I know that you are enduring patiently and have borne up for my sake and have not wearied.

But I have this against you: you have given up loving one another as you did at first.

Wake up, rally what is still left to you, though it is on the very point of death; for I find nothing you have done is complete in the eyes of my God.

Now remember what you received and heard, hold to it and repent. If you will not wake up, I shall come like a thief; you will not know at what hour I come upon you.

After this I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard talking with me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must come to pass after this."

So I began to weep bitterly because no one had been found fit to open the scroll or look into it;

but one of the Presbyters told me, "Weep not; lo, the Lion of Judah's tribe, the Scion of David, he has won the power of opening the scroll and its seven seals."

the sky was swept aside like a scroll being folded up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.

And I saw another angel rise up from the east, with the seal of the living God; he shouted aloud to the four angels who were allowed to injure the earth and sea,

for the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, guiding them to fountains of living water; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

and the smoke of the incense with the prayers of all the saints rose up from the angel's hand before God.

The first blew, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, falling on the earth; a third of the earth was burnt up, a third of the trees were burnt up, and all the green grass was burnt up.

But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and give up worshipping daemons and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which cannot either see or hear or stir;

After the seven thunders had spoken, I was going to write it down; but I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said, do not write it."

And I was given a reed like a rod, and told, "Rise up and measure the temple of God and the altar, numbering the worshippers;

They have power to shut up the sky, so that no rain falls during the days when they are prophesying; and they have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and also to smite the earth with all manner of plagues as often as they choose.

and heard a loud voice from heaven telling them, "Come up here." So up to heaven they went in a cloud, before the eyes of their enemies.

She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to shepherd all the nations with an iron flail; her child was caught up to God and to his throne,

but the earth came to the rescue of the woman, the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river that the dragon had poured out of his mouth.

The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its waters were dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

After that I saw another angel descend from heaven, great in might; his radiance lit up the earth,

And the kings at the earth who committed vice and wantoned with her shall weep and wail over her, as they watch the smoke of her burning;

And the traders of earth shall weep and wail over her; for now there is none to buy their freights,

Again they repeated, "Hallelujah! And the smoke of her goes up for ever and ever!"

The sea gave up its corpses, Death and Hades gave up their dead, and all were judged by what each had done.

he will wipe every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more ??no more wailing or crying or pain, for the first things have passed away."

And the City needs no sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God illumines it, and the Lamb lights it up.

He said to me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near: