Romans Cross References - ACV

¹ Paul, a bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle having been separated for the good news of God ² (which he fore-promised through his prophets in the holy scriptures) ³ concerning his Son who was made from the seed of David according to flesh. ⁴ He who was designated Son of God in power, according to a spirit of holiness, from a resurrection of the dead-Jesus Christ our Lord- ⁵ through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations on behalf of his name, ⁶ among which ye also are the called of Jesus Christ. ⁷ To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, to the called, to the sanctified: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁸ First, I indeed express thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world. ⁹ For God is my witness whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers, ¹⁰ pleading, if somehow now at last I will have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you. ¹¹ For I long to see you, so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, in order to establish you, ¹² and that is, to be mutually encouraged among you through each other's faith, both yours and mine. ¹³ But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit also among you, even as among the other Gentiles. ¹⁴ I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. ¹⁵ So the willingness is in me to preach the good news also to you in Rome. ¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the good news of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation to every man who believes, both to the Jew first, and to the Greek. ¹⁷ For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith for faith, just as it is written, And the righteous man will live from faith. ¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all irreverence and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, ¹⁹ because what is knowable of God is apparent in them, for God made it known to them. ²⁰ For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both his eternal power and divinity, for them to be without excuse. ²¹ Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding. ²² Professing to be wise, they became foolish, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image like corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed things, and creeping things. ²⁴ And for this reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to degrade their bodies among themselves, ²⁵ who changed the truth of God into the lie, and worshiped and served the creation against him who created it, who is blessed into the ages. Truly. ²⁶ Because of this God gave them up to shameful passions, for even their females changed the natural use into what is against nature. ²⁷ And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward each other, males with males producing shamelessness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their deviancy that was fitting. ²⁸ And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit; ²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; ³⁰ being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents; ³¹ without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful. ³² Who, knowing the righteousness of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also favor those who do.

²⁴ But I have said to you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples. ²⁵ Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. And ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean. ²⁶ And ye shall be holy to me, for I, LORD, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.

⁹ Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them, ¹⁰ and that he has brought thee near, and all thy brothers the sons of Levi with thee? And ye seek the priesthood also?

⁸ At that time LORD set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of LORD, to stand before LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.

¹³ The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was separated that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before LORD, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.

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

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

¹⁵ And he said to them, Having gone into all the world, preach ye the good news to the whole creation. ¹⁶ He who believes and is immersed will be saved, but he who does not believe will be damned.

¹⁰ And the agent said to them, Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be to all the people, ¹¹ because to you was born today in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ Lord.

²⁶ If any man serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there my helper will also be. And if any man serves me, the Father will honor him.

¹⁴ If I then, the Lord and the teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash each other's feet. ¹⁵ For I have given you an example, so that just as I have done to you ye also should do. 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.

¹⁵ I no longer call you bondmen, because the bondman does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I made known to 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.

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

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

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

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.

⁴⁰ And having permitted him, Paul, having stood on the steps, motioned his hand to the people. And when a great hush developed, he called out in the Hebrew language, saying,

⁷ And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why do thou persecute me?

¹³ having come near me, and having stood by, he said to me, Brother Saul, look up. And I looked up on him the same hour. ¹⁴ And he said, The God of our fathers appointed thee to know his will, and to see the Righteous Man, and to hear a voice from his mouth, ¹⁵ because thou will be a witness for him to all men of the things that thou have seen and heard.

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

¹ And Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted thee to speak for thyself. Then Paul, having stretched forth his hand, made a defense.

¹⁴ And when we all fell to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why do thou persecute me? It is hard for thee to kick against the goads.

¹⁶ But arise, and stand upon thy feet, for I appeared to thee for this, to appoint thee an assistant and a witness both of things that thou saw, and of the things that I will make visible to thee, ¹⁷ delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send thee, ¹⁸ to open their eyes to turn about from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, for them to receive remission of sins and a lot among those who have been sanctified by faith in me.

²³ For there stood by me this night an agent of the God whose I am, whom also I serve,

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

⁹ For God is my witness whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the good news of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation to every man who believes, both to the Jew first, and to the Greek.

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

¹⁶ for me to be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, serving the good news of God like a priest, so that the offering up of the Gentiles might become acceptable, being sanctified in the Holy Spirit.

²⁹ And I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the good news of the Christ.

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.

²⁵ Now to him who is able to establish you according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to a revelation of the mystery that has been kept secret for eternal times,

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

¹ Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are ye not my work in the Lord?

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.

⁸ and last of all, as to the untimely birth, he also appeared to me. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace for me did not become empty, but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

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

⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves are your bondmen through Jesus.

⁵ For I reckon to come short in nothing of those, superlative apostles.

¹¹ I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

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

¹⁰ For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ. ¹¹ For I make known to you, brothers, the good news that was preached by me, that it is not according to man. ¹² For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it was through revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹³ For ye heard of my former behavior in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God to extraordinariness, and ravaged it. ¹⁴ And I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my race, being a more extreme zealot of my paternal traditions. ¹⁵ But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's belly, and called me through his grace, ¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not straightaway confer with flesh and blood, ¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again to Damascus.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the sanctified who are at Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus:

¹³ In whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the good news of your salvation, in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

⁵ which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets. ⁶ For Gentiles to be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and fellow partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good news. ⁷ Of which I became a helper according to the gift of that grace of God, which was given to me according to the working of his power.

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

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

¹¹ and that every tongue should acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

⁶ regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless. ⁷ But whatever was gain to me, these things I regarded loss because of the Christ.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother,

²⁵ Of which I became a helper according to the administration of God, which was given to me for you to fulfill the word of God,

² But having suffered before and been mistreated in Philippi, as ye know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the good news of God within much conflict.

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

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

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

¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinful men, of whom I am foremost. ¹⁶ But because of this I obtained mercy, so that in me, the foremost, Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

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

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

¹ Paul, a bondman of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the chosen of God, and the knowledge of truth according to piety,

⁴ And not any man takes the honor to himself, but being called by God, just as also Aaron.

²⁶ For such a high priest is fitting for us, devout, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens.

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

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:

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

¹ 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

⁶ And he says to me, These words are faithful and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his agent to show to his bondmen the things that must quickly come to pass.

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

⁷⁰ just as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,

²⁶ Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory? ²⁷ And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things about himself.

⁴³ To this man all the prophets testify, that every man who believes in him, to receive remission of sins through his name.

⁶ And now for the hope of the promise made by God to the fathers, I stand being judged,

² Much every way. First, because they were indeed entrusted with the oracles of God.

²¹ But now a righteousness of God has been manifested independent of law, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.

²⁶ but that was now revealed, and by prophetic scriptures, according to a commandment of the eternal God that was made known to all the nations for obedience of faith,

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

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.

¹² When thy days are fulfilled, and thou shall sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, who shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. ¹³ He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. ¹⁴ I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men, ¹⁵ but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul whom I put away before thee. ¹⁶ And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure forever before thee; thy throne shall be established forever.

⁷ I will tell of the decree. LORD said to me, Thou are my Son, this day I have begotten thee.

³⁶ His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. ³⁷ It shall be established forever as the moon, and as the faithful witness in the sky. Selah.

⁶ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given. And the government shall be upon his shoulder. And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. ⁷ Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of LORD of hosts will perform this.

⁵ Behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. ⁶ In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is his name by which he shall be called: LORD our righteousness.

