Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

The smoke coming from the incense, along with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand.

This requires the steadfast endurance of the saints – those who obey God’s commandments and hold to their faith in Jesus.

because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.

He is dressed in clothing dipped in blood, and he is called the Word of God.

The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

The city possesses the glory of God; its brilliance is like a precious jewel, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper.

And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe.

Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.”

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Then Jesus said to him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written: ‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”

Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, won’t he clothe you even more, you people of little faith?

They cried out, “Son of God, leave us alone! Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

He answered them, “And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

As a result, the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.