Titus 1 Cross References - ABU

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; ² upon hope of eternal life, which God, who can not lie, promised before eternal ages, 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; ⁴ to Titus, a true child according to the common faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. ⁵ For this cause I left thee behind in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and appoint elders in each city, as I directed thee; 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. 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. ¹² One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said: Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons. ¹³ This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; ¹⁴ not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, who turn away from the truth. 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. ¹⁶ They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and for every good work reprobate.

²⁶ But ye do not believe; for ye are not of my sheep, as I said to you. ²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;

⁴⁸ And the Gentiles hearing it rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord; and as many as were appointed unto eternal life believed.

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

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:

⁸ For by grace ye are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

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

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;

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth; ¹⁴ whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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;

⁴ who desires that all should be saved, and come to the knowledge 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.

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,

²³ But the foolish and ignorant questionings avoid, knowing that they beget strifes.

²⁵ in meekness admonishing those who oppose themselves; if haply God may give them repentance unto the full knowledge of the truth;

¹¹ For the saving grace of God appeared to all men, ¹² teaching us that, having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

³ Seeing that his divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and might;

¹¹ Seeing then that all these things are dissolving, what manner of men ought ye to be, in all holy deportment and godliness;

²³ Every one that denies the Son, the same has not the Father; he that acknowledges the Son has also the Father.

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.

⁴⁶ And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.

¹⁷ And as he was going forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeling to him, and asked him: Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

³⁰ but he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.

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.

³⁹ Search the Scriptures; because in them ye think ye have eternal life, and these are they that testify of me;

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

⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast words of eternal life.

²⁸ and I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one pluck them out of my hand.

² as thou gayest him authority over all flesh, that as many as thou hast given to him, to them he should give eternal life.

²⁴ Father, those whom thou hast given me, I will that where I am they also be with me; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me; because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

¹⁸ Known to God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

² which he before announced through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures,

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

² through whom also we obtained the access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

⁴ and patience approval; and approval hope;

²¹ that as sin reigned in death, so also might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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

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

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;

¹⁵ who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us forth, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;

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 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.

¹⁹ laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the true life.

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

⁹ who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose, and the grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before eternal ages,

¹⁰ For this cause, I endure all things for the sake of the chosen, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

¹³ if we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he can not deny himself.

¹⁵ Endeavor to present thyself approved to God, a workman not made ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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

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

⁷ that, having been justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

¹⁷ Wherein God, wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; ¹⁸ that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible that God should lie, we may have strong encouragement, who fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

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; ⁴ unto an inheritance imperishable, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,

²⁰ who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times for you, 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. ²² Having purified your souls in obeying the truth unto unfeigned brotherly love, love one another from the heart fervently; ²³ being born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the word of God, which lives and abides forever.

²⁵ And this is the promise which he himself promised to us, the life eternal.

² Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it was never yet manifested what we shall be. We know that if it shall be manifested, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. ³ And every one, that has this hope on him, purifies himself even as he is pure.

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 These things I wrote to you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, who believe on the name of the Son of God.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us understanding, that we may know the True one; and we are in the True One, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

²¹ keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto eternal life.

⁸ And all who dwell upon the earth will worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which is slain, from the foundation of the world.

⁸ The beast that thou sawest was, and is not, and is to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition; and they will wonder who dwell on the earth, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, seeing the beast, that he was, and is not, and shall come.

¹⁰ And the good news must first be preached among all the nations.

¹⁵ And he said to them: Go into all the world, and preach the good news to every creature.

⁴⁷ and my spirit rejoiced in God my Savior.

³⁶ The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, publishing glad tidings of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all),

²⁶ And he made of one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having fixed the appointed seasons and bounds of their habitation;

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

¹⁴ How then shall they call on him on whom they believed not? And how shall they believe on him of whom they heard not? And how shall they hear without a preacher? ¹⁵ And how shall they preach, unless they are sent forth? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!

¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the good news of Christ;

²⁶ but now made manifest, and through the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, made known to all nations for obedience to the faith,

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

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

¹⁰ in reference to the dispensation of the fullness of times, to gather for himself into one all things in the Christ, the things which are in the heavens, and the things on the earth;

¹⁷ And he came and brought the good news of peace to you who were afar off, and to those who were near.

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;

¹³ so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in all the Praetorium, and to all the rest;

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;

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.

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.

