Galatians Cross References - ACV

¹ Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead), ² and all the brothers with me, to the congregations of Galatia: ³ Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ ⁴ who gave himself for our sins, so that he might rescue us, according to the will of our God and Father, out of the evil age that has come, ⁵ to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly. ⁶ I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him who called you in the grace of Christ to another good news, ⁷ which is not another, except there are some who confuse you, and who want to pervert the good news of the Christ. ⁸ But even if we, or an agent from heaven, should preach a good news to you contrary to what we preached to you, let him be accursed. ⁹ As we have said before, I now also say again, if any man preaches a good news to you contrary to what ye received, let him be accursed. ¹⁰ For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ. ¹¹ For I make known to you, brothers, the good news that was preached by me, that it is not according to man. ¹² For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it was through revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹³ For ye heard of my former behavior in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God to extraordinariness, and ravaged it. ¹⁴ And I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my race, being a more extreme zealot of my paternal traditions. ¹⁵ But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's belly, and called me through his grace, ¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not straightaway confer with flesh and blood, ¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again to Damascus. ¹⁸ Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit with Peter, and I remained with him fifteen days. ¹⁹ But I did not see another of the apostles except James the Lord's brother. ²⁰ Now what I write to you, behold before God, I do not lie. ²¹ Later I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ²² And I was unknown by face to the congregations of Judea in Christ, ²³ but they were only hearing that the man who once persecuted us now preaches the good news, the faith that he once ravaged. ²⁴ And they glorified God in me.

¹⁸ And Jesus having come, he spoke to them, saying, All authority in heaven and on earth was given to me. ¹⁹ After going, make ye disciples of all the nations, immersing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, as many as I commanded you. And lo, I am with you all the days, until the end of the age. Truly.

¹⁹ Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever he may do, the Son also does these things in like manner.

³⁰ I and the Father are one.

²¹ Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace to you. As the Father has sent me, I also send you.

¹⁶ Men, brothers, it was necessary for this scripture to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David about Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus, ¹⁷ because he was numbered with us, and received a share of this ministry. ¹⁸ (Indeed therefore this man obtained a field from the reward of his unrighteousness, and having become headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. ¹⁹ And it became known to all those dwelling at Jerusalem, so as to call that field in their own dialect, Akeldama, that is, The field of blood.) 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. ²¹ It is necessary therefore, of the men who accompanied us during all the time during which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us, ²² having begun from the immersion of John to the day that he was taken up from us, for one of these to become a witness with us of his resurrection. ²³ And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. ²⁴ And having prayed, they said, Thou, Lord, knowing the hearts of all men, show which one of these two thou have chosen ²⁵ to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas transgressed to go to his own place. ²⁶ And they gave their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

²⁴ whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. ²⁵ For David speaks for him: I beheld the Lord always before me, because he is at my right hand, so that I may not be moved. ²⁶ Because of this my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad. And moreover my flesh will also rest in hope. ²⁷ Because thou will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will thou give thy Holy man to see decay. ²⁸ Thou made known to me the paths of life. Thou will fill me of joy with thy countenance. ²⁹ Men, brothers, being permitted to speak to you with openness about the patriarch David, that he both perished and was buried, and his sepulcher is with us to this day. ³⁰ Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, to raise the Christ from the fruit of his loins according to flesh to sit upon his throne. ³¹ Having foreseen this, he spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul was not left behind in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay. ³² This Jesus, God raised up, of which we are all witnesses.

¹⁵ And ye killed the Pathfinder of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

⁶ But arise, and enter into the city, and it will be told thee what thou must do.

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, Go, because this man is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before Gentiles and kings, and sons of Israel. ¹⁶ For I will give him a glimpse of how many things it is necessary for him to suffer for my name.

² And while they were serving the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate to me now Barnabas and Saul for the work that I have called them. ³ Then, having fasted and prayed and laid hands on them, they sent them away. ⁴ Indeed therefore these men, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed for Cyprus.

¹⁰ And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, After rising, go into Damascus, and there it will be told thee about all things that have been assigned for thee to do.

¹⁴ And he said, The God of our fathers appointed thee to know his will, and to see the Righteous Man, and to hear a voice from his mouth, ¹⁵ because thou will be a witness for him to all men of the things that thou have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now what is it going to be? Having arisen, immerse and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord. ¹⁷ And it came to pass, my having returned to Jerusalem and while I prayed in the temple, for me to became in a trance. ¹⁸ And I saw him saying to me, Hurry and depart in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not accept thy testimony about me. ¹⁹ And I said, Lord, they know that I was imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those who believe in thee. ²⁰ And when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I myself also was standing by, and approving his killing, and keeping the garments of those who killed him. ²¹ And he said to me, Depart, because I will send thee far away to Gentiles.

