2 Thessalonians Cross References - BBE

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: ² Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another; ⁴ So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through; ⁵ Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain; ⁶ For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you, ⁷ And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire, ⁸ To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus: ⁹ Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength, ¹⁰ At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith because our witness among you had effect in that day. ¹¹ For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete; ¹² So that glory may be given to the name of our Lord Jesus through you, and you may have glory in him, by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ And there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening wind: and the man and his wife went to a secret place among the trees of the garden, away from the eyes of the Lord God.

²⁴ So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of life.

¹⁶ And Cain went away from before the face of the Lord, and made his living-place in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.

¹⁸ Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

² And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to give ear and let Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and I will not let Israel go.

²² But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you. ²³ No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!

¹¹ And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night.

³⁰ When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice:

⁵ I was between the Lord and you at that time, to make clear to you the word of the Lord: because, through fear of the fire, you did not go up the mountain; saying,

³⁵ Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.

⁴¹ If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.

⁴¹ If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters. ⁴² I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters.

⁴² I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters. ⁴³ Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away the sin of his land, for his people.

² He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples.

¹² Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.

³ Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

⁹ Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.

¹⁴ Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.

¹⁷ Who said to God, Go away from us; and, What is the Ruler of all able to do to us?

⁹ They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel. ¹⁰ So now be wise, you kings: take his teaching, you judges of the earth. ¹¹ Give worship to the Lord with fear, kissing his feet and giving him honour, ¹² For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.

⁷ But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging. ⁸ And he will be the judge of the world in righteousness, giving true decisions for the peoples.

¹⁰ And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you; because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you.

¹¹ You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.

⁴⁴ From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.

⁸ Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you. ⁹ You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

⁵ His delight is in righteousness and wisdom; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

¹⁴ Because this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide.

² From Zion, most beautiful of places, God has sent out his light. ³ Our God will come, and will not keep quiet; with fire burning before him, and storm-winds round him. ⁴ His voice will go out to the heavens and to the earth, for the judging of his people: ⁵ Let my saints come together to me; those who have made an agreement with me by offerings. ⁶ And let the heavens make clear his righteousness; for God himself is the judge. Selah.

⁶ And let the heavens make clear his righteousness; for God himself is the judge. Selah.

¹¹ Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.

¹⁸ Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.

²⁰ Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.

³⁵ O God, you are to be feared in your holy place: the God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God.

² May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.

¹⁷ May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name.

²² Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day. ²³ Keep in mind the voice of your haters; the outcry of those who come against you goes up every day.

⁶ Let your wrath be on the nations who have no knowledge of you, and on the kingdoms who have not made prayer to your name.

¹⁰ Why may the nations say, Where is their God? Let payment for the blood of your servants be made openly among the nations before our eyes. ¹¹ Let the cry of the prisoner come before you; with your strong arm make free the children of death; ¹² And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord.

⁷ They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.

⁷ God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him.

¹³ Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens.

¹ O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.

²⁰ What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law? ²¹ They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong. ²² But the Lord is my safe resting-place; my God is the Rock where I am safe. ²³ And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.

⁴ The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.

⁷ The works of his hands are faith and righteousness; all his laws are unchanging.

⁸ The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.

¹⁸ But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

¹⁹ If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

¹⁰ Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.

¹⁹ And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

²¹ To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

⁹ And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.

¹¹ When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?

²⁹ He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force. ³⁰ Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength; ³¹ But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.

²¹ Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.

²³ Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel.

¹⁷ But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.

²⁵ In the Lord will all the seed of Israel get their rights, and they will give glory to him.

³ And he said to me, You are my servant, Israel, in whom my glory will be seen;

²⁶ And the flesh of your attackers will be taken by themselves for food; and they will take their blood for drink, as if it was sweet wine: and all men will see that I the Lord am your saviour, even he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.

⁷ Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

² They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.

²¹ Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.

² To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad;

⁴ For the day of punishment is in my heart, and the year for the payment of the price for my people has come. ⁵ And I saw that there was no helper, and I was wondering that no one gave them support: so my arm did the work of salvation, and my wrath was my support. ⁶ And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the earth.

⁵ Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out because of my name, have said, Let the Lord's glory be made clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to shame.

⁹ Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.

²⁴ And they will go out to see the dead bodies of the men who have done evil against me: for their worm will ever be living, and their fire will never be put out, and they will be a thing of fear to all flesh.

⁶ There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

²⁴ But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.

⁹ And this town will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who, hearing of all the good which I am doing for them, will be shaking with fear because of all the good and the peace which I am doing for it.

¹⁷ If our God, whose servants we are, is able to keep us safe from the burning and flaming fire, and from your hands, O King, he will keep us safe.

³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

¹⁰ A stream of fire was flowing and coming out from before him: a thousand thousands were his servants, and ten thousand times ten thousand were in their places before him: the judge was seated and the books were open.

² And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.

³ And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

⁶ And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

⁸ For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to him.

⁷ Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you will become level: and he will let all see the headstone, with cries of Grace, grace, to it.

¹⁷ And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.

¹⁰ Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs. ¹¹ Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me. ¹² Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.

²² A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power? ²³ And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil.

³⁹ And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels. ⁴⁰ As then the evil plants are got together and burned with fire, so will it be in the end of the world. ⁴¹ The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong, ⁴² And will put them into the fire; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow. ⁴³ Then will the upright be shining as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him give ear.

²⁷ For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he will give to every man the reward of his works.

¹³ Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

³⁰ And then the sign of the Son of man will be seen in heaven: and then all the nations of the earth will have sorrow, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

³⁶ But of that day and hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father only.

³¹ But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he be seated in his glory:

⁴¹ Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:

⁴⁶ And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.

²⁴ The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but a curse is on that man through whom the Son of man is given up; it would have been well for that man if he had never come into the world.

⁶⁴ Jesus says to him, You say so: but I say to you, From now you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.

²⁸ The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

³⁸ Whoever has a feeling of shame because of me and my words in this false and evil generation, the Son of man will have a feeling of shame because of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

⁴³ And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire. ⁴⁴ (OMITTED TEXT) ⁴⁵ And if your foot is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off: it is better for you to go into life with one foot than to have two feet and go into hell. ⁴⁶ (OMITTED TEXT) ⁴⁷ And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell, ⁴⁸ Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out. ⁴⁹ Everyone will be salted with fire.

⁶² And Jesus said, I am: and you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.

¹² I say to you, It will be better in that day for Sodom than for that town.

³² Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

²⁷ But he will say, Truly, I have no knowledge of you or where you come from; go away from me, you workers of evil.

³² But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain. ²⁶ And in addition, there is a deep division fixed between us and you, so that those who might go from here to you are not able to do so, and no one may come from you to us.

⁵ And the twelve said to the Lord, Make our faith greater.

³⁰ So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man.

³⁵ But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;

³⁶ But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.

³ All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.

⁵¹ And he said to him, Truly I say to you all, You will see heaven opening and God's angels going up and coming down on the Son of man.

¹⁹ And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

¹⁴ After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.

²⁷ Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark. ²⁸ Then they said to him, How may we do the works of God? ²⁹ Jesus, answering, said to them, This is to do the work of God: to have faith in him whom God has sent.

¹⁹ Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus said in answer, You have no knowledge of me or of my Father: if you had knowledge of me you would have knowledge of my Father.

⁴ When this came to his ears, Jesus said, The end of this disease is not death, but the glory of God, so that the Son of God may have glory because of it.

² He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.

¹⁰ All mine are yours, and yours are mine and I have glory in them.

²¹ May they all be one! Even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so let them be in us, so that all men may come to have faith that you sent me. ²² And the glory which you have given to me I have given to them, so that they may be one even as we are one; ²³ I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you. ²⁴ Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being. ²⁵ Father of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not; and to these it is clear that you sent me; ²⁶ And I have given to them knowledge of your name, and will give it, so that the love which you have for me may be in them and I in them.

¹¹ And said, O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.

⁷ And the word of God was increasing in power; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem became very great, and a great number of priests were in agreement with the faith.

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.

²² Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

¹ And he came to Derbe and Lystra: and there was a certain disciple there named Timothy, whose mother was one of the Jews of the faith, but his father was a Greek;

⁵ Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:

⁷ To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁸ First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world. ⁹ For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,

²⁸ And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

⁵ But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

⁷ To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

⁷ To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life: ⁸ But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

³ And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting; ⁴ And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope: ⁵ And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

¹⁶ Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

¹⁷ And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.

²⁵ But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

³⁰ And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory.

²³ And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory, ²⁴ Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?

¹⁶ But they have not all given ear to the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our word?

¹² Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

¹⁸ And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

²⁶ But is now made clear; and by the writings of the prophets, by the order of the eternal God, the knowledge of it has been given to all the nations, so that they may come under the rule of the faith;

³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴ I give praise to my God for you at all times, because of the grace of God which has been given to you in Christ Jesus;

⁶ Even as the witness of the Christ has been made certain among you:

⁸ Who will give you strength to the end, to be free from all sin in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.

¹⁷ Only, as the Lord has given to a man, and as is the purpose of God for him, so let him go on living. And these are my orders for all the churches.

³⁴ Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.

¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we were preaching among you, even I and Silvanus and Timothy, was not Yes and No, but in him is Yes.

¹⁷ For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

¹⁴ For I was not put to shame in anything in which I may have made clear to him my pride in you; but as we said nothing to you but what was true, so the good things which I said to Titus about you were seen by him to be true.

⁹ For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.

² For I have before made clear to those of Macedonia my pride in your ready mind, saying to them that Achaia has been ready for a year back; and a great number have been moved to do the same by your example.

⁴ For fear that, if any from Macedonia come with me, and you are not ready, we not to say, you might be put to shame in this thing.

⁵ Putting an end to reasonings, and every high thing which is lifted up against the knowledge of God, and causing every thought to come under the authority of Christ;

⁴ For he was feeble in that he was put to death on the cross, but he is living by the power of God. And we are feeble in him, but we will be living with him through the power of God in relation to you.

²⁴ And they gave glory to God in me.

¹ O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross?

⁸ But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

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

⁵ As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose, ⁶ To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

⁹ Having made clear to us the secret of his purpose, in agreement with the design which he had in mind, to put into his hands

¹² So that his glory might have praise through us who first had hope in Christ:

¹⁴ Which is the first-fruit of our heritage, till God gets back that which is his, to the praise of his glory.

¹⁶ Give praise without end for you, keeping you in mind in my prayers;

¹⁸ And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints, ¹⁹ And how unlimited is his power to us who have faith, as is seen in the working of the strength of his power, ²⁰ By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,

⁷ That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:

¹⁰ So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,

¹⁴ For this cause I go down on my knees before the Father, ¹⁵ From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, ¹⁶ That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;

¹⁶ That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts; ¹⁷ So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love, ¹⁸ May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is, ¹⁹ And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete. ²⁰ Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us, ²¹ To him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations for ever and ever. So be it.

¹ I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

²⁰ Giving praise at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

⁶ For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ: ⁷ So it is right for me to take thought for you all in this way, because I have you in my heart; for in my chains, and in my arguments before the judges in support of the good news, making clear that it is true, you all have your part with me in grace.

⁹ And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;

⁹ And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience; ¹⁰ So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ; ¹¹ Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

²⁸ Having no fear of those who are against you; which is a clear sign of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

⁹ For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name; ¹⁰ So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld, ¹¹ And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹³ For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

⁹ And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

¹⁴ I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁹ Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

⁹ For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit, ¹⁰ Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; ¹¹ Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy; ¹² Giving praise to the Father who has given us a part in the heritage of the saints in light;

¹² Giving praise to the Father who has given us a part in the heritage of the saints in light; ¹³ Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

¹⁶ For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him;

⁹ For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form, ¹⁰ And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority:

²⁵ For the wrongdoer will have punishment for the wrong he has done, without respect for any man's position.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. ² We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers;

² We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers; ³ Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

³ Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

³ Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; ⁴ Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose; ⁵ Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

⁵ Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you. ⁶ And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit; ⁷ So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia. ⁸ For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything. ⁹ For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God, ¹⁰ Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come.

