Romans 7 Cross References - ACV

¹ Or are ye ignorant, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over the man for as long a time as he lives? ² For the woman under authority to the living husband has been bound by law, but if the husband should die, she has been released from the law of the husband. ³ So then, of the living husband, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes to another man, but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, for her not to be an adulteress having become to another man. ⁴ Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God. ⁵ For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death. ⁶ But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document. ⁷ What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet. ⁸ But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead. ⁹ And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. ¹⁰ And I found to me, the commandment being for life, this is for death. ¹¹ For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. ¹² So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. ¹³ Has therefore what is good become death to me? May it not happen! Instead, it is sin, so that it might be revealed, sin working death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful to extreme. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, having been sold under sin. ¹⁵ For I do not understand what I do, for I do not do this that I want, but what I hate, this I do. ¹⁶ But if I do this that I do not want, I agree with the law that it is good. ¹⁷ But now I no longer perform it, but the sin dwelling in me. ¹⁸ For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not. ¹⁹ For I do not do good that I want, instead, wrong that I do not want, this I do. ²⁰ But if I do this that I do not want, I no longer perform it, but sin dwelling in me. ²¹ Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me. ²² For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man, ²³ but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts. ²⁴ I am a wretched man. Who will rescue me out of the body of this death? ²⁵ I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I of myself in the mind indeed serve a law of God, but in the flesh a law of sin.

²⁵ And thou, Ezra, according to the wisdom of thy God, that is in thy hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of thy God, and teach ye him who does not know them.

²³ For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

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.

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.

³ Or are ye ignorant that as many as were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into his death?

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

⁶ But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document.

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

¹ Brothers, truly my heart's desire and my supplication to God for Israel is for salvation.

⁸ Do I say these things according to man, or does not the law also say these things?

²¹ Tell me those desiring to be under law, do ye not hear the law?

²³ And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. ²⁴ Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

⁷ and her husband hears it, and remains silent at her in the day that he hears it, then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand. ⁸ But if her husband disallows her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is upon her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. And LORD will forgive her.

⁴ The wife has not the right of her private body, but the husband, and likewise also the husband has not the right of his private body, but the wife.

³⁹ A wife is bound by law as long a time as her husband lives, but also if the husband should sleep, she is free to be married to whom she desires, only in the Lord.

¹⁴ Thou shall not commit adultery.

¹⁰ And the man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

¹³ and a man lies with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act, ¹⁴ and the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled, or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she is not defiled, ¹⁵ then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her oblation for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. ¹⁶ And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before LORD. ¹⁷ And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel. And the priest shall take of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water. ¹⁸ And the priest shall set the woman before LORD, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. And the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that causes the curse. ¹⁹ And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say to the woman, If no man has lain with thee, and if thou have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causes the curse. ²⁰ But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou are defiled, and some man has lain with thee besides thy husband, ²¹ then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people when LORD makes thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell. ²² And this water that causes the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy body to swell, and thy thigh to fall away. And the woman shall say, Truly, Truly. ²³ And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness. ²⁴ And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse. And the water that causes the curse shall enter into her bitter. ²⁵ And the priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal offering before LORD, and bring it to the altar. ²⁶ And the priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as the memorial of it, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. ²⁷ And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse shall enter into her bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away. And the woman shall be a curse among her people. ²⁸ And if the woman is not defiled, but is clean, then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. ²⁹ This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes aside, and is defiled, ³⁰ or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he is jealous of his wife. Then he shall set the woman before LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. ³¹ And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.

²² If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. So shall thou put away the evil from Israel. ²³ If there be a damsel who is a virgin betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her, ²⁴ then ye shall bring them both out to the gate of that city. And ye shall stone them to death with stones, the damsel, because she did not cry out, being in the city, and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee.

¹³ Then she said, Let me find favor in thy sight, my lord, because thou have comforted me, and because thou have spoken kindly to thy handmaid, though I be not as one of thy handmaidens.

