Luke 7 Cross References - BBE

¹ After he had come to the end of all his words in the hearing of the people, he went into Capernaum. ² And a certain captain had a servant who was very dear to him; this servant was ill and near to death. ³ And when news of Jesus came to his ears, he sent to him rulers of the Jews, requesting that he would come and make his servant well. ⁴ And they, when they came to Jesus, made their request warmly, saying, ⁵ It is right for you to do this for him, because he is a friend to our nation, and himself has put up a Synagogue for us. ⁶ And Jesus went with them. And when he was not far from the house, the man sent friends to him, saying, Lord, do not give yourself trouble: for I am not important enough for you to come into my house: ⁷ And I had the feeling that I was not even good enough to come to you: but say the word only, and my servant will be well. ⁸ For I, myself, am a man under authority, having men under me; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it. ⁹ And when these things were said to Jesus, he was surprised, and, turning to the mass of people coming after him, said, I have not seen such great faith, no, not in Israel. ¹⁰ And when those who were sent came back to the house they saw that the servant was well. ¹¹ And it came about, after a little time, that he went to a town named Nain; and his disciples went with him, and a great number of people. ¹² Now when he came near the door of the town, a dead man was being taken out, the only son of his mother, who was a widow: and a great number of people from the town were with her. ¹³ And when the Lord saw her, he had pity on her and said to her, Be not sad. ¹⁴ And he came near, and put his hand on the stretcher where the dead man was: and those who were moving it came to a stop. And he said, Young man, I say to you, Get up. ¹⁵ And the dead man got up, and words came from his lips. And he gave him to his mother. ¹⁶ And fear came on all, and they gave praise to God, saying, A great prophet is among us: and, God has given thought to his people. ¹⁷ And this story about him went through all Judaea and the places round about. ¹⁸ And the disciples of John gave him an account of all these things. ¹⁹ Then John sent two of his disciples to the Lord, saying, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another? ²⁰ And when the men came to him they said, John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another? ²¹ At that time, he made a number of people free from their diseases and their pains, and from evil spirits; and to others who were blind he gave back the use of their eyes. ²² And answering them he said, Go back and give news to John of what you have seen, and the things which have come to your ears; the blind now see, those who had no power in their legs are walking, lepers are made clean, those who had no hearing now have their ears open, dead men come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them. ²³ And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me. ²⁴ And when the men who were sent by John had gone away, he said to the people, about John, What did you go out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind? ²⁵ But what did you go out to see? a man in soft clothing? See now, those who have beautiful clothing and delicate food are in kings' houses. ²⁶ But what did you go out to see? a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet. ²⁷ This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you. ²⁸ I say to you, Among all the sons of women, not one is greater than John: but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. ²⁹ {\I And all the people, and the tax-farmers, to whom John had given baptism, when they had knowledge of these things, gave glory to God. ³⁰ But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were against the purpose of God for themselves, not having had his baptism.} ³¹ What comparison am I to make of the men of this generation? what are they like? ³² They are like children who are seated in the market-place, crying out to one another, and saying, We made music for you, but you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow, but you were not sad. ³³ For John the Baptist came, taking no food or drink, and you say, He has an evil spirit. ³⁴ The Son of man came feasting, and you say, Here is a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners. ³⁵ But wisdom is judged to be right by all her children. ³⁶ And one of the Pharisees made a request that he would take a meal with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house and took his seat at the table. ³⁷ And there was a woman in the town who was a sinner; and when she had news that he was a guest in the Pharisee's house, she took a bottle of perfume, ³⁸ And went in and took her place at the back of him, near his feet, weeping, so that his feet were washed with the drops from her eyes, and with her hair she made them dry, and kissing his feet she put the perfume on them. ³⁹ Now when the Pharisee in whose house he was saw it, he said to himself, This man, if he was a prophet, would be conscious what sort of woman this is who has put her hands on him, that she is a sinner. ⁴⁰ And Jesus, answering, said, Simon, I have something to say to you. And he said, Master, say on. ⁴¹ And he said, Two men were in debt to a certain man of business: one had a debt of five hundred pence, and the other of fifty. ⁴² When they were unable to make payment, he made the two of them free of their debts. Which of them, now, will have the greater love for him? ⁴³ Simon, in answer, said, It seems he whose debt was greater. And he said, Your decision is right. ⁴⁴ And turning to the woman he said to Simon, You see this woman? I came into your house; you did not give me water for my feet: but she has been washing my feet with the drops from her eyes, and drying them with her hair. ⁴⁵ You did not give me a kiss: but she, from the time when I came in, has gone on kissing my feet. ⁴⁶ You put no oil on my head: but she has put perfume on my feet. ⁴⁷ And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love. ⁴⁸ And he said to her, You have forgiveness for your sins. ⁴⁹ And those who were seated at table with him said to themselves, Who is this who even gives forgiveness of sins? ⁵⁰ And he said to the woman, By your faith you have salvation; go in peace.

¹⁵ And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

⁴ Let me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest under the tree:

² And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street.

² And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.

¹² And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.

¹⁸ And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

² And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg: ³ And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living; ⁴ But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac. ⁵ And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came? ⁶ And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land. ⁷ The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land. ⁸ And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only do not take my son back there. ⁹ And the servant put his hand under Abraham's leg, and gave him his oath about this thing. ¹⁰ And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor. ¹¹ And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get water. ¹² And he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, let me do well in what I have undertaken this day, and give your mercy to my master Abraham. ¹³ See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water: ¹⁴ Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.

²⁷ And said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has given a sign that he is good and true to my master, by guiding me straight to the house of my master's family.

³⁵ The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses. ³⁶ And when Sarah, my master's wife, was old, she gave birth to a son, to whom he has given all he has. ³⁷ And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living; ³⁸ But go to my father's house and to my relations for a wife for my son. ³⁹ And I said to my master, What if the woman will not come with me? ⁴⁰ And he said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me, will send his angel with you, who will make it possible for you to get a wife for my son from my relations and my father's house; ⁴¹ And you will be free from your oath to me when you come to my people; and if they will not give her to you, you will be free from your oath. ⁴² And I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a good outcome to my journey, ⁴³ Let it come about that, while I am waiting here by the water-spring, if a girl comes to get water and I say to her, Give me a little water from your vessel, and she says, ⁴⁴ Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels; let her be the woman marked out by the Lord for my master's son. ⁴⁵ And even while I was saying this to myself, Rebekah came out with her vessel on her arm; and she went down to the spring to get water; and I said to her, Give me a drink. ⁴⁶ And straight away she took down her vessel from her arm, and said, Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels. ⁴⁷ And questioning her, I said, Whose daughter are you? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, and Milcah his wife. Then I put the ring on her nose and the ornaments on her hands. ⁴⁸ And with bent head I gave worship and praise to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, by whom I had been guided in the right way, to get the daughter of my master's brother for his son. ⁴⁹ And now, say if you will do what is good and right for my master or not, in order that it may be clear to me what I have to do.

¹¹ And weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss.

¹⁰ I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies.

⁴ Then Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his arms, gave him a kiss: and the two of them were overcome with weeping.

⁸ And Deborah, the servant who had taken care of Rebekah from her birth, came to her end, and was put to rest near Beth-el, under the holy tree: and they gave it the name of Allon-bacuth.

⁴ And having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made him the overseer of his house and gave him control over all he had. ⁵ And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field. ⁶ And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face.

²⁴ And the servant took them into Joseph's house, and gave them water for washing their feet; and he gave their asses food.

⁴ But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.

¹⁰ The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule.

³¹ And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord had taken up the cause of the children of Israel and had seen their troubles, with bent heads they gave him worship.

²⁶ And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.

⁶ And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith; ⁷ Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.

³ Death overtook our father in the waste land; he was not among those who were banded together with Korah against the Lord; but death came to him in his sin; and he had no sons.

¹⁵ The Lord your God will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to him; ¹⁶ In answer to the request you made to the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the great meeting, when you said, Let not the voice of the Lord my God come to my ears again, and let me not see this great fire any more, or death will overtake me. ¹⁷ Then the Lord said to me, What they have said is well said. ¹⁸ I will give them a prophet from among themselves, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will say to them whatever I give him orders to say.

³⁹ See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.

¹ Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent two men from Shittim secretly, with the purpose of searching out the land, and Jericho. So they went and came to the house of a loose woman of the town, named Rahab, where they took their rest for the night.

⁷ And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there.

⁴ Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping. ⁵ And they gave that place the name of Bochim, and made offerings there to the Lord.

¹⁶ So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.

²¹ So he took them into his house and gave the asses food; and after washing their feet they took food and drink.

³ So take a bath, and, after rubbing your body with sweet oil, put on your best robe, and go down to the grain-floor; but do not let him see you till he has come to the end of his meal.

⁶ The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.

⁴¹ And she got up, and going down on her face to the earth, said, See, I am ready to be a servant-girl, washing the feet of the servants of my lord.

² And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:

⁷ And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

⁵ And if any man came near to give him honour, he took him by the hand and gave him a kiss.

³⁵ I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king?

³⁹ Then all the people went over Jordan, and the king went over: and the king gave Barzillai a kiss, with his blessing; and he went back to his place.

¹ Now Hiram, king of Tyre, hearing that Solomon had been made king in place of his father, sent his servants to him; for Hiram had ever been a friend to David.

³⁷ If there is no food in the land, or if there is disease, or if the fruits of the earth are damaged through heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers; whatever trouble, whatever disease there may be:

⁵ And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.

⁹ Up! go now to Zarephath, in Zidon, and make your living-place there; I have given orders to a widow woman there to see that you have food.

¹² Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.

¹⁸ And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? have you come to put God in mind of my sin, and to put my son to death?

²¹ And stretching himself out on the child three times, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord my God, be pleased to let this child's life come back to him again.

²³ And Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother and said to her, See, your son is living.

²³ And Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother and said to her, See, your son is living. ²⁴ Then the woman said to Elijah, Now I am certain that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is true.

⁸ And they said in answer, He was a man clothed in a coat of hair, with a leather band about his body. Then he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

¹⁶ And Elisha said, At this time in the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant.

²⁰ And he took him in to his mother, and she took him on her knees and kept him there till the middle of the day, when his life went from him.

³² And when Elisha came into the house he saw the child dead, stretched on his bed. ³³ So he went in, and shutting the door on the two of them, made prayer to the Lord. ³⁴ Then he got up on the bed, stretching himself out on the child, and put his mouth on the child's mouth, his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands; and the child's body became warm. ³⁵ Then he came back, and after walking once through the house and back, he went up, stretching himself out on the child seven times; and the child's eyes became open. ³⁶ And he gave orders to Gehazi, and said, Send for the Shunammite. And she came in answer to his voice. And he said, Take up your son. ³⁷ And she came in, and went down on her face to the earth at his feet; then she took her son in her arms and went out.

² Now the Aramaeans had gone out in bands, and taken prisoner from Israel a little girl, who became servant to Naaman's wife. ³ And she said to her master's wife, If only my lord would go to the prophet in Samaria, he would make him well.

²⁰ But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.

²¹ And while they were putting a dead man into the earth, they saw a band coming; and they put the man quickly into the place where Elisha's body was; and the dead man, on touching Elisha's bones, came to life again, and got up on his feet.

³ And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house; ⁴ Even three thousand talents of gold of Ophir and seven thousand talents of the best silver, for plating the walls of the house: ⁵ Gold for the gold things, and silver for the silver things, and for every sort of work to be done by the expert workmen. Who then will come forward, offering himself this day for the Lord's work? ⁶ Then the heads of families and the chiefs of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the controllers of the king's business, freely gave themselves; ⁷ And they gave for the use of the house of the Lord, five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron. ⁸ And those who had stones of great price gave them to the store of the house of the Lord, under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite. ⁹ Then the people were glad because their offerings were freely given, for with a true heart they freely gave what they had to the Lord; and David the king was full of joy.

¹¹ Then Huram, king of Tyre, sent Solomon an answer in writing, saying, Because of his love for his people the Lord has made you king over them. ¹² And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.

²⁷ Praise be to the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing into the heart of the king, to make fair the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem; ²⁸ And has given mercy to me before the king and his government and before all the king's great captains. And I was made strong by the hand of the Lord my God which was on me, and I got together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

¹ Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.

³ In the third year of his rule he gave a feast to all his captains and his servants; and the captains of the army of Persia and Media, the great men and the rulers of the divisions of his kingdom, were present before him;

¹¹ That Vashti the queen was to come before him, crowned with her crown, and let the people and the captains see her: for she was very beautiful.

² And he came even before the king's doorway; for no one might come inside the king's door clothed in haircloth.

¹ Now on the third day, Esther put on her queen's robes, and took her place in the inner room of the king's house, facing the king's house: and the king was seated on his high seat in the king's house, facing the doorway of the house.

¹⁵ And Mordecai went out from before the king, dressed in king-like robes of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold and clothing of purple and the best linen: and all the town of Shushan gave loud cries of joy.

¹² So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

¹⁴ If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

¹³ The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.

⁵ If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

⁶ The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes. ⁷ My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me. ⁸ Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.

⁵ You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing.

¹ Of David. Maschil. Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered. ² Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. ³ When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day. ⁴ For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. Selah. ⁵ I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. Selah.

⁹ For he gave the word, and it was done; by his order it was fixed for ever.

¹⁸ I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.

⁷ Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself; ⁸ Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin. ² Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil. ³ For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me. ⁴ Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

¹⁷ The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.

⁹ You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.

⁵ You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you.

¹⁵ But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.

⁷ We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath. ⁸ You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face. ⁹ For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

³ He has forgiveness for all your sins; he takes away all your diseases;

¹³ As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.

¹⁵ And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

⁴ Keep me in mind, O Lord, when you are good to your people; O let your salvation come to me; ⁵ So that I may see the well-being of the people of your selection, and have a part in the joy of your nation, and take pride in your heritage.

²⁰ He sent his word and made them well, and kept them safe from the underworld.

¹ A Psalm. Of David. The Lord said to my lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put all those who are against you under your feet. ² The Lord will send out the rod of your strength from Zion; be king over your haters. ³ Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men. ⁴ The Lord has made an oath, and will not take it back. You are a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek.

