if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been once purified?

All these died in faith not having received the promises, but having seen and saluted them from a distance, and having professed that they were foreigners and strangers on the earth.

For those who say such things show that they seek a native country.

And if they had remembered that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return;

but now they seek a better, that is a heavenly [country]. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses when he was born was hid three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they feared not the command of the king.

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians attempting were swallowed up.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down when they had been surrounded seven days.

women received their dead from a resurrection, others were tortured having not accepted redemption, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

they were stoned, they were cut to pieces with saws, they were tried, they died with the death of the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,

God having provided something better for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

For they for a few days corrected us as seemed good to them, but he for the best, that we may partake of his holiness.

and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which those who heard desired that the word might not be spoken to them any more,??20 for they could not bear what was commanded, And if a beast touches the mountain it shall be stoned;

See that you refuse not him that speaks; for if they did not escape who refused him that gave answers on earth, much more shall we [not escape] who turn ourselves away from him in heaven;

Obey your guides and be in subjection; for they watch for your souls as having to give an account, that they may do this with joy and not with grief; for this is unprofitable for you.

And do they not blaspheme the good name by which you are called?

But we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, and direct their whole body;

Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members?

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

to whom it was revealed that they ministered not to themselves but to us those things which have now been declared to you by those who preached to you the good news, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, into which the angels desire to look.

and a stone of stumbling and rock of offense, who stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

having your conduct honorable among the gentiles, that wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, from the good works which they see they may glorify God in the day of visitation,

In like manner let the women be subject to their husbands, that even if some disobey the word, they may be gained through the conduct of their wives without the word,

having a good conscience, that in what they speak evil of you they may be ashamed who slander your good conduct in Christ.

in which they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excessive intemperance, blaspheming,

And for this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.

For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

and with covetousness they will make a gain of you with feigned words, whose judgment a long time lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

but especially those who walk after the flesh, in corrupt desires, and despise goverment. Presumptuous, self-complacent, they fear not to revile glories,

but these, like irrational animals, brutes made to be taken and destroyed, reviling things which they do not understand, will also be destroyed in their depravity,

having left the right way they have gone astray, following in the way of Balaam the son of Beor who loved the wages of wickedness,

For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,

promising them liberty, when they themselves are servants of corruption; for by whatever a man is overcome, to this is he made a servant.

For if having escaped the defilements of the world by a knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of those persons is worse than the first.

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the world.

For of this they are willingly ignorant, that the heavens were of old, and the earth was made of water and by water by the word of God,

as also in all his epistles speaking of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest as they also do the other Scriptures to their destruction.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us they would have continued with us; but [they went out from us] that they might be manifest that they are not all of us.

BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

They are of the world; therefore they speak of the world and the world hears them.

For they went out for his name, taking nothing of the gentiles.

But these blaspheme what they do not understand, and what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.

Woe to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and rushed into the error of Balaam for a reward, and perished in the contradiction of Korah.

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the wicked among them of all the deeds of impiety which they have impiously committed, and of all the hard speeches which impious sinners have spoken against him.

that they said to you, That in the last time there shall be scoffers, walking in their own impious desires.

These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

and his feet like fine brass as if they were burned in a furnace, and his voice like the sound of many waters,

I know your works and your labor and your patience, and that you cannot bear the wicked, and you tried those who say they are apostles and are not, and found them false;

I know your affliction and poverty, but you are rich, and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Behold, I will cast her on a [sick] bed, and those committing adultery with her into great affliction, unless they change their minds from her works.

But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira who have not this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden;

But you have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but lie, behold, I will make them come and worship at your feet, and they shall know that I have loved you.

And the four cherubs had each six wings apiece. And they were full of eyes around and within, and they had no rest day nor night, saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty the Was and the Is and the Is to come.

Thou art worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou hast created all things, and on account of thy will they are and were created.

And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast killed and hast redeemed to God with thy blood [men] from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

and hast made them a kingdom and priests, and they shall reign on the earth.

And there went out another fiery horse, and it was given to him that sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another, and there was given him a great sword.

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those killed for the word of God and for the testimony which they had.

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, Master, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those that dwell on the earth?

And a white robe was given them, and it was told them to rest yet a little while, till their fellow servants and their brothers and those about to be killed as they also had been should finish [their testimony].

and they cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation be to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb.

And one of the elders answered and said to me, Who are those clothed with white robes, and whence did they come?

Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sits on the throne will dwell among them.

And they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun strike them nor any heat,

And the name of the star was called Bitterness. And a third part of the waters became bitter, and many men died by the waters, because they were bitter.

and they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like [those] of lions,

and they had cuirasses like steel cuirasses, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running to battle.

And they had tails like scorpions and stings, and in their tails was their power to injure men five months.

They had over them a king, an angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in the Greek he is called Apollyon.

For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like serpents, having heads, and with them they did injury.

And they said to me, You must prophesy again before peoples and nations and tongues and many kings.

And leave out the exterior court of the temple and measure it not, for it has been given to the gentiles, and they shall tread the holy city under foot forty-two months [three years and a half].

And I will give charge to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy twelve hundred and sixty days [three years and a half] clothed with sackcloth.

These have power to shut heaven, that it may not rain in the days of their prophecy, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to smite the earth with every plague as often as they will.

And when they shall finish their testimony, the beast which ascends from the abyss shall make war with them, and conquer them, and kill them.

And after three days and a half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those that saw them.

And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, Ascend hither; and they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies beheld them.

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they may nourish her there twelve hundred and sixty days [three years and a half].

And they conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and exposed their lives to death.

and they worshipped the dragon, because he gave power to the beast, and worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like the beast, and who is able to make war with him?

And they sung a new song before the throne and before the four cherubs and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the hundred and forty-four thousand, who had been redeemed from the earth.

These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins; these are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from men a first fruit to God and the Lamb,

and in their mouth was found no deceit; for they are blameless.

And the smoke of their torment rises up forever and ever, and they have no rest day nor night who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.

And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth. Yes, says the Spirit, they shall rest from their labors; and their works follow after them.

And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, king of the nations;

And the third poured out his bowl on the rivers and the fountains of waters; and they became blood.

for they shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; they are worthy.

And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was darkened, and they gnawed their tongues from painful labor,

and blasphemed the God of heaven on account of their painful labors and their ulcers, and they changed not their minds to turn from their works.

Behold, I come as a thief; blessed is he that watches and keeps on his clothes, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.

And they assembled them in the place called in Hebrew Armagedon.

The beast which you saw was and is not, and is about to come up from the abyss, and goes to destruction; and those who live on the earth, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder, when they see the beast that he was and is not and is to come.

They shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall conquer them,??or he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.

And the kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her shall weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning,

And they shall cast dust on their heads, and cry weeping and lamenting, saying, Alas, alas, the great city, by which all were enriched who had ships on the sea on account of her costly merchandise, for in one hour is it made desolate.

And again they said, Halleluia, and her smoke ascends forever and ever.

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and the word of God, and who did not worship the beast nor his image and did not receive the mark on their forehead and on their right hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years;

Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection; on these the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and Christ, and reign with him a thousand years.