Philippians 4 Cross References - Haweis

¹ WHEREFORE, my brethren, beloved, and very dear to me, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, O beloved. ² I beseech Euodias, and I beseech Syntiche to be of one mind in the Lord. ³ And I beseech thee also, my genuine associate, assist those women who laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life. ⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, Rejoice. ⁵ Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. ⁶ Be not anxious about any thing, but in every case by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known unto God. ⁷ And the peace of God which surpasseth all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. ⁸ Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are serious, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are amiable, whatsoever things are laudable, if there be any virtue, or any thing praise-worthy, pay attention to these things. ⁹ Whatsoever things also ye have learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these practise, and the God of peace shall be with you. ¹⁰ Now I rejoiced greatly in the Lord, that now once more your thoughtful attention about me hath again sprung up, to which also your mind had been disposed, but ye had not found the opportunity. ¹¹ Not that I mention this with a view to my indigence: for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am, to be content. ¹² I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in every state and in all situations I am instructed either to be full or famishing, either to enjoy abundance, or to suffer want: ¹³ I am enabled for all things by Christ who strengtheneth me. ¹⁴ Nevertheless ye have done nobly in your communications to me during my affliction. ¹⁵ But know also, Philippians, that at my first preaching the gospel, when I went from Macedonia, no church communicated to me in the way of giving and receiving but ye alone. ¹⁶ For in Thessalonica also ye sent me once, yea twice, a supply for my want. ¹⁷ Not that I am anxious for a gift; but I am anxious to see fruit abounding on your account. ¹⁸ But I have now all things, and abound: I am full, having received from Epaphroditus your bounty, an odour of sweet smell, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God. ¹⁹ But my God will fully supply all your want, according to his riches in glory, by Christ Jesus. ²⁰ Now to God, even our Father, be glory for ever and ever. Amen. ²¹ Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren that are with me salute you. ²² All the saints salute you, specially those who are of Caesar's household. ²³ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

²² And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end, that man shall be saved.

³¹ Then said Jesus to those Jews who believed on him, If ye abide in my word, assuredly ye are my disciples;

³ Ye are already clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. ⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine: so neither can ye, except ye abide in me.

⁴² And they persevered stedfastly in the doctrine of the apostles, and in communion, and in breaking bread, and in prayers.

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.

⁷ to those who, in the patient practice of good works, seek glory and honour and immortality—eternal life.

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

¹³ Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, be manful, be strong.

¹⁴ As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your glory, as also ye are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

¹ STAND fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again held under a yoke of bondage.

¹⁰ Finally, brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. ¹¹ Be clothed in the panoply of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹² For our conflict is not merely against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against wicked spirits in the aerial regions. ¹³ Therefore take the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all things to stand. ¹⁴ Stand therefore, girded about your loins with truth, and putting on the breastplate of righteousness; ¹⁵ and underneath your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 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. ¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: ¹⁸ praying at every opportunity with all prayer and supplication in Spirit, and watching for this very purpose with perseverance and intercession for all the saints;

⁸ For God is my witness, how earnestly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

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;

¹⁶ holding up the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

²⁶ For indeed he greatly longed after you all, and was very sorry that ye had heard that he had been sick.

²⁰ But our conversation is in heaven as its citizens, from whence also we are expecting the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ who shall transform our body of humiliation, that it may be conformed to his body of glory, according to the effectual working of him who is able to subdue even all things to himself.

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.

¹⁹ For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? ²⁰ For ye are our glory and joy.

⁸ For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. ⁹ For what sufficient thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,

¹³ to the end that your hearts may be established blameless in holiness before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

¹⁵ Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and firmly hold the injunctions delivered to you, as ye have been taught, whether by our discourse, or by letter.

¹ THOU therefore, my son, be mighty in the grace which is in Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ For we are partakers with Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end;

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

²³ let us hold fast the profession of hope unwavering, (for he who promises is faithful.)

