⁶ “These words,” he said to me, “are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place. ⁷ Look, I am coming soon. God’s blessing on the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

“I am coming soon!”

⁸ I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard them and saw them, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed them to me. ⁹ “Look! Don’t do that!” he said to me. “I am a fellow-servant with you, and with the other members of your prophetic family, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!

¹⁰ “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book,” he added. “The time is near, you see. ¹¹ Let the unjust go on being unjust, and the filthy go on being filthy—and let the just go on doing justice, and let the holy still be holy.

¹⁸ I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to that person the plagues that are written in this book. ¹⁹ And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away that person’s share in the tree of life, and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

²⁰ The one who gives this testimony says, “Yes, I am coming soon!”

Amen! Come, Lord Jesus.