2 Corinthians 4 Cross References - Godbey

¹ Therefore having this ministry, as we have obtained mercy, we faint not; ² but we lay aside the hidden things of disgrace, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but in the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men, before God. ³ But if indeed our gospel is hidden, it is hidden with those who are lost: ⁴ in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who believe not, in order that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, may not shine on them. ⁵ For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. ⁶ Because God is the one, having said; Out of the darkness the light shall shine, which shone in our hearts, to the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. ⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, in order that the excellency of the power, may be of God, and not of us; ⁸ in everything being troubled, but not in difficulties incorrigible; being at a loss, but not utterly at a loss; ⁹ being persecuted, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰ always bearing about the dying of Jesus in our body, in order that the life of Jesus may also be made manifest in our bodies. ¹¹ For we while living are always being delivered up to death for the sake of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh. ¹² So that death works in us, but life in you. ¹³ But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which has been written, I believed, therefore I also spoke; and we believe, therefore we also speak; ¹⁴ knowing that the one having raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us along with Jesus, and present us with you. ¹⁵ For all things are for your sakes, in order that the grace, overflowing with thanksgiving through many, may abound unto the glory of God. ¹⁶ Therefore we faint not; but if indeed our external man perishes, yet our internal man is renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For the light burden of our affliction, which is evanescent, is working out for us an eternal weight of glory according to hyperbole unto hyperbole; ¹⁸ we not looking at the things which are visible, but the things which are invisible; for the visible things are temporary, but the invisible things are eternal.

¹¹ I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but there is One coming after me more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry; He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire.

⁸ Again the devil takes Him into an exceedingly high mountain, and shows Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of the same, ⁹ and said to Him; All these things will I give unto thee,

¹² Rejoice, and he exceedingly glad: because your reward is great in the heavens: for in this manner they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

²⁹ And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not that thy whole body may go away into hell. ³⁰ OMITTED TEXT

²⁵ At that time Jesus responding said, I praise thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and the prudent, and reveal them unto babes.

⁴⁴ The kingdom of the heavens is like unto a treasure having been hidden in a field; which a man having found, concealed; and from his joy he goes and sells all things so many as he has, and buys that field.

⁵² And He said to them, Therefore every scribe having been discipled into the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a man who is a landlord, who bringeth out of his treasure things both new and old.

²⁵ But Jesus calling them to Him, said, You know that the rulers of the Gentiles domineer over them, and the great ones exercise authority over them. ²⁶ It shall not be so among you; but whosoever may wish to be great among you, shall be your servant; ²⁷ and whosoever may wish to be first among you, shall be your slave:

⁸ But be ye not called Doctor: for One is your teacher; and you are all brothers.

⁴⁶ And these shall go away into eternal punishment: and the righteous into eternal life.

²³ Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy: for behold your reward in heaven is great: for according to these things were their fathers accustomed to do to the prophets.

²² And turning to His disciples, He said, All things have been delivered to me by my Father: and no one knoweth who the Son is, except the Father; and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whom He may wish to reveal Him.

³ give unto us this day our daily bread:

²⁵ And He said to them, The kings of the Gentiles domineer over them; and those exercising authority over them are called Benefactors. ²⁶ But you are not thus: but let the greater among you be as the younger; and the leader as the waiter.

¹⁴ The Word was made flesh, and tented among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten with the Father), full of grace and truth.

¹⁸ No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, the one being in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared him.

²¹ They asked him, What then? Art thou Elijah? And he says, I am not. Art thou that prophet? ²² And he responded, No. Then they said to him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those having sent us. What do you say concerning yourself? ²³ I am the voice of one roaring in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord as Isaiah the prophet said.

²⁷ John responded and said, No man is able to receive anything, unless it may have been given unto him from heaven. ²⁸ You are witnessing to me, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before Him. ²⁹ The one having the bride is the Bridegroom: but the friend of the Bridegroom is the one standing and hearing him, rejoiceth with joy on account of the Bridegroom: This, my joy has been made complete. ³⁰ It behooveth Him to increase, and me to decrease. ³¹ He that cometh from above is above all;

¹⁸ He that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory: he that seeketh the glory of Him that sent Him, the same is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

¹² Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world: the one following me can not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of the life.

²⁵ Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing on me, though he may die, shall live: and ²⁶ every one living and believing on me can never die: do you believe this?

⁴⁰ Jesus says to her; Did I not tell thee, that, if thou canst believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?

³¹ Now is the judgment of this world: now the prince of this world shall be cast out.

³⁵ Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk about as you have the light, in order that the darkness may not overtake you: and he that walketh about in darkness does not know where he is going.

⁴⁰ He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; in order that they may not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and turn, and I shall heal them. ⁴¹ Isaiah said these things, because he saw His glory; and spoke concerning Him.

⁴⁵ and the one seeing me, sees the one that sent me.

¹⁴ If then I, your Lord and Master, washed your feet, you ought also to wash the feet of one another. ¹⁵ For I have given unto you an example, that you may also do as I have done to you.

⁹ Jesus says to Him, Am I so long time with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? The one having seen me hath seen the Father: how do you say, Show us the Father? ¹⁰ Dost thou not believe, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words which I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father who abideth in me doeth His own works.

¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans: I am coming to you. ¹⁹ Vet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you shall live also.

³⁰ I shall no longer speak many things with you, because the prince of the world comes: and he has nothing in me;

²⁰ Remember the word which I spoke to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

²⁴ If I did not works among them which no other did: they had not sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

¹¹ and concerning judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned.

²⁴ whom God raised up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was impossible that he should be held by it.

³⁶ Then let all the house of Israel assuredly know that God hath made this same Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.

¹² And Peter seeing them, responded to the people; Israelitish men, why are you astonished at this, or why do you look upon us as having by our own power or holiness, made this man to walk about? ¹³ The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Child, Jesus, who you indeed delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate having decided to release Him.

³¹ Him hath God exalted at His own right hand, a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance and remission of sins to Israel.

⁵⁵ But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, and looking up to heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, ⁵⁶ and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

⁹ And a certain man, by name Simon, was formerly practicing magic in the city, and bewitching the nation of Samaria, saying that himself was some great man: ¹⁰ to whom all from small even unto the great gave heed, saying, This one is the power of God, called Great.

²⁵ And when it came to pass that Peter was coming in, Cornelius meeting him, falling down at his feet, worshiped. ²⁶ And Peter raised him up, saying, Stand up; I also am a man.

³⁶ the word which he sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ: he is Lord of all.

¹¹ And the multitudes seeing what Paul did, lifted up their voice, in Lycaonic, saying, The gods having assumed the likeness of men have come down to us: ¹² and they were calling Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, since he was the leader of the speech. ¹³ And the priest of Jupiter, being in front of the city, having brought oxen and garlands to the gate, wished to offer sacrifices to them, along with the multitudes. ¹⁴ And the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, hearing, rending their garments, rushed into the crowd, crying out, and saying, ¹⁵ Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of like suffering with you, preaching the gospel to you that you should turn from these vanities to the living God, who created the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things which are in them:

¹¹ But through the grace of our Lord Jesus, we believe that we are saved, in the same manner in which they are also.

⁹ And the Lord spoke to Paul in the night through a vision, Fear not, but speak, and be not silent: ¹⁰ because I am with thee, and no man shall assault thee to hurt thee: because there is much people to me in this city.

²³ except that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesses to me, saying that bonds and tribulations await me. ²⁴ But I consider my life worthy of no consideration to myself, so as to finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness unto light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.

¹² but this is the consolation among you through faith in one another, both of you and me.

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

⁷ to those indeed who with patience of good work are seeking glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:

¹⁶ in the day when God will judge the secrets of men through my gospel according to Jesus Christ.

³ And not only so, but let us also rejoice in tribulation; knowing that tribulation works out endurance; ⁴ and endurance, approval; and approval, hope: ⁵ and hope makes not ashamed; because the divine love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Ghost who has been given unto us.

⁵ For if we have grown together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection:

⁸ But if we died along with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him:

²¹ What fruit then had you at that time in those things in which you are now ashamed? for the end of these things is death.

²² for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man;

¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one having raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also create life in your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who dwells in you.

