he was reviled and made no retort, he suffered and never threatened, but left everything to Him who judges justly;

never paying back evil for evil, never reviling when you are reviled, but on the contrary blessing. For this is your vocation, to bless and to inherit blessing;

So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;

for prophecy never came by human impulse, it was when carried away by the holy Spirit that the holy men of God spoke.

Better had they never known the Way of righteousness, than to know it and then turn back from the holy command which was committed to them.

If anyone declares, 'I love God,' and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who will not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love the God whom he has never seen.

We know that anyone who is born of God does not sin; He who was born of God preserves him, and the evil One never catches him.

Beloved, do not imitate evil but good; he who does good belongs to God, he who does evil has never seen God.

'The conqueror shall be clad in white raiment; I will never erase his name from the book of Life, but will own him openly before my Father and before his angels.'

The four living Creatures, each with six wings apiece, are full of eyes all over their bodies and under their wings, and day and night they never cease the chant, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God almighty, who was and is and is coming."

Never again will they hunger, never again will they thirst, never shall the sun strike them, nor any scorching heat;"

followed by flashes of lightning, loud blasts, peals of thunder, and a mighty earthquake, the like of which never was since man lived on earth, such a mighty earthquake it was;

As she gloried and played the wanton, so give her like measure of torture and tears. Since in her heart she vaunts, 'A queen I sit, no widow I, tears I shall never know,'

Then a strong angel lifted a boulder like a huge millstone and flung it into the sea, crying, "So shall the great city, Babylon, be hurled down, hurtling, and never be seen any more:

& 23] Vanished the ripe fruit of thy soul's desire! Perished thy luxury and splendour! Never again to be seen.

(the gates of it will never be shut by day, and night there shall be none),