Matthew 24 Cross References - WPNT

¹ So as Jesus was going out, departing from the temple, His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. ² But Jesus said to them: “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly I say to you, absolutely not a single stone here will be left upon another, that will not be thrown down.” ³ Now as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives the disciples came to Him privately saying: “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming and of the completion of the age?” ⁴ So in answer Jesus said to them: “Watch out, so that no one deceives you. ⁵ Because many will come in my name saying, ‘I am the Christ’, and they will deceive many. ⁶ You will be concerned when you hear of wars and rumors of wars; see to it that you not get worked up; for all of it has to happen, but the end is not yet. ⁷ For nation will be raised up against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in various places; ⁸ but all these things are only a beginning of birth pains. ⁹ “Then they will hand you over to oppression and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. ¹⁰ And then many will be offended, and they will betray one another and will hate one another. ¹¹ And many false prophets will be raised up and they will deceive many. ¹² And because of the increase of the lawlessness the love of the majority will grow cold. ¹³ So the one who perseveres to the end, he will be saved. ¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in the whole inhabited earth as a witness to all the ethnic nations, and then the end will come. ¹⁵ “So then, when you (ye) see the ‘abomination of desolation’, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (let the reader understand), ¹⁶ “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. ¹⁷ Anyone on the housetop should not go down to take things out of his house, ¹⁸ and anyone in the field should not go back to get his cloak. ¹⁹ But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing a baby in those days! ²⁰ And pray that your flight may not happen in winter or on a Sabbath. ²¹ Because then there will be a great tribulation, such as has never been since the beginning of the world until now, and never again will be. ²² And unless those days were cut short no flesh would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. ²³ Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, the Messiah is here!’ or ‘there!’ don’t believe him. ²⁴ Because false christs and false prophets will be raised up, and they will give great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect. ²⁵ See, I have told you beforehand. ²⁶ So if they should say to you, ‘Look, He is in the wilderness!’ don’t go out; ‘Look, in the secret rooms!’ don’t believe it. ²⁷ Because just as the lightning comes from east and shines to west, so also will be the coming of the Son of the Man; ²⁸ for wherever the carcass may be there will be a gathering of vultures. ²⁹ “Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ³⁰ And then the sign of the Son of the Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn —they will see the Son of the Man coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and great glory. ³¹ And He will send out His angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they will collect His elect from the four winds, from one extreme of the heavens to the other. ³² “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and it puts forth leaves, you know that the summer is near. ³³ So you also, whenever you see all these things, know that it is near, at the doors! ³⁴ Assuredly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things happen. ³⁵ The heaven and the earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. ³⁶ “But no one knows concerning that day and hour, not even the angels of the heavens, except my Father alone. ³⁷ But just as were the days of Noah, so also will be the coming of the Son of the Man. ³⁸ For just as they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, in the days before the flood until the day that Noah entered the ark, ³⁹ and were not aware until the flood came and took all away, so also will be the coming of the Son of the Man. ⁴⁰ Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left. ⁴¹ Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and the other will be left. ⁴² So be watchful, because you (pl) do not know in what hour your Lord is coming. ⁴³ But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁴ Therefore you also be ready, because the Son of the Man is coming at an hour that you do not suppose. ⁴⁵ “Who then is the faithful and prudent servant whom his lord placed over his corps of servants to give them food on schedule? ⁴⁶ Blessed be that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find doing so. ⁴⁷ Assuredly I say to you that he will place him over all his possessions. ⁴⁸ But if that bad servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his return’, ⁴⁹ and should begin to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, ⁵⁰ the lord of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour when he is not aware, ⁵¹ and will cut him in two and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

¹ Now in those days John the Baptist began preaching in the wilderness of Judea

²³ Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the Gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every illness among the people.

¹⁸ For assuredly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one iota nor one tittle shall pass away from the Law until everything happens.

²⁵ Therefore, I say to you not to worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

¹⁵ “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

²⁴ “Therefore whoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will compare him to a prudent man who built his house on the bedrock;

¹² but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the darkness farthest away. There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

²⁰ So Jesus says to him, “The foxes have dens and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of the Man does not have where He may lay His head”.

³⁵ Then Jesus went around to all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every illness among the people.

⁷ And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of the heavens has come near’.

¹⁶ “Now then, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be prudent like snakes and innocent like doves. ¹⁷ But beware of the people, for they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues. ¹⁸ And you will be brought before governors and even kings for my sake, as a testimony to them and to the nations. ¹⁹ But whenever they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you will speak, for it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; ²⁰ for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. ²¹ “Furthermore, brother will hand over brother to death, and a father a child, and children will rise up against parents and put them to death.

²¹ “Furthermore, brother will hand over brother to death, and a father a child, and children will rise up against parents and put them to death. ²² And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake; but the one enduring to the end, he will be delivered.

²² And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake; but the one enduring to the end, he will be delivered.

²⁷ “What I tell you in the dark, say in the light; and what you hear in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

³⁵ For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; ³⁶ and a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.

⁶ And, blessed be whoever is not offended at Me!”

⁴⁵ Then he goes and takes along with himself seven different spirits, more malignant than himself, and going in he dwells there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Just so it will be for this malignant generation also.”

¹⁰ And the disciples approached and said to Him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” ¹¹ So in answer He said to them: “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it has not been given.

¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, that seeing they not see and hearing they not hear nor understand. ¹⁴ And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘By hearing you (ye) will hear and not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive. ¹⁵ Because the \up6 a\up0 hearts of this people have grown dull, and their \up6 b\up0 ears hard of hearing, and their \up6 c\up0 eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their \up6 c\up0 eyes and hear with their \up6 b\up0 ears and understand with their \up6 a\up0 hearts, and turn around; and I would heal them.’

²¹ but he has no root in himself and is short-lived; for when trial or persecution comes because of the word, directly he is offended.

³⁶ Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples approached Him saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field”.

³⁹ The enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. ⁴⁰ Therefore just as the tares are gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of this age. ⁴¹ The Son of the Man will send out His angels, and they will collect out of His kingdom everything that is offensive, and those who perpetrate lawlessness;

⁴⁹ So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come forth and will separate the malignant out from among the righteous,

⁵² So He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been discipled into the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a householder, who brings out of his reservoir things new and old.”

⁵⁷ So they were offended at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house”.

¹² Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do you know that upon hearing this saying the Pharisees were offended?”

²⁷ For the Son of the Man will certainly come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will recompense each according to his performance. ²⁸ Assuredly I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of the Man coming in His kingdom.”

²⁸ Assuredly I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of the Man coming in His kingdom.”

¹⁹ Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why were we not able to cast it out?”

¹⁹ Assuredly again, I say to you that if two of you should agree on earth about any subject whatever that they may ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.

³² Then summoning him the lord says to him: ‘Malignant servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

¹¹ When they received it they began grumbling against the landowner

¹ Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethsphage, opposite the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

²³ So He came into the temple, and as He was teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people approached Him saying, “By what kind of authority are you doing these things ?” and “Who gave you this authority?”

⁶ But the rest, seizing his servants mistreated and killed them!

¹³ Then the king said to the servants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot, take him away and throw him out into the darkness farthest away’. There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ¹⁴ For many are called, but few chosen.”

³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.

³⁴ So take note: I will send you prophets and wise men and Biblical scholars; some of them you will kill, even crucify; some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from city to city

³⁶ Assuredly I say to you that all these things will come upon this generation.

³⁹ For I say to you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD’!”

³ Now as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives the disciples came to Him privately saying: “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming and of the completion of the age?”

⁵ Because many will come in my name saying, ‘I am the Christ’, and they will deceive many. ⁶ You will be concerned when you hear of wars and rumors of wars; see to it that you not get worked up; for all of it has to happen, but the end is not yet.

⁸ but all these things are only a beginning of birth pains.

¹¹ And many false prophets will be raised up and they will deceive many.

¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in the whole inhabited earth as a witness to all the ethnic nations, and then the end will come.

²¹ Because then there will be a great tribulation, such as has never been since the beginning of the world until now, and never again will be. ²² And unless those days were cut short no flesh would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

²⁴ Because false christs and false prophets will be raised up, and they will give great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

²⁷ Because just as the lightning comes from east and shines to west, so also will be the coming of the Son of the Man;

²⁹ “Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

³¹ And He will send out His angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they will collect His elect from the four winds, from one extreme of the heavens to the other. ³² “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and it puts forth leaves, you know that the summer is near. ³³ So you also, whenever you see all these things, know that it is near, at the doors!

³⁶ “But no one knows concerning that day and hour, not even the angels of the heavens, except my Father alone. ³⁷ But just as were the days of Noah, so also will be the coming of the Son of the Man.

³⁹ and were not aware until the flood came and took all away, so also will be the coming of the Son of the Man.

⁴² So be watchful, because you (pl) do not know in what hour your Lord is coming.

⁴² So be watchful, because you (pl) do not know in what hour your Lord is coming. ⁴³ But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into.

⁴³ But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁴ Therefore you also be ready, because the Son of the Man is coming at an hour that you do not suppose.

⁴⁴ Therefore you also be ready, because the Son of the Man is coming at an hour that you do not suppose.

² Now five of them were prudent and five foolish.

¹⁰ But while they went to buy, the bridegroom arrived, and the ones who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast—and the door was shut!

¹³ Therefore, keep alert, because you do not know the day nor the hour in which the Son of the Man is coming.

²¹ His lord said to him: ‘Super, you good and faithful servant! You were faithful over a few things, I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

²³ His lord said to him: ‘Super, you good and faithful servant! You were faithful over a few things, I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

²⁶ So in answer his lord said to him: ‘You wicked and lazy servant! You knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter.

³⁰ And throw out the useless servant, into the darkness farthest out!’ There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ³¹ “When the Son of the Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on His throne of glory.

³⁴ Then the King will say to those on His right: ‘Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom that was prepared for you at the foundation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; ³⁶ I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me.’ ³⁷ Then the righteous will answer Him saying: ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? ³⁸ When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? ³⁹ Or when did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?’ ⁴⁰ And in answer the King will say to them, ‘Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

²¹ And as they were eating He said, “Assuredly I say to you that one of you will betray me”. ²² This really upset them and they each began to say to Him, “It’s not me is it, Lord?” ²³ In answer He said: “It’s the one who dipped his hand in the bowl with me, he will betray me. ²⁴ The Son of the Man is really going just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of the Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man not to have been born.”

³¹ Then Jesus says to them: “All of you will be caused to stumble because of me this night, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered’. ³² But after I am raised I will go before you to Galilee.” ³³ Peter answered and said to Him, “Even if everyone else is caused to stumble because of you, I will never be caused to stumble”. ³⁴ Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I say to you that this night, before any rooster crows, you will deny me three times”.

³⁸ Then Jesus says to them: “My soul is in anguish, to the point of death. Stay here and watch with me.” ³⁹ And going a little farther He fell on His face and prayed saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me by; nevertheless not as I wish, but as you do”. ⁴⁰ Then He comes to the disciples and finds them sleeping, and He says to Peter: “So, you (pl.) were not able to watch with me one hour! ⁴¹ Watch and pray, so that you do not enter into temptation. The spirit on its part is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

⁵⁴ But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it has to happen this way?”

⁶⁴ Jesus says to him: “You said it. Furthermore, I tell you, hereafter you will see the Son of the Man sitting at the Power’s right, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

¹⁸ And approaching Jesus asserted to them saying: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

²⁰ teaching them to obey everything that I commanded you; and take note, I am with you every day, until the end of the age!” Amen.

¹⁷ but since they have no root in themselves they are temporary—when oppression or persecution comes because of the Word, they quickly fall away.

²¹ Because from within, out of men’s hearts, the evil designs proceed—adulteries, fornications, murders,

¹ Then as He was going out from the temple, one of His disciples said to Him: “Teacher, just look! Such stones, such buildings!” ² In answer Jesus said to him: “Do you see these great buildings? Here not a single stone will be left upon another; every one will be thrown down.” ³ Then as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew asked Him privately:

³ Then as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew asked Him privately: ⁴ “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign whenever all these things are about to be fulfilled?”

⁴ “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign whenever all these things are about to be fulfilled?”

⁴ “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign whenever all these things are about to be fulfilled?” ⁵ So by way of an answer to them Jesus began by saying: “Take care that no one deceives you.

⁵ So by way of an answer to them Jesus began by saying: “Take care that no one deceives you. ⁶ Because many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he’, and will deceive many.

⁶ Because many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he’, and will deceive many. ⁷ But whenever you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don’t let it distress you; because happen they must, but the end is not yet.

⁷ But whenever you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don’t let it distress you; because happen they must, but the end is not yet. ⁸ Because nation will be raised against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and tumults. These things are the beginning of birth pangs.

⁸ Because nation will be raised against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and tumults. These things are the beginning of birth pangs. ⁹ “But watch out for yourselves, because they will deliver you up to councils and flog you in synagogues, and you will be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them.

⁹ “But watch out for yourselves, because they will deliver you up to councils and flog you in synagogues, and you will be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them.

⁹ “But watch out for yourselves, because they will deliver you up to councils and flog you in synagogues, and you will be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them. ¹⁰ Also, the Gospel must first be proclaimed to all the ethnic nations.

¹⁰ Also, the Gospel must first be proclaimed to all the ethnic nations. ¹¹ Now whenever they lead you away and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand nor premeditate what you will say; rather, whatever is given to you in that hour, speak that, because it will not be you doing the speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

¹¹ Now whenever they lead you away and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand nor premeditate what you will say; rather, whatever is given to you in that hour, speak that, because it will not be you doing the speaking, but the Holy Spirit. ¹² “Further, brother will betray brother to death and a father his child, and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

¹² “Further, brother will betray brother to death and a father his child, and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

¹² “Further, brother will betray brother to death and a father his child, and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. ¹³ And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake, yet he who endures to the end, he will be saved.

¹³ And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake, yet he who endures to the end, he will be saved.

¹³ And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake, yet he who endures to the end, he will be saved. ¹⁴ “Now whenever you see the ‘abomination of desolation’, the one spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where he should not”—let the reader understand—“then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

¹⁴ “Now whenever you see the ‘abomination of desolation’, the one spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where he should not”—let the reader understand—“then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. ¹⁵ Let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter to take anything out of his house.

¹⁵ Let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter to take anything out of his house. ¹⁶ Let him who is in the field not return to his things to get his cloak.

¹⁶ Let him who is in the field not return to his things to get his cloak. ¹⁷ But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

¹⁷ But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! ¹⁸ And pray that your flight not take place in winter,

¹⁸ And pray that your flight not take place in winter, ¹⁹ because those will be days of affliction such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never again shall be. ²⁰ If the Lord did not cut those days short, no one would be saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He did shorten the days.

²⁰ If the Lord did not cut those days short, no one would be saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He did shorten the days. ²¹ “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’, ‘Look, there!’, do not believe it;

²¹ “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’, ‘Look, there!’, do not believe it; ²² because false christs and false prophets will be raised up, and they will show signs and wonders so as to even mislead the elect, if that were possible.

²² because false christs and false prophets will be raised up, and they will show signs and wonders so as to even mislead the elect, if that were possible. ²³ So you watch out! See, I have told you everything in advance. ²⁴ “But in those days, after that tribulation, ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;

²⁴ “But in those days, after that tribulation, ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; ²⁵ the stars of heaven will be falling, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken’.

²⁵ the stars of heaven will be falling, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken’. ²⁶ And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

²⁶ And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. ²⁷ And then He will send His angels and gather together His elect from the four winds, from earth’s extreme point to heaven’s extreme point.

²⁷ And then He will send His angels and gather together His elect from the four winds, from earth’s extreme point to heaven’s extreme point. ²⁸ “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: whenever its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, one knows that the summer is near.

²⁸ “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: whenever its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, one knows that the summer is near. ²⁹ Even so you also, whenever you see these things happening, know that it is near—at the doors!

²⁹ Even so you also, whenever you see these things happening, know that it is near—at the doors! ³⁰ Assuredly I tell you that this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things happen.

³⁰ Assuredly I tell you that this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things happen. ³¹ The heaven and the earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away.

³¹ The heaven and the earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away. ³² “Now concerning that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels who are in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father.

³² “Now concerning that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels who are in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father. ³³ Watch! Keep alert! Pray! Because you do not know when that time will be. ³⁴ It is like a man off on a journey, having left his house and given the authority to his slaves, and to each his work; and he commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. ³⁵ Therefore be watchful, because you do not know when the master of the house is coming—at evening or at midnight or at cockcrow or early morning— ³⁶ lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. ³⁷ The things I say to you, I say to all: Watch!”

⁶² So Jesus said: “I am, and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of the heaven.” ⁶³ Then the high priest tore his clothes and said: “What further need do we have of witnesses? ⁶⁴ You heard the blasphemy! What do you think?” They all condemned Him to be deserving of death.

¹⁵ Then He said to them: “Go to the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to all creation. ¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.

¹ Now it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole inhabited world should be enrolled.

² during the high priesthood of Annas (also Caiaphas), the word of God came upon John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. ³ So he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins;

⁵ Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

¹⁹ When they could not find how to do it, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him with the cot through the tiling into the center, in front of Jesus.

¹⁵ But that on the good ground: these are the ones who having heard the word with a noble and good heart, hold on to it and produce fruit with perseverance.”

⁴⁹ Also, because of this ‘the wisdom of God’ said: ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute’, ⁵⁰ so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

³ Therefore whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the ear behind closed doors will be proclaimed from the housetops.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and enjoy yourself!’

³⁵ “Let your waists be belted and your lamps burning, ³⁶ and you yourselves like men waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately. ³⁷ Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find watching when he comes. Assuredly I say to you that he will gird himself and have them recline, and will come and serve them.

³⁷ Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find watching when he comes. Assuredly I say to you that he will gird himself and have them recline, and will come and serve them. ³⁸ And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those slaves. ³⁹ But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and not allowed his house to be broken into.

³⁹ But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and not allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁰ Therefore you also be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

⁴⁰ Therefore you also be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” ⁴¹ Then Peter said to Him, “Lord, are you directing this parable to us, or to everyone?” ⁴² So the Lord said: “Who then is the faithful and prudent steward whom his master will place over his household to give them the food allowance at the right time? ⁴³ Blessed is that slave whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

⁴³ Blessed is that slave whom his master will find so doing when he comes. ⁴⁴ I tell you truly that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. ⁴⁵ But if that servant should say in his heart, ‘My master won’t come for a while’, and should begin to hit the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, ⁴⁶ the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.

²⁸ “There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, but you yourselves being thrown out.

¹⁸ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him: ‘I bought a field, and I need to go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’ ¹⁹ Another said: ‘I bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’ ²⁰ Yet another said, ‘I have married a wife, and so I can’t come’.

¹⁰ He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. ¹¹ If therefore you have not been faithful with the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the genuine? ¹² And if you have not been faithful in what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?

²³ And they will say to you, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Do not go along or follow. ²⁴ Because just like the lightning that lights the whole sky when it flashes, so also will the Son of Man be in His day.

²⁴ Because just like the lightning that lights the whole sky when it flashes, so also will the Son of Man be in His day. ²⁵ But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. ²⁶ Also, just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of Man.

²⁶ Also, just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of Man.

²⁶ Also, just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷ They were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

²⁷ They were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

²⁷ They were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building—

²⁸ Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building— ²⁹ but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and brimstone rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. ³¹ “In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to get them; and likewise he who is in the field, let him not turn back.

³¹ “In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to get them; and likewise he who is in the field, let him not turn back. ³² Remember Lot’s wife!

³² Remember Lot’s wife! ³³ Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever ‘wastes’ it will preserve it.

³³ Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever ‘wastes’ it will preserve it. ³⁴ I tell you: on that night there will be two men in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. ³⁵ Two women will be grinding together; one will be taken and the other left.”

³⁵ Two women will be grinding together; one will be taken and the other left.” ³⁶ - - -³⁷ They reacted by saying to Him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where there is a carcass, there will the vultures also be gathered.”

³⁷ They reacted by saying to Him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where there is a carcass, there will the vultures also be gathered.”

⁷ And will not God get justice for His elect who are crying out to Him day and night, indeed being patient with them?

¹⁷ He said to him: ‘Super, you good slave! Because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities!’

²² So he said to him: ‘I will judge you out of your own mouth, you wicked slave! You knew that I am a hard man, removing what I didn’t place, and reaping what I didn’t sow.

⁴³ Yes, the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you; indeed they will surround you and hem you in on every side.

⁴³ Yes, the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you; indeed they will surround you and hem you in on every side. ⁴⁴ And they will raze you, and your children within you, to the ground—they will not leave in you one stone upon another—all because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

⁴⁴ And they will raze you, and your children within you, to the ground—they will not leave in you one stone upon another—all because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

⁵ Then, as some were admiring the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and donations, He said, ⁶ “These things that you see—the days will come in which not one stone will be left upon another that will not be thrown down.” ⁷ So they asked Him, saying: “Teacher, so when will these things be?” and “What will be the sign when these things are about to happen?”

⁷ So they asked Him, saying: “Teacher, so when will these things be?” and “What will be the sign when these things are about to happen?” ⁸ So He said: “Be careful, so as not to be deceived, because many will come in my name saying: ‘I am’ and ‘The time is at hand’. Therefore do not go after them.

⁸ So He said: “Be careful, so as not to be deceived, because many will come in my name saying: ‘I am’ and ‘The time is at hand’. Therefore do not go after them. ⁹ But whenever you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified; because these things must happen first, but the end will not come right away.”

⁹ But whenever you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified; because these things must happen first, but the end will not come right away.” ¹⁰ Then He said to them: “Nation will be raised up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. ¹¹ And there will be severe earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful events and great signs from heaven.

¹¹ And there will be severe earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful events and great signs from heaven. ¹² But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors on account of my name.

¹² But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors on account of my name. ¹³ But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony.

¹³ But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony. ¹⁴ So settle it in your hearts not to practice giving a defense beforehand; ¹⁵ because I will give you a mouth and wisdom such that all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or withstand. ¹⁶ You will be betrayed even by parents and relatives, friends and ‘brothers’; and they will put some of you to death.

¹⁶ You will be betrayed even by parents and relatives, friends and ‘brothers’; and they will put some of you to death.

¹⁶ You will be betrayed even by parents and relatives, friends and ‘brothers’; and they will put some of you to death. ¹⁷ And you will be hated by all because of my name.

¹⁷ And you will be hated by all because of my name. ¹⁸ (Not even one hair of your head will be wasted ¹⁹ —you must secure your souls by your endurance.)

¹⁹ —you must secure your souls by your endurance.) ²⁰ “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that her desolation is at hand.

²⁰ “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that her desolation is at hand. ²¹ Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains; let those who are in the city get out, and let those who are in the country not enter her.

²¹ Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains; let those who are in the city get out, and let those who are in the country not enter her. ²² Because these are days of vengeance, that all the written things may be fulfilled.

²² Because these are days of vengeance, that all the written things may be fulfilled. ²³ But woe to those who are pregnant and to those nursing babies in those days! There will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.

²³ But woe to those who are pregnant and to those nursing babies in those days! There will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people. ²⁴ Yes, they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

²⁴ Yes, they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. ²⁵ “There will be signs in sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, at the roaring and tossing of the sea;

²⁵ “There will be signs in sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, at the roaring and tossing of the sea; ²⁶ men fainting from fear and expectation of the things coming on the inhabited earth—because the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

²⁶ men fainting from fear and expectation of the things coming on the inhabited earth—because the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ²⁷ Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

²⁷ Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. ²⁸ Now when these things begin to happen, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” ²⁹ Then He told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees.

²⁹ Then He told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees. ³⁰ Whenever they are already budding, you see and know by yourselves that summer is now near.

³⁰ Whenever they are already budding, you see and know by yourselves that summer is now near. ³¹ So you also, whenever you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near. ³² I tell you assuredly, this generation will certainly not pass away until all has happened.

³² I tell you assuredly, this generation will certainly not pass away until all has happened. ³³ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

³³ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away. ³⁴ “But keep a watch on yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness, and cares of life, and that Day come upon you suddenly.

³⁴ “But keep a watch on yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness, and cares of life, and that Day come upon you suddenly. ³⁵ Because it will come like a trap upon all those who dwell on the surface of the whole earth. ³⁶ So be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that are about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”

³⁶ So be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that are about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”

²⁹ And I bestow on you a kingdom, just as my Father bestowed one on me, ³⁰ so that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom; also you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel!”

³⁷ Because I say to you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘And he was classed with the lawless’; and because the things concerning me have an end.”

⁶⁹ Hereafter the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

²⁹ Because indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, even the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ ³⁰ Then they will begin ‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’

³⁹ Then one of the hanged criminals started berating Him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!” ⁴⁰ But the other reacted and rebuked him, saying: “Don’t you even fear God, since you are under the same condemnation? ⁴¹ And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward for our deeds; but this man did nothing wrong.” ⁴² Then he said to Jesus, “Please remember me, Lord, when you come in your kingdom”. ⁴³ Jesus said to him, “I tell you assuredly, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

⁴⁷ and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

²⁰ So the Jews said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and you will raise it in three days?!”

