JAMES





Chapter 1


	We are to rejoice under trials (1:1-4)
	To ask wisdom of God (1:5-11)
	And in time of trial not to blame Him for our weakness or
		our sins (1:12-17)
	We must hear the saving message (1:18-21)
	And act accordingly (1:22-25)
	The mark of a truly religious man (1:26-27)




Chapter 2


	The true Christian does not show partiality to the rich (2:1-5)
	And dishonor to the poor (2:6-13)
	Faith without good deeds (2:14-16)
	Is but a dead faith (2:17-18)
	And the faith of demons (2:19-20)
	The faith and works of Abraham (2:21-24)
	And of Rahab  (2:25-26)




Chapter 3


	We govern our bodies, as the bit controls a horse (3:1-4)
	The power and danger of the tongue (3:5-8)
	It is an instrument for blessing or cursing (3:9-12)
	The truly wise are pure and peaceable, without jealousy or selfish
		ambition (3:13-18)




Chapter 4


	We are to struggle against covetousness (4:1-3)
	Against intemperance (4:4)
	And pride (4:5-10)
	Against belittling others and passing rash judgments on our 
		neighbors (4:11-12)
	And, mindful of the uncertainty of life, to commit ourselves and 
		our affairs to God's providence (4:13-17)




Chapter 5


	Wicked rich men are to fear God's punishment (5:1-6)
	We ought to be patient in afflictions, after the example of the 
		prophets and Job (5:7-11)
	To give up swearing (5:12)
	To pray in adversity, to sing in prosperity (5:13-15)
	To acknowledge mutually our various faults, to pray one for 
		another (5:16-18)
	And to convert any straying brother (5:19-20)




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1 PETER





Chapter 1


	Peter praises God for His many mercies (1:1-9)
	Showing that salvation in Christ is a thing prophesied of 
		old (1:10-12)
	He commands his readers to set their hope on God's mercy 
		through Christ's revelation (1:13-25)




Chapter 2


	He dissuades them from evil intent (2:1-3)
	And urges them to be living stones of the spiritual house of which 
		Christ is the cornerstone (2:4-10)
	He beseeches them to lead exemplary, upright lives (2:11-12)
	And to be obedient to civil authority (2:13-17)
	He teaches servants to obey their masters (2:18-19)
	Even suffering patiently for doing what is right, after the example 
		of Christ (2:20-25)




Chapter 3


	Peter instructs wives and husbands concerning their duty to each 
		other (3:1-7)
	He exhorts all men to unity and brotherly love (3:8-13)
	Revering Christ, even in persecution (3:14-18)
	He reveals Christ's power for salvation in earlier times as well as 
		at present (3:19-22)




Chapter 4


	As Christ suffered for us in the flesh, we must follow His example 
		(4:1-11)
	Peter warns them of trials to come (4:12-19)




Chapter 5


	He appeals to the elders to feed their flocks (5:1-4)
	To the younger men to obey the elders (5:5-7)
	And to all to be sober, watchful, and firm in the faith (5:8)
	They must resist their ruthless adversary, the devil (5:9-14)




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2 PETER





Chapter 1


	Growth promised by God's grace (1:1-4)
	Peter exhorts his readers to make their calling certain, by faith 
		and other virtues (1:5-11)
	Of which he takes special care to remind them, knowing that his 
		own death is at hand (1:12-15)
	He warns them to be constant in the faith of Christ, the true 
		Son of God (1:16-21)




Chapter 2


	He foretells the coming of false teachers and the punishment to 
		be given them and their followers (2:1-6)
	The godly shall be spared this punishment, as Lot was delivered 
		out of Sodom (2:7-17)
	He describes more fully the habits of profane and blasphemous 
		seducers (2:18-22)




Chapter 3


	Peter assures them that Christ will return (3:1-7)
	He tells the godly that God's long patience will hasten their 
		repentance (3:8-9)
	He describes the manner in which the world will be destroyed (3:10)
	And exhorts them to holiness of life (3:11-14)
	And to consideration of God's patience in providing their 
		salvation (3:15-18)




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1 JOHN





Chapter 1


	John describes the purpose of his letter (1:1-4)
	We must make our lives a living testimony of our profession of 
		faith (1:5-10)




Chapter 2


	Christ is our advocate  (2:1-2)
	To know God is to keep His commandments (2:3-8)
	To love our brethren (2:9-14)
	And to shun the things of the world (2:15-17)
	Beware of seducers (2:18-19)
	From whose deceits the godly preserve themselves through 
		perseverance in faith and holiness of life (2:20-29)




Chapter 3


	John declares the unique love of God toward us, in making us 
		His children (3:1-2)
	We therefore ought to obey His commandments (3:3-10)
	And to live with each other in brotherly love (3:11-24)




Chapter 4


	He warns us to test all teachings before accepting them (4:1-6)
	He enumerates many reasons for showing brotherly love (4:7-21)




Chapter 5


	Those who love God love His children and keep His 
		commandments (5:1-2)
	God's law, to the faithful, is not burdensome (5:3-8)
	We are witnesses of the Son of God (5:9-13)
	Our confidence in Christ (5:14-21)




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2 JOHN





Chapter 1


	John exhorts an honorable matron and her children to persevere 
		in Christian love and belief (1:1-7)
	Lest they lose the reward of their profession of faith (1:8-9)
	They are to shun those non-believers who teach false doctrines 
		(1:10-13)




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3 JOHN





Chapter 1


	The apostle commends Gaius for his piety (1:1-4)
	For his hospitality to the brethren (1:5-6)
	And for his support of true preachers (1:7-8)
	He complains of the malicious words and deeds of ambitious 
		Diotrephes (1:9-10)
	And warns against following and evil example (1:11)
	He gives special testimony to the good character of Demetrius 
		(1:12-14)




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JUDE





Chapter 1


	Jude exhorts his readers to be contenders for the faith (1:1-3)
	False teachers are seeking to pervert this faith (1:4-10)
	But severe punishment is prepared for them (1:11-18)
	The worldly start divisions (1:19)
	The godly persevere, grow in grace, and spread the gospel (1:20-25)




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REVELATION





Chapter 1


	John writes his revelation from Christ to the seven churches (1:1-6)
	The coming of Christ (1:7-11)
	His glorious power and majesty (1:12-20)




Chapter 2


	The things Christ tells John to write to the angel (minister) of 
		the church in Ephesus (2:1-7)
	To the angel of the church in Smyrna (2:8-11)
	To the angel of the church in Pergamum (2:12-17)
	And to the angel of the church in Thyatira (2:18)
	Things commended (2:19)
	Things found lacking (2:20-24)
	The promise to the faithful (2:25-29)




Chapter 3


	The angel of the church in Sardis is reproved (3:1-2)
	Exhorted to obey and repent, thus escaping damnation (3:3-6)
	The angel of the church in Philadelphia (3:7-9)
	Is praised for diligence and patience (3:10-13)
	The angel of the church in Laodicea is rebuked for indifference 
		(3:14-18)
	And admonished to be more zealous (3:19)
	Christ stands at the door and knocks (3:20-22)




Chapter 4


	John sees the throne of God in heaven  (4:1-3)
	The twenty-four elders (4:4-5)
	The four beasts, full of eyes before and behind (4:6-9)
	The elders worship before the throne, and lay down their 
		crowns (4:10-11)




Chapter 5


	The book sealed with seven seals (5:1-4)
	Which can be opened only by the Lamb who was slain (5:5-7)
	The elders confess that He redeemed them with His blood (5:8-10)
	Thousands of voices praise the Lamb (5:11-14)




Chapter 6


	Four seals are opened, each followed in turn by a rider (6:1)
	On a white horse (6:2-3)
	A red horse (6:4)
	A black horse (6:5-7)
	And a horse pale as Death (6:8-17)




Chapter 7


	The mark of the servants of God (7:1-3)
	The number of those who were marked (7:4-13)
	Their robes are washed in the blood of the Lamb (7:14-17)




