in deed and in truth. (19)And in this we shall know that we are of the
truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. (20)Because if our
heart accuse us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all
things[3:20]. (21)Beloved, if our heart accuse us not, we have
confidence toward God. (22)And whatever we ask, we receive of him,
because we keep his commandments, and do the things that are pleasing
in his sight. (23)And this is his commandment, that we should believe
on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and should love one another, as
he gave us commandment. (24)And he that keeps his commandments abides
in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he abides in us, from
the Spirit which he gave us.
IV.
BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they
are of God; because many false prophets have gone forth into the
world. (2)In this ye know the Spirit of God: (3)Every spirit that
acknowledges that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God; and
every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus, is not of God; and this
is that of the antichrist, of which ye have heard that it should come;
and now, it is already in the world.
(4)Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because
greater is he who is in you, than he who is in the world. (5)They are
of the world; for this cause they speak of the world, and the world
hears them. (6)We are of God; he that knows God, hears us; he that is
not of God, hears us not. From this we know the spirit of truth, and
the spirit of error.
(7)Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every
one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God. (8)He that
loves not, knew not God; because God is love. (9)In this was
manifested the love of God in respect to us, that God has sent his
only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
(10)Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and
sent his Son, a propitiation for our sins.
(11)Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
(12)No man has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in
us, and the love of him is perfected in us. (13)In this we know that
we abide in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
(14)And we have seen, and bear witness, that the Father has sent forth
the Son, a Savior of the world. (15)Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is
the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. (16)And we have
known, and have believed, the love that God has in respect to us. God
is love; and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
(17)In this has love been perfected with us[4:17], that we have
confidence in the day of judgment; because as he is, we also are in
this world. (18)There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out
fear, because fear has torment[4:18]; and he that fears is not made
perfect in love. (19)We love, because he first loved us. (20)If any
one say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that
loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he
has not seen? (21)And this commandment we have from him, that he who
loves God love also his brother.
V.
EVERY one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten of
God; and every one that loves him who begot, loves also him that has
been begotten of him. (2)In this we know that we love the children of
God, when we love God, and do his commandments. (3)For this is the
love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are
not burdensome; (4)because all that is begotten of God overcomes the
world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.
(5)Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus
is the Son of God?
(6)This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus the Christ; not in
the water only, but in the water and in the blood. And the Spirit is
that which bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth. (7)For
there are three who bear witness; the Spirit, and the water, and the
blood; (8)and the three agree in the one[5:8]. (9)If we receive the
witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness
of God, that he has borne witness concerning his Son. (10)He that
believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that
believes not God has made him a liar; because he has not believed in
the witness which God has borne concerning his Son. (11)And this is
the witness, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his
Son. (12)He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son of
God has not the life.
(13)These things I wrote to you, that ye may know that ye have eternal
life, who believe on the name of the Son of God.
(14)And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we
ask anything according to his will, he hears us. (15)And if we know
that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions
which we have asked of him.
(16)If any one see his brother sin a sin not unto death, he shall ask,
and he will give him life,--to those who sin not unto death. There is
a sin unto death; for that I do not say that he shall pray.
(17)All unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not unto death.
(18)We know that every one who has been begotten of God sins not; but
he that was begotten of God keeps himself; and the evil one touches
him not.
(19)We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the
evil one. (20)And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given
us understanding, that we may know the True one; and we are in the
True One, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal
life.
(21)Little children, keep yourselves from the idols.
THE SECOND LETTER OF JOHN.
THE elder to the elect lady, and to her children, whom I love in
truth,--and not I alone but also all that know the truth,--(2)for the
sake of the truth, which abides in us, and will be with us forever:
(3)Grace, mercy, peace, shall be with you, from God the Father, and
from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
(4)I rejoiced greatly, that I have found of thy children walking in
truth, as we received commandment from the Father. (5)And now I
beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that
which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. (6)And this
is love, that we walk according to his commandment; and this is the
commandment, as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in
it. (7)Because many deceivers went out into the world, who acknowledge
not that Jesus Christ comes in the flesh. This is the deceiver, and
the antichrist.
