Ones

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?

In the same way, good deeds are obvious, and even the ones that are inconspicuous cannot remain hidden.

For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

Are they not the ones who blaspheme the noble name by which you have been called?

For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones

These are the ones who cause divisions, who are worldly and devoid of the Spirit.

“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen and faithful ones.”

The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”