³⁹ And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil, and the evil-doing of Nabal LORD has returned upon his own head. And David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him to wife. ⁴⁰ And when the servants of David came to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to thee, to take thee to him to wife. ⁴¹ And she arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, Behold, thy handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. ⁴² And Abigail hastened, and arose, and rode upon a donkey, with five of her damsels who followed her. And she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

³² But I say to you, that whoever may divorce his wife apart from a matter of fornication, disposes her to commit adultery, and whoever may marry her who has been divorced commits adultery.

⁶ But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. ⁷ Because of this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, ⁸ and the two will be in one flesh. So then they are no more two, but one flesh. ⁹ What therefore God has joined together, no man shall separate. ¹⁰ And in the house the disciples questioned him again about the same thing. ¹¹ And he says to them, Whoever may divorce his wife, and will marry another, commits adultery against her. ¹² And if a woman should divorce her husband, and will be married to another, she commits adultery.

³ And the scholars and the Pharisees bring to him a woman taken in adultery. And having stood her in the midst, ⁴ tempting, they say to him, Teacher, we found this woman committing adultery, in the act. ⁵ Now in the law, Moses commanded us such women are to be stoned. What therefore do thou say about her?

¹¹ But refuse younger widows, for when they are sexually aroused, they desire of the Christ to marry, ¹² which has condemnation because they have disregarded the original pledge. ¹³ And also at the same time they learn to be idle, roving the houses, and not only idle, but also babbling and meddlesome, speaking things that they ought not. ¹⁴ I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.

¹⁰ Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear. Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house. ¹¹ So will the king desire thy beauty, for he is thy lord, and reverence thou him. ¹² And the daughter of Tyre shall adore him with a gift. The rich among the people shall entreat thy favor. ¹³ Inside, the king's daughter is all glorious. Her clothing is embroidered with gold. ¹⁴ She shall be led to the king in broidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to thee. ¹⁵ With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall enter into the king's palace. ¹⁶ Instead of thy fathers shall be thy sons, whom thou shall make rulers in all the earth.

⁵ For thy maker is thy husband. LORD of hosts is his name. And the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer. He shall be called the God of the whole earth.

⁵ For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee. And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

¹⁹ And I will betroth thee to me forever. Yea, I will betroth thee to me in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. ²⁰ I will even betroth thee to me in faithfulness, and thou shall know LORD.

²⁶ And as they were eating, Jesus, having taken bread, having expressed thanks, broke in pieces, and he gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat, this is my body.

²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This therefore my joy is fulfilled.

⁵¹ I am the living bread, having come down out of heaven. If any man eats of this bread, he will live into the age. And also, the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

⁸ By this my Father is glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye will become my disciples.

² May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it?

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

² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and of death.

¹⁶ The cup of the blessing that we bless, is it not a participation of the blood of the Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation of the body of the Christ?

² For I am jealous for you with a jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, a pure virgin to present to the Christ.

¹⁹ For I, through law, died to law, so that I might live to God. ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And what I now live in flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

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

¹⁸ But if ye are led by Spirit ye are not under law.

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

¹⁵ having abolished in his flesh the enmity-the law of the commandments in ordinances-so that he might create in himself the two into one new man, making peace,

²³ Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it, ²⁶ so that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished.

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

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

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.

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,

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

¹⁴ having erased the handwriting against us in the regulations that were hostile to us, and he has taken it up from the midst, having nailed it to the cross.

²⁰ If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do ye submit to rules, as though living in the world?

¹⁰ By which will we are sanctified through the one time offering of the body of Jesus Christ.

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

⁷ We should be glad and rejoice and give the glory to him, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has prepared herself.

⁹ And there came one of the seven agents who had the seven bowls containing the seven last plagues, and he spoke with me, saying, Come, I will show thee the woman, the bride of the Lamb.

¹⁹ For from the heart comes forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, revilings.

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

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

²⁰ Because from works of law no flesh will be made right before him, for through law is knowledge of sin.

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

²⁰ And the law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant,

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,

¹⁹ (I speak man-like because of the weakness of your flesh). For as ye presented your body-parts servile to uncleanness, and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present your body-parts servile to righteousness for sanctification.

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

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁷ What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet. ⁸ But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead. ⁹ And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. ¹⁰ And I found to me, the commandment being for life, this is for death. ¹¹ For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. ¹² So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. ¹³ Has therefore what is good become death to me? May it not happen! Instead, it is sin, so that it might be revealed, sin working death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful to extreme.

²³ but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts.

⁸ And those who are in flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But ye are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, this man is not of him.

⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

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. ⁷ But if the administration of death in writings engraved on stones occurred in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze upon the face of Moses because of the fading glory of his countenance, ⁸ how will the administration of the Spirit not be more in glory? ⁹ For if the administration of condemnation has glory, the administration of righteousness excels much more in glory. ¹⁰ For as many as are from works of law are under a curse, for it is written, Cursed is every man who does not continue in all things written in the book of the law, to do them.

¹⁶ But I say, walk in Spirit and ye will, no, not fulfill a lust of flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit is against the flesh. For these are hostile to each other, so that whatever these things are ye may want, ye may not do.

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

²⁴ And those of the Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and the lusts.

³ Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.

¹¹ Remember therefore that once ye, the Gentiles in flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision (in flesh, made by hands),

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

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.

¹⁵ Then the lust having conceived, it gives birth to sin, and after being complete the sin brings forth death.

⁹ But if ye respect personages, ye work sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. ¹⁰ For whoever keeps the whole law, and stumbles on one, he has become guilty of all.

¹ From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts?

⁴ Every man doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

¹⁹ And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh,

²⁶ I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

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,

²⁷ And the man of natural uncircumcision who fulfills the law, will judge thee, a transgressor of law through a document and circumcision. ²⁸ For he is not a Jew in what is visible, nor is circumcision in what is visible, in flesh, ²⁹ but he is a Jew in what is hidden, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit not a document, whose praise is not from men but from God.

⁴ We were buried therefore with him through the immersion into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may walk in newness of life.

¹¹ So also ye, reckon yourselves to be indeed dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁴ for sin will not have dominion over you. For ye are not under law, but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? May we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? May it not happen!

¹ Or are ye ignorant, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over the man for as long a time as he lives?

⁴ Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God.

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

⁶ 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.

¹⁷ So then if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.

²³ But before faith came we were kept in custody under law, having been confined for faith that was going to be revealed. ²⁴ So that the law became our schoolmaster for Christ, so that we might be made righteous from faith. ²⁵ But faith having come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

⁴ But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born from a woman, born under law, ⁵ so that he might redeem those under law, so that we might receive the sonship.

¹⁵ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

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.

¹⁰ and having put on the new man, being renewed in knowledge according to an image of him who created him,

⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

¹⁷ Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.

²¹ Neither shall thou covet thy neighbor's wife. Neither shall thou desire thy neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is thy neighbor's.

²¹ When I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonian mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them. And, behold, they are hid in the ground in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

² And it came to pass at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

¹ And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, near by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. ² And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard that I may have it for a garden of herbs because it is near to my house. And I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it, or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money. ³ And Naboth said to Ahab, LORD forbid it of me that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to thee. ⁴ And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him, for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid himself down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

⁷ The law of LORD is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of LORD is sure, making a simple man wise. ⁸ The precepts of LORD are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. ⁹ The fear of LORD is clean, enduring forever. The ordinances of LORD are true, and righteous altogether. ¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb. ¹¹ Moreover by them thy servant is warned. In keeping them there is great reward. ¹² Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.

⁹⁶ I have seen an end of all perfection. Thy commandment is exceedingly broad.

