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18 They said to you, ‘In the last days of this world, some people will laugh at God's message.[a] They will say that it is silly to obey God. Instead, they will do the bad things that they want to do. Those things do not please God.’

19 It is people like this who cause you to argue with one another, so that you belong to separate groups. Their thoughts belong to this world. They do not have God's Spirit in them.

20 But you, my friends, have believed the message that comes from God himself. So you must help one another to trust God more and more. Pray to God with the help of the Holy Spirit.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:18 ‘The last days of this world’ are the days before Jesus returns to the earth.