Revelation 2 Cross References - MNT

¹ To the angel of the Church in Ephesus, write. These are the words of Him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, and who walks among the seven golden candlesticks. ² I know your works and your toil and stedfastness, and that you cannot endure evil men, and that you tested those who called themselves apostles, though they are not, and how you found them false. ³ You are holding fast, and have borne up for my name's sake, and have not grown weary. ⁴ But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. ⁵ Remember whence you have fallen, and turn again, and do your first works. Otherwise I am coming to you and will remove your candlestick out of its place, unless you repent. ⁶ But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I hate. ⁷ He who has an ear, let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him that overcomes, to him will I give to eat from the tree of life which is in the garden of God. ⁸ And unto the angel of the Church in Smyrna, write. These are the words of the First and the Last, he who died and has returned to life. ⁹ I know your persecution and your poverty—but you are rich! I know the reviling of those who say that they themselves are Jews, when they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. ¹⁰ Fear not what you are about to suffer! Behold, the devil is indeed going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested, and you will have persecution for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. ¹¹ Let him who has ears, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death. ¹² And to the angel of the Church in Pergamum, write These are the words of Him who holds the sharp two-edged sword. ¹³ I know where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is; and yet you are holding fast my name, and you have not denied my faith, even in the days of Antipas, my witness, my faithful one, who was slain among you, where Satan has his dwelling. ¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat food offered to idols, and to practise immorality. ¹⁵ So you have also some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. ¹⁶ Repent; if you do not I will very soon come to you, and will make war upon them with the sword of my mouth. ¹⁷ He who has ears, let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him that overcomes I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no man knows, but he that receives it. ¹⁸ And to the angel of the Church in Thyatira, write. These are the words of the Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet like burnished brass. ¹⁹ I know your works and your love and faith and service and endurance; I know that your last works are more than the first. ²⁰ But I have this against you, that you are tolerating that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she is teaching and leading my slaves astray, leading them to practise immorality, and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols. ²¹ I have given her time for repentance; but she is determined not to turn from her immorality. ²² Behold, I will lay her on a sick bed, and bring great distress upon those who have committed adultery with her, unless they turn away from her works. ²³ And moreover, her children will I kill with pestilence. And all the churches shall know that I am he who searches the hearts and souls of men. I will give to each of you according to his works. ²⁴ But to the rest of you in Thyatira, those who do not hold his teaching, and who do not know the "deep things" of Satan (as they call them), ²⁵ I say that I am imposing upon you no fresh burden; only hold fast what you have till I come. ²⁶ To him that overcomes and perseveres in my works to the end, will I give authority over the nations. ²⁷ And he shall shepherd them with a rod of iron, shattering them like earthen vessels (as I myself have received from my Father), ²⁸ and I will give him the Morning Star." ²⁹ Let him who has an ear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.

¹⁷ while a voice from heaven said, "This is my son, the beloved, In whom I delight."

³ So the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, bid these stones to become bread." ⁴ Jesus answered him, "It is written, Not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God." ⁵ Then the devil took him up into the Holy City and stood him on the parapet of the temple, ⁶ and said to him. "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, "He will give his angels charge over thee; Upon their hands they will bear thee up, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone."

¹⁰ "Begone, Satan!" answered Jesus, for it is written, "Thou must worship the Lord thy God, and Him only must thou serve."

²³ "Then I will tell them plainly, "'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of iniquity.'

²² "You will be hated by all men because of my name; and he who endures to the end shall be saved. ²³ "But when they persecute you in one city, flee to the next. In solemn truth I tell you that you shall not have completed the cities of Israel, before the Son of man comes.

²⁸ "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but fear rather him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

¹⁵ "Let all who have ears, listen!

²⁷ "Everything has been handed over to me by my Father; neither does any one know the Son, except the Father, nor any one know the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

⁹ He who has ears, let him hear!"

¹¹ "Why do you speak to them in parables?" Jesus answered. "To you it has been granted to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it has not been granted.

⁴³ "And then shall the just shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him who has ears to hear, listen!

²⁷ For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father, and his angels with him, and then will he reward each one in accordance with his actions.

⁵ While he was yet speaking, behold! a luminous cloud overshadowed them; and a voice out of the cloud, saying. "This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom is my delight. Listen to him."

⁷ "Woe unto the world because of such stumbling-blocks! They will surely come, but woe unto each man by whom they come!

²⁰ "For wherever there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I among them."

²⁸ "In solemn truth I tell you," Jesus answered, "that in the New Creation, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you also who have followed me shall sit on twelve thrones, to govern the twelve tribes of Israel.

⁴¹ "He will utterly destroy those wretches," they answered, "and will entrust his vineyard to other vine-dressers, who will pay back the fruits to him in their season." ⁴² "Have you never read in the Scriptures," Jesus answered, "how The stone that the builders rejected Has been made the corner-stone; This is the Lord's doing, It is wonderful in our eyes? ⁴³ "I tell you that for this reason the kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation that does produce the fruit of it.

⁹ Then they will deliver you up to suffer affliction, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

¹² and because of the increase of iniquity the love of the majority will grow cold; ¹³ but he who endures to the end will be saved.

¹³ but he who endures to the end will be saved.

⁴⁸ But if, because he is a bad slave, he should say to himself, 'My Master is a long time in coming,' ⁴⁹ and if he begins to beat his fellow slaves, and to eat or drink with the drunkards, ⁵⁰ on a day when he is not expecting him, and at an hour which he does not know, the Master of that servant will arrive ⁵¹ and will scourge him severely, and allot him a place among hypocrites, where will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

⁵⁴ When the Roman captain and the soldiers who were with him, guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and all that happened, they were greatly terrified and said, "Certainly this man must have been God's Son."

