TR Concordance for τὰς

For he is the one spoken of through the prophet Isaiah, who said:

A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:

Prepare the way for the Lord;

make his paths straight!

and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.

so that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:

He himself took our weaknesses

and carried our diseases.

Perceiving their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why are you thinking evil things in your hearts?[fn]

Jesus continued going around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every[fn] disease and every sickness.[fn][fn]

“Don't acquire gold, silver, or copper for your money-belts.

“When they persecute you in one town, flee to another. For truly I tell you, you will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

Then he proceeded to denounce the towns where most of his miracles were done, because they did not repent:

Knowing their thoughts, he told them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is headed for destruction, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.

“Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it.

“Now the one sown among the thorns ​— ​this is one who hears the word, but the worries of this age and the deceitfulness[fn] of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

When Jesus had finished these parables, he left there.

When evening came, the disciples approached him and said, “This place is deserted, and it is already late.[fn] Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat.”[fn]

“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound[fn] in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will have been loosed[fn] in heaven.”

He told them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not like that from the beginning.

Then little children were brought to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them.

After placing his hands on them, he went on from there.

“Why do you ask me about what is good? ”[fn] he said to him. “There is only one who is good.[fn] If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Jesus went into the temple[fn] and threw out all those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew he was speaking about them.

“Go then to where the roads exit the city and invite everyone you find to the banquet.'

Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, because you don't know the Scriptures or the power of God.

“They love the place of honor at banquets, the front seats in the synagogues,

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks[fn] under her wings, but you were not willing!

As Jesus left and was going out of the temple, his disciples came up and called his attention to its buildings.

“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins[fn] who took their lamps[fn] and went out to meet the groom.

“When the foolish took their lamps, they didn't take oil with them;

“Then all the virgins got up and trimmed their lamps.

“Friend,” Jesus asked him, “why have you come? ”[fn]

Then they came up, took hold of Jesus, and arrested him.

When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was starting instead, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “I am innocent of this man's blood.[fn] See to it yourselves! ”

Those who passed by were yelling insults at[fn] him, shaking their heads

“teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember,[fn] I am with you always,[fn] to the end of the age.”

A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:

Prepare the way for the Lord;

make his paths straight!

The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

And he said to them, “Let's go on to the neighboring villages so that I may preach there too. This is why I have come.”

and to have authority to[fn] drive out demons.

“Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it didn't produce fruit.

Then he said to them, “Don't you understand this parable? How then will you understand all of the parables?

“Others are like seed sown among thorns; these are the ones who hear the word,

because he often had been bound with shackles and chains, but had torn the chains apart and smashed the shackles. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

and begged him earnestly, “My little daughter is dying. Come and lay your hands on her so that she can get well[fn] and live.”

He was not able to do a miracle there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, keeping the tradition of the elders.

He took the blind man by the hand and brought him out of the village. Spitting on his eyes and laying his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything? ”

Again Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes. The man looked intently and his sight was restored and he saw everything clearly.

Jesus went out with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the road he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am? ”

“And if your hand causes you to fall away, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and go to hell, the unquenchable fire.[fn]

After taking them in his arms, he laid his hands on them and blessed them.

“You know the commandments: Do not murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not bear false witness; do not defraud; honor your father and mother.”

They came to Jerusalem, and he went into the temple and began to throw out those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,

Jesus spoke to them, “Isn't this the reason why you're mistaken: you don't know the Scriptures or the power of God?

“They devour widows' houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher judgment.”

Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another ​— ​all will be thrown down.”

“If the Lord had not cut those days short, no one would be saved. But he cut those days short for the sake of the elect, whom he chose.

Then he came a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The time has come. See, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

They took hold of him and arrested him.

Those who passed by were yelling insults at[fn] him, shaking their heads, and saying, “Ha! The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived and kept herself in seclusion for five months. She said,

in holiness and righteousness

in his presence all our days.

Simeon took him up in his arms, praised God, and said,

After those days were over, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents[fn] did not know it.

as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah:

A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:

Prepare the way for the Lord;

make his paths straight!

So he took him up[fn] and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

When the sun was setting, all those who had anyone sick with various diseases brought them to him. As he laid his hands on each one of them, he healed them.

When he had concluded saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum.

“As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who, when they have heard, go on their way and are choked with worries, riches, and pleasures of life, and produce no mature fruit.

For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was guarded, bound by chains and shackles, he would snap the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.

So they went out and traveled from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing everywhere.

Late in the day, the Twelve approached and said to him, “Send the crowd away, so that they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find food and lodging, because we are in a deserted place here.”

When the days were coming to a close for him to be taken up, he determined[fn] to journey to Jerusalem.

“When you enter any town, and they don't welcome you, go out into its streets and say,

“And forgive us our sins,

for we ourselves also forgive everyone

in debt to us.[fn]

And do not bring us into temptation.”[fn]

“Whenever they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, don't worry about how you should defend yourselves or what you should say.

“I will do this,' he said. ‘I'll tear down my barns and build bigger ones and store all my grain and my goods there.

“But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,' and starts to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Then he laid his hands on her, and instantly she was restored and began to glorify God.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

He told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they would choose the best places for themselves:

“So the servant came back and reported these things to his master. Then in anger, the master of the house told his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in here the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'

“Then the master told the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters ​— ​yes, and even his own life ​— ​he cannot be my disciple.

“When she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the silver coin I lost! '

“And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of worldly wealth[fn] so that when it fails, they may welcome you into eternal dwellings.

And he told them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God's sight.

“You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not bear false witness; honor your father and mother.”

“So he said to those standing there, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.'

Then the scribes and the chief priests looked for a way to get their hands on him that very hour, because they knew he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.

“They devour widows' houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher judgment.”

“But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you. They will hand you over to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.

“Therefore make up your minds[fn] not to prepare your defense ahead of time,

“By your endurance, gain[fn] your lives.

“But when these things begin to take place, stand up and lift your heads, because your redemption is near.”

During the day, he was teaching in the temple, but in the evening he would go out and spend the night on what is called the Mount of Olives.

“so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. And you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

“Every day while I was with you in the temple, you never laid a hand on me. But this is your hour ​— ​and the dominion of darkness.”

They said to each other, “Weren't our hearts burning within us while he was talking with us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us? ”

“Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself! Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.”

Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

Then he led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them.

“Fill the jars with water,” Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim.

After making a whip out of cords, he drove everyone out of the temple with their sheep and oxen. He also poured out the money changers' coins and overturned the tables.

“Don't you say, ‘There are still four more months, and then comes the harvest'? Listen to what I'm telling you: Open[fn] your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready[fn] for harvest.

After two days he left there for Galilee.

“You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me.

Some of them wanted to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

“In the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say? ”

“You are of your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature,[fn] because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.

The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.”

Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his hands, that he had come from God, and that he was going back to God.

Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.”

“If you love me, you will keep[fn] my commands.

“The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father. I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

“If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in his love.

Having said this, he showed them his hands and his side. So the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

“If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Don't be faithless, but believe.”

“Truly I tell you, when you were younger, you would tie your belt and walk wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you and carry you where you don't want to go.”

“I will even pour out my Spirit

on my servants in those days, both men and women

and they will prophesy.

“God raised him up, ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by death.

They sold their possessions and property and distributed the proceeds to all, as any had need.

“Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped out,

“In addition, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those after him, have also foretold these days.

So they seized them and took them into custody until the next day since it was already evening.

“And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant that your servants may speak your word with all boldness,

For there was not a needy person among them because all those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the proceeds of what was sold,

As a result, they would carry the sick out into the streets and lay them on cots and mats so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on some of them.

So they arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.

They had them stand before the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them.

Saul agreed with putting him to death.

On that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the land of Judea and Samaria.

Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

saying, “Give me this power also so that anyone I lay hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

Philip appeared in[fn] Azotus,[fn] and he was traveling and preaching the gospel in all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women who belonged to the Way, he might bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

Ananias went and entered the house. He placed his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road you were traveling, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

but Saul learned of their plot. So they were watching the gates day and night intending to kill him,

He gave her his hand and helped her stand up. He called the saints and widows and presented her alive.

About that time King Herod violently attacked some who belonged to the church,

Then after they had fasted, prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them off.

and said, “You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery, you son of the devil and enemy of all that is right. Won't you ever stop perverting the straight paths of the Lord?

“Since the residents of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize him or the sayings of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, they have fulfilled their words by condemning him.

But the Jews incited the prominent God-fearing women and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their district.

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian towns of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding countryside.

“although he did not leave himself without a witness, since he did what is good by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons and filling you with food and your hearts with joy.”

strengthening the[fn] disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith and by telling them, “It is necessary to go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.”

