Matthew 10 Cross References - ACV

¹ And having called in his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, so as to cast them out, and to heal every sickness and every disease. ² Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: First, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, ³ Philip, and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector, James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus who was surnamed Thaddaeus, ⁴ Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. ⁵ These twelve Jesus sent forth, having ordered them, saying, Go not into a way of the Gentiles, and enter not into a city of the Samaritans, ⁶ but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷ And while going, preach, saying, The kingdom of the heavens has come near. ⁸ Heal those who are feeble, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely ye received, freely give. ⁹ Acquire no gold, nor silver, nor copper in your belts, ¹⁰ no bag for the road, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor staffs, for the workman is worthy of his provision. ¹¹ And into whatever city or village ye may enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there abide until ye go forth. ¹² And while entering into the house, salute it. ¹³ And if indeed the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. ¹⁴ And whoever will not receive you, nor hear your words, while departing that house or that city, shake off the dust of your feet. ¹⁵ Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city. ¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. Become ye therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doves. ¹⁷ But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues, ¹⁸ and ye will be brought to governors and even kings because of me, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye should speak, for it will be given you in that hour what ye will speak. ²⁰ For ye are not who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking in you. ²¹ And a brother will deliver up a brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and condemn them to death. 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. ²³ But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the other, for truly I say to you, ye will, no, not have completed the cities of Israel, until the Son of man comes. 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. ²⁶ Fear them not therefore, for there is nothing covered, that will not be revealed, and hid, that will not be known. ²⁷ What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light, and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the housetops. ²⁸ And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. ²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall on the ground independent of your Father. ³⁰ But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. ³¹ Fear not therefore, ye are of worth more than many sparrows. ³² Therefore every man, whoever will profess in me before men, I also will profess in him before my Father in the heavens. ³³ But whoever would deny me before men, I also will deny him before my Father in the heavens. ³⁴ Think not that I came to spread peace on the earth. I came not to spread peace, but a sword. ³⁵ For I came to divide a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. ³⁶ And a man's foes, are those of his own household. 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. ³⁹ He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life because of me will find it. ⁴⁰ He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me. ⁴¹ He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward. ⁴² And whoever may give to drink one of these little ones merely a cold cup in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you he will, no, not lose his reward.

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

²⁸ And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that ye who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man will sit on the throne of his glory, ye also will sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

²⁰ Now having become evening, he was sitting with the twelve.

⁴⁷ And while he was still speaking, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs from the chief priest and elders of the people.

¹⁸ And Jesus having come, he spoke to them, saying, All authority in heaven and on earth was given to me. ¹⁹ After going, make ye disciples of all the nations, immersing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

¹³ And he goes up onto the mountain, and calls in those whom he himself wanted, and they went to him. ¹⁴ And he appointed twelve men, so that they might be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, ¹⁵ and to have authority to heal diseases and to cast out demons.

⁷ And he summons the twelve, and began to send them forth in pairs. And he gave them authority over the unclean spirits. ⁸ And he commanded them that they should take up nothing for the way, except only a staff-no scrip, no bread, no copper in the belt- ⁹ but shod with sandals, and, Do not wear two coats. ¹⁰ And he said to them, Wherever ye enter into a house, lodge there until ye depart from there. ¹¹ And as many as might not receive you nor hear you, as ye depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony to them. Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city. ¹² And having departed, they preached that men should repent. ¹³ And they cast out many demons, and anointed many feeble men with olive oil, and healed them.

¹⁷ And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will cast out demons. They will speak in new tongues. ¹⁸ They will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly, it will, no, not harm them. They will lay hands on the feeble, and they will fare well.

¹³ And when it became day, he called his disciples, and chose twelve from them, whom he also named apostles:

¹ And having summoned the twelve, he gave them power and authority over all demons, and to heal diseases. ² And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal those who were incapacitated. ³ And he said to them, Take nothing for the way, neither staffs, nor bag, nor bread, nor silver, nor have two coats each. ⁴ And into whatever house ye may enter, remain there, and from there depart. ⁵ And as many as will not receive you, when departing from that city, also shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony against them. ⁶ And having departed, they passed through the villages, preaching the good news, and healing everywhere.

¹⁹ Behold, I give you authority to tread over serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and, no, nothing will harm you.

¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom that all those who oppose you will not be able to contradict or to resist.

⁴⁹ And behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you. But stay ye in the city until ye are clothed with power from on high.

²⁷ John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it is given to him from heaven.

³⁵ The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

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

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.

²¹ Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace to you. As the Father has sent me, I also send you. ²² And after saying this, he breathed on them, and says to them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit. ²³ If ye forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them. If ye retain of any, they are retained.

⁸ But ye will receive the power of the Holy Spirit that comes upon you. And ye will be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and as far as of the extremity of the earth.

¹⁵ And ye killed the Pathfinder of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. ¹⁶ And by faith in his name, this man whom ye see and know, his name has made strong. And faith through him has given him this complete soundness in the presence of you all.

¹⁵ And having answered, the evil spirit said, I know Jesus and I recognize Paul, but who are ye?

¹ And a great sign was seen in heaven. A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and a crown of twelve stars upon her head.

¹² which has a great and high wall having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve agents, and names inscribed, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel: ¹³ from the east, three gates, and from the north, three gates, and from the south, three gates, and from the west, three gates. ¹⁴ And the wall of the city having twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁸ And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

²¹ And having gone on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. And he called them.

¹⁶ And Simon Peter having answered, said, Thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God. ¹⁷ And having answered, Jesus said to him, Blessed are thou, Simon Bar-jonah, because flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, but my Father in the heavens. ¹⁸ And I also say to thee, that thou are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

¹ And after six days Jesus takes Peter, and James, and John his brother, and brings them up onto a high mountain in private.

²⁰ Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, worshiping, and asking something from him.

³⁷ And having taken Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and distressed.

¹⁶ And walking beside the sea of Galilee he saw Simon and Andrew his brother, the son of Simon, casting a net in the sea, for they were fishermen. ¹⁷ And Jesus said to them, Come ye behind me, and I will make you to become fishermen of men.

²⁹ And straightaway, when they came forth out of the synagogue they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

¹⁶ And he added to Simon the name Peter; ¹⁷ and James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and he added to them the name Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder; ¹⁸ and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite, ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. And they come to a house.

³ And as he sat upon the mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew questioned him privately,

¹⁰ and likewise also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Fear not, from henceforth thou will be catching men.

¹³ And when it became day, he called his disciples, and chose twelve from them, whom he also named apostles: ¹⁴ Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, ¹⁵ Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, ¹⁶ Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot who also became a traitor.

¹⁰ And when the apostles returned, they related to him as many things as they did. And having taken them along, he withdrew in private into a desolate place of a city called Bethsaida.

⁴⁹ Because of this also the wisdom of God said, I will send to them prophets and apostles. And some of them they will kill and persecute,

⁸ And he sent Peter and John, saying, After departing, prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.

¹⁴ And when the hour came, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.

⁴⁰ Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard from John and who followed him. ⁴¹ This man first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found the Messiah (which is, being interpreted, Christ). ⁴² And he brought him to Jesus. And having seen him, Jesus said, Thou are Simon the son of Jonah. Thou will be called Cephas (which is interpreted, Peter).

⁸ One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, says to him,

²² Philip comes and tells Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.

²³ And one of his disciples whom Jesus loved was sitting at Jesus' bosom.

² Therefore she runs and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and says to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher, and we know not where they have laid him.

² There were together, Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other men of his disciples.

²⁰ But Peter, having turned around, sees the disciple whom Jesus loves, following, who also leaned near his chest at the supper, and said, Lord, who is the man betraying thee?

²⁴ This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and who wrote these things. And we know that his testimony is true.

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

²⁶ And they gave their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

¹ Now at the same time Peter and John were going up into the temple, at the hour of prayer, the ninth.

² And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

⁷ Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,

¹¹ And indeed he gave the apostles, and the prophets, and the evangelists, and the shepherds and teachers

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

¹ Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen who are sojourners of the Dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

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

³ 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. ⁴ And we write these things to you, so that our joy may be made full.

¹ The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who know the truth,

¹ The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.

¹ The Revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave him to show his bondmen what must happen quickly. And he signified it, having sent by his agent to his bondman John

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.

²⁰ Be glad over her, thou heaven, and the sanctified, and the apostles, and the prophets, because God has decreed your judgment of her.

⁸ And I am John, the man hearing and seeing these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the agent showing me these things.

⁹ And passing forth from there, Jesus saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And he says to him, Follow me. And after rising, he followed him.

⁵⁶ among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

¹⁴ And as he passed by he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office. And he says to him, Follow thou me. And having risen, he followed him.

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

²⁷ And after these things he went forth and saw a tax collector, named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And he said to him, Follow me.

⁴³ On the morrow he wanted to go forth into Galilee, and he finds Philip. And Jesus says to him, Follow me. ⁴⁴ Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵ Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets wrote: Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth. ⁴⁶ And Nathanael said to him, What good can be from Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.

⁵ Jesus therefore having lifted up his eyes, and having seen that a great multitude comes to him, he says to Philip, From where will we buy loaves, so that these may eat? ⁶ But he said this testing him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. ⁷ Philip answered him, Loaves of two hundred denarii of bread are not sufficient for them, so that each of them may take a little something.

¹⁶ Therefore Thomas, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.

²¹ These men therefore came to Philip, the man from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, Sir, we want to see Jesus. ²² Philip comes and tells Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.

⁹ Jesus says to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and thou do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. And how can thou say, Show us the Father?

²² Judas (not Iscariot) says to him, Lord, and what has happened that thou are going to manifest thyself to us, and not to the world?

²⁴ But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. ²⁵ The other disciples therefore said to him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I may see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will, no, not believe. ²⁶ And after eight days his disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus comes, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace to you. ²⁷ Then he says to Thomas, Bring thy finger here, and see my hands, and bring thy hand, and put into my side, and do not become faithless, but believing. ²⁸ Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God. ²⁹ Jesus says to him, Because thou have seen me, thou have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.

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

¹³ And after they were quiet, James answered, saying, Men, brothers, hear me.

