xhortations to brotherly love. The the witneges. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the wit nets of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath teftified of his son. Chap. v. 8 There is no fear in love; but perfect e cafteth out fear: becaufe fear hath torHe that feareth is not made perfect love. 19 We love him, because he firft loved us. 20 If a man fay, I love God, and hateth s brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth t his brother whom he hath feen, how can e love God whom he hath not feen? 21 And this commandment have we from im, That he who loveth God love his broher also. CHAP. V. He that loveth God, loveth his children, and kcepeth his commandments; 3 which to the faithful are light, and not grievous. 9 Jefus is the Son of God able to fave us, 14 and to bear our prayers which we make for ourfelves and for others. 10 He that believeth on the Son of God hati: the witnefs in himself: he that believ eth not God hath made him a liar; because he believed not the record that God gave of his Son. 11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not lite. 13 Thefe things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. 14 And this is the confidence that we have to his will, he heareth us: WHOSOEVER believeth that Jefus is the in him, that, if we ask any thing according Chrift is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat ioveth him alfo that is begotten of him. a By this we know that we love the chil. dren of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 4 For whatfoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that jefus is the Son of God? 6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jefus Chrift; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Groft and these three are one. & And there are three that bear witnefs in earth, the fpirit, and the water, and the blood: and thefe three agree in one. 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatfoever we atk, we know that we have the pe titions that we defired of him. 16 If any man fee his brother fin a fin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he fhall give him life for them that fin not unto death. There is a fin unto death: I do nct fay that he shall pray for it. 17 All unrighteoufnefs is fin: and there is a fin not unto death. 18 We know that whofoever is born of God finneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. 19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickednefs. 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son jefus Chrift. This is the true God, and eternal life. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. The Second Epiftle of JOHN. He exhorteth a certain honourable matron, with her children, to perfemere in Chrißian vove and belief, & left they lose the reward of their former profefton; to and to have nothing to do with feducers. Helder unto the elect lady and her chilTH dren, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but alfo all they that have known the truth; 2 For the truth's fake, which dwelleth in us, and thall be with us for ever. 3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from Gad the Father, and from the Lord Jefus Chrift, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy ebil ren walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. 5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning ye fhould walk in it. 7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confefs not that Jefus Chrift is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrift. 8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not thofe things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. 9 Whofcever tranfgreffeth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Chrift, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into you houfe, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. 12 Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and peak face to face, that our joy may be full. 13 The children of thy elect after greet thee. Amen. The The Third Epiftle of JOHN. alle commendeth Gaius for his piety, sand bospitality, to true preachers; 9 complain. ing of the unkind dealing of ambitious Diotrephes on the contrary fide, 11 whole evil example is not tobe followed: 12 giveth special tehimony of the good report of Demetrius. THE elder unto the well-beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth. 2 Beloved, I with above all things that thou mayet profper and be in health, even as thy foul profpereth. 3 For I rejoice greatly, when the brethren came and teftified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkeft in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in trach. 5 Beloved, thou doeft faithfully whatfoever thou doeft to the brethren, and to ftrangers; 6 Whien have borne witnefs of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring for ward on their journey after a godly fort, thou thait do well: 7 Becaufe that for his name's fake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. 8 We therefore ought to receive in we might be fellow-helpers to the t 9 I wrote unto the church: but Di who loveth to have the preement them, receiveth us not. 10 Wherefore, if I come, I will res his deeds which he doeth, prating 1 with malicious words; and rat ceter = with, neither doth he himiel receive cha thren, and forbid seth them that wo catteth them out of the church. 11 Beloved, follow not that which e but that which is good. He that be. is of God: but he that doeth evil bath m God. 12 Demetrius hath good repert of 1° ma and of the truth iifcit: yea, and wom record; and ye know that our recurs put 13 I halimany things to write, bat san' not with ink and pen write anto her: 14 But I trait I thali fhortly ke tm, m we thall speak face to face. Pest 1 thee. Our friends falute thee. Grati friends by name. The general Epiftle of JUDE. Alle exhorteth them to be conftant in the profey on of the faith. 4 False teachers are rept in to feduce them, for whose damnable encirine and manners borrible punishment is prepared: 10 whereas the godiy, by the affance of the holy Spirit, and prayers to Goa, may perfevere and grow in grace, and keep themfelves, and recover others out of the inares of those deceivers. UDE, the fervant of Jefus Chrift, and bro the #efn, defpife dominion, and fpeak er. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when on 10 But thefe fpeak evil of these things Jther of fames, then shat are fanctified they corrupt then fee 2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common falvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye thould earnettly contend for The faith which was once deliverea unto the faints. 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lafcivioufnefs, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord jefus Christ. 