¹⁵ In those days, and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. ¹⁶ In those days Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely. And this is the name whereby she shall be called: LORD our righteousness. ¹⁷ For thus says LORD: David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel,

²⁶ then I will also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.

¹¹ In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof. And I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old,

¹ A book of a genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

⁶ and Jesse begot David the king. And David begot Solomon from the widow of Uriah,

¹⁶ and Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

²⁰ But while he considered these things, behold, an agent of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take Mary to be thy wife, for that which was begotten in her is from the Holy Spirit. ²¹ And she will bring forth a son, and thou shall call his name JESUS, for he will save his people from their sins. ²² Now all this has come to pass, so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, which says, ²³ Behold, the virgin will have in her womb, and will bring forth a son. And they will call his name Immanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us.

¹⁷ And lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

²⁷ And when Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed him, crying out, and saying, Be merciful to us, thou son of David.

²³ And all the multitudes were amazed, and said, Is this not the son of David?

²² And behold, a Canaanite woman having come out from those regions, cried out to him, saying, Be merciful to me, O Lord, thou son of David, my daughter is grievously demon-possessed.

⁴² What does it seem to you about the Christ? Whose son is he? They say to him, Of David. ⁴³ He says to them, How then does David in Spirit call him Lord, saying, ⁴⁴ The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I place thine enemies a footstool of thy feet? ⁴⁵ If David therefore calls him Lord, how is he his son?

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

⁴³ He trusted in God, let him rescue him now, if he wants him, for he said, I am the Son of God.

³¹ And behold, thou will conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son. And thou shall call his name JESUS. ³² This man will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David. ³³ And he will reign over the house of Jacob into the ages. And of his kingdom there will be no end.

³⁵ And having answered, the agent said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon thee, and the power of the Most High will overshadow thee. Therefore also the holy thing that is begotten will be called the Son of God.

⁶⁹ And he raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his boy David,

⁴ And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and patriarchy of David, ⁵ to enroll himself with Mary, the woman who was betrothed to him, being pregnant. ⁶ And it came to pass while they were there, the days were fulfilled for her to bring forth.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

³⁴ And I have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered, and says to him, Rabbi, thou are the Son of God. Thou are the king of Israel.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God sent the Son into the world not that he might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. ¹⁸ He who believes in him is not condemned. He who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

³⁵ The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. ³⁶ He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

²⁵ Truly, truly, I say to you, that an hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

⁴² Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?

³⁰ I and the Father are one.

³⁶ whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, do ye say, Thou blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God?

²⁸ Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God.

³¹ But these are written, so that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.

³⁰ Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, to raise the Christ from the fruit of his loins according to flesh to sit upon his throne.

¹³ The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Boy Jesus, whom ye actually delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate who preferred to release that man.

³⁶ And as they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch says, Look, water! What prevents me to be immersed?

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

²² And having removed him, he raised up David for a king to them, also about whom he said, when he testified, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man according to my heart, who will do all my purposes. ²³ From this man's seed according to promise, God brought salvation to Israel,

² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and of death. ³ For the impotence of the law, in that it was weak because of the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in a form of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,

²⁹ Because whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be of similar nature of the form of his Son, in order for him to be the firstborn son among many brothers. ³⁰ And whom he predestined, these he also called, and whom he called, these he also made righteous, and whom he made righteous, these he also glorified. ³¹ What then will we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who did not even spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?

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

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

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

¹³ Who rescued us out of the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, ¹⁵ who is an image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

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

¹⁶ And without controversy great is the mystery of piety. God was manifested in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by agents, proclaimed among nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory.

⁸ Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good news,

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.

⁸ He who is doing sin is of the devil, because the devil sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was made known for this, so that he might destroy the works of the devil.

²³ And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love each other, just as he gave command.

² By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in flesh is of God, ³ and every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ has come in flesh is not of God. And this is that of the antichrist, which ye have heard that it comes, and is now in the world already.

⁹ By this the love of God was made known in us, because God sent his Son, the only begotten, into the world so that we might live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins.

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

¹ Every man who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten from God, and every man who loves him who begot, also loves him who has been begotten from him.

⁵ And who is he who overcomes the world, if not he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified about his Son. ¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God gave eternal life to us, and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who has the Son has the life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. ¹³ I wrote these things to you, those who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

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

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

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

³¹ And having taken along the twelve, he said to them, Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets about the Son of man will be completed. ³² For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, and he will be mocked and insulted and spit upon. ³³ And after scourging, they will kill him, and the third day he will rise up.

¹⁸ The Jews therefore answered, and said to him, What sign do thou show us since thou do these things? ¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. ²⁰ The Jews therefore said, This temple was forty-six years being built, and will thou raise it up in three days? ²¹ But that man spoke about the temple of his body.

²⁴ whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.

³² This Jesus, God raised up, of which we are all witnesses.

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

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.

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 as also it is written in the second psalm, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee. ³⁴ And because he raised him from the dead, no longer going to return to decay, he has spoken this way: I will give to you the faithful holy things of David. ³⁵ Therefore also he says in another, Thou will not give thy Holy Man to see decay.

³¹ Because he appointed a day during which he is going to judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he appointed, having provided assurance to all men because he raised him from the dead.

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

⁴ For even if he was crucified from weakness, yet he lives from the power of God. For we in him are also weak, but we will live with him from the power of God toward you.

¹⁹ and what is the transcending greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his might, ²⁰ which he wrought in the Christ, having raised him from the dead and seated at his right hand in the heavenly things, ²¹ far above every principle office, and position of authority, and power, and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is coming. ²² And he subordinated all things under his feet, and appointed him head over all things for the church, ²³ which is his body, the fulfillment of him who fills all in all.

⁵ So also Christ did not glorify himself to become a high priest, but it was he who said to him, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee. ⁶ (And just as he says in another, Thou are a priest into the age according to the order of Melchizedek.)

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

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

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

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

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

¹¹ For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles. And in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name is great among the Gentiles, says LORD of hosts.

¹⁴ But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing. For I am a great King, says LORD of hosts, and my name is feared among the Gentiles.

¹⁶ And from his fullness we all received, even grace for grace.

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

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

¹⁴ Simeon described how God first came to help, to take from the Gentiles a people for his name.

²⁹ Or is God of Jews only and not also of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles also,

³ For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to over think beyond what he ought to think, but to think so as to think soundly, as God has apportioned to each man a measure of faith.

¹⁵ But I wrote more boldly to you, brothers, in part, as reminding you because of the grace that was given to me by God, ¹⁶ for me to be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, serving the good news of God like a priest, so that the offering up of the Gentiles might become acceptable, being sanctified in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak anything of which Christ did not accomplish through me for the obedience of Gentiles, by word and work, ¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of a Spirit of God, so that for me, from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum, to fully preach the good news of Christ.

² If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you, for ye are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

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

⁵ not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, ⁶ who also made us qualified helpers of a new covenant, not of a document, but of a Spirit, for the document kills but the Spirit makes alive.

⁴ For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for the demolition of strongholds, ⁵ casting down imaginations, and every high thing exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought captive into the obedience of the Christ, ⁶ and having in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience is fulfilled.

¹⁵ But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's belly, and called me through his grace, ¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not straightaway confer with flesh and blood,

⁸ (for he who was working in Peter for the apostleship for men of circumcision was also working in me for the Gentiles), ⁹ and James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, when they understood the grace that was given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship. So that we were for the Gentiles, and they for men of circumcision,

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

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

² since indeed ye heard of the administration of the grace of God, which was given to me for you, ³ that according to revelation he made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief. ⁴ With which reading ye can recognize my understanding in the mystery of the Christ, ⁵ which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets. ⁶ For Gentiles to be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and fellow partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good news. ⁷ Of which I became a helper according to the gift of that grace of God, which was given to me according to the working of his power. ⁸ To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ, ⁹ and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things through Jesus Christ.

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

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

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, who are the called according to purpose. ²⁹ Because whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be of similar nature of the form of his Son, in order for him to be the firstborn son among many brothers. ³⁰ And whom he predestined, these he also called, and whom he called, these he also made righteous, and whom he made righteous, these he also glorified.

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

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

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

⁶ being present for you, just as also in all the world. And it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day that ye heard and recognized the grace of God in truth.

²¹ And you, being formerly alienated and hostile in mind, in works, in things evil. But now he has reconciled

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

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

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

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

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

²¹ For ye were called for this. Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that ye should follow his footsteps.

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

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

¹² Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of LORD shall dwell in safety by him. He covers him all the day long, and he dwells between his shoulders.

⁵ That thy beloved ones may be delivered, save with thy right hand, and answer us.

¹ I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey. I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends. Drink, yea. Drink abundantly, O beloved.

¹⁶ Thus your light should shine before men, so that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father in the heavens.

⁸ Be not therefore like them, for your Father knows what things ye have need of before ye ask him. ⁹ Pray ye therefore this way: Our Father in the heavens, hallowed be thy name.

¹⁷ Jesus says to her, Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brothers, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.

⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, who was calling and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. ⁶⁰ And having knelt down, he cried out in a great voice, Lord, place not this sin to them. And after saying this, he slept.

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

⁶ among which ye also are the called of Jesus Christ.

¹ Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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.

²⁵ As also he says in Hosea, I will call those not my people, my people, and her who was not beloved, beloved.

² to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, to called men, to holy men who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus with all in every place who call upon the name of our the Lord Jesus Christ-both ours and theirs. ³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴ I thank my God always about you, for the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, ⁵ that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all speech and in all knowledge. ⁶ Just as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, ⁷ so that ye come behind in not one gift, waiting for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁸ who will also confirm you until the end, irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ God is faithful through whom ye were called for the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

²³ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with you.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, with all the sanctified who are in the whole of Achaia. ² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ I besought the Lord thrice about this, that it might depart from me. ⁹ And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me. ¹⁰ Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in restrictions, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

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

³ Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ ⁴ who gave himself for our sins, so that he might rescue us, according to the will of our God and Father, out of the evil age that has come,

¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with your spirit, brothers. Truly.

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

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

¹³ I can do all things in the Christ who strengthens me.

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

²³ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with you all. Truly.

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

¹² Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering,

¹⁵ And let the peace of God umpire in your hearts, for which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

¹¹ Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you. ¹² And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward each other, and toward all men, just as also we toward you, ¹³ in order to establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his sanctified.

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

²⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with you. Truly.

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father who loved us and gave eternal encouragement and good hope through grace, ¹⁷ encourage your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

¹⁶ Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace through everything in every way. The Lord is with all of you.

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

² to Timothy, a genuine child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

² And those who have believing masters, let them not disparage them because they are brothers, instead let them serve more because they are believers and beloved-those who are recipients of the benefit. Teach and exhort these things.

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

²² The Lord Jesus Christ is with thy spirit. Grace is with you. Truly.

⁴ to Titus, a genuine child according to the common faith: Grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

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

²⁵ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with your spirit. Truly.

¹ Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen who are sojourners of the Dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, ² chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace be multiplied.

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

² Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, ³ as all things of his divine power to us, things toward life and piety, which were granted through the knowledge of him who called us through glory and virtue.

¹ Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him.

³ Grace, mercy, peace will be with us from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

¹ Jude, a bondman of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called, sanctified in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: ² Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.

⁴ John, to the seven congregations in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and washed us from our sins by his blood

¹ To the agent of the congregation in Ephesus write, These things says he who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:

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

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

²⁹ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations.

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

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

²² He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations.

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

¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

¹ Now it came to pass in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to enroll all the world.

²⁸ And one of them named Agabus, after standing up, signified by the Spirit there was going be a great famine in the whole world, which also happened under Claudius Caesar.

¹⁷ But thanks to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but ye obeyed from the heart a model of doctrine for which ye were delivered.

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.

⁴ I thank my God always about you, for the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,

¹⁵ Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love for all the sanctified,

²¹ to him is the glory in the church in Christ Jesus for all generations of the age of the ages. Truly.

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

³ I thank my God upon every memory of you,

¹¹ having been filled with fruits of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, for glory and praise of God.

³ We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying about you,

⁸ For the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything. ⁹ For they report about us what kind of entrance we had with you, and how ye turned to God from the idols to serve a living and true God,

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

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

¹¹ If any man speaks, as oracles of God. If any man serves, as of ability as God supplies. So that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

²³ Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against LORD in ceasing to pray for you. But I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

¹⁹ Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who vouches for me is on high.

¹ The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

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

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.

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

⁵ Indeed therefore Peter was kept in the prison, but fervent prayer was being made by the church to God for him.

²¹ Now when these things were fulfilled, Paul decided in the spirit, after passing through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, having said, After becoming there, I must also see Rome.

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,

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

¹⁴ For if I pray in a tongue my spirit prays, but my intellect is unfruitful. ¹⁵ What is it therefore? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the intellect also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the intellect also.

²³ But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that I did not yet come to Corinth, sparing you.

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

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

²⁰ Now what I write to you, behold before God, I do not lie.

¹⁶ I cease not expressing thanks for you, making remembrance of you in my prayers. ¹⁷ So that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in knowledge of him, ¹⁸ having the eyes of your heart enlightened. For you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the sanctified, ¹⁹ and what is the transcending greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his might,

¹⁴ For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ from whom every patriarchy in heavens and on earth is named. ¹⁶ So that he would grant you, according to the wealth of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit for the inner man, ¹⁷ for the Christ to dwell in your hearts through faith, ¹⁸ having been rooted and grounded in love, so that ye may be able to grasp with all the sanctified what is the breadth and length and depth and height, ¹⁹ and to become aware of the love of the Christ, which transcends knowledge, so that ye may be filled in all the fullness of God. ²⁰ Now to him who is able to do above extraordinary-above all things that we ask or think-according to the power that works in us, ²¹ to him is the glory in the church in Christ Jesus for all generations of the age of the ages. Truly.

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

⁴ always in my every entreaty for all of you, making the entreaty with joy

⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for you all in bowels of Jesus Christ. ⁹ And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment ¹⁰ for you to examine the things that are significant. So that ye may be tested by sunlight and not stumbling toward the day of Christ, ¹¹ having been filled with fruits of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, for glory and praise of God.

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

³ For we are the circumcision, men who worship in spirit to God, and who boast in Christ Jesus, and not being confident in flesh.

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. ¹⁰ For you to walk worthily of the Lord for every desire to please, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God, ¹¹ being strengthened in every ability, according to the dominion of his glory, for all perseverance and longsuffering with joy. ¹² Giving thanks to the Father who made us qualified for the share of the portion of the sanctified in light. ¹³ Who rescued us out of the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

²⁸ Whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ For which also I labor, striving according to his working, which works in me with power.

