Revelation 22 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹ Then he showed me a river of living water, clear as crystal, which issued from the throne of God and of the Lamb, ² and ran through the middle of the principal street of the city. On both sides of the river grew the tree of life. It bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding a different kind each month, and its leaves were a cure for the heathen. ³ There will no longer be anything that is accursed. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his slaves will worship him; ⁴ they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. ⁵ There will no longer be any night and they will have no need of lamplight or sunlight, for the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever. ⁶ "These words are trustworthy and true," he said to me; "For the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show his slaves what must happen very soon. ⁷ See! I am coming very soon! Blessed is he who heeds the words of prophecy that are in this book." ⁸ It was I, John, who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw them, I fell at the feet of the angel who showed them to me, to worship him. ⁹ But he said to me, "You must not do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers the prophets and the men who heed the words of this book. Worship God! ¹⁰ "Do not seal up the words of prophecy that are in this book," he said to me, "for the time of their fulfilment is very near. ¹¹ Let the evil-doer do worse and worse, let the base grow baser and baser, let the upright man be more and more upright, and the man who is holy be more and more holy." ¹² "See! I am coming very soon, bringing with me my rewards, to repay everyone for what he has done. ¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. ¹⁴ Blessed are those who wash their robes, so as to have the right to approach the tree of life and to enter the gates of the city. ¹⁵ The dogs, those who practice magic or immorality, murderers, idolaters, and anyone who loves falsehood or tells lies will be shut out of it. ¹⁶ "I, Jesus, sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am of the line and family of David, I am the bright morning star." ¹⁷ "Come," say the Spirit and the bride. Let everyone who hears this say, "Come!" Let everyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who wants it come and take without cost living water. ¹⁸ I warn everyone who hears the message of prophecy in this book read, that if anyone adds anything to it, God will inflict upon him the plagues that are described in this book; ¹⁹ and if anyone removes from this book any of the prophetic messages it contains, God will remove from him his share in the tree of life and the holy city which are described in this book. ²⁰ He who testifies to all this says, "It is true! I am coming very soon!" Amen! Come, Lord Jesus! ²¹ The blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ be with his people.

¹⁰ Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." ¹¹ She said to him, "You have nothing to draw water with, sir, and the well is deep. Where can you get your living water?

¹⁴ but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life."

³⁸ If anyone believes in me, streams of living water, as the Scripture says, shall flow forth from his heart." ³⁹ He meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive—for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

¹⁶ And I will ask the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you always. ¹⁷ It is the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot obtain that Spirit, because it does not see it or recognize it; you recognize it because it stays with you and is within you. ¹⁸ I am not going to leave you friendless. I am coming back to you.

²⁶ When the Helper comes whom I will send to you from the Father—that Spirit of Truth that comes from the Father—he will bear testimony to me,

⁷ Yet it is only the truth when I tell you that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you, but if I go I will send him to you. ⁸ When he comes, he will bring conviction to the world about sin and uprightness and judgment; ⁹ about sin, as shown in their not believing in me; ¹⁰ about uprightness, as shown by my going away to the Father, where you can no longer see me; ¹¹ and about judgment, as shown by the condemnation of the evil genius of this world. ¹² I have much more to tell you, but you cannot take it in now, ¹³ but when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into the full truth, for he will not speak for himself but will tell what he hears, and will announce to you the things that are to come. ¹⁴ He will do honor to me, for he will take what is mine and communicate it to you. ¹⁵ All that the Father has belongs to me. That is why I said that he will take what is mine and communicate it to you.

⁴ And once when he ate with them, he instructed them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised. "You have heard me speak of it," he said, ⁵ "for John baptized people in water, but in a few days you will be baptized in the holy Spirit."

³³ So he has been exalted to God's right hand, and has received from his Father and poured over us the holy Spirit that had been promised, as you see and hear.

²¹ I will permit him who is victorious to take his seat beside me on my throne, just as I have been victorious and taken my seat beside my Father on his throne.

⁵ Out from the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder. In front of the throne seven blazing lamps were burning; they are the seven spirits of God. ⁶ In front of the throne was what looked like a sea of glass, like crystal. Around the throne, in the middle of each side, were four animals covered with eyes in front and behind.

⁶ Then I saw standing in the center of the throne and of the four animals and of the elders a Lamb which seemed to have been slaughtered. He had seven horns and seven eyes; these are the seven spirits of God, which are sent on errands to all parts of the earth.

¹³ Then I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, underneath the earth, and on the sea, and all that they contain, say, "Blessing, honor, glory, and power to him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb forever and ever!"

¹⁰ and they cried in a loud voice, "Our deliverance is the work of our God who is seated on the throne, and of the Lamb!" ¹¹ Then all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four animals, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

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

⁶ It is all over!" he told me, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end I will give anyone who is thirsty water without cost from the spring of the water of life.

¹¹ in all the glory of God. It shone with a radiance like that of some very precious stone, like jasper, clear as crystal.

¹⁷ "Come," say the Spirit and the bride. Let everyone who hears this say, "Come!" Let everyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who wants it come and take without cost living water.

¹⁸ "The spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor, He has sent me to announce to the prisoners their release and to the blind the recovery of their sight, To set the down-trodden at liberty,

²⁴ He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed.

⁷ Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will permit him who is victorious to eat the fruit of the tree of life that stands in the Paradise of God.'

²¹ The twelve gates were twelve pearls; each gate made of a single pearl. The principal street of the city was pure gold, as transparent as glass.

²⁴ The heathen will walk by its light. The kings of the earth will bring their splendor to it.

¹ Then he showed me a river of living water, clear as crystal, which issued from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

¹⁴ Blessed are those who wash their robes, so as to have the right to approach the tree of life and to enter the gates of the city.

¹⁹ and if anyone removes from this book any of the prophetic messages it contains, God will remove from him his share in the tree of life and the holy city which are described in this book.

²¹ His master said to him, 'Well done, my excellent, faithful slave! you have been faithful about a small amount; I will put a large one into your hands. Come, share your master's enjoyment!'

⁴¹ Then he will say to those at his left, 'Begone, you accursed people, to the everlasting fire destined for the devil and his angels!

²⁶ If anyone serves me, he must follow me, and wherever I am found, my servant must be also. If anyone serves me, my Father will show him honor.

³ And if I go and make it ready, I will come back and take you with me, so that you may be where I am.

²⁴ Father, I wish to have those whom you have given me with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me, for you loved me before the creation of the world.

¹⁵ That is why they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he who is seated on the throne will shelter them. ¹⁶ They will never be hungry or thirsty again, and never again will the sun or any burning heat distress them, ¹⁷ for the Lamb who is in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

³ I heard a loud voice from the throne say, "See! God's dwelling is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people and God himself will be with them, ⁴ and he will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no death any longer, nor any grief or crying or pain. The old order has passed away."

²² I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. ²³ The city does not need the sun nor the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God lighted it, and the Lamb is its lamp.

⁸ "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God!

¹² For now we are looking at a dim reflection in a mirror, but then we shall see face to face. Now my knowledge is imperfect, but then I shall know as fully as God knows me.

¹⁴ Try to be at peace with everyone, and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.

² Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. ³ And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.

¹² I will make him who is victorious a pillar in the temple of my God; he shall never go out of it again. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God—the new Jerusalem, which is to come down out of heaven from my God—and my new name.

³ "Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we mark the slaves of our God on their foreheads."

¹ Then in my vision I saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 people who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.

³⁴ Then the king will say to those at his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take possession of the kingdom which has been destined for you from the creation of the world.

⁴⁶ Then they will go away to everlasting punishment, and the upright to everlasting life."

¹⁷ For if that one man's offense made death reign through that one man, all the more will those who receive God's overflowing mercy and his gift of uprightness live and reign through the one individual Jesus Christ.

¹² If we endure, we will reign with him! If we disown him, he will also disown us!

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has caused us to be born anew to a life of hope through Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead, ⁴ and to an imperishable, unsullied, and unfading inheritance, which is kept safe for you in heaven,

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and loud voices were heard in heaven, saying, "The sovereignty of the world has passed into the possession of our Lord and his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever."