(8)Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we wrought,
but receive a full reward. (9)Every one who transgresses, and abides
not[1:8] in the teaching of Christ, has not God. He that abides in the
teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.
(10)If any one comes to you, and brings not this teaching, receive him
not into your house, and do not bid him good speed; (11)for he that
bids him good speed shares in his evil deeds.
(12)Having many things to write to you, I would not [write] with paper
and ink; but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that
our joy may be full. (13)The children of thy elect sister salute thee.
THE THIRD LETTER OF JOHN.
THE elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.
(2)Beloved, concerning all things I pray that thou mayest prosper and
be in health, as thy soul prospers. (3)For I rejoiced greatly, when
brethren came and bore witness to thy truth, as thou walkest in the
truth. (4)I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children
walking in the truth.
(5)Beloved, thou doest a faithful thing, in whatever thou doest to the
brethren, and that to strangers, (6)who bore witness to thy love
before the church; whom if thou send forward on their journey worthily
of God, thou wilt do well; (7)for on behalf of the NAME they went
forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. (8)We therefore ought to
sustain such persons, that we may become fellow-workers for the truth.
(9)I wrote somewhat to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to have
the pre-eminence among them, receives us not. (10)Therefore, if I
come, I will bring to remembrance his deeds which he does, prating
against us with evil words. And not content therewith, neither does he
himself receive the brethren, and those who are willing he forbids,
and casts them out of the church.
(11)Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He that
does good, is of God; he that does evil, has not seen God.
(12)To Demetrius, testimony has been borne by all, and by the truth
itself; yea, we also bear witness, and thou knowest that our witness
is true.
(13)I had many things to write to thee, but I wish not to write to
thee with ink and pen; (14)but I hope immediately to see thee, and we
shall speak face to face.
Peace be to thee. The friends salute thee. Salute the friends, by
name.
THE GENERAL LETTER OF JUDE.
JUDE, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called,
beloved in God the Father, and kept by Jesus Christ[1:1]: (2)Mercy,
and peace, and love, be multiplied to you.
(3)Beloved, while giving all diligence to write to you concerning the
common salvation, I found it needful for me to write to you exhorting
to contend earnestly for the faith, delivered once for all to the
saints. (4)For there crept in stealthily certain men, who of old were
appointed beforehand to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the
grace of our God into wantonness, and denying the only Master, and our
Lord Jesus Christ.
(5)But I wish to remind you, as once knowing all, that Jesus, having
saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those
who believed not. (6)And angels who kept not their principality, but
left their own habitation, he has kept in everlasting chains under
darkness, unto the judgment of the great day. (7)As Sodom and
Gomorrah, and the cities about them, in like manner with them giving
themselves over to fornication, and going away after other flesh, are
set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
(8)Yet, in like manner, these also in their dreamings defile the
flesh, despise dominion, and rail at dignities. (9)But Michael the
archangel, when, contending with the Devil, he disputed concerning the
body of Moses, dared not bring against him a railing judgment, but
said: The Lord rebuke thee. (10)But these rail at the things which
they know not; but what things naturally, as the brute beasts, they
understand, in these they corrupt themselves.
(11)Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and rushed on in
the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of
Korah.
(12)These are rocks in your feasts of love, feasting with you
fearlessly, feeding their own selves; clouds without water, carried
away by winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up
by the roots; (13)raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own
shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved
forever.
(14)Yea, and of these Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied, saying:
Behold, the Lord came, with his holy myriads. (15)to execute judgment
upon all, and to convict all the ungodly among them of all their acts
of ungodliness which they committed, and of all the hard things which
ungodly sinners spoke against him.
(16)These are murmurers, complaining of their lot, walking according
to their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words; having respect
to persons, for the sake of profit.
(17)But ye, beloved, remember the words which were before spoken by
the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; (18)that they told you, that at
the last of the time there will be scoffers, walking after their own
lusts of ungodliness. (19)These are they who separate; sensual, having
not the Spirit. (20)But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your
most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, (21)keep yourselves in
the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto
eternal life.