¹ For you yourselves, brothers, are conscious that our coming among you was not without effect:

¹² So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory. ¹³ And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

¹³ And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith. ¹⁴ For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;

¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?

² We sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the good news of Christ, to give you strength and comfort in your faith; ³ So that no man might be moved by these troubles; because you see that these things are part of God's purpose for us. ⁴ And when we were with you, we said to you that trouble was before us; and so it came about, as you see. ⁵ For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing. ⁶ But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

⁶ But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you; ⁷ For this cause, brothers, in all our trouble and grief we were comforted about you because of your faith; ⁸ For it is life to us if you keep your faith in the Lord unchanged. ⁹ For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;

⁹ For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God; ¹⁰ Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete. ¹¹ Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus make a way for us to come to you; ¹² And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;

¹² And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you; ¹³ So that your hearts may be strong and free from all sin before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

¹ And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.

⁵ Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

⁹ But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary; ¹⁰ And, truly, you are lovers of all the brothers in Macedonia; but it is our desire that your love may be increased still more;

¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first; ¹⁷ Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord.

³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

⁵ Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain; ⁶ For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you, ⁷ And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire,

¹⁰ At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith because our witness among you had effect in that day. ¹¹ For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete; ¹² So that glory may be given to the name of our Lord Jesus through you, and you may have glory in him, by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ And then will come the revelation of that evil one, whom the Lord Jesus will put to death with the breath of his mouth, and give to destruction by the revelation of his coming;

¹³ But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true: ¹⁴ And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ And may your hearts be guided by the Lord into the love of God and quiet waiting for Christ.

¹² And for which I undergo these things: but I have no feeling of shame. For I have knowledge of him in whom I have faith, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have given into his care till that day.

¹⁸ May he have the Lord's mercy in that day; and of all he did for me at Ephesus you have full knowledge.

¹² If we go on to the end, then we will be ruling with him: if we say we have no knowledge of him, then he will say he has no knowledge of us:

⁸ From now on, the crown of righteousness is made ready for me, which the Lord, the upright judge, Will give to me at that day: and not only to me, but to all those who have had love for his revelation.

¹¹ For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,

¹³ Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

⁴ But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen, ⁵ Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit, ⁶ Which he gave us freely through Jesus Christ our Saviour; ⁷ So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.

³ What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

¹ For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;

¹ Let us then, though we still have God's word that we may come into his rest, go in fear that some of you may be unable to do so.

⁹ So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.

¹¹ Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

⁹ And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;

¹⁵ And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

²⁸ So Christ, having at his first coming taken on himself the sins of men, will be seen a second time, without sin, by those who are waiting for him, for their salvation.

²⁷ But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.

²⁹ But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment? ³⁰ For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people.

³² But give thought to the days after you had seen the light, when you went through a great war of troubles; ³³ In part, in being attacked by angry words and cruel acts, before the eyes of everyone, and in part, in being united with those who were attacked in this way.

³⁶ For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

⁸ By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

¹ For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us, ² Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.

² Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power. ³ Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.

²⁹ For our God is an all-burning fire.

³ Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope; ⁴ But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing.

⁷ Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come. ⁸ Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.

¹¹ We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

² Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.

⁷ So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire, may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ: ⁸ To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:

²² And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

⁹ But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

⁶ As Sarah was ruled by Abraham, naming him lord; whose children you are if you do well, and are not put in fear by any danger.

²² Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.

¹⁴ If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you.

¹⁴ If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you. ¹⁵ Let no one among you undergo punishment as a taker of life, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as one who is over-interested in other men's business; ¹⁶ But if he undergoes punishment as a Christian, that is no shame to him; let him give glory to God in this name. ¹⁷ For the time has come for the judging, starting with the church of God; but if it makes a start with us, what will be the end of those who are not under the rule of God?