²⁰ teaching them to observe every command which I have given you. and lo! I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."

¹⁵ "Listen to me, all of you, and understand; there is nothing outside a man which by entering in can defile him; but it is what comes from him that defiled him."

³⁵ For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever, for my sake and the gospel's, loses his life will save it.

⁹ What will the owner of the Vineyard do?" "He will come and put the tenants to death," they said, "and will give the vineyard to others."

¹³ You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

²¹ Simon a Cyrenian, a passer-by, who was coming from the country (the father of Alexander and Rufus), they commandeered to carry the cross of Jesus.

¹⁷ "He shall go before Him in the wisdom and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, and so to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."

³⁵ "The Holy Spirit shall come upon you," said the angel, "and the power of the most High shall overshadow you, and therefore the holy offspring which is born, shall be called the son of God.

⁷⁸ "Through the heart of mercy of our God, Whereby the Dayspring from on high shall visit us, ⁷⁹ "To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, And to guide our feet into the paths of peace."

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to the prisoners, And recovery of sight to the blind; To set at liberty those that are bruised,

²⁰ Then raising his eyes upon his disciples he began to say to them. "Blessed are you poor, For the kingdom of God is yours.

¹³ "Those on the rock are people who, upon hearing, receive the word with joy; but they have no root. For a time indeed they all believe, but in time of temptation they fall away. ¹⁴ "And that which fell upon thorns is those who have heard, but as they go on their way of word is choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of life; so they bring no fruit of perfection. ¹⁵ "And that in the good soil is those who have listened to the message and, in an honest and good heart, hold fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

¹⁵ "And that in the good soil is those who have listened to the message and, in an honest and good heart, hold fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

⁴ "But I say to you who are my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do. ⁵ "I will warn you whom you ought to fear. Fear him who, after he was after he has killed, has power to throw you into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him. ⁶ "Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings? Yet not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God! ⁷ "But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not! You are of more value than many sparrow!

²¹ "So is he that lays up treasures for himself and is not rich toward God."

⁴⁵ "But if that slave should say to himself, 'My master delays his coming,' and should begin to beat the men and the maids, and to eat and drink and to get drunk, ⁴⁶ "that slave's master will arrive on a day when he is not expecting him, and at an hour when he knows not, and will surely scourge him, and appoint him his portion with the unfaithful.

³ "I tell you no; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

⁵ "I tell you no; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did."

²⁷ "Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.

¹ He also taught them by a parable how they ought always to pray and never to lose heart.

¹⁶ "He will come and destroy those vine-dressers, and will give the vineyard to others."

¹² "But before all these things happen, they will apprehend you and persecute you and deliver you to the synagogues and to prisons, and bring you before kings and governors for the sake of my name.

¹⁶ "You will be betrayed even by parents or brothers and kinsfolk, and friends. ¹⁷ "Some of you they will put to death. And you shall be hated by all men for the sake of my name.

¹⁷ "Some of you they will put to death. And you shall be hated by all men for the sake of my name. ¹⁸ "And not a hair on your head shall perish. ¹⁹ "In your patience you shall purchase your souls.

¹⁹ "In your patience you shall purchase your souls.

²⁹ "And I promise you a kingdom, even as my Father has promised me a kingdom;

²⁹ "And I promise you a kingdom, even as my Father has promised me a kingdom; ³⁰ "so that you shall eat and drink in my kingdom, and you shall sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

⁶⁵ And they said many other insulting things against him.

⁴³ "In solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that this day you shall be with me in Paradise."

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and tented with us. And we gazed on his glory—glory as of the Father's only Son—full of grace and truth.

⁴⁹ "Rabbi," answered Nathanael, "you are the Son of God; you are King of Israel."

²⁴ but for his part Jesus was not trusting himself to them, because he knew all men, ²⁵ and did not need any one's testimony concerning man, for he himself knew what was in man.

¹⁶ "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever trusts in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

¹⁸ He who trusts in him is not condemned, but he who does not trust has already been condemned, because he has not put his trust in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

³⁵ the Father loves the Son and has committed everything into his hands. ³⁶ Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him."

³² "Rabbi," they said, "eat something." But he answered, "I have food to eat of which you know nothing."

²⁵ "Solemnly I tell you that the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live.

³⁵ "That man was the Lamp-burning and shining—and you were willing for a time rejoice in his light.

²⁹ "This is the work of God," answered Jesus, "that you believe on him whom He has sent you."

⁴⁸ "I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; yet they died. ⁵⁰ "This is the bread that comes down from heaven, that one may eat thereof and never die. ⁵¹ "I myself am the living bread that has come down from heaven. Any one who eats this bread will live forever; and moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world." ⁵² Then the Jews began to dispute among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ "I tell you solemnly," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. ⁵⁴ "He who feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵ "For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ "He who feeds upon my flesh abides in me and I in him. ⁵⁷ "Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so also that man who feeds on me shall live by me. ⁵⁸ "This is the bread which came down from heaven; not such as your fathers ate and died, for he who feeds upon this bread shall live forever."

³¹ So Jesus spoke to the Jews that believed him, saying. "If you abide in my teaching, you are my true disciples; ³² "and you shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

³⁶ do you mean to tell me, whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

²⁵ He who loves his life loses it; and he who regards not his life in this world shall keep it for eternal life.