²⁰ For whoever practices evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light so that his deeds may not be exposed.

⁴³ I have come in my Father’s name and you do not receive me; should another come in his own name, him you will receive.

³⁷ All that the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will not throw out;

³⁹ Now this is the will of the Father who sent me, that I should lose nothing out of all that He has given me, but should raise it up at the last day.

⁶⁰ Therefore, upon hearing this many from among His disciples said, “This word is hard! Who is able to hear it?” ⁶¹ So Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were complaining about this, said to them, “Does this offend you?

⁶⁶ From that time many of His disciples turned back and stopped going around with Him. ⁶⁷ So Jesus said to the twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you?”

²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they will never ever be wasted; and no one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch out of my Father’s hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.”

⁴⁸ if we let him go on like this everybody will believe into him; and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation!”

⁵² and not only on behalf of the nation, but also to gather into one all the scattered children of God.)

²⁶ If anyone would serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, my servant will be too. Further, if anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

² And after supper (the devil already having put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him),

¹ “Do not let your (pl) heart be distressed; you believe into God and you believe into me.

²⁷ “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you; it’s not like the world gives that I give to you. Do not let your heart be distressed or intimidated.

¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would be fond of its own. So because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, that’s why the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his owner.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

¹ “I have spoken these things to you to avoid your being caused to stumble ² —they will excommunicate you; indeed, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering God service!

¹⁵ So, when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He says to Him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I’m fond of you.” He says to him, “Feed my lambs.” ¹⁶ He says to him again, a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He says to Him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I’m fond of you.” He says to him, “Shepherd my sheep.” ¹⁷ The third time He says to him, “Simon, son of Jonah, are you fond of me?” Peter was grieved in that the third time He said to him, “Are you fond of me?” and said to Him: “Lord, you know all things. You know that I’m fond of you!” Jesus says to him: “Feed my sheep.

²¹ Seeing him Peter says to Jesus, “Lord, what about him ?” ²² Jesus says to him: “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

² until the day in which He was taken back, after He had given commandment, by Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom He had chosen;

⁷ So He said to them: “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has placed within His own authority.

¹¹ and they said: “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into the sky? This very Jesus who is being taken up from you into the sky, He will come again in the precise manner that you observed Him going into the sky.” ¹² They then returned to Jerusalem from the mount called ‘of Olives’, which is near Jerusalem (a Sabbath day’s journey).

¹⁹ I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below: blood and fire and smoke vapor.

¹⁹ I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below: blood and fire and smoke vapor. ²⁰ The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into ‘blood’ before the great and glorious day of the LORD will come.

² being upset because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. ³ And they laid hands on them and put them in custody until the next day, because it was already evening.

³ So Peter said: “Ananias, on what basis has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the price of the land?

³⁶ For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody; with whom about four hundred men joined up; who was killed, and all who obeyed him were scattered and came to nothing. ³⁷ Later Judas the Galilean rose up, in the days of the census, and drew away many people after him. He also perished, and all who obeyed him were dispersed.

⁴⁰ Well they were persuaded by him, and summoned the Apostles; after beating them they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. ⁴¹ So they went out rejoicing from the presence of the council, in that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name of the Christ.

¹³ and they put forward false witnesses who said: “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against the holy place and the law;

⁵⁹ Yes, they stoned Stephen as he called out and said, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit”.

⁹ Now a certain man named Simon was in the city first, practicing sorcery and astounding the people of Samaria, affirming himself to be someone great, ¹⁰ to whom they used to pay attention, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the great power of God.”

²² Turn away therefore from this your wickedness and make petition to God, in case the intent of your heart may be forgiven you;

⁹ Now on the next day, as they were traveling and drawing near to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.

²⁸ One of them, named Agabus, stood up and indicated by the Spirit that a great famine was about to come upon the whole world (this indeed happened while Claudius was Caesar).

¹ Now about that time, Herod the king laid hands on some from the church to mistreat them. ² James, the brother of John, he put to death by sword. ³ When he saw that it was pleasing to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter as well (it was during the days of the unleavened loaves) ⁴ —upon seizing him he put him in prison, turning him over to sixteen soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover. ⁵ Well Peter was being held in the prison all right, but the congregation was making earnest prayer to God on his behalf.

⁴¹ ‘Look you despisers, marvel and perish! For I am working a work in your days to which you will not give credence, even if someone were to explain it in detail to you’.”

⁶ But not finding them they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials vociferating: “These who have upset the whole world have come here too,

¹⁶ (Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, to avoid being detained in Asia, because he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost, if he possibly could.)

²⁵ “Furthermore, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the Kingdom of God will ever see my face again.

²⁸ So take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers, to shepherd the congregation of the Lord and God which He purchased with His own blood.

³⁰ Yes, men will rise up from among you yourselves, speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

²⁸ shouting: “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Not only that, he has even brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place!”

³¹ As they were trying to kill him, news came to the commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. ³² He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down among them, and when they saw the commander and the soldiers they stopped beating Paul.

³⁸ Aren’t you the Egyptian who some time ago started a revolt and led the four thousand men of ‘the Assassins’ out into the wilderness?”

¹⁹ So I said: ‘Lord, they know that I used to imprison and beat those believing into you, from one synagogue to another; ²⁰ and when the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing there and agreeing to his murder, even guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.’ ²¹ And He said to me, ‘Get going, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles’.” ²² Well they kept listening to him until this statement, and then they raised their voice and shouted, “Rid the earth of this fellow, for it isn’t fitting for him to live!”

¹⁹ Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision ²⁰ —first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to all the region of Judea and to the ethnic nations, I still preach: ‘repent and turn back to God, doing works worthy of repentance’.

²⁴ and said: ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. Furthermore, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’ ²⁵ So take courage, men, because I believe in God that it will be just as it was told me. ²⁶ Also, we must run aground on a certain island.”