¹⁸ And on the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present.

¹⁹ But I did not see another of the apostles except James the Lord's brother.

⁹ and James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, when they understood the grace that was given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship. So that we were for the Gentiles, and they for men of circumcision,

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

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

¹⁴ Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, having gone to the chief priests,

³ Then Judas, who betrayed him, after seeing that he was condemned, having repented, he brought back the thirty silver pieces to the chief priests and elders,

¹⁰ And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, so that he might betray him to them.

⁴³ And straightaway, while he still spoke, Judas, being one of the twelve, comes, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs from the chief priests, and the scholars, and the elders.

³ And Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.

⁴⁷ While he yet spoke, behold, a multitude, and the man called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them. And he came near to Jesus to kiss him.

⁷¹ But he spoke of Judas Iscariot son of Simon. For this man, being one of the twelve, was going to betray him.

² And supper having occurred, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, that he would betray him,

²⁶ Jesus replies, He is that man to whom I, having dipped the morsel, will give. And when he dipped the morsel, he gives it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. ²⁷ And after the morsel, then Satan entered into that man. Jesus therefore says to him, What thou do, do more quickly. ²⁸ But no man who was sitting knew why he said this to him. ²⁹ For some thought, since Judas had the purse, that Jesus said to him, Buy what things we have need of for the feast, or that he should give something to the poor. ³⁰ Therefore having received the morsel, straightaway that man went out, and it was night.

² Now Judas, the man betraying him, had also known the place, because Jesus also often gathered there with his disciples. ³ Judas therefore having received the band and subordinates from the chief priests and the Pharisees, comes there with lanterns and torches and weapons. ⁴ Jesus therefore knowing all the things that were coming upon him, after going forth, he says to them, Whom seek ye? ⁵ They answered him, Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus says to them, I am he. And Judas, the man betraying him had also stood with them.

¹⁶ Men, brothers, it was necessary for this scripture to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David about Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus, ¹⁷ because he was numbered with us, and received a share of this ministry. ¹⁸ (Indeed therefore this man obtained a field from the reward of his unrighteousness, and having become headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. ¹⁹ And it became known to all those dwelling at Jerusalem, so as to call that field in their own dialect, Akeldama, that is, The field of blood.) ²⁰ For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation become desolate, and let no man be dwelling in it, and, Let another take his office.

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

²⁴ And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the sons of Israel. And they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities of it. ²⁵ And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they were not afraid of LORD. Therefore LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them. ²⁶ Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou have carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria know not the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and, behold, they kill them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land. ²⁷ Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry there one of the priests whom ye brought from there, and let them go and dwell there. And let him teach them the law of the god of the land. ²⁸ So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear LORD. ²⁹ However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. ³⁰ And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, ³¹ and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak. And the Sepharvites burnt their sons in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. ³² So they were afraid of LORD, and made for them priests of the high places from among themselves, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. ³³ They were afraid of LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away. ³⁴ To this day they do after the former manner. They do not fear LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which LORD commanded the sons of Jacob, whom he named Israel, ³⁵ with whom LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them. ³⁶ But LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, him ye shall fear, and to him ye shall bow yourselves, and to him ye shall sacrifice. ³⁷ And the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore. And ye shall not fear other gods. ³⁸ And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget. Neither shall ye fear other gods, ³⁹ but ye shall ye fear LORD your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. ⁴⁰ However they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. ⁴¹ So these nations were afraid of LORD, and served their graven images, their sons likewise, and their son's sons, as did their fathers, so do they to this day.

¹⁵ The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,

³ And he sent forth his bondmen to call those who were invited to the wedding festivities, and they did not want to come.

² And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal those who were incapacitated.

⁵² And he sent agents before his face, and they went. And having gone, they entered into a village of Samaritans, so as to make ready for him. ⁵³ And they did not receive him, because his face was going to Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ And his disciples James and John having seen, they said, Lord, do thou want that we should call fire to come down from the sky, and consume them, as also Elijah did?

¹ Now after these things the Lord also appointed seventy other men, and sent them by twos before his face into every city and place where he himself was going to come.

³³ But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to him, and when he saw him, felt compassion.

¹⁶ And he fell upon his face beside his feet giving him thanks. And he was a Samaritan.

⁵ So he comes to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the place that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

⁹ The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How do thou, being Jewish, ask to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman, for Jews do not associate with Samaritans?

²⁰ Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.

²² Ye worship what ye do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. ²³ But an hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for also the Father seeks such kind who worship him. ²⁴ God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

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. ⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to him they asked him to remain with them, and he remained there two days.

³⁵ The Jews therefore said among themselves, Where is this man going to go that we will not find him? Is he going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

⁴⁸ Therefore the Jews answered and said to him, Do we not say well that thou are a Samaritan, and have a demon?

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

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

⁵ And Philip, who went down to a city of Samaria, proclaimed the Christ to them. ⁶ And the multitudes unanimously heeded the things that were spoken by Philip during their listening and seeing the signs that he did. ⁷ For of many of those who had unclean spirits, they came out, crying in a great voice. And many who were paralyzed, and who were lame, were healed. ⁸ And there became great joy in that city. ⁹ But a certain man in the city, Simon by name, was formerly practicing sorcery, and fascinating the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be some great man, ¹⁰ to whom they gave heed, from small to great, saying, This man is the great power of God. ¹¹ And they heeded him, because he fascinated them for a considerable time with the sorceries. ¹² But when they believed Philip preaching good news, the things about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were immersed, both men and women. ¹³ And Simon himself also believed. And after being immersed, he was continuing with Philip. And seeing miracles and signs occurring, he was astonished. ¹⁴ Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria has received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, ¹⁵ who, when they came down, prayed for them, so that they might receive the Holy Spirit, ¹⁶ for it was not yet fallen upon any of them. They were only immersed in the name of the Christ Jesus. ¹⁷ Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he brought money to them, ¹⁹ saying, Give me also this power, so that on whomever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit. ²⁰ But Peter said to him, Thy silver with thee, may it be for destruction, because thou thought to obtain the gift of God by money. ²¹ There is no part nor lot for thee in this matter, for thy heart is not straight in the sight of God. ²² Repent therefore from this thine evil, and beg God, if perhaps the thought of thy heart will be forgiven thee. ²³ For I perceive that thou are in the gall of bitterness and the bond of unrighteousness. ²⁴ And having answered, Simon said, Beg ye to the Lord for me, so that none of which things ye have spoken may come upon me. ²⁵ Indeed therefore, having solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, and preached the good news in many villages of the Samaritans.

⁴⁵ And the faithful men of circumcision were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because also on the Gentiles the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out.

²¹ And he said to me, Depart, because I will send thee far away to Gentiles. ²² And they heard him until this word. And they lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a man from the earth, for he is not fit to live. ²³ And of them crying out, and throwing off their garments, and casting dust into the air,

⁸ And I say, Christ Jesus became a helper of men of circumcision, for the sake of God's truth (in order to confirm the promises of the fathers), ⁹ and the Gentiles, for the sake of mercy, to glorify God, as it is written, Because of this I will give thanks to thee among Gentiles, and will sing to thy name.

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

¹⁷⁶ I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.

⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way, and LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

⁶ My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting-place.

¹⁷ Israel is a hunted sheep, the lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

⁶ My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill. Yea, my sheep were scattered upon all the face of the earth, and there was none who searched or sought.

⁸ As I live, says the lord LORD, surely inasmuch as my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and did not feed my sheep,

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

²⁴ But having answered, he said, I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ²⁵ But having come, she worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me. ²⁶ And having answered, he said, It is not right to take the children's bread and cast it to the house dogs.

¹⁰ See that ye not disparage one of these little ones, for I say to you, that in the heavens their agents do always behold the face of my Father in the heavens.

³ And he spoke this parable to them, saying, ⁴ What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go for that which was lost until he finds it? ⁵ And when he finds it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ⁶ And when he comes to the house, he calls together his men friends and his men neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost. ⁷ I say to you, that thus there will be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous men who have no need of repentance. ⁸ Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she finds it? ⁹ And when she has found it, she calls together her lady friends and lady neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, because I found the drachma that I lost. ¹⁰ Thus I say to you, there becomes joy in the presence of the agents of God over one sinner who repents.

⁴⁷ and to proclaim in his name repentance and remission of sins for all the nations, having begun from Jerusalem.

²⁶ To you first, having raised up his Boy Jesus, God sent him blessing you, in turning away each man from your evils.

⁴⁶ But having spoken boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken first to you, but since ye thrust it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

⁶ But when they opposed and slandered him, having shaken out his clothes, he said to them, Your blood is upon your heads. I am clean. From henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

²⁰ but declaring first to those at Damascus and then at Jerusalem, and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, to repent and return to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

²⁵ And being discord among each other, they departed after Paul spoke one thing, saying, Well spoke the Holy Spirit through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, ²⁶ saying, Go thou to this people, and say, Hearing ye will hear, and will, no, not understand, and seeing ye will see, and will, no, not perceive. ²⁷ For this people's heart was made fat, and they hear heavily with the ears. And they shut their eyes, lest they may perceive with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and should turn, and I would heal them. ²⁸ Be it known to you therefore, that the salvation of God was sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear.

¹¹ I say then, did they stumble so that they would fall? May it not happen! But in their transgression, salvation is to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy. ¹² Now if their transgression is wealth of the world, and their failure is wealth of Gentiles, how much more their fullness? ¹³ For I speak to you the Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of Gentiles, I enhance my ministry, ¹⁴ if somehow I may provoke my flesh to jealousy and may save some of them. ¹⁵ For if the casting away of them is reconciliation of the world, what is the acceptance except life from the dead?

²⁵ For ye were like sheep going astray, but now were returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

¹ The Spirit of the lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, and the opening of bonds to those who are bound,

² Repent ye, for the kingdom of the heavens has approached.

¹⁷ From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent ye, for the kingdom of the heavens has approached.

¹ And it came to pass when Jesus finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

¹¹ Truly I say to you, among men born of women there has not been raised a greater than John the immerser. Yet the smaller in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he. ¹² And from the days of John the immerser until now the kingdom of the heavens is treated aggressively, and aggressors seize it.

