Hebrews 12 Cross References - ACV

¹ Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us. ² Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ For consider the man who endured such hostility against him by sinners, so that ye may not be weary in your souls, being disheartened. ⁴ Ye have not yet resisted as far as blood, struggling against sin. ⁵ And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of the Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him? ⁶ For whom the Lord loves he chastens. And he whips every son whom he receives. ⁷ Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? ⁸ And if ye are without chastening, of which all have become participants, then ye are bastards, and not sons. ⁹ Besides, we indeed have had chastisers-the fathers of our flesh-and we were turned around. Shall we not much more be subordinate to the Father of the spirits, and we will live? ¹⁰ For those men indeed for a few days chastened us according to that which seemed good to them, but he for that which is advantageous, in order to be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. ¹² Therefore lift up the drooping hands, and the feeble knees, ¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be turned away, but may be healed instead. ¹⁴ Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord. ¹⁵ Looking carefully lest any man fall short, away from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness sprouting up would cause trouble, and by this many may be defiled, ¹⁶ lest a fornicator or profane man like Esau, who, in place of one meal sold his birthright. ¹⁷ For ye also know that wanting afterward to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though having sought it with tears. ¹⁸ For ye have not come to a mountain being felt, and which burned with fire, and to darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, ¹⁹ and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of words, of which those who heard begged that a word not be added to them. ²⁰ For they did not bear that which was commanded, if even a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned. ²¹ And so fearful was that which was made visible, that Moses said, I am terrified and trembling. ²² But ye have come to mount Zion, and to the city of a living God, a heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of agents, 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, ²⁴ and to Jesus a mediator of a new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better than Abel. ²⁵ Watch, that ye not refuse him who speaks. For if those men did not escape, having refused him who spoke a divine message on earth, much more we, those who turn away from him from the heavens, ²⁶ whose voice then shook the earth. But now he has promised, saying, Yet once, I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven. ²⁷ And the, Yet once, signifies the removal of the things being shaken-as of things that were made-so that the things not being shaken may remain. ²⁸ Therefore, receiving an immovable kingdom, we may have grace, through which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and awe. ²⁹ For our God is also a consuming fire.

²³ I was also perfect with him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

⁸ Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

⁹ And thou shall ascend. Thou shall come like a storm. Thou shall be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy hordes, and many peoples with thee.

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.

²² And ye will be hated by all men because of my name, but he who endures to the end, this man will be saved.

³⁷ He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me. ³⁸ And he who does not take his cross and follow behind me, is not worthy of me.

¹³ But he who endures to the end, this man will be saved.

¹⁴ And that which fell in the thorns, these are those who heard, and as they go they are choked by cares and wealth and pleasures of life, and do not bring to maturity. ¹⁵ But those in the good ground, these are those who in an good and right heart, having heard the word, hold it firm, and bring forth fruit in perseverance.

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.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Watch, and keep away from greed, because to any man, life to him is not in the abundance of things possessed by him.

²⁶ If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁷ And whoever does not bear his cross, and come behind me, cannot be my disciple. ²⁸ For which of you wanting to build a tower, does not, having first sat down, count the cost whether he has the things for completion? ²⁹ So that perhaps, having laid its foundation, and not being able to finish, all those who see begin to ridicule him, ³⁰ saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. ³¹ Or what king going to encounter another king in war, will not, having first sat down, consult whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³² And if not, while he is still far off, having sent a delegation, he asks the things about peace. ³³ So therefore every man of you who does not renounce all things being possessed by him, cannot be my disciple.

²⁸ for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

²² And when he heard these things, Jesus said to him, Yet one thing is lacking from thee. Sell all things, as many as thou have, and distribute to the poor, and thou will have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me. ²³ But when he heard these things, he became very sorrowful, for he was very rich. ²⁴ And having seen him become very sorrowful, Jesus said, How difficultly those who have riches will enter into the kingdom of God. ²⁵ For it is easier for a camel to enter in through the hole of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

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.

³² And what he has seen and heard, of this he testifies, and no man receives his testimony.

³⁹ And many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all, as many things as I did.

⁴⁴ For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own fatherland.

⁷ to those who indeed seek by perseverance of good work, glory and esteem and immortality-eternal life-

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.

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

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.

²⁴ Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it. ²⁵ And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable. ²⁶ I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air. ²⁷ But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.

¹ Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God.

⁷ Ye were running well. Who hindered you, not to obey the truth?

²² for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness, ²³ and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and to put on the new man according to God, the man who was created in righteousness and piety of the truth.

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.

¹⁰ to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, ¹¹ if somehow I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. ¹² Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brothers, I reckon myself not to have seized, but one thing, indeed forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead, ¹⁴ I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

⁵ Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. ⁶ Because of which the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience, ⁷ in which ye also once walked when ye lived in them. ⁸ But now ye also, put off all these things: anger, wrath, wickedness, reviling, filthy speaking out of your mouth.

⁹ But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all the evils, of which some aspiring have wandered from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

⁴ No man who serves in the military entangles himself in the affairs of life, so that he may please the man who enlisted the army.

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

¹⁵ And this way, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

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. ³⁷ For yet a very little while, he who is coming will come, and will not delay. ³⁸ But the righteous man will live from faith, and if he should withdraw, my soul is not pleased with him. ³⁹ But we are not of retreat for destruction, but of faith for the preservation of the soul.

² For by this the ancients were well reported. ³ By faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by the word of God. For the things that are seen do not come to be from that which is visible. ⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, because of which he was reported to be righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through it, he who died still speaks. ⁵ By faith Enoch was transferred to not see death, and he was not found, because God transferred him. For before his removal he was reported to be pleasing to God. ⁶ And apart from faith it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is, and becomes a rewarder of those who search for him. ⁷ By faith Noah, being divinely warned about things not yet seen, moved with awe, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became an heir of righteousness according to faith. ⁸ By faith Abraham, when called, obeyed to go out to the place that he was going to take for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. ⁹ By faith he lived alien in the land of promise as a foreigner, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he anticipated the city that has the foundations, whose builder and architect is God. ¹¹ By faith even Sarah herself received power for conception of seed, and she gave birth beyond the time of age, because she considered him faithful who promised. ¹² And therefore from one man, and these things having become deadened, were begotten as the stars of the heaven for multitude, and as the sand of the seashore, countless. ¹³ All these died in faith, not having taken the promises, but who saw and greeted them from afar, and who confessed that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth. ¹⁴ For those who say such things show that they are seeking a fatherland. ¹⁵ And if indeed they remembered that from which they came out, they would have had time to return. ¹⁶ But now they aspire for a superior one, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city. ¹⁷ By faith Abraham, being tested, offered Isaac. And he who received the promises offered his only begotten son, ¹⁸ about whom it was said, The seed by thee will be called in Isaac. ¹⁹ Having reckoned that God is able to raise up even from the dead, from where also, in a figure, he did receive him back. ²⁰ By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau about things coming. ²¹ By faith Jacob, while dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and bowed in worship upon the top of his staff. ²² By faith Joseph, while perishing, remembered about the exodus of the sons of Israel, and commanded about his bones. ²³ By faith Moses, after being born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child well-formed, and they were not afraid of the king's edict. ²⁴ By faith Moses, having become great, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, ²⁵ having chosen rather to be mistreated with the people of God, than to have the pleasure of sin temporarily. ²⁶ Having esteemed the vilification of the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he focused toward the recompense of reward. ²⁷ By faith he forsook Egypt, not having feared the wrath of the king, for he persevered as seeing the invisible. ²⁸ By faith he performed the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who was destroying the firstborn would not touch them. ²⁹ By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land, of which the Egyptians, having taken an attempt, were drowned. ³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, having been encircled for seven days. ³¹ By faith Rahab the harlot was not destroyed with those who were disobedient, having received the spies with peace. ³² And what shall I say further? For the time would fail me telling about Gideon, also Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets, ³³ who, through faith, conquered kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, closed the mouths of lions, ³⁴ quenched the force of fire, escaped the jaw of the sword. Out of weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, bowed down armies of aliens. ³⁵ Women took hold of their dead from a resurrection, but others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, so that they might experience a superior resurrection. ³⁶ And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawed apart, they were tempted, they died in murder by sword. They wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, restricted, tormented ³⁸ (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

⁷ Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, until it receives the early and latter rain. ⁸ Be ye also patient. Establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has approached. ⁹ Do not grumble, brothers, against each other, so that ye not be judged. Behold, the judge stands before the doors. ¹⁰ Take an example, my brothers, of evil-suffering and longsuffering, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Behold, we regard those who endured, blessed. Ye have heard of the fortitude of Job, and have seen the outcome of the Lord, that he is very compassionate and merciful.

¹ Therefore, having put off all evil and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking,

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

¹² By Silvanus, the faithful brother to you, as I reckon, I wrote because of a few things, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye stand.

⁶ and in knowledge, self-control, and in self-control, perseverance, and in perseverance, piety,

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.

⁹ I John, your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance in Christ Jesus, happened to be on the isle that is called Patmos because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ Because thou keep the word of my perseverance, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole inhabited world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.

¹⁰ If any man keeps in captivity, he goes. If any man kills with a sword, he must be killed with a sword. Here is the perseverance and the faith of the sanctified.

¹⁶ I, Jesus, have sent my agent to testify these things to you for the congregations. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, the morning star.

⁹ Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices. My flesh also shall dwell in hope. ¹⁰ For thou will not leave my soul to Sheol, nor will thou allow thy holy man to see corruption. ¹¹ Thou made known to me the path of life. Thou will fill me of joy with thy countenance.

⁶ But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised by the people. ⁷ All those who see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip. They shake the head, saying, ⁸ He trusted on LORD. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.

¹⁹ Thou know my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before thee. ²⁰ Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

¹ LORD says to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

⁸ LORD will perfect that which concerns me. Thy loving kindness, O LORD, is forever. Forsake not the works of thine own hands.

¹⁷ And I will wait for LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will be a man who has trusted in him.

¹ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek LORD!

²² Look to me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else.

⁶ yea, he says, It is too light a thing that thou should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou may be my salvation to the end of the earth. ⁷ Thus says LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers. Kings shall see and arise, rulers, and they shall worship, because of LORD who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen thee.

⁶ I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I did not hide my face from shame and spitting. ⁷ For the lord LORD will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.

³ He was despised, and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. And as him from whom men hide their face he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

¹⁰ Yet it pleased LORD to bruise him. He has put him to grief. When thou shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of LORD shall prosper in his hand. ¹¹ He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. By the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities. ¹² Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors. Yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

⁷ But as for me, I will look to LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

¹⁰ And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication. And they shall look to me whom they have pierced. And they shall mourn for him, as a man mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as a man who is in bitterness for his firstborn.

²¹ From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders, and chief priests, and scholars, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

¹⁸ Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be betrayed to the chief priests and scholars. And they will condemn him to death, ¹⁹ and will deliver him to the Gentiles to ridicule, and to scourge, and to crucify. And the third day he will rise. ²⁰ Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, worshiping, and asking something from him.

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

⁶⁷ Then they spat in his face and struck him with a fist. And some slapped him, ⁶⁸ saying, Prophesy to us, thou Christ. Who is he who struck thee?

²⁷ Then the soldiers of the governor, having taken Jesus into the Praetorium, gathered the whole band to him. ²⁸ And having stripped him, they put a scarlet robe on him. ²⁹ And having woven a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand. And having knelt down before him, they ridiculed him, saying, Hail, king of the Jews! ³⁰ And having spat upon him, they took the reed and were striking him on his head. ³¹ And after they ridiculed him, they took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away in order to crucify. ³² And while coming out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They drafted this man, so that he might take his cross. ³³ And having come to a place called Golgotha, that is called, the place of a skull, ³⁴ they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall. And having tasted it, he would not drink. ³⁵ And when they crucified him, they divided his garments, casting a lot. ³⁶ And as they sat, they keep watch over him there. ³⁷ And they set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. ³⁸ Then two robbers are crucified with him, one at the right hand and one at the left. ³⁹ And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, ⁴⁰ and saying, Thou who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save thyself. If thou are the Son of God, come down from the cross. ⁴¹ And likewise also the chief priests, ridiculing with the scholars, and elders, and Pharisees, said, ⁴² He saved others, he cannot save himself. If he is the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him. ⁴³ He trusted in God, let him rescue him now, if he wants him, for he said, I am the Son of God. ⁴⁴ And also the robbers who were crucified with him reviled him the same way. ⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour darkness developed over all the land until the ninth hour. ⁴⁶ And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a great voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is, My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me? ⁴⁷ And some of those who stood there, when they heard it, said, This man calls Elijah. ⁴⁸ And straightaway one of them, after running, and having taken a sponge, and having filled it with vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. ⁴⁹ But the others said, Leave thou be. We might see if Elijah comes he will save him. ⁵⁰ And Jesus, having cried out again in a great voice, yielded up his spirit.

¹² And having answered, he said to them, Elijah indeed comes first and restores all. And how it is written for the Son of man, that he would suffer many things and be rejected.

²⁴ And straightaway the father of the child having cried out, he said with tears, I believe. Lord, help thou my unbelief.

³⁶ And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee. Remove this cup from me, but not what I want, but what thou want.

⁵ And the apostles said to the Lord, Increase faith for us.

¹¹ But Herod having disdained him with his soldiers, and having mocked him, having arraying him in a bright robe, he sent him back to Pilate.

³⁵ And the people had stood watching. And also the rulers with them sneered, saying, He saved others. He should save himself, if this is the Christ, the chosen of God. ³⁶ And the soldiers also mocked him, approaching, and bringing him vinegar, ³⁷ and saying, If thou are the king of the Jews, save thyself. ³⁸ And there was also an inscription over him written in letters, in Greek and Latin and Hebrew: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. ³⁹ And one of the malefactors who were hanged railed him, saying, If thou are the Christ, save thyself and us.

²⁶ Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?

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

⁴⁰ And this is the will of him who sent me, that every man who sees the Son, and believes in him, may have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁵⁶ Your father Abraham rejoiced that he could see my day, and he saw it, and was glad.

²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat that falls into the ground dies, it remains alone, but if it dies it bears much fruit.

²⁷ Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But because of this I came to this hour. ²⁸ Father, glorify thy name. A voice therefore came out of heaven, saying, I both glorified it, and I will glorify again.

³² And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself.

³ Jesus, having seen that the Father has given all the things to him, into his hands, and that he came from God, and goes to God,

³¹ When he went out, Jesus says, Now the Son of man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. ³² If God is glorify in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him straightaway.

¹ Jesus spoke these things, and he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify thy Son, that the Son may also glorify thee, ² just as thou gave him authority over all flesh, so that all things that thou have given him, he will give them eternal life. ³ And this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou sent. ⁴ I glorified thee on the earth. I finished the work which thou have given me that I should do.

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.

³⁶ Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made him, this Jesus whom ye crucified, both Lord and Christ.

³¹ God exalted this man with his right hand, a Pathfinder and a Savior to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.

⁴¹ Indeed therefore they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were considered worthy to be treated shamefully for the name of Jesus.

⁷ so that ye come behind in not one gift, waiting for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁸ who will also confirm you until the end, irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity by it.

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.

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.

⁸ And having been found in a form like a man, he lowered himself, having become obedient until death, even of death from a cross. ⁹ Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the heavenly, and the earthly, and the sub-earthly, ¹¹ and that every tongue should acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

²⁰ For our citizenship exists in the heavens, from which also we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

⁸ Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me in that day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

¹³ Awaiting the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 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.

³ Who, being the radiance of his glory, and the exact image of his essence, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made purification of our sins through himself, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in the heights.

¹³ But to which of the agents has he ever said, Sit thou by my right hand until I place thine enemies a footstool of thy feet?

⁷ Thou made him a little something less than the agents. Thou crowned him with glory and honor. ⁸ Thou subordinated all things under his feet. For in subordinating all things to him, he left nothing not subordinate to him. But now we do not yet see all things subordinated to him. ⁹ But we see Jesus who has been made a little something less than the agents, who, because of the suffering of death, has been crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God he would taste of death for every man. ¹⁰ For it was fitting for him, through whom are all things, and because of whom are all things, having brought many sons to glory, to make the pathfinder of their salvation fully perfect through sufferings.

⁹ And having been fully perfected, he became the source of eternal salvation to all those who obey him,

¹⁹ (for the law made nothing fully perfect), and an introduction of a better hope, through which we approach God.

¹ Now a summation about the things being spoken is, we have such a high priest who was seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

²⁸ so also the Christ, having been offered once in order to take up the sins of many, will appear a second time, independent of sin, to those waiting for him for salvation.

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. ¹¹ And indeed every priest stands daily serving and offering the same sacrifices often, which can never take away sins. ¹² But this man, having offered one sacrifice on behalf of sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,

¹⁴ For by one offering he has fully perfected forever those being sanctified.

³³ partly made a spectacle, both by reviling and afflictions, and partly having become companions of those so treated.

³⁶ And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment.

³ For consider the man who endured such hostility against him by sinners, so that ye may not be weary in your souls, being disheartened.

¹³ Let us therefore go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

¹¹ searching for what, or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ in them indicated, predicting the sufferings in Christ, and the glories after these things.

²³ Who, being reviled, did not revile in return. Suffering, he did not threaten, but yielded to him who judges righteously. 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,

²² who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, agents, and positions of authority, and powers having been subordinated to him.

¹⁴ Blessed are ye if ye are reviled for the name of Christ, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. From them he is indeed blasphemed, but from you he is glorified. ¹⁵ For let not any man of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a busybody. ¹⁶ But if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this regard.

¹ What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life ² (and the life was made known, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father, and was made known to us), ³ what we have seen and heard we also declare to you, so that ye also may have fellowship with us. Even also our fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

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

⁸ I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord, the God who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.

¹¹ saying, What thou see, write in a book and send to the seven congregations: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not, I am the first and the last,

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

³ and shall say to them, Hear, O Israel, ye draw near this day to battle against your enemies. Let not your heart faint. Fear not, nor tremble, neither be ye frightened at them.

²⁴ Only fear LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart, for consider what great things he has done for you.

¹⁰ If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

³⁰ Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. ³¹ But those who wait for LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run, and not be weary. They shall walk, and not faint.

⁴ The lord LORD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning. He awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

²⁴ A pupil is not above his teacher, nor a bondman above his lord. ²⁵ It is enough for the pupil that he becomes like his teacher, and the bondman like his lord. If they have called the house-ruler Beelzebub, how much more those of his household.

¹⁹ The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold the man, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! And wisdom is justified from her children.

²⁴ But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebub the ruler of the demons.

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

¹⁵ But when the chief priests and the scholars saw the wonderful things that he did, and the boys crying out in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the son of David, they were indignant, ¹⁶ and said to him, Do thou hear what these are saying? And Jesus says to them, Yes! Did ye never read, Out of the mouth of children and those who suckle thou have perfected praise?

²³ And when he came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him while he taught, saying, By what authority do thou these things? And who gave thee this authority?

⁴⁶ And when they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they held him as a prophet.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees having departed, they took counsel how they might trap him in his talk.

³⁴ And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, this man is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign being repudiated

²⁸ And all in the synagogue were filled with rage, having heard these things. ²⁹ And having risen up, they thrust him outside of the city, and brought him as far as the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw him down headlong.

²¹ And the scholars and the Pharisees began to deliberate, saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, except God alone?

¹⁵ but some of them said, He casts out the demons by Beelzebub, ruler of the demons. ¹⁶ And others, challenging, sought from him a sign from the sky.

⁵³ And after he said these things to them, the scholars and the Pharisees began to harass him extremely, and to provoke him to speak impulsively about more things, ⁵⁴ waiting to ambush him, seeking to catch something out of his mouth so that they might accuse him.

¹³ And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. ¹⁴ And having responded, the synagogue-ruler, being indignant because Jesus healed on the sabbath, answered and said to the multitude, There are six days in which he ought to work. Therefore coming in these, be healed, and not on the day of the sabbath.

¹ And it came to pass, when he went into the house of a certain man of the chiefs of the Pharisees on a sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him.

² And the Pharisees and the scholars murmured, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.

¹⁴ And the Pharisees, being lovers of money, heard all these things, and they sneered him.

³⁹ And some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, Teacher, rebuke thy disciples. ⁴⁰ And having answered, he said to them, I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.

¹⁶ And because of this the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on a sabbath.

¹² And there was much murmuring among the multitudes about him. Some said, He is a good man, others said, No, but he leads the multitude astray.

¹³ The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou testify about thyself. Thy testimony is not valid.

⁴⁸ Therefore the Jews answered and said to him, Do we not say well that thou are a Samaritan, and have a demon? ⁴⁹ Jesus answered, I have no demon, but I honor my Father, and ye dishonor me.

⁵² The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets, and thou say, If any man keeps my word, he will, no, not taste of death, into the age.

⁵⁹ Therefore they took up stones so that they might throw at him, but Jesus was hid, and went out of the temple, having passed through the midst of them, and thus passed on.

⁴⁰ And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, Are we also blind?

²⁰ And many of them said, He has a demon, and is mad. Why do ye listen to him?

³¹ Therefore again the Jews took up stones so that they might stone him. ³² Jesus answered them, I have shown you many good works from my Father. Because of them, which work do ye stone me? ³³ The Jews answered him, saying, We stone thee not about a good work, but about blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, make thyself God. ³⁴ Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods? ³⁵ If he designated those men gods, for whom the word of God came to be (and the scripture cannot be broken), ³⁶ whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, do ye say, Thou blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God? ³⁷ If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me. ³⁸ But if I am doing them, even though ye do not believe me, believe the works, that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in him. ³⁹ Therefore they sought again to take him, and he went forth out of their hand.

⁹ Therefore a great multitude of the Jews knew that he is there. And they came, not only because of Jesus, but that they might also see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead. ¹⁰ But the chief priests decided that they should kill Lazarus also,

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. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, A bondman is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But all these things they will do to you because of my name, because they have not known him who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ He who hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works that no other man has done, they would not have had sin, but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

²² And when he said these things, one of the subordinates standing by gave a slap to Jesus, saying, Answer thou the high priest this way?

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.

¹ Because of this (having this ministry), in as much as we received mercy, we do not become discouraged.

¹⁶ Therefore we are not discouraged, but even if the outer man of us is perishing, yet the inner man is renewed day by day.

⁹ And let us not be weary doing good, for in our own time we will reap, not desponding.

¹³ But ye, brothers, do not become weary doing good.

⁷ Consider what I say, for may the Lord give thee understanding in all things. ⁸ Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good news,

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

² Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

⁵ And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of the Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him?

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

⁹ Then they will deliver you up for tribulation, and will kill you, and ye will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

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.

⁶ For I am already poured out a libation, and the time of my dissolution is imminent. ⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.

³² But remember the former days, in which, after being enlightened, ye endured a great contest of sufferings, ³³ partly made a spectacle, both by reviling and afflictions, and partly having become companions of those so treated. ³⁴ For ye were both compassionate about my bonds, and ye accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing yourselves to have a superior and an enduring existence in the heavens.

