Jude Cross References - Anderson

¹ JUDE, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are sanctified in God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: ² mercy be to you, and peace and love be multiplied. ³ Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you, and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. ⁴ For some men have stealthily entered in, who were long ago appointed to this condemnation; ungodly men, who pervert the grace of our God, and use it for lascivious purposes, and deny our only Sovereign and Lord, Jesus Christ. ⁵ But I wish to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people from the land of Egypt, then destroyed those who believed not. ⁶ The angels also that kept not their own dominion, but left their proper habitation, he has reserved, in eternal chains under darkness, to the judgment of the great day. ⁷ So Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities which were about them, in like manner giving themselves over to lewdness, and following after other flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. ⁸ Yet, these dreamers also in like manner defile the flesh, despise government, and speak evil of dignitaries. ⁹ But Michael the archangel, when, contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring a railing accusation, but said: The Lord rebuke you. ¹⁰ But these speak evil of the things which they know not: and those things which they know naturally, as animals without reason, in these they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Alas for them! for they have gone in the way of Cain: and, in the error of Balaam, they have rushed headlong after reward, and have perished in the rebellion of Korah. ¹² These, while feasting with you, are- spots in your love-feasts, feeding themselves without fear; they are clouds without water, driven along by winds; trees of autumn, without fruit, twice dead, torn up by the roots: - ¹³ raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame: wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever. ¹⁴ And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied with reference to these men, saying: Behold, the Lord comes with his holy myriads, ¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly works, which they have impiously committed, and of all the hard words which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. ¹⁶ These are murmurers, fault-finders, walking ac cording to their own desires; and their mouth speaks boastful words, while they admire persons for the sake of gain. ¹⁷ But do you, beloved, remember the words that were formerly spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; ¹⁸ that they said to you, There should come, in the last days, scoffers walking according to their own ungodly desires. ¹⁹ These are they who separate themselves, animal, not having the Spirit. ²⁰ But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, in order to eternal life. ²² And on some, have compassion, making a distinction: ²³ and others, save by fear, snatching them from the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. ²⁴ Now to him that is able to keep you free from stumbling, and to present you blameless in the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only God our Savior, be glory and majesty, strength and authority, both now and throughout all the ages. Amen. ²⁵ :

¹² Rejoice, and leap for joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

¹³ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the Evil One.

²⁹ And behold, they cried out, saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus, Son of God? Hast thou come hither to torment us before the time?

³ Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphseus, and Lebbceus, who was surnamed Thaddaeus;

²¹ Alas for thee, Chorazin! alas for thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works which have been clone in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sack cloth and ashes.

²⁴ But I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, in the day of judgment, than for thee.

³¹ Therefore I say to you, That every sin and impious speech shad be forgiven men: but the impious speech against the Spirit shall not be forgiven men. ³² And whoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be for given him, either in the present age, or in that which is to come. ³³ Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree unsound, and its fruit unsound. For by the fruit the tree is known. ³⁴ Generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. ³⁵ The good man, out of his good treasury, brings forth good things; and the evil man, out of his evil treasury, brings forth evil things. ³⁶ But I say to you, That for every idle word which men speak, they shall give account in the day of judgment. ³⁷ For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.

⁶ But when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

²⁵ But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away.

¹³ But he answered and said: Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.

²⁷ For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father, with his angels; and then he will reward every one according to his deeds.

²⁸ Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you, That, in the restoration, when the Son of man shall sit on his glorious throne, you also who have followed me shall sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹⁹ and seeing a fig-tree on the road, he went to it, and found nothing on it but leaves; and he said to it: Let no fruit grow on you henceforth forever. And the fig-tree immediately withered. ²⁰ And when the disciples saw it, they were astonished, and said: How soon has the fig-tree withered!

¹³ But alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you eat up the houses of widows, and for a pretext make long prayers. For this reason, you shall receive the greater condemnation. ¹⁴ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you close the kingdom of heaven in the face of men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you suffer those who are entering, to go in. ¹⁵ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, you make him twofold more a child of hell than yourselves. ¹⁶ Alas for you, blind guides! who say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, becomes a debtor.

