Ephesians 4 Cross References - Haweis

¹ I THEN, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation with which ye are called, ² with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love; ³ careful to preserve unity of spirit, in the bond of peace. ⁴ There is one body, and one spirit, even as ye have been called to one hope of your calling; ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ⁶ one God, and father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. ⁷ But to every one of us hath the grace been given, according to the measure of the gift of Christ. ⁸ Wherefore the Scripture saith, "When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men." ⁹ Now this, that he ascended, what does it imply? but that he also first descended into the more internal parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He that descended is the same also, who ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. ¹¹ And he himself appointed, some indeed apostles, and some prophets; and others preachers of the Gospel; and others pastors and teachers; ¹² for the perfecting the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ: ¹³ until we all attain in the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a state of complete manhood, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: ¹⁴ that we should be no longer infants, floating on the waves, and carried about with every wind of novel doctrine, by the juggling of men, by their craftiness after the delusive wiles of error; ¹⁵ but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ: ¹⁶ From whom the whole body nicely joined together, and firmly connected by every joint of exact proportion, according to the energy exerted in the measure of every several part, causeth the increase of the body unto the edification of itself in love. ¹⁷ This then I urge and testify in the Lord, that ye walk no more as the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ darkened in understanding; alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them; through the blindness of their hearts: ¹⁹ who insensible to remorse, have delivered themselves over in lasciviousness, to the practice of all impurity, with insatiable avidity. ²⁰ But ye have not so learned Christ; ²¹ if indeed ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: ²² that ye put off respecting your former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful passions; ²³ but be renewed in the spirit of your minds; ²⁴ and put on the new man, which is created godlike, in righteousness and true holiness. ²⁵ Wherefore putting away lying, speak truth, every one with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. ²⁶ Are ye provoked; and do you not sin? let not the sun go down upon your wrath: ²⁷ nor give place to the devil. ²⁸ Let him that stole steal no more; but rather labour hard, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have something to give to him that is in want. ²⁹ Let no loose discourse proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for useful edification, that it may communicate grace to the hearers. ³⁰ And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye have been sealed unto the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and scandal, be removed from you, with all malice: ³² but be ye kind one to another, full of sensibility, forgiving mutually, even as God in Christ hath forgiven you.

³¹ Then had the churches peace through all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, being edified; and walking in the fear of God, and in the consolation of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

²⁸ But we know that to those who love God all things work together for good, even to those who are called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For whom he foreknew, he predestinated also to a conformity with the image of his Son, that he might be the first-begotten among many brethren. ³⁰ But whom he predestinated, those also he called: and whom he called, those also he justified: but whom he justified, those also he glorified.

¹ I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

¹⁶ Now I conjure you, be followers of me.

²⁰ Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God exhorted you by us; we entreat you for Christ's sake, be ye reconciled to God.

¹ WE then as labourers with him, exhort you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

¹ NOW I Paul myself exhort you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who, when present, am indeed lowly among you, but being absent, am bold towards you.

¹² Be as I am, for I also am as ye are, brethren—this is my request to you: ye have not injured me in the least.

¹ FOR this cause [am] I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

⁴ There is one body, and one spirit, even as ye have been called to one hope of your calling;

¹⁷ This then I urge and testify in the Lord, that ye walk no more as the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind,

² and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an oblation and sacrifice to God, for an odour of a sweet smell.

²⁷ Only conduct yourselves worthily as becometh the gospel of Christ; that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul wrestling together in the faith of the gospel;

¹⁴ I press towards the mark for the prize of the divine calling from on high in Christ Jesus.

¹⁷ Be ye imitators, brethren, of me, and eye attentively those who walk so as ye have us for an example. ¹⁸ For many walk, whom I have often mentioned to you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

¹⁰ that ye may walk worthy of the Lord, well pleasing him in all things, in every good work fruitful, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

⁶ As therefore ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him:

¹² Epaphras, one of you, saluteth you, a servant of Christ, always wrestling for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

¹² that ye should walk worthy of God, as calling you into his kingdom and glory.

¹ FINALLY, brethren, we beseech you therefore, and conjure you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk, and please God, so ye would abound more and more. ² For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

¹¹ Wherefore also we pray continually for you, that our God would count you worthy of the calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:

⁹ who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before time had a beginning;

¹⁰ not embezzling their property, but demonstrating all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

⁹ I rather for love's sake entreat, being such as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner for Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ I entreat thee for my son, whom I have begotten during my bonds, Onesimus:

¹ WHEREFORE, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, contemplate the apostle and high-priest whom ye confess, Jesus Christ;

²¹ make you fit for every good work to do his will, producing in you that which is acceptable in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory unto the everlasting ages. Amen.

¹¹ Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, Abstain from carnal lusts, which war against the soul;

⁹ not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing; but, contrariwise, wishing men every blessing; knowing that hereunto ye have been called, that ye should inherit the [divine] benediction.

¹⁰ But the God of all grace, who hath called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered a little while, himself perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

³ as his divine power hath freely given us all things tending to life and godliness, through the acknowledgment of him who hath called us to glory and fortitude:

⁵ And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we should love one another.

³ Blessed are the poor in spirit, for their's is the kingdom of heaven. ⁴ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. ⁵ Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest to your souls.

¹⁹ Then addressing him, he said, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him to me.

¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility, and with many tears and trials, which have befallen me through the lying in wait of the Jews:

¹ WE then that are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of those who are feeble, and not to gratify ourselves.

⁴ Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride], ⁵ doth not act unseemly, seeketh not her own advantage, is not passionate, thinketh no evil;

⁷ beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, ²³ meekness, temperance; against such there is no law.

² Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

⁴ as he hath elected us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love:

¹² Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering; ¹³ forbearing one another, and freely forgiving one another, if any man hath a complaint against another: even as Christ hath freely forgiven you, so also do ye.

¹¹ But thou, O man of God, flee from these things; but pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

²⁵ with meekness correcting those who are opposers, if at last God may give unto them repentance so as to submit to the conviction of the truth;

²¹ Wherefore laying aside all vicious pollution, and the abundance of iniquity, receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which hath power to save your souls.

¹⁵ This is not the wisdom which cometh from above, but is earthly, sensual, diabolical. ¹⁶ For where envy and contention dwell, there is tumult and every vile deed. ¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, meek, easily persuadable, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, and void of dissimulation. ¹⁸ But the fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for those who are peacemakers.

¹⁵ but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be always ready with your reply to every man who demands a reason respecting the hope which is in you with meekness and fear:

³⁴ A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

²¹ that all may be one; as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee, that these also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. ²² And I have given them the glory, which thou hast given me; that they may be one, even as we are one: ²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. ¹⁸ For he who in these things is the servant of Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men. ¹⁹ Well then, let us earnestly pursue the things that conduce to peace, and the things which are for mutual edification.

¹⁰ Now I conjure you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that ye be perfectly united together in the same mind and the same sentiment.

¹² For as the body is one, and hath many members, but all the members of that one body, though many, are one body: so also is Christ. ¹³ For by one Spirit we all have been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free men; and we have all been made to drink into one Spirit.

¹¹ Finally, brethren, rejoice: be perfectly united together, be comforted, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

¹³ forbearing one another, and freely forgiving one another, if any man hath a complaint against another: even as Christ hath freely forgiven you, so also do ye. ¹⁴ But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. ¹⁵ And let the peace of God set up its throne in your hearts, whereunto also ye have been called in one body; and be ye thankful.

¹³ and to account of them very highly in love for their work's sake. And live in peace among yourselves.

¹⁴ Earnestly seek peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

¹⁹ Go therefore, make disciples among all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

¹¹ But we believe that we shall be saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the same way as they.

⁴ For as we have in one body many members, but the members, though many, have not the same function, ⁵ so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one reciprocally members of each other.

¹⁷ For we, though many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that one loaf.

