Revelation 3 Cross References - Riverside

¹ "To the Angel of the Church in Sardis write: "These things says he who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: "I know your deeds, that you have the name of being alive, but are dead. ² Become watchful and strengthen the things that remain, which are about to die. For I have not found any works of yours complete before my God. ³ Remember, then, how you have received and heard, and give attention and repent. Unless you watch, I will come like a thief and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you. ⁴ But you have a few names in Sardis which have not stained their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy. ⁵ He who conquers shall be thus clothed in white garments, and I will not erase his name from the book of life, but will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. ⁶ Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ⁷ "To the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia write: "These things says the Holy, the True, he who has the key of David, who opens and no one shuts and who shuts and no one opens: ⁸ "I know your deeds. See, I have set before you an opened door which no one can shut, because you have a little power and you have kept my word and have not disowned my name. ⁹ See, I will make those from the synagogue of Satan, men who call themselves Jews when they are not but are lying — I will make them come and bow down before your feet and they shall know that I have loved you. ¹⁰ Because you have kept my command of patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which is about to come on all the world, to try the inhabitants of the earth. ¹¹ I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may take your crown. ¹² He who conquers — I will make him a pillar in the Temple of my God and he will never go out, and I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down from heaven from my God, and I will write on him my own new name. ¹³ Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ¹⁴ "To the Angel of the Church in Laodicea write: "These things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: ¹⁵ "I know your deeds — that you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! ¹⁶ So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I shall spew you out of my mouth. ¹⁷ Because you say, 'I am rich and have grown wealthy and lack nothing,' and do not know that you are wretched and pitiable and poor and blind and naked, ¹⁸ I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments to put on, so that the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. ¹⁹ All that I love I rebuke and discipline. Be earnest, then, and repent. ²⁰ See, I am standing at the door and knocking. If any one listens to my voice and opens his door, I will come in with him and will feast with him and he with me. ²¹ He who conquers — to him I will grant to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. ²² Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches."

³ "Blessed are the poor in spirit! For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

² When you give gifts of mercy, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, in order that they may be honored by men. I assure you they get their payment in full. ³ But you, when you are giving a gift of mercy, must not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴ so that your gift may be in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.

¹³ And bring us not into trial, But save us from evil.'

²⁴ No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

¹² Jesus heard it and said, "The strong have no need of a physician, but the sick have.

¹¹ Whatever city or village you go into, inquire who in it is worthy and stay with him until you leave the place.

³² Every one who shall confess me before men I too will confess before my Father in heaven.

³⁷ He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. He who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

⁴⁴ "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man finds and hides again, and for joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

¹⁹ I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

²⁸ Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly, you who have followed me, in the rebirth, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you also will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

⁵ All their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and make their tassels large.

²⁸ So you, too, outwardly appear to men to be righteous, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. ²⁹ "Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous ³⁰ and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' ³¹ So you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³² Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt. ³³ Serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna? ³⁴ Therefore I am sending to you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and will persecute from city to city, ³⁵ so that all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar, may come on you. ³⁶ I tell you truly all this will come on this generation. ³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often would I fain have gathered your children as a bird gathers her nestlings under her wings, and you would not. ³⁸ See, your house is left to you desolate,

¹² and because of the wide spread of lawlessness the love of most will grow cold.

¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the inhabited world for a testimony to all the Gentiles. And then will come the end.

³³ Just so when you see all these things, know that he is near — at the door.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

⁴² Watch, therefore, for you do not know what day your Master is coming.

⁴² Watch, therefore, for you do not know what day your Master is coming. ⁴³ But this you do know, that if the householder had known in which watch the thief was coming he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into.

