Matthew 24 Cross References - Living_Oracles

¹ As Jesus walked out of the temple, his disciples came, and caused him to observe the buildings of it. ² Jesus said to them, All this you see; indeed I say to you, one stone shall not be left here upon another. All shall be razed. ³ As he sat upon the Mount of Olives his disciples addressed him privately, saying, Tell us, when will this happen; and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the conclusion of this state? ⁴ Jesus answering, said to them, Take heed that no man seduce you: ⁵ for many will assume my character, saying, I am the Messiah, and will seduce many. ⁶ Nay, you shall hear of wars, and rumors of wars; but take care that you be not alarmed: for all these things must happen; but the end is not yet. ⁷ For nation will arise against nation; and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in sundry places. ⁸ Yet these are but the prelude of woes. ⁹ For they will deliver you to torments and to death, and you shall be hated by all nations on my account. ¹⁰ Then many will be ensnared, and will betray their fellows, and hate them. ¹¹ And many false prophets will arise, who will seduce many. ¹² And because vice will abound, the love of the greater number will cool. ¹³ But the man who perseveres to the end shall be saved. ¹⁴ And this gospel of the Reign shall be published through all the world, for the information of all nations. And then shall come the end. ¹⁵ When, therefore, you shall see, on holy ground, the desolating abomination foretold by the Prophet Daniel, (reader, attend!) ¹⁶ then let those in Judea flee to the mountains: ¹⁷ let not him, who shall be upon the housetop, come down to carry things out of his house; ¹⁸ and let not him, who shall be in the field, return to take his mantle. ¹⁹ But alas for the women with child, and for them that give suck in those days! ²⁰ Pray, therefore, that your flight happen not in the winter, nor on a Sabbath; ²¹ because there shall be then so great tribulation, as has not been since the beginning of the world until now, nor shall be ever after. ²² For, if the time were protracted, no soul could survive; but for the sake of the elect, the time will be short. ²³ If any man shall say to you then, Lo! the Messiah is here, or he is there, believe it not: ²⁴ for false Messiahs and false prophets will arise, who will perform great wonders and prodigies, so as to seduce, if possible, the elect themselves. ²⁵ Remember, I have warned you. ²⁶ Wherefore, if they say, He is in the desert, go not out. He is in the closet, believe it not. ²⁷ For the coming of the Son of Man shall be like lightning, which breaking forth from the east, shines even to the west. ²⁸ For wheresoever the carcass is, the eagles will be gathered together. ²⁹ Immediately after those days of affliction, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall withhold her light; and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the heavenly powers shall be shaken. ³⁰ Then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and all the tribes of the land shall mourn, when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with great majesty and power. ³¹ And he will send his messengers with a loud sounding trumpet, who shall assemble his elect from the four quarters of the earth, from one extremity of the world to the other. ³² Learn now a similitude from the fig tree. When its branches become tender and put forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh. ³³ In like manner, when you shall see all these things, know that he is near, even at the door. ³⁴ Indeed, I say to you, this race shall not pass, until all these things happen. ³⁵ Heaven and earth shall fail; but my words shall never fail. ³⁶ But of that day, and that hour, know none, but the Father; no, not the angels. ³⁷ Now that which happened in Noah's time, will also happen at the coming of the Son of Man. ³⁸ For as in the days before the flood, even to that day that Noah entered the ark, they were eating and drinking, and marrying, ³⁹ and suspected nothing, until the flood came and swept them all away: so shall it also be at the coming of the Son of Man. ⁴⁰ Two men shall be in the field; one shall be taken, and one shall be left. ⁴¹ Two women shall be grinding at the mill; one shall be taken, and one shall be left. ⁴² Watch, therefore, since you know not at what hour your master will come. ⁴³ You are sure, that if the householder knew at what time of the night the thief would come, he would watch, and not suffer him to break into his house. ⁴⁴ Be you, therefore, always prepared; because the Son of Man will come at an hour, when you are not expecting him. ⁴⁵ Who, now, is the discreet and faithful servant, whom his master has set over his household, to dispense to them regularly their allowance? ⁴⁶ Happy that servant, if his master, at his return, find him so employed. ⁴⁷ Indeed, I say to you, he will entrust him with the management of all his estate. ⁴⁸ But as to the vicious servant, who shall say within himself, My master defers his return, ⁴⁹ and shall beat his fellow-servants, and feast and carouse with drunkards; ⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not expecting him, and at an hour of which he is not apprised, ⁵¹ and having discarded him, will assign him his portion among the perfidious. Weeping and gnashing of teeth shall be there.

¹ In those days appeared John the Immerser, who proclaimed in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

²³ Then Jesus went over all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the glad tidings of the Reign, and curing every sort of disease and malady among the people.

¹⁸ For, indeed, I say to you, heaven and earth shall sooner perish, than one iota, or on tittle of the law shall perish, without attaining its end.

²⁵ Therefore I charge you, be not anxious about your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor about your body, what you shall wear. Is not life a greater gift than food; and the body more than raiment?

¹⁵ Beware of false teachers, who come to you in the garb of sheep, while inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

²⁴ Therefore, whosoever hears these my precepts, and does them, I will compare to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock.

¹² while the sons of the kingdom shall be thrust out into outer darkness, where will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

²⁰ Jesus answered, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have places of shelter, but the Son of Man has not where to repose his head.

³⁵ Then Jesus went through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the glad tidings of the Reign, and curing every disease and every malady.

⁷ And as you go, proclaim, saying, The Reign of Heaven approaches.

¹⁶ Behold! I send you forth as sheep amidst wolves. Be therefore prudent as the serpents, and harmless as the doves. ¹⁷ But be upon your guard against these men; for they will deliver you to councils, and scourge you in their synagogues; ¹⁸ and you shall be brought before governors and kings, on my account, to bear testimony to them, and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how, or what you shall speak; for what you shall speak shall be suggested to you in that moment. ²⁰ For it shall not be you that shall speak; but the Spirit of my Father, who will speak by you. ²¹ Then the brother will deliver up the brother to death; and the father the child; and children will arise against their parents, and procure their death.

²¹ Then the brother will deliver up the brother to death; and the father the child; and children will arise against their parents, and procure their death. ²² And for my name you shall be hated universally. But the man who perseveres to the end, shall be saved.

²² And for my name you shall be hated universally. But the man who perseveres to the end, shall be saved.

²⁷ What I tell you in the dark, publish in the light; and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the house tops.

³⁵ For I am come to cause dissension between father and son, between mother and daughter, between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law; ³⁶ so that a man's enemies will be found in his own family.

⁶ and happy is he, to whom I shall not prove a stumbling block.

⁴⁵ Then he goes, and brings with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and having entered, they dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first: thus will it fare with this evil race.

¹⁰ Then the disciples addressed him, saying, Why do you speak to them in parables? ¹¹ He answering, said to them, Because it is your privilege, and not theirs, to know the secrets of the Reign of Heaven.

¹³ For this reason I speak to them in parables; because they seeing, see not; and hearing, hear not, nor regard; ¹⁴ insomuch that this prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled in them, "You will indeed hear, but will not understand; you will look, but will not perceive. ¹⁵ For this people's understanding is stupefied, their ears are deafened, and their eyes they have closed; lest seeing with their eyes, hearing with their ears, and apprehending with their understanding, they should reform, and I should reclaim them."

²¹ yet, not having it rooted in his mind, retains it but a while; for when trouble or persecution comes, because of the word, instantly he relapses.

³⁶ Then Jesus, leaving the multitude, retired to the house, where his disciples accosted him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the darnel in the field.

³⁹ the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the conclusion of this state; and the reapers are the angels. ⁴⁰ As, therefore, the darnel is gathered and burnt, so shall it be at the conclusion of this state. ⁴¹ The Son of Man will send his angels who shall gather out of his kingdom all seducers and iniquitous persons,

⁴⁹ So it shall be at the conclusion of this state. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

⁵² He added, Every scribe, therefore, instructed for the Reign of Heaven, is like a householder, who brings out of his storehouse new things and old.

