Luke 4 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹ Jesus returned from the Jordan full of the holy Spirit, and he was led about in the desert ² for forty days by the Spirit, and was tempted by the devil. In all those days he ate nothing, and when they were over he was famished. ³ And the devil said to him, "If you are God's son, tell this stone to turn into bread!" ⁴ Jesus answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone is man to live!' " ⁵ And he took him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. ⁶ And the devil said to him, "I will give you all this power and their splendor, for it has been turned over to me, and I can give it to anyone I please. ⁷ If you will do homage before me, it shall all be yours." ⁸ Jesus answered, "The Scripture says, 'You must do homage before the Lord your God, and worship him alone.' " ⁹ And he took him to Jerusalem, and made him stand on the summit of the Temple, and said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down from here, ¹⁰ for the Scripture says, 'He will give his angels orders about you, to protect you,' ¹¹ and, 'They will lift you up with their hands, so that you may never strike your foot against a stone.' " ¹² Jesus answered, "We have been told, 'You shall not try the Lord your God.' " ¹³ When the devil had tried every kind of temptation he left him till another time. ¹⁴ Under the power of the Spirit Jesus returned to Galilee, and news of him went all over that region. ¹⁵ And he taught in their synagogues, and was honored by them all. ¹⁶ And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went to the synagogue, as he was accustomed to do, and stood up to read the Scriptures. ¹⁷ And the roll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, and he unrolled it and found the place where it says, ¹⁸ "The spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor, He has sent me to announce to the prisoners their release and to the blind the recovery of their sight, To set the down-trodden at liberty, ¹⁹ To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor!" ²⁰ And he rolled up the roll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed upon him. ²¹ And he began by saying to them, "This passage of Scripture has been fulfilled here in your hearing today!" ²² And they all spoke well of him and were astonished at the winning words that fell from his lips, and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son?" ²³ He said to them, "No doubt you will quote this proverb to me: 'Doctor, cure yourself! Do the things here in your own country that we hear you did at Capernaum.' ²⁴ I tell you," said he, "no prophet is welcome in his own country. ²⁵ But, I tell you, there were plenty of widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was closed for three years and a half, and there was a great famine all over the land, ²⁶ and Elijah was not sent to one of them, but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. ²⁷ And there were plenty of lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cured, but Naaman the Syrian." ²⁸ And when the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all very angry, ²⁹ and they got up and drove him out of the town and took him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, intending to throw him down from it. ³⁰ But he made his way through the midst of them and went on. ³¹ And he came down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee. And he taught them on the Sabbath, ³² and they were amazed at his teaching, for he spoke with authority. ³³ There was a man in the synagogue who was possessed by the spirit of a foul demon and he cried out loudly, ³⁴ "Ha! What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are! You are God's Holy One!" ³⁵ Jesus reproved him and said, "Silence! Get out of him!" And the demon threw the man down in the midst of them, and came out of him, without doing him any harm. ³⁶ And they were all amazed and said to one another, "What is the meaning of this teaching? For he gives orders authoritatively and effectually to the foul spirits, and they come out." ³⁷ And news of him spread to every place in that region. ³⁸ When he got up and left the synagogue, he went to Simon's house. And Simon's mother-in-law was suffering with a severe attack of fever, and they asked him about her. ³⁹ And he stood over her and reproved the fever and it left her, and she got up and waited on them. ⁴⁰ As the sun went down all who had friends sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and cured them. ⁴¹ And demons came out of many people, crying out, "You are the Son of God!" But he reproved them and forbade them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ. ⁴² When it was day, he left the house and made his way to a lonely spot, and crowds of people went in search of him, and overtook him and tried to keep him from leaving them. ⁴³ But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other towns also, for that is what I was sent to do." ⁴⁴ So he went about Judea, preaching in the synagogues.

¹¹ and they went into the house and saw the child with his mother, Mary, and they threw themselves down and did homage to him. They opened their treasure boxes and presented the child with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

²³ and he went and settled in a town called Nazareth, in fulfilment of the saying of the prophets, "He shall be called a Nazarene."

¹⁶ And when Jesus was baptized, he went right up out of the water, and the heavens opened, and he saw the Spirit of God come down like a dove and light upon him,

¹ Then Jesus was guided by the Spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. ² And he fasted forty days and nights, and after it he was famished.

² And he fasted forty days and nights, and after it he was famished. ³ And the tempter came up and said to him, "If you are God's son, tell these stones to turn into bread!"

³ And the tempter came up and said to him, "If you are God's son, tell these stones to turn into bread!" ⁴ But he answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone is man to live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God!' "

⁴ But he answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone is man to live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God!' " ⁵ Then the devil took him to the holy city, and made him stand on the summit of the Temple,

⁵ Then the devil took him to the holy city, and made him stand on the summit of the Temple, ⁶ and said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down, for the Scripture says, " 'He will give his angels orders about you, And they will lift you up with their hands So that you may never strike your foot against a stone!' "

⁶ and said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down, for the Scripture says, " 'He will give his angels orders about you, And they will lift you up with their hands So that you may never strike your foot against a stone!' " ⁷ Jesus said to him, "The Scripture also says, 'You shall not try the Lord your God.' "

⁷ Jesus said to him, "The Scripture also says, 'You shall not try the Lord your God.' " ⁸ Again the devil took him to a very high mountain, and he showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor,

⁸ Again the devil took him to a very high mountain, and he showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor, ⁹ and said to him, "I will give all this to you, if you will fall on your knees and do homage to me." ¹⁰ Then Jesus said to him, "Begone, Satan! For the Scripture says, 'You must do homage to the Lord your God, and worship him alone!' "

¹⁰ Then Jesus said to him, "Begone, Satan! For the Scripture says, 'You must do homage to the Lord your God, and worship him alone!' " ¹¹ Then the devil left him, and angels came and waited on him.

¹¹ Then the devil left him, and angels came and waited on him. ¹² But when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he retreated to Galilee. ¹³ And he left Nazareth and went and settled in Capernaum, by the sea, in the district of Zebulon and Naphtali,

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!"

²³ Then he went all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or sickness among the people.

²³ Then he went all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or sickness among the people.

²³ Then he went all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or sickness among the people. ²⁴ Word went all through Syria about him, and people brought to him all who were suffering with any kind of disease, or who were in great pain—demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics—and he cured them.

²⁴ Word went all through Syria about him, and people brought to him all who were suffering with any kind of disease, or who were in great pain—demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics—and he cured them. ²⁵ Great crowds followed him about, from Galilee and the Ten Towns and Jerusalem and Judea and from the other side of the Jordan.

¹ When he saw the crowds of people he went up on the mountain. There he seated himself, and when his disciples had come up to him, ² he opened his lips to teach them. And he said, ³ "Blessed are those who feel their spiritual need, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them!

²⁵ Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the wild birds. They do not sow or reap, or store their food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more account than they?

³¹ So do not worry and say, 'What shall we have to eat?' or 'What shall we have to drink?' or 'What shall we have to wear?'

²⁸ When Jesus had finished this discourse, the crowds were astounded at his teaching, ²⁹ for he taught them like one who had authority and not like their scribes.

¹⁴ Jesus went into Peter's house, and there he found Peter's mother-in-law sick in bed with fever. ¹⁵ And he touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and waited on him. ¹⁶ In the evening they brought to him many who were possessed by demons, and he drove the spirits out with a word, and cured all who were sick, ¹⁷ in fulfilment of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "He took our sickness and carried away our diseases."

²⁶ And he said to them, "Why are you afraid? You have so little faith!" Then he got up and reproved the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

²⁹ And they suddenly screamed out, "What do you want of us, you Son of God? Have you come here before the appointed time to torture us?"

⁸ And when the crowd saw it, they were filled with awe, and praised God for giving such power to men.

²⁶ And the news of this spread all over that part of the country. ²⁷ As Jesus was passing along from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, "Take pity on us, you Son of David!" ²⁸ When he had gone indoors, the blind men came up to him, and he said to them, "Do you believe that I can do this?" They said to him, "Yes, sir." ²⁹ Then he touched their eyes and said, "You shall have what your faith expects." ³⁰ And their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly not to let anyone hear of it.

³³ and as soon as the demon was driven out, the dumb man was able to speak. And the crowds were amazed, and said, "Nothing like this was ever seen in Israel!"

³⁵ Jesus went round among all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or illness.

²³ But when they persecute you in one town, make your escape to another, for I tell you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man arrives.

⁵ The blind are regaining their sight and the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor.

²¹ "Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago!

²³ And you, Capernaum! Are you to be exalted to the skies? You will go down among the dead! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have stood until today. ²⁴ But I tell you that the land of Sodom will fare better on the Day of Judgment than you will!"

⁴ How is it that he went into the House of God and that they ate the Presentation Loaves which it was against the Law for him and his companions to eat, or for anyone except the priests?

²⁰ He will not break off a bent reed, And he will not put out a smoldering wick, Until he carries his judgment to success.

²² At that time some people brought to him a man blind and dumb, who was possessed by a demon, and he cured him, so that the dumb man could speak and see. ²³ And all the crowds of people were astounded, and said, "Can this be the Son of David?"

¹ That same day Jesus went out of his house and was sitting on the seashore. ² And such great crowds gathered about him that he got into a boat and sat down in it, while all the people stood on the shore.

¹⁴ They are a fulfilment of Isaiah's prophecy, " 'You will listen and listen, and never understand, And you will look and look, and never see!

⁵⁴ and went to his own part of the country. And he taught the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were astonished, and said, "Where did he get this wisdom, and the power to do these wonders?

⁵⁴ and went to his own part of the country. And he taught the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were astonished, and said, "Where did he get this wisdom, and the power to do these wonders?

