Revelation 2 Cross References - Murdock

¹ To the angel of the church which is at Ephesus write: These things saith he who holdeth all things, and the seven stars, in his right hand; he that walketh in the midst of the seven candlesticks of gold; ² I know thy works, and thy toil, and thy patience, and that thou canst not endure the wicked; and thou hast tried them who say they are legates, and are not; and thou hast found them liars. ³ And thou hast had patience, and hast borne the burden, on account of my name, and hast not fainted. ⁴ Yet I have a charge against thee, on account of thy former love, which thou hast left. ⁵ Therefore remember whence thou hast fallen; and repent, and do the former works: or if not, I will come to thee quickly, and I will remove thy candlestick from its place, except thou repent. ⁶ But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. ⁷ He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him who is victorious, will I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the paradise of my God. ⁸ And to the angel of the church which is at Smyrna, write: These things saith the First and the Last, he who was dead, and liveth. ⁹ I know thy works, and the affliction, and the poverty, (yet thou art rich;) and the railing which is from them who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are of the congregation of Satan. ¹⁰ Be not terrified at any of the things thou art to suffer. For lo, the Accuser will throw some of you into custody, that ye may be tried; and there will be trouble to you ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life. ¹¹ He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. He that is victorious, shall not be harmed by the second death. ¹² And to the angel of the church at Pergamos, write: Thus saith he who hath the sharp two-edged sword; ¹³ I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where the throne of Satan is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied the faith of me, in those days when my faithful witness, who was slain among you, was made a spectacle where Satan dwelleth. ¹⁴ Yet I have a small charge against thee. Thou hast there them who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, that they might eat the sacrifices of idols, and might commit whoredom. ¹⁵ So also thou hast them who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. In like manner, repent thou. ¹⁶ Or if not, I will come to thee quickly, and I will war upon them with the sword of my mouth. ¹⁷ He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that is victorious, will I give to eat of the hidden manna; and I will give him a white counter, and upon the counter a new name written, which no one knoweth but he that receiveth it. ¹⁸ And to the angel of the church at Thyatira, write: These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet like fine brass: ¹⁹ I know thy works, and love, and faith, and service, and also thy patience; and that these thy latter works are more than the former. ²⁰ But I have a charge against thee, because thou sufferest thy woman Jezabel, who saith she is a prophetess, and teacheth, and seduceth my servants to whoredom, and to eating of the sacrifices of idols. ²¹ And I gave her a season for repentance, and she is not disposed to repent of her whoredom. ²² Behold, I will cast her upon a bed, and them who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of their deeds. ²³ And her children will I slay with death: and all the churches shall know, that I am he who searcheth reins and hearts; and I will render to each of you according to your works. ²⁴ And I say to you, to the rest that are in Thyatira, to all them who have not received this doctrine, the men who have not known the profound things of Satan, as they say; I lay no other burden upon you: ²⁵ but, what ye have, hold fast until I come. ²⁶ And to him that is victorious, and to him that observeth my works unto the end, to him will I give authority, over the nations; ²⁷ and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; and like vessels of pottery, shall they be broken: as I also have received of my Father. ²⁸ And I will give him the morning star. ²⁹ He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

²⁰ For where two or three are assembled in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

²⁰ And teach them to observe all that I have commanded you. And, behold, I am with you always, unto the consummation of the worlds Amen. Completion of the Holy Gospel as published by Matthew; and which he published in Hebrew, in the land of the Palestineans.

³⁵ He was a burning and shining lamp; and ye were willing for a time, to glory in his light.

¹¹ That which thou seest, write in a book, and send to the seven churches, to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea. ¹² And I turned myself to look at the voice that talked with me; and when I had turned, I saw seven candlesticks of gold; ¹³ and, in the midst of the candlesticks, one like the Son of man, clothed to the feet, and girded about his paps with a girdle of gold.

¹⁶ And he had in his right hand seven stars; and from his mouth issued a sharp twoedged sword; and his visage was like the sun shining in its strength.

²⁰ the mystery of these seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven candlesticks of gold. Those seven stars are the angels of the seven churches; and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches.

⁸ And to the angel of the church which is at Smyrna, write: These things saith the First and the Last, he who was dead, and liveth.

¹² And to the angel of the church at Pergamos, write: Thus saith he who hath the sharp two-edged sword;

¹⁸ And to the angel of the church at Thyatira, write: These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet like fine brass:

¹ And to the angel of the church which is at Sardis, write: These things saith he who hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and thou art dead.

⁷ And to the angel of the church which is at Philadelphia, write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, who openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth;

¹⁴ And to the angel of the church which is at Laodicea, write: These things saith the Amen, the witness, the faithful, the true, the Chief of the creation of God:

¹⁰ And the third angel sounded, and there fell from heaven a star, burning like a lamp; and it fell upon a third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of water. ¹¹ And the name of the star was called Wormwood; and a third part of the waters became wormwood; and many persons died from the waters, because they were bitter. ¹² And the fourth angel sounded, and a third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so that the third part of them were dark, and they became dark; and the day did not give light for the third part of it, and the night in like manner.

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

²³ And then will I declare to them; I never knew you. Depart from me, ye doers of evil.

¹³ For they are false legates, crafty workers, and feign themselves to be legates of the Messiah. ¹⁴ And in this there is nothing strange. For if Satan feigneth himself an angel of light, ¹⁵ it is no great thing if his ministers feign themselves ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

⁷ which doth not exist, except as there are some who would disquiet you, and are disposed to pervert the gospel of the Messiah.

¹⁴ and that we might not be children, agitated and turned about by every wind of the crafty doctrines of men who plot to seduce by their subtilty:

³ and we call to mind before God the Father the works of your faith, and the toil of your love, and the patience of your hope in our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

²¹ Explore every thing, and hold fast the good:

¹⁹ But the firm foundation of God standeth; and it hath this seal, The Lord knoweth them who are his: and, Let every one who invoketh the name of our Lord, stand aloof from iniquity.

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous, to forget your works, and your charity which ye have shown in his name, in that ye have ministered and do minister to the saints.

¹ But in the world, there have been also false prophets, as there will likewise be false teachers among you, who will bring in destructive heresies, denying the Lord that bought them; thus bringing on themselves swift destruction. ² And many will go after their profaneness; on account of whom, the way of truth will be reproached. ³ And, in the cupidity of raving words, they will make merchandise of you: whose judgment, of a long time, is not idle; and their destruction slumbereth not.

²¹ I have not written to you, because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and because no falsehood is of the truth. ²² Who is false, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Messiah? And that person is a false Messiah. He that denieth the Father, denieth also the Son.

¹ My beloved, believe not all spirits; but discriminate among spirits, whether they are of God: for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

⁶ But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

⁹ I know thy works, and the affliction, and the poverty, (yet thou art rich;) and the railing which is from them who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are of the congregation of Satan.

