And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also.

because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;

I said to him, “My lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow with them.”

But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments; and they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms
And close your doors behind you;
Hide for a little while
Until indignation runs its course.

But as for you, go your way to the end; then you will enter into rest and rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age.”

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,

They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly.

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And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

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White

But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments; and they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.
After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;

That they

And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow with them.”
Come, my people, enter into your rooms
And close your doors behind you;
Hide for a little while
Until indignation runs its course.
But as for you, go your way to the end; then you will enter into rest and rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age.”

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For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;

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