⁴ But there are diversities of gifts, though the same Spirit. ⁵ And there are diversities of services, but the same Lord. ⁶ And there are diversities of mighty operations, but it is the same God who worketh all in all. ⁷ Now to every one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for usefulness. ⁸ For to one man by the Spirit is given wise discourse; but to another speech [communicative] of knowledge by the same Spirit; ⁹ to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing [diseases] by the same Spirit; ¹⁰ to another miraculous powers; to another prophecy; to another discernments of spirits; to another different kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: ¹¹ but all these things worketh that one and the same Spirit, distributing peculiar gifts to every one even as he wills.

²⁰ But now the members indeed are many, but the body one.

⁴ For if he indeed that cometh preach another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not embraced, ye might well bear with him.

¹⁸ the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he hath called you, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance for the saints,

¹⁶ and might reconcile them both in one body to God by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby;

¹⁸ for through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

²² by whom also ye have been built up together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

¹ I THEN, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation with which ye are called,

³⁰ for we are the members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

⁵ because of the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye have heard before in the word of truth, the gospel,

¹⁵ And let the peace of God set up its throne in your hearts, whereunto also ye have been called in one body; and be ye thankful.

¹⁶ Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God, and Father, who hath loved us, and given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through grace,

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the order of God, our Saviour, and Lord, Jesus Christ, who is our hope; ² in hope of life eternal, which God, who cannot lie, hath promised before time had a being;

¹³ expecting the blessed hope, and glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

⁷ that justified by his grace, we might become heirs in hope of eternal life.

¹⁸ that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us; ¹⁹ which, as an anchor for our soul, we hold both sure and stedfast, and entering into the sanctuary within the vail,

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto an animating hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ for an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,

²¹ who by him believe in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

³ And every one who hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

³⁶ Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly, that God hath made him Lord and Messiah, even that very Jesus whom ye crucified.

³⁶ The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ, (he is Lord of all,) ye know:

³⁰ since it is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

³ Do ye not know, that as many as have been baptised into Christ Jesus have been baptised into his death? ⁴ We have been buried therefore with him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life.

⁸ For whether we live, to the Lord we live, and whether we die, to the Lord we die; whether therefore we live, or whether we die, we are the Lord's. ⁹ For to this end Christ both died, and rose again, and revived, that he might be the Lord both of the dead and of the living.

² to the church of God which is at Corinth, sanctified in Christ Jesus, to the called saints, with all those who invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both their's and our's:

¹³ Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptised into the name of Paul?

⁶ but to us there is one God, the Father; of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

⁵ And there are diversities of services, but the same Lord.

¹³ For by one Spirit we all have been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free men; and we have all been made to drink into one Spirit.

⁶ I marvel that ye are so quickly departed from him that called you, by the grace of Christ into another gospel ⁷ which is not another; but there are certain persons who trouble you, and desire to pervert the gospel of Christ.

²⁶ For ye are all the sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. ²⁷ For as many of you as have been baptised into Christ, have been invested with Christ. ²⁸ There is no more Jew or Gentile, there is no more slave or freeman, there is no more male or female: but ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith exerting its energy by love.

¹³ until we all attain in the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a state of complete manhood, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

¹¹ and every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus [is] Messiah, to the glory of God the Father.

⁸ Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the transcendently excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but as offals of ordure, that I may gain Christ,

¹ PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God, and the knowledge of truth which leads to godliness;

⁴ to Titus, my genuine son after the common faith, be grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

⁶ and yet have fallen away: for they crucify again to themselves the Son of God, and expose him to public infamy.

⁷ Remember your presidents, who have spoken to you the word of God: the ultimate issue of whose conduct attentively observing, be imitators of their fidelity.

¹⁸ Perhaps a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith by thy works, and I will shew thee by my works my faith.

²¹ The antitype to which baptism now saveth us (not the mere removal of filth from the flesh, but the engagement of a good conscience to God), by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

¹ SIMON Peter, the servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained with us the same precious faith by the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

³ Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you concerning the common salvation, I held it necessary to write unto you, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered unto the saints.

²⁰ But ye, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying by the Holy Ghost,

⁹ Thus then pray ye: Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

¹³ And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen!

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, If any man love me, he will observe my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.

²⁶ And I have made known to them thy name, and will make it known: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

¹⁷ Jesus saith to her, Touch me not; for I have not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and tell them, I am ascending to my Father, and your Father; to my God, and your God.

³⁶ Because by him, and through him, and for him, are all things, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

⁶ And there are diversities of mighty operations, but it is the same God who worketh all in all.

¹⁶ or what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, "I will inhabit in them, and walk about in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be for me a people."

³ So we also, when we were infants, were in bondage under the first elementary principles of the world: ⁴ but when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son born of a woman, born under the law, ⁵ that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. ⁶ But because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father! ⁷ Therefore thou art no more a slave, but a son, and if a son, an heir also of God through Christ.

²¹ far above all principality, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come;

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that rooted and grounded in love,

²³ Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ BEHOLD, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God! therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. ² Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet evident what we shall be: but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is. ³ And every one who hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

²⁴ And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him; and by this we know that he abideth in us, from the Spirit which he hath given us.

¹² No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us. ¹³ By this we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his own Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and bear testimony, that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. ¹⁵ Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

⁸ And the four living beings had each for himself six wings encircling him, and within they were full of eyes; and they never cease day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is coming. ⁹ And when these living beings give glory, and honour, and thanksgiving to him that sitteth on the throne, to him who liveth for ever and ever, ¹⁰ the four and twenty presbyters prostrate themselves before him who is Seated on the throne, and worship him who liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, ¹¹ Worthy art thou, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power; for thou hast created all things, and by thy will they exist, and were created.

¹⁵ And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his several capacity; and immediately went abroad.

³⁴ For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God hath not given the Spirit by measure unto him.

³ For, I say, by the grace which is given unto me, to every one that is among you, not to think of himself above what he ought to think; but to think soberly, as God has divided to every one the measure of faith.

⁶ Having then different gifts according to the grace which is given unto us, if it be prophecy, speak according to the analogy of faith; ⁷ or if the deacon's office, be active in the service; or he that teacheth, in teaching; ⁸ or he that exhorteth, in exhortation; he that distributes, let him do it with simplicity; he that presideth, with diligence; he that is employed in acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

⁷ Now to every one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for usefulness. ⁸ For to one man by the Spirit is given wise discourse; but to another speech [communicative] of knowledge by the same Spirit; ⁹ to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing [diseases] by the same Spirit; ¹⁰ to another miraculous powers; to another prophecy; to another discernments of spirits; to another different kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: ¹¹ but all these things worketh that one and the same Spirit, distributing peculiar gifts to every one even as he wills.

²⁸ And these also hath God placed in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healings, helpers, directors, different kinds of tongues. ²⁹ Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? ³⁰ have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

¹³ But we will not glory in things beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath marked out for us—a measure that hath reached even unto you. ¹⁴ For we stretch not our pretensions beyond bounds, as though we reached not unto you; for we have advanced even unto you in the gospel of Christ: ¹⁵ not boasting ourselves unmeasurably in other men's labours; but having hope that when your faith is increased, we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule for more abundant usefulness,

² if so be, that ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you:

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

⁸ Wherefore the Scripture saith, "When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men." ⁹ Now this, that he ascended, what does it imply? but that he also first descended into the more internal parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He that descended is the same also, who ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. ¹¹ And he himself appointed, some indeed apostles, and some prophets; and others preachers of the Gospel; and others pastors and teachers; ¹² for the perfecting the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ: ¹³ until we all attain in the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a state of complete manhood, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: ¹⁴ that we should be no longer infants, floating on the waves, and carried about with every wind of novel doctrine, by the juggling of men, by their craftiness after the delusive wiles of error;

¹⁰ Let every one, according as he hath received a gift, minister it to others, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

¹⁵ spoiling principalities and powers, he exposed them to view openly, triumphing over them on it.

⁴⁰ for as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights; so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

¹³ Though no man hath ascended into heaven, except he that descended from heaven, that Son of man the I am in heaven.

³³ For he that cometh down from heaven, and giveth life to the world, is the bread of God.

³⁸ For I came down from heaven, not with a view to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

⁴¹ Then the Jews murmured against him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

⁵¹ I am the bread that giveth life, which came down from heaven: if any person eat of this bread, he shall live to eternity; and the bread indeed which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

⁵⁸ This is the bread which came down from heaven, not as the manna your fathers did eat, and died: he that eateth this bread shall live to eternity.

