Think how far you have fallen! Turn from your sins and do what you did at first. If you don't turn from your sins, I will come to you and take your lampstand from its place.

You will remember how you have acted, and be ashamed of it when you get your older sister and your younger sister back. I will let them be like daughters to you, even though this was not part of my covenant with you.

I will forgive all the wrongs you have done, but you will remember them and be too ashamed to open your mouth." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.

Then you will remember all the disgraceful things you did and how you defiled yourselves. You will be disgusted with yourselves because of all the evil things you did.

You will remember your evil conduct and the wrongs that you committed, and you will be disgusted with yourselves because of your sins and your iniquities.

That is why we must hold on all the more firmly to the truths we have heard, so that we will not be carried away.

I think it only right for me to stir up your memory of these matters as long as I am still alive.

My dear friends, this is now the second letter I have written you. In both letters I have tried to arouse pure thoughts in your minds by reminding you of these things.

I am coming soon. Keep safe what you have, so that no one will rob you of your victory prize.

But until I come, you must hold firmly to what you have.

Timothy, keep safe what has been entrusted to your care. Avoid the profane talk and foolish arguments of what some people wrongly call "Knowledge."

Hold firmly to the true words that I taught you, as the example for you to follow, and remain in the faith and love that are ours in union with Christ Jesus.

I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.

Think how far you have fallen! Turn from your sins and do what you did at first. If you don't turn from your sins, I will come to you and take your lampstand from its place.

I have given her time to repent of her sins, but she does not want to turn from her immorality.

And so I will throw her on a bed where she and those who committed adultery with her will suffer terribly. I will do this now unless they repent of the wicked things they did with her.

"Listen! I am coming like a thief ! Happy is he who stays awake and guards his clothes, so that he will not walk around naked and be ashamed in public!"

Watch out, then, because you do not know what day your Lord will come.

If the owner of a house knew the time when the thief would come, you can be sure that he would stay awake and not let the thief break into his house.

And you can be sure that if the owner of a house knew the time when the thief would come, he would not let the thief break into his house.

And you, too, must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you are not expecting him."

For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief comes at night.

But you, friends, are not in the darkness, and the Day should not take you by surprise like a thief.

All of you are people who belong to the light, who belong to the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

So then, we should not be sleeping like the others; we should be awake and sober.

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that Day the heavens will disappear with a shrill noise, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth with everything in it will vanish.

And Jesus concluded, "Watch out, then, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Be on watch, be alert, for you do not know when the time will come.

If he comes suddenly, he must not find you asleep.