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But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove empty, but that you will be prepared, just as I said.

When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

Tell Archippus: “See to it that you complete the ministry you have received in the Lord.”

Do you not remember that I told you these things while I was still with you?

As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

For to which of the angels did God ever say: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father”? Or again: “I will be His Father, and He will be My Son”?

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’

And so to speak, Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham.

Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”

For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

The sight was so terrifying that even Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”

If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothes and say, “Here is a seat of honor,” but say to the poor man, “You must stand” or “Sit at my feet,”

For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that?

If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.

If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

…when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”

And the four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.

“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

“Why are you so amazed?” said the angel. “I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns.

And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”

And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.

Then the angel said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent His angel to show His servants what must soon take place.”

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.