² So while supper was proceeding, and the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him,

²⁷ So when he had dipped the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon. And after he had received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. "What you do, do quickly," said Jesus.

³ I will return and will take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be also.

² "He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more.

²¹ "But they will do all these things to you for my name's sake, because they know not Him who sent me.

³³ I have said all this to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be courageous; I have overcome the world."

²⁴ "Father, it is my will that wherever I am these also, thy gift to me, may be with me, that they may see the glory, my glory which thou hast given me, because thou didst love me before the foundations of the world.

¹⁷ The third time Jesus asked him, "Am I really dear to you?" Peter was grieved because the third time he asked, "Am I really dear to you?" and he answered, "Master, you know all things, you know that you are dear to me."

²² "If I choose that he remain until I come," said Jesus, "what is that to you? Do you follow me." ²³ Accordingly the report spread among the brothers that this disciple should not die; but Jesus did not say that he was not to die, but said, "If I choose that he remain until I come, what is that to you?"

²⁴ and they prayed, saying. "Thou, O Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show clearly which of these two men thou hast chosen to fill the place

³⁶ And as they were going on their way they came to a certain water, and the eunuch said: "See, here is water! What hinders my being baptized?"

¹⁴ "In this city, too, he has authority from the chief priests to arrest all those who call upon thy name."

²⁸ One of them, who was Agabus, rose up, and being instructed by the Spirit, predicted that a great famine was about to come upon the whole inhabited earth. (It came in the reign of Claudius.)

²² Everywhere they strengthened the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold to the faith. "It is through many tribulations," they said, "that we must enter into the kingdom of God."

²⁰ "but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

²⁰ "but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood. ²¹ "For Moses from the earliest times has had his preachers in every town where he is read aloud, Sabbath after Sabbath, in the synagogues."

²⁸ "For it has seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; ²⁹ "that you abstain from food that has been sacrificed to idols, and from tasting blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. Keep yourselves clear from these things and it will be well with you. Farewell."

³⁰ "The times of ignorance God overlooked, but he now commands all men that they should all, everywhere, repent; ³¹ inasmuch as he has fixed a day in which he will judge the world justly, by the Man whom he has ordained, and he has given proof of all this by raising him from the dead."

²⁴ But I hold not my life of any account, as dear unto myself, if only I may run my race, and accomplish the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

¹³ "What do you mean by thus breaking my heart with your grief?" answered Paul. "For I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus."

²⁵ "As for the Gentile believers, we wrote giving judgment that they should abstain from anything sacrificed to an idol, from blood, from what is strangled, and from fornication."

²⁰ "'and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by and consenting, and holding the garments of his murders.'

¹¹ "In all the synagogues also I punished them oftentimes, and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my mad fury I was pursuing them even to foreign cities.

⁴ but was by his resurrection from the dead instated as Son of God, with power, in respect of his spirit of holiness.

⁴ Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and long patience? Do you not know that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance? ⁵ In your hardness and impenitence of heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath on the Day of Wrath, when the righteous judgment of God is revealed.

⁵ In your hardness and impenitence of heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath on the Day of Wrath, when the righteous judgment of God is revealed. ⁶ For He will render to every man according to his works; ⁷ eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;

⁷ eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality; ⁸ but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness. ⁹ Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practices evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile; ¹⁰ but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile. ¹¹ For there is no partiality with God.

¹⁷ Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God,

²⁸ For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not outward in the flesh; ²⁹ but the real Jew is one inwardly, and real circumcision is heart—circumcision, spiritual, not literal, praised not by men, but by God.

³ And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

³ And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude, ⁴ and fortitude character, and character, hope—

²⁵ Who hopes for what he clearly sees? But if we hope for something that we do not see, we then patiently wait for it.

²⁷ And the Searcher of Hearts knows what the Sprit's meaning is, because his intercessions for the saints are according to the will of God.

³² He that spared not his own Son, But freely delivered him up for us all, How shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

³⁵ What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?

³⁷ Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors Through Him who loved us.

⁶ It is not, however, as though God's word had failed! For they are not all Israel who have sprung from Israel;

²² But what if God, while intending to show forth his wrath, and to make known his power, yet endured, with much long-suffering, vessels of wrath, fitted to destruction?

³² And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but thought to gain it by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

⁹ As David says. Let their table be made a snare and a trap, And a stumbling-block and a recompense unto them;

⁹ Let love be without insincerity. Abhor what is evil; wed yourselves to what is good.

¹² Rejoice in hope; be patient under affliction; continue stedfast in prayer.

¹² So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God. ¹³ So let us no longer pass judgment on one another; rather let this be your judgment, that no one put a stumbling-block in his brother's way, nor any cause of falling.

²¹ The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble.

⁴ For everything that was written of old has been written for our instruction, that through patience, and through the comfort of the Scriptures, we might have hope. ⁵ Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be in full sympathy with one another, in accordance with the example of Jesus Christ;

¹² Salute Trypheana and Tryphosa, who are ever toiling in the Lord. Salute dear Persis, who has toiled terribly in the Lord's service.

²³ but we come preaching a crucified Messiah—to Jews a stumbling-block, to Greeks foolishness,

¹⁰ Yet God has unveiled them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit fathoms everything, even the abysmal depths of God.

¹⁴ The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God's Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,

⁵ So make no hasty judgment until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make plain the purpose of men's hearts. Then each man's due praise will come to him from God.

³ Do you not know that we are to try angels? How much more, then, the affairs of life. ⁴ Why then, if you have cases relating to earthly affairs which need to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the church whom you make your judges?