² And they covet fields, and seize them, and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

²⁸ But I say to you, that every man who looks on a woman to crave her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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

³³ I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

⁵ But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous inflicting wrath? (I speak according to a man.)

¹ What then will we say Abraham, our father according to flesh, to have found?

¹⁵ What then? May we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? May it not happen!

⁵ For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death.

⁸ But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead.

¹¹ For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

¹³ Has therefore what is good become death to me? May it not happen! Instead, it is sin, so that it might be revealed, sin working death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful to extreme.

⁹ For this, Thou shall not commit adultery, Thou shall not murder, Thou shall not steal, Thou shall not testify falsely, Thou shall not covet, and if there be any other commandment it is summarized in this saying, in, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.

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

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

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.

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.

¹⁷ But now I no longer perform it, but the sin dwelling in me.

¹⁴ But each man is tempted by his own lust, being drawn away and enticed. ¹⁵ Then the lust having conceived, it gives birth to sin, and after being complete the sin brings forth death.

¹² for innumerable evils have encompassed me around. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed me.

²¹ Ye have heard that it was said to them in old times, Thou shall not murder, and whoever murders will be liable to the judgment. ²² But I say to you, that every man who is angry at his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment, and whoever speaks an insult to his brother will be liable to the council, and whoever says, Foolish man, will be liable to the hell of fire. ²³ If therefore thou should bring thy gift to the altar, and remember there that thy brother has anything against thee, ²⁴ leave there thy gift before the altar, and go. First be reconciled to thy brother, and then, after coming, bring thy gift. ²⁵ Be agreeing with thine opponent quickly, while thou are with him on the way, lest the opponent deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the subordinate, and thou will be cast into prison. ²⁶ Truly I say to thee, thou will, no, not come out from there, until thou have paid the last quadran.

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. ⁵ But ye say, Whoever may say to the father or the mother, Whatever thou might have benefited from me is an offering. ⁶ And he will, no, not honor his father or mother. And ye have annulled the command of God because of your tradition.

²⁰ The young man says to him, All these things I have kept from my youthfulness. What do I lack yet?

⁸ For having set aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men: washings of pots and cups and many other such like things ye do. ⁹ And he said to them, Well do ye reject the commandment of God, so that ye may keep your tradition. ¹⁰ For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death. ¹¹ But ye say, If a man should say to his father or mother, Whatever ye might be benefited from me is Corban, that is, an offering, ¹² then ye no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, ¹³ annulling the word of God by your tradition that ye have delivered. And many such like things ye do.

²⁵ And behold, a certain lawyer stood up testing him, and saying, Teacher, having done what, would I inherit eternal life? ²⁶ And he said to him, What is written in the law? How read thou? ²⁷ And having answered, he said, Thou shall love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole strength, and from thy whole mind, and thy neighbor as thyself. ²⁸ And he said to him, Thou answered correctly. Do this and thou will live. ²⁹ But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?

²⁹ But having answered, he said to his father, Lo, so many years do I serve thee, and I never passed by a commandment of thine, and yet thou never gave me a goat that I might be merry with my friends.

⁹ And he also spoke this parable to some of those who were persuaded in themselves that they were righteous, and disdained other men. ¹⁰ Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax collector. ¹¹ Having stood by himself, the Pharisee prayed these things: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, predatory, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. ¹² I fast twice of the week. I tithe all things, as many as I acquire.

²¹ And he said, All these things I have kept from my youth.

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

²¹ Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me. ²² For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man, ²³ but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts.

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.

⁵ For Moses writes in the righteousness from the law, that the man that does them will live in them.

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

⁵ in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; regarding law, a Pharisee; ⁶ regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless.

¹⁰ For whoever keeps the whole law, and stumbles on one, he has become guilty of all. ¹¹ For he who said thou shall not commit adultery, also said thou shall not murder. Now if thou will not commit adultery, but murder, thou have become a transgressor of law.

⁵ Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am LORD.

¹¹ And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them.

