Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.

For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps.

like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so.

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.

Therefore, dear friends, since you are waiting for these things, strive to be found at peace, without spot or blemish, when you come into his presence.

But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.

And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.

Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not give him any greeting,

to the only God our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time, and now, and for all eternity. Amen.

And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look into it.

saying, “Amen! Praise and glory, and wisdom and thanksgiving, and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!”

And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.

Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them: “Come up here!” So the two prophets went up to heaven in a cloud while their enemies stared at them.

with these words: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the All-Powerful, the one who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and begun to reign.