Ephesians 5 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹ So follow God's example, like his dear children, ² and lead loving lives, just as Christ loved you and gave himself for you, as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. ³ But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people. ⁴ There must be no indecency or foolish or scurrilous talk—all that is unbecoming. There should be thanksgiving instead. ⁵ For you may be sure that no one who is immoral, or greedy for gain (for that is idolatry) can have any share in the Kingdom of Christ and God. ⁶ Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient. ⁷ Therefore have nothing to do with them. ⁸ For once you were sheer darkness, but now, as Christians, you are light itself. You must live like children of light, ⁹ for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth; ¹⁰ you must make sure what pleases the Lord. ¹¹ Have nothing to do with the profitless doings of the darkness; expose them instead. ¹² For while it is degrading even to mention their secret practices, ¹³ yet when anything is exposed by the light, it is made visible, and anything that is made visible is light. ¹⁴ So it says, "Wake up, sleeper! Rise from the dead, And Christ will dawn upon you!" ¹⁵ Be very careful, then, about the way you live. Do not act thoughtlessly, but like sensible men, ¹⁶ and make the most of your opportunity, for these are evil times. ¹⁷ So do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is. ¹⁸ Do not get drunk on wine, for that is profligacy, but be filled with the Spirit, ¹⁹ and speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and sacred songs. Sing praise to God with all your hearts; ²⁰ always give thanks for everything to God our Father, as followers of our Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ and subordinate yourselves to one another out of reverence to Christ. ²² You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, as you do to the Lord, ²³ for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, which is his body, and is saved by him. ²⁴ Just as the church is in subjection to Christ, so married women must be, in everything, to their husbands. ²⁵ You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her, ²⁶ to consecrate her, after cleansing her with the bath in water through her confession of him, ²⁷ in order to bring the church to himself in all her beauty, without a flaw or a wrinkle or anything of the kind, but to be consecrated and faultless. ²⁸ That is the way husbands ought to love their wives—as if they were their own bodies; a man who loves his wife is really loving himself, ²⁹ for no one ever hates his own person, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ does with the church, ³⁰ for we are parts of his body. ³¹ Therefore a man must leave his father and mother and attach himself to his wife, and they must become one. ³² This is a great secret, but I understand it of Christ and the church. ³³ But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.

¹⁶ The people that were living in darkness Have seen a great light, And on those who were living in the land of the shadow of death A light has dawned!"

⁴⁵ so that you may show yourselves true sons of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on bad and good alike, and makes the rain fall on the upright and the wrongdoers.

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

⁴ Then Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go! Show yourself to the priest, and in proof of your cure, offer the gift that Moses prescribed."

¹⁶ "Here I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So you must be wise like serpents, and guileless like doves.

³⁴ You brood of snakes! how can you, bad as you are, utter anything good? For the mouth says only what the heart is full of. ³⁵ A good man, out of the good he has accumulated, brings out things that are good, and a bad man, out of what he has accumulated that is bad, brings out things that are bad. ³⁶ But I tell you, for every careless word that men utter they will have to answer on the Day of Judgment. ³⁷ For it is by your words that you will be acquitted, or by your words that you will be condemned."

⁸ " 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.

¹⁹ For out of the heart come wicked designs, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witness, impious speech.

¹⁵ "But if your brother wrongs you go to him and show him his fault while you are alone with him. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

⁵ and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two of them shall become one'? So they are no longer two but one.

²⁸ just as the Son of Man has come not to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to ransom many others."

²⁵ Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

³⁷ "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

⁴ Jesus answered, "Take care that no one misleads you about this.

²⁴ for false Christs and false prophets will appear, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead God's chosen people if they can.

⁴⁹ and begins to beat the other slaves, and eats and drinks with drunkards,

² Now five of them were foolish and five were sensible.

³⁰ After singing the hymn, they went out of the city and up the Mount of Olives.

⁴ and said, "I did wrong when I handed an innocent man over to death!" They said, "What is that to us? You see to it yourself."

²⁴ When Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing but that a riot was beginning instead, he took some water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying, "I am not responsible for this man's death; you must see to it yourselves."

²¹ For it is from inside, from men's hearts, that designs of evil come; immorality, stealing, murder, adultery, ²² greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, abusiveness, arrogance, folly—

²² greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, abusiveness, arrogance, folly—

⁷ Therefore a man must leave his father and mother, and he and his wife must become one,' ⁸ and so they are no longer two but one.

⁵ And Jesus said to them, "Take care that no one misleads you about this.

²² For false Christs and false prophets will appear, and they will show signs and wonders to mislead God's chosen people if they can.

¹⁵ For he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He will drink no wine or strong drink, but he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth,

⁷⁸ "Because the heart of our God is merciful, And so the day will dawn upon us from on high, ⁷⁹ To shine on men who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, And guide our feet into the way of peace."

¹⁹ but Herod the governor, whom he condemned because of Herodias, his brother's wife, and all the wicked things Herod had done,

³⁵ But love your enemies, and help them and lend to them, never despairing, and you will be richly rewarded, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the wicked. ³⁶ You must be merciful, just as your Father is.

¹³ So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the holy Spirit to those who ask him for it!"

¹ Meanwhile as the people gathered in thousands, until they actually trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy. ² There is nothing covered up that is not going to be uncovered, nor secret that is not going to be known.

¹⁵ And he said to them, "Take care! You must be on your guard against any form of greed, for a man's life does not belong to him, no matter how rich he is."

⁴⁵ But if the slave says to himself, 'My master is not coming back for a long time,' and begins to beat the men and women slaves and to eat and drink and get drunk,

⁸ And his master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their relation to their own age than the sons of the light.

¹⁴ The Pharisees, who were avaricious, heard all this, and they ridiculed him.

³⁴ But take care that your hearts are not loaded down with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day takes you by surprise, like a trap.

¹⁹ And he took a loaf of bread and thanked God, and broke it in pieces, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body. ²⁰ OMITTED TEXT

²⁵ Then he said to them, "How foolish you are and how slow to believe all that the prophets have said!

⁴ It was by him that life came into existence, and that life was the light of mankind. ⁵ The light is still shining in the darkness, for the darkness has never put it out.

⁹ The real light, which sheds light upon everyone, was just coming into the world.

¹² But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and he said of him, "Here is really an Israelite without any deceit in him!"

⁵ Jesus answered, "I tell you, if a man does not owe his birth to water and spirit, he cannot get into the Kingdom of God.

¹⁹ And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light. ²⁰ For everyone who does wrong hates the light and will not come to it, for fear his actions will be exposed. ²¹ But everyone who is living the truth will come to the light, to show that his actions have been performed in dependence upon God.

²⁹ It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend who stands outside and listens for his voice is very glad when he hears the bridegroom speak. So this happiness of mine is now complete.

²³ But a time is coming—it is already here!—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and sincerity, for the Father wants such worshipers. ²⁴ God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship him in spirit and in sincerity."

²⁵ I tell you, the time is coming—it is here already!—when those who are dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live. ²⁶ For just as the Father is self-existent, he has given self-existence to the Son, ²⁷ and he has given him the authority to act as judge, because he is a son of man. ²⁸ Do not be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will listen to his voice, ²⁹ and those who have done right will come out to resurrection and life, and those who have done wrong, to resurrection and judgment.

²³ But some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where they had eaten the bread after Jesus had given thanks for it.

⁵⁰ But here is bread that comes down out of heaven, and no one who eats it will ever die. ⁵¹ I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!"

⁵¹ I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!" ⁵² This led the Jews to dispute with one another. They said, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life. ⁵⁴ Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the Last Day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood remains united to me and I remain united to him. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who lives on me will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that has come down out of heaven—not like that which your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever lives on this bread will live forever."

¹⁷ Anyone who resolves to do his will will know whether my teaching comes from God, or originates with me.

¹² Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not have to walk in darkness but will have the light of life."

⁵ As long as I am in the world, I am a light for the world."

⁴³ After saying this he called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" ⁴⁴ The dead man came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and with his face muffled with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him and let him move."

³⁵ Jesus said to them, "You will have the light only a little while longer. Go on while you still have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for those who go about in the dark do not know where they are going. ³⁶ While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." With these words Jesus went away, and disappeared from them.

⁴⁶ I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me may have to remain in darkness.

³⁴ I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must love one another.

¹³ Anything you ask for as followers of mine I will grant, so that the Father may be honored through the Son. ¹⁴ I will grant anything you ask me for as my followers.

³ You are pruned already because of the teaching that I have given you.

⁸ When you are very fruitful and show yourselves to be disciples of mine, my Father is honored.

¹² The command that I give you is to love one another just as I have loved you. ¹³ No one can show greater love than by giving up his life for his friends.

¹⁶ It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.

²³ When that time comes, you will not ask me any questions; I tell you, whatever you ask the Father for, he will give you as my followers. ²⁴ Hitherto you have not asked for anything as my followers, but now ask, and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete. ²⁵ "I have said all this to you in figurative language, but a time is coming when I shall not do so any longer, but will tell you plainly about the Father. ²⁶ When that time comes you will ask as my followers, and I do not promise to intercede with the Father for you,

⁷ Now at last they know that all that you have given me comes from you,

¹⁷ Consecrate them by truth. Your message is truth. ¹⁸ Just as you sent me to the world, I have sent them to the world. ¹⁹ And it is for their sake that I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated by truth.

¹³ But others said derisively, "They have had too much new wine!" ¹⁴ Then Peter stood up with the eleven around him, and raising his voice addressed them. "Men of Judea," he said, "and all you residents of Jerusalem, let me explain this to you, and pay attention to what I say. ¹⁵ These men are not drunk as you suppose, for it is only nine in the morning. ¹⁶ But this is what was predicted by the prophet Joel, ¹⁷ " 'It will come about in the last days, God says, That I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind; Your sons and daughters will become prophets, Your young men will have visions, And your old men will have dreams. ¹⁸ Even on my slaves, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, And they will become prophets.

⁴¹ So they went out from before the council, glad that they had been thought worthy to bear disgrace for the sake of Jesus,

²⁴ for he was an excellent man, full of the holy Spirit and faith. So a considerable number of people came over to the Lord.

²⁸ and one of them named Agabus got up and under the influence of the Spirit revealed the fact that there was going to be a great famine all over the world. This was the famine that occurred in the reign of Claudius. ²⁹ The disciples determined to make up a contribution, each according to his ability, and send it to the brothers who lived in Judea,

⁴⁷ For these are the orders the Lord has given us: " 'I have made you a light for the heathen, To be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth!' "

²⁰ but we should write to them to avoid anything that has been contaminated by idols, immorality, the meat of strangled animals, and the tasting of blood.

²⁵ But about midnight, as Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

³⁰ While God overlooked those times of ignorance, he now calls upon all men everywhere to repent,

²⁸ Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life.

³³ I have never coveted anyone's gold or silver or clothes.

¹⁶ And now, why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash out your sins, calling on his name.'

¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that they may have their sins forgiven and have a place among those who are consecrated through faith in me.'

¹⁸ For God's anger is breaking forth from heaven against all the impiety and wickedness of the men who in their wickedness are suppressing the truth.

²¹ for, though they knew God, they have not honored him as God or given thanks to him, but they have indulged in futile speculations, until their stupid minds have become dark. ²² They called themselves wise, but they have turned into fools, ²³ and for the splendor of the immortal God they have substituted images in the form of mortal man, birds, animals, and reptiles. ²⁴ So God abandoned them, with their heart's cravings, to impurity, and let them degrade their own bodies.

²⁴ So God abandoned them, with their heart's cravings, to impurity, and let them degrade their own bodies. ²⁵ For they had exchanged the truth of God for what was false, and worshiped and served what he had created, instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen!

