2 Corinthians 13 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹ This will be my third visit to you. Any charge must be sustained by the evidence of two or three witnesses. ² Those who have kept on in their old sins and all the rest I have warned, and I warn them now while I am still away, as I did on my second visit, that if I come back I will spare nobody— ³ since you demand proof that Christ really speaks through me. He is not weak in dealing with you. On the contrary, right among you he exhibits his power. ⁴ Even if he was crucified through weakness, by the power of God he is alive. For we are weak as he was, but you will find that by the power of God we will be alive as he is. ⁵ It is yourselves you must test, to see whether you are holding to the faith. It is yourselves you must examine. Do you not know that Jesus Christ is within you? Unless you fail to stand the test! ⁶ I hope you will see that I do not fail to stand it. ⁷ But I pray to God that you may not do wrong—not to prove me equal to the test, but that you should do right even if I fail to stand it. ⁸ For I cannot do anything against the truth, but only for it. ⁹ I am glad to be weak, if you are strong! That is what I pray for—the perfecting of your characters. ¹⁰ That is why I write this while I am away from you, so that when I come, I may not have to be harsh in my use of the authority the Lord has given me, for it was to build you up, not to pull you down. ¹¹ Now brothers, goodbye! Be what you ought to be, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace, and God the source of love and peace will be with you. ¹² Greet one another with a sacred kiss. ¹³ All God's people wish to be remembered to you. ¹⁴ The blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the participation in the holy Spirit be with you all.

²³ "The maiden will be pregnant and will have a son, And they will name him Immanuel."—a word which means "God with us."

⁴⁸ So you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is.

¹³ And do not subject us to temptation, But save us from the evil one.'

²⁰ for it is not you who will speak, it is the Spirit of your Father that will speak through you.

¹⁶ But if he will not listen, take one or two others with you, so that everything may be supported by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

¹⁸ "I tell you, whatever you forbid on earth will be held in heaven to be forbidden, and whatever you permit on earth will be held in heaven to be permitted. ¹⁹ Again, I tell you, if even two of you here on earth agree about what they shall pray for, it will be given them by my Father in heaven. ²⁰ For wherever two or three are gathered as my followers, I am there among them."

⁶⁰ And they could not, although many false witnesses presented themselves. But finally two came forward ⁶¹ and said, "This man said, 'I can tear down the sanctuary of God, and build it up in three days.' "

¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all the heathen, baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teach them to observe all the commands that I have given you. I will always be with you, to the very close of the age."

³⁹ But Jesus said, "Do not tell him not to do so, for there is no one who will use my name to do a mighty act, and be able soon after to abuse me.

⁵⁰ Salt is a good thing, but if salt loses its strength, what will you use to season it? You must have salt within you, and live in peace with one another."

⁴⁹ Jesus stopped and said, "Call him here." And they called the blind man and said to him, "Courage now! Get up, he is calling you!"

¹⁷ And signs like these will attend those who believe: with my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in foreign tongues; ¹⁸ they will take snakes in their hands, and if they drink poison it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well." ¹⁹ So the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was caught up into heaven and took his seat at God's right hand.

⁴⁹ John answered, "Master, we saw a man driving out demons with your name, and we told him not to do so, for he does not go with us." ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "Do not try to stop him, for the man who is not against you is for you." ⁵¹ As the time approached when he was to be taken up to heaven, he set his face toward Jerusalem, ⁵² and sent messengers before him. They started out and went into a Samaritan village, to make preparations for him. ⁵³ And the people there would not receive him, because he was going to Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ When the disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Master, will you have us order fire to come down from heaven and consume them?" ⁵⁵ But he turned and reproved them. ⁵⁶ And they went on to another village.

⁶¹ Yet another man said to him, "Master, I am going to follow you, but let me first say goodbye to my people at home."

¹⁵ for I will give you such wisdom of utterance as none of your opponents will be able to resist or dispute.

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¹⁶ For from his abundance we have all had a share, and received blessing after blessing. ¹⁷ For while the Law was given through Moses, blessing and truth came to us through Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

¹⁴ but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life."

⁶ Now he said this to test him, for he knew what he meant to do.

⁵⁶ Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood remains united to me and I remain united to him.

³⁸ If anyone believes in me, streams of living water, as the Scripture says, shall flow forth from his heart."

¹⁷ Why, in your own Law it is stated that the testimony of two persons is valid. ¹⁸ Here I am testifying to myself, and the Father who has sent me testifies to me."

¹⁸ No one has taken it from me, but I am giving it of my own accord. I have power to give it, and I have power to take it back again. These are the orders I have received from my Father."

¹⁵ "If you really love me, you will observe my commands. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you always. ¹⁷ It is the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot obtain that Spirit, because it does not see it or recognize it; you recognize it because it stays with you and is within you.

²³ Jesus answered, "Anyone who loves me will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and live with him.

⁴ You must remain united to me and I will remain united to you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains united to the vine, you cannot unless you remain united to me.

¹⁵ I do not ask you to take them away from the world, but to keep them from evil.

²³ I in union with them and you with me, so that they may be perfectly unified, and the world may recognize that you sent me and that you love them just as you loved me.

²⁶ I have made your self known to them and I will do so still, so that the love which you have had for me may be in their hearts, and I may be there also."

³⁶ "Therefore the whole nation of Israel must understand that God has declared this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ."

¹⁶ It is by his power and through faith in him that this man whom you see and recognize has been made strong again, and it is faith inspired by him that has given him the perfect health you all see.

¹⁰ you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well. ¹¹ He is the stone that you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone. ¹² There is no salvation through anyone else, for there is no one else in the world who has been named to men as their only means of being saved."

²⁸ to carry out what your hand and will had destined should happen. ²⁹ And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and give your slaves the power to utter your message fearlessly, ³⁰ when you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are done by the power of your holy servant Jesus."

¹ But a man named Ananias, who, with his wife Sapphira, had sold a piece of property, ² with his wife's connivance appropriated some of the price received, and brought only a part of it to put at the disposal of the apostles. ³ And Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan taken such possession of your heart that you should lie to the holy Spirit, by appropriating part of the price of your land? ⁴ As long as it was unsold was it not yours, and after it was sold was not the money under your control? How could you think of doing such a thing? You did not lie to men but to God!" ⁵ When Ananias heard these words he fell down and expired, and everyone who heard them spoken was appalled. ⁶ The younger men got up and wrapping his body up carried it out and buried it. ⁷ About three hours later, his wife came in, without having learned what had happened. ⁸ Peter said to her, "Tell me, did you sell the land for such and such a sum?" "Yes," she said, "that was it." ⁹ Peter said to her, "How could you two agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? There at the door are the footsteps of the men who buried your husband, and they will carry you out also." ¹⁰ She instantly fell down at his feet and expired. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband. ¹¹ And the whole church and all who heard this were appalled.

³ So after fasting and prayer, they laid their hands upon them and let them go. ⁴ Being sent out in this way by the holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus. ⁵ When they reached Salamis, they proclaimed God's message in the Jewish synagogues. They had John with them as their assistant. ⁶ They went through the whole island as far as Paphos, and there they came across a Jewish magician and false prophet named Barjesus. ⁷ He was attached to the governor, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. He sent for Barnabas and Saul and asked them to let him hear God's message. ⁸ But Elymas the magician—for that is the meaning of his name—opposed them, and tried to keep the governor from accepting the faith. ⁹ But Saul, who was also called Paul, was filled with the holy Spirit, and looked at him ¹⁰ and said, "You monster of underhandedness and cunning! You son of the devil! You enemy of all that is right! Will you never stop trying to make the Lord's straight paths crooked? ¹¹ The Lord's hand is right upon you, and you will be blind and unable even to see the sun for a time." Instantly a mist of darkness fell upon him, and he groped about for someone to lead him by the hand. ¹² Then the governor, seeing what had happened, believed, and was thunderstruck at the Lord's teaching.

²⁹ that you avoid whatever has been sacrificed to idols, the tasting of blood and of the meat of animals that have been strangled, and immorality. Keep yourselves free from these things and you will get on well. Goodbye."

²¹ He bade them goodbye, saying, "I will come back to you again if it is God's will." Then he sailed from Ephesus.

¹¹ God did such extraordinary wonders by means of Paul, ¹² that people took to the sick handkerchiefs or aprons he had used, and they were cured of their diseases, and the evil spirits went out of them. ¹³ Some Jews who went from place to place casting out demons tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus in the cases of people who had evil spirits in them, saying, "I command you in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches!" ¹⁴ A Jewish high priest named Sceva had seven sons who were doing this. ¹⁵ But the evil spirit answered, "I know Jesus, and I know of Paul, but who are you?" ¹⁶ And the man in whom the evil spirit was sprang at them, and overpowered them all, with such violence that they ran out of the house tattered and bruised. ¹⁷ This came to be known to everyone who lived in Ephesus, Greeks as well as Jews, and great awe came over them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus came to be held in high honor.

³⁰ As I have been informed that a plot against him is brewing, I am sending him on to you at once, and directing his accusers to present their charges against him before you."

⁴ and decisively declared Son of God in his holiness of spirit, by being raised from the dead—Jesus Christ our Lord,

⁷ to all those in Rome whom God loves, who are called to be his people; God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

²⁸ And just as they refused to recognize God any longer, God has abandoned them to unworthy impulses and indecent conduct.

⁵ and hope will not disappoint us. For, through the holy Spirit that has been given us, God's love has flooded our hearts.

⁴ Through baptism we have been buried with him in death, so that just as he was raised from the dead through the Father's glory, we too may live a new life.

⁸ If we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him, ⁹ for we know that Christ, once raised from the dead, will never die again; death has no more hold on him. ¹⁰ For when he died, he became once for all dead to sin; the life he now lives is a life in relation to God. ¹¹ So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus.

⁹ But you are not physical but spiritual, if God's Spirit has really taken possession of you; for unless a man has Christ's spirit, he does not belong to Christ. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in your hearts, though your bodies are dead in consequence of sin, your spirits have life in consequence of uprightness.

¹⁴ For all who are guided by God's Spirit are God's sons. ¹⁵ It is not a consciousness of servitude that has been imparted to you, to fill you with fear again, but the consciousness of adoption as sons, which makes us cry, "Abba!" that is, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit itself testifies with our spirits that we are God's children, ¹⁷ and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too.

³⁹ nor any supernatural forces either of height or depth will be able to separate us from the love God has shown in Christ Jesus our Lord!

¹⁶ Live in harmony with one another. Do not be too ambitious, but accept humble tasks. Do not be conceited. ¹⁷ Do not pay anyone back with evil for evil. See that you are above reproach in the eyes of everyone. ¹⁸ If possible, for your part, live peaceably with everybody.

¹³ Let us live honorably, as in the light of day, not in carousing and drunkenness, or in immorality and indecency, or in quarreling and jealousy.

⁹ For Christ died and returned to life for the very purpose of being Lord of both the dead and the living.

¹⁹ Let us, therefore, keep before us whatever will contribute to peace and the development of one another.

⁵ May God, from whom steadfastness and encouragement come, give you such harmony with one another, in following the example of Christ Jesus, ⁶ that you may praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one accord and one voice.

¹³ May God, the source of hope, fill you with perfect happiness and peace in your faith, so that you may have overflowing hope through the power of the holy Spirit.

³³ God who gives peace be with you all! Amen.

¹⁰ Remember me to that veteran Christian, Apelles. Remember me to those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.

¹⁶ Greet one another with a sacred kiss. All the churches of Christ wish to be remembered to you.

²⁰ And God, who is the source of peace, will soon crush Satan under your feet. The blessing of our Lord Jesus be with you. ²¹ My fellow-worker, Timothy, wishes to be remembered to you, and so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my fellow-countrymen. ²² I, Tertius, who write this letter, wish to be remembered to you as a fellow-Christian. ²³ My host, Gaius, the host of the whole church, wishes to be remembered to you. Erastus, the city-treasurer, and our brother Quartus wish to be remembered to you.

²³ My host, Gaius, the host of the whole church, wishes to be remembered to you. Erastus, the city-treasurer, and our brother Quartus wish to be remembered to you.