³¹ Which of the two did the will of the father? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Truly I say to you, that the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

⁴³ Because of this I say to you, that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

¹³ Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.

¹² And having departed, they preached that men should repent.

⁶ And having departed, they passed through the villages, preaching the good news, and healing everywhere.

⁶⁰ But Jesus said to him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but thou, after departing, proclaim the kingdom of God.

⁹ And heal the weak in it, and say to them, The kingdom of God has come near to you. ¹⁰ But into whatever city ye enter, and they will not receive you, after departing into the thoroughfares of it, say, ¹¹ Even the dust that clings on us from your city, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know ye this, that the kingdom of God has come near to you.

¹⁶ The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the kingdom of God is proclaimed good news, and every man in it is treated aggressively.

² This man came to him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou have come a teacher from God, for no man can do these signs that thou do if God is not with him.

² being greatly annoyed because of their teaching the people, and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

²⁵ And when it came about for Peter to enter, Cornelius, having met him, after falling down at his feet, worshiped.

³¹ preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

¹⁵ And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him. And he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, take a present from thy servant. ¹⁶ But he said, As LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it, but he refused.

²⁰ But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As LORD lives, I will run after him, and take something from him. ²¹ So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? ²² And he said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even now there come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of raiment. ²³ And Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his servants, and they bore them before him. ²⁴ And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house, and he let the men go, and they departed. ²⁵ But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, From where did thou come, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went nowhere. ²⁶ And he said to him, Did not my heart go with thee when the man turned from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and maid-servants? ²⁷ The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cling to thee, and to thy seed forever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

¹ And having called in his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, so as to cast them out, and to heal every sickness and every disease.

¹⁸ They will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly, it will, no, not harm them. They will lay hands on the feeble, and they will fare well.

⁹ And heal the weak in it, and say to them, The kingdom of God has come near to you.

⁶ But Peter said, No silver and gold exists to me, but what I have, this I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise up and walk.

⁹ if we are examined today about a good deed, of a feeble man, by what this man has been healed, ¹⁰ be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by this, this man stands here before you healthy.

³⁰ by thy stretching forth thy hand for healing, and signs and wonders to happen through the name of thy holy Boy Jesus.

¹² And by the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders happened among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch. ¹³ But of the rest no man dared join them, but the people magnified them. ¹⁴ And more who believe were added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women, ¹⁵ so as to bring the feeble to the thoroughfares, and to place them on cots and mats, so that while coming, the shadow of Peter might at the least overshadow some of them.

¹⁸ Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he brought money to them, ¹⁹ saying, Give me also this power, so that on whomever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit. ²⁰ But Peter said to him, Thy silver with thee, may it be for destruction, because thou thought to obtain the gift of God by money. ²¹ There is no part nor lot for thee in this matter, for thy heart is not straight in the sight of God. ²² Repent therefore from this thine evil, and beg God, if perhaps the thought of thy heart will be forgiven thee. ²³ For I perceive that thou are in the gall of bitterness and the bond of unrighteousness.

³³ I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. ³⁴ Ye yourselves know that these hands served my needs, and to those who were with me. ³⁵ I gave you a glimpse of all things, that so laboring ye ought to aid the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

⁸ And he commanded them that they should take up nothing for the way, except only a staff-no scrip, no bread, no copper in the belt- ⁹ but shod with sandals, and, Do not wear two coats. ¹⁰ And he said to them, Wherever ye enter into a house, lodge there until ye depart from there. ¹¹ And as many as might not receive you nor hear you, as ye depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony to them. Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

³ And he said to them, Take nothing for the way, neither staffs, nor bag, nor bread, nor silver, nor have two coats each. ⁴ And into whatever house ye may enter, remain there, and from there depart. ⁵ And as many as will not receive you, when departing from that city, also shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

⁴ Carry no bag, no pouch, no shoes, and greet no man on the way. ⁵ And into whatever house ye enter, first say, Peace to this house. ⁶ And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him, and if not, it will return to you. ⁷ And remain in the same house eating and drinking from their things, for the workman is worthy of his wage. Do not depart from house to house. ⁸ And into whatever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you. ⁹ And heal the weak in it, and say to them, The kingdom of God has come near to you. ¹⁰ But into whatever city ye enter, and they will not receive you, after departing into the thoroughfares of it, say, ¹¹ Even the dust that clings on us from your city, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know ye this, that the kingdom of God has come near to you. ¹² I say to you, that it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.

³⁵ And he said to them, When I sent you without bag and pouch and shoes, did ye lack anything? And they said, Nothing.

⁷ Who ever enlists in an army at his own wage? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from the fruit of it? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock? ⁸ Do I say these things according to man, or does not the law also say these things? ⁹ For it is written in the law of Moses thou shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Is God concerned about oxen, ¹⁰ or does he speak altogether for our sake? For our sake, for it was written, He who plows ought to plow with hope, and he who threshes with his hope, with hope to share. ¹¹ If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we will reap your carnal things? ¹² If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good news of the Christ. ¹³ Know ye not that those being employed at the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar are partakers at the altar? ¹⁴ And so the Lord commanded those who proclaim the good news to live from the good news. ¹⁵ But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty. ¹⁶ For if I preach the good news, it is not a source of pride for me, for an obligation is laid upon me. And woe is to me if I do not preach the good news. ¹⁷ For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if involuntarily, I have been entrusted with a commission. ¹⁸ What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good news, I may make the good news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good news. ¹⁹ For although being free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that I might gain the more. ²⁰ And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain Jews, to those under law, as under law, so that I might gain those under law, ²¹ to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ), so that I might gain men without law. ²² To the weak I became as weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that by all means I might save some. ²³ And I do this for sake of the good news, so that I might become a fellow participant of it. 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.

⁷ Then Saul said to his servant, But behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God. What have we?

⁴⁰ And he took his staff in his hand, and chose for him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his wallet. And his sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.

¹¹ And having answered, he says to them, He who has two coats, let him share with him not having, and he who has food, let him do likewise.

⁴ Have we no, not a right to eat and to drink? ⁵ Have we no, not a right to lead about a sister wife, as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? ⁶ Or have only I and Barnabas no right not to be occupied earning a living? ⁷ Who ever enlists in an army at his own wage? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from the fruit of it? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock? ⁸ Do I say these things according to man, or does not the law also say these things? ⁹ For it is written in the law of Moses thou shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Is God concerned about oxen, ¹⁰ or does he speak altogether for our sake? For our sake, for it was written, He who plows ought to plow with hope, and he who threshes with his hope, with hope to share. ¹¹ If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we will reap your carnal things? ¹² If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good news of the Christ. ¹³ Know ye not that those being employed at the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar are partakers at the altar? ¹⁴ And so the Lord commanded those who proclaim the good news to live from the good news.

⁶ But let him who is taught in the word share in all good things with him who teaches. ⁷ Be not misled, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows this he will also reap.

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

¹³ Bring the cloak that I left behind at Troas with Carpus when thou come, and the books, especially the parchments.

¹ And the two agents came to Sodom at evening, and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. And he bowed himself with his face to the earth, ² and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, No, but we will abide in the street all night. ³ And he urged them greatly. And they turned in to him, and entered into his house. And he made a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

¹⁶ And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Benjamites. ¹⁷ And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city. And the old man said, Where do thou go? And from where do thou come? ¹⁸ And he said to him, We are passing from Bethlehem-judah to the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem-judah. And I am now going to the house of LORD, and there is no man that takes me into his house. ¹⁹ Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys, and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man who is with thy servants. There is no want of anything. ²⁰ And the old man said, Peace be to thee. However let all thy wants lie upon me, only do not lodge in the street. ²¹ So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. And they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

⁹ Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee. ¹⁰ So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel that I may drink. ¹¹ And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. ¹² And she said, As LORD thy God lives, I do not have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse. And, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it, and die. ¹³ And Elijah said to her, Fear not, go and do as thou have said. But make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, and afterward make for thee and for thy son. ¹⁴ For thus says LORD, the God of Israel, The jar of meal shall not be used up, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that LORD sends rain upon the earth. ¹⁵ And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah. And she, and he, and her house, ate many days. ¹⁶ The jar of meal was not used up, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of LORD, which he spoke by Elijah. ¹⁷ And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick, and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. ¹⁸ And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? Thou have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son! ¹⁹ And he said to her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the chamber where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. ²⁰ And he cried to LORD, and said, O LORD my God, have thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn by slaying her son? ²¹ And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried to LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again. ²² And LORD hearkened to the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. ²³ And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother. And Elijah said, See, thy son lives. ²⁴ And the woman said to Elijah, Now I know that thou are a man of God, and that the word of LORD in thy mouth is truth.

³² (the sojourner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

¹⁰ And he said to them, Wherever ye enter into a house, lodge there until ye depart from there.

⁴ And into whatever house ye may enter, remain there, and from there depart.

⁷ And remain in the same house eating and drinking from their things, for the workman is worthy of his wage. Do not depart from house to house. ⁸ And into whatever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.

³⁸ And it came to pass as they went, he also entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. ³⁹ And she was sister to this woman called Mary, who also, having sat at Jesus' feet, was listening to his word. ⁴⁰ But Martha was encumbered about much serving. And having stood near, she said, Lord, do thou not care that my sister left me behind to serve alone? Speak to her therefore that she may help me. ⁴¹ But having answered, Jesus said to her, Martha, Martha, thou are anxious and troubled about many things, ⁴² but one thing is necessary, and Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.

⁷ And all who saw murmured, saying, He went in to relax with a sinful man.

¹⁵ And when she was immersed, and her household, she urged us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, after coming into my house, remain. And she constrained us.

¹ And after these things Paul having separated from Athens, he came to Corinth. ² And having found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by origin, who recently came from Italy, and his wife Priscilla, because Claudius arranged for all the Jews to separate from Rome, he came to them. ³ And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and was working, for they were of the tentmakers craft.

⁷ For they went forth on behalf of the Name, taking nothing from the Gentiles. ⁸ We therefore ought to welcome such men, so that we might become fellow workmen for the truth.