¹³ "Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body; ¹⁴ and the God who raised up our Lord will up-raise us also by his mighty power. ¹⁵ You know, do you not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid! ¹⁶ Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.) ¹⁷ While a man who is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit? ¹⁸ Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

² but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

⁴ Now as to eating food that has been offered to idols, we know well that an idol has no real existence in the universe, and that there is no God but One. ⁵ For though there be so-called "gods," celestial of terrestrial, as indeed there are gods many and lords many, ⁶ yet for there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. ⁷ But that "knowledge" is not possessed by all; but some, accustomed until now to the idol, eat food as that which has actually been offered to an idol, and so their conscience, being still weak, is defiled. ⁸ Now food does not bring us nearness to God. Neither if we eat do we gain any advantage, nor if we eat not, do we lose any. ⁹ But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if any one should see you, the possessor of "knowledge," reclining at table in an idol's temple, would not his conscience, if he were weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

¹⁰ For if any one should see you, the possessor of "knowledge," reclining at table in an idol's temple, would not his conscience, if he were weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? ¹¹ So he is lost, this weak man, lost by your "knowledge." this brother for whom Christ died.

¹¹ So he is lost, this weak man, lost by your "knowledge." this brother for whom Christ died. ¹² In so sinning against your brothers, and in ever and again wounding their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ.

¹² In so sinning against your brothers, and in ever and again wounding their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, lest I make my brother to stumble.

²⁵ Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.

¹⁸ Look at Israel according to the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?

¹⁸ Look at Israel according to the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar? ¹⁹ What then shall we say? that an offering to an idol is anything? or that an idol is really anything?

¹⁹ What then shall we say? that an offering to an idol is anything? or that an idol is really anything? ²⁰ On the contrary, what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have communion with demons.

²⁰ On the contrary, what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have communion with demons. ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons; you cannot be partakers in the Lord's table and in the table of demons.

²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons; you cannot be partakers in the Lord's table and in the table of demons. ²² What! would we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? ²³ "All things are lawful," you say? But not all things are expedient; "all things are lawful"; but not all build up. ²⁴ Let not each one be always seeking his own, but rather his neighbor's good. ²⁵ Eat anything that is for sale in the markets, asking no questions for conscience sake; ²⁶ for the earth and its fulness are the Lord's. ²⁷ If one who is not a believer invites you to his house, and you wish to go, eat everything that is set before you, without asking questions for conscience sake. ²⁸ But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice," do not eat it, for the sake of him who told you,

²⁸ But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice," do not eat it, for the sake of him who told you, ²⁹ and for your conscience sake—his conscience, not your own. "But," you may object, "why should my freedom be decided upon another's scruples of conscience? ³⁰ If I eat after giving thanks, why am I denounced for eating that for which I have given thanks?" ³¹ Because whether you are eating or whether you are drinking, you are to do it all for the glory of God.

²⁶ For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are proclaiming your Lord's death until he come.

⁴ Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; ⁵ there are various forms of service, and the same Lord; ⁶ and varieties of work, and the same God, who works in all. ⁷ Now to each man has been given his manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. ⁸ For to one man by the Spirit has been given a word of wisdom, to another a word of insight by the same Spirit; ⁹ to one man by the same Spirit is given faith, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit; ¹⁰ to another the powers which work miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits; to another varieties of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ But the one and the same Spirit gives power to all, distributing his gifts to each as he wills. ¹² For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ.

¹ Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal. ² Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And though I sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing. ⁴ Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up, ⁵ is not rude, nor selfish, nor easily provoked. Love bears no malice, never rejoices over wrong-doing, ⁶ but rejoices when the truth rejoices. ⁷ It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring.

⁷ It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring. ⁸ Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.

¹⁶ so I want you also to show deference to such, and to every fellow worker, and laborer.

¹¹ for your sakes, that I may not be overreached by Satan, for I am not ignorant of his devices.

¹ So then, as I have this ministry because of God's mercy to me, I do not lose heart.

¹⁶ For this reason, as I have said, I do not lose courage, but even though my outward man is wasting away, my inward man is being renewed, day by day.

⁹ And for this reason I also make it home with the Lord. ¹⁰ For we must all be made manifest, in our true characters, before the Judgment-seat of Christ; so that each one may receive according to that which he has done in his body, whether good or evil.

⁵ by floggings, by imprisonment; in riots, in labors, in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst;

¹⁰ as grieved, but always glad; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.

² For although in heavy trial of affliction, their overbrimming happiness, even in spite of their deep poverty, abounded to the opulence of their unselfishness.

⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

¹⁵ I am not "boasting beyond measure in the labors of others," but it is my hope that, as your faith goes on increasing among yourselves, by the enlargement of my appointed limits,

³ But I fear lest, just as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your minds should be seduced from your single-mindedness and purity toward Christ.

¹³ For such fellows are sham apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ No wonder! for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light. ¹⁵ It is no great marvel, then, if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will be according to their works.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.

⁴ who was caught up into Paradise, and heard unutterable words which no human being is permitted to utter.

²¹ and lest when I come again my God may humble me before you, and lest I shall mourn for many those who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurity and immorality and wantonness which they have practised.

⁷ for another gospel, which indeed is not another; only there are certain individuals who are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.

⁴ If you are being justified by law, you are cut off from Christ; you are fallen away from grace.

² Ever be bearing one another's burdens, and so be fulfilling the law of Christ.

⁵ for every one must carry his own pack load.

⁹ And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

² in which you passed your lives after the way of this world, under the sway of the Prince of the Powers of the Air, the spirit who is now working among the sons of disobedience.