³⁵ Recede not therefore from your boldness of profession, which brings a great recompence of reward. ³⁶ For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

¹¹ Seeing then that all these things must be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in a course of holy conduct and acts of piety, ¹² expecting and hastening towards the coming of God's day, at which the heavens on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements in flames be melted as wax? ¹³ But we expect according to his promise new heavens and a new earth in which dwelleth righteousness. ¹⁴ Wherefore, beloved, seeing ye are expecting these things, be diligent to be found of him in peace, spotless and blameless.

¹⁷ Ye therefore, beloved, knowing this before, be on your guard, that ye be not carried away with the delusion of these lawless men, and fall from your own stedfastness.

²⁰ But ye, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying by the Holy Ghost, ²¹ preserve yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

²⁴ Now to him who is able to guard you from stumbling, and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with exultation, ²⁵ to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, might and dominion, both now and unto all eternity. Amen.

¹⁰ Because thou hast keep the word of my patience, I also will preserve thee from the hour of temptation, which is coming upon the whole habitable globe to try the dwellers upon earth. ¹¹ Behold, I come quickly: hold fast that thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

⁵⁰ Salt is good: but if the salt become insipid, with what will you season it? have salt in yourselves, and live in peace with each other.

¹⁶ Be of the same mind among each other. Affect not high things, but be condescending to the lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits. ¹⁷ Render to no man evil for evil. Be provident of things laudable in the sight of all men. ¹⁸ If possible, as far as you can, be at peace with all men.

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.

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."

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.

¹⁶ Nevertheless, so far as we have advanced, be it our care to walk by the same rule, to mind the same thing.

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:

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.

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. ¹⁰ "For he that would love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile. ¹¹ Let him depart from every wicked thing, and do good; let him seek peace, and pursue it."

²⁰ Nevertheless, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are made subject to you; but rejoice rather, that your names are inscribed in the heavens.

³⁶ But there was at Joppa a woman, a disciple, named Tabitha, (which by interpretation is called Dorcas:) this woman was full of good works and of alms which she did. ³⁷ But it came to pass that in those days she sickened and died: having then washed her, they laid her out in an upper room. ³⁸ And as Lydda was near to Joppa, the disciples hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, entreating him without delay to come over to them. ³⁹ Then Peter arose and went with them. And they carried him, on his arrival, into the upper room: and all the widows stood round him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made, whilst she was with them. ⁴⁰ But Peter putting them all out, fell upon his knees, and prayed; and turning to the body, said, Tabitha, arise! And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up. ⁴¹ Then he gave her his hand, and raised her up; and calling in the saints and the widows, presented her to them alive.

¹⁴ And a certain woman, Lydia by name, a seller of purple, from the city of Thyatira, a worshipper of God, hearkened: whose heart the Lord thoroughly opened, to attend to the words spoken by Paul. ¹⁵ So when she was baptised, and her house, she entreated, saying, Since ye have judged that I am faithful to the Lord, come and abide at my house. And she constrained us. ¹⁶ Now it happened as we were going to the oratory, a certain damsel having a pythonic spirit met us, who produced for her masters much gain as a fortuneteller: ¹⁷ she following Paul and us, cried out, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, who preach to you the way of salvation. ¹⁸ And this she did for several days. Then Paul was wearied out, and turning, said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out that very hour.

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.

² that ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that you assist her in every matter wherein she may have need of you: for she hath also been a succourer of many, and of me myself. ³ Salute Priscilla and Aquila my fellow-labourers in Christ Jesus: ⁴ (who for my life have laid down their own neck: to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles:)

⁹ Salute Urban, our fellow-labourer in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

¹² Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who have laboured hard in the Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who laboured much in the Lord.