⁶ And thus ye shall say to him who lives in prosperity, Peace be to thee, and peace be to thy house, and peace be to all that thou have.

⁵ And into whatever house ye enter, first say, Peace to this house. ⁶ And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him, and if not, it will return to you.

³⁶ The word that he sent forth to the sons of Israel, preaching good news, peace by Jesus Christ (this man is Lord of all),

²⁰ We are therefore, ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were calling through us. We plead on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

¹⁴ But I hope to see thee straightaway, and we will speak mouth to mouth. Peace to thee. The friends salute thee. Salute the friends by name.

¹³ But as for me, when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

⁶ And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him, and if not, it will return to you.

¹⁶ to the one an odor of death for death, and to the other an aroma of life for life. And who is adequate for these things?

¹³ Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, who does not perform this promise, even thus be he shaken out and emptied. And all the assembly said, Truly, and praised LORD. And the people did according to this promise.

⁴⁰ He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me. ⁴¹ He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward.

⁵ And whoever will receive one such child in my name receives me.

¹¹ And as many as might not receive you nor hear you, as ye depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony to them. Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

³⁷ Whoever may receive one of such children in my name, receives me, and whoever may receive me, does not receive me, but him who sent me.

⁵ And as many as will not receive you, when departing from that city, also shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

⁴⁸ and he said to them, Whoever may receive this child in my name receives me, and whoever may receive me receives him who sent me, for he who exists smaller among you all, this man will be great.

²⁰ Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives any man whomever I may send, receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

⁵¹ But after shaking off the dust of their feet against them, they came to Iconium.

²⁶ Therefore I solemnly declare to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all men. ²⁷ For I did not withdraw from declaring to you the whole plan of God.

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

⁴⁸ As I live, says the lord LORD, Sodom thy sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as thou have done, thou and thy daughters. ⁴⁹ Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters, and she did not strengthen the hand of a poor and needy man. ⁵⁰ And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away as I saw fit. ⁵¹ Neither has Samaria committed half of thy sins, but thou have multiplied thine abominations more than they, and have justified thy sisters by all thine abominations which thou have done. ⁵² Thou also, bear thou thine own shame, in that thou have given judgment for thy sisters, through thy sins that thou have committed more abominable than they. They are more righteous than thou. Yea, be thou also confounded, and bear thy shame, in that thou have justified thy sisters. ⁵³ And I will turn back again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them, ⁵⁴ that thou may bear thine own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that thou have done, in that thou are a comfort to them. ⁵⁵ And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, and thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate. ⁵⁶ For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,

¹⁸ For truly I say to you, until the heaven and the earth pass away, one iota or one tittle will, no, not pass away from the law, until all things come to pass.

²² Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. ²³ And thou, Capernaum, which was exalted as far as the sky. Thou will be brought down as far as Hades, because if the mighty works had occurred in Sodom that occurred in thee, it would have remained until this day. ²⁴ Nevertheless I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.

³⁶ But I say to you, that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they will render account about it in the day of judgment.

³⁴ Truly I say to you, this generation will, no, not pass away, until all these things happen. ³⁵ The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away.

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.

⁶ and he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, being reduced to ashes, having made an example of men who were going to be irreverent,

⁹ the Lord knows how to rescue the pious out of temptation, and to hold in reserve unrighteous men being cut off for a day of judgment.

⁷ But now the heavens and the earth, which have been stored up by the same word, are being preserved for fire in a day of judgment and destruction of irreverent men.

¹⁷ By this love has been fully perfected with us, so that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because just as that man is, we also are in this world.

¹ Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, Yea, has God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

¹³ And LORD God said to the woman, What is this thou have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.

³ Go ye. Behold, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves.

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

¹⁸ For such kind serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their smooth words and elegant speech they deceive the hearts of the naive. ¹⁹ For your obedience reached to all men. Therefore I rejoice over you, but I want you to be indeed wise in the good and pure in the evil.

²⁰ Brothers, become not children in your thoughts. Instead be childlike in wickedness, but in your thoughts become mature.

¹² For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

²⁰ Arranging this lest any man may criticize us in this bounty administered by us,

³ But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent enticed Eve by his craftiness, so your thoughts might be corrupted from the simplicity in the Christ.

¹⁴ And no marvel, for even Satan disguises himself into an agent of light.

¹⁵ Therefore watch carefully how ye walk, not as unwise but as wise, ¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil. ¹⁷ Because of this do not become foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord.

¹⁵ so that ye may become blameless and pure children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

⁹ Because of this we also, from the day that we heard, cease not praying for you and making request that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

⁵ Walk in wisdom toward those outside, redeeming the time,

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and justly and blamelessly we became to you who believe,

²² Abstain from all appearance of evil.

² And it shall be, if the iniquitous man is deserving to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his iniquity, by number. ³ He may give him forty stripes. He shall not exceed, lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem debased to thee.

⁵ Trust ye not in a neighbor. Put ye not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lies in thy bosom.

²² But I say to you, that every man who is angry at his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment, and whoever speaks an insult to his brother will be liable to the council, and whoever says, Foolish man, will be liable to the hell of fire.

¹⁹ and will deliver him to the Gentiles to ridicule, and to scourge, and to crucify. And the third day he will rise.

³⁴ Because of this, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scholars. And some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city,

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. ¹⁰ And then many will be caused to stumble, and they will betray each other and will hate each other.

⁵⁹ Now the chief priests and the elders and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death,

⁹ But watch ye yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils, and ye will be beaten in synagogues. And ye will be stood before rulers and kings because of me, for a testimony to them.

¹² And brother will betray brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and will condemn them to death.

¹¹ And when they bring you to the synagogues, and the principle positions, and the offices of authority, be not anxious how or what ye should answer in defense, or what ye should say,

¹² But before all these things, they will throw their hands on you, and will persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake. ¹³ But it will go out from you for testimony.

⁴⁷ Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What are we doing? Because this man does many signs.

² They will make you excommunicated from the synagogues. But the hour comes that every man who kills you will presume to be offering service to God.

⁶ and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the high priestly family. ⁷ And after placing them in the midst, they inquired, By what power, or in what name, have ye done this? ⁸ Then Peter being filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, ⁹ if we are examined today about a good deed, of a feeble man, by what this man has been healed, ¹⁰ be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by this, this man stands here before you healthy. ¹¹ This is the stone that was rejected by you who build, which became into the head of the corner. ¹² And salvation is not in any other man, for there is no other name under the heaven, that has been given among men, by which we must be saved. ¹³ Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are illiterate and uneducated men, they marveled. And they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus. ¹⁴ And seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they had nothing to contradict. ¹⁵ But after commanding them to go outside of the council, they conferred among each other, ¹⁶ saying, What will we do to these men? For that indeed a notable sign has happened by them, is apparent to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. ¹⁷ But that it may not spread on further among the people, let us threaten them with threats to speak no longer in this name, to not one man. ¹⁸ And having called them, they commanded them entirely, not to utter nor to teach in the name of Jesus. ¹⁹ But Peter and John having replied to them, they said, Whether it is right in the sight of God to hearken to you rather than God, judge ye. ²⁰ For we are not able not to speak what we saw and heard. ²¹ And they, having further threatened, released them, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people. Since all glorified God for that which happened. ²² For the man was more than forty years old on whom this sign of healing had occurred.

²⁶ Then after departing, the captain with the subordinates brought them, not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they would be stoned. ²⁷ And having brought them, they placed them in the council. And the high priest demanded them, ²⁸ saying, Did we not command by an order for you not to teach in this name? And behold, ye have filled Jerusalem of your doctrine, and intend to bring upon us this man's blood. ²⁹ And Peter and the apostles having answered, they said, We must obey God rather than men. ³⁰ The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye murdered, having hung on a tree. ³¹ God exalted this man with his right hand, a Pathfinder and a Savior to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins. ³² And we are his witnesses of these things, and also the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him. ³³ And when they heard this, they were as being split with a saw, and wanted to annihilate them. ³⁴ But after standing up in the council, a certain Pharisee named Gamaliel, a law teacher, esteemed by all the people, commanded to make the apostles be outside a little while. ³⁵ And he said to them, Men, Israelites, take heed to yourselves what ye are going to do against these men. ³⁶ For before these days Theudas rose up saying himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, bonded themselves, who was killed. And all, as many as were persuaded by him, were dispersed and developed into nothing. ³⁷ After this man Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the registration, and drew a considerable crowd behind him. That man was also destroyed, and all, as many as were persuaded by him, were scattered. ³⁸ And now I say to you, keep away from these men, and let them go, because if the project or this work is from men, it will be overthrown, ³⁹ but if it is from God, ye cannot overthrow it, and perhaps ye may be found to be fighting against God. ⁴⁰ And they were persuaded by him. And after summoning the apostles, having beat them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them. 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. ⁴² And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they ceased not teaching and preaching good news, Jesus, the Christ.

⁵ And as a violent movement developed, both of the Gentiles and of the Jews, with their rulers, to denounce and to stone them, ⁶ having become aware of it, they fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and the neighboring region.

¹⁴ But then straightaway the brothers sent Paul away to go as far as to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy remained there.

¹⁹ And I said, Lord, they know that I was imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those who believe in thee.