²³ no light of any lamp will ever shine in you again; no voice of bride or bridegroom will ever be heard in you again. For your merchants were the great men of the earth; by your magic all the heathen have been led astray,

⁴ Then I saw thrones with beings seated on them, who were empowered to act as judges. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus and the message of God, who refused to worship the animal and its statue, and would not have its mark put on their foreheads or on their hands. They were restored to life and reigned with the Christ a thousand years.

²² I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. ²³ The city does not need the sun nor the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God lighted it, and the Lamb is its lamp. ²⁴ The heathen will walk by its light. The kings of the earth will bring their splendor to it. ²⁵ Its gates will never be shut by day—for there will be no night there

⁴¹ the Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather up out of his kingdom all the causes of sin and the wrongdoers

⁷⁰ "By the lips of his holy prophets he promised of old to do this—

¹⁶ Until John came, it was the Law and the Prophets. From that time the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone has been crowding into it.

¹⁸ it was in this way that God fulfilled what he by all the prophets foretold that his Christ must suffer.

¹¹ Then Peter came to himself, and he said, "Now I am certain that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from the power of Herod and all that the Jewish people were expecting."

² which he promised long ago through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

²⁹ But this I do say, brothers. The appointed time has grown very short. From this time on those who have wives should live as though they had none,

³² for the spirits of prophets will give way to prophets,

⁷ and to give rest to you who are suffering and to us, when our Lord Jesus appears from heaven, with his mighty angels

⁹ When our earthly fathers disciplined us we treated them with respect; should we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so have life?

¹¹ trying to learn for what possible time the spirit of Christ within them in predicting the sufferings destined for Christ intended them and the glories that were to follow them. ¹² It was disclosed to them that they were serving not themselves but you in dealing with these things, which have now been told you by those who through the holy Spirit sent from heaven brought you the good news; things into which angels long to look!

²¹ for no prophecy ever originated in the human will, but under the influence of the holy Spirit men spoke for God.

² to remember the things foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

⁸ But do not overlook this one fact, dear friends, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like one day. ⁹ The Lord is not slow about his promise, in the sense that some men think; he is really showing his patience with you, because he does not want any to perish, but wishes all men to be brought to repentance.

¹ A revelation made by Jesus Christ which God gave him to disclose to his slaves of what must very soon happen. He sent and communicated it by his angel to his slave John,

²⁰ Gloat over her, heaven! and all you people of God, apostles, and prophets, for God has avenged you upon her!"

⁹ Then he said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are they who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.' These," he said to me, "are the true words of God."

⁵ Then he who sat upon the throne said, "See! I am making everything new! Write this," he said, "for these words are trustworthy and true.

⁷ See! I am coming very soon! Blessed is he who heeds the words of prophecy that are in this book."

³ Blessed be the man who reads this prophecy and those who hear it read and heed what is written in it, for the time is near.

¹¹ I am coming soon. Keep hold of what you have, so that no one may deprive you of your crown.

¹⁵ (See, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who keeps awake, and keeps hold of his clothes, so that he will not have to go naked and be put to shame!)

⁹ But he said to me, "You must not do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers the prophets and the men who heed the words of this book. Worship God! ¹⁰ "Do not seal up the words of prophecy that are in this book," he said to me, "for the time of their fulfilment is very near.

¹² "See! I am coming very soon, bringing with me my rewards, to repay everyone for what he has done.

²⁰ He who testifies to all this says, "It is true! I am coming very soon!" Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!

¹⁰ I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must not do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers who have accepted the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is what inspires prophecy."

¹⁹ Then I saw the animal and the kings of the earth and their armies gather to make war on him who was mounted upon the horse and upon his army.

⁹ and said to him, "I will give all this to you, if you will fall on your knees and do homage to me."

⁷ If you will do homage before me, it shall all be yours."

²² You worship something you know nothing about; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews. ²³ But a time is coming—it is already here!—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and sincerity, for the Father wants such worshipers.

