Resist him, strong in your faith, because you know that your brothers and sisters throughout the world are enduring the same kinds of suffering.

I can pray this because his divine power has bestowed on us everything necessary for life and godliness through the rich knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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

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 these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

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

Wake up then, and strengthen what remains that was about to die, because I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.

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

“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.”

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

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

(Look! I will come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays alert and does not lose his clothes so that he will not have to walk around naked and his shameful condition be seen.)

Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw (where the prostitute is seated) are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures threw themselves to the ground and worshiped God, who was seated on the throne, saying: “Amen! Hallelujah!”

(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection.