Romans 3 Cross References - YLT

¹ What, then, is the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision? ² much in every way; for first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God; ³ for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless? ⁴ let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.' <sup>5</sup> And, if our unrighteousness God's righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak) <sup>6</sup> let it not be! since how shall God judge the world? <sup>7</sup> for if the truth of God in my falsehood did more abound to His glory, why yet am I also as a sinner judged? <sup>8</sup> and not, as we are evil spoken of, and as certain affirm us to say—`We may do the evil things, that the good ones may come?' whose judgment is righteous. ⁹ What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin, ¹⁰ according as it hath been written—`There is none righteous, not even one; ¹¹ There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God. ¹² All did go out of the way, together they became unprofitable, there is none doing good, there is not even one. ¹³ A sepulchre opened is their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps is under their lips. ¹⁴ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. ¹⁵ Swift are their feet to shed blood. ¹⁶ Ruin and misery are in their ways. ¹⁷ And a way of peace they did not know. ¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes.'
¹⁹ And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God; ²⁰ wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin. ²¹ And now apart from law hath the righteousness of God been manifested, testified to by the law and the prophets, ²² and the righteousness of God is through the faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all those believing, —for there is no difference, ²³ for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God— ²⁴ being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God— ²⁶ for the shewing forth of His righteousness in the present time, for His being righteous, and declaring him righteous who is of the faith of Jesus. ²⁷ Where then is the boasting? it was excluded; by what law? of works? no, but by a law of faith: ²⁸ therefore do we reckon a man to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law. ²⁹ The God of Jews only is He, and not also of nations? ³⁰ yes, also of nations; since one is God who shall declare righteous the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith. ³¹ Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.

³² And Esau saith, `Lo, I am going to die, and what is this to me—birthright?'

⁸ For what advantage is to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

¹¹ For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage is to man?

¹¹ `Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated with burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired. ¹² When ye come in to appear before Me, Who hath required this of your hand, To trample My courts? ¹³ Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense—an abomination it is to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity—and a restraint! ¹⁴ Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing. ¹⁵ And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

¹⁴ Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

²⁵ For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision. ²⁶ If, therefore the uncircumcision the righteousness of the law may keep, shall not his uncircumcision for circumcision be reckoned? ²⁷ and the uncircumcision, by nature, fulfilling the law, shall judge thee who, through letter and circumcision, art a transgressor of law. ²⁸ For he is not a Jew who is so outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is outward in flesh; ²⁹ but a Jew is he who is so inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.

³² if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!

⁹ with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for it is good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;

⁷ `For which is the great nation that hath God near unto it, as Jehovah our God, in all we have called unto him? ⁸ and which is the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?

¹³ `And on mount Sinai Thou hast come down, even to speak with them from the heavens, and Thou dost give to them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commands. ¹⁴ And Thy holy sabbath Thou hast made known to them, and commands, and statutes, and law, Thou hast commanded for them, by the hand of Moses Thy servant;

⁴ We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done. ⁵ And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons. ⁶ So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons, ⁷ And place in God their confidence, And forget not the doings of God, But keep His commands.

¹⁴⁰ Tried is thy saying exceedingly, And Thy servant hath loved it.

¹⁹ Declaring His words to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel. ²⁰ He hath not done so to any nation, As to judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye Jah!

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

¹¹ And I give to them My statutes, And my judgments I caused them to know, Which the man who doth—liveth by them. ¹² And also My sabbaths I have given to them, To be for a sign between Me and them, To know that I am Jehovah their sanctifier.

²¹ but I declare to thee that which is noted down in the Writing of Truth, and there is not one strengthening himself with me, concerning these, except Michael your head.

²⁹ `Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them; ³⁰ and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform. ³¹ And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'

³⁹ `Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

³⁸ `This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;

² which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings—

¹⁸ and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law,

³ for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless?

⁴ who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,

¹ I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin: ² God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known—in Elijah—what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

¹⁵ for if the casting away of them is a reconciliation of the world, what the reception—if not life out of the dead? ¹⁶ and if the first-fruit is holy, the lump also; and if the root is holy, the branches also. ¹⁷ And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become— ¹⁸ do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee! ¹⁹ Thou wilt say, then, `The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right! ²⁰ by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing; ²¹ for if God the natural branches did not spare—lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee. ²² Lo, then, goodness and severity of God—upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off. ²³ And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in;

²⁸ As regards, indeed, the good tidings, they are enemies on your account; and as regards the choice—beloved on account of the fathers; ²⁹ for unrepented of are the gifts and the calling of God;

¹⁷ for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly—with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

¹⁹ how that God was in Christ—a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,

⁷ but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with that of the circumcision,

²⁰ O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

¹⁵ and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise—to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus; ¹⁶ every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be fitted—for every good work having been completed.

¹² for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

¹¹ if any one doth speak—`as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister—`as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power—to the ages of the ages. Amen.

¹⁹ And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise—in your hearts; ²⁰ this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition, ²¹ for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

¹⁰ and I fell before his feet, to bow before him, and he saith to me, `See—not! fellow servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren, those having the testimony of Jesus; bow before God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.'

⁶ And he said to me, `These words are stedfast and true, and the Lord God of the holy prophets did send His messenger to shew to His servants the things that it behoveth to come quickly:

¹⁹ God is not a man—and lieth, And a son of man—and repenteth! Hath He said—and doth He not do it ? And spoken—and doth He not confirm it?

²⁹ and also, the Pre-eminence of Israel doth not lie nor repent, for He is not a man to be penitent.'

⁷ They go from strength unto strength, He appeareth unto God in Zion.

⁹ For, the waters of Noah is this to Me, In that I have sworn—the waters of Noah Do not pass again over the earth—So I have sworn, Wrath is not upon thee, Nor rebuke against thee. ¹⁰ For the mountains depart, and the hills remove, And My kindness from thee departeth not, And the covenant of My peace removeth not, Said hath thy loving one—Jehovah.

¹¹ So is My word that goeth out of My mouth, It turneth not back unto Me empty, But hath done that which I desired, And prosperously effected that for which I sent it.

¹⁵ And ye have left your name For an oath for My chosen ones, And the Lord Jehovah hath put thee to death, And to His servants He giveth another name. ¹⁶ So that he who is blessing himself in the earth, Doth bless himself In the God of faithfulness, And he who is swearing in the earth, Doth swear by the God of faithfulness, Because the former distresses have been forgotten, And because they have been hid from Mine eyes.