¹⁶ O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken. ¹⁷ I will give an offering of praise to you, and make my prayer in the name of the Lord. ¹⁸ I will make the offerings of my oath, even before all his people;

⁵ Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy. ⁶ Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.

⁸ The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;

¹⁹ He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions. ²⁰ He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.

³² Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways. ³³ Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go. ³⁴ Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house. ³⁵ For whoever gets me gets life, and grace from the Lord will come to him. ³⁶ But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.

¹⁶ How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

⁷ For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

²¹ If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.

²³ A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.

⁷ Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works. ⁸ Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.

³ Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.

¹⁸ Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

¹⁴ For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.

¹⁴ And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken. ¹⁵ And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.

⁶ For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace. ⁷ Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.

¹ And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.

¹⁹ Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.

⁹ To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast? ¹⁰ For it is one rule after another; one line after another; here a little, there a little. ¹¹ No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people: ¹² To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear. ¹³ For this cause the word of the Lord will be to them rule after rule, line after line, here a little, there a little; so that they may go on their way, and falling back may be broken, and taken in the net.

¹¹ And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut: ¹² And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing.

¹⁸ And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark. ¹⁹ And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

³ And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word. ⁴ The man of sudden impulses will become wise in heart, and he whose tongue is slow will get the power of talking clearly.

⁵ Then the eyes of the blind will see, and the ears which are stopped will be open. ⁶ Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.

³ A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.

¹⁰ See, the Lord God will come as a strong one, ruling in power: see, those made free by him are with him, and those whom he has made safe go before him. ¹¹ He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.

⁶ I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations: ⁷ To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

¹⁶ And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

⁸ Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.

²⁵ I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.

²² I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

¹ This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.

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

⁹ And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.

¹⁷ Yes, he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and salvation as a head-dress; and he put on punishment as clothing, and wrath as a robe.

²⁰ And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord. ²¹ And as for me, this is my agreement with them, says the Lord: my spirit which is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not go away from your mouth, or from the mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed's seed, says the Lord, from now and for ever.

¹ The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again; ² To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad; ³ To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.

³ To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.

⁹ It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.

⁵ Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all day.

¹¹ And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.

³ O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back. ⁴ Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God. ⁵ I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.

⁸ How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.

⁸ And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink. ⁹ For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride. ¹⁰ And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?

⁵ See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land. ⁶ In his days Judah will have salvation and Israel will be living without fear: and this is the name by which he will be named, The Lord is our righteousness.

⁸ See, I will take them from the north country, and get them from the inmost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the feeble-footed, the woman with child and her who is in birth-pains together: a very great army, they will come back here. ⁹ They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.

¹⁵ So has the Lord said: In Ramah there is a sound of crying, weeping and bitter sorrow; Rachel weeping for her children; she will not be comforted for their loss. ¹⁶ The Lord has said this: Keep your voice from sorrow and your eyes from weeping: for your work will be rewarded, says the Lord; and they will come back from the land of their hater.

¹⁸ Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God. ¹⁹ Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years. ²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.

²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.

³³ But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. ³⁴ And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.

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

¹³ What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you well?

³² For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love. ³³ For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.

⁶³ So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.

³¹ And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

²⁹ And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food. ³⁰ And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food. ³¹ And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel. ³² Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel.

³ And he said to me, Son of man, is it possible for these bones to come to life? And I made answer, and said, It is for you to say, O Lord. ⁴ And again he said to me, Be a prophet to these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, give ear to the word of the Lord. ⁵ This is what the Lord has said to these bones: See, I will make breath come into you so that you may come to life; ⁶ And I will put muscles on you and make flesh come on you, and put skin over you, and breath into you, so that you may have life; and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ⁷ So I gave the word as I was ordered: and at my words there was a shaking of the earth, and the bones came together, bone to bone. ⁸ And looking I saw that there were muscles on them and flesh came up, and they were covered with skin: but there was no breath in them. ⁹ And he said to me, Be a prophet to the wind, be a prophet, son of man, and say to the wind, The Lord has said: Come from the four winds, O wind, breathing on these dead so that they may come to life. ¹⁰ And I gave the word at his orders, and breath came into them, and they came to life and got up on their feet, a very great army.

¹⁸ O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies. ¹⁹ O Lord, give ear; O Lord, have forgiveness; O Lord, take note and do; let there be no more waiting; for the honour of your name, O my God, because your town and your people are named by your name.

²⁴ Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place. ²⁵ Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork. ²⁶ And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no (UNTRANSLATED TEXT);and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.

³ I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.

⁹ He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.

¹² But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

⁶ Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.

² And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

¹⁵ You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy. ¹⁹ He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.

¹⁹ He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea. ²⁰ You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.

⁴ As for the man of pride, my soul has no pleasure in him; but the upright man will have life through his good faith.

¹² But I will still have among you a quiet and poor people, and they will put their faith in the name of the Lord.

⁷ And I will make a shaking of all the nations, and the desired things of all nations will come: and I will make this house full of my glory, says the Lord of armies.

⁵ And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.

⁹ Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.

¹⁰ And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.

⁶ A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?

¹ See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.

¹ See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies. ² But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap. ³ He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.

² But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

⁵ See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared. ⁶ And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.

¹ And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea, ² Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near. ³ For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight. ⁴ Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.

⁴ Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey. ⁵ Then Jerusalem and all Judaea went out to him, and all the people from near Jordan;

⁵ Then Jerusalem and all Judaea went out to him, and all the people from near Jordan; ⁶ And they were given baptism by him in the river Jordan, saying openly that they had done wrong.

¹¹ Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire:

²³ And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom, and making well those who were ill with any disease among the people. 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.

⁴ Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.

²⁶ Truly I say to you, You will not come out from there till you have made payment of the very last farthing. ²⁷ You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife:

¹² And make us free of our debts, as we have made those free who are in debt to us.

¹⁷ But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;

²⁹ But I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.

²² A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power?

²⁸ And it came about, when Jesus had come to the end of these words, that the people were surprised at his teaching, ²⁹ for he was teaching as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

⁵ And when Jesus was come into Capernaum, a certain captain came to him with a request,

⁵ And when Jesus was come into Capernaum, a certain captain came to him with a request, ⁶ Saying, Lord, my servant is ill in bed at the house, with no power in his body, and in great pain. ⁷ And he said to him, I will come and make him well. ⁸ And the captain in answer said, Lord, I am not good enough for you to come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be made well. ⁹ Because I myself am a man under authority, having under me fighting men; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it. ¹⁰ And when these words came to the ears of Jesus he was surprised, and said to those who came after him, Truly I say to you, I have not seen such great faith, no, not in Israel.

¹⁰ And when these words came to the ears of Jesus he was surprised, and said to those who came after him, Truly I say to you, I have not seen such great faith, no, not in Israel. ¹¹ And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: ¹² But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain. ¹³ And Jesus said to the captain, Go in peace; as your faith is, so let it be done to you. And the servant was made well in that hour.

¹³ And Jesus said to the captain, Go in peace; as your faith is, so let it be done to you. And the servant was made well in that hour.

² And they took to him a man stretched on a bed who had no power of moving; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man who was ill, Son, take heart; you have forgiveness for your sins. ³ And some of the scribes said among themselves, This man has no respect for God.

⁸ But when the people saw it they were full of fear, and gave glory to God who had given such authority to men.

¹¹ And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners? ¹² But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill. ¹³ But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.

²² But Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, Daughter, take heart; your faith has made you well. And the woman was made well from that hour.

²⁶ And the news of it went out into all that land.

²⁸ And when he had come into the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, Have you faith that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yes, Lord. ²⁹ Then he put his hand on their eyes, saying, As your faith is, let it be done to you. ³⁰ And their eyes were made open. And Jesus said to them sharply, Let no man have knowledge of it. ³¹ But they went out and gave news of him in all that land.

³³ And when the evil spirit had been sent out, the man had the power of talking: and they were all surprised, saying, Such a thing has never been seen in Israel.

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.

¹³ And if the house is good enough, let your peace come on it: but if not, let your peace come back to you.

²⁵ It is enough for the disciple that he may be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have given the name Beelzebub to the master of the house, how much more to those of his house!

³⁷ He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

³⁷ He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me. ³⁸ And he who does not take his cross and come after me is not good enough for me.

² Now when John had news in prison of the works of the Christ, he sent his disciples ³ To say to him, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another? ⁴ And Jesus, answering, said to them, Go and give news to John of the things which you are seeing and hearing: ⁵ The blind see; those who were not able to, are walking; lepers are made clean; those who were without hearing, now have their ears open; the dead come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them. ⁶ And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.

⁶ And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me. ⁷ And when they were going away, Jesus, talking of John, said to all the people, What went you out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?

⁷ And when they were going away, Jesus, talking of John, said to all the people, What went you out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind? ⁸ But what went you out to see? a man delicately clothed? Those who have fair robes are in kings' houses.

⁸ But what went you out to see? a man delicately clothed? Those who have fair robes are in kings' houses. ⁹ But why did you go out? to see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.

⁹ But why did you go out? to see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet. ¹⁰ This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you.

¹⁰ This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you.

¹⁰ This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you. ¹¹ Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

¹¹ Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

¹¹ Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. ¹² And from the days of John the Baptist till now, the kingdom of heaven is forcing its way in, and men of force take it.

¹² And from the days of John the Baptist till now, the kingdom of heaven is forcing its way in, and men of force take it. ¹³ For all the prophets and the law were in force till John.

¹³ For all the prophets and the law were in force till John. ¹⁴ And if you are able to see it, this is Elijah who was to come.

¹⁴ And if you are able to see it, this is Elijah who was to come. ¹⁵ He who has ears, let him give ear. ¹⁶ But what comparison may I make of this generation? It is like children seated in the market-places, crying out to one another, ¹⁷ We made music for you and you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow and you made no signs of grief. ¹⁸ For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit. ¹⁹ The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.

¹⁹ The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.

¹⁶ But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open. ¹⁷ For truly, I say to you that prophets and upright men had a desire to see the things which you see, and saw them not; and to have knowledge of the words which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

⁵⁷ And they were bitter against him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour but in his country and among his family. ⁵⁸ And the works of power which he did there were small in number because they had no faith.

²⁸ Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman, great is your faith: let your desire be done. And her daughter was made well from that hour.

³⁰ And there came to him great numbers of people having with them those who were broken in body, or blind, or without voice, or wounded, or ill in any way, and a number of others; they put them down at his feet and he made them well: ³¹ So that the people were full of wonder when they saw that those who had no voice were talking, the feeble were made strong, those whose bodies were broken had the power of walking, and the blind were able to see: and they gave glory to the God of Israel.

³¹ So that the people were full of wonder when they saw that those who had no voice were talking, the feeble were made strong, those whose bodies were broken had the power of walking, and the blind were able to see: and they gave glory to the God of Israel.

²³ For this reason the kingdom of heaven is like a king, who went over his accounts with his servants. ²⁴ And at the start, one came to him who was in his debt for ten thousand talents. ²⁵ And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.

²⁵ And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made. ²⁶ So the servant went down on his face and gave him worship, saying, Lord, give me time to make payment and I will give you all.

²⁸ But that servant went out, and meeting one of the other servants, who was in debt to him for one hundred pence, he took him by the throat, saying, Make payment of your debt.

³⁴ And his lord was very angry, and put him in the hands of those who would give him punishment till he made payment of all the debt.

¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last.

²⁸ Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.

¹¹ And the people said, This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.

¹⁴ And the blind and the broken in body came to him in the Temple, and he made them well.

²⁸ But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden. ²⁹ And he said in answer, I will not: but later, changing his decision, he went. ³⁰ And he came to the second and said the same. And he made answer and said, I go, sir: and went not. ³¹ Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.

³¹ Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.

³¹ Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you. ³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.

³⁵ And one of them, a teacher of the law, put a question to him, testing him, and saying,

⁵ But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear of trouble among the people. ⁶ Now when Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,

⁶ Now when Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, ⁷ There came to him a woman having a bottle of perfume of great price, and she put the perfume on his head when he was seated at table. ⁸ But when the disciples saw it they were angry, saying, To what purpose is this waste? ⁹ For we might have got much money for this and given it to the poor. ¹⁰ But Jesus, seeing it, said to them, Why are you troubling the woman? she has done a kind act to me. ¹¹ For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever. ¹² For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place. ¹³ Truly I say to you, Wherever this good news goes out in all the world, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.

⁴⁸ Now the false one had given them a sign saying, The one to whom I give a kiss, that is he: take him. ⁴⁹ And straight away he came to Jesus and said, Master! and gave him a kiss.

⁵⁴ Now the captain and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earth-shock and the things which were done, were in great fear and said, Truly this was a son of God.

⁸ And they went away quickly, with fear and great joy, to give his disciples the news.

² Even as it is said in the book of Isaiah the prophet, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way;

⁴ John came, and gave baptism in the waste land, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed. ⁵ And there went out to him all the people of Judaea, and all those of Jerusalem, and they were given baptism by him in the river Jordan, saying that they were sinners. ⁶ And John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.

²⁷ And they were all greatly surprised, so that they put questions to one another, saying, What is this? a new teaching! with authority he gives orders even to the unclean spirits, and they do what he says. ²⁸ And news of him went out quickly everywhere into all parts of Galilee round about.

⁵ And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to him, Son, you have forgiveness for your sins. ⁶ But there were certain of the scribes seated there, and reasoning in their hearts, ⁷ Why does this man say such things? he has no respect for God: from whom does forgiveness come but from God only?

⁷ Why does this man say such things? he has no respect for God: from whom does forgiveness come but from God only?

¹⁰ For he had made such a great number well that all those who were diseased were falling down before him for the purpose of touching him.

³⁰ And he said, What picture may we give of the kingdom of God, or with what story may we make it clear?

²⁴ And he went with him; and a great number of people went after him, and came round him.

²⁹ And straight away the fountain of her blood was stopped, and she had a feeling in her body that her disease had gone and she was well.

³⁴ And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be free from your disease.

⁷ And he gave orders to the twelve, and sent them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits;

¹⁴ And king Herod had news of him, because his name was on the lips of all; and he said, John the Baptist has come back from the dead, and for this reason these powers are working in him.

