⁴ Now when the seven thunders ^[a]uttered their voices, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven saying ^[b]to me, ^(A)“Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and do not write them.”

⁴ “But you, Daniel, ^(A)shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall ^(B)run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

⁹ And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

^10 (A)And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, ^(B)for the time is at hand.

¹¹ saying, ^[a]“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” and, “What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches ^[b]which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

The Just Live by Faith

² Then the Lord answered me and said:

¹¹ The whole vision has become to you like the words of a ^[a]book ^(A)that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is literate, saying, “Read this, please.”

^(B)And he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”

²⁹ “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.