Study Desk

Watch yourselves so you don’t lose what we have worked for, but that you may receive a full reward.

Anyone who does not remain in Christ’s teaching but goes beyond it does not have God. The one who remains in that teaching, this one has both the Father and the Son.

I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have first place among them, does not receive our authority.

This is why, if I come, I will remind him of the works he is doing, slandering us with malicious words. And he is not satisfied with that! He not only refuses to welcome fellow believers, but he even stops those who want to do so and expels them from the church.

Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

I have many things to write you, but I don’t want to write to you with pen and ink.

and the angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deep darkness for the judgment on the great day.

Yet when Michael the archangel was disputing with the devil in an argument about Moses’s body, he did not dare utter a slanderous condemnation against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct—like irrational animals—by these things they are destroyed.

But you, dear friends, remember what was predicted by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But you, dear friends, as you build yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

save others by snatching them from the fire; have mercy on others but with fear, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.

But I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.

But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam,

But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel,

But you have a few people

I know your works. Look, I have placed before you an open door that no one can close because you have but little power; yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

Note this: I will make those from the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews and are not, but are lying—I will make them come and bow down at your feet,

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or even to look in it.

Then I heard something like a voice among the four living creatures say, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, but do not harm the oil and the wine.”