³⁰ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the land mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. ³¹ And he will send his angels with a trumpet of great voice, and they shall gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

⁴² "Watch, therefore, for you know not at what hour your Lord is coming. ⁴³ But know this, That if the master of the house had known at what watch the thief comes, he would have watched, and would not have permitted his house to be broken open. ⁴⁴ For this reason, be you also ready; for at an hour in which you think not, the Son of man comes. ⁴⁵ Who then is that faithful and wise servant, whom his master has made ruler over his household servants, to give them their food in due time? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant, whom his master, when he comes, shall find so doing. ⁴⁷ Verily I say to you, That he will make him ruler over all his goods. ⁴⁸ But if that wicked servant shall say in his heart, My master delays his coming; ⁴⁹ and shall begin to strike his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken; ⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come in a day in which he looks not for him, and at an hour which he knows not, ⁵¹ and will cut him in two, and appoint him his part with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

³¹ When the Son of man shall come in his own glory, and all the holy angels with him, then will he sit on the throne of his own glory;

⁴¹ Then will he say to those on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

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

⁶ And when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

⁴³ And if your hand ensnare you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter maimed into life, than having two hands to go away into hell, into the fire that is not quenched, ⁴⁴ where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁵ And if your foot en snare you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life lame, than having two feet to Be thrown into hell, into the fire that is not quenched, ⁴⁶ where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁷ And if your eye ensnare you, pull it out: it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be thrown into hell-fire, ⁴⁸ where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁹ For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be seasoned with salt.

²⁰ And in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig-tree withered from the roots. ²¹ And Peter, calling his words to mind, said to him: Rabbi, see! the fig-tree which thou didst curse has withered.

²⁹ And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, and saying: Aha! you that destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

³⁰ And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

¹⁶ Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who was also the traitor.

⁶ And some fell upon the rock; and when it had sprung up, it withered, because it had no moisture.

²⁶ For whoever will be ashamed of me and my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed, when he comes in his own glory; and that of the Father, and of the holy angels.

⁴² But alas for you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the justice and the love of God; these you ought to have done, and those you ought not to have left undone. ⁴³ Alas for you, Pharisees! for you love the chief seat in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets. ⁴⁴ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like graves that are not seen; and men that walk over them know it not. ⁴⁵ And one of the lawyers answered and said to him: Teacher, in saying these things, you reproach us also. ⁴⁶ He replied: Alas for you, lawyers, also! for you bind upon men burdens hard to be borne, and you yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers, ⁴⁷ Alas for you! for you build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him: Senseless man, this night shall your soul be required of you; and who shall have the things which you have provided?

³⁶ and be like men that are waiting for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that, when he comes and knocks, they may open for him immediately. ³⁷ Blessed are those servants whom their lord, when he comes, shall find watching. Verily I say to you, That he will gird himself and make them recline at table, and will come forth and serve them. ³⁸ And if he shall come in the second watch, and if he shall come in the third watch, and find them thus, blessed are those servants. ³⁹ But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief comes, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through. ⁴⁰ Be you, therefore, ready also; for at an hour when you think not, the Son of man comes.

⁴⁵ But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delays his coming, and shall begin to strike the men-servants and the maid-servants, and to eat and to drink, and to be drunk;

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

¹⁹ There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day.

²⁹ but in the day in which Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

⁷ And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying: He has gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

³⁴ And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts become heavy with reveling and drunkenness and the cares of life, and that day come upon you when you look not for it.

³⁹ And one of the evil-doers that were hanged reviled him, saying: If you are the Christ, save yourself and us. ⁴⁰ But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Do you not fear God, since you are in the same condemnation?

¹⁷ for the law was given through Moses, but the grace and the truth came through Jesus Christ.

⁵ Jesus answered: Verily, verily I say to you, unless a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom of God. ⁶ That which is begotten of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is begotten of the Spirit, is spirit.

²² You worship you know not what; we know what we worship; for salvation is of the Jews.

²² For the Father judges no one, but has given all judicial authority to the Son; ²³ that all may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father who sent him.

²⁷ and he has given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

⁴⁴ How can you believe who receive honor one from another, and seek not the honor that comes from God alone?

³⁹ And this is the will of him who sent me, that of all that he gives me, I shall lose nothing, but shall raise it up at the last day.

⁴¹ Then the Jews murmured at him, because he said, I am like bread that came down from heaven.

⁶¹ But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at it, said to them: Does this offend you?

⁴⁴ You are of your father, the devil; and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the be ginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks that which is false, he speaks from what is his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.

²⁸ and I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall take them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to take them out of my Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one.

²⁶ If any one serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant also be. If any one serve me, him will my Father honor.

²¹ He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me shall be loved by my Father; and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. ²² Judas, not Iscariot, said to him: Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us, and not to the world?

⁴ Abide in me, and I will abide in you. As the branch can not bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If any one abide not in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and withers; and such are gathered, and thrown into the fire, and burned.

⁹ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

¹⁶ You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you, that you may go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit may remain; that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he may give you.

³ And this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent.

¹¹ And I am no longer in the world; but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep in thy name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are one. ¹² While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me, I have kept; and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture may be fulfilled.

¹⁵ I do not pray thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the Evil One.

¹⁷ Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.