⁵⁷ Thus they were offended at him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is no where disregarded, except in his own country, and in his own family.

¹² On which his disciples accosting him, said, Did you observe how the Pharisees, when they heard that saying were offended?

²⁷ For the Son of Man, vested with his Father's glory, shall come hereafter with his heavenly messengers, and recompense every one according to his actions. ²⁸ Indeed, I say to you, some of those who are present, shall not taste death, until they see the Son of Man enter upon his Reign.

²⁸ Indeed, I say to you, some of those who are present, shall not taste death, until they see the Son of Man enter upon his Reign.

¹⁹ At that time the disciple came to him privately, saying, Why could not we expel the demon?

¹⁹ Again, I say to you, whatever two of you upon the earth shall agree to ask, shall be granted them by my Father, who is in heaven.

³² Then his master, having given orders to call him, said to him, You wicked servant: all that debt I forgave you, because you besought me.

¹¹ Upon receiving it, they murmured against the householder,

¹ When they were nigh Jerusalem, being come to Bethphage, near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples,

²³ Being come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came near, as he was teaching, and said, by what authority do you these things?

⁶ And the rest seizing his servants, abused and killed them.

¹³ Then the king said to the attendants, Bind him hand and foot, and thrust him out into darkness, where will be weeping and gnashing of teeth; ¹⁴ for there are many called, but few chosen.

³⁰ for in that state, they neither marry, nor give in marriage: they resemble the angels of God.

³⁴ Therefore, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will scourge in your synagogues, and banish from city to city;

³⁶ Indeed, I say to you, all shall be charged upon this generation.

³⁹ for know, that you shall not henceforth see me, until you say, Blessed be He, who comes in the name of the Lord.

³ As he sat upon the Mount of Olives his disciples addressed him privately, saying, Tell us, when will this happen; and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the conclusion of this state?

⁵ for many will assume my character, saying, I am the Messiah, and will seduce many. ⁶ Nay, you shall hear of wars, and rumors of wars; but take care that you be not alarmed: for all these things must happen; but the end is not yet.

⁸ Yet these are but the prelude of woes.

¹¹ And many false prophets will arise, who will seduce many.

¹⁴ And this gospel of the Reign shall be published through all the world, for the information of all nations. And then shall come the end.

²¹ because there shall be then so great tribulation, as has not been since the beginning of the world until now, nor shall be ever after. ²² For, if the time were protracted, no soul could survive; but for the sake of the elect, the time will be short.

²⁴ for false Messiahs and false prophets will arise, who will perform great wonders and prodigies, so as to seduce, if possible, the elect themselves.

²⁷ For the coming of the Son of Man shall be like lightning, which breaking forth from the east, shines even to the west.

²⁹ Immediately after those days of affliction, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall withhold her light; and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the heavenly powers shall be shaken.

³¹ And he will send his messengers with a loud sounding trumpet, who shall assemble his elect from the four quarters of the earth, from one extremity of the world to the other. ³² Learn now a similitude from the fig tree. When its branches become tender and put forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh. ³³ In like manner, when you shall see all these things, know that he is near, even at the door.

³⁶ But of that day, and that hour, know none, but the Father; no, not the angels. ³⁷ Now that which happened in Noah's time, will also happen at the coming of the Son of Man.

³⁹ and suspected nothing, until the flood came and swept them all away: so shall it also be at the coming of the Son of Man.

⁴² Watch, therefore, since you know not at what hour your master will come.

⁴² Watch, therefore, since you know not at what hour your master will come. ⁴³ You are sure, that if the householder knew at what time of the night the thief would come, he would watch, and not suffer him to break into his house.

⁴³ You are sure, that if the householder knew at what time of the night the thief would come, he would watch, and not suffer him to break into his house. ⁴⁴ Be you, therefore, always prepared; because the Son of Man will come at an hour, when you are not expecting him.

⁴⁴ Be you, therefore, always prepared; because the Son of Man will come at an hour, when you are not expecting him.

² Of these, five were prudent and five foolish.

¹⁰ While they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready, went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.

¹³ Watch, therefore, because you know neither the day nor the hour.

²¹ His master answered, Well done, good and faithful servant, you have been faithful in a small matter, I will give you a more important trust. Partake you of your master's joy.

²³ His master answered, Well done, good and faithful servant, you have been faithful in a small matter, I will give you a more important trust. Partake you of your master's joy.

²⁶ His master answering, said to him, Malignant and slothful servant, did you know that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered?

³⁰ And thrust out this unprofitable servant into darkness, where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ³¹ Now when the Son of Man shall come in his glory, accompanied by all the angels, and shall be seated on his glorious throne;

³⁴ Then will the King say to those at his right hand: Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: ³⁵ for I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you lodged me; I was a stranger, and you lodged me; ³⁶ I was naked, and you clothed me; I was sick and you assisted me; I was in prison, and you visited me. ³⁷ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and feed thee; or thirsty, and give thee drink? ³⁸ When did we see thee a stranger, and lodged thee; or naked, and clothed thee? ³⁹ When did we see thee sick, or in prison, and visited thee? ⁴⁰ The King will reply to them, Indeed, I say to you, that inasmuch as you have done this to any the least of these my brethren, you have done it to me.

²¹ and while they were eating, he said, Indeed, I say to you, that one of you will deliver me up. ²² And they were extremely sorrowful, and began every one of them to say, Master, is it I? ²³ He answering, said, The man, whose hand is in the dish with mine, is he who betrays me. ²⁴ The Son of Man departs in the manner foretold in the scripture concerning him; but alas for that man, by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! it had been better for that man never to have been born.

³¹ Then Jesus said to them, This night I shall prove a stumbling stone to you all; for it is written, "I will smite the Shepherd, and the flock will disperse." ³² But after I am raised again, I will go before you into Galilee. ³³ Peter, then, said to him, Though you should prove a stumbling stone to them all, I never will be made to stumble. ³⁴ Jesus answered, Indeed, I say to you, that this very night, before the cock crow, you will thrice disown me.

³⁸ said to them, My soul is overwhelmed with a deadly anguish; abide here, and watch with me. ³⁹ And going a little before, he threw himself on his face, and praying, said, My Father, remove this cup from me, if it be possible; nevertheless, not as I would, but as thou wilt. ⁴⁰ And he returned to his disciples, and finding them asleep, said to Peter, Is it so, then, that you could not keep awake with me a single hour? ⁴¹ Watch and pray, that you be not overcome by temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

⁵⁴ But in that case how should the scriptures be accomplished, which declare that these things must be?

⁶⁴ Jesus answered him, It is as you say: nay, be assured, that hereafter you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Almighty, and coming on the clouds of heaven.

¹⁸ Jesus came near, and said to them, All authority is given to me in heaven and upon the earth;

²⁰ teaching them to observe all the things which I have commanded you: and behold, I am with you always, even to the conclusion of this state.

⁴⁹ Wherefore, thus says the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and Apostles: some of them they will kill, others they will banish; ⁵⁰ so that the blood of all the prophets, which has been shed since the formation of the world, shall be required of this generation;

³ What you have spoken in the dark, shall be reported in the light; what you have whispered in the closet, shall be proclaimed from the housetop.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast plenty of goods laid up for many years; take thin ease, eat, drink, enjoy thyself.

³⁵ Let your loins be girt, and your lamps burning; ³⁶ and yourselves, like those who wait their master's return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately let him in. ³⁷ Happy those servants whom their master, at his return, shall find watching. Indeed, I say to you, that he will gird himself, and having placed them at table, will attend and serve them.

