1 Corinthians 6 Cross References - CLV

¹ Dare any of you, having business with another, be judged before the unjust, and not before the saints? ² Or are you not aware that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is being judged by you, are you unworthy of the least tribunals? ³ Are you not aware that we shall be judging messengers, not to mention life's affairs? ⁴ If indeed, then, you should have tribunals for life's affairs, the contemptible in the ecclesia, these you are seating? ⁵ To abash you am I saying this. Thus is there not among you one wise man who will be able to adjudicate amidst his brethren, ⁶ but brother is suing brother, and this before unbelievers!" ⁷ Already, indeed, then, it is absolutely a discomfiture for you that you are having lawsuits among yourselves. Wherefore are you not rather being injured? Wherefore are you not rather being cheated? ⁸ But you are injuring and cheating, and this to brethren!" ⁹ Or are you not aware that the unjust shall not be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom? Be not deceived. Neither paramours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards; no revilers, no extortioners shall be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom." ¹¹ And some of you were these, but you are bathed off, but you are hallowed, but you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God." ¹² All is allowed me, but not all is expedient. All is allowed me, but I will not be put under its authority by anything." ¹³ Foods for the bowels and the bowels for foods, yet God will be discarding these as well as those. Now the body is not for prostitution, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body." ¹⁴ Now God rouses the Lord also, and will be rousing us up through His power." ¹⁵ Are you not aware that your bodies are members of Christ? Taking, then, the members of Christ away, should I be making them members of a prostitute? May it not be coming to that!" ¹⁶ Or are you not aware that he who joins a prostitute is one body? For, He is averring, the two will be one flesh." ¹⁷ Now he who joins the Lord is one spirit. ¹⁸ Flee from prostitution. The penalty of every sin, whatsoever a man should be doing, is outside of the body, yet he who is committing prostitution is sinning against his own body." ¹⁹ Or are you not aware that your body is a temple of the holy spirit in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own? ²⁰ For you are bought with a price. By all means glorify God in your body.

²⁴ Therefore a man shall forsake his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and they two become one flesh.

⁷ And coming is a contention between the graziers of Abram's cattle and the graziers of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite are then dwelling in the land. ⁸ And saying is Abram to Lot, "There must not, pray, come to be contention between me and you, and between my graziers and your graziers, for mortals, brethren are we. ⁹ Is not the entire land before you? Be parted, pray, from me. If to the left, to the right will I go. And if to the right, to the left will I go.

⁵ And calling are they to Lot, and saying to him, "Where are the mortals who came to you tonight? Bring them forth to us, and we will know them.

³¹ Yet saying are they, "As with a prostitute may he deal with our sister?

¹⁵ And seeing her is Judah, and is accounting her to be a prostitute, for she covers her face, and he did not recognize her.

²⁴ And coming is it, about three months from this, that it is being told Judah, saying, "Your daughter-in-law Thamar commits prostitution, and moreover, behold! Pregnant is she by prostitutions.And saying is Judah, "Bring her forth, and burned shall she be.

¹² And grasping him is she by his cloak, saying, "Lie with me!"And leaving is he his cloak in her hand, and fleeing, and faring forth outside. ¹³ And coming is it, as she sees that he leaves his cloak in her hand and is fleeing and faring forth outside, ¹⁴ that calling is she to the mortals of her household and is speaking to them, saying, "See! He brings to us a man, a Hebrew to laugh at us. He comes to me saying, `Lie with me,' and calling am I with a loud voice. <sup>15</sup> And coming is it, as he hears that I raise high my voice and am calling, that he is leaving his cloak beside me and is fleeing and faring forth outside. <sup>16</sup> And leaving is she his cloak beside her till his lord comes to his house. <sup>17</sup> And speaking is she to him according to these words, saying, "There came to me the Hebrew servant whom you brought to us, to laugh at me, and said to me, `Lie with me.. ¹⁸ And coming is it, as I raise high my voice and am calling, that he is leaving his cloak beside me and is fleeing and is faring forth outside.

¹⁷ And saying is Joseph, "Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the beaker was found, he shall become my servant. And you, go in peace to your father.

²⁴ And sending is he his brothers and they are going. And saying is he to them, "You must not be disturbed on the way.

¹ You shall not carry a futile report; do not set your hand with the wicked to become a malicious witness.

²² With a male you shall not lie as if going to bed with a woman. This is an abhorrence.

¹³ You shall not extort from your associate, nor shall you pillage. The wage of a hireling shall not lodge with you until morning.

¹⁵ You shall not do iniquity in judgment; you shall not lift up the face of the poor nor honor the face of the great. In righteousness shall you judge your companion.

³⁵ You shall not do iniquity in judgment of standards in measure, in weight or in quantity. ³⁶ Just scales, just stone weights, a just ephah and a just hin shall you come to have:I, Yahweh, am your Elohim Who brought you forth from the land of Egypt.

¹³ As for a man who lies with a male as if going to bed with a woman, they do an abhorrence. The two of them shall be put to death, yea death; their bloodguilt will be on them.

⁵ A master's apparel shall neither come to be on a woman, nor shall a master put on a woman's garment, for anyone doing these things is an abhorrence to Yahweh your Elohim.

¹⁷ There shall come to be neither a cult-prostitute from the daughters of Israel, nor shall there come to be a cult-prostitute from the sons of Israel.

¹³ You shall not come to have in your purse a stone and another stone, a large and a small. ¹⁴ You shall not come to have in your house an ephah and another ephah, a large and a small. ¹⁵ You shall come to have a standard weight equitable and just; you shall come to have an ephah equitable and just, that your days may be prolonged on the ground that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you. ¹⁶ For anyone doing these things, anyone doing iniquity, is an abhorrence to Yahweh your Elohim.

¹ And Samson goes to Gaza, and sees there a woman, a harlot, and goes in unto her;"

²² They are making their heart glad, and lo, men of the city, men--sons of worthlessness--have gone round about the house, beating on the door, and they speak unto the old man, the master of the house, saying, `Bring out the man who has come unto your house, and we know him..

⁴ And the king of Israel answers and said, `According to your word, my lord, O king:I [am] your, and all that I have..

¹⁴ yea, because, who [am] I, and who [are] my people, that we retain power to offer thus willingly? but of You [is] the whole, and out of Your hand we have given to You;"

⁸ and say to them, `We have acquired our brethren the Jews, those sold to the nations, according to the ability that [is] in us, and you also sell your brethren, and they have been sold to us!' and they are silent, and have not found a word. <sup>9</sup> And I say, `Not good [is] the thing that you are doing; in the fear of our Elohim do you not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

⁴ Who say, With our tongue we shall have mastery; Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?

