You know very well that we treated each of you the way a father treats his children.

May the Lord greatly increase your love for each other and for all people, just as we love you.

Each of you must know how to control his own body in a holy and honorable manner,

Now you do not need anyone to write to you about brotherly love, since you have been taught by God to love each other.

So then, encourage one another and build each other up, as you are doing.

Hold them in the highest regard, loving them because of their work. Live in peace with each other.

Make sure that no one pays back evil for evil. Instead, always pursue what is good for each other and for everyone else.

Brothers, at all times we are obligated to thank God for you. It is right to do this because your faith is growing all the time and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing.

But we want each of you to continue to be diligent to the very end, in order to give full assurance to your hope.

There have been many priests, since each one of them had to stop serving in office when he died.

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons "and worshipped while leaning on the top of his staff."

Instead, each person is tempted by his own desire, being lured and trapped by it.

Do not criticize each other, brothers. Whoever makes it his habit to criticize his brother or to judge his brother is judging the Law and condemning the Law. But if you condemn the Law, you are not a practicer of the Law but its judge.

Do not complain about each other, brothers, or you will be condemned. Look! The Judge is standing at the door!

Above all, continue to love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.

As good servant managers of God's grace in its various forms, serve one another with the gift each of you has received.

In a similar way, you young people must submit to the elders. All of you must clothe yourselves with humility for the sake of each other, because: "God opposes the arrogant, but gives grace to the humble."

May peace be with you! Your friends greet you. Greet each of our friends by name.

I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts. I will reward each of you as your actions deserve.

In front of the throne was something like a sea of glass as clear as crystal. In the center of the throne and on each side of the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back.

Each of the four living creatures had six wings and were full of eyes inside and out. Without stopping day or night they were saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, who is, and who is coming."

When the lamb had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders bowed down in front of him. Each held a harp and a gold bowl full of incense, the prayers of the saints.

Each of them was given a white robe. They were told to rest a little longer until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers was completed, who would be killed as they themselves had been.

Those living on earth will gloat over them, celebrate, and send gifts to each other, because these two prophets had tormented those living on earth.

Huge hailstones, each weighing about a talent, fell from the sky on people, who cursed God because the plague of hail was so terrible.

The twelve gates were twelve pearls, and each gate was made of a single pearl. The street of the city was made of pure gold, as clear as glass.

Between the city street and the river, the tree of life was visible from each side. It produced twelve kinds of fruit, each month having its own fruit. The leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.