"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to announce these things to you in the churches. I am descended from the family of David; I am the bright morning star."

"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: "This is the message from the Amen, the faithful and true witness, who is the origin of all that God has created.

In the Lord's name, then, I warn you: do not continue to live like the heathen, whose thoughts are worthless

In this matter, then, none of you should do wrong to other Christians or take advantage of them. We have told you this before, and we strongly warned you that the Lord will punish those who do that.

Happy is the one who reads this book, and happy are those who listen to the words of this prophetic message and obey what is written in this book! For the time is near when all these things will happen.

Do not add anything to what I command you, and do not take anything away. Obey the commands of the LORD your God that I have given you.

"Do everything that I have commanded you; do not add anything to it or take anything from it.

If you claim that he said something that he never said, he will reprimand you and show that you are a liar."

they do not need to honor their father. In this way you disregard God's command, in order to follow your own teaching.

'These people, says God, honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me.

will themselves drink God's wine, the wine of his fury, which he has poured at full strength into the cup of his anger! All who do this will be tormented in fire and sulfur before the holy angels and the Lamb.

The smoke of the fire that torments them goes up forever and ever. There is no relief day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, for anyone who has the mark of its name."

Then I saw in the sky another mysterious sight, great and amazing. There were seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last ones, because they are the final expression of God's anger.

Then I heard a loud voice speaking from the temple to the seven angels: "Go and pour out the seven bowls of God's anger on the earth!"

The beast was taken prisoner, together with the false prophet who had performed miracles in his presence. (It was by those miracles that he had deceived those who had the mark of the beast and those who had worshiped the image of the beast.) The beast and the false prophet were both thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Then the Devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Those who did not have their name written in the book of the living were thrown into the lake of fire.

"If even after all of this you still do not obey me, I will increase your punishment seven times.

then I will turn on you and punish you seven times harder than before.

I will bring war on you to punish you for breaking our covenant, and if you gather in your cities for safety, I will send incurable diseases among you, and you will be forced to surrender to your enemies.

then in my anger I will turn on you and again make your punishment seven times worse than before.

You will stumble over one another when no one is chasing you, and you will be unable to fight against any enemy.