¹⁶ But arise, and stand upon thy feet, for I appeared to thee for this, to appoint thee an assistant and a witness both of things that thou saw, and of the things that I will make visible to thee, ¹⁷ delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send thee, 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.

¹ Paul, a bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle having been separated for the good news of God

⁴ He who was designated Son of God in power, according to a spirit of holiness, from a resurrection of the dead-Jesus Christ our Lord- ⁵ through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations on behalf of his name,

²⁴ but also because of us to whom it is going to be imputed, to those who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, ²⁵ who was delivered up for our offenses, and was raised up for our justification.

⁹ that if thou will confess with thy mouth, the Lord Jesus, and will believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou will be saved.

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.

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

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, with all the sanctified who are in the whole of Achaia.

¹ Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Unless we need, as some men, commendatory letters to you or commendatory from you? ² Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men, ³ being seen that ye are a letter of Christ, administered by us, written not in ink, but in the Spirit of the living God, not in stony tablets, but in fleshly tablets, in hearts.

¹¹ For I make known to you, brothers, the good news that was preached by me, that it is not according to man. ¹² For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it was through revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again to Damascus.

¹⁹ and what is the transcending greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his might, ²⁰ which he wrought in the Christ, having raised him from the dead and seated at his right hand in the heavenly things,

⁸ To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ,

¹¹ according to the good news of the glory of the blessed God, of which I was entrusted. ¹² And I have gratitude to the Christ-Jesus our Lord-who empowered me, because he considered me faithful, having placed in service 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. ¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord was filled to overflowing with the faith and love in Christ Jesus.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life in Christ Jesus,

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,

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-

²¹ men who, because of him, believe in God who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, in order for your faith and hope to be in God;

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and washed us from our sins by his blood

¹⁸ and he who lives. And I became dead, and behold, I am living into the ages of the ages. Truly. And I have the keys of death and of Hades.

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

³¹ Indeed therefore the congregations throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified. And, going in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

⁴¹ And he passed through Syria and Cilicia, encouraging the congregations.

⁵ Indeed therefore the congregations were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily. ⁶ But having passed through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,

²³ And after spending some time, he departed, passing through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, successively, strengthening all the disciples.

¹ Now concerning the collection for the sanctified, as I arranged for the congregations of Galatia, so also do ye.

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

²¹ Salute every sanctified man in Christ Jesus. The brothers with me salute you.

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. ⁸ First, I indeed express thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world. ⁹ For God is my witness whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers, ¹⁰ pleading, if somehow now at last I will have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you. ¹¹ For I long to see you, so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, in order to establish you, ¹² and that is, to be mutually encouraged among you through each other's faith, both yours and mine. ¹³ But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit also among you, even as among the other Gentiles. ¹⁴ I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. ¹⁵ So the willingness is in me to preach the good news also to you in Rome.

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

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

¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, is with all of you. Truly.

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

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

² to the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ Grace, mercy, peace will be with us from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

⁸ I delight to do thy will, O my God. Yea, thy law is within my heart.

¹⁷ For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

⁹ Pray ye therefore this way: Our Father in the heavens, hallowed be thy name.

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

²⁸ for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed on behalf of many for remission of sins.

⁴² Having gone again a second time, he prayed, saying, My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to pass from me, except I drink it, may thy will happen.

⁴⁵ For the Son of man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

¹⁹ And after taking bread, having expressed thanks, he broke in pieces, and gave to them, saying, This is my body that is given for you. Do ye this in my memory.

⁴² saying, Father, if thou want, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless not my will, but thine be done.

³⁰ I can from myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge. And my judgment is righteous because I seek not my will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

³⁸ Because I have come down from heaven, not so that I might do my will, but the will of him who sent me.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his 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. ¹⁸ No man takes it from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.

³¹ Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

³⁰ I will no longer speak many things with you, for the ruler of the world comes. And he has nothing on me, ³¹ but that the world may know that I love the Father. And as the Father commanded me, thus I do. Arise, let us go from here.

¹⁸ If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you. ¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love its own, but because ye are not of the world (instead I chose you out of the world), because of this the world hates you.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I pray not that thou should take them out of the world, but that thou should keep them from the evil.

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.

²⁵ who was delivered up for our offenses, and was raised up for our justification.

³ For the impotence of the law, in that it was weak because of the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in a form of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,

²⁷ And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mentality of the Spirit, because he appeals to God for the sanctified.

³² He who did not even spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?

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.

⁴ in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And what I now live in flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

¹⁴ But may it not be from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly things in Christ.

¹¹ in him in whom also we obtained an inheritance. Having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the deliberation of his will,

² in which ye once walked according to the era of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience.

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.

¹² Because our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principal offices, against the positions of authority, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual things of wickedness in the heavenly things.

²⁰ Now to our God and Father is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

¹¹ Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

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.

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,

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.

⁵ For he did not subject the coming world to agents, about which we speak.

⁵ and who tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age,

¹⁴ how much more the blood of Christ, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself unblemished to God, will cleanse your conscience from dead works in order to serve a living God?

⁴ For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. ⁵ Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, but thou prepared for me a body. ⁶ In whole burnt offerings, and for sin thou were not pleased. ⁷ Then I said, Lo, I come (in the volume of a book it is written about me) to do thy will, O God, ⁸ saying above, Sacrifice and offering and whole burnt offerings and for sin thou did not desire, nor were thou pleased with things that are offered according to the law. ⁹ Then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the first, so that he may establish the second. ¹⁰ By which will we are sanctified through the one time offering of the body of Jesus Christ.

⁴ Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

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,

² And he is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. ¹⁷ And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.

¹⁶ By this we know love, because that man laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

⁴ Because everything that has been begotten from God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. ⁵ And who is he who overcomes the world, if not he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹⁹ We know that we are of God, and the whole world is set in the evil. ²⁰ And we know that the Son of God comes, and has given us understanding, so that we may know the true. And we are in the true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and the eternal life.

⁹ And they sing a new song, saying, Thou are worthy to take the book and to open the seals of it, because thou were killed and purchased us from God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.

⁹ After these things, I looked and lo, a great multitude, which none could number, out of every nation, and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palms in their hands,

¹³ Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.

¹³ Blessed be LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. Truly, and Truly.

¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious name forever. And let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Truly, and Truly.

¹⁵ Therefore glorify ye LORD in the east, even the name of LORD, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.

¹² Let them give glory to LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.

¹³ And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, because from thee is the kingdom and the power and the glory into the ages. Truly.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, as many as I commanded you. And lo, I am with you all the days, until the end of the age. Truly.

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

³⁶ Because from him, and through him, and for him, are all things. To him is the glory into the ages. Truly.

²⁷ to the only wise God through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory into the ages. Truly.

¹² for us to be for appreciation of his glory, men who have first hoped in the Christ.

¹⁷ Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, alone wise, to God is honor and glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

¹⁸ And the Lord will rescue me from every evil work, and will save me for his heavenly kingdom, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

²¹ may he make you fully qualified in every good work in order to do his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

¹¹ To him is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him is the glory both now and into the day of the age. Truly.

²⁵ to the only wise God our Savior, is glory, majesty, dominion and power, both now and into all the ages. Truly.

⁹ And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne, he who lives into the ages of the ages, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders would fall down before him who sits on the throne, and would worship him who lives into the ages of the ages, and would cast their crowns before the throne, saying, ¹¹ Thou are worthy, our Lord and God, the Holy, to take the glory and the honor and the power, because thou created all things, and because by thy will they are, and were created.

¹² saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that has been killed to receive the power, and wealth, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing!

¹² saying, Truly! Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and strength, is for our God into the ages of the ages. Truly!

⁷ saying in a great voice, Fear God, and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. And worship him who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and springs of waters.

¹³ They soon forgot his works. They did not wait for his counsel,

¹³ And the Lord said, Inasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, but in vain they worship me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.

¹² Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be ye very desolate, says LORD. ¹³ For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

⁶ And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went around the villages teaching.

³⁰ The man answered and said to them, For in this it is amazing, that ye know not where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes.

¹¹ But through the grace of the Lord Jesus, we believe to be saved, in the same way as those men also.

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 For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.

¹⁵ For though ye have countless instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the good news.

⁴ For indeed if a man who comes, preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or ye receive another spirit that ye did not receive, or another good news that ye did not accept, ye well tolerated it.

¹ O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was earlier described among you, crucified? ² I only want to learn this from you. Did ye receive the Spirit from works of law, or from a listening ear of faith? ³ Are ye so foolish, having begun in Spirit, are ye now made perfect by flesh? ⁴ Did ye suffer so many things in vain? If it is indeed in vain. ⁵ He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and who works miracles among you, is it from works of law or from a listening ear of faith?

