2 Corinthians 11 Cross References - BLB

¹ I wish you were bearing with me a little in foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. ² For I am jealous as to you with the jealousy of God. For I have betrothed you to one husband, to present a pure virgin to Christ. ³ But I am afraid, lest by any means, as the serpent in his craftiness deceived Eve, your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity in Christ. ⁴ For if indeed the one coming proclaims another Jesus whom we did not proclaim, or you receive a different spirit whom you did not receive, or a different gospel which you did not accept, you are bearing with it well. ⁵ For I reckon in nothing to have been inferior to those “most eminent apostles.” ⁶ But even if I am unpolished in speech, yet I am not in knowledge; but in every way, we have been made manifest to you in all things. ⁷ Or did I commit a sin, humbling myself, so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you freely? ⁸ I robbed other churches, having received support for service toward you. ⁹ And being present with you and having been in need, I did not burden anyone; for the brothers having come from Macedonia completely filled up my need, and in everything I kept and will keep myself unburdensome to you. ¹⁰ The truth of Christ is in me, that this boasting of mine will not be sealed up in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹ Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! ¹² But what I do, I will continue doing, so that I might cut off the opportunity of those desiring an opportunity that they might be found as also we in what they are boasting. ¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. ¹⁵ Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds. ¹⁶ Again I say, no one should think me to be a fool; but if otherwise, receive me even as a fool, that I also may boast a little. ¹⁷ What I am saying in this confidence of boasting, I am not saying according to the Lord, but as in foolishness. ¹⁸ Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast. ¹⁹ For being wise, you bear with fools gladly! ²⁰ For you bear it if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes from you, if anyone exalts himself, if anyone strikes you in your face. ²¹ I speak as to dishonor, as that we have been weak! But in whatever anyone might dare—I speak in foolishness—I also am daring. ²² Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they descendants of Abraham? I also. ²³ Are they servants of Christ? I speak as being beside myself, I too above measure: more abundantly in labors, more abundantly in imprisonments, in beatings above measure, in deaths often. ²⁴ Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. ²⁵ Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I have passed a night and a day in the deep sea; ²⁶ in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers; in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles; in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers; ²⁷ in labor and toil, often in watchings; in hunger and thirst, often in fastings; in cold and nakedness. ²⁸ Besides the external things, the pressure on me on every day is my care for all the churches. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn inwardly? ³⁰ If it behooves me to boast, I will boast in the things of my weakness. ³¹ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, the One being blessed to the ages, knows that I am not lying. ³² In Damascus the governor under the king Aretas was guarding the city of the Damascenes to seize me. ³³ But I was let down in a basket through a window through the wall, and I escaped his hands.

¹⁷ And Jesus answering said, “O unbelieving and perverted generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.”

¹⁴ Now Paul being about to open the mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it was some unrighteousness or wicked crime, O Jews, according to reason I would have endured with you.

²⁹ Then Paul said, “I would wish anyhow to God, both in a little and in much, not only you but also all those hearing me this day to become such as I also am, except these chains.”

²¹ For since in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of the proclamation to save those believing.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself: If anyone among you thinks himself to be wise in this age, let him become foolish, so that he may become wise.

⁸ Already you are satiated; already you have been enriched; apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that we also might reign with you.

¹⁰ We are fools on account of Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; You are honored, but we are without honor.

¹³ For if we are beside ourselves, it is to God; or if we are sober-minded it is for you.

⁴ For if indeed the one coming proclaims another Jesus whom we did not proclaim, or you receive a different spirit whom you did not receive, or a different gospel which you did not accept, you are bearing with it well.

¹⁶ Again I say, no one should think me to be a fool; but if otherwise, receive me even as a fool, that I also may boast a little. ¹⁷ What I am saying in this confidence of boasting, I am not saying according to the Lord, but as in foolishness.

¹⁹ For being wise, you bear with fools gladly!

²¹ I speak as to dishonor, as that we have been weak! But in whatever anyone might dare—I speak in foolishness—I also am daring.

¹¹ I have become a fool; you compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you, for in no way was I inferior to those “most eminent apostles,” even though I am nothing.

² being able to exercise forbearance with those being ignorant and going astray, since he himself also is encompassed by weakness;

²⁹ The one having the bride is the bridegroom; and the friend of the bridegroom, the one standing and listening for him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore, this joy of mine is fulfilled.

⁴ Likewise, my brothers, you also have been put to death to the Law through the body of Christ, for you to belong to another, to the One having been raised out from the dead, so that we should bear fruit to God.

¹⁵ For if you should have ten thousand guardians in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

¹⁴ knowing that the One having raised up the Lord Jesus also will raise us up through Jesus and will present us with you.

¹¹ I fear for you, lest perhaps I have toiled for you in vain.

¹⁷ They zealously seek you, not rightly. But they desire to isolate you from us, so that you might be zealous after them. ¹⁸ Now it is good to be zealous in a right thing, at all times and not only in my being present with you. ¹⁹ My children, of whom I travail again until that Christ shall have been formed in you,

²⁶ so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ so that He might present to Himself the church in glory, not having spot or wrinkle or any of the such things, but that it would be holy and blameless.

⁸ For God is my witness how I long after you all in the affection of Christ Jesus.

²⁸ whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ.

¹¹ just as you know how each one of you, as a father his own children,

²⁴ For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.

⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and you desire to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he might speak falsehood, he speaks from the own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.

³⁰ and out from your own selves, men will rise up, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them. ³¹ Therefore stay awake, remembering that three years night and day I never ceased admonishing each one with tears.

⁸ or exhorting, in the exhortation; giving, in generosity; leading, in diligence; showing mercy, in cheerfulness.

¹⁸ For such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive. ¹⁹ For your obedience has reached to all. Therefore I rejoice over you. But I wish you to be wise to good, and innocent to evil.

¹² For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you, in the purity and sincerity of God, and not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God.

¹⁷ For we are not like the many, peddling the word of God, but as of sincerity, but as of God, we speak before God in Christ.

² But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience before God.

¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. ¹⁵ Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn inwardly?

²⁰ For I fear lest perhaps having come, I may not find you such as I wish, and I might be found by you such as you do not wish; lest perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, contentions, slander, gossip, conceit, disorder; ²¹ lest of my having come again, my God should humble me as to you, and I should mourn over many of those having before sinned and not having repented of the impurity, and sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced.

⁶ I am amazed that so quickly you are deserting from the One having called you in the grace of Christ to another gospel,

⁴ even because of the false brothers brought in secretly, who came in by stealth to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus that they will enslave us,

¹ O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as having been crucified?

¹⁴ so that no longer we might be infants, being tossed by waves and being carried about by every wind of teaching in the cunning, in the craftiness of men with a view to the scheming of deceit.

²⁴ Grace be with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptibility.

¹⁸ For many are walking—of whom I have told you often and now I say even weeping—as enemies of the cross of Christ, ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose God is the belly and glory is in their shame, those minding earthly things.

⁴ I say this so that no one might delude you by persuasive speech.

⁸ Take heed lest there will be anyone taking you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the principles of the world and not according to Christ.

¹⁸ Let no one disqualify you, delighting in humility and the worship of the angels, detailing what he has seen, being puffed up vainly by his mind of the flesh,

⁵ Because of this I also, enduring no longer, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow the one tempting had tempted you, and our labor would be in vain.

³ No one should deceive you in any way, because it is not until the apostasy shall have come first, and the man of lawlessness shall have been revealed—the son of destruction, ⁴ the one opposing and exalting himself above every so-called god or object of worship—so as for him to sit down in the temple of God, setting forth that he himself is God. ⁵ Do you not remember that, being yet with you, I was saying these things to you? ⁶ And now you know that which is restraining for his being revealed in his time. ⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is working already; there is only the one at present restraining it, until he might be gone out of the midst. ⁸ And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will consume with the breath of His mouth and will annul by the appearing of His coming, ⁹ whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in every power, and in signs, and in wonders of falsehood, ¹⁰ and in every deception of wickedness unto those perishing, in return for which they did not receive the love of the truth in order for them to be saved. ¹¹ And because of this, God will send to them a working of delusion, for them to believe what is false,

³ Just as I urged you to remain in Ephesus when I was going to Macedonia, so that you might warn certain men not to teach other doctrines,

¹⁴ And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, has come into transgression.

¹ But the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, ² in the hypocrisy of liars, having been seared in the own conscience, ³ forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from foods that God created for reception with thanksgiving by the faithful and those knowing the truth. ⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving,

¹ But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will be present. ² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, proud, verbally abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, savage, haters of good, ⁴ betrayers, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. And turn away from these. ⁶ For out of this sort are those entering into households and taking captive weak women, burdened with sins, being led away by various passions, ⁷ always learning and never being able to come to a knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Now as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, men being depraved in mind, disqualified regarding the faith. ⁹ But they will not advance much further, for their folly will be plain to all, as also that of those two became.

¹³ But evil men and imposters will advance to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

³ For there will be a time when they will not endure sound teaching, but according to the own desires, having an itching ear, they will gather around them teachers to suit themselves, ⁴ and indeed they will turn away from hearing the truth, and will be turned aside unto myths.

¹⁰ For there are also many insubordinate, empty talkers, and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

⁹ Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, in which those being devoted were not profited.

¹ But there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who will stealthily introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master having bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow after their sensuality, through whom the way of the truth will be maligned. ³ And through covetousness they will exploit you with fabricated words, for whom the judgment of long ago is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber. ⁴ For if God did not spare the angels having sinned, but having cast them down to Tartarus, in chains of gloomy darkness, delivered them, being kept for judgment; ⁵ and He did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, one of eight, having brought the flood upon the world of the ungodly; ⁶ and He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, having reduced them to ashes, having set an example of what is coming on the ungodly; ⁷ and He rescued righteous Lot, being distressed by the conduct in sensuality of the lawless ⁸ (for that righteous man dwelling, among them, day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul, through seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)— ⁹ then the Lord knows to deliver the devout out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous being punished unto the day of judgment, ¹⁰ and especially those walking after the flesh in the passion of defilement and despising authority. Bold, self-willed, they do not tremble blaspheming glorious ones, ¹¹ whereas angels, being greater in strength and power, do not bring against them a reviling judgment before the Lord. ¹² But these, like irrational animals, having been born as creatures of instinct for capture and destruction, blaspheming in what they are ignorant of, in their destruction also will be destroyed, ¹³ suffering wrong as the wage of unrighteousness; esteeming carousal in daytime as pleasure; blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, feasting with you; ¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing from sin; enticing unestablished souls; having a heart having been exercised in craving—children of a curse!

³ first knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following according to their own evil desires,

¹⁷ Therefore beloved, knowing this beforehand, you beware, lest you should fall from the own steadfastness, having been led away by the error of the lawless.

¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, whereby we know that it is the last hour.

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

⁴ For certain men came in stealthily, those having been designated long ago unto this condemnation, ungodly ones changing the grace of our God into sensuality and denying our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁹ And the great dragon was thrown out, the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, deceiving the whole inhabited world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

² And he seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

¹² And there is salvation in no other, for there is not another name under heaven having been given among men, by which it behooves us to be saved.”

¹⁵ For you have not received a spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the Spirit of divine adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

¹¹ For no one is able to lay another foundation, besides the one being already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

⁴ Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; ⁵ and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; ⁶ and there are varieties of workings, but the same God is working all things in everyone. ⁷ Now to each is given the manifestation of the Spirit, for the common profiting. ⁸ For truly, to one is given a word of wisdom by the Spirit, and to another a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit, ⁹ and to a different one faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, ¹⁰ and to another working of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another distinguishing of spirits, and to a different one various kinds of tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ Now one and the same the Spirit works all these things, apportioning individually to each as He wills.

⁶ I am amazed that so quickly you are deserting from the One having called you in the grace of Christ to another gospel, ⁷ which is not another, except there are some who are troubling you and are desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ. ⁸ But even if we or an angel out of heaven should preach a gospel to you contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let him be accursed!

² I wish only to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the Law or by hearing of faith?

⁴ one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called into one hope of your calling; ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism;

⁵ For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me has not been void. Rather, I toiled more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

¹¹ I have become a fool; you compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you, for in no way was I inferior to those “most eminent apostles,” even though I am nothing. ¹² For the signs of the apostle were performed among you in all perseverance, and in signs, and wonders, and miracles.

⁶ Now of those esteemed to be something, whatsoever they were formerly makes no difference to me. God does not accept the person of a man—for the esteemed added nothing to me. ⁷ But on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision just as Peter of the circumcision— ⁸ for the One having worked in Peter for apostleship of the circumcision, did also in me toward the Gentiles— ⁹ and having recognized the grace having been given to me, James and Cephas and John, those esteemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, but they to the circumcision,

¹⁷ For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not in wisdom of discourse, so that the cross of the Christ should not be emptied of its power.

¹ And I having come to you, brothers, did not come according to excellency of speech or wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. ² For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him having been crucified. ³ And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

¹³ which also we speak, not in words taught of human wisdom, but in those taught of the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means.

¹¹ Therefore knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. And we have been made manifest to God, and I hope to have been made manifest in your consciences also.

² Make room for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one.

¹⁰ For they say, “The letters indeed are weighty and strong, but the presence of the body is weak, and the speech having been ignored.”

¹² For the signs of the apostle were performed among you in all perseverance, and in signs, and wonders, and miracles.

⁴ which, by reading, you are able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

¹⁵ And esteem the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom having been given to him, ¹⁶ as also in all the letters, speaking in them concerning these things, among which some things are difficult to be understood, which the ignorant and unestablished distort to their own destruction, as also the other Scriptures.

¹ And after these things, having departed from Athens, he came to Corinth. ² And having found a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, and Priscilla his wife, recently having come from Italy because of Claudius having commanded all the Jews to depart out of Rome, he came to them, ³ and because of being of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked. For they were tentmakers by the trade.

³⁴ You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my needs and to those being with me.

¹⁰ We are fools on account of Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; You are honored, but we are without honor. ¹¹ As far as the present hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clad, and are buffeted, and wander homeless, ¹² and we toil, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

⁶ Or only I and Barnabas, have we no authority not to work?

¹² If others partake of the authority over you, should we not more? But we did not use this right. Instead, we bear all things, so that we should not place any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

¹⁴ So also, the Lord has prescribed to those proclaiming the gospel to live from the gospel. ¹⁵ But I have not used any of these. And neither have I written these things that it should be thus with me; for it would be better to me to die, rather than that anyone will make void my boasting. ¹⁶ For if I preach the gospel, there is no boasting to me, for necessity is laid upon me. But woe be to me if I should not preach the gospel. ¹⁷ For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a stewardship. ¹⁸ What then is my reward? That in preaching the gospel, I should offer the gospel free of charge, so as not to use up my right in the gospel.

¹ Now I, Paul, myself exhort you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who indeed as to appearance am humble among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

¹³ For in what is it that you were inferior beyond the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!

⁹ For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship: Working night and day in order not to burden any one of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

⁸ nor did we eat bread from anyone without payment, but in labor and toil, working night and day in order not to be burdensome to any of you,

⁹ And being present with you and having been in need, I did not burden anyone; for the brothers having come from Macedonia completely filled up my need, and in everything I kept and will keep myself unburdensome to you.

¹⁴ But you did well, having fellowship in my affliction. ¹⁵ And you Philippians also know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I came out from Macedonia, not one church had partnership with me with regard to the matter of giving and receiving, except you alone. ¹⁶ For even in Thessalonica, both once and twice, you sent for my needs.

¹⁸ But I have all things, and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an odor of a sweet smell, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

³ and because of being of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked. For they were tentmakers by the trade.

³³ I coveted nobody’s silver or gold or clothing.

⁴ in everything, rather, we are commending ourselves as God’s servants: in great endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses;

¹ Now we make known to you, brothers, the grace of God having been bestowed among the churches of Macedonia, ² that in much proof of tribulation, the abundance of their joy and of their deep poverty abounded into the riches of their generosity.

¹² For the ministry of this service is not only completely filling up the needs of the saints, but is also overflowing through many thanksgivings to God,

¹³ For in what is it that you were inferior beyond the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong! ¹⁴ Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not burden you. For I do not seek what is yours, but you. For the children ought not to treasure up for the parents, but the parents for the children. ¹⁵ Now I will spend most gladly, and will be utterly spent, for your souls. If loving you more abundantly, am I loved less? ¹⁶ But be it so, I did not burden you; but being crafty, I caught you by trickery.

²⁵ Now I esteemed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need,

¹⁰ But I rejoiced greatly in the Lord that now at last you have revived the caring for me, wherein also you were concerned, but you were lacking opportunity. ¹¹ Not that I speak as to destitution, for I have learned to be content in that which I am. ¹² I know also how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In everything, and in all things, I have learned the secret also to be full and to hunger, also to abound and to be deficient. ¹³ I have strength for all things in the One strengthening me.

⁶ nor seeking glory from men, nor from you, nor from others, though having authority with weight to be, as apostles of Christ.

⁸ nor did we eat bread from anyone without payment, but in labor and toil, working night and day in order not to be burdensome to any of you, ⁹ not that we do not have the right, but that we may offer ourselves as an example to you for you to imitate us.

³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were killed by slaughter of the sword; they wandered in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, being oppressed, being mistreated;

¹² But Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and led him to the judgment seat,

²⁷ And he resolving to pass through into Achaia, the brothers, having encouraged him, wrote to the disciples to welcome him, who having arrived, helped greatly those having believed through grace.

⁹ For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of His Son, is my witness how unceasingly I make mention of you,

¹ I speak the truth in Christ. I am not lying. My conscience testifies for me in the Holy Spirit

⁵ and the church at their house. Greet Epenetus, my beloved, who is a firstfruit of Asia for Christ.

¹⁵ Now I exhort you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruit of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to service to the saints—

¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God being in Corinth, with all the saints being in all Achaia.

²³ But I call God as witness upon my soul, that sparing you, I have not yet come to Corinth.

² For I know your readiness, which I boast of to Macedonians concerning you, that Achaia has been prepared from a year ago, and your zeal has been provoking the greater number.

¹⁵ not boasting to the things beyond measure in others’ labors, but having hope of your faith increasing, to be enlarged to abundance among you according to our area,

¹² But what I do, I will continue doing, so that I might cut off the opportunity of those desiring an opportunity that they might be found as also we in what they are boasting.

³¹ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, the One being blessed to the ages, knows that I am not lying.

¹⁹ Have you been thinking all along that we have been making a defense to you? We speak in Christ before God, but all things, beloved, for your edification.

²⁰ Now in what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.

⁷ so as for you to became an example to all the believing ones in Macedonia and in Achaia. ⁸ For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has gone abroad, so as for us to have no need to say anything.

⁵ For never at any time were we with word of flattery, just as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness—

¹⁰ You are witnesses, and God, how holily and righteously and blamelessly we behaved toward you, those believing,

⁷ in regard to which I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am speaking the truth; I do not lie—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

²⁴ But Jesus on His part did not did entrust Himself to them, because of His knowing all men, ²⁵ and because He had no need that anyone should testify concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man.

¹⁷ He says to him the third time, “Simon son of John, do you dearly love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you dearly love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I dearly love You.” Jesus says to him, “Feed My sheep.

⁸ And the heart-knowing God bore witness to them, having given them the Holy Spirit, as also to us.

¹¹ Our mouth has been opened to you, Corinthians; our heart has been expanded. ¹² You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained in your own affections.

³ I do not speak for condemnation; for I have before said that you are in our hearts for us to die together and to live together.

¹⁰ The truth of Christ is in me, that this boasting of mine will not be sealed up in the regions of Achaia.

² I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago—whether in the body, I do not know, or out of the body, I do not know; God knows—such a man, having been caught up to the third heaven. ³ And I know such a man—whether in the body or out of the body, I do not know; God knows—

¹⁵ Now I will spend most gladly, and will be utterly spent, for your souls. If loving you more abundantly, am I loved less?

¹³ And there is no creature hidden before Him, but all things are uncovered and laid bare to the eyes of Him to whom is our reckoning.

²³ And I will kill her children with death, and all the churches will know that I am the One searching affections and hearts; and I will give to each of you according to your works.

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

¹⁷ Thus purposing, therefore then, did I use lightness? Or do I purpose what I purpose according to flesh, so that with me there should be “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?

¹² We are not commending ourselves to you again, but are giving to you occasion of boasting on behalf of us, so that you may have an answer toward those boasting in appearance, and not in the heart.

¹⁷ But, “The one boasting, let him boast in the Lord.”

¹⁸ Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.

⁷ which is not another, except there are some who are troubling you and are desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.

¹³ For not even those being circumcised keep the Law themselves, but they desire you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh. ¹⁴ But for me, may it be never to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.

¹⁵ For some, even from envy and strife, are proclaiming Christ, but some also from goodwill— ¹⁶ the ones indeed out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel; ¹⁷ but the others are proclaiming Christ out of selfish ambition, not purely, supposing to add tribulation to my chains. ¹⁸ What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. And in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice, ¹⁹ for I know that through your prayer and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, this will turn out for me to deliverance, ²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope that I will be ashamed in nothing, but in all boldness also now as always, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. ²¹ For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. ²² But if I am to live in flesh, this is the fruit of labor for me. And what shall I choose? I do not know. ²³ But I am pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and to be with Christ, indeed very much better, ²⁴ but to remain in the flesh is more necessary for your sake. ²⁵ And having been persuaded of this, I know that I will remain and will continue with all of you for your progress and joy of the faith, ²⁶ so that through my coming to you again your boasting in me may abound to Christ Jesus. ²⁷ Only conduct yourselves worthily of the gospel of Christ, so that, whether having come and having seen you, or being absent, I might hear the things concerning you, that you are standing firm in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel, ²⁸ and not being frightened in anything by those opposing you, which is a demonstration of destruction to them, but of salvation to you—and this from God. ²⁹ For it has been granted to you concerning Christ, not only to believe in Him but also to suffer concerning Him, ³⁰ having the same conflict such as you saw in me and now hear of in me.

¹⁴ Therefore I want the younger ones to marry, to bear children, to manage their households, to give the one opposing no occasion on account of reproach.

²⁴ And the one having received the one talent, having come, also said, ‘Master, I knew you, that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering from where you did not scatter.

¹ But certain ones having come down from Judea were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you are not able to be saved.”

²⁴ Inasmuch as we have heard that some went out from us, to whom we had given no instructions, and troubled you by words, upsetting your minds,

³⁰ and out from your own selves, men will rise up, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them.

¹⁸ For such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

¹⁵ Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.

¹⁷ They zealously seek you, not rightly. But they desire to isolate you from us, so that you might be zealous after them.

¹² As many as desire to have a fair appearance in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they might not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

¹⁵ For some, even from envy and strife, are proclaiming Christ, but some also from goodwill— ¹⁶ the ones indeed out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel;

² Beware of the dogs! Beware of the evil workers! Beware of the false circumcision!

⁴ nor to give heed to myths and endless genealogies, which bring speculations rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith. ⁵ Now the goal of our instruction is love out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and a sincere faith, ⁶ from which some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to meaningless discourse, ⁷ desiring to be teachers of the Law, understanding neither what they are saying nor that about which they confidently assert.

¹ But the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, ² in the hypocrisy of liars, having been seared in the own conscience, ³ forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from foods that God created for reception with thanksgiving by the faithful and those knowing the truth.

³ If anyone teaches another doctrine and does not draw near, being sound in the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching according to godliness, ⁴ he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but unhealthy about controversies and disputes about words, out of which come envy, strife, slander, evil suspicions, ⁵ and constant frictions among men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding godliness to be a means of gain.

¹⁷ and their talk will have pasture to grow like gangrene, among whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus, ¹⁸ who have gone astray concerning the truth, asserting the resurrection already to have taken place; and they are overthrowing the faith of some. ¹⁹ Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those being His,” and, “Let everyone naming the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”

¹⁰ For there are also many insubordinate, empty talkers, and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, ¹¹ whom it is necessary to silence, who overthrow whole households, teaching things that they ought not for the sake of base gain.

¹ But there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who will stealthily introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master having bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow after their sensuality, through whom the way of the truth will be maligned. ³ And through covetousness they will exploit you with fabricated words, for whom the judgment of long ago is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

⁷ For many deceivers have entered into the world, those not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. ⁸ Watch yourselves, so that you should not lose what things we have worked for, but you may receive a full reward. ⁹ Anyone going on ahead, and not abiding in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. The one abiding in the teaching, this one has both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into the house, and do not tell him to rejoice. ¹¹ For the one telling him to rejoice partakes in his evil works.

² I know your works and your labor and endurance, and that you are not able to tolerate evil ones. And you have tested those claiming to be apostles and are not, and you have found them false.

⁹ I know your tribulation and poverty—but you are rich—and the blasphemy of those claiming themselves to be Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

²⁰ But I have against you that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, the one calling herself a prophetess and teaching and misleading My servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

²⁰ And the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet, the one having done the signs before him, by which he deceived those having received the mark of the beast and those worshiping its image. The two were cast living into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.

¹ Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil. ² And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. ³ And the one tempting, having come to Him, said “If You are Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread.” ⁴ But answering He said, “It has been written: ‘The man shall live not by bread alone, but by every word coming out of the mouth of God.’” ⁵ Then the devil takes Him to the holy city and sets Him upon the pinnacle of the temple, ⁶ and says to him, “If You are Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it has been written: ‘He will give orders to His angels concerning You, and will they bear You up in their hands, lest ever You strike Your foot against a stone.’” ⁷ Jesus said to him, “Again it has been written: ‘You shall not test the Lord your God.’” ⁸ Again the devil takes Him to a mountain exceedingly high and shows to Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. ⁹ And he says to Him, “All these things I will give to You, if falling down, You will worship me.” ¹⁰ Then Jesus says to him, “Get you away, Satan! For it has been written: ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him alone shall you serve.’”

¹¹ so that we should not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

³ But I am afraid, lest by any means, as the serpent in his craftiness deceived Eve, your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity in Christ.

⁸ But even if we or an angel out of heaven should preach a gospel to you contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let him be accursed!

¹⁵ Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. ¹⁶ By their fruits you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

¹⁰ said, “O full of all deceit and all craft, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways the of Lord?

¹¹ If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it a great thing if we will reap material things from you?

⁹ For if glory was in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory!

¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

²³ Are they servants of Christ? I speak as being beside myself, I too above measure: more abundantly in labors, more abundantly in imprisonments, in beatings above measure, in deaths often.

⁸ But even if we or an angel out of heaven should preach a gospel to you contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let him be accursed! ⁹ As we have said before, even now I say again: If anyone is preaching a gospel to you contrary to what you received, let him be accursed!

¹² because to us the wrestling is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose God is the belly and glory is in their shame, those minding earthly things.

⁸ And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will consume with the breath of His mouth and will annul by the appearing of His coming, ⁹ whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in every power, and in signs, and in wonders of falsehood, ¹⁰ and in every deception of wickedness unto those perishing, in return for which they did not receive the love of the truth in order for them to be saved. ¹¹ And because of this, God will send to them a working of delusion, for them to believe what is false, ¹² in order that all those not having believed the truth but having delighted in unrighteousness should be judged.

³ And through covetousness they will exploit you with fabricated words, for whom the judgment of long ago is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

¹³ suffering wrong as the wage of unrighteousness; esteeming carousal in daytime as pleasure; blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, feasting with you; ¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing from sin; enticing unestablished souls; having a heart having been exercised in craving—children of a curse! ¹⁵ Having forsaken the straight way, they have gone astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wage of unrighteousness. ¹⁶ But he had reproof for his own transgression by a mute donkey; having spoken in a man’s voice, it restrained the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are springs without water and mists being driven by storm, for whom gloom of darkness has been reserved. ¹⁸ For speaking arrogant words of vanity, they entice to sensuality with the passions of the flesh those barely escaping from those living in error, ¹⁹ promising them freedom, themselves being slaves of corruption. For by what anyone has been subdued, by that also he is enslaved. ²⁰ For if, having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, now again having been entangled in these they are subdued, the last state has become worse to them than the first. ²¹ For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to have turned from the holy commandment having been delivered to them. ²² The thing true of the proverb has happened to them: “A dog having returned to its own vomit,” and, “A sow having washed, to her rolling place in the mire.”

¹⁰ But these indeed speak evil of whatever things they have not seen; and whatever things they understand naturally, as the irrational animals, in these things they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Woe to them, because they have gone in the way of Cain, and rushed for profit to the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. ¹² These are the hidden reefs, feasting together with you fearlessly in your love feasts; shepherding themselves; clouds without water, being carried about by winds; autumnal trees without fruit, twice having died, having been uprooted; ¹³ wild waves of the sea, foaming out of their own shame; wandering stars, to whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved to the age.

¹¹ They have a king over them, the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek, he has the name Apollyon.

² And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, and its feet like a bear’s, and its mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave to it his power, and his throne, and great authority.

¹⁴ And it deceives those dwelling on the earth, by reason of the signs that were given to it to perform before the beast, telling those dwelling on the earth to make an image to the beast that has the wound of the sword and has lived.

¹⁹ And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, having been gathered together to make war with the One sitting on the horse and with His army. ²⁰ And the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet, the one having done the signs before him, by which he deceived those having received the mark of the beast and those worshiping its image. The two were cast living into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. ²¹ And the rest were killed with the sword of the One sitting on the horse having gone forth out of his mouth. And all the birds were filled with their flesh.

² And he seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. ³ And he cast him into the Abyss, and shut and sealed it over him, so that he should not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed. After these things it is necessary for him to be released for a little time.

⁷ And when the thousand years shall have been completed, Satan will be released out of his prison, ⁸ and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together unto the war, of whom is the number of them like the sand of the sea. ⁹ And they marched up over the breadth of the earth and encircled the camp of the saints and the city having been beloved. But fire came down out of heaven and devoured them. ¹⁰ And the devil, the one deceiving them, was cast into the lake of fire and of sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet also are; and they will be tormented day and night to the ages of the ages.

¹ I wish you were bearing with me a little in foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

²¹ I speak as to dishonor, as that we have been weak! But in whatever anyone might dare—I speak in foolishness—I also am daring. ²² Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they descendants of Abraham? I also. ²³ Are they servants of Christ? I speak as being beside myself, I too above measure: more abundantly in labors, more abundantly in imprisonments, in beatings above measure, in deaths often.

⁶ For if I should desire to boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should credit to me more than what he sees in me, or anyone hears of me,

⁶ Now I say this by way of concession, not by way of command.

¹² Now to the rest I say (I, not the Lord): If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to dwell with him, let him not divorce her.

²⁵ Now concerning virgins, I do not have a commandment of the Lord, but I give judgment as having received mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

⁴ Otherwise, if Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we—not that we might say you—would be put to shame in this confidence.

¹⁸ Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast. ¹⁹ For being wise, you bear with fools gladly! ²⁰ For you bear it if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes from you, if anyone exalts himself, if anyone strikes you in your face. ²¹ I speak as to dishonor, as that we have been weak! But in whatever anyone might dare—I speak in foolishness—I also am daring. ²² Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they descendants of Abraham? I also. ²³ Are they servants of Christ? I speak as being beside myself, I too above measure: more abundantly in labors, more abundantly in imprisonments, in beatings above measure, in deaths often. ²⁴ Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. ²⁵ Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I have passed a night and a day in the deep sea; ²⁶ in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers; in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles; in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers; ²⁷ in labor and toil, often in watchings; in hunger and thirst, often in fastings; in cold and nakedness.

³ For we are the circumcision, those worshiping in the Spirit of God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and not trusting in the flesh— ⁴ though I have confidence even in the flesh. If any other thinks to trust in the flesh, I more: ⁵ circumcision on the eighth day; of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; according to the Law, a Pharisee; ⁶ according to zeal, persecuting the church; according to righteousness in the Law, having become faultless.