²⁴ `Hast thou not considered what this people have spoken, saying: The two families on which Jehovah fixed, He doth reject them, And my people they despise—So that they are no more a people before them! ²⁵ Thus said Jehovah: If My covenant is not daily and nightly, The statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed— ²⁶ Also the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, I reject, Against taking from his seed rulers For the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, For I turn back to their captivity, and have pitied them.'

³⁵ The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

¹⁶ and out of his fulness did we all receive, and grace over-against grace;

⁶ And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who are of Israel are these Israel;

¹⁶ But they were not all obedient to the good tidings, for Isaiah saith, `Lord, who did give credence to our report?'

¹ I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin: ² God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known—in Elijah—what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying, ³ `Lord, Thy prophets they did kill, and Thy altars they dug down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life;' <sup>4</sup> but what saith the divine answer to him? `I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a knee to Baal.' ⁵ So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been; ⁶ and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work. ⁷ What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

²⁹ for unrepented of are the gifts and the calling of God;

¹⁸ and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

³ We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;

¹³ if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.

¹ Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that is according to piety, ² upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

² for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

¹³ For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself, ¹⁴ saying, `Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;' ¹⁵ and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise; ¹⁶ for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation is the oath, ¹⁷ in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath, ¹⁸ that through two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

⁴ The Rock! —perfect is His work, For all His ways are just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and upright is He.

³ I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.

⁸ Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

⁴ Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done the evil thing in Thine eyes, So that Thou art righteous in Thy words, Thou art pure in Thy judging.

⁹ Only—vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.

⁵ For good is Jehovah, to the age His kindness, And to generation and generation His faithfulness!

¹¹ I said in my haste, `Every man is a liar.'

¹⁶⁰ The sum of Thy word is truth, And to the age is every judgment of Thy righteousness!

² I bow myself toward Thy holy temple, And I confess Thy name, For Thy kindness, and for Thy truth, For Thou hast made great Thy saying above all Thy name.

²⁰ Thou givest truth to Jacob, kindness to Abraham, That thou hast sworn to our fathers, from the days of antiquity!

¹⁹ the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'

¹⁶ He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, `Let it not be!'

³³ he who is receiving his testimony did seal that God is true;

⁶ let it not be! since how shall God judge the world? ⁷ for if the truth of God in my falsehood did more abound to His glory, why yet am I also as a sinner judged?

³¹ Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.

² let it not be! we who died to the sin—how shall we still live in it?

¹⁵ What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

⁷ What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

¹³ That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,

¹⁴ What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness is with God? let it not be!

¹ I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:

¹¹ I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation is to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;

¹⁵ Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? let it be not!

¹⁸ and God is faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,

¹⁷ And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be!

²¹ I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness be through law—then Christ died in vain.

¹⁴ And for me, let it not be—to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

² upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

¹⁸ that through two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

¹⁰ He who is believing in the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he who is not believing God, a liar hath made Him, because he hath not believed in the testimony that God hath testified concerning His Son;

²⁰ and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!

⁷ `And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!

³⁹ See ye, now, that I—I am He, And there is no god with Me: I put to death, and I keep alive; I have smitten, and I heal; And there is not from My hand a deliverer, ⁴⁰ For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live—to the age! ⁴¹ If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me—I repay! ⁴² I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen of the enemy. ⁴³ Sing ye nations—with his people, For the blood of His servants He avengeth, And vengeance He turneth back on His adversaries, And hath pardoned His land—His people.'

¹⁰ The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked. ¹¹ And man saith: `Surely fruit is for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'

¹ God of vengeance—Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth. ² Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Send back a recompence on the proud.

² A God zealous and avenging is Jehovah, An avenger is Jehovah, and possessing fury. An avenger is Jehovah on His adversaries, And He is watching for His enemies.

⁶ Before His indignation who doth stand? And who riseth up in the heat of His anger? His fury hath been poured out like fire, And the rocks have been broken by Him. ⁷ Good is Jehovah for a strong place in a day of distress. And He knoweth those trusting in Him. ⁸ And with a flood passing over, An end He maketh of its place, And His enemies doth darkness pursue.

⁵ but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

⁷ for if the truth of God in my falsehood did more abound to His glory, why yet am I also as a sinner judged?

¹⁹ And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

²⁵ whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God— ²⁶ for the shewing forth of His righteousness in the present time, for His being righteous, and declaring him righteous who is of the faith of Jesus.

¹ What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

¹ What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?

¹⁹ In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness—to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness—to sanctification,

²⁰ for to vanity was the creation made subject—not of its will, but because of Him who did subject it —in hope, ²¹ that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;

¹³ according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'
¹⁴ What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness is with God? let it not be!

¹⁸ so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden. ¹⁹ Thou wilt say, then, to me, `Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?' ²⁰ nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form it, Why me didst thou make thus?

¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance is Mine,

⁸ According to man do I speak these things? or doth not also the law say these things?

¹⁵ Brethren, as a man I say it, even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,

⁶ since it is a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you—trouble, ⁷ and to you who are troubled—rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power, ⁸ in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁹ who shall suffer justice—destruction age-during—from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength,

³ and they sing the song of Moses, servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, `Great and wonderful are Thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty, righteous and true are Thy ways, O King of saints,

⁵ and I heard the messenger of the waters, saying, `righteous, O Lord, art Thou, who art, and who wast, and who shalt be, because these things Thou didst judge, <sup>6</sup> because blood of saints and prophets they did pour out, and blood to them Thou didst give to drink, for they are worthy;' <sup>7</sup> and I heard another out of the altar, saying, `Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Thy judgments.'

²⁰ `Be glad over her, O heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, because God did judge your judgment of her!'

²⁵ Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been—as the righteous so the wicked—far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'

³ Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

¹⁷ Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn? ¹⁸ Who hath said to a king—`Worthless,' Unto princes—`Wicked?' ¹⁹ That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them.

⁸ And He judgeth the world in righteousness, He judgeth the peoples in uprightness.

⁵ Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated, ⁶ He poureth on the wicked snares, fire, and brimstone, And a horrible wind is the portion of their cup. ⁷ For righteous is Jehovah, Righteousness He hath loved, The upright doth His countenance see!'

⁶ And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah.

¹³ Before Jehovah, for He hath come, For He hath come to judge the earth. He judgeth the world in righteousness, And the peoples in His faithfulness!

⁹ Before Jehovah, For He hath come to judge the earth, He judgeth the world in righteousness, And the people in uprightness!

³¹ because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'

¹⁶ in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my good news, through Jesus Christ.

⁸ And his brethren say to him, `Dost thou certainly reign over us? dost thou certainly rule over us?' and they add still more to hate him, for his dreams, and for his words. <sup>9</sup> And he dreameth yet another dream, and recounteth it to his brethren, and saith, `Lo, I have dreamed a dream again, and lo, the sun and the moon, and eleven stars, are bowing themselves to me.'

²⁰ and now, come, and we slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and have said, An evil beast hath devoured him; and we see what his dreams are.'

¹ And he commandeth him who is over his house, saying, `Fill the bags of the men with food, as they are able to bear, and put the money of each in the mouth of his bag; <sup>2</sup> and my cup, the silver cup, thou dost put in the mouth of the bag of the young one, and his corn-money;' and he doth according to the word of Joseph which he hath spoken. <sup>3</sup> The morning is bright, and the men have been sent away, they and their asses— <sup>4</sup> they have gone out of the city—they have not gone far off—and Joseph hath said to him who is over his house, `Rise, pursue after the men; and thou hast overtaken them, and thou hast said unto them, Why have ye recompensed evil for good? ⁵ Is not this that with which my lord drinketh? and he observeth diligently with it; ye have done evil in that which ye have done.' ⁶ And he overtaketh them, and speaketh unto them these words, ⁷ and they say unto him, `Why doth my lord speak according to these words? far be it from thy servants to do according to this word; <sup>8</sup> lo, the money which we found in the mouth of our bags we brought back unto thee from the land of Canaan, and how do we steal from the house of thy lord silver or gold? <sup>9</sup> with whomsoever of thy servants it is found, he hath died, and we also are to my lord for servants.' <sup>10</sup> And he saith, `Now, also, according to your words, so it is; he with whom it is found becometh my servant, and ye are acquitted;' ¹¹ and they hasten and take down each his bag to the earth, and each openeth his bag; ¹² and he searcheth—at the eldest he hath begun, and at the youngest he hath completed—and the cup is found in the bag of Benjamin; ¹³ and they rend their garments, and each ladeth his ass, and they turn back to the city. ¹⁴ And Judah—his brethren also—cometh in unto the house of Joseph, and he is yet there, and they fall before him to the earth;

¹⁸ And his brethren also go and fall before him, and say, `Lo, we are to thee for servants.' <sup>19</sup> And Joseph saith unto them, `Fear not, for am I in the place of God? ²⁰ As for you, ye devised against me evil—God devised it for good, in order to do as at this day, to keep alive a numerous people;

¹⁹ `And I—I have known that the king of Egypt doth not permit you to go, unless by a strong hand,

⁵ And it is declared to the king of Egypt that the people hath fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants is turned against the people, and they say, `What is this we have done? that we have sent Israel away from our service.'

³⁰ and Jehovah saveth Israel in that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel seeth the Egyptians dead on the sea-shore,

¹⁷ for a word is unto me by the word of Jehovah, Thou dost not eat bread nor drink there water, thou dost not turn back to go in the way in which thou camest.' ¹⁸ And he saith to him, `I also am a prophet like thee, and a messenger spake unto me by the word of Jehovah, saying, Bring him back with thee unto thy house, and he doth eat bread and drink water;' —he hath lied to him.

²⁶ And the prophet who brought him back out of the way heareth and saith, `It is the man of God who provoked the mouth of Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth him to the lion, and it destroyeth him, and putteth him to death, according to the word of Jehovah that he spake to him.' <sup>27</sup> And he speaketh unto his sons saying, `Saddle for me the ass,' and they saddle it . ²⁸ And he goeth and findeth his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion are standing near the carcase—the lion hath not eaten the carcase nor destroyed the ass. ²⁹ And the prophet taketh up the carcase of the man of God, and placeth it on the ass, and bringeth it back, and the old prophet cometh in unto the city to mourn and to bury him, ³⁰ and he placeth his carcase in his own grave, and they mourn for him, `Oh, my brother!' <sup>31</sup> And it cometh to pass, after his burying him, that he speaketh unto his sons, saying, `At my death—ye have buried me in the burying-place in which the man of God is buried; near his bones place my bones; ³² for the word certainly cometh to pass that he called by the word of Jehovah concerning the altar which is Beth-El, and concerning all the houses of the high places that are in cities of Samaria.'

¹⁰ And Elisha saith unto him, `Go, say, Thou dost certainly not revive, seeing Jehovah hath shewed me that he doth surely die.' <sup>11</sup> And he setteth his face, yea, he setteth it till he is ashamed, and the man of God weepeth. <sup>12</sup> And Hazael saith, `Wherefore is my lord weeping?' and he saith, `Because I have known the evil that thou dost to the sons of Israel—their fenced places thou dost send into fire, and their young men with sword thou dost slay, and their sucklings thou dost dash to pieces, and their pregnant women thou dost rip up.' <sup>13</sup> And Hazael saith, `But what, is thy servant the dog, that he doth this great thing?' And Elisha saith, `Jehovah hath shewed me thee—king of Aram.' <sup>14</sup> And he goeth from Elisha, and cometh in unto his lord, and he saith unto him, `What said Elisha to thee?' and he saith, `He said to me, Thou dost certainly recover.' ¹⁵ And it cometh to pass on the morrow, that he taketh the coarse cloth, and dippeth in water, and spreadeth on his face, and he dieth, and Hazael reigneth in his stead.

⁶ Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places. ⁷ And he—he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For—to destroy is in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few.

³⁴ Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, that, this night, before cock-crowing, thrice thou wilt deny me.'

⁶⁹ And Peter without was sitting in the court, and there came near to him a certain maid, saying, `And thou wast with Jesus of Galilee!' <sup>70</sup> And he denied before all, saying, `I have not known what thou sayest.' ⁷¹ And he having gone forth to the porch, another female saw him, and saith to those there, `And this one was with Jesus of Nazareth;' <sup>72</sup> and again did he deny with an oath—`I have not known the man.' ⁷³ And after a little those standing near having come, said to Peter, `Truly thou also art of them, for even thy speech doth make thee manifest.' <sup>74</sup> Then began he to anathematise, and to swear—`I have not known the man;' and immediately did a cock crow, ⁷⁵ and Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, he having said to him—`Before cock-crowing, thrice thou wilt deny me;' and having gone without, he did weep bitterly.

²³ this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified—ye did slay;

²⁷ for those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their chiefs, this one not having known, also the voices of the prophets, which every sabbath are being read—having judged him —did fulfil, ²⁸ and no cause of death having found, they did ask of Pilate that he should be slain, ²⁹ and when they did complete all the things written about him, having taken him down from the tree, they laid him in a tomb;

⁴ let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

¹¹ `Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake—

²⁰ And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

¹⁶ having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ; ¹⁷ for it is better doing good, if the will of God will it, to suffer, than doing evil;

⁴ for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord—Jesus Christ—denying,

⁵ Who are saying, `Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For I have declared thee unholy.' These are a smoke in Mine anger, A fire burning all the day.

³⁹ And the Pharisee who did call him, having seen, spake within himself, saying, `This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind is the woman who doth touch him, that she is a sinner.'

⁹ And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile: ¹⁰ `Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer; <sup>11</sup> the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer; <sup>12</sup> I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things—as many as I possess. <sup>13</sup> `And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me—the sinner! ¹⁴ I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

¹⁸ for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.
¹⁹ Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest it to them, ²⁰ for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead—to their being inexcusable; ²¹ because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened, ²² professing to be wise, they were made fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles. ²⁴ Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves; ²⁵ who did change the truth of God into a falsehood, and did honour and serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed to the ages. Amen. ²⁶ Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; ²⁷ and in like manner also the males having left the natural use of the female, did burn in their longing toward one another; males with males working shame, and the recompense of their error that was fit, in themselves receiving. ²⁸ And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly; ²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

¹⁸ and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law, ¹⁹ and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law. ²¹ Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach? ²² thou who art preaching not to steal, dost thou steal? thou who art saying not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou who art abhorring the idols, dost thou rob temples? ²³ thou who in the law dost boast, through the transgression of the law God dost thou dishonour? ²⁴ for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.

⁵ And, if our unrighteousness God's righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak)

²² and the righteousness of God is through the faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all those believing, —for there is no difference, ²³ for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God—

⁷ What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

³² for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.

⁷ for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?

¹⁹ what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? —

¹⁵ What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms also with the understanding;

¹⁰ for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law—to do them,'

²² but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.

¹⁸ what then? in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed—and in this I rejoice, yea, and shall rejoice.

⁴ Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

¹⁴ What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

¹⁶ Also—surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

⁴ And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure—born of a woman?

¹ To the Overseer. —By David. A fool hath said in his heart, `God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good. ² Jehovah from the heavens Hath looked on the sons of men, To see if there is a wise one—seeking God. ³ The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.

¹ To the Overseer. —`On a disease.' —An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, `There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good. ² God from the heavens looked on the sons of men, To see if there be an understanding one, One seeking God. ³ Every one went back, together they became filthy, There is none doing good—not even one.

⁹ Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable—who doth know it?

¹⁹ for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

²¹ for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, ²² thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;

¹⁸ And Jesus said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one is good except One—God;

²³ for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God—

⁸ according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' —unto this very day,

³ for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, `The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;' ⁴ for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

⁹ have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

¹⁹ And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

¹ Also you—being dead in the trespasses and the sins, ² in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience, ³ among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath—as also the others,

³ and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; ⁴ also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, —the things not fit—but rather thanksgiving; ⁵ for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

⁵ Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth—whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry— ⁶ because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience, ⁷ in which also ye—ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;
⁸ but now put off, even ye, the whole—anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking—out of your mouth. ⁹ Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

⁹ having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers, ¹⁰ whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

² for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind, ³ without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good, ⁴ traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

³ for we were once—also we—thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious—hating one another;

¹⁶ because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;'

⁸ if we may say—`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us; <sup>9</sup> if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness; <sup>10</sup> if we may say—`we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

⁸ and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part is in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

¹⁵ and without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

¹⁵ What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?' ¹⁶ Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

² Jehovah from the heavens Hath looked on the sons of men, To see if there is a wise one—seeking God. ³ The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.
⁴ Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

² God from the heavens looked on the sons of men, To see if there be an understanding one, One seeking God.

⁴ Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.

⁸ Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

⁷ Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

²² `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

²⁹ Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen. ³⁰ They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

¹³ And the people hath not turned back unto Him who is smiting it, And Jehovah of Hosts they have not sought.

¹¹ In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it is not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.

¹ Woe to those going down to Egypt for help, And on horses lean, And trust on chariots, because many, And on horsemen, because very strong, And have not looked on the Holy One of Israel, And Jehovah have not sought.

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near,

¹ I have been inquired of by those who asked not, I have been found by those who sought Me not, I have said, `Behold Me, behold Me,' Unto a nation not calling in My name.

²² For my people are foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons are they, yea, they are not intelligent, Wise are they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.

⁶ Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!

¹⁰ And humbled hath been the excellency of Israel to his face, And they have not turned back unto Jehovah their God, Nor have they sought Him for all this.

¹³ `Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand, ¹⁴ and fulfilled on them is the prophecy of Isaiah, that saith, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,

¹⁹ Every one hearing the word of the reign, and not understanding—the evil one doth come, and doth catch that which hath been sown in his heart; this is that sown by the way.

²² professing to be wise, they were made fools,

²⁸ And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

⁷ because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

³¹ And God seeth all that He hath done, and lo, very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning—day the sixth.

⁶ and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself—unto His heart. ⁷ And Jehovah saith, `I wipe away man whom I have prepared from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens, for I have repented that I have made them.'

⁸ they have turned aside hastily from the way that I have commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and bow themselves to it, and sacrifice to it, and say, These thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

³ The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.

¹ To the Overseer. —`On a disease.' —An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, `There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good.

²⁰ Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

²⁹ See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they—they have sought out many devices.

⁶ All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.

⁸ A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

⁶ And we are as unclean—all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf—all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.

¹³ For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells—broken wells, That contain not the waters.

³⁰ and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

³ among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath—as also the others,

⁸ for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you—of God the gift, ⁹ not of works, that no one may boast; ¹⁰ for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

¹² So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out, ¹³ for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

¹³ waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

¹¹ who once was to thee unprofitable, and now is profitable to me and to thee,

¹⁶ Be not led astray, my brethren beloved; ¹⁷ every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

²⁵ for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

³³ The poison of dragons is their wine And the fierce venom of asps.

¹⁴ His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps is in his heart. ¹⁵ Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out. ¹⁶ Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.

⁹ For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart is mischiefs, An open grave is their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

³ Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things, ⁴ Who said, `By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?'

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently—to do good.

² Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

⁴ My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames—sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

³ They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder is under their lips. Selah.

³ For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

¹⁶ Its quiver is as an open sepulchre, All of them—mighty ones.

³ And they bend their tongue, their bow is a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah! ⁴ Each of his friend—beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk, ⁵ And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.

⁷ A vain vision have ye not seen, And a lying divination spoken, When ye say: An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have not spoken?

³⁴ `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things—being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak. ³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of the heart doth put forth the good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure doth put forth evil things.

²⁷ `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like to whitewashed sepulchres, which outwardly indeed do appear beautiful, and within are full of bones of dead men, and of all uncleanness; ²⁸ so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

⁵ so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle! ⁶ and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna. ⁷ For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature, ⁸ and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

⁷ Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue is perverseness and iniquity,

¹² The sin of their mouth is a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

¹⁷ And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him. ¹⁸ And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.

¹⁰ out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

¹⁶ For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

¹⁸ A heart devising thoughts of vanity—Feet hasting to run to evil—

⁷ Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction are in their highways. ⁸ A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

²¹ There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked!

¹⁴ how strait is the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!

⁷⁹ To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'

¹ Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹¹ And Abraham saith, `Because I said, `Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife;

¹ To the Overseer. —By a servant of Jehovah, by David. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, `Fear of God is not before his eyes,

¹³ The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

⁶ In kindness and truth pardoned is iniquity, And in the fear of Jehovah Turn thou aside from evil.

¹⁷ Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But—in the fear of Jehovah all the day.

⁴⁰ And the other answering, was rebuking him, saying, `Dost thou not even fear God, that thou art in the same judgment?

⁵ And a voice out of the throne did come forth, saying, `Praise our God, all ye His servants, and those fearing Him, both the small and the great;'

⁹ The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

¹⁶ And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.

² Truly I have known that it is so, And what—is man righteous with God? ³ If he delight to strive with Him—He doth not answer him one of a thousand.

⁴² The upright do see and rejoice, And all perversity hath shut her mouth.

⁶³ So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

¹² and he saith to him, Comrade, how didst thou come in hither, not having clothing of the marriage-feast? and he was speechless. ¹³ `Then said the king to the ministrants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him up and cast forth to the outer darkness, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth;

⁹ and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders—unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

³⁴ Jesus answered them, `Is it not having been written in your law: I said, ye are gods? ³⁵ if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)

²⁵ but—that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law—They hated me without a cause.

²⁰ for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead—to their being inexcusable;

¹ Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man—every one who is judging—for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging, ² and we have known that the judgment of God is according to truth, upon those practising such things.

¹² for as many as without law did sin, without law also shall perish, and as many as did sin in law, through law shall be judged, ¹³ for not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: — ¹⁴ For, when nations that have not a law, by nature may do the things of the law, these not having a law—to themselves are a law; ¹⁵ who do shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also witnessing with them, and between one another the thoughts accusing or else defending, ¹⁶ in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my good news, through Jesus Christ.
¹⁷ Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God, ¹⁸ and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law,

² much in every way; for first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God;

⁹ What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,

²⁹ that no flesh may glory before Him;

²⁰ and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain; ²¹ to those without law, as without law—(not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) —that I might gain those without law;

²² but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing. ²³ And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,

⁵ that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;

²¹ Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?

¹⁸ and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.

¹⁵ Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.

⁴ And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure—born of a woman? ⁵ Lo—unto the moon, and it shineth not, And stars have not been pure in His eyes.

³ If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

² And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.

³⁹ and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous;

¹³ for not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: —

²⁸ therefore do we reckon a man to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law.

¹³ For not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

¹⁵ for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither is transgression.

¹³ for till law sin was in the world: and sin is not reckoned when there is not law;

⁷ What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said: ⁸ `Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness—for apart from law sin is dead. ⁹ And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

³² wherefore? because—not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,

¹⁶ having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

¹⁹ for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;

¹⁰ for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law—to do them,' <sup>11</sup> and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;' ¹² and the law is not by faith, but—`The man who did them shall live in them.' <sup>13</sup> Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'

⁴ ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

⁸ for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you—of God the gift, ⁹ not of works, that no one may boast;

⁵ (not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour, ⁷ that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.

⁹ and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors; ¹⁰ for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one point, he hath become guilty of all;

²⁰ And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith apart from the works is dead? ²¹ Abraham our father—was not he declared righteous out of works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar? ²² dost thou see that the faith was working with his works, and out of the works the faith was perfected? ²³ and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him—to righteousness;' and, `Friend of God' he was called. ²⁴ Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only; ²⁵ and in like manner also Rahab the harlot—was she not out of works declared righteous, having received the messengers, and by another way having sent forth? ²⁶ for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

⁶ And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him—righteousness.

¹⁵ `A prophet out of thy midst, out of thy brethren, like to me, doth Jehovah thy God raise up to thee—unto him ye hearken; ¹⁶ according to all that thou didst ask from Jehovah thy God, in Horeb, in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not add to hear the voice of Jehovah my God, and this great fire let me not see any more, and I die not; ¹⁷ and Jehovah saith unto me, They have done well that they have spoken; ¹⁸ a prophet I raise up to them, out of the midst of their brethren, like to thee; and I have given my words in his mouth, and he hath spoken unto them all that which I command him; ¹⁹ and it hath been—the man who doth not hearken unto My words which he doth speak in My name, I require it of him.

²⁴ Only in Jehovah, said hath one, Have I righteousness and strength, Unto Him he cometh in, And ashamed are all those displeased with Him. ²⁵ In Jehovah are all the seed of Israel justified, And they boast themselves.'

¹³ I have brought near My righteousness, It is not far off, And My salvation—it doth not tarry, And I have given in Zion salvation, To Israel My glory!

⁸ For as a garment eat them doth a moth, And as wool eat them doth a worm, And My righteousness is to the age, And My salvation to all generations.

¹⁷ No weapon formed against thee prospereth, And every tongue rising against thee, In judgment thou condemnest. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, And their righteousness from me, an affirmation of Jehovah!

¹⁰ 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.

⁵ Lo, days are coming—an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have raised to David a righteous shoot, And a king hath reigned and acted wisely, And done judgment and righteousness in the earth. ⁶ In his days is Judah saved, and Israel dwelleth confidently, And this his name that Jehovah proclaimeth him, `Our Righteousness.'

¹⁶ In those days is Judah saved, And Jerusalem doth dwell confidently, And this is he whom Jehovah proclaimeth to her: `Our Righteousness.'

²⁴ `Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.

