Among them we all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

I have no one else like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.

So receive him in the Lord with all joy; and honor men like him,

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming like him in his death;

who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

But we were gentle among you, like a mother nursing her little children.

not in the passion of lust like the heathen, who do not know God;

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

But you, brethren, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.

For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, not doing any work at all, but acting like busybodies.

for which I am suffering even to the point of wearing chains like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.

and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

they will perish, but you remain; they will all grow old like a garment,

you will roll them up like a mantle; and like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will never end."

Therefore he had to be made like his brethren in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

Even though we speak like this, beloved, we are confident of better things in your case, things that accompany salvation.

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest continually.

He does not need, like those high priests, to offer up daily sacrifices, first for his own sins and then for the sins of the people, because he did this once for all when he offered up himself.

not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in my covenant, and so I paid no heed to them, says the Lord.

that no one be immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

But he must ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

for he looks at himself and goes away, and immediately forgets what he was like.

Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

For, "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

Like newborn babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

For you were straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

For you have spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

Be sober, be alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed, reviling in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed in the same destruction with them,

But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with fire, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

and not be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

But these men revile whatever they do not understand; and the things that they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals do, by these things they are destroyed.

wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

and in the midst of the lampstands one like a Son of Man, clothed with a robe down to the feet and girded round his chest with a golden band.

His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like a flame of fire;

his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters;

he held in his right hand seven stars, out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in its strength.

"And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: 'These are the words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze:

Remember therefore what you have received and heard; keep it, and repent. But if you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you.

After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the voice, which I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this."

And he who sat there was like jasper and carnelian in appearance, and round the throne was a rainbow that looked like an emerald.

and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the center, around the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind.

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

And I heard what sounded like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine!"

I looked when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;

The sky vanished like a scroll that is rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea; and a third of the sea became blood,

The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.

He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke went up from the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

Then out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth.

They were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion, when it stings a man.

In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; and their faces were like human faces,

their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.

They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.

They have tails like scorpions, and stings, and their power to hurt men for five months lies in their tails.

And this was how I saw the horses in my vision: the riders wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and sulfur.

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with them they do harm.

Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head; and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.

and he cried out with a loud voice, like the roar of a lion. When he shouted, the voices of the seven thunders spoke.

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, "Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there.

And the serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with the flood.

The beast that I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority.

Men worshipped the dragon, because he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast, and who can make war against him?"

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke like a dragon.

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

Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.

And I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire and, standing beside the sea of glass, those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and over the number of his name. They held harps of God

The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.

And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs;

("Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed.")

As she glorified herself and played the wanton, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, 'A queen I sit, and I am not a widow, mourning I will never see.'

and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What city is like the great city?'

Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "So will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, and will not be found any longer.

After this I heard what sounded like the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying, "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,

Then I heard what sounded like the voice of a great multitude, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.

His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems; and he has a name written on him which no one knows but himself.

and will come out to deceive the nations which are at the four corners of the earth, that is, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the seashore.

having the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.