¹³ I know thy works, and where thou dwell, where Satan's throne is. And thou hold firm my name, and did not deny my faith in the days in which Antipas was my faithful witness, who was killed among you where Satan dwells.

⁹ And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of the Lamb that they held. ¹⁰ And they cried out in a great voice, saying, Master, Holy and True, how long do thou not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell on the earth? ¹¹ And a white robe was given to them each, and it was said to them that they should still rest a time, until also their fellow bondmen, and their brothers, and those going to be killed as they too, would be fulfilled.

¹¹ And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. And they loved not their life to the point of death.

⁶ And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the sanctified, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And having seen her, I wondered with great amazement.

²⁴ And in her was found blood of prophets, and of the sanctified, and of all who have been killed upon the earth.

⁹ Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but make them known to thy sons and thy son's sons- ¹⁰ the day that thou stood before LORD thy God in Horeb, when LORD said to me, Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their sons.

⁷ And Joshua said, Alas, O lord LORD, why have thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? Would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan! ⁸ Oh, Lord, what shall I say after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! ⁹ For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will encompass us around, and cut off our name from the earth, and what will thou do for thy great name? ¹⁰ And LORD said to Joshua, Get thee up. Why are thou thus fallen upon thy face? ¹¹ Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken from what was set apart, and have also stolen, and also dissembled. And they have even put it among their own stuff.

⁷ And the anger of LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his error, and he died there by the ark of God. ⁸ And David was displeased, because LORD had broken forth upon Uzzah. And he called that place Perez-uzzah, to this day. ⁹ And David was afraid of LORD that day, and he said, How shall the ark of LORD come to me? ¹⁰ So David would not remove the ark of LORD to him into the city of David, but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

⁹ And when they came to the threshing-floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled. ¹⁰ And the anger of LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him because he put forth his hand to the ark. And there he died before God. ¹¹ And David was displeased, because LORD had broken forth upon Uzza. And he called that place Perez-uzza, to this day. ¹² And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me? ¹³ So David did not move the ark to him into the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

¹² And said to them, Ye are the heads of the fathers of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brothers, that ye may bring up the ark of LORD, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it. ¹³ For because ye did not at the first, LORD our God made a breach upon us, because we did not seek him according to the ordinance.

¹⁷ Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty. ¹⁸ For he injures, and binds up. He wounds, and his hands make whole.

³¹ For has any said to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more.

¹ O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure. ² Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am withered away. O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

¹² Blessed is the man whom thou chasten, O LORD, and teach out of thy law,

¹⁸ LORD has chastened me greatly, but he has not given me over to death.

¹⁶ I will delight myself in thy statutes. I will not forget thy word.

⁷⁵ I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness thou have afflicted me.

⁸³ For I have become like a wine-skin in the smoke. Yet I do not forget thy statutes.

¹⁰⁹ My soul is continually in my hand, yet I do not forget thy law.

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

¹¹ My son, despise not the chastening of LORD, nor be weary of his reproof. ¹² For whom LORD loves he reproves, and he whips every son whom he receives.

⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding. Do not forget, nor decline from the words of my mouth.

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself saying, Thou have chastised me, and I was chastised as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke. Turn thou me back, and I shall be turned back, for thou are LORD my God.

⁹ Do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up, ¹⁰ nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many hampers ye took up?

⁶ He is not here, but was raised. Remember how he spoke to you when he was still in Galilee,

⁸ And they remembered his sayings.

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

⁸ restricted in everything, yet not confined, perplexed but not despairing, ⁹ persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not destroyed.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me. ¹⁰ Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in restrictions, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

³ For consider the man who endured such hostility against him by sinners, so that ye may not be weary in your souls, being disheartened. ⁴ Ye have not yet resisted as far as blood, struggling against sin.

⁷ Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

¹² Blessed is a man who endures temptation, because, having become approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

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

⁵ And thou shall consider in thy heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so LORD thy God chastens thee.

¹⁴ I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men,

¹ Blessed are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. ² Blessed is the man to whom LORD does not impute sin, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. ³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long. ⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah. ⁵ I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to LORD, and thou forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

¹⁴ for all the day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning. ¹⁵ If I had said, I will speak thus, behold, I would have dealt treacherously with the generation of thy sons.

³⁰ If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in my ordinances, ³¹ if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments, ³² then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes, ³³ but my loving kindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. ³⁴ I will not break my covenant, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

⁷¹ It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn thy statutes.

¹² For whom LORD loves he reproves, and he whips every son whom he receives.

²⁴ He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him chastens him promptly.

⁹ Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob shall be forgiven. And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten apart, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

²⁴ O LORD, correct me, but in measure, not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

⁷ Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? ⁸ And if ye are without chastening, of which all have become participants, then ye are bastards, and not sons.

¹¹ Behold, we regard those who endured, blessed. Ye have heard of the fortitude of Job, and have seen the outcome of the Lord, that he is very compassionate and merciful.

²⁹ Why do ye kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chief of all the offerings of Israel my people?

³⁴ And this shall be the sign to thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: In one day they shall die, both of them.

¹³ For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse upon themselves, and he did not restrain them.

⁶ And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have thou done so? And he was also a very handsome man. And he was born after Absalom.

²⁴ Now therefore as LORD lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day. ²⁵ And king Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he fell upon him so that he died.

³¹ For has any said to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more. ³² Teach thou me that which I do not see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?

¹⁸ Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

¹⁵ Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

¹³ Withhold not correction from the child, for if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. ¹⁴ Thou shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from Sheol.

¹⁵ The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

¹⁷ Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest, yea, he will give delight to thy soul.

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.

¹ Surely God is good to Israel, to such as are pure in heart.

⁶ For whom the Lord loves he chastens. And he whips every son whom he receives.

⁹ Whom resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing the same sufferings are to be accomplished in the world by your brotherhood. 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.

¹² Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

³ Every man shall fear his mother and his father. And ye shall keep my sabbaths. I am LORD your God.

²² And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will thou be angry with all the congregation?

¹⁶ Let LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

¹⁸ If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken to them, ¹⁹ then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place. ²⁰ And they shall say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice. He is a glutton, and a drunkard. ²¹ And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

¹⁶ Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Truly.

¹⁰ in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

¹⁷ The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

⁷ and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

¹⁶ O Lord, by these things men live, and wholly therein is the life of my spirit. Therefore recover thou me, and make me to live.

⁵ Thus says God, LORD, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth, he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk in it,

¹⁶ For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry, for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.

⁷ In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

¹ The burden of the word of LORD concerning Israel. Thus says LORD, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him:

⁶ A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And ye say, How have we despised thy name?

⁶ That which is begotten from the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten from the Spirit is spirit.

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.

³ concerning his Son who was made from the seed of David according to flesh.

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

⁵ of whom are the fathers, and from whom (according to flesh) is the Christ, God who is over all is blessed into the ages. Truly.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ² Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, ³ so that it may become well with thee, and thou will be long lasting on the earth. ⁴ And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of the Lord.

⁷ Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you.

¹⁰ Be ye made lower in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.

⁶ Therefore be lowered under the mighty hand of God, so that he may lift you up in time,

⁴⁴ For I am LORD your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and become ye holy, since I am holy. Neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moves upon the earth. ⁴⁵ For I am LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. Ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

² Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and say to them, Ye shall be holy, for I LORD your God am holy.

¹⁵ As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy form.

²⁵ And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols. ²⁶ I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my ordinances, and do them.

²⁴ and to put on the new man according to God, the man who was created in righteousness and piety of the truth.

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.

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

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 And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of the Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him? ⁶ For whom the Lord loves he chastens. And he whips every son whom he receives.

¹⁵ but according to the Holy Man, he who called you, ye yourselves also become holy in all conduct, ¹⁶ because it is written, Become ye holy, since I am holy.

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

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.