⁹ but now knowing God, but rather being known by God, how is it ye turn again to the weak and destitute elements to which ye desire again to be in bondage anew? ¹⁰ Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. ¹¹ I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have labored toward you in vain. ¹² I beseech you, brothers, become like me, because I also am like ye. Ye wronged me in nothing. ¹³ But ye know that through a weakness of the flesh I preached the good news to you the first time. 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. ¹⁵ Where then is your satisfaction? For I testify to you, that if possible, having plucked your eyes out, ye would have given them to me.

⁴ Ye were discharged from the Christ, ye who are made righteous by law. Ye have fallen from grace.

⁷ Ye were running well. Who hindered you, not to obey the truth? ⁸ This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

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

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

¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord was filled to overflowing with the faith and love in Christ Jesus.

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.

¹ Thou therefore, my child, be strong in the grace in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ but according to the Holy Man, he who called you, ye yourselves also become holy in all conduct,

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.

²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus is with all the sanctified. Truly.

²⁶ How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

²⁴ For there will arise false Christs and false prophets, and they will give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen.

¹⁰ said, O man full of all deceit and all recklessness, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, will thou not cease distorting the straight ways of the Lord?

¹ And certain men, who came down from Judea, taught the brothers, Unless ye will be circumcised in the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved. ² Therefore, no small dissension and debate having developed with Paul and Barnabas against them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some other men from them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this issue. ³ Indeed therefore, having been helped for the trip by the congregation, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the conversion of the Gentiles. And they caused great joy to all the brothers. ⁴ And after arriving in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders. And they reported as many things as God did with them. ⁵ But some of the men who believed from the sect of the Pharisees rose up, saying, It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

²⁴ Since we have heard that certain men who went out from us have troubled you with words, disturbing your souls, saying to be circumcised, and to keep the law, to whom we did not command,

³⁰ And from you yourselves men will rise up, speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

¹⁷ Now I beseech you, brothers, watch out for those who make the divisions and the stumbling blocks, contrary to the doctrine that ye learned, and turn away from them. ¹⁸ For such kind serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their smooth words and elegant speech they deceive the hearts of the naive.

¹⁷ For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.

² But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

¹³ For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves into apostles of Christ.

⁴ But that issue was because of those false brothers smuggled in, who sneaked in to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us,

¹⁷ They are zealous for you but not honorably. They want to exclude you, so that ye may be zealous for them.

¹⁰ I have confidence toward you in the Lord, that ye will think no other thing. But the man who troubles you will bear the verdict, whoever he may be.

¹² O that those who trouble you would even cut it all off.

¹² As many as desire to make a good impression in flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of the Christ. ¹³ For not even those who have been circumcised themselves keep law, but they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast in thy flesh.

¹⁷ Finally, let no man cause troubles for me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

¹ But the Spirit says expressly that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, ² speaking lies in hypocrisy, their own conscience having been seared with a hot iron, ³ forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth.

¹⁸ men who missed the mark about the truth, saying the resurrection happened already, and they overthrow the faith of some.

⁸ And by which way Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also do these oppose the truth. Men corrupted in mind, worthless about the faith. ⁹ But they will not advance in much more, for their folly will be evident to all men, as also that of those men came to be.

³ For there will be time when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but they will accumulate teachers to themselves according to their own desires, who tickle the ear, ⁴ and will indeed turn the ear away from the truth, and will be turned aside to myths.

¹⁰ For there are also many insubordinate men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those from circumcision, ¹¹ who must be muzzled, men who subvert whole houses, teaching things that they ought not, for sake of ugly profit.

¹ But false prophets also developed among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will sneak in pernicious denominations, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow their wantonness, because of whom the way of the truth will be blasphemed. ³ And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.

¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour. And as ye heard that the antichrist comes, and now many antichrists have developed, from which we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have continued with us, but-so that they might be made known, that they are not all of us.

²⁶ I wrote these things to you concerning those who lead you astray.

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.

⁷ Because many deceivers have gone forth into the world, those not acknowledging Jesus Christ coming in flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

¹⁰ If any man comes to you, and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into a house, and do not speak to him to rejoice.

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.

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.

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

¹⁴ But I have a few things against thee, because thou have there men who adhere to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the sons of Israel, even to eat idol sacrifices, and to fornicate. ¹⁵ So also thou have men who likewise adhere to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

²⁰ Nevertheless, I have against thee that thou tolerate thy woman Jezebel. She calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and leads astray my bondmen to fornicate, and to eat idol sacrifices.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, called the Devil and Satan, he who leads the whole world astray. He was cast out to the earth, and his agents were cast out with him.

¹⁴ And it leads my kind astray (those dwelling on the earth) because of the signs that were given it to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast that had the sword-wound and lived.

²⁰ And the beast was taken, and the false prophet with it who did the signs in its sight by which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast and those who worship its image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone.

