I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

But don't forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

and every spirit who doesn't confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God's testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.

The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don't say that he should make a request concerning this.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

If anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him,

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep things of Satan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, "Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this."

After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.

The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.

If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.

For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this."

Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.

and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

The rest of the dead didn't live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

"Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book."

He said to me, "See you don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God."

He said to me, "Don't seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.