¹² For we dare not to classify or to compare ourselves with some commending themselves. But these, measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves with themselves, do not understand. ¹³ But we will not boast into the things beyond measure, but according to the measure of the area that God has assigned to us, a measure to reach also as far as you. ¹⁴ For we are not overextending ourselves, as not reaching to you. For we came also as far as you in the gospel of Christ, ¹⁵ not boasting to the things beyond measure in others’ labors, but having hope of your faith increasing, to be enlarged to abundance among you according to our area, ¹⁶ so as to preach the gospel beyond you, not to boast in things already in another’s area. ¹⁷ But, “The one boasting, let him boast in the Lord.” ¹⁸ For the one commending himself, this one is not approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

⁵ Concerning such a man I will boast; but concerning myself I will not boast, except in the weaknesses. ⁶ For if I should desire to boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should credit to me more than what he sees in me, or anyone hears of me,

⁹ And He said to me, “My grace suffices you, for the power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore will I boast rather most gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

³ For we are the circumcision, those worshiping in the Spirit of God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and not trusting in the flesh— ⁴ though I have confidence even in the flesh. If any other thinks to trust in the flesh, I more:

²⁴ because, “All flesh is like grass, and all the glory of it like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls away,

¹ Now concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know indeed we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

¹⁵ I speak as to sensible ones; judge for yourselves what I say.

¹⁷ For you say, ‘I am rich, and I have grown rich, and I have need of nothing.’ And you do not realize that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

²⁹ To the one striking you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from the one taking away your cloak, do not withhold the tunic also.

¹⁷ Now I exhort you, brothers, to consider those causing divisions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you have learned, and turn away from them. ¹⁸ For such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

¹¹ As far as the present hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clad, and are buffeted, and wander homeless,

²⁴ Not that we lord it over your faith, but are fellow workers with you of joy; for in the faith you stand firm.

³ So also, we when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world.

⁹ But now, having known God, but rather having been known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and destitute principles, to which you desire to be enslaved again anew?

²⁵ Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

¹ In freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore and do not be entangled again in a yoke of slavery!

¹⁰ I am confident as to you in the Lord that you will have no other mind. But the one troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he might be.

¹ Now I, Paul, myself exhort you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who indeed as to appearance am humble among you, but being absent am bold toward you. ² Now I implore you that being present, I need not to be bold with the confidence with which I reckon to be daring toward some reckoning us as walking according to flesh.

¹⁷ What I am saying in this confidence of boasting, I am not saying according to the Lord, but as in foolishness.

¹⁰ Therefore I write these things being absent, so that being present I should not treat you with severity according to the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

⁹ And do not presume to say within yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as father.’ For I say to you that out of these stones God is able to raise up children unto Abraham.

³³ They answered unto Him, “We are Abraham’s seed, and to no one ever have we been under bondage. How do You say, ‘You will become free’?” ³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you that everyone practicing the sin is a slave of the sin. ³⁵ Now the slave does not abide in the house to the age; the son abides to the age. ³⁶ So if the Son shall set you free, you will be free indeed. ³⁷ I know that you are Abraham’s seed; but you seek to kill Me because My word receives no place in you. ³⁸ I speak that which I have seen with the Father; therefore you also do what you have heard from your father.” ³⁹ They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus says to them, “If you were children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham.

³ “I am a Jew, a man born in Tarsus of Cilicia and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been instructed according to the exactness of the Law of our Fathers, being a zealous one of God, even as you all are this day,

¹³ For the promise was to Abraham or his descendants that he should be heir of the world, not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if those of the Law are heirs, faith has been made void and the promise made of no effect. ¹⁵ For Law brings wrath; and where there is no Law, neither is transgression. ¹⁶ Therefore it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise to be sure to all the seed, not only to that of the Law, but also to that of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us of all— ¹⁷ as it has been written: “I have made you a father of many nations.”—before God whom he believed, the One giving life to the dead and calling into being the things not even existing, ¹⁸ who against hope, in hope believed, for him to become the father of many nations, according to that having been spoken, “So shall your offspring be.”

⁴ who are Israelites, whose is the divine adoption as sons, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises;

¹ I ask, then did God reject His people? Never may it be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

⁵ circumcision on the eighth day; of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; according to the Law, a Pharisee;

¹⁶ For I will show to him how much it behooves him to suffer for My name.”

¹⁹ But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him outside the city, supposing him to have died.

²³ And having laid many blows on them, they cast them into prison, having charged the jailer to keep them securely, ²⁴ who having received such an order, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

²³ except that the Holy Spirit fully testifies to me in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me.

¹¹ And having come to us and having taken Paul’s belt, having bound his feet and hands, he said, “Thus the Holy Spirit says, ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man whose belt this is, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”

²⁶ At the same time also he is hoping that riches will be given him by Paul. So also sending for him often, he was talking with him. ²⁷ But two years having been completed, Felix received Porcius Festus as successor, and wishing to acquire for himself favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul imprisoned.

¹⁴ And as they stayed there many days, Festus laid before the king the things relating to Paul, saying, “There is a certain man left by Felix as a prisoner,

¹ Now when our sailing to Italy was determined, they delivered both Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the cohort of Augustus.

¹⁶ Now when we came to Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.

³⁰ And he stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and was welcoming all coming unto him,

³⁶ As it has been written: “For Your sake we face death all the day; we were regarded as sheep of slaughter.”

⁵ Who then is Apollos? And who is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord has given to each.

¹ So let a man regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of God’s mysteries.

³⁰ And why are we in danger every hour? ³¹ I die every day, as surely as the boasting in you, brothers, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. ³² If according to man I fought wild beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and let us drink, for tomorrow we die.”

⁹ Indeed we had in ourselves the sentence of death, in order that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God, the One raising the dead, ¹⁰ who has delivered us from such a great death and will deliver us, in whom we have hope that also He will deliver us still,

⁶ who also has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

¹¹ For we the living are always being delivered to death on account of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our mortal flesh.

⁴ in everything, rather, we are commending ourselves as God’s servants: in great endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses; ⁵ in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

⁹ as being unknown and yet being well-known; as dying and yet, behold, we live; as being punished and yet not being killed;

⁷ You are looking at things according to appearance. If anyone is persuaded in himself to be of Christ, let him reckon this within himself again, that as he is of Christ, so also are we.

⁵ For I reckon in nothing to have been inferior to those “most eminent apostles.”

²⁴ Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. ²⁵ Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I have passed a night and a day in the deep sea;

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

¹ Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the calling to which you were called,

²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may be bold, as it behooves me to speak.

¹³ so as for my chains in Christ to have become clearly known in all the palace guard and to all the rest;

¹⁷ But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in the sufferings for you, and I am filling up in my flesh that which is lacking of the tribulations of Christ for His body, which is the church,

²⁹ Unto this also I toil, striving according to His energy, working in me in power.

² and we sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker of God in the gospel of Christ, in order to strengthen and to encourage you concerning your faith,

⁶ Laying before the brothers these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good teaching that you have closely followed.

⁸ Therefore you should not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, His prisoner; but suffer together for the gospel, according to the power of God,

¹⁶ May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he refreshed me often, and he was not ashamed of my chain.

⁹ in which I suffer hardship even to chains as an evildoer. But the word of God is not bound!

⁹ rather, I exhort you for the sake of love, being such a one as Paul, now aged and also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.

³⁴ For both you sympathized with the prisoners and you accepted the plundering of your possessions with joy, knowing yourselves to have a better and abiding possession.

¹⁷ But beware of men; for they will deliver you into the courts and they will flog you in their synagogues.

⁹ But you take heed to yourselves. They will betray you to courts, and you will be beaten in synagogues; and you will stand before governors and kings because of Me, for a testimony to them.

³⁵ And the farmers having taken his servants, one they beat, and one they killed, and one they stoned.

⁵⁸ and having cast him out of the city, began to stone him. And the witnesses laid aside their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. ⁵⁹ And as they were stoning Stephen, he was calling out and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

⁵ And when there was a rush both of the Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat and to stone them,

²² And the crowd rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn off their garments, were commanding that they be beaten with rods. ²³ And having laid many blows on them, they cast them into prison, having charged the jailer to keep them securely,

³³ And having taken them in that hour of the night, he washed them from the wounds, and immediately he was baptized, and all his household.