⁴³ But this you do know, that if the householder had known in which watch the thief was coming he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴ Therefore be you also ready, for in an hour that you do not think the Son of Man is coming. ⁴⁵ Who, then, is the faithful and wise servant whom the master has placed over his household to give them food in due season? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. ⁴⁷ I tell you truly that he will place him over all that he owns. ⁴⁸ But if that wicked servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying,' ⁴⁹ and begins to strike his fellow servants and to eat and drink with the drunken, ⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not expecting and at an hour when he is unaware, ⁵¹ and will cut him asunder and assign his part with the hypocrites. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

⁹ But the wise answered, 'There may not be enough for us and you. Go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.'

¹³ Watch, therefore, for you do not know the day nor the hour.

⁴¹ Watch and pray so as not to enter into temptation. Your spirit is eager, but your flesh is weak."

⁷⁰ But he denied it before all, saying, "I do not know what you mean." ⁷¹ When he had gone out into the gateway, another maid saw him and said to those who were there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene." ⁷² Then again he denied with an oath, "I do not know the man."

¹⁸ Jesus came to them and talked with them. He said, "To me has been given all authority in heaven and on earth.

²⁴ "What have you to do with us, Nazarene Jesus? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are — the Holy one of God."

³³ "Be watchful, be wakeful, for you do not know when the time is.

³³ "Be watchful, be wakeful, for you do not know when the time is. ³⁴ It is just as when a man going abroad leaves his house and gives to his servants authority and to each his work and commands the porter to watch. ³⁵ Watch, therefore, for you do not know when the Master of the house will come, whether at evening or at midnight or at cock-crowing or in the morning. ³⁶ Otherwise coming suddenly he may find you sleeping.

³⁶ Otherwise coming suddenly he may find you sleeping. ³⁷ What I say to you, I say to all, Watch."

⁹ I tell you truly wherever the good news shall be proclaimed over the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her."

⁵ Entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side dressed in a white robe, and they were frightened.

³² He will be great and will be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.

⁵³ The hungry he fills with good things and the affluent he sends away empty.

¹ IN those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus for the registration of the whole world.

³⁴ "Ha, what have you to do with us, Nazarene Jesus? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are — The Holy One of God."

²⁴ "But alas for you rich men! For you have now your comfort in full.

⁸ But I tell you every one who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man confess before the angels of God. ⁹ And he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

²¹ So is he who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God."

³⁶ and be like men expecting their Master when he returns from the wedding, so that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately. ³⁷ Blessed are those servants whom the Master, when he comes, will find watching! Truly I tell you he will gird himself and make them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.

³⁹ But know this, if the householder had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁰ And you be ready, for in an hour that you do not think the Son of Man is coming."

²⁷ Whoever does not take up his own cross and come after me cannot be a disciple of mine. ²⁸ For which of you wishing to build a tower does not first sit down and compute the cost, whether he has enough to complete it,

²⁴ For this, my son, was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.' And they began to be merry.

³² We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life; he was lost and is found.'

⁸ On the contrary, will he not say to him, 'Make ready something for my dinner and gird yourself and wait on me while I eat and drink, and after that you may eat and drink yourself'?

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank thee that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, cheats, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. ¹² I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all I get.'

³⁵ but those who are judged worthy to reach that world and the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are married,

³⁶ Be watchful at every season in prayer that you may be able to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."

³⁰ that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. You shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. ³¹ Simon, Simon, Satan has begged to be allowed to sift all of you like wheat. ³² But I have prayed for thee that thy faith may not fail. And when you come back to yourself, strengthen your brothers."

¹⁶ For of his fullness we all have received, and grace for grace.

³³ I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water — he said to me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining, that is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for thy house will devour me."

³⁴ He whom God has sent speaks the word of God, for he does not give him the Spirit by measure.