“He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

“Since we have heard that some without our authorization went out from us and troubled you with their words and unsettled your hearts,[fn]

“who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

As they traveled through the towns, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem for the people to observe.

When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was going to kill himself, since he thought the prisoners had escaped.

The people here were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, since they received the word with eagerness and examined[fn] the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

“Because what you say sounds strange to us, and we want to know what these things mean.”

“From one man[fn] he has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live.

And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in tongues[fn] and to prophesy.

God was performing extraordinary miracles by Paul's hands,

And many who had become believers came confessing and disclosing their practices,

but we sailed away from Philippi after the Festival of Unleavened Bread. In five days we reached them at Troas, where we spent seven days.

When our time had come to an end, we left to continue our journey, while all of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us out of the city. After kneeling down on the beach to pray,

He came to us, took Paul's belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him over to the Gentiles.' ”

After this we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.

When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd, and seized him,

“And now, why are you delaying? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name.'

“But I said, ‘Lord, they know that in synagogue after synagogue I had those who believed in you imprisoned and beaten.

“For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner without indicating the charges against him.”

“In all the synagogues I often punished them and tried to make them blaspheme. Since I was terribly enraged at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.

After cutting loose the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and headed for the beach.

Publius's father was in bed suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went to him, and praying and laying his hands on him, he healed him.

After three days he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

because if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

But to Israel he says, All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and defiant people.

And this will be my covenant with them

when I take away their sins.

Pay your obligations to everyone: taxes to those you owe taxes, tolls to those you owe tolls, respect to those you owe respect, and honor to those you owe honor.

For I say that Christ became a servant of the circumcised[fn] on behalf of God's truth, to confirm the promises to the fathers,

Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who have worked hard in the Lord. Greet my dear friend Persis, who has worked very hard in the Lord.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them,

So don't judge anything prematurely, before the Lord comes, who will both bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the intentions of the hearts. And then praise will come to each one from God.

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dearly loved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you about my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

But because sexual immorality is so common,[fn] each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman should have sexual relations with her own husband.

Consider the people of Israel.[fn] Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

Now I praise you[fn] because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the traditions just as I delivered them to you.

For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

So then, dear friends, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, bringing holiness to completion[fn] in the fear of God.

So I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped from his hands.

So in what way are you worse off than the other churches, except that I personally did not burden you? Forgive me for this wrong!

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our[fn] hearts, crying, “Abba,[fn] Father! ”

to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

to take off[fn] your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires,

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the schemes of the devil.

I am sending him to you for this very reason, to let you know how we are and to encourage your hearts.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; he triumphed over them in him.[fn]

Husbands, love your wives and don't be bitter toward them.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may know how we are[fn] and so that he may encourage your hearts.

Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please people, but rather God, who examines our hearts.

We cared so much for you that we were pleased to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

by keeping us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a result, they are constantly filling up their sins to the limit, and wrath has overtaken them at last.[fn]

May he make your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. Amen.[fn]

So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold to the traditions you were taught, whether by what we said or what we wrote.

encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good work and word.

May the Lord direct your hearts to God's love and Christ's endurance.

Timothy, my son, I am giving you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies previously made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the good fight,

Also, the women are to dress themselves in modest clothing, with decency and good sense, not with elaborate hairstyles, gold, pearls, or expensive apparel,

Support[fn] widows who are genuinely in need.

At the same time, they also learn to be idle, going from house to house; they are not only idle, but are also gossips and busybodies, saying things they shouldn't say.

Don't continue drinking only water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding irreverent and empty speech and contradictions from what is falsely called knowledge.

Avoid irreverent and empty speech, since those who engage in it will produce even more godlessness,

Flee from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

For among them are those who worm their way into households and deceive gullible women overwhelmed by sins and led astray by a variety of passions,

For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear.

When you come, bring the cloak I left in Troas with Carpus, as well as the scrolls, especially the parchments.

so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children,

instructing us to deny godlessness and worldly lusts and to live in a sensible, righteous, and godly way in the present age,

Let our people learn to devote themselves to good works for pressing needs, so that they will not be unfruitful.

Therefore, he had to be like his brothers and sisters in every way, so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in matters[fn] pertaining to God, to make atonement[fn] for the sins of the people.

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,

on the day of testing in the wilderness,

for forty years.

