For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.
And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we {\i first} believed.
Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour.
or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, {\i to thresh} in hope of partaking.
not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting {\i one another}; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.\par
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments on thee in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Jehovah, have spoken it);