¹ And Paul, after looking intently at the council, said, Men, brothers, I have been a citizen in all good conscience to God until this day. ² And the high priest Ananias ordered those who stood by him to strike his mouth. ³ Then Paul said to him, God is going to smite thee, a whitewashed wall. Thou even sit judging me according to the law, and violating law, thou command me to be struck? ⁴ And those who stood by said, Thou revile God's high priest? ⁵ And Paul said, I had not known, brothers, that he is a high priest, for it is written, Thou shall not speak ill of a ruler of thy people. ⁶ But when Paul ascertained that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men, brothers, I am a Pharisee, son of a Pharisee. About the hope and resurrection of the dead I am judged. ⁷ And when he said this, there developed a conflict of the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the group was divided. ⁸ For in fact Sadducees say to be no resurrection nor agent nor spirit, but Pharisees acknowledge them all. ⁹ And there developed a great clamor. And some of the scholars of the Pharisees part having risen, they argued vehemently, saying, We find nothing wrong in this man. But if a spirit spoke to him, or an agent, we should not fight against God. ¹⁰ And a great conflict having developed, the chief captain, having been alarmed lest Paul might be torn apart by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him away from the midst of them, and bring him into the fort. ¹¹ And the following night the Lord, having stood by him, said, Cheer up, Paul, for as thou have testified these things about me at Jerusalem, so thou must testify also at Rome. ¹² And when it became day, some of the Jews, having made a conspiracy, put themselves under a curse, saying neither to eat nor to drink until they would kill Paul. ¹³ And there were more than forty who made this conspiracy, ¹⁴ who, having come near to the chief priests and the elders, said, We have put ourselves under a curse, a curse to taste of nothing until we would kill Paul. ¹⁵ Now therefore ye with the council report to the chief captain that tomorrow he may bring him down to you, as though going to inquire more accurately the things about him. And we, before he comes near, are prepared to kill him. ¹⁶ But the son of Paul's sister, having heard of the ambush, having come and entered into the fort, he informed Paul. ¹⁷ And Paul, having called one of the centurions, said, Take this young man to the chief captain, for he has something to inform him. ¹⁸ Indeed therefore having taken him, he brought him to the chief captain, and says, Paul the prisoner, having called me, asked me to bring this young man to thee, who has something to say to thee. ¹⁹ And the chief captain having grasped his hand, and having gone in private, he asked him, What is it that thou have to inform me? ²⁰ And he said, The Jews have agreed to ask thee that tomorrow thou would bring Paul down to the council, as though going to inquire something more accurately about him. ²¹ Therefore thou should not be persuaded by them, for more than forty men of them wait to ambush him, who have put themselves under an oath, neither to eat nor drink until they have killed him. And now they are ready, expecting the promise from thee. ²² Indeed therefore the chief captain dismissed the young man, having ordered, Tell no man that thou have shown these things to me.

¹¹ And punishing them often at all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being extraordinarily furious toward them, I persecuted them even as far as to outside cities.

²⁴ From the Jews five times I received forty save one. ²⁵ Thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I was shipwrecked, I have done a night and a day in the depth, ²⁶ in frequent journeys, in perils of flowing waters, in perils of bandits, in perils from my race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils at sea, in perils among false brothers,

² Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workmen, beware of the excision.

¹⁵ of whom thou also beware, for he extremely opposed our words.

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

¹ Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate vain things? ² The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against LORD, and against his anointed, saying, ³ Let us break their bonds apart, and cast away their cords from us. ⁴ He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision. ⁵ Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and vex them in his great displeasure. ⁶ Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

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.

²⁵ But a certain man who arrived, reported to them, Behold, the men whom ye put in the prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people. ²⁶ Then after departing, the captain with the subordinates brought them, not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they would be stoned. ²⁷ And having brought them, they placed them in the council. And the high priest demanded them,

¹ Now about that time Herod the king threw on hands to harm some of those from the church. ² And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. ³ And after seeing that it was pleasing the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also (and those were the days of unleavened bread), ⁴ whom, having also arrested, he put in prison, having delivered to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him forth to the people.

³³ who, after coming to Caesarea and having delivered the letter to the governor, also presented Paul to him. ³⁴ And the governor having read it, and having questioned from what province he was, and having found out that he was from Cilicia,

¹ And after five days Ananias the high priest came down with the elders, and a certain orator, Tertullus, who appeared to the governor against Paul. ² And when he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Experiencing much peace because of thee, and worthy deeds happening to this nation because of thy foresight, ³ we welcome, both always and everywhere, eminent Felix, with all thankfulness. ⁴ But, that I may not detain thee on more, I entreat thee in thy clemency to hear us briefly. ⁵ For we have found this man a plague, who even instigates sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes, ⁶ who also attempted to profane the temple, whom also we took, ⁷ [This verse is not in the majority of the Greek manuscripts.] ⁸ from whom thou will be able, having examined him, to learn about all these things of which we accuse him. ⁹ And the Jews also agreed, claiming to have these things this way. ¹⁰ And when the governor gestured to him to speak, Paul answered, Knowing for many years thou being a judge to this nation, I gladly make a defense of these things about myself, ¹¹ thou being able to learn that there are for me not more than twelve days from which I went up to worship in Jerusalem. ¹² And they found me neither in the temple disputing against any man, nor making a gang of a group, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city. ¹³ Neither can they prove against me of which things they now accuse me. ¹⁴ But this I confess to thee, that according to the Way that they call a sect, so serve I the paternal God, believing all things written according to the law and the prophets, ¹⁵ having hope toward God, which they themselves also await, to come to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. ¹⁶ And in this I fashion myself, having a conscience always non-stumbling before God and men. ¹⁷ Now after more years I came, going to make donations to my nation, and offerings, ¹⁸ during which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a crowd or with a tumult, ¹⁹ who ought to be here before thee, and to accuse, if they would have anything against me. ²⁰ Or let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found in me, having stood before the council, ²¹ or about this one voice that I cried out standing among them: About a resurrection of the dead I am judged by you this day. ²² Now Felix, having heard these things, having known more precisely the things about the Way, he deferred them, having said, When Lysias the chief captain comes down, I will determine the things toward you. ²³ He also arranged for the centurion to guard Paul, and to have reduced confinement, and to forbid none of his own men to serve or to come to him. ²⁴ And after some days, Felix having arrived with Drusilla, his wife being Jewish, he summoned Paul, and heard him about the faith in Christ. ²⁵ And as he discoursed about righteousness, and self-control, and the judgment going to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, Go now, and having a convenient time, I will summon thee. ²⁶ He also hoped simultaneously that money would be given him by Paul so that he might free him. And so, summoning him more frequently, he conversed with him.

⁸ Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner, but suffer together with the good news according to the power of God.

¹⁶ At my first defense no man came with me, but all forsook me. May it not be reckoned to them. ¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the sacred message might be brought to fullness, and all the Gentiles might hear. And I was rescued out of the mouth of the lion.

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.

⁷ And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the abyss will make war with them, and he will overcome them and kill them.

¹² Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shall speak.

¹⁵ And thou shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do,

⁷ But LORD said to me, Say not, I am a child. For to whomever I shall send thee thou shall go, and whatever I shall command thee thou shall speak.

⁹ Then LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And LORD said to me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

¹⁶ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in this matter. ¹⁷ If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thy hand, O king. ¹⁸ But if not, be it known to thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou have set up.

²⁵ Because of this I say to you, be not anxious about your life, what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, nor yet for your body, what ye may wear. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the clothing?

³¹ Be not therefore anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we wear?

³⁴ Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow will be anxious about things of itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil of it.

¹¹ But when they lead you, delivering you up, be not anxious before what ye might speak, nor meditate. But whatever may be given you in that hour, speak ye this, for ye are not who speak, but the Holy Spirit. ¹² And brother will betray brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and will condemn them to death. ¹³ And ye will be hated by all men because of my name, but he who endures to the end, this man will be saved.

¹² But before all these things, they will throw their hands on you, and will persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake. ¹³ But it will go out from you for testimony. ¹⁴ Settle therefore in your hearts not to premeditate to make defense. ¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom that all those who oppose you will not be able to contradict or to resist. ¹⁶ And ye will be betrayed even by parents, and kinsmen, and friends, and brothers. And some of you they will condemn to death. ¹⁷ And ye will be hated by all men because of my name.

⁸ Then Peter being filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, ⁹ if we are examined today about a good deed, of a feeble man, by what this man has been healed, ¹⁰ be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by this, this man stands here before you healthy. ¹¹ This is the stone that was rejected by you who build, which became into the head of the corner. ¹² And salvation is not in any other man, for there is no other name under the heaven, that has been given among men, by which we must be saved. ¹³ Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are illiterate and uneducated men, they marveled. And they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus. ¹⁴ And seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they had nothing to contradict.

²⁹ And Peter and the apostles having answered, they said, We must obey God rather than men. ³⁰ The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye murdered, having hung on a tree. ³¹ God exalted this man with his right hand, a Pathfinder and a Savior to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins. ³² And we are his witnesses of these things, and also the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him. ³³ And when they heard this, they were as being split with a saw, and wanted to annihilate them.

¹⁰ And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke.

² Concerning all things of which I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa, I consider myself blessed, being about to make my defense before thee today. ³ Especially thee, being an expert of all things regarding Jews, both habits and issues. Therefore I beg thee to hear me patiently. ⁴ Indeed therefore, my manner of life from youth, having developed from the beginning among my nation at Jerusalem, all the Jews know, ⁵ having known me previously from the beginning, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I lived a Pharisee. ⁶ And now for the hope of the promise made by God to the fathers, I stand being judged, ⁷ to which our twelve tribes, serving in earnestness night and day, hope to attain, about which hope, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews! ⁸ Why is it judged incredible with you, if God raises the dead? ⁹ Indeed therefore I thought it necessary for myself to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene, ¹⁰ which also I did at Jerusalem. And I locked up many of the sanctified in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests. And when they were killed, I gave a vote against them. ¹¹ And punishing them often at all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being extraordinarily furious toward them, I persecuted them even as far as to outside cities.

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

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the sacred message might be brought to fullness, and all the Gentiles might hear. And I was rescued out of the mouth of the lion.

⁵ And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God who gives to all generously and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.

² The Spirit of LORD spoke by me, and his word was upon my tongue.

³² For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that ye need all these things.

³⁶ For David himself said by the Holy Spirit, The Lord says to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I may place thine enemies a footstool of thy feet.

¹³ If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more the Father from heaven will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

¹² for the Holy Spirit will teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.

³⁰ For the nations of the world seek all these things, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things. ³¹ However, seek ye the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added to you. ³² Fear not, little flock, because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.

⁴ And they were all filled of the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them to declare.

⁸ Then Peter being filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

⁵⁵ But being full of the Holy Spirit, having gazed into heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. ⁵⁶ And he said, Look, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.