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus, according to the commandment of God our Savior and Christ Jesus our hope,

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

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

⁵ For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; ⁶ who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time; 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.

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

⁴ But when the kindness and the love toward man of our Savior God appeared, ⁵ not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the bathing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit; ⁶ which he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior;

¹⁶ And he who sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle upon the earth; and the earth was reaped.

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

⁴² and said to the woman: We no longer believe because of thy saying; for we ourselves have heard, and know that this is in truth the Savior of the world.

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.

¹² that is, to be comforted together among you, by each other's faith, both yours and mine.

¹³ I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but taking leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.

¹³ But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I believed, therefore did I speak, we also believe, therefore also speak;

⁶ But God, who consoles those who are cast down, consoled us by the coming of Titus;

¹³ For this cause we were consoled; but in our consolation, we rejoiced abundantly more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. ¹⁴ For if in any thing I have boasted to him of you, I was not made ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus was found to be truth.

⁶ So that we exhorted Titus, that as he had before begun, so he would also finish among you this grace also.

¹⁶ But thanks be to God, who put the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

²³ As to Titus, he is my partner, and in regard to you a fellow-laborer; as to our brethren, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.

¹⁸ I exhorted Titus [to go], and sent with him the brother. Did Titus make gain of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit; did we not in the same steps?

³ But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised;

² Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

² to the saints in Colosse, and faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

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

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:

¹¹ For so shall be richly ministered to you the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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.

² that ye may be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Savior by your apostles;

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.

¹⁴ And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

³ Beloved, while giving all diligence to write to you concerning the common salvation, I found it needful for me to write to you exhorting to contend earnestly for the faith, delivered once for all to the saints.

¹¹ Cretes and Arabians, hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God?

³⁰ which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

²³ And having appointed for them elders in every church, they commended them, with prayer and fasting, to the Lord, on whom they believed.

⁷ And sailing slowly many days, and having come with difficulty over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us to put in, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;

¹² And as the haven was not well situated for wintering, the greater number advised to sail thence also, if by any means they might reach Phoenix, a haven of Crete, looking toward the southwest and northwest, and there winter.

²¹ But after much abstinence, then Paul, standing up in the midst of then, said: Sirs, ye should have hearkened to me and not put to sea from Crete, and so have escaped this violence and loss.

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.

⁴⁰ But let all things be done decently and in order.

⁵ For though I am absent in the flesh, yet in the spirit I am with you, rejoicing and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith toward Christ.

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,

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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;

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

⁴⁵ Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

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?

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.

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.

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;

⁵ For this cause I left thee behind in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and appoint elders in each city, as I directed thee;

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;

¹⁹ So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; ²⁰ for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.

¹⁰ according as each received a gift, ministering the same to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

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;

¹⁰ but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. Presumptuous, self-willed, they are not afraid to rail at dignities;

⁴ but as God's ministers, commending ourselves in everything, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, ⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings; ⁶ in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned, ⁷ in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, ⁸ through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and true;

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God, how holily and justly and unblamably we behaved ourselves to you that believe;

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

¹² Let no one despise thy youth; but become an example of the believers, in word, in deportment, in love, in faith, in purity.

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

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

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

¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loves not his brother abides in death.

¹ EVERY one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten of God; and every one that loves him who begot, loves also him that has been begotten of him.

²⁸ For he powerfully confuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

²⁴ But if all prophesy, and there come in one that is an unbeliever, or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all.

²¹ but prove all things, hold fast that which is good.

¹⁵ So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by our letter.

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;

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.

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

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

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;

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

¹ BUT do thou speak the things which become the sound teaching;

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

²⁵ but that which ye have, hold fast till I come.

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.

¹¹ I come quickly; hold fast that which thou hast, that no one may take thy crown.

² And when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,

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.

²⁴ Forasmuch as we heard, that some who went out from us troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying that ye must be circumcised and keep the law, to whom we gave no commandment;

²⁹ For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

¹⁷ Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the teaching which ye learned, and avoid them. 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.

¹² But what I do, and will do, is that I may cut off the occasion of those who desire an occasion, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we. ¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder; for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. ¹⁵ It is no great thing then, if also his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

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 and that because of the false brethren stealthily brought in, who crept in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

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

¹⁷ They zealously seek you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye may zealously seek them. ¹⁸ But it is good to be zealously sought in a good cause always, and not only when I am present with you. ¹⁹ My little children, of whom I travail again in birth, until Christ be formed in you! ²⁰ And I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I am perplexed on account of you. ²¹ Tell me, ye who desire to be under law, do ye not hear the law?

