Galatians 4 Cross References - Darby

¹ Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all; ² but he is under guardians and stewards until the period fixed by the father. ³ So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world; ⁴ but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law, ⁵ that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive sonship. ⁶ But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father. ⁷ So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also through God. ⁸ But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods; ⁹ but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage? ¹⁰ Ye observe days and months and times and years. ¹¹ I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you. ¹² Be as *I* [am], for *I* also [am] as *ye*, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me. ¹³ But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first; ¹⁴ and my temptation, which [was] in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ What then [was] your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given [them] to me. ¹⁶ So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you? ¹⁷ They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them. ¹⁸ But [it is] right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you -- ¹⁹ my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you: ²⁰ and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to you. ²¹ Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not listen to the law? ²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the maid servant, and one of the free woman. ²³ But he [that was] of the maid servant was born according to flesh, and he [that was] of the free woman through the promise. ²⁴ Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is Hagar. ²⁵ For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which [is] now, for she is in bondage with her children; ²⁶ but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother. ²⁷ For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break out and cry, thou that travailest not; because the children of the desolate are more numerous than [those] of her that has a husband. ²⁸ But *ye*, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise. ²⁹ But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him [that was born] according to Spirit, so also [it is] now. ³⁰ But what says the scripture? Cast out the maid servant and her son; for the son of the maid servant shall not inherit with the son of the free woman. ³¹ So then, brethren, we are not maid servant`s children, but [children] of the free woman.

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.

¹ After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, thy exceeding great reward.

² And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah has shut me up, that I do not bear. Go in, I pray thee, to my maidservant: it may be that I shall be built up by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. ³ And Sarai Abram`s wife took Hagar, the Egyptian, her maidservant, at the end of ten years that Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram, as his wife. ⁴ And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was lightly esteemed in her eyes.

⁸ And he said, Hagar, Sarai`s maidservant, whence comest thou? and whither art thou going? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.

¹⁵ And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

¹⁵ And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. ¹⁶ And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

⁷ And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. ⁸ And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them.

¹⁵ And God said to Abraham, [As to] Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. ¹⁶ And I will bless her, and I will give thee a son also of her; and I will bless her, and she shall become nations: kings of peoples shall be of her. ¹⁷ And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall [a child] be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear? ¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee! ¹⁹ And God said, Sarah thy wife shall indeed bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

¹⁰ And he said, I will certainly return to thee at [this] time of the year, and behold, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah was listening at the tent-door, which was behind him. ¹¹ Now Abraham and Sarah were old [and] advanced in age: it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. ¹² And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am become old, shall I have pleasure, and my lord old? ¹³ And Jehovah said to Abraham, Why is this, that Sarah laughs, saying, Shall I indeed bear, when I am become old? ¹⁴ Is [any] matter too wonderful for Jehovah? At the time appointed I will return to thee, at [this] time of the year, and Sarah shall have a son.

¹ And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did to Sarah as he had spoken. ² And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.

⁹ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

⁹ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. ¹⁰ And she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid shall not inherit with my son -- with Isaac.

¹⁰ And she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid shall not inherit with my son -- with Isaac.

¹⁰ And she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid shall not inherit with my son -- with Isaac. ¹¹ And the thing was very grievous in Abraham`s sight because of his son.

¹¹ And the thing was very grievous in Abraham`s sight because of his son. ¹² And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy handmaid: [in] all that Sarah hath said to thee hearken to her voice, for in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

¹² And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy handmaid: [in] all that Sarah hath said to thee hearken to her voice, for in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee. ¹³ But also the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

² And Abraham said to his servant, the eldest of his house, who ruled over all that he had, Put thy hand, I pray thee, under my thigh, ³ and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am dwelling;

¹² And these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham`s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah`s bondwoman, bore to Abraham.

¹⁵ But only in this will we consent to you, if ye will be as we, that every male of you be circumcised;

¹⁰ The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come, And to him will be the obedience of peoples.

² And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, to whose voice I am to hearken to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, neither will I let Israel go.

¹⁷ And Jehovah said to Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast said; for thou hast found grace in mine eyes, and I know thee by name.

¹ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ² Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, [Concerning] the set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim as holy convocations -- these are my set feasts. ³ Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; no manner of work shall ye do: it is the sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings. ⁴ These are the set feasts of Jehovah, holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons: ⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the two evenings, is the passover to Jehovah. ⁶ And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast of unleavened bread to Jehovah; seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread. ⁷ On the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: no manner of servile work shall ye do. ⁸ And ye shall present to Jehovah an offering by fire seven days; on the seventh day is a holy convocation: no manner of servile work shall ye do. ⁹ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁰ Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When ye come into the land that I give unto you, and ye reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest. ¹¹ And he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah, to be accepted for you; on the next day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. ¹² And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf, a he-lamb without blemish, a yearling, for a burnt-offering to Jehovah; ¹³ and the oblation thereof: two tenths of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering by fire to Jehovah for a sweet odour; and the drink-offering thereof, of wine, a fourth part of a hin. ¹⁴ And ye shall not eat bread, or roast corn, or green ears, until the same day that ye have brought the offering of your God: [it is] an everlasting statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings. ¹⁵ And ye shall count from the morning after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering, seven weeks; they shall be complete; ¹⁶ even unto the morning after the seventh sabbath shall ye count fifty days; and ye shall present a new oblation to Jehovah. ¹⁷ Out of your dwellings shall ye bring two wave-loaves, of two tenths of fine flour; with leaven shall they be baken; [as] first-fruits to Jehovah. ¹⁸ And ye shall present with the bread seven he-lambs without blemish, yearlings, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be a burnt-offering to Jehovah with their oblation, and their drink-offerings, an offering by fire of a sweet odour to Jehovah. ¹⁹ And ye shall sacrifice one buck of the goats for a sin-offering, and two he-lambs, yearlings, for a sacrifice of peace-offering. ²⁰ And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits as a wave-offering before Jehovah, with the two he-lambs; they shall be holy to Jehovah, for the priest. ²¹ And ye shall make proclamation on that same day -- a holy convocation shall it be unto you: no manner of servile work shall ye do: [it is] an everlasting statute in all your dwellings throughout your generations. ²² And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not in thy harvest entirely reap the corners of thy field, and the gleaning of thy harvest shalt thou not gather: thou shalt leave them unto the poor and to the stranger: I am Jehovah your God. ²³ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴ Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first of the month, shall ye have a rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. ²⁵ No manner of servile work shall ye do; and ye shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah. ²⁶ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁷ Also on the tenth of this seventh month is the day of the atonement: a holy convocation shall it be unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and present an offering by fire to Jehovah. ²⁸ And ye shall do no manner of work on that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Jehovah your God. ²⁹ For every soul that is not afflicted on that same day, shall be cut off from among his peoples. ³⁰ And every soul that doeth any manner of work on that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. ³¹ No manner of work shall ye do: [it is] an everlasting statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings. ³² A sabbath of rest shall it be unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls. On the ninth of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath. ³³ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁴ Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths seven days to Jehovah. ³⁵ On the first day there shall be a holy convocation: no manner of servile work shall ye do. ³⁶ Seven days ye shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah; on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah: it is a solemn assembly; no manner of servile work shall ye do. ³⁷ These are the set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present an offering by fire to Jehovah, a burnt-offering, and an oblation, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, everything upon its day; ³⁸ besides the sabbaths of Jehovah, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your voluntary offerings, which ye give to Jehovah. ³⁹ But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the produce of the land, ye shall celebrate the feast of Jehovah seven days: on the first day there shall be rest, and on the eighth day there shall be rest. ⁴⁰ And ye shall take on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, palm branches and the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God seven days. ⁴¹ And ye shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah seven days in the year: [it is] an everlasting statute throughout your generations; in the seventh month shall ye celebrate it. ⁴² In booths shall ye dwell seven days; all born in Israel shall dwell in booths; ⁴³ that your generations may know that I caused the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God. ⁴⁴ And Moses declared the set feasts of Jehovah to the children of Israel.

