American Standard Version of 1901
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We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
but their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night that they might kill him:
In Damascus the {Greek: ethnarch.}governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me:
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.
When Christ, who is {Many ancient authorities read your.}our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.
And this is the will of him that sent me, that of all that which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.
{Joel 2:28 ff.}And it shall be in the last days, saith God,I will pour forth of my Spirit upon all flesh:And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,And your young men shall see visions,And your old men shall dream dreams:
Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony {Or, unto}against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.
But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come.
knowing this first, that {Greek: in the last of the days.}in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,
hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in {Greek: a Son.}his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the {Greek: ages. Compare 1 Timothy 1:17}worlds;
Also Judah took Gaza with the border thereof, and Ashkelon with the border thereof, and Ekron with the border thereof.
Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour.