Study Desk

Try to be at peace with everyone, and try to live a holy life, because no one will see the Lord without it.

I want you to know that our brother Timothy has been let out of prison. If he comes soon enough, I will have him with me when I see you.

If you listen to the word, but do not put it into practice you are like people who look in a mirror and see themselves as they are.

Can't you see? His faith and his actions worked together; his faith was made perfect through his actions.

You see, then, that it is by our actions that we are put right with God, and not by our faith alone.

Be patient, then, my friends, until the Lord comes. See how patient farmers are as they wait for their land to produce precious crops. They wait patiently for the autumn and spring rains.

You love him, although you have not seen him, and you believe in him, although you do not now see him. So you rejoice with a great and glorious joy which words cannot express,

because they will see how pure and reverent your conduct is.

As the scripture says, "If you want to enjoy life and wish to see good times, you must keep from speaking evil and stop telling lies.

But if you do not have them, you are so shortsighted that you cannot see and have forgotten that you have been purified from your past sins.

Everything that belongs to the world—what the sinful self desires, what people see and want, and everything in this world that people are so proud of—none of this comes from the Father; it all comes from the world.

See how much the Father has loved us! His love is so great that we are called God's children—and so, in fact, we are. This is why the world does not know us: it has not known God.

My dear friends, we are now God's children, but it is not yet clear what we shall become. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he really is.

If we are rich and see others in need, yet close our hearts against them, how can we claim that we love God?

If you see a believer commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray to God, who will give that person life. This applies to those whose sins do not lead to death. But there is sin which leads to death, and I do not say that you should pray to God about that.

I hope to see you soon, and then we will talk personally.

Look, he is coming on the clouds! Everyone will see him, including those who pierced him. All peoples on earth will mourn over him. So shall it be!

It said, "Write down what you see, and send the book to the churches in these seven cities: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."

I turned around to see who was talking to me, and I saw seven gold lampstands,

Write, then, the things you see, both the things that are now and the things that will happen afterward.