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

that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.

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 you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

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.

Demetrius has been testified to by all, even by the truth itself. We also testify to him, and you know that our testimony is true.

These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.

But you have a few individuals in Sardis who have not stained their clothes, and they will walk with me dressed in white, because they are worthy.

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

(This requires a mind that has wisdom.) The seven heads are seven mountains the woman sits on. They are also seven kings:

Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw (where the prostitute is seated) are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

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

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

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death – the lake of fire.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had ceased to exist, and the sea existed no more.