¹³ I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where the throne of Satan is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied the faith of me, in those days when my faithful witness, who was slain among you, was made a spectacle where Satan dwelleth. ¹⁴ Yet I have a small charge against thee. Thou hast there them who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, that they might eat the sacrifices of idols, and might commit whoredom. ¹⁵ So also thou hast them who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. In like manner, repent thou.

¹⁹ I know thy works, and love, and faith, and service, and also thy patience; and that these thy latter works are more than the former. ²⁰ But I have a charge against thee, because thou sufferest thy woman Jezabel, who saith she is a prophetess, and teacheth, and seduceth my servants to whoredom, and to eating of the sacrifices of idols. ²¹ And I gave her a season for repentance, and she is not disposed to repent of her whoredom.

⁸ I know thy works. And lo, I have set before thee an open door, which no man can shut: because thou hast a little strength; and thou hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

¹⁵ I know thy works, that thou art neither hot, nor cold; I would that thou wert cold or hot.

²¹ And they compelled a passer-by, Simon the Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus, who was coming from the fields, to bear his cross.

¹⁵ And that on good ground, are those who, with a humble and good heart, hear the word, and retain it, and with patience bring forth fruits.

²⁷ And he that doth not take up his cross and come after me, cannot become a disciple to me.

¹ And he spoke to them a similitude also, that men should pray at all times, and not become weary.

¹⁹ And by your patience, will ye preserve your souls.

²¹ But all these things will they do to you, on account of my name, because they know not him that sent me.

⁷ to them who, by perseverance in good works, seek for glory and honor and immortality, to them he will give life eternal;

³ And not only so, but we also rejoice in afflictions; because we know that affliction perfecteth in us patience; ⁴ and patience, experience; and experience, hope:

²⁵ But if we hope for that which is not seen, we are in patient waiting.

¹² Be joyful in your hope. Be patient under your afflictions. Be persevering in prayer.

⁴ For every thing written of old, was written for our instruction; that we, by patience and by the consolation of the scriptures, might possess hope. ⁵ And may the God of patience and of consolation, grant to you, to think in harmony one with another, in Jesus Messiah;

¹² Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who toil in our Lord. Salute my beloved Persis, who toiled much in our Lord.

⁷ beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all, and endureth all.

¹⁶ that ye also give ear to them who are such; and to every one, that laboreth with us and aideth.

¹ Therefore, we are not weary in this ministry which we have received, according to the mercies that have been upon us:

¹⁶ For this cause we faint not; for though our outward man perish, yet the inner man is renovated day by day.

⁹ We are assiduous, that whether we are absent, or whether at home, we may please him.

⁵ in scourgings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toil, in watching, in fasting;

¹⁵ And we do not glory beyond our measure, in the toil of others: but we have the hope, that when your faith shall mature, we shall be magnified by you, as being within our measure;

²³ If they are ministers of the Messiah, (in defect of understanding, I say it,) I am superior to them: in toils more than they, in stripes more than they, in bonds more than they, in deaths many times.

² And bear ye one another's burdens, that so ye may fulfill the law of the Messiah.

⁹ And while we do what is good, let it not be wearisome to us; for the time will come when we shall reap, and it will not be tedious to us.

¹⁶ so that ye may be to them in place of life; for my glory in the day of the Messiah, that I may not have run in vain or toiled for naught.

³ I also beseech of thee, my true yokefellow, that thou assist those women who toiled with me in the gospel; together with Clement, and with the rest of my helpers, whose names are written in the book of life.

¹¹ and may be strengthened with all strength, according to the greatness of his glory, in all patience and long suffering;

⁹ For ye recollect, brethren, that we labored and toiled, working with our own hands, by night and by day, that we might not be chargeable to any one of you.

¹² And we entreat you, my brethren, that ye recognize them who labor among you, and who stand before your faces in our Lord, and instruct you :

⁵ And may our Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to a patient waiting for the Messiah.

⁸ Neither did we eat bread gratuitously from any of you; but, with toil and weariness, we labored by night and by day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you.

¹³ And my brethren, let it not be wearisome to you, to do what is good.

¹⁰ For on this account, we toil and suffer reproach; because we trust in the living God, who is the life-giver of all men, especially of the believers.

¹⁷ Let the elders who conduct themselves well, be esteemed worthy of double honor; especially they who labor in the word and in doctrine.

¹² and that ye faint not; but that ye be emulators of them who by faith and patience have become heirs of the promise.

¹⁵ And so he was patient, and obtained the promise.

³⁶ For ye have need of patience; that ye may do the pleasure of God, and may receive the promise.

¹ Therefore let us also, who have all these witnesses surrounding us like clouds, cast from us all encumbrances, and sin, which is always prepared for us; and let us run with patience the race that is appointed for us.

³ Behold, therefore, how much he suffered from sinners, from them who are adversaries of their own soul, that ye may not be discouraged, nor your soul become remiss. ⁴ Ye have not yet come unto blood, in the contest against sin. ⁵ And ye have forgotten the monition, which saith to you, as to children, My son, disregard not the chastening of the Lord; nor let thy soul faint, when thou art rebuked by him.

¹³ Therefore, let us also go forth to him, without the camp, clothed with his reproach:

³ For ye know, that the trial of your faith, maketh you possess patience. ⁴ And let patience have its perfect work, so that ye may be complete and perfect, and may lack nothing.

⁷ But, my brethren, be ye patient until the advent of the Lord; like the husbandman, who waiteth for the precious fruits of his ground, and is patient as to them, until he receive the early and the latter rain. ⁸ So also be ye patient, and fortify your hearts; for the advent of our Lord draweth nigh ⁹ Be not querulous one against another, my brethren, lest ye be judged: for lo, the judgment, standeth before the door. ¹⁰ For patience in your afflictions, my brethren, take to you the example of the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ For lo, we ascribe blessedness to them who have borne suffering. Ye have heard of the patience of Job; and ye have seen the result which the Lord wrought for him: for the Lord is merciful and compassionate.

⁶ and to knowledge, perseverance; and to perseverance, patience; and to patience, the fear of God;

⁹ I John, your brother, and partaker with you in the affliction and suffering that are in Jesus the Messiah, was in the island called Patmos, because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus the Messiah.

¹⁰ Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, that is to come on all the inhabited world, to try them who dwell on the earth.

¹² And on account of the abounding of iniquity, the love of many will decline. ¹³ But he that shall persevere to the end, will have life.

⁹ And this I pray for, that your love may still increase and abound, in knowledge, and In all spiritual understanding:

¹³ My brethren, I do not consider myself, as having taken it. But one thing I know, that I forget the things behind me, and reach for the things before me; ¹⁴ and I run straight for the goal, that I may obtain the prize of victory of the call of God from on high, by Jesus the Messiah. ¹⁵ Therefore let those who are perfect, have these views; and if ye differently view any thing, God will reveal that also to you. ¹⁶ Nevertheless, that we may attain to this, let us proceed on in one path, and with one consent.

⁹ Now concerning love to the brethren, ye need not that I should write to you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. ¹⁰ Ye likewise do so, to all the brethren who are in all Macedonia: but I entreat you, my brethren, to be exuberant:

³ We are bound to give thanks to God always, on your account, my brethren, as it is proper; because your faith groweth exceedingly, and, in you all, the love of each for his fellow increaseth.

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous, to forget your works, and your charity which ye have shown in his name, in that ye have ministered and do minister to the saints. ¹¹ And we desire, that each one of you may show this same activity, for the completion of your hope, even to the end:

¹⁴ Yet I have a small charge against thee. Thou hast there them who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, that they might eat the sacrifices of idols, and might commit whoredom.

²⁰ But I have a charge against thee, because thou sufferest thy woman Jezabel, who saith she is a prophetess, and teacheth, and seduceth my servants to whoredom, and to eating of the sacrifices of idols.

¹⁴ And to the angel of the church which is at Laodicea, write: These things saith the Amen, the witness, the faithful, the true, the Chief of the creation of God: ¹⁵ I know thy works, that thou art neither hot, nor cold; I would that thou wert cold or hot. ¹⁶ So, because thou art lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit thee from my mouth. ¹⁷ Because thou sayest, I am rich and affluent, and have no want of any thing; and thou knowest not, that thou art impotent, and miserable, and needy, and blind, and naked;

⁴¹ They say to him: He will utterly destroy them; and will lease the vineyard to other cultivators, who will render him the fruits in their seasons. ⁴² Jesus said to them: Have ye never read in the scripture, The stone which the builders rejected, hath become the head of the corner: this is from the Lord; and it is marvellous in our eyes? ⁴³ Therefore I say to you, That the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a people that will yield fruits.

⁴⁸ But if that servant, being wicked, shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; ⁴⁹ and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall be eating and drinking with drunkards; ⁵⁰ the lord of that servant will come in a day he will not expect, and in an hour he knoweth not, ⁵¹ and will cut him asunder, and will assign him his portion with the hypocrites; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

⁹ What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and transfer the vineyard to others.

¹⁷ And he will go before him, in the spirit and power of Elijah the prophet, and will turn the heart of the fathers unto the children, and them that are disobedient to the knowledge of the righteous, and will prepare a perfect people for the Lord.

⁴⁵ But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite the servants and the maidens of his lord; and shall begin to eat and to drink and be drunk; ⁴⁶ the lord of that servant will come in a day he thinketh not, and in an hour he knoweth not, and will cut him in two; and will assign him his portion with them that are unfaithful.

¹⁶ He will come, and destroy those cultivators, and will lease the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said: This shall not be.

³⁰ And the times of this error God hath made to pass away; and at the present time, he commandeth all men, that each individual, in every place, should repent. ³¹ Because he hath appointed a day, in which he will judge all the earth, with righteousness, by the man whom he hath designated: and he turneth every man to faith in him, in that he raised him from the dead.

⁴ Ye have renounced the Messiah, ye who seek justification by the law: and ye have apostatized from grace.

³² Therefore, recollect ye the former days, those in which ye received baptism, and endured a great conflict of sufferings, with reproach and affliction;

¹² And for this reason I am not wearied in reminding you continually of these things; although ye know them well, and are established in this truth. ¹³ And it seemeth right to me, so long as I am in this body, to excite you by monition;

²⁴ And to him who is able to preserve you faultless, and spotless, and to establish you without a blemish,

² I know thy works, and thy toil, and thy patience, and that thou canst not endure the wicked; and thou hast tried them who say they are legates, and are not; and thou hast found them liars.

¹⁶ Or if not, I will come to thee quickly, and I will war upon them with the sword of my mouth.

¹⁹ I know thy works, and love, and faith, and service, and also thy patience; and that these thy latter works are more than the former.

²¹ And I gave her a season for repentance, and she is not disposed to repent of her whoredom. ²² Behold, I will cast her upon a bed, and them who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of their deeds.

² Awake, and preserve the things that remain, which are ready to die; for I have not found thy works complete before my God. ³ Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard; and observe those precepts, and repent. If then thou wilt not wake up, I will come upon thee as a thief; and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come upon thee.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be emulous therefore, and repent.

²⁰ And the residue of men who were not slain by these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and idols of gold, and of silver, and brass, and stone, and wood, which cannot see, nor hear. ²¹ And they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their whoredom, nor of their thefts.

⁹ And men were scorched with great heat; and men blasphemed the name of God, who hath authority over these plagues; and they repented not, to give glory to him.

⁹ Every one who transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of the Messiah, God is not in him. And he who abideth in his doctrine, he hath the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If any one cometh to you, and bringeth not this doctrine, entertain him not in your house, nor say to him, Joy to thee:

¹⁵ He that hath ears to hear, let him hear!

⁹ He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

⁴³ Then will the righteous shine as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

¹⁵ There is nothing without a man which, by entering him, can pollute him. But that which cometh out of him, that it is that polluteth a man.

⁴³ Jesus said to him: Verily I say to you, That this day thou shalt be with me in paradise.

³³ These things have I said to you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye will have trouble: but, take courage, I have vanquished the world.

¹⁰ But God hath revealed it to us, by his Spirit; for the Spirit exploreth all things, even the profound things of God.

⁴ Now there are diversities of gifts; but the Spirit is one. ⁵ And there are diversities of ministrations; but the Lord is one. ⁶ And there are diversities of energies; but God, who worketh all in all men, is one. ⁷ And to each man, there is given a manifestation of the Spirit, that it may aid him. ⁸ To one, by the Spirit, there is given a word of wisdom; and to another, by the same Spirit, there is given a word of knowledge: ⁹ to another, by the same Spirit, faith: to another, by the same Spirit, gifts of healing: ¹⁰ and to another, miracles: and to another, prophecy: and to another, the discerning of spirits: and to another, divers kinds of tongues: and to another, the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ But all these, worketh that one Spirit; and he distributeth to every one as he pleaseth. ¹² For as the body is one, and in it are many members; and all those members of the body, though many, are one body; so also is the Messiah.

⁴ and he was caught up to Paradise, and heard ineffable words, which it is not permitted a man to utter.

⁴ Because, whoever is born of God, overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, our faith. ⁵ For who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹¹ He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. He that is victorious, shall not be harmed by the second death.

¹⁷ He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that is victorious, will I give to eat of the hidden manna; and I will give him a white counter, and upon the counter a new name written, which no one knoweth but he that receiveth it.

²⁶ And to him that is victorious, and to him that observeth my works unto the end, to him will I give authority, over the nations; ²⁷ and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; and like vessels of pottery, shall they be broken: as I also have received of my Father. ²⁸ And I will give him the morning star. ²⁹ He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

⁵ He that is victorious, shall be so clothed in white robes; and I will not blot out their name from the book of life; and I will confess their name before my Father, and before his angels. ⁶ He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

¹² Him that is victorious, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall not again go out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and of the new Jerusalem which descendeth from heaven from my God, and my own new name. ¹³ He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

²¹ And to him that is victorious, to him will I give to sit with me on my throne, even as I was victorious, and sat down with my Father on his throne. ²² He that hath ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

¹⁰ And I heard a great voice in heaven, which said: Now is there deliverance, and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the dominion of his Messiah: because the Accuser of our brethren is cast out, who accused them day and night before our God. ¹¹ And they overcame him, because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony: and they loved not their life, even to death.

⁹ If any one hath ears, let him hear.

¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven, saying: Write, Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, henceforth: yes, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their toils; for their deeds do accompany them.

² And I saw as it were, a sea of glass mixed with fire: and they, who had been victorious over the beast of prey, and over its image, and over the number of its name, were standing on the sea of glass; and they had the harps of God.

⁷ He that overcometh, shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

² And in the middle of its broad avenue, and near the river, on this side and on that, was the tree of life; which bore twelve sorts of fruits yielding one of its fruits each month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

¹⁴ Blessed are they who do his commandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.

¹⁷ And the Spirit and the bride say, Come thou. And let him that heareth, say, Come thou. And let him who thirsteth, come; and he that is inclined, let him take the living water gratis.

⁸ I am Alpha, also Omega, saith the Lord God; who is, and was, and is to come, the omnipotent.

¹¹ That which thou seest, write in a book, and send to the seven churches, to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I fell at his feet like one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, and said, Fear not: I am the First and the Last; ¹⁸ and who liveth and was dead; and behold, I am alive for ever and ever. Amen. And I have the keys of death and of the unseen world.

¹ To the angel of the church which is at Ephesus write: These things saith he who holdeth all things, and the seven stars, in his right hand; he that walketh in the midst of the seven candlesticks of gold;

¹⁰ Then Jesus said to him: Begone, Satan; for it is written, that thou shalt worship the Lord, thy God; and him only shalt thou serve.

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; and therefore he hath anointed me to proclaim tidings to the poor; and hath sent me to heal the contrite in heart, and to proclaim release to the captives, and sight to the blind; and to send away the contrite with forgiveness of their sins;

²⁰ And he lifted his eyes upon his disciples, and said: Blessed are ye poor; for the kingdom of God is yours.

²¹ Such is he that layeth up treasures for himself, and is not rich in God.

⁶⁵ And many other things they revilingly uttered, and spoke against him.

²² confirming the souls of the disciples, and entreating them to persevere in the faith; and they told them, that it was necessary, through much affliction, to enter into the kingdom of God.

¹¹ And in every synagogue I tortured them, while I pressed them to become revilers of the name of Jesus. And in the great wrath, with which I was filled against them, I also went to other cities to persecute them.

¹⁷ But if thou, who art called a Jew, and reposest thyself on the law, and gloriest in God,

²⁸ For he is not a Jew, who is so in what is external: nor is that circumcision, which is visible in the flesh. ²⁹ But he is a Jew, who is so in what is hidden: and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not from men, but from God.

³ And not only so, but we also rejoice in afflictions; because we know that affliction perfecteth in us patience;

³⁵ What will sever me from the love of Messiah? Will affliction? or distress? or persecution? or famine? or nakedness? or peril? or the sword?

⁶ Not, however, that the word of God hath actually failed. For all are not Israel, who are of Israel.

¹⁰ as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as indigent, yet enriching many; as possessing nothing, yet having all things.

² that in the great trial of their affliction, there was an abounding to their joy, and the depth of their poverty was exuberant in the riches of their liberality.

⁹ For ye know the goodness of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who when he was rich, for your sakes became poor, that by his poverty ye might be made rich.

⁴ For also when we were with you, we forewarned you, that we were to be afflicted; as ye know did occur.

⁶ And since it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense trouble to them that trouble you: ⁷ and you, who are the troubled, he will vivify, with us, at the manifestation of our Lord Jesus the Messiah from heaven, with the host of his angels;

¹³ me I say, who before was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a reviler; but I obtained mercy, because I did it while ignorant and without faith.

¹⁸ and that they do good works, and be rich in well-doings; and be ready to give and to communicate:

⁵ Hear, my beloved brethren; hath not God chosen the poor of the world, but the rich in faith, to be heirs in the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him? ⁶ But ye have despised the poor man. Do not rich men exalt themselves over you, and drag you before the tribunals?

⁹ Behold, I will give them of the congregation of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but lie, behold I will make them to come and do obeisance before thy feet; and to know that I have loved thee.

¹⁷ Because thou sayest, I am rich and affluent, and have no want of any thing; and thou knowest not, that thou art impotent, and miserable, and needy, and blind, and naked; ¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white raiment, to be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not be seen; and put eye-salve on thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

¹⁴ And I said to him: My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who came from great affliction; and they have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

²² And ye shall be hated by every one, on account of my name. But he that shall endure to the end, shall have life.

²⁸ And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but be afraid rather of Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

¹³ But he that shall persevere to the end, will have life.

³⁵ For, whoever will preserve his life, shall lose it; and whoever will lose his life on my account, and on account of my tidings, shall preserve it.

¹³ And ye will be hated of every man, on account of my name. But whoever shall persevere to the end, shall live.

⁴ And to you, my friends, I say: Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and afterwards have nothing more they can do. ⁵ But I will show you, of whom to be afraid: of him who, after he hath killed, hath authority to cast into hell. Yea, say I to you: be afraid of him. ⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two assarii? and not one of them is forgotten before God. ⁷ And as for you, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; for ye are superior to many sparrows.

¹² But before all these things, they will lay hands upon you, and will persecute you, and will deliver you up to councils and to prison, and will arraign you before kings and governors, on account of my name.

¹⁶ And your parents, and your brothers, and your relatives, and your friends, will deliver you up, and cause some of you to die. ¹⁷ And ye will be hated by every one, on account of my name. ¹⁸ But a hair of your head shall not perish. ¹⁹ And by your patience, will ye preserve your souls.

²⁵ He that loveth his life, will lose it; and he that hateth his life, in this world, will preserve it unto life everlasting.

² And when the supper was passed, it had been injected by Satan into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him.

²⁷ And after the bread, then Satan entered into him. And Jesus said to him: What thou doest, do quickly.

²⁴ But my life is accounted by me as nothing, so that I may but finish my course, and the ministration which I have received from our Lord Jesus, to bear testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

¹³ Then Paul answered and said: What do ye, weeping and crushing my heart? For I am prepared, not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of our Lord Jesus Messiah.

²⁵ For every one who engageth in the contest, restraineth his desires in every thing. And they run, to obtain a crown that perisheth; but we, one that perisheth not.

² in the which ye before walked, according to the worldliness of this world, and according to the pleasure of the prince potentate of the air, that spirit which is active in the children of disobedience:

¹² For our conflict is not with flesh and blood, but with principalities, and with those in authority, and with the possessors of this dark world, and with the evil spirits that are beneath heaven.

⁷ I have fought a good combat, I have completed my race, I have preserved my fidelity; ⁸ and henceforth there is preserved for me a crown of righteousness, with which my Lord, the righteous Judge, will recompense me in that day; and not me only, but them also who love his manifestation.

¹² Blessed is the man who endureth temptations; so that when he is proved he may receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.

⁶ wherein ye will rejoice for ever, notwithstanding ye at the present time are pressed a little, by the various trials that pass over you; ⁷ so that the proof of your faith may appear more precious than refined gold that is tested by fire, unto glory and honor and praise, at the manifestation of Jesus the Messiah:

⁴ that when the chief shepherd shall be revealed, ye may receive from him a crown of glory that fadeth not.

⁸ Be sober and guarded, because Satan your adversary, like a lion, roareth, and goeth about, and seeketh whom he may devour.

¹⁰ Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, that is to come on all the inhabited world, to try them who dwell on the earth. ¹¹ I come quickly: hold fast what thou hast, so that no one take thy crown.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, who is called the Deceiver, and Satan, who seduceth all the inhabited world: he was cast upon the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

² And the beast of prey which I saw, was like a leopard; and his feet like those of a wolf, and his mouth like the mouth of lions: and the dragon gave to him his own power and his throne, and great authority.

⁷ And authority was given him over every tribe and people and tongue and nation: and it was given him to wage war with the saints, and to overcome them.

¹⁵ And it was given him to put life into the image of the beast of prey; and to cause that all they who would not worship the image of the beast of prey, should be slain: ¹⁶ and to cause that all, great and small, rich and poor, bond and free, should receive a mark on their right hands, or upon their foreheads; ¹⁷ so that no one might be able to buy or to sell, except those who had the mark of the name of the beast of prey, or the number of his name.

⁷ He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him who is victorious, will I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the paradise of my God.

⁶ Blessed and holy is he that hath part in this first resurrection: over them the second death hath no dominion; but they shall be, nay are, priests of God and of his Messiah; and they will reign with him the thousand years.

¹⁴ And death and the grave were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, namely, this lake of fire.

⁸ But to the timid, and the unbelieving, and to the sinful, and polluted, and to manslayers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and to all false persons, their portion shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.

¹² For the word of God is living, and all-efficient, and sharper than a two-edged sword, and entereth even to the severance of the soul and the spirit, and of the joints and the marrow and the bones, and judgeth the thoughts and reasonings of the heart:

¹⁵ And from his mouth issued a sharp two-edged sword, that with it he could smite the nations; and he will rule the nations with a rod of iron; and he will tread the wine-press of the wrath of God Almighty.

²¹ And the rest were slain by the sword of him that sat on the horse, by that sword which issueth from his mouth: and all the fowls were satiated with their flesh.

²³ And when they persecute you in one city, flee to another: for verily I say to you, Ye shall not have completed all the cities of the house of Israel, till the Son of man shall come.

⁹ And they will deliver you up to tribulation, and will kill you: and ye will be hated by all nations, on account of my name.

¹⁷ And ye will be hated by every one, on account of my name.

¹⁴ And, lo, here also, he hath authority from the chief priests, to bind all them that call on thy name.

²⁰ And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing with them, and performed the pleasure of his slayers, and took charge of the garments of those that stoned him.

⁸ But if any one careth not for them who are his own, and especially for them who are of the household of faith, he hath rejected the faith, and is worse than the unbelievers.

¹³ Let the form of sound words, which thou hast heard from me, abide with thee; with faith and love, in Jesus the Messiah.

¹² and, if we shall have suffered, we shall also reign with him. But if we shall have rejected him, he will reject us.

⁶ but the Messiah as the SON, is over his own house; and we are his house, if we retain unto the end assurance, and the triumph of hope in him.

²³ And let us persevere in the profession of our hope, and not waver; for he is faithful who hath made the promise to us.

⁷ Do they not revile that worthy name, which is invoked upon you?

³ My beloved, while I take all pains to write to you of our common life, it is needful for me to write to you, exhorting you to maintain a conflict for the faith which was once delivered to the saints. ⁴ For some have obtained entrance, who from the beginning were registered beforehand under this condemnation: wicked men, who pervert the grace of God to impurity, and deny him who is the only Lord God and our Lord, Jesus the Messiah.

⁹ I know thy works, and the affliction, and the poverty, (yet thou art rich;) and the railing which is from them who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are of the congregation of Satan. ¹⁰ Be not terrified at any of the things thou art to suffer. For lo, the Accuser will throw some of you into custody, that ye may be tried; and there will be trouble to you ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

²⁴ And I say to you, to the rest that are in Thyatira, to all them who have not received this doctrine, the men who have not known the profound things of Satan, as they say; I lay no other burden upon you: ²⁵ but, what ye have, hold fast until I come.

³ Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard; and observe those precepts, and repent. If then thou wilt not wake up, I will come upon thee as a thief; and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come upon thee.

⁸ I know thy works. And lo, I have set before thee an open door, which no man can shut: because thou hast a little strength; and thou hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. ⁹ Behold, I will give them of the congregation of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but lie, behold I will make them to come and do obeisance before thy feet; and to know that I have loved thee.

¹¹ I come quickly: hold fast what thou hast, so that no one take thy crown.

¹² Here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

⁷ Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! For it must be, that stumbling blocks come. But, woe to the person by whose means the stumbling blocks come.

²⁰ But let word be sent to them, that they keep aloof from the defilement of a sacrifice to idols, and from whoredom, and from what is strangled, and from blood. ²¹ For in every city, from former ages, Moses hath heralds in the synagogues, who read him every sabbath.

²⁹ that ye keep aloof from a sacrifice to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from whoredom. And if ye keep yourselves from these, ye will do well. Be ye steadfast in the Lord.

²⁵ As to those of the Gentiles who have believed, we have written, that they should keep themselves from an idol's sacrifice, and from whoredom, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

³² And why? Because they sought it, not by faith, but by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone:

⁹ And again, David said: Let their table become a snare before them; and let their recompense be a stumbling block.

¹³ Henceforth, judge ye not one another; but rather, judge ye this, that thou erect not a stumbling-block for thy brother.

²¹ It is proper, that we neither eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor do any thing, whereby our brother is stumbled.

²³ But we preach Messiah as crucified; which is a stumbling-block to the Jews, and foolishness to the Gentiles;

¹³ Food is for the belly; and the belly is for food; but God will bring them both to naught. But the body is not for whoredom, but for our Lord; and our Lord for the body. ¹⁴ And God hath raised up our Lord; and he will raise us up, by his power. ¹⁵ Know ye not, that your bodies are the members of the Messiah? Shall one take a member of the Messiah, and make it the member of a harlot? Far be it. ¹⁶ Or know ye not, that whoever joineth himself to a harlot, is one body with her? For it is said, They twain shall be one body. ¹⁷ But he that joineth himself to our Lord, is with him one spirit. ¹⁸ Flee whoredom. For every other sin which a man committeth, is external to his body; but he that committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body.

² But, on account of whoredom, let each have his own wife and let a woman have her own husband.

⁴ As to the eating of the sacrifices of idols, therefore, we know that an idol is nothing in the world; and that there is no other God, but one. ⁵ For although there are what are called gods, whether in heaven, or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,) ⁶ yet to us, on our part, there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord, Jesus the Messiah, by whom are all things, and we also by him. ⁷ But there is not this knowledge in every man; for there are some, who, to the present time, in their conscience, eat it as an offering to idols; and because their conscience is weak, it is defiled. ⁸ But food doth not bring us near to God; for if we eat, we do not abound; and if we eat not, we are not in want. ⁹ See to it, however, lest this your authority become a stumbling-block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if one should see thee in whom there is knowledge, reclining in the temple of idols, will not his conscience, seeing he is a weak person, be encouraged to eat what is sacrificed? ¹¹ And by thy knowledge, he who is feeble, and on account of whom the Messiah died, will perish. ¹² And if ye thus sin against your brethren, and wound the consciences of the feeble, ye sin against the Messiah. ¹³ Wherefore, if food is a stumbling-block to my brother, I will for ever eat no flesh, lest I should be a stumbling-block to my brother.

¹⁸ Behold the Israel who are in the flesh; are not they who eat the victims, participators of the altar? ¹⁹ What then do I say? That an idol is any thing? Or, that an idol's sacrifice is any thing? No. ²⁰ But that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. And I would not, that ye should be associates of demons. ²¹ Ye cannot drink the cup of our Lord, and the cup of demons; and ye cannot be partakers at the table of our Lord, and at the table of demons. ²² Or, would we sedulously provoke our Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than he? ²³ Every thing is in my power; but every thing is not profitable. Every thing is in my power; but every thing doth not edify. ²⁴ Let no one seek his own things, but also the things of his fellow-man. ²⁵ Whatever is sold in the flesh-market, eat ye, without an inquiry on account of conscience: ²⁶ for the earth is the Lord's, in its fullness. ²⁷ And if one of the Gentiles invite you, and ye are disposed to go, eat ye whatever is set before you, without an inquiry on account of conscience. ²⁸ But if any one shall say to you, This pertaineth to a sacrifice; eat not, for the sake of him who told you, and for conscience's sake. ²⁹ The conscience I speak of, is not your own, but his who told you. But why is my liberty judged of, by the conscience of others? ³⁰ If I by grace partake, why am I reproached for that, for which I give thanks? ³¹ If therefore ye eat, or if ye drink, or if ye do any thing, do all things for the glory of God.

⁴ Marriage is honorable in all; and their bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers, God will judge.

⁸ he is a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence. And they stumble at it, because they believe not the word: whereto they were appointed.

¹⁵ and, having left the way of rectitude, they have wandered and gone in the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of iniquity,

¹¹ Woe to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain; and, after the error of Balaam, they have lusted for gain; and, in the rebellion of Korah, they have perished.

⁴ Yet I have a charge against thee, on account of thy former love, which thou hast left.

¹⁵ Without will be dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and manslayers, and idolaters, and every one that loveth and doeth falsehood.

¹⁷ And put on the helmet of rescue; and take hold of the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

⁸ then at length will that evil One be revealed; whom our Lord Jesus will consume by the breath of his mouth, and will bring to naught by the visibility of his advent.

⁵ Therefore remember whence thou hast fallen; and repent, and do the former works: or if not, I will come to thee quickly, and I will remove thy candlestick from its place, except thou repent.

⁷ And, lo, I come quickly: Blessed is he that keepeth the words of the prophecy of this book.

¹¹ And he answered, and said to them: Because, to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

³² But he said to them: I have food to eat, of which ye are ignorant.

⁴⁸ I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ Your fathers ate the manna, in the wilderness, and they died. ⁵⁰ But this is the bread which cometh from heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die. ⁵¹ I am the bread of life, who have come down from heaven: and if a man shall eat of this bread, he will live for ever. And the bread which I shall give, is my body, which I give for the life of the world. ⁵² Then the Jews contended one with another, and said: How can he give us his body to eat? ⁵³ And Jesus said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, That, unless ye eat the body of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life within you. ⁵⁴ But he that eateth of my body, and drinketh of my blood, to him is life eternal; and I will raise him up at the last day ⁵⁵ For my body truly is food, and my blood truly is drink. ⁵⁶ He that eateth my body, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him ⁵⁷ As the living Father hath sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that shall eat me, he also will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down from heaven: not as your fathers ate the manna, and died; whoever shall eat of this bead, will live for ever.

¹⁴ For a man in his natural self, receiveth not spirituals; for they are foolishness to him. Neither can he know them; for they are discerned by the Spirit.

³ for ye are dead; and your life is hidden with the Messiah, in God.

⁶ He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

²² He that hath ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

³ And they sang a new song before the throne, and before the four Animals and the Elders: and no one was able to learn that song, except the hundred and forty and four thousand who were redeemed from the earth.

¹² His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on his head were many diadems; and he had names inscribed; and the name which was written on him, no one knew, except himself. ¹³ And he was clothed with a vesture sprinkled with blood; and his name is called, The Word of God.

¹⁷ And lo, a voice from heaven, which said: This is my beloved Son, in whom I have delight.

³ And the Tempter came, and said to him: If thou art the Son of God, command these stones to become bread. ⁴ But he replied, and said: It is written, that not by bread only, doth man live; but by every word proceeding from the mouth of God. ⁵ Then the Calumniator took him to the holy city, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, ⁶ and said to him: If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, that he will give his angels charge of thee, and in their hands will they sustain thee, lest thou strike thy foot against a stone.

⁵ And while he was yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and there was a voice from the cloud which said: This is my beloved Son, in whom I have pleasure; hear ye him.

⁵⁴ And the centurion, and they that were with him guarding Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that occurred, feared greatly, and said: Verily, this was the Son of God.

³⁵ The angel replied, and said to her: The Holy Spirit will come, and the power of the Most High will overshadow thee; therefore he that is born of thee is holy, and will be called the Son of God.

¹⁴ And the: Word became flesh, and tabernacled with us: and we saw his glory, a glory as of the only begotten from the Father, that he was full of grace and truth.

⁴⁹ Nathaniel answered, and said to him: Rabbi; thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him, should not perish, but should have life eternal.

¹⁸ He that believeth on him is not condemned; but he that believeth not, is already condemned; because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.

³⁵ The Father loveth the Son, and hath given every thing into his hands. ³⁶ He that believeth on the Son, hath life eternal; but he who obeyeth not the Son, shall not see life. but the wrath of God will abide upon him.

²⁵ Verily, verily, I say to you, That the hour cometh, and even now come, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear, will live.

³⁶ do ye say to him, whom the Father, hath sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said to you, I am the Son of God?

³⁶ And as they proceeded on the way, they came to a certain place in which there was water. And the eunuch said: Lo, here is water; what doth forbid, that I should be baptized?

⁴ and was made known as the Son of God, by power, and by the Holy Spirit,) who arose from the dead, Jesus Messiah, our Lord,

³² And, if he spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not give us all things, with him?

¹⁴ And his head and his hair were white, like white wool, like snow; and his eyes, like a flame of fire: ¹⁵ and his feet were like fine brass, flaming in a furnace: and his voice, like the sound of many waters.

² Every branch in me, which yieldeth not fruits, he taketh it away: and that which yieldeth fruits, he cleanseth it, that it may yield more fruits.

¹ If I could speak in every tongue of men, and in that of angels, and there should be no love in me, I should be like brass that resoundeth, or the cymbal that maketh a noise. ² And if there should be in me the gift of prophecy, and I should understand all the mysteries, and every science; and if there should be in me all faith, so that I could move mountains, and love should not be in me, I should be nothing. ³ And if I should feed out to the destitute all I possess; and if I should give my body to be burned; and there should be no love in me, I gain nothing. ⁴ Love is long-suffering, and is kind; love is not envious; love is not boisterous; and is not inflated; ⁵ and doth nothing that causeth shame; and seeketh not her own; is not passionate; and thinketh no evil; ⁶ rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; ⁷ beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all, and endureth all. ⁸ Love will never cease. But prophesyings will end; and tongues will be silent; and knowledge will vanish.

¹⁴ And with all these, join love, which is the girdle of perfection.

⁶ But now, since Timothy hath come to us from among you, and hath informed us respecting your faith and your love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us at all times, and that ye desire to see us, even as we to see you;

⁵ Now the end of the command is love, which is from a pure heart, and from a good conscience, and from true faith.

⁸ And above all things, have fervent love one towards another; for love covereth a multitude of sins.

⁷ and to the fear of God, sympathy with the brotherhood; and to sympathy with the brotherhood, love.

¹⁸ But be ye growing in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Redeemer Jesus the Messiah, and of God the Father: whose is the glory, now, and always, and to the days of eternity. Amen.

² I know thy works, and thy toil, and thy patience, and that thou canst not endure the wicked; and thou hast tried them who say they are legates, and are not; and thou hast found them liars. ³ And thou hast had patience, and hast borne the burden, on account of my name, and hast not fainted. ⁴ Yet I have a charge against thee, on account of thy former love, which thou hast left.

¹³ I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where the throne of Satan is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied the faith of me, in those days when my faithful witness, who was slain among you, was made a spectacle where Satan dwelleth.

²⁰ But let word be sent to them, that they keep aloof from the defilement of a sacrifice to idols, and from whoredom, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

¹⁰ For if one should see thee in whom there is knowledge, reclining in the temple of idols, will not his conscience, seeing he is a weak person, be encouraged to eat what is sacrificed? ¹¹ And by thy knowledge, he who is feeble, and on account of whom the Messiah died, will perish. ¹² And if ye thus sin against your brethren, and wound the consciences of the feeble, ye sin against the Messiah.

¹⁸ Behold the Israel who are in the flesh; are not they who eat the victims, participators of the altar? ¹⁹ What then do I say? That an idol is any thing? Or, that an idol's sacrifice is any thing? No. ²⁰ But that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. And I would not, that ye should be associates of demons. ²¹ Ye cannot drink the cup of our Lord, and the cup of demons; and ye cannot be partakers at the table of our Lord, and at the table of demons.

²⁸ But if any one shall say to you, This pertaineth to a sacrifice; eat not, for the sake of him who told you, and for conscience's sake.

⁴ Or wilt thou abuse the riches of his benevolence, and his long suffering, and the opportunity which he giveth thee? And dost thou not know, that the benevolence of God should bring thee to repentance? ⁵ But, because of the hardness of thy unrepenting heart, thou art treasuring up a store of wrath against the day of wrath, and against the revelation of the righteous judgment of God:

²² And if God, being disposed to exhibit his wrath and to make known his power, in abundance of long-suffering, brought wrath upon the vessels of wrath which were complete for destruction;

²⁰ which were formerly disobedient, in the days of Noah, when the long suffering of God commanded an ark to be made, in hope of their repentance; and eight souls only entered into it, and were kept alive in the waters.

⁹ The Lord doth not procrastinate his promises, as some estimate procrastination; but he is long suffering, for your sakes, being not willing that any should perish, but that every one should come to repentance.

¹⁵ And account the long suffering of the Lord to be redemption; as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom conferred on him, wrote to you;

¹¹ and they blasphemed the God of heaven, on account of their pains and their ulcers, and did not repent of their deeds.

³ No. And I say to you, That all of you also, unless ye repent, will likewise perish.

⁵ No. And I say to you, That except ye resent, ye like them will all of you perish.

²¹ lest, when I come to you, my God should humble me; and I should mourn over many, who have sinned, and have not repented of the impurity, the whoredom, and the lasciviousness, which they have committed.

²⁵ that with mildness he may enlighten those who dispute against him, if perhaps God may give them repentance, and they may acknowledge the truth, ²⁶ and may recollect themselves, and may escape out of the snare of Satan, at whose pleasure they have been held ensnared.

² with whom the kings of the earth have practised whoredom, and the inhabitants of the earth have been inebriated with the wine of her whoredom.

³ For all the nations have drunken of the wine of her wrath; and the kings of the earth have practised whoredom with her; and the merchants of the earth have been enriched by the abundance of her luxuries.

⁹ And the kings of the earth who committed whoredom and were lascivious with her, shall weep, and mourn, and bewail her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

¹⁸ that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains of thousands, and the flesh of valiant men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all the free-born and of slaves, and of the small and the great. ¹⁹ And I saw the beast of prey, and the kings of the earth, and their warriors, that they assembled to wage battle with him who sat on the white horse, and with his warriors. ²⁰ And the beast of prey was captured, and the false prophet that was with him, who did those prodigies before him, whereby he seduced them who had received the mark of the beast of prey and who worshipped his image. And they were both cast alive into the lake of fire, which burneth with sulphur. ²¹ And the rest were slain by the sword of him that sat on the horse, by that sword which issueth from his mouth: and all the fowls were satiated with their flesh.

²⁷ For the Son of man is to come in the glory of his Father, with all his holy angels; and then will he recompense to every man as his deeds are.

²⁴ But Jesus did not confide himself to them; because he knew all men: ²⁵ And he needed not that any one should testify to him respecting any man; for he himself knew what is in man.

¹⁷ Again, Jesus said to him the third time: Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? And it grieved Cephas, that he said to him the third time, Lovest thou me; and he said to him: My Lord, thou understandest all things, thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus said to him: Feed my sheep for me.

²⁴ And when they had prayed, they said: Thou, Lord, knowest what is in the hearts of all, manifest which thou hast chosen of these two,

⁵ But, because of the hardness of thy unrepenting heart, thou art treasuring up a store of wrath against the day of wrath, and against the revelation of the righteous judgment of God: ⁶ who will recompense to every man, according to his deeds; ⁷ to them who, by perseverance in good works, seek for glory and honor and immortality, to them he will give life eternal; ⁸ but to them who are obstinate and obey not the truth, but obey iniquity, to them he will retribute wrath and ire. ⁹ And tribulation and anguish will be to every man that doeth evil; to the Jews first, and also to the Gentiles: ¹⁰ but glory and honor and peace to every one that doeth good; to the Jews first, and also to the Gentiles. ¹¹ For there is no respect of persons with God:

²⁷ and the explorer of hearts, he knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit; because he prayeth for the saints, agreeably to the good pleasure of God.

¹² So then, every one of us must give account of himself to God.

¹⁰ For we are all to stand before the judgment-seat of the Messiah, that each may receive retribution in the body, for what he hath done in it, whether of good, or whether of evil.

⁵ For every man must take up his own load.

¹³ neither is there any creature, which is concealed from before him; but every thing is naked and manifest before his eyes, to whom we are to give account.

¹⁷ And if so be ye call on the Father, with whom is no respect of persons, and who judgeth every one according to his deeds, pass the time of your sojournment with fear;

⁸ And I looked, and lo, a pale horse; and the name of him who sat thereon was Death; and Hades followed after him. And there was given him authority over the fourth part of the earth, to slay with the sword, and by famine, and by death, and by the ravenous beast of the earth.

¹² And I saw the dead, great and small standing before the throne; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged from the things written in the books, according to their deeds.

²⁸ For it was pleasing to the Holy Spirit, and to us, that there should not be laid upon you any additional burden, besides these necessary things:

¹¹ lest Satan should overreach us; for we know his devices.

³ But I fear, lest, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from simplicity towards the Messiah.

¹¹ And put ye on; the whole armor of God, so that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Accuser. ¹² For our conflict is not with flesh and blood, but with principalities, and with those in authority, and with the possessors of this dark world, and with the evil spirits that are beneath heaven.

⁹ For the coming of that evil One, is the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and with all the deceptiveness of iniquity, in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, by which they might have life. ¹¹ Therefore God will send upon them the operation of deception, that they may believe a lie; ¹² and that they all may be condemned, who believe not the truth, but have pleasure in iniquity.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, who is called the Deceiver, and Satan, who seduceth all the inhabited world: he was cast upon the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

¹⁴ And he seduced them that dwell on the earth, to erect an image to the beast of prey who had the wound from a sword and recovered.

³ And if I go to prepare for you a place, I will come again and take you to myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

²² Jesus said to him: If I will, that he abide here until I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me. ²³ And this saying went forth among the brethren, that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say, that he would not die; but, If I will that he abide here until I come, what is that to thee.

²⁸ And one of them whose name was Agabus, stood up and informed them, by the Spirit, that there would be a great famine in all the country. And that famine occurred in the days of Claudius Caesar.

⁹ Let not your love be guileful: but be haters of evil things, and adherers to good things.

⁵ Therefore pronounce not judgments before the time, or until the Lord come, who will pour light upon the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the thoughts of men's hearts: and then will each one have due praise from God.

²⁶ For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye commemorate the death of our Lord, until his advent.

¹⁴ Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, Jesus the Messiah, the son of God, who hath ascended to heaven; let us persevere in professing him.

¹⁰ And the day of the Lord will come, like a thief; in which the heavens will suddenly pass away; and the elements, being ignited, will be dissolved; and the earth and the works in it, will not be found.

⁷ Behold, he cometh with clouds; and all eyes shall see him, and also they who speared him; and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn on account of him. Yes: Amen.

²⁰ He who testifieth these things, saith: Yes, I come quickly. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

²⁸ Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you, that, as for you who have followed me, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory in the new world, ye also shall sit on twelve seats, and shall judge the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹³ And those upon the rock, are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy: but they have no root in them, and their faith is temporary, and in time of temptation they are stumbled. ¹⁴ And that which fell among thorns, are those who hear the word, but are choked by cares, and by riches, and by worldly desires, and bear no fruits. ¹⁵ And that on good ground, are those who, with a humble and good heart, hear the word, and retain it, and with patience bring forth fruits.

²⁹ and I promise to you, as my Father hath promised to me, a kingdom: ³⁰ that ye may eat and drink at the table of my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel.

²⁹ Jesus replied and said to them: This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

³¹ And Jesus said to those Jews who believed on him: If ye continue in my word, ye will be truly my disciples. ³² And ye will know the truth; and the truth will make you free.

³⁷ But in all these things we are victorious, by means of him who loved us.

³ Know ye not, that we shall judge angels? How much more things that are of the world? ⁴ But if ye have a controversy about a worldly matter, seat ye on the bench for you those who are contemned in the church!

⁵ Therefore also I could not be quiet, until I sent to learn your faith; lest the Tempter should have tempted you, and our labor have been in vain.

³⁸ Now the just by my faith, will live: but if he draw back, my soul will not have pleasure in him. ³⁹ But we are not of that drawing-back, which leadeth to perdition; but of that faith, which maketh us possess our soul.

²⁰ Wouldst thou know, O frail man, that faith without works is dead?

¹⁹ From us they went out, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out from us, that so it might be known, that they were not of us.

²³ And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of his Son Jesus the Messiah, and that we love one another as he hath commanded us.

⁵ For who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁵ He that is victorious, shall be so clothed in white robes; and I will not blot out their name from the book of life; and I will confess their name before my Father, and before his angels.

¹² Him that is victorious, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall not again go out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and of the new Jerusalem which descendeth from heaven from my God, and my own new name.

²¹ And to him that is victorious, to him will I give to sit with me on my throne, even as I was victorious, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

⁴ And I saw thrones, and persons sat on them, and judgment was given to them, and to the souls that were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God: and these are they who had not worshipped the beast of prey, nor its image, neither had they received the mark upon their forehead or on their hand; and they lived and reigned with their Messiah those thousand years.

⁵ And there will be no more night; and they have no need of the light of a candle, or of the light of the sun; because the Lord God giveth them light: and they will reign for ever and ever.

²⁷ Every thing is given up by my Father to me. And no one knoweth the Son, except the Father. Also, no one knoweth the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son is pleased to reveal him.

²⁹ and I promise to you, as my Father hath promised to me, a kingdom:

²⁴ Father, I desire that those whom thou hast given me, may also be with me where I am; that they may see that glory of mine which thou hast given me, as thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

⁵ And she brought forth a male child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her child was caught up to God and to his throne.

⁷⁸ through the compassion of the mercy of our God; whereby the day-spring from on high will visit us, ⁷⁹ to give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death; and to guide our feet into the way of peace.

¹⁹ And we have moreover a sure word of prophecy; and ye will do well, if ye look to it as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day shall dawn, and the sun shall arise in your hearts;

¹⁶ I Jesus have sent my angel, to testify to you these things before the churches. I am the root and offspring of David: like the splendid star of the morning.