²¹ Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

³² And they came to him with one who had no power of hearing and had trouble in talking; and they made a request to him to put his hands on him. ³³ And he took him on one side from the people privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he put water from his mouth on the man's tongue with his finger; ³⁴ And looking up to heaven, he took a deep breath, and said to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be open. ³⁵ And his ears became open, and the band of his tongue was made loose, and his words became clear. ³⁶ And he gave them orders not to give news of it to anyone; but the more he made this request, so much the more they made it public. ³⁷ And they were overcome with wonder, saying, He has done all things well: he even gives back the power of hearing and the power of talking to those who have been without them.

² I have pity for these people because they have been with me now three days, and have no food;

²³ And Jesus said to him, If you are able! All things are possible to him who has faith.

⁵² And Jesus said to him, Go on your way; your faith has made you well. And straight away he was able to see, and went after him in the way.

³⁴ And when Jesus saw that he gave a wise answer, he said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God. And every man after that was in fear of questioning him any more.

³ And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head. ⁴ But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted? ⁵ We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves. ⁶ But Jesus said, Let her be; why are you troubling her? she has done a kind act to me. ⁷ The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever. ⁸ She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place. ⁹ And truly I say to you, Wherever the good news goes out through all the earth, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.

¹⁴ And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth. ¹⁵ For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.

¹⁵ For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.

¹⁵ For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth. ¹⁶ And through him great numbers of the children of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God. ¹⁷ And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.

⁶⁵ And fear came on all those who were living round about them: and there was much talk about all these things in all the hill-country of Judaea.

⁶⁸ Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has come to his people and made them free,

⁷⁶ And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;

⁸⁰ And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.

²⁰ Then the keepers of the sheep went back, giving glory and praise to God for all the things which had come to their ears and which they had seen, as it had been said to them.

³⁴ And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said;

² When Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of the Lord came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the waste land.

⁸ Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.

¹² Then tax-farmers came to him for baptism and said to him, Master, what have we to do?

¹⁶ John made answer, saying to them all, Truly, I give you baptism with water, but one is coming who is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit, and with fire:

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,

³⁶ And wonder came on them all and they said to one another, What are these words? for with authority and power he gives orders to the evil spirits and they come out.

⁸ But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner.

¹² And it came about that while he was in one of the towns, there was a leper there: and when he saw Jesus he went down on his face in prayer to him, saying, Lord, if it is your pleasure, you have power to make me clean. ¹³ And he put out his hand to him and said, It is my pleasure; be clean. And straight away his disease went from him.

¹³ And he put out his hand to him and said, It is my pleasure; be clean. And straight away his disease went from him. ¹⁴ And he gave him orders: Say nothing to any man, but let the priest see you and give an offering so that you may be made clean, as the law of Moses says, and for a witness to them. ¹⁵ But news of him went out all the more, in every direction, and great numbers of people came together to give hearing to his words and to be made well from their diseases.

²⁰ And seeing their faith he said, Man, you have forgiveness for your sins.

²⁰ And seeing their faith he said, Man, you have forgiveness for your sins. ²¹ And the scribes and Pharisees were having an argument, saying, Who is this, who has no respect for God? who is able to give forgiveness for sins, but God only? ²² But Jesus, who had knowledge of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

²⁶ And wonder overcame them all, and they gave glory to God; and they were full of fear, saying, We have seen strange things today.

²⁹ And Levi made a great feast for him in his house: and a great number of tax-farmers and others were seated at table with them. ³⁰ And the Pharisees and their scribes made protests against his disciples, saying, Why do you take food and drink with tax-farmers and sinners? ³¹ And Jesus, answering, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill. ³² I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.

⁸ But he had knowledge of their thoughts; and he said to the man whose hand was dead, Get up and come into the middle. And he got up and came forward.

²¹ Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.

¹ After he had come to the end of all his words in the hearing of the people, he went into Capernaum. ² And a certain captain had a servant who was very dear to him; this servant was ill and near to death. ³ And when news of Jesus came to his ears, he sent to him rulers of the Jews, requesting that he would come and make his servant well. ⁴ And they, when they came to Jesus, made their request warmly, saying,

⁴ And they, when they came to Jesus, made their request warmly, saying, ⁵ It is right for you to do this for him, because he is a friend to our nation, and himself has put up a Synagogue for us. ⁶ And Jesus went with them. And when he was not far from the house, the man sent friends to him, saying, Lord, do not give yourself trouble: for I am not important enough for you to come into my house:

⁶ And Jesus went with them. And when he was not far from the house, the man sent friends to him, saying, Lord, do not give yourself trouble: for I am not important enough for you to come into my house: ⁷ And I had the feeling that I was not even good enough to come to you: but say the word only, and my servant will be well.

⁷ And I had the feeling that I was not even good enough to come to you: but say the word only, and my servant will be well. ⁸ For I, myself, am a man under authority, having men under me; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it. ⁹ And when these things were said to Jesus, he was surprised, and, turning to the mass of people coming after him, said, I have not seen such great faith, no, not in Israel. ¹⁰ And when those who were sent came back to the house they saw that the servant was well.

¹⁴ And he came near, and put his hand on the stretcher where the dead man was: and those who were moving it came to a stop. And he said, Young man, I say to you, Get up.

¹⁴ And he came near, and put his hand on the stretcher where the dead man was: and those who were moving it came to a stop. And he said, Young man, I say to you, Get up. ¹⁵ And the dead man got up, and words came from his lips. And he gave him to his mother. ¹⁶ And fear came on all, and they gave praise to God, saying, A great prophet is among us: and, God has given thought to his people.

¹⁹ Then John sent two of his disciples to the Lord, saying, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?

²¹ At that time, he made a number of people free from their diseases and their pains, and from evil spirits; and to others who were blind he gave back the use of their eyes.

²⁹ {\I And all the people, and the tax-farmers, to whom John had given baptism, when they had knowledge of these things, gave glory to God.

³⁴ The Son of man came feasting, and you say, Here is a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners. ³⁵ But wisdom is judged to be right by all her children. ³⁶ And one of the Pharisees made a request that he would take a meal with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house and took his seat at the table. ³⁷ And there was a woman in the town who was a sinner; and when she had news that he was a guest in the Pharisee's house, she took a bottle of perfume,

³⁷ And there was a woman in the town who was a sinner; and when she had news that he was a guest in the Pharisee's house, she took a bottle of perfume, ³⁸ And went in and took her place at the back of him, near his feet, weeping, so that his feet were washed with the drops from her eyes, and with her hair she made them dry, and kissing his feet she put the perfume on them. ³⁹ Now when the Pharisee in whose house he was saw it, he said to himself, This man, if he was a prophet, would be conscious what sort of woman this is who has put her hands on him, that she is a sinner.

³⁹ Now when the Pharisee in whose house he was saw it, he said to himself, This man, if he was a prophet, would be conscious what sort of woman this is who has put her hands on him, that she is a sinner.

⁴² When they were unable to make payment, he made the two of them free of their debts. Which of them, now, will have the greater love for him? ⁴³ Simon, in answer, said, It seems he whose debt was greater. And he said, Your decision is right. ⁴⁴ And turning to the woman he said to Simon, You see this woman? I came into your house; you did not give me water for my feet: but she has been washing my feet with the drops from her eyes, and drying them with her hair. ⁴⁵ You did not give me a kiss: but she, from the time when I came in, has gone on kissing my feet. ⁴⁶ You put no oil on my head: but she has put perfume on my feet. ⁴⁷ And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.

