Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis for I have determined there to winter.
Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
Shall I not in that day, saith the Lord, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.