“About noon as I came near Damascus, suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed around me.(A)

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And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.

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13 About noon, King Agrippa, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions.

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13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.

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19 “So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient(A) to the vision from heaven.

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19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:

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God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity

18 The wrath of God(A) is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,

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18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

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But the righteousness that is by faith(A) says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”[a](B) (that is, to bring Christ down)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 10:6 Deut. 30:12

But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)

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For even if there are so-called gods,(A) whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”),

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For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

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47 The first man was of the dust of the earth;(A) the second man is of heaven.(B)

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47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.

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48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.(A)

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48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

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49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man,(A) so shall we[a] bear the image of the heavenly man.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 15:49 Some early manuscripts so let us

49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

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Awaiting the New Body

For we know that if the earthly(A) tent(B) we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

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For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

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I know a man in Christ(A) who fourteen years ago was caught up(B) to the third heaven.(C) Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.(D)

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I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

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But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you,(A) let them be under God’s curse!(B)

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But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

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10 to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment(A)—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.(B)

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10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

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