¹⁹ and for them I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified through the truth.

¹³ And when they had come in, they went up into an upper room, in which dwelt Peter and James, and John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphasus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.

¹² And there is salvation in no other; nor, indeed, is there another name under heaven, given among men, by which we must be saved.

⁸ And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people. ⁹ Then there arose some who be longed to the synagogue called the synagogue of the Freedmen, and some of the Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and of those who were from Cilicia and Asia, and they disputed with Stephen. ¹⁰ And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he spoke.

²⁷ But he that was doing the injury to his neighbor, thrust him. away, saying, Who made you a ruler or a judge over us?

³⁹ To him our fathers were not willing to be obedient; but they rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

²² But Saul increased the more in strength, and confuted the Jews that dwelt in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

³¹ Then the churches throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were edified; and, walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

²³ When he had come, and had seen the grace of God, he rejoiced; and he exhorted them all to remain, with purpose of heart, faithful to the Lord.

⁴⁶ But Paul and Barnabas, speaking boldly, said: It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first: but since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo! we turn to tho Gentiles. ⁴⁷ For thus has the Lord given us commandment: I have placed thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be for salvation to the most distant part of the earth.

⁹ and he made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

²⁴ Inasmuch as we have heard that certain persons went out from us and troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, That you must be circumcised, and keep the law, to whom we gave no commandment,

³ explaining and affirming that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead; and that this Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.

³¹ because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world, in righteousness, by the man whom he has chosen, giving to all assurance of this, by having raised him from the dead.

⁴ But on every sabbath, he reasoned in the synagogue, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. ⁵ And when Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul was roused in spirit, and earnestly testified to the Jews, that-the Christ was Jesus. ⁶ But when they set themselves in opposition, and reviled, he shook his clothing, and said to them: Your blood be upon your own head; I am clean. Henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

²⁸ For, with great strength, he utterly confounded the Jews publicly, showing, by the Scriptures, that the Christ was Jesus.

²⁷ For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.

²⁹ For I know this, that, after my departure, rapacious wolves will enter in among you, who will not spare the flock;

³² And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace; to Him who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

³⁵ In all things I have taught you by ex ample, that by thus laboring, you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus; for he himself said, It is more blessed to give, than to receive.

⁵ And Paul replied: I did not know, brethren, that he was the chief priest: for it is written, You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.

¹⁸ in order to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among the sanctified, by faith in me.

²³ For there stood by me this night an angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,

²⁸ Therefore, be it known to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear.

¹ PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

⁷ to all that are in Rome, be loved of God, called saints: Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

²¹ because, when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful; but they became perverse in their reasonings, and their wicked heart was darkened; ²² professing to be wise, they became foolish,

²⁶ For this reason, God delivered them over to vile passions: for their females exchanged their natural use for that which is against nature: ²⁷ and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural use of the females, burned in their lusts one toward another, males with males practicing infamous lewdness, and receiving in them selves the due reward of their error.

⁵ But, according to your hard and impenitent heart, you treasure up to yourself wrath for a day of wrath, and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

¹⁶ who show that the work which the law requires, is written in their hearts, their conscience bearing testimony, and their reasonings with each other accusing, or making excuse.

¹⁹ Now we know that what the law says, it speaks- to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God. ²⁰ Wherefore, by works of law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by law is the knowledge of sin.

⁵ and this hope disappoints us not; because the love of God is poured abundantly into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that is given to us.

²¹ that as sin has reigned, ending in death, so might grace reign by justification, ending in life eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹ What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? ² It can not be. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?

²² But now, since you have been made free from sin, and have become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, eternal life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal "life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁹ But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now, if any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

¹⁵ For you have not again received the spirit of bondage, that you may fear; but you have received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.

²⁶ In like manner, also, the Spirit helps our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us, with groanings unutterable. ²⁷ And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, that he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

³⁰ and those whom he predestinated he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. ³¹ What, then, shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

³⁹ nor hight, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. SECTION THIRD. God's Dealings with Israel as a People,

²¹ Has not the potter power over the clay, to make from the same mass one vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? ²² What, then, if God, intending to show his wrath, and to make his power known, yet, in much long-suffering bore with the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction:

²⁴ whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

¹⁴ if, by any means, I may excite to jealousy those who are my flesh, and save some of them.

³³ the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

³⁶ For from him, and by him, and for him, are all things. To him be glory through the ages! Amen.

⁴ Who are you that judge another man's servant? To his own master he stands or falls; indeed, he shall stand, for God is able to make him stand.

¹⁰ But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we all shall stand before the judgment-seat of the Christ.

² Let each one of us please his neighbor in that which is good for his edification.