⁵⁴ and went to his own part of the country. And he taught the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were astonished, and said, "Where did he get this wisdom, and the power to do these wonders? ⁵⁵ Is he not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother named Mary, and are not his brothers named James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?

⁵⁵ Is he not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother named Mary, and are not his brothers named James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? ⁵⁶ And do not all his sisters live here among us? Then where did he get all this?" ⁵⁷ And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is treated with honor everywhere except in his native place and at his home."

¹³ When Jesus heard it, he quietly retired by boat to a secluded place. And the crowds heard of it and followed him on foot from the towns.

¹³ When Jesus heard it, he quietly retired by boat to a secluded place. And the crowds heard of it and followed him on foot from the towns. ¹⁴ So when he got out of the boat he found a great crowd gathered, and his heart was touched at the sight of them, and he cured those of them that were sick.

²³ But he would not answer her a word. And his disciples came up and urged him, saying, "Send her away, for she keeps screaming after us."

²³ But he turned and said to Peter, "Get out of my sight, you Satan! You hinder me, for you do not side with God, but with men!"

¹⁸ And Jesus reproved the demon and it came out of him, and from that moment the boy was cured.

¹⁵ Have I no right to do what I please with what is mine? Or do you begrudge my generosity?'

²⁶ It is not to be so among you, but whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant, ²⁷ and whoever wants to hold the first place among you must be your slave, 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."

¹⁸ In the morning as he went back to the city, he grew hungry,

¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom will be preached all over the world, to testify to all the heathen, and then the end will come.

⁵⁵ At that same time Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out to arrest me with swords and clubs, as though I were a robber? Day after day I have sat in the Temple preaching, and you never seized me.

⁶³ But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to him, "I charge you, on your oath, by the living God, tell us whether you are the Christ, the son of God."

¹² The spirit immediately drove him out into the desert. ¹³ And he remained in the desert for forty days, and Satan tried to tempt him there; and he was among the wild animals; but the angels waited on him. ¹⁴ After John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the good news from God,

¹⁴ After John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the good news from God, ¹⁵ saying, "The time has come and the reign of God is near; repent, and believe this good news."

²¹ They proceeded to Capernaum, and on the very first Sabbath he went to the synagogue and taught. ²² And they were amazed at his teaching, for he taught them like one who had authority, and not like the scribes.

²² And they were amazed at his teaching, for he taught them like one who had authority, and not like the scribes. ²³ Just then there was in their synagogue a man under the control of a foul spirit, and he cried out,

²³ Just then there was in their synagogue a man under the control of a foul spirit, and he cried out, ²⁴ "What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!"

²⁴ "What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!" ²⁵ Jesus reproved him, and said, "Silence! Get out of him!"

²⁵ Jesus reproved him, and said, "Silence! Get out of him!" ²⁶ The foul spirit convulsed the man and gave a loud cry and went out of him.

²⁶ The foul spirit convulsed the man and gave a loud cry and went out of him. ²⁷ And they were all so amazed that they discussed it with one another, and said, "What does this mean? It is a new teaching! He gives orders with authority even to the foul spirits, and they obey him!"

²⁷ And they were all so amazed that they discussed it with one another, and said, "What does this mean? It is a new teaching! He gives orders with authority even to the foul spirits, and they obey him!" ²⁸ And his fame immediately spread in all directions through the whole neighborhood of Galilee.

²⁸ And his fame immediately spread in all directions through the whole neighborhood of Galilee. ²⁹ As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the house of Simon and Andrew. ³⁰ Simon's mother-in-law was in bed, sick with a fever, and they immediately told him about her. ³¹ And he went up to her, and grasping her hand, he made her rise. And the fever left her, and she waited on them. ³² In the evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed by demons, ³³ and the whole town was gathered at the door. ³⁴ And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and he would not let the demons speak, because they knew that he was Christ.

³⁴ And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and he would not let the demons speak, because they knew that he was Christ. ³⁵ Early in the morning, long before daylight, he got up and left the house and went off to a lonely spot, and prayed there. ³⁶ And Simon and his companions sought him out ³⁷ and found him, and said to him, "They are all looking for you!" ³⁸ He said to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the neighboring country towns, so that I may preach in them, too, for that is why I came out here."

³⁸ He said to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the neighboring country towns, so that I may preach in them, too, for that is why I came out here." ³⁹ So he went all through Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out the demons.

³⁹ So he went all through Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out the demons.

⁴⁵ But he went off and began to talk so much about it, and to spread the story so widely, that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in unfrequented places, and people came to him from every direction.

¹ Some days later he came back to Capernaum, and people heard that he was at home, ² and such a crowd gathered that after a while there was no room even around the door, and he was telling them his message. ³ And some people came bringing to him a man who was paralyzed, four of them carrying him. ⁴ As they could not get him near Jesus on account of the crowd, they broke open the roof just over his head, and through the opening they lowered the mat with the paralytic lying on it. ⁵ When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven." ⁶ There were some scribes sitting there pondering and saying to themselves, ⁷ "Why does this man talk so? This is blasphemy. Who can forgive sins but God alone?" ⁸ Jesus, at once perceiving by his spirit that they were pondering over this, said to them, "Why do you ponder over this in your minds? ⁹ Which is easier, to say to this paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say to him, "Get up and pick up your mat and walk'? ¹⁰ But to let you know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth," turning to the paralytic he said, ¹¹ "I tell you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home!" ¹² And he got up, and immediately picked up his mat and went out before them all, so that they were all astonished and acknowledged the power of God, saying, "We never saw anything like this before."

