Acts 15 Cross References - CLV

¹ And some, coming down from Judea, taught the brethren that, "If you should not be circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can not be saved." ² Now as Paul and Barnabas come to have no slight commotion and questioning with them, they prescribe that Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them are to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this question." ³ They indeed, then, being sent forward by the ecclesia, passed through Phoenicia as well as Samaria, detailing the turning about of the nations. And they caused great joy to all the brethren." ⁴ Now coming along into Jerusalem, they were received by the ecclesia and the apostles and the elders. Besides, they inform them of whatever God does with them." ⁵ Yet some from the sect of the Pharisees who have believed rise up, saying that they must be circumcised, besides charging them to keep the law of Moses." ⁶ Now the apostles and the elders were gathered to see about this matter. ⁷ Now, there coming to be much questioning, rising, Peter said to them, "Men! Brethren! You are versed in the fact that from the days at the beginning God chooses among you, that through my mouth the nations are to hear the word of the evangel and believe." ⁸ And God, the Knower of hearts, testifies to them, giving the holy spirit according as to us also, ⁹ and in nothing discriminates between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith." ¹⁰ Why, then, are you now trying God, by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we are strong enough to bear? ¹¹ But through the grace of the Lord Jesus we are believing, to be saved in a manner even as they." ¹² Now the entire multitude hushes, and they heard Barnabas and Paul unfolding whatever signs and miracles God does among the nations through them." ¹³ Now after they hush, James answered saying, "Men! Brethren! Hear me!" ¹⁴ Simon unfolds how God first visits the nations, to obtain out of them a people for His name." ¹⁵ And with this agree the words of the prophets, according as it is written, ¹⁶ After these things I will turn back, 'And I will rebuild the tabernacle of David which has fallen... And its overturned structure will I rebuild, And I will re-erect it... " ¹⁷ So that those left of mankind should be seeking out the Lord, And all the nations, on them over whom My name is invoked, Is saying the Lord, Who is doing these things.'" ¹⁸ Known from the eon to the Lord is His work. ¹⁹ Wherefore I decide not to be harassing those from the nations who are turning back to God, ²⁰ but to write an epistle to them to be abstaining from ceremonial pollution with idols, and prostitution, and what is strangled, and blood." ²¹ For Moses, from ancient generations, city by city, has those who are heralding him, being read on every sabbath in the synagogues." ²² Then it seems good to the apostles and the elders, together with the whole ecclesia, choosing men from among them, to send to Antioch, together with Paul and Barnabas, Judas, called Bar-Sabbas, and Silas, leading men from among the brethren." ²³ writing through their hand as follows: "The apostles and the elders and the brethren, to the brethren at Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, out of the nations: Rejoice!" ²⁴ Since, in fact, we hear that some coming out from us disturb you with words, dismantling your souls, whom we gave no assignment, ²⁵ it seems good to us, in coming to be of one accord, choosing men, to send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, ²⁶ men who give up their souls for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁷ We have, then, commissioned Judas and Silas, and they are reporting the same by word." ²⁸ For it seems good to the holy spirit and to us in nothing to be placing one more burden on you save these essentials: ²⁹ to be abstaining from idol sacrifices, and blood, and what is strangled and prostitution; from which, carefully keeping yourselves, you will be well engaged. Farewell!" ³⁰ They indeed, then, being dismissed, came down to Antioch, and gathering the multitude, hand them the epistle." ³¹ Now, reading it, they rejoiced at the consolation." ³² Both Judas and Silas, they also being prophets, by many a word entreat and establish the brethren." ³³ Now, after spending some time, they were dismissed with peace from the brethren to those who commission them." ³⁴ -³⁵ Yet Paul and Barnabas tarried in Antioch, teaching and bringing the evangel of the word of the Lord, with many others also." ³⁶ Now, after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, "By all means, turning back, we should be visiting the brethren at every city in which we announce the word of the Lord, ³⁷ to see how they are faring.Now Barnabas intended to take along with them John also, who is called Mark." ³⁸ Yet Paul counted the man who withdraws from them from Pamphylia and comes not with them to the work - this man not worthy to take along. ³⁹ Now they become so incensed as to recoil from one another. Besides, Barnabas, taking Mark along, sails off to Cyprus." ⁴⁰ Now Paul, singling out Silas, came away, being given over to the grace of the Lord by the brethren." ⁴¹ Now he passed through Syria and Cilicia, establishing the ecclesias."

⁴ Yea, only flesh with its soul, its blood, you shall not eat.

¹⁰ This is My covenant, which you shall keep between Me and you and your seed after you for their generations: Circumcise to yourselves every male. ¹¹ And circumcised shall you be in the flesh of your foreskin. And it comes to be for a sign of the covenant between Me and you. ¹² And a son of eight days shall be circumcised by you, every male of your generations, homeborn or acquired with money from any foreigner, he who is not of your seed. ¹³ With circumcision shall be circumcised the homeborn and the one acquired with your money. And My covenant comes to be in your flesh for a covenant eonian. ¹⁴ And the uncircumcised male, the flesh of whose foreskin was not circumcised in the eighth day, that soul also shall be cut off from his people. My covenant he annuls. ¹⁵ And saying is the Elohim to Abraham, "Sarai, your wife--you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah is her name. ¹⁶ And I bless her, and, moreover, I give you a son of her. And bless him will I and he comes to be for nations, and kings of peoples shall come from him. ¹⁷ Then falling is Abraham on his face. And laughing is he and saying in his heart, "To one a hundred years of age shall a son be born? And should Sarah, ninety years of age, be bearing? ¹⁸ And saying is Abraham to the Elohim, "O that Ishmael should live before You!" ¹⁹ And saying is the Elohim to Abraham, "Nevertheless, behold, Sarah, your wife is bearing you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I set up My covenant with him for a covenant eonian, and with his seed after him. ²⁰ And as to Ishmael, behold! I hear you. Behold! Bless him do I, and fruitful do I make him, and increase him exceedingly exceedingly. Twelve princes shall he beget, and I make of him a great nation. ²¹ Yet My covenant will I set up with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear for you at this, the appointed time another year. ²² And finishing is He speaking with him, and ascending is the Elohim from Abraham. ²³ And taking is Abraham Ishmael, his son, and all who are born in his household, and all acquired with his money, every male among the mortals of Abraham's household, and he is circumcising the flesh of their foreskin on this very day, as the Elohim had spoken to him. ²⁴ And Abraham is ninety nine years of age at his circumcision in the flesh of his foreskin. ²⁵ And Ishmael, his son, is thirteen years of age at his circumcision in the flesh of his foreskin. ²⁶ On this very day is Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael, his son. ²⁷ And all the mortals of his household, home-born or acquired with money from a foreigner of the nations, are circumcised with him.

¹⁸ and blessed, in your seed, shall be all the nations of the earth, inasmuch as you hearken to My voice.

²⁹ Should you do to us evil, when we do not touch you, and when we do to you but good, and send you away in peace?' You are now the blessed of Yahweh.

² And saying is Jacob to his household and to all who are with him, "Take away the foreign elohim which are in your midst, and clean yourselves, and change your garments.

¹⁶ the Messenger, my Redeemer from all evil, bless these youths. And called on them shall be my name, and the name of my forefathers, Abraham and Isaac. And prolific shall they be, to make a vast increase within the land.

¹⁰ Not withdraw shall the sceptre from Judah, nor a statue-maker's staff from between his feet, till it be that ease shall come to him. And to it shall the expectation of the people be.

¹² And now go, and I shall come to be with your mouth and direct you what you shall speak.

¹⁸ Then Moses went and returned to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him: Let me go, I pray, and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and let me see whether they are still alive. And Jethro said to Moses: Go in peace.

² So the people contended with Moses and said: Give to us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them: Why are you contending with me? Why are you probing Yahweh?

²³ If you shall do this thing then Elohim will instruct you further, so you can stand. Moreover, all this people, it shall come upon its place in peace.

³ You shall not come to have other elohim in preference to Me. ⁴ You shall not make for yourself a carving nor any representation of that in the heavens above or that on the earth beneath, or that in the waters beneath the earth. ⁵ You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor be made to serve them, for I, Yahweh your Elohim, am a jealous El, visiting the depravity of the fathers on the sons, on the third and on the fourth generation, to those hating Me,

²³ You shall not make anything beside Me: no elohim of silver nor elohim of gold shall you make for yourselves.

¹⁵ lest you contract a covenant with the dweller of the land when they prostitute after their elohim and sacrifice to their elohim lest one call to you that you eat of his sacrifice. ¹⁶ If you would take of his daughters for your sons and give your daughters to their sons, then his daughters would prostitute after their elohim and cause your sons to prostitute after their elohim.

¹⁷ It shall be an eonian statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings; any fat or any blood you shall not eat.

²³ Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, You shall not eat any fat from a bull, sheep or goat. ²⁴ The fat of a carcass and the fat of that torn to pieces may be used for any work, yet you shall not eat, yea eat it. ²⁵ When anyone is eating the fat from the beast of which he brings near a fire offering to Yahweh, then the soul who is eating will be cut off from his kinsmen. ²⁶ And no blood at all shall you eat in any of your dwellings, of flyer or of beast. ²⁷ Any soul who eats any blood, that soul will be cut off from his kinsmen.

³ On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

¹⁰ As for any man from the house of Israel and from the sojourners sojourning in your midst who should eat any blood, I will set My face against the soul eating blood, and I will cut him off from among his people, ¹¹ for the soul of the flesh, it is in the blood, and I Myself have assigned it to you to make a propitiatory shelter over your souls on the altar; for the blood, in the soul it makes a propitiatory shelter. ¹² Therefore I say to the sons of Israel:No soul at all of you shall eat blood; nor shall the sojourner sojourning in your midst eat blood. ¹³ Any man from the sons of Israel and from the sojourners sojourning in your midst who hunt a game animal or a flyer which may be eaten will pour out its blood and cover it with soil, ¹⁴ for the soul of all flesh is its blood; as its soul is it. So I said to the sons of Israel:The blood of any flesh you shall not eat, for the soul of all flesh, it is its blood. Everyone eating it shall be cut off.

¹⁴ for the soul of all flesh is its blood; as its soul is it. So I said to the sons of Israel:The blood of any flesh you shall not eat, for the soul of all flesh, it is its blood. Everyone eating it shall be cut off.

²⁷ Thus they will place My name over the sons of Israel and I Myself shall bless them.

¹⁹ El is not a man that He should lie. Nor a son of humanity that He should feel regret. Does He say it and then not do it? Or speak and then not carry it out?

²³ Then he took up his discourse and said:Woe! Who shall live when El lays it down?

² who called the people to the sacrifices of their elohim. The people ate their sacrifices and bowed themselves down to their elohim.

¹⁶ But the blood you shall not eat. On the earth shall you pour it out like water.

²³ But be steadfast by no means to eat the blood, for the blood, it is the soul, and you shall not eat the soul with the flesh. ²⁴ You shall not eat it; on the earth shall you pour it out like water. ²⁵ You shall not eat it that it may be well with you and with your sons after you, for you shall do what is good and upright in the eyes of Yahweh.

²¹ You shall not eat any carcass. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your gates so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a people holy to Yahweh your Elohim. You shall not cook a kid in the milk of its mother.

²³ But its blood you shall not eat. On the earth shall you pour it out like water.

¹⁸ Zebulun [is] a people who exposed its soul to death, Naphtali also--on high places of the field.

⁷ And Yahweh said unto Samuel, `Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto you, for you they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them.

³² and the people make unto the spoil, and take sheep, and oxen, and sons of the herd, and slaughter on the earth, and the people eat with the blood.

⁷ And Yahweh said unto Samuel, `Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for [it is] not as man sees--for man looks at the eyes, and Yahweh looks at the heart..

³⁶ And all the people have discerned [it], and it is good in their eyes, as all that the king has done is good in the eyes of all the people;"

¹¹ even from the day that I appointed judges over My people Israel; and I have given rest to you from all your enemies, and Yahweh has declared to you that Yahweh does make for you a house. ¹² `When your days are full, and you have lain with your fathers, then I have raised up your seed after you which goes out from your bowels, and have established his kingdom;" ¹³ He does build a house for My Name, and I have established the throne of his kingdom unto the eon. ¹⁴ I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam, ¹⁵ and My kindness does not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before you, ¹⁶ and stedfast [is] your house and your kingdom unto the eon before you, your throne is established unto the eon..

³⁹ then You do hear in the heavens, the settled place of Your dwelling, and have forgiven, and have done, and have given to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know, (for You have known--Yourself alone--the heart of all the sons of man),

¹⁶ And all Israel see that the king has not hearkened unto them, and the people send the king back word, saying, `What portion have we in David? yea, there is no inheritance in the son of Jesse; to your tents, O Israel; now see your house, O David!' and Israel goes to its tents.

⁴ `And Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, does fix on me out of all the house of my father to be for king over Israel to the eon, for on Judah He has fixed for a leader, and in the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father, on me, [me] He has been pleased to make king over all Israel;" ⁵ and out of all my sons--for many sons has Yahweh given to me--He also fixes on Solomon my son, to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh over Israel,

⁹ `And you, Solomon, my son, know the Elohim of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Yahweh seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if you do seek Him, He is found of you, and if you do forsake Him, He casts you off for ever.

¹⁷ `And I have known, my Elohim, that You are trying the heart, and uprightness do desire; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these:and now, Your people who are found here I have seen with joy to offer willingly to You.

⁴ And the thing is right in the eyes of the king, and in the eyes of all the assembly,

¹² Also, in Judah has the hand of Elohim been to give to them one heart to do the command of the king and of the heads, in the matter of Yahweh;"

¹ And all the people are gathered as one man unto the broad place that [is] before the water-gate, and they say to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, that Yahweh commanded Israel. ² And Ezra the priest brings the law before the assembly, both of men and women, and every one intelligent to hear, on the first day of the seventh month, ³ and he reads in it before the broad place that [is] before the water-gate, from the light till the middle of the day, over-against the men, and the women, and those intelligent, and the ears of all the people [are] unto the book of the law. ⁴ And Ezra the scribe stands on a tower of wood that they made for the purpose, and Mattithiah stands near him, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right; and on his left Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddana, Zechariah, Meshullam. ⁵ And Ezra opens the book before the eyes of all the people--for above all the people he has been--and at his opening [it] all the people have stood up, ⁶ and Ezra blesses Yahweh, the great Elohim, and all the people answer, `Amen, Amen,' with lifting up of their hands, and they bow and do obeisance to Yahweh--faces to the earth. <sup>7</sup> And Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, giving the people understanding in the law, and the people, [are] on their station, <sup>8</sup> and they read in the book, in the law of Elohim, explaining--so as to give the meaning, and they give understanding to the convocation. <sup>9</sup> And Nehemiah--he [is] the Tirshatha--said (and Ezra the priest, the scribe, and the Levites who are instructing the people) to all the people, `To-day is holy to Yahweh your Elohim, do not mourn, nor weep:' for all the people are weeping at their hearing the words of the law. ¹⁰ And he said to them, `Go, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and sent portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for to-day [is] holy to our Lord, and be not grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.. <sup>11</sup> And the Levites are keeping all the people silent, saying, `Be silent, for to-day [is] holy, and be not grieved.. ¹² And all the people go to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great joy, because they have understood concerning the words that they made known to them.

²⁶ The humbled shall eat and shall be satisfied; And those seeking after Him shall praise Yahweh. May their hearts live for the future. ²⁷ All the limits of the earth shall remember and return to Yahweh, And all the families of the nations shall bow down before Him."

²¹ Would not Elohim Himself investigate this? For He is knowing the obscured secrets of the heart.

¹ {A Davidic Psalm, A Song{ May Elohim be gracious to us and bless us; May He light up His face toward us. {Interlude{ " ² In knowing Your way in the earth, Your salvation among all nations, ³ May the peoples acclaim You, O Elohim! May the peoples acclaim You--all of them!"

¹⁷ His Name shall remain for the eon; Before the sun shall His Name be propagated, And all nations shall bless themselves in Him and call Him happy." ¹⁸ Blessed be Yahweh, Elohim, the Elohim of Israel, Doing marvelous works by Himself alone, ¹⁹ And blessed be His glorious Name for the eon! The entire earth shall be filled with His glory! {Amen and Amen.{

⁹ The sons of Ephraim, though weaponed archers, They turned back in the day of attack."

³⁵ Once for all have I sworn by My holiness; I shall assuredly not lie to David: ³⁶ His seed shall continue for the eon, And his throne as the sun in front of Me, ³⁷ Like the moon, it shall be established for the eon, Faithful like that witness in the sky. {Interlude{ " ³⁸ Yet You have cast off and are rejecting; You are enraged with Your anointed. ³⁹ You have disowned the covenant with Your servant; You have profaned his insignia down to the earth. ⁴⁰ You have breached all his stone dikes; You have made fatal cracks in his defenses. ⁴¹ All those passing by the way rob him; He has become a reproach to his neighbors. ⁴² You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice. ⁴³ Indeed You turn back the sharpness of his sword, And have not raised him up in battle." ⁴⁴ You have caused his luster to cease, And You have toppled his throne to the earth." ⁴⁵ You have shortened the days of his adolescence; You have muffled him with shame. {Interlude{ ⁴⁶ How long, O Yahweh; shall You be concealed permanently? How long shall Your fury consume like fire? ⁴⁷ Remember how transient is my life, For what futility have You created all the sons of humanity? ⁴⁸ What master could live and not see death? Could his soul escape from the hand of the unseen? {Interlude{ ⁴⁹ Where are Your former benignities, O Yahweh, Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?

³³ Because they provoked his spirit, And he talked rashly with his lips."

³⁷ They sacrificed their sons And their daughters to demons; ³⁸ So they shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the fetishes of Canaan, And the land was polluted with bloodshed." ³⁹ Thus they defiled themselves by their deeds, And they prostituted themselves by their actions."

⁹⁶ I have seen the end of every aspiration, Yet Your instruction is very wide."

¹ {A Davidic Psalm{ O Yahweh, You have investigated me and are knowing me;" ² You Yourself know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought from afar;

²² Designs are quashed when there is no deliberation, Yet with many counselors each plan shall be confirmed."

¹⁹ A bad tooth and a tottering foot, Such is trust placed in a treacherous one in a day of distress."

²⁰ For there is no righteous man in the earth Who does good and never sins.

² And it comes in the days hereafter, established shall be the mount of Yahweh, and the house of the Elohim, on the summit of the mountains, and borne by the hills. And stream to it all the nations." ³ And go many peoples and say, "Go, and we will ascend to the mount of Yahweh, and to the house of the Elohim of Jacob, and He will direct us in His ways, and we will go in His paths.For from Zion shall fare forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem."

¹² And saying is Ahaz, "I will not ask, nor will I probe Yahweh."

⁶ For a Boy is born to us; a Son is given to us, and the chieftainship shall come to be on His shoulder, and His name is called "Marvelous.Counsel to the master shall He bring, to the chief of the future, welfare." ⁷ To the increase of the chieftainship, and to the welfare shall be no end. On the throne of David, and over his kingdom, to prepare it, and to brace it with judgment and with justice, henceforth and in the future eon. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this."

¹⁰ And there comes, in that day, the Root of Jesse, Who will stand for a Banner of the peoples; of Him will the nations inquire, and His rest will come to be glorious."

²³ In that day a highway will come from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria comes into Egypt, and Egypt goes into Assyria. And Egypt serves with Assyria." ²⁴ In that day Israel shall become third to Egypt and to Assyria. They shall be a blessing within the earth, ²⁵ who are blessed by Yahweh of hosts, who says, "Blessed be My people, Egypt, and the making of My hands, Assyria, and My allotment, Israel."

¹⁵ Therefore in the coastlands shall they glorify Yahweh. In the coastlands of the sea the name of Yahweh, the Elohim of Israel, is glorious." ¹⁶ From the wings of the land, psalms we hear:"Stateliness for the righteous.Yet I will say, "Leanness is mine! Leanness is mine! Alack is mine! The treacherous deal treacherously, and with treachery the treacherous deal treacherously."

³ Make steadfast the hands that are slack, and the faltering knees make resolute." ⁴ Say to the hasty of heart:"Be steadfast! You must not fear! Behold! Your Elohim with vengeance shall come, and with the requital of Elohim shall He come and save you."

²² Let them bring them close, and tell us what will happen. The former things, what they were, let them tell. And We will set our heart on them and know their hereafter. Or the coming things announce to Us." ²³ Tell what will arrive hereafter, and we will know that you are elohim. Indeed, you will do good and do evil. Then will we heed and see it together!"

⁷ everyone being called by My name. And for My glory I created him, I formed him. Indeed, I made him."

²¹ This people I have formed for Myself, and they shall relate My praise."

⁷ And who is as I? Stand shall he and call and tell it! And he shall arrange it for Me, from My placing the eonian people! And the things arriving shall he say, and when they will come shall they tell to you."

⁷ Former of light and Creator of darkness, Maker of good and Creator of evil. I, Yahweh Elohim, made all of these things." ⁸ Drip, you heavens, from above, and the skies shall distil righteousness. The earth shall open, and it shall bud salvation. And righteousness shall sprout together with it, I, Yahweh, create it."

²¹ Tell, and bring them close. Indeed, they shall consult together. Who announced this from aforetime? Hitherto, Who told it? Not I, Yahweh? And no one else is Elohim, apart from Me. An El, just, and a Saviour. And none is there, except Me."

⁹ Remember the first things from the eon, for I am the El, and there is no further Elohim, and the limit is as Me." ¹⁰ Telling from the beginning, the hereafter, and from aforetime, what has not yet been done. Saying, `All My counsel shall be confirmed, and all My desire will I do.'"

⁶ And he is saying to me, "A slight thing is it for you to become My servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and the dispersed of Israel to restore. Behold! I give you also for a light of the nations, to become My salvation unto the ends of the earth." ⁷ Thus says my Lord Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Elohim of Israel, his Holy One, to the despised of His soul, to the abhorred of the nation, to the servant of rulers, "Kings shall see him, and they rise, and chiefs shall also worship him, on account of Yahweh, Who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, and He shall choose you."

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."

¹¹ so shall be My word which shall fare forth from My mouth. It shall not return to Me empty, but rather, it does that which I desire, and prospers in that for which I sent it." ¹² For with rejoicing shall you go forth, and with welfare shall you be fetched. The mountains and the hills shall crash into jubilation before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their palms." ¹³ And instead of the thorn tree, up shall come the fir, and instead of the nettle, up shall come the myrtle. And it comes to be to Yahweh for a name, and for a sign eonian that shall not be cut off."

⁴ Lift your eyes around and see your children. All of them are convened. They come to you. Behold! All your sons from afar are coming, and your daughters on the side are being fostered." ⁵ Then you shall see and beam. And awed and wide will be your heart, for turned to you shall be the throng of the sea. The estate of nations shall come to you."

¹ I am inquired of by those who had not asked for Me. I am found by those who did not seek Me. I say, `Behold Me!' to a nation not calling My name."

¹² For thus says Yahweh, "Behold Me stretching out welfare to her, as a stream, and, as a watercourse overflowing, the glory of the nations. And suck do you. On the side are you being borne, and on the knees are you being dandled." ¹³ As a man whom his mother is comforting, so will I comfort you. And in Jerusalem shall you be comforted." ¹⁴ And you see it, and your heart is elated, and your bones, as verdure, shall bud, and the hand of Yahweh shall be known with His servants, yet it menaces His enemies."

¹⁸ And I know their deeds and their devices! I will come to convene all the nations and the tongues. And they come and see My glory." ¹⁹ And I place among them a sign, and I send, from those delivered, to the nations, to Tharshish and Pul and Lud and Meshech and Quesheth, Tubal and Javan, and the coastlands afar, who have not heard of My fame, nor have seen My glory. And they tell of My glory, among the nations." ²⁰ And they bring all your brethren from all the nations as an approach present to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in coaches, and on mules, and in saddle baskets, to My holy mountain, Jerusalem,says Yahweh, "As the sons of Israel are bringing their approach present in a clean vessel to the house of Yahweh." ²¹ And moreover, from them, to Me will I take for priests and for Levites,says Yahweh."

⁹ And Yahweh puts forth His hand, and strikes against my mouth, and Yahweh said unto me, `Lo, I have put my words in your mouth."

²⁰ And O Yahweh of Hosts, judging righteousness, Trying reins and heart, I do see Your vengeance against them, For unto You I have revealed my cause.'"

¹⁵ And it has been, after My plucking them out, I turn back, and have pitied them, And I have brought them back, Each to his inheritance, and each to his land."

⁹ Why are You as one dumb? As a mighty one not able to save? And You [are] in our midst, O Yahweh, And Your name over us is called, leave us not."

¹⁹ O Yahweh, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto You nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable."

¹⁰ I Yahweh do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings."

¹² And, O Yahweh of Hosts, trier of the righteous, Beholder of reins and heart, I do see Your vengeance out of them, For unto You I have revealed my cause."

² Therefore, thus said Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, Against the shepherds who feed My people, You have scattered My flock, and drive them away, And have not inspected them, Lo, I am charging on you the evil of your doings, An affirmation of Yahweh."

¹⁶ Thus said Yahweh of Hosts:You do not hearken unto the words Of the prophets who are prophesying to you, They are making you vain things, A vision of their own heart they speak, Not from the mouth of Yahweh."

²⁴ `Have you not considered what this people have spoken, saying:The two families on which Yahweh fixed, He does reject them, And my people they despise--So that they are no more a people before them!" ²⁵ Thus said Yahweh:If My covenant [is] not daily and nightly, The statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed--" ²⁶ Also the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, I reject, Against taking from his seed rulers For the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, For I turn back [to] their captivity, and have pitied them.'"

¹⁴ And I say, `Ah, Lord Yahweh, lo, my soul is not defiled, and carcase, and torn thing, I have not eaten from my youth, even till now; nor come into my mouth has abominable flesh.'"

²² Thus said the Lord Yahweh:I have taken of the foliage of the high cedar, And I have set [it], From the top of its tender shoots a tender one I crop, And I--I have planted [it] on a mountain high and lofty." ²³ In a mountain--the high place of Israel, I plant it, And it has borne boughs, and yielded fruit, And become a goodly cedar, And dwelt under it have all birds of every wing, In the shade of its thin shoots they dwell." ²⁴ And known have all trees of the field That I, Yahweh, have made low the high tree, I have set on high the low tree, I have dried up the moist tree, And I have caused the dry tree to flourish, I, Yahweh, have spoken, and have done [it]!'"

³⁰ Therefore, say unto the house of Israel:Thus said the Lord Yahweh:In the way of your fathers are you defiled? And after their detestable things go a-whoring? ³¹ And in the offering of your gifts, In causing your sons to pass through fire, You are defiled by all your idols to this day, And I am sought by you, O house of Israel! I live--an affirmation of the Lord Yahweh, I am not sought by you."

²⁵ Therefore say unto them:Thus said the Lord Yahweh:With the blood you do eat, And your eyes you lift up unto your idols, And blood you shed, and the land you inherit!"

⁸ Yet determining is Daniel in his heart that he will not sully himself with the dainties of the king, or with the wine of his feasts. When he is seeking permission from the chief of the eunuchs that he not be sullying himself,

³⁵ All abiding on the earth are reckoned as naught:According to His will is He doing in the army of the heavens and with those abiding on the earth. And no one will actually clap with his hands and say to Him, "What doest Thou?

¹⁹ My Lord, hear! My Lord, pardon! My Lord, attend and do! Thou must not be delaying on Thine own account, my Elohim, for Thy name is called over Thy city and over Thy people, Israel."

¹ And I--in year one of Darius the Mede, my position was to make him steadfast and to strengthen him."

²³ Then I sow her to Myself in the land, and I have compassion on Lo-ruhamah. And I say to Lo-ammi, My people are you! And he is saying, Yahweh, my Elohim are You."

² Take words with you and return to Yahweh, your Elohim; say to Him:Wilt You bear away all the depravity? Take the good, and we will repay with the fruit of our lips."

³² And it comes that everyone who shall call on the name of Yahweh shall escape, for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem, deliverance shall come to be, just as Yahweh says; and among the survivors are those whom Yahweh is calling."

¹¹ In that day will I raise up the fallen booth of David, and I will dike with stones its breaches, and its demolished places will I raise, and I will build it as in the days of the eon, ¹² that they may tenant the remnant of Edom, and all the nations over whom My name is called, (averring is Yahweh, the Doer of this)."

¹² that they may tenant the remnant of Edom, and all the nations over whom My name is called, (averring is Yahweh, the Doer of this)."

¹ And it comes in the days hereafter, the mount of Yahweh's house shall be established on the summit of the mountains, and it is borne by the hills, and all the peoples stream unto it." ² And many nations go and say:Go, and we will ascend to the mount of Yahweh, and to the house of the Elohim of Jacob, and He will direct us in His ways, and we will go in His paths. For from Zion shall fare forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem."

⁷ And the remnant of Jacob shall come to be among the nations, within many peoples, as the night mist from Yahweh, and as a shower on herbage, which is not expected by man, nor is awaited by the sons of humanity."

¹¹ And many nations shall be obligated to Yahweh in that day, and they become His people. When I tabernacle in your midst, then shall you know that Yahweh of hosts sent me to you."

²⁰ Thus says Yahweh of hosts:Still it shall be that many peoples shall come, and the dwellers of many cities." ²¹ And the dwellers of five cities shall go to another city, saying, We are going assuredly to beseech the face of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of hosts; I am going, moreover." ²² And many peoples and staunch nations will come to seek Yahweh of hosts in Jerusalem, and to beseech the face of Yahweh." ²³ Thus says Yahweh of hosts:In those days ten mortals, from all the languages of the nations, will take fast hold. And they will take fast hold of the hem of a man, a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we hear that Elohim is with you."

⁸ And it shall come to be that in all the land, (averring is Yahweh), two divisions in it shall be cut off and shall expire. Yet the third shall be left in it."

¹¹ For from the rising of the sun unto its setting, great is My name among the nations, and in every place incense is being brought close for My name, and a clean approach present. For My name is great among the nations, says Yahweh of hosts."

²⁰ Now at his brooding over these things, lo! a messenger of the Lord appeared to him in a trance, saying, "Joseph, son of David, you may not be afraid to accept Miriam, your wife, for that which is being generated in her is of holy spirit. ²¹ Now she shall be bringing forth a Son, and you shall be calling His name Jesus, for He shall be saving His people from their sins." ²² Now the whole of this has occurred that that may be fulfilled which is declared by the Lord through the prophet, saying: ²³ "Lo! The virgin shall be pregnant
And shall be bringing forth a Son,
And they shall be calling His name 'Emmanuel,'
which is, being construed, "God with us." ²⁴ Now, being roused from sleep, Joseph does as the messenger of the Lord bids him. And he accepted his wife, ²⁵ and he knew her not till she brought forth a Son, and he calls His name Jesus.

⁷ Jesus averred to him, "Again it is written, 'You shall not be putting on trial the Lord your God.'"

⁴⁰ He who is receiving you is receiving Me, and he who is receiving Me is receiving Him Who commissions Me."

²⁶ Yea, Father, seeing that thus it became a delight in front of Thee."

²⁸ Hither to Me, all who are toiling and laden, and I will be giving you rest." ²⁹ Lift My yoke upon you and be learning from Me, for meek am I and humble in heart, and you shall be finding rest in your souls, ³⁰ for My yoke is kindly and My load is light."

³⁰ for My yoke is kindly and My load is light."

³⁵ so that fulfilled may be that which is declared through the prophet saying, I shall be opening My mouth in parables, I shall be emitting what is hid from the disruption."

¹⁸ Now I, also, am saying to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will I be building My ecclesia, and the gates of the unseen shall not be prevailing against it." ¹⁹ I will be giving you the keys of the kingdom of the heavens, and whatsoever you should be binding on the earth shall be those things having been bound in the heavens, and whatsoever you should be loosing on the earth, shall be those having been loosed in the heavens."

²⁰ For where two or three are, gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them."

⁴ Now they are binding loads, heavy and hard to bear, and are placing them on men's shoulders, yet they are not willing to stir them with their finger."

³⁴ Therefore, lo! I am dispatching to you prophets and wise men and scribes. Of them, some you will be killing and crucifying, and of them, some you will be scourging in your synagogues and persecuting from city to city,

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."

³⁶ naked and you clothed Me; infirm am I and you visit Me; in jail was I and you come to Me.'

⁴³ a stranger was I and you did not take Me in; naked and you did not clothe Me; infirm and in jail and you did not visit Me.'

¹⁹ Going, then, disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to be keeping all, whatever I direct you. And lo! I am with you all the days till the conclusion of the eon! Amen!"

³⁴ Now He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace, and be sound from your scourge."

⁴⁰ Now there were women also, beholding from afar, among whom was Mary Magdalene also, and Mary, the mother of James the Little and Joses, and Salome,

³ give them over to us, it seems good to me also, having fully followed all accurately from the very first, to write to you consecutively, most mighty Theophilus,

³¹ And lo! you shall be conceiving and be pregnant and be bringing forth a Son, and you shall be calling His name Jesus." ³² He shall be great, and Son of the Most High shall He be called. And the Lord God shall be giving Him the throne of David, ³³ His father, and He shall reign over the house of Jacob for the eons. And of His kingdom there shall be no consummation."

⁶⁸ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, For He visits, and makes a redemption for His people, ⁶⁹ And rouses a horn of salvation for us In the house of David, His boy, ⁷⁰ According as He speaks through the mouth of His holy prophets, who are from the eon; "

⁷⁸ Because of the merciful compassions of our God, In which the Dayspring from on high visits us,

³¹ Which Thou dost make ready suiting the face of all the peoples, ³² A Light for the revelation of nations, And the Glory of Thy people Israel."