¹⁵ Yet I have written to you more boldly in part, my brethren, as if I would put you in remembrance, on account of the grace which is given to me by God,

¹⁵ Yet I have written to you more boldly in part, my brethren, as if I would put you in remembrance, on account of the grace which is given to me by God, ¹⁶ that I may be the public servant of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, officiating as a priest with respect to the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles may be acceptable, having been sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own appetites; and, by good words and fair speeches, they deceive the hearts of the simple.

²⁵ Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel, even the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was concealed during the times of the ages, ²⁶ but is now made manifest, and through the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, made known among all nations for the obedience of faith, ²⁷ to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory throughout the ages. Amen.

²⁷ to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory throughout the ages. Amen.

² to the church of God which is in Corinth, to the sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

⁸ He also will establish you even to the end, and make you blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ But an animal man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he can not know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁵ if any man's work be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved, yet so, as through fire.

¹⁷ If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

⁵ So, then, judge nothing be fore the time, till the Lord comes, who will bring to light the secret works of darkness, and will also make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall each have his praise from God.

³ For I, in deed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as if I were present, judged him that has so done this thing; ⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you and my spirit have come together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ that we deliver such a one over to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

⁹ I have written to you in the letter not to associate with lewd persons; ¹⁰ yet without the lest allusion to the lewd, or the covetous, or the extortioners, or the idolaters of this world; for then you must go out of the world; ¹¹ but now I write to you, not to associate with any one professing to be a brother, if he is lewd or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one not even to eat.

¹³ But God will judge those who are without. So then judge, and put away that wicked man from among you.

⁹ Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither lewd persons, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,

¹¹ And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

¹⁹ Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

¹ Now, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and that all passed through the sea, ² and were all immersed into Moses, in the cloud and in the sea; ³ and did all eat the same spiritual food, ⁴ and. did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was the Christ. ⁵ But with the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. ⁶ Now these things took place as examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they, also, desired. ⁷ Neither be you idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written: Tho people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to engage in idolatrous sport. ⁸ Nor let us be guilty of lewdness, as some of them were guilty, and fell, in one day, twenty-three thou sand. ⁹ Nor let us tempt the Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents. ¹⁰ Nor do you murmur, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

¹⁰ Nor do you murmur, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer. ¹¹ Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they are written for the instruction of us, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. ¹² "Wherefore, let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he foil.

²³ All meats are lawful for me; but all are not profitable; all are lawful, but all do not edify.

²⁰ "When, therefore, you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper; ²¹ for each one, in eating, takes before another, his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken. ²² What, have you not houses in which to eat and drink? or do you despise the church of God, and put those to shame who have nothing to eat? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

⁴ He that speaks in an unknown tongue, edifies himself; but he that prophesies, edifies the church. ⁵ I am willing, indeed, that you should all speak in tongues, but rather that you should prophesy; for greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, in order that the church may receive instruction.

¹⁵ What, then, is it? I will pray with the spirit which is given to me, and I will pray with my understanding also. I will sing with the spirit that is given to me, and I will sing with my understanding also.

²⁶ What, then, is it, brethren? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has something to teach, has an unknown tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

³ For I delivered to you among the first things, that which I also received: That Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures;

³³ Be not deceived: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

¹⁴ knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise us up also by Jesus, and present us together with you.

¹⁷ For our present light affliction works out for us an eternal fullness of glory, excelling all excellence, ls while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen: for the things seen are temporal; but the things not seen are eternal.

¹⁰ For godly sorrow works repentance not to be regretted, which leads to salvation: but the sorrow of the world works death. ¹¹ For behold this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner; what earnestness it produced in you; what defense of yourselves; what indignation; what fear; what strong affection; what zeal; what assertion of right. In all respects you have shown yourselves to be blame less in this matter. ¹² Therefore, though I wrote to you, it was not on account of him who did the wrong, nor on account of him who received the wrong; but that our diligent care for you, in the sight of God, might be made manifest to you.

² for I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you a chaste virgin to Christ.

⁴ I acted thus indeed on account of false brethren, stealthily brought in, who stole in to spy out our freedom, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage, ⁵ to whom we yielded in submission, not even for an hour, in order that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bondman nor free man, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

⁶ And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

²⁰ I desire to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am in doubt concerning you.

¹³ For you have been called to freedom, brethren: only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but become servants to one another, through love.

¹⁶ I say this: Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

²⁴ Now those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

¹ Brethren, if a man be overtaken in any fault, do you, who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

¹¹ You see how long a letter I have written to you with my own hand.