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

²⁸ So precisely because they determined not to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a debased mind, to do wrong things:

⁷ to those who seek for glory, honor and incorruption, by persevering in doing good—eternal life;

²⁸ Further, we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to purpose. ²⁹ Because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰ Further, whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. ³¹ What then shall we say to these things? Since God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up on behalf of us all, how shall He not with Him also graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? God is He who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he who condemns? Christ is He who died, but even more, was indeed raised, who indeed is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes on our behalf. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Will it be affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? ³⁶ (As it is written: “For your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.”) ³⁷ No, in all these things we prevail completely through Him who loved us. ³⁸ Because I am persuaded that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present nor things to come, ³⁹ neither height nor depth nor any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹¹ (though they had not yet been born, not having done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),

¹⁸ But I say, did they really not hear? Indeed yes: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited world.”

²⁵ Brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant of this ‘mystery’ (so that you not be conceited): hardening has come upon Israel in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. ²⁶ And so all Israel will be saved, just as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn ungodliness away from Jacob; ²⁷ this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins.” ²⁸ On the one hand, regarding the Gospel, they are enemies because of you; on the other, regarding the election, they are beloved on account of the forefathers. ²⁹ Because God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable. ³⁰ For just as you also were once disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy through their disobedience, ³¹ so also these have now been disobedient that through the mercy shown to you they also may be shown mercy.

¹⁸ If possible, what depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

¹¹ Besides this, knowing the time, it is high time for us to be awakened from sleep, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

¹³ Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual orgies and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy. ¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, with a view to lusts.

¹⁸ because I do not presume to speak of anything except those things that Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient —by word and deed, ¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of God’s Spirit, so that I have fully proclaimed the Gospel of the Christ from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum. ²⁰ It has always been my aim to evangelize where Christ has not been named, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation; ²¹ rather, as it is written: “Those to whom He was not announced will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”

¹⁸ Because such people do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

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⁸ who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Brothers, I was not able to address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ. ² I gave you milk and not solid food, because you were not ready yet. Alas, you are still not ready,

¹ Let a man consider us like this: as Christ’s subordinates and stewards of God’s mysteries. ² Moreover, what is required of stewards is that each be found faithful.

⁷ Now who is distinguishing you? Or what do you have that you did not receive? So if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

²⁹ Now I say this, brothers, the time has been shortened, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none, ³⁰ and those who weep as though not weeping, and those who rejoice as though not rejoicing, and those who buy as though not possessing, ³¹ and those who use this world as though not abusing it; because this world’s mode is passing away.

⁵² —in a split second, in an eye twinkle, at the last trumpet—the trumpet will blast and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

¹³ Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

¹³ Such men are really false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into ‘apostles’ of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder, because Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. ¹⁵ So it is no great thing if his servants also masquerade as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

²⁰ In fact, you even put up with someone who enslaves you, who ‘devours’ you, who takes advantage, who exalts himself, who beats on your face!

¹⁵ So what about your blessedness? Because I can testify that if it were possible you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.

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¹¹ Yes, He Himself gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, ¹² for the equipping of the saints into the work of the ministry, so as to build up the body of Christ, ¹³ until we all attain into the unity of the faith and of the real knowledge of the Son of God, into a complete man, into the resulting full stature of Christ; ¹⁴ so that we no longer be ‘infants’, tossed about as by waves and carried off by every doctrinal fad, through the underhanded dealings of the people who collect the fee for the error;

⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of the disobedience.

²¹ —to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. ²² Now if I am to live on in the flesh it will mean fruitful labor for me, so I don’t know what to choose. ²³ I am torn between the two: I have the desire to depart and be with Christ (far better),

¹⁹ whose end is ruin, whose god is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame; their mind is only on earthly things.

⁵ Let your forbearing spirit be evident to all; the Lord is near.

⁶ (the Gospel that has come to you just as also in all the world, where it is producing fruit and growing just as also among you, from the day in which you heard about and truly understood God’s grace),

²³ if, that is, you continue in the faith established and firm, not drifting away from the hope of the Gospel, that you heard and that was proclaimed in all the creation under the heaven, of which I, Paul, became a servant.

⁸ Be careful that no one captures you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world and not according to Christ.

¹⁸ Nor let anyone disqualify you, taking pleasure in a subservience and devotion to the angels, ‘taking possession’ of things that he has not seen, being puffed up by his carnal mind to no useful purpose,

¹⁴ For you, brothers, became imitators of God’s congregations in Christ Jesus, the ones in Judea, in that you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen that they did from the Jews ¹⁵ (the ones who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, who have persecuted us, who do not please God and are hostile to everybody, ¹⁶ trying to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved—so as to fill up the measure of their sins. They have received the full impact of the Wrath).

¹⁶ trying to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved—so as to fill up the measure of their sins. They have received the full impact of the Wrath).

¹⁶ because the Lord Himself—with a commanding shout, with the archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet—will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first;

¹ Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you do not need to be written to, ² for you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord comes just like a thief in the night.

² for you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord comes just like a thief in the night.

² for you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord comes just like a thief in the night.

² for you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord comes just like a thief in the night. ³ For whenever they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction is standing near them, like labor pains to a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

³ For whenever they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction is standing near them, like labor pains to a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

³ For whenever they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction is standing near them, like labor pains to a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

³ For whenever they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction is standing near them, like labor pains to a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. ⁴ But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that this Day should come upon you like a thief.

⁴ But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that this Day should come upon you like a thief. ⁵ You are all sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness.

⁵ You are all sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness. ⁶ So then, let us not sleep, like the rest, but let us stay alert and sober;

⁶ So then, let us not sleep, like the rest, but let us stay alert and sober;

⁶ So then, let us not sleep, like the rest, but let us stay alert and sober; ⁷ because those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night; ⁸ but we being of day, let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet of hope of salvation. ⁹ For God did not appoint us to undergo wrath but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁰ who died for us so that whether awake or asleep we may live together with Him. ¹¹ Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, as in fact you do.

⁷ and rest (along with us) to you who are being afflicted, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His powerful angels in blazing fire,

¹ Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to Him, we urge you ² not to be quickly shaken from your conviction or disturbed, whether by a spirit or a word or a letter as from us, as though the day of Christ has come. ³ Don’t let anyone deceive you by any means; because that day cannot come unless the rebellion comes first and the man of sin is revealed, the son of ruin,

⁹ that one’s coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and with all wicked deception among those who are wasting themselves, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved. ¹¹ Yes, because of this God will send them an active delusion so that they will believe the lie

¹² I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who enables me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into a ministry;

¹ Now the Spirit says explicitly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceiving spirits and to things taught by demons

¹⁵ This you know, that all those in Asia have been turned away from me, including Phygellus and Hermogenes.

