The church in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you, and so does Mark, my son.

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men,

I am writing to you, little children, that your sins have been forgiven because of his name.

Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood – not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

From the elder, to Gaius my dear brother, whom I love in truth.

For they have gone forth on behalf of “The Name,” accepting nothing from the pagans.

Therefore we ought to support such people, so that we become coworkers in cooperation with the truth.

save others by snatching them out of the fire; have mercy on others, coupled with a fear of God, hating even the clothes stained by the flesh.

But I have this against you: You have departed from your first love!

‘I know where you live – where Satan’s throne is. Yet you continue to cling to my name and you have not denied your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was killed in your city where Satan lives.

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.’

And the four living creatures were saying “Amen,” and the elders threw themselves to the ground and worshiped.

Then I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had conquered the beast and his image and the number of his name. They were standing by the sea of glass, holding harps given to them by God.

Now the spirits gathered the kings and their armies to the place that is called Armageddon in Hebrew.

The beast you saw was, and is not, but is about to come up from the abyss and then go to destruction. The inhabitants of the earth – all those whose names have not been written in the book of life since the foundation of the world – will be astounded when they see that the beast was, and is not, but is to come.

So I threw myself down at his feet to worship him, but he said, “Do not do this! I am only a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony about Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

From his mouth extends a sharp sword, so that with it he can strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod, and he stomps the winepress of the furious wrath of God, the All-Powerful.

After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw when it rose led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.