predetermined, indeed, before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times for you;

Now, if, having fled away from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and being again entangled, they are overcome by them; their last condition is worse than the first.

Knowing this first, that scoffers will come in the last days, walking after their own lusts,

Young children, it is the last period. And as you have heard that the antichrist comes, so, now, there are many antichrists; whence you know that it is the last period.

that they said to you, that in the last time there would be scoffers walking according to their own ungodly lusts.

And when I saw him, I fell down at his feet, as dead; and he laid his right hand upon me, and said, Fear not; I am the First and the Last;

And by the messenger of the congregation in Smyrna, write: These things, says the First and the Last, who was dead, and is alive:

I know your works, and love, and service, and faith, and your patience, and that your last works are more than the first.

And I saw another great and wonderful sign in heaven; seven angels, who had the seven last plagues; because in them the wrath of God was to be completed.

And there came one of the seven angels, who had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues; and spoke with me, saying, Come, and I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.

I am the Alpha and the Omega-the Beginning and the End: the First and the Last.