²² Neither does the Father judge any one, but he has committed all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

³⁷ On the last day, the great day, of the feast Jesus stood and cried out, "If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink. ³⁸ He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within him." ³⁹ This he said referring to the Spirit which those who had believed in him were soon to receive. For as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

⁶ After saying this, he spit on the ground and made clay with the spittle and put the clay on the man's eyes ⁷ and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which means Sent)." He went away and washed and came back seeing. ⁸ His neighbors and those accustomed to see him before, when he was begging, said, "Is not this the man that sat and begged?" ⁹ Some said, "This is he." Others said, "No, but he is like him." He said, "I am the man." ¹⁰ They said to him, "How then were your eyes opened?" ¹¹ He replied, "The man called Jesus made clay and spread it on my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' I went and washed and received my sight."

⁴⁰ Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and said to him, "Are we blind also?" ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now that you say, 'We see,' your sin remains with you."

⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

²¹ He who has my commands and keeps them — he is the one that loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will show myself to him."

²¹ He who has my commands and keeps them — he is the one that loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will show myself to him." ²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Master, what has happened that you are going to show yourself to us and not to the world?"

²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Master, what has happened that you are going to show yourself to us and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered him, "If any one loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and abide with him.

²³ Jesus answered him, "If any one loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and abide with him. ²⁴ He who loves me not does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine, but is the word of the Father who sent me.

²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, 'The servant is not superior to his Master.' If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

²⁶ "When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father — the Spirit of Truth who goes forth from the Father — he will witness concerning me. ²⁷ And you are witnesses because you have been with me from the beginning."

³³ I have spoken these things to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you have distress. But he courageous. I have conquered the world."

⁶ I have revealed thy name to the men whom thou didst give me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou didst give them to me, and they have kept thy word.

²² When he had said this, he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

¹⁵ In those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren (the company numbered about a hundred and twenty) and said:

³³ Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you see and hear.

¹³ The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus whom you delivered up and disowned before Pilate when he had decided to release him. ¹⁴ You disowned the holy and righteous one and begged to have a murderer granted you.

¹⁴ You disowned the holy and righteous one and begged to have a murderer granted you.

²⁷ Upon their arrival they assembled the church and narrated all that God, working with them, had done, and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

³⁷ But Paul said to them, "After beating us publicly and without a trial, although we are Romans, they cast us into prison. And are they now sending us out secretly? No, let them come themselves and lead us out." ³⁸ The orderlies reported these words to the magistrates. When they heard that they were Romans they were alarmed, ³⁹ and came and begged them, and after leading them out requested them to leave the city.

²³ After spending some time there he set out and went through the Galatian country and Phrygia, place by place, strengthening all the disciples.

²⁸ "Be watchful of yourselves and of all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers. Shepherd the church of God which he bought with his own blood. ²⁹ I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come among you, not sparing the flock. ³⁰ And from among yourselves men will arise speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after themselves. ³¹ Therefore watch, remembering that for three years I never ceased night nor day to exhort each one of you with tears.

⁸ First of all I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is spoken of through all the world.

¹⁷ But if you bear the name of Jew and rely upon the Law, and make your boast in God ¹⁸ and know his will and are a judge of things that differ, because you have been taught out of the Law ¹⁹ and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the unwise, a teacher of the simple, because you have the form of knowledge and of truth in the Law — ²¹ you who are teaching another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal? ²² You who say not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? ²³ You who boast of the Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law?

²⁴ Wretched man that I am! who will deliver me from this body of death?

⁴ But what was the divine response? "I have left to myself seven thousand men who have not knelt to Baal." ⁵ So at this present time there is a remnant according to a gracious selection. ⁶ But if it is by grace it is no longer because of works, for then grace would be no longer grace.

²⁰ Certainly, for lack of faith they were broken off, and you are standing by faith. Do not be proud, but be afraid.

²⁵ I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that you may not be self-conceited, because stupidity in a measure has come upon Israel until the full number of Gentiles comes in,

³ Through the grace given to me I say to every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought, but to think so as to become wise, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.

¹¹ never flagging in zeal, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,

¹² If any one builds on this foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, straw — ¹³ every one's work will become manifest. For the day will show it, because it will be revealed in fire and the fire will test each one's work, of what quality it is.

⁸ You are already fully satisfied. You have already become rich. You have become kings without us. Would that you had become kings so that we might be kings with you! ⁹ For it seems to me that God has set us apostles out last of all as men doomed to death, that we may be a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men. ¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you have glory, but we are despised.

² Do you not know that the holy are going to judge the world? If the world is to be judged by you, are you unfit for the most trivial cases? ³ Do you not know that we are to judge angels, to say nothing of affairs of this life?

²⁵ Every one who contends in the games practices self-restraint in all things. They do it to win a fading crown, but we for an unfading one.

¹³ No trial has taken you but what belongs to human nature. God is faithful and he will not let you be tried beyond your power, but will make, with the trial, a way of escape so that you can endure it.

³² But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined in order that we may not be condemned along with the world.

⁹ for a great and effective door has been opened to me, and there are many opponents.

²² If any one does not love the Lord, let him be accursed! Maran atha!

²⁰ For all the promises of God, however many, have their yes in him. Therefore also through him is the Amen to the glory of God through us.

¹² When I came to Troas for the good news of Christ and a door had been opened for me in the Lord,

³ since if we put that on we shall not be found naked.

⁹ as unknown yet well known, as dying and yet we are living, as chastised yet not put to death,

¹¹ Notice this very grieving as God approves, how great earnestness resulted from it in your case, what effort to defend yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what just punishment! In everything you showed yourselves blameless in the matter.

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

⁸ Regarding this I three times begged the Lord that it might leave me. ⁹ But he has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you; for power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly then will I boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may abide upon me. ¹⁰ Therefore I rejoice in weaknesses, in rough treatment, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

²⁰ For I am afraid that when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and I myself may not be found by you such as you wish. I am afraid that there may be strife, jealousy, anger, rivalry, slanders, whisperings, conceit, disorders.

⁹ recognizing the grace given to me, James, Cephas, and John, who were regarded as pillars, gave the right hand of fellowship to me and Barnabas, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcision.

¹⁸ It is honorable to be courted in an honorable matter always, and not only when I am with you,

²⁶ But the Jerusalem on high is free and she is our mother. ²⁷ For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren one, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who feel no birth pangs! For many are the children of the desolate — more than those of her who has a husband."

²⁰ which he put forth in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his own right hand in the heavenly heights, ²¹ far above every archangel and authority and power and lordship and every name that is named not only in this world but also in the world to come. ²² He put all things under his feet and placed him as head over all for the church, ²³ which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

¹ YOU also God raised to life when you were dead in misdeeds and sins

⁵ even when we were dead in misdeeds, made us alive along with Christ — by grace we have been saved —

¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

¹³ Therefore take the complete armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and, after going through everything, to stand.

⁹ And this is my prayer that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and all insight,

⁹ Therefore, God has highly exalted him and has graciously given him the name which is above every name, ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee may bow, of beings in heaven and those on earth and those under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. ¹² So then, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with reverence and awe. ¹³ For it is God who is working in you both the willing and the doing because of his kindness. ¹⁴ Do everything without murmurings or disputings ¹⁵ that you may be blameless and pure, children of God, spotless in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation among whom you shine as lights in the world, ¹⁶ holding forth the message of life, so that on the day of Christ I can boast that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. ¹⁷ But if I am poured out as a libation on your sacrificial offering of faith, I rejoice and share the joy of you all. ¹⁸ In the same way you must rejoice and share my joy. ¹⁹ But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I may be cheered by knowing about you. ²⁰ For I have no one likeminded with him who will so sincerely care for your interests. ²¹ For all pursue their own aims, not those of Christ Jesus.

³ Yes, I ask you, true yokefellow, help them, since they struggled in spreading the good news along with me and Clement and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life.

⁵ Let your fairness be known to all men. The Lord is near.

¹³ I can do all things through him who gives me strength.

¹⁵ He is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation;

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he may be first in all things,

¹ FOR I wish you to know how I am wrestling for you and for those in Laodicea and for all who have not seen my face in the flesh,

¹³ You who were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh God has made alive with him, and has forgiven us all our sins.

³ Pray along with us and for us that God may open for us a door for the message, so that I may tell the mystery of Christ for the sake of which I am in chains —

¹⁶ When this letter has been read among you, have it read in the church of the Laodiceans, and you are to read the letter that will come from Laodicea.

² For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

⁴ But you, brethren, are not in darkness so that the day can take you like a thief. ⁵ You are all sons of light and sons of day. We do not belong to night or to darkness. ⁶ Then let us not be sleeping like the rest of men, but let us watch and be sober.

³ We ought always to thank God for you, brethren, as is fitting, since your faith is growing greatly and the love of each and all of you toward one another is increasing,

⁵ This is a proof of God's righteous judgment. It is to make you worthy of God's kingdom, on behalf of which you are suffering,

⁶ But the pleasure-loving widow, though living, is already dead.

⁸ If any one does not provide for his own, and especially those of his own household, he has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

¹⁸ They must do good work, be rich in noble deeds, be generous, ready to share,

²⁰ O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, turning away from profane and empty talk and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge."

¹³ Hold to the example of wholesome words which you heard from me in faith and love in Christ Jesus.

⁵ And if any one enters an athletic contest, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

¹² if we endure we shall also be kings with him; if we disown him, he will disown us;

¹ I CHARGE you before God and Christ Jesus, who will soon judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: ² proclaim the message, be at it in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, encourage, with all patience in teaching. ³ For there will be a time when they will not endure wholesome teaching, but following their own fancies and wishing to have their ears tickled, they will get a crowd of teachers. ⁴ They will turn their ears away from the truth and give attention to myths.

⁷ I have played the grand hard game, I have finished my race, I have kept the faith. ⁸ Now the crown of righteousness is awaiting me. The Lord the righteous judge will give it to me on that day, and not only to me but to all those who have loved his appearing.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us to redeem us from all sin and purify us as his own people earnest in honorable work.

¹ FOR this reason we should give special attention to the things that we have heard, so as not to drift away from them.

⁵ and you have forgotten the encouragement which reasons with you as with sons, "My son, do not think slightingly of the discipline of the Lord and be not faint-hearted when reproved by him: ⁶ for whom the Lord loves he disciplines and scourges every son whom he receives as his own." ⁷ It is for discipline that you are enduring. God is laying it upon you as upon sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? ⁸ But if you are without discipline, in which all share, then you are bastards and not sons. ⁹ Besides, we had fathers of our flesh who disciplined us and we used to reverence them. Shall we not much more be submissive to the Father of our spirits and live? ¹⁰ For they for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may share his holiness. ¹¹ All discipline for the time being seems not joyous but grievous, but afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have passed through its training.

²² But you have come to Mount Zion and the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem, to tens of thousands of angels,

⁸ a two-minded man unsteady in all his ways.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has been tested he will gain the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren, did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead.

¹² Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a vine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh water.

⁹ Do not fret at one another, brethren, and then you will not be judged. The Judge is standing before your doors.

⁷ so that your tested faith, much more precious than gold that perishes though tested by fire, may be found to your praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed,

¹¹ inquired and searched, trying to find out what time, or what sort of time, the Spirit of Christ which was in them was disclosing when it witnessed beforehand regarding the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

²² Now that you have made your souls holy by obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, you must love one another steadily from your hearts,

⁷ The end of all things is near. Therefore be serious and sober and give yourselves to prayer.

¹² Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery fury that is among you, which has come to try you, as if some strange thing were happening to you.

³ not lording it over your charges, but becoming examples to the flock. ⁴ Then when the chief Shepherd appears you will be repaid with the never-fading crown of glory.

⁸ Be sober, watch. Your enemy the Devil, like a roaring lion, goes about seeking some one to devour.

