heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,
They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
And at the latter end of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their limit, a king of bold face, one who understands riddles, shall arise.
And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly.
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!”
so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.
These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.
knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.
But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.
Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.”
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him.
“The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he thrive? Can one escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape? “As I live, declares the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die. Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in war, when mounds are cast up and siege walls built to cut off many lives. He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape. Therefore thus says the Lord God: As I live, surely it is my oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke. I will return it upon his head.
The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending low to you, and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.
Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.” So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites. Although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah. And David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And how shall I make atonement, that you may bless the heritage of the Lord?”
Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.
in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
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