¹⁴ So we shall no longer be children, tossed up and down, and blown about by every wind of teaching, tricked by the craft of men in the snares of misleading error;

¹¹ Put on all the panoply of God, so that you may be able to stand your ground against the stratagems of the devil. ¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.

¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.

¹⁷ Take likewise the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may abound yet more and more in intelligence and insight

¹⁶ holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

¹³ Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead, ¹⁴ I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let us all then, who are mature Christians, strive for this! God will make this clear to any of you who are striving for other goals; ¹⁶ if only we guide our steps by the standards we have already attained.

³ yes, and I beg you also, my true yokefellow, to help them; for these women shared my toil in the furtherance of the gospel, together with Clement, and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life.

¹¹ that you may be strengthened in every kind of strength by the might of his glory for every kind of patience and fortitude with good cheer.

³ for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

¹⁴ Over them all bind on love, which is the girdle of completeness.

³ as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father.

⁹ You recall, brothers, my labor and toil; how, while working at my trade day and night, so as not to become a burden to any of you, I proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

⁴ For even when I was with you I used to tell you beforehand that I was to suffer affliction; and so it proved, as you know. ⁵ So, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that my labor had been in vain. ⁶ But now that Timothy has returned from you to me, and has brought good news of your faith and love, and that you are still holding me in affectionate remembrance, always longing to see me as I also am longing to see you.

⁹ It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another. ¹⁰ As indeed you do love all the brothers in Macedonia. But I exhort you, brothers, to abound in this yet more.

¹² I entreat you, brothers, to acknowledge those who are toiling among you and are your leaders in the Lord, and give you counsel.

²¹ But try all, holding fast to the good.

³ I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another.

⁶ For truly God's justice must render back trouble to those who are troubling you, ⁷ and give to you, who are now troubled, rest, along with me at the unveiling "apocalypse" of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with his mighty angels,

⁸ and then the lawless one will be revealed. Him the Lord will consume with the breath of his lips, and destroy with the brightness of his appearing; ⁹ even he whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, in every power and sign and lying wonder, ¹⁰ and with all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth for their salvation. ¹¹ For this reason God is sending on them an energy of delusion, that they should put faith in a falsehood; ¹² so that they all should be condemned, who are faithless to the truth, but take pleasure in evil.

⁵ May the Lord incline your hearts to the love of God and to the stedfastness of Christ.

⁸ I did not eat my food as a gift from any man, but in toil and travail, night and day, I worked, so that I might not be a burden to any of you.

¹³ But you, brothers, must not grow weary in well-doing.

⁵ Now the end of the exhortation is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and an undissembled faith.

¹³ although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.

¹⁰ "We toil and agonize because our hopes are set on the ever-living God, who is the Saviour of all men,—of believers in particular.

⁸ But if any one fails to provide for his own, and especially for his kindred, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

¹⁷ Let the elders who fill their offices well, be held worthy of twofold honor; especially those who have the task of preaching and teaching.

¹⁸ Charge them to practise benevolence, to be rich in good works, to be open-handed and generous,

¹³ Hold fast the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

¹² If we endure suffering, we shall also reign with him. If we disown him, he too will disown us.

¹⁹ Nevertheless God's firm foundation stands unshaken, bearing this inscription, THE LORD KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE HIS, and this also, LET EVERY ONE WHO NAMES THE NAME OF THE LORD RENOUNCE WICKEDNESS.

²⁵ He must be gentle when instructing opponents; for possibly God may give them a change of mind for the recognition of the truth, ²⁶ and they may come to their senses again, and escape the snare of the devil, as they are restored to life by God to do his will.

⁷ I have fought in the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have kept the faith. ⁸ Henceforth there is laid up for me the garland of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that Day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

⁶ but Christ as a Son in his own house; and we are that house, if we retain the cheerful courage and pride of our hope firm unto the end.

¹² For living is the Word of God, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the severance of soul form spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart. ¹³ And there is not a creature hidden form him, but all things are naked and laid prostrate before the eyes of him with whom we have to do. ¹⁴ Inasmuch, then, as we have a great High Priest, Jesus, the Son of God, who has passed through the heavens, let us hold fast our confession of faith.

¹⁰ For God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you showed for his cause, in sending help to your fellow Christians, as you are still doing.

¹⁰ For God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you showed for his cause, in sending help to your fellow Christians, as you are still doing. ¹¹ but I am longing that each of you continue to show the same diligence to realize the fulness of your hope, even to the end. ¹² Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

¹⁵ And so by patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the promise.

²³ Let us hold fast the confession of our hope, unwavering (for He is faithful who promised);

³² But ever call to mind the former days, in which, after having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;

³⁶ For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise,

³⁸ But it is by faith that my Righteous One will live, And if he draws back, my soul takes no pleasure in him. ³⁹ "But we are not of defections unto perdition, but of faith unto the gaining of the soul."

¹ Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

³ Compare yourselves with him who endured such hostility against himself at the hands of sinners, lest you grow weary, fainting in your souls. ⁴ Not yet have you resisted unto blood in your fight against sin; ⁵ and have you forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as sons? My son, do not despise the training of the Lord, Nor faint when he corrects you;

⁴ Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

¹³ Let us then go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

³ because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance. ⁴ But let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, not lacking in anything.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

⁵ Listen, my dear brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and to inherit the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him? ⁶ But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you to court? ⁷ Are they not blaspheming that glorious Name by which you are called?