⁴⁴ and he said to them, `These are the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'

⁴⁵ Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him, `Him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and the prophets, we have found, Jesus the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth;'

¹⁴ `And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up, ¹⁵ that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,

⁴⁶ for if ye were believing Moses, ye would have been believing me, for he wrote concerning me; ⁴⁷ but if his writings ye believe not, how shall ye believe my sayings?'

²¹ whom it behoveth heaven, indeed, to receive till times of a restitution of all things, of which God spake through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the age. ²² `For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said—A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you; <sup>23</sup> and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people; <sup>24</sup> and also all the prophets from Samuel and those following in order, as many as spake, did also foretell of these days. <sup>25</sup> `Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made unto our fathers, saying unto Abraham: And in thy seed shall be blessed all the families of the earth;

⁴³ to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him doth receive remission of sins.'

¹¹ but, through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be saved, even as also they.'

²² `Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come,

²³ and having appointed him a day, they came, more of them unto him, to the lodging, to whom he was expounding, testifying fully the reign of God, persuading them also of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morning till evening,

¹⁷ For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it hath been written, `And the righteous one by faith shall live,'

¹⁹ for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.

²¹ that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

³⁰ What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that is of faith,

³ for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit. ⁴ For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,

²⁶ and now having been made manifest, also, through prophetic writings, according to a command of the age-during God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith—

³⁰ and of Him ye—ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,

²¹ for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

⁸ and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham—

⁵ for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,

⁹ not having my righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith of Christ—the righteousness that is of God by the faith,

¹ For the law having a shadow of the coming good things—not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near, ² since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified? ³ but in those sacrifices is a remembrance of sins every year, ⁴ for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. ⁵ Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me, <sup>6</sup> in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight,
<sup>7</sup> then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;' <sup>8</sup> saying above—`Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' —which according to the law are offered— ⁹ then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish; ¹⁰ in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once, ¹¹ and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins. ¹² And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered—to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, — ¹³ as to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies as his footstool, ¹⁴ for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;

⁴ by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak. ⁵ By faith Enoch was translated—not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to—that he had pleased God well, ⁶ and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder. ⁷ By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir. ⁸ By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go; ⁹ by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise, ¹⁰ for he was looking for the city having the foundations, whose artificer and constructor is God. ¹¹ By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise; ¹² wherefore, also from one were begotten—and that of one who had become dead—as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that is by the sea-shore—the innumerable. ¹³ In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth, ¹⁴ for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country; ¹⁵ and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return, ¹⁶ but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city. ¹⁷ By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises, ¹⁸ of whom it was said—`In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;' ¹⁹ reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive him . ²⁰ By faith, concerning coming things, Isaac did bless Jacob and Esau; ²¹ by faith Jacob dying—each of the sons of Joseph did bless, and did bow down upon the top of his staff; ²² by faith, Joseph dying, concerning the outgoing of the sons of Israel did make mention, and concerning his bones did give command. ²³ By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king; ²⁴ by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh, ²⁵ having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season, ²⁶ greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward; ²⁷ by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One—he endured; ²⁸ by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them. ²⁹ By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received a trial of, were swallowed up; ³⁰ by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days; ³¹ by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with peace.
³² And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets, ³³ who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions, ³⁴ quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens. ³⁵ Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive, ³⁶ and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment; ³⁷ they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins—being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated, ³⁸ of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and in mountains, and in caves, and in the holes of the earth; ³⁹ and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise, ⁴⁰ God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.

¹⁰ concerning which salvation seek out and search out did prophets who concerning the grace toward you did prophecy,

¹ Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who did obtain a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

¹¹ `And the king having come in to view those reclining, saw there a man not clothed with clothing of the marriage-feast, ¹² and he saith to him, Comrade, how didst thou come in hither, not having clothing of the marriage-feast? and he was speechless.

²² `And the father said unto his servants, Bring forth the first robe, and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand, and sandals for the feet;

⁹ and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts;

¹ Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man—every one who is judging—for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging,

³ for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him—to righteousness;' <sup>4</sup> and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt; <sup>5</sup> and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned—to righteousness: <sup>6</sup> even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works: <sup>7</sup> `Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered; ⁸ happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.'
⁹ Is this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision—for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham—to righteousness? ¹⁰ how then was it reckoned? he being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision; ¹¹ and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them, ¹² and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham. ¹³ For not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

²⁰ and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God, ²¹ and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do: ²² wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.

¹ Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only so, but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance; ⁴ and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope; ⁵ and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.
⁶ For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious; ⁷ for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die; ⁸ and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us; ⁹ much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath; ¹⁰ for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life. ¹¹ And not only so, but we are also boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we did receive the reconciliation;

¹ There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

¹² for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all is rich to all those calling upon Him,

⁶ according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him—to righteousness; ⁷ know ye, then, that those of faith—these are sons of Abraham, ⁸ and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham— ⁹ `Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;' so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,

²⁸ there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

¹¹ where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman—but the all and in all—Christ.

²³ and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him—to righteousness;' and, `Friend of God' he was called.

²⁸ And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

² through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.

¹² for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.

¹⁴ to which He did call you through our good news, to the acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹ We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

¹³ but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice—exulting;

¹ Elders who are among you, I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker,

¹⁰ And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you;

¹¹ Of the labour of his soul he seeth—he is satisfied, Through his knowledge give righteousness Doth the righteous one, My servant, to many, And their iniquities he doth bear.

²⁸ even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

⁴ and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt;

¹⁶ Because of this it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham,

⁹ much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath;

¹⁶ and not as through one who did sin is the free gift, for the judgment indeed is of one to condemnation, but the gift is of many offences to a declaration of `Righteous,' <sup>17</sup> for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one—Jesus Christ. <sup>18</sup> So, then, as through one offence to all men it is to condemnation, so also through one declaration of `Righteous' it is to all men to justification of life; ¹⁹ for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.

