Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water.

Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.

You ought to say instead, “If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that.”

You also be patient and strengthen your hearts, for the Lord’s return is near.

Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.

You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed – not by perishable things like silver or gold,

Let your beauty not be external – the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes –

For thus an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, will be richly provided for you.

And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. Because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.

If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.

Dear friend, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.

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

‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot!

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

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end!)

Then I heard every creature – in heaven, on earth, under the earth, in the sea, and all that is in them – singing: “To the one seated on the throne and to the Lamb be praise, honor, glory, and ruling power forever and ever!”

The great city was split into three parts and the cities of the nations collapsed. So Babylon the great was remembered before God, and was given the cup filled with the wine made of God’s furious wrath.

And they threw dust on their heads and were shouting with weeping and mourning, “Woe, Woe, O great city – in which all those who had ships on the sea got rich from her wealth – because in a single hour she has been destroyed!”

Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.