Revelation 20 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹ Then I saw an angel coming down from Heaven, with the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. ² He seized the Dragon, the primeval Serpent (who is the 'Devil' or 'Satan'), and bound him in chains for a thousand years. ³ He flung him into the bottomless pit and locked it, and set his seal upon it; that he should not deceive the nations any more, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be let loose for a while. ⁴ Then I saw thrones, and to those who took their seats upon them authority was given to act as judges. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony to Jesus and because of the Message of God, for they had refused to worship the Beast or its image, and had not received the brand on their foreheads and on their hands. They were restored to life, and they reigned with the Christ for a thousand years. ⁵ (The rest of the dead were not restored to life till the thousand years were ended.) This is the First Resurrection. ⁶ Blessed and holy will he be who shares in that First Resurrection. The second Death has no power over them; but they will be priests of God, and the Christ, and they will reign with him for the thousand years. ⁷ When the thousand years are ended, Satan will be let loose from his prison, ⁸ and he will come out to deceive the nations that live in 'the four corners of the earth--Gog and Magog.' He will come to gather them together for battle; and their number will be as great as the sand on the sea-shore. ⁹ They went up over the breadth of the whole earth, and surrounded the camp of Christ's People and the beloved city. Then fire fell from the heavens and consumed them; ¹⁰ and the Devil, their deceiver, was hurled into the lake of fire and sulphur, where the Beast and the false Prophet already were, and they will be tortured day and night for ever and ever. ¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne, and him who was seated on it. 'The earth and the heavens fled from his presence; no place was left for them.' ¹² And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne; and books were opened. Then another book was opened, the Book of Life; and the dead were judged, according to their actions, by what was written in the books. ¹³ The sea gave up its dead, and Death and the Lord of the Place of Death gave up their dead; and they were judged, one by one, each according to his actions. ¹⁴ Then Death and the Lord of the Place of Death were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the Second Death--the lake of fire; ¹⁵ and all whose names 'were not found written in the Book of Life' were hurled into the lake of fire.

³¹ And the demons begged Jesus not to order them away into the bottomless pit.

⁴ Remember, God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them down to Tartarus, and committed them to caverns of darkness, to be kept under guard for judgment.

⁶ and that even those angels, who did not keep to their appointed spheres, but left their proper homes, have been kept by him for the judgment of the Great Day in everlasting chains and black darkness.

¹⁸ the Everliving. I died, and I am alive for ever and ever. And I hold the keys of the Grave and of the Place of the Dead.

¹ Then the fifth angel blew; and I saw a Star that had fallen upon the earth from the heavens, and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. ² He opened the bottomless pit, and from the pit rose a smoke like the smoke of a great furnace. The sun and the air grew dark because of the smoke from the pit.

¹ Then I saw another mighty angel, descending from Heaven. His robe was a cloud; over his head was the rainbow; his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire;

¹ After this I saw another angel, descending from Heaven, invested with great authority; and the earth was illuminated by his splendor.

²⁹ Suddenly they shrieked out: "What do you want with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before our time?"

²⁹ Every one who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or land, on account of my Name, will receive many times as much, and will 'gain Immortal Life.'

⁷ Shrieking out in a loud voice: "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? For God's sake do not torment me!"

²⁰ But, if it is by the hand of God that I drive out demons, then the Kingdom of God must already be upon you. ²¹ When a strong man is keeping guard, fully armed, over his own mansion, his property is in safety; ²² But, when one still stronger has attacked and overpowered him, he takes away all the weapons on which the other had relied, and divides his spoil.

³¹ Now this world is on its trial. Now the Spirit that is ruling this world shall be driven out;

¹¹ As to Judgment, for the Spirit that is ruling this world has been condemned.

²⁰ And God, the giver of peace, will before long crush Satan under your feet. May the blessing of Jesus, our Lord, be with you.

¹⁴ Therefore, since human nature is the common heritage of 'the Children,' Jesus also shared it, in order that by death he might render powerless him whose power lies in death--that is, the Devil--

⁸ Exercise self-control, be watchful. Your adversary, the Devil, like a roaring lion, is prowling about, eager to devour you.

¹¹ They have as their king the Angel of the bottomless pit, whose name, in Hebrew, is 'Abaddon,' while, in Greek, his name is 'Apollyon' (the Destroyer).

⁹ Then the great Dragon, the primeval Serpent, known as the 'Devil' and 'Satan,' who deceives all the world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

¹³ when the Dragon saw that he was hurled down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

¹⁵ Then the Serpent poured water from its mouth after the woman, like a river, so that it might sweep her away.

¹⁷ The Dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to fight with the rest of her offspring-- those who lay to heart the commands of God and bear their testimony to Jesus; and he took his stand on the sea-shore.

² The Beast that I saw was like a leopard; but its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth like the mouth of a lion. The Dragon gave it his power and his throne, and wide dominion.

⁴ and men worshiped the Dragon, because he had given his dominion to the Beast; while, as they worshiped the Beast, they said-- 'Who can compare with the Beast? and who can fight with it?'

²⁴ For false Christs and false Prophets will arise, and will display great signs and marvels, so that, were it possible, even God's People would be led astray.

⁶⁶ So they went made the tomb secure, by sealing the stone, in presence of the guard.

³ Yet I fear that it may turn out that, just as the Serpent by his craftiness deceived Eve, so your minds may have lost the loyalty and purity due from you to the Christ.

¹³ Men of this stamp are false apostles, treacherous workers, disguising themselves as Apostles of Christ! ¹⁴ And no wonder; for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of Light. ¹⁵ It is not surprising, therefore, if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of Righteousness. But their end will be in accordance with their actions.

⁹ For at the Coming of the Lord there will be great activity on the part of Satan, in the form of all kinds of deceptive miracles, signs, and marvels, as well as of wicked attempts to delude-- ¹⁰ to the ruin of those who are on the path to destruction, because they have never received and loved the Truth to their own Salvation. ¹¹ That is why God places them under the influence of a delusion, to cause them to believe a lie;

⁸ But you, dear friends, must never shut your eyes to the fact that, to the Lord, one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

¹⁴ and in consequence of the marvels which it was allowed to perform under the eyes of the Beast, it is able to deceive all who are living on the earth. It bids those who live on the earth to make a statue in honour of the Beast, who, despite the wound from the sword, yet lived.

¹⁴ They are the spirits of demons, and perform marvels; they go to kings all over the world, to collect them for the battle on the Great Day of Almighty God. ¹⁵ ('I am coming like a thief! Happy will he be who is on the watch, and keeps his clothing at hand, so that he will not have to walk about unclothed and let men see his nakedness.') ¹⁶ And the spirits collected the kings at the place called in Hebrew 'Har-Magedon.'

² and with whom all the kings of the earth have had licentious intercourse; while all who live upon the earth have been make drunk by the wine of her licentiousness.'

⁸ The Beast that you saw was, but is not, and is about to rise out of the bottomless pit, and is on its way to destruction. Those who are living on earth will be amazed--those whose names have not been written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world--when they see that the Beast was, but is not, and yet will come.'

¹ Then I saw an angel coming down from Heaven, with the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

⁷ When the thousand years are ended, Satan will be let loose from his prison, ⁸ and he will come out to deceive the nations that live in 'the four corners of the earth--Gog and Magog.' He will come to gather them together for battle; and their number will be as great as the sand on the sea-shore. ⁹ They went up over the breadth of the whole earth, and surrounded the camp of Christ's People and the beloved city. Then fire fell from the heavens and consumed them; ¹⁰ and the Devil, their deceiver, was hurled into the lake of fire and sulphur, where the Beast and the false Prophet already were, and they will be tortured day and night for ever and ever.