²⁰ For I have no one like minded with him, who will genuinely care for your affairs. ²¹ For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus. ²² But ye have known the trial of him, that, as a son with a father, he hath served with me in the gospel. ²³ Him therefore I hope to send immediately as soon as I see clearly what will become of me. ²⁴ But I have confidence in the Lord that I myself shall come shortly. ²⁵ But I have thought it necessary to send unto you Epaphroditus, my brother, and fellow-labourer, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and the minister who supplied my want.

² I beseech Euodias, and I beseech Syntiche to be of one mind in the Lord.

⁷ even as ye have learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-labourer, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you;

⁹ Let no widow be put on the list under sixty years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband, ¹⁰ bringing attestation of her good works; that she hath well educated her children, that she hath been hospitable to strangers, that she hath washed the saints feet, that she hath assisted the afflicted, that she hath followed diligently every good work.

⁸ Wherefore, though I have in Christ great liberty to enjoin thee what is becoming, ⁹ I rather for love's sake entreat, being such as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner for Jesus Christ.

⁵ He that overcometh, this man shall be clothed in white robes; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

⁸ And all the inhabitants who dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

⁸ The beast which thou seest was, and is not; and shall come up out of the abyss [of hell], and shall go into perdition: and the dwellers upon earth will wonder, (whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world,) when they shall see the beast which was, and is not, though he is.

¹² And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things written in the books according to their works.

¹⁵ And if any one was not found inscribed on the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

²⁷ And there shall no more enter into it any thing unclean, or that practises abomination and lying; but only those who are written in the book of life of the Lamb.

¹² Rejoice and exult; for plenteous is your reward in the heavens: for just so they persecuted the prophets who went before you.

⁴¹ Then they went rejoicing from the presence of the sanhedrim, that for his name's sake, they had been counted worthy to suffer this injurious treatment.

²⁵ But about midnight Paul and Silas, after joining in prayer, sang hymns to God: and the prisoners heard them.

² by whom also we have had an introduction through faith into this grace in which we have stood fast, and are rejoicing in hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only so, but we glory also in tribulations: knowing that tribulation produceth patience;

¹² rejoicing in hope; patient in affliction; persevering in prayer:

¹ THIS third time I am coming to you: by the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every charge be established. ² I have told you before, and I repeat it, as when I was present the second time, and now absent, I write to those who have sinned already, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare you:

⁸ But though even we, or an angel from heaven, preach unto you another gospel, different from that which we have preached to you, let him be an anathema.

¹ MOREOVER, brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but is safe for you.

¹⁶ Rejoice evermore. ¹⁷ Pray without ceasing. ¹⁸ In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-wards.

² My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into various trials; ³ knowing that the proof of your faith produceth patience. ⁴ But let patience have its work perfected, that ye may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

¹³ but as ye share in the sufferings of Christ rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory also ye may hail him with exultations.

³⁹ but I say unto you, Resist not an injurious act; but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him also the other. ⁴⁰ And if a man will prosecute thee, and take thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. ⁴¹ And whosoever shall press thee for one mile, go with him two. ⁴² Give to him that asketh thee; and from him who wants to borrow of thee, turn not away.

²⁵ For this cause I tell you, Be not anxious about your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life of more value than meat, and the body than raiment?

³⁴ Be not therefore anxious about to-morrow: for tomorrow will provide for its own wants. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.

⁴⁸ But if that wicked servant say in his heart, My master will be a long while ere he comes; ⁴⁹ and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; ⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come in a day that he doth not expect him, and at an hour which he knoweth not.

²⁹ To him that smiteth thee on the cheek, offer the other also; and from him who would take from thee thy cloak, withhold not thy coat also. ³⁰ And give to every one that asketh thee; and from him who would take thy goods, demand them not again. ³¹ And as ye would that men should do unto you, do ye also to them in like manner. ³² And if ye love them that love you, what thanks are due to you? for even sinners love those who love them. ³³ And if ye do good to them who do good to you, what thanks have ye? do not even sinners the same thing? ³⁴ And if ye lend to those, from whom ye hope to receive back again, what thanks are due to you? for sinners lend to sinners, that they may receive an equivalent. 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.