³⁷ Happy those servants whom their master, at his return, shall find watching. Indeed, I say to you, that he will gird himself, and having placed them at table, will attend and serve them. ³⁸ And whether he comes in the second watch, or in the third, if he finds things thus, happy are those servants. ³⁹ You are certain that if the master of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would watch, and not allow him to break into his house.

³⁹ You are certain that if the master of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would watch, and not allow him to break into his house. ⁴⁰ Be you, then, always prepared; because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you are not expecting him.

⁴⁰ Be you, then, always prepared; because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you are not expecting him. ⁴¹ Then Peter said to him, Master, is this parable directed to us alone, or to all? ⁴² The Lord said, Who, now, is the discreet and faithful steward, whom the master will set over his household, to dispense regularly the allowance of corn! ⁴³ Happy that servant, if his master, at his arrival, shall find him so employed.

⁴³ Happy that servant, if his master, at his arrival, shall find him so employed. ⁴⁴ I tell you truly, he will entrust him with the management of all his estate. ⁴⁵ But as to the servant who shall say within himself, My master delays his return, and shall beat the men-servants and the maids, and shall feast, and carouse, and be drunken; ⁴⁶ the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not expecting him, and at an hour of which he is not apprised, and having discarded him, will assign him his portion with the faithless.

⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for it shall sound, and then the dead shall be raised incorruptible; and we shall be changed.

¹³ Watch; stand fast in the faith; acquit yourselves like men; be strong.

¹⁰ for the administration of the fullness of the appointed times, to gather together all under Christ-all in the heavens, and all on the earth-under him:

¹⁴ Nevertheless, although you even suffer for righteousness' sake, you are happy. Therefore, do not fear their fear, neither be troubled: ¹⁵ but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and be always prepared for giving an answer, with meekness and reverence, to every one who asks of you a reason for the hope which is in you.

²⁰ who formerly were disobedient, when the patience of God once waited, in the days of Noah, while an ark was preparing, in which few, that is, eight souls, were effectually saved through water- ²¹ the antitype, immersion, does, also, now save us, (not putting away the filth of the flesh; but seeking of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

⁷ Now the end of all things has approached; be, therefore, sober, and watch to prayer.

¹⁰ Let every one, according as he has received a gift, minister it to the others, as good stewards of the manifold favor of God. ¹¹ If any one speak, let him speak as the oracles of God: if any one minister, let him do it as from the strength which God supplies; that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.

¹⁶ However, if any one suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him even glorify God on that account. ¹⁷ Indeed, the time is come that punishment must begin at the house of God; and if it begin first at us, what the end of them who do not obey the gospel of God? ¹⁸ And, if the righteous with difficulty escape, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear!

¹ The seniors who are among you, I exhort, who am also a senior, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory which is to be revealed. ² Feed the flock of God, which is with you; exercising the overseer's office, not by constraint, but willingly; neither for the sake of sordid gain, but from good disposition; ³ neither as lording it over the heritage of God, but, being patterns to the flock:

³ neither as lording it over the heritage of God, but, being patterns to the flock: ⁴ and when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive the crown of glory which fades not away.

⁸ Be sober, be vigilant: your adversary, the devil, is walking about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour:

¹⁷ yet not having it rooted in their minds, retain it but a while; for when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they instantly relapse.

²¹ for from within the human heart proceed vicious machinations, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,

¹ As he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, Rabbi, look what prodigious stones and stately buildings are here! ² Jesus answering, said to him, You see these great buildings. They shall be so razed, that one stone will not be left upon another. ³ Afterward, as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, opposite the temple, Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, asked him privately,

³ Afterward, as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, opposite the temple, Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, asked him privately, ⁴ Tell us, when will this happen? and what will be the sign, when all this is to be accomplished?

⁴ Tell us, when will this happen? and what will be the sign, when all this is to be accomplished?

⁴ Tell us, when will this happen? and what will be the sign, when all this is to be accomplished? ⁵ Jesus answering them, took occasion to say, Take heed that no man seduce you;

⁵ Jesus answering them, took occasion to say, Take heed that no man seduce you; ⁶ for many will assume my character, saying, I am the person, and will seduce many.

⁶ for many will assume my character, saying, I am the person, and will seduce many. ⁷ But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not alarmed; for this must happen, but the end is not yet.

⁷ But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not alarmed; for this must happen, but the end is not yet. ⁸ For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be earthquakes in sundry places, and there will be famines and commotions. These are the prelude of woes.

⁸ For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be earthquakes in sundry places, and there will be famines and commotions. These are the prelude of woes. ⁹ But take heed to yourselves; for they will deliver you to councils; and you will be beaten in the synagogues, and brought before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony to them.

⁹ But take heed to yourselves; for they will deliver you to councils; and you will be beaten in the synagogues, and brought before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony to them.

⁹ But take heed to yourselves; for they will deliver you to councils; and you will be beaten in the synagogues, and brought before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony to them. ¹⁰ The good tidings, however, must first be published among all nations.

¹⁰ The good tidings, however, must first be published among all nations. ¹¹ But when they conduct you, to deliver you up, have no anxiety beforehand, nor premeditate what you shall speak: but whatever shall be suggested to you in that moment, speak; for it is not you that shall speak, but the Holy Spirit.

¹¹ But when they conduct you, to deliver you up, have no anxiety beforehand, nor premeditate what you shall speak: but whatever shall be suggested to you in that moment, speak; for it is not you that shall speak, but the Holy Spirit. ¹² Then the brother will deliver up the brother to death; and the father the child; and children will arise against their parents, and procure their death.

¹² Then the brother will deliver up the brother to death; and the father the child; and children will arise against their parents, and procure their death.

¹² Then the brother will deliver up the brother to death; and the father the child; and children will arise against their parents, and procure their death. ¹³ And on my account you shall be universally hated; but the man who perseveres to the end, shall be saved.

¹³ And on my account you shall be universally hated; but the man who perseveres to the end, shall be saved.

¹³ And on my account you shall be universally hated; but the man who perseveres to the end, shall be saved. ¹⁴ But when you shall see standing on forbidden ground, the desolating abomination, (reader, attend!) then let those in Judea flee to the mountains;

¹⁴ But when you shall see standing on forbidden ground, the desolating abomination, (reader, attend!) then let those in Judea flee to the mountains; ¹⁵ and let not him who shall be on the roof, go down into the house, nor enter it, to carry anything out of his house:

¹⁵ and let not him who shall be on the roof, go down into the house, nor enter it, to carry anything out of his house: ¹⁶ and let not him who shall be in the field, turn back to fetch his mantle.

¹⁶ and let not him who shall be in the field, turn back to fetch his mantle. ¹⁷ But alas for the women with child, and for them who give suck in those days!

¹⁷ But alas for the women with child, and for them who give suck in those days! ¹⁸ Pray, then, that your flight happen not in the winter;

¹⁸ Pray, then, that your flight happen not in the winter; ¹⁹ because there shall be such affliction in those days, as has not been before, from the beginning of the world, which God created, nor shall be ever after. ²⁰ Had the Lord assigned it a long duration, no soul could escape; but for the sake of the people whom he had elected, he has made its duration the shorter.

²⁰ Had the Lord assigned it a long duration, no soul could escape; but for the sake of the people whom he had elected, he has made its duration the shorter. ²¹ Then if any one shall say to you, Lo! the Messiah is here, or Lo! he is yonder, believe it not.

²¹ Then if any one shall say to you, Lo! the Messiah is here, or Lo! he is yonder, believe it not. ²² For false Messiahs and false prophets will arise, who will perform wonders and prodigies, in order to impose, if possible, even on the elect.

²² For false Messiahs and false prophets will arise, who will perform wonders and prodigies, in order to impose, if possible, even on the elect. ²³ Be you, therefore, upon your guard: remember, I have warned you of everything. ²⁴ But in those days, after that affliction, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall withhold her light,

²⁴ But in those days, after that affliction, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall withhold her light, ²⁵ and the stars of heaven shall fall; and the powers which are in heaven shall be shaken.

