1 Timothy 3 Cross References - ABU

¹ FAITHFUL is the saying, if any one desires the office of overseer, he desires a good work. ² The overseer then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching; ³ not given to wine, not a striker, but forbearing, averse to strife, not a lover of money; ⁴ presiding well over his own house, having his children in subjection with all decorum; ⁵ (but if one knows not how to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) ⁶ not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the Devil. ⁷ But he must also have a good testimony from those without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil. ⁸ Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of gain; ⁹ holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. ¹⁰ And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, being without reproach. ¹¹ [Their] wives in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. ¹² Let the deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over their children and their own houses. ¹³ For they that have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ These things I write to thee, hoping to come to thee shortly; ¹⁵ but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. 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.

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

²⁰ For it is written in the book of Psalms: Let his habitation be made desolate, And let no one dwell therein. And: Let another take his office.

²⁸ Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the church of the Lord, which he purchased with his own blood.

¹³ For I am speaking to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office;

¹² for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ;

¹ PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:

¹⁴ Now we exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be long-suffering toward all.

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.

² The overseer then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching; ³ not given to wine, not a striker, but forbearing, averse to strife, not a lover of money; ⁴ presiding well over his own house, having his children in subjection with all decorum; ⁵ (but if one knows not how to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) ⁶ not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the Devil. ⁷ But he must also have a good testimony from those without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.

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;

⁷ For the overseer must be, without reproach, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of gain;

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.

¹⁵ looking diligently, lest any one come short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and the many be thereby defiled;

¹⁹ Brethren, if any one among you be led astray from the truth, and one convert him; ²⁰ let him know, that he who converts a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will hide a multitude of sins.

²⁵ For ye were going astray like sheep; but have returned now unto the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

¹⁵ For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a busy-body in other men's matters;

² tend the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but with good will;

⁶ And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

¹³ communicating to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality.

¹⁵ that ye may become blameless and simple, children of God, unreproachable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye appear as do the heavenly lights in the world;

¹⁰ And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, being without reproach. ¹¹ [Their] wives in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

³ forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from food, which God created to be received with thanksgiving, for those who believe and know the truth.

⁹ Let not one be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one husband;

²⁴ And a servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle toward all, apt in teaching, patient of evil;

⁶ if any one is without reproach, the husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of rioting or unruly. ⁷ For the overseer must be, without reproach, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of gain; ⁸ but hospitable, a lover of the good, discreet, just, holy, temperate; 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.

² that aged men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in the faith, in love, in patience;

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

² Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some entertained angels unawares.

⁷ But the end of all things is at hand. Be therefore sober, and watch unto prayer;

⁹ hospitable to one another, without grudging;

⁸ Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour;

¹³ And he says to them: It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; But ye make it a den of robbers.

⁴⁵ Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord set over his household, to give them their food in due season? ⁴⁶ Happy that servant, whom his lord when he comes shall find so doing! ⁴⁷ Verily I say to you, that he will set him over all his goods. ⁴⁸ But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord delays his coming; ⁴⁹ and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken; ⁵⁰ the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looks not for it, and in an hour when he is not aware; ⁵¹ and will cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There will be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth!

⁴² And the Lord said: Who then is the faithful, the wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give the portion of food in due season? ⁴³ Happy that servant, whom his lord when he comes shall find so doing! ⁴⁴ Of a truth I say to you, that he will make him ruler over all his goods. ⁴⁵ But if that servant say in his heart: My lord delays his coming; and shall begin to beat the men-servants and maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; ⁴⁶ the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looks not for it, and in an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the faithless.

³⁴ And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come upon you unawares. ³⁵ For as a snare shall it come on all that dwell on the face of the whole earth. ³⁶ And watch, in every time praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

¹² But he that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees; and the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep. ¹³ The hireling flees, because he is a hireling, and cares not for the sheep.

⁵ Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred denáries, and given to the poor? ⁶ This he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore what was put therein.

¹⁸ And Simon, seeing that through the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, offered them money, ¹⁹ saying: Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit. ²⁰ But Peter said to him: Thy money perish with thee; because thou didst think to obtain the gift of God with money: ²¹ Thou hast no part nor lot in this matter; for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

³³ I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or apparel.

¹⁸ For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit;

⁸ Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of gain;

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

²⁴ And a servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle toward all, apt in teaching, patient of evil; ²⁵ in meekness admonishing those who oppose themselves; if haply God may give them repentance unto the full knowledge of the truth;

¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped, who overturn whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.

³ that aged women likewise be in behavior as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

² to speak evil of no one, to be averse to strife, forbearing, showing all meekness to all men.

⁵ Let your disposition be without covetousness, and be content with what ye have; for he has said: I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

¹ FROM whence are wars, and from whence are fightings among you? Are they not from hence, from your lusts that war in your members?

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.

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,

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.

⁹ I, John, your brother, and partner with you in the affliction, and kingdom, and patient endurance in Jesus, was in the island called Patmos, on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

¹¹ And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their lading any more; ¹² the lading of gold, and of silver, and of precious stones, and of pearls, and of fine linen, and of purple, and of silk, and of scarlet; and all citron wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel of most precious wood, and of brass, and of iron and of marble, 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.

² devout, and one that feared God with all his house, giving many alms to the people, and praying to God always.

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

¹² Let the deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over their children and their own houses.

⁶ if any one is without reproach, the husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of rioting or unruly.

⁷ In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works; in teaching, showing uncorruptness, gravity,

³² Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews or Greeks, or to the church of God;

²² and subjected all things under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,

²⁴ But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything.

³² This mystery is great; but I am speaking of Christ and of the church.

¹⁵ but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

¹⁸ And he said to them: I beheld Satan fall as lightning from heaven.

¹ I ALSO, brethren, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ.

⁶ And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye may learn not to go beyond that which is written, that ye be not puffed up each for one against another. ⁷ For who makes thee to differ? And what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? But if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? ⁸ Already ye are filled full, already ye became rich, without us ye reigned as kings; and I would ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

¹ NOW concerning the things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

⁷ And that I might not be exalted overmuch through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.

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

⁴ betrayers, headlong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

¹² For though ye ought, on account of the time, to be teachers, ye again have need that some one teach you the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. ¹³ For every one who partakes of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness; for he is a child.

² as newborn babes, long for the spiritual, unadulterated milk, that ye thereby may grow unto salvation;

⁵ In like manner, ye younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yea, all of you submitting to one another, gird yourselves with humility; because, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

⁴ For if God spared not angels, having sinned, but casting them down to hell delivered them over to chains of darkness, reserved unto judgment;

⁶ And angels who kept not their principality, but left their own habitation, he has kept in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.

¹¹ And he said to them: To you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but to those who are without, all things are done in parables;

³ Therefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of good repute, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint over this business.

²² And they said: Cornelius, a centurion, a just man, and one that fears God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by a holy angel to send for thee to his house; and to hear words from thee.

¹² And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report from all the Jews who dwelt there,

¹² For what have I to do with judging those also who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within?

³ giving no cause of offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed;

²¹ for we provide for what is honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

⁵ Walk in wisdom toward those without, redeeming the time.

¹² that ye may walk becomingly toward those without, and may have need of nothing.

²² Abstain from every form of evil.

¹⁴ I desire therefore that younger widows marry, bear children, guide the house, give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

²⁴ The sins of some men are openly manifest, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after. ²⁵ In like manner also the good works are openly manifest; and those that are otherwise can not be hidden.

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.

²⁶ and that they may awake to soberness out of the snare of the Devil, being taken captive by him, to do his will.

⁵ to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

⁸ sound speech, that can not be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be put to shame, having no evil thing to say of us.

¹⁴ If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; because the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you; [on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.] ¹⁵ For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a busy-body in other men's matters; ¹⁶ but if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this name.

¹² To Demetrius, testimony has been borne by all, and by the truth itself; yea, we also bear witness, and thou knowest that our witness is true.

³ Therefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of good repute, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint over this business. ⁴ But we will give ourselves to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. ⁵ And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch, ⁶ whom they set before the apostles; and having prayed, they laid their hands on them.

¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;

³ not given to wine, not a striker, but forbearing, averse to strife, not a lover of money;

²³ No longer drink water only, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and for thy frequent infirmities.

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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

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

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.

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 AND in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. ² And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples to them, and said: It is not proper that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

⁸ who will also confirm you unto the end, unaccused in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²² in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and blameless and unaccused before him;

² The overseer then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching;

⁶ not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the Devil.

¹³ For they that have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

²² Lay hands hastily on no one, neither share in other men's sins. Keep thyself pure.

⁶ if any one is without reproach, the husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of rioting or unruly. ⁷ For the overseer must be, without reproach, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of gain;

¹ BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

¹ THEN Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the Devil.

⁵ There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest, Zachariah by name, of the course of Abijah; and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. ⁶ And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them: Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?

⁶ So then let us not sleep, as others; but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunken, are drunken in the night. 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;

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

² And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren; but the rather do them service, because they who receive the benefit are faithful and beloved. These things teach and exhort.

³ without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, without love to the good,

⁵ But be thou watchful in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fully accomplish thy ministry.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, who leads astray the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him. ¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: Now is come the salvation, and the strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; because the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.

⁴ presiding well over his own house, having his children in subjection with all decorum; ⁵ (but if one knows not how to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

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.

²¹ His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant; thou wast faithful over a little, I will set thee over much. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

¹⁰ He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. ¹¹ If therefore ye were not faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches? ¹² And if ye were not faithful in that which is another's, who will give to you your own?

¹⁷ And he said to him: Well done, good servant; because thou wast faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.

⁵ And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch,

⁸ And Stephen, full of grace and of power, did great wonders and signs among the people.

¹⁵ And all that sat in the council, looking intently upon him, saw his face as the face of an angel.

¹⁵ And Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he and our fathers, ¹⁶ and were removed to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. ¹⁷ But as the time of the promise drew near, which God declared to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, ¹⁸ until another king arose who knew not Joseph. ¹⁹ He, dealing subtly with our race, afflicted our fathers, so that they should cast out their infants, that they might not be preserved alive. ²⁰ In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, who was nourished three months in his father's house. ²¹ And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for herself as a son. ²² And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. ²³ And when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the sons of Israel. ²⁴ And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged the one oppressed by smiting the Egyptian. ²⁵ For he supposed his brethren would understand, that God by his hand would deliver them; but they understood not. ²⁶ And on the following day he showed himself to them as they were contending, and urged them to peace, saying: Ye are brethren; why wrong ye one another? ²⁷ But he who was wronging his neighbor thrust him away, saying: Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? ²⁸ Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday? ²⁹ And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begot two sons. ³⁰ And when forty years were completed, there appeared to him in the wilderness of the mount Sinai an angel in a flame of fire, in a bush. ³¹ And Moses, seeing it, wondered at the sight; and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saving: ³² I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not behold. ³³ And the Lord said to him: Loose the sandals from thy feet; for the place where thou standest is holy ground. ³⁴ Truly, I saw the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I heard their groaning, and came down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt. ³⁵ This Moses whom they denied, saying: Who made thee a ruler and a judge? him did God send as a ruler and a redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. ³⁶ He brought them out, working wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. ³⁷ This is the Moses who said to the children of Israel: A Prophet will God raise up to you of your brethren, like unto. ³⁸ This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the living oracles to give to us; ³⁹ to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, ⁴⁰ saying to Aaron: Make us gods who shall go before us; for as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. ⁴¹ And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. ⁴² And God turned away, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets: Did ye offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices, Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? ⁴³ And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the star of the god Remphan, The figures which ye made to worship them; And I will carry you away beyond Babylon. ⁴⁴ Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, as he who spoke to Moses commanded, that he should make it according to the pattern that he had seen; ⁴⁵ which also our fathers received, and brought in with Joshua into the possession of the heathen, whom God drove out before our fathers, unto the days of David; ⁴⁶ who found favor before God, and asked that he might find a habitation for the God of Jacob. ⁴⁷ But Solomon built a house for him. ⁴⁸ Yet the Most High dwells not in temples made with hands; as says the prophet: ⁴⁹ Heaven is my throne, And the earth is my footstool. What house will ye build for me, saith the Lord; Or what is my place of rest? ⁵⁰ Did not my hand make all these things? ⁵¹ Stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears! Ye always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do ye. ⁵² Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they slew those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have now become the betrayers and murderers; ⁵³ who received the law as the ordinances of angels, and kept it not.

³⁵ And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne by the soldiers on account of the violence of the people.

⁷ or ministry, [let us wait] on the ministry; or he that teaches, on the teaching; ⁸ or he that exhorts, on the exhortation; he that gives, [let him do it] with simplicity; he that presides, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

¹⁵ And I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they devoted themselves to the service of the saints,)

¹⁴ and that the greater part of the brethren, made confident in the Lord by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

² But having before suffered, and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict.

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

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered and still do minister to the saints.

¹⁰ according as each received a gift, ministering the same to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God; ¹¹ if any one speaks, as [uttering] God's oracles; if any one ministers, as of the ability which God bestows; that God in all things may be glorified, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the dominion, forever and ever. Amen.

