1 Timothy Cross References - ABU

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus, according to the commandment of God our Savior and Christ Jesus our hope, ² to Timothy, a true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. ³ As I besought thee to remain still in Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain ones not to teach other doctrine, ⁴ nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which further disputes rather than God's dispensation, which is in faith, [so do.] ⁵ Now the end of the commandment is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned; ⁶ from which some swerving turned aside to idle prattling; ⁷ desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. ⁸ But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; ⁹ knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers; for man-slayers, ¹⁰ for fornicators, for those who defile themselves with mankind, for enslavers of men, for liars, for false swearers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teachings; ¹¹ according to the glorious gospel of the blissful God, with which I was entrusted. ¹² And I thank him who gave me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, that he accounted me faithful, putting me into the ministry, ¹³ who was formerly a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and overbearing. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief; ¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. ¹⁶ But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Christ Jesus might show forth all his long-suffering, for a pattern to those who should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. ¹⁷ Now to the King eternal, the imperishable, invisible, only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. ¹⁸ This charge I commit to thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before concerning thee, that thou mayest wage in them the good warfare; ¹⁹ having faith, and a good conscience, which some thrusting away made shipwreck concerning the faith. ²⁰ Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered over to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

⁴⁷ and my spirit rejoiced in God my Savior.

¹¹ For to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him: Go; for he is to me a chosen vessel, to bear my name before Gentiles, and kings, and the sons of Israel;

¹⁶ But arise, and stand upon thy feet; for I appeared to thee for this purpose, to appoint thee a minister and a witness both of the things which thou sawest, and of the things in which I will appear to thee; ¹⁷ delivering thee from the people, and the Gentiles, to whom I send thee, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may obtain forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among the sanctified, by faith in me.

¹ PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, set apart unto the gospel of God,

¹² And again, Isaiah says: There shall be the root of Jesse, And he who rises up to rule the Gentiles; On him will Gentiles hope. ¹³ And the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹ PAUL, a called apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

¹⁷ For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

¹ PAUL, an apostle, not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father who raised him from the dead,

¹¹ Now I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man;

²⁷ to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

¹⁶ Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who loved us, and gave us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

¹² And I thank him who gave me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, that he accounted me faithful, putting me into the ministry,

³ For this is good and acceptable in the sight of our Savior God;

⁷ whereunto I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle (I speak truth, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

¹⁰ For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have hoped in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

¹⁰ but now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ; who abolished death, and brought life and incorruption to light through the gospel; ¹¹ for which I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

³ but in its own times manifested his word in the preaching, with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of our Savior God;

¹⁰ not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the teaching of our Savior God in all things,

¹³ looking for the blissful hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;

⁴ But when the kindness and the love toward man of our Savior God appeared,

⁶ which he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior;

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy begot us again unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;

²¹ who through him believe on God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope are on God.

¹ SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

¹⁴ And we have seen, and bear witness, that the Father has sent forth the Son, a Savior of the world.

²⁵ to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and power, before all time, and now, and forever. Amen.

¹ AND he came down to Derbe and Lystra. And, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman, but whose father was a Greek; ² who was well reported of by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium. ³ Him Paul wished to go forth with him, and took and circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

⁷ to all the beloved of God that are in Rome, called to be saints: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I admonish you. ¹⁵ For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel. ¹⁶ I beseech you therefore, be followers of me. ¹⁷ For this cause I sent to you Timothy, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.

³ Grace to you, and peace, from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹⁹ But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you, that I also may be cheered, when I know your state. ²⁰ For I have no one like-minded, who will sincerely care for your state. ²¹ For all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. ²² But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child with a father, he served with me for the gospel.

² and sent Timothy, our brother, and a fellow-worker with God in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to exhort you concerning your faith;

¹⁸ This charge I commit to thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before concerning thee, that thou mayest wage in them the good warfare;

² to Timothy, a beloved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹ THOU therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

⁴ to Titus, a true child according to the common faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

² chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you.

¹⁹ And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there but entering himself into the synagogue, he reasoned with the Jews.