¹⁷ For the time has come for the judging, starting with the church of God; but if it makes a start with us, what will be the end of those who are not under the rule of God? ¹⁸ And if it is hard for even the good man to get salvation, what chance has the man without religion or the sinner?

¹⁰ And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;

⁵ So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue, ⁶ And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,

⁶ And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind, ⁷ And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself. ⁸ For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins. ¹⁰ For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

¹³ And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory;

¹⁷ These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.

⁷ But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up. ¹¹ Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness, ¹² Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?

¹⁸ But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.

¹³ Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever. ¹⁴ The prophet Enoch, who was the seventh after Adam, said of these men, The Lord came with tens of thousands of his saints, ¹⁵ To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.

⁴ John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and was and is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his high seat;

⁷ See, he comes with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those by whom he was wounded; and all the tribes of the earth will be sorrowing because of him. Yes, so be it.

⁴ But you have some names in Sardis who have kept clean their robes; and as a reward they will go in white with me.

¹⁰ And have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are ruling on the earth.

¹⁰ And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?

¹⁶ And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb: ¹⁷ For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?

¹¹ And all the angels were round about the high seat, and about the rulers and the four beasts; and they went down on their faces before the high seat, and gave worship to God, saying, ¹² So be it. Let blessing and glory and wisdom and praise and honour and power and strength be given to our God for ever and ever. So be it.

¹⁴ And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ This is why they are before the high seat of God; and they are his servants day and night in his house: and he who is seated on the high seat will be a tent over them. ¹⁶ They will never be in need of food or drink: and they will never again be troubled by the burning heat of the sun: ¹⁷ For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.

¹⁸ And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time of reward for your servants, the prophets, and for the saints, and for those in whom is the fear of your name, small and great, and the time of destruction for those who made the earth unclean.

¹⁰ To him will be given of the wine of God's wrath which is ready unmixed in the cup of his wrath and he will have cruel pain, burning with fire before the holy angels and before the Lamb: ¹¹ And the smoke of their pain goes up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day and night, who give worship to the beast and his image, and have on them the mark of his name. ¹² Here is the quiet strength of the saints, who keep the orders of God, and the faith of Jesus. ¹³ And a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Put in writing, There is a blessing on the dead who from now on come to their end in the Lord: yes, says the Spirit, that they may have rest from their troubles; for their works go with them.

⁴ What man is there who will not have fear before you, O Lord, and give glory to your name? because you only are holy; for all the nations will come and give worship before you; for your righteousness has been made clear.

⁵ And the voice of the angel of the waters came to my ears, saying, True and upright is your judging, O Holy One, who is and was from all time: ⁶ For they made the blood of saints and prophets come out like a stream, and blood have you given them for drink; which is their right reward. ⁷ And a voice came from the altar, saying, Even so, O Lord God, Ruler of all, true and full of righteousness is your judging.

²⁰ Be glad over her, heaven, and you saints, and Apostles, and prophets; because she has been judged by God on your account.

²⁴ And in her was seen the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been put to death on the earth.

² For true and upright are his decisions; for by him has the evil woman been judged, who made the earth unclean with the sins of her body; and he has given her punishment for the blood of his servants.

¹⁰ And the Evil One who put them in error was sent down into the sea of ever-burning fire, where the beast and the false prophet are, and their punishment will go on day and night for ever and ever. ¹¹ And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was no place for them.

¹⁴ And death and Hell were put into the sea of fire. This is the second death, even the sea of fire.

¹⁴ And death and Hell were put into the sea of fire. This is the second death, even the sea of fire. ¹⁵ And if anyone's name was not in the book of life, he went down into the sea of fire.

⁴ And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.

⁸ But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.

⁶ And he said to me, These words are certain and true: and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to make clear to his servants the things which are now to come about.

⁹ And he said to me, See you do it not; I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book: give worship to God.

¹⁵ Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false. ¹⁶ I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give witness to you of these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star.