At first he says, "You never wished or cared for sacrifices or offerings, or burnt-offerings or sacrifices for sin"??ll of which the Law prescribes??9 and then he adds, "See, I have come to do your will!" He is taking away the old to put the new in its place.

And it is through his doing of God's will that we have been once for all purified from sin through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ in sacrifice.

But Christ has offered for all time one sacrifice for sin, and has taken his seat at God's right hand,

For by that one sacrifice he has forever qualified those who are purified from sin to approach God.

But when these are forgiven, there is no more need of offerings for sin.

let us draw near to God in sincerity of heart and with perfect faith, with our hearts cleansed from the sense of sin, and our bodies washed with clean water.

How much worse a punishment do you think will anyone deserve who tramples the Son of God underfoot, and treats as worthless the blood of the agreement by which he has been purified, and outrages God's spirit of mercy?

Faith enabled Abraham, when he was put to the test, to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had accepted God's promises was ready to sacrifice his only son,

Faith made Moses, when he was grown up, refuse to be known as a son of Pharaoh's daughter,

for he preferred sharing the hardships of God's people to a short-lived enjoyment of sin,

Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,

You have not yet resisted unto death in your struggle with sin,

and you have forgotten the challenge addressed to you as God's sons, "My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's discipline, Or give up when he corrects you.

For it is those whom the Lord loves that he disciplines, And he chastises every son that he acknowledges."

You must submit to it as discipline. God is dealing with you as his sons. For where is there a son whom his father does not discipline?

But you have come up to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless angels,

You must know that our brother Timothy has been released from prison. If he comes here soon, we will see you together.

For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass, and the flowers wither, and all their beauty is gone. That is the way rich men will fade and die in the midst of their pursuits.

Then desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is mature, it brings forth death.

but if you show partiality, you are committing a sin, and stand convicted before the Law as lawbreakers.

Was not our forefather Abraham made upright for his good deeds, for offering his son Isaac on the altar?

The harvest uprightness yields must be sown in peace, by peacemakers.

So when a man knows what is right and fails to do it, he is guilty of sin.

Why, we call those who showed such endurance happy! You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen what the Lord brought out of it, for the Lord is very kind and merciful.

You must love him, though you have not seen him, but since you believe in him though you do not now see him, rejoice with triumphant, unutterable joy

For it says in Scripture, "Here I lay a choice stone in Zion, a costly cornerstone; No one who believes in it will ever be disappointed!"

He committed no sin, and deceit was never on his lips.

He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed.

For Christ himself died once for all, for sin, an upright man for unrighteous men, to bring us to God, and was physically put to death, but he was made alive in the Spirit.

Since Christ therefore has suffered in our physical nature, you must also arm yourselves with the same resolve. For he who suffers in his physical nature has done with sin,

Your sister-church in Babylon, chosen like you, and Mark my son wish to be remembered to you.

for I know that I must soon put it away, as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

For when he was so honored and glorified by God the Father and from the supreme glory there were borne to him such words as these: "This is my Son, my Beloved! He is my Chosen!"??18 we heard these words borne from heaven when we were with him on that sacred mountain.

They have eyes for nobody but adulterous women??yes insatiable in sin. They lure unsteadfast souls. Their hearts are trained in greed. They are accursed!

They have left the straight path and gone astray. They have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on dishonest gain,

It is what existed from the beginning, that we announce; what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, and touched with our hands; it is the very message of life??2 for life has been revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it and announce to you that eternal life that was with the Father and has been revealed to us??3 it is what we have seen and heard that we announce to you also, so that you may share our fellowship, for our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ,

But if we live in the light, just as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

If we say, "We are without any sin," we are deceiving ourselves, and there is no truth in our hearts.

My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone does sin, we have in Jesus Christ one who is upright and will intercede for us with the Father.

Who is such a liar as the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the real Antichrist??he man who disowns the Father and the Son.

No one who disowns the Son can have the Father. Whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father too.

Keep what you have heard from the beginning in your hearts; then you will always be in union with the Son and the Father.

Whoever commits sin disobeys law; sin is disobedience to law.

You know that he appeared to take our sins away, and that there is no sin in him.

No one who keeps in union with him sins. Anyone who sins has never seen him or come to know him.

Whoever commits sin is a child of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared??o undo the devil's work.

No one who is a child of God commits sin, for God's nature remains in his heart, and he cannot sin, because he is a child of God.