¹³ But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. And they greatly profaned my sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

²¹ But the sons rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes, nor kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

⁷ But if the administration of death in writings engraved on stones occurred in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze upon the face of Moses because of the fading glory of his countenance,

¹² And the law is not from faith, but the man who does them will live in them. ¹³ And LORD God said to the woman, What is this thou have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.

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?

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

¹⁶ As for thy formidableness, the pride of thy heart has deceived thee, O thou who dwells in the clefts of the rock, who holds the height of the hill. Though thou should make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from there, says LORD.

³ The pride of thy heart has deceived thee, O thou who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

²² for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness,

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

²² But become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

²⁶ If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.

⁸ And what great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

¹² And now, Israel, what does LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

¹³ Thou also came down upon mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

³⁸ Confirm to thy servant thy word, which is for the fear of thee.

⁸⁶ All thy commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help thou me.

¹²⁷ Therefore I love thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold.

¹³⁷ Thou are righteous, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.

¹⁴⁰ Thy word is very pure, therefore thy servant loves it.

¹⁷² Let my tongue sing of thy word, for all thy commandments are righteousness.

³¹ Do we then make law void through faith? May it not happen! Instead, we establish law.

¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

¹⁶ But if I do this that I do not want, I agree with the law that it is good.

⁸ But we know that the law is good, if any man uses it lawfully,

⁸ But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead. ⁹ And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. ¹⁰ And I found to me, the commandment being for life, this is for death. ¹¹ For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

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,

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

¹³ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God, for God is without temptation of evils, and he himself tempts no man.

²⁷ Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers hearkened to him.

³⁶ And the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.

¹⁵ For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

² If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ³ If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he be married, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴ If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her sons shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. ⁵ But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my sons, I will not go out free, ⁶ then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door, or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

³ If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him. A thief shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

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

⁵ And thou shall love LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

²⁰ And Ahab said to Elijah, Have thou found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found thee because thou have sold thyself to do that which is evil in the sight of LORD.

²⁵ (But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

¹⁷ And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of LORD to provoke him to anger.

⁶ Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

⁶ Behold, thou desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part thou will make me to know wisdom.

²⁵ My soul clings to the dust. Enliven thou me according to thy word.

² Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man,

⁵ Every word of God is tried. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

⁵ Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of hosts.

¹ Thus says LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, with which I have put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities ye were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was put away.

³ For thus says LORD: Ye were sold for nothing, and ye shall be redeemed without money.

⁵ Thou meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou were angry, and we sinned. Therefore we have erred. ⁶ For we have all become as unclean, and all our righteous acts are as a polluted garment. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

⁶ Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes-

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

²³ But having turned around, he said to Peter, Go thee behind me, Satan. Thou are my stumbling-block, because thou regard not the things of God, but the things of men.

²⁵ But of him not having to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all things, as many as he had, and payment to be made.

³⁷ And Jesus said to him, Thou shall love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. ³⁸ This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. ⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

⁸ But Simon Peter having seen, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, Lord.

⁶ And Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far distant from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, Lord, be not troubled, for I am not worthy that thou should come under my roof.

¹¹ Having stood by himself, the Pharisee prayed these things: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, predatory, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. ¹² I fast twice of the week. I tithe all things, as many as I acquire. ¹³ But the tax collector, having stood from afar, would not even lift his eyes to the sky, but beat upon his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinful man. ¹⁴ I say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that man. Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.

¹⁸ For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not.

²² For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man, ²³ but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts. ²⁴ I am a wretched man. Who will rescue me out of the body of this death?

¹ And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to the childlike in Christ. ² I gave you milk to drink and not solid food, for ye were not yet able. But not even yet are ye able, ³ for ye are still carnal. For whereas among you is envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?

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,

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.

⁴⁶ If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sins not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, afar off or near,

⁶ For LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

¹² Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.

⁴ He devises iniquity upon his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He does not abhor evil.

³ Iniquities prevail against me. As for our transgressions, thou will forgive them.

