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

For I was very glad when fellow believers came and testified to your fidelity to the truth—how you are walking in truth.

Dear friend, you are acting faithfully in whatever you do for the brothers and sisters, especially when they are strangers.

since they set out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from pagans.

Dear friends, although I was eager to write you about the salvation we share, I found it necessary to write, appealing to you to contend for the faith that was delivered to the saints once for all.

For some people, who were designated for this judgment long ago, have come in by stealth; they are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into sensuality and denying Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.

Now I want to remind you, although you came to know all these things once and for all, that Jesus saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe;

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.

Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, have plunged into Balaam’s error for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

These people are discontented grumblers, living according to their desires; their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering people for their own advantage.

keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting expectantly for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life.

I know that you have persevered and endured hardships for the sake of my name,

For you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’

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.”

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:

For the Lamb who is at the center of the thronewill shepherd them;he will guide them to springs of the waters of life,and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

The fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth. The key for the shaft to the abyss was given to him.

They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it stings someone.