² We thank God always about all of you, making recollection of you in our prayers,

⁵ For we came neither in word of flattery (at any time as ye know) nor a pretense of greed (God is witness) ⁶ nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others. While able to bear down as apostles of Christ, ⁷ nevertheless we became gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherishes her own children. ⁸ Thus being desirous of you, we were pleased to impart to you, not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because ye have become beloved to us. ⁹ For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good news of God. ¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and justly and blamelessly we became to you who believe,

¹⁰ praying night and day above extraordinary in order to see your face and to mend the deficiencies of your faith?

¹⁷ Pray without ceasing.

³ I have gratitude to God whom I serve from the forefathers in a pure conscience, as I have unceasing remembrance about thee in my supplications, night and day ⁴ I thank my God, making recollection of thee always in my prayers,

⁹ If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. Because this is the testimony of God that he has testified about his Son. ¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified about his Son. ¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God gave eternal life to us, and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who has the Son has the life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

²¹ but separated from them, having said, I must definitely keep the coming feast at Jerusalem, but I will return again to you, God willing. And he launched from Ephesus.

¹⁴ And since he was not persuaded, we were quiet, having said, May the will of the Lord happen.

¹ And when it was determined for us to sail for Italy, they delivered both Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the band of Augustus. ² And having gotten on a ship of Adramyttium that was going to sail to the places along Asia, we launched, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. ³ And on another day we put in at Sidon. And Julius, who treated Paul kindly, allowed him to undergo care, after going to his friends. ⁴ And having launched from there, we sailed under lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary. ⁵ And having sailed across the depths along Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, of Lycia. ⁶ And there, the centurion having found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, he put us in it. ⁷ And sailing slowly during considerable days, and with difficulty having come along the Cnidus, the wind not allowing us further, we sailed under lee of Crete, along Salmone. ⁸ And sailing by it with difficulty, we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near to which was Lasea City. ⁹ And considerable time having past, and the voyage now being dangerous, also because the Fast was now past, Paul urged, ¹⁰ saying to them, Men, I perceive that the voyage is going to be with injury and much damage, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives. ¹¹ But the centurion was convinced more by the captain and the shipmaster than to those things spoken by Paul. ¹² And since the haven was inconvenient to winter in, the majority gave counsel to launch from there also, if somehow they might be able, after arriving at Phoenix, to winter in a haven of Crete, looking toward southwest and northwest. ¹³ And when a south wind blew gently, having presumed to have obtained their purpose, after taking up anchor, they sailed very near by Crete. ¹⁴ But not long after, there threw against it a cyclonic wind called the Euroclydon. ¹⁵ And the ship having been caught, and not being able to face the wind, having given up, we were driven. ¹⁶ And having sailed under lee of a certain island called Clauda, we were able with difficulty, to develop control of the skiff. ¹⁷ And having taken that up, they used helps, undergirding the ship. And fearing lest they might fall off into the sandbank, having lowered the vessel, they were driven this way. ¹⁸ And since we were exceedingly storm-tossed, on the next day they jettisoned. ¹⁹ And the third day we cast out by hands the tackling of the ship. ²⁰ And when neither sun nor stars appeared for more days, and no small storm laying on, all remaining hope for us to be saved was taken away. ²¹ And being long without food, then Paul, who stood in the midst of them, said, Ye truly ought, O men, to have complied with me, not to launch from Crete, and gain this damage and loss. ²² And now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will not be one loss of life from you, except of the ship. ²³ For there stood by me this night an agent of the God whose I am, whom also I serve, ²⁴ saying, Fear not, Paul. Thou must stand before Caesar, and lo, God has granted thee all those sailing with thee. ²⁵ Therefore men, cheer up, for I believe God, that it will be so in that way it has been told to me. ²⁶ But we must fall off upon a certain island. ²⁷ And when it became the fourteenth night, as we were driven about in the Adriatic sea, toward midnight the sailors suspected some region to come near them. ²⁸ And having tossed lead, they found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther, and having tossed lead again, they found fifteen fathoms.

²² Therefore also, I was delayed these many times coming to you. ²³ But now, having no more place in these regions, and having a great desire from many years to come to you, ²⁴ whenever I go to Spain I will come to you. For I hope to see you while passing through, and there to be helped on the way by you, if first I may be partly satisfied from you.

³⁰ Now I beseech you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive with me in prayers to God for me. ³¹ So that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may become acceptable to the sanctified, ³² so that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and be rested with you.

¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord should will, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

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

¹⁸ Therefore we wanted to come to you, indeed I, Paul, even once and again, and Satan hindered us.

¹⁰ praying night and day above extraordinary in order to see your face and to mend the deficiencies of your faith? ¹¹ Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

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

¹⁹ But I urge you to do this even more, so that I may be restored to you sooner.

¹⁵ in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.

³⁰ And now, though thou have certainly gone, because thou have been very desirous for thy father's house, yet why have thou stolen my gods?

³⁹ And the soul of king David longed to go forth to Absalom, for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

¹⁵ And David longed, and said, Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!

²⁰ And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa. And as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in LORD your God, so shall ye be established. Believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

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.

⁵ Indeed therefore the congregations were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

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

²³ But now, having no more place in these regions, and having a great desire from many years to come to you,

³² so that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and be rested with you.

¹ Now concerning the spiritual things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. ² Ye know that, while Gentiles, ye were being carried away to the voiceless idols, as ye were led. ³ Therefore I make known to you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed, and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, except by the Holy Spirit. ⁴ Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. ⁵ And there are varieties of services, and the same Lord. ⁶ And there are varieties of functions, but it is the same God who works all in all. ⁷ But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each man toward that which is beneficial. ⁸ For to one, the word of wisdom is given through the Spirit, and to another, the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit, ⁹ to a different man, faith by the same Spirit, and to another, gifts of healings by the same Spirit, ¹⁰ and to another, workings of miracles, and to another, prophecy, and to another, discerning of spirits, and to a different man, kinds of tongues, and to another, the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each man individually as it wills.

²¹ Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and who anointed us, is God.

¹⁴ and by their supplication about you, yearning for you because of the transcending grace of God in you.

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

² I only want to learn this from you. Did ye receive the Spirit from works of law, or from a listening ear of faith? ³ Are ye so foolish, having begun in Spirit, are ye now made perfect by flesh? ⁴ Did ye suffer so many things in vain? If it is indeed in vain. ⁵ He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and who works miracles among you, is it from works of law or from a listening ear of faith?

⁸ Therefore he says, Having ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men. ⁹ And what is the ascended, except that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended is also the same man who ascended high above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things. ¹¹ And indeed he gave the apostles, and the prophets, and the evangelists, and the shepherds and teachers ¹² for the perfecting of the sanctified, for the work of ministry, for edification of the body of the Christ.

⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for you all in bowels of Jesus Christ.

²⁶ since he was longing for you all, and distressed because ye heard that he was sick.

¹ So then, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord this way beloved.

² And we sent Timothy, our brother, and a helper of God, and our fellow workman in the good news of the Christ, in order to establish you and to encourage you about your faith,

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

¹⁷ encourage your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

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

⁹ Be not carried away by various and foreign doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with foods by which those who walked were not benefited.

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

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

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

¹⁷ Ye therefore, beloved, knowing in advance, keep watch, lest, having accommodated to the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own steadfastness. ¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him is the glory both now and into the day of the age. Truly.

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

²⁴ whenever I go to Spain I will come to you. For I hope to see you while passing through, and there to be helped on the way by you, if first I may be partly satisfied from you.

¹ But I determined this in myself, not to come again to you in sadness. ² For if I make you sad, who then is he who makes me glad except he who is made sad by me? ³ And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, having been confident toward you all, because my joy is of all of you.