²⁵ For they had exchanged the truth of God for what was false, and worshiped and served what he had created, instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen! ²⁶ That is why God has abandoned them to degrading passions. Their women have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural,

²⁶ That is why God has abandoned them to degrading passions. Their women have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural, ²⁷ and men too in the same way have disregarded the natural function of women and been consumed with passion for one another, men for men, acting indecently, and experiencing in their own persons the inevitable penalty of what they have done.

²⁷ and men too in the same way have disregarded the natural function of women and been consumed with passion for one another, men for men, acting indecently, and experiencing in their own persons the inevitable penalty of what they have done. ²⁸ And just as they refused to recognize God any longer, God has abandoned them to unworthy impulses and indecent conduct.

²⁸ And just as they refused to recognize God any longer, God has abandoned them to unworthy impulses and indecent conduct. ²⁹ They revel in every kind of wrongdoing, wickedness, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and ill-nature.

²⁹ They revel in every kind of wrongdoing, wickedness, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and ill-nature. ³⁰ They are gossips, slanderers, abhorrent to God, insolent, overbearing, boastful, ingenious in evil, undutiful, ³¹ conscienceless, treacherous, unloving, and unpitying.

³¹ conscienceless, treacherous, unloving, and unpitying. ³² They know God's decree that those who act in this way deserve to die, yet they not only do it, but applaud any who do.

⁴ Do you think so lightly of his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience, and fail to see that God's kindness ought to induce you to repent?

¹⁶ on that Day when, as the good news I preach teaches, God through Christ Jesus judges what men have kept secret,

¹⁹ and you are sure that you can guide the blind, enlighten people who are in the dark,

²⁵ who was given up to death to make up for our offenses, and raised to life to make us upright.

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. ⁵ For if we have grown into union with him by undergoing a death like his, of course we shall do so by being raised to life like him,

¹³ and you must not offer the parts of your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrong, but offer yourselves to God as men brought back from death to life, and offer the parts of your bodies to him as instruments of uprightness.

²¹ What good did you get from doing the things you are now ashamed of? Why, they result in death!

³ For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature,

³⁷ But in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us.

¹ I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship. ² You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is—what is good, pleasing, and perfect.

² You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is—what is good, pleasing, and perfect.

⁵ so, many as we are, we form one body through union with Christ, and we are individually parts of one another.

¹ Everyone must obey the authorities that are over him, for no authority can exist without the permission of God; the existing authorities have been established by him, ² so that anyone who resists the authorities sets himself in opposition to what God has ordained, and those who oppose him will bring down judgment upon themselves. ³ The man who does right has nothing to fear from the magistrates, as the wrongdoer has. If you want to have no fear of the authorities, do right, and they will commend you for it, ⁴ for they are God's agents to do you good. But if you do wrong you may well be afraid, for they do not carry swords for nothing. They are God's servants, to execute his wrath upon wrongdoers. ⁵ You must obey them, therefore, not only to escape God's wrath, but as a matter of principle,

¹¹ All this especially, because you know this critical time and that it is time for you to wake from your sleep, for our salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

¹¹ All this especially, because you know this critical time and that it is time for you to wake from your sleep, for our salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. ¹² The night is nearly over; the day is at hand. So let us throw aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the armor of light.

¹² The night is nearly over; the day is at hand. So let us throw aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the armor of light. 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.

¹⁵ For if your brother's feelings are hurt by what you eat, your life is not governed by love. You must not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ The thing you have a right to do must not become a cause of reproach.

¹⁸ Whoever serves Christ in that way pleases God and gains the approval of men.

¹⁴ For my part, as far as you are concerned, my brothers, I am convinced that you are already full of goodness of heart, endowed with perfect knowledge, and well qualified to instruct one another.

² Welcome her as a Christian, as God's people should welcome one another, and give her whatever help she may need from you. For she has herself been a protection to many, including myself.

¹⁷ I beg you, brothers, to be on the watch for those who introduce divisions and difficulties, in opposition to the instruction that you were given, and to avoid them.

⁴ I am always thanking God about you, for the blessing God has given you through Christ Jesus.

³⁰ But you are his children, through your union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom—our uprightness and consecration and redemption,

⁵ Do not form any premature judgments, therefore, but wait until the Lord comes back. For he will light up the darkness that now hides things and show what the motives in people's minds are, and then everyone will get from God the praise he deserves.

¹ Immorality is actually notorious among you, and immorality of a kind unknown even among the heathen—that a man has taken his father's wife.

⁷ You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself.

⁹ I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people— ¹⁰ not that you are to have nothing whatever to do with the immoral people of the world, any more than with its greedy and grasping people or idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world altogether. ¹¹ What I meant was that you are not to associate with anyone who is supposed to be a Christian brother, and yet is immoral or greedy or idolatrous or abusive or drunken or grasping—with such a person you must not even eat.

¹¹ What I meant was that you are not to associate with anyone who is supposed to be a Christian brother, and yet is immoral or greedy or idolatrous or abusive or drunken or grasping—with such a person you must not even eat.

⁹ Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice ¹⁰ or thieves or greedy—drunkards, abusive people, robbers—will not have any share in God's kingdom.

¹⁰ or thieves or greedy—drunkards, abusive people, robbers—will not have any share in God's kingdom. ¹¹ Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

¹³ It is true, food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for the food, but God will put an end to both of them. But the body is not meant for immorality, but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve.

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! ¹⁶ Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute makes one body with her? For "The two," says the Scripture, "shall become physically one."

¹⁸ Fly from immorality! Any other sin a man commits is something outside his body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

²⁶ This, then, is my opinion in view of the present distress—that it is a good thing for a man to remain just as he is.

²⁹ But this I do say, brothers. The appointed time has grown very short. From this time on those who have wives should live as though they had none, ³⁰ and those who mourn as though they did not mourn, and those who are glad as though they were not glad, and those who buy anything as though they did not own it, ³¹ and those who mix in the world, as though they were not absorbed in it. For the present shape of the world is passing away.

⁸ Let us not practice immorality, like some of them, twenty-three thousand of whom fell dead in one day,

²⁰ No, but that what the heathen sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot eat at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons.

