¹¹ These things happened to them as examples^(A) and were written down as warnings for us,^(B) on whom the culmination of the ages has come.^(C)

¹⁷ The world and its desires pass away,^(A) but whoever does the will of God^(B) lives forever.

¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,^(A) the new creation^(B) has come:^[a] The old has gone, the new is here!^(C)

³¹ those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.^(A)

²⁰ and teaching^(A) them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you^(B) always, to the very end of the age.”^(C)