¹¹ And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved, ⁷ in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

⁷ that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,

¹⁴ in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,

⁶ who did give himself a ransom for all—the testimony in its own times—

¹⁴ who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

² for a tabernacle was prepared, the first, in which was both the lamp-stand, and the table, and the bread of the presence—which is called `Holy;' <sup>3</sup> and after the second vail a tabernacle that is called `Holy of holies,' ⁴ having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all round about with gold, in which is the golden pot having the manna, and the rod of Aaron that budded, and the tables of the covenant, ⁵ and over it cherubim of the glory, overshadowing the mercy-seat, concerning which we are not now to speak particularly. ⁶ And these things having been thus prepared, into the first tabernacle, indeed, at all times the priests do go in, performing the services, ⁷ and into the second, once in the year, only the chief priest, not apart from blood, which he doth offer for himself and the errors of the people,
⁸ the Holy Spirit this evidencing that not yet hath been manifested the way of the holy places, the first tabernacle having yet a standing; ⁹ which is a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving, ¹⁰ only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances—till the time of reformation imposed upon them . ¹¹ And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands—that is, not of this creation— ¹² neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained; ¹³ for if the blood of bulls, and goats, and ashes of an heifer, sprinkling those defiled, doth sanctify to the purifying of the flesh, ¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
¹⁵ And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,

¹⁸ having known that, not with corruptible things—silver or gold—were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers, ¹⁹ but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted—Christ's—

⁹ and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

¹⁴ and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;

¹⁷ `And thou hast made a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth; <sup>18</sup> and thou hast made two cherubs of gold, beaten work dost thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat; <sup>19</sup> and make thou one cherub at the end on this side, and one cherub at the end on that; at the mercy-seat ye do make the cherubs on its two ends. <sup>20</sup> `And the cherubs have been spreading out wings on high, covering the mercy-seat over with their wings, and their faces are one towards another—towards the mercy-seat are the faces of the cherubs. ²¹ `And thou hast put the mercy-seat on the ark above, and unto the ark thou dost put the testimony which I give unto thee; ²² and I have met with thee there, and have spoken with thee from off the mercy-seat (from between the two cherubs, which are on the ark of the testimony) all that which I command thee concerning the sons of Israel.

¹⁵ `And he hath slaughtered the goat of the sin-offering which is the people's, and hath brought in its blood unto the inside of the vail, and hath done with its blood as he hath done with the blood of the bullock, and hath sprinkled it on the mercy-seat, and at the front of the mercy-seat,

³¹ They come and declare His righteousness, To a people that is borne, that He hath made!

¹⁰ Thy righteousness I have not concealed In the midst of my heart, Thy faithfulness and Thy salvation I have told, I have not hidden Thy kindness and Thy truth, To the great assembly.

⁶ The heavens declared His righteousness, And all the peoples have seen His honour.

¹⁴² Thy righteousness is righteousness to the age, And Thy law is truth.

⁴⁷ `Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is believing in me, hath life age-during;

⁵³ Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves; <sup>54</sup> he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day; <sup>55</sup> for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink; <sup>56</sup> he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him. <sup>57</sup> `According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me; ⁵⁸ this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live—to the age.'

¹⁸ and God, what things before He had declared through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He did thus fulfil;

²⁸ to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.

³⁸ `Let it therefore be known to you, men, brethren, that through this one to you is the forgiveness of sins declared, ³⁹ and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous;

¹⁸ `Known from the ages to God are all His works;

³⁰ the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

⁴ or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? —not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

²³ for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God— ²⁴ being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

²⁶ for the shewing forth of His righteousness in the present time, for His being righteous, and declaring him righteous who is of the faith of Jesus.

¹ What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh? ² for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast—but not before God; ³ for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him—to righteousness;' <sup>4</sup> and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt; <sup>5</sup> and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned—to righteousness: <sup>6</sup> even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works: <sup>7</sup> `Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered; ⁸ happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.'

¹¹ And not only so, but we are also boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we did receive the reconciliation;

²⁰ and through him to reconcile the all things to himself—having made peace through the blood of his cross—through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens. ²¹ And you—once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile, ²² in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself, ²³ if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that is under the heaven, of which I became—I Paul—a ministrant.

¹⁵ stedfast is the word, and of all acceptation worthy, that Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners—first of whom I am;

⁵ and over it cherubim of the glory, overshadowing the mercy-seat, concerning which we are not now to speak particularly.

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
¹⁵ And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance, ¹⁶ for where a covenant is, the death of the covenant-victim to come in is necessary, ¹⁷ for a covenant over dead victims is stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth, ¹⁸ whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated, ¹⁹ for every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he both the book itself and all the people did sprinkle, ²⁰ saying, `This is the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,' ²¹ and both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service with blood in like manner he did sprinkle, ²² and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

²⁵ nor that he may many times offer himself, even as the chief priest doth enter into the holy places every year with blood of others; ²⁶ since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;

⁴ for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

¹⁹ Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ which way he did initiate for us—new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh—

⁷ By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.

¹⁴ for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country;

¹⁷ By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,

¹⁸ having known that, not with corruptible things—silver or gold—were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers, ¹⁹ but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted—Christ's— ²⁰ foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,

¹⁰ if we may say—`we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

² and he—he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

¹⁰ in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

⁸ And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;

¹⁵ and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.

¹⁰ Kindness and truth have met, Righteousness and peace have kissed, ¹¹ Truth from the earth springeth up, And righteousness from heaven looketh out,

²¹ Jehovah hath delight for the sake of His righteousness, He magnifieth law, and maketh honourable.

²¹ Declare ye, and bring near, Yea, they take counsel together, Who hath proclaimed this from of old? From that time hath declared it? Is it not I—Jehovah? And there is no other god besides Me, A God righteous and saving, there is none save Me.

⁵ Jehovah is righteous in her midst, He doth not do perverseness, Morning by morning His judgment he giveth to the light, It hath not been lacking, And the perverse doth not know shame.

¹⁵ Jehovah hath turned aside thy judgments, He hath faced thine enemy, The king of Israel, Jehovah, is in thy midst, Thou seest evil no more.

⁹ Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Lo, thy King doth come to thee, Righteous—and saved is He, Afflicted—and riding on an ass, And on a colt—a son of she-asses.

³⁰ yes, also of nations; since one is God who shall declare righteous the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith.

⁵ and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned—to righteousness:

³³ Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God is He that is declaring righteous,

⁸ and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham— ⁹ `Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;' so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham, <sup>10</sup> for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law—to do them,' ¹¹ and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;' <sup>12</sup> and the law is not by faith, but—`The man who did them shall live in them.' ¹³ Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,' ¹⁴ that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.

⁶² And I—I have established My covenant with thee, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah. ⁶³ So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

³¹ And ye have remembered your ways that are evil, And your doings that are not good, And have been loathsome in your own faces, For your iniquities, and for your abominations. ³² Not for your sake am I working, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Be it known to you, Be ashamed and confounded, because of your ways, O house of Israel.

¹¹ In that day thou art not ashamed because of any of thine actions, Wherewith thou hast transgressed against Me, For then do I turn aside from thy midst The exulting ones of thine excellency, And thou dost add no more to be haughty, In My holy mountain.

¹⁶ he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

³⁶ he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'

¹⁷ Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,

²³ thou who in the law dost boast, through the transgression of the law God dost thou dishonour?

² for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast—but not before God;

²¹ I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,

²³ and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that is in my members.

²⁵ I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.

² for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

¹¹ (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her—

⁵ for Moses doth describe the righteousness that is of the law, that, `The man who did them shall live in them,'

⁶ and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.

²⁹ that no flesh may glory before Him; ³⁰ and of Him ye—ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption, ³¹ that, according as it hath been written, `He who is glorying—in the Lord let him glory.'

¹¹ and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this—the life—is in His Son; ¹² he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God—the life he hath not.

¹⁴ `And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up, ¹⁵ that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during, ¹⁶ 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. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him; ¹⁸ he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

²⁴ `Verily, verily, I say to you—He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

⁴⁰ and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'

²⁰ wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin. ²¹ And now apart from law hath the righteousness of God been manifested, testified to by the law and the prophets, ²² and the righteousness of God is through the faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all those believing, —for there is no difference,

³ for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

²⁴ so that the law became our child-conductor—to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,

⁹ not of works, that no one may boast;

⁷ that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.

²⁴ Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only;

⁷ `And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee; ⁸ and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'

¹⁸ And Abraham saith unto God, `O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'

⁷ All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip—shake the head,

² For the knowledge in earth of Thy way, among all nations of Thy salvation.

¹⁷ His name is to the age, Before the sun is his name continued, And they bless themselves in him, All nations do pronounce him happy.

²³ In that day is a highway out of Egypt to Asshur, And come in have the Assyrians to Egypt, And the Egyptians into Asshur, And the Egyptians have served with the Assyrians. ²⁴ In that day is Israel third, After Egypt, and after Asshur, A blessing in the heart of the earth. ²⁵ In that Jehovah of Hosts did bless it, saying, `Blessed is My people—Egypt, And the work of My hands—Asshur, And Mine inheritance—Israel!'

⁵ For thy Maker is thy husband, Jehovah of Hosts is His name, And thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, `God of all the earth,' He is called.

¹⁹ O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.

³³ For this is the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.

¹⁰ and the number of the sons of Israel hath been as the sand of the sea, that is not measured nor numbered, and it hath come to pass in the place where it is said to them, Ye are not My people, it is said to them, Sons of the Living God;

¹¹ And joined have been many nations unto Jehovah in that day, And they have been to Me for a people, And I have dwelt in thy midst, And thou hast known that Jehovah of Hosts hath sent me unto thee.

²⁰ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Yet come do peoples, and inhabitants of many cities, ²¹ Yea, gone have inhabitants of one To another, saying: We go diligently, To appease the face of Jehovah, To seek Jehovah of Hosts—I go, even I. ²² Yea, come in have many peoples, and mighty nations, To seek Jehovah of Hosts in Jerusalem, And to appease the face of Jehovah. ²³ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: In those days take hold do ten men of all languages of the nations, Yea, they have taken hold on the skirt of a man, a Jew, saying: We go with you, for we heard God is with you!

¹¹ For, from the rising of the sun to its going in, Great is My name among nations, And in every place perfume is brought nigh to My name, and a pure present, For great is My name among nations, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

³² I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not a God of dead men, but of living.'

¹⁹ having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them—to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

¹⁵ and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation; ¹⁶ he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

⁴⁶ and he said to them—`Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day, ⁴⁷ and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:

¹⁵ And the Lord said unto him, `Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings—the sons also of Israel;

²¹ and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.'

¹⁷ delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee,

¹⁶ for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

²⁴ not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,
²⁵ as also in Hosea He saith, `I will call what is not My people—My people; and her not beloved—Beloved, ²⁶ and it shall be—in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'

¹² and if the fall of them is the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them? ¹³ For to you I speak—to the nations—inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;

⁹ and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, `Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,' <sup>10</sup> and again it saith, `Rejoice ye nations, with His people;' ¹¹ and again, `Praise the Lord, all ye nations; and laud Him, all ye peoples;' <sup>12</sup> and again, Isaiah saith, `There shall be the root of Jesse, and he who is rising to rule nations—upon him shall nations hope;'
¹³ and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁶ for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁴ that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.

²⁵ and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we, ²⁶ for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus, ²⁷ for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ; ²⁸ there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus; ²⁹ and if ye are of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise—heirs.

⁶ that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,

¹¹ and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them, ¹² and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

¹² for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all is rich to all those calling upon Him, ¹³ for every one—whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'

¹⁴ But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize? ¹⁵ we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations, ¹⁶ having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

²⁰ and the mediator is not of one, and God is one—

⁶ for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.

¹⁵ for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;

³ for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,

¹⁰ and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority, ¹¹ in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,

⁸ To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law is within my heart.

¹²⁶ Time for Jehovah to work! they have made void Thy law.

⁸ How do ye say, We are wise, And the law of Jehovah is with us? Surely, lo, falsely it hath wrought, The false pen of scribes. ⁹ Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what—have they?

³³ For this is the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people. ³⁴ And they do not teach any more Each his neighbour, and each his brother, Saying, Know ye Jehovah, For they all know Me, from their least unto their greatest, An affirmation of Jehovah; For I pardon their iniquity, And of their sin I make mention no more.

¹⁵ But Jesus answering said to him, `Suffer now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfil all righteousness,' then he doth suffer him.

¹⁷ `Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets—I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

²⁰ `For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.

⁶ and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.

¹⁴ for if they who are of law are heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless;

⁷ What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said: ⁸ `Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness—for apart from law sin is dead. ⁹ And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died; ¹⁰ and the command that is for life, this was found by me for death; ¹¹ for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay me; ¹² so that the law, indeed, is holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good. ¹³ That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,
¹⁴ for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

²² for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,

⁴ that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

⁴ For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,

⁸ To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other—law he hath fulfilled, ⁹ for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;' ¹⁰ the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, is the fulness of law.

²¹ to those without law, as without law—(not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) —that I might gain those without law;

¹⁷ and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise, ¹⁸ for if by law be the inheritance, it is no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant it .
¹⁹ Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator—

¹⁸ and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law. ¹⁹ And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit. ²² And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;

¹⁵ and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before, ¹⁶ `This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,'

⁸ If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' —ye do well; <sup>9</sup> and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors; <sup>10</sup> for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one point, he hath become guilty of all; <sup>11</sup> for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law; ¹² so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,