¹ AND it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper districts came to Ephesus. And finding certain disciples, ² he said to them: Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they said to him: Nay, we did not even hear whether there is a Holy Spirit. ³ And he said to them: Unto what then were ye immersed? And they said: Unto John's immersion. ⁴ Then said Paul: John indeed immersed with the immersion of repentance; saying to the people, that they should believe on him who should come after him, that is, on Jesus. ⁵ And when they heard this, they were immersed in the name of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ And Paul having laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spoke with tongues, and prophesied. ⁷ And all the men were about twelve. ⁸ And he went into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them of the things concerning the kingdom of God. ⁹ But when some were hardened, and believed not, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. ¹⁰ And this continued for two years; so that all who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

¹ AND after the tumult ceased, Paul called to him the disciples, and having embraced them, departed to go into Macedonia. ² And having gone through those regions, and given them much exhortation, he came into Greece. ³ And after he had stayed three months, a plot being laid for him by the Jews, as he was about sailing to Syria, it was resolved that he should return through Macedonia.

⁶ I marvel that ye are so soon removing from him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel; ⁷ which is not another, except that there are some who trouble you, and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ.

¹⁴ that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, by cunning craftiness after the wily manner of error;

²⁴ but I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.

⁶ As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him; ⁷ having been rooted and being built up in him, and being established in the faith as ye were taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. ⁸ Beware lest there shall be any one that despoils you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. ⁹ Because in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. ¹⁰ And ye are made complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power; ¹¹ in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

⁶ If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nurtured in the words of the faith and of the good teaching, which thou hast strictly followed.

¹¹ These things command and teach.

⁷ And these things command, that they may be blameless.

³ If any one teaches otherwise, and assents not to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teaching which is according to godliness,

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evils; which some coveting after wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

¹⁷ Charge those who are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor place their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who gives us all things richly for enjoyment;

⁹ holding fast the faithful word according to the teaching, that he may be able with the sound teaching both to exhort, and to refute the gainsayers. ¹⁰ For there are many unruly vain talkers and deceivers, chiefly they of the circumcision; ¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped, who overturn whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.

⁷ Because many deceivers went out into the world, who acknowledge not that Jesus Christ comes in the flesh. This is the deceiver, and the antichrist.

⁹ Every one who transgresses, and abides not in the teaching of Christ, has not God. He that abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If any one comes to you, and brings not this teaching, receive him not into your house, and do not bid him good speed;

¹ TO the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things says he who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lamp-stands. ² I know thy works, and thy labor and patience, and how thou canst not bear evil men; and thou didst try those who say they are apostles, and are not, and didst find them liars;

¹⁴ But I have a few things against thee. Thou hast there men holding the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things offered to idols, and to commit fornication.

²⁰ But I have against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess; and she teaches and seduces my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things offered to idols.

¹² For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, did we deport ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

⁹ Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might in nothing receive harm from us. ¹⁰ For godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world works out death.

¹² for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ; ¹³ till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; ¹⁴ that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, by cunning craftiness after the wily manner of error; ¹⁵ but holding the truth, may in love grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ; ¹⁶ from whom all the body, fitly framed together and compacted by means of every joint of the supply, according to the working in the measure of each single part, effects the increase of the body to the upbuilding of itself in love.

¹⁶ And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness; God was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, was preached among the Gentiles, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory.

⁷ But the profane and silly fables avoid, and exercise thyself unto godliness.

³ If any one teaches otherwise, and assents not to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teaching which is according to godliness, ⁴ he is puffed up with pride, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, ⁵ vain disputings of men corrupted in mind, and robbed of the truth, supposing that godliness is a means of gain.

¹¹ But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness of spirit.

²⁰ O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane babblings, and oppositions of that which is falsely called knowledge;

¹⁴ Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the subverting of the hearers.

¹⁶ But shun the profane babblings; for they will go on to more ungodliness. ¹⁷ And their word will eat as does a canker; of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; ¹⁸ who erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and overturn the faith of some.

²² But flee youthful lusts; and follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

⁴ and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to fables.

¹ PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of God's chosen, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness;

¹⁴ not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, who turn away from the truth.

⁹ But avoid foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

⁹ Be not carried away with various and strange teachings; for it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with meats, which did not profit those who walked therein.

¹⁶ For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but had been eye-witnesses of his majesty.

⁸ Happy the pure in heart; for they shall see God.

³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure sends forth good things; and the evil man out of the evil treasure sends forth evil things.