⁹ But Saul (the man is also Paul) having been filled with the Holy Spirit, and having gazed on him,

²⁵ And being discord among each other, they departed after Paul spoke one thing, saying, Well spoke the Holy Spirit through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,

³ since ye seek proof of the Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but is mighty in you.

¹² To whom it was revealed, that they were serving not themselves, but you, those things that were now reported to you by those who preached good news to you in the Holy Spirit, which was sent forth from heaven, into which things agents longed to stoop to see.

²¹ For no prophecy was ever brought by a will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being led by the Holy Spirit.

¹¹ And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite? Let him alone, and let him curse, for LORD has bidden him.

¹ Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night. ² And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid. And all the people who are with him shall flee. And I will only smite the king, ³ and I will bring back all the people to thee. The man whom thou seek is as if all returned, so all the people shall be in peace. ⁴ And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

¹⁹ All my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me.

⁵ Trust ye not in a neighbor. Put ye not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lies in thy bosom. ⁶ For the son dishonors the father. The daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies are the men of his own house.

³ And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother who begot him shall say to him, Thou shall not live, for thou speak lies in the name of LORD. And his father and his mother who begot him shall thrust him through when he prophesies.

³⁴ Think not that I came to spread peace on the earth. I came not to spread peace, but a sword. ³⁵ For I came to divide a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. ³⁶ And a man's foes, are those of his own household.

¹⁰ And then many will be caused to stumble, and they will betray each other and will hate each other.

⁵¹ Do ye suppose that I came to give peace on the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division. ⁵² For henceforth there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. ⁵³ A father will be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

⁵ Hear the word of LORD, ye who tremble at his word: Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, have said, Let LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy. But it is those who shall be put to shame. ⁶ A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of LORD who renders recompense to his enemies.

¹² Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. ¹³ But go thou thy way till the end is. For thou shall rest, and shall stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

¹¹ Blessed are ye when they revile you, and persecute you, and say every evil word, being deceitful against you because of me.

³⁹ He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life because of me will find it.

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

¹³ And ye will be hated by all men because of my name, but he who endures to the end, this man will be saved.

²² Blessed are ye, when men will hate you, and when they will exclude you, and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, because of the Son of man.

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.

⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

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.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

¹⁶ For I will give him a glimpse of how many things it is necessary for him to suffer for my name.

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

¹¹ For we who live are always given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh.

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

¹⁴ For we have become companions of the Christ, if only we keep in possession the primacy of the essence, steadfast until the end,

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

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.

¹³ Marvel not, my brothers, if the world hates you.

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.

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

⁷ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations. To him who overcomes, I will give him to eat from the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of my God.

¹⁰ Fear none of the things that thou are going to suffer. Behold, the devil is indeed going to cast some of you into prison, so that ye may be tried, and ye will have tribulation ten days. Become thou faithful until death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

¹⁷ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations. To him who overcomes, I will give him to eat of the hidden manna. And I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which none knows except he who receives it.

²⁶ And he who overcomes, and he who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

²¹ He who overcomes, I will give him to sit with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.

¹³ Now after they departed, behold, an agent of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream, saying, After rising, take the child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and thou be there until I tell thee, for Herod is going to seek the child to destroy it.

¹² Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he departed into Galilee.

¹⁴ But when they went out, the Pharisees held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him. ¹⁵ And having known it Jesus withdrew from there, and many multitudes followed him, and he healed them all.

²⁸ Truly I say to you, there are some of those who stand here, who will, no, not taste of death, until they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

²⁷ For as the lightning comes out from the east, and shines as far as the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of man.

³⁰ And then the sign of the Son of man will appear in the sky. And then all the tribes of the earth will beat the breast, and they will see the Son of man coming in the clouds of the sky with power and much glory.

⁴⁸ But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord is late coming,

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

⁶⁴ Jesus says to him, Thou have said. Nevertheless I say to you, Henceforth ye will see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming in the clouds of the sky.

²⁶ And then they will see the Son of man coming in clouds with much power and glory.

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. ³⁰ But he, having passed through the midst of them, departed. ³¹ And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the sabbath day,

⁸ I say to you, that he will do their vengeance speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he then find faith on the earth?

²⁷ And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and much glory.

¹ And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

³⁹ Therefore they sought again to take him, and he went forth out of their hand. ⁴⁰ And he departed again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was first immersing, and he stayed there. ⁴¹ And many came to him, and they said, John indeed did not one sign, but all, as many things as John spoke about this man, were true. ⁴² And many believed in him there.

⁵³ So from that day they consulted together so that they might kill him. ⁵⁴ Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the region near the wilderness into a city called Ephraim, and he stayed there with his disciples.

²⁴ but their plot was known to Saul. And they watched the gates both day and night so that they might destroy him. ²⁵ But the disciples, after taking him by night, let him down through the wall, having lowered him in a hamper.

⁵⁰ But the Jews incited the religious women, and the prominent women, and the principle men of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their boundaries. ⁵¹ But after shaking off the dust of their feet against them, they came to Iconium.

⁶ having become aware of it, they fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and the neighboring region. ⁷ And there they were preaching the good news.

¹⁹ But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium. And having persuaded the crowds, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, after presuming him to be dead. ²⁰ But the disciples having surrounded him, after rising, he came into the city. And on the morrow he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

¹⁰ And the brothers straightaway sent both Paul and Silas away through the night to Berea, who, when they arrived, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

¹ And after the uproar ceased, Paul having summoned the disciples and having embraced them, he departed to go into Macedonia.

¹¹ And Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in booths, and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As thou live, and as thy soul lives, I will not do this thing.

⁴⁰ A disciple is not above his teacher, but every disciple who is fully developed will be as his teacher.

¹⁶ Truly, truly, I say to you, a bondman is not greater than his lord, nor is an apostle greater than he who sent him.

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.

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.

³⁴ But the Pharisees said, By the ruler of the demons he casts out demons.

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

²² And the scholars who came down from Jerusalem said, He has Beelzebub, and, By the ruler of the demons he casts out the demons.

¹⁵ but some of them said, He casts out the demons by Beelzebub, ruler of the demons.

²⁰ The multitude answered and said, Thou have a demon. Who seeks to kill thee?

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.

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

¹ A wicked man flees when no man pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

²⁵ The fear of man brings a snare, but he who puts his trust in LORD shall be safe.

¹⁰ Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

¹⁴ Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel. I will help thee, says LORD, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

¹ But now thus says LORD who created thee, O Jacob, and he who formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name, Thou are mine. ² When thou pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. When thou walk through the fire, thou shall not be burned, nor shall the flame kindle upon thee.

⁷ Hearken to me, ye who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Fear ye not the reproach of men, nor be ye dismayed at their revilings. ⁸ For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool. But my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations.

¹² I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are thou, that thou are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass, ¹³ and have forgotten LORD thy maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth, and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?

⁸ Be not afraid because of them, for I am with thee to deliver thee, says LORD.

¹⁷ Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee. Be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay thee before them. ¹⁸ For, behold, I have made thee this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the rulers of it, against the priests of it, and against the people of the land.

⁶ And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with thee, and thou dwell among scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

²⁸ And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

²² For there is not anything hid, except that it may be revealed, nor become secret, but that it may come to be visible.

¹⁷ For there is no secret that will not become visible, nor hid, that will not be known and come to be visible.

² But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known. ³ Therefore, as many things as ye have said in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed upon the housetops. ⁴ And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of those who kill the body, and after these things not having anything more severe to do. ⁵ But I will show you whom ye should fear. Fear him, who, after killing, has power to cast into hell. Yes, I say to you, fear ye him. ⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God. ⁷ But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore, ye are superior to many sparrows. ⁸ And I say to you, every man who will confess in me before men, the Son of man will also confess in him before the agents of God, ⁹ but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the agents of God.

¹³ Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are illiterate and uneducated men, they marveled. And they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus.

¹⁹ But Peter and John having replied to them, they said, Whether it is right in the sight of God to hearken to you rather than God, judge ye.

⁵ Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.

¹⁴ But even if ye should suffer because of righteousness, ye are blessed. But do not fear their terror nor be shaken,

²⁰ Wisdom cries aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the broad places. ²¹ She cries in the chief place of concourse, at the entrance of the gates, in the city. She utters her words: ²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge? ²³ Turn back at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you. I will make my words known to you.

¹ Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding put forth her voice? ² On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands. ³ Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she cries aloud: ⁴ To you, O men, I call. And my voice is to the sons of men. ⁵ O ye simple, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.

¹ And on that day, having departed from the house, Jesus was sitting beside the sea. ² And many multitudes were gathered to him, so as for him (having entered in) to sit in the boat, and all the multitude had stood on the shore. ³ And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, the man who sows went forth to sow. ⁴ And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured them. ⁵ But others fell upon the rocky places, where they had not much soil, and straightaway they sprang up because they had no depth of soil. ⁶ But when the sun was risen, they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered. ⁷ And others fell in the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. ⁸ But others fell upon the good ground, and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. ⁹ He who has ears, let him hear. ¹⁰ And the disciples having come, they said to him, Why do thou speak to them in parables? ¹¹ And having answered, he said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to those men it has not been given. ¹² For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever has not, even what he has will be taken away from him. ¹³ Because of this I speak to them in parables, because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, nor do they understand. ¹⁴ And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says, By hearing ye will hear, and will, no, not understand, and seeing ye will see, and will, no, not perceive. ¹⁵ For this people's heart became fat, and their ears hear heavily, and their eyes are shut, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I will heal them. ¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. ¹⁷ For truly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men longed to see the things that ye see, and did not see them, and to hear the things that ye hear, and did not hear them.

³⁴ Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes, and he did not speak to them independent of a parable, ³⁵ so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, which says, I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things concealed from the foundation of the world.

¹⁰ And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the others in parables, so that seeing they would not see, and hearing they would not understand.

¹ I have spoken these things to you, so that ye may not be caused to stumble.

¹³ However when that, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak from himself, but as many things as he may hear, he will speak. And he will report to you the things that are coming.

²⁵ These things I have spoken to you in veiled words. The hour comes, when I will no more speak to you in veiled words, but will inform you plainly about the Father.