His command is this??hat we are to believe in his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he has commanded us to do.

God's love for us has been revealed in this way??hat God has sent his only Son into the world, to let us have life through him.

The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

No one has ever seen God; yet if we love one another, God keeps in union with us and love for him attains perfection in our hearts.

We have seen and can testify that the Father has sent the Son to be Savior of the world.

If anyone acknowledges that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God keeps in union with him and he with God.

If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

For who is there that is victorious over the world except the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is stronger still; for the value of God's testimony lies in this, that he has testified to his Son.

Whoever believes in the Son of God possesses that testimony in his heart. Anyone who will not believe God has made him a liar, for he has refused to believe the testimony that God has borne to his Son.

And that testimony is that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is found in his Son.

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever has not the Son has not life.

I have written this so that you who believe in the Son of God may know that you have eternal life.

If anyone sees his brother committing any sin except a deadly one, he will ask and obtain life for him??rovided the sin is not a deadly one. There is such a thing as deadly sin; I do not say that a man should pray about that.

Any wrongdoing is sin, but there are sins that are not deadly.

We know that no child of God commits sin, but the fact that he is God's child protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us power to recognize him who is true; and we are in union with him who is true, through his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

blessing, mercy, and peace be with us from God the Father and Jesus Christ, the Father's Son, in truth and love.

Anyone who goes too far and does not keep to the teaching of Christ has not God. It is the man who holds to the teaching who has both the Father and the Son.

Dear friend, do not follow bad examples, but good ones. The man who does right is a child of God; the man who does wrong has never seen God.

I hope to see you very soon and we will talk face to face. Goodbye. Our friends wish to be remembered to you. Remember me to our friends, every one.

A revelation made by Jesus Christ which God gave him to disclose to his slaves of what must very soon happen. He sent and communicated it by his angel to his slave John,

His head and hair were as white as white wool, as white as snow; his eyes blazed like fire;

In his right hand he held seven stars; from his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword, and his face shone like the sun at noonday.

So write what you have seen, what is now and what is to happen hereafter.

"To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: " 'The Son of God, whose eyes blaze like fire, and whose feet are like bronze, speaks thus:

I am coming soon. Keep hold of what you have, so that no one may deprive you of your crown.

I advise you to buy of me gold that has been tested with fire, so that you may be rich, and white clothes to put on, to keep your shameful nakedness from being seen, and salve to put on your eyes, to make you see.

When he broke the sixth seal I saw that there was a great earthquake. The sun turned black as sackcloth; the full moon became like blood;

They will never be hungry or thirsty again, and never again will the sun or any burning heat distress them,

Then the fourth angel blew his trumpet, and one third of the sun was blasted, and one third of the moon and one third of the stars, so that one third of them were darkened, and there was no light for one third of the day and of the night.

and he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke like the smoke of a great furnace poured up out of the pit, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

Then I saw another mighty angel descend from heaven. He was clothed in a cloud, and a rainbow encircled his head. His face was like the sun, his legs were like pillars of fire,

Then the angel, whom I had seen standing on the sea and on the land, raised his right hand to heaven,

The second woe is past. See! The third woe is soon to come.

Then the temple of God in heaven was thrown open, and the chest containing his agreement was seen inside the temple, and there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a great storm of hail.

Then a great portent appeared in the sky?? woman clothed in the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

She was soon to have a child, and she cried out with pain and agony in giving birth to it.

His tail swept away one third of the stars of heaven and flung them down upon the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth to a child in order to devour her child as soon as it was born.

She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to shepherd all the heathen with a staff of iron; and her child was caught up to God, to his throne.

Then in my vision I saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 people who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.

The fourth emptied his bowl upon the sun, and it was allowed to scorch mankind with its heat,

Then a mighty angel caught up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "With such violence will Babylon the great city be hurled to destruction and never be seen again!

Then I saw an angel standing on the sun, and shouting in a loud voice to all the birds that fly in midair, "Come! Gather for God's great banquet,

He who is victorious will possess all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

The city does not need the sun nor the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God lighted it, and the Lamb is its lamp.

"These words are trustworthy and true," he said to me; "For the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show his slaves what must happen very soon.

See! I am coming very soon! Blessed is he who heeds the words of prophecy that are in this book."

"See! I am coming very soon, bringing with me my rewards, to repay everyone for what he has done.

He who testifies to all this says, "It is true! I am coming very soon!" Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!