¹⁸ So take care how you give hearing, for to him who has will be given, and from him who has not will be taken even what he seems to have.

³⁷ And all the people of the country of the Gerasenes made a request to him to go away from them; for they were in great fear: and he got into a boat and went back.

⁴¹ Then there came a man named Jairus, who was a ruler in the Synagogue: and he went down at the feet of Jesus, desiring him to come to his house; ⁴² For he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was near to death. But while he was on his way, the people were pushing to be near him.

⁴⁸ And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace. ⁴⁹ While he was still talking, someone came from the house of the ruler of the Synagogue, saying, Your daughter is dead; do not go on troubling the Master.

⁵² And all the people were weeping and crying for her; but he said, Do not be sad, for she is not dead, but sleeping. ⁵³ And they were laughing at him, being certain that she was dead. ⁵⁴ But he, taking her hand, said to her, My child, get up. ⁵⁵ And her spirit came back to her and she got up straight away: and he gave orders that food was to be given to her.

¹⁹ And they, answering, said, John the Baptist; but others say Elijah; and others, that one of the old prophets has come back.

³⁸ And a man from among them, crying out, said, Master, I make a request to you, give a thought to my son, for he is my only child:

⁴⁸ And said to them, Whoever gives honour to this child in my name, gives honour to me: and whoever gives honour to me, gives honour to him who sent me: for whoever is least among you all, that man is great.

¹ Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.

²³ And, turning to the disciples, he said privately, Happy are the eyes which see the things you see: ²⁴ For I say to you that numbers of prophets and kings have had a desire to see the things which you see, and have not seen them, and to have knowledge of the things which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

³⁸ Now, while they were on their way, he came to a certain town; and a woman named Martha took him into her house.

⁴ May we have forgiveness for our sins, as we make free all those who are in debt to us. And let us not be put to the test.

³⁷ Now, while he was talking, a Pharisee made a request that he would come to a meal with him; and he went in and took his seat at the meal.

¹⁷ And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.

⁴⁸ But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.

⁴ Or those eighteen men who were crushed by the fall of the tower of Siloam, were they worse than all the other men living in Jerusalem?

¹⁵ But the Lord gave him an answer and said, O you false men! do you not, every one of you, on the Sabbath, let loose his ox and his ass and take it to the water?

³⁴ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!

¹ And it came about that when he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees on the Sabbath, to have a meal, they were watching him.

² And the Pharisees and scribes were angry, saying, This man gives approval to sinners, and takes food with them.

¹⁹ I am no longer good enough to be named your son: make me like one of your servants. ²⁰ And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss. ²¹ And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son.

²⁸ But he was angry and would not go in; and his father came out and made a request to him to come in. ²⁹ But he made answer and said to his father, See, all these years I have been your servant, doing your orders in everything: and you never gave me even a young goat so that I might have a feast with my friends: ³⁰ But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.

³ And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets.

¹⁶ The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.

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

¹² And when he went into a certain small town he came across ten men who were lepers, and they, keeping themselves at a distance, ¹³ Said, in loud voices, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. ¹⁴ And when he saw them he said, Go, and let the priests see you. And, while they were going, they were made clean. ¹⁵ And one of them, when he saw that he was clean, turning back, gave praise to God in a loud voice; ¹⁶ And, falling down on his face at the feet of Jesus, he gave the credit to him; and he was a man of Samaria. ¹⁷ And Jesus said, Were there not ten men who were made clean? where are the nine? ¹⁸ Have not any of them come back to give glory to God, but only this one from a strange land? ¹⁹ And he said to him, Get up, and go on your way; your faith has made you well.

⁴ And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man,

⁹ And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others: ¹⁰ Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer. ¹¹ The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.

¹³ The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

¹⁸ And a certain ruler put a question to him, saying, Good Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?

³⁵ And it came about that when he got near Jericho, a certain blind man was seated by the side of the road, making requests for money from those who went by. ³⁶ And hearing the sound of a great number of people going by, he said, What is this? ³⁷ And they said to him, Jesus of Nazareth is going by. ³⁸ And he said in a loud voice, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me. ³⁹ And those who were in front made protests and said to him, Be quiet: but he said all the more, O Son of David, have mercy on me. ⁴⁰ And Jesus, stopping, gave orders that he was to come to him, and when he came near, he said to him, ⁴¹ What would you have me do for you? And he said, Lord, that I may be able to see again. ⁴² And Jesus said, See again: your faith has made you well.

⁴² And Jesus said, See again: your faith has made you well. ⁴³ And straight away he was able to see, and he went after him, giving glory to God; and all the people when they saw it gave praise to God.

⁷ And when they saw it, they were all angry, saying, He has gone into the house of a sinner.

⁴⁴ And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

⁶ But if we say, Of men; we will be stoned by the people, for they are certain that John was a prophet.

²⁰ And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler. ²¹ And they put a question to him, saying, Master, we are certain that your teaching and your words are right, and that you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God:

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

⁶¹ And the Lord, turning, gave Peter a look. And the words of the Lord came to Peter's mind, how he had said, This night, before the hour of the cock's cry, you will be false to me three times. ⁶² And he went out, weeping bitterly.

⁴⁷ And when the captain saw what was done, he gave praise to God, saying, Without doubt this was an upright man.

¹⁹ And he said to them, What things? And they said, The things to do with Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, great in his acts and his words, before God and all the people:

³⁴ And they said to them, The Lord has truly come back to life again, and Simon has seen him.

²¹ And they said to him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you the prophet? And his answer was, I am not.

²³ He said, I am the voice of one crying in the waste land, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.

²⁵ And they put this question to him, saying, Why then are you giving baptism if you are not the Christ, or Elijah, or the prophet?

⁴⁶ Nazareth! said Nathanael, Is it possible for any good to come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.

² And Jesus with his disciples came as guests.

² He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.

²⁶ And they went to John and said to him, Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the man to whom you gave witness, is now giving baptism, and everyone is going to him.

²⁶ And they went to John and said to him, Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the man to whom you gave witness, is now giving baptism, and everyone is going to him. ²⁷ And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven. ²⁸ You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ. ²⁹ He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete. ³⁰ He has to become greater while I become less.

¹⁹ The woman said to him, Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

²⁵ The woman said to him, I am certain that the Messiah, who is named Christ, is coming; when he comes he will make all things clear to us.

⁴⁶ So he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain man of high position whose son was ill at Capernaum. ⁴⁷ When it came to his ears that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, he went to him and made a request that he would come down to his son, who was near to death, and make him well.

⁴⁷ When it came to his ears that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, he went to him and made a request that he would come down to his son, who was near to death, and make him well.

⁵⁰ And Jesus said, Go in peace; your son is living. The man had faith in the word which Jesus said to him and went away. ⁵¹ And while he was going down, his servants came to him and said, Your boy is living. ⁵² So he put a question to them as to the hour when he became better; and they said to him, The disease went from him yesterday at the seventh hour. ⁵³ It was clear then to the father that this was the very time at which Jesus said to him, Your son is living. And he had faith in Jesus, he and all his family.

²¹ In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.

²⁵ Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.

²⁸ Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead, ²⁹ And they will come out; those who have done good, into the new life; and those who have done evil, to be judged.

³⁵ He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light.

¹⁴ And when the people saw the sign which he had done, they said, Truly, this is the prophet who is to come into the world.

⁶⁰ Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching? ⁶¹ When Jesus became conscious that his disciples were protesting about what he said, he said to them, Does this give you trouble? ⁶² What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before? ⁶³ The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life. ⁶⁴ But still some of you have no faith. For it was clear to Jesus from the first who they were who had no faith, and who it was who would be false to him. ⁶⁵ And he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not given the power to do so by the Father. ⁶⁶ Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him.

¹² And there was much discussion about him among the mass of the people. Some said, He is a good man; but others said, No, he is giving people false ideas.

⁴⁰ When these words came to their ears, some of the people said, This is certainly the prophet. ⁴¹ Others said, This is the Christ. But others said, Not so; will the Christ come from Galilee?

⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees said to them, Have you, like the others, been given false ideas? ⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed. ⁵⁰ Nicodemus--he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them--said to them, ⁵¹ Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done? ⁵² This was their answer: And do you come from Galilee? Make search and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.

⁴⁸ The Jews said to him in answer, Are we not right in saying that you are of Samaria and have an evil spirit?

⁵² The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

¹⁷ Again they said to the blind man, What have you to say about him for opening your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.

²⁴ So they sent a second time for the man who had been blind and they said to him, Give glory to God: it is clear to us that this man is a sinner.

³⁰ The man said in answer, Why, here is a strange thing! You have no knowledge where he comes from though he gave me the use of my eyes. ³¹ We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.

³¹ We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open. ³² In all the years nobody has ever before seen the eyes of a man blind from birth made open. ³³ If this man did not come from God he would be unable to do anything.

²⁰ And a number of them said, He has an evil spirit and is out of his mind; why do you give ear to him?

² The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who put perfumed oil on the Lord and made his feet dry with her hair.

² The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who put perfumed oil on the Lord and made his feet dry with her hair.

² The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who put perfumed oil on the Lord and made his feet dry with her hair. ³ So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, your dear friend is ill.

³ So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, your dear friend is ill. ⁴ When this came to his ears, Jesus said, The end of this disease is not death, but the glory of God, so that the Son of God may have glory because of it. ⁵ Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ⁶ So when the news came to him that Lazarus was ill, he did not go from the place where he was for two days. ⁷ Then after that time he said to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again. ⁸ The disciples said to him, Master, the Jews were attempting only the other day to have you stoned, and are you going back there again? ⁹ Then Jesus said in answer, Are there not twelve hours in the day? A man may go about in the day without falling, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him. ¹¹ These things said he: and after that he said to them, Lazarus our friend is at rest; but I go so that I may make him come out of his sleep. ¹² Then his disciples said to him, Lord, if he is resting he will get well. ¹³ Jesus, however, was talking of his death: but they had the idea that he was talking about taking rest in sleep. ¹⁴ Then Jesus said to them clearly, Lazarus is dead. ¹⁵ And because of you I am glad I was not there, so that you may have faith; but let us go to him. ¹⁶ Then Thomas, who was named Didymus, said to the other disciples, Let us go so that we may be with him in death.

¹⁹ And a number of Jews had come to Martha and Mary to give them comfort about their brother.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;

³³ And when Jesus saw her weeping, and saw the Jews weeping who came with her, his spirit was moved and he was troubled, ³⁴ And said, Where have you put him? They said, Come and see, Lord. ³⁵ And Jesus himself was weeping.

⁴³ Then he said in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out! ⁴⁴ And he who was dead came out, with linen bands folded tightly about his hands and feet, and a cloth about his face. Jesus said to them, Make him free and let him go.

¹ Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead. ² So they made him a meal there, and he was waited on by Martha, and Lazarus was among those who were seated with him at table.

² So they made him a meal there, and he was waited on by Martha, and Lazarus was among those who were seated with him at table. ³ Then Mary, taking a pound of perfumed oil of great value, put it on the feet of Jesus and made them dry with her hair: and the house became full of the smell of the perfume. ⁴ But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot who was to give him up, said, ⁵ Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor? ⁶ He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it. ⁷ Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death. ⁸ The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.

⁴ Got up from table, put off his robe and took a cloth and put it round him. ⁵ Then he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and drying them with the cloth which was round him.

¹³ You give me the name of Master and Lord: and you are right; that is what I am.

²² If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin. ²³ He who has hate for me has hate for my Father. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.

¹⁹ Jesus saw that they had a desire to put the question to him, so he said to them, Is this what you are questioning one with another, why I said, After a little time, you will see me no longer; and then again, after a little time, you will see me?

³⁰ Now we are certain that you have knowledge of all things and have no need for anyone to put questions to you: through this we have faith that you came from God.

¹³ They said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? She said to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I have no knowledge where they have put him.

¹⁵ Jesus said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? who are you looking for? She, taking him for the gardener, said to him, Sir, if you have taken him away from here, say where you have put him and I will take him away.

¹⁵ Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food. ¹⁶ Again, a second time, he said to him, Simon, son of John, have you any love for me? Yes, Lord, he said, you are certain of my love for you. Then take care of my sheep, said Jesus. ¹⁷ He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.

¹³ But others, making sport of them, said, They are full of new wine.

² And a certain man who from birth had had no power in his legs, was taken there every day, and put down at the door of the Temple which is named Beautiful, requesting money from those who went into the Temple; ³ He then, seeing Peter and John going into the Temple, made a request to them. ⁴ And Peter, looking at him, with John, said, Keep your eyes on us. ⁵ And he gave attention to them, hoping to get something from them. ⁶ But Peter said, I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up on your feet. ⁷ And he took him by his right hand, lifting him up; and straight away his feet and the bones of his legs became strong, ⁸ And, jumping up, he got on to his feet and went into the Temple with them, walking and jumping and giving praise to God.

²² For Moses said, The Lord will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to everything which he will say to you. ²³ And every soul who does not give attention to that prophet, will be cut off from among the people.

⁵ And at these words, Ananias went down on the earth, and his life went from him: and great fear came on all who were present.

¹¹ Then great fear came on all the church and on all who had knowledge of these things. ¹² Now a number of signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the Apostles; and they were all together in Solomon's covered way. ¹³ The others, in fear, kept back from joining them: but the people made much of them;

³¹ Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.

³⁷ This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.

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.

³⁹ And Peter went with them. And when he had come, they took him into the room: and all the widows were there, weeping and putting before him the coats and clothing which Dorcas had made while she was with them. 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. ⁴¹ And he took her hand, lifting her up; and, sending for the saints and widows, he gave her to them, living.

⁴¹ And he took her hand, lifting her up; and, sending for the saints and widows, he gave her to them, living.

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

⁷ And when the angel who said these words to him had gone away, he sent for two of his house-servants, and a God-fearing man of the army, one of those who were waiting on him at all times;

⁷ And when the angel who said these words to him had gone away, he sent for two of his house-servants, and a God-fearing man of the army, one of those who were waiting on him at all times; ⁸ And having given them an account of everything, he sent them to Joppa.