²⁷ to the one wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ. Amen.

¹⁰ But I urge you all, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree in what you say, and not to allow factions among you, but to be perfectly united in mind and judgment.

³ For my part, I came among you in weakness and with a great deal of fear and trembling,

¹⁶ Do you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit makes its home in you?

⁹ For it seems to me, God has exhibited us apostles at the very end of the procession, like the men condemned to die in the arena. For we have become a spectacle to the whole universe, angels as well as men. ¹⁰ We are made fools of, for the sake of Christ, while you are men of sense, through being united with him. We are weak, you are strong. You are distinguished, we are despised.

¹⁰ We are made fools of, for the sake of Christ, while you are men of sense, through being united with him. We are weak, you are strong. You are distinguished, we are despised. ¹¹ To this day we have gone hungry, thirsty, and ill-clad; we have had rough usage, we have had no home, ¹² we have worked with our hands for a living. When people abuse us, we bless them, when they persecute us, we put up with it, ¹³ when they slander us, we try to conciliate them. We have come to be like the scum of the earth, the dregs of the world, and we are so now.

¹⁹ But I am coming very soon to see you, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out, not what these conceited people have to say, but what they can actually do. ²⁰ For the reign of God is not a matter of words but of power. ²¹ Which will you have? Shall I come to you with a stick, or in a loving and gentle spirit?

²¹ Which will you have? Shall I come to you with a stick, or in a loving and gentle spirit?

⁴ and meeting with you, in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, by the authority of our Lord Jesus ⁵ I have handed the man over to Satan, for his physical destruction, in order that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

⁵ I have handed the man over to Satan, for his physical destruction, in order that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

² Do you not know that the Christians are to be the judges of the world? And if the world is to come before you for judgment, are you unfit to decide the most trivial cases?

¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are parts of Christ's body? Am I then to take away from Christ parts of his body, and make them parts of a prostitute's? Never!

¹⁹ Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit that is within you, which you have received from God? Besides, you are not your own;

¹ Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the product of my work in the Lord's service? ² If I am not an apostle to other people, I certainly am one to you, for you yourselves, in your relation to the Lord, are the certificate of my apostleship. ³ My answer to those who want to investigate me is this:

²⁴ Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.

²⁷ But I beat and bruise my body and make it my slave, so that after I have called others to the contest I may not be disqualified myself.

¹⁹ Doubtless there must be parties among you, if those who are right are to be recognized among you.

²⁸ A man should examine himself, and only when he has done so should he eat any of the bread or drink from the cup.

³¹ But if we recognized our own condition, we would not incur this judgment.

¹³ For we have all—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free men—been baptized in one spirit to form one body, and we have all been saturated with one Spirit.

¹⁶ For if you utter blessings in ecstatic speech, how is an ordinary man to say Amen to your thanksgiving? For he does not know what you are saying.

⁴³ It is sown in humiliation, it is raised in splendor. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in strength.

²⁰ All the brothers wish to be remembered to you. Greet one another with a sacred kiss.

²³ The blessing of the Lord Jesus be with you!

⁴ He comforts me in all my trouble, so that I can comfort people who are in any trouble with the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God.

²³ But upon my soul I call God to witness that it is simply to spare you that I have stayed away from Corinth.

³ This is what I said in my letter, so that I might avoid coming and having my feelings hurt by the very people who might have been expected to make me happy, for I felt sure about you all, that what made me happy would make you all happy.

⁶ For that individual, this censure by the majority of you is punishment enough,

¹⁰ When you forgive a man, I forgive him too. For anything I had to forgive has been forgiven on your account, and as in the very presence of Christ,

¹ Am I falling into self-recommendation again? Do I, like some people, need letters of recommendation to you or from you? ² You are my recommendations, written on my heart, for everybody to read and understand. ³ You show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by me, written not in ink, but in the Spirit of the living God, and not on tablets of stone, but on the human heart.

⁷ But I have this treasure in a mere ear then jar, to show that its amazing power belongs to God and not to me. ⁸ I am hard pressed on every side, but never cut off: perplexed, but not driven to despair; ⁹ routed, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰ never free from the danger of being put to death like Jesus, so that in my body the life of Jesus also may be seen. ¹¹ For every day I live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be visible in my mortal nature. ¹² So it is death that operates in my case, but life that operates in yours.