¹⁰ For he cured so many people that all who had any ailments pressed up to him to touch him. ¹¹ And whenever the foul spirits saw him, they fell down before him and screamed out, "You are the Son of God!"

¹¹ And whenever the foul spirits saw him, they fell down before him and screamed out, "You are the Son of God!" ¹² And he warned them repeatedly not to tell who he was.

⁸ And some fell on good soil, and came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold." ⁹ And he said, "Let him who has ears be sure to listen!"

⁷ and screamed out, "What do you want of me, Jesus, son of the Most High God? In God's name, I implore you, do not torture me."

²³ and appealed to him, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live!"

¹ Leaving there he went, followed by his disciples, to his own part of the country.

¹ Leaving there he went, followed by his disciples, to his own part of the country. ² When the Sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were astonished when they heard him, and said, "Where did he get all this? How does he come to have such wisdom? How are such marvelous things done through him? ³ Is he not the carpenter, Mary's son, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?" ⁴ And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, "A prophet is treated with honor everywhere except in his native place and among his relatives and at his home." ⁵ He could not do any wonder there, except that he put his hands on a few sick people and cured them.

⁵ He could not do any wonder there, except that he put his hands on a few sick people and cured them.

¹⁴ King Herod heard of him, for his name was now well known, and people were saying that John the baptizer had risen from the dead, and that that was why he was endowed with these extraordinary powers.

³³ And many people saw them start and knew of it, and hurried around by land from all the neighboring towns, and got ahead of them. ³⁴ So when he got out of the boat, he found a great crowd gathered, and his heart was touched at the sight of them, because they were like sheep that have no shepherd; and he proceeded to teach them a great deal.

⁵⁵ and they hurried all over the countryside and began to bring the sick to him on their mats, wherever they heard he was. ⁵⁶ And whatever village or town or farm he went to, they would lay their sick in the market-place and beg him to let them touch just the tassel of his cloak, and all who touched it were cured.

²⁶ Now the woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician birth. And she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷ He said to her, "Let the children first eat all they want, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." ²⁸ But she answered, "True, sir! and still the dogs under the table eat what the children leave!" ²⁹ He said to her, "If you can say that, go home; the demon has left your daughter."

³⁷ And people were utterly amazed, and said, "How well he has done everything! He even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak!"

²⁶ And it gave a cry and convulsed him terribly, and went out of him. And the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said that he was dead.

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. ²⁰ And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed their message by the signs that attended it.

²⁶ In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, ²⁷ to a maiden there who was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The maiden's name was Mary.

³⁵ The angel answered, "The holy Spirit will come over you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. For that reason your child will be called holy, and the Son of God.

²⁷ And under the Spirit's influence he went into the Temple, and when Jesus' parents brought him there to do for him what the Law required,

³⁹ When they had done everything that the Law of the Lord required, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

⁴² And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual to the festival and made their customary stay.

⁴⁷ and everyone who heard him was astonished at his intelligence and at the answers he made.

⁵¹ And he went back with them to Nazareth and obeyed them. And his mother treasured all these things up in her mind.

³ And he went all through the Jordan Valley preaching repentance and baptism in order to obtain the forgiveness of sins,

²¹ Now when all the people were baptized and when Jesus also after his baptism was praying, heaven opened ²² and the holy Spirit came down upon him in the material shape of a dove, and there came a voice from heaven, "You are my Son, my Beloved! You are my Chosen!"

²² and the holy Spirit came down upon him in the material shape of a dove, and there came a voice from heaven, "You are my Son, my Beloved! You are my Chosen!"

³ And the devil said to him, "If you are God's son, tell this stone to turn into bread!" ⁴ Jesus answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone is man to live!' "

⁸ Jesus answered, "The Scripture says, 'You must do homage before the Lord your God, and worship him alone.' "

¹⁰ for the Scripture says, 'He will give his angels orders about you, to protect you,'

¹⁴ Under the power of the Spirit Jesus returned to Galilee, and news of him went all over that region. ¹⁵ And he taught in their synagogues, and was honored by them all. ¹⁶ And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went to the synagogue, as he was accustomed to do, and stood up to read the Scriptures. ¹⁷ And the roll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, and he unrolled it and found the place where it says, ¹⁸ "The spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor, He has sent me to announce to the prisoners their release and to the blind the recovery of their sight, To set the down-trodden at liberty,

²¹ And he began by saying to them, "This passage of Scripture has been fulfilled here in your hearing today!"

