Luke 21:16

Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

They said to him, “We are able.” Jesus said to them, “You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.

Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, “Send your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth’s grapes are fully ripe!”

I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.”

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”

When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

who testified to God’s word and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.

Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in Yahweh’s name, that you not die by our hand;’

For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

All who heard him were amazed, and said, “Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!”

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.