²⁸ And one of the scribes came to him, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he answered them well, asked him: Which commandment is first of all? ²⁹ And Jesus answered him: First is, Hear, O Israel; the Lord is our God, the Lord is one; ³⁰ and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment. ³¹ Second is this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these. ³² And the scribe said to him: Well, Teacher; thou saidst truly that he is one, and there is no other beside him; ³³ and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all the whole-burnt-offerings and sacrifices. ³⁴ And Jesus, seeing that he answered intelligently, said to him: Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no one dared any longer to question him.

⁹ and made no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

¹ AND Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said: Men, brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God unto this day.

¹⁶ Therefore do I also myself strive to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

¹ I SAY the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,

⁴ For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness, to every one that believes.

⁸ Owe no one anything, but to love one another; for he that loves another has fulfilled the law. ⁹ For this: Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet; and if there is any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. ¹⁰ Love works no ill to one's neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

¹⁵ But if because of food thy brother is grieved, thou no longer walkest in accordance with love. Destroy not him by thy food, for whom Christ died.

¹ NOW concerning the things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. ² If any one thinks that he knows anything, he has known nothing yet as he ought to know. ³ But if any one loves God, the same is known by him.

¹ THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

¹ PURSUE after love; and desire earnestly the spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith working by love.

¹³ For ye were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. ¹⁴ For all the law is fulfilled in one word, in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

¹⁹ having faith, and a good conscience, which some thrusting away made shipwreck concerning the faith.

⁹ holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

³ I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;

⁵ calling to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that it dwells in thee also.

¹⁵ To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and conscience are defiled.

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

²² Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having had our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience; and having had our body washed with pure water,

⁵ By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him; for before his translation, he has had the testimony that he pleased God. ⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder to those who seek after him.

¹⁸ Pray for us; for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, in all things desiring to deport ourselves well.

⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.

²² Having purified your souls in obeying the truth unto unfeigned brotherly love, love one another from the heart fervently;

¹⁶ having a good conscience, that wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good deportment in Christ.

²¹ which in an antitype, immersion, now saves us also (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the requirement of a good conscience toward God), by the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

⁸ but above all things having your love toward one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins;

⁷ and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.

³ And every one, that has this hope on him, purifies himself even as he is pure.

²³ And this is his commandment, that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and should love one another, as he gave us commandment.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God. ⁸ He that loves not, knew not God; because God is love. ⁹ In this was manifested the love of God in respect to us, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. ¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, a propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No man has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us, and the love of him is perfected in us. ¹³ In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen, and bear witness, that the Father has sent forth the Son, a Savior of the world.

¹⁵ For already, some turned aside after Satan.

²⁰ O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane babblings, and oppositions of that which is falsely called knowledge; ²¹ which some professing erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee.

¹⁸ who erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and overturn the faith of some.

²³ But the foolish and ignorant questionings avoid, knowing that they beget strifes. ²⁴ And a servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle toward all, apt in teaching, patient of evil;

¹⁰ For Demas forsook me, having loved the present world, and departed to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

¹⁰ For there are many unruly vain talkers and deceivers, chiefly they of the circumcision;

¹⁴ Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch.

²⁷ And they answered Jesus, saying: We do not know. And he said to them: Neither do I say to you, by what authority I do these things.

¹⁶ Woe to you, blind guides, who say: Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is bound. ¹⁷ Fools and blind; for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? ¹⁸ And, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, he is bound. ¹⁹ Fools and blind; for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? ²⁰ He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all things thereon. ²¹ And he that swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who dwells therein. ²² And he that swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits thereon. ²³ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye pay tithe of the mint and the dill and the cumin, and omitted the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith; these ought ye to have done, and not leave those undone. ²⁴ Blind guides! that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel.

⁹ Nicodemus answered and said to him: How can these things be? ¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to him: Art thou the teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things?

⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words, and said to him: Are we also blind? ⁴¹ Jesus said to them: If ye were blind, ye would not have sin. But now ye say: We see. Your sin remains!

¹ AND certain men, coming down from Judaea, taught the brethren: Except ye are circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye can not be saved.

²² Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools;

¹⁹ and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law; ²¹ thou then, that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? Thou that preachest, a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

² This only I desire to learn from you: Was it from works of law that ye received the Spirit, or from the hearing of faith?

⁵ Does he, therefore, who supplies to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, do it from works of law, or from the hearing of faith?

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

³ Now I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised, that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. ⁴ Ye are separated from Christ, whoever of you are justified in the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

⁴ he is puffed up with pride, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

⁷ ever learning, and never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth.

¹² But these, as natural brute beasts born to be taken and destroyed, railing at things that they understand not, shall utterly perish in their own corruption,

¹² So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. ¹³ Has then that which is good become death to me? Far be it! But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good, that sin by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

¹⁶ But if what I desire not, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

¹⁸ For I know that there dwells not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good; for to desire is present with me; but to perform that which is good I find not.

²² For I delight in the law of God after the inward man.

² And be not conformed to this world; but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may discern what is the will of God, the good, and well pleasing, and perfect.

²¹ Is then the law against the promises of God? Far be it! For if a law had been given which is able to make alive, truly righteousness would have been of law.

⁵ And if a man also contends in the games, he is not crowned, unless he contends lawfully.

²¹ And the brother will deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child; and children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

³⁰ slanderers, haters of God, overbearing, proud, boasters, devisers of evil things, disobedient to parents,

¹³ For not through law was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

²⁰ Moreover the law came in also, that the trespass might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound;

¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under law, but under grace.

¹⁰ For as many as are of works of law are under a curse; for it is written: Cursed is every one that continues not in all the things written in the book of the law, to do them. ¹¹ And that in the law no one is justified with God, is evident; because, the just shall live by faith. ¹² Now the law is not of faith; but, he that has done them shall live in them. ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; because it is written: Cursed is every one that is hanged on a tree; ¹⁴ that unto the Gentiles the blessing of Abraham might come in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

¹⁹ What then is the law? It was added because of the transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made; having been ordained through angels, by the hand of a mediator.

²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings; and things like these; of which I tell you beforehand, as I also said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

²³ meekness, temperance; against such things there is no law.

⁸ And then will the Lawless One be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will consume with the breath of his mouth, and will destroy with the manifestation of his coming;

¹⁶ They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and for every good work reprobate.

³ For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, going astray, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

³¹ By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who believed not, after having received the spies with peace.

¹⁶ lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

⁷ To you therefore who believe is the honor; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is become the head of the corner,

²⁰ who were disobedient in times past, when the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;

¹⁸ And if the righteous is with difficulty saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

⁸ But the fearful, and unbelieving, and defiled with abominations, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

¹⁵ without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie.

³³ Again ye heard, that it was said to those of old: Thou shalt not swear falsely, but shalt perform to the Lord thine oaths. ³⁴ But I say to you, swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God's throne; ³⁵ nor by the earth, for it is his footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. ³⁶ Nor shalt thou swear by thy head; because thou canst not make one hair white or black. ³⁷ But let your word be, Yea, yea, Nay, nay; for that which is more than these comes of evil.

²¹ For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²² thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, wantonness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

⁴⁴ Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abides not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own; because he is a liar, and the father of it.

²⁶ For this cause God gave them up to vile passions; for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature;

⁹ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest; which are, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, emulation, wraths, contentions, divisions, factions, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings; and things like these; of which I tell you beforehand, as I also said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

³ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints, ⁴ and filthiness, and foolish talking, and jesting, which are not becoming, but rather giving of thanks. ⁵ For this ye know, being aware that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

¹³ Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou heardest from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

³ For the time will come when they will not endure the sound teaching, but according to their own desires will to themselves heap up teachers, having itching ears;

⁹ holding fast the faithful word according to the teaching, that he may be able with the sound teaching both to exhort, and to refute the gainsayers.

¹³ This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

¹ BUT do thou speak the things which become the sound teaching; ² that aged men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in the faith, in love, in patience;

⁴ Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, in like manner with them giving themselves over to fornication, and going away after other flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

¹³ and cinnamon, and amomum, and odors, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep; and [lading] of horses, and of chariots, and of slaves; and souls of men.

²⁷ And there shall not enter into it any thing unclean, or that works abomination or falsehood; but they who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

¹⁰ And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all the people. ¹¹ For to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will among men.