³ But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, while a woman's head is her husband, and Christ's head is God. ⁴ Any man who offers prayer or explains the will of God with anything on his head disgraces his head, ⁵ and any woman who offers prayer or explains the will of God bareheaded disgraces her head, for it is just as though she had her head shaved. ⁶ For if a woman will not wear a veil, let her cut off her hair too. But if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her wear a veil. ⁷ For a man ought not to wear anything on his head, for he is the image of God and reflects his glory; while woman is the reflection of man's glory. ⁸ For man was not made from woman, but woman from man, ⁹ and man was not created for woman, but woman was for man. ¹⁰ That is why she ought to wear upon her head something to symbolize her subjection, out of respect to the angels, if to nobody else.

²¹ for each of you hurries to get his own supper and eat it, and one goes hungry while another gets drunk.

¹² For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, form one body, so it is with Christ. 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. ¹⁴ For the body does not consist of one part but of many. ¹⁵ If the foot says, "As I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body. ¹⁶ And if the ear says, "As I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body. ¹⁷ If all the body were eye, how would we hear? If it were all ear, how could we have a sense of smell? ¹⁸ As it is, God has arranged the parts, every one of them in the body as he wished them to be. ¹⁹ If they were all one part, where would the body be? ²⁰ As it is, there are many parts, but one body. ²¹ The eye cannot say to the hand, "I do not need you," or the head to the feet, "I do not need you." ²² On the contrary, the parts of the body that are considered most delicate are indispensable, ²³ and the parts of it that we think common, we dress with especial care, and our unpresentable parts receive especial attention ²⁴ which our presentable parts do not need. God has so adjusted the body and given such especial distinction to its inferior parts ²⁵ that there is no clash in the body, but its parts all alike care for one another. ²⁶ If one part suffers, all the parts share its sufferings. If a part has honor done it, all the parts enjoy it too. ²⁷ Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it.

²⁰ Brothers, you must not be children mentally. In evil be babies, but mentally be mature.

²⁶ Then what is the right course, brothers? When you meet together, suppose every one of you has a song, a teaching, a revelation, an ecstatic utterance, or an explanation of one; it must all be for the good of all.

³⁴ Women are to keep quiet in church, for they are not allowed to speak. They must take a subordinate place, just as the Law says.

³⁴ Return to your sober sense as you ought, and stop sinning, for some of you are utterly ignorant about God. To your shame I say so.

¹⁴ Do everything with love.

¹⁶ I want you to enlist under such leaders, and under anyone who joins with you and works hard.

¹¹ You must help me by your prayers, so that many will give thanks to God on my behalf for the blessing granted me in answer to many prayers.

¹⁵ Yes, I am the fragrance of Christ to God, diffused among those who are being saved, and those who are perishing alike;

¹⁸ And all of us, reflecting the splendor of the Lord in our unveiled faces, are being changed into likeness to him, from one degree of splendor to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

⁶ For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in my heart, to give me the light of the knowledge of God's glory, that is on the face of Christ.

¹⁴ sure that he who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will raise me also like Jesus, and bring me side by side with you into his presence.

¹⁴ It is Christ's love that controls me, for I have become convinced that as one has died for all, all have died, ¹⁵ and he died for all that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

¹⁴ Do not get into close and incongruous relations with unbelievers. What partnership can uprightness have with iniquity, or what can light have to do with darkness?

¹⁴ Do not get into close and incongruous relations with unbelievers. What partnership can uprightness have with iniquity, or what can light have to do with darkness? ¹⁵ How can Christ agree with Belial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? 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." ¹⁷ Therefore, "Come out from them, And separate from them, says the Lord, And touch nothing that is unclean. Then I will welcome you, ¹⁸ I will become a father to you, And you shall become my sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty."

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.

¹⁵ Thank God for his indescribable gift!

² I feel a divine jealousy about you, for I betrothed you to Christ, to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.

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.

⁴ who to save us from the present wicked world gave himself for our sins at the will of our God and Father.

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.

¹ You senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, when you had Jesus Christ shown crucified right before your eyes?

³ Are you so senseless? Did you begin with the Spirit only to end now with the flesh?

¹³ For you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for the physical, but in love be slaves to one another.

¹⁹ The things our physical nature does are clear enough—immorality, impurity, licentiousness,

¹⁹ The things our physical nature does are clear enough—immorality, impurity, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmity, quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party-spirit, ²¹ envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

²¹ envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

²¹ envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God. ²² But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

²² But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control. There is no law against such things!

²³ gentleness, self-control. There is no law against such things! ²⁴ Those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the physical nature with its propensities and cravings. ²⁵ If we live by the Spirit, let us be guided by the Spirit.

²⁵ If we live by the Spirit, let us be guided by the Spirit.

⁷ Do not be deceived. God is not to be sneered at. A man will reap just what he sows. ⁸ The man who sows to gratify his physical cravings will reap destruction from them, and the man who sows to benefit the spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

⁸ The man who sows to gratify his physical cravings will reap destruction from them, and the man who sows to benefit the spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

¹⁰ So then whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially to those who belong to the family of the faith.

⁴ Through him he chose us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in his sight in love.

¹⁶ never cease to thank God for you when I mention you in my prayers.

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.

²³ which is his body, filled by him who fills everything everywhere.

² in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient.

² in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient. ³ We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.

⁵ he made us, dead as we were through our offenses, live again with the Christ. It is by his mercy that you have been saved.

¹¹ So remember that you were once physically heathen, and called uncircumcised by those who called themselves circumcised, though only physically, by human hands. ¹² At that time you had no connection with Christ, you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the agreements about God's promise; with no hope and no God in all the world.

⁶ that through union with Christ Jesus the heathen are fellow-heirs with the Jews, belong to the same body and share the promise with them, through the good news

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,

¹⁹ and to understand Christ's love, so far beyond our understanding, so that you may be filled with the very fulness of God.

² with perfect humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another lovingly.

¹⁵ We must lovingly hold to the truth and grow up into perfect union with him who is the head—Christ himself.

¹⁸ They are estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and their obstinacy of heart, ¹⁹ for they have become callous, and abandoned themselves to sensuality, greedily practicing every kind of vice. ²⁰ That is not the way you have been taught what Christ means,

²² You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.

²⁵ So you must lay aside falsehood and each tell his neighbor the truth, for we are parts of one another.

²⁹ No bad word must ever pass your lips, but only words that are good and suited to improve the occasion, so that they will be a blessing to those who hear them.

³² You must be kind to one another, you must be tender-hearted, and forgive one another just as God through Christ has forgiven you.

² and lead loving lives, just as Christ loved you and gave himself for you, as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. ³ But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people. ⁴ There must be no indecency or foolish or scurrilous talk—all that is unbecoming. There should be thanksgiving instead. ⁵ For you may be sure that no one who is immoral, or greedy for gain (for that is idolatry) can have any share in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

⁷ Therefore have nothing to do with them.

¹¹ Have nothing to do with the profitless doings of the darkness; expose them instead. ¹² For while it is degrading even to mention their secret practices,

¹⁵ Be very careful, then, about the way you live. Do not act thoughtlessly, but like sensible men,

¹⁹ and speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and sacred songs. Sing praise to God with all your hearts; ²⁰ always give thanks for everything to God our Father, as followers of our Lord Jesus Christ,

²² You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,

²² You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,

²⁴ Just as the church is in subjection to Christ, so married women must be, in everything, to their husbands. ²⁵ You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,

²⁵ You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her, ²⁶ to consecrate her, after cleansing her with the bath in water through her confession of him,

²⁸ That is the way husbands ought to love their wives—as if they were their own bodies; a man who loves his wife is really loving himself,

²⁸ That is the way husbands ought to love their wives—as if they were their own bodies; a man who loves his wife is really loving himself, ²⁹ for no one ever hates his own person, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ does with the church,

³¹ Therefore a man must leave his father and mother and attach himself to his wife, and they must become one.

³³ But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.

¹² For we have to struggle, not with enemies of flesh and blood, but with the hierarchies, the authorities, the master-spirits of this dark world, the spirit-forces of evil on high. ¹³ So you must take God's armor, so that when the evil day comes you will be able to make a stand, and when it is all over to hold your ground. ¹⁴ Stand your ground, then, with the belt of truth around your waist, and put on uprightness as your coat of mail, ¹⁵ and on your feet put the readiness the good news of peace brings.

¹⁷ and take salvation for your helmet, and for your sword the Spirit, which is the voice of God.

¹⁹ and for me, that when I open my lips I may be given a message, so that I may boldly make known the secret of the good news,

³ I never think of you without thanking my God,

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.

³ Do not act for selfish ends or from vanity, but modestly treat one another as your superiors.

⁶ Have no anxiety about anything, but make all your wants known to God in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving.

¹⁸ You have paid me in full, and more too. I am fully supplied with what I have received from you through Epaphroditus. It is like fragrant incense, just such a sacrifice as God welcomes and approves.

⁹ That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is,

¹¹ Then, so mighty is his majesty, he will nerve you perfectly with strength for the cheerful exercise of endurance and forbearance in every situation, ¹² and you will thank the Father who has entitled you to share the lot of God's people in the realm of light. ¹³ He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us into the realm of his dear Son,

¹⁸ He is the head of the church, it is his body; for he is the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead—that he might come to stand first in everything.

²² through dying in his human body) in holiness, and free from reproach or blame, into God's presence—

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.

² that your hearts may be cheered. I want you to be united by love, and to have all the benefit of assured knowledge in coming to know Christ—

⁴ What I mean is, let nobody mislead you by specious arguments.

⁸ Take care that nobody exploits you through the pretensions of philosophy, guided by human tradition, following material ways of looking at things, instead of following Christ.

¹⁸ No one can put you in the wrong by persisting in studied humility and the worship of angels, being absorbed in the visions he has seen, and groundlessly conceited over his mere human mind. 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.

¹ If, then, you have been raised to life with Christ, set your hearts on the things that are where Christ is, above, seated at God's right hand.

⁵ So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry. ⁶ It is on account of these things that God's anger is coming.

⁸ But now you too must put them all aside—anger, rage, spite, rough, abusive talk—these must be banished from your lips.

¹² As persons chosen by God, then, consecrated and dearly loved, you must clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, forbearance.

¹⁴ And over all these put on love, which completes them and fastens them all together. ¹⁵ Let the ruling principle in your hearts be Christ's peace, for in becoming members of one body you have been called under its sway. And you must be thankful. ¹⁶ Let the message of Christ live in your hearts in all its wealth of wisdom. Teach it to one another and train one another in it with thankfulness, with psalms, hymns, and sacred songs, and sing to God with all your hearts.

¹⁶ Let the message of Christ live in your hearts in all its wealth of wisdom. Teach it to one another and train one another in it with thankfulness, with psalms, hymns, and sacred songs, and sing to God with all your hearts. ¹⁷ And whatever you have to say or do, do it all as followers of the Lord Jesus, and offer your thanksgiving to God the Father through him.

¹⁷ And whatever you have to say or do, do it all as followers of the Lord Jesus, and offer your thanksgiving to God the Father through him. ¹⁸ You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, for that is your duty as Christians. ¹⁹ You who are husbands must love your wives and not be harsh to them. ²⁰ Children, always obey your parents, for that is commendable in Christians.

²² You who are slaves must always obey your earthly masters, not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but with sincerity of heart, because you fear the Lord.

⁵ Use wisdom in dealing with outsiders, making the most of your opportunities.

¹⁰ and to wait for the coming from heaven of his Son, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, our deliverer from God's coming wrath.

⁹ For how can I thank God enough for you, for all the happiness you make me feel in the presence of our God,

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. ² For you remember what instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus. ³ It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from immorality,

³ It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from immorality,

⁷ God has not called us to an unclean life, but to a pure one.

⁹ You do not need to have anyone write to you about brotherly love, for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another,

⁴ But you are not in darkness, brothers, so that that Day should surprise you like thieves. ⁵ You all belong to the light and the day. We have nothing to do with night or with darkness. ⁶ So we must not sleep like other men, but we must be vigilant and composed.

⁶ So we must not sleep like other men, but we must be vigilant and composed. ⁷ For those who sleep sleep at night and those who get drunk do so at night,

⁷ For those who sleep sleep at night and those who get drunk do so at night, ⁸ but we who belong to the day must be composed, wearing faith and love for a coat of mail, and helmeted with the hope of salvation.

¹⁵ Take care that none of you ever pays back evil for evil, but always try to treat one another and everybody with kindness.

¹⁸ Thank God whatever happens. For this is what God through Christ Jesus wants you to do.

²¹ but test them all, retaining what is good

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.

³ We always have to thank God for you, brothers, as it is right that we should, because your faith is growing so wonderfully and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

³ You must not let anyone deceive you at all. For that is not until the rebellion takes place and the embodiment of disobedience makes his appearance—he who is doomed to destruction,

¹⁰ and full of wicked deception for men who are going to destruction, because they refused to love the truth and be saved. ¹¹ This is why God sends upon them a misleading influence, to make them believe what is false, ¹² so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have preferred disobedience may be condemned. ¹³ We always have to thank God for you, brothers whom the Lord so loves, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved through consecration by the Spirit and through faith in the truth,

⁶ We charge you, brothers, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives in idleness, instead of following the teaching you received from us.

¹⁴ If anyone refuses to obey what we have said in this letter, mark the man and do not have anything to do with him, to make him feel ashamed.

³ It is right to do this, and it pleases God our Savior,

⁶ who gave himself as a ransom for all men. This is what was testified to at the proper times,

¹⁰ but, as is appropriate for women who profess to be religious, with good actions. ¹¹ Women must listen quietly in church and be perfectly submissive.

¹¹ Women must listen quietly in church and be perfectly submissive. ¹² I do not allow women to teach or to domineer over men; they must keep quiet.

³ not addicted to drink or pugnacious, but a man of moderation and peace, not avaricious, ⁴ managing his own house well, and keeping his children under control and perfectly respectful—

⁸ Assistants, in turn, must be serious, straightforward men, not addicted to wine or dishonest gain,

¹⁶ No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."

¹² Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set those who believe an example in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.

⁴ If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.

²⁰ Those who are found guilty you must reprove publicly, as a warning to others.

²² Never ordain anyone hastily; do not make yourself responsible for the sins of others; keep your life pure.

⁵ and mutual irritation between people of depraved minds, who are lost to the truth and think of religion only as a means of gain.

⁹ But men who want to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, harmful cravings, that plunge people into destruction and ruin. ¹⁰ For love of money is the root of all the evils, and in their eagerness to get rich, some men wander away from the faith and pierce themselves to the heart with many a pang. ¹¹ But you, man of God, must fly from these things. Strive for uprightness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

¹⁷ Charge the rich of this world not to be arrogant, nor to set their hopes on such an uncertain thing as riches, but on God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

¹⁰ which has now been revealed through the appearance of our Savior Christ Jesus. He has taken away the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the good news,

²⁶ and they may yet return to their senses and escape from the toils of the devil, who has caught them to make them do his will.

² People will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, arrogant, abusive, undutiful, ungrateful, irreverent,

⁵ keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.

² preach the message; be at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people, with perfect patience and willingness to teach.

⁶ men of irreproachable character, who have been married only once, whose children are Christians, free from any suspicion of profligacy or disobedience. ⁷ For as God's overseer a superintendent must be irreproachable, not arrogant or quick-tempered or given to drink or pugnacious or addicted to dishonest gain,

¹¹ They must be silenced, for such men upset whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach, for the sake of dishonest gain.

³ Teach the older women, too, to be reverent in their behavior, and not to gossip or be slaves of drink, but to be teachers of what is right,

⁵ and to be sensible, pure-minded, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so as not to bring reproach on God's message.

⁷ In every way set them an example of good conduct yourself. Teach with sincerity and seriousness,

⁹ Tell slaves always to obey their masters and try to please them, not to oppose them

¹⁴ He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right. ¹⁵ This is what you must teach and urge and insist upon with full authority. No one is to look down on you.

³ For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another.

⁵ he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit, ⁶ which he has poured out upon us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ so that we might be made upright through his mercy and become possessors of eternal life in fulfilment of our hope.

⁸ So although as a Christian I feel quite free to order you to do what ought to be done,

⁸ But of the Son he says, "God is your throne forever and ever! And a righteous scepter is the scepter of his kingdom!

¹³ But to what angel did he ever say, 'Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies a footstool for you"?

¹⁹ So we see that it was their unbelief that kept them from being admitted to it.

²⁵ Therefore, he is able to save forever all who come to God through him, because he lives and intercedes for them forever. ²⁶ Such a high priest we needed—godly, blameless, unstained, removed from sinful men and raised above the very heavens; ²⁷ who does not need, as the old high priests did, to offer sacrifices every day, first for his own sins and then for those of the people—for this last he has done once for all, in offering up himself.

¹⁴ how much more surely will the blood of the Christ, who with the eternal Spirit made himself an unblemished offering to God, purify our consciences from the old wrongdoing for the worship of the everliving God?

²³ By such means, therefore, these things that were only copied from the originals in heaven had to be purified, but the heavenly originals themselves required far better sacrifices than these.

²⁶ for then he would have had to suffer death over and over, ever since the creation of the world. But, as it is, once for all at the close of the age he has appeared, to put an end to sin by his sacrifice.

¹⁰ And it is through his doing of God's will that we have been once for all purified from sin through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ in sacrifice.

¹⁰ And it is through his doing of God's will that we have been once for all purified from sin through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ in sacrifice. ¹¹ Every other priest stands officiating day after day, offering over and over again the same sacrifices, though they were powerless ever to remove people's sins. ¹² But Christ has offered for all time one sacrifice for sin, and has taken his seat at God's right hand,

²² let us draw near to God in sincerity of heart and with perfect faith, with our hearts cleansed from the sense of sin, and our bodies washed with clean water.

