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Through Silvanus, whom I know to be a faithful brother, I have written to you briefly, in order to encourage you and testify that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast in it.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples Ofencouragement, examples ofGrace, And Christian LifeLettersPeter, Preacher And TeacherSecretaryStandingGrace, Description OfConcisenessThe Grace Of GodWriting The New Testamentevangelising

Indeed, I will also make every effort that, after my departure, you have a testimony of these things.

Verse ConceptseagernessReminders Of The Gospeleffort

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

Verse ConceptsFutilityFaultsemptinessEloquenceCharmdesiresTemptation, Sources OfEnticersBoastersAllurements Of SinWantonnessLiving For The MaterialEnticingUseless WordsEscaping From PeopleEvil DesiresError

For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

Verse ConceptsCorruption, SolutiondefeatBeginningHell, As Incentive To ActionDeteriorationYielding To TemptationKnowing Christ PersonallyEvil TrappingEscaping EvilChrist Is LordWorseDefilementOvercomingNew Beginningscorruption

Dear friends, this is already the second letter I have written you, in which I am trying to stir up your pure mind by way of reminder:

Verse ConceptsLettersRemindersWritingReminders Of The GospelSecond Thingremembrance

This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched (concerning the word of life --

Verse ConceptsBeginningHearingTouchWitnesses, To Jesus ChristJesus Christ, Eternity OfHearing ChristFrom The BeginningChrist's Lifea new beginningWitnessingevangelizing

and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us).

Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For ChristManifesting (making Something Clear)God With ChristMaking Christ KnownChrist's LifeSubsequent Witness To ChristThe Fathereternity

What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us (and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

Verse ConceptsGod, Fatherhood OfFellowship Of Holy SpiritFellowship, With GodFellowship, Among BelieversAttending ChurchCommunion With GodCompanionshipHearing ChristFellowshipThe FatherLove And RelationshipsWitnessingcommunion

Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard.

Verse ConceptsBeginningBeginning Of SalvationOld ThingsChrist's Ordersa new beginningcommandments

I have written to you, children, that you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.

Verse Conceptsequipping, spiritualSpiritual VitalitySpiritual MaturityVirtues Of Young PeopleSpiritual FathersReceiving God's WordWriting LettersStrong PeopleFrom The BeginningOvercoming Through ChristMan's Authority Over The DevilHuman Nature, Overcominga new beginningStaying StrongOvercomingDadsThe Word Of GodMaturityFathers Responsibilities

They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.

Verse ConceptsApostatesWarnings Against ApostasyForsaking ChristDivision Among ChristiansUnrelated PeopleNot With PeopleLast Hourbelongingapostasy

I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

Verse ConceptsKnowingWriting LettersTelling The Truthignorancelieing

As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

Verse ConceptsAbiding In ChristFalse TeachingsFellowship With ChristFruits Of RighteousnessBeginning Of SalvationThe FatherUs In God

These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

Verse ConceptsFalse TeachingsReadingSeducersMen DeceivingWriting Letterstrying

Now as for you, the anointing that you received from him resides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside in him.

Verse ConceptsLiesAnointingAbiding In ChristAnointing, Of ChristAnointing of ChristiansAnointing With OilGod, Revelation OfOrthodoxy, In NtScripture, UnderstandingCharacter Of SaintsIndwelling Of The Holy SpiritThe Holy Spirit As TeacherThe Holy Spirit As CounsellorThe Spirit TeachingUs In GodAnointed By GodAnointing Oil

And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.

Verse ConceptsAbiding In ChristLast ThingsOptimismReadinessNot AshamedFellowship With ChristChrist AppearingUs In GodBemaEternal PerspectiveBoldness

but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.

Verse ConceptsAntichristAntichrist, Described AsSpirit BeingsEnemies Of GodWithout GodSpirit Of AntichristDenial In End TimesLast HourSigns Of The TimesDivinityAcknowledgedatheismWorld Opposed To GodDenying God And His Power

And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

Verse ConceptsGod Answers PrayerKnowing GodGod Answering Prayerspetition

I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children living according to the truth, just as the Father commanded us.

Verse ConceptsThe FatherReciprocity

But now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another.

Verse ConceptsBrotherly LoveChrist's OrdersLove Fellow Christians!Loving One Another

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

Verse ConceptsAntichristFalse Doctrine, Nature OfDocetismEnemies Of GodSpirit Of AntichristLast Hour

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Verse ConceptsAbiding In ChristFellowship With ChristJesus As Our TeacherSound DoctrineMisteachingThe FatherWithout Goddoctrine

Though I have many other things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come visit you and speak face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

Verse ConceptsNot WritingContact With PeopleNetworkingJoy And Happiness

They have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.

Verse ConceptsAgape LoveEach Local ChurchGod Is WorthyLove Exists Between PeopleWitnessing

For they have gone forth on behalf of "The Name," accepting nothing from the pagans.

Verse ConceptsAcceptanceSupporthelp

I have many things to write to you, but I do not wish to write to you with pen and ink.

Verse ConceptsBooks

Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you about our common salvation, I now feel compelled instead to write to encourage you to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.

Verse ConceptsFight Of FaithOnly OnceAll Believers Are SaintsThe Gospel Of Salvationeffort

For certain men have secretly slipped in among you -- men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe -- ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Verse ConceptsLewdnessAbuse, Of Spiritual ThingsLicentiousnessWarnings Against ApostasyPredestination, Of PersonsChrist Is LordThe Grace Of GodThey Committed ImmoralityFalse TeachersExamples Of Ungodly MenProblem PeopleSexual Immorality Brings PunishmentRelationships And DatingcondemnationvulnerabilityUnbelief Toward Christ

Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.

Verse ConceptsOnceReminders Of The GospelOnly OnceDoubting GodGod Killed His PeopleOccupants Of HellRebellion of Satan and AngelsremembranceUnbelief Toward God

Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain's path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam's error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah's rebellion.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyAbel and CainNicolaitansRebellion of Satan and Angels

wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.

Verse ConceptsBlackAstronomyRageColors, BlackHopelessnessThe Fate Of The WickedWanderersWavesEternal JudgementFoamsGod KeepsOuter DarknessShame Has Comewandering

to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

I know your works as well as your labor and steadfast endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil. You have even put to the test those who refer to themselves as apostles (but are not), and have discovered that they are false.

Verse ConceptsClaimsLiesToleranceChurch DisciplineFalse Teachers, Examples OfChrist's Knowledge Of BelieversBad CompanyEvil AssociationsChrist Knowing About PeopleFalse WaysFalse ApostlesThe Fact Of ToilOne's DeedsFalse Apostles, Prophets And TeachersEnduranceHard Work And Perseverance

But you do have this going for you: You hate what the Nicolaitans practice -- practices I also hate.

Verse ConceptsHatredGod Hating ThingsHating Evil

I know where you live -- where Satan's throne is. Yet you continue to cling to my name and you have not denied your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was killed in your city where Satan lives.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfInjustice, Nature And Source OfMartyrdom, Examples OfSatan, Kingdom OfThroneSatanticThe FaithChrist Knowing About PeopleSubsequent Witness To ChristTribulation MartydomMartyrdomThe Devil

But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyFreedom, Abuse Of ChristianFoodAdultery, SpiritualChastityToleranceAbuse, Of Christian FreedomFalse Teachers, Examples OfStumbling BlocksMisteachingFood For Other godsFood Offered To IdolsThey Committed ImmoralitysexSexual Immorality

But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and by her teaching deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

Verse ConceptsFalse TeachingsOpposition, To Sin And EvilPeople Of God, In NtFalse Prophets, Examples OfSexual Sin, Nature OfProphetessSeducersBeing MisleadMisteachingFood For Other godsFood Offered To IdolsThey Committed Immoralityjezebel

I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeRepentance, Importance OfThey Committed ImmoralitySexual Immoralityspacejezebel

But to the rest of you in Thyatira, all who do not hold to this teaching (who have not learned the so-called "deep secrets of Satan"), to you I say: I do not put any additional burden on you.

Verse ConceptsSatanticSecrecySpiritual DepthsIgnorance Of EvilMisteachingsecrets

However, hold on to what you have until I come.

Verse ConceptsEnd Timesrevelation

just as I have received the right to rule from my Father -- and I will give him the morning star.

Verse ConceptsMorningStarsThe Morning StarGod Giving His SonTaught By The SpiritLucifer

"To the angel of the church in Sardis write the following: "This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: 'I know your deeds, that you have a reputation that you are alive, but in reality you are dead.

Verse ConceptsLettersReputationSpiritsChurch, Examples OfSeven SpiritsSeven LightsNot Maintaining LifeSpiritually DeadChrist Knowing About PeopleWriting LettersOne's Deeds

Wake up then, and strengthen what remains that was about to die, because I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.

Verse ConceptsSleep, SpiritualLukewarmnessHuman ImperfectionVigilanceStrength Of PeopleNearness Of DeathDeath Looms NearWake Up!Be Strong!Incomplete Worksrevelationdeeds

But you have a few individuals in Sardis who have not stained their clothes, and they will walk with me dressed in white, because they are worthy.

Verse ConceptsRest, EternalWalkingWorthinessWhite And Bright ClothesClothed With RighteousnessWhite ClothsClean ClothesFew PeopleFew In The KingdomWorthy PeopleThe Environment

Listen! I am going to make those people from the synagogue of Satan -- who say they are Jews yet are not, but are lying -- Look, I will make them come and bow down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.

Verse ConceptsFeetSatan, As DeceiverSatanticKnowing About God's KingdomSatanJews

Then I saw standing in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb that appeared to have been killed. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

Verse ConceptsAtonement, in NTHornsSpiritsSymbolsCherubim, At God's ThroneAnimal Sacrifices, As A Type Of ChristFour CreaturesSeven SpiritsSeven Body PartsHorns In AllegoryChrist Was KilledElders In HeavenGod Sending ProphetsHeavenLeadership Qualities

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