²⁵ and the stars of heaven shall fall; and the powers which are in heaven shall be shaken. ²⁶ Then they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

²⁶ Then they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. ²⁷ Then he will send his messengers, and assemble his elect from the four quarters of the world, from the extremities of heaven and earth.

²⁷ Then he will send his messengers, and assemble his elect from the four quarters of the world, from the extremities of heaven and earth. ²⁸ Learn now a similitude from the fig tree. When its branches become tender, and put forth leaves, you know that the summer is nigh.

²⁸ Learn now a similitude from the fig tree. When its branches become tender, and put forth leaves, you know that the summer is nigh. ²⁹ In like manner, when you shall see these things happen, know that he is near, even at the door.

²⁹ In like manner, when you shall see these things happen, know that he is near, even at the door. ³⁰ Indeed, I say to you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be accomplished.

³⁰ Indeed, I say to you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be accomplished. ³¹ For heaven and earth shall fail: but my words shall not fail.

³¹ For heaven and earth shall fail: but my words shall not fail. ³² But of that day, or of that hour, knows none, (not the angels; no, not the Son,) but the Father.

³² But of that day, or of that hour, knows none, (not the angels; no, not the Son,) but the Father. ³³ Be circumspect, be vigilant, and pray; for you know not when that time will be. ³⁴ When a man intends to travel, he leaves his household in charge to his servants, assigns to every one his task, and orders the porter to watch. ³⁵ Watch you, therefore; for you know not when the master of the house will return, (whether in the evening, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or in the morning;) ³⁶ lest coming suddenly, he find you asleep. ³⁷ Now what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.

⁶² Jesus answered, I am; nay, you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Almighty, and coming in the clouds of heaven. ⁶³ Then the high priest rent his garments, saying, What further need have we of witnesses? ⁶⁴ You have heard the blasphemy. What is your opinion? And they all pronounced him worthy of death.

¹⁵ And he said unto them, Go throughout all the world, proclaim the glad tidings to the whole creation. ¹⁶ He who shall believe, and be immersed, shall be saved; but he who shall not believe, shall be condemned.

¹ About that time, Cesar Augustus issued an edict, that all the inhabitants of the empire should be registered.

² in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness. ³ And he went through all the country along the Jordan, publishing the immersion of reformation for the remission of sins.

⁵ Then the devil, having brought him to the top of a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in an instant,

¹⁹ but finding it impracticable, by reason of the crowd, they got upon the roof, and let him down through the tiling, with the little bed, in the midst before him.

¹⁵ But by the good soil are meant those, who, having heard the word, retain it in a good and honest heart, and persevere in bringing forth fruit.

²⁸ Then will ensue weeping, and gnashing of teeth, when you shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets received into the kingdom of God, and yourselves excluded:

¹⁸ But they all, without exception, made excuses. One said, I have purchased a field, which I must go and see; I pray you have me excused. ¹⁹ Another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, which I am going to prove; I pray you have me excused. ²⁰ A third said, I have married a wife; and, therefore, I can not go.

¹⁰ Whoso is faithful in little is faithful also in much: and whoso is unjust in little, is unjust also in much. ¹¹ If, therefore, you have not been honest in the deceitful, who will entrust you with the true riches? ¹² And if you have been unfaithful managers for another, who will give you anything to manage for yourselves?

²³ But when they say to you, Lo, here! or Lo, yonder! go not out to follow them. ²⁴ For as the lightning flashes in an instant from one extremity of the sky to the other, so will the appearance of the Son of Man be, in his day.

²⁴ For as the lightning flashes in an instant from one extremity of the sky to the other, so will the appearance of the Son of Man be, in his day. ²⁵ But first he must suffer much, and be rejected of this generation. ²⁶ And, as it happened in Noah's days, it will also happen in the days of the Son of Man.

²⁶ And, as it happened in Noah's days, it will also happen in the days of the Son of Man.

²⁶ And, as it happened in Noah's days, it will also happen in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷ They eat, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, when the deluge came, and destroyed them all.

²⁷ They eat, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, when the deluge came, and destroyed them all.

²⁷ They eat, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, when the deluge came, and destroyed them all. ²⁸ In like manner as it was in the days of Lot, they eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

²⁸ In like manner as it was in the days of Lot, they eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; ²⁹ but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, which destroyed them all; ³⁰ so it will be on the day when the Son of Man shall appear. ³¹ On that day, let not him who shall be on the house-top, having his furniture in the house, come down to take it away. Let not him who shall be in the field, return home.

³¹ On that day, let not him who shall be on the house-top, having his furniture in the house, come down to take it away. Let not him who shall be in the field, return home. ³² Remember Lot's wife.

³² Remember Lot's wife. ³³ Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life, shall preserve it.

³³ Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life, shall preserve it. ³⁴ I tell you, there will be two men, that night, in one bed; one will be seized, and the other will be left. ³⁵ Two women will be grinding together; one will be seized, and the other will be left.

³⁵ Two women will be grinding together; one will be seized, and the other will be left. ³⁶ OMITTED TEXT ³⁷ Then they asked him, Where, Master? He answered, Where the body is, the eagles will be assembled.

³⁷ Then they asked him, Where, Master? He answered, Where the body is, the eagles will be assembled.

⁷ And will not God avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he linger in their cause?

¹⁷ He answered, Well done, good servant; because you have been faithful in a very small matter, receive the government of ten cities.

²² He answered, Out of your own mouth, you malignant servant, I will condemn you. Did you know that I am a hard master, exacting what I did not give, and reaping what I did not sow?

⁴³ for the days are coming upon thee, when thine enemies will surround thee with a rampart, and inclose thee, and shut thee up on every side;

⁴³ for the days are coming upon thee, when thine enemies will surround thee with a rampart, and inclose thee, and shut thee up on every side; ⁴⁴ and will level thee with the ground, thee and thy children, and will not leave one stone upon another, because thou didst not know the time when thou wast visited.

⁴⁴ and will level thee with the ground, thee and thy children, and will not leave one stone upon another, because thou didst not know the time when thou wast visited.

⁵ Some having remarked, that the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and presents, he said, ⁶ The time will come, when these things which you behold, shall be razed that one stone will not be left upon another. ⁷ Then they asked him, saying, Rabbi, when will these things be: and what will be the sign, when they are about to be accomplished?

⁷ Then they asked him, saying, Rabbi, when will these things be: and what will be the sign, when they are about to be accomplished? ⁸ He answered, Take care that you be not seduced: for many will assume my character, saying, I am the person, and the time approaches; therefore, do not follow them.

⁸ He answered, Take care that you be not seduced: for many will assume my character, saying, I am the person, and the time approaches; therefore, do not follow them. ⁹ But when you shall hear of wars and insurrections, be not terrified: for these things must first happen; but the end will not immediately follow.

⁹ But when you shall hear of wars and insurrections, be not terrified: for these things must first happen; but the end will not immediately follow. ¹⁰ He added, Then will nation rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. ¹¹ And there shall be great earthquakes in sundry places, and famines, and pestilences; there shall be also frightful appearances, and great prodigies in the sky.

¹¹ And there shall be great earthquakes in sundry places, and famines, and pestilences; there shall be also frightful appearances, and great prodigies in the sky. ¹² But, before all this, you shall be apprehended and prosecuted, and delivered to synagogues, and imprisoned, and dragged before kings and governors, because of my name:

¹² But, before all this, you shall be apprehended and prosecuted, and delivered to synagogues, and imprisoned, and dragged before kings and governors, because of my name: ¹³ and this afford scope for your testimony.

¹³ and this afford scope for your testimony. ¹⁴ Be, therefore, resolved not to premeditate what defense you shall make; ¹⁵ for I will give you an utterance, and wisdom, which none of your adversaries shall be able to refute or resist. ¹⁶ And you shall be given up even by parents, and brothers, and kinsmen, and friends; and some of you will be put to death.