³⁸ About Jesus of Nazareth, how God gave the Holy Spirit to him, with power: and how he went about doing good and making well all who were troubled by evil spirits, for God was with him.

³⁸ And so, let it be clear to you, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is offered to you: ³⁹ And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.

⁸ And at Lystra there was a certain man, who from birth had been without the use of his feet, never having had the power of walking. ⁹ This man was giving ear to the preaching of Paul, who, looking at him, and seeing that he had faith to be made well, ¹⁰ Said in a loud voice, Get up on your feet. And, jumping up, he went walking about.

²⁵ This man had been trained in the way of the Lord; and burning in spirit, he gave himself up to teaching the facts about Jesus, though he had knowledge only of John's baptism:

³ And he said, What sort of baptism did you have? And they said, The baptism of John.

²⁷ For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.

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.

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.

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:

²⁶ Claudius Lysias, to the most noble ruler, Felix, peace be with you.

²³ And he gave orders to the captain to keep Paul under his control, and to let him have everything he had need of; and not to keep his friends from coming to see him.

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.

¹⁸ To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

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.

³ And on the day after, we came to Sidon; and Julius was kind to Paul, and let him go to see his friends and take a rest.

⁴³ But the captain, desiring to keep Paul safe, kept them from their purpose, and gave orders that those who had knowledge of swimming were to go off the ship and get first to land:

¹ How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision? ² Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them. ³ And if some have no faith, will that make the faith of God without effect? ⁴ In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged. ⁵ But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry as men may say? ⁶ In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?

²³ For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God; ²⁴ And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:

⁵ But to him who without working has faith in him who gives righteousness to the evil-doer, his faith is put to his account as righteousness. ⁶ As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying, ⁷ Happy are those who have forgiveness for their wrongdoing, and whose sins are covered. ⁸ Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord.

¹⁷ As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were.

¹ For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; ² Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.

⁶ For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.

⁸ But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

²⁰ And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

⁴ Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God: ⁵ Whose are the fathers, and of whom came Christ in the flesh, who is over all, God, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

³² Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way; ³³ As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

³ Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.

²¹ But about Israel he says; All the day my hands have been stretched out to a people whose hearts were turned away, and who put themselves against my word.

¹⁶ Give one another a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send their love to you.

²¹ For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him. ²² Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge: ²³ But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles; ²⁴ But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men. ²⁶ For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble: ²⁷ But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong; ²⁸ And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

¹⁴ For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

¹⁴ For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit. ¹⁵ But he who has the Spirit, though judging all things, is himself judged by no one.

⁹ Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men, ¹⁰ Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

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;

³⁰ For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead. ³¹ But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us. ³² But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.

⁹ For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God. 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.

²⁰ All the brothers send their love to you. Give one another a holy kiss.

¹⁷ If then I had such a purpose, did I seem to be changing suddenly? or am I guided in my purposes by the flesh, saying, Yes, today, and, No, tomorrow? ¹⁸ As God is true, our word to you is not Yes and No. ¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we were preaching among you, even I and Silvanus and Timothy, was not Yes and No, but in him is Yes. ²⁰ For he is the Yes to all the undertakings of God: and by him all the words of God are made certain and put into effect, to the glory of God through us.

¹⁴ For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;

¹⁴ For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death; ¹⁵ And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

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

¹⁰ For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death. ¹¹ For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business.

²⁴ And they gave glory to God in me.

²¹ I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

¹⁰ For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.

⁶ Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

⁷ In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

¹¹ In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

⁸ Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God: ⁹ Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself. ¹⁰ For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ: ⁹ And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

¹⁴ So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

³² And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

¹² For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.

²⁴ Grace be with all those who have true love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

²⁵ Of which I became a servant by the purpose of God which was given to me for you, to give effect to the word of God, ²⁶ The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints, ²⁷ To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

¹³ Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:

²² Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:

²² Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:

¹³ But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

²⁶ Give all the brothers a holy kiss.

⁹ With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,

¹³ Though I had said violent words against God, and done cruel acts, causing great trouble: but I was given mercy, because I did it without knowledge, not having faith; ¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:

¹⁵ It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief: ¹⁶ But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life.

⁴ But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God. ⁵ Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.

¹⁰ And if witness is given of her good works; if she has had the care of children, if she has been kind to travellers, washing the feet of the saints, helping those who are in trouble, giving herself to good works.

¹ Let all who are servants under the yoke give all honour to their masters, so that no evil may be said against the name of God and his teaching. ² And let those whose masters are of the faith have respect for them because they are brothers, working for them the more readily, because those who take part in the good work are of the faith and are dear. Give orders and teaching about these things.

¹⁰ My request is for my child Onesimus, the child of my chains,

¹⁷ Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.

¹⁵ For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin.

³⁹ And not one of these got the good things of the agreement, though they all had a good record through faith, ⁴⁰ Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

⁶ For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.

⁶ Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind. ⁷ Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord; ⁸ For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.

²⁷ The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

⁵ Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him? ⁶ But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?

¹⁴ What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation? ¹⁵ If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food, ¹⁶ And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this? ¹⁷ Even so faith without works is dead. ¹⁸ But a man may say, You have faith and I have works; let me see your faith without your works, and I will make my faith clear to you by my works. ¹⁹ You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear. ²⁰ Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use? ²¹ Was not the righteousness of Abraham our father judged by his works, when he made an offering of Isaac his son on the altar? ²² You see that his faith was helping his works and was made complete by them; ²³ And the holy Writings were put into effect which said, And Abraham had faith in God and it was put to his account as righteousness; and he was named the friend of God. ²⁴ You see that a man's righteousness is judged by his works and not by his faith only. ²⁵ And in the same way, was not the righteousness of Rahab, the loose woman, judged by her works, when she took into her house those who were sent and let them go out by another way? ²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead even so faith without works is dead.

⁶ But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.

⁹ Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief. ¹⁰ Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

¹⁴ Is anyone among you ill? let him send for the rulers of the church; and let them say prayers over him, putting oil on him in the name of the Lord. ¹⁵ And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.

¹⁰ For the prophets who gave the news of the grace which would come to you, made search with all care for knowledge of this salvation; ¹¹ Attempting to see what sort of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them was pointing to, when it gave witness to the pains which Christ would undergo and the glories which would come after them. 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.

⁷ And the value is for you who have faith; but it is said for those without faith, The very stone which the builders put on one side, was made the chief stone of the building; ⁸ And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God.

³ Do not let your ornaments be those of the body such as dressing of the hair, or putting on of jewels of gold or fair clothing; ⁴ But let them be those of the unseen man of the heart, the ever-shining ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the eyes of God.

¹⁸ And if it is hard for even the good man to get salvation, what chance has the man without religion or the sinner?

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

¹⁷ For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

⁷ But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin. ⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us. ⁹ If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil. ¹⁰ If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

¹⁴ We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

¹⁸ My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

¹⁸ My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith. ¹⁹ In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

¹⁹ We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

¹ Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child. ² In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws. ³ For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

³ For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

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

³ And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.

³ And they give the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and full of wonder are your works, O Lord God, Ruler of all; true and full of righteousness are your ways, eternal King.

⁵ And the voice of the angel of the waters came to my ears, saying, True and upright is your judging, O Holy One, who is and was from all time: