Acts 21 Cross References - BBE

¹ And after parting from them, we put out to sea and came straight to Cos, and the day after to Rhodes, and from there to Patara: ² And as there was a ship going to Phoenicia, we went in it. ³ And when we had come in view of Cyprus, going past it on our left, we went on to Syria, and came to land at Tyre: for there the goods which were in the ship had to be taken out. ⁴ And meeting the disciples we were there for seven days: and they gave Paul orders through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem. ⁵ And when these days came to an end, we went on our journey; and they all, with their wives and children, came with us on our way till we were out of the town: and after going on our knees in prayer by the sea, ⁶ We said our last words to one another, and got into the ship, and they went back to their houses. ⁷ And journeying by ship from Tyre we came to Ptolemais; and there we had talk with the brothers and were with them for one day. ⁸ And on the day after, we went away and came to Caesarea, where we were guests in the house of Philip, the preacher, who was one of the seven. ⁹ And he had four daughters, virgins, who were prophets. ¹⁰ And while we were waiting there for some days, a certain prophet, named Agabus, came down from Judaea. ¹¹ And he came to us, and took the band of Paul's clothing, and putting it round his feet and hands, said, The Holy Spirit says these words, So will the Jews do to the man who is the owner of this band, and they will give him up into the hands of the Gentiles. ¹² And hearing these things, we and those who were living in that place made request to him not to go to Jerusalem. ¹³ Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. ¹⁴ And as he might not be moved we did no more, saying, Let the purpose of God be done. ¹⁵ And after these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁶ And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, taking a certain Mnason of Cyprus, one of the early disciples, in whose house we were to be living. ¹⁷ And when we came to Jerusalem, the brothers were pleased to see us. ¹⁸ And on the day after, Paul went with us to James, and all the rulers of the church were present. ¹⁹ And when he had said how glad he was to see them, he gave them a detailed account of the things which God had done through his work among the Gentiles. ²⁰ And hearing it, they gave praise to God; and they said to him, You see, brother, what thousands there are among the Jews, who have the faith; and they all have a great respect for the law: ²¹ And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules. ²² What then is the position? They will certainly get news that you have come. ²³ Do this, then, which we say to you: We have four men who have taken an oath; ²⁴ Go with these, and make yourself clean with them, and make the necessary payments for them, so that they may be free from their oath: and everyone will see that the statements made about you are not true, but that you put yourself under rule, and keep the law. ²⁵ But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body. ²⁶ Then Paul took the men, and on the day after, making himself clean with them, he went into the Temple, giving out the statement that the days necessary for making them clean were complete, till the offering was made for every one of them. ²⁷ And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews from Asia, seeing him in the Temple, got the people together and put their hands on him, ²⁸ Crying out, Men of Israel, come to our help: this is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place: and in addition, he has taken Greeks into the Temple, and made this holy place unclean. ²⁹ For they had seen him before in the town with Trophimus of Ephesus, and had the idea that Paul had taken him with him into the Temple. ³⁰ And all the town was moved, and the people came running together and put their hands on Paul, pulling him out of the Temple: and then the doors were shut. ³¹ And while they were attempting to put him to death, news came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem was out of control. ³² And straight away he took some armed men and went quickly down to them: and the Jews, seeing them, gave no more blows to Paul. ³³ Then the chief captain came near and took him, and gave orders for him to be put in chains, questioning them as to who he was and what he had done. ³⁴ And some said one thing and some another, among the people: and as he was not able to get a knowledge of the facts because of the noise, he gave orders for Paul to be taken into the army building. ³⁵ And when he came on to the steps, he was lifted up by the armed men, because of the force of the people; ³⁶ For a great mass of people came after them, crying out, Away with him! ³⁷ And when Paul was about to be taken into the building, he said to the chief captain, May I say something to you? And he said, Have you a knowledge of Greek? ³⁸ Are you by chance the Egyptian who, before this, got the people worked up against the government and took four thousand men of the Assassins out into the waste land? ³⁹ But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, which is not an unimportant town: I make a request to you to let me say a word to the people. ⁴⁰ And when he let him do so, Paul, from the steps, made a sign with his hand to the people, and when they were all quiet, he said to them in the Hebrew language,

¹¹ And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways. ¹² And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.

¹⁴ And may God, the Ruler of all, give you mercy before the man, so that he may give you back your other brother and Benjamin. If my children are to be taken from me; there is no help for it.

²⁰ And Miriam, the woman prophet, the sister of Aaron, took an instrument of music in her hand; and all the women went after her with music and dances.

¹⁰ And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make them holy today and tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed.

¹⁴ Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and made the people holy; and their clothing was washed.

² Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord; ³ He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry. ⁴ All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin. ⁵ All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut.

⁵ All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut. ⁶ All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body. ⁷ He may not make himself unclean for his father or his mother, his sister or his brother, if death comes to them; because he is under an oath to keep himself separate for God.

⁹ If death comes suddenly to a man at his side, so that he becomes unclean, let his hair be cut off on the day when he is made clean, on the seventh day.

¹³ And this is the law for him who is separate, when the necessary days are ended: he is to come to the door of the Tent of meeting,

¹³ And this is the law for him who is separate, when the necessary days are ended: he is to come to the door of the Tent of meeting, ¹⁴ And make his offering to the Lord; one he-lamb of the first year, without a mark, for a burned offering, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, for a sin-offering, and one male sheep, without a mark, for peace-offerings, ¹⁵ And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil, with their meal offering and drink offerings. ¹⁶ And the priest will take them before the Lord, and make his sin-offering and his burned offering; ¹⁷ Giving the sheep of the peace-offerings, with the basket of unleavened bread; and at the same time, the priest will make his meal offering and his drink offering. ¹⁸ Then let his long hair, the sign of his oath, be cut off at the door of the Tent of meeting, and let him put it on the fire on which the peace-offerings are burning.

¹⁸ Then let his long hair, the sign of his oath, be cut off at the door of the Tent of meeting, and let him put it on the fire on which the peace-offerings are burning. ¹⁹ And the priest will take the cooked leg of the sheep and one unleavened cake and one thin cake out of the basket, and put them on the hands of the separate one after his hair has been cut, ²⁰ Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is holy for the priest, together with the waved breast and the leg which is lifted up; after that, the man may take wine.

¹⁷ And for the unclean, they are to take the dust of the burning of the sin-offering, and put flowing water on it in a vessel: ¹⁸ And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the resting-place was touched. ¹⁹ Let the clean person do this to the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he is to make him clean; and after washing his clothing and bathing himself in water, he will be clean in the evening. ²⁰ But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean. ²¹ This is to be a law for them for ever: he who puts the water on the unclean person is to have his clothing washed; and anyone touching the water will be unclean till evening. ²² Anything touched by the unclean person will be unclean; and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.

¹¹ And your little ones, your wives, and the men of other lands who are with you in your tents, down to the wood-cutter and the servant who gets water for you: ¹² With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his oath which he makes with you today:

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.

⁴ Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.

⁶ And again the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, worshipping the Baals and Astartes, and the gods of Aram and the gods of Zidon and the gods of Moab and the gods of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines; they gave up the Lord and were servants to him no longer.

⁵ For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

¹³ And they said, No; we will take you and give you up into their hands, but truly we will not put you to death. So knotting two new cords round him they took him up from the rock.

⁸ So the chiefs of the Philistines gave her seven new bow-cords which had never been made dry, and she had them tightly knotted round him.

¹² So Delilah took new thick cords, knotting them tightly round him, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And men were waiting secretly in the inner room. And the cords were broken off his arms like threads.

¹⁷ And opening all his heart to her, he said to her, My head has never been touched by a blade, for I have been separate to God from the day of my birth: if my hair is cut off, then my strength will go from me and I will become feeble, and will be like any other man. ¹⁸ And when Delilah saw that he had let her see into his heart, she sent word to the chiefs of the Philistines saying, Come up this time, for he has let out all his heart to me. Then the chiefs of the Philistines came to her, with the money in their hands. ¹⁹ And she made him go to sleep on her knees; and she sent for a man and had his seven twists of hair cut off; and while it was being done he became feeble and his strength went from him.

²¹ So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.

⁸ Then her husband Elkanah said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? and why are you taking no food? why is your heart troubled? am I not more to you than ten sons?

¹⁸ Then Samuel gave him an account of everything, keeping nothing back. And he said, It is the Lord; let him do what seems good to him.

⁴ They will say, Peace be with you, and will give you two cakes of bread, which you are to take from them.

¹⁰ And when the burned offering was ended, Samuel came; and Saul went out to see him and to give him a blessing.

¹⁴ And Samuel said, What then is this sound of the crying of sheep and the noise of oxen which comes to my ears?

²⁷ And when Samuel was turning round to go away, Saul took the skirt of his robe in his hand, and the cloth came away. ²⁸ And Samuel said to him, The Lord has taken away the kingdom of Israel from you this day by force, and has given it to a neighbour of yours who is better than you.

⁴¹ And when the boy had gone, David came from his secret place by the hill, and falling to the earth went down on his face three times: and they gave one another a kiss, weeping together, till David's grief was the greater. ⁴² And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, for we two have taken an oath, in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord will be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed for ever. Then David went away, and Jonathan went into the town.

⁶ And David put armed forces in Aram of Damascus: and the Aramaeans became servants to David and gave him offerings. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.

²⁵ And the king said to Zadok, Take the ark of God back into the town: if I have grace in the eyes of the Lord, he will let me come back and see it and his House again: ²⁶ But if he says, I have no delight in you: then, here I am; let him do to me what seems good to him.

⁴¹ And it came to the ears of Adonijah and all the guests who were with him, when their meal was ended. And Joab, hearing the sound of the horn, said, What is the reason of this noise as if the town was worked up?

⁵⁴ Then Solomon, after making all these prayers and requests for grace to the Lord, got up from his knees before the altar of the Lord, where his hands had been stretched out in prayer to heaven;

²⁹ Now at that time, when Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite came across him on the road; now Ahijah had put on a new robe; and the two of them were by themselves in the open country. ³⁰ And Ahijah took his new robe in his hands, parting it violently into twelve. ³¹ And he said to Jeroboam, Take ten of the parts, for this is what the Lord has said: See, I will take the kingdom away from Solomon by force, and will give ten tribes to you;

²⁵ {\I There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.

¹¹ And Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, made himself horns of iron and said, The Lord says, Pushing back the Aramaeans with these, you will put an end to them completely.

¹³ Then straight away everyone took his robe and put it under him on the top of the steps, and, sounding the horn, they said, Jehu is king.

¹⁵ Then Jehoiada the priest gave orders to those who were placed in authority over the army, saying, Take her outside the lines, and let anyone who goes after her be put to death with the sword, for he said, Let her not be put to death in the house of the Lord.

¹⁵ Then Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows: and he took bow and arrows. ¹⁶ And he said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow: and he put his hand on it; and Elisha put his hands on the king's hands. ¹⁷ Then he said; Let the window be open to the east: and he got it open. Then Elisha said, Let the arrow go; and he let it go. And he said, The Lord's arrow of salvation, of salvation over Aram; for you will overcome the Aramaeans in Aphek and put an end to them. ¹⁸ And he said, Take the arrows: and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, Send them down into the earth; and he did so three times and no more. ¹⁹ Then the man of God was angry with him and said, If you had done it five or six times, then you would have overcome Aram completely; but now you will only overcome them three times.

¹⁹ Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. Then he said, (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) if in my time there is peace and righteousness?

¹⁴ So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asaiah, went to Huldah the woman prophet, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the robes, now she was living in Jerusalem, in the second part of the town; and they had talk with her.

¹³ And all Judah were waiting before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

¹⁸ For a great number of the people from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not made themselves clean, but they took the Passover meal, though not in the right way. For Hezekiah had made prayer for them, saying, May the good Lord have mercy on everyone ¹⁹ Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

¹⁴ Keep in mind, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat and what they did, and Noadiah, the woman prophet, and the rest of the prophets whose purpose was to put fear into me.

⁴³ And on that day they made great offerings and were glad; for God had made them glad with great joy; and the women and the children were glad with them: so that the joy of Jerusalem came to the ears of those who were far off.

⁵ And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

²⁵ When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear.

²³ You who have fear of the Lord, give him praise; all you seed of Jacob, give him glory; go in fear of him, all you seed of Israel.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth will keep it in mind and be turned to the Lord: all the families of the nations will give him worship.

¹² And the daughters of Tyre will be there with an offering; those who have wealth among the people will be looking for your approval.

⁹ Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.

² The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

¹⁷ O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now. ¹⁸ Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

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. ¹⁸ Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, the only doer of wonders. ¹⁹ Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.

⁴ Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there.

¹⁴ They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth;

⁶ O come, let us give worship, falling down on our knees before the Lord our Maker.

¹ A Psalm. O make a new song to the Lord, because he has done works of wonder; with his right hand, and with his holy arm, he has overcome. ² The Lord has given to all the knowledge of his salvation; he has made clear his righteousness in the eyes of the nations. ³ He has kept in mind his mercy and his unchanging faith to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

³¹ The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.

¹⁵ By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.

² And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the king's heart, and the hearts of his people, were moved, like the trees of the wood shaking in the wind.