¹⁶ And He came to Nazareth, where He was reared, and, according to His custom on the day of the sabbaths, He entered into the synagogue and rose to read."

⁶¹ Now a different one also said, "I shall be following Thee, Lord! Yet first permit me to take leave of those in my home."

⁴⁹ Therefore, also, God's Wisdom said, 'I shall be dispatching to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will be killing and banishing,'"

²⁷ And anyone who is not bearing his cross and coming after Me, can not be My disciple. " ²⁸ For which of you, wanting to build a tower, is not first seated to calculate the expense, to see if he has the wherewithal?-" ²⁹ lest at some time, he laying a foundation and not being strong enough to finish up, all those beholding should begin to scoff at him, ³⁰ saying that 'This man begins building and is not strong enough to finish up!' ³¹ Or what king, going to engage another king in battle, will not, being seated, first plan to see if he is able to meet, with ten thousand, him who is coming against him with twenty thousand? ³² Otherwise, surely, at his being still at a distance, he, dispatching an embassy, is asking the terms of peace." ³³ Thus, then, everyone of you who is not taking leave of all of his possessions, can not be My disciple." ³⁴ Ideal, then, is salt. Yet if even the salt should be made insipid, with what shall it be seasoned?

⁵ And finding it, he is placing it on his shoulders, rejoicing." ⁶ And, coming into the house, he is calling together the friends and the neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice together with me that I found my sheep that was lost!'" ⁷ I am saying to you that thus there will be joy in heaven over one sinner repenting, more than over the ninety-nine just persons who have no need of repentance." ⁸ Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she should ever be losing one drachma, is not lighting a lamp and sweeping the house and seeking carefully till she may be finding it? ⁹ And, finding it, she is calling together the friends and the neighbors, saying 'Rejoice together with me that I found the drachma which I lose!'" ¹⁰ Thus, I am saying to you, there is coming to be joy in the sight of the messengers of God over one sinner repenting."

²³ And bring the grain-fed calf, sacrifice it, and, eating, we may make merry, ²⁴ for this my son was dead and revives; he was lost and was found.' And they begin to make merry.

³² Yet we must be merry and rejoice, seeing that this your brother was dead and revives, and was lost and was found.'"

²⁴ Yet Jesus Himself did not entrust Himself to them, because of His knowing all men, ²⁵ for He had no need that anyone should be testifying concerning mankind, for He knew what was in mankind."

²⁷ John answered and said, "A man can not get anything if it should not be given him out of heaven."

⁴⁸ Jesus, then, said to him, "If you should not be perceiving signs and miracles, you should under no circumstances be believing."

³⁷ And the Father Who sends Me, He has testified concerning Me. Neither have you ever heard His voice nor a perception of Him have you seen."

²² Therefore Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but that it is of the fathers) and on a sabbath you are circumcising a man."

¹⁶ Not you choose Me, but I choose you, and I appoint you, that you may be going away and be bringing forth much fruit, and your fruit may be remaining, that anything whichsoever you should be requesting the Father in My name, He will be giving it to you."

¹³ Yet whenever that may be coming - the spirit of truth -it will be guiding you into all the truth, for it will not be speaking from itself, but whatsoever it should be hearing will it be speaking, and of what is coming will it be informing you."

¹⁷ He is saying to him the third time, "Simon of John, are you fond of Me?Peter was sorry that He said to him the third time "Are you fond of Me?and he is saying to Him, "Lord, Thou art aware of all things! Thou knowest that I am fond of Thee.And Jesus is saying to him, "Graze My little sheep!"

¹⁴ These all were persevering with one accord in prayer, together with the women and Miriam, the mother of Jesus, and His brothers."

¹⁶ said, "Men! Brethren! Fulfilled must be the scripture in which the holy spirit said before through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who becomes the guide of those apprehending Jesus,

²³ And they nominate two, Joseph, called Bar-Sabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias." ²⁴ And praying, they say, "Thou, Lord, Knower of all hearts, indicate one whom Thou choosest,

¹ And at the fulfillment of the day of Pentecost they were all alike in the same place.

⁴ And they are all filled with holy spirit, and they begin to speak in different languages, according as the spirit gave them to declaim."

¹⁴ Now Peter, standing with the eleven, lifts up his voice and declaims to them: "Men! Jews! and all who are dwelling at Jerusalem! Let this be known to you, and give ear to my declarations,

¹⁷ And it shall be in the last days,' (God is saying) 'I shall be pouring out from My spirit on all flesh, And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your youths visions shall be seeing, And your elders dreams shall be dreaming, ¹⁸ And surely on My men slaves and on My women slaves in those days shall I be pouring out from My spirit,' and they shall be prophesying."

²² Men! Israelites! Hear these words: Jesus, the Nazarene, a Man demonstrated to be from God for you by powerful deeds and miracles and signs, which God does through Him in the midst of you, according as you yourselves are aware -"

²⁹ Men! Brethren! Allow me to say to you with boldness concerning the patriarch David, that he deceases also and was entombed, and his tomb is among us until this day."

⁴⁰ Besides, with more and different words, he conjures and entreated them, saying, "Be saved from this crooked generation!"

⁴⁶ Besides persevering day by day with one accord in the sanctuary, besides breaking bread home by home, they partook of nourishment with exultation and simplicity of heart,

¹⁸ Yet what God announces before through the mouth of all the prophets - the suffering of His Christ - He thus fulfills.

²⁵ Who through holy spirit, by the mouth of our father, Thy boy David, art saying, 'Why are the nations perturbed? And why do the peoples mumble empty phrases?

³¹ And at their beseeching, shaken was the place in which they were gathered, and they are all filled with the holy spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness."

³⁶ Now Joseph, who by the apostles is surnamed "Barnabas(which is, being construed, "Son of Consolation"), a Levite, a native Cyprian,

³² We are witnesses to these declarations, as well as the holy spirit which God gives to those yielding to Him."

¹ Now in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came to be a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, that their widows were overlooked in the daily dispensation." 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."

⁴ Yet we shall be persevering in prayer and the dispensation of the word." ⁵ And, pleased by the word spoken before the entire multitude, they choose Stephen, a man full of faith and holy spirit, and Philip and Prochoros and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicholas, a proselyte of Antioch,

⁹ Now there rise certain of those of the synagogue termed Freedmen, and of the Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and the province of Asia, discussing with Stephen."

¹⁴ for we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarene will be demolishing this place and will be changing the customs which Moses gives over to us."

² Now he averred, "Men, brethren, and fathers, hear! The God of glory was seen by our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, ere he dwelt in Charan,

²³ Now as his forty-year time was completed, it came on his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel."

⁴ Those indeed, then, who are dispersed, passed through, evangelizing with the word."

¹⁴ Now the apostles in Jerusalem, hearing that Samaria has received the word of God, dispatch to them Peter and John,

¹⁵ Yet the Lord said to him "Go, for he is a choice instrument of Mine, to bear My name before both the nations and kings, besides the sons of Israel,

²³ Now as a considerable number of days were fulfilled, the Jews consult to assassinate him." ²⁴ Yet known to Saul is their plot. Now they scrutinized the gates also, both by day and by night, so that they may be assassinating him." ²⁵ Yet the disciples, getting him at night, let him down through the wall, lowering him in a hamper."

⁵ And now send men to Joppa, and send after a certain Simon, who is surnamed Peter." ⁶ This man is lodging with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is beside the sea."

¹⁵ And again, a second time, a voice came to him, "What God cleanses, do not you count contaminating!"

²⁰ But, rising, descend and go with them, nothing doubting, for I have commissioned them."

²³ Calling them in, then, he lodges them. Now on the morrow, on rising, he came away together with them, and some of the brethren from Joppa came with him."

²⁸ Besides, he averred to them, "You are versed in the fact how illicit it is for a man who is a Jew to join or come to another tribe, and God shows me not to say that any man is contaminating or unclean."

³² Send, then, into Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, beside the sea.'" ³³ Forthwith, then I send to you. Besides you do ideally in coming along. Now, then, we are all present in God's sight to hear all that you have been bidden by the Lord." ³⁴ Now Peter, opening his mouth, said, "Of a truth I am grasping that God is not partial,

³⁴ Now Peter, opening his mouth, said, "Of a truth I am grasping that God is not partial, ³⁵ but in every nation he who is fearing Him and acting righteously is acceptable to Him. ³⁶ Of the word He dispatches to the sons of Israel, bringing the evangel of peace through Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all), ³⁷ you are aware, the declaration coming to be down the whole of Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John heralds:" ³⁸ Jesus from Nazareth, as God anoints Him with holy spirit and power, Who passed through as a benefactor and healer of all those who are tyrannized over by the Adversary, for God was with Him." ³⁹ And we are witnesses of all that He does, both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; Whom they assassinate also, hanging Him on a pole." ⁴⁰ This One God rouses the third day, and gives Him to become disclosed, ⁴¹ not to the entire people, but to witnesses who have been selected before by God, to us who ate and drank together with Him after His rising from among the dead." ⁴² And He charges us to herald to the people and to certify that this One is He Who is specified by God to be Judge of the living and the dead. ⁴³ To this One are all the prophets testifying: Everyone who is believing in Him is to obtain the pardon of sins through His name."

⁴³ To this One are all the prophets testifying: Everyone who is believing in Him is to obtain the pardon of sins through His name." ⁴⁴ While Peter is still speaking these declarations, the holy spirit falls on all those hearing the word."

⁴⁴ While Peter is still speaking these declarations, the holy spirit falls on all those hearing the word."

⁴⁴ While Peter is still speaking these declarations, the holy spirit falls on all those hearing the word." ⁴⁵ And amazed were the believers of the Circumcision, whoever come together with Peter, seeing that on the nations also the gratuity of the holy spirit has been poured out."

⁴⁵ And amazed were the believers of the Circumcision, whoever come together with Peter, seeing that on the nations also the gratuity of the holy spirit has been poured out." ⁴⁶ For they heard them speaking in languages and magnifying God. ⁴⁷ Then Peter answered, "There can not be anyone to forbid water, so that these are not to be baptized, who obtained the holy spirit even as we."

⁴⁷ Then Peter answered, "There can not be anyone to forbid water, so that these are not to be baptized, who obtained the holy spirit even as we." ⁴⁸ Now he bids them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they ask him to stay some days.

¹² Now the spirit said to me to come together with them, nothing doubting. Now these six brethren also came with me, and we entered into the man's house."

¹² Now the spirit said to me to come together with them, nothing doubting. Now these six brethren also came with me, and we entered into the man's house." ¹³ Now he reports to us how he perceived the messenger, standing in his house and saying, 'Dispatch to Joppa and send after Simon, who is surnamed Peter, ¹⁴ who will be speaking declarations to you by which you shall be saved, you and your entire house.'" ¹⁵ Now as I begin to speak, the holy spirit falls on them, even as on us also in the beginning."

¹⁵ Now as I begin to speak, the holy spirit falls on them, even as on us also in the beginning." ¹⁶ Now I am reminded of the declaration of the Lord, as He said that 'John, indeed, baptizes in water, yet you shall be baptized in holy spirit.'"

¹⁶ Now I am reminded of the declaration of the Lord, as He said that 'John, indeed, baptizes in water, yet you shall be baptized in holy spirit.'" ¹⁷ If, then, God gives them the equal gratuity as to us also, when believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I - able to forbid God?

¹⁷ If, then, God gives them the equal gratuity as to us also, when believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I - able to forbid God? ¹⁸ Now, on hearing these things, they are quiet, and glorify God, saying, "Consequently, to the nations also God gives repentance unto life!"

