Book of Common Prayer

3 Write this to the angel of the church people in Sardis: Here are the words of the one who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars. `He says, "I know what you do. People say that you are alive, but you are dead.

² Wake up! You still have a little life left in you. Make it stronger before it dies altogether. I have not seen you do anything that looked right to God.

³ So remember the things you were told and the things you have heard. Obey them. Stop the things you have been doing. If you do not wake up, I will come to you like a thief. You will not know when I will come to you.

⁴ But you have a few people in Sardis who have not made their clothes dirty. They will walk with me in white clothes, because they are good enough.

⁵ He who wins will wear white clothes. I will not take his name out of the book of life. I will tell his name to my Father and to his angels."

⁶ `He who can hear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.'

24 Jesus left the temple and was going away. His disciples came to him. They wanted to show him the different buildings that were a part of the temple.

² But Jesus answered them, `Do you see these buildings? I tell you the truth. Not one stone here will be left on top of another stone. They will all be thrown down!'

³ Jesus was sitting on the hill called the Mount of Olives. The disciples came to him alone. They said, `Tell us, when will this happen? What will be the sign to show you are coming and that it is the end of this world?'

⁴ Jesus answered them, `Take care. Do not let anyone fool you.

⁵ Many men will come in my name. They will say, "I am the Christ". They will fool many people.

⁶ You will hear about wars. You will hear that war is coming. But do not fear. These things must happen, but that is not yet the end.

⁷ One tribe will fight against another tribe. And one country will fight against another country. The people will have no food to eat. Many people will be sick. The earth will shake in many different places.

⁸ All these troubles are only the beginning of troubles that will come.

⁹ `Then people will trouble you and kill you. All nations will hate you because you are true to me.

¹⁰ Then many people will stop believing. They will give one another over to trouble. They will hate one another.

¹¹ Many people will come and say they are prophets of God. But they will not be true. They will fool many people.

¹² People will do more and more wrong things and many people will stop loving me.

¹³ But the person who keeps on being true to me until the end, that one will be saved.

¹⁴ This good news about the kingdom will be told in all the world. The people in all countries must know about it. And then the end will come.'