Moreover,<n id="1" /> we<n id="2" /> possess the prophetic word as an altogether reliable thing.<n id="3" /> You do well if you pay attention<n id="4" /> to this<n id="5" /> as you would<n id="6" /> to a light shining in a murky place, until the day dawns and the morning star<n id="7" /> rises in your hearts.<n id="8" />

What we have seen and heard we announce<n id="1" /> to you too, so that<n id="2" /> you may have fellowship<n id="3" /> with us (and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses<n id="1" /> us from all sin.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning.<n id="1" /> The old commandment is the word that you have already<n id="2" /> heard.

By this<n id="1" /> love is perfected with<n id="2" /> us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus<n id="3" /> is, so also are we in this world.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.<n id="1" /> The<n id="2" /> one who fears punishment<n id="3" /> has not been perfected in love.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Though I have many other<n id="1" /> things to write to you, I do not want to do so with<n id="2" /> paper and ink,<n id="3" /> but I hope to come visit you and speak face to face,<n id="4" /> so that our joy may be complete.<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you<n id="1" /> about our common salvation, I now feel compelled<n id="2" /> instead to write to encourage<n id="3" /> you to contend earnestly<n id="4" /> for the faith<n id="5" /> that was once for all<n id="6" /> entrusted to the saints.<n id="7" />

He held<n id="1" /> seven stars in his right hand, and a sharp double-edged sword extended out of his mouth. His<n id="2" /> face shone like the sun shining at full strength.

and the one who lives! I<n id="1" /> was dead, but look, now I am alive &#8211; forever and ever &#8211; and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!<n id="2" />

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers,<n id="1" /> I will permit<n id="2" /> him to eat from the tree of life that is<n id="3" /> in the paradise of God.&#8217;<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;To<n id="1" /> the angel of the church in Thyatira write the following:<n id="2" />p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;This is the solemn pronouncement of<n id="3" /> the Son of God, the one who has eyes like a fiery flame<n id="4" /> and whose feet are like polished bronze:<n id="5" />

But I have this against you: You tolerate that<n id="1" /> woman<n id="2" /> Jezebel,<n id="3" /> who calls herself a prophetess, and by her teaching deceives<n id="4" /> my servants<n id="5" /> to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.<n id="6" />

But to the rest of you in Thyatira, all who do not hold to this teaching<n id="1" /> (who have not learned the so-called &#8220;deep secrets<n id="2" /> of Satan&#8221;), to you I say: I do not put any additional burden on you.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;To<n id="1" /> the angel of the church in Philadelphia write the following:<n id="2" />p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;This is the solemn pronouncement of<n id="3" /> the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens doors<n id="4" /> no one can shut, and shuts doors<n id="5" /> no one can open:

Because you say, &#8220;I am rich and have acquired great wealth,<n id="1" /> and need nothing,&#8221; but<n id="2" /> do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful,<n id="3" /> poor, blind, and naked,

The<n id="1" /> first living creature was like a lion, the<n id="2" /> second creature like an ox, the third creature had a face like a man&#8217;s, and the fourth creature looked like an eagle flying.

and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground<n id="1" /> before the Lamb. Each<n id="2" /> of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense (which are the prayers of the saints).<n id="3" />

So<n id="1" /> I looked,<n id="2" /> and here came<n id="3" /> a white horse! The<n id="4" /> one who rode it<n id="5" /> had a bow, and he was given a crown,<n id="6" /> and as a conqueror<n id="7" /> he rode out to conquer.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> when the Lamb opened the third seal I heard the third living creature saying, &#8220;Come!&#8221; So<n id="2" /> I looked,<n id="3" /> and here came<n id="4" /> a black horse! The<n id="5" /> one who rode it<n id="6" /> had a balance scale<n id="7" /> in his hand.