⁹ But he who lacks these is blind, dim-sighted, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.

¹³ I think it right so long as I am in this tent to arouse you by reminding you,

⁹ the Lord knows how to rescue the pious from trial and how to keep the wicked under punishment for the day of judgment,

¹ THIS second letter, beloved, I am writing you. In both I have tried, by awakening your memory,

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise and the burning elements will be dissolved and the earth and the things in it will not be found.

¹³ I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have conquered the Evil One. I have written to you, little children, because you have come to know the Father. ¹⁴ I have written to you, fathers, because you have come to know him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong and the message of God remains in you and you have conquered the Evil One.

²⁰ You have an anointing from the Holy One and you all know. ²¹ I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it and know that no lie is from the truth. ²² Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the Antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

²² Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the Antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. ²³ No one who denies the Son has the Father either. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

²³ No one who denies the Son has the Father either. He who confesses the Son has the Father also. ²⁴ Let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. ²⁵ And this is the promise that he has promised us — the life eternal. ²⁶ I am writing this to you in regard to those who are misleading you. ²⁷ But as for you, the anointing that you have received from him remains in you and you have no need for any one to teach you, but as his anointing teaches you about all things and is true and is no lie and as it has taught you, you must remain in him.

⁴ But you are of God, little children, and have conquered them, because he who is in us is greater than he who is in the world.

⁴ because all that is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. ⁵ Who is the conqueror of the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true and in his Son, Jesus Christ. This is the true God and life eternal.

⁴ For certain persons have crept in, who of old were written of as predestined to this doom, godless, changing the grace of our God into profligacy and disowning our only Ruler and Lord, Jesus Christ.

¹² These are the hidden reefs in your love-feasts while they feast freely with you without fear, shepherds who care only for themselves, waterless clouds driven by winds, trees in autumn fruitless, twice dead, uprooted,

²³ pull them out of the fire and save them. Others pity with fear, hating even the tunic spotted by the flesh. ²⁴ To him who is able to guard you from falling and to make you stand faultless before his glory in great joy,

³ Blessed is he who reads, and blessed are those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep in mind what is written in it; for the time is near. ⁴ John to the seven Churches in Asia: Grace be to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood, ⁶ and made us a kingdom, priests to God his Father, to him be glory and power for the ages of the ages! Amen.

⁹ I, John, your brother and fellow sharer in the distresses and the kingdom and the endurance in Jesus, came to the island called Patmos, for the sake of the message of God and the testimony of Jesus.

¹¹ saying, "What you see write in a book, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea."

¹⁶ He had in his right hand seven stars, and from his mouth there issued a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in full strength.

¹⁸ and the living one. I became dead, but now I am living for the ages of the ages, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

²⁰ the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are seven churches.

¹ "To the Angel of the Church in Ephesus write: "These things says he who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks in the midst of the seven golden lamp-stands: ² I know your works and your labor and your endurance, and that you cannot bear wicked people, and you have tried those who say that they are apostles though they are not, and you have found them liars.

⁴ But I have this against you, that you have lost your first love. ⁵ Remember then from where you have fallen, and repent and do your former works. Otherwise I am coming to you and will move your lampstand from its place, if you do not repent.

⁷ Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.

⁹ I know your distress and poverty, but you are rich, and I know the profane words from those who say that they are Jews though they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. ¹⁰ Do not fear what you are soon to suffer. The Devil will soon cast some of you into prison so that you may be tested, and you will have distress ten days. Be faithful to death and I will give you the crown of life. ¹¹ Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.

¹³ I know where you live, where the throne of Satan is. Yet you are holding fast my name and did not disown faith in me even in the days when Antipas, my faithful witness, was killed beside you where Satan lives.