(22)And some refute when they are contending; but others save,
snatching them out of the fire; (23)and others compassionate with
fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
(24)Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present
you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy;
(25)to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be
glory, majesty, dominion, and power, before all time, and now, and
forever. Amen.
THE REVELATION.
I.
THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show to his
servants what things must shortly come to pass; and he sent and
signified it by his angel to his servant John; (2)who testified of the
word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, of whatever things he
saw. (3)Happy he that reads, and they that hear the words of this
prophecy, and keep the things written therein; for the time is at
hand.
(4)John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you, and
peace, from him who is, and who was, and who is to come; and from the
seven spirits that are before his throne; (5)and from Jesus Christ,
the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the Ruler of the
kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins
in his own blood, (6)and made us a kingdom, priests to God and his
Father, to him be the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever. Amen.
(7)Behold, he comes amidst the clouds; and every eye shall see him,
and they who pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall wail
because of him. Even so, Amen.
(8)I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, he who is, and
who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.
(9)I, John, your brother, and partner with you in the affliction, and
kingdom, and patient endurance in Jesus, was in the island called
Patmos, on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
(10)I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day; and I heard behind me a
loud voice, as of a trumpet, (11)saying: What thou seest, write in a
book, and send to the seven churches; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and
to Pergamus, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and
to Laodicea.
(12)And I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And
having turned, I saw seven golden lamp-stands; (13)and in the midst of
the lamp-stands one like to the Son of Man, clothed with a garment
falling down to the feet, and girded round at the breasts with a
golden girdle. (14)But his head and his hairs were white, as white
wool, as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; (15)and his feet
were like to burnished brass, as if burning in a furnace[1:15]; and
his voice was as the sound of many waters. (16)And he had in his hand
seven stars; and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword; and
his countenance was as the sun shining in his strength.
(17)And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his
right hand on me, saying: Fear not: I am the first and the last,
(18)and the living one; and I became dead, and behold I am alive
forevermore; and I have the keys of death and of the underworld.
(19)Write therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things which
are, and the things which shall be after these; (20)the mystery of the
seven stars which thou sawest on my right hand, and the seven golden
lamp-stands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches; and
the seven lamp-stands are the seven churches.
II.
TO the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things says he who
holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the
seven golden lamp-stands. (2)I know thy works, and thy labor and
patience, and how thou canst not bear evil men; and thou didst try
those who say they are apostles, and are not, and didst find them
liars; (3)and thou hast patience, and didst bear for my name's sake,
and hast not been weary.
(4)But I have this against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.
(5)Remember therefore from whence thou hast fallen, and repent, and do
the first works; but if not, I am coming to thee, and will remove thy
lamp-stand out of its place, if thou repent not.
(6)But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nicolaitans,
which I also hate.
(7)He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches. To him that overcomes, to him I will give to eat of the tree
of life, which is in the paradise of God.
(8)And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things says
the first and the last, who became dead, and lived again. (9)I know
thy affliction, and poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of
those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of
Satan. (10)Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer. Behold,
the Devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be
tried; and ye will have affliction ten days. Be thou faithful unto
death, and I will give thee the crown of life.
(11)He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches. He that overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.
(12)And to the angel of the church in Pergamus write: These things
says he who has the sharp two-edged sword. (13)I know where thou
dwellest, where the throne of Satan is; and thou holdest fast my name,
and didst not deny the faith in me, even in the days in which Antipas
was my faithful witness, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.
(14)But I have a few things against thee. Thou hast there men holding
the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block
before the sons of Israel, to eat things offered to idols, and to
commit fornication. (15)Thus thou also hast men holding the teaching
of the Nicolaitans, in like manner. (16)Repent therefore; but if not,
I come to thee quickly, and will make war with them, with the sword of
my mouth.
(17)He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches. To him that overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden
manna; and I will give to him a white stone, and on the stone a new
name written, which no one knows but he that receives it.