¹ And Jehovah spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

¹³ In this year of the jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

¹¹ And Moses said to Jehovah, Why hast thou done evil to thy servant, and why have I not found favour in thine eyes, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? ¹² Have I conceived all this people, have I brought them forth, that thou sayest to me, Carry them in thy bosom, as the nursing-father beareth the suckling, unto the land which thou didst swear unto their fathers?

¹¹ Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. ¹² Therefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace! ¹³ And he shall have it, and his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.

¹ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ² Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, my bread for my offerings by fire of sweet odour to me, shall ye take heed to present to me at their set time. ³ And say unto them, This is the offering by fire which ye shall present to Jehovah: two yearling lambs without blemish, day by day, as a continual burnt-offering. ⁴ The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb thou shalt offer between the two evenings; ⁵ and a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for an oblation, mingled with beaten oil, a fourth part of a hin: ⁶ [it is] the continual burnt-offering which was ordained on mount Sinai for a sweet odour, an offering by fire to Jehovah. ⁷ And the drink-offering thereof shall be a fourth part of a hin for one lamb; in the sanctuary shall the drink-offering of strong drink be poured out to Jehovah. ⁸ And the second lamb thou shalt offer between the two evenings; [with the] like oblation as that of the morning, and the like drink-offering, shalt thou offer it as an offering by fire of a sweet odour to Jehovah. ⁹ And on the sabbath day two yearling lambs without blemish, and two tenth parts of fine flour as an oblation, mingled with oil, and the drink-offering thereof: ¹⁰ it is the burnt-offering of the sabbath, for each sabbath besides the continual burnt-offering, and its drink-offering. ¹¹ And in the beginnings of your months ye shall present a burnt-offering to Jehovah: two young bullocks, and one ram, seven yearling lambs without blemish. ¹² And three tenth parts of fine flour as an oblation, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth parts of fine flour as an oblation, mingled with oil, for the ram; ¹³ and a tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil as an oblation for each lamb: [it is] a burnt-offering of a sweet odour, an offering by fire to Jehovah. ¹⁴ And their drink-offerings: half a hin of wine for a bullock, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb. This is the monthly burnt-offering for each month throughout the months of the year. ¹⁵ And a buck of the goats shall be offered, for a sin-offering to Jehovah, besides the continual burnt-offering, and its drink-offering. ¹⁶ And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the passover to Jehovah. ¹⁷ And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast; seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. ¹⁸ On the first day shall be a holy convocation: no manner of servile work shall ye do; ¹⁹ and ye shall present an offering by fire, a burnt-offering to Jehovah: two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven yearling lambs; they shall be unto you without blemish; ²⁰ and their oblation shall be of fine flour mingled with oil: three tenth parts shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth parts for the ram; ²¹ one tenth part shalt thou offer for each lamb, of the seven lambs; ²² and a he-goat as a sin-offering, to make atonement for you. ²³ Besides the burnt-offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt-offering, shall ye offer this. ²⁴ After this manner ye shall offer daily, seven days, the bread of the offering by fire of a sweet odour to Jehovah; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt-offering, and its drink-offering. ²⁵ And on the seventh day ye shall have a holy convocation; no manner of servile work shall ye do. ²⁶ And on the day of the first-fruits, when ye present a new oblation to Jehovah, after your weeks, ye shall have a holy convocation: no manner of servile work shall ye do. ²⁷ And ye shall present a burnt-offering for a sweet odour to Jehovah: two young bullocks, one ram, seven yearling lambs; ²⁸ and their oblation of fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for one bullock, two tenth parts for the ram, ²⁹ one tenth part for each lamb of the seven lambs;

² And he said, Jehovah came from Sinai, And rose up from Seir unto them; He shone forth from mount Paran, And he came from the myriads of the sanctuary; From his right hand [went forth] a law of fire for them.

⁵ The mountains quaked before the face of Jehovah, That Sinai, from before Jehovah the God of Israel.

¹¹ And Naomi said, Return, my daughters: why will ye go with me? Are there yet sons in my womb, that they could be your husbands? ¹² Return, my daughters, go; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, should I even have a husband to-night, and should I also bear sons, ¹³ would ye wait on that account till they were grown? Would ye stay on that account from having husbands? No, my daughters, for I am in much more bitterness than you; for the hand of Jehovah is gone out against me.

¹⁴ And the women said to Naomi, Blessed be Jehovah who hath not left thee this day without one that has the right of redemption, and may his name be famous in Israel! ¹⁵ And he shall be to thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age; for thy daughter-in-law who loves thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, has borne him. ¹⁶ And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.

⁵ They that were full have hired themselves out for bread; and the hungry are [so] no more: Even the barren beareth seven, and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

²⁰ And Absalom her brother said to her, Has Amnon thy brother been with thee? and now, my sister, be still: he is thy brother; take not this thing to heart. And Tamar remained, and [that] desolate, in her brother Absalom`s house.

¹⁷ And thy bondmaid said, Let the word of my lord the king now be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad; and Jehovah thy God will be with thee.

²⁷ And he has slandered thy servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God; do therefore what is good in thy sight.

⁴³ hear thou in the heavens thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; in order that all peoples of the earth may know thy name, [and] that they may fear thee as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

¹⁷ And it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Is it thou, the troubler of Israel? ¹⁸ And he said, I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father`s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of Jehovah, and thou hast followed the Baals.

²⁰ And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, mine enemy? And he said, I have found [thee]; because thou hast sold thyself to do evil in the sight of Jehovah.

⁴ And he said to Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-Gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.

⁸ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah; but I hate him, for he prophesies no good concerning me, but evil: [it is] Micah the son of Imlah. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

²⁷ and thou shalt say, Thus says the king: Put this [man] in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

¹ Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the princes of Jizreel, to the elders, and to Ahab`s guardians, saying, <sup>2</sup> And now, when this letter comes to you, seeing your master`s sons are with you, and there are with you chariots, and horses, and a fortified city, and armour,

¹² And he brought forth the king`s son, and put the crown upon him, and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, Long live the king!

² And Jehoash did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, all the days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

⁹ And thou, Solomon my son, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Jehovah searches all hearts, and discerns all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cut thee off for ever.

⁹ Have ye not cast out the priests of Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made you priests as the peoples of the lands? whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, he becomes a priest of what is not God.

²⁰ And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood up above the people and said unto them, Thus saith God: Wherefore do ye transgress the commandments of Jehovah? And ye cannot prosper; for ye have forsaken Jehovah, and he hath forsaken you. ²¹ And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah. ²² And king Joash remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, Jehovah see and require [it]!

¹⁶ And it came to pass as he talked with him, that [Amaziah] said to him, Hast thou been made the king`s counsellor? Forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbore, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.

⁵ He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

⁶ For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

¹⁰ And they that know thy name will confide in thee; for thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

⁵ Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

⁸ The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God, yon Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

¹⁷ The chariots of God are twenty thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them: it is a Sinai in holiness.

⁹ For the zeal of thy house hath devoured me, and the reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.

²⁶ My flesh and my heart faileth: God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.

³ Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. ⁴ I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon among them that know me; behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia: this [man] was born there. ⁵ And of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her; and the Most High himself shall establish her. ⁶ Jehovah will count, when he inscribeth the peoples, This [man] was born there. Selah.

⁹ He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [as] a joyful mother of sons. Hallelujah!

⁴ Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men`s hands: ⁵ They have a mouth, and they speak not; eyes have they, and they see not; ⁶ They have ears, and they hear not; a nose have they, and they smell not; ⁷ They have hands, and they handle not; feet have they, and they walk not; they give no sound through their throat. ⁸ They that make them are like unto them, -- every one that confideth in them.

¹³⁹ My zeal destroyeth me, because mine oppressors have forgotten thy words.

¹⁴¹ I am little and despised: thy precepts have I not forgotten.

¹⁵ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men`s hands: ¹⁶ They have a mouth, and they speak not; eyes have they, and they see not; ¹⁷ They have ears, and they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouth. ¹⁸ They that make them are like unto them, -- every one that confideth in them.

⁵ Let the righteous smite me, it is kindness; and let him reprove me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not refuse: for yet my prayer also is [for them] in their calamities.

⁵ then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, and find the knowledge of God.

⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; reprove a wise [man], and he will love thee.

¹⁶ Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man`s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

¹ Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! Should I find thee without, I would kiss thee; And they would not despise me. ² I would lead thee, bring thee into my mother`s house; Thou wouldest instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.

² And it shall come to pass in the end of days, [that] the mountain of Jehovah`s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow unto it. <sup>3</sup> And many peoples shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and Jehovah`s word from Jerusalem.

¹⁴ Therefore will the Lord himself give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and shall bring forth a son, and call his name Immanuel.

⁶ For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name is called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty ?God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. ⁷ Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with judgment and with righteousness, from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.

¹⁹ and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men`s hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.

³ For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring. ⁴ And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the water-courses. ⁵ One shall say, I am Jehovah`s; and another shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand: [I am] Jehovah`s, and surname [himself] by the name of Israel.

⁹ They that form a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not, nor know; -- that they may be ashamed. ¹⁰ Who hath formed a ?god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? ¹¹ Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed; and the workmen are but men. Let them all be gathered together, let them stand up: they shall fear, they shall be ashamed together. ¹² The iron-smith [hath] a chisel, and he worketh in the coals, and he fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm; -- but he is hungry, and his strength faileth; he hath not drunk water, and he is faint. ¹³ The worker in wood stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with red chalk; he formeth it with sharp tools, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of man: that it may remain in the house. ¹⁴ When he heweth him down cedars, he taketh also a holm-oak and a terebinth -- he chooseth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth a pine, and the rain maketh [it] grow. ¹⁵ And it shall be for a man to burn, and he taketh thereof, and warmeth himself; he kindleth it also, and baketh bread; he maketh also a ?god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. ¹⁶ He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh, he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he is warm, and saith, Aha, I am become warm, I have seen the fire. ¹⁷ And with the remainder thereof he maketh a ?god, his graven image; he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me, for thou art my ?god. ¹⁸ They have no knowledge, and understand not; for he hath plastered their eyes, that they may not see; and their hearts, that they may not understand. ¹⁹ And none taketh it to heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and have also baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh, and eaten [it], and with the rest thereof shall I make an abomination? shall I bow down to a block of wood? ²⁰ He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

¹⁶ Come near unto me, hear ye this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I; and now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and his Spirit.

⁴ -- And I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain; nevertheless my judgment is with Jehovah, and my work with my God.

²¹ And thou shalt say in thy heart, Who hath borne me these, seeing I had lost my children and was desolate, an exile, and driven about? and who hath brought up these? behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?

¹ Thus saith Jehovah: Where is the bill of your mother`s divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, through your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

⁹ Break forth, sing aloud together, waste places of Jerusalem; for Jehovah comforteth his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

² For he shall grow up before him as a tender sapling, and as a root out of dry ground: he hath no form nor lordliness, and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. ³ He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom [men] hide their faces; -- despised, and we esteemed him not.

¹¹ He shall see of [the fruit of] the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant instruct many in righteousness; and *he* shall bear their iniquities.

¹ Exult, thou barren, that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and shout for joy, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Jehovah. ² Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes. ³ For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess nations, and they shall make desolate cities to be inhabited. ⁴ Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed; neither be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. ⁵ For thy Maker is thy husband: Jehovah of hosts is his name, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

¹⁷ And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance [for] clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.

