Greet Andronicus and Junia,<n id="1" /> my compatriots<n id="2" /> and my fellow prisoners. They are well known<n id="3" /> to the apostles,<n id="4" /> and they were in Christ before me.

Yes, I say also to you, true companion,<n id="1" /> help them. They have struggled together in the gospel ministry<n id="2" /> along with me and Clement and my other coworkers, whose names are in the book of life.

I recall<n id="1" /> your sincere faith<n id="2" /> that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure<n id="3" /> is in you.p>

The place where they serve is<n id="1" /> a sketch<n id="2" /> and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, &#8220;<b><i>See that you make everything according to the designi>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>shown to you on the mountaini>b>.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<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.

and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce<n id="1" /> to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us).<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">(Look! <i>He is returning with the cloudsi>,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and <i>every eye will see him,i>p> <p class="poetry"><i>eveni><n id="2" /> <i>those who pierced himi>,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and all the tribes<n id="4" /> on the earth will mourn because<n id="5" /> of him.p> <p class="poetry">This will certainly come to pass!<n id="6" /> Amen.)<n id="7" />p>

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.

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.

The<n id="1" /> ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but will receive ruling authority<n id="2" /> as kings with the beast for one hour.

<p class="poetry">because his judgments are true and just.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For he has judged<n id="2" /> the great prostitutep> <p class="poetry">who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality,p> <p class="poetry">and has avenged the blood of his servants<n id="3" /> poured out by her own hands!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

After they had passed the first and second guards,<n id="1" /> they came to the iron<n id="2" /> gate leading into the city. It<n id="3" /> opened for them by itself,<n id="4" /> and they went outside and walked down one narrow street,<n id="5" /> when at once the angel left him.

So do not let them persuade you to do this,<n id="1" /> because more than forty of them<n id="2" /> are lying in ambush<n id="3" /> for him. They<n id="4" /> have bound themselves with an oath<n id="5" /> not to eat or drink anything<n id="6" /> until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request.&#8221;<n id="7" />

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> I saw thrones and seated on them were those who had been given authority to judge.<n id="2" /> I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. These<n id="3" /> had not worshiped the beast or his image and had refused to receive his mark on their forehead or hand. They<n id="4" /> came to life<n id="5" /> and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.