But if God, desiring to display wrath, and to make His power known, endured in much long-suffering vessels of wrath having been fitted out for destruction,
For when they say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes upon them, like the birth-pain to the one having babe in womb, and they shall not escape, not one.
And I heard a voice out of Heaven saying to me, Write: Blessed are the dead ones, the ones dying in the Lord from now. Yes, says the Spirit, they shall rest from their labors, and their works follow with them.