
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\v 16 So it is because we trust in God that we will receive the things that he has promised to us as a gift, because he is very kind. He gives these things to everyone whom he regards as a true descendant of Abraham—us Jewish believers, who have God's law and trust him, and also those non-Jews who do not have God's laws but who trust in him as Abraham did. For God regards Abraham as the true ancestor of all of us believers.
\v 17 This is what God said to Abraham in the scriptures: "I will make you the ancestor of many ethnic groups." Abraham received this directly from God, who raises dead people to life and creates things out of nothing.
\v 17 This is what God said to Abraham in the scriptures: "I will make you the ancestor of many nations." Abraham received this directly from God, who raises dead people to life and creates things out of nothing.
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\v 18 He trusted firmly in this promise of God, even though there was no physical reason for him to expect that he would have descendants because he and his wife were too old to bear children. God had promised Abraham that he would become the ancestor of many ethnic groups by saying, "Your descendants will be like the stars in the sky."
\v 18 He trusted firmly in this promise of God, even though there was no physical reason for him to expect that he would have descendants because he and his wife were too old to bear children. God had promised Abraham that he would become the ancestor of many nations by saying, "Your descendants will be like the stars in the sky."
\v 19 He did not doubt that God would do what he promised, even though he knew that his body was not able to father a child (he was, after all, about one hundred years old), and he knew that Sarah could never become pregnant before.
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\v 25 Now to the God who is able to strengthen you spiritually by my proclamation of the good news of Jesus Christ that God did not reveal in any age before our own time—
\v 26 but now God has made it known by means of what the scriptures said would happen—so that people in all the peoples in the world may believe in Christ and obey him.
\v 26 but now God has made it known by means of what the scriptures said would happen—so that all the people in all the nations of the world may believe in Christ and obey him.
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\v 27 May God, who alone is wise, be praised forever, because of what Jesus Christ has done for us. May it be so!

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\v 1 People have even told us that there is someone in your church who is living in sexual immorality, a kind of immorality that even the unbelievers do not allow. A man has a sexual relationship with his father's wife!
\v 1 People have even told us that there is someone in your church who is living in sexual immorality, a kind of immorality that even the unbelievers do not allow. A man has a sexual relationship with his father's wife!
\v 2 And you, you remain arrogant! Rather you should have wept over this sin, and should have expelled this man from your congregation.
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\v 1 And now let me teach you about spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters. I want you to know how to use them.
\v 2 You may recall how, when you worshiped idols—idols that could not even speak a word—they led you astray.
\v 3 No one who is filled with the Spirit of God would ever say, "Jesus is accursed!" And no one can say, "Jesus Christ is Lord" except when he is guided by the Holy Spirit.
\v 2 You may recall how, that time before you were believers in Christ, when you worshiped idols—idols that could not even speak a word—and you remember how worshiping those idol led you astray.
\v 3 And so I want you to know that no one who is filled with the Spirit of God would ever say, "Jesus is accursed!" And no one can say, "Jesus Christ is Lord" except when he is guided by the Holy Spirit.
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\v 10 Both you and God know that we lived toward you believers in a very good and right way—in a way that no one could criticize.
\v 11 You know also that we behaved toward each one of you as a father who loves his children behaves toward them.
\v 12 We kept strongly exhorting and encouraging you to live like God's people should, because he has called you to become his people to whom he will show himself as king with the most wonderful power.
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\v 1-2 Now, my fellow believers, I want to write about some other matters. I urge you—and when I urge you, it is the same as the Lord Jesus himself urging you—to conduct your lives in a way that pleases God. We taught you to do that because of what the Lord Jesus had told us to say. We know that you are conducting your lives that way, but we strongly urge that you do that even more.
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\v 3 God wants you give honor to God in everything you do. He commands you to keep away from all immoral sexual acts.
\v 4 He wants all of you to control your own bodies and to obey God's commands about sexual acts. He wants you to honor God in everything you do.
\v 5 You must not become a slave of your lustful desires (like people who do not know God).
\v 5 You must not become a slave of your lustful desires (like the Gentiles who do not know God).
\v 6 God wants each one of you to control your sexual desires, in order that no one of you sin against your fellow believer and take advantage of him or her by doing things like that. Remember that we strongly warned you previously that the Lord Jesus will punish all people who commit immoral sexual acts.
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\v 9 But you are people God has chosen to belong to him. You are people who are set apart to worship just like the priests worship him. You belong to God, so that you might proclaim the wonderful things he has done for all his people. He has called you away from the sinful lives you used to live, and he has brought you out of darkness so you could live in the light he, the marvelous light that shines on everything we do.