¹⁸ Now, on hearing these things, they are quiet, and glorify God, saying, "Consequently, to the nations also God gives repentance unto life!"

¹⁸ Now, on hearing these things, they are quiet, and glorify God, saying, "Consequently, to the nations also God gives repentance unto life!" ¹⁹ Those indeed, then, who are dispersed from the affliction which is occurring over Stephen, passed through as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only." ²⁰ Now some of them were the Cyprian men and Cyrenians, who, coming into Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists also, evangelizing to them the Lord Jesus."

²² Now the account concerning them is heard in the ears of the ecclesia which is in Jerusalem, and they delegate Barnabas to Antioch, ²³ who, coming along and perceiving the grace of God, rejoiced and entreated all with purpose of heart to be remaining in the Lord -"

²⁵ Now he came away to Tarsus to hunt Saul, ²⁶ and finding him, he led him to Antioch. Now it came that they are gathered a whole year, also, in the ecclesia, and teach a considerable throng. Besides, in Antioch first, the disciples are styled "Christians." ²⁷ Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

³⁰ which they do also, dispatching to the elders through the hand of Barnabas and Saul."

¹² Besides, being conscious, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who is surnamed Mark, where a considerable number were, convened together and praying."

¹⁷ Yet gesturing with a hand to them to hush, he relates to them how the Lord led him out of the jail. Besides, he said, "Report these things to James and the brethren.And, coming out, he went to a different place."

²⁵ Now Barnabas and Saul return out of Jerusalem, completing the dispensing, taking along with them John, who is surnamed "Mark."

¹ Now there were in Antioch, to accord with the ecclesia which is there, prophets and teachers, both Barnabas and Simeon, called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, besides Manaen, the tetrarch Herod's foster brother, and Saul." ² Now, at their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the holy spirit said, "Sever, by all means, to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." ³ Then, fasting and praying and placing their hands on them, they dismiss them." ⁴ They, indeed, then, being sent out by the holy spirit, came down into Seleucia. Besides, from thence they sail away to Cyprus."

⁴ They, indeed, then, being sent out by the holy spirit, came down into Seleucia. Besides, from thence they sail away to Cyprus." ⁵ And, coming to be in Salamis, they announced the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. Now they had John also as a deputy."

⁵ And, coming to be in Salamis, they announced the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. Now they had John also as a deputy." ⁶ Now, passing through the whole island up to Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus, ⁷ who was with the proconsul Sergius Paul, an intelligent man. He, calling to him Barnabas and Saul, seeks to hear the word of God." ⁸ Now Elymas, the "Magician(for thus is his name construed), withstood them, seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith." ⁹ Now Saul, who is also Paul, being filled with holy spirit, looking intently at him, ¹⁰ said, "O, full of all guile and all knavery, son of the Adversary, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord? ¹¹ And now, lo! the hand of the Lord is on you, and you shall be blind, not observing the sun until the appointed time.Now instantly there falls on him a fog and darkness, and, going about, he sought someone to lead him by the hand." ¹² Then the proconsul, perceiving what has occurred, believes, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord." ¹³ Now setting out from Paphos, those about Paul came to Perga of Pamphylia. Yet John, departing from them, returns to Jerusalem."

¹³ Now setting out from Paphos, those about Paul came to Perga of Pamphylia. Yet John, departing from them, returns to Jerusalem." ¹⁴ Now they, passing through from Perga, came along into Antioch, Pisidia, and, entering into the synagogue the day of the sabbaths, they are seated." ¹⁵ Now, after the reading of the law and the prophets, the chiefs of the synagogue dispatch to them, saying, "Men, brethren, if there is in you any word of entreaty for the people, say it."

²⁷ For those dwelling in Jerusalem and their chiefs, being ignorant of Him and of the voices of the prophets which are read on every sabbath, fulfill them in judging Him."

⁴⁷ For thus the Lord has directed us: I have appointed Thee for a light of the nations; for Thee to be for salvation as far as the limits of the earth.'" ⁴⁸ Now on hearing this, the nations rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and they believe, whoever were set for life eonian."

⁵⁰ Yet the Jews spur on the reverent, respectable women, and the foremost ones of the city, and rouse up persecution for Paul and Barnabas, and they ejected them from their boundaries." ⁵¹ Now they, shaking the dust off their feet against them, came to Iconium." ⁵² And the disciples were filled with joy and holy spirit.

¹ Now in Iconium the same thing occurred at their entering into the synagogue of the Jews and speaking, so that a vast multitude of both Jews and Greeks believe."

³ They, indeed, then, tarry a considerable time, speaking boldly in the Lord, Who is testifying to the word of His grace, granting signs and miracles to occur through their hands."

⁶ being conscious of it, they fled for refuge into the cities of Lycaonia: Lystra and Derbe, and the country about."

¹⁹ Yet Jews from Antioch and Iconium come on, and, persuading the throngs, and stoning Paul, they dragged him outside of the city, inferring that he is dead."

²¹ Evangelizing that city besides, and making a considerable number of disciples, they return into Lystra and into Iconium and into Antioch, ²² establishing the souls of the disciples, besides entreating them to remain in the faith and saying that, "Through many afflictions must we be entering into the kingdom of God."

²⁴ And passing through into Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia." ²⁵ And, speaking the word of the Lord in Perga, they descended to Attalia, ²⁶ and thence they sail away to Antioch, whence they were given over to the grace of God for the work which they fulfill." ²⁷ Now coming along and gathering the ecclesia, they informed them of whatever God does with them, and that He opens to the nations a door of faith." ²⁸ Now they tarried no brief time with the disciples.

¹ And some, coming down from Judea, taught the brethren that, "If you should not be circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can not be saved."

¹ And some, coming down from Judea, taught the brethren that, "If you should not be circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can not be saved." ² Now as Paul and Barnabas come to have no slight commotion and questioning with them, they prescribe that Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them are to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this question."

² Now as Paul and Barnabas come to have no slight commotion and questioning with them, they prescribe that Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them are to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this question." ³ They indeed, then, being sent forward by the ecclesia, passed through Phoenicia as well as Samaria, detailing the turning about of the nations. And they caused great joy to all the brethren." ⁴ Now coming along into Jerusalem, they were received by the ecclesia and the apostles and the elders. Besides, they inform them of whatever God does with them." ⁵ Yet some from the sect of the Pharisees who have believed rise up, saying that they must be circumcised, besides charging them to keep the law of Moses." ⁶ Now the apostles and the elders were gathered to see about this matter.

⁶ Now the apostles and the elders were gathered to see about this matter. ⁷ Now, there coming to be much questioning, rising, Peter said to them, "Men! Brethren! You are versed in the fact that from the days at the beginning God chooses among you, that through my mouth the nations are to hear the word of the evangel and believe."

⁷ Now, there coming to be much questioning, rising, Peter said to them, "Men! Brethren! You are versed in the fact that from the days at the beginning God chooses among you, that through my mouth the nations are to hear the word of the evangel and believe." ⁸ And God, the Knower of hearts, testifies to them, giving the holy spirit according as to us also,

⁸ And God, the Knower of hearts, testifies to them, giving the holy spirit according as to us also, ⁹ and in nothing discriminates between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith."

⁹ and in nothing discriminates between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith." ¹⁰ Why, then, are you now trying God, by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we are strong enough to bear?

¹⁰ Why, then, are you now trying God, by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we are strong enough to bear?

¹² Now the entire multitude hushes, and they heard Barnabas and Paul unfolding whatever signs and miracles God does among the nations through them."

¹⁹ Wherefore I decide not to be harassing those from the nations who are turning back to God, ²⁰ but to write an epistle to them to be abstaining from ceremonial pollution with idols, and prostitution, and what is strangled, and blood."

²² Then it seems good to the apostles and the elders, together with the whole ecclesia, choosing men from among them, to send to Antioch, together with Paul and Barnabas, Judas, called Bar-Sabbas, and Silas, leading men from among the brethren."

²² Then it seems good to the apostles and the elders, together with the whole ecclesia, choosing men from among them, to send to Antioch, together with Paul and Barnabas, Judas, called Bar-Sabbas, and Silas, leading men from among the brethren." ²³ writing through their hand as follows: "The apostles and the elders and the brethren, to the brethren at Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, out of the nations: Rejoice!"

²³ writing through their hand as follows: "The apostles and the elders and the brethren, to the brethren at Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, out of the nations: Rejoice!" ²⁴ Since, in fact, we hear that some coming out from us disturb you with words, dismantling your souls, whom we gave no assignment, ²⁵ it seems good to us, in coming to be of one accord, choosing men, to send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

²⁷ We have, then, commissioned Judas and Silas, and they are reporting the same by word."

²⁷ We have, then, commissioned Judas and Silas, and they are reporting the same by word." ²⁸ For it seems good to the holy spirit and to us in nothing to be placing one more burden on you save these essentials:

²⁸ For it seems good to the holy spirit and to us in nothing to be placing one more burden on you save these essentials: ²⁹ to be abstaining from idol sacrifices, and blood, and what is strangled and prostitution; from which, carefully keeping yourselves, you will be well engaged. Farewell!"

³² Both Judas and Silas, they also being prophets, by many a word entreat and establish the brethren."

³⁵ Yet Paul and Barnabas tarried in Antioch, teaching and bringing the evangel of the word of the Lord, with many others also."

³⁹ Now they become so incensed as to recoil from one another. Besides, Barnabas, taking Mark along, sails off to Cyprus." ⁴⁰ Now Paul, singling out Silas, came away, being given over to the grace of the Lord by the brethren." ⁴¹ Now he passed through Syria and Cilicia, establishing the ecclesias."

¹ Now he arrives also at Derbe and at Lystra. And lo! a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman, yet of a Greek father, ² who was attested by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium. ³ This one Paul wants to come out with him, and, taking him, circumcised him because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all were aware that his father belonged to the Greeks." ⁴ Now, as they went through the cities, they give over to them the decrees to maintain, which have been decided upon by the apostles and elders who are in Jerusalem."

⁴ Now, as they went through the cities, they give over to them the decrees to maintain, which have been decided upon by the apostles and elders who are in Jerusalem." ⁵ The ecclesias, indeed, then, were stable in the faith and superabounded in number day by day."

⁵ The ecclesias, indeed, then, were stable in the faith and superabounded in number day by day."

¹⁹ Now her masters, perceiving that the expectation of their income was come out, getting hold of Paul and Silas, draw them into the market to the magistrates,

²⁵ Now at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and sang hymns to God. Now the prisoners listened to them.

²⁹ Now, requesting lights, he springs in, and, coming to be in a tremor, prostrates to Paul and Silas,

³⁶ Now the warden reports these words to Paul, that "The officers have dispatched that you may be released. Then, coming out now, go in peace."

⁴ And some of them are persuaded, and were allotted to Paul and Silas, both a vast multitude of the reverent Greeks, and of the foremost women not a few."

¹⁰ Now the brethren immediately send out both Paul and Silas by night into Berea, who are away, coming along into the synagogue of the Jews."

¹⁴ Now immediately, then, Paul was sent away by the brethren to go as far as the sea. Besides, both Silas and Timothy remain behind there."

²⁶ Besides, He makes out of one every nation of mankind, to be dwelling on all the surface of the earth, specifying the setting of the seasons and the bounds of their dwelling, for them to be seeking God, if, consequently,

⁵ Now, as both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the word, certifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ."