Chapter 8


	At the opening of the seventh seal, seven angels receive seven 
		trumpets (8:1-2)
	An angel mingles incense with the prayers of the saints on the 
		golden altar (8:3-5)
	Four plagues begin at the trumpets' sound (8:6-13)




Chapter 9


	The plague of locusts swarms out of the bottomless pit (9:1-10)
	Apollyon, king of the locusts (9:11)
	The first woe is past (9:12)
	The sixth trumpet sounds (9:13)
	And four angels, who were bound, are set free (9:14-21)




Chapter 10


	John sees an angel with a book, and hears things he is forbidden 
		to write (10:1-5)
	He swears, by Him who lives forever, that there shall be no more 
		delay (10:6-7)
	John is commanded to eat the book (10:8-11)




Chapter 11


	The Lord's two witnesses prophesy (11:1-4)
	They are given many extraordinary powers (11:5-6)
	But the beast will overcome and kill them (11:7)
	They will lie unburied three and a half days (11:8-10)
	After which time they rise again (11:11-13)
	The second woe is past (11:14)
	The seventh trumpet sounds (11:15-19)




Chapter 12


	A woman clothed with the sun lies in travail (12:1-2)
	While a great red dragon stands ready to devour her child (12:3-4)
	After the child is born and caught up to God, she flees into the 
		wilderness (12:5-6)
	Michael and his angels fight with the dragon (12:7-12)
	The dragon, cast to earth, persecutes the woman (12:13-17)




Chapter 13


	A beast arises out of the sea, and the dragon gives it his 
		power (13:1-10)
	A second beast causes an image to be made of the first (13:11-14)
	He compels men to worship it, and receive its mark (13:15-17)
	The number of the beast (13:18)




Chapter 14


	The Lamb stands on Mount Sion with the company of His elect  
		(14:1-5)
	An angel preaches the gospel (14:6-7)
	The fall of Babylon (14:8-14)
	The harvest of the earth (14:15-18)
	The winepress of God's wrath (14:19-20)




Chapter 15


	The seven angels with the seven last plagues (15:1-2)
	The song of those who have overcome the beast (15:3-6)
	The seven bowls full of God's wrath (15:7-8)




Chapter 16


	The angels pour out their bowls of wrath  (16:1-5)
	The plagues that follow (16:6-16)
	The seventh angel pours out his bowl into the air (16:17-21)




Chapter 17


	A woman arrayed in purple and scarlet, with a golden cup in her 
		hand, sits on a scarlet beast (17:1-4)
	She is Babylon, the mother of all abominations (17:5-8)
	The interpretation of the seven heads (17:9-11)
	And of the ten horns (17:12-13)
	The victory of the Lamb (17:14-15)
	The punishment of the woman (17:16-18)




Chapter 18


	Babylon falls (18:1-3)
	God's people are commanded to depart from the city (18:4-8)
	The wicked kings of the earth mourn for Babylon (18:9-10)
	The merchants and mariners also mourn (18:11-19)
	The saints rejoice at the judgments of God upon her (18:20-24)




Chapter 19


	The heavenly hosts praise God (19:1-6)
	The marriage of the Lamb (19:7-9)
	The angel refuses to be worshipped (19:10-16)
	The great slaughter (19:17-21)




Chapter 20


	Satan is bound for a thousand years (20:1-5)
	The happy state of those who have part in the first resurrection 
		(20:6)
	Satan is turned loose again (20:7)
	Gog and Magog (20:8-9)
	The devil is cast into the lake of fire and brimstone (20:10-11)
	The last judgment (20:12-15)




Chapter 21


	A new heaven and a new earth (21:1-9)
	The heavenly Jerusalem is fully described (21:10-22)
	The city needs no sun, for God's glory is its light (21:23)
	Kings of the earth will bring honor there (21:24-27)




Chapter 22


	The river of the water of life (22:1)
	The tree of life (22:2-4)
	The light of His city is God Himself (22:5-6)
	The angel refused to be worshipped (22:9-17)
	Nothing shall be added to this book, nor taken from it (22:18-21)

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