Bride

and I, John, saw the holy city--new Jerusalem--coming down from God out of the heaven, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband;

And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come; and he who is hearing--let him say, Come; and he who is thirsting--let him come; and he who is willing--let him take the water of life freely.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.

may we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him, because come did the marriage of the Lamb, and his wife did make herself ready;

may we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him, because come did the marriage of the Lamb, and his wife did make herself ready; — read the full passage →

And he saith to me, `Write: Happy <FI>are<Fi> they who to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb have been called;' and he saith to me, `These <FI>are<Fi> the true words of God;'

that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

And there came unto me one of the seven messengers, who have the seven vials that are full of the seven last plagues, and he spake with me, saying, `Come, I will shew thee the bride of the Lamb--the wife,'

And Jesus said to them, `Can the sons of the bride-chamber mourn, so long as the bridegroom is with them? but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast.

For a young man doth marry a virgin, Thy Builders do marry thee, With the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, Rejoice over thee doth thy God.

For thy Maker <FI>is<Fi> thy husband, Jehovah of Hosts <FI>is<Fi> His name, And thy Redeemer <FI>is<Fi> the Holy One of Israel, `God of all the earth,' He is called.

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; — read the full passage →

this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.

And there came unto me one of the seven messengers, who have the seven vials that are full of the seven last plagues, and he spake with me, saying, `Come, I will shew thee the bride of the Lamb--the wife,' — read the full passage →

And I pass over by thee, and I see thee, And lo, thy time <FI>is<Fi> a time of loves, And I spread My skirt over thee, And I cover thy nakedness, And I swear to thee, and come in to a covenant with thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And thou dost become Mine.

And himself is the head of the body--the assembly--who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all <FI>things<Fi> --himself--first,

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

And thou hast been a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, And a diadem of royalty in the hand of thy God, — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more; — read the full passage →

and there was given to her that she may be arrayed with fine linen, pure and shining, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.'

and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;

`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; — read the full passage →

and light of a lamp may not shine at all in thee any more; and voice of bridegroom and of bride may not be heard at all in thee any more; because thy merchants were the great ones of the earth, because in thy sorcery were all the nations led astray,

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

And Jesus said to them, `Are the sons of the bride-chamber able, while the bridegroom is with them, to fast? so long time as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast; — read the full passage →

and in the middle of the night a cry was made, Lo, the bridegroom doth come; go ye forth to meet him.

`Go, and thou hast called in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah: I have remembered for thee The kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, Thy going after Me in a wilderness, in a land not sown.

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

and the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

having also a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve messengers, and names written thereon, which are <FI>those<Fi> of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel,

and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo, the tabernacle of God <FI>is<Fi> with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them--their God,

And after these things I heard a great voice of a great multitude in the heaven, saying, `Alleluia! the salvation, and the glory, and the honour, and the power, <FI>is<Fi> to the Lord our God; — read the full passage →

And after these things I saw four messengers, standing upon the four corners of the land, holding the four winds of the land, that the wind may not blow upon the land, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree; — read the full passage →

He who is overcoming--I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and without he may not go any more, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, that doth come down out of the heaven from my God--also my new name.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,

O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me: — read the full passage →

`And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without number.

he saith--who is testifying these things--`Yes, I come quickly!' Amen! Yes, be coming, Lord Jesus!

and he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and did shew to me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God,

And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, `Come, I will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting upon the many waters, — read the full passage →

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom;

may we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him, because come did the marriage of the Lamb, and his wife did make herself ready; — read the full passage →

and I heard as the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, `Alleluia! because reign did the Lord God--the Almighty! — read the full passage →

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking, — read the full passage →

And a great sign was seen in the heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, — read the full passage →

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.

when the Christ--our life--may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.

And Jesus said to them, `Are the sons of the bride-chamber able, while the bridegroom is with them, to fast? so long time as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast;

`And while they are going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those ready went in with him to the marriage-feasts, and the door was shut;

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

and if any one may take away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the scroll of the life, and out of the holy city, and the things that have been written in this scroll;'

`For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll,

`Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;

And there came unto me one of the seven messengers, who have the seven vials that are full of the seven last plagues, and he spake with me, saying, `Come, I will shew thee the bride of the Lamb--the wife,' — read the full passage →

and I heard as the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, `Alleluia! because reign did the Lord God--the Almighty!

`Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.

and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly, — read the full passage →

and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ, — read the full passage →

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?'

and the prudent took oil in their vessels, with their lamps.

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah, Thou dost call Me--My husband, And dost not call Me any more--My lord. — read the full passage →

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

And Abraham <FI>is<Fi> old, he hath entered into days, and Jehovah hath blessed Abraham in all <FI>things<Fi> ; — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years; — read the full passage →

And I saw, and lo, a Lamb having stood upon the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousands, having the name of his Father written upon their foreheads; — read the full passage →

and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you; — read the full passage →

`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; — read the full passage →

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

and any curse there shall not be any more, and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him,

and a second time they said, `Alleluia;' and her smoke doth come up--to the ages of the ages!

and there were given to the woman two wings of the great eagle, that she may fly to the wilderness, to her place, where she is nourished a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent;

And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, `The kingdoms of the world did become <FI>those<Fi> of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!'

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →