And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.

For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

(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,

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian – is not of God.

but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.

Because you say, “I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing,” but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,

Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it on the earth, and there were crashes of thunder, roaring, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

If anyone is meant for captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed by the sword, then by the sword he must be killed. This requires steadfast endurance and faith from the saints.

but nothing ritually unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness.

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael. Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first of those who live in tents and keep livestock.

When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.

The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.