¹⁷ Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

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

²¹ I gave her time to repent, but she will not repent of her unchastity. ²² See, I will cast her into a bed and those who commit adultery with her into great distress, unless they repent of their deeds,

²⁵ But hold fast what you have until I come. ²⁶ He who conquers and keeps my commands to the end — I will give him authority over the nations, ²⁷ and he will shepherd them with a rod of iron, as earthenware is broken to pieces, just as I also have received from my Father.

¹ "To the Angel of the Church in Sardis write: "These things says he who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: "I know your deeds, that you have the name of being alive, but are dead.

³ Remember, then, how you have received and heard, and give attention and repent. Unless you watch, I will come like a thief and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you. ⁴ But you have a few names in Sardis which have not stained their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

⁴ But you have a few names in Sardis which have not stained their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy. ⁵ He who conquers shall be thus clothed in white garments, and I will not erase his name from the book of life, but will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

⁵ He who conquers shall be thus clothed in white garments, and I will not erase his name from the book of life, but will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. ⁶ Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ⁷ "To the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia write: "These things says the Holy, the True, he who has the key of David, who opens and no one shuts and who shuts and no one opens:

¹⁰ Because you have kept my command of patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which is about to come on all the world, to try the inhabitants of the earth. ¹¹ I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may take your crown.

¹³ Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ¹⁴ "To the Angel of the Church in Laodicea write: "These things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: ¹⁵ "I know your deeds — that you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot!

¹⁷ Because you say, 'I am rich and have grown wealthy and lack nothing,' and do not know that you are wretched and pitiable and poor and blind and naked, ¹⁸ I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments to put on, so that the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. ¹⁹ All that I love I rebuke and discipline. Be earnest, then, and repent.

⁴ Around the throne I saw twenty-four thrones and on these thrones twenty-four elders seated, clothed in white garments and with golden crowns on their heads. ⁵ From the throne issued lightnings and voices and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne. These are the seven Spirits of God.

⁸ The four living creatures have each six wings, and around and within they are full of eyes. They cease not saying day and night, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come."

¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for the ages of the ages, and they cast their crowns before the throne saying,

³ But no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look into it. ⁴ I wept much because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look into it. ⁵ Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep. The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered and can open the book and its seven seals."

⁵ Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep. The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered and can open the book and its seven seals." ⁶ Then I saw midway between the throne and the four living creatures and the elders a Lamb standing. He seemed as if he had been slain. He had seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

⁶ Then I saw midway between the throne and the four living creatures and the elders a Lamb standing. He seemed as if he had been slain. He had seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. ⁷ He came and took the book from the right hand of him who was sitting on the throne. ⁸ When he took the book the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp and a golden bowl full of incense, which is the prayers of the holy. ⁹ Then they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and didst ransom for God by thy blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

² I looked and there came a white horse, and he who was sitting on it had a bow, and a crown was given to him and he went forth conquering and to conquer.

¹⁰ They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Ruler holy and true, wilt thou delay to judge and take vengeance for our blood upon those who dwell on the earth?" ¹¹ To each of them a white robe was given, and it was said to them that they must wait quietly yet a little while until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren was complete, who were yet to be killed as they had been.

⁹ After this I looked and there was a great multitude which no one could count, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb clothed in white robes and with palms in their hands,

¹³ Then one of the elders spoke to me and said, "These who wear the white robes — who are they and where have they come from?"

¹³ Then one of the elders spoke to me and said, "These who wear the white robes — who are they and where have they come from?" ¹⁴ I said to him, "My Lord, you know." He said to me, "These have come out of the great distress and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹⁷ for the Lamb who is in the center before the throne will be their shepherd and will lead them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

¹³ Then I looked and I heard an eagle that was flying in mid-heaven say with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe to those who are living on the earth, because of the rest of the trumpet-blasts which the three angels are soon to sound!"

¹⁰ Those who live on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and send gifts to one another, because the two prophets tormented those who live on the earth."

¹³ At that hour occurred a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell and seven thousand men were killed by the earthquake. The rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

¹¹ But they have conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of testimony to him, and they loved not their lives even to death.