³⁷ But Paul was saying to them, “Having beaten us publicly, uncondemned men being Romans, they cast us into prison, and now do they throw us out secretly? No indeed! Instead, having come themselves, let them bring us out.”

²⁴ The commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, having directed him to be examined by flogging, so that he might know for what cause they were crying out against him like this.

¹ Now when our sailing to Italy was determined, they delivered both Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the cohort of Augustus. ² And having boarded a ship of Adramyttium being about to sail to the places along Asia, we set sail—Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. ³ And the next day we landed at Sidon. And Julius, having treated Paul considerately, allowed him, having gone to his friends, to receive care. ⁴ And having set sail from there, we sailed under Cyprus because of the winds being contrary. ⁵ And having sailed across the sea and along Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra of Lycia. ⁶ And there the centurion, having found a ship of Alexandria sailing to Italy, placed us into it. ⁷ Now sailing slowly for many days, and with difficulty having arrived off Cnidus, the wind not permitting us, we sailed under Crete, off Salmone. ⁸ And coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near to which was the city of Lasea. ⁹ Now much time having passed, and the voyage being already dangerous because of even the Fast already being over, Paul was admonishing them, ¹⁰ saying to them, “Men, I understand that the voyage is about to be filled with disaster and much loss, not only of the cargo and of the ship, but also of our lives.” ¹¹ But the centurion was persuaded by the pilot and the ship owner, rather than by the things spoken by Paul. ¹² And the harbor being unsuitable to winter in, the majority reached a decision to set sail from there, if somehow they might be able, having arrived at Phoenix—a harbor of Crete looking toward the southwest and toward the northwest—to winter there. ¹³ Now a south wind having blown gently, having thought to have obtained the purpose, having weighed anchor, they began coasting along very near Crete. ¹⁴ But not long after, there came down from it a tempestuous wind called the Northeaster. ¹⁵ And the ship having been caught and not being able to face to the wind, having given way, we were driven along. ¹⁶ And having run under a certain island called Cauda, we were able with difficulty to gain control of the lifeboat, ¹⁷ which having taken up, they began using supports, undergirding the ship. And fearing lest they should fall into the sandbars of Syrtis, having lowered the gear, thus they were driven along. ¹⁸ And we being storm-tossed violently, on the next day they began to make a jettison of cargo, ¹⁹ and on the third day they cast away the tackle of the ship with the own hands. ²⁰ And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no small tempest lying on us, from then on all hope of our being saved was abandoned. ²¹ There being also much time without food, at that time having stood up in their midst, Paul said, “It behooved you indeed, O men, having been obedient to me, not to have set sail from Crete and to have incurred this disaster and loss. ²² And yet now I exhort you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life from among you, only of the ship. ²³ For this night an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me, ²⁴ saying, ‘Fear not, Paul. It behooves you to stand before Caesar. And behold, God has granted to you all those sailing with you.’ ²⁵ Therefore take heart, men, for I believe God that it will be thus, according to the way it has been said to me. ²⁶ But it behooves us to fall upon a certain island.” ²⁷ And when the fourteenth night had come, of us being driven about in the Adriatic, toward the middle of the night the sailors began sensing some land to be drawing near to them. ²⁸ And having taken soundings, they found twenty fathoms. Then having gone a little farther and having taken soundings again, they found fifteen fathoms. ²⁹ And fearing lest we might fall somewhere on rocky places, having cast four anchors out of the stern, they were praying for day to come. ³⁰ And of the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship and having let down the lifeboat into the sea under pretense as being about to cast out anchors from the bow, ³¹ Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these remain in the ship, you are not able to be saved.” ³² Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the lifeboat, and allowed her to fall away. ³³ And until that day was about to come, Paul kept urging all to partake of food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day you continue watching without eating, having taken nothing. ³⁴ Therefore I exhort you to take food, for this is for your preservation; for not one hair of your head will perish.” ³⁵ Now having said these things and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God before all; and having broken it, he began to eat. ³⁶ And all, having been encouraged, also took food themselves. ³⁷ And we were altogether two hundred seventy-six souls in the ship. ³⁸ Then having been filled with food, they began to lighten the ship, casting out the wheat into the sea. ³⁹ And when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay, having a shore on which they determined to drive the ship if they should be able. ⁴⁰ And having cut away the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time having loosened the ropes of the rudders. And having hoisted the foresail to the blowing wind, they began making for the shore. ⁴¹ But having fallen into a place between two seas, they ran the vessel aground. And indeed the bow, having stuck fast, remained immovable, and the stern was being broken up by the violence of the waves. ⁴² Now the plan of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest anyone, having swum away, should escape. ⁴³ But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, hindered them of the purpose; and he commanded those being able to swim, having cast themselves off first, to go out on the land, ⁴⁴ and the rest, some indeed on boards, and some on things from the ship. And thus it came to pass that all were brought safely to the land.

²³ Now when many days had passed, the Jews plotted together to kill him, ²⁴ but their plot became known to Saul. And now they were closely watching the gates day and also night, so that they might kill him. ²⁵ But having taken him by night, his disciples let him down through the wall, having lowered him in a basket. ²⁶ And having arrived in Jerusalem, he was attempting to join the disciples, and all were afraid of him, not believing that he is a disciple. ²⁷ But Barnabas having taken him, brought him to the apostles and related to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus. ²⁸ And he was coming in and going out with them in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of Lord. ²⁹ And he was speaking and was debating with the Hellenists. But they were seeking to kill him. ³⁰ But the brothers having known it, brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

²⁵ And he went forth to Tarsus to seek Saul, ²⁶ and having found him, he brought him to Antioch. Now it came to pass that they also gathered together an entire year in the church, and taught a large crowd. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.

¹ Now there were prophets and teachers in Antioch in the church being there, both Barnabas and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. ² Now as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart then to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” ³ Then having fasted and having prayed and having laid the hands on them, they sent them off. ⁴ Therefore indeed having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and they sailed from there to Cyprus. ⁵ And having come into Salamis, they began proclaiming the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they also had John as a helper. ⁶ Now having passed through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus, ⁷ who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. He, having summoned Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the word of God. ⁸ But Elymas the magician (for his name means thus) was opposing them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith. ⁹ And Saul, the one also called Paul, having been filled the Holy Spirit, having looked intently upon him, ¹⁰ said, “O full of all deceit and all craft, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways the of Lord? ¹¹ And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun during a season.” And immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and going about, he was seeking someone to lead him by the hand. ¹² Then the proconsul, having seen that having happened, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord. ¹³ And those around Paul, having sailed from Paphos, came to Perga of Pamphylia. But John, having departed from them, returned to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ Now having passed through from Perga, they came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbaths, they sat down.

⁵⁰ But the Jews incited the worshipping women of honorable position and the principals of the city, and they stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their district.

² Having been brought about, then, no small commotion and discussion by Paul and Barnabas with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas and certain others out from them to go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders, about this question. ³ Therefore indeed having been sent forward by the church, they were passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, relating in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and they were bringing great joy to all the brothers. ⁴ And having come to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders. And they declared all that God had done with them.

⁴⁰ But Paul, having chosen Silas, went forth, having been committed to the grace of the Lord by the brothers.

⁵ Now the Jews having become jealous, and having taken to them certain wicked men of the market-loungers, and having collected a crowd, set the city in uproar. And having assailed the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring out to the people.

¹⁸ Now Paul, having remained many days more, having taken leave of the brothers, sailed away to Syria—and with him Priscilla and Aquila—having shaved the head in Cenchrea, for he had a vow. ¹⁹ Now they came to Ephesus, and left them there. And he himself having entered into the synagogue, reasoned with the Jews. ²⁰ Now of them asking him to remain for a longer time, he did not consent, ²¹ but having taken leave and having said, “I will return to you again, God willing,” he sailed from Ephesus, ²² and having landed at Caesarea, having gone up and having greeted the church, he went down to Antioch. ²³ And having stayed some time, he went forth, passing successively through the Galatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

¹ Now it came to pass, while Apollos was in Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper parts to come to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples,

²³ Now at the same time no small disturbance arose concerning the Way.

¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility and tears, and trials having befallen me in the plots of the Jews;

²⁷ Now when the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews from Asia, having seen him in the temple, began stirring up the whole crowd and laid the hands upon him, ²⁸ crying out, “Men, Israelites, help! This is the man teaching all those everywhere against the people and the Law and this place. And besides, he has also brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.” ²⁹ For it was they having previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, whom they were supposing that Paul had brought into the temple. ³⁰ And the whole city was provoked, and there was a rushing together of the people. And having laid hold of Paul, they dragged him outside the temple, and immediately the doors were shut. ³¹ And of them seeking to kill him, a report came to the commander of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in an uproar,

¹⁰ And great dissension arising, the commander, having feared lest Paul should be torn to pieces by them, commanded the troop, having gone down, to take him by force from their midst and to bring him into the barracks.

¹² Then when it was day, the Jews having made a conspiracy, put themselves under an oath, declaring neither to eat nor to drink until they should kill Paul. ¹³ Now there were more than forty having made this conspiracy, ¹⁴ who, having come to the chief priests and the elders, said, “We have bound ourselves with an oath to eat nothing until we should kill Paul. ¹⁵ Now therefore you with the Council make a report to the commander, so that he might bring him down to you, as being about to examine more earnestly the things about him. And we are ready to kill him before his drawing near.” ¹⁶ But the son of Paul’s sister, having heard of the ambush, having come near and having entered into the barracks, reported it to Paul. ¹⁷ Then Paul, having summoned one of the centurions, was saying, “Take this young man to the commander, for he has something to report to him.” ¹⁸ So indeed the one having taken him brought him to the commander, and he says, “Paul the prisoner, having called to me, asked me to lead this young man to you, having something to say to you.” ¹⁹ Then the commander, having taken hold of his hand and having withdrawn in private, began to inquire, “What is it that you have to report to me?” ²⁰ And he said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you that you might bring down Paul into the Council tomorrow, as being about to inquire something more earnestly about him. ²¹ You therefore should not be persuaded by them. For more than forty of their men lie in wait for him, who have put themselves under an oath neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him; and now they are ready, awaiting the promise from you.” ²² So indeed the commander dismissed the young man, having instructed him, “Tell no one that you have reported these things to me.”

³ asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, forming an ambush to kill him on the way.

¹⁰ who also honored us with many honors, and on setting sail, they laid on us the things for our needs. ¹¹ Then after three months, we sailed in an Alexandrian ship having wintered in the island, with a figurehead of the Dioscuri.

¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so as for me, from Jerusalem and around unto Illyricum, to have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ,

²⁴ whenever I may go to Spain, I hope indeed, going through, to see you and to be equipped there by you, if first I should be filled of you in part. ²⁵ But now I am going to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints. ²⁶ For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. ²⁷ For they were pleased, and they are debtors of them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in the material things. ²⁸ Therefore having finished this, and having sealed this fruit to them, I will set off through you into Spain.

³² If according to man I fought wild beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and let us drink, for tomorrow we die.”

⁸ For we do not want you to be ignorant brothers, as to our affliction having happened in Asia, that we were weighed against excessively, beyond our power, so as for us to despair even to live.

³² In Damascus the governor under the king Aretas was guarding the city of the Damascenes to seize me.

¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia and returned again to Damascus. ¹⁸ Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to make acquaintance with Cephas, and I remained with him fifteen days. ¹⁹ But I saw none of the other apostles, only James, the Lord’s brother. ²⁰ Now in what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie. ²¹ Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

¹⁵ who having killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and having driven us out, and not pleasing God, are also set against all men, ¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, so as always to fill up their sins. Now the wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

² Now as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart then to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” ³ Then having fasted and having prayed and having laid the hands on them, they sent them off.

²³ Now having chosen elders for them in every church, having prayed, with fasting they committed them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.

⁵ But these, having gone ahead, waited for us in Troas. ⁶ And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of the Unleavened Bread, and within five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed seven days. ⁷ And on the first day of the week, of us having come together to break bread, Paul, about to depart on the next day, talked to them and continued the talk until midnight. ⁸ Now there were many lamps in the upper room where we were assembled. ⁹ And a certain young man named Eutychus was sitting by the window, overpowered by deep sleep as Paul talked on longer. Having been overpowered by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead. ¹⁰ But Paul having descended, fell upon him, and having embraced him, he said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him!” ¹¹ And having gone up, and having broken the bread, and having eaten, and having talked at length until daybreak, so he departed.

³¹ Therefore stay awake, remembering that three years night and day I never ceased admonishing each one with tears.

³⁴ You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my needs and to those being with me. ³⁵ In everything I showed you that by thus straining, it behooves us to aid those being weak, and also to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, ‘It is more Blessed to give than to receive.’”

³⁵ Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ³⁶ As it has been written: “For Your sake we face death all the day; we were regarded as sheep of slaughter.”

⁵ Do not deprive one another, except by mutual agreement, for a time, that you might be at leisure for prayer; and be together the same again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

⁵ in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

¹² I know also how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In everything, and in all things, I have learned the secret also to be full and to hunger, also to abound and to be deficient.

¹⁵ Now if a brother or a sister is without clothes and lacking of daily food, ¹⁶ and anyone out from you says to them, “Go in peace; be warmed and be filled,” but does not give to them the needful things for the body, what is the profit?

³⁶ Now after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, “Indeed, having turned back, let us look after the brothers, how they are, in every city in which we have announced the word of the Lord.”

⁴⁰ But Paul, having chosen Silas, went forth, having been committed to the grace of the Lord by the brothers. ⁴¹ And he was passing through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

²³ And having stayed some time, he went forth, passing successively through the Galatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

² And having passed through those districts and having exhorted them with much talk, he came to Greece.

¹⁸ And when they had come to him, he said to them, “You know from the first day on which I arrived in Asia, how I was with you the whole time, ¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility and tears, and trials having befallen me in the plots of the Jews; ²⁰ how I did not shrink back from declaring to you anything being profitable, and teaching you publicly and from house to house, ²¹ earnestly testifying both to the Jewish and to Greeks repentance in God and faith in our Lord Jesus. ²² And now behold, bound in the Spirit I go to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me in it, ²³ except that the Holy Spirit fully testifies to me in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me. ²⁴ But I make my life neither dear nor any account to myself, so as to finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus: to testify fully the gospel of the grace of God. ²⁵ And now, behold, I know that all of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face no more. ²⁶ Therefore I testify to you in this day that I am innocent of the blood of all. ²⁷ For I did not shrink back from proclaiming to you the whole counsel of God. ²⁸ Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has set you overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with the own blood. ²⁹ I know that after my departure, grievous wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock, ³⁰ and out from your own selves, men will rise up, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them. ³¹ Therefore stay awake, remembering that three years night and day I never ceased admonishing each one with tears. ³² And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, being able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those having been sanctified. ³³ I coveted nobody’s silver or gold or clothing.

¹⁴ I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and the foolish.

¹³ Now I am speaking to you the Gentiles. Therefore indeed inasmuch as I am apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

¹⁶ for me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, administering the sacred service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might become acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy Spirit.

⁴ who have lain down their neck for my life, whom not only I thank, but also all the churches of the Gentiles—

¹⁷ Nevertheless, as the Lord has assigned to each, as God has called to each, so let him walk. And thus I prescribe in all the churches.

¹ For I want you to know how great a struggle I am having for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it is written: “The zeal of Your house will consume Me.”

¹⁵ to rejoice with the rejoicing, to weep with the weeping;

¹ Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak and not to please ourselves.

¹ Sexual immorality is actually reported among you, and sexual immorality such as is not even among the pagans, so as for one to have the wife of the father. ² And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that the one having done this deed might be taken out of your midst! ³ For I, though being absent in body, now being present in spirit, have already judged the one having thus produced this, as being present, ⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus, of you having been gathered together and of me in spirit, with the power of the Lord Jesus, ⁵ to deliver such a one to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

⁵ I say this to you for shame. Thus is there not one wise man among you who will be able to decide in between his brother? ⁶ Instead, brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers! ⁷ Therefore indeed it is already altogether a defeat for you that you have lawsuits among one another. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Having taken then the members of the Christ, shall I make them members of a prostitute? Never may it be! ¹⁶ Or do you not know that the one being joined to the prostitute is one body? For it says, “The two will become into one flesh.” ¹⁷ But the one being joined to the Lord is one spirit. ¹⁸ Flee sexual immorality. Every sin, whatever if a man might do, is outside the body, but the one sinning sexually sins against the own body.

