For I know how willing you are, and I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year, and your enthusiasm has stimulated most of them.

as they try to keep us from telling the gentiles how they can be saved. As a result, they are constantly adding to the number of sins they have committed. However, wrath has overtaken them at last!

Now the Spirit says clearly that in the last times some people will abandon the faith by following deceitful spirits, the teachings of demons,

You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult times will come.

has in these last days spoken to us by a Son whom he appointed to be the heir of everything and through whom he also made the universe.

your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be used as evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasures in these last days.

For if, after escaping the world's corruptions through a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah, they are again entangled and conquered by those corruptions, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

First of all you must understand this: In the last days mockers will come and, following their own desires, will ridicule us

Little children, it is the last hour. Just as you heard that an antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.

They kept telling you, "In the last times there will be mockers, following their own ungodly desires."

When I saw him, I fell down at his feet like a dead man. But he placed his right hand on me and said, "Stop being afraid! I am the first and the last,

"To the messenger of the church in Smyrna, write: "The first and the last, who was dead and became alive, says this:

"I know what you've been doing your love, faithfulness, service, and endurance and that your last actions are greater than the first.

I saw another sign in heaven. It was both spectacular and amazing. There were seven angels with the seven last plagues, with which God's wrath is completed.

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came to me and said, "Come! I will show you the bride, the wife of the lamb."

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.