¹⁰ "How is it," his disciples asked, "that our Teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?" ¹¹ "Elijah indeed does come," Jesus replied, "and will restore everything; ¹² And I tell you that Elijah has already come, and people have not recognized him, but have treated him just as they pleased. In the same way, too, the Son of Man is destined to undergo suffering at men's hands." ¹³ Then the disciples understood that it was of John the Baptist that he had spoken to them.

²⁸ "I tell you," answered Jesus, "that at the New Creation, 'when the Son of Man takes his seat on his throne of glory,' you who followed me shall be seated upon twelve thrones, as judges of the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹⁰ And then many will fall away, and will betray one another, and hate one another.

¹⁶ But when Herod heard of him, he said--"The man whom I beheaded--John--he must be risen!"

²⁷ He immediately dispatched one of his bodyguard, with orders to bring John's head. The man went and beheaded John in the prison,

¹¹ "How is it," they asked Jesus, "that our Teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?"

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

⁷ Prince Herod heard of all that was happening, and was perplexed, because it was said by some that John must be risen from the dead. ⁸ Some again said that Elijah had appeared, and others that one of the old Prophets had risen again. ⁹ But Herod himself said: "John I beheaded; but who is this of whom I hear such things?" And he endeavored to see him.

³⁰ So that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom, and be seated upon twelve thrones as judges of the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹⁹ In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will still see me; because I am living, you will be living also.

¹⁷ And if children, then heirs-heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, since we share Christ's sufferings in order that we may also share his Glory.

¹⁵ For, if their being cast aside has meant the reconciliation of the world, what will their reception mean, but Life from the dead?

² Do not you know that Christ's People will try the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try the most trivial cases? ³ Do not you know that we are to try angels-to say nothing of the affairs of this life?

¹² If we continue to endure, we shall also share his throne. If we should ever disown him, he, too, will disown us.

⁹ I, John, who am your Brother, and who share with you in the suffering and kingship and endurance of Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos, for the sake of the Message of God and the testimony to Jesus.

²¹ To him who conquers--to him I will give the right to sit beside me on my throne, as I, when I conquered, took my seat beside my Father on his throne.

⁹ And they are singing a new song--'Thou art worthy to take the book and break its seals, for thou wast sacrificed, and with thy blood thou didst buy for God men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation, ¹⁰ and didst make them a Kingdom of Priests in the service of our God, and they are reigning upon the earth.'

⁹ When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the sake of God's Message and for the testimony which they had borne.

³ Then I will give permission to my Two Witnesses, and for those twelve hundred and sixty days they will continue teaching, clothed in sackcloth.'

⁷ As soon as they have completed their testimony, 'the wild Beast that ascends from the bottomless pit will make war upon them and conquer' and kill them.

¹¹ After three days and a half 'the life-giving breath of God entered these men, and they stood up upon their feet,' and a great terror took possession of those who were watching them.

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel blew; and loud voices were heard in Heaven saying-- 'The Kingdom of the World has become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.'

¹¹ Their victory was due to the Blood of the Lamb, and to the Message to which they bore their testimony. In their love of life they shrank not from death.

¹² It exercises all the authority of the first Beast under its very eyes; and it makes the earth and all who are living on it worship that first Beast, whose mortal wound was healed. ¹³ It performs great marvels, even causing fire to fall from the heavens to the earth, before men's eyes; ¹⁴ and in consequence of the marvels which it was allowed to perform under the eyes of the Beast, it is able to deceive all who are living on the earth. It bids those who live on the earth to make a statue in honour of the Beast, who, despite the wound from the sword, yet lived. ¹⁵ It was permitted to breathe life into the image of the Beast, so that the image of the Beast might speak; and it was also permitted to cause all who refused to worship the image of the Beast to be put to death. ¹⁶ High and low, rich and poor, freemen and slaves--it causes a brand to be put on the right hand or on the forehead of every one of them, ¹⁷ so that no one is able to buy or sell, except those that bear this brand--either the name of the Beast or the number indicated by the letters of his name.

¹¹ The smoke from their torture rises for ever and ever, and they have no rest day nor night-- those who worship the Beast and its image, and all who are branded with its name.'

² Then I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mixed with fire; and, standing by this sea of glass, holding the harps of God, I saw those who had come victorious out of the conflict with the Beast and its image and the number that formed its name.

⁶ Blessed and holy will he be who shares in that First Resurrection. The second Death has no power over them; but they will be priests of God, and the Christ, and they will reign with him for the thousand years.

⁵ Night will cease to be. They have no need of the light of a lamp, nor have they the light of the sun; for the 'Lord God will be their light, and they will reign for ever and ever.'

¹⁴ And then you will be happy indeed, since they cannot recompense you; for you shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the good."

¹¹ In the hope that, if I become like him in death, I may possibly attain to the resurrection from the dead.

²⁰ The Beast was captured, and with him was taken the false Prophet, who performed the marvels before the eyes of the Beast, with which he deceived those who had received the brand of the Beast and those who worshiped his image. Alive, they were thrown, both of them, into the fiery lake 'of burning sulphur.' ²¹ The rest were killed by the sword which came out of the mouth of him who rode upon the horse; and all the birds fed upon their flesh.

⁸ and he will come out to deceive the nations that live in 'the four corners of the earth--Gog and Magog.' He will come to gather them together for battle; and their number will be as great as the sand on the sea-shore. ⁹ They went up over the breadth of the whole earth, and surrounded the camp of Christ's People and the beloved city. Then fire fell from the heavens and consumed them;

¹⁵ One of the guests heard what he said and exclaimed: "Happy will he be who shall eat bread in the Kingdom of God!"

¹ I entreat you, then, Brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, for this is your rational worship.

⁵ and, as living stones, form yourselves into a spiritual House, to be a consecrated Priesthood, for the offering of spiritual sacrifices that will be acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁹ But you are 'a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, God's own People,' entrusted with the proclamation of the goodness of him who called you out of Darkness into his wonderful Light.

⁶ and he made us ' a Kingdom of Priests in the service of God,' his Father! --to Him be ascribed glory and dominion for ever. Amen.

¹¹ Let him who has ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the Churches. He who conquers shall suffer no hurt from the Second Death."

¹⁰ and didst make them a Kingdom of Priests in the service of our God, and they are reigning upon the earth.'

¹³ Then I heard a voice from Heaven saying 'Write-- "Blessed are the dead who from this hour die in union with the Lord." "Yes," answers the Spirit, "that they may rest from their toil. Their good deeds go with them."'

⁴ Then I saw thrones, and to those who took their seats upon them authority was given to act as judges. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony to Jesus and because of the Message of God, for they had refused to worship the Beast or its image, and had not received the brand on their foreheads and on their hands. They were restored to life, and they reigned with the Christ for a thousand years. ⁵ (The rest of the dead were not restored to life till the thousand years were ended.) This is the First Resurrection.

¹⁴ Then Death and the Lord of the Place of Death were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the Second Death--the lake of fire;

⁸ But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death.'

⁷ and he said "I will come quickly." Blessed will he be who lays to heart the words of the prophecy contained in this book.'

² He seized the Dragon, the primeval Serpent (who is the 'Devil' or 'Satan'), and bound him in chains for a thousand years.

¹² And so from one man--and that when his powers were dead--there sprang a people as numerous 'as the stars in the heavens or the countless grains of sand upon the shore.'

¹⁴ They are the spirits of demons, and perform marvels; they go to kings all over the world, to collect them for the battle on the Great Day of Almighty God.

³ He flung him into the bottomless pit and locked it, and set his seal upon it; that he should not deceive the nations any more, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be let loose for a while.

¹⁰ and the Devil, their deceiver, was hurled into the lake of fire and sulphur, where the Beast and the false Prophet already were, and they will be tortured day and night for ever and ever.