¹⁶ in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

¹ So let a man account us, as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. ² Moreover, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

⁸ how shall not the ministration of the spirit be more glorious? ⁹ For if the ministration of condemnation is glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness abound in glory. ¹⁰ For even that which was made glorious has no glory in this respect, on account of the glory that excels. ¹¹ For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which abides is glorious.

⁴ in whom the god of this world blinded the understandings of the unbelieving, that they should not discern the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

⁶ Because it is God, who commands light to shine out of darkness; who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

¹⁸ And all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; ¹⁹ as that God was in Christ reconciling a world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are then ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were beseeching by us; on behalf of Christ we pray: Be reconciled to God!

⁷ But, on the contrary, seeing that I have been entrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, as Peter was with that of the circumcision;

⁶ to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the beloved;

¹² that we should be to the praise of his glory who before have hoped in the Christ;

⁷ that he might show, in the ages to come, the exceeding richness of his grace, in his kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

¹⁰ that now, to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,

²⁵ of which I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,

⁴ but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.

¹⁵ which in his own times he will show, who is the blissful and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

¹¹ for which I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

¹⁴ The good thing committed to thee keep, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

² And the things that thou heardest from me by many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

¹¹ searching as to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them signified, when it testified beforehand the sufferings destined for Christ, and the glories that should follow; ¹² to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you they were ministering them, which now have been announced to you, through those who brought you the good news by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

²³ that all may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father who sent him.

²² But Saul was more strengthened, and confounded the Jews who dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

¹⁵ And when she was immersed and her household, she besought us, saying: If ye have judged me to be a believer in the Lord, come into my house, and abide. And she constrained us.

²⁵ Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

⁵ Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; ⁶ who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

¹ THEREFORE, having this ministry, as we received mercy, we faint not.

⁹ And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee; for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may abide upon me. ¹⁰ Wherefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹³ I can do all things, in him who strengthens me.

¹¹ according to the glorious gospel of the blissful God, with which I was entrusted.

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the preaching might be fully accomplished, and all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

⁹ And they sing a new song, saying: Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; because thou wast slain, and didst redeem to God by thy blood out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation; ¹⁰ and didst make them unto our God a kingdom and priests, and they will reign on the earth. ¹¹ And I saw, and I heard a voice of many angels, around the throne and the animals and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, ¹² saying with a loud voice: Worthy is the Lamb that has been slain, to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. ¹³ And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: To him who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb, be the blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever. ¹⁴ And the four animals said: Amen. And the elders fell down and worshiped.

¹⁰ And they cry with a loud voice, saying: Salvation to our God, who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb. ¹¹ And all the angels were standing round the throne and the elders and the four animals, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshiped God, ¹² saying: Amen; the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honor, and the power, and the might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen.

⁴⁷ And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and prepared not, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;

³⁴ And Jesus said: Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they divided his garments, casting lots.

³⁹ And Jesus said: For judgment came I into this world; that they who see not may see, and that they who see may become blind.

¹⁷ And now, brethren, I know that ye acted in ignorance, as also your rulers.

³ But Saul laid waste the church, entering house after house, and dragging both men and women, committed them to prison.

¹ BUT Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

⁵ And he said: Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said: I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest.

¹³ And Ananias answered: Lord, I have heard from many concerning this man, how great evils he did to thy saints at Jerusalem.

⁴ And I persecuted this Way unto death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

⁹ I therefore thought to myself, that I ought to do many hostile things against the name of Jesus the Nazarene. ¹⁰ Which I also did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints did I myself shut up in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. ¹¹ And punishing them often, throughout all the synagogues, I constrained them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them also unto foreign cities.

²⁰ Moreover the law came in also, that the trespass might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound; ²¹ that as sin reigned in death, so also might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

³⁰ For as ye in times past disobeyed God, but now obtained mercy through their disobedience; ³¹ so also they now disobeyed through the mercy shown to you, that they also might obtain mercy.

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

¹³ For ye heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism; that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and was destroying it,

⁶ as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

¹⁶ But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Christ Jesus might show forth all his long-suffering, for a pattern to those who should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

¹⁶ Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

⁴ For it is impossible that they who have once been enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, ⁶ and have fallen away, should again be renewed to repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to open shame. ⁷ For the earth which has drunk in the rain oft coming upon it, and brings forth herbs fit for those for whose sake it is tilled, receives blessing from God; ⁸ but if it bears thorns and briers it is rejected, and is near to cursing; whose end is to be burned.