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints that are in Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

⁸ which he has made to abound to us in all wisdom and understanding,

²⁰ having been builded upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone,

¹⁰ to the end that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known, through the church, to the principalities and authorities in the heavenly regions,

²⁰ Now to him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to his power which works in us, ²¹ to him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus, through out all the generations of the age of ages. Amen.

¹¹ And he himself gave some to be apostles, and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; ¹² for the complete instruction of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of the Christ,

¹⁴ that we might no longer be children, tossed and carried about by every wind of teaching, through the artifice of men, through craftiness used by them for the deliberate planning of deceit;

¹⁶ from whom the whole body, compactly fitted together, and united by every helping joint, according to the energy in the measure of each part, makes increase of the body, for the building up of itself in love.

²⁹ Let no impure speech come out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may give grace to the hearers:

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of water through the word, ²⁷ in order that he might present it to himself a glorious church, having neither stain, nor wrinkle, nor any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

¹² for our conflict is not with flesh and blood, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the rulers of the darkness of this world, with the wicked spirits in the heavenly regions.

¹⁸ praying with all prayer and supplication, at all times, in the Spirit; and to this end being watchful in all perseverance, and supplication for all the saints:

¹ PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus that are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

²⁷ Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of the Christ, that, whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputings,

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

² to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ that are in Colosse: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

²² by means of death in his fleshly body, that he may present you holy, and without spot, and blameless in his sight;

²⁸ whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

⁷ rooted, and built up in him, and strengthened in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

⁴ When the Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.

² But having suffered before, and having been outraged, as you know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in the midst of great peril.

¹² that you should walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you to his own kingdom and glory.

¹³ in order that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness, in the presence of our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

⁵ not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God;

⁸ Therefore, he that despises, despises not man, but God, who has given us his Holy Spirit.

¹⁶ for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall arise first;

¹⁶ for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall arise first; ¹⁷ then we, the living who remain, shall, together with them, be caught up in clouds into the air to meet the Lord, and so shall we be ever with the Lord.

⁶ Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.

¹¹ Wherefore, exhort one another, and edify one another, as you also do.

²³ Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷ and to you that are afflicted, rest with us, at the revelation of our Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels, ⁸ in flaming fire, to take vengeance on those who know not God, and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God did, from the beginning, choose you to salvation, by sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth, ¹⁴ "to which he called you by our gospel, in order that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ And the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the patience of the Christ.

¹⁴ And if any one obey not our word by this letter, note that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed;

² to Timothy, my true son in the faith; grace, mercy, peace from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁴ nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which produce disputes rather than godly edification, which is in faith;

⁹ knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and for scorners, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man-slayers, ¹⁰ for lewd persons, for sodomites, for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and for whatever other thing is opposed to sound teaching,

¹⁷ Now to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, be honor and glory from age to age. Amen.) ¹⁸ This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, in accordance with the preceding prophecies concerning you, that by them you may war the good warfare,

³ For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

¹ Now the Spirit says expressly, that, in the last times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and teachings suggested by demons, ² through the hypocrisy of liars, who are seared in their conscience,

¹⁶ Take heed to yourself, and to your teaching; continue in them; for by doing this, you will save both yourself, and those who hear you.

⁶ But she that lives voluptuously, is dead while she lives.

⁵ and wranglings, on the part of men who are corrupt in mind, and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a source of gain. From such withdraw yourself.

¹² Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on eternal life, to which you have been called, and for which you confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

¹⁵ which, in his own times, he will show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; ¹⁶ who alone has immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no man has seen, nor can see, tn whom be honor and power eternal. Amen.

² to Timothy my beloved son; grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁵ for I remember the unfeigned faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and in your mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that it dwells in you also.

⁹ who has saved us, and 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 be fore the times of the ages,

¹³ Hold fast the form of sound words which you have heard from me, in faithfulness and in love which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:

¹⁸ The Lord grant to him, that he may find mercy from the Lord in that day. And in how many things he ministered to me in Ephesus, you know very well.

¹ But know this, that in the last days trying times will come. ² For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, revilers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, intemperate, fierce, haters of those who are good, ⁴ traitors, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of godliness, but denying its power: from these also turn away. ⁶ For of this sort are those who worm themselves into houses, and lead captive silly women that are laden with sins, and influenced by various desires,

¹³ But evil men and impostors will become worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

³ For the time will come when they will not endure sound teaching, but according to their own desires they will pro cure for themselves an abundance of teachers to gratify their itching ears:

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith: ⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me at that day; and not to me only, but to all those who love his appearing.

⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me at that day; and not to me only, but to all those who love his appearing.

¹⁸ And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory from age to age. Amen.

