warning before destruction

¹⁷“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. And so, you shall listen to the word from my mouth, and you shall announce it to them from me. ¹⁸If, when I say to the impious man, ‘You shall certainly die,’ you do not announce it to him, and you do not speak so that he may turn aside from his impious way and live, then the same impious man will die in his iniquity. But I will attribute his blood to your hand. ¹⁹But if you announce it to the impious man, and he is not converted from his impiety and from his impious way, then indeed he will die in his iniquity. But you will have delivered your own soul.

¹⁸Arrogance precedes destruction. And the spirit is exalted before a fall.

²⁸But when these things begin to happen, lift up your heads and look around you, because your redemption draws near.”

²⁸And do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But instead fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell.

⁴²Therefore, be vigilant. For you do not know at what hour your Lord will return.

⁷For the Lord God does not fulfill his word, unless he has revealed his secret to his servants the prophets.

¹²Blessed is the man who suffers temptation. For when he has been proven, he shall receive the crown of life which God has promised to those who love him.

²⁵And there will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars. And there will be, on earth, distress among the Gentiles, out of confusion at the roaring of the sea and of the waves:

³⁷And just as in the days of Noah, so also will be the advent of the Son of man. ³⁸For it will be just as it was in the days before the flood: eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, even until that day when Noah entered into the ark. ³⁹And they did not realize it, until the flood came and took them all away. So also will the advent of the Son of man be.

¹⁸For many persons, about whom I have often told you (and now tell you, weeping,) are walking as enemies of the cross of Christ. ¹⁹Their end is destruction; their god is their belly; and their glory is in their shame: for they are immersed in earthly things.

²¹envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

¹¹Be clothed in the armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the treachery of the devil.

²⁰Moreover, if the just man turns aside from his justice and commits iniquity, I will place a stumbling block before him. He shall die, because you have not announced to him. He shall die in his sin, and his justices that he did shall not be remembered. Yet truly, I will attribute his blood to your hand. ²¹But if you announce to the just man, so that the just man may not sin, and he does not sin, then he shall certainly live, because you have announced to him. And you will have delivered your own soul.”

¹It is a luxurious thing, wine, and inebriation is tumultuous. Anyone who is delighted by this will not be wise.

⁶And if the watchman sees the sword approaching, and he does not sound the trumpet, and so the people do not guard themselves, and the sword arrives and takes some of their lives, certainly these have been taken due to their own iniquity. But I will attribute their blood to the hand of the watchman. ⁷And as for you, son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore, having heard the word from my mouth, you shall announce it to them from me.

¹⁹We know that we are of God, and that the entire world is established in wickedness.

¹³And she accomplished great signs, even so that she would cause fire to descend from the sky to the earth in the sight of men. ¹⁴And she seduced those living on the earth, by means of the signs that were given to her to perform in the sight of the beast, saying to those dwelling on the earth that they should make an image of the beast who had a wound of the sword and yet lived.

⁹For God has not appointed us for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁴⁰You also must be prepared. For the Son of man will return at an hour that you will not realize.”

²³For the wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.