¹³ Therefore, if food snares my brother, never shall not I eat meat to the age, so that I might not snare my brother.

²² To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all these things to all, so that by all means I might save some.

²² What! Have you no houses in which to eat and to drink? Or do you despise the church of God and put to shame those having nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you!

²⁶ And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

¹² Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised out from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁴ And if Christ has not been raised, then also our preaching is void, and your faith is void. ¹⁵ Then also we are found false witnesses of God, because we have witnessed concerning God that He raised up Christ, whom He has not raised if then the dead are not raised. ¹⁶ For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Also then those having fallen asleep in Christ have perished. ¹⁹ If only in this life we are having hope in Christ, we are more to be pitied than all men. ²⁰ But now Christ has been raised out from the dead, the firstfruit of those having fallen asleep. ²¹ For since death came by a man, so also by a man has come the resurrection of the dead. ²² For as indeed in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. ²³ But each in the own order: Christ the firstfruit, then those of Christ at His coming, ²⁴ then the end, when He shall hand over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He shall have annulled all dominion, and all authority and power. ²⁵ For it behooves Him to reign until He shall have put all the enemies under His feet. ²⁶ The last enemy to be abolished is death. ²⁷ For “He has put in subjection all things under His feet.” But when it may be said that all things have been put in subjection, it is evident that the One having put in subjection all things to Him is excepted. ²⁸ Now when all things shall have been put in subjection to Him, then also the Son Himself will be put in subjection to the One having put in subjection all things to Him, so that God may be all in all. ²⁹ Otherwise what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why also are they baptized for them? ³⁰ And why are we in danger every hour? ³¹ I die every day, as surely as the boasting in you, brothers, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. ³² If according to man I fought wild beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and let us drink, for tomorrow we die.” ³³ Do not be misled: “Bad companionships corrupt good morals.” ³⁴ Sober up righteously and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak to your shame.

³⁶ You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you through many tears, not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you. ⁵ But if anyone has caused grief, he not grieved me, but—in part, that I might not put it too severely—you all.

⁵ And indeed, of us having come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest; but we are being pressed in every way: conflicts on the outside, fears within. ⁶ But God, the One comforting the downcast, encouraged us by the coming of Titus,

⁹ For we rejoice when we might be weak, but you might be strong. But this also we pray: for your perfection.

⁷ which is not another, except there are some who are troubling you and are desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ. ⁸ But even if we or an angel out of heaven should preach a gospel to you contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let him be accursed! ⁹ As we have said before, even now I say again: If anyone is preaching a gospel to you contrary to what you received, let him be accursed! ¹⁰ For presently do I seek approval of men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

⁴ even because of the false brothers brought in secretly, who came in by stealth to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus that they will enslave us, ⁵ to whom we did not yield in subjection for even an hour, so that truth of the gospel would be preserved with you. ⁶ Now of those esteemed to be something, whatsoever they were formerly makes no difference to me. God does not accept the person of a man—for the esteemed added nothing to me.

¹⁴ But when I saw that they are not walking in line according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before all, “If you being a Jew live like a Gentile, and not like a Jew, why do you compel the Gentiles to Judaize?

¹ O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as having been crucified? ² I wish only to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the Law or by hearing of faith? ³ Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being perfected in the flesh?

⁸ But at that time indeed, not knowing God, you were enslaved to those by nature not being gods. ⁹ But now, having known God, but rather having been known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and destitute principles, to which you desire to be enslaved again anew? ¹⁰ You observe days and months and seasons and years. ¹¹ I fear for you, lest perhaps I have toiled for you in vain. ¹² I implore you, brothers, become as I am, because I also have become as you. You have wronged me in nothing. ¹³ Now you know that in weakness of the flesh I proclaimed the gospel the first time to you. ¹⁴ And of your test in my flesh, you did not despise me nor reject me with contempt, but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ What has become then of your blessedness? For I bear witness to you that, if possible, having gouged out your eyes, you would have given them to me. ¹⁶ So have I become your enemy speaking truth to you? ¹⁷ They zealously seek you, not rightly. But they desire to isolate you from us, so that you might be zealous after them. ¹⁸ Now it is good to be zealous in a right thing, at all times and not only in my being present with you. ¹⁹ My children, of whom I travail again until that Christ shall have been formed in you, ²⁰ I was wishing indeed to be present with you presently and to change my tone, because I am perplexed as to you.

² Behold, I Paul say to you that if you shall become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. ³ Now again I testify to every man receiving circumcision that he is a debtor to keep the whole Law. ⁴ Whoever are being justified in the Law, you are severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

² Bear one another’s burdens and thus you will fulfill the law of Christ.

⁵ Because of this I also, enduring no longer, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow the one tempting had tempted you, and our labor would be in vain. ⁶ But presently, Timothy having come to us from you and having brought good news to us of your faith and love, and that always you have a good remembrance of us, longing to see us just as also we you, ⁷ because of this, brothers, we were encouraged as to you in all our distress and tribulation, through your faith. ⁸ For now we live, if you are standing firm in the Lord.

³ Beloved, using all diligence to write to you concerning our common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith having been delivered once for all to the saints. ⁴ For certain men came in stealthily, those having been designated long ago unto this condemnation, ungodly ones changing the grace of our God into sensuality and denying our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you would be cold or hot. ¹⁶ So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of My mouth. ¹⁷ For you say, ‘I am rich, and I have grown rich, and I have need of nothing.’ And you do not realize that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. ¹⁸ I counsel you to buy from Me gold having been refined by fire so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may be clothed and the shame your of nakedness might not be made manifest, and eye-salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

³ And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

¹⁶ Again I say, no one should think me to be a fool; but if otherwise, receive me even as a fool, that I also may boast a little. ¹⁷ What I am saying in this confidence of boasting, I am not saying according to the Lord, but as in foolishness. ¹⁸ Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.

¹ It behooves me to boast; it is not profitable indeed, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

⁵ Concerning such a man I will boast; but concerning myself I will not boast, except in the weaknesses. ⁶ For if I should desire to boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should credit to me more than what he sees in me, or anyone hears of me, ⁷ and the surpassingness of the revelations. Therefore, that I should not become conceited, a thorn in my flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, that he might buffet me, so that I should not become conceited. ⁸ Three times I begged the Lord for this, that it might depart from me. ⁹ And He said to me, “My grace suffices you, for the power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore will I boast rather most gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. ¹⁰ Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, and difficulties for Christ; for when I might be weak, then I am strong. ¹¹ I have become a fool; you compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you, for in no way was I inferior to those “most eminent apostles,” even though I am nothing.

³⁰ I and the Father are one.”

¹⁷ Jesus says to her, “Do not touch Me, for not yet have I ascended to the Father. Now go to My brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’”

²⁵ who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and reverenced and served the created thing beyond the One having created it, who is blessed to the ages! Amen.

⁵ whose are the patriarchs; and from whom is Christ according to the flesh, being God over all, blessed to the ages. Amen.

⁶ so that with one accord, with one mouth, you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions, and God of all comfort,

¹¹ Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

² and all the brothers with me, To the churches of Galatia: ³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the One having blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms,

¹⁴ ... for reason of this I bow my knees to the Father,

³ We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying continually for you,

¹¹ according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

¹⁷ Now to the King of the ages, the immortal, invisible, only God, be honor and glory to the ages of the ages. Amen.

¹⁶ alone having immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no one of men has seen nor is able to see, to whom be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the One according to His great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ out from the dead,

²⁴ but their plot became known to Saul. And now they were closely watching the gates day and also night, so that they might kill him. ²⁵ But having taken him by night, his disciples let him down through the wall, having lowered him in a basket.

²⁶ in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers; in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles; in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers;

²⁵ But having taken him by night, his disciples let him down through the wall, having lowered him in a basket.