Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!