(18)And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These things
says the Son of God, who has his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet
are like to burnished brass. (19)I know thy works, and thy love, and
faith, and service, and patience; and thy last works are more than the
first.
(20)But I have against thee, that thou sufferest the woman
Jezebel[2:20], who calls herself a prophetess; and she teaches and
seduces my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things offered
to idols. (21)And I gave her time that she might repent; and she will
not repent of her fornication. (22)Behold, I cast her into a bed, and
those who together with her commit adultery, into great affliction, if
they repent not of their works[2:22]. (23)And her children I will slay
with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he who searches
the reins and hearts; and I will give to you every one according to
your works.
(24)But to you I say, the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as have
not this teaching, who knew not the depths of Satan, as they speak: I
put upon you no other burden; (25)but that which ye have, hold fast
till I come. (26)And he that overcomes, and he that keeps my works
until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations; (27)and
he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of a potter are
they dashed in pieces, as I also have received from my Father; (28)and
I will give him the morning star.
(29)He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches.
III.
AND to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things says he
who has the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars. I know thy
works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. (2)Be
watchful, and strengthen the remaining things, that were ready to die;
for I have not found thy works complete before my God. (3)Remember
therefore how thou hast received, and didst hear, and keep, and
repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief, and
thou shalt not know at what hour I will come upon thee.
(4)But thou hast a few names in Sardis, which did not defile their
garments; and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
(5)He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed[3:5] in white
garments; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life,
and I will acknowledge his name before my Father, and before his
angels.
(6)He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches.
(7)And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things
says the Holy, the True, he who has the key of David, he who opens,
and no one shall shut, and shuts, and no one opens. (8)I know thy
works. Behold, I have set before thee a door opened, which no one can
shut; because thou hast little power and didst keep my word, and didst
not deny my name.
(9)Behold, I make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are
Jews, and they are not, but do lie, behold, I will make them to come
and bow down before thy feet, and to know that I loved thee.
(10)Because thou didst keep my word of patient endurance, I also will
keep thee from the hour of temptation, which is about to come upon the
whole world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.
(11)I come quickly; hold fast that which thou hast, that no one may
take thy crown. (12)He that overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the
temple of my God, and he shall go out no more; and I will write upon
him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new
Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new
name.
(13)He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches.
(14)And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things
says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the
creation of God. (15)I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor
hot. I would thou wert cold or hot. (16)So, because thou art lukewarm,
and neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit thee out of my mouth.
(17)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; (18)I counsel thee to
buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white
garments, that thou mayest be clothed, and the shame of thy nakedness
not be made manifest, and to anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that
thou mayest see. (19)As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be
zealous therefore, and repent.
(20)Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; if any one hear my voice,
and open the door, I will come in to him, and I will sup with him and
he with me. (21)He that overcomes, I will give to him to sit with me
in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his
throne.
(22)He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches.
IV.
AFTER these things I saw, and, behold, a door set open in heaven, and
that first voice (which I heard as of a trumpet speaking with me)
saying: Come up hither, and I will show thee what things must take
place after these.
(2)Immediately I was in the Spirit; and, behold, a throne was set in
heaven, and one sat on the throne. (3)And he who sat was like in
appearance to a jasper and sardine stone; and there was a rainbow
round the throne, like in appearance to an emerald; (4)and around the
throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones twenty-four
elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and on their heads crowns
of gold. (5)And out of the throne proceed lightnings, and voices, and
thunders; and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the
throne, which are the seven spirits of God; (6)and before the throne
as it were a sea of glass like to crystal; and in the midst of the
throne, and around the throne, four animals full of eyes before and
behind. (7)And the first animal was like to a lion, and the second
animal like to a calf, and the third animal having its face as of a
man, and the fourth animal like to an eagle flying. (8)And the four
animals had each of them six wings apiece; around and within they are
full of eyes; and they have no rest by day and by night, saying: Holy,
holy, holy, Lord God the Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to
come.