AND I saw, and lo, a lamb stood upon the mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousand, having the name of his Father inscribed on their foreheads.

Of the

Take heed, brethren, that there be not in any one of you a wicked heart of infidelity, [evident] in departure from the living God:

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, by the eternal Spirit, offered up himself in sacrifice without blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, that we may perform divine service to the living God?

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Then Simon Peter answering said, Thou art the Messiah, the Son of the living God.

And it shall be in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people; there shall they be called the sons of the living God."

For they publish concerning you what manner of entrance we had unto you, and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom power was given for them to hurt the earth and the sea,

An innumerable

Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied also of these men, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with myriads of his saints,

And I looked, and heard the voice of many angels around the throne, and the living beings, and the presbyters, and their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,

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For we have not here an abiding city, but we earnestly seek that which is to come.