¹⁰ O ye who love LORD, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his sanctified. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

³ I will set no base thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who turn aside. It shall not cleave to me.

¹ Blessed are those who are perfect in the way, who walk in the law of LORD. ² Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, that seek him with the whole heart. ³ Yea, they do no unrighteousness. They walk in his ways. ⁴ Thou have commanded thy precepts, that we should observe them diligently. ⁵ O that my ways were established to observe thy statutes! ⁶ Then I shall not be put to shame when I have respect for all thy commandments.

³² I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shall enlarge my heart.

⁴⁰ Behold, I have longed after thy precepts. Enliven me in thy righteousness.

¹⁰⁴ Through thy precepts I get understanding. Therefore I hate every false way.

¹¹³ I hate those who are of a double mind, but I love thy law.

¹²⁸ Therefore I esteem all precepts concerning all things to be right. I hate every false way.

¹⁶³ I hate and abhor falsehood. I love thy law.

¹³ The fear of LORD is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

⁵ A righteous man hates lying, but a wicked man is loathsome, and comes to shame.

²⁰ Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth that does good, and sins not.

¹⁵ Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate. It may be that LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

⁷ LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knows those who take refuge in him.

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

¹⁹ For I do not do good that I want, instead, wrong that I do not want, this I do. ²⁰ But if I do this that I do not want, I no longer perform it, but sin dwelling in me.

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

²² The faith thou have, have in relation to thyself before God. Blessed is the man not condemning himself in what he allows.

¹⁷ For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit is against the flesh. For these are hostile to each other, so that whatever these things are ye may want, ye may not do.

¹² Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brothers, I reckon myself not to have seized, but one thing, indeed forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead, ¹⁴ I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁹ Nevertheless the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, The Lord knows those who are his, and, Let every man who names the name of the Lord keep away from unrighteousness.

⁹ Thou have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. Because of this, God, thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

² For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from every sin. ⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us.

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

¹²⁷ Therefore I love thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold. ¹²⁸ Therefore I esteem all precepts concerning all things to be right. I hate every false way.

¹² So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

²² For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,

⁷ saying, Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. ⁸ Blessed is a man to whom the Lord does, no, not impute sin.

²⁰ But if I do this that I do not want, I no longer perform it, but sin dwelling in me.

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.

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

⁵ Or think ye that the scripture says vainly, The Spirit that he caused to dwell in us yearns with jealousy? ⁶ But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly.

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.

⁴ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? ¹⁵ Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. ¹⁶ How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

⁴ How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

⁵ O that my ways were established to observe thy statutes!

¹¹⁵ Depart from me, ye evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God. ¹¹⁶ Uphold me according to thy word, that I may live, and let me not be ashamed of my hope. ¹¹⁷ Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe, and shall have respect for thy statutes continually.

¹⁷³ Let thy hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen thy precepts.

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

⁶ For we have all become as unclean, and all our righteous acts are as a polluted garment. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

²¹ For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, ²² covetings, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, reviling, pride, foolishness. ²³ All these evil things come from inside, and defile the man.

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

¹⁵ For I do not understand what I do, for I do not do this that I want, but what I hate, this I do.

¹⁹ For I do not do good that I want, instead, wrong that I do not want, this I do.

²⁵ I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I of myself in the mind indeed serve a law of God, but in the flesh a law of sin.

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, ⁴ so that the justice of the law might be fulfilled in us, those who walk not according to flesh, but according to Spirit. ⁵ For those who are according to flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those according to Spirit the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For the mentality of the flesh is death, but the mentality of the Spirit is life and peace. 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. ⁹ But ye are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, this man is not of him. ¹⁰ And if Christ is in you, the body is indeed dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up the Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you. ¹² So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to flesh. ¹³ For if ye live according to flesh, ye are going to die, but if in spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye will live.

¹⁴ But clothe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no forethought for lusts of the flesh.