¹⁶ And you shall be given up even by parents, and brothers, and kinsmen, and friends; and some of you will be put to death.

¹⁶ And you shall be given up even by parents, and brothers, and kinsmen, and friends; and some of you will be put to death. ¹⁷ And, on my account, you shall be universally hated.

¹⁷ And, on my account, you shall be universally hated. ¹⁸ Yet not a hair of your head shall be lost. ¹⁹ Save your souls by your perseverance.

¹⁹ Save your souls by your perseverance. ²⁰ Now, when you shall see Jerusalem invested with armies, know that its desolation is nigh.

²⁰ Now, when you shall see Jerusalem invested with armies, know that its desolation is nigh. ²¹ Then let those in Judea flee to the mountains; let those in the city make their escape, and let not those in the country enter the city:

²¹ Then let those in Judea flee to the mountains; let those in the city make their escape, and let not those in the country enter the city: ²² for these will be days of vengeance, in which all the denunciations of the scriptures shall be accomplished.

²² for these will be days of vengeance, in which all the denunciations of the scriptures shall be accomplished. ²³ But, alas, for the women with child, and for them who give suck in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

²³ But, alas, for the women with child, and for them who give suck in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. ²⁴ They shall fall by the sword; they shall be carried captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be over.

²⁴ They shall fall by the sword; they shall be carried captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be over. ²⁵ And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth, the anguish of desponding nations; and roarings in the seas, and floods;

²⁵ And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth, the anguish of desponding nations; and roarings in the seas, and floods; ²⁶ men expiring with the fear and apprehension of those things which are coming upon the world; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

²⁶ men expiring with the fear and apprehension of those things which are coming upon the world; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. ²⁷ Then they shall see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with great glory and power.

²⁷ Then they shall see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with great glory and power. ²⁸ Now when these things begin to be fulfilled, look up, and lift up your heads; because your deliverance approaches. ²⁹ He proposed to them, also, this comparison: Consider the fig tree, and the other trees.

²⁹ He proposed to them, also, this comparison: Consider the fig tree, and the other trees. ³⁰ When you observe them shooting forth, you know, of yourselves, that the summer is nigh.

³⁰ When you observe them shooting forth, you know, of yourselves, that the summer is nigh. ³¹ Know, in like manner, when you shall see these events, that the Reign of God is nigh. ³² Indeed, I say to you, that this race shall not fail until all be accomplished.

³² Indeed, I say to you, that this race shall not fail until all be accomplished. ³³ Heaven and earth shall fail; but my words shall not fail.

³³ Heaven and earth shall fail; but my words shall not fail. ³⁴ Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, lest your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and worldly cares, and that day come upon you unawares: for, as a net,

³⁴ Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, lest your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and worldly cares, and that day come upon you unawares: for, as a net, ³⁵ it shall inclose all the inhabitants of the earth. ³⁶ Be vigilant, therefore, praying on every occasion, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these approaching evils, and to stand before the Son of Man.

³⁶ Be vigilant, therefore, praying on every occasion, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these approaching evils, and to stand before the Son of Man.

²⁹ And I grant to you, (forasmuch as my Father has granted me a kingdom,) ³⁰ to eat, and to drink at my table, in my kingdom, and to sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

³⁷ for I tell you that this scripture, "He was ranked among malefactors," is now to be accomplished in me: for the things relating to me must be fulfilled.

⁶⁹ Hereafter the Son of Man shall be seated at the right hand of Almighty God.

²⁹ for the days are coming, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, the wombs which never bare, and the breasts which never gave suck! ³⁰ Then they shall cry to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us:

³⁹ Now, one of the malefactors who suffered with him, reviled him, saying, If you be the Messiah, save yourself and us. ⁴⁰ The other, rebuking him, answered, Have you no fear of God, you who are undergoing the same punishment? ⁴¹ And we, indeed, justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man has done nothing amiss. ⁴² And he said to Jesus, Remember me, Lord, when thou comest to thy kingdom. ⁴³ Jesus answered, Indeed, I say to you, Today you shall be with me in paradise.

⁴⁷ and that reformation and the remission of sins should be proclaimed, in his name, among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

²⁰ The Jews replied, Forty and six years was this temple in building; and you would rear it in three days?

²⁰ For whosoever does evil, hates the light, and shuns it, lest his deeds should be detected.

⁴³ I am come in my Father's name, and you did not receive me; if another come, in his own name, you will receive him.

³⁷ All the Father gives me, will come to me; and him who comes to me, I will not reject.

³⁹ Now, this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose none of all he has given me, but raise the whole again at the last day.

⁶⁰ Many of his disciples having heard it, said, This is hard doctrine; who can understand it? ⁶¹ Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at it, said to them, Does this offend you?

⁶⁶ From this time, many of his disciples withdrew, and accompanied him no longer. ⁶⁷ Then said Jesus to the twelve, Will you also go away?

²⁸ Besides, I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any one wrest them out of my hands. ²⁹ My Father, who gave them me, is greater than all; and none can wrest them out of my Father's hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.

⁴⁸ If we let him go on thus, every one will believe on him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our place and our nation.

⁵² and not for that nation only, but that he should assemble into one body the dispersed children of God.

²⁶ Would any man serve me? let him follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant also be. If any man serve me, my Father will reward him.

² Now while they were at the supper, (the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,)

¹ Let not your heart be troubled; believe on God, and believe on me.

²⁷ Peace I leave you; my peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Be not disheartened; be not intimidated.

¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, I having selected you from the world, the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember what I said to you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have observed my word, they will also observe yours.

¹ These things I tell you, that you may not be discouraged. ² They will expel you from the synagogue; nay, the time is coming, when, whosoever kills you, will think he offers sacrifice to God.

¹⁵ When they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me more than these? He answered, Yes, Lord, you know that I love you. ¹⁶ A second time he said, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me? He answered, Yes, Lord, you know that I love you. Jesus replied, Tend my sheep. ¹⁷ A third time he said, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me? Peter, grieved at his asking this question a third time, answered, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus replied, Feed my sheep.

²¹ Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, And what, Lord, shall become of this man? ²² Jesus answered, If I will that he wait my return, what is that to you? Follow me.

² even to the day in which he was taken up, after he had, by the Holy Spirit, given charge to the Apostles, whom he had chosen.

⁷ But he said to them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has reserved to himself.

¹¹ who also said, Galileans, why do you stand gazing up to heaven? This Jesus, who is taken up from you into heaven, shall also come in the same manner as you have seen him going to heaven. ¹² Then they returned to Jerusalem, from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a Sabbath day's journey.

¹⁹ and I will give prodigies in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood and fire, and a cloud of smoke:

¹⁹ and I will give prodigies in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood and fire, and a cloud of smoke: ²⁰ the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and illustrious day of the Lord come.

² being grieved that they taught the people, and announced, through Jesus, the resurrection from the dead. ³ And they laid hands on them, and committed them into custody to the next day; for it was now evening.

³ But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart, that you should attempt to impose on the Holy Spirit, and to secrete a part of the price of the land?

³⁶ Some time ago Theudas arose, pretending himself to be a person of note: to whom a number of men, about four hundred, adhered, who was slain; and all who hearkened to him were scattered, and came to nothing. ³⁷ After him, Judas, the Galilean, arose, in the days of the enrollment, and drew a multitude of people after him, and he was destroyed; and all who hearkened to him were dispersed.

⁴⁰ And they yielded to him; and having called in the Apostles, and scourged them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them. ⁴¹ And they departed from the presence of the Sanhedrim. rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be exposed to infamy for the sake of his name.

¹³ And they set up false witnesses, who said, This man is incessantly speaking against this holy place, and the law:

⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, invoking, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

⁹ But there was a certain man named Simon, who had, before, in that city, used magic, and astonished the nation of Samaria; pretending himself to be some extraordinary person: ¹⁰ to whom they all paid regard, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.