²² Then said he to his disciples, For this reason I tell you, Be under no anxiety about your life, what ye shall eat, nor for your body, how ye shall be clothed. ²³ The life is more than food, and the body than raiment. ²⁴ Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have neither storehouse nor barn; yet God feedeth them: how much are ye more excellent than the birds? ²⁵ Which of you, with all his anxiety, can add one moment to his life? ²⁶ If therefore ye are unable to do the least thing, why are ye anxious about the others? ²⁷ Observe the lillies how they grow up, they toil not, nor spin; but I tell you, that Solomon in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these. ²⁸ If God then so clothe the grass in the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is thrown into the furnace; how much more you, O ye of little faith? ²⁹ So then be not ye inquisitive what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor be agitated with restless anxiety. ³⁰ For after all these things are the nations of the world seeking; and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

³⁴ But take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts should be overloaded with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the anxious cares of life, and that day should come upon you unawares.

⁷ Now verily therefore there is altogether a fault among you, because ye have law-suits one with another. Why do ye not rather submit to the wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

²⁹ Now this I say, brethren, that the time is short. The conclusion is, that even they who have wives, should be as though they had not; ³⁰ and they who weep as though they wept not; and they who rejoice as though they rejoiced not; and they that purchase as though they possessed not; ³¹ and they who use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

¹³ Wherefore if meat give occasion of offence to my brother, I will in no wise eat meat for ever, that I give no cause of offence to my brother.

²⁵ And every one who contendeth [in the games] is temperate in all things: they indeed therefore do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

² for yourselves know precisely that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. ³ For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction rusheth upon them, as travail on a woman with child, and they shall in no wise escape. ⁴ But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief.

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.

² to slander no man, to be inoffensive, gentle, shewing all meekness to all men.

²⁵ not deserting the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom with some, but exhorting to it; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

³⁷ For yet a little, very little while, and he that is coming will come, and will not delay.

⁵ Let the tenor of your life be divested of the love of money; content with your present possessions: for he hath said, "I will in no wise leave thee, neither will I in any case forsake thee." ⁶ So that we may with confidence say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

⁸ Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is at hand. ⁹ Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest be ye condemned: lo! the judge standeth at the gates.

¹¹ investigating to what time and to what conjuncture the Spirit of Christ in them pointed, when predicting the sufferings coming upon Christ, and the glories subsequent thereto.

⁷ But the end of all things is near: be ye therefore sober-minded, and vigilant in prayers.

⁸ But let not this particular be concealed from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ⁹ The Lord doth not delay the promise (as some count it delay); but is longsuffering towards us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should have space for repentance. ¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief by night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a rushing noise, and the first principles of matter in flames dissolve, and the earth and all the works upon it be burnt up.

⁷ Behold, I come quickly! blessed is he that observeth the words of the prophecy of this book.

²⁰ He that testifieth these things saith, Verily, I come quickly. Amen. Yea come, Lord Jesus!

⁸ Be not ye therefore like them: for your Father knoweth of what things ye have need, before you ask him.

²⁵ For this cause I tell you, Be not anxious about your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life of more value than meat, and the body than raiment? ²⁶ Look on the birds of the air: for they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷ But which of you, by his cares, can add one cubit to his stature? ²⁸ And why are ye anxious about clothing? Contemplate the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, nor spin: ²⁹ yet I tell you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. ³⁰ If God then so clothe a vegetable of the field, which to-day is, [in beauty], and tomorrow is cast into the furnace, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? ³¹ Wherefore be under no anxiety, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, With what shall we be clothed? ³² (for after all these things the heathen seek:) and your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of them all. ³³ But seek ye, in the first place, the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be given you over.

⁷ Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: ⁸ for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

¹⁹ But when they shall deliver you up, be under no anxiety what ye shall say; for it shall be given you in that very hour what ye should speak:

²² But the sown among the thorns, is he who heareth the word, and the anxiety about this world and the deceitfulness of riches, choketh the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

⁴¹ But Jesus answering said to her, Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and disturbing thyself about many things.

