¹⁸ The days of the upright are numbered by the Lord, and their heritage will be for ever.

⁶ Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.

¹⁷ But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;

²⁴ Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour.

⁷ I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

¹ But be certain of this, that in the last days times of trouble will come.

² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,

³ Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,

⁴ False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;

⁵ Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

² Be preaching the word at all times, in every place; make protests, say sharp words, give comfort, with long waiting and teaching;

³ For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;

⁴ And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

⁴ And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

⁵ Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

²⁵ And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.

³ And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.

⁴ These are the two olive-trees and the two lights, which are before the Lord of the earth.

⁵ And if any man would do them damage, fire comes out of their mouth and puts an end to those who are working against them: and if any man has a desire to do them damage, in this way will he be put to death.

¹⁹ But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.

²³ For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

²¹ That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹¹ You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.

⁴ He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.

¹⁵ The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.

¹³ He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.

⁵ What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?

²¹ Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.

³² Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things:

²¹ Because in those days there will be great sorrow, such as there has not been from the start of the world till now, or ever will be.

²² And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short.

²³ Then if any man says to you, See, here is the Christ, or, Here; do not put faith in him;

²⁴ For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.

²⁵ Your shoes will be iron and brass; and as your days, so may your work be.