¹⁴ From such men by Your hand, O Yahweh, From such men of transience; Their portion is in this life, And You fill their belly with what You have stored up; They are satisfied with sons, And they leave their surplus to their descendants."

¹⁴ Like the flock, they are set for the unseen; Death, it shall graze on them. The upright shall sway over them in the morning; Their form is for decay, the unseen their residence."

¹⁷ For you, you hate admonition, And you fling My words behind you." ¹⁸ If you see a thief, you approve of him, And your portion is with those committing adultery."

² Rinse me abundantly from my depravity, And from my sin cleanse me."

⁷ Expiate me with the hyssop, and I shall be clean; Rinse me, and I shall be whiter than snow."

³ Know that Yahweh, He is Elohim; He it is Who has made us, and we are His. His people are we and the flock of His pasture."

¹ {A Song of Ascents, Davidic{ Behold, how good and how pleasant For brothers to dwell as one." ² It is like the good oil upon the head, Descending upon the beard, Aaron's beard, which is descending over the slit of his coats." ³ It is like the night mist of Hermon, Which is descending upon the mountain ranges of Zion, For there Yahweh has determined the blessing to be, Life for the eon."

⁵ May the benign ones be joyous in this glory; May they be jubilant upon their beds. ⁶ May exaltations of El be in their throat And a serrated sword in their hand, ⁷ To execute vengeance on the nations, Corrections on the national groups;" ⁸ To bind their kings with manacles And their glorious nobles with fetters of iron, ⁹ To execute the written judgment against them, This is the honor of all His benign ones. Praise Yah."

⁵ Then you shall understand the fear of Yahweh, And you shall find the knowledge of God."

⁸ So as to preserve the paths of judgment, And so He may guard the way of His benign ones." ⁹ Then you shall understand righteousness and right judgment, And you shall be upright in every good route;" ¹⁰ For wisdom shall come into your heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant to your soul."

¹⁶ This will also rescue you from the strange woman, Or from the foreign woman who makes her words slick, ¹⁷ Who forsakes the mentor of her youth, And who forgets the covenant of her Elohim." ¹⁸ For she slips down to death with her house And her routes to the Rephaim; ¹⁹ All who enter it shall not return, Nor shall they overtake the paths of life."

³ For the lips of a strange woman drop as the honeycomb, And the words of her palate are slicker than oil." ⁴ Yet the aftereffect from her is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword." ⁵ Her feet are descending to death; To the unseen her steps hold firm. ⁶ Lest you should ponder the path of life, Her routes rove about, yet you know not where." ⁷ So now, my sons, hearken to me, And do not withdraw from the sayings of my mouth." ⁸ Keep your way far from her; Do not go near to the portal of her house, ⁹ Lest you should give your splendor to others And your years to the cruel one, ¹⁰ Lest aliens should surfeit themselves on your vigor And on your grievous labors in the house of a foreigner, ¹¹ And you have anguish in your latter days When your flesh and your brawn are exhausted, ¹² And you say, How I have hated discipline, And my heart has spurned correction!" ¹³ I have not hearkened to the voice of those directing my instruction, And to those teaching me I have not stretched out my ear;" ¹⁴ Soon I came to be in entire peril In the midst of the assembly and the congregation. ¹⁵ Drink water from your own cistern, And the flowings from the midst of your own well;"

²⁴ To keep you from the evil woman, From the slick tongue of the foreign woman." ²⁵ Do not covet after her loveliness in your heart, And do not let her captivate you with her eyelids." ²⁶ For a woman of prostitution hunts for a cake of bread, Yet the adulterous wife of a man hunts the precious soul." ²⁷ Can a man bank a fire in his bosom And his garments not be burned? ²⁸ Or can a man walk on embers And his feet not be scorched? ²⁹ So is he who comes to the wife of his associate; Anyone who touches her shall not be held innocent. ³⁰ Men do not despise a thief when he steals In order to fill his soul's needs when he is famishing, ³¹ Yet when he is found, he shall repay sevenfold Though he must give up all the wealth of his house." ³² But he who commits adultery with another's wife has lack of heart wisdom; He is causing ruin to his soul who does it.

⁵ In order to keep you from the strange woman, From the foreign woman who makes her sayings slick." ⁶ For at the window of my house I gazed out through my latticed oriel, ⁷ And I saw among the simple, I detected among the sons, A youth who had lack of heart wisdom." ⁸ He was passing along the road beside her corner, And he stepped the way to her house, ⁹ In the gloaming at the evening of the day, In the tranquil night and the gloom;" ¹⁰ And behold, a woman came out to meet him In the burnoose of a prostitute and constricted of heart." ¹¹ She is clamorous and stubborn; Her feet never tabernacle at her home; ¹² At times in the street, at times in the squares, And beside every corner she waits in ambush." ¹³ She held him fast and kissed him; She set her face with impudence and said to him: ¹⁴ The sacrifices of peace offerings were due from me; Today I paid my vows. ¹⁵ Therefore, I came forth to meet you, To seek your face early, and I have found you." ¹⁶ I have decorated my divan with decorative covers, With bedspreads of Egyptian yarn." ¹⁷ I have wafted my bed with myrrh, Aloes and cinnamon." ¹⁸ Do come, let us satiate ourselves with affection until the morning; Let us make ourselves joyous with love expressions." ¹⁹ For the husband is not in his home; He has gone on his way afar. ²⁰ He took a pouch of silver in his hand, And he shall come back to his home only with the day of full moon." ²¹ She turned him aside with her great influence; With slick words on her lips she induced him. ²² Suddenly he was going after her, Like a bull that comes to the slaughter, Like a calf to the bonds of foolish creatures, ²³ Until an arrow thrusts through his liver, As through a bird that hastened to the snare When it did not know that it was set for its soul." ²⁴ Now then, my sons, hearken to me, And attend to the sayings of my mouth." ²⁵ Do not let your heart swerve to her ways; Do not stray into her tracks. ²⁶ For many are the mortally wounded she has cast down, And plentiful are all those killed by her." ²⁷ Her house is a road to the unseen, One descending to the chambers of death."

¹⁶ Let whoever is simple withdraw hither, And whoever has lack of heart wisdom; And she says to him:" ¹⁷ Stolen water is sweet, And bread eaten in concealments is pleasant." ¹⁸ But he does not know that the Rephaim are there, That those she has called are in the depths of the unseen."

¹ Deceitful scales are an abhorrence to Yahweh, Yet an equitable standard weight is acceptable to Him."

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent man is to give consideration to his way, Yet the folly of the stupid is self-deceit."

²² Do not say, I shall repay for evil; Be expectant toward Yahweh, and He shall save you."