²⁰ But do you want to be convinced, O foolish man, that faith apart from deeds is barren?

⁷ Be patient, then, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it gets the early and the latter rains. ⁸ So you also must be patient. Stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is at hand! ⁹ Do not make complaints against each other, brothers, lest you yourselves be condemned. Behold the Judge is standing before the very door! ¹⁰ Take, my brothers, for an example the suffering and the patience of the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Remember we count those that were stedfast happy. You have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen how the Lord is full of tenderness.

⁶ Exult in this, though now for a brief moment, if need be, you have suffered many hardships. ⁷ These are in order that the test of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable and yet is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honor, at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ And since you call upon him as Father, who impartially judges each one according to his deeds, pass the time of your sojourning here in reverence.

⁸ and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble over it because they are disobeying God's word, and to this they were also appointed.

²⁰ who in old times had been disobedient, when God's longsuffering was waiting in the days of Noah, while an ark was building, in which a few persons—eight in number—were saved by water.)

⁸ Above everything have fervent love to one another; for love veils a multitude of sins.

⁴ Then, when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, you too will receive the fadeless wreath of glory.

⁸ Be temperate, be vigilant; because your enemy, the devil, is prowling about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

⁶ and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety, ⁷ and to piety brotherly love, and to brotherly love, love itself.

¹² I shall therefore be always ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it, and are firmly founded in the truth which is with you. ¹³ So I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," to rouse you by way of reminding you,

¹⁹ And so we possess the word of prophecy made yet more sure. Unto this you do well to give heed as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

¹ But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves. ² Then there will be many who will follow their immorality, because of whom the Way of the Truth will be maligned. ³ In their covetousness, with cunning words, they will make merchandise of you; those whose doom has not been idle from of old, and whose destruction has not been slumbering.

¹⁵ They have forsaken the right way; they have lost their way, and followed the road of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing.

⁹ The Lord does not loiter over his promise, as some men esteem loitering; but he is longsuffering toward you, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should pass on to repentance. ¹⁰ But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief; and on that Day the heavens will vanish with a crash, the heavenly bodies will melt with fervent heat, and the earth and all its works will be burned up.

¹⁵ Regard our Lord's longsuffering as salvation; even as our dear brother Paul also wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him.

¹⁸ But grow continually in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the Day of Eternity, Amen.

¹⁹ They came forth from us, but they did not belong to us. If they had belonged to us they would certainly have remained with us, but they went out that they might be manifest that they all are not of us.

²¹ I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and know that no lie is of the truth. ²² Who is the liar if not the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, even he who disowns the Father and the Son.

²³ His commandment is this, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do.

¹ Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

⁴ For whoever is a child of God is overcoming the world; and our faith is the victory that has overcome the world. ⁵ And who it the one that is overcoming the world if not the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁵ And who it the one that is overcoming the world if not the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁹ Whoever is going ahead, and is not abiding in the teachings of Christ, does not possess God; but he who is abiding in the teaching possesses both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If any one come to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, nor give him any greeting.

³ Beloved, although I was making all haste to write to you in regard to our common salvation, I am compelled to write you an appeal to defend the faith once for all committed to the saints. ⁴ For certain men have crept in stealthily—men predestined in ancient prophecies for this condemnation—impious ones! They pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness, and deny Jesus Christ, our sole Master and Lord.

¹¹ Alas for them! They have walked in the path of Cain; for the sake of gain they have rushed headlong into Balaam's error, and have perished in Koran's rebellion.

²⁴ Now unto Him who has power to guard you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, faultless and exultant,

⁷ Behold, he is about to come among the clouds; and every eye will see him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. So shall it be, Amen. ⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. ⁹ I, John, who am your brother and who share with you in the woes and kingdom and stedfastness of Jesus, found myself in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

¹¹ saying, "Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches; to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."

¹¹ saying, "Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches; to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea." ¹² And I turned to see the Voice which was speaking to me, and as I turned I saw seven golden candlesticks; ¹³ and in the midst of the candlesticks One like to a son of man, clothed with a robe down to the feet, and with a golden girdle round his breast. ¹⁴ His head and his hair were as white as wool, as white as snow; his eyes were like a flame of fire, ¹⁵ and his feet like burnished brass, as if molten in a furnace; and his voice like the voice of many waters. ¹⁶ In his right hand he held seven stars; and out of mouth went a sharp, two-edged sword, and his face was as the sun shining in his strength. ¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying. "Fear not; I am the first and the last, and the Living One. ¹⁸ I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore; and hold the keys of death and of Hades.

²⁰ The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks, is this. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches."

¹ To the angel of the Church in Ephesus, write. These are the words of Him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, and who walks among the seven golden candlesticks. ² I know your works and your toil and stedfastness, and that you cannot endure evil men, and that you tested those who called themselves apostles, though they are not, and how you found them false.

² I know your works and your toil and stedfastness, and that you cannot endure evil men, and that you tested those who called themselves apostles, though they are not, and how you found them false. ³ You are holding fast, and have borne up for my name's sake, and have not grown weary. ⁴ But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

⁴ But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. ⁵ Remember whence you have fallen, and turn again, and do your first works. Otherwise I am coming to you and will remove your candlestick out of its place, unless you repent. ⁶ But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I hate. ⁷ He who has an ear, let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him that overcomes, to him will I give to eat from the tree of life which is in the garden of God. ⁸ And unto the angel of the Church in Smyrna, write. These are the words of the First and the Last, he who died and has returned to life. ⁹ I know your persecution and your poverty—but you are rich! I know the reviling of those who say that they themselves are Jews, when they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

⁹ I know your persecution and your poverty—but you are rich! I know the reviling of those who say that they themselves are Jews, when they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. ¹⁰ Fear not what you are about to suffer! Behold, the devil is indeed going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested, and you will have persecution for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. ¹¹ Let him who has ears, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death. ¹² And to the angel of the Church in Pergamum, write These are the words of Him who holds the sharp two-edged sword. ¹³ I know where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is; and yet you are holding fast my name, and you have not denied my faith, even in the days of Antipas, my witness, my faithful one, who was slain among you, where Satan has his dwelling.