⁴ Great is my boldness toward you, great is my pride for you. I have been filled with encouragement. I over-abound with joy in all our affliction. ⁵ For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had not one relief, but being oppressed in everything: battles outside, fears within. ⁶ Nevertheless God, who encourages the lowly, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus. ⁷ And not only by his presence, but also by the encouragement with which he was encouraged by you, reporting to us your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.

¹³ Because of this we have been encouraged. And from your encouragement, we rejoiced to a greater degree more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

⁵ one Lord, one faith, one immersion,

¹⁷ But we, brothers, who were orphaned from you for the time of an hour, in presence not in heart, hastened more earnestly to see your face, with much desire. ¹⁸ Therefore we wanted to come to you, indeed I, Paul, even once and again, and Satan hindered us. ¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown of boast? Or is it not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming? ²⁰ For ye are our glory and joy.

⁷ because of this, brothers, we were encouraged toward you in all our affliction and necessity through your faith. ⁸ Because now we live, if ye stand firm in the Lord. ⁹ For what thanks can we repay God about you, for all the joy in which we rejoiced because of you before our God, ¹⁰ praying night and day above extraordinary in order to see your face and to mend the deficiencies of your faith?

⁴ longing to see thee, having remembered thy tears, so that I may be filled with joy,

⁴ I rejoice exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, just as we received commandment from the Father.

³ For I rejoiced exceedingly of brothers coming and testifying to the truth of thee, just as thou walk in truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy than these things that I hear my children walking in truth.

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

⁶ In days to come Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and bud. And they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.

³⁶ And he who reaps receives a wage and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

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

¹⁶ Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and appointed you, so that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit may remain, so that anything whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, he may give you.

²⁷ And after arriving, and after gathering the assembly together, they reported as many things as God did with them, and that he opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

¹² And all the multitude kept silent, and they heard Barnabas and Paul describing how many signs and wonders God did among the Gentiles through them.

⁶ But having passed through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia, ⁷ having come toward Mysia, they attempted to go toward Bithynia. And the Spirit did not allow them.

¹⁹ And having greeted them, he reported one by one what God did among the Gentiles through his ministry.

²⁵ For I do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise according to yourselves, that a callousness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in.

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak anything of which Christ did not accomplish through me for the obedience of Gentiles, by word and work, ¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of a Spirit of God, so that for me, from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum, to fully preach the good news of Christ. ²⁰ And thus having aspired to proclaim the good news not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build upon a foundation belonging to another man,

²² Therefore also, I was delayed these many times coming to you. ²³ But now, having no more place in these regions, and having a great desire from many years to come to you, ²⁴ whenever I go to Spain I will come to you. For I hope to see you while passing through, and there to be helped on the way by you, if first I may be partly satisfied from you. ²⁵ But now I am going to Jerusalem serving the sanctified. ²⁶ For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a certain participation for the poor of the sanctified at Jerusalem. ²⁷ For they were pleased. And they are debtors of them, for if the Gentiles were partakers in their spiritual things, they are obligated also to serve them in the carnal things. ²⁸ Having therefore completed this, and having sealed this fruit for them, I will depart by you to Spain.

¹ But I want you not to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

¹ Now concerning the spiritual things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

⁸ For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about our affliction that happened to us in Asia, because we were extraordinarily weighed down, above strength, so as for us to despair even to be alive.

¹⁵ And in this confidence I intended to come to you earlier, so that ye might have a second benefit, ¹⁶ and to pass through you into Macedonia, and to come again from Macedonia to you, and by you to be helped on the way toward Judea.

¹⁴ And thanks is to God who always causes us to triumph in the Christ, and who makes manifest the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place, through us.

¹³ But we will not boast in things immeasurable, but according to the measure of the standard that God apportioned to us, of a measure to reach even as far as you. ¹⁴ For it is not as not reaching for you. We overextend ourselves. For we even reached as far as you in the good news of the Christ, ¹⁵ not boasting in things immeasurable, in other men's labors, but having hope of your faith growing in you to be enlarged according to our measure for abundance, ¹⁶ in order to preach the good news beyond you, not to boast in another measure, in things prepared.

¹⁷ Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.

⁸ For the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything. ⁹ For they report about us what kind of entrance we had with you, and how ye turned to God from the idols to serve a living and true God, ¹⁰ and to await his Son from the heavens whom he raised from the dead-Jesus-who rescues us from the coming wrath.

¹³ And because of this we thank God without ceasing, because, having received the word of God heard from us, ye received not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe. ¹⁴ For ye, brothers, became imitators of the congregations of God, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because ye also suffered the same things by your own countrymen, just as also they by the Jews.

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

⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only he who restrains it until now will develop from the midst.

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.

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

⁵ O ye simple, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.

⁸ And a highway shall be there, and a way. And it shall be called The way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for the redeemed, the wayfaring men. Yea fools shall not err in it.

²⁵ Jesus having responded at that time, said, I extol thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, because thou hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to the childlike.

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

² And the foreigners presented uncommon kindness to us, for, having kindled a fire, they received us all because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

⁴ And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, though saved from the sea, Justice did not allow to live.

²² Professing to be wise, they became foolish,

¹² So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to flesh.

¹⁶ thinking the same way toward each other, not thinking on lofty things, but accommodating to the lowly. Become not wise according to yourselves,

⁸ Owe no man anything except to love each other, for he who loves the other has fulfilled law.

¹⁹ For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding. ²⁰ Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its wisdom, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe. ²² And because Jews demand a sign and Greeks search for wisdom,

¹³ Which things also we speak, not in things learned from mankind, in words of wisdom, but in things learned from the Holy Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

¹⁸ Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.

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.

¹¹ If therefore I know not the force of the voice, I will be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks will be a foreigner to me.

¹⁶ Otherwise if thou would bless with the spirit, how will the man who fills the place of the unlearned, say the Truly at thy thanksgiving, since he knows not what thou say?

²³ If therefore the whole congregation comes together in the same place, and all speak in tongues, and unlearned or unbelieving men come in, will they not say that ye are mad? ²⁴ But if all prophesy, and some unbelieving or unlearned man comes in, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all.

¹² For we dare not classify or compare ourselves to some of those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves to themselves, do not understand.

¹⁹ For being wise, ye gladly tolerate the foolish.

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.

¹¹ where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman, but the all and in all, Christ.

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

³ For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.

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

¹⁸ But LORD said to David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house for my name, thou did well that it was in thy heart.

⁸ And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Lo, send me.

³⁸ Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth workmen into his harvest.

⁸ She applied what she had to anoint my body. She did it beforehand for the burial.

³⁴ Jesus says to them, My food is that I do the will of him who sent me, and may finish his work.

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.

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

²⁰ And thus having aspired to proclaim the good news not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build upon a foundation belonging to another man,

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

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.

⁹ I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly. Lo, I will not refrain my lips. O LORD, thou know. ¹⁰ I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart. I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy loving kindness and thy truth from the great assembly.

¹⁵ My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, of thy salvation all the day, for I know not the numbers. ¹⁶ I will come with the mighty acts of the lord LORD. I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

² LORD will send forth the rod of thy strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

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

¹ Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of LORD been revealed?

²⁹ Is not my word like fire? says LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

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.

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.

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?

⁹ pressure and restriction, upon every soul of man who produces evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek,

¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the righteousness of his faith during uncircumcision, for him to be father of all those who believe during uncircumcision (for righteousness to also be imputed to them),

¹⁷ So faith is from hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of a Spirit of God, so that for me, from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum, to fully preach the good news of Christ.

