1 Thessalonians 5 Cross References - ACV

¹ But about the times and the seasons, brothers, ye have no need to be written to you. ² For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. ³ For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape. ⁴ But ye, brothers, are not in darkness, so that the day would seize you as a thief. ⁵ Ye are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. ⁶ So then let us not sleep, as also the others, but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are intoxicated get drunk at night. ⁸ But we, being of the day, should be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet, the hope of salvation. ⁹ Because God appointed us not for wrath, but for an acquired possession of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us. ¹⁰ So that, whether we are awake or sleep, we should live together with him. ¹¹ Therefore encourage each other, and build ye up one by one, just as ye also are doing. ¹² And we ask you, brothers, to acknowledge those who labor among you, and who lead you in the Lord, and who admonish you, ¹³ and to esteem them with exceptional love because of their work. Live peaceably among yourselves. ¹⁴ And we encourage you, brothers, admonish the unruly, strengthen the weak-spirited, help the infirmed, be patient toward all. ¹⁵ See that not any man repays evil for evil to any man, but always pursue the good, both for each other and for all. ¹⁶ Rejoice always. ¹⁷ Pray without ceasing. ¹⁸ In everything express thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. ¹⁹ Do not quench the Spirit. ²⁰ Do not disdain prophecies, ²¹ but examine all things. Hold firm the good. ²² Abstain from all appearance of evil. ²³ And may the God of peace himself sanctify you thoroughly. And may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ Faithful is he who calls you, who also will do it. ²⁵ Brothers, pray about us. ²⁶ Salute all the brothers by a holy kiss. ²⁷ I adjure you by the Lord that the letter be read to all the holy brothers. ²⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with you. Truly.

³ And as he sat on the mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? And what is the sign of thy coming, and of the termination of the age?

³⁶ But about that day and hour no man knows, not even the agents of the heavens, except my Father only.

³⁰ Truly I say to you, that this generation will, no, not pass away, until all these things happen. ³¹ The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away. ³² But about that day or that hour no man knows, not even the agents in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.

⁷ And he said to them, It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father established in his own authority.

¹ For indeed it is superfluous for me to write to you about the service for the sanctified.

⁹ But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other.

³ Beloved, making all diligence to write to you about the common salvation, I had need to write to you exhorting you to earnestly contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the sanctified.

²⁰ The anger of LORD shall not return until he has executed, and till he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly.

⁴² Watch therefore, because ye know not at what hour your Lord comes. ⁴³ But know this, that if the house-ruler had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁴ Because of this ye also be ready, because in that hour ye think not the Son of man comes.

¹³ Watch therefore, because ye know not the day nor the hour in which the Son of man comes.

³⁴ like a man abroad, having left his house, and having given authority to his bondmen, and to each man his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch. ³⁵ Watch therefore, for ye know not when the lord of the house comes, at evening, or at midnight, or at cock crowing, or in the morning,

³⁹ But know this, that if the house-ruler had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁰ Therefore, ye also become ready, because the Son of man comes at that hour ye do not suppose.

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

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, during which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements, being intensely hot, will be disintegrated, and the earth and the works in it will be destroyed by fire.

³ Remember therefore how thou have received and heard, and be on guard, and repent. If therefore thou will not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou will, no, not know what hour I will come upon thee.

¹⁵ (Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, so that he may not walk naked, and they see his shame.)

⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall be satisfied upon them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. ¹⁰ Thou did blow with thy wind, the sea covered them. They sank as lead in the mighty waters.

¹⁹ and it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

²⁰ And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. And the people who fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers. ²¹ And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai. ²² And the others came forth out of the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. And they smote them so that they let none of them remain or escape.

²⁷ And they took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and they burnt the city with fire. ²⁸ And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any man, and it was in the valley that lies by Beth-rehob. And they built the city, and dwelt in it.

⁴¹ And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that evil had come upon them. ⁴² Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness. But the battle followed hard after them, and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of it.

¹⁹ And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands. ²⁰ And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried out to heaven. ²¹ And LORD sent an agent who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, those who came forth from his own bowels killed him there with the sword.

¹¹ He says in his heart, God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it. ¹² Arise, O LORD, O God, lift up thy hand. Do not forget the poor. ¹³ Why does the wicked man despise God, and say in his heart, Thou will not require it?

⁶ Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

¹⁸ Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction. ¹⁹ How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. ²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, when thou waken, thou will despise their form.

¹ He who, being often reproved, hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

³ Therefore my loins are filled with anguish. Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail. I am pained so that I cannot hear. I am dismayed so that I cannot see. ⁴ My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.

¹³ therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

⁶ I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Keep not back. Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth, ⁷ everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yea, whom I have made. ⁸ Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears. ⁹ Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, It is truth.

¹² Come ye, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as this day, great beyond measure.

³¹ For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.

²⁴ We have heard the report of it. Our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

²¹ What will thou say when he shall set over thee as head those whom thou thyself have taught to be friends to thee? Shall not sorrows take hold of thee as of a woman in travail?

²³ O inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes thy nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied thou shall be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

³ Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem. And the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them. ⁴ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. ⁵ In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand came forth, and wrote opposite the lampstand upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. ⁶ Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him. And the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

¹³ The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him. He is an unwise son, for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of sons.

⁹ Now why do thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee? Has thy counselor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail? ¹⁰ Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail. For now thou shall go forth out of the city, and shall dwell in the field, and shall come even to Babylon. There thou shall be rescued. There LORD will redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

¹⁰ For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

³³ Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how will ye escape from the damnation of hell?

³⁷ And as the days of Noah, so also will be the coming of the Son of man. ³⁸ For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until that day Noah entered into the ark. ³⁹ And they knew not until the flood came, and took them all away. So also will be the coming of the Son of man.

²⁶ And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of man. ²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ And likewise as it happened in the days of Lot. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built. ²⁹ But in that day Lot went out from Sodom he rained fire and brimstone from the sky, and destroyed them all. ³⁰ It will be according to these things in that day the Son of man is revealed.

³⁴ But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down in debauchery and drunkenness and mundane cares, and that day come upon you sudden. ³⁵ For it will come like a trap upon all those who sit upon the face of all the earth.

²² And the populace shouted, The voice of a god, and not of a man. ²³ And immediately an agent of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And after becoming worm-eaten, he expired.

⁴¹ Behold, ye scoffers, and wonder, and perish, because I work a work in your days, which ye would, no, not believe, if some man should fully narrate it to you.

⁹ Men who will suffer punishment, a penalty of eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

³ how will we escape, having neglected so great a salvation? Which first, having taken to be spoken by the Lord, was verified for us by those who heard;

²³ to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect,

⁴ For if God did not spare agents who sinned, but delivered them up to chains of darkness, having been cast into hell being reserved for judgment,

⁷ In an amount she glorified herself and lived wantonly, give her so much torment and grief, because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will, no, not see grief. ⁸ Because of this her plagues will come in one day, death, and grief, and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, because strong is the Lord, the God who judged her.

⁶ Lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and smite him mortally, whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he did not hate him in time past.

¹⁵ But it shall come to pass, if thou will not hearken to the voice of LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

⁴⁵ And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed, because thou hearkened not to the voice of LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee,

¹⁶ then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, of which ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt, and there ye shall die.

⁹ O Israel, thou have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they stood. The battle against the sons of iniquity does not overtake them in Gibeah.

⁶ But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned and said, Like as LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so he has dealt with us.

¹⁸ to open their eyes to turn about from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, for them to receive remission of sins and a lot among those who have been sanctified by faith in me.

¹¹ And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed. ¹² The night has advanced and the day has approached. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the weapons of light. ¹³ Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

¹³ Who rescued us out of the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

⁹ But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. ¹⁰ Men formerly not a people, but now are a people of God. Men who had not obtained mercy, but who now have obtained mercy.

⁸ Again, a new commandment I write to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light now shines.

⁸ And his lord commended the unrighteous manager because he did shrewdly. Because the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the light.

³⁶ While ye have the light, believe in the light, so that ye may become sons of light. Jesus spoke these things, and after departing, he was hid from them.

⁸ For ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

¹⁵ Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

⁶ So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What do thou mean, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we not perish.

²⁵ But while the men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares in the midst of the wheat, and went away.

⁴² Watch therefore, because ye know not at what hour your Lord comes.

⁵ Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

³⁸ Then Jesus says to them, My soul is deeply grieved, as far as of death. Remain ye here and watch with me.

⁴⁰ And he comes to the disciples, and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter, So ye could not watch with me one hour. ⁴¹ Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation. Truly, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

³⁷ And what I say to you I say to all, watch!

³⁷ And he comes and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter, Simon, Do thou sleep? Could thou not watch one hour? ³⁸ Watch ye and pray that ye may not enter into temptation. Truly, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

³⁷ Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord when he comes will find watching. Truly I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to sit down, and having come, will serve them.

³⁹ But know this, that if the house-ruler had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

³⁶ Watch ye therefore, making supplication at all times, so that ye may be considered worthy to escape all these things going to happen, and to stand before the Son of man.

⁴⁶ And said to them, Why sleep ye? Having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.

³¹ Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.

¹¹ And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed. ¹² The night has advanced and the day has approached. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the weapons of light. ¹³ Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy. ¹⁴ But clothe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no forethought for lusts of the flesh.

³⁴ Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.

¹³ Watch ye, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

¹⁴ Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.

¹⁸ praying through every prayer and entreaty at every time in spirit, and being alert in this same thing in all perseverance and entreaty for all the sanctified,

⁵ Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is near.

² Continue in prayer, being vigilant in it with thankfulness.

⁸ But we, being of the day, should be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet, the hope of salvation.

⁹ And similarly, the women to adorn themselves in disciplined decorum, with reverence and sobriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive apparel,

¹⁵ But she will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

² The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach,

¹¹ The wives likewise, be honorable, not slanderous, sober, faithful in all things.

⁵ But be thou sober in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, bring thy ministry to fullness.

⁶ Likewise exhort the younger men to be sober-minded.

¹² disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.

¹³ Therefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope entirely for the grace brought to you at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

⁷ But the end of all things has approached. Therefore be serious, and be sober for the prayers.

⁸ Be sober, be vigilant. Your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom to devour.

² Become thou watchful, and strengthen the remaining things that thou were going to throw away, for I have not found thy works made complete before my God.

³⁶ And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. ³⁷ And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

¹³ In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed.

²⁹ Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? ³⁰ Those who tarry long at the wine. Those who go to seek out mixed wine. ³¹ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. ³² At the end it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder. ³³ Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter perverse things. ³⁴ Yea, thou shall be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies upon the top of a mast. ³⁵ They have stricken me, thou shall say, and I was not hurt. They have beaten me, and I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

⁴ My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me. ⁵ They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink. Rise up, ye rulers, anoint the shield.

⁴ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. ⁵ In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand came forth, and wrote opposite the lampstand upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

¹⁵ For these men are not drunken, as ye suppose, for it is the third hour of the day.

¹³ Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

¹³ getting back a wage of unrighteousness. Men who consider soft living in the daytime to be pleasure, spots and blemishes reveling in their deceitfulness, feasting together with you,

²³ O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book, ²⁴ that they were engraved in the rock forever with an iron pen and lead! ²⁵ But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth. ²⁶ And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God, ²⁷ whom I, even I, shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

⁵ Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

¹¹ Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.

⁵ Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.

¹⁷ And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head. And he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

²⁶ It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of LORD.

² through whom also we have access by faith for this grace in which we stand, and we take pride in hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only so, but we also take pride in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance, ⁴ and perseverance, character, and character, hope. ⁵ And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that was given to us.

²⁴ For we were saved to hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what is seen, why also hope for that? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait through patience.

¹³ And now remain faith, hope, love, these three, but the greater of these is love.

⁷ in word of truth, in power of God, through the weapons of righteousness of the right hand and of the left,

⁵ For we through Spirit, from faith, wait for a hope of righteousness.

⁸ For ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light ⁹ (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

¹¹ Put on the full armor of God to enable you to stand against the wiles of the devil.

¹³ Because of this take ye up the full armor of God, so that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. ¹⁴ Stand ye therefore having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having shod your feet in preparation of the good news of peace. ¹⁶ Above all having taken up the shield of faith, by which ye will be able to quench all the fiery darts of evil. ¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, ¹⁸ praying through every prayer and entreaty at every time in spirit, and being alert in this same thing in all perseverance and entreaty for all the sanctified,

²³ Peace to the brothers, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ Ye are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father who loved us and gave eternal encouragement and good hope through grace,

¹⁹ Which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and that enters into the interior of the veil,

³⁵ Therefore do not throw off your boldness, which has great recompense of reward. ³⁶ For ye have need of perseverance, so that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who begot us again according to his abundant mercy for a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ for an inheritance imperishable, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heavens for you, ⁵ men being kept by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

⁹ But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from every sin.

¹ Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him. ² Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet made known what we will be. But we know that whenever he is made known we will be like him, because we will see him as he is. ³ And every man who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that man is pure.

¹⁶ But indeed for this cause I have raised thee up, to display in thee my power, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

⁴ LORD has made everything for its own end, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

¹⁰ Thus says the lord LORD: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shall devise an evil plan. ¹¹ And thou shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, ¹² to take the spoil and to take the prey, to turn thy hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten cattle and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth. ¹³ Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall say to thee, Have thou come to take the spoil? Have thou assembled thy company to take the prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil? ¹⁴ Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the lord LORD: In that day when my people Israel dwell securely, shall thou not know it? ¹⁵ And thou shall come from thy place out of the outermost parts of the north, thou, and many peoples with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army. ¹⁶ And thou shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. It shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. ¹⁷ Thus says the lord LORD: Are thou he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring thee against them?

²⁴ The Son of man indeed goes as it is written about him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It were good for him if that man had not been born.

²⁰ For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation become desolate, and let no man be dwelling in it, and, Let another take his office.

²⁵ to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas transgressed to go to his own place.

⁴⁸ And hearing this, the Gentiles were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as were appointed for eternal life believed.

¹¹ (for not yet having been born, nor having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to selection might remain, not from works, but from him who calls), ¹² it was said to her, The older will serve the younger. ¹³ As it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I regarded inferior. ¹⁴ What will we say then? Is there injustice from God? May it not happen! ¹⁵ For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to whom I may be merciful, and I will be compassionate to whomever I may be compassionate. ¹⁶ So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who is merciful. ¹⁷ For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same thing I raised thee up, that I might display in thee my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth. ¹⁸ So then he is merciful to whom he will, and whom he will he hardens. ¹⁹ Thou will say to me therefore, Why does he still find fault? For who has resisted his purpose? ²⁰ Rather, O man, who are thou answering back to God? No, will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why did thou make me this way? ²¹ Or has the potter no right over the clay, from the same lump certainly to make this vessel for esteem, and that for disesteem? ²² And if God, wanting to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, ²³ even that he might make known the wealth of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he previously prepared for glory,

⁷ What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain. But the chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened,

³⁰ For as ye once were also disobedient to God, but now have received mercy at the disobedience of these,

¹⁰ and to await his Son from the heavens whom he raised from the dead-Jesus-who rescues us from the coming wrath.

³ for no man to be disturbed by these afflictions. For ye yourselves know that we are set for this.

¹³ But we are indebted to express thanks to God always about you, brothers, beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation, in sanctification of spirit and belief of truth, ¹⁴ for which he called you, through our good news, for an acquired possession of glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ the man who was formerly blasphemous, and a persecutor, and an aggressor. But I obtained mercy because I did it being ignorant in unbelief.

¹⁶ But because of this I obtained mercy, so that in me, the foremost, Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

¹⁰ Because of this I endure all things because of the chosen, so that they also may experience salvation in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

¹⁹ Nevertheless the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, The Lord knows those who are his, and, Let every man who names the name of the Lord keep away from unrighteousness. ²⁰ Now in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and earthen, and some for esteem and some for disesteem.

⁸ and, A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, men who stumble at the word, being disobedient, for which also they were set.

¹⁰ Men formerly not a people, but now are a people of God. Men who had not obtained mercy, but who now have obtained mercy.

¹ Simon Peter, a bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

³ And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.

⁴ For certain men have sneaked in, those written about formerly for this condemnation, irreverent men, perverting the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying our only Master God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁸ Just as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

¹⁵ Just as the Father knows me, I also know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

¹⁷ Because of this the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, so that I may take it again.

¹³ Greater love has no man than this, that some man lay down his life for his friends.

⁶ For while we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the impious. ⁷ For scarcely for a righteous man will some man die, indeed perhaps for the good man some man would even dare to die. ⁸ But God commends his love toward us, that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

³⁴ Who is he who will condemn? It is Christ who died, but more, who also was raised up, who also is at the right hand of God, who also appeals for us.

⁸ For both if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Both if we live and if we die, therefore, we are the Lord's. ⁹ For because of this Christ both died and arose, and he became alive so that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.

³ For I delivered to you at first what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

¹⁵ And he died for all so that those who live would no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and was raised.

²¹ For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

² And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

¹³ But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope.

¹⁷ then we who are alive, who remain, will be caught up simultaneously with them in clouds to the Lord's gathering in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

⁶ who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony for their own times.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a special people, a zealot of good works.

²⁴ Who himself took up our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live to the righteousness of him from whose wound ye were healed.

¹⁸ Because Christ also once suffered for sins, a righteous man for unrighteous men, so that he might bring you to God. Having indeed been killed in flesh, but made alive in spirit,

¹⁹ So then we should pursue the things of peace, and the things of constructiveness for each other.

² Let each of us please his neighbor for what is good toward edification.

¹⁴ And I also myself am persuaded about you, my brothers, that ye yourselves are also full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

²³ All things are permitted for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are permitted for me, but not all things are constructive.

⁵ Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but more that ye may prophesy. For greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the congregation may receive edification.

¹² So also ye, since ye are zealots of spirits, seek so that ye may excel for the edification of the church.

²⁹ And let two or three prophets speak, and let the other men pass judgment.

¹⁹ Again, do ye think that we are making defense to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edification.

¹² for the perfecting of the sanctified, for the work of ministry, for edification of the body of the Christ.

¹⁶ from whom the whole body, joined together and united together through every connection of the supply, according to the working of each one part within a standard, makes the growth of the body for the construction of itself by love.

²⁹ Let no corrupt speech go out of your mouth, rather if there is any good word for edification of a need, so that it may give grace to those who hear.

¹⁰ For ye are also doing it toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to abound more,

¹⁸ Therefore encourage each other with these words.

⁴ nor to heed myths and endless genealogies, which cause controversies rather than stewardship of God in faith.

¹³ But exhort each other during each day, while it is called Today, lest any of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

²⁵ Not forsaking the assembling together of ourselves, as is the habit of some, but exhorting, and so much the more as long as ye see the day approaching.

¹² Therefore I will not neglect to always remind you about these things, although having known them, and having been established in the present truth.

²⁰ But ye beloved, building up yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

³⁷ Then he says to his disciples, The harvest truly is plentiful, but the workmen are few. ³⁸ Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth workmen into his harvest.

¹ Now after these things the Lord also appointed seventy other men, and sent them by twos before his face into every city and place where he himself was going to come. ² Therefore he said to them, The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the workmen are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth workmen into his harvest.

⁷ And remain in the same house eating and drinking from their things, for the workman is worthy of his wage. Do not depart from house to house.

³⁸ I sent you to reap what ye have not labored. Others have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.

²⁸ Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit placed you guardians, to tend the church of the Lord and God, which he purchased by his own blood.

³⁵ I gave you a glimpse of all things, that so laboring ye ought to aid the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

⁹ For we are co-workmen of God. Ye are a tillage of God, an edifice of God.

²⁸ And in the church God has placed men who are first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace for me did not become empty, but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

¹⁶ that ye also be subject to such men, and to every man working together and laboring.

¹⁸ For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge ye such men.

⁹ Therefore also we aspire, whether at home or away from home, to be well-pleasing to him.

¹ And working jointly, we urge you also not to receive the grace of God in vain

²³ Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.

¹¹ I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have labored toward you in vain.

¹⁶ Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

¹⁹ But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I also may be cheerful when I know the things about you.

²⁹ For which also I labor, striving according to his working, which works in me with power.

⁹ For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good news of God.

¹⁴ And we encourage you, brothers, admonish the unruly, strengthen the weak-spirited, help the infirmed, be patient toward all.

¹ Do not rebuke an elder man, but entreat him as a father, younger men as brothers,

¹⁷ Let the elders who rule well be regarded worthy of double compensation, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching. ¹⁸ For the scripture says thou shall not muzzle an ox that is threshing. And the workman is worthy of his wage.

²⁰ Those who sin, rebuke in the sight of all, so that the others may also have fear.

⁶ The farmer who labors must be the first to partake of the fruits.

³ but in his own times he made known his word by preaching, which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,

⁵ I left thee behind in Crete on account of this: That thou should set in order the things lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded thee,

¹⁵ These things speak and exhort and rebuke with every command. Let no man disregard thee.

⁷ Remember those who lead you, men who spoke the word of God to you, of whom, carefully observing the outcome of their conduct, imitate the faith-

¹⁷ Have confidence in those who lead you, and yield yourselves, for they watch for your souls as men who will render account, so that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this is unprofitable for you.

² Tend ye the flock of God among you, watching over, not by obligation, but willingly, nor greedily, but readily, ³ nor as domineering over the lots, but becoming examples of the flock.

²⁰ The mystery of the seven stars that thou saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are agents of the seven congregations, and the seven lampstands that thou saw are the seven congregations.

³ And thou have perseverance. And thou endured because of my name, and did not become weary.

⁸ And to the agent of the congregation in Smyrna write, These things says the first and the last, who became dead, and lived:

¹² And to the agent of the congregation in Pergamos write, These things says he who has the sharp two-edged sword:

¹⁸ And to the agent of the congregation in Thyatira write, These things says the Son of God, who has his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet resembling highly refined metal:

¹ And to the agent of the congregation in Sardis write, These things says he who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou have a name that thou live, and thou are dead.

⁷ And to the agent of the congregation in Philadelphia write, These things says the Holy, the True, he who has the key of David, who opens, and none will shut it except he who opens, and none will open:

¹⁴ And to the agent of the congregation in Laodicea write, These things says the Truly, the faithful and true witness, the primacy of the creation of God:

²⁴ So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. And he said to them, See that ye not fall out by the way.

¹ Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!

⁴⁰ He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

⁵⁰ The salt material is good, but if the salt material becomes saltless, by what will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace among each other.

³ And having heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to him who asked him that, having come, he would save his bondman. ⁴ And when they came to Jesus they urged him earnestly, saying, He is worthy for whom thou may offer this, ⁵ for he loves our nation, and he himself built the synagogue for us.

³⁴ A new commandment I give to you, that ye should love each other, just as I loved you, so that ye also should love each other. ³⁵ By this all men will know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love among each other.

¹⁷ These things I command you, so that ye may love each other.

¹⁷ (as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations), before him whom he believed, of God who makes the dead alive, and who calls things not existing, as existing. ¹⁸ Who, against hope, believed in hope, in order for him to become father of many nations according to that which was spoken, So thy seed will be. ¹⁹ And not being weak in faith he did not regard his body, which was now deadened (being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

¹ Thus let a man regard us as of helpers of Christ, and managers of mysteries of God. ² And beyond that, it is sought in managers that any man should be found faithful.

⁷ Who ever enlists in an army at his own wage? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from the fruit of it? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock? ⁸ Do I say these things according to man, or does not the law also say these things? ⁹ For it is written in the law of Moses thou shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Is God concerned about oxen, ¹⁰ or does he speak altogether for our sake? For our sake, for it was written, He who plows ought to plow with hope, and he who threshes with his hope, with hope to share. ¹¹ If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we will reap your carnal things?

¹¹ Finally brothers, farewell. Be thoroughly prepared, be encouraged, think the same way, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

¹⁴ And ye did not disdain, nor did ye reject my trial in my flesh, but ye received me as an agent of God, as Christ Jesus.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

⁶ But let him who is taught in the word share in all good things with him who teaches.

³ Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace,

¹⁵ And let the peace of God umpire in your hearts, for which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful. ¹⁶ Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace through everything in every way. The Lord is with all of you.

²² And flee juvenile impulses, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

¹⁴ Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord.

¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace.

³ Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. ⁴ Say to those who are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.

¹ Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, says your God. ² Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her warfare has been completed, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of LORD's hand double for all her sins.

¹¹ He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those who have their young.

⁹ In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the agent of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. And he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

¹² And their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together. For I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, says LORD.

¹⁷ Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. ¹⁸ When I say to a wicked man, Thou shall surely die, and thou give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked man from his wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. ¹⁹ Yet if thou warn the wicked man, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou have delivered thy soul. ²⁰ Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because thou have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered, but I will require his blood at thy hand. ²¹ Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous man not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning, and thou have delivered thy soul.

³ if, when he sees the sword come upon the land, he blows the trumpet, and warns the people, ⁴ then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and takes no warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. ⁵ He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no warning; his blood shall be upon him. Whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul. ⁶ But if the watchman sees the sword come, and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at the watchman's hand. ⁷ So thou, son of man, I have set thee a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. ⁸ When I say to the wicked man, O wicked man, thou shall surely die, and thou do not speak to warn the wicked man from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. ⁹ Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked man of his way to turn from it, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou have delivered thy soul.

¹⁶ I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick, but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.

²⁰ A bruised reed he will not break, and smoldering flax he will not quench, until he sends forth justice for victory.

³² but I prayed for thee, so that thy faith may not fail. And thou, when thou have returned, strengthen thy brothers.

¹⁵ So when they ate breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me more than these things? He says to him, Yea, Lord. Thou know that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs. ¹⁶ He says to him again a second time, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me? He says to him, Yea, Lord. Thou know that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my sheep. ¹⁷ He says to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do thou love me? And he said to him, Lord, thou know all things. Thou know that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

²⁷ For I did not withdraw from declaring to you the whole plan of God.

¹ I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, your reasonable service.

¹ But the man who is weak in the faith, do not receive for arguments of opinions.

¹ Now we the strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the frail, and not to please ourselves. ² Let each of us please his neighbor for what is good toward edification. ³ For Christ also did not please himself, but as it is written, The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell upon me.

¹⁴ I do not write these things shaming you, but I warn you as my beloved children.

⁴ Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up. ⁵ It does not behave improperly, does not seek the things of itself, is not made sharp, does not contemplate evil,

¹ And brothers, if a man is overtaken in some transgression, ye the spiritual, restore such in a spirit of meekness, looking to thyself lest thou also be tempted. ² Bear the burdens of each other, and so fulfill the law of the Christ.

² with all humility and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing each other in love.

³² And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.

²⁸ Whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

¹² Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering, ¹³ forbearing each other, and forgiving yourselves, if any man has a complaint against any, just as also the Christ forgave you, so also ye,

⁷ nevertheless we became gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherishes her own children. ⁸ Thus being desirous of you, we were pleased to impart to you, not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because ye have become beloved to us. ⁹ For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good news of God. ¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and justly and blamelessly we became to you who believe, ¹¹ just as ye know, as each one of you as a father of his own children, imploring you, and comforting, ¹² and solemnly declaring for you to walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

⁶ Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition, which they received from us. ⁷ For ye yourselves know how it is necessary to imitate us. Because we did not act disorderly among you,

¹¹ For we hear of some who walk among you disorderly, not working at all, but being busybodies. ¹² Now to such men we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with quietness, they should eat their own bread. ¹³ But ye, brothers, do not become weary doing good.

³ no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but gentle, noncontentious, no lover of money,

¹¹ But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, meekness.

²⁴ And a bondman of the Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, ²⁵ in meekness correcting those who oppose. Perhaps God may grant them repentance for recognition of the truth,

² preach the word, stand ready in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

⁶ if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not with an accusation of debauchery or insubordinate.

¹⁰ For there are also many insubordinate men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those from circumcision,

² Who can be gentle to those who are ignorant and led astray, since he himself is also encompassed with weakness. ³ And because of this he is obligated, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

¹² Therefore lift up the drooping hands, and the feeble knees,

³ Remember the prisoners as being in bondage together, those who are ill-treated as also yourselves being in the body.

⁴ If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, thou shall surely bring it back to him again. ⁵ If thou see the donkey of him who hates thee lying under his burden, thou shall refrain leaving him. Thou shall surely release it with him.

¹⁸ Thou shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of thy people, but thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. I am LORD.

²⁰ Thou shall follow that which is altogether just, that thou may live, and inherit the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

¹³ As says the proverb of the ancients, Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness, but my hand shall not be upon thee.

⁴ if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me, (yea, I have delivered him without cause who was my adversary),

²⁰ They also who render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow the thing that is good.

¹³ He who rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

²² Say thou not, I will recompense evil. Wait for LORD, and he will save thee.

¹⁷ Rejoice not when thine enemy falls, and let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown,

²⁹ Say not, I will do so to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.

²¹ If thine enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.

³⁹ But I say to you, not to resist what is troublesome, but whoever will strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

⁴⁴ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, ⁴⁵ so that ye may become sons of your Father in the heavens, because he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and makes rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad.

⁹ Love without hypocrisy, abhorring what is evil, clinging to what is good,

¹⁷ rendering to no man evil for evil, premeditating things right in the sight of all men. ¹⁸ If possible from you, keeping peace with all men, ¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath, for it is written, Vengeance is for me, I will repay, says the Lord. ²⁰ Therefore if thine enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him to drink. For by doing this thou will heap coals of fire upon his head. ²¹ Be thou not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good.

⁷ Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

¹ Pursue love, and be zealous for the spiritual things, but more that ye may prophesy.

¹⁰ But if Timothy comes, see that he becomes without fear with you, for he works the work of the Lord, as I also.

¹⁰ So then as we have time, let us work what is good toward all men, and especially toward those belonging to a household of the faith.

¹⁵ Therefore watch carefully how ye walk, not as unwise but as wise,

³³ Nevertheless ye also, each one in particular, shall so love his own wife as himself, and the wife that she fear her husband.

¹² and solemnly declaring for you to walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

²⁴ And a bondman of the Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,

² to slander no man, to be noncontentious, gentle, showing all meekness to all men.

²² men who have purified your souls in obedience of the truth through the Spirit for non-hypocritical brotherly love. Ye should love each other fervently from a pure heart,

¹⁷ Respect all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Respect the king.

²² Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth. ²³ Who, being reviled, did not revile in return. Suffering, he did not threaten, but yielded to him who judges righteously.

⁹ not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but instead giving praise, knowing that ye were called for this, so that ye might inherit a blessing.

¹¹ Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it. ¹² Because the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and his ears to their supplication, but the face of the Lord is against men who do evil things. ¹³ And who is he who will harm you, if ye become imitators of the good?

¹¹ Beloved, do not imitate the evil, but the good. The man doing right is of God. The man doing wrong has not seen God.

¹⁰ And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he says to me, See thou not. I am a fellow bondman of thee and thy brothers, those who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

⁹ And he says to me, See thou not. I am thy fellow bondman, and of thy brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!

¹² Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for so they persecuted the prophets before you.

²⁰ Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are made subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in the heavens.

¹² rejoicing in hope, enduring tribulation, persevering in prayer,

¹⁰ as grieving, but always rejoicing; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice.

¹ And he also spoke a parable to them about it being necessary to always pray, and not to give up,

²¹ And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. LORD gave, and LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of LORD.

¹ I will bless LORD at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

²⁰ expressing thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father,

⁶ Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thankfulness make your requests known to God.

¹⁷ And all things, anything whatever ye may do in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, expressing thanks to the God and Father through him.

³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

¹⁵ Through him therefore, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, fruit of lips acknowledging his name.

¹⁵ Because this way is the will of God, doing good to muzzle the ignorance of the foolish men.

² in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.

¹⁷ And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.

³ And LORD said, My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he also is flesh. Yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

⁴ And Samuel did that which LORD spoke, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Do thou come peaceably?

³⁰ Yet many years thou bore with them, and testified against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore thou gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me.

⁷ Many waters cannot quench love, nor can floods drown it. If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

¹⁰ But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit. Therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

⁵¹ Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also.

³⁰ But if it should be revealed to another man who is seated, let the first be silent.

³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye are sealed for a day of redemption.

¹⁶ Above all having taken up the shield of faith, by which ye will be able to quench all the fiery darts of evil.

¹⁴ Do not neglect the gift in thee, which was given thee by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.

⁶ Because of which reason I remind thee to rekindle the gift of God that is in thee through the laying on of my hands.

²⁵ And LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders. And it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. ²⁶ But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad. And the spirit rested upon them. And they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the tent. And they prophesied in the camp. ²⁷ And a young man ran, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. ²⁸ And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. ²⁹ And Moses said to him, Are thou jealous for my sake? Would that all of LORD's people were prophets, that LORD would put his spirit upon them!

⁵ After that thou shall come to the hill of God where is the garrison of the Philistines. And it shall come to pass, when thou have come there to the city, that thou shall meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp, before them, and they will be prophesying. ⁶ And the Spirit of LORD will come mightily upon thee, and thou shall prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man.

¹⁰ And when they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him. And the Spirit of God came mightily upon him, and he prophesied among them. ¹¹ And it came to pass, when all who knew him formerly saw, that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that has come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets? ¹² And a man from the same place answered and said, And who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets? ¹³ And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.

²⁰ And Saul sent messengers to take David. And when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. ²¹ And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. ²² Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu. And he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah. ²³ And he went there to Naioth in Ramah, and the Spirit of God came upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah. ²⁴ And he also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

⁶ And Paul having laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues, and prophesied.

⁴ Every man praying or prophesying having something upon his head dishonors his head.

¹⁰ and to another, workings of miracles, and to another, prophecy, and to another, discerning of spirits, and to a different man, kinds of tongues, and to another, the interpretation of tongues.

² And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

⁹ But we know in part, and we prophesy in part,

³ But he who prophesies speaks to men edification and encouragement and comfort. ⁴ He who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but he who prophesies builds up the congregation. ⁵ Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but more that ye may prophesy. For greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the congregation may receive edification. ⁶ But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I benefit you, unless I would speak to you either in a revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in doctrine?

²² Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving. But prophesying is not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe. ²³ If therefore the whole congregation comes together in the same place, and all speak in tongues, and unlearned or unbelieving men come in, will they not say that ye are mad? ²⁴ But if all prophesy, and some unbelieving or unlearned man comes in, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all. ²⁵ And so the secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so having fallen down on his face he will worship God, declaring that God is really among you.

²⁹ And let two or three prophets speak, and let the other men pass judgment. ³⁰ But if it should be revealed to another man who is seated, let the first be silent. ³¹ For ye can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn, and all may be encouraged. ³² And the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets,

³⁷ If any man presumes to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge what I write to you, that they are commandments of the Lord. ³⁸ But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant. ³⁹ Therefore brothers, be zealous for prophesying, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.

¹¹ And indeed he gave the apostles, and the prophets, and the evangelists, and the shepherds and teachers ¹² for the perfecting of the sanctified, for the work of ministry, for edification of the body of the Christ.

⁸ Therefore he who disregards, disregards not man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you.

³ And I will give to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days clothed in sackcloth. ⁴ These men are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, having stood before the Lord of the earth. ⁵ And if any man wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and devours their enemies. And if any man wants to harm them, he must be killed this way. ⁶ These men have authority to shut the sky, so that it may not rain the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they may desire. ⁷ And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the abyss will make war with them, and he will overcome them and kill them. ⁸ And their corpses are in the thoroughfare of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. ⁹ And out of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations they see their corpses three and a half days. And they will not allow their corpses to be put in a sepulcher. ¹⁰ And those who dwell upon the earth rejoice over them, and will celebrate, and will give gifts to each other, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. ¹¹ And after the three and a half days a spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those who watched them.

⁶ and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel, ⁷ but your eyes have seen all the great work of LORD which he did. ⁸ Therefore ye shall keep all the commandment which I command thee this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where ye go over to possess it, ⁹ and that ye may prolong your days in the land, which LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁴⁶ And he said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which ye shall command your sons to observe to do, even all the words of this law. ⁴⁷ For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land where ye go over the Jordan to possess it.

¹ My son, do not forget my law, but let thy heart keep my commandments.

²¹ My son, let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion, ²² so they shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck. ²³ Then thou shall walk in thy way securely, and thy foot shall not stumble. ²⁴ When thou lie down, thou shall not be afraid. Yea, thou shall lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

¹³ Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is thy life.

²¹ Bind them continually upon thy heart. Tie them about thy neck. ²² When thou walk, it shall lead thee. When thou sleep, it shall watch over thee. And when thou awake, it shall talk with thee. ²³ For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

²³ Buy the truth, and do not sell it, yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

⁴ It was but a little that I passed from them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

²⁰ Seek to the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

¹⁵ But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are predatory wolves. ¹⁶ From their fruits ye will know them. Do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ Likewise every good tree produces good fruits, but the corrupt tree produces bad fruits. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot produce bad fruits, nor a corrupt tree produce good fruits. ¹⁹ Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire. ²⁰ So then from their fruits ye will know them.

¹⁴ And having summoned all the people, he said to them, Hear me all of you, and understand. ¹⁵ There is nothing outside the man, entering into him that can defile him, but the things coming out of him those are the things that defile the man.

⁵⁷ And also why do ye not judge yourselves what is right?

³¹ Jesus therefore said to those Jews who believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples,

⁴ Dwell in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it dwells in the grapevine, so neither ye, if ye do not dwell in me.

²³ who, having arrived, and having seen the grace of God, rejoiced. And he encouraged all, with purpose of heart, to remain in the Lord.

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that it was necessary for us to enter into the kingdom of God through many tribulations.

¹¹ But these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, examining the scriptures daily, if it has these things this way.

² And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind, for ye to approve what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

¹¹ For what man knows the things of the man, except the spirit of the man in him? And so nobody knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

¹⁴ Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually. ¹⁵ But truly the spiritual man evaluates all things, but he himself is evaluated by none.

²⁸ But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in an assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God. ²⁹ And let two or three prophets speak, and let the other men pass judgment.

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brothers, become ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not empty in the Lord.

¹⁰ proving what is acceptable to the Lord.

¹⁰ for you to examine the things that are significant. So that ye may be tested by sunlight and not stumbling toward the day of Christ,

¹⁶ However in what we have attained, to march by the same standard, to think the same way.

⁸ Finally brothers, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are commendable, if anything is a virtue, and if anything is praiseworthy, think on these things.

¹⁵ So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that ye were taught, whether by word or by letter from us.

¹⁵ This thou know, that all those in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

⁶ for from these are those who creep into houses, and take captive petty women laden with sins, being led away by various impulses,

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith did many evil things to me. May the Lord repay him according to his works,

²³ Let us hold firm the affirmation of the hope unwavering, for he who promised is faithful.

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but examine the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

² I know thy works, and thy toil, and thy perseverance, and that thou cannot tolerate evil, and thou examined those who say themselves to be apostles, and are not, and found them false.

²⁵ But hold firm what ye have until I come.

¹¹ I come quickly, hold firm what thou have, so that none may take thy crown.

⁷ Keep thee far from a false matter. And do not kill an innocent and righteous man, for I will not justify a wicked man.

¹⁵ He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly. He who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes away his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil.

²⁶ And Peter says to him, From strangers. Jesus said to him, Therefore the sons are free. ²⁷ But, so that we might not offend them, after going to the sea, cast a hook. And take up the first fish coming up, and having opened its mouth, thou will find a four-drachma coin. After taking that, give thou to them for me and thee.

¹⁷ rendering to no man evil for evil, premeditating things right in the sight of all men.

¹³ Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will no, not eat meat into the age, so that I may not cause my brother to stumble.

³¹ Therefore whether ye eat, or drink, or anything ye do, do all to the glory of God. ³² Become ye inoffensive both to Jews and to Greeks, and to the church of God, ³³ just as I also strive to please in all things for all men, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, so that they may be saved.

³ giving not one cause of stumbling in anything, so that the ministry may not be criticized,

²⁰ Arranging this lest any man may criticize us in this bounty administered by us, ²¹ providing things right, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

¹² so that ye may walk properly toward those outside, and may have nothing lacking.

²³ And in fear save some, snatching them out of the fire, hating even the garment that was stained by the flesh.

⁸ And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am LORD who sanctifies you.

²⁶ And ye shall be holy to me, for I, LORD, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.

²⁸ And the nations shall know that I am LORD, who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

⁴⁶ And Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord,

¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they may also themselves be sanctified in truth.

³² And now brothers, I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.

