asking, "Where is His promised advent? Since the day our fathers fell asleep, things remain exactly as they were from the beginning of creation."
But if that servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of arriving,' and if he starts to beat the menservants and maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk,
But if the bad servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of coming,'
For who is our hope, our joy, our crown of pride (who but you?) in the presence of our Lord Jesus on his arrival?
for those days will be days of misery, the like of which has never been from the beginning of God's creation until now — no and never shall be.
Then to the angel of the church at Laodicea write thus: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the origin of God's creation.
But from the beginning, when God created the world, Male and female, He created them:
Wherever the body lies, there will the vultures gather.
For the Son of man is coming in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward everyone for what he has done.
I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Son of man coming himself to reign."
Then he knelt down and cried aloud, "Lord, let not this sin stand against them!" With these words he slept the sleep of death.
you who expect and hasten the advent of the Day of God, which dissolves the heavens in fire and makes the stars blaze and melt!