¹⁷ And if children, indeed heirs; truly heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if we suffer together, in order that we may also be glorified together. ¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of these present times are not worthy to be compared to the glory which is about to be revealed in us.

¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of these present times are not worthy to be compared to the glory which is about to be revealed in us.

²⁴ For we are saved by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for why does any one indeed hope for that which he sees? ²⁵ But if we hope for that which we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

²⁸ But we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose.

³⁴ It is God who justifies: who is he that condemns? It is Christ who died, and rather who is risen, who is on the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding in our behalf. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As has been written, that We are killed all day for thy sake; we are counted as sheep of the slaughter.

³⁶ As has been written, that We are killed all day for thy sake; we are counted as sheep of the slaughter. ³⁷ But in all these we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

³⁷ But in all these we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

² and he not fashioned after this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

⁸ for if indeed we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Then indeed if we live, and if we die, we are the Lord's. ⁹ For unto this Christ died, and lives, in order that He may be Lord of the dead and of the living.

¹ But we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² Let each of us please his neighbor in that which is good, unto edification;

¹⁷ Moreover I have boldness in Christ Jesus as to the things appertaining to God: ¹⁸ for I will not dare to speak anything save those things which Christ has wrought through me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and deed,

¹³ Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of Paul? ¹⁴ I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius; ¹⁵ in order that no one may say that you are baptized in my name.

¹⁸ For the word of the cross is foolishness indeed to those who are lost; but to those who are saved it is the power of God.

²³ but we preach Christ having been crucified, to the Jews indeed a stumbling block, and to the Gentiles foolishness;

²⁸ and God has chosen the base-born of the world, and those of no reputation, the things which are not, that He may set at nought the things which are,

² For I determine to know nothing among you, except Jesus Christ, and Him having been crucified. ³ I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. ⁴ And my speech and my preaching were not in the persuasive words of wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and the power: ⁵ in order that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

⁹ But, as has been written, the things which eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and has not entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.

⁵ Then what is Apollos? and what is Paul? But ministers through whom ye believed; even as the Lord gave to each one. ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

²¹ So let no one boast among 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 to come. ²³ All things are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

⁵ So judge nothing before the time, until the Lord may come, who will also bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then praise shall be to each one from God.

⁹ For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles the last, as exposed to death: that we may become a theater to the world, and to angels, and to men. ¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are glorious, but we are dishonorable.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are glorious, but we are dishonorable. ¹¹ until this hour we both hunger and thirst, and suffer for insufficient clothing, and are buffeted; and we tramp, ¹² and we toil working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it; ¹³ being scandalized, we entreat: we have become as the offscourings of the world, the refuse of all things until now.

¹⁴ but God both raised up the Lord, and will raise you up through his power.

²⁵ But concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give knowledge, as one having obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

⁶ but there is to us one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we in him.

¹⁹ For being free from all, I rendered myself servant to all, that I may gain the more. ²⁰ And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I may gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, not myself being under law, that I may gain those under the law; ²¹ to those without law, I became as without law, not being without the law of God, but under the law of Christ, that I may gain those without law. ²² To the weak I became as weak, that I may gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I may indeed save some. ²³ But I do all these things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be its fellow-partaker.

¹³ No temptation has overtaken you, except that which is human: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation, He will also make a way of escape, in order that you may be able to bear it.

²⁰ But those things which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. But I do not wish you to be the communicants of demons.

³³ as I also please all in all things, seeking not my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

³ Therefore I make known to you, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, Jesus is anathema; and no one is able to say; Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

⁹ to another faith by the same Spirit; to another gifts of healings by the one Spirit;

²⁰ But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruit of them that slept. ²¹ For since death was through a man, the resurrection of the dead is also through a man. ²² For as in Adam all die, so truly in Christ shall all be made alive.

³¹ I protest by your rejoicing, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

⁴⁷ The first man was from the earth, earthy: the second man from heaven.

⁴⁹ And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we must also bear the image of the heavenly.

⁵³ For it behooves this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality. ⁵⁴ But when this corruptible may put on incorruption, and this mortal may put on immorality, then shall the word which has been written be fulfilled, Death is swallowed up in victory.