⁸ All the inhabitants of the earth will worship him, all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the slain Iamb's Book of Life.

¹⁰ If any one is destined to captivity, into captivity he will go. If any one is to be killed by the sword, by the sword must he be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the holy.

¹⁴ It leads astray the inhabitants of the earth because of the signs which it has been granted power to do in the presence of the Beast. It tells the inhabitants of the earth to make an image of the Beast which was wounded by the sword, yet lived.

¹ THEN I looked and there was a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and the name of his Father written on their fore-heads.

¹² Here is the endurance of the holy who keep the commands of God and the faith of Jesus.

³ They were singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb, saying: "Great and wonderful are thy works, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are thy ways, O King of the nations.

⁷ Then I heard the altar saying, "Yes, O Lord God Almighty, true and just are thy judgments."

¹⁵ ( "I am coming like a thief. Blessed is he who is watching and keeping his garments so that he may not go naked and people see his shame!")

⁸ The Beast which you saw was and is not and will soon come up out of the abyss and go into destruction. And the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life will be amazed when they see the Beast that was and is not and will be.

¹⁴ They will make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings. They who are with him, called and chosen and faithful, will also conquer."

² for true and just are his judgments. He has judged the great prostitute who was corrupting the earth with her lewdness and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants."

⁸ and it has been granted to her to be clothed in fine linen shining and pure." For the fine linen is the righteous acts of the holy. ⁹ Then he said to me, "Write: Blessed are they who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!" He said to me, "These are the true words of God."

¹¹ Then I saw heaven open and there was a white horse, and he who was sitting on it was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.

¹⁴ The armies that are in heaven follow him on white horses clothed in fine linen white and clean.

⁴ Then I saw thrones, and men took their seats on them and the power to judge was granted to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for God's message, and who had not worshiped the Beast nor his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. They lived and reigned as kings with Christ a thousand years,

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

¹⁵ If any one was not found written in the Book of Life he was flung into the lake of fire.

² I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

⁵ He who was sitting on the throne said, "See, I am making all things new." He said, "Write; for these words are trustworthy and true." ⁶ He said to me, "They have come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To him who is thirsting I will give from the spring of the water of life freely.

¹⁰ Then he carried me in Spirit to the top of a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, ¹¹ having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like that of a most precious stone, like crystalline jasper. ¹² She had a wall great and high, and she had twelve gates and at the gates twelve angels, and there were names written upon the gates. They are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. ¹³ On the east were three gates and on the north three gates and on the south three gates and on the west three gates. ¹⁴ The wall of the city had twelve foundations and upon them were twelve names, the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ He who was speaking with me had a golden reed as a measure, to measure the city and her gates and her wall. ¹⁶ The city stands foursquare and the length is the same as the breadth. He measured the city with the reed. It extends twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. ¹⁷ He measured the wall of it, a hundred and forty-four cubits by human measure, which is also that of an angel. ¹⁸ The material of the wall of it was jasper and the city was pure gold like clear glass. ¹⁹ The foundations of the wall of the city were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, ²⁰ the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. ²¹ The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold like transparent glass. ²² I saw no temple in it; for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. ²³ And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it; for the glory of God illumines it and the Lamb is its light. ²⁴ The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, ²⁵ and its gates will not be closed by day, and there will be no night there. ²⁶ They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. ²⁷ But there will not enter into it anything unholy or any one who makes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

²⁷ But there will not enter into it anything unholy or any one who makes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

⁴ They will see his face and his name will be on their foreheads.

⁶ Then he said to me, "These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets has sent his angel to show to his servants what must soon come to pass. ⁷ I am coming soon. Blessed is he who is keeping the words of the prophecy of this book."

¹² I am coming soon and my reward is with me, to pay each in full as his work is. ¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

¹⁹ and if any one takes away anything from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written of in this book. ²⁰ He who bears this testimony says, "Yes, I am coming soon." Amen, come, Lord Jesus.