¹³ I know where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is; and yet you are holding fast my name, and you have not denied my faith, even in the days of Antipas, my witness, my faithful one, who was slain among you, where Satan has his dwelling. ¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat food offered to idols, and to practise immorality.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat food offered to idols, and to practise immorality. ¹⁵ So you have also some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. ¹⁶ Repent; if you do not I will very soon come to you, and will make war upon them with the sword of my mouth. ¹⁷ He who has ears, let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him that overcomes I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no man knows, but he that receives it. ¹⁸ And to the angel of the Church in Thyatira, write. These are the words of the Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet like burnished brass. ¹⁹ I know your works and your love and faith and service and endurance; I know that your last works are more than the first.

¹⁹ I know your works and your love and faith and service and endurance; I know that your last works are more than the first. ²⁰ But I have this against you, that you are tolerating that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she is teaching and leading my slaves astray, leading them to practise immorality, and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.

²⁰ But I have this against you, that you are tolerating that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she is teaching and leading my slaves astray, leading them to practise immorality, and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols. ²¹ I have given her time for repentance; but she is determined not to turn from her immorality.

²¹ I have given her time for repentance; but she is determined not to turn from her immorality. ²² Behold, I will lay her on a sick bed, and bring great distress upon those who have committed adultery with her, unless they turn away from her works.

²⁴ But to the rest of you in Thyatira, those who do not hold his teaching, and who do not know the "deep things" of Satan (as they call them), ²⁵ I say that I am imposing upon you no fresh burden; only hold fast what you have till I come. ²⁶ To him that overcomes and perseveres in my works to the end, will I give authority over the nations. ²⁷ And he shall shepherd them with a rod of iron, shattering them like earthen vessels (as I myself have received from my Father), ²⁸ and I will give him the Morning Star." ²⁹ Let him who has an ear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.

¹ To the angel of the Church at Sardis, write. These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your works, that you have the name of being alive, but are really dead. ² Be continually on the watch, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die. For I have not found your works perfected before my God. ³ Call to mind, then, what you have received and heard, and hold to it, and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I will come as a thief, and you will never know at what hour I am coming upon you.

³ Call to mind, then, what you have received and heard, and hold to it, and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I will come as a thief, and you will never know at what hour I am coming upon you.

⁵ He who overcomes shall thus be clad in white raiment; and I will in no wise blot out his name from the book of life, and I will own his name before my Father, and before his angels.

⁵ He who overcomes shall thus be clad in white raiment; and I will in no wise blot out his name from the book of life, and I will own his name before my Father, and before his angels. ⁶ Let him who has an ear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.

⁶ Let him who has an ear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. ⁷ Write also to the angel of the Church in Philadelphia. These things says He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens, and no one shall shut; and who shuts, and no one opens. ⁸ I know your works. Lo, I have set before you an open door, which none can shut; for though you have only a little strength, you have kept my word, and have not denied my name.

⁸ I know your works. Lo, I have set before you an open door, which none can shut; for though you have only a little strength, you have kept my word, and have not denied my name. ⁹ Behold, I am making those of the synagogue of Satan, those who say they are Jews, but are not, but are lying; behold, I will make them to come and bow in reverence before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

⁹ Behold, I am making those of the synagogue of Satan, those who say they are Jews, but are not, but are lying; behold, I will make them to come and bow in reverence before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. ¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from that hour of trial which is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to test those who dwell on the earth.

¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from that hour of trial which is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to test those who dwell on the earth. ¹¹ I am coming quickly. Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.

¹¹ I am coming quickly. Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown. ¹² He that overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall go out from it nevermore. And I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.

¹² He that overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall go out from it nevermore. And I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name. ¹³ He that has an ear, let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. ¹⁴ To the angel of the Church in Laodicea, write. These things says the Amen, the witness, faithful and true, the beginning of the creation of God.

¹⁴ To the angel of the Church in Laodicea, write. These things says the Amen, the witness, faithful and true, the beginning of the creation of God. ¹⁵ I know your works, that you are neither hot nor cold.

¹⁵ I know your works, that you are neither hot nor cold. ¹⁶ Would that you were either cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of my mouth. ¹⁷ For you keep saying, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and do not know that you are the wretched one, and pitiable and beggared and blind and naked.

¹⁷ For you keep saying, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and do not know that you are the wretched one, and pitiable and beggared and blind and naked. ¹⁸ I advise you to buy of me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white raiment to clothe yourself, so that the shame of your nakedness may not be made manifest; and eye-salve to anoint your eyes, in order that you may see. ¹⁹ All whom I love I reprove and discipline; therefore be full of zeal and repent.

²¹ To him who overcomes, I will grant to sit down with me on my throne, as I myself have overcome and have taken my seat with my Father on his throne.

²¹ To him who overcomes, I will grant to sit down with me on my throne, as I myself have overcome and have taken my seat with my Father on his throne. ²² Let any one who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.

²² Let any one who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.