²² Reform, therefore, from this your wickedness; and beg of God, if, indeed, the thought of your heart may be forgiven you;

⁹ On the next day, while they were on their journey, and drew near the city, Peter went up to the top of the house to pray, about the sixth hour.

²⁸ And one of them, whose name was Agabus, stood up, and signified by the Spirit, that there should be a great famine over all the land: which came to pass in the days of Claudius.

¹ Now, about that time, Herod, the king, laid hands on some of the congregation, to afflict them. ² And he slew James, the brother of John, with the sword. ³ And as he saw that this was acceptable to the Jews, he went on to seize Peter also: and it was in the days of unleavened bread; ⁴ and having seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him to the custody of four quaternions of soldiers, intending, after the passover, to bring him out to the people. ⁵ In the meantime, therefore, Peter was kept in the prison; but earnest and continued prayer was made to God on his account, by the congregation.

⁴¹ "Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I perform a work in your days; a work which you will not believe, though one should distinctly declare it to you."

⁶ But not finding them, they dragged Jason, and some of the brethren to the magistrates of the city, crying out, These men, that have turned the world upside down, are come hither, also;

¹⁶ For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, that he might not spend any time in Asia; for he earnestly endeavored, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

²⁵ And now, behold, I know that you all, with whom I have conversed, proclaiming the kingdom of God, shall not see my face any more.

²⁸ Therefore, take heed to yourselves, and to the whole flock over which the Holy Spirit has constituted you overseers; to feed the congregation of the Lord, which he has redeemed with his own blood.

³⁰ Yes, from among your own selves men shall arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

²⁸ crying out, Israelites, help! This is the man that everywhere teaches all men contrary to the people, and to the law, and to this place; and has even brought Greeks into the temple, and polluted this holy place.

³¹ And when they went about to kill him, word was brought to the commander of the cohort, that all Jerusalem was in confusion: ³² who immediately took soldiers, and centurions, and ran in among them. And when they saw the commander and the soldiers, they ceased from beating Paul.

³⁸ Are you not that Egyptian, who did, before these days, stir up a sedition, and led out into the wilderness four thousand murderers?

¹⁹ And I said, Lord, they know I was imprisoning, and scourging in the synagogues, them that believed in thee; ²⁰ and when the blood of Stephen thy martyr was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting, and kept the garments of those who slew him. ²¹ And he said to me, Go your way, for I will send you afar off to the Gentiles- ²² And they heard him to this word, and they lifted up their voices, saying, Away with this fellow from the earth, for it is not fit that he should live.

¹⁹ From that time, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision: ²⁰ but declared, first to them at Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judea; and then to the Gentiles, that they should reform, and return to God, performing deeds worthy of reformation.

²⁴ saying, Fear not, Paul; you must be presented before Cesar; and, behold, God has given you all them that sail with you. ²⁵ Wherefore, take courage, men; for I trust in God that it shall be so, even as it was told me. ²⁶ But we must be cast upon a certain island.

²² But we desire to hear from you, what you think; for as concerning this sect, we know that it everywhere spoken against.

²⁸ And as they did not like to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to an undiscerning mind, to work those things which are not suitable;

⁷ eternal life, indeed, to them who, by perseverance in well-doing, seek glory, honor, and immortality:

²⁸ Besides, we know, that all things work together for good, to them who love God; to them, who are called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For, whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son; that he might be the first born among many brethren. ³⁰ Moreover, whom he predestinated, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified. ³¹ What shall we say, then, to these things? Since God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He, certainly, who spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all; how will he not, with him, also, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring an accusation against the elect of God? Is it God who justifies them? ³⁴ Who is he, who condemns them? It is Christ, who died; or rather, who has risen: who also, is at the right hand of God; and who makes intercession for us? ³⁵ Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written, "Truly, for thy sake, we are put to death all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." ³⁷ Nay, in all these things, we do more than overcome, through him who has loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life; neither angels, nor principalities; nor powers; neither things present, nor to come; ³⁹ neither height, nor depth; nor any created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹¹ (they, indeed, not being yet born; neither having done any good or evil; that the purpose of God might stand, by an election; not on account of works, but of him who calls:)

¹⁸ But I ask, have they not heard? Yes, indeed, "Their sound has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world."

²⁵ For, brethren, that you may not be, wise in your own conceits, I would not have you ignorant of this secret, that blindness, in part, has happened to Israel, till the fullness of the Gentiles come in. ²⁶ And so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, "The deliverer shall come out of Zion, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. ²⁷ For this is my covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins." ²⁸ With respect to the gospel, indeed, they are enemies, on your account: but with respect to the election, they are beloved on account of the fathers. ²⁹ For the free gifts and calling of God are without repentance. ³⁰ Besides, as you, in times past, have disobeyed God, yet now have obtained mercy through their disobedience; ³¹ even so these, also, have no disobeyed, that through your mercy, they also may obtain mercy.

¹⁸ What relates to you is, live in peace with all men, if possible.

¹¹ Further, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to awake out of sleep. (For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed:

¹³ Let us walk about decently, as in the day, not in revellings and drunkenness; not in chamberings and lasciviousness; not in strife and envy. ¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the lusts of the flesh.

¹⁸ But, I will not dare to speak anything of what Christ has not wrought; but, of what he has wrought, by me, in order to the obedience of the Gentiles in word and deed; ¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Holy Spirit: so that from Jerusalem, and round about, as far as Illyricum, I have fully declared the gospel of Christ; ²⁰ and so, also, that I was strongly desirous to declare the gospel where Christ was not named, that I might not build on another's foundation. ²¹ But, as it is written, "They shall see, to whom nothing has been told concerning him; and they who have not heard, shall understand."

¹⁸ For they who are such, do not serve out Lord Jesus, but their own belly; and by flattery and fair speeches, deceive the hearts of the simple.

²⁵ Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the secret, concealed in the times of the ages, ²⁶ (but is now made manifest by the prophetic writings, and by the commandment of the eternal God is made known to all the Gentiles, in order to the obedience of faith:)

⁸ who will confirm you till the end, without accusation in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Now, I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly men, even as to babes in Christ. ² Milk I gave you-not meat; for you were not then able to receive it: nay, neither yet now are you able, because you are still fleshly.

¹ So, then, let a man consider us as servants only of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God. ² Now, it is required in stewards, that every one be found faithful.

⁷ Besides, who makes you to differ? For what have you which you did not receive? And now, if you did receive it, why do you boast as not receiving it?

²⁹ Now, this I say, brethren, the time being short, it remains that both they who have wives, should be as not having wives; ³⁰ and they who weep, as not weeping; and they who rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they who buy, as not possessing; ³¹ and they who use this world, as not abusing it: for the form of this world passes by.

¹³ For such are false Apostles, deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into Apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder; for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. ¹⁵ Therefore, it is no great wonder if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness: whose end shall be according to their works.

²⁰ For if one enslave you, you bear it; if one devour you, if one take your goods, if one exalt himself, if one strike you on the face-

¹⁵ What, then, was your happiness! for I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes, and given them to me.

¹¹ And he gave some, indeed, Apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; ¹² for the adapting of these saints to the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ: ¹³ till we all come to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God; to a perfect man; to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: ¹⁴ that we may be no longer children, tossed and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sight of men, and by cunning craftiness for an artifice of seduction:

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain speeches; for on account of these things, the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. ²² But whether to live in the flesh would be to my advantage; or what to choose, I do not know: ²³ for I am in a strait between the two, having a strong desire to depart and be with Christ, which is by far the better.

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetites, whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

⁵ Let your moderation be known to all men: the Lord is nigh.

⁶ which is present among you, as it is also in the world, and is bringing forth fruit and prevailing, even as among you, from that day you heard and knew the favor of God in truth-

²³ if, indeed, you continue in the faith founded and stable, and not removed from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature which is under heaven; of which I, Paul, am made a minister.