⁵ Now may the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to think the same way among each other, in accord with Christ Jesus,

¹³ Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for ye to abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

³³ And the God of peace is with you all. Truly.

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

² to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, to called men, to holy men who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus with all in every place who call upon the name of our the Lord Jesus Christ-both ours and theirs.

⁸ who will also confirm you until the end, irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ God is faithful through whom ye were called for the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

³³ for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace.

¹⁹ How that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

²⁶ so that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished.

⁶ Being confident of this same thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ so that ye may become blameless and pure children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. ¹⁶ Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

⁹ And what ye learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.

²² in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblemished and unblameable before him.

¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown of boast? Or is it not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

¹³ in order to establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his sanctified.

¹¹ For both he who sanctifies and those being sanctified are all of one, because of which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

¹² For the word of God is living, and potent, and sharper, above every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division both of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and discernible of the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep by the blood of an eternal covenant-our Lord Jesus-

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

¹⁰ And may the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus (after suffering a little while) himself thoroughly prepare you. He will establish, strengthen, and provide a foundation.

¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, anticipating these things, be diligent to be found by him in peace, without spot and blameless.

¹ Jude, a bondman of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called, sanctified in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep them non-stumbling, and to present before his glory, unblemished in gladness,

¹⁹ God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

⁹ Know therefore that LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

³¹ For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion those who shall escape. The zeal of LORD shall perform this.

⁵ Thy loving kindness, O LORD, is in the heavens, thy faithfulness to the skies.

¹⁰ I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart. I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy loving kindness and thy truth from the great assembly.

¹⁵ But thou, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

² For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness thou will establish in the very heavens.

² to show forth thy loving kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,

⁵ For LORD is good. His loving kindness is forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

² I will worship toward thy holy temple, and give thanks to thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth. For thou have magnified thy word above all thy name.

⁶ who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps truth forever,

⁷ Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of LORD of hosts will perform this.

²⁴ LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand, ²⁵ that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot upon my mountains. Then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder. ²⁶ This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

¹ O LORD, thou are my God. I will exalt thee. I will praise thy name. For thou have done wonderful things, even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth.

³² For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion those who shall escape. The zeal of LORD of hosts will perform this.

²³ They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness.

²⁰ Thou will perform the truth to Jacob, and the loving kindness to Abraham, which thou have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

³⁵ The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away.

¹⁷ Because the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ.

³³ He who has received his testimony has set a seal that God is true.

³⁰ And whom he predestined, these he also called, and whom he called, these he also made righteous, and whom he made righteous, these he also glorified.

²⁴ namely us whom he called, not only from Jews but also from Gentiles.

⁹ God is faithful through whom ye were called for the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹³ No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure.

¹⁵ But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's belly, and called me through his grace,

¹⁴ for which he called you, through our good news, for an acquired possession of glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

³ But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and will keep you from evil.

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

¹³ If we are unfaithful, that man remains faithful. He cannot renounce himself.

² in hope of eternal life, which the non-lying God promised before times eternal,

¹⁷ By which God, wanting to demonstrate more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutableness of his resolve, confirmed it by an oath. ¹⁸ So that by two immutable events, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, having fled for refuge to seize the hope being openly displayed.

³ as all things of his divine power to us, things toward life and piety, which were granted through the knowledge of him who called us through glory and virtue.

¹⁴ These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings. And those with him are the called and chosen and faithful.

³⁰ Now I beseech you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive with me in prayers to God for me.

¹¹ And of you who help together by supplication for us (a gift for us from many persons, because of many), so that there may be gratitude about you.

¹⁸ praying through every prayer and entreaty at every time in spirit, and being alert in this same thing in all perseverance and entreaty for all the sanctified, ¹⁹ and for me, so that utterance may be given to me in boldness in opening my mouth to make known the mystery of the good news, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in bondage, so that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

¹⁹ For I know that this will turn out to me for salvation (through your entreaty, and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ)

³ Praying simultaneously about us also, so that God may open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of the Christ, because of which I have also been bound,

¹ Finally, brothers, pray about us, so that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, just as also with you, ² and that we may be delivered from aberrant and wicked men, for the faith is not of all men. ³ But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and will keep you from evil.

²² But simultaneously also prepare a lodging for me, for I hope that by your prayers I will be granted to you.

¹⁸ Pray about us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, desiring to behave well in all things. ¹⁹ But I urge you to do this even more, so that I may be restored to you sooner.

¹⁶ Salute each other by a holy kiss. The congregations of Christ salute you.

²⁰ All the brothers salute you. Salute each other by a holy kiss.

²³ And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as LORD spoke by Moses.

¹⁶ And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of LORD?

¹⁵ And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of LORD?

⁶³ But Jesus was silent. And having responded, the high priest said to him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou are the Christ, the Son of God.

⁷ And having cried out in a great voice, he said, What is with me and with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, do not torment me.

¹³ But some of the wandering Jewish exorcists, attempted to name the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had the evil spirits, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul proclaims.

¹⁶ And when the letter has been read among you, cause that it be read also in the congregation of Laodiceans, and that ye also read the one from Laodicea.

¹¹ just as ye know, as each one of you as a father of his own children, imploring you, and comforting,

¹⁴ And if any man does not obey our word by this letter, note that man, and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

³ As I urged thee, while going to Macedonia, remain in Ephesus, so that thou might command certain men not to teach something different,

¹⁸ This command I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the prophecies leading the way for thee, so that by them thou might war the good warfare.

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

²¹ I solemnly testify before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen agents, that thou keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing from partiality.

¹³ I command thee in the sight of God, who makes all live, and of Christ Jesus, who testified to Pontius Pilate the good confession,

¹⁷ Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment,

¹ I solemnly testify therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is going to judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom,

¹ Because of which, holy brothers, companions of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our affirmation, Jesus Christ,

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

²³ Gaius my host, and of the whole congregation, salutes you. Erastus, the manager of the city, salutes you, and Quartus the brother.

¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with all of you. Truly.