⁸ He who sows iniquity shall reap sorrow, And the club of his rage shall fail."

¹² A breed of men that are clean in their own eyes Yet are not washed from their filth;

¹⁶ Wash yourselves! Purge yourselves! Take away the evil of your actions from in front of My eyes!

²³ Your chiefs are stubborn, and partners of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe, and pursues payments. The orphan they are not judging. And the contention of the widow is not coming to them."

¹ Woe to the statute makers of lawless statutes! And writings iniquitous they write, ² to turn the poor aside from adjudication, and to pillage in judgment the humble of My people, for widows to become their loot, and orphans are they plundering."

²⁵ In Yahweh shall they be just, and in Elohim all the seed of Israel shall boast."

¹¹ From the toil of His soul shall He see light. And He shall be satisfied by His knowledge. My righteous Servant shall justify many, and with their depravities shall He be burdened."

⁷ Forsake shall the wicked one his way, and the lawless man his devices, and he shall return to Yahweh, and He will have compassion on him, and to our Elohim, for he will increasingly pardon your sins."

¹⁴ Wash from evil your heart, O Jerusalem, That you may be saved, Till when do you lodge in your heart Thoughts of your strength?

¹¹ A den of burglars has this house, On which My name is called, been in your eyes? Even I, lo, I have seen, an affirmation of Yahweh."

¹³ And lo, I have smitten My hand, Because of your dishonest gain that you have gained, And for your blood that has been in your midst."

²⁷ Its princes in its midst [are] as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain."

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed--without judgment."

²⁵ And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And you have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you."

¹⁸ Yet the saints of the supremacies shall receive the kingdom and they will safeguard the kingdom unto the eon, even unto the eon of the eons."

²² till the Transferrer of Days arrives, and adjudication is granted to the saints of the supremacies, and the stated time is reached, and the kingdom is safeguarded by the saints."

² To these they apportion their heart; now they shall be guilty. He shall denude their altars; He shall devastate their monuments.

² And they covet fields and snatch them, and houses, and bear them away, and they extort the master and his house, the man and his allotment."

³ And he is saying to me, This is the execration which is faring forth over the surface of the entire land, for every thief, henceforth as death doomed shall be visited with vengeance, and every swearer, henceforth as death doomed shall be visited with vengeance."

⁵ And the ravine of My mountains is stopped up for the ravine of the mountains shall touch to Azal. And it is stopped up just as it was stopped up from before the quake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. And Yahweh, my Elohim, shall come, and all the saints with Him."

⁵ Then I will come near to you for judgment, and become a hastening witness against the enchanters and against the adulterers, and against those who are swearing in My name to falsehood, and against those extorting the hire of the hireling, and those tyrannizing over the widow and taunting the orphan, and turning aside the sojourner, and do not fear Me, says Yahweh of hosts."

¹⁶ Thus let shine your light in front of men, so that they may perceive your ideal acts and should glorify your Father Who is in the heavens.

³⁹ Yet I am saying to you not to withstand a wicked person, but anyone who slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. ⁴⁰ And he who wants to sue you and obtain your tunic, leave him your cloak also. ⁴¹ And anyone who conscripts you one mile, go with him two.

¹⁷ Not as yet are you apprehending that everything that is going into the mouth is becoming the contents of the bowels, and is being evacuated into the latrine?

²⁰ These are those which are contaminating a man. Now to be eating with unwashed hands is not contaminating a man."

¹⁵ Now, if ever your brother should be sinning, go and expose him between you and him alone. If ever he should be hearing you, you gain your brother." ¹⁶ Yet if ever he should not be hearing, take still one or two others along with you, that at the mouth of two witnesses, or of three, every declaration may be made to stand." ¹⁷ Now, if ever he should be disobeying them, tell it to the ecclesia. Now, if ever he should be disobeying the ecclesia also, let him be to you even as the man of the nations, and the tribute collector."

⁵ and He said, 'On this account a man shall be leaving father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh'? ⁶ So that no longer are they two, but one flesh. What God, then, yokes together, let not man be separating."

²⁸ Yet Jesus said to them, "Verily, I am saying to you, that you who follow Me, in the renascence whenever the Son of Mankind should be seated on the throne of His glory, you also shall sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." ²⁹ And everyone who leaves houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, on account of My name, a hundred-fold shall be getting, and shall be enjoying the allotment of life eonian."

¹⁹ And, perceiving one fig tree on the roadside, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only. And He is saying to it, "No longer, by any means, may fruit be coming of you for the eon.And withered instantly is the fig tree."

³¹ Which of the two does the will of the father?They are saying, "The first.Jesus is saying to them, "Verily, I am saying to you that the tribute collectors and the prostitutes are preceding you into the kingdom of God." ³² For John came to you on the road of righteousness, and you do not believe him. Yet the tribute collectors and the prostitutes believe him. Now you, perceiving it, did not even regret subsequently, so as to believe him."

¹³ Now woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are locking the kingdom of the heavens in front of men. For you are not entering, neither are you letting those entering to enter."

³³ Serpents! Progeny of vipers! How may you be fleeing from the judging of Gehenna?

³⁴ Then shall the King be declaring to those at His right, 'Hither, blessed of My Father! Enjoy the allotment of the kingdom made ready for you from the disruption of the world."

⁴¹ Then shall He be declaring to those also at His left, 'Go from Me, you cursed, into the fire eonian, made ready for the Adversary and his messengers."

¹⁹ for it is not going into his heart, but into the bowels, and is going out into the latrine - cleansing all foods?

⁸ and the two will be one flesh. So that no longer are they two, but one flesh."

¹⁹ With the precepts you are acquainted: You should not be murdering. You should not be committing adultery. You should not be stealing. You should not be testifying falsely. You should not be cheating. 'Be honoring your father and mother.'"

²⁹ To him who is beating you on the cheek, be tendering the other also. And you should not be preventing him who is taking away your cloak from taking your tunic also."

¹⁴ Now that falling among the thorns, these are those who hear and, by worries and riches, and by the gratifications of life, going on, stifle, and are bringing nothing to maturity."

¹⁴ I am saying to you, this man descended to his home justified, rather than that one, for everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, yet he who is humbling himself shall be exalted."

¹⁶ He will be coming and destroying these farmers and will be giving the vineyard to others.Now those hearing say, "May it not be coming to that!"

³⁴ Now take heed to yourselves, lest at some time your hearts should be burdened with crapulence and drunkenness and the worries of life's affairs, and that day may be standing by you unawares,

³⁰ that you may be eating and drinking at My table in My kingdom. And you will be seated on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

²¹ Yet He said it concerning the temple of His body.

⁶ That which is begotten by the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten by the spirit is spirit."

²⁸ Marvel not at this, for coming is the hour in which all who are in the tombs shall hear His voice, ²⁹ and those who do good shall go out into a resurrection of life, yet those who commit bad things, into a resurrection of judging."

²⁷ Do not work for the food which is perishing, but for the food which is remaining for life eonian, which the Son of Mankind will be giving to you, for this One God, the Father, seals."

³⁹ Now this is the will of Him Who sends Me, that all which He has given to Me, of it I should be losing nothing, but I shall be raising it in the last day." ⁴⁰ For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who is beholding the Son and believing in Him may have life eonian, and I shall be raising him in the last day."

⁴⁹ Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died."

²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who is believing in Me, even if he should be dying, shall be living." ²⁶ And everyone who is living and believing in Me, should by no means be dying for the eon. Are you believing this?

⁶ Now this he said, not that he cared concerning the poor, but that he was a thief, having the coffer also, and bore what is cast into it."

¹⁰ Jesus is saying to him, "He who is bathed has no need, except to wash his feet, but is wholly clean. And you are clean, but not all."

²¹ that they may all be one, according as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us, that the world should be believing that Thou dost commission Me." ²² And I have given them the glory which Thou has given Me, that they may be one, according as We are One, ²³ I in them and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected in one, and that the world may know that Thou dost commission Me and dost love them according as Thou dost love Me."

¹⁵ And in these days Peter, rising in the midst of the brethren, (besides there was a throng in the same place of about a hundred and twenty names)"

²⁴ Whom God raises, loosing the pangs of death, forasmuch as it was not possible for Him to be held by it."

² Now the twelve, calling the multitude of the disciples to them, say, "It is not pleasing for us, leaving the word of God, to be serving at tables." ³ Now, brethren, pick out seven attested men from among you, full of the spirit and of wisdom, whom we will place over this need." ⁴ Yet we shall be persevering in prayer and the dispensation of the word."

²⁶ Besides, on the ensuing day he was seen by them as they are fighting, and he interceded with them for peace, saying, Men! Brethren are you! Why is it that you are injuring one another?

³⁹ and from all from which you could not be justified in the law of Moses, in this One everyone who is believing is being justified."

³¹ forasmuch as He assigns a day in which He is about to be judging the inhabited earth in righteousness by the Man Whom He specifies, tendering faith to all, raising Him from among the dead - "

¹⁴ Now Paul being about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If, indeed, it were some injury or wicked knavery, O Jews, I might, on that account tolerate you." ¹⁵ Yet if they are questions concerning a word, and names, and a law of yours, you see to it! A judge of these I am not intending to be!"

³⁸ Indeed, then, if Demetrius and the artificers with him have a charge against anyone, court sessions are being held, and there are proconsuls; let them be indicting one another."

²⁸ Take heed to yourselves and to the entire flocklet, among which the holy spirit appointed you supervisors, to be shepherding the ecclesia of God, which He procures through the blood of His Own."

¹⁶ And now, why do you defer? Rise, be baptized, and bathe off your sins, invoking His name.'"

²⁵ Now as he is arguing concerning righteousness, and self-control, and the impending judgment, Felix, becoming affrighted, answered, "Now go. Yet, given occasion, I shall be calling for you,

¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them about from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, for them to get a pardon of sins and an allotment among those who have been hallowed by faith that is in Me.'"

¹⁸ For God's indignation is being revealed from heaven on all the irreverence and injustice of men who are retaining the truth in injustice,

²⁴ Wherefore God gives them over, in the lusts of their hearts, to the uncleanness of dishonoring their bodies among themselves,

²⁶ Therefore God gives them over to dishonorable passions. For their females, besides, alter the natural use into that which is beside nature." ²⁷ Likewise also the males, besides, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their craving for one another, males with males effecting indecency, and getting back in themselves the retribution of their deception which must be."

³ For what if some disbelieve? Will not their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God? ⁴ May it not be coming to that! Now let God be true, yet every man a liar, even as it is written: "That so Thou shouldst be justified in Thy sayings, And shalt be conquering when Thou art being judged."

⁶ May it not be coming to that! Else how shall God be judging the world?

²⁴ Being justified gratuitously in His grace, through the deliverance which is in Christ Jesus"

²⁶ toward the display of His righteousness in the current era, for Him to be just and a Justifier of the one who is of the faith of Jesus." ²⁷ Where, then, is boasting? It is debarred! Through what law? ²⁸ Of works? No! But through faith's law. For we are reckoning a man to be justified by faith apart from works of law. ²⁹ Or is He the god of the Jews only? Is He not of the nations also? ³⁰ Yes, of the nations also, if so be that God is One, Who will be justifying the Circumcision out of faith and the Uncircumcision through faith." ³¹ Are we, then, nullifying law through faith? May it not be coming to that! Nay, we are sustaining law."

⁵ Yet to him who is not working, yet is believing on Him Who is justifying the irreverent, his faith is reckoned for righteousness."

¹ Being, then, justified by faith, we may be having peace toward God, through our Lord, Jesus Christ,

⁹ Much rather, then, being now justified in His blood, we shall be saved from indignation, through Him."

² May it not be coming to that! We, who died to sin, how shall we still be living in it?

⁴ We, then, were entombed together with Him through baptism into death, that, even as Christ was roused from among the dead through the glory of the Father, thus we also should be walking in newness of life." ⁵ For if we have become planted together in the likeness of His death, nevertheless we shall be of the resurrection also, ⁶ knowing this, that our old humanity was crucified together with Him, that the body of Sin may be nullified, for us by no means to be still slaving for Sin, ⁷ for one who dies has been justified from Sin. ⁸ Now if we died together with Christ, we believe that we shall be living together with Him also,

¹² Let not Sin, then, be reigning in your mortal body, for you to be obeying its lusts."

¹² Let not Sin, then, be reigning in your mortal body, for you to be obeying its lusts." ¹³ Nor yet be presenting your members, as implements of injustice, to Sin, but present yourselves to God as if alive from among the dead, and your members as implements of righteousness to God."

¹⁵ What then? Should we be sinning, seeing that we are not under law, but under grace? May it not be coming to that!"

¹⁷ Now thanks be to God that you were slaves of Sin, yet you obey from the heart the type of teaching to which you were given over." ¹⁸ Now, being freed from Sin, you are enslaved to Righteousness." ¹⁹ As a man am I saying this, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For even as you present your members as slaves to Uncleanness and to Lawlessness for lawlessness, thus now present your members as slaves to Righteousness for holiness."

¹⁹ As a man am I saying this, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For even as you present your members as slaves to Uncleanness and to Lawlessness for lawlessness, thus now present your members as slaves to Righteousness for holiness."

⁴ So that, my brethren, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, for you to become Another's, Who is roused from among the dead, that we should be bearing fruit to God."

⁷ What, then, shall we declare? That the law is sin? May it not be coming to that! But sin I knew not except through law. For besides, I had not been aware of coveting except the law said, "You shall not be coveting."

¹³ Became good, then, death to me? May it not be coming to that! But Sin, that it may be appearing Sin, is producing death to me through good, that Sin may become an inordinate sinner through the precept." ¹⁴ For we are aware that the law is spiritual, yet I am fleshly, having been disposed of under Sin."

¹¹ Now if the spirit of Him Who rouses Jesus from among the dead is making its home in you, He Who rouses Christ Jesus from among the dead will also be vivifying your mortal bodies because of His spirit making its home in you."

³⁰ Now whom He designates beforehand, these He calls also, and whom He calls, these He justifies also; now whom He justifies, these He glorifies also."

³³ Who will be indicting God's chosen ones? God, the Justifier?

¹ I am entreating you, then, brethren, by the pities of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice, living, holy, well pleasing to God, your logical divine service,

⁵ thus we, who are many, are one body in Christ, yet individually members of one another."

¹⁷ To no one render evil for evil, making ideal provision in the sight of all men, ¹⁸ if possible that which comes out from yourselves. Being at peace with all mankind, ¹⁹ you are not avenging yourselves, beloved, but be giving place to His indignation, for it is written, Mine is vengeance! I will repay! the Lord is saying. "

⁷ For not one of us is living to himself, and not one is dying to himself." ⁸ For both, if we should be living, to the Lord are we living, and if we should be dying, to the Lord are we dying. Then, both if we should be living and if we should be dying, we are the Lord's." ⁹ For for this Christ died and lives, that He should be Lord of the dead as well as of the living."

¹⁴ I have perceived and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is contaminating of itself, except that the one reckoning anything to be contaminating, to that one it is contaminating." ¹⁵ For if, because of food, your brother is sorrowing, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not, by your food, destroy that one for whose sake Christ died." ¹⁶ Let not, then, your good be calumniated, ¹⁷ for the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in holy spirit."

¹⁷ for the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in holy spirit." ¹⁸ For he who in this is slaving for Christ, is well pleasing to God and attested by men." ¹⁹ Consequently, then, we are pursuing that which makes for peace and that which is for edification of one another." ²⁰ Not on account of food demolish the work of God. All, indeed, is clean, but it is evil to the man who with stumbling is eating." ²¹ It is ideal not to be eating meat, nor yet to be drinking wine, nor yet to do aught by which your brother is stumbling, or is being snared or weakened." ²² The faith which you have, have for yourself in God's sight. Happy is he who is not judging himself in that which he is attesting." ²³ Now he who is doubting if he should be eating is condemned, seeing that it is not out of faith. Now everything which is not out of faith is sin."

² to the ecclesia of God which is in Corinth, hallowed in Christ Jesus, called saints, together with all in every place who are invoking the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, both theirs and ours:"

³⁰ Yet you, of Him, are in Christ Jesus, Who became to us wisdom from God, besides righteousness and holiness and deliverance,

¹⁶ Are you not aware that you are a temple of God and the spirit of God is making its home in you?

¹⁸ Let no one be deluding himself. If anyone among you is presuming to be wise in this eon, let him become stupid, that he may be becoming wise,

¹⁰ We are stupid because of Christ, yet you are prudent in Christ. We are weak, yet you are strong. You are glorious, yet we are dishonored."

¹⁴ Not to be abashing you am I writing these things, but as my children beloved am I admonishing you."

¹ Absolutely, it is heard that there is prostitution among you, and such prostitution (which is not even named among the nations), so that someone has his father's wife."

¹⁰ And undoubtedly it is not as to the paramours of this world, or the greedy and extortionate, or idolaters, else, consequently, you ought to come out of the world." ¹¹ Yet now I write to you not to be commingling with anyone named a brother, if he should be a paramour, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. With such a one you are not even to be eating." ¹² For what is it to me to be judging those outside? You are not judging those within!

¹ Dare any of you, having business with another, be judged before the unjust, and not before the saints? ² Or are you not aware that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is being judged by you, are you unworthy of the least tribunals? ³ Are you not aware that we shall be judging messengers, not to mention life's affairs? ⁴ If indeed, then, you should have tribunals for life's affairs, the contemptible in the ecclesia, these you are seating?

⁶ but brother is suing brother, and this before unbelievers!" ⁷ Already, indeed, then, it is absolutely a discomfiture for you that you are having lawsuits among yourselves. Wherefore are you not rather being injured? Wherefore are you not rather being cheated?

⁷ Already, indeed, then, it is absolutely a discomfiture for you that you are having lawsuits among yourselves. Wherefore are you not rather being injured? Wherefore are you not rather being cheated?

⁹ Or are you not aware that the unjust shall not be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom? Be not deceived. Neither paramours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards; no revilers, no extortioners shall be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom."

¹³ Foods for the bowels and the bowels for foods, yet God will be discarding these as well as those. Now the body is not for prostitution, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body."

¹⁵ Are you not aware that your bodies are members of Christ? Taking, then, the members of Christ away, should I be making them members of a prostitute? May it not be coming to that!"

¹⁵ Are you not aware that your bodies are members of Christ? Taking, then, the members of Christ away, should I be making them members of a prostitute? May it not be coming to that!" ¹⁶ Or are you not aware that he who joins a prostitute is one body? For, He is averring, the two will be one flesh."

¹⁹ Or are you not aware that your body is a temple of the holy spirit in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own?

²³ With a price are you bought. Do not become the slaves of men.

⁴ Then, concerning the feeding on the idol sacrifices: We are aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except One."

⁷ But not in all is there this knowledge. Now some, used hitherto to the idol, are eating of it as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, being weak, is being polluted." ⁸ Now food will not give us a standing with God, neither, if we should not be eating are we in want, nor if we should be eating are we cloyed." ⁹ Now beware lest somehow this right of yours may become a stumbling block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if anyone should be seeing you, who has knowledge, lying down in an idol's shrine, will not the conscience of him who is weak be inured to the eating of the idol sacrifices? ¹¹ For the weak one is perishing also by your knowledge; the brother because of whom Christ died. ¹² Now in thus sinning against brethren, and beating their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ." ¹³ Wherefore, if food is snaring my brother, I may under no circumstances be eating meat for the eon, lest I should be snaring my brother."