³⁴ If any one is hungry, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

⁵ And I will come to you, when I shall pass through Macedonia. For I pass through Macedonia; ⁶ and it may be that I will remain, or even pass the winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go. ⁷ For I wish not to see you now, in passing; for I hope to remain some time with you, if the Lord permit.

¹⁵ And in this confidence I was desirous to come to you before, that ye might have a second benefit; ¹⁶ and to pass by you into Macedonia, and from Macedonia to come again to you, and by you to be brought on my way to Judea. ¹⁷ When therefore I purposed this, did I act with levity? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea, yea, and the nay, nay?

¹⁸ Wherefore we would fain have come to you, even I, Paul, once and again; and Satan hindered us.

¹³ Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

²² But at the same time be preparing for me also a lodging; for I hope that through your prayers I shall be given to you.

²³ Know that the brother, Timothy, has been set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

¹² Having many things to write to you, I would not [write] with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

¹⁴ but I hope immediately to see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. The friends salute thee. Salute the friends, by name.

¹⁶ And Simon Peter answering said: Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

¹⁸ And I also say to thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of the underworld shall not prevail against it. ¹⁹ And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

¹⁸ Verily I say to you: Whatever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

⁶⁹ And we believe and know, that thou art the Holy One of God.

⁶ Jesus says to him: I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, but by me.

³⁷ Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest it; because I am a king. To this end have I been born, and to this end have I come into the world, that I may bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.

² until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commandment, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he chose;

¹⁵ and saying: Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like nature with you, bringing you glad tidings, that ye should turn from these vanities to the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein;

² Much every way; first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

²⁶ And it shall be, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called, Sons of the living God.

³ being made manifest that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in fleshly tablets of the heart.

⁷ in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

¹⁶ And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God; as God said: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people.

⁹ and having learned the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas right hands of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;

¹ O FOOLISH Galatians, who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was evidently set forth, crucified among you?

²¹ in whom all the building, fitly framed together, grows unto a holy temple in the Lord; ²² in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

²¹ if indeed ye heard him, and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus;

⁵ because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

⁹ For they themselves report concerning us, what manner of entrance we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

⁵ (but if one knows not how to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

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.

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.

²⁰ But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some for honor and some for dishonor.

² who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all His house. ³ For he has been accounted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honor than the house. ⁴ For every house is builded by some one; but he who built all things is God. ⁵ And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, as a testimony of the things which were to be afterward spoken; ⁶ but Christ as son over His house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the boldness and the joyousness of the hope firm unto the end.

¹² Take heed, brethren, lest there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

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 But ye have come to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

⁵ ye yourselves also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

² And I saw another angel coming up from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,

²³ Behold, the virgin shall be with child, And shall bring forth a son, And they shall call his name Immanuel; which is interpreted, God with us.

¹⁶ And having been immersed, Jesus went up immediately from the water; and lo, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending, as a dove, and coming upon him.

¹¹ Then the Devil leaves him; and behold, angels came and ministered to him.

¹¹ And he answering said to them: To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it is not given.

² And behold, there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord, descending out of heaven, came and rolled away the stone, and sat upon it.

¹³ And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him.

⁵ And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a white robe; and they were affrighted.

¹⁹ The Lord therefore, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down on the right hand of God;

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. ¹² And this shall be to you the sign: Ye will find a babe wrapped in swathing bands, lying in a manger. ¹³ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying: ¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will among men.

³² a light for a revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

⁴³ And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him.

⁴ And it came to pass, that as they were much perplexed concerning this, behold two men stood by them in shining garments.

⁵¹ And it came to pass, while he blessed them, that he parted from them, and was borne up into heaven.

¹ IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² The same was in the beginning with God.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us; and we beheld his glory, a glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

³² And John bore witness, saying: I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and it abode upon him. ³³ And I knew him not; but he who sent me to immerse in water, the same said to me: Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and abiding on him, the same is he who immerses in the Holy Spirit.

⁶² What then if ye behold the Son of man ascending up where he was before?

³ knowing that the Father has given all things into his hands, and that he came out from God, and is going to God,

²⁶ But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness of me.

⁸ And when he is come, he will convict the world, in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment; ⁹ of sin, in that they believe not on me;

²⁸ I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world; again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.

⁵ And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

¹² and beholds two angels in white, sitting the one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus lay.