²⁹ His disciples say to him, Lo, now thou speak plainly, and speak not one veiled word.

²⁰ Go ye, and after standing in the temple, speak to the people all the sayings of this Life.

²⁸ saying, Did we not command by an order for you not to teach in this name? And behold, ye have filled Jerusalem of your doctrine, and intend to bring upon us this man's blood.

¹⁷ Indeed therefore he was discoursing in the synagogue with the Jews, and with those who worship, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened by.

¹² Having therefore such a hope we use great boldness,

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

⁷ For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words. But fear thou God.

¹² Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and prolongs his days, yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before him. ¹³ But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.

¹² Say ye not, A conspiracy, concerning all of which this people shall say, A conspiracy, nor fear ye their fear, nor be in dread of it. ¹³ LORD of hosts, him ye shall sanctify, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

⁷ Hearken to me, ye who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Fear ye not the reproach of men, nor be ye dismayed at their revilings.

¹² I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are thou, that thou are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass,

² For all these things my hand has made, and all these things came to be, says LORD. But to this man I will look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

²² Do ye not fear me? says LORD. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? And though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet they cannot prevail, though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.

¹⁰ Thou, O king, have made a decree, that every man who shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image. ¹¹ And he who does not fall down and worship, shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. ¹² There are certain Jews whom thou have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, have not regarded thee. They do not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou have set up. ¹³ Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king. ¹⁴ Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, Is it of purpose, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that ye do not serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? ¹⁵ Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made, well. But if ye do not worship, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is that god who shall deliver you out of my hands?

²⁶ Fear them not therefore, for there is nothing covered, that will not be revealed, and hid, that will not be known.

⁴⁶ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

⁴³ And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off. It is good for thee to enter into life maimed, than having thy two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire, ⁴⁴ where their worm does not perish, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁵ And if thy foot may cause thee to stumble, cut it off. It is good for thee to enter into life crippled, than having thy two feet to be cast into hell, into the unquenchable fire ⁴⁶ where their worm does not perish, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁷ And if thine eye may cause thee to stumble, pluck it out. It is good for thee to enter into the kingdom of God one-eyed, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire, ⁴⁸ where their worm does not perish, and the fire is not quenched.

⁴ And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of those who kill the body, and after these things not having anything more severe to do. ⁵ But I will show you whom ye should fear. Fear him, who, after killing, has power to cast into hell. Yes, I say to you, fear ye him.

²² And it came to pass for the poor man to die and be carried by the agents to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And having lifted up his eyes in Hades, being in torments, he sees Abraham from afar and Lazarus by his bosom. ²⁴ And having cried out, he said, Father Abraham, be merciful to me, and send Lazarus, so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame. ²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou in thy lifetime received thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now here he is comforted and thou are in agony. ²⁶ And besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those here who want to cross over to you are not able, nor may those go across from there to us.

²⁹ and will come forth, those who have done right to a resurrection of life, and those who have practiced wrong to a resurrection of judgment.

²³ except that the Holy Spirit testifies from city to city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me. ²⁴ But I make nothing of the matter, nor do I hold my life precious to myself, so as to fully complete my course with joy, and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly testify the good news of the grace of God.

¹³ And Paul answered, What are ye doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I fare ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

³⁵ Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or restriction, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ Just as it is written, For thy sake we are killed the whole day long. We are considered as sheep of slaughter. ³⁷ But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor agents, nor principal positions, nor powers, nor things that have come, nor things that are coming, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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. ⁹ Men who will suffer punishment, a penalty of eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, ¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his sanctified, and to be marveled in that day by all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed).

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. 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.

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

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.

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.

¹² There is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy, but thou, who are thou who judge the other man?

¹⁰ And the devil who leads them astray was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where also were the beast and the false prophet. And they will be tormented day and night into the ages of the ages. ¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and him who sits upon it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away, and no place was found for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the one of life. And the dead were judged from the things that were written in the books, according to their works. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead in them. And they were judged, each according to their works. ¹⁴ And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵ And if any man was found not written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

²⁷ These all wait for thee, that thou may give them their food in due season. ²⁸ Thou give to them, they gather. Thou open thy hand, they are satisfied with good. ²⁹ Thou hide thy face, they are troubled. Thou take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. ³⁰ Thou send forth thy Spirit, they are created, and thou renew the face of the ground.

⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God. ⁷ But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore, ye are superior to many sparrows.

⁴⁵ And the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has wrought this great salvation in Israel? Far from it. As LORD lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he did not die.

¹¹ Then she said, I pray thee, let the king remember LORD thy God, that the avenger of blood not destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As LORD lives, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

⁵² And Solomon said, If he shall show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth, but if wickedness be found in him, he shall die.

⁷ But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore, ye are superior to many sparrows.

¹⁸ And, no, not a hair of your head will perish.

³⁴ Therefore I encourage you to take of food, for this is for your safety. For not a hair will fall from the head of one of you.

⁵ For thou have made him but little lower than agents, and crowned him with glory and honor.

²⁶ Look to the birds of the sky, because they sow not, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not more valuable then they?

¹¹ And he said to them, What man of you will there be, who will have one sheep, and if this falls into a pit on the sabbath, will he not grasp it, and lift it out? ¹² How much therefore a man is superior to a sheep. So then it is permitted to do good on the sabbath.

²⁴ Consider the ravens, because they do not sow, nor do they reap, for which there is no storehouse nor barn, and God feeds them. How much ye are worth more than the birds.

⁹ For it is written in the law of Moses thou shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Is God concerned about oxen, ¹⁰ or does he speak altogether for our sake? For our sake, for it was written, He who plows ought to plow with hope, and he who threshes with his hope, with hope to share.

³⁰ Therefore LORD, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me forever, but now LORD says, Be it far from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

⁴⁶ I also will speak of thy testimonies before kings, and shall not be put to shame.

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.

²² His parents spoke these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man confessed him as Christ, he should become excommunicated from the synagogue.

⁹ that if thou will confess with thy mouth, the Lord Jesus, and will believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou will be saved. ¹⁰ For a man believes in the heart for righteousness, and he confesses with the mouth for salvation.

¹² Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life for which thou are called, and confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses. ¹³ I command thee in the sight of God, who makes all live, and of Christ Jesus, who testified to Pontius Pilate the good confession,

¹⁵ Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

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.

⁵ He who overcomes, this man will be clothed in white garments, and I will, no, not erase his name out of the book of life. And I will acknowledge his name before my Father, and before his agents.

⁷⁰ But he denied before them all, saying, I do not know what thou say. ⁷¹ And when he was gone out into the porch, another woman saw him, and says to them there, This man was also with Jesus the Nazarene. ⁷² And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. ⁷³ And after a little while those who stood, having approached, said to Peter, Surely thou also are of them, for thy accent even makes thee apparent. ⁷⁴ Then he began to curse vehemently and to swear, I do not know the man. And straightaway a cock sounded. ⁷⁵ And Peter remembered the saying that Jesus said to him, Before a cock sounds, thou will deny me thrice. And having gone outside, he wept bitterly.

³⁸ For whoever may be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy agents.

³⁰ And Jesus says to him, Truly I say to thee, that thou today, in this night, before a cock sounds twice, will deny me thrice.

⁷² And the second time a cock sounded. And Peter remembered the saying that Jesus said to him, Before a cock sounds twice, thou will deny me thrice. And having broke down, he wept.

²⁶ For whoever may be ashamed of me and of my words, the Son of man will be ashamed of this man when he comes in his glory, and of the Father, and of the holy agents.

⁹ but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the agents of God.

¹² If we endure, we will also reign together. If we renounce him, that man will also renounce us.

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.

²³ Every man who denies the Son, also does not have the Father.

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother, that thou have bore me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, nor have men lent to me, yet every one of them curses me.

⁴⁹ I came to cast fire upon the earth, and what I desire is if it were kindled already. ⁵⁰ But I have an immersion to be immersed, and how am I constrained until it will be accomplished.

⁴⁰ Many from the multitude therefore, when they heard the saying, said, This is truly the prophet. ⁴¹ Others said, This is the Christ. Others said, For does the Christ come out of Galilee? ⁴² Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was? ⁴³ So there became a division among the multitude because of him. ⁴⁴ And some of them wanted to take him, but no man laid hands on him. ⁴⁵ The subordinates therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And those men said to them, Why did ye not bring him? ⁴⁶ The subordinates answered, A man never so spoke like this man. ⁴⁷ The Pharisees therefore answered them, Have ye not also been led astray? ⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ But this multitude that does not know the law are accursed. ⁵⁰ Nicodemus says to them (he who came to him by night, being one of them), ⁵¹ Does our law judge a man, unless it first may hear from himself and know what he does? ⁵² They answered and said to him, Are thou also from Galilee? Search and see, that out of Galilee arises no prophet.

⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled of envy, and contradicted the things spoken by Paul, contradicting and slandering. ⁴⁶ But having spoken boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken first to you, but since ye thrust it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷ For so the Lord has commanded us: I have placed thee for a light of Gentiles, for thee to be for salvation as far as the extremity of the earth. ⁴⁸ And hearing this, the Gentiles were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as were appointed for eternal life believed. ⁴⁹ And the word of the Lord was spread abroad through the whole region. ⁵⁰ But the Jews incited the religious women, and the prominent women, and the principle men of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their boundaries.

² But the disobedient Jews aroused the souls of the Gentiles, and made them evil against the brothers.

⁴ But the majority of the city was divided, and verily there were those with the Jews, and those with the apostles.

²¹ And a brother will deliver up a brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and condemn them to death.

¹⁶ And ye will be betrayed even by parents, and kinsmen, and friends, and brothers. And some of you they will condemn to death.

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. He shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.

⁸ And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him. ⁹ And LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not. Am I my brother's keeper? ¹⁰ And he said, What have thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

¹⁷ And the man said, They are departed from here, for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan. ¹⁸ And they saw him afar off. And before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him. ¹⁹ And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer comes. ²⁰ Come now therefore, and let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits. And we will say, An evil beast has devoured him. And we shall see what will become of his dreams. ²¹ And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life. ²² And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood. Cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him, that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father. ²³ And it came to pass, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him, ²⁴ and they took him, and cast him into the pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it. ²⁵ And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. ²⁶ And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? ²⁷ Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers hearkened to him. ²⁸ And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen, and they drew and lifted Joseph up out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.

