We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

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

Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness, and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering, unless they repent of her deeds.

And to the one who conquers and who continues in my deeds until the end, I will give him authority over the nations –

And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

“Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees until we have put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

Then one of the elders asked me, “These dressed in long white robes – who are they and where have they come from?”

They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle.

Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a single voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God,

Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour, day, month, and year were set free to kill a third of humanity.

The beast was permitted to go to war against the saints and conquer them. He was given ruling authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation,

He performed momentous signs, even making fire come down from heaven in front of people

Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.

Now I heard the angel of the waters saying: “You are just – the one who is and who was, the Holy One – because you have passed these judgments,

The beast that was, and is not, is himself an eighth king and yet is one of the seven, and is going to destruction.

As for the woman you saw, she is the great city that has sovereignty over the kings of the earth.”

(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection.

The wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men to kill all the children in Bethlehem and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.

He said, “Yes.” When Peter came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tolls or taxes – from their sons or from foreigners?”