¹⁶ And to this Simon Peter answered: "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God." ¹⁷ "Blessed are you, Simon, Son of Jonah," Jesus replied. "For no human being has revealed this to you, but my Father who is in Heaven. ¹⁸ Yes, and I say to you, Your name is 'Peter--a Rock, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the Powers of the Place of Death shall not prevail over it.

⁵⁴ When James and John saw this, they said: "Master, do you wish us to call for fire to come down from the heavens and consume them?"

²⁹ But, on the very day on which Lot came out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from the skies and destroyed them all.

⁴³ For a time is coming upon you when your enemies will surround you with earthworks, and encircle you, and hem you in on all sides;

²⁰ As soon, however, as you see Jerusalem surrounded by armed camps, then you may know that the hour of her desecration is at hand.

⁸ Then he will 'inflict punishment upon those who refuse to know God, and upon those who turn a deaf ear' to the Good News of Jesus, our Lord.

¹³ Therefore let us go out to him 'outside the camp,' bearing the same reproaches as he;

⁵ When any one wishes to harm them, 'fire comes from their mouths and consumes their enemies'; and whoever wishes to harm them will, in this way, inevitably perish.

¹³ It performs great marvels, even causing fire to fall from the heavens to the earth, before men's eyes;

⁴¹ Then he will say to those on his left 'Go from my presence, accursed, into the 'aeonian fire which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels.'

⁴⁶ And these last will go away 'into aeonian punishment,' but the righteous 'into aeonian life.'"

¹⁰ that man shall drink the maddening wine of God that has been poured unmixed into the cup of his Wrath, and he shall be tortured with fire and sulphur before the eyes of the holy angels and before the eyes of the Lamb. ¹¹ The smoke from their torture rises for ever and ever, and they have no rest day nor night-- those who worship the Beast and its image, and all who are branded with its name.'

¹³ And I saw three foul spirits, like frogs, come from the mouth of the Dragon and from the mouth of the Beast and from the mouth of the false Prophet.

²⁰ The Beast was captured, and with him was taken the false Prophet, who performed the marvels before the eyes of the Beast, with which he deceived those who had received the brand of the Beast and those who worshiped his image. Alive, they were thrown, both of them, into the fiery lake 'of burning sulphur.'

² He seized the Dragon, the primeval Serpent (who is the 'Devil' or 'Satan'), and bound him in chains for a thousand years. ³ He flung him into the bottomless pit and locked it, and set his seal upon it; that he should not deceive the nations any more, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be let loose for a while.

⁸ and he will come out to deceive the nations that live in 'the four corners of the earth--Gog and Magog.' He will come to gather them together for battle; and their number will be as great as the sand on the sea-shore.

¹⁴ Then Death and the Lord of the Place of Death were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the Second Death--the lake of fire; ¹⁵ and all whose names 'were not found written in the Book of Life' were hurled into the lake of fire.

³⁵ The heavens and the earth will pass away, but my words shall never pass away.

³¹ When the Son of Man has come in his glory and all the angels with him, then he 'will take his seat on his throne of glory';

³⁰ True, God looked with indulgence on the days of men's ignorance, but now he is announcing to every one everywhere the need for repentance, ³¹ Because he has fixed a day on which he intends to 'judge the world with justice,' by a man whom he has appointed--and of this he has given all men a pledge by raising this man from the dead."

⁵ Hard-hearted and impenitent as you are, you are storing up for yourself Wrath on the 'Day of Wrath,' when God's justice as a judge will be revealed;

⁷ But the present heavens and earth, by the same fiat, have been reserved for fire, and are being kept for the day of the judgment and destruction of the godless.

