Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

Dear friends, this is already the second letter I have written you, in which I am trying to stir up your pure mind by way of reminder:

Since all these things are to melt away in this manner, what sort of people must we be, conducting our lives in holiness and godliness,

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

And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,

They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth.

Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones.

Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying, “Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,

Therefore write what you saw, what is, and what will be after these things.

But you do have this going for you: You hate what the Nicolaitans practice – practices I also hate.

The first woe has passed, but two woes are still coming after these things!

(These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.)

After these things I looked, and the temple (the tent of the testimony) was opened in heaven,

These kings have a single intent, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.

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

(Look! I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy expressed in this book.)

So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.