⁶² What then if ye see the Son of man ascending where he was formerly?

¹⁴ Jesus answered and said to them, Though I do bear witness of myself, my witness is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I am going; but ye know not whence I come, nor whither I am going.

²⁷ for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. ²⁸ I came out from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I am leaving the world, and going to the Father.

³⁴ For David is not ascended into the heavens: for he saith himself, "The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit on my right hand, ³⁵ until I make thine enemies a footstool for thy feet." ³⁶ Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly, that God hath made him Lord and Messiah, even that very Jesus whom ye crucified.

⁷ "Thou hast made him for a little while lower than angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour, and hast placed him over the works of thy hands:

⁹ But we see Jesus for a little while made lower than angels, by the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour, that, by the grace of God, he might taste of death for every one.

³⁴ Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away until all these things shall be done.

⁴⁴ And said unto them, These are the sayings which I spake unto you, when I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning me.

¹⁶ And from his plenitude we all have received, even grace corresponding with [his] grace.

²⁴ They said therefore one to another, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, "They parted my garments among them, and for my vest they cast lots." So the soldiers therefore did these things.

²⁸ After this, Jesus, conscious that all things were now finished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.

³⁶ Now these things were done, that the scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him shall not be broken."

⁹ And as he was speaking these things, while they were looking upon him, he was taken up; and a cloud enveloping him hid him from their eyes.

¹¹ who also said to them, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up to heaven? this Jesus, who hath been taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, in the same manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

³³ He therefore being exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, hath poured out this, which ye now see and hear.

¹⁸ But the things which God before announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Messiah should suffer, he hath thus fulfilled.

³² And we preach to you the promise made to our fathers; ³³ for this hath God fulfilled to their children, even to us, in raising up Jesus: as it is also written in the second Psalm, "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee."

²⁵ As also he saith in Hosea, "I will call her which was not my people, my people; and her which was not beloved, beloved. ²⁶ And it shall be in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people; there shall they be called the sons of the living God." ²⁷ But Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: ²⁸ for he will finish the account, and cut it short in righteousness: because a concise account will the Lord make on the earth." ²⁹ Even as Isaiah had said before, "Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left unto us a seed, we should have become as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrha." ³⁰ What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who pursued not after righteousness, have attained unto righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith.

⁹ and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, "For this cause will I confess unto thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name." ¹⁰ And again he saith, "Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people." ¹¹ And again, "Praise the Lord, all ye nations, and laud him, all ye people." ¹² And again Isaiah saith, "There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that ariseth to reign over the Gentiles, in him shall the Gentiles trust." ¹³ Now the God of hope fill you with all joy, and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Ghost.

²⁵ Now to him that is able to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, agreeable to the revelation of the mystery; which was concealed from all former ages, ²⁶ but is now made manifest, and by the prophetical scriptures, according to the commandment of the eternal God, notified to all the Gentiles to bring them to the obedience of faith:

²⁰ which he displayed in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly regions, ²¹ far above all principality, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come; ²² and hath put all things under his feet, and hath appointed him head over all to the church, ²³ which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ, transcendently surpassing knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fulness of God.

¹⁹ For it hath pleased the Father that in him all fulness should dwell;

⁹ for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily;

¹⁶ And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified by the Spirit, seen of angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

¹⁴ Having then a great high-priest passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession.

²⁶ For such an high-priest was suitable to us, holy, inoffensive, spotless, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

¹ NOW the summary of the things spoken is this: we have such an high-priest, who hath taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens;

²³ There was a necessity therefore that the representations of the things in heaven should be purified by these; but the celestial things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴ For Christ is not entered into the holies made with hands, the antitypes of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the presence of God for us:

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo! I am with you at all times even to the end of the world. Amen.

¹ NOW there were at Antioch, according to the established church, prophets and teachers; such as Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger the black, and Lucius a Cyrenian, and Manaen, Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother, and Saul.

²⁸ Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops, to feed as shepherds the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.

⁸ And on the morrow we who were Paul's companions departed with him, and went to Caesarea; and entering into the house of Philip the evangelist (who was one of the seven deacons), we abode with him.

¹⁴ How then shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? but how shall they hear without a preacher? ¹⁵ and how shall they preach unless they are sent? as it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, of those who preach the glad tidings of good things!"

⁷ or if the deacon's office, be active in the service; or he that teacheth, in teaching;

²⁸ And these also hath God placed in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healings, helpers, directors, different kinds of tongues. ²⁹ Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?

²⁰ built up on the foundation of apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

⁵ which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it hath been now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

⁸ Wherefore the Scripture saith, "When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men."

⁵ But watch thou in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fully discharge thy ministry.

¹² For though ye ought for the time to be teachers of others, ye have again need that some one teach you the leading principles of the oracles of God; and are become as those who need milk, and not solid food.

¹ THE presbyters among you I exhort, who am a co-presbyter and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker of the glory which shall be revealed: ² feed the flock of God which is among you, exercising your pastoral office not of necessity, but of choice, not for base gain, but with alacrity of mind; ³ not as domineering over your allotted congregations, but as being examples of the flock.

¹⁷ But ye, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

²⁰ Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye the holy apostles and prophets, for God hath adjudged her to punishment, for the judgment inflicted on you by her.

¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

³² but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith may not fail: and when thou art returned, stablish thy brethren.

¹⁵ When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him, Yes, Lord! thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him, Feed my lambs. ¹⁶ He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith to him, Yes, Lord! thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep. ¹⁷ He saith to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee! Jesus saith to him, Feed my sheep.

¹⁷ For he was reckoned of our number, and had obtained an appointment to this ministry.

²⁵ to take a part in this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, to go to his own place.

²³ Who, when he arrived there, and beheld the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted them all, with full purpose of heart to adhere to the Lord.

²² strengthening the souls of the brethren, exhorting them to abide firm in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must pass into the kingdom of heaven. ²³ Then appointing them presbyters in every city, by prayer with fastings they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

²⁴ Yet I make no account of any [suffering], nor regard my life as of any value to myself, farther than as I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord, to testify fully the Gospel of the grace of God.

¹⁹ Well then, let us earnestly pursue the things that conduce to peace, and the things which are for mutual edification.

² Let every one of us gratify his neighbour in that which is good for his edification.

¹⁴ And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to admonish one another.

²⁹ But I know that, when I come to you, I shall come with the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

¹ LET a man so account of us, as the under servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. ² Moreover it is expected of stewards, that a man be found faithful.

⁷ Now to every one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for usefulness.

²⁷ Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

⁴ He that speaketh in an unknown tongue, edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth, edifieth the church. ⁵ Now I could wish that you all spake with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: for greater is he that prophesieth, than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret also, that the church may receive edification.

¹² So also ye, if ye zealously affect spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound in them for the edification of the church.

¹⁴ For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my mind produces no fruit.

²⁶ How comes it then, brethren, that when ye assemble together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? Let all things be done to edification.

⁸ how much more will not the ministry of the Spirit be attended with glory?

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

¹⁸ But all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

³ Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

¹ HAVING therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

¹⁹ Think ye that we are again making an apology to you? In the sight of God speak we in Christ: but all things, beloved, for your edification.

⁹ For we rejoice when we are weak, but ye are strong: and this also we pray for, even your perfect establishment.

²³ which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

¹⁶ From whom the whole body nicely joined together, and firmly connected by every joint of exact proportion, according to the energy exerted in the measure of every several part, causeth the increase of the body unto the edification of itself in love.

²⁹ Let no loose discourse proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for useful edification, that it may communicate grace to the hearers.

²⁵ And being so persuaded, I know that I shall stay and continue with you all for your progress and joy of faith; ²⁶ that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus for me by my coming again unto you.

¹² Not that I have already attained, or am now perfect: but I pursue, that I may overtake that for which also by his apprehension of me I am destined by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I count not myself to have overtaken it; but this one object I pursue, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching out to those which are before, ¹⁴ I press towards the mark for the prize of the divine calling from on high in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let as many of us therefore as are perfect, be thus minded: and if ye entertain any other sentiment, God also will unveil this unto you. ¹⁶ Nevertheless, so far as we have advanced, be it our care to walk by the same rule, to mind the same thing.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh the measure of afflictions for Christ which remains to be endured for his body, which is the church,

²⁸ whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

¹⁷ And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received from the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

¹¹ Wherefore comfort one another, and edify one another, as also ye do. ¹² Now we entreat you, brethren, to know those who labour among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and admonish you; ¹³ and to account of them very highly in love for their work's sake. And live in peace among yourselves. ¹⁴ Now we conjure you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient with all men.

¹² And I render thanks to him who hath strengthened me, even to Christ Jesus our Lord, that he hath counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

¹¹ Luke alone is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee; for he is very useful to me in the ministry.

¹ WHEREFORE, desisting from initiatory discourse respecting Christ, let us advance towards perfection; not again laying a foundation of repentance from dead works, and faith in God,

¹⁷ Obey your presidents, and be subject to them: for they are vigilant for your souls, as being to render an account, that they may do it with joy, and not groaning: for that would be disadvantageous for you.

²⁷ All things are delivered up to me by my Father: and no person knoweth the Son but the Father; neither knoweth any person the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son is pleased to reveal him.

³ And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

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

²¹ that all may be one; as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee, that these also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

²⁵ Righteous Father! though the world hath not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. ²⁶ And I have made known to them thy name, and will make it known: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

³² And in the multitude of those that believed there was one heart and soul: and not one person said, that any part of his substance was his peculiar property; but all things were in common among them.

²⁰ Brethren, be not children in your minds: though in naughtiness be ye children, but in your minds be men complete.

⁶ For the God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, he hath shined into our hearts, to give illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ destroying the enmity in his flesh, even the law of precepts, in ordinances, that he might from the two create in himself one new man, making peace,

³ careful to preserve unity of spirit, in the bond of peace.

⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

¹² for the perfecting the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ:

¹ IF there be then any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any communion of spirit, if any bowels and compassions, ² fulfil ye my joy, that ye may be united in sentiment, having the same love, of one soul, of one mind. ³ Let nothing be done contentiously or vain-gloriously; but in humility reckoning others superior to yourselves.

² that their hearts may be comforted, firmly united together in love, and unto all riches of full assurance of understanding, in the knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

¹⁴ But solid nourishment is proper for grown men, even as many as by habit have their organs of perception exercised for the discernment both of good and evil.

¹ SIMON Peter, the servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained with us the same precious faith by the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ: ² grace unto you and peace be multiplied through the knowledge of God, even Jesus our Lord, ³ as his divine power hath freely given us all things tending to life and godliness, through the acknowledgment of him who hath called us to glory and fortitude:

¹⁸ But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory now and unto the day of eternity. Amen.

²⁰ But we know that the Son of God hath come, and hath given to us understanding, that we might know the true God; and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus the Messiah. HE is the true God, and the life eternal.

⁷ And when they were gone, Jesus began to speak to the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

³ and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be changed and be as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven. ⁴ Whosoever therefore shall humble himself, as this little child, he shall be greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

¹¹ And many false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many.

²⁴ for false Messiahs and false prophets shall arise, and give out great signs and wonders; so as to deceive, if it were possible, even the elect.

³⁰ Yea, from among yourselves shall men arise, speaking perverting doctrines, to draw away disciples after them. ³¹ Therefore watch, remembering that for three years, by night and by day, I have never ceased with tears to admonish every individual.

²¹ But do not thou consent to them: for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves under an anathema, neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now they are in readiness, waiting only to procure the promise from thee.

¹⁷ Now I beseech you, brethren, keep a sharp eye over those who cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine ye have learned, and turn away from them. ¹⁸ For such are not servants to our Lord Jesus Christ, but to their own belly; and by smooth speeches and flattering commendations deceive the hearts of the guileless.

¹ AND I, brethren, have been unable to speak to you as unto spiritual men, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ. ² And I have given you milk to drink, and not meat: for hitherto ye have not been capable of it, yea, even to the present moment ye are not capable of it.

² Ye know that ye were Gentiles, drawn away after the idols that are dumb, even as ye have been led.

¹⁷ For we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

² but have renounced all shameful secret practices, not conducting ourselves with artifice, nor deceitfully disguising the word of God, but by clear manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience as in the presence of God.

³ But I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which belongs to Christ. ⁴ For if he indeed that cometh preach another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not embraced, ye might well bear with him.

¹³ For such are fake apostles, deceitful labourers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no marvel! For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. ¹⁵ It is no wonder therefore if his ministers also be transformed as ministers of righteousness; whose end will be according to their works.

¹ O INFATUATED Galatians, who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth? To whom Jesus Christ has been described, as before your eyes, crucified among you.

¹¹ Be clothed in the panoply of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

⁴ Now this I say, lest any man pervert you with specious discourse. ⁵ For though I am absent from you in person, yet I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing and beholding your regular order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. ⁶ As therefore ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him: ⁷ rooted and built up on him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. ⁸ Beware that no man make a prey of you by means of philosophy and vain delusion, after the tradition of men, after the principles of the world, and not after Christ:

² that ye be not hastily agitated with apprehension, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by discourse, nor by letter, as coming from us, as though the day of the Lord was instantly approaching. ³ Let no man deceive you in any way: because that cannot be till the apostasy come first, and the man of sin appear, the son of perdition, ⁴ who opposeth himself against, and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or is the object of adoration; so that he in the temple of God sitteth as God, exhibiting himself in public that he is God. ⁵ Do ye not remember that when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

⁹ whose appearing is known by fanatical energy, displayed in all power, and signs, and lying miracles, ¹⁰ and in every unrighteous delusion among those who perish: in consequence of which things they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

⁶ Not a new convert, lest he be puffed up, and fall into the devil's crime.

⁶ If thou suggest these truths to the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and sound doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. ⁷ But profane and antiquated fables reject, but exercise thyself unto godliness.

¹⁵ Knowest thou this, that all those of Asia have deserted me? among whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

¹⁷ And their discourse will eat like as a gangrene; of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus; ¹⁸ who with respect to the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection hath been already; and pervert the faith of some.

⁶ For such are they who insinuate themselves into houses, and captivate weak women laden with accumulated sins, and actuated by a variety of passions, ⁷ always learning, yet never able to attain unto the knowledge of truth. ⁸ But in the same manner as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also set themselves in opposition to the truth; men corrupt in mind, reprobate respecting the faith. ⁹ But they shall not proceed to the uttermost; for their infatuation shall be evident to all men, as theirs also was.

¹³ But wicked men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and deceived.

³ For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own inclinations will set up a herd of teachers for themselves, having the itch of hearing;

¹² For though ye ought for the time to be teachers of others, ye have again need that some one teach you the leading principles of the oracles of God; and are become as those who need milk, and not solid food. ¹³ For every one who useth milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness: for he is an infant. ¹⁴ But solid nourishment is proper for grown men, even as many as by habit have their organs of perception exercised for the discernment both of good and evil.

⁹ Be not tossed about by various and strange doctrines: for it is good to have the heart firmly established by grace, not by meats, in which observances they who have walked have found no manner of advantage.

⁶ But let him ask in faith, harbouring no doubt: for he who is doubtful is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind, and in constant agitation.

⁴ Behold also the ships, though so great, and driven by tempestuous winds, are turned about by the smallest rudder, whithersoever the inclination of the pilot pleaseth.

¹ BUT there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers also among you, who wickedly introduce damnable heresies, and deny the sovereign Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. ² And many will go out of the way after their fatal errors; by means of whom the way of truth will be injuriously reviled. ³ And with plausible speeches will they avariciously make gain of you whose condemnation from of old lingereth not, and their perdition doth not slumber.

¹⁸ Uttering pompous discourses of inanity, ensnaring by the lusts of the flesh, by lascivious impurities, those who had truly escaped from such as live in a course of delusion. ¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they departed, that they might be made manifest that they are not all of us:

²⁶ These things have I written unto you concerning those who are leading you astray.