\v 9 But you are people God has chosen to belong to him. You are people who are set apart to worship just like the priests worship him. You are the people that belong to God, so that you might proclaim the wonderful things he has done for all his people. He has called you away from the sinful lives you used to live, and he has brought you out of darkness so you could live in the light he, the marvelous light that shines on everything we do.
\v 10 What the scriptures say is true about you:
\q "Formerly, you were no people at all,
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\v 25 Just keep believing firmly in me and obey me until I come.
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\v 26 As for those who conquer Satan and who keep on doing what I command until they die, I will give them my authority over all people.
\v 26 As for those who conquer Satan and who keep on doing what I command until they die, I will give them my authority over all nations.
\v 27 They will control them as if they were striking them with an iron rod. They will destroy evildoers just as people shatter clay pots.
\v 28 I do all of this with the authority my Father gave me, and I will give the morning star to those who rule with me so that we may have great joy in our victory.
\v 29 Everyone who wants to understand must listen carefully to the message that God's Spirit is saying to the groups of believers assembled together.'
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\q1 because you alone created all things.
\q1 Moreover, because you intended that they should exist,
\q1 you created them; as a result, they exist."
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\v 1 I saw that there was a scroll in the right hand of the one who was sitting on the throne. The scroll was written on its outside as well as on its inside, and it was sealed with seven seals.
\v 2 I saw a strong angel who was announcing in a loud voice, "The person who is worthy to break the seals of the scroll and then to open it should come and do it!"
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\q1 "You are worthy to receive the scroll and to open its seals
\q1 because you were killed, and because you redeemed
\q1 people for God from every tribe, language, people,
\q1 and people with your blood when you died.
\q1 and people with your blood when you died.
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\v 10 You have caused them to become a people over whom our God rules
\q1 and to become priests who serve him; they will rule on the earth."
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\v 1 After this I saw four angels standing on the earth. One was standing at the north, one at the east, one at the south, and one at the west. They were keeping back the winds from blowing and destroying things on the earth, on the ocean, or even on any tree.
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\v 9 After these things happened, I saw a huge crowd. There were so many people that no one could count them. They were from every nation, every tribe, every people , and every language. They were standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and held palm branches to wave with their hands in order to celebrate.
\v 9 After these things happened, I saw a huge crowd. There were so many people that no one could count them. They were from every nation, every tribe, every people, and every language. They were standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and held palm branches to wave with their hands in order to celebrate.
\v 10 They shouted loudly, "Our God, the one who sits on the throne, and the Lamb have rescued us from Satan's power!"
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\v 7 He said that when the time came for the seventh angel to blow his trumpet, God's secret plan would be finished, just as he had said long ago to his servants, the prophets.
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\v 8 The one whom I had heard speak from heaven spoke to me again. He said, "Go and take the open scroll from the hand of the angel who is standing on the ocean and on the land."
\v 9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, "Take it and eat it. In your mouth it will taste sweet like honey, but it will make your stomach bitter."
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\v 10 I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it. In my mouth it tasted sweet like honey, but then it made my stomach bitter.
\v 11 Then someone said to me, "You must speak God's messages again about many nations, peoples, speakers of many languages, and many kings."
\v 11 Then someone said to me, "You must speak God's messages again about many people, nations, languages, and kings."
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\v 1 Then an angel gave to me a reed similar to a measuring stick. God said to me, "Go to the temple, measure it and the altar in it, and count the people who are worshiping there.
\v 2 But do not measure the courtyard outside of the temple building because I have given it to the non-Jewish peoples. As a result, they will trample the city of Jerusalem for forty-two months.
\v 2 But do not measure the courtyard outside of the temple building because I have given it to the people who do not believe. As a result, they will trample the city of Jerusalem for forty-two months.
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\v 3 I will send two witnesses to announce what I reveal to them for 1,260 days. They will show they are sad about the people's sin by wearing rough clothes made from goat's hair."
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\v 8 The dead bodies of the two witnesses will lie in the street of the great city where their Lord was crucified, the city that is symbolically called Sodom or Egypt because its people are very evil like the people who lived in Sodom and Egypt.
\v 9 Individuals of many peoples, tribes, language groups, and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days. But they will not allow anyone to bury their bodies.
\v 9 Individuals of many peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days. But they will not allow anyone to bury their bodies.
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\v 10 When the people who live on the earth see that the witnesses are dead, they will rejoice and celebrate. They will send gifts to each other because these two prophets had sent plagues that tormented them.
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\v 3 Something else very unusual appeared in the sky. It was a huge red dragon. It had seven heads and ten horns. On each of its heads was a royal crown.
\v 4 The dragon's tail dragged a third of the stars from the sky and threw them to the earth. The dragon set himself in front of the woman who was about to give birth in order that he might eat her child as soon as it was born.
