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Matthew 24:49

New American Bible - revised edition

and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with drunkards,

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Do not join with wine bibbers, nor with those who glut themselves on meat.

“Come, let me bring wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink, And tomorrow will be like today, or even greater.”

Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word! Your kin who hate you and cast you out because of my name say, “May the Lord show his glory, that we may see your joy”; but they shall be put to shame.

You consumed milk, wore wool, and slaughtered fatlings, but the flock you did not pasture.

Thus says the Lord regarding the prophets: O you who lead my people astray, When your teeth have something to bite you announce peace, But proclaim war against the one who fails to put something in your mouth.

When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a much smaller amount. He seized him and started to choke him, demanding, ‘Pay back what you owe.’

But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is long delayed,’

the servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves.

and said to him, “Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.”

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites, and by fair and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

For you put up with it if someone enslaves you, or devours you, or gets the better of you, or puts on airs, or slaps you in the face.

Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their “shame.” Their minds are occupied with earthly things.

Do not lord it over those assigned to you, but be examples to the flock.

These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they carouse fearlessly and look after themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by winds, fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead and uprooted.

It was also allowed to wage war against the holy ones and conquer them, and it was granted authority over every tribe, people, tongue, and nation.

For they have shed the blood of the holy ones and the prophets, and you [have] given them blood to drink; it is what they deserve.”

I saw that the woman was drunk on the blood of the holy ones and on the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. Meaning of the Beast and Harlot. When I saw her I was greatly amazed.

Why do you stare greedily at my sacrifices and at the offerings that I have prescribed? Why do you honor your sons more than you honor me, fattening yourselves with the choicest part of every offering of my people Israel?




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