And now, my children, abide in him; that when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

For this is the message that ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren; he that loveth not abideth in death.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence toward God;

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

And every spirit that doth not acknowledge Jesus, is not of God; and this is that spirit of Antichrist, of which ye have heard that it is to come, and even now it is already in the world.

Ye are of God, my children, and have overcome them; because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

And we have seen and bear witness, that the Father hath sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

And we have known and believed the love that God hath in regard to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Herein hath love been perfected with us, that we have confidence in the day of judgment; because as he is, so are we in this world.

And this commandment we have from him, that he who loveth God love also his brother.

These things have I written to you, that ye may know that ye who believe in the name of the Son of God have everlasting life.

And this is the confidence which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us;

and if we know that he heareth us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked of him.

And now I beseech thee, Cyria, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.

And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, as ye have heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children walk in the truth.

I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

For there have stealthily crept in certain men who were of old appointed beforehand for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into wantonness, and denying the only Sovereign, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and rushed on in the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

And some rebuke when they contend; and others save, snatching them out of the fire; and on others have compassion

and he that liveth; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore; and I have the keys of death and the underworld.

But I have this against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.

Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer. Behold, now, the Devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye will have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

But I have a few things against thee; thou hast there them that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumblingblock in the way of the sons of Israel, and to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

But I have this against thee, that thou sufferest thy wife Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess, and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

But to you I say, the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as have not this teaching, such as have not known "the depths" of Satan, as they speak; I put upon you no other burden;

but that which ye have, hold fast till I come.

and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of a potter are broken to shivers,as I also have received of my Father.

Be watchful, and strengthen the remaining things, that were ready to die; for I have not found thy works perfect before my God.

But thou hast a few names in Sardes which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

I know thy works; behold, I have set before thee an open door, which no one can shut; for thou hast little power, and yet hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie,behold, I will make them to come and bow down before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten wealth, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art the wretched and the pitiable one, and poor, and blind, and naked,

And the four living creatures, having each of them six wings, around and within are full of eyes; and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come.

saying, Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.

And out of the smoke went forth locusts upon the earth, and to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power;

and it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only those men who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads;

And they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months.

They have over them a king, the angel of the abyss, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek he hath for his name Apollyon.

These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy; and have power over the waters, to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they will.

And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that cometh up out of the abyss will make war against them, and will overcome them, and kill them.

And the smoke of their torment goeth up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worshiped the beast and his image, and whoever receiveth the mark of his name.

The beast which thou sawest, was, and is not, and is to come up out of the abyss, and goeth into perdition; and they that dwell on the earth, whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder, when they see the beast, that he was, and is not, and yet will come.

And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet, but receive authority as kings one hour with the beast.

These have one mind, and give their power and authority to the beast.

for all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth became rich out of the abundance of her luxury.

for her sins have reached to heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that have been slain upon the earth.

But the cowardly, and unbelieving, and the polluted with abominations, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city.