Then I saw another powerful angel come down from heaven. He was dressed in a cloud, and there was a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like columns of fire.

Then everyone who was seated in the Council glared at him and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

When the second angel blew his trumpet, something like a huge mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea. One-third of the sea turned into blood,

When the third angel blew his trumpet, a huge star blazing like a torch fell from heaven. It fell on one-third of the rivers and on the springs of water.

The second angel poured his bowl into the sea. It became like the blood of a dead body, and every living thing in the sea died.

Then a powerful angel picked up a stone that was like a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "The great city Babylon will be thrown down violently and will never be found again.

But at night the angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and led them out. The angel told them,

Then the angel told him, "Tuck in your shirt and put on your sandals!" He did this. Then the angel told him, "Put on your coat and follow me!"

From the altar came another angel who had authority over fire. He called out in a loud voice to the angel who had the sharp sickle, "Swing your sharp sickle, and gather the bunches of grapes from the vine of the earth, because those grapes are ripe."

The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature was like an ox, the third living creature had a face like a human, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display in last place, like men condemned to death. We have become a spectacle for the world, for angels, and for people to stare at.

because in the resurrection, people neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

When people rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

Nor can they die anymore, because they are like the angels and, since they share in the resurrection, are God's children.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways.

But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, "Though you are a Jew, you have been living like a gentile and not like a Jew. So how can you insist that the gentiles must live like Jews?"

I saw another angel coming from the east having the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been permitted to harm the land and sea,

The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were victor's crowns that looked like gold, and their faces were like human faces.

It told the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are held at the great Euphrates River."

The beast that I saw was like a leopard. Its feet were like bear's feet, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. The dragon gave it his power, his throne, and complete authority.

Then I heard a sound from heaven like that of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The sound I heard was like harpists playing on their harps.

Then I heard what sounded like the voice of a large crowd, like the sound of raging waters, and like the sound of powerful thunderclaps, saying, "Hallelujah! The Lord our God, the Almighty, is reigning.

This was the passage of Scripture he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led away to be slaughtered, and like a lamb is silent before its shearer, so he does not open his mouth.

For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

because he was teaching them like a person who had authority, and not like their scribes.

I would like everyone to be unmarried, like I am. However, each person has a special gift from God, one this and another that.

It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher and a slave to be like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they do the same to those of his household!"

To the Jews I became like a Jew in order to win Jews. To those under the Law I became like a man under the Law, in order to win those under the Law (although I myself am not under the Law).

Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults.

Those who are made of the dust are like the man from the dust; those who are heavenly are like the man who is from heaven.

At least we are not commercializing God's word like so many others. Instead, we speak with sincerity in the Messiah's name, like people who are sent from God and are accountable to God.

I beg you, brothers, to become like me, since I became like you. You did not do anything wrong to me.

Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else.

I want to know the Messiah what his resurrection power is like and what it means to share in his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,

Yet, don't treat him like an enemy, but warn him like a brother.

older women like mothers, and younger women like sisters, with absolute purity.

and what they say will spread everywhere like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are like that.

You will roll them up like a robe, and they will be changed like clothes. But you remain the same, and your life will never end."

The people were utterly amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one with authority, and not like their scribes.

For "All human life is like grass, and all its glory is like a flower in the grass. The grass dries up and the flower drops off,

Indeed, this is why the gospel was proclaimed even to those who have died, so that they could be judged in their mortal flesh like all humans and live in the spiritual realm like God.

These people, like irrational animals, are mere creatures of instinct that are born to be caught and killed. They insult what they don't understand, and like animals they, too, will be destroyed,

Don't forget this fact, dear friends: With the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.

Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we will be like has not been revealed yet. We know that when the Messiah is revealed, we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.

His head and his hair were white like wool, in fact, as white as snow. His eyes were like flames of fire,

his feet were like glowing bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of raging waters.

"To the messenger of the church in Thyatira, write: "The Son of God, whose eyes are like flaming fire and whose feet are like glowing bronze, says this:

The person sitting there looked like jasper and carnelian, and there was a rainbow around the throne that looked like an emerald.

They had hair like women's hair and teeth like lions' teeth.

They had breastplates like iron, and the noise of their wings was like the roar of chariots with many horses rushing into battle.

I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it talked like a dragon.

The glory of God was its radiance, and its light was like a valuable gem, like jasper, as clear as crystal.