²⁶ For if we willingly sin, after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and a fiery indignation, which will devour the adversaries. ²⁸ He that despised Moses' law died without mercy, under two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much worse punishment, suppose ye, will he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has accounted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite to the Spirit of grace?

¹⁰ who once were not a people, but are now the people of God; who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

²¹ For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog, returned to his own vomit; and, A sow that was washed, to the wallowing in the mire.

⁴⁷ Wherefore I say to thee, her many sins are forgiven; for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little. ⁴⁸ And he said to her: Thy sins are forgiven. ⁴⁹ And they who reclined with him began to say within themselves: Who is this that also forgives sins? ⁵⁰ And he said to the woman: Thy faith has saved thee; go in peace.

¹¹ But, through the grace of the Lord Jesus, we believe that we shall be saved, in the same manner as they also.

¹⁵ But not as the trespass, so also is the free gift; for if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. ¹⁶ And not as through one that sinned, is the gift; for the judgment came of one unto condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses unto justification. ¹⁷ For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more they who receive the abundance of the grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.) ¹⁸ So then, as through one trespass it came upon all men unto condemnation; so also through one righteous act it came upon all men unto 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 will the many be constituted righteous. ²⁰ Moreover the law came in also, that the trespass might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound;

²⁰ And the God of peace will shortly bruise Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

⁹ For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

⁷ in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, ⁸ which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and understanding;

³ remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God and our Father;

⁸ But let us, being of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation;

¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, a propitiation for our sins.

²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the saints.

²¹ And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins.

¹³ But go, and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice; for I came not to call righteous men, but sinners.

¹⁰ Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.

²⁸ even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

¹⁷ And Jesus, hearing it, says to them: They who are well need not a physician, but they who are sick. I came not to call righteous men, but sinners.

³² I have not come to call righteous men, but sinners to repentance.

¹⁰ For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.

¹² But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe on his name;

²⁹ On the morrow, he sees Jesus coming to him, and says: Behold the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world!

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes on him, should not perish, but may have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

³⁶ He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that believes not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

⁴⁷ And if any one hear my words, and keep them not, I do not judge him; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

²⁶ Unto you first, God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.

¹ AND the apostles, and the brethren throughout Judaea, heard that the Gentiles also received the word of God.

¹⁸ When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying: So then, to the Gentiles also God gave repentance unto life.

²⁴ being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; ²⁵ whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith by his blood, for the exhibition of his righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins before committed in the forbearance of God; ²⁶ for the exhibition of his righteousness in this present time, that he may be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus.

⁶ For when we were yet without strength, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.

⁸ But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹ Much more therefore, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath through him. ¹⁰ For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his son; much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

¹³ who was formerly a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and overbearing. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief;

¹ FAITHFUL is the saying, if any one desires the office of overseer, he desires a good work.

⁹ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptance.

¹¹ Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him;

⁸ Faithful is the saying; and concerning these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they who have believed God may be careful to take the lead in good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

²⁵ Whence also he is able to save to the utmost those who come to God through him, since he ever lives to intercede for them.

⁵ And ye know that he was manifested that he might take away our sins; and in him is no sin.

⁸ He that commits sin is of the Devil; because the Devil sins from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the Devil.

⁹ In this was manifested the love of God in respect to us, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. ¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, a propitiation for our sins.

¹¹ And this is the witness, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

⁹ And they sing a new song, saying: Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; because thou wast slain, and didst redeem to God by thy blood out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation;

⁵ And he who sat upon the throne said: Behold, I make all things new. And he says: Write; because these words are faithful and true.

⁶ And he said to me: These sayings are faithful and true; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show to his servants what things must shortly come to pass.

⁴⁷ Wherefore I say to thee, her many sins are forgiven; for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.

¹⁰ So, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.

¹³ And the publican, standing afar off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying: God be merciful to me, the sinner. ¹⁴ I say to you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For every one that exalts himself shall be humbled; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

⁷ And seeing it, they all murmured, saying that he went in to be a guest with a sinner. ⁸ And Zaccheus stood up, and said to the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I took aught from any one by false accusation, I restore fourfold. ⁹ And Jesus said to him: This day is salvation come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham.

⁴³ And Jesus said to him: Verily I say to thee, to-day thou shalt be with me in paradise.

¹⁵ that every one who believes on him may have everlasting life. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes on him, should not perish, but may have everlasting life.

²⁴ Verily, verily, I say to you, he that hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has everlasting life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

³⁷ All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him that comes to me I will not cast out.

⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁵⁴ He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

³¹ But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.

³⁹ and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye were not able to be justified by the law of Moses.

⁴ Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God is leading thee to repentance; ⁵ and after thy hardness and impenitent heart, art treasuring up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life, in Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁴ For whatever things were written afore-time were for our instruction, that we through patience and consolation of the Scriptures may have hope.

¹⁰ when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all who believed (because our testimony to you was believed), in that day.

⁹ The Lord is not tardy in respect to the promise, as some account tardiness; but is long-suffering toward us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

¹⁵ And the long-suffering of our Lord account salvation; as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you;

¹¹ And this is the witness, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son of God has not the life.

¹³ And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right hand: Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, whatever I commanded you. And, behold, I am with you alway, unto the end of the world.

¹⁸ No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he declared him.

²⁰ For, from the creation of the world, his invisible things are clearly seen, being perceived by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.

²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

⁷ to those who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;

³⁶ For of him, and through him, and unto him, are all things; to him be the glory forever. Amen.

²⁷ to God only wise, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, ²¹ to him be the glory in the church, in Christ Jesus, throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

¹⁵ who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature,

¹⁵ which in his own times he will show, who is the blissful and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; ¹⁶ who only has immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable; whom no man has seen, or can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

⁸ but of the Son: Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever; A sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom; ⁹ Thou lovedst righteousness, and hatedst iniquity; Therefore God, thy God, anointed thee, With the oil of gladness, above thy fellows; ¹⁰ and: Thou, Lord, in the beginning, didst found the earth, And the heavens are the works of thy hands; ¹¹ They will perish, but thou remainest; And they all will become old, as does a garment, ¹² And as a vesture thou wilt fold them up, and they will be changed; But thou art the same, And thy years will not fail. ¹³ But to whom of the angels has he ever said: Sit on my right hand, Until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

²⁷ By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

¹¹ To him be the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever. Amen.

¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory, both now and forever. Amen.

¹² No man has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us, and the love of him is perfected in us.

⁸ And the four animals had each of them six wings apiece; around and within they are full of eyes; and they have no rest by day and by night, saying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God the Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come. ⁹ And when the animals shall give glory, and honor, and thanksgiving, to him who sits upon the throne, to him who lives forever and ever, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders will fall down before him who sits upon the throne, and will worship him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying: ¹¹ Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory, and the honor, and the power; because thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created.

¹² saying: Amen; the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honor, and the power, and the might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen.

³ And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God the Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of the nations.

¹⁴ These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them; because he is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and they who are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

¹ AFTER these things, I heard as it were a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, of those saying: Alleluia; the salvation, and the glory, and the power, are our God's;

⁶ And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the sound of many waters, and as the sound of mighty thunders, saying: Alleluia; because the Lord God the Almighty reigns.

¹⁶ And he has on his garment, and on his thigh, a name written: KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

³ For though walking in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh; ⁴ (for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty before God to the pulling down of strongholds)

¹² For to us, the contest is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenly places. ¹³ Therefore take on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having fully done all, to stand. ¹⁴ Stand therefore, having girded your loins about with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness; ¹⁵ and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ in addition to all, having taken on the shield of faith, in which ye will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. ¹⁷ And receive the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; ¹⁸ praying at every fitting season in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;

²² But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child with a father, he served with me for the gospel.

² to Timothy, a true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹¹ according to the glorious gospel of the blissful God, with which I was entrusted. ¹² And I thank him who gave me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, that he accounted me faithful, putting me into the ministry,

⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving;

¹⁴ Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee through prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.

