Lexicon :: Strong's G3748 - hostis

For I have no one else like-minded who will genuinely care about your interests;

But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ.

Yes, I also ask you, true partner,[fn] to help these women who have contended for the gospel at my side, along with Clement and the rest of my coworkers whose names are in the book of life.

Although these have a reputation for wisdom by promoting self-made religion, false humility, and severe treatment of the body, they are not of any value in curbing self-indulgence.[fn]

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

and so does Jesus who is called Justus. These alone of the circumcised are my coworkers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.

They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction from the Lord’s presence and from his glorious strength

or to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These promote empty speculations rather than God’s plan, which operates by faith.

But if I should be delayed, I have written so that you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

I recall your sincere faith that first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and now, I am convinced, is in you also.

What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men[fn] who will be able to teach others also.

It is necessary to silence them; they are ruining entire households by teaching what they shouldn’t in order to get money dishonestly.

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? This salvation had its beginning when it was spoken of by the Lord, and it was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

These serve as a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was warned when he was about to complete the tabernacle. For God said, Be careful that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.

For a tabernacle was set up, and in the first room, which is called the holy place, were the lampstand, the table, and the presentation loaves.

After he says above, You did not desire or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law),

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:

My son, do not take the Lord’s discipline lightly

or lose heart when you are reproved by him,

Remember your leaders who have spoken God’s word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith.

For whoever keeps the entire law, and yet stumbles at one point, is guilty of breaking it all.

Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring ​— ​what your life will be! For you are like vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes.

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul.

There were indeed false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and will bring swift destruction on themselves.

that life was revealed, and we have seen it and we testify and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us ​— ​

Look, he is coming with the clouds,

and every eye will see him,

even those who pierced him.

And all the tribes[fn] of the earth

will mourn over him.[fn]

So it is to be. Amen.

“I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who haven’t known “the so-called secrets[fn] of Satan” ​— ​as they say ​— ​I am not putting any other burden on you.

They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green plant, or any tree, but only those people who do not have God’s seal on their foreheads.

Their dead bodies[fn] will lie in the main street[fn] of the great city, which figuratively[fn] is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

When the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he persecuted[fn] the woman who had given birth to the male child.

“The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they will receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.

because his judgments are true[fn] and righteous,

because he has judged the notorious prostitute

who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality;

and he has avenged the blood of his servants

that was on her hands.

Then I saw thrones, and people seated on them who were given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and who had not accepted the mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.