So I will continue to amaze these people by doing powerful and amazing things. Their wise men will lose their wisdom. Their wise men will not be able to understand.”
Acts 13:40 - Easy To Read Version The prophets {\cf2\super [272]} said some things would happen. Be careful! Don’t let these things happen to you. The prophets said: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Take care, therefore, lest there come upon you what is spoken in the prophets: American Standard Version (1901) Beware therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the prophets: Common English Bible Take care that the prophets’ words don’t apply to you: Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, be careful, lest what was said by the Prophets may overwhelm you: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the prophets: |
So I will continue to amaze these people by doing powerful and amazing things. Their wise men will lose their wisdom. Their wise men will not be able to understand.”
But if you do warn the evil person to change his life and stop sinning, and if he refuses to stop sinning, then he will die because he sinned. But you have saved your life.
\{The Lord answered,\} “Look at the other nations! Watch them, and you will be amazed. I will do something in your lifetime that will amaze you. \{You will have to see it to believe it.\} You would not believe it if you were told about it.
“No person can prepare for that time. No person can stand against him when he comes. He will be like a burning fire. He will be like the strong soap people use to make things clean.
“That time of judgment is coming. It will be like a hot furnace. All those proud people will be punished. All those evil people will burn like straw. At that time, they will be like a bush burning in the fire—and there will not be a branch or root left.” The Lord All-Powerful said these things.
Jesus said to them, “Remember when I was with you before? I said that everything written about me must happen—everything written in the law of Moses, the books of the prophets, {\cf2\super [396]} and the Psalms.”
It is written in the prophets {\cf2\super [91]} : ‘God will teach all the people.’ {\cf2\super [92]} People listen to the Father and learn from him. Those people come to me.
But God turned against them. God finished trying to stop them from worshiping the army \{of false gods\} in the sky. This is what is written in the book of the prophets {\cf2\super [142]} : God says,
Be careful and don’t refuse to listen when God speaks. Those people (Israelites) refused to listen to him when he warned them on earth. And those people did not escape. Now God is speaking from heaven. So now it will be worse for those people who refuse to listen to him.
The salvation \{that was given to us\} is very great. So surely we also will be punished if we live like this salvation is not important. It was the Lord (Jesus) who first told people about this salvation. And the people who heard him proved to us that this salvation is true.
So, brothers and sisters, be careful that none of you is sinful, and refuses to believe, and stops following the living God.