⁴ On the contrary, as a servant of God I try in every way to commend myself to them, through my great endurance in troubles, difficulties, hardships,

⁸ in honor or dishonor, in praise or blame; considered an imposter, when I am true, ⁹ obscure, when I am well known, at the point of death, yet here I am alive, punished, but not dead yet,

¹⁶ What bargain can a temple of God make with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, And I will be their God and they will be my people."

¹ So since we have promises like these, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves of everything that can defile body or spirit, and by reverence for God make our consecration complete.

⁹ You know how gracious the Lord Jesus Christ was. Though he was rich, he became poor for your sake, in order that by his poverty you might become rich.

²¹ I intend to do what is right not only in the Lord's sight but in the eyes of men.

¹ I appeal to you personally, by the gentleness and forbearance of Christ—the Paul who is so humble when face to face with you, but so bold in dealing with you when he is far away! ² I beg you not to make me take as bold an attitude when I come, as I count on taking toward some people who suspect me of acting from worldly motives.

² I beg you not to make me take as bold an attitude when I come, as I count on taking toward some people who suspect me of acting from worldly motives. ³ For though I do live an earthly life, I am not carrying on an earthly war, ⁴ for the weapons I use are not earthly ones, but divinely strong for destroying fortresses.

⁴ for the weapons I use are not earthly ones, but divinely strong for destroying fortresses.

⁸ For suppose I do boast a little too much of my authority—which the Lord gave me to build you up, not to pull you down—I will not have to blush for it.

⁸ For suppose I do boast a little too much of my authority—which the Lord gave me to build you up, not to pull you down—I will not have to blush for it.

⁸ For suppose I do boast a little too much of my authority—which the Lord gave me to build you up, not to pull you down—I will not have to blush for it. ⁹ I do not want to seem to scare you with my letters.

⁹ I do not want to seem to scare you with my letters. ¹⁰ For they say, "His letters are impressive and telling, but his personal appearance is insignificant and as a speaker he amounts to nothing."

¹⁰ For they say, "His letters are impressive and telling, but his personal appearance is insignificant and as a speaker he amounts to nothing."

¹⁰ For they say, "His letters are impressive and telling, but his personal appearance is insignificant and as a speaker he amounts to nothing." ¹¹ Such people had better understand that when I arrive and take action I will do just as I say I will in my letters when I am far away.

¹⁸ For it is not the man who approves of himself who is really approved; it is the man of whom the Lord approves.

³⁰ If there must be boasting, I will boast of the things that show my weakness!

⁵ On this man's account I am ready to boast, but about myself I will boast only of my weaknesses. ⁶ Though if I do choose to boast, I will not be such a fool, for I will only be telling the truth. But I will refrain from it, for I do not want anyone to be influenced by the wonderful character of these revelations to think more of me than is justified by my words or conduct. ⁷ So to keep me from being too much elated a bitter physical affliction was sent to me, a very messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too much elated. ⁸ Three times I have prayed to the Lord about this, begging that it might leave me, ⁹ and he said to me, "My favor is enough for you, for only where there is weakness is perfect strength developed." So I am perfectly willing to boast of all my weakness, so that the strength of Christ may shelter me. ¹⁰ That is why I am pleased with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties, when they are endured for Christ's sake, for it is when I am weak that I am strong.

¹² The signs that mark a true apostle were most patiently shown when I was among you, in signs, wonders, and marvels.

¹⁴ Here it is the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I do not intend to be a burden to you now; for it is not your money but yourselves that I want; for children are not expected to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.

²⁰ for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder,

²⁰ for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder, ²¹ and that when I come back my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many who have kept on in their old sins and have never repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality in which they have indulged.

² Those who have kept on in their old sins and all the rest I have warned, and I warn them now while I am still away, as I did on my second visit, that if I come back I will spare nobody— ³ since you demand proof that Christ really speaks through me. He is not weak in dealing with you. On the contrary, right among you he exhibits his power. ⁴ Even if he was crucified through weakness, by the power of God he is alive. For we are weak as he was, but you will find that by the power of God we will be alive as he is.

⁶ I hope you will see that I do not fail to stand it. ⁷ But I pray to God that you may not do wrong—not to prove me equal to the test, but that you should do right even if I fail to stand it.

⁷ But I pray to God that you may not do wrong—not to prove me equal to the test, but that you should do right even if I fail to stand it. ⁸ For I cannot do anything against the truth, but only for it.

⁸ For I cannot do anything against the truth, but only for it. ⁹ I am glad to be weak, if you are strong! That is what I pray for—the perfecting of your characters. ¹⁰ That is why I write this while I am away from you, so that when I come, I may not have to be harsh in my use of the authority the Lord has given me, for it was to build you up, not to pull you down. ¹¹ Now brothers, goodbye! Be what you ought to be, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace, and God the source of love and peace will be with you.

¹⁴ The blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the participation in the holy Spirit be with you all.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

¹⁹ my children—you for whom I am enduring a mother's pains again, until Christ is formed in you.

²² But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

⁴ Every man ought to test his own work, and then whatever satisfaction he has will be with reference to himself, and not in comparison with someone else.

¹⁹ and how surpassingly great his power is for us who believe; like the mighty strength ²⁰ he exerted in raising Christ from the dead, and seating him at his right hand in heaven, ²¹ far above all hierarchies, authorities, powers, and dominions, and all titles that can be bestowed not only in this world but in the world to come. ²² He has put everything under his feet and made him the indisputable head of the church, ²³ which is his body, filled by him who fills everything everywhere.

¹⁸ for it is through him that we both with one Spirit are now able to approach the Father.

²⁰ You are built upon the apostles and prophets as your foundation, and Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone. ²¹ Through him every part of the building is closely united and grows into a temple sacred through its relation to the Lord, ²² and you are yourselves built up into a dwelling for God through the Spirit.

²² and you are yourselves built up into a dwelling for God through the Spirit.

¹⁷ and through your faith to let Christ in his love make his home in your hearts. Your roots must be deep and your foundations strong,

³ Make every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit through the tie of peace.

¹² in order to fit his people for the work of service, for building the body of Christ, ¹³ until we all attain unity in faith, and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and reach mature manhood, and that full measure of development found in Christ.

⁹ for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth;

²³ God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give the brothers peace and love, with faith.

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may grow richer and richer in knowledge and perfect insight, ¹⁰ so that you may have a sense of what is vital, and may be men of transparent character and blameless life, in preparation for the Day of Christ, ¹¹ with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

²⁷ Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.

¹ So by whatever appeal there is in our relation to Christ, by whatever incentive there is in love, by whatever participation there is in the Spirit, whatever affection and sympathy,

¹ So by whatever appeal there is in our relation to Christ, by whatever incentive there is in love, by whatever participation there is in the Spirit, whatever affection and sympathy, ² make me perfectly happy by living in harmony, with the same attitude of love, with the same feeling and purpose. ³ Do not act for selfish ends or from vanity, but modestly treat one another as your superiors.

⁷ but laid it aside to take on the nature of a slave and become like other men. ⁸ When he had assumed human form, he still further humbled himself and carried his obedience so far as to die, and to die upon the cross. ⁹ That is why God has so greatly exalted him, and given him the name above all others, ¹⁰ so that in the name of Jesus everyone should kneel, in heaven and on earth and in the underworld, ¹¹ and everyone should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, and thus glorify God the Father.

¹⁰ I want to know him in the power of resurrection, and to share his sufferings and even his death,

¹² Not that I have secured it yet, or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, because I have been captured by Jesus Christ. ¹³ Brothers, I do not consider that I have captured it yet, only, forgetting what is behind me, and straining toward what lies ahead, ¹⁴ I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward. ¹⁵ Let as many of us therefore as are mature have this attitude. If you have any different attitude, God will make this clear to you. ¹⁶ Only we must live up to what we have already attained.

² I appeal to Euodia and I appeal to Syntyche to agree together, as Christians.

⁴ Goodbye, and the Lord be with you always. Again I say, goodbye.