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\v 5 Then she gave birth to a son who is destined to rule all groups of people with complete authority as if he were using an iron rod. God snatched away her child and took him to his throne.
\v 5 Then she gave birth to a son who is destined to rule all the nations with complete authority as if he were using an iron rod. God snatched away her child and took him to his throne.
\v 6 But the woman fled into the wilderness. She has a place there that God has prepared for her in order that he may take care of her for 1,260 days.
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\v 6 When it spoke, it insulted God, his name, the place where he lives, and all who live in heaven.
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\v 7 God also allowed the beast to fight against his people and conquer them. It had authority to rule over every tribe, over every nation, over the speakers of every language, and over every people .
\v 7 God also allowed the beast to fight against his people and conquer them. It had authority to rule over every tribe, people, language, and nation.
\v 8 All the people living on earth will worship it. Those who worship it are the ones whose names are not in the Book of Life. That is the book that God wrote before he created the world, and it belongs to the Lamb who was killed.
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\v 6 Then I saw another angel flying between the sky and heaven. He was bringing God's eternal good news to earth in order that he might proclaim it to people who live on the earth. He will proclaim it to every nation, to every tribe, to speakers of every language, and to every people .
\v 6 Then I saw another angel flying between the sky and heaven. He was bringing God's eternal good news to earth in order that he might proclaim it to people who live on the earth. He will proclaim it to every nation, tribe, language, and people .
\v 7 He said in a loud voice, "Honor God and praise him because it is now time for him to judge everyone! Worship him because he is the one who created the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the springs of water."
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\q1 "Lord God, who rules over everything,
\q1 whatever you do is powerful and marvelous!
\q1 You always act righteously and truthfully.
\q1 You are king forever over all the groups of people!
\q1 You are king forever over all nations!
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\v 4 O Lord, everyone will fear you and honor you because you alone are holy.
\q1 All kinds of people will come and bow down before you
\q1 All nations will come and bow down before you
\q1 because you have shown that you have judged everyone in the right way."
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\v 1 One of the seven angels, who had one of the seven bowls, came to me and said, "Come with me and I will show you how God will punish the prostitute, the woman who represents the city in which there are many canals of water.
\v 2 The kings of the earth have acted immorally and idolatrously with her. The people on the earth acted immorally in the same way. It was as if they had gotten drunk on wine that she gave them."
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\v 3 Then God's Spirit took control of me, and the angel carried me away to a desolate area. There I saw a woman who was sitting on a red beast. The beast had written names all over itself. They were names that insulted God. The beast had seven heads and ten horns.
\v 4 The woman was wearing purple and red clothes. She had jewelry of gold, precious stones, and pearls; she held in her hand a golden cup. The cup was full of something to drink that stands for the detestable and filthy things that she does when she commits sexual immorality.
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\v 14 The rulers and the beast will fight against the Lamb. He will defeat them because he is the Lord who rules over all other lords and the King who rules over all other kings. The people who are with him are the ones whom God has chosen and called to himself and who keep serving him faithfully."
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\v 15 Then the angel said to me, "The waters that you saw in the city represent many different kinds of people, and many different groups of people, and different languages that the people speak, where the prostitute sits.
\v 15 Then the angel said to me, "The waters that you saw in the city represent many different kinds of people, huge numbers of people, many nations, and many languages were spoken there, and that is where the prostitute sits.
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\v 16 The ten horns that you saw represent rulers. They and the beast will hate the prostitute. So they will take away everything that is in the city as if they were leaving it naked. They will destroy it as if devouring flesh, and they will burn it completely.
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\v 1 After this I saw another angel, one who had great authority, coming down from heaven. The earth became bright because he was shining so intensely.
\v 2 He shouted with a very loud voice, "God is about to completely destroy the very evil city of Babylon. As a result, all kinds of evil spirits will live there, and all kinds of foul and detestable birds will live there. Babylon is like a prostitute
\v 3 with whom all the peoples engaged in the passion of sexual immorality, which is like getting drunk on too much wine. Yes, and the kings of the earth have done the same things with her. The world's merchants became rich because she wanted to commit so much sexual immorality."
\v 3 with whom all the people of the nations had engaged in the passion of sexual immorality, which is like getting drunk on too much wine. Yes, and the kings of the earth have done the same things with her. The world's merchants became rich because she wanted to commit so much sexual immorality."
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\v 21 Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large stone for grinding grain, and he threw it into the ocean. Then he said, "You people in the great city of Babylon, God will throw down your city so that it will disappear just as that stone disappeared in the ocean! Your city will be gone forever!
\v 22 In your city, there will never again be anyone playing harps, singing, playing flutes, or blowing trumpets. There will no longer be any skilled workers making things. There will never again be people grinding grain at the mills.
