The last drops of my own sacrifice are falling; my time to go has come.

It was by faith that Abraham obeyed his call to go forth to a place which he would receive as an inheritance; he went forth, although he did not know where he was to go.

It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land, as in a foreign country, residing in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob who were co-heirs with him of the same promise;

If they thought of the land they have left behind, they would have time to go back,

Let us go to him outside the camp, then, bearing his obloquy

In his case, you see, faith co-operated with deeds, faith was completed by deeds,

To begin with, you know that mockers will come with their mockeries in the last days, men who go by their own passions,

Woe to them! they go the road of Cain, rush into Balaam's error for what it brings them, and perish in Korah's rebellion.

they told you beforehand, "At the end of things there will be mockers who go by their own impious passions."

Then to the angel of the church at Philadelphia write thus: ??These are the words of the true Holy One, who holds the key of David, who opens and none shall shut, who shuts and none shall open.

The fifth angel blew, and I saw a Star which had dropped from heaven to earth; he was given the key of the pit of the abyss,

Then the voice I had heard from heaven again talked to me, saying, "Go and take the small scroll which lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and the earth."

Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on earth."

(Lo, I am coming like a thief; blessed be he who keeps awake and holds his raiment fast, not to go naked and have the shame of exposure!)

The Beast you have seen was, is not, but is to rise from the abyss ??yet to perdition he shall go ??and the dwellers on earth will wonder (all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life), when they see that the Beast was, is not, but is coming.

As for the Beast which was and is not, he is an eighth head: he belongs to the seven, and to perdition he shall go.

Then I saw an angel descend from heaven with the key of the abyss and a huge chain in his hand;