¹ PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledgement of the truth, which is according to godliness;

³ but he has in his own times manifested his word by preaching, which was committed to me ac cording to the commandment of God our Savior; ⁴ to Titus, my true son, according to the common faith: grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

⁴ to Titus, my true son, according to the common faith: grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

¹⁵ To the pure, all things are pure: but to the denied and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and their conscience are denied. ¹⁶ They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny him, being detestable and disobedient, and, as it respects every good work, rejected.

¹⁰ not stealing, but showing all good faithfulness, that they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior in all things. ¹¹ For the grace of God, which brings salvation to all men, has appeared, ¹² teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in the present age; ¹³ looking for the blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

¹³ looking for the blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

⁴ But when the kindness and philanthropy of God our Savior appeared, he saved us,

¹ Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,

¹⁶ For some, when they had heard, did bitterly provoke; yet, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

⁴ For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the coming age, ⁶ if they fall away; since they again crucify in themselves the Son of God, and put him to an open shame. ⁷ For the land which drinks up the rain that comes often upon it, and produces herbs suitable for those for whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God. ⁸ But that which produces thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near the curse, the end of which is to be burned.

²⁸ so the Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to those who look for him he will appear the second time, without a sin-offering, in order to salvation.

²⁵ not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some; but exhorting one another, and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.

²⁷ but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and a fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God more sacrifice than Cain; on account of which he received testimony that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he, though dead, yet speaks. ⁵ By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had the testimony that he pleased God. ⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

¹⁵ taking care, lest any one slight the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness spring up and trouble you, and by this many be defiled; ¹⁶ lest there be any lewd person, or profane man, as Esau, who, for a single meal, sold his birthright.

⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.

¹⁷ Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive: for they watch for your souls, as those who must give an account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for that would be fatal to you.

²⁰ Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the eternal covenant, ²¹ perfect you in every good work, in order that you may do his will, working in you that which is acceptable in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory from age to age. Amen. ²² I beseech you, brethren, bear with my word of exhortation: for I have written to you in few words.

¹ JAMES, a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are in the dispersion, greeting.

¹⁴ But every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desire, and is deluded. ¹⁵ So, then, desire, when it has conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when it is matured, brings forth death.

¹ My brethren, do not hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, so as to show a partiality for persons. ² For if there comes into your assembly a man in splendid apparel, and with gold rings on his fingers, and there comes in also a poor man, in mean clothing, ³ and you show regard to him that wears the splendid apparel, and say to him, Sit here, in an honorable place; and you say to the poor man, Do you stand there, or sit here, under my footstool; ⁴ are you not partial in yourselves? and do you not judge from false principles? ⁵ Hear, my be loved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God has promised to those who love him? ⁶ But you dishonor the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and do they not themselves drag you to the judgment-seats? ⁷ Do they not themselves revile that honorable name which is called upon you? ⁸ If, however, you fulfill the law of highest excellence, according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. ⁹ But if you show partiality for persons, you work sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

²² Do you see that faith was the moving principle in his works, and by works his faith was made perfect?

¹⁵ This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, animal, demoniac.

⁵ You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

¹⁹ Brethren, if any among you should err from the truth, and one should turn him back, ²⁰ let him know that he who turns back a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

² elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctification of the Spirit, in order to obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: grace be to you, and peace be multiplied.

⁵ who are kept secure by the power of God through faith, to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time:

¹⁴ as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires which you formerly had in your ignorance;

⁸ and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense to the disobedient, who stumble at the word because they are disobedient, to which stumbling they were also appointed. ⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you should show forth the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and sojourners, that you keep yourselves from fleshly desires, which war against the soul,

¹⁶ as being free, and yet not using your freedom as a cloak for malice, but as servants of God. ¹⁷ Honor all men; love the brotherhood; reverence God; honor the king.

⁹ not repaying evil for evil, nor reviling for reviling, but, on the other hand, blessing, since you know that for this end you were called, that you might inherit blessing.

² so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh, according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.

¹¹ If any man speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God: if any man acts as a deacon, let him do this as from the strength which God supplies; that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and strength from age to age. Amen.

¹³ But, inasmuch as you are partakers of the sufferings of the Christ,, rejoice, that, at the revelation of his glory, you may also be exceedingly joyful.

¹⁸ And if the righteous man is hardly saved, where shall the ungodly man and the sinner appear?

¹⁰ But may the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, confirm you.

¹⁰ But may the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, confirm you. ¹¹ To. him be glory and dominion from age to age. Amen. ¹² By Sylvanus, a faithful brother to you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

¹ SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained faith, equally as precious as our own, in the plan of justification revealed by our God and Savior Jesus Christ: ² grace be to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgment of God, and Jesus our Lord.

¹² Wherefore, I will not neglect to remind you always of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

¹² Wherefore, I will not neglect to remind you always of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth. ¹³ Indeed, I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to arouse you by putting you in remembrance.

