Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

In fact this is why we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

But now in his own time he has made his message evident through the preaching I was entrusted with according to the command of God our Savior.

The reason I left you in Crete was to set in order the remaining matters and to appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.

he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.

So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming high priest, but the one who glorified him was God, who said to him, “You are my Son! Today I have fathered you,”

“Then I said, ‘Here I am: I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’”

And if we put bits into the mouths of horses to get them to obey us, then we guide their entire bodies.

since I know that my tabernacle will soon be removed, because our Lord Jesus Christ revealed this to me.

(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,

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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

I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children living according to the truth, just as the Father commanded us.

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.

Demetrius has been testified to by all, even by the truth itself. We also testify to him, and you know that our testimony is true.

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.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God – the one who is, and who was, and who is still to come – the All-Powerful!