⁴ Because of which, the precious and greatest promises have been given to us, so that through these ye might become companions of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in lust.

³² then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes,

¹⁶⁵ Great peace have those who love thy law, and they have no occasion of stumbling.

¹⁰ There is grievous correction for him who forsakes the way. He who hates reproof shall die.

¹⁷ And the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷ For our slight momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory from extraordinariness to extraordinariness,

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ meekness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.

⁷ But reject the profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself to piety. ⁸ For bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is coming.

¹⁴ But solid food is for mature men, those having their sensibilities trained through practice for the discernment of both good and evil.

¹⁰ For those men indeed for a few days chastened us according to that which seemed good to them, but he for that which is advantageous, in order to be partakers of his holiness.

¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, gentle, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace.

⁶ In which ye greatly rejoice, although made sorrowful in various trials. Since it is now necessary for a little while,

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

³ Behold, thou have instructed many, and thou have strengthened the weak hands. ⁴ Thy words have upheld him who was falling, and thou have made firm the feeble knees.

³ Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

¹⁷ All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

⁷ And it shall be, when they say to thee, Why do thou sigh? That thou shall say, Because of the news. For it comes, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the lord LORD.

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.

¹⁰ She is empty, and void, and waste. And the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all have grown pale.

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

²⁶ Make the path of thy feet level, and let all thy ways be established. ²⁷ Turn not to the right hand nor to the left. Remove thy foot from evil.

⁶ Then the lame man shall leap as a hart, and the tongue of the mute shall sing. For waters in the wilderness shall break out, and streams in the desert.

⁸ And a highway shall be there, and a way. And it shall be called The way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for the redeemed, the wayfaring men. Yea fools shall not err in it. ⁹ No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up in it. They shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there. ¹⁰ And the ransomed of LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion. And everlasting joy shall be upon their heads. They shall obtain gladness and joy. And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

³ The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. ⁴ Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. And the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places smooth.

¹⁶ And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not. I will lead them in paths that they know not. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

¹² And those who shall be of thee shall build the old waste places. Thou shall raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

¹⁵ For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. And they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up,

⁸ Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the outermost parts of the earth, and with them the blind man and the lame man, the woman with child, and she who travails with child together. They shall return here a great company. ⁹ They shall come with weeping. And I will lead them with supplications. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble. For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

⁵ Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be brought low. And the crooked things will be into straight and the rough into smooth ways.

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.

¹⁶ Confess ye the trespasses to each other, and pray for each other so that ye may be healed. A working supplication of a righteous man is very powerful.

²² And on some be ye merciful-being discerning. ²³ And in fear save some, snatching them out of the fire, hating even the garment that was stained by the flesh.

⁷ And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite then dwelt in the land. ⁸ And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brothers. ⁹ Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. If the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if the right hand, then I will go to the left.

³⁰ And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

²⁶ And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God,

²⁶ He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.

¹⁴ Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

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

¹⁵ For judgment shall return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

⁶ My soul has long had her dwelling with him who hates peace.

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

¹ A soft answer turns away wrath, but a grievous word stirs up anger.

⁷ When a man's ways please LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

¹⁴ The beginning of strife is like letting out water. Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.

⁶ And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. ⁷ And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together. And the lion shall eat straw like the ox. ⁸ And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. ⁹ They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of LORD as the waters cover the sea.

¹ Hearken to me, ye who follow after righteousness, ye who seek LORD. Look to the rock from where ye were hewn, and to the hold of the pit from where ye were dug.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God. ⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God.

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.

⁷⁵ in piety and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

²² But now having been made free from sin, and having become servile to God, ye have your fruit for sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

¹⁸ If possible from you, keeping peace with all men,

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

¹⁰ Now I beseech you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and there be no divisions among you, but ye may be thoroughly prepared in the same mind and in the same understanding.

¹² For now we see by polished metal, in dimness, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know just as also I was known.

¹⁷ Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says the Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you

²¹ Is the law therefore against the promises of God? May it not happen! For if a law was given that could make alive, truly righteousness would be from law.

¹ I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, call on you to walk worthily of the calling in which ye were called, ² with all humility and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing each other in love. ³ Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, ⁴ one body, and one Spirit. Just as also ye were called in one hope of your calling, ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one immersion, ⁶ one God and Father of all. He is over all, and through all, and in us all. ⁷ But the grace was given to each of us, according to the measure of the gift of the Christ. ⁸ Therefore he says, Having ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.

⁵ For ye are men who know this, that no fornicator, or unclean man, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

¹² Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus. 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.

⁷ For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

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.

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

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

¹¹ Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.

¹³ And who is he who will harm you, if ye become imitators of the good?

¹¹ Therefore, all these things being disintegrated, what kind ought ye to be in holy actions and pieties,

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.

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.

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.

²⁴ And the nations will walk by the light of it. And the kings of the earth bring to them the splendor and worth of the nations into it. ²⁵ And the gates of it will, no, not be locked by day, for there will be no night there. ²⁶ And they will bring the splendor and the worth of the nations into it. ²⁷ And there will, no, not enter into it anything profane, and doing an abomination and a lie, since they are not written in the Lamb's book of life.

³ And there will be no curse there. And the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his bondmen will serve him. ⁴ And they will see his face, and his name is on their foreheads.

¹¹ Let the man doing wrong still do wrong, and let the filthy man still be filthy. And let the righteous man still do righteousness, and let the holy man still be holy. ¹² Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me to render to each man as his work will be ¹³ -I, the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. ¹⁴ Blessed are those doing his commandments, so that their right will be to the tree of life, and they may enter in the gates into the city. ¹⁵ Outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every man who loves and makes a lie.

²¹ And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to thee, that thou have brought a great sin upon them?

⁹ Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but make them known to thy sons and thy son's sons-

¹⁸ Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations. Lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood,

³² For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.

¹⁸ But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is set apart, lest when ye have set it apart, ye take from what is set apart. So ye would make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.

²⁵ And Joshua said, Why have thou troubled us? LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones. ²⁶ And they raised over him a great heap of stones, to this day, and LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called the valley of Achor to this day.

¹⁷ Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague upon the congregation of LORD, ¹⁸ that ye must turn away this day from following LORD? And it will be, seeing ye rebel today against LORD, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel. ¹⁹ However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass ye over to the land of the possession of LORD, in which LORD's tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us, but do not rebel against LORD, nor rebel against us, in building for you an altar besides the altar of LORD our God. ²⁰ Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in what was set apart, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And that man did not perish alone in his iniquity.

¹⁶ And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.

²³ Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.

⁴ What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth wild grapes?

⁷ For the vineyard of LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. And he looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

²¹ Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

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.

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

³⁰ And from you yourselves men will rise up, speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after them. ³¹ Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

¹² Therefore let him who seems to stand take heed lest he fall.

⁸ Love never fails. But whether prophecies, they will be abolished, whether tongues, they will cease, whether knowledge, it will be abolished.

³³ Be not led astray. Evil associations corrupt good habits.

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

⁵ Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye are test-failing something.

¹³ And the other Jews also joined in hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas went along with their hypocrisy.

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

³ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified,

⁵ Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

¹⁶ But shun profane babblings, for they will advance to greater impiety, ¹⁷ and their word will have a feeding field like gangrene, of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

¹ Because of this we ought to give more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest we might slip away. ² For if the word spoken through agents became certain, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,

¹² Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.

¹ Let us be afraid therefore, lest, a promise being left behind to enter into his rest, any of you should seem to have come short.

¹¹ Let us therefore be diligent to enter into that rest, so that not any man may fall by the same example of disobedience.

¹¹ And we earnestly desire each of you to show the same diligence toward the full assurance of the hope until the end,

²³ Let us hold firm the affirmation of the hope unwavering, for he who promised is faithful. ²⁴ And let us examine each other for provocation of love and good works. 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. ²⁶ For when we sin willfully after taking the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and of fire, a fervor that is going to devour the opposition. ²⁸ Any man who has disregarded the law of Moses dies without mercies from two or three witnesses. ²⁹ By how much worse punishment do ye think he will deserve who has trampled the Son of God, and who considered profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who treated the Spirit of grace contemptuously? ³⁰ For we know him who said, Vengeance is for me, I will repay, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge his people. ³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. ³² But remember the former days, in which, after being enlightened, ye endured a great contest of sufferings, ³³ partly made a spectacle, both by reviling and afflictions, and partly having become companions of those so treated. ³⁴ For ye were both compassionate about my bonds, and ye accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing yourselves to have a superior and an enduring existence in the heavens. ³⁵ Therefore do not throw off your boldness, which has great recompense of reward.

¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, instead be diligent to make your calling and selection sure, for doing these things, ye would, no, not ever stumble.

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.

¹⁸ For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error,

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

⁸ Watch yourselves, so that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive a full reward.

²⁰ But ye beloved, building up yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life.

³¹ And Jacob said, First sell me thy birthright. ³² And Esau said, Behold, I am about to die, and what profit shall the birthright do to me? ³³ And Jacob said, Swear to me first. And he swore to him, and he sold his birthright to Jacob. ³⁴ And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. And he ate and drank, and rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

³⁶ And he said, Is not he rightly name Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and, behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have thou not reserved a blessing for me?

²¹ For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,

²⁰ but to write to them, to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

²⁹ to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, keeping yourselves from which, ye will do well. Be strong.

¹ Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife. ² And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you. ³ For I truly, as being absent in the body but present in the spirit, I have already, as though present, judged the man who committed this thing this way. ⁴ In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ to deliver such a man to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

⁹ I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with fornicators, ¹⁰ and not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with greedy men, or with predators, or with idolaters, since then ye would need to go out of the world. ¹¹ But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind.

¹⁵ Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen! ¹⁶ Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh. ¹⁷ But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. ¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own, ²⁰ for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.

⁸ Nor should we fornicate as some of them fornicated, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

²¹ lest having come again my God will make me low toward you, and I will bewail many of those who have sinned previously, and who did not repent from the trash and fornication and licentiousness that they committed.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are apparent, which are, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, wraths, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, ²¹ envyings, murders, intoxications, revelings, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, as I also did forewarn, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication, ⁴ for each of you to know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and reverence, ⁵ not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God, ⁶ not to transgress and to cheat his brother in the affair, because the Lord is vengeful about all these things, as also we forewarned you and solemnly testified. ⁷ For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

⁴ Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

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. ²¹ And I gave her time so that she would repent, and she did not want to repent of her fornication. ²² Behold, I throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, if they do not repent of her works. ²³ And I will kill her children in death. And all the congregations will know that I am he who searches the inner feelings and hearts. And I will give to you-to each-according to your works.

⁸ But for the cowards, and unbelieving, and sinful, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

¹⁵ Outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every man who loves and makes a lie.

³⁰ And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. ³¹ And he also made savory food, and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. ³² And Isaac his father said to him, Who are thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn, Esau. ³³ And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who then is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou came, and have blessed him? Yea, he shall be blessed. ³⁴ When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. ³⁵ And he said, Thy brother came with guile, and has taken away thy blessing. ³⁶ And he said, Is not he rightly name Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and, behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have thou not reserved a blessing for me? ³⁷ And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. And what then shall I do for thee, my son? ³⁸ And Esau said to his father, Have thou but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. ³⁹ And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall be thy dwelling, and of the dew of heaven from above. ⁴⁰ And by thy sword thou shall live, and thou shall serve thy brother. And it shall come to pass, when thou shall break loose, that thou shall shake his yoke from off thy neck. ⁴¹ And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.

²⁴ Because I have called, and ye have refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man has regarded, ²⁵ but ye have made all my counsel void, and want none of my reproof, ²⁶ I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes, ²⁷ when your fear comes as a storm, and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. ²⁸ Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me, ²⁹ because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of LORD. ³⁰ They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. ³¹ Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

³⁰ Waste silver, men shall call them, because LORD has rejected them.

²³ And then I will profess to them, I never acknowledged you. Depart from me, ye who work lawlessness.

¹¹ But afterward the other virgins also came, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. ¹² But having answered, he said, Truly I say to you, I know you not.

²⁴ Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able. ²⁵ From the time the house-ruler has risen up, and has closed the door, and ye begin to stand outside, and to knock the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and having answered, he will say to you, I know not where ye are from, ²⁶ then ye will begin to say, We ate and drank in thy presence, and thou taught in our thoroughfares. ²⁷ And he will say, I tell you, I know not where ye are from. Depart from me, all ye workmen of unrighteousness.

⁴ For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and who tasted of the heavenly gift, and who became partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and who tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age, ⁶ and who fell away, to restore again to repentance, crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and disgracing him publicly.

⁸ But producing thorns and thistles it is unfit and near a curse, the end of which is for burning.

²⁶ For when we sin willfully after taking the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and of fire, a fervor that is going to devour the opposition. ²⁸ Any man who has disregarded the law of Moses dies without mercies from two or three witnesses. ²⁹ By how much worse punishment do ye think he will deserve who has trampled the Son of God, and who considered profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who treated the Spirit of grace contemptuously?

¹² And thou shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye not go up onto the mount, or touch the border of it. Whoever touches the mount shall be surely put to death; ¹³ no hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through, whether it be beast or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mount. ¹⁴ And Moses went down from the mount to the people, and sanctified the people, and they washed their garments. ¹⁵ And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day. Come not near a woman. ¹⁶ And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of an exceedingly loud trumpet. And all the people who were in the camp trembled. ¹⁷ And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the lower part of the mount. ¹⁸ And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because LORD descended upon it in fire, and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace. And the whole mount quaked greatly. ¹⁹ And when the voice of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. ²⁰ And LORD came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount. And LORD called Moses to the top of the mount, and Moses went up. ²¹ And LORD said to Moses, Go down, command the people, lest they break through to LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. ²² And let the priests also, who come near to LORD, sanctify themselves, lest LORD break forth upon them.

¹⁸ And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off.

¹⁷ And the appearance of the glory of LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the sons of Israel.

¹¹ And ye came near and stood under the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

²² These words LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice, and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tablets of stone, and gave them to me. ²³ And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that ye came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders. ²⁴ And ye said, Behold, LORD our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man, and he lives. ²⁵ Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of LORD our God any more, then we shall die. ²⁶ For who is there of all flesh, who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

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

¹⁵ For ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

⁹ For if the administration of condemnation has glory, the administration of righteousness excels much more in glory.

⁷ For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of soberness.

¹⁶ And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of an exceedingly loud trumpet. And all the people who were in the camp trembled. ¹⁷ And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the lower part of the mount. ¹⁸ And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because LORD descended upon it in fire, and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace. And the whole mount quaked greatly. ¹⁹ And when the voice of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

¹ And God spoke all these words, saying, ² I am LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ³ Thou shall have no other gods before me. ⁴ Thou shall not make to thee a graven image, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ⁵ Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me, ⁶ and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. ⁷ Thou shall not take the name of LORD thy God in vain, for LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. ⁸ Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. ⁹ Six days thou shall labor, and do all thy work, ¹⁰ but the seventh day is a sabbath to LORD thy God. Thou shall not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, ¹¹ for in six days LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. ¹² Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee. ¹³ Thou shall not murder. ¹⁴ Thou shall not commit adultery. ¹⁵ Thou shall not steal. ¹⁶ Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor. ¹⁷ Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is thy neighbor's. ¹⁸ And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off. ¹⁹ And they said to Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear, but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

²² And LORD said to Moses, Thus thou shall say to the sons of Israel, Ye yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

¹² And LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. Ye heard the voice of words, but ye saw no form, only a voice.

³³ Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou have heard, and live?

³ LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. ⁴ LORD spoke with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire ⁵ (I stood between LORD and you at that time, to show you the word of LORD, for ye were afraid because of the fire, and did not go up onto the mount), saying, ⁶ I am LORD thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ⁷ Thou shall have no other gods before me. ⁸ Thou shall not make to thee a graven image: any likeness that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ⁹ Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me, ¹⁰ and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. ¹¹ Thou shall not take the name of LORD thy God in vain, for LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. ¹² Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as LORD thy God commanded thee. ¹³ Six days thou shall labor, and do all thy work, ¹⁴ but the seventh day is a sabbath to LORD thy God: thou shall not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thy donkey, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou. ¹⁵ And thou shall remember that thou were a servant in the land of Egypt, and LORD thy God brought thee out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm, therefore LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day. ¹⁶ Honor thy father and thy mother, as LORD thy God commanded thee, that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee in the land which LORD thy God gives thee. ¹⁷ Thou shall not murder. ¹⁸ Neither shall thou commit adultery. ¹⁹ Neither shall thou steal. ²⁰ Neither shall thou bear false witness against thy neighbor. ²¹ Neither shall thou covet thy neighbor's wife. Neither shall thou desire thy neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is thy neighbor's. ²² These words LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice, and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tablets of stone, and gave them to me.

²⁴ And ye said, Behold, LORD our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man, and he lives. ²⁵ Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of LORD our God any more, then we shall die. ²⁶ For who is there of all flesh, who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? ²⁷ Go thou near, and hear all that LORD our God shall say. And speak thou to us all that LORD our God shall speak to thee, and we will hear it, and do it.

¹⁶ according to all that thou desired of LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.

⁵² in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For it will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be transformed.

¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of the arch-agent, and with a trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first,

¹² And thou shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye not go up onto the mount, or touch the border of it. Whoever touches the mount shall be surely put to death; ¹³ no hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through, whether it be beast or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mount.

¹⁶ And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of an exceedingly loud trumpet. And all the people who were in the camp trembled.

² And he said, LORD came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shined forth from mount Paran, and he came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

¹⁹ Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God. ²⁰ Because from works of law no flesh will be made right before him, for through law is knowledge of sin.

¹⁹ For I, through law, died to law, so that I might live to God.

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.

¹⁹ And when the voice of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

¹⁹ For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But LORD hearkened to me that time also.

¹²⁰ My flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments.

³ And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is LORD of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory. ⁴ And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who cried, and the house was filled with vapor. ⁵ Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of hosts.

⁸ So I was left alone, and saw this great vision. And there remained no strength in me, for my fitness was turned in me into debility, and I retained no strength.

¹⁷ For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, straightaway there remained no strength in me, nor was there breath left in me.

²⁶ For who is there of all flesh, who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

¹⁰ And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite.

⁴ It may be that LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which LORD thy God has heard. Therefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

⁶ Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

² Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

¹⁷ The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands. The Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the sanctuary.

² My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God.

³ Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

¹³ For LORD has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. ¹⁴ This is my resting place forever. Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.

⁶ Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.

³² What then shall a man answer the messengers of the nation? That LORD has founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.

¹⁶ Therefore thus says the lord LORD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation. He who believes in him shall, no, not be shamed.

¹¹ And the ransomed of LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads. They shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

¹⁶ And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, Thou are my people.

²⁰ And he who redeems will come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says LORD.

¹⁴ And the sons of those who afflicted thee shall come bending to thee. And all those who despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet. And they shall call thee The city of LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁰ But LORD is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.

²⁶ I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, and steadfast forever. And his kingdom is that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even to the end.

¹⁰ A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set, and the books were opened.

¹⁰ Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said to them, The sons of the living God.

³² And it shall come to pass, that whoever shall call on the name of LORD shall be saved. For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as LORD has said, and among the remnant those whom LORD calls.

³⁵ nor by the earth, because it is the footstool of his feet, nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.

¹⁶ And Simon Peter having answered, said, Thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

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

²⁶ And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written, The man who delivers will come from Zion, and will turn away impiety from Jacob.

²⁶ But the Jerusalem above is free, which is mother of us all.

⁹ For they report about us what kind of entrance we had with you, and how ye turned to God from the idols to serve a living and true God,

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?

³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

¹⁰ For he anticipated the city that has the foundations, whose builder and architect is God.

¹⁴ For here we have no enduring city, but we seek that which is coming.

¹⁴ And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men, saying, Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,

¹² He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will, no, not go out any more. And I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem (it comes down out of the heaven from my God), and my new name.

¹¹ And I looked, and I heard as a voice of many agents all around the throne and the living creatures and the elders. And the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands, 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!

² And I saw another agent ascending from the rising of the sun, having a seal of the living God. And he cried out in a great voice to the four agents to whom it was given to them to harm the earth and the sea,

¹ And I looked, and lo, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with it a number, a hundred and forty-four thousand, having its name and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

² And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having been prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

¹⁰ And he carried me away in spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

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.

²⁵ That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

²² And thou shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says LORD, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

² Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the sons of Israel. Both of man and of beast, it is mine.

³² Yet now, if thou will forgive their sin-, and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou have written.

¹⁷ But he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the one regarded inferior, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

⁵ Gather my sanctified together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. ⁶ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God is judge himself. Selah.

²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

⁷ a God very awesome in the council of the holy ones, and to be feared above all those who are round about him?

²⁷ I also will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

² Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth. Render to the proud a recompense.

¹³ before LORD, for he comes. For he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his truth.

⁹ before LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

¹ Praise ye LORD. I will give thanks to LORD with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.

⁹ They shall come with weeping. And I will lead them with supplications. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble. For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

³¹ But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the holy agents with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. ³² And all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from each other, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. ³³ And he will truly place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left. ³⁴ Then the King will say to those at his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

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.

²⁷ And he also gave him authority to execute judgment because he is a son of man.

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.

⁴⁹ And just as we have worn the form of the earthly, we will also wear the form of the heavenly.

⁵⁴ But when this perishable will have put on imperishability, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come to pass the saying that is written, Death was swallowed up in victory.

⁸ And we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be at home near the Lord.

²² And he subordinated all things under his feet, and appointed him head over all things for the church,

²⁴ But as the church is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. ²² But if to live in flesh, this is fruit of labor to me, then what I will choose I know not. ²³ And I am constrained by the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, being far better.

¹² Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brothers, I reckon myself not to have seized, but one thing, indeed forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead, ¹⁴ I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ As many therefore as are perfect should think this way. And if ye think anything differently, this also God will reveal to you. ¹⁶ However in what we have attained, to march by the same standard, to think the same way. ¹⁷ Brothers, become fellow-imitators of me, and watch those who so walk, just as ye have us for an example. ¹⁸ For many walk, who (I told you often, and now also say while weeping) are enemies of the cross of Christ, ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory in their shame, who mind earthly things. ²⁰ For our citizenship exists in the heavens, from which also we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ who will transform the body of our lowliness, in order for it to become similar in form to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power even to subject all things to himself.

³ Yes, I ask thee also, genuine yokefellow, help them-the women who labored with me in the good news-with Clement also, and the rest of my co-workmen whose names are in the book of life.

¹² Giving thanks to the Father who made us qualified for the share of the portion of the sanctified in light.

²⁴ I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and make complete in my flesh things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ for his body, which is the church.

⁵ being evidence of the righteous judgment of God, for you to be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also ye suffer. ⁶ Since it is a righteous thing according to God to repay restriction to those who restrict you, ⁷ and relief with us, to you who are restricted, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his agents of power

⁵ (but if any man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of a congregation of God?),

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of love that ye showed toward his name, having served the sanctified, and who are serving. ¹¹ And we earnestly desire each of you to show the same diligence toward the full assurance of the hope until the end, ¹² so that ye may not become lazy, but imitators of those who, through faith and longsuffering, inherit the promises.

²⁷ And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, judgment,

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, because of which he was reported to be righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through it, he who died still speaks.

⁴⁰ God having foreseen something superior concerning us, so that without us they would not be made fully perfect.

¹⁸ Having deliberated, he begot us by the word of truth for us to be a certain first fruit of his creatures.

²³ Who, being reviled, did not revile in return. Suffering, he did not threaten, but yielded to him who judges righteously.

¹⁴ And I said to him, My lord, thou know. And he said to me, These are those coming out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Because of this they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple. And he who sits on the throne will dwell among them. ¹⁶ They will hunger no more, nor will they thirst any more. The sun will, no, not fall upon them, nor any heat. ¹⁷ Because the Lamb in the midst of the throne will tend them, and will lead them to fountains of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

⁸ And all who dwell upon the earth will worship it, whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb who was killed from the foundation of the world.

⁴ These are men who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were purchased by Jesus, out of men, a first fruit to God and to the Lamb.

¹⁵ And if any man was found not written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

¹⁰ And he said, What have thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

⁸ And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that LORD has made with you concerning all these words.

³ Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the faithful holy things of David.

³¹ Behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, ³² not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says LORD. ³³ But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says LORD: I will give my laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

³⁵ so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

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

²⁴ And he said to them, This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.

⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I say to you, it will be required of this generation.

²⁰ Likewise also the cup after dining, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood being shed for you.

⁵ For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Jesus Christ,

²² By so much, Jesus has become the surety of a better covenant.

⁶ But now he has obtained a superior ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a superior covenant, which has been enacted upon superior promises.

⁸ For, finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, and I will perfect a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

¹⁵ And because of this he is mediator of a new covenant, so that a death having occurred for the redemption of the transgressions against the first covenant, those who are called might take the promise of the eternal inheritance.

²¹ And likewise he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service.

²² let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed in pure water.

²⁸ By faith he performed the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who was destroying the firstborn would not touch them.

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.

²⁹ See, because LORD has given you the sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Abide ye every man in his place. Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

¹⁵ For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness, and ye will destroy all this people.

¹⁷ But if thy heart turns away, and thou will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them,

¹⁶ Thus says the whole congregation of LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following LORD, in that ye have built for you an altar, to rebel this day against LORD?

¹⁶ And when all Israel saw that the king did not hearken to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel. Now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.

¹⁹ But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them,

²⁴ Because I have called, and ye have refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man has regarded,

³² For the backsliding of the simple shall kill them, and the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.

³³ Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it.

¹⁸ Poverty and shame are to him who refuses correction, but he who regards reproof shall be honored.

³² He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who hearkens to reproof gets understanding.

⁶ Thou have heard it, behold all this, and ye, will ye not declare it? I have shown thee new things from this time, even hidden things, which thou have not known.

⁹ Be not angry very severely, O LORD, nor remember iniquity forever. Behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

¹⁰ They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

⁶ And she has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her, for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.

¹¹ But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

⁴ And Jesus says to him, See thou speak to no man, but go, show thyself to the priest, and bring the gift that Moses commanded for a testimony to them.

⁵ While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.

³⁵ This Moses whom they refused, having said, Who appointed thee a ruler and a judge? This man God sent, a ruler and a liberator by the hand of the agent who appeared to him in the bush.

⁴ and will indeed turn the ear away from the truth, and will be turned aside to myths.

¹ Because of this we ought to give more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest we might slip away. ² For if the word spoken through agents became certain, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward, 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;

¹⁷ But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

⁵ who serve for an example and shadow of the heavenly things. Just as Moses who was divinely warned while going to complete the tabernacle, for he says, See thou make all things according to the pattern that was shown thee on the mountain.

⁷ By faith Noah, being divinely warned about things not yet seen, moved with awe, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became an heir of righteousness according to faith.

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,

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!

¹⁸ And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because LORD descended upon it in fire, and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace. And the whole mount quaked greatly.

⁶ Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams, ye little hills, like lambs? ⁷ Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

¹⁹ And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

¹³ Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

¹⁶ And LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake. But LORD will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the sons of Israel.

¹⁰ The mountains saw thee, and were afraid. The tempest of waters passed by. The deep uttered its voice, and lifted up its hands on high.

⁶ For thus says LORD of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. ⁷ And I will shake all nations, and the precious things of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, says LORD of hosts.

²² And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. And I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. And the horses and their riders shall come down, each one by the sword of his brother.

²⁷ And the, Yet once, signifies the removal of the things being shaken-as of things that were made-so that the things not being shaken may remain.

²⁶ They shall perish, but thou shall endure. Yea, all of them shall grow old like a garment. As a vesture thou shall change them, and they shall be changed, ²⁷ but thou are the same, and thy years shall have no end.

²⁷ I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also shall be no more, until he comes whose right it is. And I will give it.

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

³¹ and those who use this world, as not making full use, for the form of this world passes away.

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. ¹¹ Therefore, all these things being disintegrated, what kind ought ye to be in holy actions and pieties,

¹⁵ And the seventh agent sounded, and great voices occurred in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will reign into the ages of the ages.

¹ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more.

³ Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in those who come near me. And I will be glorified before all the people. And Aaron remained silent.

¹¹ Serve LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.

²⁴ He who robs his father or his mother, and says, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.

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.

⁷ even them I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

⁴⁴ And in the days of those kings the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty of it be left to another people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

¹⁴ And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

²⁷ And the kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the sanctified of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

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

³³ And he will reign over the house of Jacob into the ages. And of his kingdom there will be no end.

²⁰ And questioned by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God comes, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation, ²¹ nor will they say, Lo, here! or, Lo, there! For behold, the kingdom of God is inside of you.

²⁰ Correct! They were broken off for their unbelief, and thou stand by thy faith. Be not high-minded but fear,

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. 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.

⁶ for appreciation of the glory of his grace, by which he blessed us in him who is beloved.

¹⁰ proving what is acceptable to the Lord.

¹⁸ But I receive all things, and I abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an aroma of fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice well-pleasing to God.

⁶ but Christ as a Son over his house, whose house we are, if only we keep in possession our confidence and pride of hope, firm until the end.

¹⁶ Let us therefore come near with boldness to the throne of grace, so that we may take mercy, and may find grace for timely help.

⁷ Who, in the days of his flesh, having offered up both prayers and supplications with strong shouting and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and who was heard because of his reverence,

¹⁹ Having therefore, brothers, boldness for entrance into the holy things by the blood of Jesus,

²² let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed in pure water. ²³ Let us hold firm the affirmation of the hope unwavering, for he who promised is faithful.

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

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.

¹⁷ And if ye call on a Father, him who judges impartially according to each man's work, live the time of your sojourn in fear.

²⁰ For what kind of credit is it, if, sinning and being beaten, ye will endure? But if, doing good and suffering, ye will endure, this is graciousness with God.

⁶ and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

¹⁰ And thou made them kings and priests to our God, and they will reign over the earth.

⁴ Who will, no, not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name, because thou alone are holy? Because all the nations will come and worship before thee, because thy righteous deeds were made known.

¹ And the people were as murmurers, speaking evil in the ears of LORD. And when LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of LORD burnt among them, and devoured in the outermost part of the camp.

³⁵ And fire came forth from LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men who offered the incense.

²⁴ For LORD thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

³ Know therefore this day, that LORD thy God is he who goes over before thee as a devouring fire. He will destroy them, and he will bring them down before thee. So thou shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as LORD has spoken to thee.

³ Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him.

³ A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries round about.

¹⁵ For, behold, LORD will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind, to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

⁹ I beheld till thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat. His raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, and the wheels of it burning fire.

⁸ in a fire of flame rendering vengeance to those who have not known God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and of fire, a fervor that is going to devour the opposition.