Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.

yet was rebuked for his own transgression (a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness).

If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

(My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One,

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.

Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

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

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.

But now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will in no way be harmed by the second death.’

“To the angel of the church in Pergamum write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who has the sharp double-edged sword:

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 a third of the creatures living in the sea died, and a third of the ships were completely destroyed.

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.

They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails.

saying to the sixth angel, the one holding the trumpet, “Set free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”

and she fled into the wilderness where a place had been prepared for her by God, so she could be taken care of for 1,260 days.