Study Desk

None of you have yet been hurt in your battle against sin.

Our tongues are small too, and yet they brag about big things. It takes only a spark to start a forest fire!

Yet even when you do pray, your prayers are not answered, because you pray just for selfish reasons.

Yet you are stupid enough to brag, and it is wrong to be so proud.

Your money has rusted, and the rust will be evidence against you, as it burns your body like fire. Yet you keep on storing up wealth in these last days.

and say, "Didn't your Lord promise to come back? Yet the first leaders have already died, and the world hasn't changed a bit."

These people came from our own group, yet they were not part of us. If they had been part of us, they would have stayed with us. But they left, which proves that they did not belong to our group.

My dear friends, we are already God's children, though what we will be hasn't yet been seen. But we do know that when Christ returns, we will be like him, because we will see him as he truly is.

Five of the kings are dead. One is ruling now, and the other one has not yet come. But when he does, he will rule for only a little while.

The ten horns that you saw are ten more kings, who have not yet come into power, and they will rule with the beast for only a short time.

Yet in a single hour her riches disappeared." Every ship captain and passenger and sailor stood at a distance, together with everyone who does business by traveling on the sea.