Think of how we regard as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and you have seen the Lord’s purpose, that the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Is anyone among you ill? He should summon the elders of the church, and they should pray for him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,

We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

But I hope to see you right away, and we will speak face to face. (1:15) Peace be with you. The friends here greet you. Greet the friends there by name.

Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.

You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.

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!

and has appointed us as a kingdom, as priests serving his God and Father – to him be the glory and the power for ever and ever! Amen.

Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness, and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering, unless they repent of her deeds.

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

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.”

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

Then a measuring rod like a staff was given to me, and I was told, “Get up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and the ones who worship there.

Then the twenty-four elders who are seated on their thrones before God threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and worshiped God

So the beast opened his mouth to blaspheme against God – to blaspheme both his name and his dwelling place, that is, those who dwell in heaven.

Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.

Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was permitted to scorch people with fire.