For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).

Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,

I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth.

They have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.

I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not acknowledge us.

For they said to you, “In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.”

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

Now to the one who is able to keep you from falling, and to cause you to stand, rejoicing, without blemish before his glorious presence,

and in the midst of the lampstands was one like a son of man. He was dressed in a robe extending down to his feet and he wore a wide golden belt around his chest.

His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.

But you do have this going for you: You hate what the Nicolaitans practice – practices I also hate.

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

And the one seated on it was like jasper and carnelian in appearance, and a rainbow looking like it was made of emerald encircled the throne.

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

The sky was split apart like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

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.