¹⁰ The Day of the Lord will come like a thief; and on that day the heavens will pass away with a crash, the elements will be burnt up and dissolved, and the earth and all that is in it will be disclosed. ¹¹ Now, since all these things are in the process of dissolution, think what you yourselves ought to be--what holy and pious lives you ought to lead, ¹² while you await and hasten the coming of the Day of God. At its coming the heavens will be dissolved in fire, and the elements melted by heat,

² Immediately after this I fell into a trance. There stood a throne in Heaven, and on the throne was One seated.

¹⁴ The heavens disappeared like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

⁸ he did not prevail; and there was no place left for them any longer in the heavens.

²⁰ and every island vanished, and the mountains disappeared.

¹¹ Then I saw that Heaven lay open. There appears a white horse; its rider is called 'Faithful' and 'True'; righteously does he judge and make war.

¹ Then I saw new heavens and a new earth. The former heavens and the former earth had passed away; and the sea has ceased to be.

²⁷ For the Son of Man is to come in his Father's Glory, with his angels, and then he 'will give to every man what his actions deserve.'

²⁰ Yet do not rejoice in the fact that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names have been enrolled in Heaven."

²⁸ Do not wonder at this; for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice, ²⁹ And will come out--those who have done good rising to Life, and those who have lived evil lives rising for condemnation.

²⁵ "I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus. "He that believes in me shall live, though he die; ²⁶ And he who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

¹⁵ And I have a hope that rests in God--a hope which they also cherish--that there will one day be a resurrection of good and bad alike.

⁶ For 'he will give to every man what his actions deserve.'

¹⁰ I would ask the one man 'Why do you judge your Brother?' And I would ask the other 'Why do you despise your Brother?' For we shall all stand before the Bar of God. ¹¹ For Scripture says--'"As surely as I live," says the Lord, "every knee shall bend before me; and every tongue shall make acknowledgment to God."' ¹² So, then, each one of us will have to render account of himself to God.

⁵ Therefore do not pass judgment before the time, but wait till the Lord comes. He will throw light upon what is now dark and obscure, and will reveal the motives in men's minds; and then every one will receive due praise from God.

²¹ For, since through a man there is death, so, too, through a man there is a resurrection of the dead. ²² For, as through union with Adam all men die, so through union with the Christ will all be made to live. ²³ But each in his proper order-Christ the first-fruits; afterwards, at his Coming, those who belong to the Christ.

¹⁰ For at the Bar of the Christ we must all appear in our true characters, that each may reap the results of the life which he has lived in the body, in accordance with his actions--whether good or worthless.

³ Yes, and I ask you, my true comrade, to help them, remembering that they toiled by my side in spreading the Good News; and so, too, did Clement and my other fellow-workers, whose names are 'in the Book of Life.'

¹⁵ This we tell you on the authority of the Lord--that those of us who are still living at the Coming of the Lord will not anticipate those who have passed to their rest. ¹⁶ For, with a loud summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the trumpet-call of God, the Lord himself will come down from Heaven. ¹⁷ Then those who died in union with Christ shall rise first; and afterwards we who are still living shall be caught up in the clouds, with them, to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall be for ever with the Lord.

²³ I will also put her children to death; and all the Churches shall learn that I am he who 'looks into the hearts and souls of men'; and I will give to each one of you what his life deserves.

⁵ He who conquers shall be clothed in these white robes, and I will not 'strike his name out of the Book of Life'; but I will own him before my Father, and before his angels.

¹⁸ The nations were enraged, and thy Wrath fell upon them; the time came for the dead to be judged, and for thee to give the reward to thy servants the Prophets, and to the People of Christ, and to those who reverence thy Name--the high and the low alike--and to destroy those who are destroying the earth.'

⁸ All who are living on earth will worship it--all whose names have not been written in the Lamb's Book of Life, the Lamb that has been sacrificed from the foundation of the world.

⁵ and from the throne there came a voice which said-- 'Praise our God all you who serve him, You who reverence him, both high and low.'

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne, and him who was seated on it. 'The earth and the heavens fled from his presence; no place was left for them.'