⁵⁸ So, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

⁴ the one comforting us in all our tribulation, in order that we may be able to comfort those in all tribulation, through the consolation with which we ourselves are comforted of God, ⁵ because as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation through Christ also abounds.

⁵ because as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation through Christ also abounds. ⁶ But if we are troubled it is in behalf of your consolation and salvation; if we are comforted, it is in behalf of your consolation, working in you through the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

⁸ For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction taking place in Asia, because we were burthened exceedingly, above our power, so that we despaired even of living: ⁹ but we had the answer of death in ourselves, in order that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raised the dead:

⁹ but we had the answer of death in ourselves, in order that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raised the dead: ¹⁰ who delivered us from so great a death, and will deliver: in whom he have hope that he will also yet deliver; ¹¹ you also cooperating in our behalf in prayer; in order that, the gift which is bestowed upon us from many persons, may through many be a source of thanks given in our behalf. ¹² For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and purity of God, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have sojourned in the world, and especially towards you.

¹⁹ For Christ Jesus, the Son of God, the one being preached by us, through me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but it was yes in him.

²⁴ not that we domineer over your faith, but we are fellow-workers of your joy: for by faith you stand.

¹² And having come into Troas, for the gospel of Christ, and there being a door opened unto me in the Lord,

¹⁵ because we are a sweet savour of Christ unto God, among those who are saved, and among those who perish; ¹⁶ unto the latter a savour from death unto death; but unto the former a savour from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? ¹⁷ For we are not as many, corrupting the word of God: but as of purity, but as from God, we speak in Christ, in the presence of God.

⁵ not that we are able of ourselves to think anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; ⁶ who also rendered us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit creates life.

⁶ who also rendered us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit creates life.

⁸ how will not the ministry of the spirit be more in glory? ⁹ For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, how much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.

¹¹ For if that which was to be done away was through glory, much more is that which abides in glory. ¹² Then having such hope, we use great boldness,

¹⁴ But their minds were darkened. For until this day the same veil remains in the reading of the old covenant, remains, not lifted; because it is done away in Christ;

¹⁸ But we all, with unveiled face beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

¹ Therefore having this ministry, as we have obtained mercy, we faint not;

⁴ in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who believe not, in order that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, may not shine on them.

⁶ Because God is the one, having said; Out of the darkness the light shall shine, which shone in our hearts, to the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

¹⁶ Therefore we faint not; but if indeed our external man perishes, yet our internal man is renewed day by day.

¹⁶ Therefore we faint not; but if indeed our external man perishes, yet our internal man is renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For the light burden of our affliction, which is evanescent, is working out for us an eternal weight of glory according to hyperbole unto hyperbole;

¹ For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle may be taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

¹ For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle may be taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. ² For in this we groan, longing to be invested with our house which is from heaven: ³ if indeed having been invested, we shall not be found unclothed. ⁴ For indeed being in this tabernacle we groan, being burdened; not that we wish to be divested, but invested, that mortality may be swallowed up of life.

⁴ For indeed being in this tabernacle we groan, being burdened; not that we wish to be divested, but invested, that mortality may be swallowed up of life.

⁷ (for we walk by faith, not by sight);

¹¹ Therefore knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but we have been made manifest unto God; and I hope that we have indeed been made manifest in your consciences.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constrains us; having judged this, that one died for all; then were all dead; ¹⁵ and he died for all, in order that those living may not live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and is risen.

¹⁸ All things are from God, the one having reconciled us unto himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,

⁴ but in everything commending ourselves, as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulations, in straits, in difficulties,

⁴ but in everything commending ourselves, as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulations, in straits, in difficulties, ⁵ in stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labors, in vigils, in fastings; ⁶ by purity, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, ⁷ by the word of truth, by the power of God; through the arms of righteousness right and left,

¹⁰ as sorrowing, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

⁵ For we having come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but in everything being troubled; fightings without, fears within. ⁶ But God, the one comforting the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

¹⁴ because if I have gloried with him in anything over you, I wag not made ashamed; but as I spoke all things to you in truth, so our rejoicing over Titus was true.

¹⁹ not only so, but having been elected by the churches our traveling companion with this philanthropy, administered by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and your promptitude:

¹¹ in every thing being enriched in all purity, which works out through us thanksgiving to God. ¹² Because the ministry of this free-will offering is not only supplying the deficiencies of the saints, but also superabounding through much thanksgiving to God;

¹⁰ Because they say, His letters are indeed weighty and powerful; but the presence of his body is weak, and his speech contemptible.

² For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God: for I espoused you to one husband, to present you a pure virgin to Christ; ³ but I fear, lest, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ.

⁶ If indeed rude in speech, but not in knowledge; but in every thing making manifest unto you in all things.

¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. ¹⁵ Then it is no great wonder if his ministers are transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose, end shall be according to their works.

²³ Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak as a mad man,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes more abundantly, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often;

²³ Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak as a mad man,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes more abundantly, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often; ²⁴ from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one,

²⁴ from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one, ²⁵ thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a day and a night I spent in the deep.

²⁵ thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a day and a night I spent in the deep. ²⁶ Often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

²⁶ Often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; ²⁷ in labor and in toil, in vigils often, in hunger and in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.

²⁷ in labor and in toil, in vigils often, in hunger and in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness. ²⁸ Besides all these, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

²⁸ Besides all these, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I do not burn? ³⁰ But if it behooves me to glory, I will glory in those things appertaining to my infirmities.

⁷ And that I may not be exalted by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given unto me in the flesh, the messenger of Satan that he may buffet me, in order that I may not be exalted. ⁸ Three times I called on the Lord concerning this, that it may depart from me. ⁹ And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most delightfully I will glory the more in my infirmities, in order that the power of Christ may abide on me. ¹⁰ Therefore I delight in infirmities, in insults, in difficulties, in persecutions, and in tight places, for Christ's sake: for when I am without strength, then I am dynamite.

¹⁵ But I will most delightfully spend and be spent for your souls. If the more abundantly I love you am I loved the less?

⁴ For indeed he was crucified from weakness, but he lives by the power of God: for we indeed are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God unto you.

⁹ For we rejoice when we may be weak, and you may be strong: we are praying for even this, your perfection.

²⁴ and they continued to glorify God in me.

¹³ You have not injured me: you know that through weakness of the flesh I formerly preached the gospel unto you: ¹⁴ and you did not despise, nor spit upon, your temptation in my flesh; but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

¹³ For you were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty unto an occasion to the flesh, but through divine love serve one another.

⁹ But let us not get weary doing that which is good: for in due time we will reap, fainting not.

¹⁷ Finally let no one give me troubles: for I bear in my own body the marks of Jesus.

¹⁷ in order that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may grant unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the perfect knowledge of himself;

¹⁹ and what the excellent majesty of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the power of his might ²⁰ which he has wrought in Christ, raising him from the dead, and seating him on his right hand in the heavenlies,

² in which at one time you walked about according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience;

⁵ created life in us in Christ, who were dead in trespasses, by grace you have been saved,

⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: ⁹ not of works, in order that no one may boast:

⁷ whose minister I became, according to the gift of the grace of God which was given unto me; according to the working of his power. ⁸ To me, the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

⁸ To me, the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

¹³ Therefore I ask that you faint not in my tribulations in your behalf, which is your glory.

¹⁶ in order that he may grant unto you, according to the riches of his glory, that you be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

²⁰ And to him who is able to do exceedingly above all things which we ask or think, according to the power working in us, ²¹ to him be glory in the church indeed in Christ Jesus unto all the generations of the age of the ages: Amen.

¹⁴ in order that we may be no longer infants, tossed by the waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, in the caprice of the people, in their craftiness, pursuant to their method of delusion;

²³ and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

⁸ For at one time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk about as children of the light,

¹² For it is disgraceful even to speak of those things which are done by them in concealment:

²⁷ in order that he might present to himself the glorious church, having not spot or wrinkle or any of such things; but that she might be holy and blameless.

¹² because there is not to us fighting against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the heavenlies.

