For Surviving in the Last Days

Romans 8
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those
who are in Christ Jesus,
who do not walk according to the flesh,
but according to the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free
from the Law of sin and death.
3 For what the Law could not do
in that it was weak through the flesh,
God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh,
on account of sin:
He condemned sin in the flesh,
4 that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us
who do not walk according to the flesh
but according to the Spirit.
5 For those who live according to the flesh
set their minds on the things of the flesh,
but those who live according to the Spirit,
the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death,
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God,
for it is not subject to the Law of God,
nor indeed can be.
8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit,
if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.

2 Peter 1
2 May grace (God's favor) and peace
(which is perfect well-being, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity,
and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts)
be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, precise, and correct]
knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
3 For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things
that [are requisite and suited] to life and Godliness,
through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him
Who called us by {and} to His own glory and excellence (virtue).
4 By means of these He has bestowed on us
His precious and exceedingly great promises,
so that through them you may escape [by flight]
from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption)
that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed),
and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.
5 For this very reason, adding your diligence,
employ every effort in exercising your faith
to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy),
and in [exercising] virtue [develop] knowledge,
6 And in [exercising] knowledge [develop] self-control,
and in [exercising] self-control [develop] steadfastness
(requiring patience, endurance),
and in [exercising] steadfastness [develop] Godliness,
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7 And in [exercising] Godliness
[develop] brotherly affection,
and in [exercising] brotherly affection
[develop] Christian love.
8 For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you,
they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful
unto the [full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ
(the Messiah, the Anointed One).

Hebrews 10
21 And since we have [such] a great {and} wonderful {and} noble Priest
[Who rules] over the house of God,
22 Let us all come forward {and} draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts
in unqualified assurance {and} absolute conviction
engendered by faith (by that leaning of the entire human personality
on God in absolute trust and confidence
in His power, wisdom, and goodness),
having our hearts sprinkled {and} purified
from a guilty (evil) conscience
and our bodies cleansed with pure water.
23 So let us seize {and} hold fast {and} retain without wavering
the hope we cherish {and} confess {and} our acknowledgement of it,
for He Who promised is reliable (sure) {and} faithful to His Word.
24 And let us consider {and} give attentive, continuous care
to watching over one another,
studying how we may stir up (stimulate and incite)
to love {and} helpful deeds {and} noble activities,
25 not forsaking {or} neglecting to assemble together [as believers],
as is the habit of some people,
but admonishing (warning, urging, and encouraging) one another,
and all the more faithfully as you see the Day approaching.

1 Peter 5
6 Therefore humble yourselves [demote, lower yourselves in your own estimation]
under the mighty hand of God, that in due time He may exalt you,
7 casting the whole of your care
[all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all]
on Him, for He cares for you affectionately {and} cares about you watchfully.
8 Be well balanced (temperate, sober of mind), be vigilant {and} cautious at all times;
for that enemy of yours, the devil, roams around like a hungry lion roaring,
seeking someone to seize upon {and} devour.
9 Withstand him; be firm in faith [against his onset--
rooted, established, strong, immovable, and determined],
knowing that the same (identical) sufferings are appointed
to your brotherhood (the whole body of Christians)
throughout the world.
10 And after you have suffered a little while,
the God of all grace [Who imparts all blessing and favor],
Who has called you
to His [own] eternal glory in Christ {Jesus},
will Himself complete {and} make you
what you ought to be,
establish {and} ground you securely, and
strengthen, and settle you.
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8 Keep out of debt
{and} owe no man anything,
except to love one another;
for he [or she] who loves his [or her] neighbor has fulfilled the Law.
9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery”, “You shall not kill”,
“You shall not steal”, “You shall not covet” (have an evil desire),
and any other commandment,
are summed up in the single command,
“You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself.”
10 Love does no wrong to one's neighbor [it never hurts anybody].
Therefore love meets all the requirements {and} is the fulfilling of the Law.
11 Besides this you know what [a critical] hour this is,
how it is high time now for you to wake up out of your sleep (rouse to reality).
For salvation (final deliverance) is nearer to us now than when we first believed
(adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Christ, the Messiah).
12 The night is far gone and the day is almost here.
Let us then drop (fling away) the works {and} deeds of darkness
and put on the [full] armor of light.
13 Let us live {and} conduct ourselves honorably
{and} becomingly as in the [open light of] day,
not in reveling (carousing) and drunkenness,
not in immorality and debauchery (sensuality and licentiousness),
not in quarreling and jealousy.
14 But clothe yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah),
and make no provision for [indulging] the flesh
[put a stop to thinking
about the evil cravings of your physical nature] to [gratify its] desires (lusts).