¹⁷ And it will come about, in the last days, says God, that I will send out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams:

¹⁸ And on my men-servants and my women-servants I will send my Spirit, and they will be prophets.

¹⁹ And wonders will be seen in heaven, and signs on the earth, blood and fire and smoke:

²⁰ The sun will become dark and the moon will be turned to blood, before that great day of the Lord comes in glory:

²¹ And whoever makes his prayer to the Lord will have salvation.

²² Men of Israel, give ear to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man who had the approval of God, as was made clear to you by the great works and signs and wonders which God did by him among you, as you yourselves have knowledge,

⁵¹ See, I am giving you the revelation of a secret: we will not all come to the sleep of death, but we will all be changed.

⁵² In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.

⁵³ For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life.

¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom will be given through all the world for a witness to all nations; and then the end will come.

¹ And at that time Michael will take up his place, the great angel, who is the supporter of the children of your people: and there will be a time of trouble, such as there never was from the time there was a nation even till that same time: and at that time your people will be kept safe, everyone who is recorded in the book.

² And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.

³ And those who are wise will be shining like the light of the outstretched sky; and those by whom numbers have been turned to righteousness will be like the stars for ever and ever.

⁴ But as for you, O Daniel, let the words be kept secret and the book rolled up and kept shut till the time of the end: numbers will be going out of the way and troubles will be increased.

¹ But be certain of this, that in the last days times of trouble will come.

² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,

³ Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,

⁴ False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;

⁵ Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

⁶ For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,

³⁴ But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

³⁵ For so it will come on all those who are living on the face of all the earth.

³⁶ But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.

³⁷ And every day he was teaching in the Temple and every night he went out to the mountain which is named the Mountain of Olives to take his rest.

²⁹ But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:

³⁰ And then the sign of the Son of man will be seen in heaven: and then all the nations of the earth will have sorrow, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

³¹ And he will send out his angels with a great sound of a horn, and they will get his saints together from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

³² Now take an example from the fig-tree: when her branch has become soft and puts out its leaves, you are certain that the summer is near;

¹⁵ For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.

¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;

¹⁷ Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord.

¹⁸ So then, give comfort to one another with these words.

³² But of that day or that hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father.

⁴² Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come.

⁴³ But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.

⁴⁴ Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come.

⁴⁵ Who is the true and wise servant, whom his lord has put over those in his house, to give them their food at the right time?

⁸ But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.

⁹ The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.

¹¹ Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness,

¹² Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?

¹³ But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.

¹⁴ For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.

¹⁷ For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.

¹⁸ But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy.

¹⁹ And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.

²⁰ No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.

¹ For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

² But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

³ And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.

¹ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone; and there was no more sea.

² And I saw the holy town, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband.

³ And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God.

⁴ And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.

⁵ And he who is seated on the high seat said, See, I make all things new. And he said, Put it in the book; for these words are certain and true.

²⁰ Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.