¹⁵ Some indeed through envy and strife, and some through good will, are preaching Christ:

¹⁹ For I know that this will turn out to me unto salvation, through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

⁶ who, being in the form of God, thought it not usurpation to be equal with God,

¹¹ and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, unto the glory of God the Father.

¹⁷ But if indeed I am poured out for a sacrifice and an offering for your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice along with you all;

³⁰ because he was nigh unto death on account of the work of Christ, having jeoparded his life, in order that he might fulfill your deficiency of ministry towards me.

¹⁰ to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; ¹¹ if perchance I may attain unto the resurrection which is out from the dead.

¹³ I can do all things through him who fills me up with dynamite.

¹⁵ who is the image of the invisible God, being the first begotten of all creation,

²² in the body of his cross through death, to present you holy and blameless and unreprovable before him,

²⁴ Now I rejoice in sufferings in your behalf, and am filling up the residue of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh in behalf of his body, which is the church;

²⁷ to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, who is Christ in you, the hope of glory: ²⁸ whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, in order that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

³ in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

¹² having been buried with him in baptism, in which you are also raised by the faith of the operation of God, who raised him from the dead:

¹⁰ and having put on the new man, who is renewed into perfect knowledge according to the image of him who created him:

¹⁶ Let the word of God dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another, in all wisdom, in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, with grace making melody in your hearts to God; ¹⁷ and every thing whatsoever you may do, in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

⁵ because our gospel came not unto you in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as you know what sort we were among you for your sakes.

³ For our exhortation was not from delusion, nor from impurity, nor in guile: ⁴ but as we were approved of God that the gospel should be intrusted unto us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who is proving our hearts, ⁵ For at that time we were not in word of flattery, as you know, nor in a pretext of covetousness, God is our witness;

⁵ For at that time we were not in word of flattery, as you know, nor in a pretext of covetousness, God is our witness; ⁶ nor seeking glory from men, nor from you, nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as the apostles of Christ;

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and is risen, so also will God bring with him those who sleep in Jesus.

⁴ so that we ourselves rejoice over you in the churches of God, on account of your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which you endure;

⁶ if indeed it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them who are troubling you,

⁹ whose coming is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood, ¹⁰ and in all the deception of unrighteousness to those who perish; because they did not receive the divine love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And on this account God sends to them the working of delusion, that they should believe a lie:

¹⁶ and our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, the one having loved us and given eternal consolation and good hope through grace,

¹³ But you, brethren, be not weary doing well.

¹¹ according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I am intrusted.

¹³ being antecedently a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an insulter: but I obtained mercy, because I did it in unbelief being ignorant;

¹⁰ On account of this I endure all things for the sake of the elect, in order that they may also have the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. ¹¹ It is a faithful saying: For if we die along with him, we will also live with him:

²⁰ But in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and stone, the former truly indeed unto honor, but the latter unto dishonor.

¹¹ whose mouths it is necessary to stop; who overturn whole families, teaching those things which it does not behoove, for the sake of disgraceful gain.

¹³ looking for the blessed hope even the appearing of the glory of our great God and our Saviour Christ Jesus;

⁵ not from works which are in righteousness, which we did, but according to his own mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewal of the Holy Ghost,

³ who being the brightness of his glory, and the character of his person, and holding up all things by the word of his power, having made purgation of the sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

¹ But faith is the confidence of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

¹ But faith is the confidence of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. ² For by it the elders receive the witness of the Spirit. ³ By faith we understand that the worlds were created by the word of God, and that which was seen was not made from things which are manifest. ⁴ By faith Abel offered up to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he received the witness that he was righteous, God witnessing to his gifts: and through it he having died is still speaking. ⁵ By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found because God translated him. For before he was translated he had the witness of the Spirit, that he pleased God: ⁶ but without faith it is impossible to please him: for it behooves the one coming unto God to believe that he is, and he is a rewarder unto them who seek him out. ⁷ By faith Noah, being warned concerning things not yet seen, being moved with fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his family; by which he condemned the world, and became heir to the righteousness which is according to faith. ⁸ By faith Abraham, being called to go out into a place which he was about to receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and went out, not knowing whither he goes. ⁹ By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise: ¹⁰ for he anticipated a city having foundations, whose builder and maker is God. ¹¹ And by faith Sarah herself received power unto the conception of seed, even past the time of age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. ¹² Therefore indeed they were born of one, and those things of one having died, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sands which are by the sea, which are innumerable. ¹³ These all died in the faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off, and embracing them, and confessing that they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