³ And he cast him into the abyss, and locked and sealed over him, so that he would no longer lead the nations astray until the thousand years were ended. After these things he must be loosed for a little time.

²⁵ And he said, Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a servant of servants to his brothers.

¹⁵ Cursed be the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. And all the people shall answer and say, Truly. ¹⁶ Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Truly. ¹⁷ Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Truly. ¹⁸ Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Truly. ¹⁹ Cursed be he who distorts the justice to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²⁰ Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²¹ Cursed be he who lies with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²² Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²³ Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²⁴ Cursed be he who smites his neighbor in secret. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²⁵ Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent man. And all the people shall say, Truly. ²⁶ Cursed is every man who does not continue in all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Truly.

²³ Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall never fail to be bondmen of you, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

¹⁹ Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be LORD who has stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering, but if it be the sons of men, cursed be they before LORD. For they have driven me out this day that I should not cling to the inheritance of LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.

²⁵ And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

⁴¹ Then he will also say to those at the left hand, Depart from me, ye accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his agents.

⁷¹ But he began to curse and to swear, I do not know this man of whom ye speak.

¹⁴ who, having come near to the chief priests and the elders, said, We have put ourselves under a curse, a curse to taste of nothing until we would kill Paul.

³ For I wished I myself to be accursed from the Christ, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh,

³ Therefore I make known to you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed, and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.

²² If any man does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Maranatha.

¹³ For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no marvel, for even Satan disguises himself into an agent of light.

⁹ As we have said before, I now also say again, if any man preaches a good news to you contrary to what ye received, let him be accursed.

¹⁰ For as many as are from works of law are under a curse, for it is written, Cursed is every man who does not continue in all things written in the book of the law, to do them.

¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is every man who hangs on a tree.

¹⁹ Holding faith and a good conscience, which some, having put away, made shipwreck about the faith, ²⁰ of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, so that they may be disciplined not to blaspheme.

¹⁰ Shun a factious man after a first and second admonition,

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse,

¹⁸ I testify to every man who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man should add to them, God will add to him the seven plagues that are written in this book. ¹⁹ And if any man takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life, and from the holy city, the things written in this book.

² Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of LORD your God which I command you.

³² Whatever thing I command you, that shall ye observe to do. Thou shall not add to it, nor diminish from it.

⁶ Add thou not to his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

¹⁷ Now I beseech you, brothers, watch out for those who make the divisions and the stumbling blocks, contrary to the doctrine that ye learned, and turn away from them.

¹⁷ Therefore intending this, did I accordingly employ anything in lightness? Or what I decide, do I decide according to flesh, so that it would be with me the yes, yes and the no, no?

¹ This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two witnesses or three every saying will be confirmed. ² I have told you before, and I say in advance, as present the second time, and now absent, I write to those who have previously sinned, and to all the others, that if I come to it again, I will not spare,

¹ Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is really not irksome to me, but safe for you.

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

⁷ Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the foremost of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

¹⁶ And they send out their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou are true, and teach the way of God in truth, and it is not a concern to thee about a man, for thou look not to the personage of men.

¹⁴ And if this should be heard by the governor, we will persuade him, and will make you worry free.

¹⁹ But Peter and John having replied to them, they said, Whether it is right in the sight of God to hearken to you rather than God, judge ye. ²⁰ For we are not able not to speak what we saw and heard.

²⁹ And Peter and the apostles having answered, they said, We must obey God rather than men.

²⁰ Now Herod was angry at the Tyrians and Sidonians. But they came with one accord to him, and, having persuaded Blastus the man over the king's bedchamber, they requested peace, because their country was sustained from the monarchy.

⁸ but to those of self-interest, and who indeed disobey the truth but have confidence in unrighteousness-anger and wrath,

²⁹ but he is a Jew in what is hidden, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit not a document, whose praise is not from men but from God.

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.

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.

⁹ Therefore also we aspire, whether at home or away from home, to be well-pleasing to him. ¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of the Christ, so that each man may receive back about the things that he did through the body, whether good or bad. ¹¹ Having seen therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. But we have been manifested to God, and I hope also to have been manifested in your consciences.

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.

⁶ Not according to eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

²² Bondmen, obey in all things those masters according to flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

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

⁹ Every man who has been begotten of God is not doing sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.

¹⁶ in a day when God judges the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my good news.

⁹ But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him. ¹⁰ But God disclosed it to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

²³ For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

¹ And, brothers, I make known to you the good news that I preached to you, which also ye received, and in which ye stand, ² by which also ye are saved if ye hold firm that word I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain. ³ For I delivered to you at first what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

¹ Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead),

³ that according to revelation he made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief. ⁴ With which reading ye can recognize my understanding in the mystery of the Christ, ⁵ which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets. ⁶ For Gentiles to be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and fellow partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good news. ⁷ Of which I became a helper according to the gift of that grace of God, which was given to me according to the working of his power. ⁸ To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ,

¹⁰ But God disclosed it to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

¹ (Really, to me boasting is not helpful.) For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not straightaway confer with flesh and blood,

¹ And Saul was approving the killing of him. And on that day there developed a great persecution against the church at Jerusalem. And they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

³ But Saul was ravaging the church, entering from house to house. Dragging both men and women, he gave them over to prison.

¹ But Saul, still breathing threat and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, after going to the high priest, ² he requested letters from him for Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

¹³ But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many evil things he did to thy sanctified at Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call upon thy name.

²¹ And all those who heard were amazed, and said, Is this not the man who destroyed those in Jerusalem who call on this name? And he has come here for this, so that he might bring them bound to the chief priests.

²⁶ And when Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he attempted to join with the disciples, and they all feared him, not believing that he is a disciple.

³ I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but reared in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, reared accurately in the paternal law, being a zealot of God, as ye all are today. ⁴ And I persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. ⁵ As also the high priest testifies about me, and all the senior council, from whom also having received letters to the brothers in Damascus, I was going to bring bound even those who were there to Jerusalem so that they might be punished.

⁴ Indeed therefore, my manner of life from youth, having developed from the beginning among my nation at Jerusalem, all the Jews know, ⁵ having known me previously from the beginning, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

⁹ Indeed therefore I thought it necessary for myself to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene, ¹⁰ which also I did at Jerusalem. And I locked up many of the sanctified in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests. And when they were killed, I gave a vote against them. ¹¹ And punishing them often at all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being extraordinarily furious toward them, I persecuted them even as far as to outside cities.

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

⁶ regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless.

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.

¹² I will declare thy righteousness. And as for thy works, they shall not profit thee.

¹⁴ but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them.

² And it shall come to pass, when they say to thee, Where shall we go forth? Then thou shall tell them, Thus says LORD: Such as are for death, to death, and such as are for the sword, to the sword, and such as are for the famine, to the famine, and such as are for captivity, to captivity.

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. ³ And having answered, he said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, because of your tradition?

⁶ And he will, no, not honor his father or mother. And ye have annulled the command of God because of your tradition.

³ (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands carefully, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders. ⁴ And coming from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they bathe. And there are many other things that they have taken in to retain: washings of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and beds.) ⁵ Then the Pharisees and the scholars demand of him, Why do thy disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands? ⁶ And having answered, he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me. ⁷ But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. ⁸ For having set aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men: washings of pots and cups and many other such like things ye do. ⁹ And he said to them, Well do ye reject the commandment of God, so that ye may keep your tradition. ¹⁰ For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death. ¹¹ But ye say, If a man should say to his father or mother, Whatever ye might be benefited from me is Corban, that is, an offering, ¹² then ye no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, ¹³ annulling the word of God by your tradition that ye have delivered. And many such like things ye do.

³ I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but reared in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, reared accurately in the paternal law, being a zealot of God, as ye all are today.

⁵ having known me previously from the beginning, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

⁹ Indeed therefore I thought it necessary for myself to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene,

⁴ Although (I having confidence also in flesh) if any other man seems to be confident in the flesh, I more: ⁵ in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; regarding law, a Pharisee; ⁶ regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless.

⁸ Take heed lest there will be any man taking you captive through the love of wisdom and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ.

⁸ Whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, not now seeing but believing, ye exult in inexpressible and glorified joy,

⁷ LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people, for ye were the fewest of all peoples, ⁸ but because LORD loves you. And because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

²² For LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased LORD to make you a people to himself.

⁴ However LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be ruler, and in the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel. ⁵ And of all my sons (for LORD has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of LORD over Israel.

¹ Listen, O isles, to me, and hearken, ye peoples from far. LORD has called me from the womb. From the bowels of my mother he has made mention of my name.

⁵ And now says LORD who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of LORD, and my God has become my strength),

⁵ Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou came forth out of the womb I sanctified thee. I have appointed thee a prophet to the nations.

²⁶ Yea, Father, because this way it was done pleasing in thy sight.

¹⁵ For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he should, no, not drink wine and strong drink. And he will be filled of the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's belly. ¹⁶ And he will turn back many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God.

²¹ In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit, and said, I thank thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, that thou hid these things from the wise and astute, and revealed them to the childlike. Yea, Father, because it became pleasing this way in thy sight.

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, Go, because this man is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before Gentiles and kings, and sons of Israel.

² And while they were serving the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate to me now Barnabas and Saul for the work that I have called them.

¹⁴ And he said, The God of our fathers appointed thee to know his will, and to see the Righteous Man, and to hear a voice from his mouth, ¹⁵ because thou will be a witness for him to all men of the things that thou have seen and heard.

⁵ through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations on behalf of his name,

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.

²⁴ But to them, to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

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.

⁶ I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him who called you in the grace of Christ to another good news,

⁵ Who predestined us for sonship through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the desire of his will,

⁹ Having made known to us the mystery of his will according to his desire, which he purposed within himself

¹¹ according to the purpose of the ages, which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

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.

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.

⁹ who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him, neither did he acknowledge his brothers, nor knew he his own sons, for they have observed thy word, and keep thy covenant.

¹⁷ And having answered, Jesus said to him, Blessed are thou, Simon Bar-jonah, because flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, but my Father in the heavens.

⁴¹ Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation. Truly, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

²³ And he said to all, If any man wants to come behind me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ²⁴ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever may lose his life because of me, this man will save it. ²⁵ For what is a man benefited, having gained the whole world, but having lost or having forfeited himself?

⁵⁹ And he said to another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, allow me first, after departing, to bury my father. ⁶⁰ But Jesus said to him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but thou, after departing, proclaim the kingdom of God. ⁶¹ And also another said, I will follow thee, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those in my house. ⁶² But Jesus said to him, No man, having put his hand to a plow, and looking to things behind, is fit for the kingdom of God.

²¹ And he said to me, Depart, because I will send thee far away to Gentiles.

¹⁷ delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send thee, 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. ¹⁹ Whereupon, King Agrippa, I did not become disobedient to the heavenly vision, ²⁰ but declaring first to those at Damascus and then at Jerusalem, and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, to repent and return to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

¹³ But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit also among you, even as among the other Gentiles. ¹⁴ I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

¹³ For I speak to you the Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of Gentiles, I enhance my ministry,

¹⁶ for me to be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, serving the good news of God like a priest, so that the offering up of the Gentiles might become acceptable, being sanctified in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ I have therefore a boast in Christ Jesus in things toward God. ¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak anything of which Christ did not accomplish through me for the obedience of Gentiles, by word and work, ¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of a Spirit of God, so that for me, from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum, to fully preach the good news of Christ.

⁹ But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him. ¹⁰ But God disclosed it to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things 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. ¹² But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God. ¹³ Which things also we speak, not in things learned from mankind, in words of wisdom, but in things learned from the Holy Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

⁵⁰ Now this I affirm, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit imperishability.

⁶ Because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who shone in our hearts for an enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the presence of Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ So that henceforth we know no man according to flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him no longer.

¹ Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having taken along Titus also.

⁶ But from those who were reputed to be something (what kind they were formerly, it makes no difference to me, God does not accept a personage of man), for those who were of repute added nothing to me, ⁷ but to the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the good news for men of uncircumcision, as Peter for men of circumcision ⁸ (for he who was working in Peter for the apostleship for men of circumcision was also working in me for the Gentiles), ⁹ and James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, when they understood the grace that was given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship. So that we were for the Gentiles, and they for men of circumcision,

¹⁷ So that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in knowledge of him, ¹⁸ having the eyes of your heart enlightened. For you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the sanctified,

¹ For this reason I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

⁵ which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets. ⁶ For Gentiles to be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and fellow partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good news. ⁷ Of which I became a helper according to the gift of that grace of God, which was given to me according to the working of his power. ⁸ To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ, ⁹ and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things through Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ So that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principal offices and the positions of authority in the heavenly things, through the church,

²⁵ Of which I became a helper according to the administration of God, which was given to me for you to fulfill the word of God, ²⁶ the mystery that was hidden from the ages and from the generations, but has now been made known to his sanctified. ²⁷ To whom God wanted to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

¹⁶ Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles so that they might be saved, in order to fill up their sins always. But wrath came upon them finally.

⁷ For which I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie), a teacher of Gentiles in faith and truth.

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

¹⁴ Since therefore the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might make him who has the power of death impotent, that is, the devil.

²⁰ And straightaway he proclaimed the Christ in the synagogues, that this man is the Son of God. ²¹ And all those who heard were amazed, and said, Is this not the man who destroyed those in Jerusalem who call on this name? And he has come here for this, so that he might bring them bound to the chief priests. ²² But Saul was strengthened more, and was confounding the Jews who dwell at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ. ²³ And after considerable days were fulfilled, the Jews plotted to destroy him, ²⁴ but their plot was known to Saul. And they watched the gates both day and night so that they might destroy him. ²⁵ But the disciples, after taking him by night, let him down through the wall, having lowered him in a hamper.