¹ For Zion`s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem`s sake I will not be still, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a torch that burneth. ² And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory; and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah will name.

¹⁸ But be glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create. For behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

¹⁰ Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye that love her; rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn over her:

¹¹ Hath a nation changed [its] gods? and they are no gods; -- but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

⁴ Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?

¹⁹ And as for me, I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee the pleasant land, the goodly inheritance of the hosts of the nations? And I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from following me.

³ For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for [it is] a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan; ⁴ they deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. ⁵ They are as a palm-column of turned work, and they speak not; they are carried, for they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. ⁶ There is none like unto thee, Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. ⁷ Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? For to thee doth it appertain; for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee. ⁸ But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock. ⁹ Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artizan and of the hands of the founder; blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skilful [men]. ¹⁰ But Jehovah Elohim is truth; he is the living God, and the King of eternity. At his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations cannot abide his indignation. ¹¹ Thus shall ye say unto them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens. ¹² He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding. ¹³ When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries. ¹⁴ Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. ¹⁵ They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. ¹⁶ The portion of Jacob is not like them; for it is he that hath formed all [things], and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

¹⁶ The portion of Jacob is not like them; for it is he that hath formed all [things], and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

²⁵ Pour out thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have eaten up Jacob, yea, they have eaten him up and consumed him, and have laid waste his dwelling-place.

²² How long wilt thou wander about, thou backsliding daughter? For Jehovah hath created a new thing on the earth, a woman shall encompass a man.

³³ For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and will write it in their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ³⁴ And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will pardon their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.

³⁸ And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. ³⁹ And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me all [their] days, for the good of them, and of their children after them. ⁴⁰ And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not draw back from them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their heart, that they may not turn aside from me. ⁴¹ And I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will assuredly plant them in this land with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

²⁴ Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

⁴⁹ And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

²⁴ Seventy weeks are apportioned out upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make expiation for iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages, and to seal the vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies. ²⁵ Know therefore and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street and the moat shall be built again, even in troublous times. ²⁶ And after the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with an overflow, and unto the end, war, -- the desolations determined.

² Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

⁵ For their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

⁵ And thou shalt stumble by day; and the prophet also shall stumble with thee by night: and I will destroy thy mother.

¹⁰ They shall walk after Jehovah; he shall roar like a lion; when he shall roar, then the children shall hasten from the west:

¹⁷ And ye shall know that I, Jehovah, [am] your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain; and Jerusalem shall be holy, and no strangers shall pass through her any more.

¹⁰ They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

¹ But it shall come to pass in the end of days [that] the mountain of Jehovah`s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and the peoples shall flow unto it. <sup>2</sup> And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and Jehovah`s word from Jerusalem.

² (And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall he come forth unto me [who is] to be Ruler in Israel: whose goings forth are from of old, from the days of eternity.) ³ Therefore will he give them up, until the time when she which travaileth shall have brought forth: and the residue of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

¹⁴ For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah as the waters cover the sea.

⁸ For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After the glory, hath he sent me unto the nations that made you a spoil; for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. ⁹ For behold, I will shake my hand upon them, and they shall become a spoil to those that served them: and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me. ¹⁰ Sing aloud and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah. ¹¹ And many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day, and shall be unto me for a people; and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto thee.

¹² and speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, Behold a man whose name is [the] Branch; and he shall grow up from his own place, and he shall build the temple of Jehovah:

⁸ In that day will Jehovah defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that stumbleth among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David as God, as the Angel of Jehovah before them.

⁷ For the priest`s lips should keep knowledge, and at his mouth they seek the law; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts.

¹ Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me; and the Lord whom ye seek will suddenly come to his temple, and the Angel of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts.

²³ Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is, being interpreted, `God with us.`

¹⁵ But Jesus answering said to him, Suffer [it] now; for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffers him.

¹⁷ Think not that I am come to make void the law or the prophets; I am not come to make void, but to fulfil.

⁶ But *thou*, when thou prayest, enter into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will render [it] to thee. ⁷ But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as those who are of the nations: for they think they shall be heard through their much speaking. ⁸ Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye beg [anything] of him. ⁹ Thus therefore pray *ye*: Our Father who art in the heavens, let thy name be sanctified,

⁴⁰ He that receives you receives me, and he that receives me receives him that sent me.

²⁷ All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son but the Father, nor does any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son may be pleased to reveal [him]. ²⁸ Come to me, all ye who labour and are burdened, and *I* will give you rest.

³⁵ so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from [the] world`s foundation.

⁵ and whosoever shall receive one such little child in my name, receives me.

²⁸ as indeed the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

⁴² Jesus says to them, Have ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone: this is of [the] Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes? ⁴³ Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and shall be given to a nation producing the fruits of it. ⁴⁴ And he that falls on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.

²⁹ And Jesus answering said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God. ³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as angels of God in heaven. ³¹ But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, ³² *I* am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not God of [the] dead, but of [the] living.

¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye compass the sea and the dry [land] to make one proselyte, and when he is become [such], ye make him twofold more [the] son of hell than yourselves.

³⁴ Therefore, behold, *I* send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and [some] of them ye will kill and crucify, and [some] of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city; ³⁵ so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. ³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [the city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [the city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

⁴⁰ And the King answering shall say to them, Verily, I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.

¹⁵ and saying, The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has drawn nigh; repent and believe in the glad tidings.

³¹ and behold, thou shalt conceive in the womb and bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus.

³⁵ And the angel answering said to her, [The] Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and power of [the] Highest overshadow thee, wherefore the holy thing also which shall be born shall be called Son of God.

⁶⁸ Blessed be [the] Lord the God of Israel, because he has visited and wrought redemption for his people,

⁷ and she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him up in swaddling-clothes and laid him in the manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

¹⁰ And the angel said to them, Fear not, for behold, I announce to you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all the people; ¹¹ for to-day a Saviour has been born to you in David`s city, who is Christ [the] Lord.

²¹ And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him, his name was called Jesus, which was the name given by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb. ²² And when the days were fulfilled for their purifying according to the law of Moses, they brought him to Jerusalem to present [him] to the Lord ²³ (as it is written in the law of [the] Lord: Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord), ²⁴ and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of [the] Lord: A pair of turtle doves, or two young pigeons. ²⁵ And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was just and pious, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and [the] Holy Spirit was upon him. ²⁶ And it was divinely communicated to him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death before he should see [the] Lord`s Christ. ²⁷ And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and as the parents brought in the child Jesus that they might do for him according to the custom of the law,

¹³ But those upon the rock, those who when they hear receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a time, and in time of trial fall away.