¹³ These all died in the faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off, and embracing them, and confessing that they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth. ¹⁴ For those speaking such things declare that they are seeking after a country of their own. ¹⁵ If indeed they remember that country from which they came out, they would have had an opportunity to return; ¹⁶ but now they seek a better country, that is, a heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city. ¹⁷ By faith Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac: and the one having received the promises offered up his only begotten son, ¹⁸ in reference to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called: ¹⁹ considering that God is able to raise him from the dead; whence he also received him in a figure. ²⁰ By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. ²¹ By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each one of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, on the hilt of his staff. ²² By faith Joseph, dying, made mention concerning the exodus of the children of Israel; and commanded concerning his own bones. ²³ By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child; and did not fear the commandment of the king. ²⁴ By faith Moses, having become an adult, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; ²⁵ choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season;

²⁵ choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season; ²⁶ esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he was looking unto the recompense of reward.

²⁶ esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he was looking unto the recompense of reward. ²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he went out, as seeing the invisible one.

²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he went out, as seeing the invisible one. ²⁸ By faith he instituted the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, in order that the one destroying the first-born might not touch them. ²⁹ By faith they pass through the Red sea as through dry land: the undertaking of which the Egyptians having entered upon were drowned. ³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been encompassed about seven days, ³¹ By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with the unbelievers, having received the spies with peace. ³² And what do I yet say? time will fail me relating concerning Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, and David, and Samuel, and the prophets: ³³ who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, ³⁴ obtained promises, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness became filled up with dynamite, became mighty in war, put to flight the armies of the aliens: ³⁵ women receive their dead from a resurrection: some were tortured, not accepting deliverance; in order that they might receive a better resurrection: ³⁶ and others received the trial of scourgings and mockings, and still of bonds and imprisonment: ³⁷ they were stoned, they were tempted, they were burnt, they died by the edge of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, troubled, persecuted, ³⁸ of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in deserts, and in mountains, and caves and dens of the earth. ³⁹ And all these, having received the witness of the spirit through faith, did not obtain the promise: ⁴⁰ God having reserved something better for us, that they might not be made perfect apart from us.

² looking unto Jesus the beginner and perfecter of our faith; who for the joy that was placed before him, endured the cross, looking with contempt at the shame, and has sat down on the right hand of the throne of God. ³ For consider him who has endured so great a contradiction of sinners against himself, in order that you may not become weary, fainting in your souls.

³ For consider him who has endured so great a contradiction of sinners against himself, in order that you may not become weary, fainting in your souls.

¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days were accustomed to chastise us according to that which seemed right to them; but he made unto our profit, in order that we might partake his holiness. ¹¹ Indeed no chastisement for the present seems to be truly joyful, but sorrowful: but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who have been disciplined by it.

⁵ Let your deportment be free from covetousness; being content with present things: for he said, I will not, I will not, leave you, neither do I ever forsake you;

¹⁵ Therefore let us offer to God a sacrifice of praise continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, confessing to his name. ¹⁶ But do not forget benefaction and fellowship: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

² Count it all joy, my brethren, when you may fall into manifold temptations. ³ Knowing that the trial of your faith works out endurance. ⁴ But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing.

¹² Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love.

⁶ In whom you rejoice, if however it is needful, being grieved a little while among manifold temptations: in order

⁶ In whom you rejoice, if however it is needful, being grieved a little while among manifold temptations: in order ⁷ that the trial of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, however being tried by the fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor in the revelation of Jesus Christ:

⁷ that the trial of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, however being tried by the fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor in the revelation of Jesus Christ: ⁸ whom you not seeing, love with divine love; on whom, not looking, but believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

¹² to whom it was revealed, because they were ministering not these things for themselves, but for you, which are now proclaimed unto you by those who preach to you the gospel with the Holy Ghost having been sent from heaven; into which things the angels desire to look down.