²³ He said to them, "No doubt you will quote this proverb to me: 'Doctor, cure yourself! Do the things here in your own country that we hear you did at Capernaum.'

³² and they were amazed at his teaching, for he spoke with authority.

³⁴ "Ha! What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are! You are God's Holy One!" ³⁵ Jesus reproved him and said, "Silence! Get out of him!" And the demon threw the man down in the midst of them, and came out of him, without doing him any harm.

³⁵ Jesus reproved him and said, "Silence! Get out of him!" And the demon threw the man down in the midst of them, and came out of him, without doing him any harm. ³⁶ And they were all amazed and said to one another, "What is the meaning of this teaching? For he gives orders authoritatively and effectually to the foul spirits, and they come out." ³⁷ And news of him spread to every place in that region.

³⁹ And he stood over her and reproved the fever and it left her, and she got up and waited on them.

⁴¹ And demons came out of many people, crying out, "You are the Son of God!" But he reproved them and forbade them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ.

³ And he got into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to push out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds of people from the boat.

¹¹ But they were perfectly furious, and discussed with one another what they could do to Jesus. ¹² It was in those days that he went up on the mountain to pray, and passed the whole night in prayer to God.

²⁰ Then he fixed his eyes on his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours!

⁴² How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, just let me get that speck out of your eye,' when you cannot see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get out the speck in your brother's eye.

³ When the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, to ask him to come and save his slave's life. ⁴ And they went to Jesus and urged him strongly to do it, and said, "He deserves to have you do this for him,

²¹ Just then he cured many of diseases and ailments and evil spirits, and he gave sight to many who were blind. ²² And he answered them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard. The blind are regaining their sight, the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor.

²² And he answered them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard. The blind are regaining their sight, the lame can walk, the lepers are being cured and the deaf can hear, the dead are being raised and good news is being preached to the poor. ²³ And blessed is the man who finds nothing that repels him in me."

² and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and sickness—Mary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had been driven, ³ and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them with their means.

²⁴ And they went to him and woke him up, and said to him, "Master! Master! We are lost!" Then he awoke and reproved the wind and the rough water, and they ceased, and there was a calm.

²⁸ When he saw Jesus he cried out and threw himself down before him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"

³⁷ Then all the people of the neighborhood of Gerasa asked him to go away from them, for they were terribly frightened. And he got into a boat and went back.

³⁷ Then all the people of the neighborhood of Gerasa asked him to go away from them, for they were terribly frightened. And he got into a boat and went back. ³⁸ The man out of whom the demons had gone begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, and said,

³⁹ and all at once a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him until he foams at the mouth, and it leaves him, after a struggle, badly bruised.

⁴² Even while the boy was coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him, but Jesus reproved the foul spirit and cured the boy and gave him back to his father.

¹⁷ The seventy-two came back delighted, and said, "Master, when we use your name the very demons submit to us!" ¹⁸ He said to them, "I saw Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning! ¹⁹ Here I have given you the power to tread on snakes and scorpions, and to trample on all the power of the enemy. Nothing will hurt you at all. ²⁰ But do not be glad that the spirits submit to you, but be glad that your names are enrolled in heaven." ²¹ At that moment he was inspired with joy, and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent, and revealing it to children! Yes, I thank you, Father, for choosing to have it so!

²³ And he turned to his disciples when they were alone, and said, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! ²⁴ For I tell you, many prophets and kings have wished to see what you see, and could not see it, and to hear what you hear, and could not hear it!"

²² But when somebody stronger than he attacks him and overcomes him, he strips him of the arms that he relied on, and divides up the spoils.

⁵³ After he left the house, the scribes and the Pharisees began to watch him closely and to try to draw him out on many subjects, ⁵⁴ plotting to entrap him in something he might say.

¹⁰ One Sabbath he was teaching in one of the synagogues,

¹⁶ and fell on his face at Jesus' feet, and thanked him. He was a Samaritan.

⁴² and said, "If you yourself only knew today the conditions of peace! But as it is, they are hidden from you.

⁴⁸ but they could not find any way to do it, for all the people hung upon his words.

⁴² For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, " 'The Lord has said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand,

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

³⁵ And he said to them, "When I sent you out without any purse or bag or shoes, was there anything you needed?" They said, "No, nothing."

²⁹ but they urged him not to, and said, "Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is nearly over." So he went in to stay with them.

³² And John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit come down from heaven like a dove, and it remained upon him.

⁴¹ Andrew immediately sought out his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!"—that is to say, the Christ.

³ The wine gave out, and Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine!" ⁴ Jesus said to her, "Do not try to direct me. It is not yet time for me to act."

³⁴ For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure.

⁶ and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired with his journey, sat down just as he was by the spring. It was about noon.

²⁵ The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming—he who is called the Christ. When he comes, he will tell us everything!" ²⁶ Jesus said to her, "I who am talking to you am he!"

²⁸ So the woman left her pitcher and went back to the town, and said to the people,

³⁴ Jesus said to them, "My food is doing the will of him who has sent me, and finishing his work.

⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he did stay there two days. ⁴¹ And a great many more believed because of what he said,

⁴³ When the two days were over, Jesus went on to Galilee, ⁴⁴ for he himself declared that a prophet is not honored in his own country.

⁴⁶ So he came back to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. There was at Capernaum one of the king's officials whose son was sick. ⁴⁷ When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, for he was at the point of death. ⁴⁸ Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and marvels you will never believe!" ⁴⁹ The official said to him, "Come down, sir, before my child is dead!" ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "You can go home. Your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and went home. ⁵¹ While he was on the way, his slaves met him and told him that his boy was going to live. ⁵² So he asked them at what time he had begun to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him." ⁵³ So the father knew that it was the very time when Jesus had said to him "Your son is going to live." And he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

³⁹ You pore over the Scriptures, for you think that you will find eternal life in them, and these very Scriptures testify to me,

²⁴ So when the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were any longer there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of him.

³⁸ for I have come down from heaven not to do what I please but what pleases him who has sent me. ³⁹ And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day. ⁴⁰ For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

⁴² and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son, Jesus, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

⁶³ The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

³ So his brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the things you are doing. ⁴ For no one acts in secret when he desires to be publicly known. If you are going to do these things, let the world see you."

⁴⁶ The attendants answered, "No man ever talked as he does!"

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³⁷ I know that you are descended from Abraham, yet you want to kill me, because there is no room in your hearts for my teaching.

⁴⁰ But instead you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth he has heard from God. Abraham would not have done that.

⁴⁴ The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

⁵⁹ At that, the Jews picked up stones to throw at him, but he disappeared and made his way out of the Temple.

⁴ We must carry on the work of him who has sent me while the daylight lasts. Night is coming, when no one can do any work.

³⁹ And Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge men, that those who cannot see may see, and that those who can see may become blind." ⁴⁰ Some Pharisees who were present heard this, and they said to him, "Then are we blind too?" ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would be guilty of no sin, but as it is, you say 'We can see'; so your sin continues.

³⁴ Jesus answered, "Is it not declared in your Law, 'I said, "You are gods" '? ³⁵ If those to whom God's message was addressed were called gods—and the Scripture cannot be set aside—

³⁹ In consequence of this they again tried to arrest him, and he withdrew out of their reach.

³ So the sisters sent this message to Jesus: "Master, your friend is sick."

²² Even now I know that anything you ask God for, he will give you."

³¹ The judgment of this world is now in progress. Its evil genius is now to be expelled,

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

³⁰ I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil genius of the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me,

²⁴ If I had not done things before them that no one else ever did they would not be guilty of sin. But as it is, they have seen both me and my Father, and they have hated us both. ²⁵ But the saying of their Law, 'They hated me without cause,' must be fulfilled.

¹² As long as I was with them I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost (except the one who was destined to be lost), so that what the Scripture says might come true.

⁶ When Jesus said to them, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground. ⁷ Then he asked them again, "Who is it you are looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."

²⁰ Jesus answered, "I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues or in the Temple where all the Jews meet together, and I have said nothing in secret.

²¹ Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you! Just as my Father sent me forth so I now send you."

³¹ But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.

² until the day when through the holy Spirit he gave the apostles he had chosen their instructions, and was taken up to heaven.

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.

²⁷ For you will not desert my soul in death, You will not let your Holy One be destroyed.

²⁹ "Brothers, one may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he died and was buried, and his grave is here among us to this very day. ³⁰ But as he was a prophet, and knew that God had promised him with an oath that he would put one of his descendants upon his throne, ³¹ he foresaw the resurrection of the Christ and told of it, for he was not deserted in death and his body was not destroyed. ³² He is Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, and to whose resurrection we are all witnesses. ³³ So he has been exalted to God's right hand, and has received from his Father and poured over us the holy Spirit that had been promised, as you see and hear.

¹² When Peter saw this, he said to the people. "Men of Israel, why are you so surprised at this? Why do you stare so at us, as though it were some power or some piety of ours that had made him able to walk?

¹⁴ But you disowned the Holy, Righteous One. You asked to have a murderer released for you,

¹⁸ it was in this way that God fulfilled what he by all the prophets foretold that his Christ must suffer.

²⁷ For they have assembled here in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you had consecrated—Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the heathen and the peoples of Israel,

¹⁵ so that people would carry their sick out into the streets, and lay them down on beds and mats, to have at least Peter's shadow fall on some of them as he went by.

³³ When they heard this, they were furious, and wanted to kill them.

¹⁰ but they could not meet his wisdom and the inspiration with which he spoke.

⁴² So God turned his back on them and left them to worship the starry host, just as the Book of the Prophets says, " 'Was it victims and sacrifices that you offered to me, O house of Israel, Those forty years in the desert?

⁵⁴ When they heard that, they were enraged and ground their teeth at him.

