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What a record all of these have won by their faith! Yet they did not receive what God had promised,

For in your struggle against sin you have not yet had to resist to the point of being killed.

If, then, we say that we have fellowship with him, yet at the same time live in the darkness, we are lying both in our words and in our actions.

If we say that we are in the light, yet hate others, we are in the darkness to this very hour.

My dear friends, we are now God's children, but it is not yet clear what we shall become. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he really is.

If we are rich and see others in need, yet close our hearts against them, how can we claim that we love God?

So wake up, and strengthen what you still have before it dies completely. For I find that what you have done is not yet perfect in the sight of my God.

And it deceived all the people living on earth by means of the miracles which it was allowed to perform in the presence of the first beast. The beast told them to build an image in honor of the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet lived.

five of them have fallen, one still rules, and the other one has not yet come; when he comes, he must rule only a little while.

"The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet begun to rule, but who will be given authority to rule as kings for one hour with the beast.