¹⁸ No one can put you in the wrong by persisting in studied humility and the worship of angels, being absorbed in the visions he has seen, and groundlessly conceited over his mere human mind. ¹⁹ Such people lose their connection with the head, from which the whole body through its ligaments and sinews must be governed and united if it is to grow in the divine way.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us power to recognize him who is true; and we are in union with him who is true, through his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and they throw down their crowns before the throne, and say,

²⁰ Yet what was left of mankind, those who escaped being killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and give up worshiping demons and gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wooden idols, which cannot either see or hear or move,

⁷ He cried in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, for the hour for his judgment has come. Worship him who made heaven and earth and sea and the springs of water."

⁴ Who will not fear and give glory to your name, Lord? For you alone are holy. All the heathen will come and worship before you, for the justice of your sentences has now been shown."

¹⁰ "Do not seal up the words of prophecy that are in this book," he said to me, "for the time of their fulfilment is very near.

¹⁸ I warn everyone who hears the message of prophecy in this book read, that if anyone adds anything to it, God will inflict upon him the plagues that are described in this book;

²⁷ What I tell you in the dark you must say in the light, and what you hear whispered in your ear, you must proclaim from the housetops.

¹² The night is nearly over; the day is at hand. So let us throw aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the armor of light.

³ You must not let anyone deceive you at all. For that is not until the rebellion takes place and the embodiment of disobedience makes his appearance—he who is doomed to destruction,

⁷ But the end of all things is near. Be serious and collected, therefore, and pray.

¹ Then I saw lying in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a roll with writing on both sides, sealed with seven seals.

⁴ When the seven thunders had spoken I was going to write it down, but I heard a voice from heaven say, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said! Do not write it down!"

¹² "See! I am coming very soon, bringing with me my rewards, to repay everyone for what he has done. ¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

¹⁶ "I, Jesus, sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am of the line and family of David, I am the bright morning star."

⁶ "Blessed are those who are hungry and thirsty for uprightness, for they will be satisfied!

¹⁴ Leave them alone. They are blind guides! But if one blind man leads another, they will both fall into the ditch!"

¹⁹ and seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. And he said to it, "No more fruit shall ever grow on you!" And the fig tree withered up at once.

¹⁰ But while they were gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and the ones that were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was closed.

²¹ Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in the midst of your sin. You cannot come where I am going."

²⁷ in order to bring the church to himself in all her beauty, without a flaw or a wrinkle or anything of the kind, but to be consecrated and faultless.

²² through dying in his human body) in holiness, and free from reproach or blame, into God's presence—

¹³ and bad men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves.

²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to make you stand in his presence irreproachable and triumphant—

¹³ Then one of the elders addressed me and said, "Who are these people dressed in white robes, and where do they come from?" ¹⁴ I said to him, "You know, my lord." He said to me, "They are the people who come through the great persecution, who have washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ That is why they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he who is seated on the throne will shelter them.

⁸ The fourth emptied his bowl upon the sun, and it was allowed to scorch mankind with its heat, ⁹ and they were dreadfully scorched, but they reviled the name of God who had control of these plagues, and would not repent and give him glory. ¹⁰ The fifth emptied his bowl upon the animal's throne, and its kingdom was plunged in darkness, and men gnawed their tongues in anguish ¹¹ and reviled the God of heaven for their sufferings and sores, but they would not repent of what they had done.

²¹ huge hailstones of immense weight fell on mankind from heaven, and men reviled God because of the plague of hail, the plague of it was so terrible.

³ There will no longer be anything that is accursed. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his slaves will worship him;

²⁷ For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in his Father's glory, and then he will repay everyone for what he has done.

⁶ For he will pay every man for what he has done. ⁷ Those who by persistently doing right strive for glory, honor, and immortality will have eternal life, ⁸ but self-seeking people who are disloyal to the truth and responsive only to what is wrong will experience anger and fury, ⁹ crushing distress and anguish, every human soul of them that actually does what is wrong—the Jew first, and the Greek also; ¹⁰ but there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does right, the Jew first, and the Greek also, ¹¹ for God shows no partiality.

¹² So each one of us must give an account of himself to God.

⁸ The planter and the waterer are all one, though each of us will be paid for his own work.

¹⁴ If what a man has built on the foundation stands the test, he will have his pay.

¹⁷ For if I do it of my own accord, I have my pay, but if I do it because I must, it is still a responsibility that I am charged with. ¹⁸ What pay then do I get? Why, that in my preaching I can offer the good news without cost, and so not take full advantage of my rights as a preacher.

¹⁸ The heathen were enraged, but now your anger has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your slaves the prophets and your people high and low who revere your name, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth!"

¹² I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened; it was the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books about what they had done.

⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega." says the Lord God, who is and was and is coming, the Almighty.

¹¹ say, "Write what you see in a roll and send it to the seven churches—to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. But he laid his right hand upon me, and said, "Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last,

²¹ It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord! Lord!' who will get into the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven. ²² Many will say to me on that Day, 'Lord! Lord! Was it not in your name that we prophesied, and by your name that we drove out demons, and by your name that we did many mighty acts?' ²³ Then I will say to them plainly, 'I never knew you! Go away from me, you who do wrong!' ²⁴ "Everyone, therefore, who listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it, will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock. ²⁵ And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew, and beat about that house, and it did not go down, for its foundations were on rock. ²⁶ And anyone who listens to this teaching of mine and does not act upon it, will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. ²⁷ And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew and beat about that house, and it went down, and its downfall was complete."

³⁷ Blessed are the slaves whom their master will find on the watch when he comes. I tell you, he will gird up his robe and make them take their places at table, and go around and wait on them. ³⁸ Whether he comes late at night or early in the morning and finds them on the watch, they are blessed.

¹² Are you a greater man than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with his sons and his flocks?"

⁷ So Jesus said again, "I tell you, I am the door of the sheepfold.

⁹ I am the door. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will pass in and out and find pasture.

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

¹⁵ "If you really love me, you will observe my commands.

²¹ It is he who has my commands and observes them that really loves me, and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and show myself to him." ²² Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to him, "Master, how does it happen that you are going to show yourself to us and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered, "Anyone who loves me will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and live with him.

¹⁰ If you keep my commands you will retain my love, just as I have observed the Father's commands and retain his love. ¹¹ I have told you all this so that you may have the happiness that I have had, and your happiness may be complete. ¹² The command that I give you is to love one another just as I have loved you. ¹³ No one can show greater love than by giving up his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you to do.

¹⁹ Being circumcised or being uncircumcised does not make any difference; all that matters is keeping God's commands.

⁹ But you must take care that this right of yours does not prove a hindrance to the overscrupulous.

⁵ Have we not a right to take a Christian wife about with us, like the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas?

⁶ For in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the want of it counts for anything, but only faith acting through love.

³ And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.

²³ His command is this—that we are to believe in his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he has commanded us to do. ²⁴ All who obey his commands keep in union with him, and he does with them; and this is how we know that he keeps in union with us—by the Spirit which he has given us.

³ For loving God means obeying his commands, and his commands are not burdensome,

¹⁴ I said to him, "You know, my lord." He said to me, "They are the people who come through the great persecution, who have washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹² It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, which had carved upon them the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

²⁷ Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who indulges in abominable practices and falsehoods, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

² and ran through the middle of the principal street of the city. On both sides of the river grew the tree of life. It bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding a different kind each month, and its leaves were a cure for the heathen.

¹² while the heirs to the kingdom will be driven into the darkness outside, there to weep and grind their teeth!"

¹⁸ No one who believes in him has to come up for judgment. Anyone who does not believe stands condemned already, for not believing in God's only Son. ¹⁹ And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light. ²⁰ For everyone who does wrong hates the light and will not come to it, for fear his actions will be exposed. ²¹ But everyone who is living the truth will come to the light, to show that his actions have been performed in dependence upon God.

⁴⁶ Who among you can prove me guilty of sin? But if I tell you the truth, why do you refuse to believe me?

¹¹ They made much of him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic.

