For he received honor and glory from God the Father, when that<n id="1" /> voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory: &#8220;This is my dear Son, in whom I am delighted.&#8221;<n id="2" />

I have written to you, children, that<n id="1" /> you have known the Father.<n id="2" /> I have written to you, fathers, that<n id="3" /> you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that<n id="4" /> you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.p>

<p class="bodytext">(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that<n id="1" /> we should be called God&#8217;s children &#8211; and indeed<n id="2" /> we are!<n id="3" /> For this reason<n id="4" /> the world does not know us: because it did not know him.<n id="5" />

Dear friends, we are God&#8217;s children now, and what we will be<n id="1" /> has not yet been revealed. We<n id="2" /> know that<n id="3" /> whenever<n id="4" /> it<n id="5" /> is revealed<n id="6" /> we will be like him, because<n id="7" /> we will see him just as he is.<n id="8" />

The one who practices sin is of the devil,<n id="1" /> because the devil has been sinning<n id="2" /> from the beginning. For this purpose<n id="3" /> the Son of God was revealed: to destroy<n id="4" /> the works of the devil.

But whoever has the world&#8217;s possessions<n id="1" /> and sees his fellow Christian<n id="2" /> in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God<n id="3" /> reside<n id="4" /> in such a person?<n id="5" />p>

but<n id="1" /> every spirit that does not confess<n id="2" /> Jesus<n id="3" /> is not from God, and this is the spirit<n id="4" /> of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.p>

By this<n id="1" /> the love of God<n id="2" /> is revealed in us:<n id="3" /> that God has sent his one and only<n id="4" /> Son into the world so that we may live through him.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ<n id="1" /> has been fathered<n id="2" /> by God, and everyone who loves the father<n id="3" /> loves the child fathered by him.<n id="4" />

because<n id="1" /> everyone<n id="2" /> who has been fathered by God<n id="3" /> conquers<n id="4" /> the world.<n id="5" />p><t /><p class="bodytext">This<n id="6" /> is the conquering power<n id="7" /> that has conquered<n id="8" /> the world: our faith.

For certain men<n id="1" /> have secretly slipped in among you<n id="2" /> &#8211; men who long ago<n id="3" /> were marked out<n id="4" /> for the condemnation I am about to describe<n id="5" /> &#8211; ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil<n id="6" /> and who deny our only Master<n id="7" /> and Lord,<n id="8" /> Jesus Christ.p>

<p class="bodytext">I, John, your brother and the one who shares<n id="1" /> with you in the persecution, kingdom, and endurance that<n id="2" /> are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.<n id="3" />

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers,<n id="1" /> I will permit<n id="2" /> him to eat from the tree of life that is<n id="3" /> in the paradise of God.&#8217;<n id="4" />p>

<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" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;To<n id="1" /> the angel of the church in Laodicea write the following:<n id="2" />p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;This is the solemn pronouncement of<n id="3" /> the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator<n id="4" /> of God&#8217;s creation:

From<n id="1" /> the throne came out flashes of lightning and roaring<n id="2" /> and crashes of thunder. Seven flaming torches, which are the seven spirits of God,<n id="3" /> were burning in front of the throne

<p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed<n id="2" /> because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given.

Then<n id="1" /> I saw another angel ascending from the east,<n id="2" /> who had<n id="3" /> the seal<n id="4" /> of the living God. He<n id="5" /> shouted out with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given permission<n id="6" /> to damage the earth and the sea:<n id="7" />

For this reason they are before the throne of God, and they serve<n id="1" /> him day and night in his temple, and the one seated on the throne will shelter them.<n id="2" />

They<n id="1" /> were told<n id="2" /> not to damage the grass of the earth, or any green plant or tree, but only those people<n id="3" /> who did not have the seal of God on their<n id="4" /> forehead.