⁸ Beware lest any one make a prey of you through an empty and deceitful philosophy, -according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

¹⁸ Let no one beguile you of your reward, -delighting in humility, and the worship of messengers, intruding into things which he has not seen, being without cause, puffed up by his own carnal mind:

¹⁴ For you, brethren, became imitators of the congregations of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus; because you also have suffered like things from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews, ¹⁵ who both killed the Lord, and the prophets, and have greatly persecuted us, and do not please God, and are contrary to all men; ¹⁶ hindering us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved; so that they fill up their iniquities always: but the wrath of God is coming upon them at length.

¹⁶ hindering us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved; so that they fill up their iniquities always: but the wrath of God is coming upon them at length.

¹⁶ for the Lord himself will descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the Arch Angel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first;

¹ However, concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write to you: ² for yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.

² for yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.

² for yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.

² for yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night. ³ When they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

³ When they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

³ When they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

³ When they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. ⁴ But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should come upon you like a thief.

⁴ But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should come upon you like a thief. ⁵ You are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not sons of night, nor of darkness.

⁵ You are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not sons of night, nor of darkness. ⁶ Therefore, let us not sleep, even as others; but let us watch and be sober.

⁶ Therefore, let us not sleep, even as others; but let us watch and be sober.

⁶ Therefore, let us not sleep, even as others; but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For they who sleep, sleep in the night; and they who get drunk, get drunk in the night. ⁸ But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. ⁹ For God has appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation, through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we may live together, with him. ¹⁰ Wherefore, comfort one another, and edify each other, even as also you do. ¹¹ Wherefore, comfort one another, and edify each other, even as also you do.

⁷ and to you, the afflicted, (because our testimony was believed by you,) rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with his mighty angels, in flaming fire,

¹ Now, we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together to him, ² that you be not suddenly shaken in mind, nor alarmed, neither by spirit, not by report, nor by letter, as from us, intimating that the day of the Lord is at hand. ³ Let no one lead you into a mistake by any means; because the apostasy must first appear, and the man of sin, the son of perdition, must be first revealed,

⁹ he will, indeed, utterly destroy him, whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, with all the power, and signs, and wonders of falsehood; ¹⁰ and with all the deceit of unrighteousness among the destroyed; because they did not embrace the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ For this cause, God will send them strong delusion, that they may believe a lie;

¹² Now, I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has qualified me, that he reckoned me faithful, appointing me to the ministry,

¹ But the Spirit expressly says, that in future times some will apostatize from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits, and to doctrines concerning demons;

¹⁵ You know this, that all they who are in Asia have turned me off; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

² And what things you have heard from me by many witnesses, these commit in trust to faithful men, who shall be fit also to teach others.

¹⁰ For this cause I patiently bear all things on account of the elect; that they, indeed, may obtain the salvation which is by Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

¹² if we suffer patiently, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us.

¹⁹ Nevertheless, the foundation of God stands firm, having this inscription, The Lord has made known them who are his:- and, Let every one who names the name of Christ, depart from iniquity.

⁶ For I am shortly to be sacrificed, and the time of my departure is at hand. ⁷ I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have continued faithful: ⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will deliver to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them who love his appearing.

¹⁰ for Demas, having loved the present world, has forsaken me, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens into Galatia, and Titus into Dalmatia.

¹⁶ At my first answer, no one appeared with me, but all forsook me. May it not be laid to their charge!

² in hope of eternal life, which God, who can not lie, promised before the times of the ages-

¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped; who subvert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain. ¹² One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, "The Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy bodies."

¹¹ They shall perish, but thou dost remain; and they, as a garment, shall grow old; ¹² and, as a vesture, thou wilt fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same; and they shall be changed; but thou art the same; and thy years shall never fail."

¹ (On this account, we ought to attend the more earnestly to the things which were heard; lest at any time we should left them slip.

⁵ And Moses, indeed, as a servant, was faithful in all his house, for a testimony of the things that were to be spoken by him; ⁶ but Christ, as a Son, over his own house-whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence, and the rejoicing of our hope, unshaken to the end.

¹⁴ (for we are all partakers of Christ, if, indeed, we hold fast this first confidence firm to the end;)

²⁶ for then he must have often sufferance since the foundation of the world: but now, once, at the conclusion of the ages, he has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

²⁶ For if we sin willfully, after having received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins; ²⁷ but a dreadful expectation of judgment, and of a fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. ²⁸ Any one who disregarded the law of Moses, died without mercy, by two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much sorer punishment, think you, shall he be counted worthy, who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and reckoned the blood of the institution by which he was sanctified, a common thing, and has insulted the Spirit of Favor?

³⁷ For yet a very little while, and He who is coming, will come, and will not tarry.

³⁹ We, however, are not of those who apostatize to perdition; but of those who persevere to the salvation of the soul.

⁷ By faith, Noah, when he received a revelation concerning things not yet seen, being seized with religious fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his family; by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

²⁷ Now this speech, "YET ONCE," signifies the removing of the things shaken, as of things which were constituted, that the things not shaken may remain.

¹ Whence wars and fightings among you? Do they not come hence, even from your lusts, which war in your members? ² You strongly desire, and have not; you kill, and are zealous, and can not obtain. You fight and war, but have not, because you ask not. ³ You ask, and do not receive, because you ask wickedly, that you may spend upon your lusts. ⁴ Adulterers, and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world, is counted an enemy of God.

¹ Come, now, you rich men, weep, howl, on account of your miseries, which are coming upon you. ² Your riches are putrefied, and your garments are motheaten. ³ Your gold and silver are eaten with rust, and the rust of them will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. ⁴ Hark! the hire of the laborers who have reaped your field, which is fraudulently kept back by you, cries; and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. ⁵ You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of festivity. ⁶ You have condemned-you have killed the Just One-he did not resist you.

⁸ Be you also patient-strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws nigh. ⁹ Repine not against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the Judge stands before the door.

⁵ who, by the power of God, are guarded through faith, to the salvation prepared to be revealed in the last time.

²⁵ Now this is that word which has been proclaimed as glad tidings to you.

¹³ Yes, I think it fit, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up, by putting you in remembrance; ¹⁴ knowing, that the putting off of this, my tabernacle, is soon to happen, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has showed me. ¹⁵ Therefore, I will carefully endeavor that you may be able, after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance.

¹ But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you; who will privately introduce destructive sects, denying even the Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

¹ But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you; who will privately introduce destructive sects, denying even the Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow their lewd practices, on account of whom, they way of truth will be evil spoken of. ³ And through covetousness, they will make merchandise of you, by fictitious tales: to whom the punishment threatened of old lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

⁵ and did not spare the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth, a proclaimer of righteousness, when he brought the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

⁷ and rescued righteous Lot, exceedingly grieved by the lewd behavior of the lawless: ⁸ (for; -that righteous man, dwelling among them, by the sight and report of their unlawful deeds, tormented his righteous soul from day to day;) ⁹ the Lord knows how to rescue the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unrighteous to a day of judgment to be punished;

¹³ receiving the due reward of unrighteousness. These delight to spend the day in luxurious festivity: they are spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceits when they feast with you; ¹⁴ having eyes full of the adulteress, incessantly sinning, alluring unstable souls; having a heart exercised with insatiable desires; an accursed progeny:

³ Knowing this first, that scoffers will come in the last days, walking after their own lusts, ⁴ and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as at the beginning of the creation.

⁴ and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as at the beginning of the creation. ⁵ But this willfully escapes them, that, by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth subsisting from the water, and by water:

⁵ But this willfully escapes them, that, by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth subsisting from the water, and by water: ⁶ by which the world that then was, being deluged with water, perished. ⁷ But the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured up, being kept for fire to a day of judgment, and destruction of ungodly men. ⁸ But this one thing, let it not escape you, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ⁹ The Lord does not delay his promise in the manner some account delaying; but he exercises long-suffering toward us, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should come to reformation. ¹⁰ However, as thief, the day of the Lord will come; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements burning shall be dissolved; and the earth, and the works that are upon it, shall be utterly burned.