²⁸ And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why have thou come down? And with whom have thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the mischief of thy heart, for thou have come down that thou might see the battle.

¹³ He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. ¹⁴ My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. ¹⁵ Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, reckon me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. ¹⁶ I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I entreat him with my mouth. ¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the sons of my own mother. ¹⁸ Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. ¹⁹ All my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me.

⁹ Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

¹³ But it was thou, a man my equal, my companion, and my familiar friend.

⁶ For even thy brothers, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee, even they have cried aloud after thee. Believe them not, though they speak fair words to thee.

¹⁰ For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

⁶ For the son dishonors the father. The daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies are the men of his own house.

⁸ Peter says to him, Thou may, no, not wash my feet into the age. Jesus answered him, If I may not wash thee, thou have no part with me.

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

⁸ Then he says to his bondmen, The wedding is indeed ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

³⁷ And Jesus said to him, Thou shall love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.

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.

³⁵ but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

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

²³ so that all would honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. The man not honoring the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

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

¹⁴ For the love of Christ holds us together, having judge this, that if one died for all, then all died. ¹⁵ And he died for all so that those who live would no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and was raised.

⁷ But whatever was gain to me, these things I regarded loss because of the Christ. ⁸ But indeed therefore I even consider all things to be loss because of things surpassing, of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I suffered the loss of all things, and consider them to be rubbish, so that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and be found in him, not having my righteousness, that from law, but that through Christ's faith-the righteousness from God based on faith-

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

⁴ But thou have a few names in Sardis who did not defile their garments. And they will walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man wants to come behind me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

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.

³⁴ And having called in the multitude with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever wants to follow behind me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

²¹ And having looked at him, Jesus loved him, and said to him, One thing thou lack. Go thou, sell as many things as thou have, and give to the poor, and thou will have treasure in heaven. And after taking up the cross, come, follow me.

²³ And he said to all, If any man wants to come behind me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ²⁴ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever may lose his life because of me, this man will save it.

²⁷ And whoever does not bear his cross, and come behind me, cannot be my disciple.

¹⁷ And he went out bearing his cross to a place called, of a Skull, a place that is called in Hebrew, Golgotha,

²⁵ For whoever wants save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. ²⁶ For what does it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

³⁵ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life because of me and the good news, this man will save it. ³⁶ For what will it profit a man if he should gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?

²⁴ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever may lose his life because of me, this man will save it.

³³ Whoever will seek to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose it will keep it alive.

²⁵ He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

²⁰ according to my eager expectation and hope that I will be shamed in nothing. But with all boldness, now as always, Christ will also be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. ²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

⁴⁰ And having answered, the King will say to them, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brothers, the least, ye did it to me.

⁴⁵ Then he will answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these least, ye did it not to me.

¹⁶ He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.

⁴⁴ And Jesus cried out and said, He who believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. ⁴⁵ And he who sees me sees him who sent me. ⁴⁶ I have come a light into the world, so that every man who believes in me may not remain in the darkness. ⁴⁷ And if any man hears my sayings, and will not believe, I do not judge him, for I came not so that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world. ⁴⁸ He who rejects me and does not receive my sayings, has that which judges him: the word that I spoke, that will judge him in the last day. ⁴⁹ Because I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

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

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.

²² Who is the liar if not he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. ²³ Every man who denies the Son, also does not have the Father.

⁹ Every man transgressing, and not abiding in the doctrine of the Christ, does not have God. The man abiding in the doctrine of the Christ, this man has both the Father and the Son.

⁷ Now therefore restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shall live. And if thou do not restore her, know thou that thou shall surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

⁹ Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee. ¹⁰ So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel that I may drink. ¹¹ And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. ¹² And she said, As LORD thy God lives, I do not have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse. And, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it, and die. ¹³ And Elijah said to her, Fear not, go and do as thou have said. But make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, and afterward make for thee and for thy son. ¹⁴ For thus says LORD, the God of Israel, The jar of meal shall not be used up, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that LORD sends rain upon the earth. ¹⁵ And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah. And she, and he, and her house, ate many days.

³ And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared LORD greatly; ⁴ for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

⁸ And it fell on a day that Elisha passed to Shunem where there was a prominent woman. And she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as often as he passed by he turned in there to eat bread. ⁹ And she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually. ¹⁰ Let us make, I pray thee, a little chamber on the wall. And let us set a bed for him there, and a table, and a seat, and a lampstand. And it shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there.

¹⁶ And he said, At this season, when the time comes round, thou shall embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid. ¹⁷ And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.

³² And when Elisha came into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed. ³³ He went in therefore, and shut the door upon the two of them, and prayed to LORD. ³⁴ And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands. And he stretched himself upon him, and the flesh of the child grew warm. ³⁵ Then he returned, and walked in the house once to and fro, and went up, and stretched himself upon him. And the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. ³⁶ And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she came in to him, he said, Take up thy son. ³⁷ Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground. And she took up her son, and went out.

¹⁰ Say ye of the righteous, that it is well, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

¹ Be careful not to do your charity before men in order to be seen by them, otherwise ye have no reward from your Father in the heavens.

⁴ so that thy charity may be in secret. And thy Father who sees in secret will himself reward thee in the open.

⁶ But thou, when thou pray, enter into thy private room, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will reward thee in the open.

¹⁸ so that thou may not appear fasting to men, but to thy Father in secret. And thy Father, who sees in secret, will reward thee.

²⁷ For the Son of man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his agents, and then he will reward each man according to his actions.

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. ³⁵ For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat. I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink. I was a stranger, and ye took me in, ³⁶ naked, and ye clothed me. I was feeble, and ye came to help me. I was in prison, and ye came to me. ³⁷ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, and fed thee, or thirsting, and gave thee drink? ³⁸ And when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in, or naked, and clothed thee? ³⁹ And when did we see thee weak, or in prison, and came to thee? ⁴⁰ And having answered, the King will say to them, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brothers, the least, ye did it to me.

¹³ But when thou make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, ¹⁴ and thou will be blessed, because they do not have to recompense thee, for it will be recompensed to thee at the resurrection of the righteous.

¹ Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe who is a helper of the congregation at Cenchreae, ² so that ye may welcome her in the Lord worthily of the sanctified, and that ye provide for her in whatever matter she may have need of you, for she also became a helper of many, and of me myself. ³ Salute Prisca and Aquila my co-workmen in Christ Jesus ⁴ (who laid down their own neck for my life, to whom not only I thank, but also all the congregations of the Gentiles), and the congregation associated with their house.

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

¹⁷ For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if involuntarily, I have been entrusted with a commission.

¹⁶ May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain. ¹⁷ But when he happened to be in Rome he sought me more diligently and found me ¹⁸ (may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord in that day), and in how many things he ministered at Ephesus, thou know very well.

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.

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

⁵ Beloved, thou do a faithful thing, whatever thou work for the brothers and for strangers, ⁶ who testified about thy love in sight of the congregation, whom thou will do well having helped send on their way worthily of God.

¹⁴ so the knowledge of wisdom is to thy soul. If thou have found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy hope shall not be cut off.

⁷ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my companion, says LORD of hosts. Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

⁵ And upon his entering into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, beseeching him, ⁶ and saying, Lord, my boy has been laid down in the house, paralyzed, extremely tormented.

³ And he said, Truly I say to you, if ye are not turned, and become as children, ye will, no, not enter into the kingdom of the heavens. ⁴ He therefore who will make himself lowly as this child, this man is the greater in the kingdom of the heavens. ⁵ And whoever will receive one such child in my name receives me. ⁶ But whoever may cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it is advantageous for him that a donkey-powered millstone were hanged on his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

¹⁴ So, it is not a purpose before your Father in the heavens, that one of these little ones should perish.

⁴¹ For whoever may give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye are of Christ, truly I say to you, he will, no, not lose his reward. ⁴² And whoever may cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it is good for him instead, if a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

⁴² And one poor widow having come, she cast in two mites, which are a quadrans. ⁴³ And having summoned his disciples, he says to them, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow cast in more than all those who are casting into the treasury.

⁷ For ye always have the poor with you, and whenever ye may desire ye can do them well, but ye do not always have me. ⁸ She applied what she had to anoint my body. She did it beforehand for the burial.

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

² It is better for him if a donkey-powered millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

¹⁰ For if some man sees thee, who has knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols? ¹¹ And by thy knowledge the brother, being weak, will be ruined, for whom Christ died. ¹² And sinning this way against the brothers, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will no, not eat meat into the age, so that I may not cause my brother to stumble.

¹² For if the willingness is present, it is acceptable to the extent if some man has, not to the extent he does not have.

⁶ But this, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows in blessings will also reap in blessings. ⁷ Each man as he purposes in his heart, not from regret or from necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸ And God is able to abound all grace for you, so that always in everything having all sufficiency, ye may abound for every good work, ⁹ as it is written, He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness endures into the age. ¹⁰ And he who supplies seed to the man who sows, and bread for eating, may he supply and multiply your seed, and may he increase the fruits of your righteousness, ¹¹ being enriched in everything for every generosity, which works gratitude to God through us. ¹² Because the service of this ministry is not only supplying the needs of the sanctified, but also abounding through many thanksgivings to God ¹³ through the evidence of this service, glorifying God at the subjection of your confession toward the good news of the Christ, and at the generosity of the participation, for them and for all, ¹⁴ and by their supplication about you, yearning for you because of the transcending grace of God in you. ¹⁵ And thanks to God for his indescribable gift.

¹⁵ And ye Philippians also have seen that, in the beginning of the good news when I departed from Macedonia, not one congregation shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except ye only, ¹⁶ because also in Thessalonica ye sent both once and again to my need. ¹⁷ Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account. 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. ¹⁹ And my God will fill your every need according to his wealth in glory in Christ Jesus.