¹⁷ And it will be after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will have mercy on Tyre, and she will go back to her trade, acting as a loose woman with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. ¹⁸ And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they will not be kept back or stored up; for her produce will be for those living in the Lord's land, to give them food for their needs, and fair clothing.

¹⁰ For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food; ¹¹ So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it. ¹² For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy. ¹³ In place of the thorn will come up the fir-tree, and in place of the blackberry the myrtle: and it will be to the Lord for a name, for an eternal sign which will not be cut off.

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. ¹⁰ Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her: ¹¹ So that you may take of the comfort flowing from her breasts, and be delighted with the full measure of her glory. ¹² For the Lord says, See, I will make her peace like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and she will take her children in her arms, gently caring for them on her knees. ¹³ As to one who is comforted by his mother, so will I give you comfort: and you will be comforted in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And you will see it and your heart will be glad, and your bones will get new strength, like young grass: and the hand of the Lord will be seen at work for his servants, and his wrath against his haters.

⁴ Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these. ⁵ For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour; ⁶ If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves: ⁷ Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever. ⁸ See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit. ⁹ Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you; ¹⁰ And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things? ¹¹ Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord. ¹² But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel. ¹³ And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and I sent my word to you, getting up early and sending, but you did not give ear; and my voice came to you, but you gave no answer: ¹⁴ For this reason I will do to the house which is named by my name, and in which you have put your faith, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. ¹⁵ And I will send you away from before my face, as I have sent away all your brothers, even all the seed of Ephraim.

¹ This is what the Lord said to me: Go and get yourself a linen band and put it round you and do not put it in water. ² So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body. ³ And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, ⁴ Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock. ⁵ So I went and put it in a secret place by Parah, as the Lord had said to me. ⁶ Then after a long time, the Lord said to me, Up! go to Parah and get the band which I gave you orders to put there. ⁷ So I went to Parah and, uncovering the hole, took the band from the place where I had put it away: and the band was damaged and of no use for anything. ⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ⁹ The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem. ¹⁰ These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything. ¹¹ For as a band goes tightly round a man's body, so I made all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah tightly united to me; so that they might be a people for me and a name and a praise and a glory: but they would not give ear.

¹⁰ Then let the potter's bottle be broken before the eyes of the men who have gone with you, ¹¹ And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Even so will this people and this town be broken by me, as a potter's bottle is broken and may not be put together again: and the bodies of the dead will be put in the earth in Topheth, till there is no more room.

¹⁰ For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.

¹⁰ The hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.

² Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?

¹⁹ And the people said to me, Will you not make clear to us the sense of these things; is it for us you do them? ²⁰ Then I said to them, The word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²¹ Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I will make my holy place unclean, the pride of your strength, the pleasure of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and daughters, who did not come with you here, will be put to the sword. ²² And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief. ²³ And your head-dresses will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet: there will be no sorrow or weeping; but you will be wasting away in the punishment of your evil-doing, and you will be looking at one another in wonder. ²⁴ And Ezekiel will be a sign to you; everything he has done you will do: when this takes place, you will be certain that I am the Lord. ²⁵ And as for you, son of man, your mouth will be shut in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which their hearts are fixed, and their sons and daughters.

¹⁰ My word came to the ears of the prophets and I gave them visions in great number, and by the mouths of the prophets I made use of comparisons.

²⁸ And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:

³ And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.

⁶ And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.

² How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation. ³ Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.

³ And when it came to the ears of Herod the king, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

²⁴ And news of him went out through all Syria; and they took to him all who were ill with different diseases and pains, those having evil spirits and those who were off their heads, and those who had no power of moving. And he made them well.

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.

⁴⁷ And if you say, Good day, to your brothers only, what do you do more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?

¹⁰ Let your kingdom come. Let your pleasure be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

² Now the names of the twelve are these: The first, Simon, who is named Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother;

¹¹ And into whatever town or small place you go, make search there for someone who is respected, and make his house your resting-place till you go away.

¹⁸ And you will come before rulers and kings because of me, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ But when you are given up into their hands, do not be troubled about what to say or how to say it: for in that hour what you are to say will be given to you; ²⁰ Because it is not you who say the words, but the Spirit of your Father in you.

²¹ Unhappy are you, Chorazin! Unhappy are you, Beth-saida! For if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have been turned from their sins in days gone by, clothing themselves in haircloth and putting dust on their heads.

³¹ He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field: ³² Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches. ³³ Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

²¹ And those who had food were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children.

²¹ From that time Jesus went on to make clear to his disciples how he would have to go up to Jerusalem, and undergo much at the hands of those in authority and the chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and the third day come again from the dead. ²² And Peter, protesting, said to him, Be it far from you, Lord; it is impossible that this will come about. ²³ But he, turning to Peter, said, Get out of my way, Satan: you are a danger to me because your mind is not on the things of God, but on the things of men.

¹⁸ See, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be given into the hands of the chief priests and scribes; and they will give orders for him to be put to death, ¹⁹ And will give him up to the Gentiles to be made sport of and to be whipped and to be put to death on the cross: and the third day he will come back again from the dead.

¹⁰ And when he came into Jerusalem, all the town was moved, saying, Who is this?

¹⁵ When, then, you see in the holy place the unclean thing which makes destruction, of which word was given by Daniel the prophet let this be clear to the reader,

²⁶ If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it.

⁵ But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear of trouble among the people.

³⁹ And he went forward a little, and falling down on his face in prayer, he said, O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup go from me; but let not my pleasure, but yours be done.

⁴² Again, a second time he went away, and said in prayer, O my Father, if this may not go from me without my taking it, let your pleasure be done.

¹ Now when it was morning, all the chief priests and those in authority took thought together with the purpose of putting Jesus to death. ² And they put cords on him and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate, the ruler.

⁴⁰ And a leper came to him and, going down on his knees before him, made a request, saying, If it is your pleasure, you have the power to make me clean.

² But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear there may be trouble among the people.

² This was the first numbering, which was made when Quirinius was ruler of Syria.

³⁶ And there was one, Anna, a woman prophet, the daughter of Phanuel, of the family of Asher {\I she was very old, and after seven years of married life

²⁹ And they got up and took him out of the town to the edge of the mountain on which their town was, so that they might send him down to his death.

⁴ And when his talk was ended, he said to Simon, Go out into deep water, and let down your nets for fish.

²² Now it came about on one of those days that he got into a boat with his disciples; and he said to them, Let us go over to the other side of the water: and they put out the boat.

¹³ A curse is on you, Chorazin! A curse is on you, Beth-saida! For if such works of power had been done in Tyre and Sidon as have been done in you, they would have been turned from their sins, in days gone by, seated in the dust.

² And he said to them, When you say your prayers, say, Father, may your name be kept holy and your kingdom come.

