¹¹ Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

⁴ For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

¹⁰ or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

¹¹ Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

⁵ Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

¹⁸ Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the end times.

²³ Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

²⁹ But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

²⁵ not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

³⁷ "In a very little while, He who comes will come, and will not wait.