¹⁸ For the message of the cross is of course foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is a power of God. ¹⁹ For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding. ²⁰ Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its wisdom, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe. ²² And because Jews demand a sign and Greeks search for wisdom, ²³ but we proclaim Christ crucified, it is truly to Jews a stumbling-block and to Gentiles foolishness. ²⁴ But to them, to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

² For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, even this crucified man.

⁴ And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

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.

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.

²⁴ But if all prophesy, and some unbelieving or unlearned man comes in, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all. ²⁵ And so the secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so having fallen down on his face he will worship God, declaring that God is really among you.

² by which also ye are saved if ye hold firm that word I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain.

¹² Now having come to Troas for the good news of the Christ, and a door having been opened to me in the Lord,

¹⁴ And thanks is to God who always causes us to triumph in the Christ, and who makes manifest the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place, through us. ¹⁵ Because we are a fragrance of Christ to God, in those being saved and in those perishing: 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?

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

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,

⁴ For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for the demolition of strongholds, ⁵ casting down imaginations, and every high thing exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought captive into the obedience of the Christ,

⁷ which is not another, except there are some who confuse you, and who want to pervert the good news of the Christ.

⁵ because of the hope being reserved for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news ⁶ being present for you, just as also in all the world. And it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day that ye heard and recognized the grace of God in truth.

⁵ because the good news from us happened to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as ye know what kind of men we became among you, because of you. ⁶ And ye became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

¹³ And because of this we thank God without ceasing, because, having received the word of God heard from us, ye received not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

¹¹ according to the good news of the glory of the blessed God, of which I was entrusted.

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.

¹² Because of which reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to preserve my consignment for that day.

¹⁶ May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain.

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

¹⁶ But if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this regard.

⁴ Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright in him. (But the righteous man shall live by his faith.

³⁶ He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

³ For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the assurance of God ineffective?

³⁰ What will we say then? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness from faith.

¹¹ But that no man is made righteous by law before God, is evident, because, The righteous man will live from faith.

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-

³⁸ But the righteous man will live from faith, and if he should withdraw, my soul is not pleased with him.

⁶ And apart from faith it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is, and becomes a rewarder of those who search for him. ⁷ By faith Noah, being divinely warned about things not yet seen, moved with awe, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became an heir of righteousness according to faith.

⁴⁶ the lord of that bondman will arrive in a day that he does not expect, and in an hour that he is not aware, and will cut him in two, and will place his portion with the unbelieving. ⁴⁷ And that bondman who knew his lord's will, and who did not prepare, nor do according to his will, will be beaten much,

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For every man who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, so that his works may not be exposed. ²¹ But he who does the truth comes to the light, so that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God.

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.

¹⁹ because what is knowable of God is apparent in them, for God made it known to them.

²⁸ And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

³² Who, knowing the righteousness of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also favor those who do.

³ And think thou this, O man who judge those who do such things and do the same, that thou will escape the judgment of God?

¹⁵ Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, testifying of their conscience, and their thoughts amidst each other accusing or also defending them ¹⁶ in a day when God judges the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my good news. ¹⁷ Behold, thou are called a Jew, and rely upon the law, and boast in God, ¹⁸ and know his will, and approve the things that are significant, being instructed out of the law. ¹⁹ And thou have confidence in thyself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness, ²⁰ a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the childlike, having in the law the essence of knowledge and truth, ²¹ thou therefore who teach another, do thou not teach thyself? Thou who preach not to steal, do thou steal? ²² Thou who say not to commit adultery, do thou commit adultery? Thou who abhor idols, do thou rob temples? ²³ Thou who boast in law, dishonor God by thy transgression of the law.

¹⁵ For the law works wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

⁶ For while we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the impious.

⁹ Much more then, now having been made righteous by his blood, we will be saved from the wrath through him.

¹³ And do not present your body-parts as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God, as living out of the dead, and your body-parts as instruments of righteousness to God,

⁶ Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

⁶ Because of which the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience,

¹⁰ and in all deception of unrighteousness in those who are perishing, in return for which, they did not accept the love of the truth in order for them to be saved.

¹ But the Spirit says expressly that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, ² speaking lies in hypocrisy, their own conscience having been seared with a hot iron,

¹ The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork. ² Day to day utters speech, and night to night shows knowledge. ³ There is no speech nor language in which their voice is not heard. ⁴ Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tabernacle for the sun, ⁵ which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run his course. ⁶ His going forth is from the end of the heavens, and his circuit to the ends of it, and there is nothing hid from the heat of it.

²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number. He calls them all by name, by the greatness of his might. And because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

¹⁰ But LORD is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation. ¹¹ Thus ye shall say to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens. ¹² He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he has stretched out the heavens. ¹³ When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

⁹ He was the true light coming into the world that enlightens every man.

¹⁶ who in the generations that have passed allowed all the nations to go in their own ways, ¹⁷ although he did not leave himself without evidence, doing good and giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts of food and gladness.

²³ For, passing through and examining your religious objects, I also found an altar on which had been engraved, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye worship unknowingly, him I proclaim to you. ²⁴ The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands, ²⁵ nor is he served by the hands of men, as needing anything, since he himself gives to all life, and breath, with all things. ²⁶ And he made from one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined prescribed times, and the limits of their occupancy, ²⁷ to search for the Lord, if indeed perhaps they might grope for him and find him, although being not far from each one of us. ²⁸ For in him we live, and move, and exist, as also some of the performers from you have said, For of him we are also offspring. ²⁹ Being therefore offspring of God, we ought not think the Divine to be like gold, or silver, or stone handiwork of the skill and thought of man. ³⁰ Indeed therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands for all men everywhere to repent.

²⁰ For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both his eternal power and divinity, for them to be without excuse.

³³ And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there called on the name of LORD, the Everlasting God.

¹⁹ And lest thou lift up thine eyes to heaven, and when thou see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which LORD thy God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

²⁷ The eternal God is thy dwelling-place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before thee, and said, Destroy.

²⁶ if I have beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness, ²⁷ and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand ²⁸ (this also is an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God that is above);

³ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou have ordained,

⁶ By the word of LORD were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. ⁷ He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in store-houses. ⁸ Let all the earth fear LORD. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. ⁹ For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast.

² Before the mountains were brought forth, or thou had ever formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou are God.

⁵ who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be moved forever.

³¹ Let the glory of LORD endure forever. Let LORD rejoice in his works,

⁹⁰ Thy faithfulness is to all generations. Thou have established the earth, and it abides.

¹³ For thou formed my inward parts. Thou covered me in my mother's womb.

⁸ fire and hail, snow and vapor, stormy wind, fulfilling his word, ⁹ mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars, ¹⁰ beasts and all cattle, creeping things and flying birds, ¹¹ kings of the earth and all peoples, rulers and all judges of the earth, ¹² both young men and virgins, old men and sons.

⁶ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given. And the government shall be upon his shoulder. And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.

⁴ Trust ye in LORD forever, for in LORD, even LORD, is an everlasting rock.

²¹ Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, who have eyes, and see not, who have ears, and hear not:

⁴⁵ so that ye may become sons of your Father in the heavens, because he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and makes rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

¹⁸ No man has ever seen God. The only begotten Son, being in the bosom of the Father, that man reported him.

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.

²⁹ Being therefore offspring of God, we ought not think the Divine to be like gold, or silver, or stone handiwork of the skill and thought of man.

¹ Men, brothers, and fathers, hear now my defense to you.

¹ Therefore, O man, thou are without excuse, every man who judges, for in what thou judge the other man, thou condemn thyself, for the man who judges is doing the same things.

¹⁵ Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, testifying of their conscience, and their thoughts amidst each other accusing or also defending them

¹⁵ who is an image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

⁹ Because in him all the fullness of the divinity dwells bodily.

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

¹⁶ who alone has immortality, dwelling in irreproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see, to whom is honor and eternal dominion. Truly.

²⁷ By faith he forsook Egypt, not having feared the wrath of the king, for he persevered as seeing the invisible.

⁵ And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

²¹ And LORD smelled the sweet savor. And LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I again any more smite everything living, as I have done.

²⁹ and thou shall grope at noonday, as the blind man gropes in darkness. And thou shall not prosper in thy ways. And thou shall only be oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save thee.

¹⁵ And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them. And they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom LORD had charged them that they should not do like them.

²³ Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me. And to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God.

¹² So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

⁹ All nations whom thou have made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and they shall glorify thy name.

²⁹ Behold, this only I have found: That God made man upright, but they have sought out many contrivances.

⁹ Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame. ¹⁰ Who has fashioned a god, or molded an image that is profitable for nothing? ¹¹ Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame, and the workmen. They are of men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They shall fear. They shall be put to shame together. ¹² The smith makes an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. Yea, he is hungry, and his strength fails. He drinks no water, and is faint. ¹³ The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. And he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house. ¹⁴ He hews down cedars for him, and takes the holm tree and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it. ¹⁵ Then it shall be for a man to burn. And he takes of it, and warms himself. Yea, he kindles it, and bakes bread. Yea, he makes a god, and worships it. He makes it a graven image, and falls down to it. ¹⁶ He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it he eats flesh. He roasts roast, and is satisfied. Yea, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire. ¹⁷ And the residue of it he makes a god, even his graven image. He falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for thou are my god. ¹⁸ They do not know, nor do they consider. For he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they cannot understand. ¹⁹ And none calls to mind, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire. Yea, I have also baked bread upon the coals of it. I have roasted flesh and eaten it. And shall I make the residue of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? ²⁰ He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

² For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples. But LORD will arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

⁵ Thus says LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

³ For the customs of the peoples are vanity. For a man cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. ⁴ They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move. ⁵ They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and do not speak. They must be carried, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, nor is it in them to do good. ⁶ There is none like thee, O LORD. Thou are great, and thy name is great in might. ⁷ Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? For to thee it appertains, inasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like thee. ⁸ But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.

¹⁴ Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image. For his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. ¹⁵ They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁹ O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to thee the nations shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there is no profit.

⁸ For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

¹⁵ He takes all of them up with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his drag. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. ¹⁶ Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his drag, because by them his portion is fat, and his food plentiful.

¹⁵ And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back with a great voice glorifying God. ¹⁶ And he fell upon his face beside his feet giving him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ And having answered, Jesus said, Were not the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? ¹⁸ Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil.

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

¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened, not to see, and may thou bow down their back always.

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.

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and solemnly declare in the Lord, for you to walk no longer as also the other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart.

² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, impious,

¹⁸ Knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain behavior inherited from fathers, not with perishable silver or gold,

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

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

¹⁴ Clouds and wind without rain, is he who boasts himself of his gifts falsely.

¹² See thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than of him.

¹⁰ For thou have trusted in thy wickedness. Thou have said, None sees me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it has perverted thee. And thou have said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

⁸ How can ye say, We are wise, and the law of LORD is with us? But behold, the false pen of the scribes has wrought falsely. ⁹ The wise men are put to shame. They are dismayed and taken. Lo, they have rejected the word of LORD, and what manner of wisdom is in them?

¹⁴ Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image. For his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

²³ But if thine eye is bad, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is the darkness!

¹⁹ For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding. ²⁰ Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its wisdom, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

¹⁸ Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He who catches the wise in their craftiness,

¹⁵ Take ye therefore good heed to yourselves, for ye saw no manner of form on the day that LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire. ¹⁶ Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make for you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, ¹⁷ the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, ¹⁸ the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.

⁸ Thou shall not make to thee a graven image: any likeness that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

²⁰ Thus they changed their glory for the likeness of an ox that eats grass.

⁵ They have mouths, but they speak not. They have eyes, but they see not. ⁶ They have ears, but they hear not. They have noses, but they smell not. ⁷ They have hands, but they handle not. They have feet, but they walk not, nor do they speak through their throat. ⁸ Those who make them shall be like them. Yea, everyone who trusts in them.

¹⁵ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ¹⁶ They have mouths, but they speak not. They have eyes, but they see not. ¹⁷ They have ears, but they hear not, nor is there any breath in their mouths. ¹⁸ Those who make them shall be like them, yea, everyone who trusts in them.

¹⁸ To whom then will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye compare to him?

¹³ The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. And he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

¹¹ Has a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

¹⁰ So I went in and saw, and, behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.

²⁵ who changed the truth of God into the lie, and worshiped and served the creation against him who created it, who is blessed into the ages. Truly.

² Ye know that, while Gentiles, ye were being carried away to the voiceless idols, as ye were led.

³ For enough time of life has past for you to accomplish the will of the Gentiles, having gone in debaucheries, lusts, excesses of wine, revelings, drinking parties, and lawless idolatries.

²⁰ And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they would not worship the demons, and the golden and silver and brass and stone and wooden idols, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.

²² Thou shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind. It is abomination.

¹¹ But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me. ¹² So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone. ¹⁸ Their drink has become sour. They play the harlot continually. Her rulers dearly love shame.

¹⁴ Leave them. They are blind leaders of blind men, and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a ditch.

⁴² But God turned, and gave them over to serve the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

¹⁶ who in the generations that have passed allowed all the nations to go in their own ways,

²⁶ Because of this God gave them up to shameful passions, for even their females changed the natural use into what is against nature. ²⁷ And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward each other, males with males producing shamelessness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their deviancy that was fitting. ²⁸ And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

¹² Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body in order to obey it, in its lusts. ¹³ The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

¹⁸ darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart. ¹⁹ Who, having become callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness for the work of all uncleanness in greed.

⁴ for each of you to know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and reverence,

¹⁰ and in all deception of unrighteousness in those who are perishing, in return for which, they did not accept the love of the truth in order for them to be saved. ¹¹ And because of this God will send them the force of a delusion, for them to believe a lie, ¹² so that they might be condemned-all those who did not believe the truth, but who delighted in unrighteousness.

²⁰ Now in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and earthen, and some for esteem and some for disesteem. ²¹ If therefore any man purges himself from these things, he will be a vessel for esteem, sanctified and useful to the master, prepared for every good work. ²² And flee juvenile impulses, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

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

¹ I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name forever and ever. ² Every day I will bless thee, and I will praise thy name forever and ever.

²⁰ He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

²⁵ This is thy lot, the portion measured to thee from me, says LORD, because thou have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

⁴ Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have rejected the law of LORD, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, according to which their fathers walked.

¹⁸ What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?

²⁴ No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or he will hold to one, and disparage the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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.

⁸ And he says to them, Draw out now, and carry to the feast-ruler. And they carried.

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all irreverence and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image like corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed things, and creeping things.

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

⁴ traitors, reckless, beclouded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

⁵ And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men who came in to thee this night? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.

²² Thou shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind. It is abomination. ²³ And thou shall not lie with any beast to defile thyself with it, nor shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down with it. It is a perversion. ²⁴ Do not defile ye yourselves in any of these things. For in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you, ²⁵ and the land is defiled. Therefore I visit the iniquity of it upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants. ²⁶ Ye therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourns among you, ²⁷ (for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and the land is defiled), ²⁸ that the land not vomit you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

¹⁷ There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. ¹⁸ Thou shall not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of LORD thy God for any vow, for even both these are an abomination to LORD thy God.

²² As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door. And they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man who came into thy house, that we may know him.

²⁴ And for this reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to degrade their bodies among themselves,

⁹ Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

¹⁹ Who, having become callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness for the work of all uncleanness in greed.

¹² For it is disgusting even to speak of the things happening by them secretly.

⁵ not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,

¹⁰ for fornicators, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine

⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, the same kind of way with these who indulged in fornication, and who went rear of queer flesh, are set forth an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

¹⁰ But these men indeed revile whatever they have not seen. But whatever they understand naturally, as the irrational beasts, in these things they are corrupted.

¹³ And if a man lies with a man, as with a woman, both of them have committed abomination. They shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image like corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed things, and creeping things. ²⁴ And for this reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to degrade their bodies among themselves,

¹⁴ And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him?

⁷ The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

²⁹ because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of LORD.

¹² and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof. ¹³ Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!

¹⁶ Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

²² For my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are sottish sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

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

⁶ Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit. Through deceit they refuse to know me, says LORD.

⁶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou have rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me. Since thou have forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy sons.

²³ For, passing through and examining your religious objects, I also found an altar on which had been engraved, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye worship unknowingly, him I proclaim to you.

³² But when they heard the resurrection of the dead, of course they mocked, but others said, We will hear thee again about this.

²¹ Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

²⁶ Because of this God gave them up to shameful passions, for even their females changed the natural use into what is against nature.

⁷ Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able. ⁸ And those who are in flesh cannot please God.

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

⁴ in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them. ⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves are your bondmen through Jesus. ⁶ Because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who shone in our hearts for an enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the presence of Jesus Christ.

⁵ casting down imaginations, and every high thing exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought captive into the obedience of the Christ,

⁵ Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye are test-failing something. ⁶ But I hope that ye will know that we are not test-failing. ⁷ Now I pray to God, to do you nothing harmful, not that we would appear test-passing, but that ye would do right, even like we might be test-failing.

⁴ also indecency, and foolish talking or jesting, things not befitting, but thankfulness instead.

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.

⁸ And by which way Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also do these oppose the truth. Men corrupted in mind, worthless about the faith.

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but in their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and worthless for every good work.

⁸ Therefore, though I have much boldness in Christ to command thee that which is befitting,

⁵ For this is willfully ignored by them, that long ago there were heavens, and an earth that came together out of water and by water by the word of God,

⁷ All who hate me whisper together against me. Against me they devise my hurt.

²⁸ A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

²⁰ For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases.

¹⁰ as it is written, There is no righteous man, not even one.

²⁰ For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, turmoils,

³⁵ And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, O LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered, and let those who hate thee flee before thee.

¹⁰ and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.

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

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

¹¹ And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him who girds on his armor boast himself as he who puts it off.

² And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should thou help the wicked, and love those who hate LORD? For this thing wrath is upon thee from before LORD.

¹⁹ Thou say, Lo, I have smitten Edom. And thy heart lifts thee up to boast. Remain now at home. Why should thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou should fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

³ For the wicked man boasts of his heart's desire. And the greedy man renounces, yea, despises LORD.

⁶ Those who trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches,

¹ Why boast thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God is continual.

¹⁵ (The haters of LORD feign obedience to him, but their time is forever.)

⁴ They prate, they speak arrogantly. All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.

⁷ Let all those be put to shame who serve graven images, who boast themselves of idols. Bow yourselves to him, all ye gods.

⁸ Thou answered them, O LORD our God. Thou were a God who forgave them, though thou took vengeance on their doings.

³⁹ Thus they were defiled with their works, and played the harlot in their doings.

³⁶ But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.

²³ The north wind brings forth rain. So does a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

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

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

⁴ For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.

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

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

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

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.

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.

¹⁷ Behold, thou are called a Jew, and rely upon the law, and boast in God,

²³ Thou who boast in law, dishonor God by thy transgression of the law.

²⁷ Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what law, of works? No, but by a law of faith.

¹⁵ not boasting in things immeasurable, in other men's labors, but having hope of your faith growing in you to be enlarged according to our measure for abundance,

⁴ who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or an object of worship, so as for him to sit in the temple of God, as God, displaying himself that he is God.

⁵ So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles.

¹⁶ But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

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

¹⁶ These are grumblers, fault-finders, going according to their lusts, and their mouth speaks overblown things, marveling personages for the sake of advantage.

¹⁴ And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended. Return from me. That which thou put on me I will bear. And the king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house. ¹⁶ At that time Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. ¹⁷ And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they came up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the fuller's field. ¹⁸ And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. ¹⁹ And Rabshakeh said to them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which thou trust? ²⁰ Thou say (but they are but vain words), There is counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom do thou trust that thou have rebelled against me? ²¹ Now, behold, thou trust upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man leans it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him. ²² But if ye say to me, We trust in LORD our God, is that not he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem? ²³ Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. ²⁴ How then can thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? ²⁵ Have I now come up without LORD against this place to destroy it? LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. ²⁶ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. And do not speak with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people who are on the wall. ²⁷ But Rabshakeh said to them, Has my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? Has he not sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you? ²⁸ Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying, Hear ye the word of the great king, the king of Assyria. ²⁹ Thus says the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand. ³⁰ Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in LORD, saying, LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. ³¹ Do not hearken to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me. And eat ye every man of his vine, and every man of his fig tree, and drink ye every man the waters of his own cistern, ³² until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that ye may live, and not die. And do not hearken to Hezekiah when he persuades you, saying, LORD will deliver us. ³³ Have any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? ³⁴ Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? ³⁵ Who are they among all the gods of the countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? ³⁶ But the people were silent, and did not answer him a word, for the king's commandment was, saying, Do not answer him. ³⁷ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

² A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may reveal itself.

¹¹ When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off. The women shall come, and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion upon them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

⁸ The highways lie waste. The wayfaring man ceases. The enemy has broken the covenant. He has despised the cities. He does not regard man.

¹⁶ And Jesus said, Are ye also still without understanding?

²⁰ For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both his eternal power and divinity, for them to be without excuse. ²¹ Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

¹¹ There is no man who understands. There is no man who seeks God.

³ devoid of natural affection, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, no lovers of good,

¹⁸ When thou saw a thief, thou consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.

³ They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the rulers with their lies.

¹⁰ And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, so that he might betray him to them. ¹¹ And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him silver. And he sought how he might betray him conveniently.

⁴⁸ Consequently, ye testify and approve the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchers.

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.

²⁰ And when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I myself also was standing by, and approving his killing, and keeping the garments of those who killed him.

¹ Therefore, O man, thou are without excuse, every man who judges, for in what thou judge the other man, thou condemn thyself, for the man who judges is doing the same things. ² And we know that the judgment of God is in accordance with truth against those who commit such things. ³ And think thou this, O man who judge those who do such things and do the same, that thou will escape the judgment of God? ⁴ Or do thou despise the wealth of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God guides thee to repentance? ⁵ But according to thy hardness, and thy impenitent heart, thou store up wrath to thyself in the day of wrath, and revelation, and righteous judgment of God,

²¹ What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.