¹⁸ Now Paul, remaining still a considerable number of days with the brethren, taking leave, sailed off to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea, for he had a vow."

²¹ but, taking leave and saying, "I shall come back again to you, God willing,he set out from Ephesus."

²³ And, spending some time, he came away, passing consecutively through the Galatian province and Phrygia, establishing all the disciples."

²⁷ Now, at his intending to pass through into Achaia, the brethren, promoting it, write to the disciples to welcome him, who, coming along, parleyed much with those who have believed through grace,

² Now, passing through those parts and entreating them with many a word, he came into Greece."

²⁴ But of nothing have I a word, nor yet am I making my soul precious to myself, till I should be perfecting my career and the dispensation which I got from the Lord Jesus, to certify the evangel of the grace of God."

³² And now I am committing you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to edify and give the enjoyment of an allotment among all who have been hallowed."

³ Now, Cyprus looming up, and leaving it on the left, we sailed to Syria, and came down to Tyre, for there the ship was unloading the cargo."

⁵ Now, when the days came to fit us out, coming away, we went, all sending us forward, together with the wives and children, till outside of the city. And kneeling on the beach, praying,

¹⁷ Now at our coming to be in Jerusalem, the brethren welcome us with gratification." ¹⁸ Now by the ensuing day, Paul had been in, together with us, to James. Besides, all the elders came along." ¹⁹ And, greeting them, he unfolded, one by one, each of the things which God does among the nations through his dispensation."

¹⁹ And, greeting them, he unfolded, one by one, each of the things which God does among the nations through his dispensation." ²⁰ Now those who hear glorified God. Besides, they said to him, "You are beholding, brother, how many tens of thousands there are among the Jews who have believed, and all are inherently zealous for the law?

²⁰ Now those who hear glorified God. Besides, they said to him, "You are beholding, brother, how many tens of thousands there are among the Jews who have believed, and all are inherently zealous for the law?

²² What is it, then? Undoubtedly a multitude must come together, for they will hear that you have come."

²⁵ Now concerning those of the nations who have believed, we write an epistle, deciding they are to guard themselves from idol sacrifice, besides from blood also, and what is strangled, and from prostitution."

¹ Men! Brethren and fathers! Hear my defense to you now!

²⁶ Claudius Lysias, to the most mighty governor Felix. Rejoice!"

³⁰ Now at its being divulged to me that there will be a plot against the man, forthwith I send him to you, charging the accusers also to speak against him before you. Farewell."

³³ who, entering into Caesarea and giving up the letter to the governor, present Paul also to him."

⁵ For, finding this man a pestilence and stirrer of insurrections among all the Jews who are on the inhabited earth, besides a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

⁵ knowing me before, from the very first, if they should be willing to testify, that, according to the strictest sect of this ritual of ours, I live a Pharisee." ⁶ And now, in expectation of the promise which came by God to our fathers,

²⁰ but first to those in Damascus, besides in Jerusalem also, besides to the entire province of Judea, and to the nations, I reported that they are to be repenting and turning back to God, engaging acts worthy of repentance."

⁴ And setting out thence, we sail under the lee of Cyprus, because of the winds being contrary."

¹⁵ And thence the brethren, hearing about us, come to meet us as far as Appii Forum and Three Taverns, perceiving whom, Paul, thanking God, took courage."

³¹ heralding the kingdom of God, and teaching that which concerns the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, unforbidden."

⁵ Jesus Christ, our Lord, through Whom we obtained grace and apostleship for faith-obedience among all the nations, for His name's sake,

¹¹ For I am longing to see you, that I may be sharing some spiritual grace with you, for you to be established:"

⁹ What, then? Are we privileged? Undoubtedly not, for we previously charge both Jews and Greeks to be all under sin,

²² yet a righteousness of God through Jesus Christ's faith, for all, and on all who are believing, for there is no distinction,

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

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."

⁸ Happy the man to whom the Lord by no means should be reckoning sin! ⁹ This happiness, then, is it for the Circumcision, or for the Uncircumcision also? For we are saying, "To Abraham faith is reckoned for righteousness." ¹⁰ How then, is it reckoned? Being in circumcision or uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision." ¹¹ And he obtained the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which was in uncircumcision, for him to be the father of all those who are believing through uncircumcision, for righteousness to be reckoned to them, ¹² and the father of the Circumcision, not to those of the Circumcision only, but to those also who are observing the elements of the faith in the footprints of our father Abraham, in uncircumcision."

¹⁵ But not as the offense, thus also the grace. For if, by the offense of the one, the many died, much rather the grace of God and the gratuity in grace, which is of the One Man, Jesus Christ, to the many superabounds."

²⁰ Yet law came in by the way, that the offense should be increasing. Yet where sin increases, grace superexceeds, ²¹ that, even as Sin reigns in death, thus Grace also should be reigning through righteousness, for life eonian, through Jesus Christ, our Lord."

²³ For the ration of Sin is death, yet the gracious gift of God is life eonian, in Christ Jesus, our Lord."

¹⁸ For I am aware that good is not making its home in me (that is, in my flesh), for to will is lying beside me, yet to be effecting the ideal is not." ¹⁹ For it is not the good that I will that I am doing, but the evil that I am not willing, this I am putting into practice." ²⁰ Now if what I am not willing, this I am doing, it is no longer I who am effecting it, but Sin which is making its home in me." ²¹ Consequently, I am finding the law that, at my willing to be doing the ideal, the evil is lying beside me."

²⁴ us, whom He calls also, not only out of the Jews, but out of the nations also."

¹¹ For the scripture is saying: Everyone who is believing on Him shall not be disgraced. ¹² For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same One is Lord of all, being rich for all who are invoking Him." ¹³ For everyone, whoever should be invoking the name of the Lord, shall be saved."

¹⁷ Consequently, faith is out of tidings, yet the tidings through a declaration of Christ." ¹⁸ But, I am saying, Do they not hear at all? To be sure! "Into the entire earth came out their utterance, And into the ends of the inhabited earth their declarations."

³⁶ seeing that out of Him and through Him and for Him is all: to Him be the glory for the eons! Amen!

⁶ Now, having graces excelling, in accord with the grace which is given to us, whether prophecy, exercise it in accord with the analogy of the faith;"

⁸ or the entreater, in entreaty; the sharer, with generosity; the presider, with diligence; the merciful one, with glee."

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."

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."

⁷ Wherefore be taking one another to yourselves according as Christ also took you to Himself, for the glory of God." ⁸ For I am saying that Christ has become the Servant of the Circumcision, for the sake of the truth of God, to confirm the patriarchal promises." ⁹ Yet the nations are to glorify God for His mercy, according as it is written, "Therefore I shall be acclaiming Thee among the nations,And to Thy name shall I be playing music." ¹⁰ And again he is saying, "Be merry, ye nations, with His people!" ¹¹ And again he is saying, "Praise the Lord, all the nations,And "let all the peoples laud Him." ¹² And again Isaiah is saying, there will be "the root of Jesse, And He Who is rising to Chief of the nations: On Him will the nations rely."

¹⁸ For I am not daring to speak any of what Christ does not effect through me for the obedience of the nations, in word and work,

²⁴ as ever I may be going into Spain (for I am expecting, while going through, to gaze upon you, and by you to be sent forward there, if I should ever first be filled, in part, by you) -"

³ Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus" ⁴ (who, for the sake of my soul, jeopardize their own necks, whom not only I am thanking, but all the ecclesias of the nations also)" ⁵ and the ecclesia at their house. Greet Epanetus, my beloved, who is the firstfruit of the province of Asia for Christ." ⁶ Greet Mary, who toils much for you." ⁷ Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow captives who are notable among the apostles, who also came to be in Christ before me." ⁸ Greet Ampliatos, my beloved in the Lord." ⁹ Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved." ¹⁰ Greet Apelles, attested in Christ. Greet those who are of Aristobulus." ¹¹ Greet Herodion, my relative. Greet those of Narcissus who are in the Lord." ¹² Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who are toiling in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who toils much in the Lord."

¹² Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who are toiling in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who toils much in the Lord." ¹³ Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine." ¹⁴ Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brethren with them." ¹⁵ Greet Philologos and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas and all the saints with them." ¹⁶ Greet one another with a holy kiss. Greeting you are all the ecclesias of Christ.

¹ Paul, a called apostle of Christ Jesus, through the will of God, and Sosthenes, a brother, 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:"

⁸ Who will be confirming you also until the consummation, unimpeachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ."

¹⁰ Now I am entreating you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all may be saying the same thing, and there may be no schisms among you, but you may be attuned to the same mind and to the same opinion."

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."

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,

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."

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."

² Yet, because of prostitutions, let each man have a wife for himself and each woman have her own husband."

¹⁸ Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not be de-circumcised. Is anyone called in uncircumcision? Let him not circumcise.

¹⁸ Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not be de-circumcised. Is anyone called in uncircumcision? Let him not circumcise. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the precepts of God."

²⁵ Now concerning the celibates or virgins, I have no injunction of the Lord. Yet an opinion am I giving, as one who has enjoyed mercy by the Lord to be faithful."

⁴⁰ Yet happier is she if ever she should be remaining thus, according to my opinion. Now I presume that I also have God's spirit."

¹ Now concerning the idol sacrifices: We are aware that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, yet love builds up."

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." ⁵ For even if so be that there are those being termed gods, whether in heaven or on earth, even as there are many gods and many lords, ⁶ nevertheless for us there is one God, the Father, out of Whom all is, and we for Him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom all is, and we through Him." 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."

¹⁹ For, being free of all, I enslave myself to all, that I should be gaining the more." ²⁰ And I became to the Jews as a Jew, that I should be gaining Jews; to those under law as under law (not being myself under law), that I should be gaining those under law;" ²¹ to those without law as without law (not being without God's law, but legally Christ's), that I should be gaining those without law." ²² I became as weak to the weak, that I should be gaining the weak. To all have I become all, that I should undoubtedly be saving some." ²³ Now all am I doing because of the evangel, that I may be becoming a joint participant of it."

⁷ according as they also lust. Nor yet be becoming idolaters, according as some of them, even as it is written, "Seated are the people to eat and drink, and they rise to sport." ⁸ Nor yet may we be committing prostitution, according as some of them commit prostitution, and fall in one day twenty-three thousand."

¹⁴ Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry." ¹⁵ As to the prudent am I saying it. Judge ye what I am averring. ¹⁶ The cup of blessing which we are blessing, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we are breaking, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? ¹⁷ For we, who are many, are one bread, one body, for we all are partaking of the one bread." ¹⁸ Observe Israel according to the flesh. Are not those eating the sacrifices participants with the altar?

¹⁸ Observe Israel according to the flesh. Are not those eating the sacrifices participants with the altar? ¹⁹ What, then, am I averring? That an idol sacrifice is anything? Or that an idol is anything?

¹⁹ What, then, am I averring? That an idol sacrifice is anything? Or that an idol is anything? ²⁰ But that that which the nations are sacrificing, they are sacrificing to demons and not to God. Now I do not want you to become participants with the demons."

²⁰ But that that which the nations are sacrificing, they are sacrificing to demons and not to God. Now I do not want you to become participants with the demons." ²¹ You can not drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can not be partaking of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. ²² Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Not stronger that He are we! 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."

²⁸ whom also God, indeed, placed in the ecclesia, first, apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers, thereupon powers, thereupon graces of healing, supports, pilotage, species of languages." ²⁹ Not all are apostles. Not all are prophets. Not all are teachers. Not all have powers.

³ Yet he who is prophesying is speaking to men for edification and consolation and comfort.

²⁹ Now, as to prophets, let two or three speak, and let the others discriminate." ³⁰ Yet if it should be revealed to another sitting by, let the first hush, ³¹ for you can all be prophesying one by one, that all may be learning and all be consoled." ³² And the spiritual endowments of prophets are subject to the prophets.

³² And the spiritual endowments of prophets are subject to the prophets. ³³ For God is not for turbulence, but peace, as in all the ecclesias of the saints."

³⁷ If anyone is presuming to be a prophet or spiritual, let him be recognizing that what I am writing to you is a precept of the Lord."

¹⁰ Yet, in the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace, which is in me, did not come to be for naught, but more exceedingly than all of them toil I - yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me."

³⁰ Why are we also in danger every hour?

⁶ Now, perchance, I shall be abiding with you, or wintering also, that you should be sending me forward wheresoever I may be going."

¹¹ No one, then, should be scorning him. Now send him forward in peace, that he may be coming to me, for I am awaiting him with the brethren." ¹² Now concerning brother Apollos, I entreat him much that he may be coming to you with the brethren, and it was undoubtedly not his will that he should come now, yet he will come whenever he should have an opportunity."

²³ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you!

¹⁶ and through you to pass through into Macedonia, and to come again from Macedonia to you, and by you to be sent forward into Judea."

¹⁴ But their apprehensions were calloused, for until this very day the same covering is remaining at the reading of the old covenant, not being uncovered." ¹⁵ for only in Christ is it being nullified. But till today, if ever the reading of Moses should be reached, a covering is lying on their heart."

¹⁹ how that God was in Christ, conciliating the world to Himself, not reckoning their offenses to them, and placing in us the word of the conciliation."

¹ Now, working together, we are also entreating you not to receive the grace of God for naught."

⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, being rich, because of you He became poor, that you, by His poverty, should be rich."

⁵ For I am reckoning to be deficient in nothing pertaining to the paramount apostles.

⁹ And, being present with you and in want, I am not an encumberance to anyone (for the brethren coming from Macedonia replenish my wants), and in everything I keep and shall be keeping myself that I be not burdensome to you. "

²³ Servants of Christ are they? (Being insane, I am speaking.) Above them am I! In weariness more exceedingly, in jails more exceedingly, in blows inordinatley, in deaths often. " ²⁴ By Jews five times I got forty save one. ²⁵ Thrice am I flogged with rods, once am I stoned, thrice am I shipwrecked, a night and a day have I spent in a swamp, " ²⁶ in journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers of my race, in dangers of the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brethren; " ²⁷ in toil and labor, in vigils often, in famine and thirst, in fasts often, in cold and nakedness; " ²⁸ apart from what is outside, that which is coming upon me daily, the solicitude for all the ecclesias. "

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."

¹¹ Furthermore, brethren, rejoice, adjust, be entreated, be mutually disposed, be at peace, and the God of love and of peace will be with you. "

¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the holy spirit be with you all! Amen!

⁶ I am marveling that thus, swiftly, you are transferred from that which calls you in the grace of Christ, to a different evangel,

⁶ I am marveling that thus, swiftly, you are transferred from that which calls you in the grace of Christ, to a different evangel, ⁷ which is not another, except it be that some who are disturbing you want also to distort the evangel of Christ."

⁷ which is not another, except it be that some who are disturbing you want also to distort the evangel of Christ." ⁸ But if ever we also, or a messenger out of heaven, should be bringing an evangel to you beside that which we bring to you, let him be anathema!" ⁹ As we have declared before and at present I am saying again, if anyone is bringing you an evangel beside that which you accepted, let him be anathema!" ¹⁰ For, at present, am I persuading men or God? Or am I seeking to please men? If I still pleased men, I were not a slave of Christ."

¹⁹ Yet I became acquainted with no one different from the apostles, except James, the brother of the Lord."

²¹ Thereupon I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

¹ Thereupon, after the lapse of fourteen years, I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also along with me."

¹ Thereupon, after the lapse of fourteen years, I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also along with me." ² Now I went up in accord with a revelation, and submitted to them the evangel which I am heralding among the nations, yet privately to those of repute, lest somehow I should be racing or ran for naught." ³ But not even Titus, who is with me, being a Greek, is compelled to be circumcised." ⁴ Yet, it was because of the false brethren who were smuggled in, who came in by the way to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they shall be enslaving us- "

⁴ Yet, it was because of the false brethren who were smuggled in, who came in by the way to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they shall be enslaving us- "

⁴ Yet, it was because of the false brethren who were smuggled in, who came in by the way to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they shall be enslaving us- " ⁵ to whom, not even for an hour do we simulate by subjection, that the truth of the evangel should be continuing with you."

⁵ to whom, not even for an hour do we simulate by subjection, that the truth of the evangel should be continuing with you."

⁷ But, on the contrary, preceiving that I have been entrusted with the evangel of the Uncircumcision, ⁸ according as Peter of the Circumcision (for He Who operates in Peter for the apostleship of the Circumcision operates in me also for the nations), ⁹ and, knowing the grace which is being given to me, James and Cephas and John, who are supposed to be pillars, give to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we, indeed, are to be for the nations, yet they for the Circumcision-"

⁹ and, knowing the grace which is being given to me, James and Cephas and John, who are supposed to be pillars, give to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we, indeed, are to be for the nations, yet they for the Circumcision-"

¹¹ Now when Cephas came to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, for he was self-censured." ¹² For, before the coming of some from James, he ate together with those of the nations. Yet when they came, he shrank back, and severed himself, fearing those of the Circumcision."

¹² For, before the coming of some from James, he ate together with those of the nations. Yet when they came, he shrank back, and severed himself, fearing those of the Circumcision." ¹³ And the rest of the Jews also play the hypocrite with him, so that Barnabas also was led away with their hypocrisy." ¹⁴ But when I perceived that they are not correct in their attitude toward the truth of the evangel, I said to Cephas in front of all, "If you, being inherently a Jew, are living as the nations, and not as the Jews, how are you compelling the nations to be judaizing?

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."

²⁸ in Whom there is no Jew nor yet Greek, there is no slave nor yet free, there is no male and female, for you all are one in Christ Jesus."

¹ Now I am saying, for as much time as the enjoyer of an allotment is a minor, in nothing is he of more consequence than a slave, being master of all, ² but is under guardians and administrators until the time purposed by the father. ³ Thus we also, when we were minors, were enslaved under the elements of the world." ⁴ Now when the full time came, God delegates His Son, come of a woman, come under law, " ⁵ that He should be reclaiming those under law, that we may be getting the place of a son."

⁹ Yet now, knowing God, yet rather being known by God, how are you turning back again to the infirm and poor elements for which you want to slave again anew?

¹ For freedom Christ frees us! Stand firm, then, and be not again enthralled with the yoke of slavery."

¹ For freedom Christ frees us! Stand firm, then, and be not again enthralled with the yoke of slavery."

¹ For freedom Christ frees us! Stand firm, then, and be not again enthralled with the yoke of slavery." ² Lo! I, Paul, am saying to you that if you should be circumcising, Christ will benefit you nothing."

² Lo! I, Paul, am saying to you that if you should be circumcising, Christ will benefit you nothing." ³ Now I am attesting again to every man who is circumcising, that he is a debtor to do the whole law."

³ Now I am attesting again to every man who is circumcising, that he is a debtor to do the whole law." ⁴ Exempted from Christ were you who are being justified in law. You fall out of grace.

⁴ Exempted from Christ were you who are being justified in law. You fall out of grace.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision is availing anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith, operating through love."

¹⁰ I have confidence in you in the Lord that in nothing you will be disposed otherwise. Now he who is disturbing you shall be bearing his judgment, whosoever he may be." ¹¹ Now I, brethren, if I am still heralding circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? Consequently the snare of the cross of Christ has been nullified." ¹² Would that those who are raising you to insurrection struck themselves off also!

¹² Would that those who are raising you to insurrection struck themselves off also!

¹⁹ Now apparent are the works of the flesh, which are adultery, prostitution, uncleanness, wantonness,

¹² Whoever are wanting to put on a fair face in the flesh, these are compelling you to circumcise only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ Jesus." ¹³ For not even they who are circumcising are maintaining law, but they want you to be circumcised that they should be boasting in that flesh of yours."

¹³ For not even they who are circumcising are maintaining law, but they want you to be circumcised that they should be boasting in that flesh of yours." 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." ¹⁵ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything, but a new creation." ¹⁶ And whoever shall observe the elements by this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, also on the Israel of God."

⁴ according as He chooses us in Him before the disruption of the world, we to be holy and flawless in His sight,

⁶ for the laud of the glory of His grace, which graces us in the Beloved:" ⁷ in Whom we are having the deliverance through His blood, the forgiveness of offenses in accord with the riches of His grace,

¹¹ in Him in Whom our lot was cast also, being designated beforehand according to the purpose of the One Who is operating all in accord with the counsel of His will,

⁵ (we also being dead to the offenses and the lusts), vivifies us together in Christ (in grace are you saved!)" ⁶ and rouses us together and seats us together among the celestials, in Christ Jesus, ⁷ that, in the oncoming eons, He should be displaying the transcendent riches of His grace in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus." ⁸ For in grace, through faith, are you saved, and this is not out of you; it is God's approach present, ⁹ not of works, lest anyone should be boasting."

¹⁴ For He is our Peace, Who makes both one, and razes the central wall of the barrier" ¹⁵ (the enmity in His flesh), nullifying the law of precepts in decrees, that He should be creating the two, in Himself, into one new humanity, making peace;" ¹⁶ and should be reconciling both in one body to God through the cross, killing the enmity in it." ¹⁷ And, coming, He brings the evangel of peace to you, those afar, and peace to those near, ¹⁸ for through Him we both have had access, in one spirit, to the Father." ¹⁹ Consequently, then, no longer are you guests and sojourners, but are fellow-citizens of the saints and belong to God's family, ²⁰ being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, the capstone of the corner being Christ Jesus Himself, 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."

⁵ which, in other generations, is not made known to the sons of humanity as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets): in spirit" ⁶ the nations are to be joint enjoyers of an allotment, and a joint body, and joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus, through the evangel"

⁹ and to enlighten all as to what is the administration of the secret, which has been concealed from the eons in God, Who creates all,

¹¹ And the same One gives these, indeed, as apostles, yet these as prophets, yet these as evangelists, yet these as pastors and teachers, ¹² toward the adjusting of the saints for the work of dispensing, for the upbuilding of the body of Christ, ¹³ unto the end that we should all attain to the unity of the faith and of the realization of the son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the complement of the Christ,

³ Now, all prostitution and uncleanness or greed - let it not even be named among you, according as is becoming in saints -"

²¹ Now that you also may be acquainted with my affairs, and what is engaging me, all will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord,

²⁷ Only be citizens walking worthily of the evangel of Christ, that, whether coming and making your acquaintance, or being absent, I should be hearing of your concerns, that you are standing firm in one spirit, one soul, competing together in the faith of the evangel, "

¹⁴ All be doing without murmurings and reasonings,

²⁹ Receive him, then in the Lord with all joy, and have such in honor, ³⁰ seeing that because of the work of the Lord he draws near unto death, risking his soul that he should fill up your want of ministration toward me."