¹³ Indeed, I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to arouse you by putting you in remembrance. ¹⁴ For I know that the putting off of this my tabernacle is near at hand, even as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. ¹⁵ But I will earnestly endeavor that you may be able, even after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance.

¹ But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers also among you; and these will stealthily introduce ruinous sects, and deny the Lord that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction:

¹ But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers also among you; and these will stealthily introduce ruinous sects, and deny the Lord that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction: ² and many will follow their dissolute ways, on account of whom the way of truth will be reviled; ³ and, with delusive words, they will, through covetousness, make gain of you: the condemnation, long ago denounced against these, delays not, and their destruction does not slumber. ⁴ For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and delivered them over to chains of darkness, to be kept for judgment; ⁵ and if he spared not the old world, but brought a flood on the world of the ungodly, and saved Noah, the eighth person, who was a preacher of righteousness; ⁶ and if, turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, he condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who should afterward live in an ungodly manner,

⁶ and if, turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, he condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who should afterward live in an ungodly manner,

⁶ and if, turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, he condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who should afterward live in an ungodly manner, ⁷ and delivered righteous Lot, wearied out with the licentious conduct of the lawless, ⁸ for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds: ⁹ then, the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the ungodly for the day of judgment, to be punished;

⁹ then, the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the ungodly for the day of judgment, to be punished; ¹⁰ but especially those who walk after the flesh in unclean lust, and who despise government. Presumptuous, willful men! they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries:

¹⁰ but especially those who walk after the flesh in unclean lust, and who despise government. Presumptuous, willful men! they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries: ¹¹ whereas angels, who excel in might and in power, bring no railing accusation against them in the presence of the Lord.

¹¹ whereas angels, who excel in might and in power, bring no railing accusation against them in the presence of the Lord. ¹² But these men, like beasts with out reason, which follow the instinct of nature, and are made to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of things that they understand not, shall utterly perish in their own corruption,

¹² But these men, like beasts with out reason, which follow the instinct of nature, and are made to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of things that they understand not, shall utterly perish in their own corruption, ¹³ and receive the reward of unrighteousness. Counting it a pleasure to riot in the day-time, they are spots and stains, rioting in their delusions, while feasting with you; ¹⁴ having eyes that are full of the adulteress, and that can not cease from sin, deceiving unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, accursed children, ¹⁵ who have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

¹⁷ These men are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, for whom the gloom of darkness is reserved forever.

¹⁷ These men are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, for whom the gloom of darkness is reserved forever. ¹⁸ For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really escaped from those who live in error.

¹⁸ For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really escaped from those who live in error.

¹⁸ For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really escaped from those who live in error. ¹⁹ While they promise them freedom, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whatever any man is overcome, he is also enslaved.

¹⁹ While they promise them freedom, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whatever any man is overcome, he is also enslaved. ²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these, and overcome by them, the last state of such is worse than the first.

²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these, and overcome by them, the last state of such is worse than the first. ²¹ For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: The dog has turned again to his own vomit; and, The sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

¹ This second letter I now write to you, beloved; in both of these I arouse your pure mind to remembrance,

¹ This second letter I now write to you, beloved; in both of these I arouse your pure mind to remembrance, ² that you may be mindful of the words formerly spoken by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

² that you may be mindful of the words formerly spoken by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior: ³ knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

⁷ But the heavens and the earth that now are, by the same word are kept in store, reserved for fire against the day of judgment, and perdition of ungodly men.

¹² looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, because of which coming the heavens shall dis solve in fire, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.

¹⁸ But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

²² Who is a liar, but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.

¹² Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and slew his brother: and for what reason did he slay him? because his own works were evil, and his brother s, righteous.

¹⁶ By this we know the love of Christ, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷ Whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother have need, and shuts his heart against him, how dwells the love of God in him?

⁶ We are of God: he that knows God, hears us: he that is not of God, does not hear us: by this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love, dwells in God, and God in him.

⁴ For whatever is begotten of God, overcomes the world; and this is the victorious principle that overcomes the world, even our faith.

¹⁰ He that believes on the Son of God has the testimony in him self: he that believes not God, has made him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony which God has borne concerning his Son. ¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God has given us eternal life: and this life is in his Son.

¹⁶ If any one see his brother sinning a sin not to death, he shall ask, and he will give him life for those who sin not to death. There is a sin to death: I do not say concerning this, that he should ask. ¹⁷ All unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not to death. ¹⁸ We know that whoever has been begotten of God, does not sin: but he that is begotten of God, keeps himself, and the wicked one touches him not.

