It was by faith that Moses refused, when he had grown up, to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

It was by faith that they crossed the Red Sea like dry land ??and when the Egyptians attempted it they were drowned.

You know how later on, when he wanted to obtain his inheritance of blessing, he was set aside; he got no chance to repent, though he tried for it with tears.

Greet it as pure joy, my brothers, when you come across any sort of trial,

Let a brother of low position exult when he is raised;

Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.

When our father Abraham offered his son Isaac on the altar, was he not justified by what he did?

So too with Rahab the harlot. Was she not justified by what she did, when she entertained the scouts and got them away by a different road?

the Spirit of messiah within them foretold all the suffering of messiah and his after-glory, and they pondered when or how this was to come;

Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

Servants, be submissive to your masters with perfect respect, not simply to those who are kind and reasonable but to the surly as well ??19 for it is a merit when from a sense of God one bears the pain of unjust suffering.

It is your vocation; for when Christ suffered for you, he left you an example, and you must follow his footsteps.

when they see how chaste and reverent you are.

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;

who had disobeyed at the time when God's patience held out during the construction of the ark in the days of Noah ??the ark by which only a few souls, eight in all, were brought safely through the water.)

You are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it, that you may also rejoice and exult when his glory is revealed.

Then you will receive the unfading crown of glory, when the chief Shepherd makes his appearance.

Humble yourselves under the strong hand of God, then, so that when it is time, he may raise you;

Yes, and I will see to it that even when I am gone, you will keep this constantly in mind.

For it was no fabricated fables that we followed when we reported to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus Christ; we were admitted to the spectacle of his sovereignty,

when he was invested with honour and glory by God the Father, and when the following voice was borne to him from the sublime Glory, "This is my son, the Beloved, in whom I delight."

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

if he did not spare the ancient world but kept Noah, the herald of righteousness, safe with seven others, when he let loose the deluge on the world of impious men:

if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorra to ashes when he sentenced them to devastation, and thus gave the impious an example of what was in store for them,

(for when that righteous man resided among them, by what he saw and heard his righteous soul was vexed day after day with their unlawful doings) ??9 then be sure the Lord knows how to rescue pious folk from trial, and how to keep the unrighteous under punishment till the day of doom,

By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).

They verify the truth of the proverb: "The dog turns back to what he has vomited, the sow when washed will wallow in the mire."

but the present heavens and earth are treasured up by the same word for fire, reserved for the day when the impious are doomed and destroyed.

The day of the Lord will come like a thief, when the heavens will vanish with crackling roar, the stars will be set ablaze and melt, the earth and all its works will disappear.

If we say, 'We have fellowship with him,' when we live and move in darkness, then we are lying, we are not practising the truth;

Remain within him now, my dear children, so that when he appears we may have confidence, instead of shrinking from him in shame at his arrival.

We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him ??for we are to see him as he is.

Love is complete with us when we have absolute confidence about the day of judgment, since in this world we are living as He lives.

For I was overjoyed when some brothers arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do lead the true Life;

So when I come, I shall bring up what he is doing, babbling against me with wicked words ??and, not satisfied with words, he refuses to welcome the brothers, checks those who want to welcome them, and excommunicates them from the church.

Now the very archangel Michael, when he disputed the body of Moses with Satan, did not dare to condemn him with scoffs; what he said was, The Lord rebuke you!

It was of these, too, that Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied, when he said, Behold the Lord comes with myriads of his holy ones,

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man; but he laid his hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and Last,

I know where you dwell, where Satan sits enthroned, and yet you adhere to my Name, you have not renounced your faith in me even during the days when my witness, my faithful Antipas, was martyred in your midst ??where Satan dwells.

And when it took the scroll, the four living Creatures and the four and twenty Presbyters fell down before the Lamb, each with his harp and with golden bowls full of incense (that is, full of the prayers of the saints),

And when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, I looked, and I heard one of the four living Creatures calling like thunder, "Come."

And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living Creature calling, "Come."

And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living Creature calling, "Come." So I looked and there was a black horse; its rider held a pair of scales in his hand,

And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living Creature calling, "Come."

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain for adhering to God's word and to the testimony which they bore;

And when he opened the sixth seal, I looked; and a great earthquake took place, the sun turned black as sackcloth, the full moon turned like blood,

And when he opened the seventh seal, silence reigned in heaven for about half-an-hour.

these they were allowed, not to kill but to torture, for five months ??and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings a man.

in the days of the seventh angel's voice, when he now blows his blast, then shall the secret purpose of God be fulfilled, as he assured his servants the prophets."

Then I took the small scroll from the hand of the angel and swallowed it; it did taste sweet, like honey, but when I had eaten it, it was bitter to digest.

They have power to shut up the sky, so that no rain falls during the days when they are prophesying; and they have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and also to smite the earth with all manner of plagues as often as they choose.

But, when they have finished their testimony, the Beast that ascends from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,

And when the dragon found himself thrown down to earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child;

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.

also, they are seven kings, of whom five have fallen, one is living, and the other has not arrived yet ??and when he does arrive, he can only stay a little while.

But when the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison,

I John saw and heard all this; and when I heard and saw it, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me it all.