² Also, the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men who will be competent to teach others also.

¹⁰ This is why I endure it all: for the sake of the chosen ones, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

¹² if we endure, we will also reign together; if we deny, He will also deny us;

¹⁹ Nevertheless, the solid foundation of God stands firm, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His” and “Let everyone who claims the name of the Lord keep away from unrighteousness.”

⁶ For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. ⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. ⁸ Now the crown of the righteousness is reserved for me, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that Day; and not only to me, but also to all those who have longed for His appearing.

¹⁰ for Demas, loving this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica—Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

¹⁶ At my first defense no one came to help me, but all deserted me. May it not be held against them.

² in hope of eternal life —which life God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time

¹¹ who must be silenced—they are ruining whole households, teaching things that they ought not, and for dishonest gain! ¹² One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

¹¹ they will perish but You continue on—they will all grow old like a garment; ¹² You will roll them up like a cloak and they will be changed, while You stay the same and Your years will never end.”

¹ So then, we really must pay the utmost attention to the things we have heard, so that we not drift away.

⁵ also, Moses was indeed faithful as a servant in all His house, providing evidence of those things that would later be spoken, ⁶ but Christ is faithful as a Son over His house, whose house are we, if, that is, we hold fast the confidence, even the boast, of the Hope firm to the end.

¹⁴ For we have become associates of the Christ, if, that is, we hold fast the beginning of the Endeavor firm to the end,

²⁶ —otherwise He would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world; but now, once for all at the end of the ages, He has been revealed to nullify sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

²⁶ Because, if we deliberately keep on sinning after having received the real knowledge of the Truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ just a certain fearful anticipation of judgment and fierce fire that is ready to consume the hostiles. ²⁸ Anyone who rejected Moses’ law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

³⁷ For in a very little while, “He who is coming will come and will not delay.

³⁹ But we are not of those who back away into ruin, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

⁷ By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that is according to faith.

²⁷ Now the ‘yet once more’ clearly indicates the removal of the things being shaken (created things), so that the unshakables may remain.

¹ Where do the wars and disputes among you come from? Is it not precisely from your pleasures, the ones at war in your members? ² You crave and do not have; you murder and covet and are not able to obtain; you fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask. ³ You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may lavish it on your pleasures. ⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? So whoever may want to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

¹ Come now, you rich, howl as you weep over your distresses that are coming upon you! ² Your wealth has decayed and your clothes have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire—you stored it up for the last days. ⁴ Look, the wages of the workers who cut your fields, that were unjustly held back by you, cry out, and the loud cries of the reapers have entered the ears of the Lord of Hosts. ⁵ You have lived on the earth in self-indulgence and luxury, you fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. ⁶ You condemned, you murdered the righteous—he offers you no resistance.

⁸ You also be patient. Keep your hearts firm, because the coming of the Lord has approached. ⁹ Do not groan against one another, brothers, lest you be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at your doors!

⁵ who are being guarded by the power of God through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

²⁵ Now this is the good word that was proclaimed to you.

¹⁴ But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.” ¹⁵ Rather, sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready with an answer for everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with meekness and respect;

²⁰ who formerly were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, while the Ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is eight, souls were brought safely through water. ²¹ This is an antitype of baptism, that now saves us also (not the removal of physical filth, but the appeal into God from a good conscience) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

⁷ The end of all things has approached; therefore be serious and self-controlled in your praying.

¹⁰ As each has received a gift, minister it to one another as good administrators of God’s varied grace. ¹¹ If anyone speaks, let it be as utterances of God. If anyone serves, let it be as from strength as God supplies, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion throughout the ages. Amen.

¹⁶ but if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter. ¹⁷ Because the time has come for judgment to begin at God’s house; now if it starts with us, what will be the end of those who keep disobeying the Gospel of God? ¹⁸ Also, ‘If the righteous one is saved with difficulty, where will the godless and sinful person appear?’

¹ The elders who are among you I exhort, I, the fellow elder and witness of Christ’s sufferings; also the partaker of the glory that is to be revealed: ² Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers willingly, not under compulsion; not for dishonest gain but freely; ³ neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.

³ neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. ⁴ And when the Chief Shepherd is revealed you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

⁸ Be sober, stay alert! Because your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is circling you, looking for someone to devour;

¹³ Yes, I think it right to stir you up by a reminder, as long as I am in this ‘tent’, ¹⁴ knowing that the shedding of my ‘tent’ is imminent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. ¹⁵ Moreover I will take pains to provide a reminder of these things for you to have, as needed, after my exit.

¹ However, there were also false prophets among the people, just as, indeed, there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Owner who bought them (bringing on themselves swift destruction).

¹ However, there were also false prophets among the people, just as, indeed, there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Owner who bought them (bringing on themselves swift destruction). ² And many will follow their licentious ways, because of which the way of the Truth will be defamed. ³ And in covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; since way back the judgment for such people is not slack, and their destruction will not sleep.

⁵ and did not spare the ancient world but preserved Noah, with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,

⁷ while He rescued upright Lot, who was distressed by the licentious lifestyle of the wicked ⁸ (for that upright man, dwelling among them, tormented an upright soul from day to day by seeing and hearing lawless deeds) ⁹ —then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,

¹³ receiving the wages of unrighteousness. Counting it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime, they are stains and blemishes, reveling in their own deceptions while they feast with you, ¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls; having a heart trained in greediness they are children of a curse;

³ Knowing this first: in the last days mockers will come, living according to their own lusts ⁴ and saying: “Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”

⁴ and saying: “Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” ⁵ This because they deliberately forget that heavens and land (out of water and through water) had been existing from of old by the word of God,

⁵ This because they deliberately forget that heavens and land (out of water and through water) had been existing from of old by the word of God, ⁶ by which word the world that then was perished, being flooded by water. ⁷ But the current heavens, and the earth, are being reserved by His word for fire, being preserved until the day of judgment and perdition of godless men. ⁸ But dear ones, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ⁹ The Lord is not delaying the promise, as some consider delay, but rather is patient toward us, not wishing anyone to perish but all to come into repentance. ¹⁰ However, the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night, in which heavens will pass away with a whoosh, while the elements will be dissolved by burning—both the earth and the works in it will be completely consumed.