¹⁰ However, as thief, the day of the Lord will come; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements burning shall be dissolved; and the earth, and the works that are upon it, shall be utterly burned.

¹⁰ However, as thief, the day of the Lord will come; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements burning shall be dissolved; and the earth, and the works that are upon it, shall be utterly burned. ¹¹ Seeing, then, all these things shall be dissolved; -what sort of persons ought you to be, in holy behavior and godliness,

¹¹ Seeing, then, all these things shall be dissolved; -what sort of persons ought you to be, in holy behavior and godliness,

¹¹ Seeing, then, all these things shall be dissolved; -what sort of persons ought you to be, in holy behavior and godliness, ¹² expecting and earnestly desiring, the coming of the day of God; in which the heavens being set on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements burning, shall be melted?

¹⁷ Therefore, beloved, foreknowing these things, be on your guard; lest being also carried away by the deceit of the lawless, you fall from your own steadfastness.

¹⁸ Young children, it is the last period. And as you have heard that the antichrist comes, so, now, there are many antichrists; whence you know that it is the last period.

²⁶ These things I have written to you, concerning them who deceive you;

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they be from God; because many false prophets are gone forth into the world.

¹⁸ We know that whoever has been begotten by God, does not sin; but he who is begotten by God, guards himself, and the wicked on does not lay hold on him.

⁹ I wrote to the congregation: but Diotrephes, who affects a pre-eminence among them, does not receive us. ¹⁰ For this cause, when I come, I will bring his deeds to remembrance, which he practices-prating against us with malicious words; and, not content with this, he does not himself receive the brethren, and forbids them who would, and casts them out of the congregation.

⁴ For certain men have come in privily, who long ago were before written to this very condemnation; ungodly men, perverting the favor of our God to lasciviousness, and denying the only sovereign Lord, even our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² These men are spots in love feasts, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear. They are clouds without water, carried about of winds: withered autumnal trees without fruit; twice dead; rooted out;

³ Happy is he that reads, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it; for the time is at hand.

⁷ Behold, he is coming in the clouds; and every eye shall see him, even they who pierced him: and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn because of him. Yes: so let it be.

²⁰ As to the hidden meaning of the seven stars, which you see in my right hand, and of the seven lamps of gold: the seven stars are messengers of the seven congregations; and the seven lamps which you see, are seven congregations.

⁴ Nevertheless, I have against you that you have lost your first love. ⁵ Remember, therefore, from what you are fallen, and reform, and do the first works, otherwise I will come to you quickly, and take away your lamp out of its place, unless you reform.

¹⁰ Fear none of the things which you shall suffer; behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and you shall have tribulation ten days: be you faithful until death, and I will give you a crown of life.

¹³ I know your works, and where you dwell; even where the throne of Satan is: and you hold fast my name, and have not denied my faith, even in those days in which Antipas was my faithful witness, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.

¹⁹ I know your works, and love, and service, and faith, and your patience, and that your last works are more than the first.

² Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, which are ready to die: for I have not found your works filled up in the sight of God. ³ Remember, therefore, how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and reform: therefore, unless you are watchful, I will come upon you as thief, and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you.

³ Remember, therefore, how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and reform: therefore, unless you are watchful, I will come upon you as thief, and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you.

¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patience, I will also keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try the inhabitants of the earth.

¹⁴ And by the messenger of the congregation in Laodicea, write: These things says the AMEN, the Faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: ¹⁵ I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I wish you were either cold or hot.

²⁰ Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any one hear my voice, and open the door, I will enter into his house, and will sup with him, and he with me. ²¹ As for the conqueror, I will give him to sit down with me upon my throne; as I also have conquered, and sat down with my Father upon his throne. ²² Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations.

⁸ And I saw, and behold, a pale horse; and as for him who sat on it, his name was Death; and Hades followed him: and there was given to him power to slay the fourth part of the earth with the sword, and with famine, and with death, and with the wild beasts of the field. ⁹ And when he opened the fifth sea, I saw, under the altar, the souls of those who were slaughtered on account of the word of God, and the testimony which they held. ¹⁰ And they cried with a loud voice, and said, How long, O sovereign Lord, holy and true, before thou dost judge, and avenge our blood upon those who dwell on the earth? ¹¹ And there were given to each of them white robes; and it was said to them, that they should rest yet a while, till the number of their fellow-servants and brethren who should be killed, as they had been, should be completed. ¹² And I saw, when he opened the sixth seal, and there was an earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair; and the moon became as blood;

¹² And I saw, when he opened the sixth seal, and there was an earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair; and the moon became as blood; ¹³ and the stars fell from heaven, on the earth, as fig tree drops its untimely figs, being shaken by a mighty wind: ¹⁴ and the heavens passed away like a scroll, when it is rolled up; and every mountain, and island, was moved out of its place:

¹⁴ and the heavens passed away like a scroll, when it is rolled up; and every mountain, and island, was moved out of its place: ¹⁵ and the kings of the earth, and the grandees, and the rich men, and the chief officers, and the powerful men, and every slave, and every freeman, hid themselves in the caves, and rocks of the mountains: ¹⁶ and they said to the mountains, and the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?

¹ And, after these things, I saw four angels, standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind might not blow upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor on any tree.

¹⁴ And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they who have come out of much tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb:

² And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and seven trumpets were given to them.

¹² And the fourth angel sounded; and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, so that the third part of them was darkened, and the day was obscured for a third part, and the night also.

¹⁵ And the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

⁹ And thus the great dragon was cast out; even the old serpent called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the world, was cast out to the earth; and his angels were cast out with him. ¹⁰ And I heard a great voice saying, in heaven, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; because the accuser of our brethren is cast out, who accused them before our God day and night. ¹¹ And they have overcome him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives to the death.

⁷ And it was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and there was given to it power over every tribe, and tongue, and nation.

⁷ And it was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and there was given to it power over every tribe, and tongue, and nation. ⁸ And all the inhabitants of the earth shall worship it, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb, that was slain from the beginning of the world.

⁸ And all the inhabitants of the earth shall worship it, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb, that was slain from the beginning of the world.

¹³ And it does great miracles, so as to make fire come down from heaven to earth, before men; ¹⁴ and it deceives the inhabitants of the earth by signs which it is given it to do before the beast; commanding the inhabitants of the earth to make an image of the beast that had the wound of the sword, and lived.

⁶ And I saw another angel flying through the midst of heaven, having everlasting good news to proclaim to the inhabitants of the earth, even to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people;

⁶ And I saw another angel flying through the midst of heaven, having everlasting good news to proclaim to the inhabitants of the earth, even to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people; ⁷ saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgments is come: and worship him who made heaven, and earth, and sea, and the fountains of water. ⁸ And another angel followed, saying, It is fallen! it is fallen! even Babylon the Great; because it made all the nations drink of the wine of its raging fornication. ⁹ And a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any one worship the beast, and his image, and receive the mark on his forehead, or on his hand,

⁶ for they have poured forth the blood of saints, and prophets; and thou hast given them blood to drink-they are worthy.

¹⁴ for these are the spirits of demons, working miracles, which go forth to the kings of the whole world, to bring them together to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. ¹⁵ Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, that he may not walk naked, so that they should see his shame.

⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

⁷ We rejoice, and exult, and give glory to him, because the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has prepared herself.

²⁰ And the beast was taken captive, and with him the false prophet, who had wrought signs before him, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image; both of whom were cast alive into the lake of fire which burned with brimstone.

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face earth and heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them.

⁷ The conqueror shall inherit all things: and I will be to him a God, and he shall be to me my son.