A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?

For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice.

But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

From Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those temporarily residing abroad (in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, the province of Asia, and Bithynia) who are chosen

This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials.

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

Be subject to every human institution for the Lord’s sake, whether to a king as supreme

or to governors as those he commissions to punish wrongdoers and praise those who do good.

And he must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.

Above all, you do well if you recognize this: No prophecy of scripture ever comes about by the prophet’s own imagination,

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men,

Nevertheless you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.

Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

From the elder, to Gaius my dear brother, whom I love in truth.

For they have gone forth on behalf of “The Name,” accepting nothing from the pagans.

The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Then I saw standing in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb that appeared to have been killed. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

And the four living creatures were saying “Amen,” and the elders threw themselves to the ground and worshiped.

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the skins burst and the wine is spilled out and the skins are destroyed. Instead they put new wine into new wineskins and both are preserved.”