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, hough ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having faved the people out of the land of gy, afterward destroyed them that be ieved not. 6 And the angels which kept not their firft fate, but left their own habitation, he nata reserved in everlafting chains under darkness onto the judgment of the great day. 7 Even as Solem and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange feth, are fet forth for an example, infering the vengeance of eternal fire. 8 Likewife also these filthy dreamers defile ii Woe unto them! for they have go 12 Thefe are fpots in your feafts of charity, 13 Raging waves of the fea, foaming out their own thame; wandering Hars, to wha is referved the blacknefs of darknets 1 ever. 14 And Encch alfo, the feventh from Adam, prophefied of there, faying, behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his faints, 1: To execute judgment upon all, ani convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they Lave ungolly committed, and of all their hard Speeches which ungodly finners have spoken against him. 16 Thefe are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lutts; and their mouth (peaketh great fwelling scores, har. ing men's perfons in admiration because of advantage. 17 But, beloved, remember ye the works which were fpoken before of the apofles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18 120W be f wool, as white as fnow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire'; 15 And his feet like unto fine brafs, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the found of many waters. 16 And he had in his right hand feven ftars: and out of his mouth went a harp two edged (word: and his countenance was as the fun thineth in his ftrength. 17 And, when I faw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, faying unto me, Fear not; I ani the firit and the laft: 18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; aud have the keys of hell and of death. 19 Write the things which thou haft feen, 4 and the things in Afia; Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the feven Spirits which are before his throne; And from Jefus Chrift, who is the faith fui witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and wathed us from our fins in his own blood, 6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father: to him te glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 7 Behoid he cometh with clouds; and every eye ihall fee him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth ihall wail because of him. Even fo, Amen. 81 am Alpha and Oniega, the beginning and the ending, faith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. 91 John, who alfo am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jefus Chrift, was in the inle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the teftimony of Jefus Chrift. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice aso: a trumpet, 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the firft and the lat: and, what thou feeff, write in a book, and fend it unto the feven churches which are in Afia; unto Ephefus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Phila delphia, and unto Laodicea. 12 And I turned to fte the voice that fpake with me. And, being turned, I faw feven golden candlesticks; 13 And in the miift of the feven candlefticks one like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. 14 His head and is hairs were white like which thall be hereafter; 20 The mystery of the feven stars which thou faweit in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The feven stars are the angels of the feven churches; and the feven candlesticks which thou faweft are the feven churches. CHAP. II. What is commanded to be written to the angels, that is, the minipers of the churches of 1 Epbejus, 8 Smyrna, 12 Pergamos, 18 #kyatira, and what commended, or found want. ing in them. U NTO the angel of the church of Ephefus write; Thefe things faith he that holdeth the feven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midft of the feven golden candlesticks; 2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou haft tried them which fay they are apoftles, and are not, and hatt found them liars: 3 And haft borne, and nat patience, and for my name's fake haft laboured, and haft not fainted. 4 Nevertheless, I have fomewhat against thee, becaufe thou haft left thy first love. 5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or elfe I will conie unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. 6 But this thou haft, that thou hateft the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 7 He that nath an ear, let him near what the Spirit faith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midit of the paradife of God. 8 And unto the Angel of the church in Smyrna write; Thefe things faith the firft and the laft, which was dead, and is alive; The Churches REVELATION. 9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blafy nemy of them which fay they are Jews, and are not, but are the fynagogue of Satan." 10 Fear none of thofe things which thou fhalt fuffer: oehold, the devil thall caft fome of you into prifon, that ye may be tried; and ye thall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of lite. 11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what Ephejus, Snym ( as the veffels of a potter shall they th i The angel of the church of Sardit i door and knocketh. ND unto the angel of the churca in the Spirit faith unto the churches; He that A dis write; There things far is overcometh thall not be hurt of the fecond death. 12 And to the angel of the church in Per gamos write; Thele things faith he which hat the harp fword with two edges; 13 I know thy works, and where thou dweileft, even where Satan's feat is. And the holdeft faft my name, and haft not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my taithful martyr, who was flain among you, where Satan iwelleth. 14 But I have a tew things against thee, because thou hart there them that hold the doctrine of Baltam, who taught Baiak to cast a tumbling block before the children of Ifriel, to eat things facrificed unto idols, and to commut ornication. 15 So hart thou alfo them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. 16 Repent; or elfe I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the fword of my mouth. 17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit faith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hid den manna, and will give him a white ftone, and in the tone arew name written, which Do man knoweth faving he that receiveth it. 18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; Thefe things faith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a fiame ot fire, and his feet are like fine brass; 19 I know thy works, and charity, and fervice, and faith, and thy patience, and thy Werks; and the laft to be more than the firit. 20 Notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee, because thou fustereft that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a proPhetels, to teach and to feduce my fervants to commit fornication, and to eat things fa crifices dato idols. 21 And I gave her fpace to repent of her fornication; and the repented not. a2 Behold, I will cait her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their decls. 23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches fhall know that I am he which fearcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. 24 Bắt unto you I fay, and unto the reft in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths ei Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden. 25 But that which ye have already hold faft till I come. 15 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power overt raions: 27 tie them with a rod ofiron; hath the feven Spirits of God, and the name, that thou livet, and art dead ftars; I know thy works, that thou h 2 Be watchful, and strengthen the have not tound thy works periet her St which remain, that are ready to dev 3 Remember therefore how thou hat ceived and heard, and hold raft, and o If therefore thou shalt not watch, 16 come on thee as a thief, and thou d know what hour I will come upon the 4 Thou haft a few names even in S they shall walk with me in white; art which have not defiled their garment: are worthy. 5 He that overcometh, the fame fil blot out his name out of the book of 2 clothed in white raiment; and I wil but I will confefs his name before my Fit and before his angels. 6 He that hath an ear, let him hear wh the Spirit faith unto the churches. ladelphia write; Thefe things faith e de 7 And to the angel of the church in P is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no mall te teth; and fhutteth, and no man speneth; before thee an open door, and no man ca 8 i know thy works: behold, 1 Lave it fhut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hait kept my word, and haft not denied my name. gogue of Satan, which fay they are Jess 9 Behold, I will make them of the fine them to come and worthip before thy fat and are not, but do lie; behold, 1 will mat and to know that I have loved thee. patience, I alfo will keep thee from the tour lar in the temple of my God, and he thall 13 He that hath an ear, let him hear sast the Spirit faith unto the churches. the Laodiceans write; Thele things farh 14 And unto the angel of the church of the Amen, the faithful and trae Withell, the beginning of the creation of God; cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot, 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee creafed with goods, and have need of g; and knowet not that thou art tened, and miferable, and poor, and 3d, and naked: 8 I counfel thee to buy of me gold tried the fire, that thou mayeft Be rich; and ite raiment, that thou mayeft be clothed, The book twith feven fealt, CHAP. V. 1 The book fealed with feven feals, 9 which only the Lamb which was pain is worthy to open: 12 therefore the elders praise him, and confefs that be redeemed them with his blood. A that the thame of thy nake inefe do not AN Ifaw in the right hand of him that pear; and anoint thine eyes with eyefalve, a thou mayeft fee. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and cha: be zealous therefore, and repent, zo Behold, I ftand at the door, and knock: any man hear my voice, an open the sor, I will come in to him, and will fup ith him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcometh will I grant fit with me in my throne, even as falfo vercame, and am fet down with my Father 1 his throne, 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what he spirit faith unto the churches. CHAP. IV. John feeth the throne of God in heaven. 4 The four and twenty elders. 6 The four beofs full of eyes before and hehind. 10 The elders lay down their crans, and worship bim that fat on the throne. fat on the throne a written within and on the backfire, fealed with feven feals. 2 And I faw a ftrong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loofe the feals thereof? 3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able, to open the book, neither to look thereon. 4 And I wept much, becaufe no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. 5 And one of the elders faith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loofe the feven feals thereof. 6 And I beheld, and, lo, m the midt of the throne and of the tour beafts, and in the midft of the elders, flood a Lamb as it had been flain, having feven horns and seven eyes, which are the feven Spirits of God AFTER this looked, and, behold, a door fent forth into all the earth. opened in heaven: and the firit voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which faid, Come up hither, and I will thew thee things which must be hereafter, 2 And immediately i was in the fpirit: an i, behold, a throne was fet in heaven, and que fat on the throne. 3 And he that fat was to look upen like a Jafper and a ferdine ftone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in fight like unto an emerald. 4 And round about the throne were four and twenty feats: and upon the feats I faw four and twenty elders fitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. 5 And out of the throne proceeded light nings and thunderings and voices: and there avere feven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the feven Spirits of God. 6 And before the throne there was a fea of glafs like unto cryttal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beafts full of eyes before and behind. 7 And the firft beat was like a lion, and the fecond beatt like a calf, and the third beat had a face as a man, and the fourth bead was like a flying eagle. 8 And the four beats had each of them fix wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they ret not day and night, faying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. 9 And when those beats give glory and honour and thanks to him that fat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, 19 The tour and twenty elders fan down before him that fat on the throne, and worthip him that liveth for ever and ever, and cat their crowns before the throne, Saying, 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hut created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and we created. 7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that fat upon the throne. 8 And when he had taken the book, the four beafts and four and twenty elders tell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of faints. 9 And they fung a new fong, faying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the feals thereof: for thou waft lain, and haft redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 And haft made us unto our God kings and prieits: and we fhall reign on the earth. 11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beafts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thou fand, and thoufands of thoufands; 12 Saying with a loui voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was flain to receive power, and riches, and wifdom, and strengin, and honour, and glory, and bletting. 13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and fuch as are in the fea, and all that are in them, heard faying, Bleifing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that fitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. 14 And the four beafts faid, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and wor fhipped him that liveth for ever and ever. CHAP. VI. 1 The opening of the feals in order, and what fallosved thereupon; containing a prophecy to the end of the world. AND I faw when the Lamb opened one of the feals, and I heard, as it were the noife of thunder, one of the four beafts, faying, Come and fee. 2 And I faw, and behold a white horse: and he that fat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. 3 And when he had opened the fecond feal, 1 heard the bread beatt fay, Come and fee. |