¹ Even you, who were dead in trespasses and sins ² in which ye once walked according to the era of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience. ³ Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others. ⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, through his great love that he loved us, ⁵ even us being dead in the transgressions, he made alive together with the Christ (ye are saved by grace),

¹³ For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for approval.

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

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

¹⁸ For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon everyone ¹⁹ who sets his heart to seek God, LORD, the God of his fathers, though he be not according to the purification of the sanctuary.

¹² Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults. ¹³ Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be upright, and I shall be clear from great transgression.

³⁷ Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity, and enliven me in thy ways.

¹³³ Establish my footsteps in thy word, and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

⁵ Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of hosts. ⁶ Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. ⁷ And he touched my mouth with it, and said, Lo, this has touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin forgiven.

¹ And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the agent of LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary. ² And LORD said to Satan, LORD rebuke thee, O Satan. Yea, LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee. Is this not a brand plucked out of the fire? ³ Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the agent. ⁴ And he answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, Take the filthy garments from off him. And to him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with rich apparel.

¹ And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

³⁴ Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, that every man who does the sin is a bondman of the sin.

¹² Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body in order to obey it, in its lusts.

¹¹ Put on the full armor of God to enable you to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹² Because our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principal offices, against the positions of authority, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual things of wickedness in the heavenly things. ¹³ Because of this take ye up the full armor of God, so that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

¹⁷ Therefore he was obligated to be made like his brothers in accordance with all things, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things toward God, in order to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

¹⁵ For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who was tempted in all things in the same way, without sin.

¹⁹ promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved.

¹² I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips, I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

² but his delight is in the law of LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

⁸ The precepts of LORD are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. ⁹ The fear of LORD is clean, enduring forever. The ordinances of LORD are true, and righteous altogether. ¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.

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

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

²⁴ Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.

³⁵ Make me to go in the path of thy commandments, for therein do I delight.

⁴⁷ And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. ⁴⁸ I will also lift up my hands to thy commandments, which I have loved, and I will meditate on thy statutes.

⁷² The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

⁹² Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in my affliction.

⁹⁷ O how I love thy law! It is my meditation all the day. ⁹⁸ Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. ⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ I understand more than the aged because I have kept thy precepts. ¹⁰¹ I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I might observe thy word. ¹⁰² I have not turned aside from thine ordinances, for thou have taught me. ¹⁰³ How sweet are thy words to my taste, than honey to my mouth! ¹⁰⁴ Through thy precepts I get understanding. Therefore I hate every false way.

¹¹¹ I have taken thy testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

¹⁶⁷ My soul has observed thy testimonies, and I love them exceedingly.

¹⁷⁴ I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD, and thy law is my delight.

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

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

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

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

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,

⁹ Do not lie to each other, having stripped off the old man with his practices,

¹⁰ Because this is the covenant that I will ordain with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord, giving my laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be to them for a God, and they will be to me for a people.

⁴ but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible, of the meek and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

⁷ Bring my soul out of prison that I may give thanks to thy name. The righteous shall encompass me around, for thou will deal bountifully with me.

²¹ Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me.

¹¹ But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, meekness. ¹² Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life for which thou are called, and confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

²⁵ in meekness correcting those who oppose. Perhaps God may grant them repentance for recognition of the truth, ²⁶ and they may sober up out of the snare of the devil, having been captured by him for his will.

⁴ Ye have not yet resisted as far as blood, struggling against sin.

¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

²⁶ but to the damsel thou shall do nothing. There is in the damsel no sin worthy of death. For as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter, ²⁷ for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried out, and there was none to save her.

³⁸ whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house,

⁶ I am weary with my groaning. Every night I make my bed to swim. I water my couch with my tears.

³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long. ⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah.

² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me severely.

⁸ I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned because of the disquietness of my heart. ⁹ Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee. ¹⁰ My heart throbs, my strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

¹¹ saying, God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver.

¹² For he will deliver a needy man when he cries, and a poor man, who has no helper.

³ I remember God, and am disquieted. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah. ⁴ Thou have held my eyelids watching. I am so troubled that I cannot speak. ⁵ I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. ⁶ I call to remembrance my song in the night. I commune with my own heart, and my spirit makes diligent search. ⁷ Will the Lord cast off forever? And will he be favorable no more? ⁸ Has his loving kindness entirely gone forever? Does his promise fail for evermore? ⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

⁵ cast off among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom thou remember no more, and they are cut off from thy hand.

¹⁴ Because he has set his love upon me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high because he has known my name. ¹⁵ He shall call upon me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

²⁰ to hear the sighing of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death,

²⁰ My soul breaks for the longing that it has to thine ordinances at all times.

⁸¹ My soul faints for thy salvation. I hope in thy word. ⁸² My eyes fail for thy word, while I say, When will thou comfort me? ⁸³ For I have become like a wine-skin in the smoke. Yet I do not forget thy statutes.

¹³¹ I opened wide my mouth, and panted, for I longed for thy commandments.

¹⁴³ Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me. Thy commandments are my delight.

¹ Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O LORD. ² Lord, hear my voice. Let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. ³ If thou, LORD, should note iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

⁴ And LORD said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and who cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it.

¹⁹ He will again have compassion upon us. He will tread our iniquities under foot, and thou will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

¹¹ As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit in which is no water. ¹² Turn you back to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will render double to thee.

⁴ Blessed are those who mourn, because they will be comforted.

⁶ Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, because they will be filled.

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to sent forth in deliverance those who have been broken,

⁶ Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be inactivated, no longer to enslave us to sin.

¹³ For if ye live according to flesh, ye are going to die, but if in spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye will live.

²⁶ And likewise also the Spirit helps our weaknesses, for we know not what we would pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.

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. ⁹ But we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead. ¹⁰ Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue.

⁷ And so that I might not be over exalted by the extraordinariness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, an agent of Satan so that he would buffet me, so that I would not be over exalted. 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.

¹¹ In whom also ye were circumcised a circumcision not made with hands, in the removal of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ.

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

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a special people, a zealot of good works. ¹⁵ And he might liberate these, as many as throughout all their lifetime were deserving of bondage, with a specter of death.

⁴ And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And there will not be any more death, nor grief, nor crying, nor will there be any more anguish, because the former things are gone.

¹⁵ O that men would praise LORD for his loving kindness, and for his wonderful works to the sons of men! ¹⁶ For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron apart.

¹⁶ O LORD, truly I am thy servant. I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid. Thou have loosed my bonds. ¹⁷ I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of LORD.

¹ And in that day thou shall say, I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, for though thou were angry with me. Thine anger is turned away and thou comfort me.

⁹ saying to those who are bound, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pasture shall be on all bare heights.

¹³ Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth, and break forth into singing, O mountains. For LORD has comforted his people, and will have compassion upon his afflicted.

²¹ And she will bring forth a son, and thou shall call his name JESUS, for he will save his people from their sins.

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.

¹⁵ For I do not understand what I do, for I do not do this that I want, but what I hate, this I do. ¹⁶ But if I do this that I do not want, I agree with the law that it is good. ¹⁷ But now I no longer perform it, but the sin dwelling in me. ¹⁸ For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not. ¹⁹ For I do not do good that I want, instead, wrong that I do not want, this I do. ²⁰ But if I do this that I do not want, I no longer perform it, but sin dwelling in me. ²¹ Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me.

⁵⁷ But thanks is to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ And thanks to God for his indescribable gift.

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.

¹⁷ For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit is against the flesh. For these are hostile to each other, so that whatever these things are ye may want, ye may not do. ¹⁸ But if ye are led by Spirit ye are not under law. ¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are apparent, which are, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, wraths, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, ²¹ envyings, murders, intoxications, revelings, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, as I also did forewarn, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ meekness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. ²⁴ And those of the Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and the lusts.

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

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

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

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

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