Therefore I was provoked to anger with that generation

and said, “They always go astray in their hearts,

and they have not known my ways.”

As it is said:

Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.

he again specifies a certain day ​— ​today. He specified this speaking through David after such a long time:

Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts.

so that you won't become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.

But one without this[fn] lineage collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.

For this is the covenant

that I will make with the house of Israel

after those days, says the Lord:

I will put my laws into their minds

and write them on their hearts.

I will be their God,

and they will be my people.

With these things prepared like this, the priests enter the first room repeatedly, performing their ministry.

Every priest stands day after day ministering and offering the same sacrifices time after time, which can never take away sins.

This is the covenant I will make with them

after those days,

the Lord says,

I will put my laws on their hearts

and write them on their minds,

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

Remember the earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings.

These all died in faith, although they had not received the things that were promised. But they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He received the promises and yet he was offering his one and only son,

Therefore, strengthen your tired hands and weakened knees,

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent,[fn] humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days.

You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the Lord's coming is near.

They inquired into what time or what circumstances the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he testified in advance to the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.[fn]

Therefore, with your minds ready for action, be sober-minded and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

But you are a chosen race,[fn] a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his possession, so that you may proclaim the praises[fn] of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree; so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with a weaker partner, showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

The end of all things is near; therefore, be alert and sober-minded for prayer.

So then, let those who suffer according to God's will entrust themselves to a faithful Creator while doing what is good.

Above all, be aware of this: Scoffers will come in the last days scoffing and following their own evil desires,

He speaks about these things in all his letters. There are some things hard to understand in them. The untaught and unstable will twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commands.

You know that he was revealed so that he might take away sins,[fn] and there is no sin in him.

This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

This is how we will know that we belong to the truth and will reassure our hearts before him

and receive whatever we ask from him because we keep his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight.

The one who keeps his commands remains in him, and he in him. And the way we know that he remains in us is from the Spirit he has given us.

This is how we know that we love God's children: when we love God and obey[fn] his commands.

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.[fn]

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.

They told you, “In the end time there will be scoffers living according to their own ungodly desires.”

“and the Living One. I was dead, but look ​— ​I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and Hades.

“The mystery of the seven stars you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels[fn] of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands[fn] are the seven churches.

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white clothes, with golden crowns on their heads.

I also saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals? ”

Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Look, the Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered so that he is able to open the scroll and[fn] its seven seals.”

And they sang a new song:

You are worthy to take the scroll

and to open its seals,

because you were slaughtered,

and you purchased[fn] people[fn]

for God by your blood

from every tribe and language

and people and nation.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God and the testimony they had given.[fn]

Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and every slave and free person hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, restraining the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.

Then one of the elders asked me, “Who are these people in white robes, and where did they come from? ”

And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from heaven. It fell on a third of the rivers and springs of water.

The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. Something like golden crowns was on their heads; their faces were like human faces;

and he called out with a loud voice like a roaring lion. When he cried out, the seven thunders raised their voices.

But after three and a half days, the breath[fn] of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.

Then another sign[fn] appeared in heaven: There was a great fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven crowns.[fn]

So the dragon was furious with the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring[fn] ​— ​those who keep the commands of God and hold firmly to the testimony about Jesus.

And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads. On its horns were ten crowns,[fn] and on its heads were blasphemous names.[fn]

“This calls for endurance from the saints, who keep God's commands and their faith in Jesus.”[fn]

Then I saw another great and awe-inspiring sign[fn] in heaven: seven angels with the seven last plagues; for with them God's wrath will be completed.

Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes wrapped around their chests.

Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven[fn] bowls of God's wrath on the earth.”

The third[fn] poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.

and people were scorched by the intense heat. So they blasphemed the name of God, who has the power[fn] over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me: “Come, I will show you the judgment of the notorious prostitute[fn] who is seated on many[fn] waters.

Then the angel said to me, “Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast, with the seven heads and the ten horns, that carries her.

“The ten horns you saw, and the beast, will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, devour her flesh, and burn her up with fire.

They threw dust on their heads and kept crying out, weeping, and mourning,

Woe, woe, the great city,

where all those who have ships on the sea

became rich from her wealth;

for in a single hour she was destroyed.

Then I saw thrones, and people seated on them who were given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and who had not accepted the mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Then one of the seven angels, who had held the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues, came and spoke with me: “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

“Blessed are those who wash their robes,[fn] so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.