But the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever.
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TSK · 2 John 1:8
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For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
Persecution of Disciples“You must watch out for yourselves. You will be handed over to councils and beaten in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them.
So the king said to him,‘And you are to be over five cities.’
The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.
If what someone has built survives, he will receive a reward.
Have you suffered so many things for nothing?– if indeed it was for nothing.
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world
But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.
See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through it many become defiled.