¹ At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.

³ And he made a story for them, saying, ⁴ What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets loose and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is? ⁵ And when he has got it again, he takes it in his arms with joy. ⁶ And when he gets back to his house, he sends for his neighbours and friends, saying to them, Be glad with me, for I have got back my sheep which had gone away. ⁷ I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart. ⁸ Or what woman, having ten bits of silver, if one bit has gone from her hands, will not get a light, and go through her house, searching with care till she sees it? ⁹ And when she has it again, she gets her friends and neighbours together, saying, Be glad with me, for I have got back the bit of silver which had gone from me. ¹⁰ Even so, I say to you, There is joy among the angels of God, when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing.

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.

¹² But before all this, they will take you and be very cruel to you, giving you up to the Synagogues and to prisons, taking you before kings and rulers, because of my name.

¹⁵ For I will give you words and wisdom, so that not one of those who are against you will be able to get the better of you, or to put you in the wrong.

⁴² Father, if it is your pleasure, take this cup from me: but still, let your pleasure, not mine, be done.

¹⁸ But with loud voices they said all together, Put this man to death, and make Barabbas free.

³⁸ And these words were put in writing over him, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

¹¹ He came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their hearts.

²⁵ Then a question came up between John's disciples and a Jew about washing.

² Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-market there is a public bath which in Hebrew is named Beth-zatha. It has five doorways.

⁵³ {\I (OMITTED TEXT)And every man went to his house;

⁵⁵ Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover.

²⁴ Truly I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an end, it is still a seed and no more; but through its death it gives much fruit.

² They will put you out of the Synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever puts you to death will have the belief that he is doing God's pleasure.

³² See, a time is coming, yes, it is now here, when you will go away in all directions, every man to his house, and I will be by myself: but I am not by myself, because the Father is with me.

¹² Then the band and the chief captain and the police took Jesus and put cords round him.

²⁹ So Pilate came out to them and put the question: What have you to say against this man? ³⁰ They said to him in answer, If the man was not a wrongdoer we would not have given him up to you.

¹³ So when these words came to Pilate's ear, he took Jesus out, seating himself in the judge's seat in a place named in Hebrew, Gabbatha, or the Stone Floor.

¹⁵ Then they gave a loud cry, Away with him! away with him! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Am I to put your King to death on the cross? The chief priests said in answer, We have no king but Caesar.

¹⁷ And he went out with his cross on him to the place which is named Dead Man's Head in Hebrew, Golgotha:

²⁰ The writing was seen by a number of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was put to death on the cross was near the town; and the writing was in Hebrew and Latin and Greek.

²⁷ Then he said to the disciple, There is your mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his house.

¹⁷ For he was numbered among us, and had his part in our work.

¹⁷ And it will come about, in the last days, says God, that I will send out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams:

⁴¹ Then those who gave hearing to his words had baptism: and about three thousand souls were joined to them that day.

³ And they took them and put them in prison till the morning, for it was now evening. ⁴ But a number of those who gave hearing to the word had faith; and they were now about five thousand.

²¹ And when they had said more sharp words to them, they let them go, not seeing what punishment they might give them, because of the people; for all men were giving praise to God for what had taken place.

³⁶ And Joseph, who was given by the Apostles the name of Barnabas the sense of which is, Son of comfort, a Levite and a man of Cyprus by birth,

¹⁸ And they took the Apostles and put them in the common prison.

³⁶ For before this there was Theudas, who said he was someone important, to whom about four hundred men gave their support: he was put to death, and his band was broken up and came to nothing. ³⁷ After this man, there was Judas of Galilee, at the time of the numbering, and some of the people went after him: he was put to death, and all his supporters were put to flight.

⁴⁰ And he seemed to them to be right: and they sent for the Apostles, and, after having them whipped and giving them orders to give no teaching in the name of Jesus, they let them go. ⁴¹ So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.

¹ Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day.

⁵ And this saying was pleasing to all of them: and they made selection of Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas of Antioch, who had become a Jew:

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.

⁹ But some of those who were of the Synagogue named that of the Libertines, and some of the men of Cyrene and of Alexandria and those from Cilicia and Asia, had arguments with Stephen.

¹² And the people, with the rulers and the scribes, were moved against him, and they came and took him before the Sanhedrin, ¹³ And they got false witnesses who said, This man is for ever saying things against this holy place and against the law: ¹⁴ For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.

⁵⁴ Hearing these things, they were cut to the heart and moved with wrath against him.

⁵⁷ But with loud cries, and stopping their ears, they made an attack on him all together, ⁵⁸ Driving him out of the town and stoning him: and the witnesses put their clothing at the feet of a young man named Saul.

⁵ And Philip went down to Samaria and was teaching them about Christ. ⁶ And all the people gave attention to the words which Philip said, when they saw the signs which he did. ⁷ For unclean spirits came out from those who had them, crying with a loud voice; and a number of those who were ill and broken in body were made well. ⁸ And there was much joy in that town. ⁹ But there was a certain man named Simon, who in the past had been a wonder-worker and a cause of surprise to the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was a great man: ¹⁰ To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great. ¹¹ And they gave attention to him, because for a long time his wonder-working powers had kept them under his control. ¹² But when they had faith in the good news given by Philip about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, a number of men and women had baptism. ¹³ And Simon himself had faith and, having had baptism, he went with Philip and, seeing the signs and the great wonders which he did, he was full of surprise.

²⁶ But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Get up, and go to the south, to the road which goes from Jerusalem to Gaza, through the waste land. ²⁷ And he went and there was a man of Ethiopia, a servant of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, and controller of all her property, who had come up to Jerusalem for worship; ²⁸ He was going back, seated in his carriage, and was reading the book of the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹ And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near, and get on his carriage. ³⁰ And Philip, running up to him, saw that he was reading Isaiah the prophet, and said to him, Is the sense of what you are reading clear to you? ³¹ And he said, How is that possible when I have no guide? And he made Philip get up by his side. ³² Now the place in the book where he was reading was this: He was taken, like a sheep, to be put to death; and as a lamb is quiet when its wool is being cut, so he made no sound: ³³ Being of low degree, his cause was not given a hearing: who has knowledge of his family? for his life is cut off from the earth. ³⁴ And the Ethiopian said to Philip, About whom are these words said by the prophet? about himself, or some other? ³⁵ So Philip, starting from this writing, gave him the good news about Jesus. ³⁶ And while they were going on their way, they came to some water, and the Ethiopian said, See, here is water; why may I not have baptism? ³⁷ (OMITTED TEXT) ³⁸ And he gave orders for the carriage to be stopped, and the two of them went down into the water, and Philip gave him baptism. ³⁹ And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord took Philip away; and the Ethiopian saw him no more, for he went on his way full of joy. ⁴⁰ But Philip came to Azotus, and went through all the towns, preaching the good news, till he came to Caesarea.

⁴⁰ But Philip came to Azotus, and went through all the towns, preaching the good news, till he came to Caesarea.

¹¹ And the Lord said to him, Get up, and go to the street which is named Straight, and make search at the house of Judas for one named Saul of Tarsus: for he is at prayer;

¹⁶ For I will make clear to him what troubles he will have to undergo for me.

³⁰ And when the brothers had knowledge of it, they took him to Caesarea and sent him to Tarsus.

⁴⁰ But Peter made them all go outside, and went down on his knees in prayer; and turning to the body, he said, Tabitha, get up. And, opening her eyes, she saw Peter and got up.

¹ Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, named Cornelius, the captain of the Italian band of the army;

²⁴ And the day after that, they came to Caesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having got together his relations and his near friends.

⁴⁸ And he gave orders for them to have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they kept him with them for some days.

⁴ But Peter gave them an account of it all in order, saying to them, ⁵ I was in the town of Joppa, at prayer: and falling into a deep sleep, I saw in a vision a vessel like a great cloth let down from heaven, and it came down to me: ⁶ And looking on it with attention I saw in it all sorts of beasts and birds. ⁷ And a voice came to my ears saying, Come, Peter; take them for food. ⁸ But I said, No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever come into my mouth. ⁹ But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common. ¹⁰ And this was done three times, and they were all taken up again into heaven. ¹¹ And at that minute, three men, sent from Caesarea, came to the house where we were. ¹² And the Spirit gave me orders to go with them, doubting nothing. And these six brothers came with me; and we went into that man's house: ¹³ And he gave us an account of how he had seen the angel in his house, saying, Send to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you; ¹⁴ Who will say words to you through which you and all your family may get salvation. ¹⁵ And, while I was talking to them, the Holy Spirit came on them, as on us at first. ¹⁶ And the words of the Lord came into my mind, how he said, The baptism of John was with water, but you will have baptism with the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God? ¹⁸ And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life.

¹⁸ And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life. ¹⁹ Then those who had gone away at the time of the trouble about Stephen, went as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus, preaching to the Jews only.

²⁶ And when he had come across him, he took him to Antioch. And they were with the church there for a year, teaching the people; and the disciples were first given the name of Christians in Antioch.

²⁸ And one of them, named Agabus, said publicly through the Spirit that there would be serious need of food all over the earth: which came about in the time of Claudius.

³⁰ Which they did, sending it to the rulers of the church by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

⁶ And when Herod was about to take him out, the same night Peter was sleeping in chains between two armed men, and the watchmen were keeping watch before the door of the prison.

¹⁷ But he made a sign to them with his hand to be quiet, and gave them an account of how the Lord had taken him out of prison. And he said, Give the news to James and the brothers. And then he went away.

²⁰ Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon: and they came to him, all together, and having made friends with Blastus, the controller of the king's house, they made a request for peace, because their country was dependent on the king's country for its food.

¹ Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul. ² And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.

⁴ So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia; and from there they went by ship to Cyprus.

¹⁶ And Paul, getting up and making a sign with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and you who have the fear of God, give ear.

⁵⁰ But the Jews, working up the feelings of the God-fearing women of high position and of the chief men of the town, got an attack started against Paul and Barnabas, driving them out of those parts.

² But those Jews who had not the faith, made the minds of the Gentiles bitter against the brothers.

⁵ And when a violent attempt was made by the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, to make an attack on them and have them stoned,

¹⁹ But some Jews came to that place from Antioch and Iconium, and got control over the people; and after stoning Paul, they had him pulled out of the town, taking him for dead.

²⁷ And when they came there, and had got the church together, they gave them an account of all the things which God had done through them, and how he had made open a door of faith to the Gentiles.

¹ Now certain men came down from Judaea, teaching the brothers and saying that without circumcision, after the rule of Moses, there is no salvation. ² And after Paul and Barnabas had had no little argument and discussion with them, the brothers made a decision to send Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them to the Apostles and the rulers of the church at Jerusalem about this question. ³ So they, being sent on their way by the church, went through Phoenicia and Samaria, giving news of the salvation of the Gentiles, to the great joy of all the brothers. ⁴ And when they came to Jerusalem, they had a meeting with the church and the Apostles and the rulers, and they gave an account of all the things which God had done through them. ⁵ But some of the Pharisees, who were of the faith, got up and said, It is necessary for these to have circumcision and to keep the law of Moses. ⁶ And the Apostles and the rulers of the church came together and gave thought to the question.

¹² And all the people were quiet while Barnabas and Paul gave an account of the signs and wonders which God had done among the Gentiles by them. ¹³ And when they had come to an end, James, answering, said, My brothers, give ear to me:

¹⁹ For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God;

¹⁹ For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God; ²⁰ But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

²⁰ But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood. ²¹ For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath. ²² Then it seemed good to the Apostles and the rulers and all the church, to send men from among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas, named Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers: ²³ And they sent a letter by them, saying, The Apostles and the older brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, may joy be with you: ²⁴ Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;

²⁹ To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

³⁹ And there was a sharp argument between them, so that they were parted from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him and went by ship to Cyprus;

⁴¹ And he went through Syria and Cilicia, making the churches stronger in the faith.

³ Paul had a desire for him to go with him, and he gave him circumcision because of the Jews who were in those parts: for they all had knowledge that his father was a Greek.

⁶ And after they had gone through the land of Phrygia and Galatia, the Holy Spirit did not let them take the word into Asia;

¹⁰ And when he had seen the vision, straight away we made the decision to go into Macedonia, for it seemed certain to us that God had sent us to give the good news to them.

¹⁰ And when he had seen the vision, straight away we made the decision to go into Macedonia, for it seemed certain to us that God had sent us to give the good news to them. ¹¹ So, from Troas we went straight by ship to Samothrace and the day after to Neapolis;

¹³ And on the Sabbath we went outside the town, by the river, where we had an idea that there would be a place of prayer; and, being seated, we had talk with the women who had come together.

¹⁶ And when we were going to the place of prayer, we came across a girl with a spirit which gave knowledge of the future, whose masters made great profit from her power.

¹⁹ But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, pulling them into the market-place before the rulers; ²⁰ And when they had taken them before the authorities, they said, These men, who are Jews, are greatly troubling our town; ²¹ Teaching rules of living which it is not right for us to have or to keep, being Romans. ²² And the people made an attack on them all together: and the authorities took their clothing off them, and gave orders for them to be whipped.

³⁷ But Paul said to them, They have given us who are Romans a public whipping without judging us, and have put us in prison. Will they now send us out secretly? no, truly, let them come themselves and take us out.