² Beware of curs, beware of evil workers. Beware of the maimcision, ³ for we are the circumcision who are offering divine service in the spirit of God, and are glorying in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in flesh."

³ for we are the circumcision who are offering divine service in the spirit of God, and are glorying in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in flesh."

⁵ in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews, in relation to law, a Pharisee, ⁶ in relation to zeal, persecuting the ecclesia, in relation to the righteousness which is in law, becoming blameless." ⁷ But things which were gain to me, these I have deemed a forfeit because of Christ." ⁸ But, to be sure, I am also deeming all to be a forfeit because of the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, because of Whom I forfeited all, and am deeming it to be refuse, that I should be gaining Christ,

²⁸ Whom we are announcing, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we should be presenting every man mature in Chist Jesus;"

⁸ Beware that no one shall be despoiling you through philosophy and empty seduction, in accord with human tradition, in accord with the elements of the world, and not in accord with Christ,

¹¹ in Whom you were circumcised also with a circumcision not made by hands, in the stripping off of the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ." ¹² Being entombed together with Him in baptism, in Whom you were roused together also through faith in the operation of God,

¹⁶ Let no one, then, be judging you in food or in drink or in the particulars of a festival, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

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

¹¹ wherein there is no Greek and Jew, Circumcision and Uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeman, but all and in all is Christ."

⁷ All my affairs shall be made known to you by Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful servant and fellow slave in the Lord,

⁹ together with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known to you all things here." ¹⁰ Greeting you is Aristarchus, my fellow captive, and Mark, cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you obtained directions: if he should be coming to you, receive him),

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the ecclesia of the Thessalonians, in God, the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ."

⁹ for they are reporting concerning us, what kind of an entrance we have had to you, and how you turn back to God from idols, to be slaving for the living and true God,

¹¹ even as you are aware how we were to each one of you, as a father to his own children, consoling and comforting you and attesting unto you"

¹⁷ Now we, brethren, being bereaved of you for the period of an hour, in face, not in heart, endeavor the more exceedingly to see your face, with much yearning, ¹⁸ because we want to come to you, indeed, I, Paul, once - even twice - and Satan hinders us."

² and we send Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the evangel of Christ, to establish and to console you for the sake of your faith."

⁶ Yet at present, because of Timothy's coming to us from you, and bringing us the evangel of your faith and your love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, longing to see us even as we also you -"

¹⁰ night and day superexcessively beseeching to see your face and to adjust the deficiencies of your faith? ¹¹ Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, be directing our way to you! "

¹ For the rest, then, brethren, we are asking you and entreating in the Lord Jesus, that, according as you accepted from us how you must be walking and pleasing God (according as you are walking also), that you may be superabounding yet more,

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

⁸ Surely, in consequence, then, he who is repudiating is not repudiating man, but God, Who is also giving His holy spirit to you."

¹⁴ Now we are entreating you, brethren; admonish the disorderly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the infirm, be patient toward all."

²⁰ Scorn not prophecies.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the ecclesia of the Thessalonians, in God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:"

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,

¹² Now such we are charging and entreating in the Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with quietness, they may be eating their own bread."

¹ I am entreating, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, pleadings, thanksgiving be made for all mankind,

⁷ for which I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the nations in knowledge and truth."

⁴ seeing that every creature of God is ideal and nothing is to be cast away, being taken with thanksgiving, ⁵ for it is hallowed through the word of God and pleading.

²² doing nothing from bias. On no one place hands too quickly, nor yet be participating in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure."

⁴ longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled full of joy,

¹⁴ Of these things be reminding them, conjuring them in the Lord's sight not to engage in controversy for nothing useful, to the upsetting of those who are hearing."

² Herald the word. Stand by it, opportunely, inopportunely, expose, rebuke, entreat, with all patience and teaching."

¹¹ Luke only is with me. Taking Mark, lead him back with you, for he is useful to me for service."

²² The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit! Grace be with you! Amen!

¹⁰ For many are insubordinate, vain praters and imposters, especially those of the Circumcision, ¹¹ who must be gagged, who are subverting whole households, teaching what they must not, on behalf of sordid gain."

⁶ The younger men, similarly, entreat to be sane as to all things, ⁷ tendering yourself a model of ideal acts, in teaching with uncorruptness, gravity, ⁸ with words sound, uncensurable, that the contrary one may be abashed, having nothing bad to say concerning us." ⁹ Slaves are to be subject to their own owners, to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting;" ¹⁰ not embezzling, but displaying all good faithfulness, that they may be adorning the teaching that is of God, our Saviour, in all things." ¹¹ For the saving grace of God made its advent to all humanity,

¹¹ For the saving grace of God made its advent to all humanity, ¹² training us that, disowning irreverence and worldly desires, we should be living sanely and justly and devoutly in the current eon, ¹³ anticipating that happy expectation, even the advent of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ, 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." ¹⁵ Speak of these things and entreat and expose with every injunction. Let no one slight you.

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."

¹³ Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos forward diligently, that nothing may be lacking to them."

¹⁵ Greeting you are all those with me. Greet our friends in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen!

⁸ Wherefore, having much boldness in Christ to be enjoining you as to what is proper, ⁹ because of love I am rather entreating, being such a one as Paul the aged, yet now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus."

¹⁶ no longer as a slave, but above a slave, a brother beloved, especially to me, yet how much rather to you, in the flesh as well as in the Lord!"

²⁴ Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow workers."

⁴ God corroborating, both by signs and miracles and by various powerful deeds and partings of holy spirit, according to His will?

⁹ Where your fathers try Me in the testing, And were acquainted with My acts forty years."

¹³ And there is not a creature which is not apparent in its sight. Now all is naked and bare to the eyes of Him to Whom we are accountable.

⁹ which is a parable for the present period, according to which both approach presents and sacrifices are being offered, which can not make the one offering divine service perfect as to the conscience,

¹³ For if the blood of he-goats and of bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the contaminated, is hallowing to the cleanness of the flesh, ¹⁴ how much rather shall the blood of Christ, Who, through the eonian spirit offers Himself flawless to God, be cleansing your conscience from dead works to be offering divine service to the living and true God?

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

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."

⁷ Be remembering those of your leaders who speak to you the word of God, contemplating the sequel of their behavior, whose faith be imitating."

¹⁷ Be persuaded by your leaders, and be deferring to them, for they are vigilant for the sake of your souls, as having to render an account, that they may be doing this with joy, and not with groaning, for this is disadvantageous for you."

¹ James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion. Rejoice!"

⁸ a man double-souled, turbulent in all his ways."

¹⁹ Now you are aware, my beloved brethren! Yet let every man be swift to hear, tardy to speak, tardy to anger,

²⁷ for ritual clean and undefiled with God the Father is this: to be visiting the bereaved and widowed in their affliction, to be keeping oneself unspotted from the world."

² For we all are tripping much. If anyone is not tripping in word, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also."

¹² To whom it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to you they dispensed them, of which you were now informed through those who are bringing the evangel to you by holy spirit dispatched from heaven, into which messengers are yearning to peer."

²⁰ foreknown, indeed, before the disruption of the world, yet manifested in the last times because of you, who through Him are believing in God,

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,

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, ¹⁰ who once were "not a peopleyet now are the people of God, who "have not enjoyed mercy,yet now are "being shown mercy."

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,

¹ The elders, then, among you I am entreating (who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a participant of the glory about to be revealed),

¹⁰ Now the God of all grace, Who calls you into His eonian glory in Christ, while briefly suffering, He will be adjusting, establishing, firming, founding you."

¹² Through Silvanus, a faithful brother, as I am reckoning, I write briefly to you, entreating and deposing that this is the true grace of God, in which you are to stand."

¹ Simeon Peter, a slave and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are chancing upon an equally precious faith with us, in the righteousness of our God, and the Saviour, Jesus Christ:"

¹⁵ And be deeming the patience of our Lord salvation, according as our beloved brother Paul also writes to you, according to the wisdom given to him,

¹⁹ Out of us they come, but they were not of us, for if they were of us, they would have remained with us. But it was that they may be manifested that they are not all of us. "

²¹ Little children, guard yourselves from idols!"

³ With us will be grace, mercy, peace from God, the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love."

¹⁰ If anyone is coming to you and is not bringing this teaching, be not taking him into your home, and say not to him, "Rejoice!"

¹⁰ If anyone is coming to you and is not bringing this teaching, be not taking him into your home, and say not to him, "Rejoice!" ¹¹ For he who is saying to him to be rejoicing is participating in his wicked acts. ¹² Having much to write to you, I resolved not to do it with paper and ink, but I am expecting to come to you and to speak mouth to mouth, that your joy may be full." ¹³ The children of your chosen sister are greeting you.

⁶ who testify to your love in the sight of the ecclesia, to whom you will be doing ideally by sending them forward worthily of God, ⁷ for they come out for the sake of the Name, getting nothing from those of the nations." ⁸ We then, ought to be taking up such, that we may become fellow workers in the truth. "

⁸ We then, ought to be taking up such, that we may become fellow workers in the truth. " ⁹ I write somewhat to the ecclesia, but Diotrephes, who is fond of being foremost among them, is not receiving us." ¹⁰ Therefore, if I should be coming, I shall be reminding him of his acts which he is doing, with wicked words gossiping about us, and not being sufficed with these, neither is he receiving the brethren, and those who are intending to he is forbidding, and is casting them out of the ecclesia."

¹³ Much had I to write to you, but I do not want to write to you with ink and pen." ¹⁴ Yet I am expecting to see you immediately, and we will be speaking mouth to mouth. (1:15) Peace be to you! The friends are greeting you. Greet the friends by name."

³ Beloved, giving all diligence to be writing to you concerning our common salvation and life, I have had the necessity to write to you, entreating you to be contending for the faith once given over to the saints."

²⁰ Now you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in holy spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in the love of God, anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for life eonian."

²⁴ Now to Him Who is able to guard you from tripping, and to stand you flawless in sight of His glory, in exultation,

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, that you have there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the sons of Israel, to be eating idol sacrifices, and to commit prostitution."

²⁰ But I have much against you, seeing that you pardon that woman of yours, Jezebel, who says that she is a prophetess, and is teaching and deceiving My slaves so as to commit prostitution and to be eating idol sacrifices."

²³ And her children shall I be killing with death, and all the ecclesias shall know that I an He Who is searching the kidneys and hearts. And I will be giving to each of you in accord with your acts." ²⁴ Now to you am I saying, to the rest in Thyatira, whoever have not this teaching, who do not know the deep things of Satan,' as they are saying, that I will be casting on you no other burden."

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."

²⁰ And the rest of mankind, who were not killed in these calamities, repent not of the acts of their hands- that they will not be worshiping the demons and idols of gold and silver and copper and stone and wood, which are neither able to be observing nor to be hearing nor to be walking-."

² and having in his hand a tiny open scroll. And he places his right foot on the sea, yet the left on the land."

⁸ And the voice which I hear out of heaven speaks again with me, and is saying, "Go, get the tiny scroll open in the hand of the messenger standing on the sea and on the land."

⁸ And all who are dwelling on the earth will be worshiping it, everyone whose name is not written in the scroll of life of the Lambkin slain from the disruption of the world."

⁸ The wild beast which you perceived was, and is not, and is about to be ascending out of the submerged chaos, and to be going away into destruction. And marvel shall those dwelling on the earth, whose names are not written on the scroll of life from the disruption of the world, when they observe the wild beast, seeing that it was, and is not, and will be present."