¹⁶ He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me; and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me.

² And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Father, thy name be hallowed; thy kingdom come;

¹³ If therefore *ye*, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall the Father who is of heaven give [the] Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

³⁴ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the [city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen her brood under her wings, and ye would not.

⁴⁴ and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children in thee; and shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou knewest not the season of thy visitation.

¹⁹ And having taken a loaf, when he had given thanks, he broke [it], and gave [it] to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. ²⁰ In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup [is] the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

⁴⁴ And being in conflict he prayed more intently. And his sweat became as great drops of blood, falling down upon the earth.

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world had [its] being through him, and the world knew him not.

¹² but as many as received him, to them gave he [the] right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name;

¹² but as many as received him, to them gave he [the] right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name; ¹³ who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh`s will, nor of man`s will, but of God. ¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth;

¹⁷ [And] his disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of thy house devours me.

⁵ Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any one be born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.

³⁴ for he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives not the Spirit by measure.

⁴⁶ for if ye had believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for he wrote of me. ⁴⁷ But if ye do not believe his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

³⁸ For I am come down from heaven, not that I should do *my* will, but the will of him that has sent me.

⁷ The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are evil.

³⁹ But this he said concerning the Spirit, which they that believed on him were about to receive; for [the] Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

³¹ Jesus therefore said to the Jews who believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye are truly my disciples;

³⁵ Now the bondman abides not in the house for ever: the son abides for ever. ³⁶ If therefore the Son shall set you free, ye shall be really free.

⁴² Jesus said to them, If God were your father ye would have loved me, for I came forth from God and am come [from him]; for neither am I come of myself, but *he* has sent me.

⁴⁵ and because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me.

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd; and I know those that are mine, and am known of those that are mine,

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;

³⁴ Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

³⁶ do ye say of him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am Son of God?

³⁴ The crowd answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abides for ever; and how sayest thou that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who *is* this, the Son of man?

²⁰ Verily, verily, I say to you, He who receives whomsoever I shall send receives me; and he that receives me receives him who has sent me.

¹⁶ And I will beg the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,

⁹ As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

²⁵ But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a cause. ²⁶ But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with the Father, *he* shall bear witness concerning me;

⁷ But I say the truth to you, It is profitable for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go I will send him to you.

³ And this is the eternal life, that they should know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

⁷ And he said to them, It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the Father has placed in his own authority;

¹¹ who also said, Men of Galilee, why do ye stand looking into heaven? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven, shall thus come in the manner in which ye have beheld him going into heaven.

²⁵ *Ye* are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

¹² And they called Barnabas Jupiter, and Paul Mercury, because he took the lead in speaking.

¹⁰ Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

⁶ And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia, ⁷ having come down to Mysia, they attempted to go to Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them;

²³ for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye reverence, not knowing [him], him I announce to you.

²⁹ Being therefore [the] offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, [the] graven form of man`s art and imagination. ³⁰ God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,

²⁸ Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.

²¹ And they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews among the nations apostasy from Moses, saying that they should not circumcise their children, nor walk in the customs.

³ concerning his Son (come of David`s seed according to flesh,

²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into [the] likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.

²⁸ And according as they did not think good to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.

³ for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

⁶ Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works: ⁷ Blessed [they] whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered: ⁸ blessed [the] man to whom [the] Lord shall not at all reckon sin. ⁹ [Does] this blessedness then [rest] on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

¹³ For [it was] not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of [the] world, but by righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if they which [are] of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect. ¹⁵ For law works wrath; but where no law is neither [is there] transgression. ¹⁶ Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham`s faith, who is father of us all, ¹⁷ (according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being; ¹⁸ who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:

¹⁸ who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be: ¹⁹ and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah`s womb, ²⁰ and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God; ²¹ and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;

² by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.

⁵ and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by [the] Holy Spirit which has been given to us:

¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over *you*, for ye are not under law but under grace.

¹⁸ Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.

⁵ For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which [were] by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death; ⁶ but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

¹ [There is] then now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.

³ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

⁹ But *ye* are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God`s Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not [the] Spirit of Christ *he* is not of him:

¹³ for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live:

¹⁵ For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

¹⁵ For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God. ¹⁷ And if children, heirs also: heirs of God, and Christ`s joint heirs; if indeed we suffer with [him], that we may also be glorified with [him].

¹⁹ For the anxious looking out of the creature expects the revelation of the sons of God:

²³ And not only [that], but even *we* ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, awaiting adoption, [that is] the redemption of our body.

²⁶ And in like manner the Spirit joins also its help to our weakness; for we do not know what we should pray for as is fitting, but the Spirit itself makes intercession with groanings which cannot be uttered. ²⁷ But he who searches the hearts knows what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for saints according to God.

²⁹ Because whom he has foreknown, he has also predestinated [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be [the] firstborn among many brethren.

³ for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh; ⁴ who are Israelites; whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises; ⁵ whose [are] the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, [is] the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

⁷ nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children: but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee. ⁸ That is, [they that are] the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

⁸ That is, [they that are] the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed. ⁹ For this word [is] of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.

³⁰ What then shall we say? That [they of the] nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but [the] righteousness that is on the principle of faith. ³¹ But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to [that] law. ³² Wherefore? Because [it was] not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone,

² For I bear them witness that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. ³ For they, being ignorant of God`s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own [righteousness], have not submitted to the righteousness of God. ⁴ For Christ is [the] end of law for righteousness to every one that believes. ⁵ For Moses lays down in writing the righteousness which is of the law, The man who has practised those things shall live by them. ⁶ But the righteousness of faith speaks thus: Do not say in thine heart, Who shall ascend to the heavens? that is, to bring Christ down; ⁷ or, Who shall descend into the abyss? that is, to bring up Christ from among [the] dead. ⁸ But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

⁸ But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach: ⁹ that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among [the] dead, thou shalt be saved. ¹⁰ For with [the] heart is believed to righteousness; and with [the] mouth confession made to salvation.

² God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in [the history of] Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?

⁷ What [is it] then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded, ⁸ according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day. ⁹ And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them: ¹⁰ let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway. ¹¹ I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall [there is] salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.

¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take forethought for the flesh to [fulfil its] lusts.

⁵ One man esteems day more than day; another esteems every day [alike]. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind.