¹² If others are partaking of this right from you, are not rather we? Nevertheless we do not use this right, but we are forgoing all, lest we may be giving any hindrance to the evangel of Christ"

²⁴ Are you not aware that those racing in a stadium are, indeed, all racing, yet one is obtaining the prize? Thus be racing that you may be grasping it."

²⁷ but I am belaboring my body and leading it into slavery, lest somehow, when heralding to others, I myself may become disqualified."

³ and all ate the same spiritual food, ⁴ and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of the spiritual Rock which followed. Now the Rock was Christ." ⁵ But not in the majority of them does God delight, for they were strewn along in the wilderness."

²³ All is allowed me, but not all is expedient. All is allowed me, but not all is edifying." ²⁴ Let no one be seeking the welfare of himself, but that of another." ²⁵ Everything that is sold at the meat market be eating, examining nothing because of conscience." ²⁶ For "the Lord's is the earth and that which fills it." ²⁷ If anyone of the unbelievers is inviting you, and you want to go, be eating everything that is placed before you, examining nothing because of conscience." ²⁸ Yet if anyone should be saying to you, "This is a sacred sacrifice,do not eat, because of that one who divulges it, and conscience." ²⁹ Yet conscience, I am saying, not that of yourself, but that of another. For why is my freedom being decided by another's conscience? ³⁰ If I, with gratitude, am partaking, why am I being calumniated for that for which I am giving thanks? ³¹ Then, whether you are eating or drinking, or anything you are doing, do all for the glory of God."

³¹ Then, whether you are eating or drinking, or anything you are doing, do all for the glory of God." ³² And become not a stumbling block to Jews as well as to Greeks and to the ecclesia of God, ³³ according as I also am pleasing all in all things, not seeking my own expedience, but that of the many, that they may be saved."

³ Now I want you to be aware that the Head of every man is Christ, yet the head of the woman is the man, yet the Head of Christ is God."

¹⁴ Is not even nature itself teaching you that if a man, indeed, should have tresses, it is a dishonor to him,

² You are aware that when you were of the nations, you were led away to the voiceless idols, as ever you were led."

¹³ For in one spirit also we all are baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and all are made to imbibe one spirit."

²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ, and members of a part,

³³ For God is not for turbulence, but peace, as in all the ecclesias of the saints."

¹⁵ Now we are being found false witnesses also of God, seeing that we testify by God that He rouses Christ, Whom, consequently, He rouses not, if so be that the dead are not being roused." ¹⁶ For, if the dead are not being roused, neither has Christ been roused." ¹⁷ Now, if Christ has not been roused, vain is your faith - you are still in your sins!" ¹⁸ Consequently those also, who are put to repose in Christ, perished." ¹⁹ If we are having an expectation in Christ in this life only, more forlorn than all men are we." ²⁰ (Yet now Christ has been roused from among the dead, the Firstfruit of those who are reposing."

²³ Yet each in his own class: the Firstfruit, Christ; thereupon those who are Christ's in His presence;"

³³ Be not deceived: evil conversations are corrupting kind characters. ³⁴ Sober up justly and do not be sinning, for some have an ignorance of God. To abash you am I saying it."

⁵⁰ Now this I am averring, brethren, that flesh and blood is not able to enjoy an allotment in the kingdom of God, neither is corruption enjoying the allotment of incorruption."

¹ Now, concerning the collection for the saints, even as I prescribe to the ecclesias of Galatia, thus do you also."

¹⁵ Now I am entreating you, brethren - you are acquainted with the house of Stephanas and Fortunatus, that it is the firstfruit of Achaia, and they set themselves to the service for the saints -"

¹⁴ being aware that He Who rouses the Lord Jesus will be rousing us also, through Jesus, and will be presenting us together with you."

¹⁸ at our not noting what is being observed, but what is not being observed, for what is being observed is temporary, yet what is not being observed is eonian."

¹⁵ And He died for the sake of all that those who are living should by no means still be living to themselves, but to the One dying and being roused for their sakes."

¹⁴ Do not become diversely yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what communion has light with darkness?

¹⁶ Now what concurrence has a temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, according as God said, that I will be making My home and will be walking in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

² for I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God. For I betroth you to one Man, to present a chaste virgin to Christ. "

²¹ Not again at my coming will my God be humbling me toward you, and I shall be mourning for many who have sinned before and are not repenting of the uncleanness and prostitution and wantonness which they commit."

¹⁶ having perceived that a man is not being justified by works of law, except alone through the faith of Christ Jesus, we also believe in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by works of law, seeing that by works of law shall no flesh at all be justified." ¹⁷ Now if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ, consequently, a dispenser of sin? May it not be coming to that!"

²⁰ With Christ have I been crucified, yet I am living; no longer I, but living in me is Christ. Now that which I am now living in flesh, I am living in faith that is of the Son of God, Who loves me, and gives Himself up for me."

⁸ Now the scripture, perceiving before that God is justifying the nations by faith, brings before an evangel to Abraham, that In you shall all the nations be blessed."

¹¹ Now that in law no one is being justified with God is evident, for the just one by faith shall be living."

¹³ Christ reclaims us from the curse of the law, becoming a curse for our sakes, for it is written, Accursed is everyone hanging on a pole,

²¹ Is the law, then, against the promises of God? May it not be coming to that! For if a law were given that is able to vivify, really, righteousness were out of law."

²⁴ So that the law has become our escort to Christ, that we may be justified by faith."

¹⁹ Now apparent are the works of the flesh, which are adultery, prostitution, uncleanness, wantonness, ²⁰ idolatry, enchantment, enmities, strife, jealousies, furies, factions, dissensions, sects, ²¹ envies, murders, drunkennesses, revelries, and the like of these, which, I am predicting to you, according as I predicted also, that those committing such things shall not be enjoying the allotment of the kingdom of God."

²¹ envies, murders, drunkennesses, revelries, and the like of these, which, I am predicting to you, according as I predicted also, that those committing such things shall not be enjoying the allotment of the kingdom of God." ²² Now the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law."

¹⁴ Now may it not be mine to be boasting, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world."

¹⁹ and what the transcendent greatness of His power for us who are believing, in accord with the operation of the might of His strength, ²⁰ which is operative in the Christ, rousing Him from among the dead and seating Him at His right hand among the celestials,

²² and subjects all under His feet, and gives Him, as Head over all, to the ecclesia" ²³ which is His body, the complement of the One completing the all in all."

¹ And you, being dead to your offenses and sins, ² in which once you walked, in accord with the eon of this world, in accord with the chief of the jurisdiction of the air, the spirit now operating in the sons of stubbornness " ³ (among whom we also all behaved ourselves once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the comprehension, and were, in our nature, children of indignation, even as the rest),

²¹ in Whom the entire building, being connected together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord:" ²² in Whom you, also, are being built together for God's dwelling place, in spirit."

³ endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit with the tie of peace: ⁴ one body and one spirit, according as you were called also with one expectation of your calling;"

¹² toward the adjusting of the saints for the work of dispensing, for the upbuilding of the body of Christ,

¹⁵ Now, being true, in love we should be making all grow into Him, Who is the Head - Christ" ¹⁶ out of Whom the entire body, being articulated together and united through every assimilation of the supply, in accord with the operation in measure of each one's part, is making for the growth of the body, for the upbuilding of itself in love." ¹⁷ This, then, I am saying and attesting in the Lord: By no means are you still to be walking according as those of the nations also are walking, in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ their comprehension being darkened, being estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their hearts, ¹⁹ who, being past feeling, in greed give themselves up with wantonness to all uncleanness as a vocation." ²⁰ Now you did not thus learn Christ, ²¹ since, surely, Him you hear, and by Him were taught (according as the truth is in Jesus), ²² to put off from you, as regards your former behavior, the old humanity which is corrupted in accord with its seductive desires,

²⁸ Let him who steals by no means still be stealing: yet rather let him be toiling, working with his hands at what is good, that he may have to share with one who has need."

³ Now, all prostitution and uncleanness or greed - let it not even be named among you, according as is becoming in saints -" ⁴ and vileness and stupid speaking or insinuendo, which are not proper, but rather thanksgiving." ⁵ For this you perceive, knowing that no paramour at all or unclean or greedy person, who is an idolater, has any enjoyment of the allotment in the kingdom of Christ and of God."

⁸ for you were once darkness, yet now you are light in the Lord."

²³ for the husband is head of the wife even as Christ is Head of the ecclesia, and He is the Saviour of the body."

²⁶ that He should be hallowing it, cleansing it in the bath of the water (with His declaration),

³⁰ for we are members of His body. ³¹ For this "a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh."

²⁰ in accord with my premonition and expectation, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death."

⁵ For let this disposition be in you, which is in Christ Jesus also,

¹⁴ All be doing without murmurings and reasonings, ¹⁵ that you may become blameless and artless, children of God, flawless, in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse among whom you are appearing as luminaries in the world,

¹⁰ to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, conforming to His death, ¹¹ if somehow I should be attaining to the resurrection that is out from among the dead.

²¹ Who will transfigure the body of our humilation, to conform it to the body of His glory, in accord with the operation which enables Him even to subject all to Himself."

¹⁹ and not holding the Head, out of Whom the entire body, being supplied and united through the assimilation and ligaments, is growing in the growth of God."

²² (which things are all for corruption from use), in accord with the directions and teachings of men? ²³ which are (having, indeed, an expression of wisdom in a willful ritual and humility and asceticism) not of any value toward the surfeiting of the flesh."

⁵ Deaden, then, your members that are on the earth: prostitution, uncleanness, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry,

⁵ Deaden, then, your members that are on the earth: prostitution, uncleanness, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry, ⁶ because of which the indignation of God is coming on the sons of stubborness ⁷ among whom you also once walked, when you lived in these things."

²⁵ For he who is injuring shall be requited for that which he injures, and there is no partiality."

¹³ to establish your hearts unblamable in holiness in front of our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus with all His saints."

³ For this is the will of God: your holiness. You are to be abstaining from all prostitution;

³ For this is the will of God: your holiness. You are to be abstaining from all prostitution; ⁴ each of you is to be aware of his own vessel, to be acquiring it in holiness and honor, ⁵ not in lustful passion even as the nations also who are not acquainted with God.

⁵ not in lustful passion even as the nations also who are not acquainted with God. ⁶ No one is to be circumventing and overreaching his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the Avenger of all these, according as we said to you before also, and certify,

⁶ No one is to be circumventing and overreaching his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the Avenger of all these, according as we said to you before also, and certify, ⁷ for God calls us, not for uncleanness, but in holiness."

¹⁴ For, if we are believing that Jesus died and rose, thus also, those who are put to repose, will God, through Jesus, lead forth together with Him."

¹⁵ See that no one may be rendering evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue that which is good for one another as well as for all."

¹³ Now we ought to be thanking God always concerning you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, seeing that God prefers you from the beginning for salvation, in holiness of the spirit and faith in the truth,

⁹ Not that we have not the right, but that we may be giving you ourselves as a model for you to be imitating us."

⁹ being aware of this, that law is not laid down for the just, yet it is for the lawless and insubordinate, the irreverent and sinners, the malign and profane, thrashers of fathers and thrashers of mothers, homicides, ¹⁰ paramours, sodomites, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and if any other thing is opposing sound teaching,

⁴ No one who is warring is involved in the business of a livelihood, that he should be pleasing the one who enlists him."

²² Now youthful desires flee: yet pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with all who are invoking the Lord out of a clean heart."

¹⁰ for Demas, loving the current eon, forsook me and went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia."

¹⁴ Who gives Himself for us, that He should be redeeming us from all lawlessness and be cleansing for Himself a people to be about Him, zealous for ideal acts."

³ For we also were once foolish, stubborn, deceived, slaves of various desires and gratifications, leading a life in malice and envy, detestable, hating one another." ⁴ Yet when the kindness and fondness for humanity of our Saviour, God, made its advent, ⁵ not for works which are wrought in righteousness which we do, but according to His mercy, He saves us, through the bath of renascence and renewal of holy spirit, ⁶ which He pours out on us richly through Jesus Christ, our Saviour, ⁷ that, being justified in that One's grace, we may be becoming enjoyers, in expectation, of the allotment of life eonian."

¹¹ For both He Who is hallowing and those who are being hallowed are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to be calling them brethren,

¹² not even through the blood of he-goats and calves, but through His own blood, entered once for all time into the holy places, finding eonian redemption."

²² we may be approaching with a true heart, in the assurance of faith, with hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience, and a body bathed in clean water."

³¹ By faith Rahab, the prostitute, perished not with the stubborn, receiving the spies with peace."

¹⁴ Pursue peace with all, and holiness, apart from which no one shall be seeing the Lord;" ¹⁵ supervising, that no one be wanting of the grace of God, nor any root of bitterness, sprouting up, may be annoying you, and through this the majority may be defiled, ¹⁶ nor any paramour, or profane person, as Esau, who, for one feeding, gave up his own birthright."

¹⁶ nor any paramour, or profane person, as Esau, who, for one feeding, gave up his own birthright."

⁴ May matrimony be honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, for paramours and adulterers will God be judging."

⁵ Now if anyone of you is lacking wisdom, let him be requesting it from God, Who is giving to all generously and is not reproaching, and it shall be given to him."

¹⁶ Be not deceived, my beloved brethren!"

²¹ Abraham, our father, was he not justified by works when offering up his son Isaac on the altar? ²² You are observing that faith worked together with his works, and by works was faith perfected." ²³ And fulfilled was the scripture which is saying, Now "Abraham believes God, and it is reckoned to him for righteousness,and he was called "the friend of God." ²⁴ You see that by works a man is being justified, and not by faith only." ²⁵ Now likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when entertaining the messengers and ejecting them by a different way? ²⁶ For even as the body apart from spirit is dead, thus also faith apart from works is dead."

¹³ Who is wise and an adept among you? Let him show his works by an ideal behavior in meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ Now if you are having bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, are you not vaunting against and falsifying the truth? ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but terrestrial, soulish, demoniacal. " ¹⁶ For wherever jealousy and faction are, there is turbulence also, and every bad practice." ¹⁷ Now the wisdom from above is first, indeed, pure, thereupon peaceable, lenient, compliant, bulging with mercy and good fruits, undiscriminating, unfeigned." ¹⁸ Now the fruit of righteousness is being sown in peace for those making peace.

¹ Whence are the battles and whence the fightings among you? Are they not hence: from your gratifications warring in your members? ² You are coveting and have not. You are murdering and are jealous, and you can not encounter it. You are fighting and battling, and you have not, because of not requesting." ³ You are requesting and not obtaining, because you are requesting evilly, that you should be spending it on your gratifications."

⁴ Lo! the wage of the workers, who mow your country places, which has been withheld by you, is crying, and the imploring of the reapers has entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts."

² according to the foreknowledge of God, the Father, in holiness of spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you!"

¹⁸ being aware that not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, were you ransomed from your vain behavior, handed down by tradition from the fathers,

²² Having purified your souls, by the obedience of truth, for unfeigned fondness for the brethren, love one another out of a true heart earnestly,

⁵ you, also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, into a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, most acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. "

⁹ Yet you are a chosen race, a "royal priesthood,a "holy nation,a procured people, so that you should be recounting the virtues of Him Who calls you out of darkness into His marvelous light,

¹¹ Beloved, I am entreating you, as sojourners and expatriates, to be abstaining from the fleshly lusts which are warring against the soul,

¹⁹ for this is grace, if, because of consciousness of God, anyone is undergoing sorrows, suffering unjustly." ²⁰ For what credit is it if, sinning and being buffeted, you will be enduring it? But if, doing good and suffering, you will be enduring, this is grace with God." ²¹ For this were you called, seeing that Christ also suffered for your sakes, leaving you a copy, that you should be following up in the footprints of Him" ²² Who does no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth;" ²³ Who, being reviled, reviled not again; suffering, threatened not, yet gave it over to Him Who is judging justly,

⁹ not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but, on the contrary, blessing, seeing that you were called for this, that you should be enjoying the allotment of blessing,

²¹ the representation of which, baptism, is now saving you also (not the putting off of the filth of the flesh, but the inquiry of a good conscience to God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

² 2 by no means still to spend the rest of his lifetime in the flesh in human desires, but in the will of God." ³ For sufficient is the time which has passed by to have effected the intention of the nations, having gone on in wantonness, lusts, debauches, revelries, drinking bouts, and illicit idolatries,

¹⁵ For let not any of you be suffering as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as an interferer in other's affairs;"

¹ Yet there came to be false prophets also among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers who will be smuggling in destructive sects, even disowning the Owner Who buys them, bringing on themselves swift destruction."

⁴ For if God spares not sinning messengers, but thrusting them into the gloomy caverns of Tartarus, gives them up to be kept for chastening judging;"

⁹ He who is saying that he is in the light and is hating his brother is a liar and is in darkness hitherto. ¹⁰ He who is loving his brother is remaining in the light, and there is no snare in him." ¹¹ Yet he who is hating his brother is in darkness and in darkness is walking, and is not aware whither he is going, for the darkness blinds his eyes."

¹⁶ for everything that is in the world, the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of living, is not of the Father, but is of the world." ¹⁷ And the world is passing by, and its desire, yet he who is doing the will of God is remaining for the eon."

¹¹ For this is the message which you hear from the beginning, ¹² that we may be loving one another, not according as Cain was of the wicked one and slays his brother. And on behalf of what does he slay him? Seeing that his acts were wicked, yet those of his brother, just." ¹³ Marvel not, brethren, if the world is hating you." ¹⁴ We are aware that we have proceeded out of death into life, for we are loving our brethren. He who is not loving is remaining in death." ¹⁵ Everyone who is hating his brother is a man-killer, and you are aware that no man-killer at all has life eonian remaining in him."

⁶ Besides, messengers who keep not their own sovereignty, but leave their own habitation, He has kept in imperceptible bonds under gloom for the judging of the great day."

¹² These are the reefs in your love feasts, carousing with you fearlessly, shepherding themselves; waterless clouds carried aside by winds; trees that are sear, unfruitful, twice dying, uprooted;"

¹⁴ Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesies to these also, saying, "Lo! the Lord came among ten thousand of His saints, ¹⁵ to do judging against all, and to expose all the irreverent concerning all their irreverent acts in which they are irreverent, and concerning all the hard words which irreverent sinners speak against Him."

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the Faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Suzerain of the kings of the earth. To Him Who is loving us and looses us from our sins by His blood"

²⁶ '"And to the one who is conquering and keeping My acts until the consummation, to him will I be giving authority over the nations;" ²⁷ and he shall be shepherding them with an iron club, as vessels of pottery are being crushed, as I also have obtained from My Father."

²¹ '"The one who is conquering, to him will I be granting to be seated with Me on My throne as I, also, conquer, and am seated with My Father on His throne."

⁹ And they are singing a new song, saying, "Worthy art Thou to be taking the scroll and to open its seals, For Thou wast slain and dost buy us for God by Thy blood. Out of every tribe and language and people and nation."

¹⁴ And I have declared to him: "My lord, you are aware.And he said to me, "These are those coming out of the great affliction. And they rinse their robes, and they whiten them in the blood of the Lambkin."

⁴ And I perceived thrones, and they are seated on them, and judgment was granted to them. And the souls of those executed because of the testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who do not worship the wild beast or its image, and did not get the emblem on their forehead and on their hand- they also live and reign with Christ a thousand years."

⁸ Yet the timid, and unbelievers, and the abominable, and murderers, and paramours, and enchanters, and idolaters, and all the false-their part is in the lake burning with fire and sulphur, which is the second death."

¹⁵ Outside are curs, and enchanters, and paramours, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone fabricating and fondling falsehood."