1.
3.21-26: For the first Adam, burdened with an evil heart,
transgressed and was overcome, as were also all who were descended
from him. Thus the disease became permanent; the law was in the
hearts of the people along with its evil root; but what was good
departed, and the evil remained. So the time passed and the years
were completed, and you raised up for yourself a servant, named
David. You commanded him to build a city for your name, and there
to offer you oblations from what is yours. This was done for many
years; but the inhabitants of the city transgressed, in everything
doing just as Adam and all his descendants had done, for they also
had the evil heart.
Rom
5.12: Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man,
and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all
have sinned –
*1Cor
15.45: Thus it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living
being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
2. 4.8:
perhaps you would have said to me, ‘I never went down into the deep,
nor as yet into Hades, neither did I ever ascend into heaven.’
Jn
3.13: No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended
from heaven, the Son of Man.
Rom
10.6: But the righteousness that comes from faith says, “Do not say
in your heart, ‘who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring
Christ down)
3.
4.35-37: Did not the souls of the righteous in their chambers ask
about these matters, saying, ‘How long are we to remain here? And
when will the harvest of our reward come?’ And the archangel
Jeremiel answered and said, ‘When the number of those like
yourselves is completed; for he has weighted the age in the balance,
and measured the times by measure, and numbered the times by number;
and he will not more or arouse them until that measure is
fulfilled.’
Rom
11.25: So that you may not claim to be wiser than you are, brothers
and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery: a hardening has
come upon part of Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has
come in.
*Rev
6.9-11: When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the
souls of those who had been slaughtered for the word of God and for
the testimony they had given; they cried out with a loud voice,
“Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long will it be before you judge
and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?” They were
each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the
number would be complete both of their fellow servants and of their
brothers and sisters, who were soon to be killed as they themselves
had been killed.
4. 6.25:
It shall be that whoever remains after all that I have foretold to
you shall be saved and shall see my salvation and the end of the
world.
Mt
10.22: and you will be hared by all because of my name. But the
one who endures to the end will be saved.
Mk
13.13: and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one
who endures to the end will be saved.
5. 7.6-14:
Another example: There is a city built and set on a plain, and it is
full of all good things; but the entrance to it is narrow and set in
a precipitous place, so that there is fire on the right hand and
deep water on the left. There is only one path lying between them,
that is, between the fire and the water, so that only one person can
walk on the path. If now the city is given to someone as an
inheritance, how will the heir receive the inheritance unless by
passing through the appointed danger?"
I said, "That is right, lord." He said to me, "So also is Israel's
portion. For I made the world for their sake, and when Adam
transgressed my statutes, what had been made was judged. And so the
entrances of this world were made narrow and sorrowful and toilsome;
they are few and evil, full of dangers and involved in great
hardships. But the entrances of the greater world are broad and
safe, and yield the fruit of immortality. Therefore unless the
living pass through the difficult and futile experiences, they can
never receive those things that have been reserved for them.
Mt 7.13
(*-14): Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the
road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take
it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life,
and there are few who find it.
6. 7.11:
For I made the world for their sake, and when Adam transgressed my
statutes, what had been made was judged.
Rom
8.19: For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing
of the children of God.
7. 7.14:
Therefore unless the living pass through the difficult and futile
experiences, they can never receive those things that have been
reserved for them.
Mt
5.11: Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and
utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
8. 7.36:
The pit of torment shall appear, and opposite it shall be the place
of rest; and the furnace of hell shall be disclosed, and opposite it
the paradise of delight.
Lk
16.26: Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been
fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot
do so, and no one can cross from there to us.
*Lk
16.23: In Hades, where he was being tormented, he looked up and saw
Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side.
9. 7.72:
For this reason, therefore, those who live on earth shall be
tormented, because though they had understanding, they committed
iniquity; and though they received the commandments, they did not
keep them; and though they obtained the law, they dealt unfaithfully
with what they received.
Rom
7.23: but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my
mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
10. 7.75: I
answered and said, "If I have found favor in your sight, O Lord,
show this also to your servant: whether after death, as soon as
everyone of us yields up the soul, we shall be kept in rest until
those times come when you will renew the creation, or whether we
shall be tormented at once?"
Rom
8.19: For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing
of the children of God.
11. 7.77:
For you have a treasure of works stored up with the Most High, but
it will not be shown to you until the last times.
Mt
6.20: but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither
moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.
12. 7.113:
But the day of judgment will be the end of this age and the
beginning of the immortal age to come, in which corruption has
passed away,
Mt
13.39: and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the
end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
13.
7.118-119: O Adam, what have you done? For though it was you who
sinned, the fall was not yours alone, but ours also who are your
descendants.For what good is it to us, if an
immortal time has been promised to us, but we have done deeds that
bring death?
Rom
5.16: And the free gift is not like the effect of the one man's sin.
For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but
the free gift following many trespasses brings justification.
14. 8.3:
Many have been created, but only a few shall be saved.
Mt
22.14: For many are called, but few are chosen.
15. 8.41:
For just as the farmer sows many seeds in the ground and plants a
multitude of seedlings, and yet not all that have been sown will
come up in due season, and not all that were planted will take root;
so also those who have been sown in the world will not all be saved.
Mt 13.3
(*-8; par Mk 4.3-8)): And he told them many things in parables,
saying: "Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some
seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other
seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and
they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. But when
the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they
withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew
up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth
grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Mk
4.14: The sower sows the word.
Mt
22.14: For many are called, but few are chosen.
16. 8.60:
but those who were created have themselves defiled the name of him
who made them, and have been ungrateful to him who prepared life for
them now.
Rom
1.21: for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or
give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and
their senseless minds were darkened.
17. 9.31-37:
For I sow my law in you, and it shall bring forth fruit in you, and
you shall be glorified through it forever.' But though our
ancestors received the law, they did not keep it and did not observe
the statutes; yet the fruit of the law did not perish--for it could
not, because it was yours. Yet those who received it perished,
because they did not keep what had been sown in them. Now this is
the general rule that, when the ground has received seed, or the sea
a ship, or any dish food or drink, and when it comes about that what
was sown or what was launched or what was put in is destroyed,they are destroyed, but the things that held them remain; yet
with us it has not been so. For we who have received the law and
sinned will perish, as well as our hearts that received it; the law,
however, does not perish but survives in its glory.
Mt 13.3
(*-8; par Mk 4.3-8)): And he told them many things in parables,
saying: "Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some
seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other
seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and
they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. But when
the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they
withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew
up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth
grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Mk
4.14: The sower sows the word.
18. 9.37:
the law, however, does not perish but survives in its glory.
Rom
7.12: So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and
good.
19. 10.9:
Now ask the earth, and she will tell you that it is she who ought to
mourn over so many who have come into being upon her.
Rom
8.22: We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor
pains until now;
20. 12.42:
For of all the prophets you alone are left to us, like a cluster of
grapes from the vintage, and like a lamp in a dark place, and like a
haven for a ship saved from a storm.
2Pt
1.19: So we have the prophetic message more fully confirmed. You
will do well to be attentive to this as to a lamp shining in a dark
place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your
hearts.
21.
13.30-32: And bewilderment of mind shall come over those who inhabit
the earth. They shall plan to make war against one another, city
against city, place against place, people against people, and
kingdom against kingdom. When these things take place and the signs
occur that I showed you before, then my Son will be revealed, whom
you saw as a man coming up from the sea.
Mk
13.8: For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be
famines. This is but the beginning of the birth pangs.