⁸ For I say that Jesus Christ became a minister of [the] circumcision for [the] truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers;

¹³ Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye should abound in hope by [the] power of [the] Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom has not known God, God has been pleased by the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe.

²⁸ and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, [and] things that are not, that he may annul the things that are;

³ And *I* was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling;

²¹ So that let no one boast in men; for all things are yours. ²² Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or [the] world, or life, or death, or things present, or things coming, all are yours; ²³ and *ye* [are] Christ`s, and Christ [is] God`s.

⁸ Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that *we* also might reign with you.

¹⁰ *We* [are] fools for Christ`s sake, but *ye* prudent in Christ: *we* weak, but *ye* strong: *ye* glorious, but *we* in dishonour.

¹⁴ Not [as] chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish [you]. ¹⁵ For if ye should have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus *I* have begotten you through the glad tidings.

¹⁸ But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you; ¹⁹ but I will come quickly to you, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those that are puffed up, but the power. ²⁰ For the kingdom of God [is] not in word, but in power. ²¹ What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and [in] a spirit of meekness?

³ But if any one love God, *he* is known of him): ⁴ -- concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that there [is] no other God save one.

²⁰ And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law: ²¹ to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain [those] without law. ²² I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some. ²³ And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.

⁴ and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed [them]: (now the rock was the Christ;)

¹¹ Now all these things happened to them [as] types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

¹⁹ What then do I say? that what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? ²⁰ But that what [the nations] sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons.

² Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

² Ye know that when ye were [of the] nations [ye were] led away to dumb idols, in whatever way ye might be led.

¹² For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.

³⁴ Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant of God: I speak to you as a matter of shame.

⁴⁵ Thus also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening spirit.

⁵⁸ So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in [the] Lord.

²² who also has sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

⁵ But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge [you]) all of you.

¹⁷ Now the Lord is the Spirit, but where the Spirit of [the] Lord [is, there is] liberty.

⁶ Because [it is] the God who spoke that out of darkness light should shine who has shone in our hearts for the shining forth of the knowledge of the glory of God in [the] face of [Jesus] Christ.

²⁰ We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as [it were] beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God.

¹³ but for an answering recompense, (I speak as to children,) let *your* heart also expand itself.

¹⁶ and what agreement of God`s temple with idols? for *ye* are [the] living God`s temple; according as God has said, I will dwell among them, and walk among [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people. ¹⁷ Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith [the] Lord, and touch not [what is] unclean, and *I* will receive you; ¹⁸ and I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith [the] Lord Almighty.

³ For according to [their] power, I bear witness, and beyond [their] power, [they were] willing of their own accord,

¹⁰ because his letters, he says, [are] weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.

² For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy [which is] of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present [you] a chaste virgin to Christ. ³ But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, [so] your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.

³ But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, [so] your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.

⁶ But if [I am] a simple person in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything making [the truth] manifest in all things to you.

¹³ For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And [it is] not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. ¹⁵ It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

³⁰ If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.

⁷ And that I might not be exalted by the exceeding greatness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn for the flesh, a messenger of Satan that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted. ⁸ For this I thrice besought the Lord that it might depart from me. ⁹ And he said to me, My grace suffices thee; for [my] power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may dwell upon me. ¹⁰ Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ: for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

²⁰ For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that *I* be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest [there might be] strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances; ²¹ lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised.

⁴ for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God`s power; for indeed *we* are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God`s power towards you,)

⁶ I wonder that ye thus quickly change, from him that called you in Christ`s grace, to a different gospel,

¹⁷ nor went I up to Jerusalem to those [who were] apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus.

² and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but privately to those conspicuous [among them], lest in any way I run or had run in vain;

⁴ and [it was] on account of the false brethren brought in surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage; ⁵ to whom we yielded in subjection not even for an hour, that the truth of the glad tidings might remain with you.

¹⁴ But when I saw that they do not walk straightforwardly, according to the truth of the glad tidings, I said to Peter before all, If *thou*, being a Jew, livest as the nations and not as the Jews, how dost thou compel the nations to Judaize?

¹ O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you; to whom, as before your very eyes, Jesus Christ has been portrayed, crucified [among you]? ² This only I wish to learn of you, Have ye received the Spirit on the principle of works of law, or of [the] report of faith? ³ Are ye so senseless? having begun in Spirit, are ye going to be made perfect in flesh?

³ Are ye so senseless? having begun in Spirit, are ye going to be made perfect in flesh? ⁴ Have ye suffered so many things in vain, if indeed also in vain?

⁸ and the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the nations on the principle of faith, announced beforehand the glad tidings to Abraham: In thee all the nations shall be blessed.

¹⁰ For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which [are] written in the book of the law to do them;

¹³ Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed [is] every one hanged upon a tree,) ¹⁴ that the blessing of Abraham might come to the nations in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. ¹⁵ Brethren, (I speak according to man,) even man`s confirmed covenant no one sets aside, or adds other dispositions to. ¹⁶ But to Abraham were the promises addressed, and to his seed: he does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed; which is Christ. ¹⁷ Now I say this, A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. ¹⁸ For if the inheritance [be] on the principle of law, [it is] no longer on the principle of promise; but God gave it in grace to Abraham by promise. ¹⁹ Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in [the] hand of a mediator.

¹⁹ Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in [the] hand of a mediator. ²⁰ But a mediator is not of one, but God is one. ²¹ [Is] then the law against the promises of God? Far be the thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then indeed righteousness were on the principle of law; ²² but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe. ²³ But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up to faith [which was] about to be revealed.

²³ But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up to faith [which was] about to be revealed. ²⁴ So that the law has been our tutor up to Christ, that we might be justified on the principle of faith.

²⁴ So that the law has been our tutor up to Christ, that we might be justified on the principle of faith. ²⁵ But, faith having come, we are no longer under a tutor; ²⁶ for ye are all God`s sons by faith in Christ Jesus.

²⁹ but if *ye* [are] of Christ, then ye are Abraham`s seed, heirs according to promise.

²⁹ but if *ye* [are] of Christ, then ye are Abraham`s seed, heirs according to promise.

⁵ that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive sonship. ⁶ But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father. ⁷ So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also through God.

⁹ but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage?

¹³ But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;

¹⁹ my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you: ²⁰ and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to you. ²¹ Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not listen to the law? ²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the maid servant, and one of the free woman. ²³ But he [that was] of the maid servant was born according to flesh, and he [that was] of the free woman through the promise.