³² In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes wanting to apprehend me. ³³ And I was lowered in a hamper through a window through the wall, and escaped his hands.

¹⁸ Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit with Peter, and I remained with him fifteen days.

²² But Saul was strengthened more, and was confounding the Jews who dwell at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ. ²³ And after considerable days were fulfilled, the Jews plotted to destroy him,

²⁶ And when Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he attempted to join with the disciples, and they all feared him, not believing that he is a disciple. ²⁷ But Barnabas having taken him, he brought him to the apostles. And he related to them how he saw the Lord on the road, and that he spoke to him, and how he spoke boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. ²⁸ And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem, and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. ²⁹ And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they attempted to destroy him.

¹⁷ And it came to pass, my having returned to Jerusalem and while I prayed in the temple, for me to became in a trance. ¹⁸ And I saw him saying to me, Hurry and depart in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not accept thy testimony about me.

³ Philip, and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector, James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus who was surnamed Thaddaeus,

⁴⁶ While he was still speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers had stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

⁵⁵ Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James and Joses and Simon and Judas?

¹⁸ and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,

³ Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judah and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended by him.

¹⁵ Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot,

¹³ And when they came in, they went up into the upper floor where they were lodging, including, Peter and James and John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.

¹⁷ But after motioning to them with the hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord brought him out of the prison. And he said, Report these things to James, and to the brothers. And having departed, he went to a different place.

⁵ Have we no, not a right to lead about a sister wife, as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

¹ James, a bondman of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion, greeting.

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

¹ I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience testifying to me in the Holy Spirit,

¹⁰ The truth of Christ is in me that this pride in me will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹ Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.

³¹ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed into the ages, knows that I do not lie.

⁹ But some of those from the synagogue called Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up disputing with Stephen.

³⁰ But when the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him away to Tarsus.

²⁵ And Barnabas departed to Tarsus to seek Saul, ²⁶ and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass a whole year for them to be assembled in the congregation, and to teach a considerable multitude, and to call the disciples Christians, first at Antioch.

¹ Now there were some men from the congregation that was in Antioch, prophets and teachers, including Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen reared with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

²³ after writing by their hand these things: The apostles, and the elders, and the brothers, to those down in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, to the brothers of the Gentiles, greeting.

¹⁸ But Paul, who still remained considerable days with the brothers, having separated, sailed away to Syria (and with him Priscilla and Aquila), having shaved his head in Cenchrea, for he had a vow.

³ And having sighted Cyprus, and having left it behind on the left side, we sailed to Syria and came down to Tyre, for there the ship was unloading the merchandise.

³⁹ But Paul said, I am really a Jewish man of Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. And I beg thee, allow me to speak to the people.

³⁴ And the governor having read it, and having questioned from what province he was, and having found out that he was from Cilicia,

⁷ Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners who are notable men among the apostles, who also became in Christ before me.

³⁰ But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

¹ Paul and Timothy, bondmen of Jesus Christ, to all the sanctified in Jesus Christ who are at Philippi, with the guardians and helpers:

¹⁴ For ye, brothers, became imitators of the congregations of God, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because ye also suffered the same things by your own countrymen, just as also they by the Jews.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

⁷ And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a large company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

¹³ But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many evil things he did to thy sanctified at Jerusalem.

²⁰ And straightaway he proclaimed the Christ in the synagogues, that this man is the Son of God.

⁸ and last of all, as to the untimely birth, he also appeared to me. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 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.

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. ¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord was filled to overflowing with the faith and love in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinful men, of whom I am foremost. 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.

²³ Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God wrought!

⁸ But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled, and glorified God, who gave such authority to men.

¹⁶ And fear seized all. And they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has been raised among us, and, God came to help his people.

¹⁰ Thus I say to you, there becomes joy in the presence of the agents of God over one sinner who repents.

³² But it was needful to make merry and be glad, because this thy brother was dead, and became alive again, and was lost, and was found.

¹⁸ And when they heard these things, they relaxed and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.

¹⁹ And having greeted them, he reported one by one what God did among the Gentiles through his ministry. ²⁰ And when the men heard, they glorified God, having said to him, Thou see, brother, how many thousands there are of the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealots of the law.

¹³ through the evidence of this service, glorifying God at the subjection of your confession toward the good news of the Christ, and at the generosity of the participation, for them and for all,

³ We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying about you, ⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love toward all the sanctified,

¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his sanctified, and to be marveled in that day by all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed).

¹² So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.