⁶ They went through the whole island as far as Paphos, and there they came across a Jewish magician and false prophet named Barjesus. ⁷ He was attached to the governor, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. He sent for Barnabas and Saul and asked them to let him hear God's message. ⁸ But Elymas the magician—for that is the meaning of his name—opposed them, and tried to keep the governor from accepting the faith. ⁹ But Saul, who was also called Paul, was filled with the holy Spirit, and looked at him ¹⁰ and said, "You monster of underhandedness and cunning! You son of the devil! You enemy of all that is right! Will you never stop trying to make the Lord's straight paths crooked? ¹¹ The Lord's hand is right upon you, and you will be blind and unable even to see the sun for a time." Instantly a mist of darkness fell upon him, and he groped about for someone to lead him by the hand.

⁹ Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice ¹⁰ or thieves or greedy—drunkards, abusive people, robbers—will not have any share in God's kingdom.

¹⁹ The things our physical nature does are clear enough—immorality, impurity, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmity, quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party-spirit, ²¹ envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

³ But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people. ⁴ There must be no indecency or foolish or scurrilous talk—all that is unbecoming. There should be thanksgiving instead. ⁵ For you may be sure that no one who is immoral, or greedy for gain (for that is idolatry) can have any share in the Kingdom of Christ and God. ⁶ Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient.

² Look out for those dogs, those mischief-makers, with their amputation!

⁶ It is on account of these things that God's anger is coming.

¹⁰ and full of wicked deception for men who are going to destruction, because they refused to love the truth and be saved. ¹¹ This is why God sends upon them a misleading influence, to make them believe what is false, ¹² so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have preferred disobedience may be condemned.

²⁰ Yet what was left of mankind, those who escaped being killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and give up worshiping demons and gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wooden idols, which cannot either see or hear or move, ²¹ and they did not repent of their murders, or their magic arts, or their immorality, or their thefts.

¹ Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and spoke to me. "Come," he said, "I will show you the doom of the great idolatress who is seated on many waters, ² in whose idolatry the kings of the earth have joined, and with the wine of whose idolatry the inhabitants of the earth have been intoxicated." ³ So he carried me away in a trance to a desert, and I saw a woman seated on a scarlet animal all covered with blasphemous titles; it had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and glittered with gold, precious stones, and pearls. She had in her hand a gold cup full of accursed things, and the impurities of her immorality. ⁵ On her forehead there was written a name that was symbolic: "Mighty Babylon, mother of idolatresses and of earth's abominations." ⁶ I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God's people, and the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her I was perfectly amazed,

⁸ But the cowardly, unfaithful, and polluted—murderers, immoral people, those who practice magic or idolatry, and all liars will find themselves in the burning lake of fire and brimstone. This is the second death."

¹ The ancestry of Jesus Christ, who was descended from David, who was descended from Abraham.

² and asked, "Where is the newly born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star rise and we have come to do homage to him."

⁷ Then Herod secretly sent for the astrologers, and found out from them the exact time when the star appeared. ⁸ And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said to them, "Go and inquire particularly about the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, so that I may go and do homage to him too." ⁹ So they obeyed the king and went, and the star which they had seen rise led them on until it reached the place where the child was, and stopped above it. ¹⁰ When they saw the star, they were very glad,

⁴² "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's."

⁴⁵ So if David calls him lord, how can he be his son?"

⁷⁸ "Because the heart of our God is merciful, And so the day will dawn upon us from on high,

³ about his Son, who was physically descended from David, ⁴ and decisively declared Son of God in his holiness of spirit, by being raised from the dead—Jesus Christ our Lord,

⁵ and the patriarchs, and from them physically Christ came—God who is over all be blessed forever! Amen.

¹⁹ So we have the message of the prophets more fully guaranteed. Please pay attention to that message as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

⁴ John to the seven churches in Asia, blessing and peace to you from him who is and was and is coming, and from the seven spirits before his throne,

¹¹ Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. He who is victorious will not be hurt by the second death.'

¹⁷ Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give him who is victorious some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white pebble with a new name written on it which no one knows except the man who receives it.'

²⁸ and I will give him the morning star. ²⁹ Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.'

⁶ Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.'

¹³ Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.'

²² Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.' "

⁵ But one of the elders said to me, "Do not cry! See! The lion who is of the tribe of Judah, of the line of David, has been victorious so that he can open the roll and break its seals."

⁶ "These words are trustworthy and true," he said to me; "For the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show his slaves what must happen very soon.

