Bible Cross References
He weakened
Psalm 89:38-47
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But you are angry with your chosen king; you have deserted and rejected him.
39
You have broken your covenant with your servant and thrown his crown in the dirt.
40
You have torn down the walls of his city and left his forts in ruins.
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All who pass by steal his belongings; all his neighbors laugh at him.
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You have given the victory to his enemies; you have made them all happy.
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You have made his weapons useless and let him be defeated in battle.
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You have taken away his royal scepter and knocked his throne to the ground.
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You have made him old before his time and covered him with disgrace.
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LORD, will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger burn like fire?
47
Remember how short my life is; remember that you created all of us mortal!
2 Thessalonians 2:3-12
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Do not let anyone deceive you in any way. For the Day will not come until the final Rebellion takes place and the Wicked One appears, who is destined to hell.
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He will oppose every so-called god or object of worship and will put himself above them all. He will even go in and sit down in God's Temple and claim to be God.
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Don't you remember? I told you all this while I was with you.
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Yet there is something that keeps this from happening now, and you know what it is. At the proper time, then, the Wicked One will appear.
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The Mysterious Wickedness is already at work, but what is going to happen will not happen until the one who holds it back is taken out of the way.
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Then the Wicked One will be revealed, but when the Lord Jesus comes, he will kill him with the breath from his mouth and destroy him with his dazzling presence.
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The Wicked One will come with the power of Satan and perform all kinds of false miracles and wonders,
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and use every kind of wicked deceit on those who will perish. They will perish because they did not welcome and love the truth so as to be saved.
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And so God sends the power of error to work in them so that they believe what is false.
12
The result is that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in sin, will be condemned.
1 Timothy 4:1-3
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The Spirit says clearly that some people will abandon the faith in later times; they will obey lying spirits and follow the teachings of demons.
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Such teachings are spread by deceitful liars, whose consciences are dead, as if burnt with a hot iron.
3
Such people teach that it is wrong to marry and to eat certain foods. But God created those foods to be eaten, after a prayer of thanks, by those who are believers and have come to know the truth.
2 Timothy 3:1-17
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Remember that there will be difficult times in the last days.
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People will be selfish, greedy, boastful, and conceited; they will be insulting, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and irreligious;
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they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent, and fierce; they will hate the good;
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they will be treacherous, reckless, and swollen with pride; they will love pleasure rather than God;
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they will hold to the outward form of our religion, but reject its real power. Keep away from such people.
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Some of them go into people's houses and gain control over weak women who are burdened by the guilt of their sins and driven by all kinds of desires,
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women who are always trying to learn but who can never come to know the truth.
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As Jannes and Jambres were opposed to Moses, so also these people are opposed to the truth---people whose minds do not function and who are failures in the faith.
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But they will not get very far, because everyone will see how stupid they are. That is just what happened to Jannes and Jambres.
10
But you have followed my teaching, my conduct, and my purpose in life; you have observed my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,
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my persecutions, and my sufferings. You know all that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, the terrible persecutions I endured! But the Lord rescued me from them all.
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Everyone who wants to live a godly life in union with Christ Jesus will be persecuted;
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and evil persons and impostors will keep on going from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.
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But as for you, continue in the truths that you were taught and firmly believe. You know who your teachers were,
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and you remember that ever since you were a child, you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
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All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the truth, rebuking error, correcting faults, and giving instruction for right living,
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so that the person who serves God may be fully qualified and equipped to do every kind of good deed.
Revelation 11:2-19
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But do not measure the outer courts, because they have been given to the heathen, who will trample on the Holy City for forty-two months.
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I will send my two witnesses dressed in sackcloth, and they will proclaim God's message during those 1, 260 days."
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The two witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lamps that stand before the Lord of the earth.
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If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and destroys their enemies; and in this way whoever tries to harm them will be killed.
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They have authority to shut up the sky so that there will be no rain during the time they proclaim God's message. They have authority also over the springs of water, to turn them into blood; they have authority also to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.
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When they finish proclaiming their message, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will fight against them. He will defeat them and kill them,
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and their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, where their Lord was crucified. The symbolic name of that city is Sodom, or Egypt.
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People from all nations, tribes, languages, and races will look at their bodies for three and a half days and will not allow them to be buried.
10
The people of the earth will be happy because of the death of these two. They will celebrate and send presents to each other, because those two prophets brought much suffering upon the whole human race.
11
After three and a half days a life-giving breath came from God and entered them, and they stood up; and all who saw them were terrified.
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Then the two prophets heard a loud voice say to them from heaven, "Come up here!" As their enemies watched, they went up into heaven in a cloud.
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At that very moment there was a violent earthquake; a tenth of the city was destroyed, and seven thousand people were killed. The rest of the people were terrified and praised the greatness of the God of heaven.
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The second horror is over, but the third horror will come soon!
15
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The power to rule over the world belongs now to our Lord and his Messiah, and he will rule forever and ever!"
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Then the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones in front of God threw themselves face downward and worshiped God,
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saying: "Lord God Almighty, the one who is and who was! We thank you that you have taken your great power and have begun to rule!
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The heathen were filled with rage, because the time for your anger has come, the time for the dead to be judged. The time has come to reward your servants, the prophets, and all your people, all who have reverence for you, great and small alike. The time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth!"
19
God's temple in heaven was opened, and the Covenant Box was seen there. Then there were flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
Revelation 12:13-17
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When the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he began to pursue the woman who had given birth to the boy.
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She was given the two wings of a large eagle in order to fly to her place in the desert, where she will be taken care of for three and a half years, safe from the dragon's attack.
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And then from his mouth the dragon poured out a flood of water after the woman, so that it would carry her away.
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But the earth helped the woman; it opened its mouth and swallowed the water that had come from the dragon's mouth.
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The dragon was furious with the woman and went off to fight against the rest of her descendants, all those who obey God's commandments and are faithful to the truth revealed by Jesus.
shortened
Job 21:21
When our lives are over, do we really care whether our children are happy?