¹⁰ However, the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night, in which heavens will pass away with a whoosh, while the elements will be dissolved by burning—both the earth and the works in it will be completely consumed.

¹⁰ However, the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night, in which heavens will pass away with a whoosh, while the elements will be dissolved by burning—both the earth and the works in it will be completely consumed. ¹¹ Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

¹¹ Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

¹¹ Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness, ¹² expecting and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

¹⁷ You therefore, dear ones, being forewarned, be on guard lest, being carried away by the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared, by which we know that it is the last hour.

²⁶ I have written these things to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you;

¹ Dear ones, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

¹⁸ We know that whoever has been begotten by God does not sin; rather the one who was begotten by God preserves himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

⁹ I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who wants to dominate the others, does not acknowledge us. ¹⁰ So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, slandering us with malignant words. And not satisfied with that, not only does he himself not receive the brothers, but he forbids those who want to do so, kicking them out of the church.

⁴ Because certain men, who were marked out for this condemnation long ago, have sneaked in; they are godless, perverting the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying the only Sovereign God, even our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² These men are hidden reefs at your love feasts, joining the feast without fear, caring only for themselves; they are clouds without rain, carried along by winds; they are late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead (having been uprooted);

³ Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it; because the time is near.

⁷ Take note, He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, including those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will beat their breasts [in dismay] because of Him. Yea, verily!

²⁰ The mystery of the seven stars which you saw upon my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands that you saw are seven churches.

⁴ ‘Nevertheless I have against you that you have left your first love. ⁵ So think about from where you have drifted and repent, and do the first works, or else I will come at you swiftly and remove your lampstand out of its place —unless you do repent.

¹⁰ Do not fear any of the things that you are about to suffer: Take note, the devil is really about to throw some of you into prison, so that you may be tested, and you will have an affliction of ten days. Stay faithful until death and I will give you the crown of life.

¹³ ‘I know your works, and where you live, where Satan’s throne is. And you hold my name fast and did not deny my faith during the days in which Antipas was my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan lives.

¹⁹ ‘I know your works —the love, the faith, the service—and your endurance; in fact your last works are greater than the first.

² Wake up! And strengthen the remaining things that you were about to throw away, for I have not found your works to be fulfilled before my God. ³ So remember how you have received and heard, and hold fast and repent; because if you do not watch I will come upon you like a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.

³ So remember how you have received and heard, and hold fast and repent; because if you do not watch I will come upon you like a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.

¹⁰ Because you have kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of the testing that is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to test those who dwell on the earth.

¹⁴ “And to the messenger of the church in Laodicea write: These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the Originator of God’s creation: ¹⁵ ‘I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.

²⁰ ‘Now then, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone should hear my voice and open the door I really will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. ²¹ To the one who overcomes I will grant to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on His throne. ²² ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.’”

⁸ And I looked and wow, a sickly pale horse! And as for the one sitting upon it, his name is Death, and Hades follows with him. And authority was given to him over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword and by famine and by death, even by the wild animals of the earth. ⁹ And when He opened the fifth seal I saw underneath the altar the souls of the people who had been slaughtered on account of the Word of God and on account of the testimony of the Lamb which they held. ¹⁰ And they cried out with a loud voice saying, “How long, O Sovereign, Holy and True, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” ¹¹ So a white robe was given to each of them, and they were told that they should rest a while longer, until both their fellow slaves and their brothers, who were about to be killed just like they were, should complete the number . ¹² And I saw, just when He opened the sixth seal—there was a severe earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.

¹² And I saw, just when He opened the sixth seal—there was a severe earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. ¹³ And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, like a fig tree drops its late figs when shaken by a strong wind. ¹⁴ And the sky was split, like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.

¹⁴ And the sky was split, like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. ¹⁵ And the kings of the earth and the magnates and the generals and the rich and the mighty, and every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. ¹⁶ And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ Because the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”

¹ And after this I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind should blow upon the earth, not on the sea, not on any tree.

¹⁴ So I said to him, “My lord, you know.” So he said to me: “These are those who come out of the Great Tribulation—they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

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

¹² So the fourth angel trumpeted, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars so that a third of them was darkened; so a third of the day did not shine, and the night likewise.

¹⁵ So the seventh angel trumpeted, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.”

⁹ So the great dragon was expelled, that ancient serpent, who is called Slanderer and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited world; he was thrown into the earth, and his angels were expelled with him. ¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice in the heaven saying: “Now the salvation and the power have come, even the Kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accused them before our God day and night. ¹¹ And they conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not cherish their lives, even up to death.

⁷ And it was given to him to make war with the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given him over every tribe and language and ethnic nation.

⁷ And it was given to him to make war with the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given him over every tribe and language and ethnic nation. ⁸ All who dwell on the earth will do obeisance to him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slaughtered from the foundation of the world.

⁸ All who dwell on the earth will do obeisance to him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slaughtered from the foundation of the world.

¹³ And he performs great signs, including that fire should come down from heaven upon the earth before the people. ¹⁴ And he deceives my own people, those dwelling on the earth, by the signs that it was given to him to perform before the Beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the Beast who had the sword wound and lived.

⁶ And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having an everlasting gospel to be proclaimed to those who reside on the earth—to every ethnic nation and tribe and language and people—

⁶ And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having an everlasting gospel to be proclaimed to those who reside on the earth—to every ethnic nation and tribe and language and people— ⁷ saying with a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judging has come, and do obeisance to Him who made heaven and earth, the ocean and springs of water.” ⁸ And another, a second, angel followed, saying, “It fell, it fell, Babylon the great!—she made all the nations drink of the wine of the rage of her fornication.” ⁹ And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the Beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,

⁶ Because they shed the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it!”

¹⁴ For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. ¹⁵ (“Watch out, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who watches and guards his clothes, so that he not walk about naked and they see his shame.”)

⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, even with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And upon seeing her I was tremendously impressed.

⁷ Let us rejoice and exult and give Him the glory, because the wedding of the Lamb has come, and His wife has prepared herself.”

²⁰ So the Beast was captured, and with him the False prophet, the one who performed signs in his presence (by which he had deceived those who had received the mark of the Beast and those who worshipped his image). The two were thrown alive into the Lake of Fire that burns with brimstone.

¹¹ Then I saw a tremendous white throne and the One who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away; and no place was found for them.

⁷ He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be God to him and he will be a son to me.