I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

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.

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

Demetrius has been testified to by all, even by the truth itself. We also testify to him, and you know that our testimony is true.

Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah’s rebellion.

Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy aloud, and blessed are those who hear and obey the things written in it, because the time is near!

Therefore, repent! If not, I will come against you quickly and make war against those people with the sword of my mouth.

And to the one who conquers and who continues in my deeds until the end, I will give him authority over the nations –

he will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,

But you have a few individuals in Sardis who have not stained their clothes, and they will walk with me dressed in white, because they are worthy.

And I saw a powerful angel proclaiming in a loud voice: “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?”

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

and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.

“Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees until we have put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle.