He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
You were in `Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: odem, pitdah, yahalom, tarshish, shoham, yashefay, sappir, nofek, and bareket. Gold work of timbrels and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.
There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit one hundred times.* As he said these things, he called out, *He who has ears to hear, let him hear!*
I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
I heard the voice from heaven saying, *Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'* *Yes,* says the Spirit, *that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.*
I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.
The Spirit and the bride say, *Come!* He who hears, let him say, *Come!* He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.