¹ BELOVED, believe not every pretender to inspiration, but bring these spirits to the trial whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone forth into the world.

¹² These are in your feasts of love, as sunken rocks; though joining in your banquet, they feed themselves fearlessly; clouds without water carried about by the winds; trees untimely withering, fruitless, twice dead, rooted up;

¹¹ And I saw another beast rising up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, though he spake as the dragon. ¹² And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth, and those who inhabit therein, to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed. ¹³ And he performeth great signs, so that he even causeth fire to come down from heaven to the earth, in the sight of men, ¹⁴ and deceiveth the inhabitants of the earth by the signs, which he is enabled to perform before the beast, saying to the dwellers upon the earth, that they should make an image for the beast who had the stroke of the sword, and survived.

²⁰ And the beast was seized upon, and with him the false prophet who performed the wonders before him, by which he deceived those who received the brand of the beast, and those who worshipped his image. They were both hurled alive into the lake of fire which burneth with brimstone.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite in reality, in whom there is no guile!

⁹ Let love be undissembled. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

⁸ I speak not by commandment, but because of the forwardness of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love.

²² and hath put all things under his feet, and hath appointed him head over all to the church,

²¹ in whom the whole building exactly cemented together groweth into a holy temple in the Lord:

²⁵ Wherefore putting away lying, speak truth, every one with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; and is himself the saviour of the body.

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first begotten from the dead, that he might be in all things pre-eminent. ¹⁹ For it hath pleased the Father that in him all fulness should dwell;

¹⁵ Now if a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, ¹⁶ and should one of you say to them, Go in peace, be warm, be replenished with food: yet if ye give them not the necessaries for their body; what doth it avail?

²² Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto fraternal affection undissembled, love each other intensely out of a pure heart:

² as new-born babes desire earnestly the unadulterated milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

¹⁸ My dear children, let us not love in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth;

⁵ I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, this person beareth much fruit: because without me ye can do nothing.

¹ NOW concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.

¹² For as the body is one, and hath many members, but all the members of that one body, though many, are one body: so also is Christ. ¹³ For by one Spirit we all have been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free men; and we have all been made to drink into one Spirit. ¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many. ¹⁵ If the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it, on this account, not of the body? ¹⁶ And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it not therefore of the body? ¹⁷ If the whole body were eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? ¹⁸ But now hath God placed the members, every one of them in the body, as he hath chosen. ¹⁹ But if the whole were one member, where were the body? ²⁰ But now the members indeed are many, but the body one. ²¹ Nor can the eye say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. ²² Yea, much more the members of the body, which appear to be more feeble, are necessary: ²³ and those parts which we esteem as the more dishonourable of the body, on them we bestow more abundant honour, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. ²⁴ For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered together the body, giving more abundant honour to that part which lacked: ²⁵ that there might be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. ²⁶ And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; and if one member be exalted, all the members rejoice with it. ²⁷ Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. ²⁸ And these also hath God placed in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healings, helpers, directors, different kinds of tongues.

⁴ Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride], ⁵ doth not act unseemly, seeketh not her own advantage, is not passionate, thinketh no evil; ⁶ rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth in the truth; ⁷ beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. ⁸ Love never faileth: but if there be prophetic gifts, they shall be no more; if tongues, they shall cease; if science, it shall vanish away. ⁹ For we know partially, and prophesy partially.

¹³ But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greater of these is love.

¹³ For ye have been called unto liberty, brethren; only use not that liberty as a pretext for carnality, but in love be subject one to another. ¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

⁷ of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which was given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

¹⁵ but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ:

⁹ And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all understanding;

¹⁹ and not firmly attached to the head, from which the whole body, by joints and ligaments, harmoniously adjusted and closely compacted, increaseth with increase from God.

³ without ceasing calling to mind your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

¹³ For this cause do we also give thanks to God unceasingly, because when ye received the word reported by us from God, ye received it not as the word of man, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which worketh also effectually in you that believe.

¹² And the Lord cause you to abound and overflow with love one to another, and towards all men, as we also do to you:

⁹ Now concerning brotherly love, I have no need to write unto you: for ye yourselves are divinely taught to love one another. ¹⁰ And indeed ye practise it towards all the brethren that are throughout Macedonia: but we conjure you, brethren, to abound more and more;

³ We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is fit, because your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all towards each other aboundeth:

⁵ For the end of the commandment is love out of a clean heart, and good conscience, and faith unfeigned:

¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us. God is love; and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.

⁴⁰ And with many other words he testified and exhorted, saying, Be saved from this untoward generation.

¹⁵ and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We too are mortals subject to the same infirmities with you; preaching to you the gospel, that ye should turn from these vain things unto the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things which are therein:

⁵ And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul felt a strong impulse on his spirit, and forcibly testified to the Jews, that Jesus was the Messiah.

²¹ repeatedly urging both on Jews and Greeks repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.

²¹ because though they knew [there was] a God, they glorified him not as God, nor gave him thanks, but became triflers in their disputations, and their stupid heart was darkened.

²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles. ²⁴ Wherefore God abandoned them, through the lusts of their own hearts, unto impurity, to dishonour their own bodies by themselves: ²⁵ who perverted the truth of God by falsehood, and worshipped and paid divine honours to the thing created instead of the Creator, who is blessed for evermore. Amen. ²⁶ For this cause God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For even their women did change the natural use into that which was contrary to nature; ²⁷ and likewise the men also, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lewdness one towards another; men with men committing indecency, and receiving in themselves the recompence of their delusion, which was meet. ²⁸ And since they thought not fit to hold the Deity in acknowledgment, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to practise deeds unbecoming; ²⁹ replete with all injustice, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, villany; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, evil habits; whisperers, ³⁰ backbiters, God-haters, contumelious, insolent, boasters, inventors of wicked practices, disobedient to parents, ³¹ unintelligent, unfaithful to engagements, unnatural, implacable, unmerciful: ³² who, though they know the righteous judgment of God, that they who live in such practices are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also find pleasure in the company of those who live in these practices.

¹² Now this I observe, that one and another of you saith, I am indeed of Paul; but I of Apollos; but I of Cephas; but I am of Christ.

⁹ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ Yet such were some of you: but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.

⁵⁰ But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God: neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

⁶ But this I add, He that soweth sparingly, shall reap also sparingly, and he that soweth bountifully, shall reap also bountifully.

¹⁷ Now this I say, the covenant confirmed of God to Christ, the law, which was given three hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, so as to vacate the promise.

³ And again, I testify to every man who is circumcised, that he is under an obligation to keep the whole law.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, whoredom, impurity, lasciviousness, ²⁰ idolatry, magical charms, enmities, strifes, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, divisions, heresies, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revels, and the like of these, concerning which I tell you now, as I have told you already, that they who live in such practices shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

¹ AND you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins, ² wherein in times past ye walked after the fashion of this world, after the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now worketh with energy in the children of disobedience: ³ among whom also we all have had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, as well as the rest.

²² that ye put off respecting your former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful passions;

³ But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints; ⁴ or obscenity, or foolish talk, or loose witticisms; things which become not [a Christian], but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ For this ye know, that no whoremonger, or impure person, or avaricious, who is an idolater, hath an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ⁶ Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things, the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience. ⁷ Be not ye therefore partakers with them. ⁸ For ye were formerly darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

⁴ Now this I say, lest any man pervert you with specious discourse.

¹⁸ Let no man juggle you out of your prize, voluntary in [his] humility and the worship of angels, intruding into things which he never saw, vainly puffed up by his carnal imagination;

⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, the vile passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is idolatry: ⁶ for which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience; ⁷ in which ye also walked formerly when ye lived among them: ⁸ but now ye have put away all these things, anger, asperity, malice, scandal, obscenity, out of your mouth.

⁶ that no man transgress against, or act dishonestly to his brother in this matter because the Lord is the avenger of all such things, as we have told you before, and testified.