¹ STAND fast, therefore, in the liberty with which Christ made us free, and be not again entangled with the yoke of bondage. ² Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 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.

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;

² Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision. ³ For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

¹⁰ and in all deceit of unrighteousness for those who perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And for this cause God sends them a working of delusion, in order that they may believe the lie; ¹² that they may all be judged, who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

⁴ nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which further disputes rather than God's dispensation, which is in faith, [so do.]

⁶ from which some swerving turned aside to idle prattling;

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.

¹³ But evil men and seducers will grow worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

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

²⁶ If any one thinks that he is religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

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.

¹⁸ Little children, it is the last time; and as ye heard that antichrist should come, even now many antichrists have arisen; from whence we know that it is the last time.

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.

⁶ But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

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.

¹³ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for ye go not in, nor suffer those who are entering to go in:

⁴⁰ For they no longer dared to ask him any question.

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.

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting shall not be shut up against me in the regions of Achaia.

⁵ vain disputings of men corrupted in mind, and robbed of the truth, supposing that godliness is a means of gain.

⁶ For of these are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

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;

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 A man that causes divisions, after a first and second admonition, avoid;

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.

²⁸ for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as also some of your own poets have said: For his offspring also are we.

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.

² of those who speak lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

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,

¹⁵ forsaking the right way, they went astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

⁸ Yet, in like manner, these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, despise dominion, and rail at dignities. ⁹ But Michael the archangel, when, contending with the Devil, he disputed concerning the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a railing judgment, but said: The Lord rebuke thee. 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.

⁸ Because, though I made you sorry with the letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it; for I perceive that that letter made you sorry, though but for a season. 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. ¹¹ For behold this very thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly manner, what earnestness it wrought in you; yea, what clearing of yourselves; yea, what indignation; yea, what fear; yea, what longing desire; yea, what zeal; yea, what avenging! In every thing ye commended yourselves as pure in the matter. ¹² So then, though I wrote to you, it was not on account of him who did the wrong, nor of him who suffered wrong, but that your care for us might be made manifest to you in the sight of God.

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.

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.

²⁰ Those who sin rebuke before all, that the rest also may fear.

² preach the word; apply thyself in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching.

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

¹⁵ These things speak, and exhort, and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise thee.

⁹ But in vain they worship me, Teaching as doctrines commandments of men.

⁷ But in vain they worship me, Teaching as doctrines commandments of men.

⁹ But now, after having known God, or rather having been known by God, how is it that ye turn back again to the weak and poor elements, to which ye desire to be in bondage again anew?

²² (which are all to perish with the using,) after the commandments and teachings of men?

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.

²⁵ See that ye refuse not him who speaks; for if they did not escape, refusing him who declared the divine will on earth, much more shall not we, who turn away from him who speaks from heaven;

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.

¹⁸ But the things that proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man.

³⁹ And the Lord said to him: Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of rapacity and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Fools! Did not he, who made the outside, make the inside also? ⁴¹ But give that which ye have in alms; and, behold, all things are clean to you.

¹⁵ And a voice came to him again, the second time: What God cleansed, call not thou common.

¹⁴ I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; but to him that accounts anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

²⁰ For the sake of food destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eats with offense.

²³ And he that doubts is condemned if he eat, because it is not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.

¹² All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of anything. ¹³ Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

⁷ But there is not in all men this knowledge; for some, with a consciousness till now of the idol, eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

²³ All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient; all things are lawful, but not all things edify.

²⁵ Whatever is sold in the market eat, asking no question for conscience sake';

³¹ Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

²⁷ So that whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. ²⁸ But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. ²⁹ For he that eats and drinks, eats and drinks condemnation to himself, if he discern not the body.

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

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,

²⁸ And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not becoming;

¹⁸ and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; 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? ²² Thou that sayest, a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? ²³ Thou that makest thy boast in law, through the transgression of the law dishonorest thou God? ²⁴ For, the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

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,

⁸ But if any one provides not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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, ⁷ ever learning, and never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

⁴ He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

⁴ For there crept in stealthily certain men, who of old were appointed beforehand to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into wantonness, and denying the only Master, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

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.