¹⁸ We know that whoever has been begotten of God, does not sin: but he that is begotten of God, keeps himself, and the wicked one touches him not.

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³ Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you, and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. ⁴ For some men have stealthily entered in, who were long ago appointed to this condemnation; ungodly men, who pervert the grace of our God, and use it for lascivious purposes, and deny our only Sovereign and Lord, Jesus Christ. ⁵ But I wish to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people from the land of Egypt, then destroyed those who believed not. ⁶ The angels also that kept not their own dominion, but left their proper habitation, he has reserved, in eternal chains under darkness, to the judgment of the great day. ⁷ So Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities which were about them, in like manner giving themselves over to lewdness, and following after other flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. ⁸ Yet, these dreamers also in like manner defile the flesh, despise government, and speak evil of dignitaries. ⁹ But Michael the archangel, when, contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring a railing accusation, but said: The Lord rebuke you.

⁹ But Michael the archangel, when, contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring a railing accusation, but said: The Lord rebuke you. ¹⁰ But these speak evil of the things which they know not: and those things which they know naturally, as animals without reason, in these they corrupt themselves.

¹⁰ But these speak evil of the things which they know not: and those things which they know naturally, as animals without reason, in these they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Alas for them! for they have gone in the way of Cain: and, in the error of Balaam, they have rushed headlong after reward, and have perished in the rebellion of Korah. ¹² These, while feasting with you, are- spots in your love-feasts, feeding themselves without fear; they are clouds without water, driven along by winds; trees of autumn, without fruit, twice dead, torn up by the roots: - ¹³ raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame: wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly works, which they have impiously committed, and of all the hard words which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. ¹⁶ These are murmurers, fault-finders, walking ac cording to their own desires; and their mouth speaks boastful words, while they admire persons for the sake of gain. ¹⁷ But do you, beloved, remember the words that were formerly spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; ¹⁸ that they said to you, There should come, in the last days, scoffers walking according to their own ungodly desires.

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

²⁴ Now to him that is able to keep you free from stumbling, and to present you blameless in the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only God our Savior, be glory and majesty, strength and authority, both now and throughout all the ages. Amen.

⁴ John to the seven churches that are in Asia, grace be to you and peace from him who is, and who was, and who is to come; and from the seven spirits which are before his throne; ⁵ and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. To him that loves us, and that has washed us from our sins in his own blood, ⁶ and has made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be glory and might from age to age. Amen.

⁶ and has made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be glory and might from age to age. Amen. ⁷ Behold, he comes with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and those also who pierced him: and all the tribes of the land shall lament because of him. Even so. Amen.

¹⁰ Fear none of the things which you are about to suffer; behold, the devil will throw some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you shall have affliction ten days. Be faithful till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

¹⁴ Yet I have a few things against you, that you have there those who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to practice lewdness.

⁴ Yet you have a few names in Sardis that have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

¹⁸ I counsel you to buy of me gold that has been tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness may not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye-salve, that you may see.

⁹ And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him that sits on the throne, who lives from age to age, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fall down before him that sits on the throne, and worship him that lives from age to age, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying: Thou art worthy, Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and by thy will they exist, and were created. ¹¹ :

¹³ And every creature that is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are on the sea, even all that are in them, I heard saying: To him that sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and strength from age to age. ¹⁴ And the four living creatures said, Amen; and the elders fell down, and worshiped.

¹⁰ And the third angel sounded; and there fell from heaven a great star, that burned as a lamp; and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters. ¹¹ And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood: and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

⁷ And there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,

¹¹ And they over came him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives even to death.

⁵ And there was given him a mouth that spoke great things and impious words; and authority was given to him to continue forty-two months. ⁶ And he opened his mouth in impious speeches against God, to utter impious words against his name, and his tabernacle, and against those who dwell in heaven.

¹⁰ If any one leads into captivity, he shall go into captivity. If any kills with the sword, he must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and faithfulness of the saints. ¹¹ And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.

⁵ And in their mouth was found no guile; for they are blameless.

¹⁰ and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: ¹¹ and the smoke of their torment ascends from age to age: and they who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name, have no rest day or night.

⁴ Who will not fear thee, Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou alone art holy; for all nations shall come and worship before thee: because thy judgments are made manifest.

¹⁰ And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are: and they shall be tormented day and night from age to age.

⁸ But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the detestable, and murderers and lewd persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

¹² Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give to every one as his work shall be. ¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. ¹⁴ Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and that they may go through the gates into the city. ¹⁵ With out are dogs and sorcerers and lewd persons and murderers and idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie.

²⁰ He that testifies these things, says: Surely, I. come quickly. Amen: come, Lord Jesus.