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“It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.” (Hebrews 9:27) Apart from Christ, we are “by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.” (Ephesians 2:3) Those with “hard and impenitent heart[s]… are storing up wrath for [themselves] on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.” (Romans 2:5) “[F]or those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
Follow up:
There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil…” (2:8-9) “They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might…” (2 Thessalonians 1:9)
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