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I John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patience [which are] in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

and the Living one; and I became dead, and look, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

and you have patience and did bear for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.

Be watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die: for I have not found your works perfected before my God.

But you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments: and they shall walk with me in white; for they are worthy.

Worthy are you, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for you created all things, and because of your will they were, and were created.

And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy are you to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for you were slain, and purchased to God with your blood [men] of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

And I heard as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A measure of wheat for $100, and three measures of barley for $100; and don't hurt the oil and the wine.

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

And there was given them to each one a white robe; and it was said to them, that they should rest yet for a little time, until their fellow slaves also and their brothers, who should be killed even as they were, should have fulfilled [their course].

for the great day of their wrath has come; and who is able to stand?

for the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them to fountains of waters of life: and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.

And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; that the third part of them should be darkened, and the day should not shine for the third part of it, and the night in like manner.

And I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a great voice, Woe, woe, woe, for those that dwell on the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, who are yet to sound.

And the shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war; and on their heads as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as men's faces.

And the four angels were loosed, that had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men.

For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like serpents, and have heads; and with them they hurt.

And the court which is outside the temple leave outside, and do not measure it; for it has been given to the nations: and they shall tread the holy city under foot forty and two months.

And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now has come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brothers is cast down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.