²¹ I adjure thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

¹³ I conjure thee in the presence of God, who giveth life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who witnessed that noble confession before Pontius Pilate;

¹ I ADJURE thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

¹⁸ knowing that ye have not been redeemed out of your vain manner of life, derived traditionally from your fathers, by the corruptible things, silver and gold,

³ For the time past of life is enough for us to have wrought the will of the heathen, when we walked in all impurities, lewd appetites, excess of wine, revels, drinking-bouts, and abominable idolatries; ⁴ wherein they think it a strange thing, that you are not running with them into the same gulph of profligacy, spreading every scandalous report of you:

¹⁵ for the heart of this people is waxed gross, and with their ears they have heard heavily, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with the eves, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

⁵ Then looking round about on them with indignation, exceedingly grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith to the man, Stretch out thine hand; and he stretched it out: and his hand was restored sound as the other.

⁴⁰ "He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts; lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with the heart, and be converted, and I should heal them."

³⁰ These times indeed of ignorance God then overlooked; but he now commands all men in every place to repent:

¹⁷ delivering thee both from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom now I send thee, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, to convert them from darkness to light, and from the dominion of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance with those who are sanctified by faith which is in me.

²¹ because though they knew [there was] a God, they glorified him not as God, nor gave him thanks, but became triflers in their disputations, and their stupid heart was darkened. ²² Affecting to be sophists, they turned idiots, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

²⁸ And since they thought not fit to hold the Deity in acknowledgment, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to practise deeds unbecoming;

¹⁹ and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,

⁷ Because the propensity of the flesh is inimical against God: for it is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed can it be. ⁸ They then who are in the flesh, cannot please God.

²⁵ For I would not that you should be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is come on Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

²¹ for since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

¹⁴ But their understandings were darkened: for unto this day the same veil in their reading the old testament abideth unremoved; which veil is taken away by Christ.

⁴ among whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dart its bright beams upon them.

⁸ But at that time when ye knew not God, ye served those who by nature are not gods.

¹² that ye were at that time without Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and atheists in the world:

²¹ And you who in time past were all aliens, and enemies in mind by wicked works, hath he now reconciled,

⁵ not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not God;

⁴ Ye adulterers and adultresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity against God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is set down an enemy to God.

¹¹ But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he is departing, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

²⁴ Wherefore God abandoned them, through the lusts of their own hearts, unto impurity, to dishonour their own bodies by themselves: ²⁵ who perverted the truth of God by falsehood, and worshipped and paid divine honours to the thing created instead of the Creator, who is blessed for evermore. Amen. ²⁶ For this cause God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For even their women did change the natural use into that which was contrary to nature;

⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, the vile passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is idolatry:

² men who teach lies with hypocrisy; and have their own consciences cauterised; ³ For the time past of life is enough for us to have wrought the will of the heathen, when we walked in all impurities, lewd appetites, excess of wine, revels, drinking-bouts, and abominable idolatries;

¹² But these men, as the naturally irrational brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of the things of which they are ignorant, will perish by their own corruption; ¹³ receiving the recompence of iniquity, counting daily luxury their pleasure; spots and blemishes, when they feast together with you; riotously indulging in their own delusions: ¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and insatiable of sin; ensnaring souls of no stability; having a heart practised in all the wiles of covetousness; children for a curse:

²² But the true proverb is verified in them, The dog hath returned to his own vomit; and the sow which was washed to its wallowing in the mire.

¹¹ Wo unto them! for they have walked in the way of Cain, and have eagerly run in Balaam's erroneous path of hire, and have perished in opposition, like Corah.

¹ AND one of the seven angels who had the seven vases, came to me, and talked with me, saying to me, Come hither, I will shew thee the judgment of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters: ² with whom the kings of the earth have committed whoredom, and all the inhabitants of the world have intoxicated themselves with the wine of her whoredom. ³ And he bore me away in spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads, and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and all over decked with gold, precious stones, and pearls, holding a golden cup in her hand, full of abominations and of the impurity of her whoredom. ⁵ And upon her forehead was there a name written, Mystery, Babylon the great, the mother or harlots, and of the abominations of the earth. ⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

³ Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the rage of her whoredom, and the kings of the earth have committed whoredom with her, and the merchants of the earth have been enriched by the excess of her profligate luxury.

⁴⁷ and that repentance and remission of sin should be preached in his name unto all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, And "they shall all be taught of God." Every one therefore who heareth from the Father, and learneth, cometh to me.

¹ THAT then shall we say? Shall we abide in sin, that grace may abound? ² God forbid. We who are dead to sin, how shall we still live therein?

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we judge thus, that if one died for all, then were all dead: ¹⁵ and he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them, and rose again.

¹¹ For the grace of God which leads to salvation hath appeared unto all men, ¹² instructing us, that denying ungodliness and worldly affections, we should live soberly and righteously, and godly in the present day; ¹³ expecting the blessed hope, and glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ; ¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

²⁷ But the unction which ye have received from him abideth in you; and ye need not that any person should instruct you. But as the same unction teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie; and as it hath taught you, abide in him.

⁵ And while he was yet speaking, behold, a luminous cloud overshadowed them; and lo! a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom is my delight; hear him!

¹⁶ He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth Him that sent me.

¹⁷ For the law was given by Moses, but the grace and the reality came by Jesus Christ.

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

⁶ Jesus saith to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me.

¹⁷ the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; because he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

²² For Moses truly said unto the fathers, "A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like myself; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall speak to you. ²³ But it shall come to pass, that every soul which will not hearken to that prophet, shall be utterly exterminated from amidst the people."

²⁰ for all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, to the glory of God by us.

¹⁰ I protest, by the truth of Christ in me, that from this boasting no man shall seal up my lips in the regions of Achaia.

¹³ In whom ye also [trusted] after ye had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, ye have been sealed with the holy Spirit of promise,

⁷ rooted and built up on him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

⁷ Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, ⁸ harden not your hearts, as in that bitter provocation, at the day of the temptation in the wilderness;

¹⁰ He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he that believeth not God, hath made him a liar, because he hath not believed on the testimony which God testified of his Son. ¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God hath given life eternal to us; and this life is in his Son. ¹² He that hath the Son, hath this life; and he that hath not the Son of God, hath not this life.

⁶ knowing this, that our old man hath been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be abolished, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

¹¹ For sin, seizing the occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and thereby slew me.

¹³ For ye have heard of my former manner of life, when I professed Judaism, that in the most outrageous manner I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

³ among whom also we all have had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, as well as the rest.

¹¹ in whom also ye have been circumcised with the circumcision not made with hands, by the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, through the circumcision of Christ:

⁷ in which ye also walked formerly when ye lived among them: ⁸ but now ye have put away all these things, anger, asperity, malice, scandal, obscenity, out of your mouth. ⁹ Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his practices;

³ For we ourselves also in time past were thoughtless, disobedient, erroneous, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

¹³ but exhort one another daily, whilst to-day remains, that no one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

¹ THEREFORE also seeing we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and that most easily besetting sin, let us run with patience the race lying before us,

²⁶ If any man thinks he is a religious character among you, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

¹ WHEREFORE putting far away wickedness of every kind, and all deceit, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all backbitings, ² as new-born babes desire earnestly the unadulterated milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

⁷ but righteous Lot, afflicted grievously with the infamously impure conduct of those lawless men, he plucked out:

¹³ receiving the recompence of iniquity, counting daily luxury their pleasure; spots and blemishes, when they feast together with you; riotously indulging in their own delusions:

⁶ For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

² And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, that you may prove by experience what is the will of God, that is good, acceptable, and perfect.

¹⁰ for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, for which God hath before prepared us, that we should walk therein.

¹⁰ and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him.

⁵ not for works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the laver of regeneration, and by renovation of the Holy Spirit;

¹³ Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, vigilant, wait with assured hope for the grace, which shall be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

¹⁷ Sanctify them by thy truth: thy word is truth.

⁴ We have been buried therefore with him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life.

²⁹ For whom he foreknew, he predestinated also to a conformity with the image of his Son, that he might be the first-begotten among many brethren.

¹² The night is far advanced, the day approaches: let us therefore put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

¹⁴ But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to gratify its passions.

⁵³ For that which is corruptible must put on incorruption, and that which is mortal must put on immortality.

