<p class="bodytext">Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work.<n id="1" /> Let them do this<n id="2" /> with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.

Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!<n id="1" />

and maintain good conduct<n id="1" /> among the non-Christians,<n id="2" /> so that though<n id="3" /> they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Through Silvanus,<n id="1" /> whom I know to be a faithful brother,<n id="2" /> I have written to you briefly, in order to encourage you and testify<n id="3" /> that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast in it.<n id="4" />

Moreover,<n id="1" /> we<n id="2" /> possess the prophetic word as an altogether reliable thing.<n id="3" /> You do well if you pay attention<n id="4" /> to this<n id="5" /> as you would<n id="6" /> to a light shining in a murky place, until the day dawns and the morning star<n id="7" /> rises in your hearts.<n id="8" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you.<n id="1" /> These false teachers<n id="2" /> will<n id="3" /> infiltrate your midst<n id="4" /> with destructive heresies,<n id="5" /> even to the point of<n id="6" /> denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring<n id="7" /> swift destruction on themselves.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; when it comes,<n id="1" /> the heavens will disappear<n id="2" /> with a horrific noise,<n id="3" /> and the celestial bodies<n id="4" /> will melt away<n id="5" /> in a blaze,<n id="6" /> and the earth and every deed done on it<n id="7" /> will be laid bare.<n id="8" />

But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses<n id="1" /> us from all sin.<n id="2" />

So also<n id="1" /> Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns,<n id="2" /> since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire<n id="3" /> in a way similar to<n id="4" /> these angels,<n id="5" /> are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.p>

He held<n id="1" /> seven stars in his right hand, and a sharp double-edged sword extended out of his mouth. His<n id="2" /> face shone like the sun shining at full strength.

When<n id="1" /> I saw him I fell down at his feet as though I were dead, but<n id="2" /> he placed his right hand on me and said: &#8220;Do not be afraid! I am the first and the last,

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;To<n id="1" /> the angel of the church in Thyatira write the following:<n id="2" />p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;This is the solemn pronouncement of<n id="3" /> the Son of God, the one who has eyes like a fiery flame<n id="4" /> and whose feet are like polished bronze:<n id="5" />

But to the rest of you in Thyatira, all who do not hold to this teaching<n id="1" /> (who have not learned the so-called &#8220;deep secrets<n id="2" /> of Satan&#8221;), to you I say: I do not put any additional burden on you.

Therefore, remember what you received and heard,<n id="1" /> and obey it,<n id="2" /> and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never<n id="3" /> know at what hour I will come against<n id="4" /> you.

I will grant the one<n id="1" /> who conquers<n id="2" /> permission<n id="3" /> to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered<n id="4" /> and sat down with my Father on his throne.

The<n id="1" /> first living creature was like a lion, the<n id="2" /> second creature like an ox, the third creature had a face like a man&#8217;s, and the fourth creature looked like an eagle flying.

<t /><p class="bodytext">I looked on when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a thunderous voice,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Come!&#8221;<n id="2" />

Then<n id="1" /> I heard something like a voice from among the four living creatures saying, &#8220;A quart<n id="2" /> of wheat will cost a day&#8217;s pay<n id="3" /> and three quarts of barley will cost a day&#8217;s pay. But<n id="4" /> do not damage the olive oil and the wine!&#8221;p>

Each<n id="1" /> of them was given a long white robe and they were told to rest for a little longer, until the full number was reached<n id="2" /> of both their fellow servants<n id="3" /> and their brothers who were going to be killed just as they had been.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> the third angel blew his trumpet, and a huge star burning like a torch fell from the sky;<n id="2" /> it landed<n id="3" /> on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.