⁸ So I liked, and lo, a pale horse; and he who sat on him was named Death; and Hades was following after him. To them was given authority over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword, and with famine, and with death, and with the wild beasts of the earth.

¹⁴ And I said to him, "You know, my Lord." And he said to me, "These are those who have come out of the great persecution, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹⁰ And the third angel blew his trumpet, and there fell from heaven a great star, blazing like a torch. It fell upon a third of the rivers and upon the springs. (The name of the star is called Wormwood.) ¹¹ A third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. ¹² And the fourth angel blew his trumpet, and the third part of the sun was blasted, and a third part of the moon, and a third part of the stars; so that the third part of them should be darkened, and for a third part of the day there was no light, and at night it was the same.

²⁰ And the rest of mankind who were not killed with these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands. They would not give up the worship of demons and of idols made of gold and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk. ²¹ And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their immorality, nor of their thefts.

¹ And a great sign was seen in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a diadem of twelve stars.

⁵ And she gave birth to a son, a man child, who is to shepherd all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up unto God and unto his throne.

⁹ Now the great dragon was thrown down—that old Serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

⁹ Now the great dragon was thrown down—that old Serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. ¹⁰ And I heard a great voice in heaven, which said: "Now it is come! the salvation and the power, The kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ! For the accuser of our brethren is thrown down, Who accused them before our God, day and night. ¹¹ And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb, And by the word of their testimony; And they loved not their life, even unto death.

² The beast I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were bear's feet, and his mouth a lion's mouth. The dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority.

⁷ The beast was allowed to wage war upon the saints, and to conquer them; and there was given him authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation;

⁹ Let him who has ears to hear, listen.

¹⁴ And he deceives those who dwell on the earth, because of the miracles, which he is permitted to perform in the sight of the beast. He tells those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the sword-stroke, yet lived. ¹⁵ And he was permitted to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast should speak; and so that any one who would not worship the image of the beast should be put to death. ¹⁶ And he makes all men, low and high, rich and poor, freemen and slaves, to have a brand put upon their right hands or upon their brows, ¹⁷ so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the brand of the beast, or the number of his name.

³ They were singing a new song before the throne, and before the four Living Creatures and the Elders; and none can learn that song, except the one hundred and forty and four thousand, who had been redeemed from the earth.

¹² Here is the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. ¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, "Write, Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth! Yea, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, For their deeds do follow them."

² And I saw the semblance of a glassy sea, mingled with fire; and standing by this glassy sea, with harps of God, were those who came off conquerors from the beast and from his image and from the cipher of his name.

⁹ And men were scorched with the terrible heat; and they blasphemed the name of the God who had the power over these plagues; yet they repented not, to give him glory.

¹¹ and they blasphemed the God of heaven, because of their pains and their sores; yet of their deeds they did not repent.

² with whom the kings of the earth have committed adultery, while all who live on the earth have been made drunken by the wine of her immorality."

³ For all nations, having drunk the wine of the frenzy of her fornication, are fallen; And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, And the merchants of the earth have grown rich by the power of her wantonness."

⁹ And the kings of the earth who committed fornication And lived wantonly with her, Will weep and wail over her, When they behold the smoke of her burning,

¹² His eyes are a flame of fire, and upon his head are many diadems; and he has a name written, which none knows but himself. ¹³ He is clothed in a vesture dipped in blood; and his name is called, THE WORD OF GOD

¹⁵ And there issues from his lips a sharp sword with which to smite the nations. He shall shepherd them with a rod of iron. And he treads the winepress of the passion of the anger of Almighty God.

¹⁸ to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, bond and free, small and great." ¹⁹ And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war on him who sat on the horse and on his army. ²⁰ And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed miracles in his presence to deceive those who had received the brand of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire, blazing with brimstone. ²¹ And the rest were slain with the sword of him who sat on the horse, that sword which issued from his lips. And all the birds gorged themselves with their flesh.

²¹ And the rest were slain with the sword of him who sat on the horse, that sword which issued from his lips. And all the birds gorged themselves with their flesh.

⁴ And I saw thrones, and those who sat on them, and they were permitted to judge; and I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the Word of God, those who did not worship the beast nor his image, and who did not receive his brand upon their brow, or hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

⁶ Blessed and holy is he who has a part in the first resurrection; on such the second death has no power, but they will be God's priests, and Christ's; and will reign with him for a thousand years.

¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne; and books were opened, and another book—the Book of Life—was opened; and the dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the books.

¹⁴ And all were judged according to their deeds. And Death and Hades were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

⁷ He who overcomes will inherit these, And I will be his God, And he shall be my son. ⁸ But as for the cowards, the faithless, the abominable, And for the murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, Idolaters, and all liars, Their part will be in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. "This is the second death."

² In the middle of the broad street of the City. On each side of the river was a Tree of Life, Bearing twelve kinds of fruit, Each month yielding its own fruit. And the leaves of the tree Were for the healing of the nations.

⁵ Night will be no more. They will need no lamplight nor sunlight, Because the Lord God will give them light; And they will reign forever and ever.

⁷ "And behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book."

¹⁴ "Blessed are they who wash their robes, so that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in by the gates into the City. ¹⁵ Without are the dogs, the sorcerers, the immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who live and make a lie. ¹⁶ "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright and morning Star. ¹⁷ "And the Spirit and the Bride say 'Come!' And let him who hears, say 'Come!' And let him who thirsts, come; And whoever wills, let him take the Water of Life freely."

²⁰ He who testifies this says, "Yea, I am coming quickly." Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!