²⁵ For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which [is] now, for she is in bondage with her children;

²⁸ But *ye*, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise. ²⁹ But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him [that was born] according to Spirit, so also [it is] now.

²⁹ But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him [that was born] according to Spirit, so also [it is] now.

³¹ So then, brethren, we are not maid servant`s children, but [children] of the free woman.

¹ Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage. ² Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. ³ And I witness again to every man [who is] circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law. ⁴ Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated [from him], as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen from grace.

⁷ Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the truth?

¹¹ But *I*, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done away.

¹³ For *ye* have been called to liberty, brethren; only [do] not [turn] liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

⁴ but let each prove his own work, and then he will have his boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs to another.

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

¹² As many as desire to have a fair appearance in [the] flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted because of the cross of Christ. ¹³ For neither do they that are circumcised themselves keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

¹³ For neither do they that are circumcised themselves keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh. ¹⁴ But far be it from me to boast save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom [the] world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹⁴ But far be it from me to boast save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom [the] world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit, brethren. Amen.

⁵ having marked us out beforehand for adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

⁷ in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace;

¹⁰ for [the] administration of the fulness of times; to head up all things in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth; in him,

¹³ in whom *ye* also [have trusted], having heard the word of the truth, the glad tidings of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, ye have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you [the] spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him,

¹¹ Wherefore remember that *ye*, once nations in [the] flesh, who [are] called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in [the] flesh done with the hand; ¹² that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

¹⁸ For through him we have both access by one Spirit to the Father.

¹³ until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at [the] full-grown man, at [the] measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;

¹⁸ being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,

²⁴ and [your] having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.

³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for [the] day of redemption.

² and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

¹⁸ praying at all seasons, with all prayer and supplication in [the] Spirit, and watching unto this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;

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

¹⁹ for I know that this shall turn out for me to salvation, through your supplication and [the] supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ;

²⁷ Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;

⁵ For let this mind be in you which [was] also in Christ Jesus; ⁶ who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God; ⁷ but emptied himself, taking a bondman`s form, taking his place in [the] likeness of men; ⁸ and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and [that the] death of [the] cross.

¹² So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

¹⁶ holding forth [the] word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ`s day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain. ¹⁷ But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice in common with you all.

²¹ For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.

⁷ but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account of Christ, loss. ⁸ But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;

²⁰ for *our* commonwealth has its existence in [the] heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ [as] Saviour,

¹³ who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated [us] into the kingdom of the Son of his love: ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins; ¹⁵ who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation; ¹⁶ because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him. ¹⁷ And *he* is before all, and all things subsist together by him. ¹⁸ And *he* is the head of the body, the assembly; who is [the] beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that *he* might have the first place in all things: ¹⁹ for in him all the fulness [of the Godhead] was pleased to dwell, ²⁰ and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross -- by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.

²⁷ to whom God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you the hope of glory:

¹ For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;

⁸ See that there be no one who shall lead *you* away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

¹⁴ having effaced the handwriting in ordinances which [stood out] against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it also out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

¹⁶ Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths, ¹⁷ which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.

²⁰ If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as [if] alive in [the] world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?

²⁰ If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as [if] alive in [the] world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances? ²¹ Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch, ²² (things which are all for destruction in the using [of them]:) according to the injunctions and teachings of men, ²³ (which have indeed an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship, and humility, and harsh treatment of the body, not in a certain honour,) to [the] satisfaction of the flesh.

¹⁰ and having put on the new, renewed into full knowledge according to [the] image of him that has created him;

¹² Epaphras, who is [one] of you, [the] bondman of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always combating earnestly for you in prayers, to the end that ye may stand perfect and complete in all [the] will of God. ¹³ For I bear him witness that he labours much for you, and them in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.

⁹ for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

⁸ Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having imparted to you not only the glad tidings of God, but our own lives also, because ye had become beloved of us.

¹³ And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received [the] word of [the] report of God by us, ye accepted, not men`s word, but, even as it is truly, God`s word, which also works in you who believe. ¹⁴ For *ye*, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for *ye* also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also *they* of the Jews, ¹⁵ who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and [are] against all men,

¹⁷ But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you and separated for a little moment in person, not in heart, have used more abundant diligence to see your face with much desire; ¹⁸ wherefore we have desired to come to you, even I Paul, both once and twice, and Satan has hindered us.

⁵ For this reason *I* also, no longer able to refrain myself, sent to know your faith, lest perhaps the tempter had tempted you and our labour should be come to nothing.

⁹ For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on account of you before our God,

⁵ (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

⁸ He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

¹³ and to regard them exceedingly in love on account of their work. Be in peace among yourselves.

⁸ in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who know not God, and those who do not obey the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ;

² to Timotheus, [my] true child in faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁶ And confessedly the mystery of piety is great. God has been manifested in flesh, has been justified in [the] Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among [the] nations, has been believed on in [the] world, has been received up in glory.

⁵ Now she who [is] a widow indeed, and is left alone, has put [her] hope in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

¹⁹ Yet the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, [The] Lord knows those that are his; and, Let every one who names the name of [the] Lord withdraw from iniquity.

⁴ to Titus, my own child according to [the] faith common [to us]: Grace and peace from God [the] Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works.

¹⁰ I exhort thee for *my* child, whom I have begotten in [my] bonds, Onesimus,

¹⁹ *I* Paul have written [it] with mine own hand; *I* will repay [it]: that I say not to thee that thou owest even thine own self also to me.

³ who being [the] effulgence of his glory and [the] expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made [by himself] the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high,

¹⁴ Since therefore the children partake of blood and flesh, he also, in like manner, took part in the same, that through death he might annul him who has the might of death, that is, the devil;

¹⁴ Since therefore the children partake of blood and flesh, he also, in like manner, took part in the same, that through death he might annul him who has the might of death, that is, the devil; ¹⁵ and might set free all those who through fear of death through the whole of their life were subject to bondage.

¹⁴ Having therefore a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession. ¹⁵ For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin apart. ¹⁶ Let us approach therefore with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for seasonable help.

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;)

¹⁶ who has been constituted not according to law of fleshly commandment, but according to power of indissoluble life.

¹⁸ For there is a setting aside of the commandment going before for its weakness and unprofitableness,

²² by so much Jesus became surety of a better covenant.

⁶ But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises. ⁷ For if that first was faultless, place had not been sought for a second. ⁸ For finding fault, he says to them, Behold, days come, saith the Lord, and I will consummate a new covenant as regards the house of Israel, and as regards the house of Juda; ⁹ not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in [the] day of my taking their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because *they* did not continue in my covenant, and *I* did not regard them, saith [the] Lord. ¹⁰ Because this [is] the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and *they* shall be to me for people. ¹¹ And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from [the] little one [among them] unto [the] great among them. ¹² Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more. ¹³ In that he says New, he has made the first old; but that which grows old and aged [is] near disappearing.

¹⁰ [consisting] only of meats and drinks and divers washings, ordinances of flesh, imposed until [the] time of setting things right.

¹² nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, has entered in once for all into the [holy of] holies, having found an eternal redemption.

¹⁵ And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

¹⁵ And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. ¹⁶ (For where [there is] a testament, the death of the testator must needs come in. ¹⁷ For a testament [is] of force when men are dead, since it is in no way of force while the testator is alive.) ¹⁸ Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood. ¹⁹ For every commandment having been spoken according to [the] law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, ²⁰ saying, This [is] the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you. ²¹ And the tabernacle too and all the vessels of service he sprinkled in like manner with blood; ²² and almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and without blood-shedding there is no remission. ²³ [It was] necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these. ²⁴ For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:

⁵ Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body. ⁶ Thou tookest no pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin. ⁷ Then I said, Lo, I come (in [the] roll of the book it is written of me) to do, O God, thy will.

¹⁵ And the Holy Spirit also bears us witness [of it]; for after what was said: ¹⁶ This [is] the covenant which I will establish towards them after those days, saith [the] Lord: Giving my laws into their hearts, I will write them also in their understandings; ¹⁷ and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more. ¹⁸ But where there [is] remission of these, [there is] no longer a sacrifice for sin.

³³ on the one hand, when ye were made a spectacle both in reproaches and afflictions; and on the other, when ye became partakers with those who were passing through them. ³⁴ For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.

³⁸ But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him. ³⁹ But *we* are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving [the] soul.

¹¹ By faith also Sarah herself received strength for [the] conception of seed, and [that] beyond a seasonable age; since she counted him faithful who promised.

¹⁹ counting that God [was] able to raise [him] even from among [the] dead, whence also he received him in a figure.

¹⁸ For ye have not come to [the mount] that might be touched and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and tempest,

²² but ye have come to mount Zion; and to [the] city of [the] living God, heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels,

²⁴ and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to [the] blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel.

² Be not forgetful of hospitality; for by it some have unawares entertained angels.

²⁰ But the God of peace, who brought again from among [the] dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in [the power of the] blood of [the] eternal covenant,

¹⁸ According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of *his* creatures.

⁵ Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?

¹¹ searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ which [was] in them pointed out, testifying before of the sufferings which [belonged] to Christ, and the glories after these.

¹⁸ knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible [things, as] silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from [your] fathers, ¹⁹ but by precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, [the blood] of Christ, ²⁰ foreknown indeed before [the] foundation of [the] world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes,

¹⁶ as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God`s bondmen.

¹⁸ for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, [the] just for [the] unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in [the] Spirit,

³ For the time past [is] sufficient [for us] to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries.

³ And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.

¹⁸ For [while] speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with [the] lusts of [the] flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,

²⁰ For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through [the] knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.

¹ My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if any one sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ [the] righteous;

³ And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. ⁴ He that says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

¹² I write to you, children, because [your] sins are forgiven you for his name`s sake.

¹ See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called [the] children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

¹ See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called [the] children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not. ² Beloved, now are we children of God, and what we shall be has not yet been manifested; we know that if it is manifested we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

¹⁶ Hereby we have known love, because *he* has laid down his life for us; and *we* ought for the brethren to lay down [our] lives. ¹⁷ But whoso may have the world`s substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him? ¹⁸ Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth.

² Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God;

⁹ Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. ¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

¹⁴ And *we* have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son [as] Saviour of the world.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding that we should know him that [is] true; and we are in him that [is] true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. ²¹ Children, keep yourselves from idols.

⁸ See to yourselves, that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive full wages.

²⁰ But *ye*, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

¹² He that overcomes, him will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more at all out; and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven, from my God, and my new name.

¹⁹ I rebuke and discipline as many as I love; be zealous therefore and repent.

⁹ And they sing a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; because thou hast been slain, and hast redeemed to God, by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

¹ And a great sign was seen in the heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars; ² and being with child she cried, [being] in travail, and in pain to bring forth.

³ and they sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn that song save the hundred [and] forty-four thousand who were bought from the earth.

⁵ and upon her forehead a name written, Mystery, great Babylon, the mother of the harlots, and of the abominations of the earth.

¹⁰ And I fell before his feet to do him homage. And he says to me, See [thou do it] not. I am thy fellow-bondman, and [the fellow-bondman] of thy brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Do homage to God. For the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.

² And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

⁷ He that overcomes shall inherit these things, and I will be to him God, and he shall be to me son.

¹⁰ And he carried me away in [the] Spirit, [and set me] on a great and high mountain, and shewed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, ¹¹ having the glory of God. Her shining [was] like a most precious stone, as a crystal-like jasper stone; ¹² having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed, which are those of the twelve tribes of [the] sons of Israel. ¹³ On [the] east three gates; and on [the] north three gates; and on [the] south three gates; and on [the] west three gates. ¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ And he that spoke with me had a golden reed [as] a measure, that he might measure the city, and its gates, and its wall. ¹⁶ And the city lies four-square, and its length [is] as much as the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed -- twelve thousand stadia: the length and the breadth and height of it are equal. ¹⁷ And he measured its wall, a hundred [and] forty-four cubits, [a] man`s measure, that is, [the] angel`s. ¹⁸ And the building of its wall [was] jasper; and the city pure gold, like pure glass: ¹⁹ the foundations of the wall of the city [were] adorned with every precious stone: the first foundation, jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; ²⁰ the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. ²¹ And the twelve gates, twelve pearls; each one of the gates, respectively, was of one pearl; and the street of the city pure gold, as transparent glass. ²² And I saw no temple in it; for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, and the Lamb. ²³ And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon, that they should shine for it; for the glory of God has enlightened it, and the lamp thereof [is] the Lamb. ²⁴ And the nations shall walk by its light; and the kings of the earth bring their glory to it. ²⁵ And its gates shall not be shut at all by day, for night shall not be there. ²⁶ And they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations to it. ²⁷ And nothing common, nor that maketh an abomination and a lie, shall at all enter into it; but those only who [are] written in the book of life of the Lamb.