For everything that was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that by being steadfast and through the encouragement the Scriptures give, we might hold our hope fast.

Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written!"

There are many other things that Jesus did, so many in fact that if they were all written out, I do not suppose that the world itself would hold the books that would have to be written.

and he has qualified me to serve him in the interests of a new agreement, not in writing but of spirit. For what is written kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Dear friend, it is my prayer that everything is going well with you and that you are well; I know it is well with your soul.

You are my recommendations, written on my heart, for everybody to read and understand.

You show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by me, written not in ink, but in the Spirit of the living God, and not on tablets of stone, but on the human heart.

By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I think him, I have written you this short letter to encourage you and bear my testimony that this is what the true mercy of God means. Stand fast in it.

This is the second letter, dear friends, that I have now written to you, in the effort to arouse your unsullied minds

I have written this so that you who believe in the Son of God may know that you have eternal life.

I have written briefly to the church, but Diotrephes who likes to be their leader will not accept what I say.

I beg you brothers, to listen patiently to this appeal, for I have written you but briefly.

All the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not from the foundation of the world been written in the slain Lamb's book of life, will worship it.

Then in my vision I saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 people who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.

On her forehead there was written a name that was symbolic: "Mighty Babylon, mother of idolatresses and of earth's abominations."

The animal that you saw was, and is no more; it is going to come up out of the abyss, but it is to go to destruction. The inhabitants of the earth, whose names from the foundation of the world have not been written in the book of life, will be amazed when they see that the animal was, and is no more, and yet is to come.

His eyes blazed like fire. There were many diadems on his head, and there was a name written on him which no one knew but himself.

On his clothing and his thigh he has this title written: King of kings and Lord of lords.

I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened; it was the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books about what they had done.

Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was flung into the fiery lake.

Blessed be the man who reads this prophecy and those who hear it read and heed what is written in it, for the time is near.

Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give him who is victorious some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white pebble with a new name written on it which no one knows except the man who receives it.'

Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who indulges in abominable practices and falsehoods, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.