⁸ Now, brothers, let your minds dwell on what is true, what is worthy, what is right, what is pure, what is amiable, what is kindly—on everything that is excellent or praiseworthy. ⁹ Do the things that you learned, received, and heard from me, and that you saw me do. Then God who gives peace will be with you.

²¹ Remember me to all my fellow-Christians. The brothers who are with me wish to be remembered to you. ²² All God's people wish to be remembered to you, especially those who belong to the emperor's household.

²³ if at least you continue firm and steadfast in the exercise of faith, and never shift from the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been preached all over the world, and for which I, Paul, became a worker.

²⁷ to whom God has chosen to make known among the heathen how glorious this mystery of Christ in you, the promise of glorification, really is. ²⁸ And in spreading the news of him, we warn everyone and teach everyone all our wisdom, in order to bring everyone to Christian perfection.

⁷ You must be rooted and built up in him and made strong in faith, just as you were taught to be, overflowing with it in your gratitude.

¹⁹ Such people lose their connection with the head, from which the whole body through its ligaments and sinews must be governed and united if it is to grow in the divine way.

¹² Epaphras, one of your own number, a slave of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you. He is always standing up for you in his prayers that you may stand fast, like men of mature convictions, whatever God's will for you may be.

¹⁰ as I pray night and day with intense earnestness that I may see your faces and supply what is lacking in your faith?

¹ Now, brothers, we ask and entreat you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to live as you learned from us that you must live, to please God—as indeed you are doing, only do it more and more.

¹⁸ Therefore, encourage one another with this truth.

¹³ Hold them in the highest esteem and affection for what they do. Live at peace with one another.

¹⁶ Always be joyful.

²³ May God himself, the giver of peace, consecrate you through and through. Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept sound, and be found irreproachable when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.

²⁶ Greet all the brothers with a sacred kiss.

¹⁶ May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and kindly given us unfailing encouragement and a well-founded hope,

¹⁶ And may the Lord of peace himself always give you peace in every way. The Lord be with you all.

²⁰ like Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I turned over to Satan, to be taught not to blaspheme.

² for emperors and all who are in authority, so that we may live tranquil, quiet lives, with perfect piety and probity.

¹⁵ But they will be saved through motherhood, if they continue to have faith and to be loving and holy, and sensible as well.

¹¹ How true those words are! "If we have died with him, we will live with him! ¹² If we endure, we will reign with him! If we disown him, he will also disown us!

¹⁵ Do your best to win God's approval as a workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, but rightly shapes the message of truth.

²² Fly from the cravings of youth, and go in pursuit of uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.

⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, these people in turn oppose the truth; they are men of depraved minds and counterfeit faith.

¹⁷ so that the man of God will be adequate, and equipped for any good work.

¹⁸ The Lord will rescue me from any harm and bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

¹³ and that statement is true. Therefore correct them rigorously, to make them have a healthy faith,

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but they disown him by what they do; they are detestable, disobedient men, worthless for any good purpose.

² Teach the older men to be temperate, serious, and sensible—men of vigorous faith, love, and steadfastness.

²³ Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner for Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you, ²⁴ and so do my fellow-workers, Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke.

³ how can we escape if we pay no attention to such a salvation as this? It was first proclaimed by the Lord himself, and it was guaranteed to us by those who heard him, ⁴ while God himself corroborated their testimony with signs, portents, and various wonders, and by impartations of the holy Spirit when he saw fit.

¹ We ought therefore to fear that when the promise of admission to his Rest is still open, some one of you may be found to have failed to reach it.

⁷ For Jesus in his life on earth offered prayers and entreaties, crying aloud with tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and because of his piety his prayer was heard.

¹ Let us therefore leave elementary Christian teaching alone and advance toward maturity. We must not be always relaying foundations, of repentance for wrong-doing, and of faith in God,

⁸ But if it yields thorns and thistles, it is thought worthless and almost cursed, and it will finally be burned.

²⁸ Anyone who breaks the Law of Moses is put to death without any show of pity, on the evidence of only two or three witnesses. ²⁹ How much worse a punishment do you think will anyone deserve who tramples the Son of God underfoot, and treats as worthless the blood of the agreement by which he has been purified, and outrages God's spirit of mercy?

¹⁴ Try to be at peace with everyone, and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord. ¹⁵ Be careful that no one fails to gain God's favor, or some poisonous root may come up to trouble and contaminate you all—

²³ to the solemn gathering of all God's elder sons, enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men now at last enjoying the fulfilment of their hopes,

²⁰ May God, the giver of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus who through the blood by which he ratified the everlasting agreement has become the great shepherd of the sheep, ²¹ fit you by every blessing to do his will, and through Jesus Christ carry out in us what will please him. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

²⁴ Remember us to all your leaders and to all your fellow-Christians. The brothers from Italy wish to be remembered to you.

⁴ and steadfastness must have full play, so that you may be fully and perfectly developed without any defects.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he stands the test, he will be given the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

¹⁷ The wisdom that is from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, considerate, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, whole-hearted, straightforward. ¹⁸ The harvest uprightness yields must be sown in peace, by peacemakers.

⁴ You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy.

⁴ Come to him, as to a living stone rejected by men, but chosen and prized in the sight of God, ⁵ and build yourselves up as living stones into a spiritual house for a consecrated priesthood, so as to offer spiritual sacrifices that through Jesus Christ will be acceptable to God.

¹² Live upright lives among the heathen, so that even if they charge you with being evil-doers, they may from observing the uprightness of your conduct come to praise God on the Day of Judgment.

⁸ Finally, you must all be harmonious, sympathizing, loving, tender-hearted, modest,

¹¹ Let him turn away from evil and do right, Let him seek peace and go after it.

¹⁸ For Christ himself died once for all, for sin, an upright man for unrighteous men, to bring us to God, and was physically put to death, but he was made alive in the Spirit.

²² who has gone to heaven and is at God's right hand, with angels, hierarchies, and powers made subject to him.

⁹ Resist him and be strong in the faith, for you know that your brotherhood all over the world is having the same experience of suffering. ¹⁰ And God, the giver of all mercy, who through your union with Christ has called you to his eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while will himself make you perfect, steadfast, and strong.

¹³ Your sister-church in Babylon, chosen like you, and Mark my son wish to be remembered to you. ¹⁴ Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to all of you that are in union with Christ.

³ it is what we have seen and heard that we announce to you also, so that you may share our fellowship, for our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ,

¹⁶ We know what love means from the fact that he laid down his life for us; so we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

²⁰ if they condemn us for anything, for God is greater than our consciences, and he knows all. ²¹ Dear friends, if our consciences do not condemn us, we approach God with confidence,

²⁴ All who obey his commands keep in union with him, and he does with them; and this is how we know that he keeps in union with us—by the Spirit which he has given us.

⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. ⁹ God's love for us has been revealed in this way—that God has sent his only Son into the world, to let us have life through him. ¹⁰ The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; yet if we love one another, God keeps in union with us and love for him attains perfection in our hearts. ¹³ This is the way we know that we keep in union with him and he does with us—because he has given us some of his Spirit. ¹⁴ We have seen and can testify that the Father has sent the Son to be Savior of the world. ¹⁵ If anyone acknowledges that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God keeps in union with him and he with God. ¹⁶ So we know and believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love keeps in union with God, and God with him.

¹³ The children of your chosen sister wish to be remembered to you. ¹⁴ I hope to see you very soon and we will talk face to face. Goodbye. Our friends wish to be remembered to you. Remember me to our friends, every one.

²¹ and keep in the love of God, and wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring you to eternal life.

⁴ John to the seven churches in Asia, blessing and peace to you from him who is and was and is coming, and from the seven spirits before his throne, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ the trustworthy witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the sovereign of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has released us from our sins by his blood

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. But he laid his right hand upon me, and said, "Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last, ¹⁸ the living one. I was dead, yet here I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys of death and the underworld.

⁵ So remember how far you have fallen, and repent and do as you did at first, or else I will come to you and take your lampstand from its place, if you do not repent.

² Wake up, and strengthen what is left, although it is already on the point of death, for I have found nothing you have done complete in the sight of my God. ³ So remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I am coming upon you.

²¹ The blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ be with his people.