¹³ The sea gave up its dead, and Death and the Lord of the Place of Death gave up their dead; and they were judged, one by one, each according to his actions.

²⁷ 'Never shall any unhallowed thing enter it,' nor he whose life is shameful and false, but only 'those whose names have been written in the Lamb's Book of Life.'

¹² ('I will come quickly. I bring my rewards with me, to give to each man what his actions deserve.

⁵⁰ This I say, Brothers-Flesh and blood can have no share in the Kingdom of God, nor can the perishable share the imperishable. ⁵¹ Listen, I will tell you God's hidden purpose! We shall not all have passed to our rest, but we shall all be transformed-in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, ⁵² At the last trumpet-call; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise immortal, and we, also, shall be transformed. ⁵³ For this perishable body of ours must put on an imperishable form, and this dying body a deathless form. ⁵⁴ And, when this dying body has put on its deathless form, then indeed will the words of Scripture come true- ⁵⁵ 'Death has been swallowed up in victory! Where, O Death, is thy victory? Where, O Death, is thy sting?' ⁵⁶ It is sin that gives death its sting, and it is the Law that gives sin its power. ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. ⁵⁸ Therefore, my dear Brothers, stand firm, unshaken, always diligent in the Lord's work, for you know that, in union with him, your toil is not in vain.

⁸ And in my vision I saw a grey horse. His rider's name was Death, and the Lord of the Place of Death rode behind him; and power was given them over the fourth part of the earth, so that they might 'destroy with sword and famine and death, and by means of the wild beasts of the earth.'

¹² And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne; and books were opened. Then another book was opened, the Book of Life; and the dead were judged, according to their actions, by what was written in the books.

²⁶ The last enemy to be overthrown is death;

⁵³ For this perishable body of ours must put on an imperishable form, and this dying body a deathless form.

¹⁵ and all whose names 'were not found written in the Book of Life' were hurled into the lake of fire.

⁴ and he will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death, nor will there be any more grief or crying or pain. The old order has passed away.'

⁴² And 'will throw them into the fiery furnace,' where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

⁵⁰ And 'will throw them into the fiery furnace,' where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

⁴³ If your hand proves a snare to you, cut it off. It would be better for you to enter the Life maimed, than to have both your hands and go into the Pit, into the inextinguishable fire. ⁴⁴ OMITTED TEXT ⁴⁵ If your foot proves a snare to you, cut it off. It would be better for you to enter the Life lame, than to have both your feet and be thrown into the Pit. ⁴⁶ OMITTED TEXT ⁴⁷ If your eye proves a snare to you, tear it out. It would be better for you to enter the Kingdom of God with only one eye, than to have both eyes and be thrown into the Pit, ⁴⁸ where 'their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out.'

¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he who refuses to believe will be condemned.

¹⁸ He who believes in him escapes condemnation, while he who does not believe in him is already condemned, because he has not believed in the only Son of God. ¹⁹ The ground of his condemnation is this, that though the Light has come into the world, men preferred the darkness to the Light, because their actions were wicked.

³⁶ He who believes in the Son has Immortal Life, while he who rejects the Son will not even see that Life, but remains under 'God's displeasure.'

⁶ Jesus answered: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me.

¹² And Salvation is in him alone; for there is no other Name in the whole world, given to men, to which we must look for our Salvation."

³ how can we, of all people, expect to escape, if we disregard so great a Salvation? It was the Master who at the outset spoke of this Salvation, and its authority was confirmed for us by those who heard him,

²⁵ Beware how you refuse to hear him who is speaking. For, if the Israelites did not escape punishment, when they refused to listen to him who taught them on earth the divine will, far worse will it be for us, if we turn away from him who is teaching us from Heaven.

¹¹ And that testimony is that God gave us Immortal Life, and that this Life is in his Son. ¹² He who finds the Son finds Life; he who does not find the Son of God does not find Life.