⁹ But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people unto conquest; in order that you may proclaim the virtues of the one having called you out of darkness unto his own marvelous light: ¹⁰ who at one time were no people, but now you are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, lint just now having received mercy.

⁴ but let their beauty be the hidden man of the heart, in the purity of the meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is perfection complete.

⁷ But the end of all things is at hand. Therefore be prudent, and sober unto prayers:

¹¹ if any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any one ministers, as from the strength which God supplies; in order that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ; to whom there is glory and power unto the ages of the ages. Amen. ¹² Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, coming upon you unto your testing: as some strange thing happening to you: ¹³ but as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; in order that you may also rejoice in the revelation of his glory, being glad.

¹³ but as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; in order that you may also rejoice in the revelation of his glory, being glad. ¹⁴ If you suffer reproach in the name of Christ, happy are you, because the spirit of the glory and the spirit of God rest on you.

² shepherdize the flock of God which is among you, not coercively, but willingly, for the sake of God; not for filthy lucre, but cheerfully. ³ Not as domineering over the heritages, but having become examples of the flock: ⁴ and chief Shepherd having appeared, you shall receive a crown of glory which will never fade away. ⁵ Likewise, you younger men, submit to the elders: and all put on humility toward one another; because God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

¹⁰ But the God of all grace, the one having called you into his own eternal glory in Christ, will himself make you perfect, having suffered a little while, will establish you, will strengthen you, will settle you.

¹ Simon Peter, the servant of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those receiving like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

¹⁹ And we have the more certain word of prophecy; to which you do well giving heed, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day may dawn, and the morning-star may rise in your hearts:

³ and in their covetousness they will sell you with their soft speeches: unto whom judgment from olden time tarries not, and their destruction does not slumber.

⁸ Again I do write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you: because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.

¹⁶ because this is all that is in the world; the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world. ¹⁷ The world and its lust are indeed passing away; but the one doing the will of God abides forever.

²⁵ This is the message which he proclaimed unto you, eternal life.

² Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he may be made manifest, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

¹⁶ In this we know the divine love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

¹⁹ We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the evil one.

²⁴ But to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to establish you blameless in the presence of his glory with rejoicing.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man; and he laid his right hand on me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

³ and you have patience and have borne with them for my name's sake, and have not fainted.

⁸ And the four living creatures having six wings, one opposite one of them; filled with eyes without and within; and they cease not day and night, saying; Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Omnipotent, who was, and who is, and who is the one coming. ⁹ And when the living creatures shall give glory and honor and thanksgiving to the one sitting upon the throne, who lives unto the ages of the ages, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders will fall down before the one sitting upon the throne, and will worship Him who lives unto the ages of the ages, and will cast their crowns before the throne, ¹¹ saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord truly our God, to receive glory and honor and power: because thou hast created all things, and through thy will they were, and were created.

⁸ And when he took the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, having each a harp, and golden bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the saints. ⁹ And they sing a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to receive the book, and to open its seals: because thou wast slain, and didst with thy blood redeem unto God out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation; ¹⁰ and didst make them a kingdom and priests unto our God: and they shall reign on the earth. ¹¹ And I saw, and I heard as it were a voice of many angels round about the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders: and their number was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands; ¹² saying with a great voice; Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and might, and honor, and glory, and blessing. ¹³ And I heard all creation, which is in the heaven, and upon the earth, and beneath the earth, and in the sea, and all things which are in them, indeed saying, to the one sitting upon the throne, and to the Lamb, blessing, and honor, and glory, and dominion, unto the ages of the ages. ¹⁴ And the four living creatures continued to say, Amen. And the elders fell and worshiped.

⁴ And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sitteth upon the throne, saying Amen; Hallelujah! ⁵ And a voice came out from the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, ye who fear him, small and great. ⁶ And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the sound of many waters, and as the sound of mighty thunders, saying, Hallelujah! because the Lord our God Omnipotent reigned.

² And he laid hold on the dragon, who is the old serpent, who is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, ³ and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and put his seal on him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years may be fulfilled: after these it behooves him to be loosed a little season.