²² Then said he to his disciples, For this reason I tell you, Be under no anxiety about your life, what ye shall eat, nor for your body, how ye shall be clothed.

²⁹ So then be not ye inquisitive what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor be agitated with restless anxiety.

¹ THEN he spake also to them a parable, to shew that we ought to pray always, and not faint;

⁷ And shall not God execute vengeance for his own elect, who cry out to him day and night, though he bear long with them?

²¹ Art thou called being a slave? let it give thee no concern; but if thou canst also obtain thy freedom, rather make use of it.

³² But I would have you to be free from anxiety. He who is unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord:

¹¹ ye also labouring together for us in prayer, that from many persons thanks may be given on our behalf for the gifts bestowed on us by many.

²⁰ giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God even the Father;

¹⁸ praying at every opportunity with all prayer and supplication in Spirit, and watching for this very purpose with perseverance and intercession for all the saints;

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.

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.

² Persevere in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;

⁷ casting all your anxiety upon him; for he careth for you.

⁷⁹ to illumine those who sat in darkness, and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace.

¹⁴ Glory in the highest heavens to God! and upon earth, peace! towards men complacence.

²⁷ Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I to you. Let not your heart be agitated, nor shrink back through fear.

³³ These things have I spoken to you, that ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good courage; I have overcome the world.

⁷ To all that are at Rome, beloved of God, called saints, grace unto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ BEING justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

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

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

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.

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.

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

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

² grace be unto you and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ Whatsoever things also ye have learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these practise, and the God of peace shall be with you.

¹⁶ And the Lord of peace himself give you peace, by every means, in every situation. The Lord be with you all.

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great pastor of the sheep, by the blood of the everlasting testament,

⁴ for an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you, ⁵ who are guarded by the omnipotence of God, through faith to obtain the salvation which is ready to appear at the last time.

¹ JUDE a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are sanctified in God the Father, and preserved by Jesus Christ, the called:

⁴ John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be with you, and peace from him, who is, and who was, and who is coming; and from the seven spirits which are before the throne of God,

¹⁷ He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches, To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white pebble, and upon the pebble a new name inscribed, which no man knoweth except the person who receiveth it.

¹⁶ And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God with veracity; and carest for no man, for thou regardest not the person of men:

²⁰ for Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man; and paid great attention to him and when he heard him, did many things, and heard him with delight.

²⁵ And, behold, there was a man at Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

¹⁵ And he said unto them, Ye are they who affect to be righteous persons before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men, is an abomination in the sight of God.

⁵⁰ And lo! a man named Joseph, being a member of the council, a good man, and a just;

¹⁸ He that speaketh from himself, seeks his own individual honour: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and iniquity in him there is none.

³ Therefore, brethren, do ye look out for seven men from among yourselves, the best approved, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint to superintend this business.

²² Then they said, Cornelius a centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report with all the nation of the Jews, has been divinely admonished by a holy angel to send for thee to his house, to hear words from thee.

¹² And one Ananias, a religious man according to the law, and in high repute with all the Jews dwelling there,

²⁹ But he is a Jew who is such inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

⁹ Let love be undissembled. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. ¹⁰ In brotherly affection be tenderly attached to each other; in honour preferring one another: ¹¹ not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord: ¹² rejoicing in hope; patient in affliction; persevering in prayer: ¹³ communicating to the wants of the saints; prompt to hospitality. ¹⁴ Bless them who persecute you; bless, and curse not. ¹⁵ Rejoice with those that rejoice, and weep with those that weep. ¹⁶ Be of the same mind among each other. Affect not high things, but be condescending to the lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits. ¹⁷ Render to no man evil for evil. Be provident of things laudable in the sight of all men. ¹⁸ If possible, as far as you can, be at peace with all men. 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.

³ For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from it:

¹³ Let us walk becomingly as in the face of day, not in revels and drunkenness, not in impurities and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

⁵ Wherefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who also will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will manifest the counsels of men's hearts; and then shall praise be given to each from God.

¹ THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become as sounding brass, and tinkling cymbal. ² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all manner of science; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And if I deal out all my goods in alms, and deliver up my body that I should be burned, but have not love, I am nothing advantaged by it. 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. ¹⁰ But when that which is perfect cometh, then that which is in part shall be done away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I grew a man, I put away childish things. ¹² For now we see by reflected light, indistinctly; but then face to face: now I know partially; but then shall I know even as I am known. ¹³ But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greater of these is love.

⁸ through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report: as deceivers, yet true men;

¹⁸ We have sent with him also a brother, whose praise in the gospel is [spread] through all the churches;

²¹ providing what is fair, not only before the Lord, but also before men.

⁷ Now I pray unto God that ye do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that you may do that which is laudable, though we should be as reprobates.

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

⁹ (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

¹⁴ Stand therefore, girded about your loins with truth, and putting on the breastplate of righteousness;

⁵ Walk wisely with regard to those without, redeeming the time.

¹² that ye walk becomingly towards those without, and need no assistance from any person.

²¹ Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. ²² Abstain from all appearance of evil.

² for kings, and all that are in a state of eminence, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and seriousness.

⁴ presiding over his own family with propriety, having his children under subjection with all gravity of behaviour:

⁷ He must also have a fair character from those who are without, that he may not fall into reproach, and into the snare of the devil. ⁸ The deacons also in like manner must be grave, not doubletongued, not addicting themselves to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

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

¹² Let no man despise thy youth; but be a pattern of the faithful, in discourse; in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

² the aged women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

¹⁰ bringing attestation of her good works; that she hath well educated her children, that she hath been hospitable to strangers, that she hath washed the saints feet, that she hath assisted the afflicted, that she hath followed diligently every good work.

⁸ but the stranger's host, the good man's friend, grave, just, holy, temperate;

² that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience.

⁷ In all things approving thyself as a pattern of good works: in thy teaching, shewing integrity, gravity, incorruptibility,

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.

¹⁴ And let those who belong to us learn also to be pre-eminent in good works for all necessary calls, that they be not without fruits.

² for thereby the ancients obtained a testimony of approbation.

¹⁸ Pray for us: for we have confidence that we maintain a good conscience, in all things desirous to conduct ourselves with propriety.—

²⁷ Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, To pay diligent attention to the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to preserve himself spotless from the world.

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.

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:

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.

⁸ But above all things have fervent love towards each other: for love will conceal a multitude of faults.

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: ⁴ whereby superlatively great and precious promises are freely given to us: that by these ye might become partakers of a divine nature, having fled far away from the corruption that is in the world through inordinate concupiscence.— ⁵ And for this very purpose employing the greatest diligence, lead up in the train of your faith courage; and with courage intelligence; ⁶ and with intelligence moderation; and with moderation patience; and with patience piety; ⁷ and with piety fraternal affection; and with fraternal affection love.

¹ THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I rouse up your sincere mind by awakening your recollection

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

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

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.

²³ "A virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel," which is being interpreted, God with us.

¹⁹ Whosoever therefore shall break one of the least of these commandments, and teach men so, he shall be accounted the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall practise, and teach them, he shall be reckoned great in the kingdom of heaven. ²⁰ For I say unto you, That except your righteousness abounds more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.

²¹ Not every one who saith to me, Lord, Lord! shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

²⁴ Every man therefore who is hearing from me these words, and puts them in practice, I will compare him to the intelligent man, who erected his house upon a rock: ²⁵ and the rain descended, and the rivers rushed, and the winds blew, and they beat against that house, and it fell not; for it was founded on a rock. ²⁶ And every man who is hearing these sayings of mine, and doth not practise them, he will resemble the foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: ²⁷ and the rain descended, and the rivers rushed, and the winds blew, and set against that house, and it fell; and the fall of it was great.

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.

⁴⁶ And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

²¹ Then he answered and said to them, My mother and my brethren are they, who hear the word of God, and practise it.

⁵ His mother saith to the waiters, Whatsoever he orders you, do it.

¹⁷ If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye practise them.

¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever things I command you.

⁶ And trembling and amazed he said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

³³ Now the God of peace be with you all! Amen.

²⁰ Now the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

³¹ Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all things to the glory of God.

³³ For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of his saints.

¹⁹ namely, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing to them their offences: and hath committed to us the word of reconciliation. 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.

¹⁷ Be ye imitators, brethren, of me, and eye attentively those who walk so as ye have us for an example.

⁷ And the peace of God which surpasseth all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

⁶ And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, receiving the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost;

² But though we had suffered before, and were infamously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to preach unto you the gospel of God amidst a great conflict. ³ And our exhortation originated not from delusion, or impurity, or from guile; ⁴ but as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts. ⁵ For neither at any time used we insinuating language, as ye know, nor a pretext for covetousness; God is witness: ⁶ not seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, though we might have been burdensome, as apostles of Christ. ⁷ But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherisheth her own infants. ⁸ So, tenderly affected towards you, we could with pleasure have imparted to you not the gospel of God only, but our own lives also, because ye were beloved by us. ⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: for night and day working hard, that we might be no burden to any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. ¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and faultlessly we conducted ourselves among you that believe: ¹¹ as ye know how [we treated] every one of you, as a father doth his children, exhorting you, and admonishing, and conjuring you, ¹² that ye should walk worthy of God, as calling you into his kingdom and glory.

¹⁴ For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for ye suffered the same things also yourselves from your own countrymen, as they too have of the Jews;

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. ³ For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom; ⁴ that every one of you may know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour, ⁵ not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not God; 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. ⁷ For God hath not called us unto impurity, but unto holiness. ⁸ Therefore he that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit.

²³ Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved faultless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ But we have confidence in the Lord towards you, that the things which we have enjoined you, ye both do, and will do.

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: ⁹ not that we have not such power, but that we might be ourselves an example for you to imitate. ¹⁰ For when we were with you, this we enjoined you, that if a man would not work, neither should he eat.

²² The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great pastor of the sheep, by the blood of the everlasting testament, 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.

²² But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves by false reasoning.

¹⁰ Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make sure your calling and election: for by doing these things, ye shall never at any time stumble:

²² And whatsoever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.

⁷ by the word of truth, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left,

⁶ But God that comforteth the lowly comforted us by the coming of Titus: ⁷ and not by his coming only, but also by the consolation wherewith he had been comforted among you, declaring to us your fervent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.

⁹ And when I was with you, and in want, I was burdensome to no man; for my want the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied; and on every occasion I have kept myself from being burdensome, and will keep myself.

⁶ Let him who is a learner of the word communicate to his instructor in all good things.

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.

¹ PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

³ I give thanks to my God on every remembrance of you,

³⁰ for in the work of Christ he was nigh unto death indifferent about life, that he might afford me that service which it was not in your power to render me.

³¹ Wherefore be under no anxiety, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, With what shall we be clothed? ³² (for after all these things the heathen seek:) and your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of them all. ³³ But seek ye, in the first place, the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be given you over. ³⁴ Be not therefore anxious about to-morrow: for tomorrow will provide for its own wants. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.

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.

¹¹ For even to this present hour we undergo hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are buffeted about, and have no settled abode; ¹² and work hard, labouring with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

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

⁹ For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor though he was rich, that ye by his poverty should be made rich.