¹² Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the eternal life, unto which thou wast called, and didst make the good profession before many witnesses. ¹³ I charge thee in the sight of God, who preserves all alive, and of Jesus Christ, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed the good profession, ¹⁴ that thou keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹ THOU therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. ² And the things that thou heardest from me by many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. ³ Endure hardship with me, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. ⁴ No one serving as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier. ⁵ And if a man also contends in the games, he is not crowned, unless he contends lawfully.

¹ I CHARGE thee before God, and Christ Jesus who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom, ² preach the word; apply thyself in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching. ³ For the time will come when they will not endure the sound teaching, but according to their own desires will to themselves heap up teachers, having itching ears;

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith;

¹⁰ I beseech thee for my child, whom I begot in my bonds, Onesimus;

²⁷ And which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?

¹⁹ For there must be also sects among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.

⁶ I marvel that ye are so soon removing from him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel; ⁷ which is not another, except that there are some who trouble you, and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ. ⁸ But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach a gospel to you contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed.

⁴ Ye are separated from Christ, whoever of you are justified in the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

¹⁸ For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ; ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

⁵ Now the end of the commandment is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned;

¹ NOW the Spirit says expressly, that in after-times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and teachings of demons; ² of those who speak lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

⁹ But they who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful lusts, which sink men into destruction and perdition.

²¹ which some professing erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee.

¹ BUT know this, that in the last days perilous times will come. ² For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, without love to the good, ⁴ betrayers, headlong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; ⁵ having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; and from these turn away. ⁶ For of these are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

¹⁴ For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end.

⁴ For it is impossible that they who have once been enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, ⁶ and have fallen away, should again be renewed to repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to open shame.

¹⁵ but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts; ready always to give an answer to every one that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; ¹⁶ having a good conscience, that wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good deportment in Christ.

¹ BUT there were false prophets also among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who stealthily will bring in destructive factions, even denying as Master him who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow their dissolute ways; by reason of whom the way of truth will be evil spoken of. ³ And in covetousness will they with feigned words make merchandise of you; for whom the judgment from of old lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

¹² But these, as natural brute beasts born to be taken and destroyed, railing at things that they understand not, shall utterly perish in their own corruption, ¹³ receiving the wages of unrighteousness, as they who account reveling for a day pleasure; spots, and blemishes, reveling in their own deceits while feasting with you; ¹⁴ having eyes full of the adulteress, and that cease not from sin; alluring unstable souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of a curse; ¹⁵ forsaking the right way, they went astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, ¹⁶ but was rebuked for his iniquity; the dumb ass, speaking with man's voice, forbade the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are wells without water, mists driven by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever. ¹⁸ For, speaking swelling words of vanity, in lusts of the flesh they allure, by wanton ways, such as partly escape those who live in error; ¹⁹ promising them liberty, while they themselves are servants of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by the same he is also brought into bondage. ²⁰ For if, having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christy but having again become entangled therein they are overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

¹⁹ They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but it was in order that they might be made manifest, that all are not of us.

¹⁰ But these rail at the things which they know not; but what things naturally, as the brute beasts, they understand, in these they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and rushed on in the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. ¹² These are rocks in your feasts of love, feasting with you fearlessly, feeding their own selves; clouds without water, carried away by winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; ¹³ raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

³ Remember therefore how thou hast received, and didst hear, and keep, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come upon thee.

⁸ I know thy works. Behold, I have set before thee a door opened, which no one can shut; because thou hast little power and didst keep my word, and didst not deny my name.

¹⁰ Because thou didst keep my word of patient endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which is about to come upon the whole world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.

¹⁷ And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church; and if he neglect to hear the church also, let him be to thee as a heathen and a publican.

⁴⁵ But the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with indignation, and spoke against the things said by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

³³ And they brought forward Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews thrusting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, desiring to make his defense to the people.

⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

³² But being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

⁶ and being in readiness to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is made perfect.

¹⁰ For this cause I write these things being absent, that when present I may not use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord gave me for edification, and not for destruction.

¹⁵ And count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

¹⁷ And their word will eat as does a canker; of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

² For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil; the Lord reward him according to his works. ¹⁵ Of whom do thou also beware; for he has greatly withstood our words.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

¹ AND I stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads names of blasphemy;

⁵ And there was given to him a mouth speaking great and blasphemous things; and power was given him to work forty-two months. ⁶ And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, those who tabernacle in heaven.