Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.

Dear friend, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.

For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, just as you are living according to the truth.

But you, dear friends – recall the predictions foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

maintain yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.

I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

Immediately I was in the Spirit, and a throne was standing in heaven with someone seated on it!

You have appointed them as a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”

Then when the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come!”

Then when the Lamb opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come!”

Now I heard the number of those who were marked with the seal, one hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed from all the tribes of the people of Israel:

Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

The number of soldiers on horseback was two hundred million; I heard their number.

Then they told me: “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”

After these things I looked, and the temple (the tent of the testimony) was opened in heaven,

(Look! I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy expressed in this book.)

Then Jesus called the disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way.”

When the angels left them and went back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, that the Lord has made known to us.”

Then, turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They replied, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish – unless we go and buy food for all these people.”