⁵⁷ But they uttered a great shout and stopped their ears, and they rushed upon him all together, ⁵⁸ and dragged him out of the city and stoned him, the witnesses throwing down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

³⁹ When they came out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord hurried Philip away, and the eunuch saw nothing more of him. Full of joy, he went on with his journey,

³⁷ You know the story that has gone all over Judea, starting from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed, ³⁸ about Jesus of Nazareth, and how God endowed him with the power of the holy Spirit, and he went about doing good and curing all who were in the power of the devil, because God was with him.

¹⁸ But when morning came, there was no little commotion among the soldiers as to what could have become of Peter.

¹⁴ but they went on from Perga and reached Antioch in Pisidia. On the Sabbath they went to the synagogue there and took seats. ¹⁵ After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue authorities sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any appeal to make to the people, proceed."

¹⁵ After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue authorities sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any appeal to make to the people, proceed." ¹⁶ Then Paul got up, and motioning with his hand, said, "Men of Israel, and you who reverence God, listen!

²⁷ For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders refused to recognize him, and condemned him, thus fulfilling the very utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath,

⁵⁰ But the Jews stirred up the well-to-do religious women and the leading men of the town, and they started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.

⁶ and they became aware of it, they made their escape to the Lycaonian towns of Lystra and Derbe and the country around, ⁷ and there they went on preaching the good news.

¹⁹ But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the people over, and they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking that he was dead. ²⁰ But the brothers gathered about him, and he got up and re-entered the town. The next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe. ²¹ They proclaimed the good news in that town and made a number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

¹³ On the Sabbath we went outside the gates, to the bank of the river where we supposed there was a praying place, and we sat down and talked with the women who gathered there.

¹⁷ This girl would follow Paul and the rest of us, crying out, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, and they are making known to you a way of salvation." ¹⁸ She did this for a number of days, until Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit in her, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you to come out of her!" And it came out instantly.

²³ After beating them severely, they put them in jail, and gave the jailer orders to keep close watch of them. ²⁴ He, having had such strict orders, put them into the inner cell, and fastened their feet in the stocks.

³⁹ and came and conciliated them, and took them out of the jail, and begged them to leave the town.

¹ After passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they reached Thessalonica, where the Jews had a synagogue. ² Paul went to it as he was accustomed to do, and for three Sabbaths he discussed the Scriptures with them,

² Paul went to it as he was accustomed to do, and for three Sabbaths he discussed the Scriptures with them, ³ explaining them and showing that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. "Jesus," he said, "of whom I am telling you, is the Christ!"

¹⁰ The brothers sent Paul and Silas away immediately, in the course of the following night, to Berea. On arriving there they went to the Jewish synagogue. ¹¹ The Jews there were more high-minded than those at Thessalonica, and received the message with great eagerness and studied the Scriptures every day, to find out whether it was true.

¹⁶ While Paul waited for them at Athens, he was exasperated to see how idolatrous the city was. ¹⁷ He had discussions at the synagogue with the Jews and those who worshiped with them, and every day in the public square with any whom he happened to find.

⁴ Every Sabbath he would preach in the synagogue, and try to convince both Jews and Greeks.

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.

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.

¹ When the confusion was over, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them. Then he bade them goodbye and started for Macedonia. ² After traveling through those districts and giving the people a great deal of encouragement, he went on to Greece

²³ except that in every town I visit, the holy Spirit warns me that imprisonment and persecution are awaiting me. ²⁴ But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.

²⁸ shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the Law and this place, and besides he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and desecrated this sacred place." ²⁹ For they had previously seen Trophimus of Ephesus with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the Temple. ³⁰ The whole city was thrown into confusion, and the people hurried together, and seized Paul and dragged him outside of the Temple, the gates of which were immediately shut. ³¹ They were trying to kill him when the news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a tumult. ³² He immediately got some officers and men and hurried down among them, and when they saw the colonel and the soldiers they stopped beating Paul.

³ "I am a Jew, and I was born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but was brought up here in this city, and thoroughly educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.

¹⁸ and saw him saying to me, 'Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, for they will not accept your evidence about me.' ¹⁹ And I said, 'Lord, they know that I used to go through one synagogue after another, and to imprison and flog those who believed in you, ²⁰ and when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I stood by and approved it, and took charge of the clothes of the men who killed him.' ²¹ But he said to me, 'Go! I will send you far away to the heathen.' "

²¹ But he said to me, 'Go! I will send you far away to the heathen.' " ²² They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!"

²² They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!" ²³ As they were shouting and throwing their clothes about and flinging dust into the air,

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.'

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

²¹ why, then, will you teach others and refuse to teach yourself? Will you preach against stealing, and yet steal yourself? ²² Will you warn men against adultery, and yet practice it yourself? Will you pretend to detest idols, and yet rob their temples?

¹⁵ He said to Moses, "I will have mercy on the man on whom I choose to have mercy, and take pity on the man on whom I choose to take pity."

²⁰ On the contrary, who are you, my friend, to answer back to God? Can something a man shapes say to the man who shaped it, "Why did you make me like this?"

³⁴ "Who has ever known the Lord's thoughts, or advised him? ³⁵ "Or who has advanced anything to him, for which he will have to be repaid?"

⁴ and my teaching and message were not put in plausible, philosophical language, but they were attended with convincing spiritual power, ⁵ so that your faith might rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God.

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.

⁵ Have we not a right to take a Christian wife about with us, like the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas?

⁹ Let us not try the Lord's patience too far, as some of them did, for they were killed for it by the snakes.

²⁴ But if they are all inspired to preach and some unbeliever or outsider comes in, he is convinced of his sin by them all, he is called to account by them all, ²⁵ the secrets of his heart are exposed, and he will fall down on his face and worship God, and declare that God is really among you.

⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised free from decay, and we shall be changed.

² I disown disgraceful, underhanded ways. I refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's message. It is by the open statement of the truth that I would commend myself to every human conscience in the sight of God.

¹⁷ For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison,

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. ¹⁶ So from that time on, I have estimated nobody at what he seemed to be outwardly; even though I once estimated Christ in that way, I no longer do so.

¹ As God's fellow-worker, I appeal to you, too, not to accept the favor of God and then waste it.

⁴ for the weapons I use are not earthly ones, but divinely strong for destroying fortresses. ⁵ I destroy arguments and every obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God, and I take captive every thought and make it obey Christ,

¹⁴ And no wonder, for even Satan himself masquerades as a shining angel.

⁹ He has given us perfect insight into his secret purpose and understanding of it, in following out the design he planned to carry out in Christ,

¹¹ the Christ through whom it is our lot to have been predestined by the design of him who in everything carries out the purpose of his will,

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.

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!"

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.

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

¹³ He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us into the realm of his dear Son,

⁵ for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction—you know the kind of life we lived among you for your good.

¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; who displease God, and in their hostility to all mankind ¹⁶ try to keep us from speaking to the heathen so that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has overtaken them at last!

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.

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

⁸ and present a wholesome, unobjectionable message, so that your opponent may be put to shame at finding nothing bad to say about us.

¹⁵ This is what you must teach and urge and insist upon with full authority. No one is to look down on you.

¹⁴ Are not the angels all spirits in service, whom he sends on his errands for the good of those who are destined to possess salvation?

¹⁴ Therefore since these children referred to have the same mortal nature, Jesus also shared it, like them, in order that by his death he might dethrone the lord of death, the devil,

¹⁸ For because he has himself been tempted in what he has suffered he is able to help others who are in trial.

⁸ Do not harden your hearts as your forefathers provoked me by doing, As in that time of trial in the desert, ⁹ Where your forefathers put my doings to the proof for forty years, Though they saw them all the time.

¹² For the message of God is a living and active force, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing through soul and spirit, and joints and marrow, and keen in judging the thoughts and purposes of the mind. ¹³ No being created can escape God's sight, but everything is bare and helpless before the eyes of him with whom we have to reckon.

¹⁵ For our high priest is not one who is incapable of sympathy with our weaknesses, but he has been tempted in every way just as we have, without committing any sin.

¹² And so Jesus too, in order to purify the people by his blood, suffered death outside the city gate.

⁵ Listen, my dear brothers. Has not God chosen the world's poor to be rich in faith, and to possess the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

¹⁹ Do you believe in one God? Very well! So do the demons, and they shudder.

⁷ Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil and he will fly from you.

¹⁴ If any one is sick, he should call in the elders of the church and have them pray over him, and pour oil on him in the name of the Lord, ¹⁵ and the prayer offered in faith will save the sick man; the Lord will restore him to health, and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

¹⁷ Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land.

²⁴ For "All flesh is like grass, And all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And the flower fades,

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;

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.

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.

¹⁵ Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart, ¹⁶ for all that there is in the world, the things that our physical nature and our eyes crave, and the proud display of life—these do not come from the Father, but from the world;

⁸ Whoever commits sin is a child of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared—to undo the devil's work.

¹⁹ We know that we are children of God, while the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

⁷ "To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: " 'He who is holy and true, who carries the key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open, speaks thus:

¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and they throw down their crowns before the throne, and say,

⁸ When he took the roll, the four animals and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each with a harp and gold bowls full of incense, that is, of the prayers of God's people.

⁹ So the great dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

¹² Therefore, rejoice, you heavens and you who live in them! But alas for the earth and the sea, for the devil has descended upon you in a great rage, for he knows that he has only a short time left."

² The animal I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. The dragon gave it his own power and his throne and great authority.

⁷ It was allowed to make war on God's people and to conquer them, and it was given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation.

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."

² He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

² He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, ³ and hurled him into the abyss and he closed it and sealed it over him, to keep him from leading the heathen astray any longer, until the thousand years are over; after that he has to be released for a little while.

⁸ It was I, John, who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw them, I fell at the feet of the angel who showed them to me, to worship him. ⁹ But he said to me, "You must not do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers the prophets and the men who heed the words of this book. Worship God!