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\v 23 No lamp will ever again shine there. There will never again be the happy voices of any bridegroom and his bride. God will destroy your city because your merchants were the most important men in the world. You used witchcraft to deceive people of all groups of people.
\v 23 No lamp will ever again shine there. There will never again be the happy voices of any bridegroom and his bride. God will destroy your city because your merchants were the most important men in the world. You used witchcraft to deceive all the people of the nations.
\v 24 You are also responsible for killing the prophets and others of God's people. Indeed, you are guilty of every murder committed on the earth!"
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\v 14 The armies of heaven were following him. They were riding on white horses. They were wearing clothes made of clean white linen.
\v 15 A sharp sword extends from his mouth; with it he will strike the rebellious peoples. He himself will rule them powerfully as though he had an iron rod. He will crush his enemies as a person crushes grapes in a winepress. He will do this for God, who rules over everything and who is furiously angry with them because of their sins.
\v 15 A sharp sword extends from his mouth; with it he will strike the rebellious peoples. He himself will rule them powerfully, striking down all the nations as though he was hitting them with an iron rod. He will crush his enemies as a person crushes grapes in a winepress. He will do this for God, who rules over everything and who is furiously angry with them because of their sins.
\v 16 On his cloak over his thigh a name had been written: "King who rules over all other kings and Lord who rules over all other lords."
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\v 1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven. He had the key to the deep, dark pit, and he was carrying a large chain in his hand.
\v 2 He seized the dragon. That dragon is the ancient serpent, the devil, that is, Satan. The angel bound him with the chain. That chain could not be loosed for one thousand years.
\v 3 The angel threw him into the deep, dark pit. He shut the door of the pit, locked it, and sealed it to prevent anyone from opening it. He did that in order that Satan might no longer deceive all the many groups of people until those one thousand years are ended. After that time, Satan must go free for a short time in order that he can do what God has planned.
\v 3 The angel threw him into the deep, dark pit. He shut the door of the pit, locked it, and sealed it to prevent anyone from opening it. He did that in order that Satan might no longer deceive all the people who lived in the many nations, until one thousand years are ended. After that time, Satan must go free for a short time in order that he can do what God has planned.
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\v 7 When the one thousand years are ended, God will release Satan from his prison.
\v 8 Satan will go out to deceive the rebellious peoples all over the earth. These are the nations that the prophet Ezekiel called Gog and Magog. Satan will gather them to fight against God's people. There will be so many of them fighting against God's people that no one will be able to count them, just as no one can count the grains of sand on the ocean shore.
\v 8 Satan will go out to deceive the people who live in the nations that are all over the earth. These are the nations that the prophet Ezekiel called Gog and Magog. Satan will gather them to fight against God's people. There will be so many of them fighting against God's people that no one will be able to count them, just as no one can count the grains of sand on the ocean shore.
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\v 9 They will march over the whole earth and will surround the camp of God's people in Jerusalem, the city that God loves. Then God will send fire down from heaven, and it will burn them up.
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\v 23 The city will not need the sun or the moon to light it because the light coming from God will light the city, and the Lamb will also be its light.
\v 24 The peoples will live with the light of the city shining on them. The kings of the earth will bring their wealth into the city to honor God and the lamb.
\v 24 The people who live in the nations walk with the light of the city shining on them. The kings of the earth will bring their wealth into the city to honor God and the lamb.
\v 25 The gates of the city will not be shut at the end of the day as they usually are shut because there will be no night there.
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\v 26 The people of the world will also bring their wealth into the city.
\v 26 They will bring the glorious treasure of all the nations into the city.
\v 27 Nothing that is morally impure, no one who does deeds that God considers detestable, and no one who tells lies will ever enter that city. Only those people whose names are written in the book that belongs to the Lamb, the book that has the names of people who have eternal life, will be there.
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\v 1 Then the angel showed me the river that causes people who drink from it to live forever. The water was sparkling and clear like crystal. The river was flowing out from the throne where God and the Lamb were sitting.
\v 2 It flowed down through the middle of the main street of the city. On each side of the river were trees with fruit that causes people who eat it to live forever. The trees bear twelve kinds of fruit; they produce one crop each month. The peoples use the leaves of the trees as medicine in order that their wounds may heal.
\v 2 It flowed down through the middle of the main street of the city. On each side of the river were trees with fruit that causes people who eat it to live forever. The trees bear twelve kinds of fruit; they produce one crop each month. The people who live in all the nations on the earth will use the leaves of the trees as medicine in order that their wounds may heal.
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\v 3 There will never be anyone or anything there that God will curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city. God's servants will worship him there.