⁵ But the Jews, being moved with envy, took with them certain low persons from among the common people, and getting together a great number of people, made an outcry in the town, attacking the house of Jason with the purpose of taking them out to the people.

⁵ But the Jews, being moved with envy, took with them certain low persons from among the common people, and getting together a great number of people, made an outcry in the town, attacking the house of Jason with the purpose of taking them out to the people. ⁶ And when they were not able to get them, they took Jason and some of the brothers by force before the rulers of the town, crying, These men, who have made trouble all over the world have now come here;

¹⁰ And the brothers straight away sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea: and they, when they came there, went to the Synagogue of the Jews.

¹³ But when the Jews of Thessalonica had news that Paul was preaching the word at Beroea, they came there, troubling the people and working them up.

¹² But when Gallio was ruler of Achaia, all the Jews together made an attack on Paul, and took him to the judge's seat,

¹⁷ And they all made an attack on Sosthenes, the ruler of the Synagogue, and gave him blows before the judge's seat; but Gallio gave no attention to these things. ¹⁸ And Paul, after waiting some days, went away from the brothers and went by ship to Syria, Priscilla and Aquila being with him; and he had had his hair cut off in Cenchrea, for he had taken an oath. ¹⁹ And they came down to Ephesus and he left them there: and he himself went into the Synagogue and had a discussion with the Jews.

²² And when he had come to land at Caesarea, he went to see the church, and then went down to Antioch.

¹ And it came about that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having gone through the higher country, came to Ephesus, where there were certain disciples:

²⁶ And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands: ²⁷ And there is danger, not only that our trade may be damaged in the opinion of men, but that the holy place of the great goddess Diana may be no longer honoured, and that she to whom all Asia and the world give worship, will be put down from her high position. ²⁸ And hearing this, they were very angry, crying out and saying, Great is Diana of Ephesus. ²⁹ And the town was full of noise and trouble, and they all came running into the theatre, having taken by force Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia who were journeying in company with Paul. ³⁰ And when Paul was about to go in to the people, the disciples did not let him.

³² And some said one thing, and some another: for there was no order in the meeting; and most of them had no idea why they had come together. ³³ Then they took Alexander out from among the people, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander, making a sign with his hand, was about to make a statement to the people in answer:

⁴⁰ For, truly, we are in danger of being made responsible for this day's trouble, there being no cause for it: and we are not able to give any reason for this coming together.

⁴ And Sopater of Beroea, the son of Pyrrhus, and Aristarchus and Secundus of Thessalonica, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia, went with him as far as Asia.

⁶ And we went away from Philippi by ship after the days of unleavened bread, and came to them at Troas in five days; and we were there for seven days.

⁶ And we went away from Philippi by ship after the days of unleavened bread, and came to them at Troas in five days; and we were there for seven days. ⁷ And on the first day of the week, when we had come together for the holy meal, Paul gave them a talk, for it was his purpose to go away on the day after; and he went on talking till after the middle of the night.

¹³ But we, going before him by ship, went to Assos with the purpose of taking Paul in there: for so he had given orders, because he himself was coming by land.

¹⁶ For Paul's purpose was to go past Ephesus, so that he might not be kept in Asia; for he was going quickly, in order, if possible, to be at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. ¹⁷ And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the rulers of the church.

²² And now, as you see, I am going to Jerusalem, a prisoner in spirit, having no knowledge of what will come to me there:

²² And now, as you see, I am going to Jerusalem, a prisoner in spirit, having no knowledge of what will come to me there: ²³ Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.

²³ Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me. ²⁴ But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.

³⁶ And having said these words, he went down on his knees in prayer with them all. ³⁷ And they were all weeping, falling on Paul's neck and kissing him,

³⁷ And they were all weeping, falling on Paul's neck and kissing him, ³⁸ Being sad most of all because he had said that they would not see his face again. And so they went with him to the ship.

³⁸ Being sad most of all because he had said that they would not see his face again. And so they went with him to the ship.

³ And when we had come in view of Cyprus, going past it on our left, we went on to Syria, and came to land at Tyre: for there the goods which were in the ship had to be taken out. ⁴ And meeting the disciples we were there for seven days: and they gave Paul orders through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.

⁴ And meeting the disciples we were there for seven days: and they gave Paul orders through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.

⁷ And journeying by ship from Tyre we came to Ptolemais; and there we had talk with the brothers and were with them for one day. ⁸ And on the day after, we went away and came to Caesarea, where we were guests in the house of Philip, the preacher, who was one of the seven.

¹⁰ And while we were waiting there for some days, a certain prophet, named Agabus, came down from Judaea.

¹⁰ And while we were waiting there for some days, a certain prophet, named Agabus, came down from Judaea. ¹¹ And he came to us, and took the band of Paul's clothing, and putting it round his feet and hands, said, The Holy Spirit says these words, So will the Jews do to the man who is the owner of this band, and they will give him up into the hands of the Gentiles.

¹¹ And he came to us, and took the band of Paul's clothing, and putting it round his feet and hands, said, The Holy Spirit says these words, So will the Jews do to the man who is the owner of this band, and they will give him up into the hands of the Gentiles. ¹² And hearing these things, we and those who were living in that place made request to him not to go to Jerusalem.

¹⁶ And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, taking a certain Mnason of Cyprus, one of the early disciples, in whose house we were to be living.

¹⁹ And when he had said how glad he was to see them, he gave them a detailed account of the things which God had done through his work among the Gentiles.

²¹ And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules.

²⁴ Go with these, and make yourself clean with them, and make the necessary payments for them, so that they may be free from their oath: and everyone will see that the statements made about you are not true, but that you put yourself under rule, and keep the law.

²⁶ Then Paul took the men, and on the day after, making himself clean with them, he went into the Temple, giving out the statement that the days necessary for making them clean were complete, till the offering was made for every one of them.

²⁸ Crying out, Men of Israel, come to our help: this is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place: and in addition, he has taken Greeks into the Temple, and made this holy place unclean.

³³ Then the chief captain came near and took him, and gave orders for him to be put in chains, questioning them as to who he was and what he had done. ³⁴ And some said one thing and some another, among the people: and as he was not able to get a knowledge of the facts because of the noise, he gave orders for Paul to be taken into the army building. ³⁵ And when he came on to the steps, he was lifted up by the armed men, because of the force of the people;

³⁷ And when Paul was about to be taken into the building, he said to the chief captain, May I say something to you? And he said, Have you a knowledge of Greek? ³⁸ Are you by chance the Egyptian who, before this, got the people worked up against the government and took four thousand men of the Assassins out into the waste land?

⁴⁰ And when he let him do so, Paul, from the steps, made a sign with his hand to the people, and when they were all quiet, he said to them in the Hebrew language,

² And, hearing him talking in the Hebrew language, they became the more quiet, and he said, ³ I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today.

¹⁹ And I said, Lord, they themselves have knowledge that I went through the Synagogues putting in prison and whipping all those who had faith in you:

²² And they gave him a hearing as far as this word; then with loud voices they said, Away with this man from the earth; it is not right for him to be living.

²⁴ The chief captain gave orders for him to be taken into the army building, saying that he would put him to the test by whipping, so that he might have knowledge of the reason why they were crying out so violently against him.

²⁴ The chief captain gave orders for him to be taken into the army building, saying that he would put him to the test by whipping, so that he might have knowledge of the reason why they were crying out so violently against him. ²⁵ And when they had put leather bands round him, Paul said to the captain who was present, Is it the law for you to give blows to a man who is a Roman and has not been judged?

²⁵ And when they had put leather bands round him, Paul said to the captain who was present, Is it the law for you to give blows to a man who is a Roman and has not been judged?

²⁵ And when they had put leather bands round him, Paul said to the captain who was present, Is it the law for you to give blows to a man who is a Roman and has not been judged? ²⁶ And hearing this, the man went to the chief captain and gave him an account of it, saying, What are you about to do? for this man is a Roman. ²⁷ And the chief captain came to him and said, Give me an answer, are you a Roman? And he said, Yes. ²⁸ And the chief captain said, I got Roman rights for myself at a great price. And Paul said, But I had them by birth. ²⁹ Then those who were about to put him to the test went away: and the chief captain was in fear, seeing that he was a Roman, and that he had put chains on him.

²⁹ Then those who were about to put him to the test went away: and the chief captain was in fear, seeing that he was a Roman, and that he had put chains on him. ³⁰ But on the day after, desiring to have certain knowledge of what the Jews had to say against him, he made him free, and gave orders for the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to come together, and he took Paul and put him before them.

¹⁰ And when the argument became very violent, the chief captain, fearing that Paul would be pulled in two by them, gave orders to the armed men to take him by force from among them, and take him into the army building.

¹⁶ But Paul's sister's son had word of their design, and he came into the army building and gave news of it to Paul. ¹⁷ And Paul sent for a captain and said, Take this young man to your chief, for he has news for him.

²³ And he sent for two captains and said, Make ready two hundred men, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, to go to Caesarea, at the third hour of the night:

²³ And he sent for two captains and said, Make ready two hundred men, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, to go to Caesarea, at the third hour of the night: ²⁴ And get beasts so that they may put Paul on them, and take him safely to Felix, the ruler.

²⁷ This man was taken by the Jews, and was about to be put to death by them, when I came on them with the army and took him out of danger, having knowledge that he was a Roman.

³² But on the day after, they sent the horsemen on with him, and went back to their place:

³⁴ And after reading it, he said, What part of the country do you come from? And, hearing that he was from Cilicia,

⁵ For this man, in our opinion, is a cause of trouble, a maker of attacks on the government among Jews through all the empire, and a chief mover in the society of the Nazarenes: ⁶ Who, in addition, was attempting to make the Temple unclean: whom we took,

⁶ Who, in addition, was attempting to make the Temple unclean: whom we took,

¹⁸ And having been made clean, I was in the Temple, but not with a great number of people, and not with noise: but there were certain Jews from Asia,

²² But Felix, who had a more detailed knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, When Lysias, the chief captain, comes down, I will give attention to your business.

²⁷ But after two years Porcius Festus took the place of Felix, who, desiring to have the approval of the Jews, kept Paul in chains.

¹ So Festus, having come into that part of the country which was under his rule, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

⁶ And when he had been with them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the day after, he took his place on the judge's seat, and sent for Paul.

⁹ But Festus, desiring to get the approval of the Jews, said to Paul, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and be judged before me there in connection with these things?

¹³ Now when some days had gone by, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea and went to see Festus.

¹⁶ To whom I gave answer that it is not the Roman way to give a man up, till he has been face to face with those who are attacking him, and has had a chance to give an answer to the statements made against him.

²³ So on the day after, when Agrippa and Bernice in great glory had come into the public place of hearing, with the chief of the army and the chief men of the town, at the order of Festus, Paul was sent for.

²⁶ But I have no certain account of him to send to Caesar. So I have sent for him to come before you, and specially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the business has been gone into, I may have something to put in writing.

⁹ For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth. ¹⁰ And this I did in Jerusalem: and numbers of the saints I put in prison, having had authority given to me from the chief priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my decision against them.

¹⁴ And when we had all gone down on the earth, a voice came to me, saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? It is hard for you to go against the impulse which is driving you.

²⁰ But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart. ²¹ For this reason, the Jews took me in the Temple, and made an attempt to put me to death.

²¹ For this reason, the Jews took me in the Temple, and made an attempt to put me to death.

²⁹ And Paul said, It is my prayer to God that, in little or great measure, not only you, but all those hearing me today might be even as I am, but for these chains.

¹ And when the decision had been made that we were to go by sea to Italy, they gave Paul and certain other prisoners into the care of a captain named Julius, of the Augustan band. ² And we went to sea in a ship of Adramyttium which was sailing to the sea towns of Asia, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

⁴ And sailing again from there, we went on under cover of Cyprus, because the wind was against us.

⁶ And there the captain came across a ship of Alexandria, sailing for Italy, and put us in it.

¹¹ And after three months we went to sea in a ship of Alexandria sailing under the sign of the Dioscuri, which had been at the island for the winter. ¹² And going into the harbour at Syracuse, we were waiting there for three days.

¹⁴ Where we came across some of the brothers, who kept us with them for seven days; and so we came to Rome.

¹⁶ And when we came into Rome, they let Paul have a house for himself and the armed man who kept watch over him. ¹⁷ Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews: and when they had come together, he said to them, My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was given, a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans.

²⁰ But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.

²⁵ And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the Holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,

³⁵ Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword? ³⁶ As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction. ³⁷ But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.

² For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.

¹ Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings. ² One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food. ³ Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval. ⁴ Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling. ⁵ This man puts one day before another: to that man they are the same. Let every man be certain in his mind. ⁶ He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

⁶ So that with one mouth you may give glory to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁷ So then, take one another to your hearts, as Christ took us, to the glory of God.

⁷ So then, take one another to your hearts, as Christ took us, to the glory of God.

⁹ And so that the Gentiles might give glory to God for his mercy; as it is said, For this reason I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, and I will make a song to your name. ¹⁰ And again he says, Take part, you Gentiles, in the joy of his people. ¹¹ And again, Give praise to the Lord, all you Gentiles; and let all the nations give praise to him. ¹² And again Isaiah says, There will be the root of Jesse, and he who comes to be the ruler over the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles put their hope. ¹³ Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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, ¹⁹ By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;

⁷ Give my love to Andronicus and Junia, my relations, who were in prison with me, who are noted among the Apostles, and who were in Christ before me.

⁵ What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them. ⁶ I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase. ⁷ So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase. ⁸ Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work. ⁹ For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

¹³ When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.

¹⁸ If any man who is a Christian has had circumcision, let him keep so; and if any man who is a Christian has not had circumcision, let him make no change. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.

²⁵ Now about virgins I have no orders from the Lord: but I give my opinion as one to whom the Lord has given mercy to be true to him. ²⁶ In my opinion then, because of the present trouble, it is good for a man to keep as he is. ²⁷ If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife. ²⁸ If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you. ²⁹ But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not; ³⁰ And for those who are in sorrow, to give no signs of it; and for those who are glad, to give no signs of joy; and for those who are getting property, to be as if they had nothing; ³¹ And for those who make use of the world, not to be using it fully; for this world's way of life will quickly come to an end. ³² But it is my desire for you to be free from cares. The unmarried man gives his mind to the things of the Lord, how he may give pleasure to the Lord: ³³ But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife. ³⁴ And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.

³⁸ So then, he who gets married to his virgin does well, and he who keeps her unmarried does better.

¹⁹ For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation. ²⁰ And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law.

²⁰ And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law. ²¹ To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.

⁴ Every man who takes part in prayer, or gives teaching as a prophet, with his head covered, puts shame on his head. ⁵ But every woman who does so with her head unveiled, puts shame on her head: for it is the same as if her hair was cut off.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

³¹ Yes, truly, by your pride in me, my brothers in Christ Jesus our Lord, my life is one long death.

¹³ I had no rest in my spirit because Titus my brother was not there: so I went away from them, and came into Macedonia.

¹⁰ In our bodies there is ever the mark of the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our bodies. ¹¹ For, while living, we are still being given up to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our flesh, though it is under the power of death. ¹² So then, death is working in us, but life in you. ¹³ But having the same spirit of faith, as it is said in the Writings, The words of my mouth came from the faith in my heart; in the same way, our words are the outcome of our faith; ¹⁴ Because we are certain that he who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead, will do the same for us, and will give us a place in his glory with you. ¹⁵ For we go through all things on account of you, because the greater the number to whom the grace is given, the greater is the praise to the glory of God. ¹⁶ For which cause we do not give way to weariness; but though our outer man is getting feebler, our inner man is made new day by day. ¹⁷ For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

¹ We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

²³ Are they servants of Christ? I am talking foolishly I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

²³ Are they servants of Christ? I am talking foolishly I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death. ²⁴ Five times the Jews gave me forty blows but one.

²⁴ Five times the Jews gave me forty blows but one. ²⁵ Three times I was whipped with rods, once I was stoned, three times the ship I was in came to destruction at sea, a night and a day I have been in the water;

²⁵ Three times I was whipped with rods, once I was stoned, three times the ship I was in came to destruction at sea, a night and a day I have been in the water; ²⁶ In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;

²⁶ In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;

²⁶ In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers; ²⁷ In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.

²⁷ In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing. ²⁸ In addition to all the other things, there is that which comes on me every day, the care of all the churches. ²⁹ Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry? ³⁰ If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble. ³¹ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be praise for ever, is witness that the things which I say are true. ³² In Damascus, the ruler under Aretas the king kept watch over the town of the people of Damascus, in order to take me: ³³ And being let down in a basket from the wall through a window, I got free from his hands.

¹² Truly the signs of an Apostle were done among you in quiet strength, with wonders and acts of power.

¹⁴ And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

¹⁹ But of the other Apostles I saw only James, the Lord's brother.

²⁴ And they gave glory to God in me.

⁹ When they saw the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who had the name of being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas their right hands as friends so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;

¹² For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

¹ Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again. ² See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you. ³ Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law. ⁴ You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace. ⁵ For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness. ⁶ Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

¹² Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ. ¹³ Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh. ¹⁴ But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it. ¹⁵ For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

¹ For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,

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,

¹¹ And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;

²⁰ For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say.

²⁰ In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death. ²¹ For to me life is Christ and death is profit.

¹⁷ And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:

²⁶ Because his heart was with you all, and he was greatly troubled because you had news that he was ill:

²⁴ Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;

²⁹ And for this purpose I am working, using all my strength by the help of his power which is working in me strongly.

¹⁷ But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;

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.

⁴ Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy;

¹⁶ May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus because he frequently gave me help, and had no feeling of shame because I was in chains; ¹⁷ But when he was in Rome, he went in search of me everywhere, and came to me

⁴ A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army. ⁵ And if a man takes part in a competition he does not get the crown if he has not kept the rules. ⁶ It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.

⁹ In which I put up with the hardest conditions, even prison chains, like one who has done a crime; but the word of God is not in chains.

⁵ But be self-controlled in all things, do without comfort, go on preaching the good news, completing the work which has been given you to do. ⁶ For I am even now being offered, and my end is near.

²⁰ Erastus was stopping at Corinth; but Trophimus, when I last saw him was at Miletus, ill.

⁹ Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:

⁷ And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

¹⁰ Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right. ¹¹ But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world, ¹² And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean: ¹⁴ How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?

³⁴ For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.

¹ Go on loving your brothers in the faith. ² Take care to keep open house: because in this way some have had angels as their guests, without being conscious of it.

²⁴ Give words of love from me to those who are rulers over you, and to all the saints. Those who are in Italy send you their love.

¹ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.

¹² And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.

¹⁵ But give honour to Christ in your hearts as your Lord; and be ready at any time when you are questioned about the hope which is in you, to give an answer in the fear of the Lord and without pride;

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.

¹⁴ For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

¹³ I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father. ¹⁴ I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One.

⁷ For they went out for love of the Name, taking nothing from the Gentiles. ⁸ So it is right for us to take in such men as guests, so that we may take our part in the work of the true faith.

¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and a great voice at my back, as of a horn, came to my ears,

²⁰ But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.

¹⁰ Because you have kept my word in quiet strength, I will keep you from the hour of testing which is coming on all the world, to put to the test those who are on earth.

¹¹ They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.

¹¹ And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.

¹⁶ And they got them together into the place which is named in Hebrew Armageddon.

⁶ And there came to my ears the voice of a great army, like the sound of waters, and the sound of loud thunders, saying, Praise to the Lord: for the Lord our God, Ruler of all, is King. ⁷ Let us be glad with delight, and let us give glory to him: because the time is come for the Lamb to be married, and his wife has made herself ready.