¹¹ Let the evil-doer do worse and worse, let the base grow baser and baser, let the upright man be more and more upright, and the man who is holy be more and more holy."

³⁹ He said to them, "Come and you will see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent the rest of the day with him. It was about four in the afternoon. ⁴⁰ Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard what John said and followed Jesus. ⁴¹ Andrew immediately sought out his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!"—that is to say, the Christ. ⁴² He took him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, son of John. You shall be called Cephas"—that is, Peter, which means rock. ⁴³ The next day Jesus determined to leave for Galilee. And he sought out Philip and said to him, "Come with me." ⁴⁴ Now Philip came from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵ Philip sought out Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the Law and about whom the prophets wrote; it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazareth!" ⁴⁶ Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see!"

¹⁰ Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

²⁹ "Come, here is a man who has told me everything I ever did! Do you suppose he is the Christ?"

³⁷ Now on the last day, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

²⁴ but by his mercy they are made upright for nothing, by the deliverance secured through Christ Jesus.

¹² But the Spirit we have received is not that of the world, but the Spirit that comes from God, which we have to make us realize the blessings God has given us.

⁵ for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction—you know the kind of life we lived among you for your good. ⁶ And you followed the example set by us and by the Lord, for though our message brought you great trouble, you welcomed it with joy inspired by the holy Spirit, ⁷ so that you set an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Greece. ⁸ For the Lord's message has rung out from you not only over Macedonia and Greece, but the story of your belief in God has gone everywhere, so that we never need to mention it.

² And I saw the new Jerusalem, the holy city, come down out of heaven from God, like a bride dressed and ready to meet her husband.

⁹ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke to me. "Come," he said, "I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."

⁶ does not have to provide for his father.' So you have nullified what God has said, for the sake of what has been handed down to you. ⁷ You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied finely about you when he said, ⁸ " 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me. ⁹ But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.' "

¹³ But he answered, "Any plant that my heavenly Father did not plant must be uprooted!

¹⁷ So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding.

⁶ No one is to wrong or defraud his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all such things, as we told you before, in the most solemn terms.

¹⁴ "To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: " 'The Amen, the true and faithful witness, the origin of God's creation, speaks thus:

¹⁰ shall drink the wine of God's wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of his anger, and be tortured with fire and brimstone before the eyes of the holy angels and the Lamb. ¹¹ The smoke of their torture will go up forever and ever, and they will have no rest night or day—these worshipers of the animal and its statue, and any who bear the mark of its name."

¹ Then I saw another great, marvelous portent in heaven. There were seven angels with seven plagues which are to be the last, for they complete the expression of God's wrath.

⁶ and the seven angels with the seven plagues came out of the temple. They were clothed in clean, glistening linen and had gold belts around their breasts. ⁷ Then one of the four animals gave the seven angels seven gold bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever, ⁸ and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory and power of God, and no one could go into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were over.

⁶ for they shed the blood of your people and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink, as they deserve." ⁷ And I heard the altar answer, "Yes, Lord God Almighty! Your sentences are true and just." ⁸ The fourth emptied his bowl upon the sun, and it was allowed to scorch mankind with its heat, ⁹ and they were dreadfully scorched, but they reviled the name of God who had control of these plagues, and would not repent and give him glory. ¹⁰ The fifth emptied his bowl upon the animal's throne, and its kingdom was plunged in darkness, and men gnawed their tongues in anguish ¹¹ and reviled the God of heaven for their sufferings and sores, but they would not repent of what they had done. ¹² The sixth emptied his bowl upon the great river Euphrates, and its waters dried up to make the way ready for the kings from the east. ¹³ Then I saw three foul spirits like frogs emerge from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the animal and from the mouth of the false prophet. ¹⁴ They are demon spirits that perform wonders, and they go out to the kings all over the world to muster them for battle on the great Day of God Almighty. ¹⁵ (See, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who keeps awake, and keeps hold of his clothes, so that he will not have to go naked and be put to shame!) ¹⁶ So they mustered the kings at the place called in Hebrew Armageddon. ¹⁷ The seventh emptied his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, "It is all over!" ¹⁸ Then there were flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder, and there was a great earthquake; there has never been such an earthquake since man first existed upon the earth, it was so great. ¹⁹ The great city broke into three pieces, the cities of the heathen fell, and God remembered to give mighty Babylon the cup of the wine of his fierce anger. ²⁰ Every island vanished, the mountains disappeared, ²¹ huge hailstones of immense weight fell on mankind from heaven, and men reviled God because of the plague of hail, the plague of it was so terrible.