³³ who by their faith conquered kingdoms, attained uprightness, received new promises, shut the mouths of lions,

⁹ When our earthly fathers disciplined us we treated them with respect; should we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so have life?

¹⁶ some immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his very birthright for one single meal.

²² But you have come up to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless angels, 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, ²⁴ to Jesus the negotiator of a new agreement, and to sprinkled blood that speaks more powerfully than even Abel's. ²⁵ Take care not to refuse to listen to him who is speaking. For if they could not escape because they would not listen to him who warned them here on earth, how much less can we, who reject him who is from heaven!

²⁸ Let us, therefore, be thankful that the kingdom given to us cannot be shaken, and so please God by worshiping him with reverence and awe;

⁴ Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.

⁴ Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish. ⁵ You must not be avaricious; you must be content with what you have, for God himself has said, "I will never let go of you or desert you!"

¹⁵ In his name let us continually offer praise as our sacrifice to God—the utterance of lips that glorify God's name.

¹⁷ Obey your leaders and give way to them, for they are keeping watch in defense of your souls, as men accountable for the trust. Make their work a joy and not a grief, for that would be the worse for you.

¹⁸ Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

⁴ Even ships, great as they are, and driven by strong winds, are steered with a very small rudder wherever the pilot pleases. ⁵ So the tongue is a little organ and yet very boastful. What a great forest a spark will set on fire! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of wrong the tongue proves in our bodies, soiling the whole body and setting fire to the whole round of nature, and set on fire itself by hell. ⁷ For every kind of animal and bird, reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by man, ⁸ but no human being can tame the tongue. It is an irreconcilable evil, full of deadly poison.

¹³ What wise, intelligent man is there among you? Let him show by his good life that what he does is done in the humility of wisdom.

¹³ If any one of you is in trouble, he should pray. If any one is in good spirits, he should sing a hymn.

² whom God the Father has chosen and predestined by the consecration of the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ, and to be sprinkled with his blood; God bless you and give you perfect peace.

¹⁵ but like the holy Being who has called you, you must also prove holy in all your conduct, ¹⁶ for the Scripture says, "You must be holy, Because I am holy."

¹⁸ for you know that you have not been ransomed with anything perishable like silver or gold, from the futile way of living in which you were brought up, ¹⁹ but with precious blood, like that of an unblemished, spotless lamb, the blood of Christ,

¹⁹ but with precious blood, like that of an unblemished, spotless lamb, the blood of Christ, ²⁰ who was predestined for this before the foundation of the world, but was revealed only at the end of the ages, ²¹ for the sake of you who through him trust in God, who raised him from the dead and showed him honor; and so your faith and hope rest on God. ²² Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily,

²² Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily, ²³ for you have been born anew from a germ not perishable, but imperishable, through the message of the living, everlasting 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.

⁸ and "A stone to stumble over, and a rock to trip them up." They stumble over the message because they will not obey it; that is their destiny. ⁹ But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light; ¹⁰ you who were once "no people" but are now "God's people"; once "unpitied" but now "pitied indeed." ¹¹ Dear friends, I beg you, as aliens and exiles here, not to indulge the physical cravings that are at war with the soul.

¹³ Submit to all human authority, for the Master's sake; to the emperor, as supreme,

¹⁷ Treat everyone with respect. Love the brotherhood, be reverent to God, respect the emperor.

²⁰ for what credit is there in your enduring being beaten for doing wrong? But if you endure suffering for doing what is right, you have God's approval. ²¹ That is the life to which you have been called, for Christ himself suffered for you, leaving you an example so that you might follow his footsteps. ²² He committed no sin, and deceit was never on his lips. ²³ He was abused but he did not retort. He suffered but he did not threaten, but committed his case to him who judges justly. ²⁴ He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed.

²⁴ He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed. ²⁵ For you were astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

¹ You married women, in the same way, must be submissive to your husbands, so that any who refuse to believe the message may be won over without argument through the behavior of their wives ² when they see how chaste and submissive you are.

² when they see how chaste and submissive you are. ³ You must not adopt the external attractions of arranging the hair and wearing jewelry and dress;

³ You must not adopt the external attractions of arranging the hair and wearing jewelry and dress; ⁴ yours must be the inner beauty of character, the imperishable attraction of a quiet and gentle spirit, which has great value in the sight of God.

⁴ yours must be the inner beauty of character, the imperishable attraction of a quiet and gentle spirit, which has great value in the sight of God. ⁵ It was in that way in ancient times that those pious women who set their hopes on God made themselves attractive. They were submissive to their husbands,

⁵ It was in that way in ancient times that those pious women who set their hopes on God made themselves attractive. They were submissive to their husbands, ⁶ like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham, and called him Master. You are true daughters of hers, if you do right and are unafraid.

⁶ like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham, and called him Master. You are true daughters of hers, if you do right and are unafraid. ⁷ You married men also must be considerate in living with your wives. You must show deference to women as the weaker sex, sharing the gift of life with you, so that there may be nothing to interfere with your prayers.

⁷ You married men also must be considerate in living with your wives. You must show deference to women as the weaker sex, sharing the gift of life with you, so that there may be nothing to interfere with your prayers.

²¹ Baptism, which corresponds to it, now saves you also (not as the mere removing of physical stain, but as the craving for a conscience right with God)—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

² and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills. ³ You have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation, and detestable idolatry.

³ You have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation, and detestable idolatry. ⁴ They are amazed that you no longer join them in plunging into the flood of dissipation, and they abuse you for it;

⁸ Above all keep your love for one another strong, because love covers up a host of sins.

¹¹ If one preaches, let him do it like one who utters the words of God; if one does some service, let him do it as with strength which God supplies, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

² be shepherds of the flock of God that is among you, not as though it were forced upon you but of your own free will, and not from base love of gain but freely,

⁵ You younger men must show deference to the elders. And you must all clothe yourselves in humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud, but shows mercy to the humble.

³ In their greed they will exploit you with pretended arguments. From of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not slumbered.

⁷ and saved the upright Lot who was so distressed by the immoral conduct of unprincipled men—

¹⁰ especially those who yield to their physical nature and indulge in passions that defile them, and despise authority. Rash, headstrong men! They stand in no awe of majesty, but deride beings

¹⁴ They have eyes for nobody but adulterous women—eyes insatiable in sin. They lure unsteadfast souls. Their hearts are trained in greed. They are accursed!

¹⁸ They utter arrogant nonsense and use physical cravings to lure into immorality men who are just escaping from among those who live in error;

¹⁴ Therefore, dear friends, while waiting for this, make every effort to be found by him unstained, irreproachable, and at peace.

⁷ But if we live in the light, just as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

⁸ Yet it is a new command that I am writing you; it is newly realized in him and in yourselves, for the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining. ⁹ Whoever says, "I am in the light," and yet hates his brother, is still in darkness. ¹⁰ Whoever loves his brother is always in the light and puts no hindrance in anyone's way. ¹¹ But whoever hates his brother is in darkness, and is living in darkness, and he does not know where he is going, for the darkness has blinded his eyes.

²⁹ If you know that he is upright, you may be sure that everyone who acts uprightly is his child.

¹ Think what love the Father has had for us, in letting us be called God's children, for that is what we are. This is why the world does not know what we are—because it has never come to know him. ² Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

⁹ No one who is a child of God commits sin, for God's nature remains in his heart, and he cannot sin, because he is a child of God. ¹⁰ This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God. ¹¹ For the message you have heard from the beginning is this: We must love one another. ¹² We must not be like Cain who was a child of the evil one, and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright.

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.

²³ His command is this—that we are to believe in his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he has commanded us to do.

¹ Dear friends, do not believe every inspired utterance, but test the utterances to see whether they come from God, for many false prophets have come out into the world.

¹¹ Dear friends, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another.

²⁰ If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. ²¹ This is the command that we get from him, that whoever loves God must love his brother also.

⁶ It was he, Jesus Christ himself, who came in water and in blood; not in water only, but in water and in blood. The Spirit also testifies to this, for the Spirit is truth.

¹⁰ If anyone comes to you without bringing this teaching, do not let him come into the house or bid him good morning. ¹¹ For anyone who bids him good morning shares in his wicked work.

¹¹ Dear friend, do not follow bad examples, but good ones. The man who does right is a child of God; the man who does wrong has never seen God.

¹ Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and the brother of James, to those who have been called, who are dear to God the Father and have been kept through union with Jesus Christ;

¹⁰ But these people deride anything they do not understand, and the things they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, they use for their own destruction.

¹³ wild sea waves foaming up their own shame; wandering stars doomed forever to utter darkness.

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

²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to make you stand in his presence irreproachable and triumphant—

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

¹⁴ Yet I hold it somewhat against you that you have among you some adherents of the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entrap the children of Israel into eating meat that had been sacrificed to idols, and into immoral practices.

²¹ I have given her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her immorality.

⁹ Then they sang a new song: "You deserve to take the roll and open its seals, for you have been slaughtered, and with your blood have bought for God men from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation,

⁹ After that I saw a great crowd which no one could count from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes, with palm branches in their hands, ¹⁰ and they cried in a loud voice, "Our deliverance is the work of our God who is seated on the throne, and of the Lamb!" ¹¹ Then all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four animals, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, ¹² saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen!" ¹³ Then one of the elders addressed me and said, "Who are these people dressed in white robes, and where do they come from?" ¹⁴ I said to him, "You know, my lord." He said to me, "They are the people who come through the great persecution, who have washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ That is why they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he who is seated on the throne will shelter them. ¹⁶ They will never be hungry or thirsty again, and never again will the sun or any burning heat distress them, ¹⁷ for the Lamb who is in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

²¹ and they did not repent of their murders, or their magic arts, or their immorality, or their thefts.

⁴ Then I heard another voice from heaven say, "Come out of her, my people, so that you may not share in her sins, and suffer from her plagues.

⁷ Let us be glad and triumphant and give him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. ⁸ She has been permitted to wear clean, glistening linen, for linen represents the upright deeds of God's people."

¹⁰ I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must not do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers who have accepted the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is what inspires prophecy."

¹² I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened; it was the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books about what they had done.

² And I saw the new Jerusalem, the holy city, come down out of heaven from God, like a bride dressed and ready to meet her husband.

⁸ But the cowardly, unfaithful, and polluted—murderers, immoral people, those who practice magic or idolatry, and all liars will find themselves in the burning lake of fire and brimstone. This is the second death."

¹⁰ He carried me away in a trance to a great, high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹ in all the glory of God. It shone with a radiance like that of some very precious stone, like jasper, clear as crystal. ¹² It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, which had carved upon them the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. ¹³ There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west. ¹⁴ The wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the Lamb's twelve apostles. ¹⁵ The angel who talked with me had a gold measuring rod, with which to measure the city and its gates and wall. ¹⁶ The city was a square, its length the same as its breadth. He measured the city with his rod, and it was 12,000 furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height were the same. ¹⁷ He measured the wall and it was about 144 cubits (216 feet), as men measure, for that was the way the angel measured. ¹⁸ The material of the wall was jasper, but the city was pure gold, as transparent as glass. ¹⁹ The foundation stones of the wall of the city were ornamented with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation stone was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, ²⁰ the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. ²¹ The twelve gates were twelve pearls; each gate made of a single pearl. The principal street of the city was pure gold, as transparent as glass. ²² I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. ²³ The city does not need the sun nor the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God lighted it, and the Lamb is its lamp. ²⁴ The heathen will walk by its light. The kings of the earth will bring their splendor to it. ²⁵ Its gates will never be shut by day—for there will be no night there ²⁶ and they will bring the splendor and the wealth of the heathen into it. ²⁷ Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who indulges in abominable practices and falsehoods, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

¹⁵ The dogs, those who practice magic or immorality, murderers, idolaters, and anyone who loves falsehood or tells lies will be shut out of it.