(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,

But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.

Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.

They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.

Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven

Then a measuring rod like a staff was given to me, and I was told, “Get up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and the ones who worship there.

Now when the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

So the beast opened his mouth to blaspheme against God – to blaspheme both his name and his dwelling place, that is, those who dwell in heaven.

Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was permitted to scorch people with fire.

They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their sufferings and because of their sores, but nevertheless they still refused to repent of their deeds.

Finally the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying: “It is done!”

Then the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo any longer –

The merchants who sold these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep and mourn,

He seized the dragon – the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan – and tied him up for a thousand years.