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The one who believes in the Son of God has this testimony within himself. The one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony God has given about his Son.

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

This is the confidence we have before him: If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true one. We are in the true one—that is, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

This is love: that we walk according to his commands. This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: that you walk in love.

for the one who greets him shares in his evil works.

It was about these that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied: “Look! The Lord comes with tens of thousands of his holy ones

Now to him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, without blemish and with great joy,

The revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

John: To the seven churches in Asia. Grace and peace to you from the one who is, who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne,

and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

and among the lampstands was one like the Son of Man, dressed in a robe and with a golden sash wrapped around his chest.

The hair of his head was white as wool—white as snow—and his eyes like a fiery flame.

His feet were like fine bronze as it is fired in a furnace, and his voice like the sound of cascading waters.

He had seven stars in his right hand; a sharp double-edged sword came from his mouth, and his face was shining like the sun at full strength.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid. I am the First and the Last,

When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and there was a black horse. Its rider held a set of scales in his hand.

For this reason they are before the throne of God,and they serve him day and night in his temple.The one seated on the throne will shelter them:

The first angel blew his trumpet, and hail and fire, mixed with blood, were hurled to the earth. So a third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain ablaze with fire was hurled into the sea. So a third of the sea became blood,