¹⁸ And we all with face unveiled, beholding the glory of the Lord [reflected] as in a mirror, according to the same image, receive a transformation from glory into glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.

¹⁶ Therefore we never faint; for though our outward man decay, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

¹⁷ Wherefore if any person be in Christ, he is a new creation: the old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

²⁷ For as many of you as have been baptised into Christ, have been invested with Christ.

¹⁵ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

¹⁰ and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him. ¹¹ Where there is no difference whether a man be Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian or Scythian, slave or freeman: but Christ is all and in all. ¹² Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering; ¹³ forbearing one another, and freely forgiving one another, if any man hath a complaint against another: even as Christ hath freely forgiven you, so also do ye. ¹⁴ But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

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

⁸ But to the Son, "Thy throne, O God, is unto eternity; a sceptre of rectitude is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

⁴⁴ Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will practise. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not fast in the truth, because truth was not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh what is peculiarly his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

³ But Peter said, O Ananias! why hath Satan filled thy heart that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Ghost, and secrete something from the price of the estate? ⁴ it remained unsold, was it not vested in thee? and when sold, was it not in thine own power? why then hast thou determined in thine heart to do this deed? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

⁵ so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one reciprocally members of each other.

¹² For as the body is one, and hath many members, but all the members of that one body, though many, are one body: so also is Christ. ¹³ For by one Spirit we all have been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free men; and we have all been made to drink into one Spirit. ¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many. ¹⁵ If the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it, on this account, not of the body? ¹⁶ And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it not therefore of the body? ¹⁷ If the whole body were eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? ¹⁸ But now hath God placed the members, every one of them in the body, as he hath chosen. ¹⁹ But if the whole were one member, where were the body? ²⁰ But now the members indeed are many, but the body one. ²¹ Nor can the eye say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. ²² Yea, much more the members of the body, which appear to be more feeble, are necessary: ²³ and those parts which we esteem as the more dishonourable of the body, on them we bestow more abundant honour, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. ²⁴ For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered together the body, giving more abundant honour to that part which lacked: ²⁵ that there might be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. ²⁶ And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; and if one member be exalted, all the members rejoice with it. ²⁷ Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

¹⁴ For if I have boasted of you to him in any thing, I am not ashamed; but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so our boasting of you to Titus hath been found truth.

⁹ Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his practices;

¹⁰ for whoremongers, for sodomites, for stealers of men, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing which is contrary to sound doctrine,

¹² One of them, a poet of their own nation, hath said, The Cretans are always liars, wicked beasts, slothful gluttons.

⁸ But to those who shrink back through fear, and to the infidels, and to the abominable, and to murderers, and to whoremongers, and to those who use magical incantations, and to idolaters, and to all liars, is their portion [appointed] in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

¹⁵ But without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one who loveth and maketh a lie.

²² but I say unto you, That every man who is angry with his brother without cause, shall be liable to the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be liable to the sanhedrim: but whosever shall say, Thou fool, shall be liable to be cast into hell fire.

¹⁴ But when Jesus saw it, he felt indignation, and said to them, Permit little children to come to me, and hinder them not; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

¹⁹ Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto wrath: for it is written, "Vengeance belongeth to me; I will recompence, saith the Lord." ²⁰ If therefore thine enemy hunger, give him food; if he thirst, give him drink: for so doing, thou shalt heap up coals of fire on his head. ²¹ Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and scandal, be removed from you, with all malice: ³² but be ye kind one to another, full of sensibility, forgiving mutually, even as God in Christ hath forgiven you.

¹⁹ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

³ But Peter said, O Ananias! why hath Satan filled thy heart that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Ghost, and secrete something from the price of the estate?

¹⁰ But to whomsoever ye forgive any thing, so do I; and if I forgive any thing, to whom I forgive, for your sakes I do it, in the person of Jesus Christ, ¹¹ that no advantage be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

¹⁶ and over all lifting up the shield of faith, with which ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.

⁷ Be in subjection then to God. Resist the devil, and he will fly from you.

⁸ Be sober, be vigilant; for your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, prowleth around, seeking whom he may devour:

⁸ Produce then fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say in yourselves, We have a father, even Abraham; for I say unto you, That God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

¹⁰ And the multitudes asked him, saying, What then shall we do? ¹¹ And he answering said to them, He that hath two coats, let him give to him that hath none; and he that hath provisions, let him do in like manner. ¹² Then came also the farmers of the taxes to be baptised, and they said unto him, Master, what shall we do? ¹³ He said unto them, Exact nothing more than is appointed for you. ¹⁴ And the military men also asked him, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Extort nothing by force; nor turn informers; and be content with your pay.

⁸ Then Zaccheus standing up, said unto the Lord, Behold, the half of my goods, Lord, I give unto the poor; and if I have got any thing from any man, by laying false informations, I am ready to restore fourfold.

¹ AND as he looked up, he saw some casting their gifts into the treasury who were rich. ² And he observed also a certain widow, miserably poor, put in there two mites. ³ And he said, Of a truth I tell you that this poor widow hath put in more than all they: ⁴ for all they have of their superfluity cast into the oblations for God: but she out of her indigence hath cast in all the substance which she possessed.

⁶ Now he said this, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and kept the purse, and carried the money put therein.

²⁹ For some supposed, as Judas kept the purse, that Jesus was saying to him, Buy what we need for the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.

³⁴ but ye yourselves know that these hands have by labour furnished necessaries for my own wants, and for those who were with me. ³⁵ In all things I have set you the example, that so labouring hard ye ought to help the infirm, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

¹³ communicating to the wants of the saints; prompt to hospitality.

² that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, hath more abounded to the riches of their liberality.

¹² For if there is first a ready mind, a man is acceptable according to what he hath, and not according to what he hath not.

¹² For the ministration of this [charitable] service not only abundantly supplies the deficiencies of the saints, but also overflows with many thanksgivings to God; ¹³ (while by the evidence of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberality towards them, and towards all men;) ¹⁴ and with their prayers for you, greatly longing after you, on account of the transcendent grace of God in you. ¹⁵ Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift.

¹⁰ Well then, whilst we have opportunity, let us do good unto all men, but especially unto those who are of the household of faith.

¹¹ and that you make it your study to live peaceably, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we have enjoined you; ¹² that ye walk becomingly towards those without, and need no assistance from any person.

⁶ Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother who walketh disorderly, and not according to the injunction which he hath received from us. ⁷ For ye yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us; for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you, ⁸ neither did we eat bread with any man unpaid for, but with labour and toil worked night and day, that we might be burdensome to none of you:

¹¹ For we hear that there are some among you who walk disorderly, doing no work, but being busy-bodies. ¹² Now such we command, and conjure, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they labour, and eat their own bread.

¹⁸ to do good, to be rich in generous actions, to take pleasure in liberality, ready to distribute;

¹⁶ Just so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.

³⁴ Ye broods of vipers, how can ye speak good things, yourselves being wicked? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ³⁵ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things: and a wicked man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth evil things. ³⁶ But I tell you, That every idle word which men speak, for it shall they give an account in the day of judgment. ³⁷ For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

²² And all concurred in their testimony to him, and marvelled at the gracious words which proceeded from his mouth. And they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?

¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have spoken craftily; the poison of asps is under their lips: ¹⁴ whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

¹⁹ but in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

³² If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, of what advantage would it be to me, if the dead did not rise again? shall we eat and drink; because to-morrow we die? ³³ Be not deceived: evil conversations corrupt good manners.

³ But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints; ⁴ or obscenity, or foolish talk, or loose witticisms; things which become not [a Christian], but rather thanksgiving.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing with grace in your heart unto the Lord. ¹⁷ And everything that ye do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

⁶ Let your discourse be always gracious, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to reply to every man.

¹¹ Wherefore comfort one another, and edify one another, as also ye do.