²⁰ And the animal was captured and with it the false prophet who performed wonders on its behalf by means of which he led astray those who had let the animal's mark be put on them and who worshiped its statue. Both of them were flung alive into the fiery lake of burning brimstone.

¹⁰ and the devil who led them astray was flung into the fiery, sulphurous lake, where the animal and the false prophet were, there to be tortured day and night forever and ever.

¹⁵ Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was flung into the fiery lake.

⁵² Alas for you experts in the Law! For you have taken the key to the door of knowledge, but you have not entered it yourselves, and you have kept out those who tried to enter."

¹⁷ Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give him who is victorious some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white pebble with a new name written on it which no one knows except the man who receives it.' ¹⁸ "To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: " 'The Son of God, whose eyes blaze like fire, and whose feet are like bronze, speaks thus:

²⁶ To him who is victorious and continues to the end to do the things that please me, I will give authority over the heathen—

⁴ Yet you have a few at Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me clad in white, for they deserve to. ⁵ He who is victorious will be clothed thus, in white clothing, and I will not erase his name from the book of life, but I will acknowledge him as mine in the presence of my Father and his angels.

⁹ After that I saw a great crowd which no one could count from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes, with palm branches in their hands, ¹⁰ and they cried in a loud voice, "Our deliverance is the work of our God who is seated on the throne, and of the Lamb!" ¹¹ Then all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four animals, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, ¹² saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen!" ¹³ Then one of the elders addressed me and said, "Who are these people dressed in white robes, and where do they come from?" ¹⁴ I said to him, "You know, my lord." He said to me, "They are the people who come through the great persecution, who have washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb.

⁸ All the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not from the foundation of the world been written in the slain Lamb's book of life, will worship it.

¹³ Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: Blessed are the dead who from this time forth die as Christians!" "Yes!" answers the Spirit, "Let them rest from their toil, for what they have done will go with them!"

²² I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. ²³ The city does not need the sun nor the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God lighted it, and the Lamb is its lamp. ²⁴ The heathen will walk by its light. The kings of the earth will bring their splendor to it. ²⁵ Its gates will never be shut by day—for there will be no night there ²⁶ and they will bring the splendor and the wealth of the heathen into it. ²⁷ Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who indulges in abominable practices and falsehoods, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

²⁵ There are many other things that Jesus did, so many in fact that if they were all written out, I do not suppose that the world itself would hold the books that would have to be written.

²² A curse upon anyone who has no love for the Lord. Lord, come quickly!

⁸ Now the crown of uprightness awaits me, which the Lord, the upright judge, will award me on that Day, and not only me but also all who have loved and hoped for his appearing.

²⁸ so the Christ too, after being offered in sacrifice once for all to carry away the sins of many, will appear again but without any burden of sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him to come and save them.

¹² while you await and hasten the coming of the Day of God, which will cause the heavens to burn up and dissolve and the heavenly bodies to blaze and melt. ¹³ In fulfilment of his promise we expect new heavens and a new earth, where uprightness will prevail. ¹⁴ Therefore, dear friends, while waiting for this, make every effort to be found by him unstained, irreproachable, and at peace.

² who testifies to what he saw—to the message of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ the living one. I was dead, yet here I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys of death and the underworld.

⁷ to all those in Rome whom God loves, who are called to be his people; God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

²⁰ And God, who is the source of peace, will soon crush Satan under your feet. The blessing of our Lord Jesus be with you.

²³ My host, Gaius, the host of the whole church, wishes to be remembered to you. Erastus, the city-treasurer, and our brother Quartus wish to be remembered to you.

¹⁴ The blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the participation in the holy Spirit be with you all.

²³ God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give the brothers peace and love, with faith. ²⁴ God's blessing be with all who have an unfailing love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ The blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.