¹ THE former narration I made, O Theophilus, concerning all things that Jesus began both to do and to teach, ² until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commandment, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he chose; ³ to whom also he showed himself living, after he had suffered, by many infallible proofs, during forty days appearing to them, and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God. ⁴ And, being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which ye heard from me; ⁵ for John indeed immersed in water; but ye shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit, not many days hence. ⁶ They therefore, having come together, asked him, saying: Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? ⁷ And he said to them: It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the Father appointed by his own authority. ⁸ But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you; and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and Samaria, and unto the utmost part of the earth. ⁹ And having spoken these things, while they beheld he was borne up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. ¹⁰ And while they were looking intently into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; ¹¹ who also said: Men of Galilee, why stand ye looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye saw him going into heaven.

¹⁹ And it became known to all who dwell at Jerusalem; so that that field was called, in their own tongue, Aceldama, that is, Field of blood.—

³² This Jesus God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. ³³ Being therefore exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he poured forth this, which ye now see and hear. ³⁴ For David did not ascend into heaven; but he says himself: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, ³⁵ Until I make thy foes thy footstool. ³⁶ Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God made him, this Jesus whom ye crucified, both Lord and Christ.

³⁴ And Peter opened his mouth, and said: Of a truth I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons;

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly, and said: It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you; but since ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves not worthy of the eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷ For so has the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, That thou shouldst be for salvation to the end of the earth. ⁴⁸ And the Gentiles hearing it rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord; and as many as were appointed unto eternal life believed.

²⁷ And having come, and gathered the church together, they reported how great things God wrought with them, and that he opened to the Gentiles a door of faith.

³ concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, ⁴ who was declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord;

³ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh;

⁵ whose are the fathers, and of whom as to the flesh is Christ, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

¹² For there is no difference between Jew and Greek; for the same is Lord of all, rich toward all that call upon him;

¹⁸ But I say, did they not hear? Yes verily; Their sound went forth into all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.

²⁵ Now to him who is able to establish you, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept in silence during eternal ages

⁷ But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the worlds unto our glory;

⁴⁷ The first man was of the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.

⁸ (for he who wrought for Peter in behalf of the apostleship of the circumcision, wrought also for me in behalf of the Gentiles;)

⁴ But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under law,

⁹ making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself,

³ that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words; ⁴ whereby, when ye read, ye can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ, ⁵ which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; ⁶ that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers with us of the promise, in Christ Jesus, through the gospel; ⁷ whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which was given to me according to the working of his power. 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; ⁹ and to make all see what is the dispensation of the mystery, which from ages has been hidden in God, who created all things; ¹⁰ that now, to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,

⁸ Wherefore he says: When he ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men. ⁹ Now this, he ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ The one who descended, he is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, that he may fill all things.

¹⁹ and for me, that utterance may be given to me, in the opening of my mouth with boldness, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

⁶ who, being in the form of God, did not account it robbery to be equal with God; ⁷ but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

⁶ which is come to you, as also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit and increasing also in you, since the day ye heard it, and knew the grace of God in truth;

¹⁶ because in him were all things created, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all things have been created by him, and for him; ¹⁷ and he is before all things, and in him all things subsist. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that he may become in all things pre-eminent.

²³ if indeed ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye heard, which was preached in the whole creation which is under heaven; of which I Paul was made a minister.

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;

² that their hearts might be encouraged, they being knit together in love, and unto all the riches of the full assurance of the understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, even Christ;

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.

⁷ For the mystery of iniquity is already working; only until he who now withholds shall be out of the way.

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

³ who, being the brightness of his glory and the impress of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made a cleansing of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

⁹ But we behold him, who was made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, in order that he by the grace of God might taste death for every one. ¹⁰ For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. ¹¹ For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, ¹² saying: I will declare thy name to my brethren; In the midst of the congregation I will sing praise to thee. ¹³ And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: Behold, I and the children whom God gave me.

⁷ And without any contradiction, the less is blessed by the better.

¹ Now of the things which we are saying, this is the chief: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty of the heavens;

² looking away to the author and finisher of the faith, Jesus; who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.

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.

²⁰ who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times for you,

¹⁸ Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit;

²² who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

² (and the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and report to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us;)

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

⁶ This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus the Christ; not in the water only, but in the water and in the blood. And the Spirit is that which bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth. ⁷ For there are three who bear witness; the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; ⁸ and the three agree in the one.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand on me, saying: Fear not: I am the first and the last, ¹⁸ and the living one; and I became dead, and behold I am alive forevermore; and I have the keys of death and of the underworld.

⁹ After these things I saw, and behold a great multitude, which no one could number, out of every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palms in their hands.

⁵ And upon her forehead was a name written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

⁷ And the angel said to me: Wherefore didst thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.