² For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, he is a perfect man, and capable of reining in the whole body. ³ Behold, we put bits into the horses' mouths, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body. ⁴ Behold also the ships, though so great, and driven by tempestuous winds, are turned about by the smallest rudder, whithersoever the inclination of the pilot pleaseth. ⁵ So also the tongue is a little member, and proudly vaunts. Behold how great a pile of wood, a little fire kindleth! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: in such manner is the tongue placed among our members, that it defileth all the body, and setteth on fire the circle of nature; and is set on fire of hell. ⁷ For every species of wild beasts, and also of birds, of reptiles, and even of fishes, is tamed, and hath also been tamed by human ingenuity: ⁸ but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

¹² having your conduct ornamental among the Gentiles: that, whereas they malign you as wicked doers, they may, being eye-witnesses of your good works, glorify God in the day when he visits them.

¹ LIKEWISE, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if some obey not the word, by their wives' conduct without the word, they may be won over;

¹³ raging billows of the sea foaming out their own infamies; stars wandering from their courses, for whom the blackness of darkness for ever is reserved. ¹⁴ Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied also of these men, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with myriads of his saints, ¹⁵ to execute judgment against all men, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have impiously committed, and of all the bitter words which impious offenders have spoken against him. ¹⁶ These men are murmurers, complainers at their lot in life, walking after their own corrupt passions; and their mouth utters hyperbolically pompous expressions, pretending high personal admiration, in order to make their advantage.

⁵ And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to make war forty-two months. ⁶ And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.

²⁸ And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

⁵¹ Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears, ye do always oppose yourselves against the Holy Ghost: as your fathers, so are ye.

¹¹ But if the Spirit of him who hath raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he who raised Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his indwelling Spirit in you.

²³ And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan in ourselves, expecting the adoption, the redemption of our body.

³⁰ But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who hath been made to us of God wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

⁵⁴ So when that which is corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and that which is mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying which is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

¹³ In whom ye also [trusted] after ye had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, ye have been sealed with the holy Spirit of promise, ¹⁴ which is the earnest of our inheritance, until the final redemption, acquired by him, come, to the praise of his glory.

¹⁹ Quench not the Spirit.

¹⁰ Wherefore I was provoked against that generation, and said, They are always deluded in heart, and they have not known my ways:

¹⁷ But against whom was he incensed forty years? Was it not against those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

²⁸ On hearing this then, and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. ²⁹ And the whole city was filled with confusion; and they rushed unanimously into the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's travelling companions.

³⁰ And the whole city was in motion, and there was a concourse of people assembled: and laying hands on Paul, they dragged him out of the temple; and immediately the doors were shut.

²² And they gave him audience to this sentence, and lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live. ²³ So when they began raising a vast clamour, and stripping off their garments, and casting dust into the air,

²⁹ replete with all injustice, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, villany; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, evil habits; whisperers, ³⁰ backbiters, God-haters, contumelious, insolent, boasters, inventors of wicked practices, disobedient to parents,

¹⁴ whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

⁸ Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

²⁰ For I am afraid that when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found of you such as ye would not: lest haply there be contentions, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

²⁰ idolatry, magical charms, enmities, strifes, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, divisions, heresies,

²⁶ Are ye provoked; and do you not sin? let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

⁸ but now ye have put away all these things, anger, asperity, malice, scandal, obscenity, out of your mouth.

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and use no asperity against them.

³ not addicted to wine, not using hard words or blows, not greedy of base gain; but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;

¹¹ Their wives in like manner must be grave women, not addicted to scandal, sober, faithful in all things.

¹³ And at the same time also they learn to be idle, visiting about in the houses; and not merely idle, but talkative and inquisitive, speaking things they ought not.

⁴ he is conceited, knowing nothing, but delirious with disputes and quarrels about words, from whence come wrath, contentions, evil speakings, wrong suspicions, ⁵ perverse wranglings of men corrupt in mind, and destitute of truth, who think to make gain of godliness; depart from such men.

²³ But foolish and uninstructive disputes avoid, knowing that they produce quarrels.

³ unnatural, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, inhuman, averse to goodness,

⁷ For a bishop ought to be irreproachable, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not irritable, not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy of filthy lucre;

³ That the elder women also be sacredly becoming in their behaviour, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of propriety;

² to slander no man, to be inoffensive, gentle, shewing all meekness to all men. ³ For we ourselves also in time past were thoughtless, disobedient, erroneous, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

¹⁴ But if ye have bitter envy and contention in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth.

¹¹ Traduce not one another, brethren. He that traduceth his brother, and judgeth his brother, traduceth the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but as judge.

¹ WHEREFORE putting far away wickedness of every kind, and all deceit, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all backbitings,

¹⁰ especially such as walk after the flesh in the eager pursuit of defilement, and despise government. Daring, self-sufficient, they tremble not at dignities, railing against them. ¹¹ Whereas the angels, though so much greater in might and power, bring not a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.

¹² Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and slew his brother: and wherefore did he slay him? Because his own works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.

¹⁵ Every one who hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath life eternal abiding in him.

⁸ In like manner also do these men, even when they dream, defile indeed the flesh, despise sovereignty, and revile dignities. ⁹ Though Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not to produce a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. ¹⁰ But these men speak evil even of the things of which they have no knowledge: but such things as they know naturally, as the brute beasts, in these they corrupt themselves.

¹⁰ And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; because the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.

¹² And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

¹⁴ For if ye forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: ¹⁵ but if ye forgive not to men their offences, neither will your Father forgive your offences.

²¹ Then Peter coming to him, said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? ²² Jesus saith to him, I tell thee not until seven times, but unto seventy times seven. ²³ Therefore is the kingdom of heaven like unto a certain king who purposed to settle his account with his servants. ²⁴ And when he began to make up the account, there was brought to him one debtor, ten thousand talents in arrear: ²⁵ but not having wherewithal to pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children, and all things whatsoever he possessed, and payment to be made. ²⁶ Then that servant falling prostrate, paid him the most profound homage, saying, Lord, have forbearance with me, and I will pay thee all. ²⁷ Then his lord, moved with compassion towards that servant, discharged him, and forgave him the debt. ²⁸ But that servant going out, found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing, throttled him, saying, Pay me what thou owest. ²⁹ Then his fellow-servant fell at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have forbearance with me, and I will pay thee all. ³⁰ And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay what he owed. ³¹ Then his fellow-servants, when they saw what was done, were exceedingly sorry, and came to their lord, and gave him an explicit account of all things that had passed. ³² Then his lord, calling him before him, said to him, Thou vile slave! all that debt I forgave thee, because thou besoughtest me: ³³ and oughtest thou not to have had compassion on thy fellow-servant, even as I had pity on thee? ³⁴ And his lord, incensed, delivered him up to the torturers, till he should pay all that he owed him. ³⁵ Even so also will my heavenly Father do to you, except ye forgive every one of you his brother, from your hearts, their trespasses.

²⁵ And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have a matter against any man: that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

⁷⁸ through the bowels of mercy of our God; with which he hath visited us, as the dawn of the morning from on high,

³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good and lend, hoping for nothing in return: and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Most High; for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the wicked.

³⁷ And judge not, that ye be not judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned:

⁴ and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every one who is indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation; but deliver us from the wicked one.

⁴ And if seven times in the day he sin against thee, and seven times in the day return to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

² And the rude people treated us with singular humanity; for, lighting a fire, they received us all, because of the violent rain, and because of the cold.

¹⁰ In brotherly affection be tenderly attached to each other; in honour preferring one another:

⁴ Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride],

⁷ Wherefore, on the contrary, ye rather ought to forgive and comfort him, lest such a one be swallowed up with excess of sorrow.

¹⁰ But to whomsoever ye forgive any thing, so do I; and if I forgive any thing, to whom I forgive, for your sakes I do it, in the person of Jesus Christ,

⁶ in purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

¹ BE ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

¹¹ Behold, we esteem those blessed who patiently endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; for the Lord is full of bowels of mercy, and tenderly compassionate.

⁸ Finally, be all like-minded, sympathizing, loving fraternally, compassionate, friendly hearted, ⁹ not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing; but, contrariwise, wishing men every blessing; knowing that hereunto ye have been called, that ye should inherit the [divine] benediction.

⁷ and with piety fraternal affection; and with fraternal affection love.

⁹ If we confess our sins, faithful is he and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

¹² I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.