who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and priceless in God’s sight,

For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. But the Lord’s face is against those who do evil.

Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.

– if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment,

yet even angels, who are much more powerful, do not bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord.

But, according to his promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness truly resides.

If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).

the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three are in agreement.

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Dear friend, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.

I have many things to write to you, but I do not wish to write to you with pen and ink.

Now to the one who is able to keep you from falling, and to cause you to stand, rejoicing, without blemish before his glorious presence,

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day when I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

I turned to see whose voice was speaking to me, and when I did so, I saw seven golden lampstands,

His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.

Then when the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come!”

Then when the Lamb opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come!”