⁸ And God is able to make all grace abound towards you; that in every case having always all sufficiency, ye may abound unto every good work:

²⁷ in labour and travail, in watchings often, in fastings frequently, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness;

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,

⁶ But godliness with contentment is great gain. ⁷ For that we brought nothing into the world is evident, neither can we carry any thing out of it. ⁸ Having then food and raiment, let us be therewith content. ⁹ For they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful passions, which sink men in the abyss of destruction and perdition.

³⁴ For ye have been fellow-sufferers with my bonds, and received with joy the plundering of your properties, knowing in yourselves that you have in the heavens a better substance, and permanent.

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.

⁵² They say unto him, Yes, Lord. Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe instructed unto the kingdom of heaven, is like unto a man, the master of a family, who bringeth out of his storehouse things new and old.

⁹ For I think that God hath exposed us his apostles the last as devoted unto death. For we have been made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men. ¹⁰ We are counted fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are mighty; ye are honourable persons, but we despised. ¹¹ For even to this present hour we undergo hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are buffeted about, and have no settled abode; ¹² and work hard, labouring with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; ¹³ being injuriously spoken of, we entreat; we are made as the ordures of the world, as the sweepings of all things unto this day.

⁴ but in every thing approving ourselves as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits, ⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings, ⁶ in purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, ⁷ by the word of truth, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left, ⁸ through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report: as deceivers, yet true men; ⁹ as unknown, though well known; as dying, and lo! we live; as chastened, yet not given over to death; ¹⁰ as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

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.

¹⁰ For his letters indeed, say they, are weighty and forcible, but his bodily presence is feeble, and his speech contemptible.

⁷ Am I chargeable with a fault (humbling myself that you might be exalted), that I preached to you the gospel of God freely?

⁷ And that I might not be lifted up above measure by the transcendent greatness of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, the angel Satan, to buffet me, that I might not be lifted up above measure. ⁸ For this thrice I besought the Lord, that he might depart from me. ⁹ And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may fix its residence in me. ¹⁰ Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

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:

⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine: so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. 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.

⁷ If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done for you.

⁴ And such confidence have we through Christ towards God: ⁵ not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account any thing of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.

¹⁶ that he would give you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man;

¹⁰ Finally, brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

¹¹ strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;

²¹ His master said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many: enter into the joy of thy master.

²⁷ They have been so pleased indeed, and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been admitted to a participation in their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in carnal things.

¹⁰ or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes doubtless it was written; because he who ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he who soweth in hope should be partaker of his hope. ¹¹ If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we should reap your corporal things?

⁷ as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I bear you on my heart, both in my bonds and in my defence and the confirmation of the gospel, as being all of you sharers in my grace.

¹⁸ But I have now all things, and abound: I am full, having received from Epaphroditus your bounty, an odour of sweet smell, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

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

¹⁶ But of beneficence, and liberal distribution, be not unmindful: for such sacrifices God accepts with delight.

⁵ Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever services thou performest for the brethren, and for strangers; ⁶ who have borne testimony to thy love before the church; to whom thou wilt perform a good act of service in forwarding them on their journey, in a manner worthy of God. ⁷ For on account of his name they went forth, receiving nothing from the heathen. ⁸ We therefore ought to assist such men, that we may become fellow-labourers in the truth. ⁹ I John, your brother and companion also with you in the tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the island which is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

⁴⁰ Then leaving the prison, they went unto Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and went their way.

⁸ I plundered other churches, receiving a provision from them, in order to minister to you. ⁹ And when I was with you, and in want, I was burdensome to no man; for my want the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied; and on every occasion I have kept myself from being burdensome, and will keep myself. 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. ¹¹ Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth. ¹² But what I do, I will do also, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion, that wherein they boast, they may be found even as we.

¹¹ Have I become a fool in boasting? ye have compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing have I been inferior to the very chief apostles, though I be nothing. ¹² The signs indeed of an apostle have been wrought among you in all patience, in miracles, and wonders, and mighty deeds. ¹³ For what is there wherein ye have been inferior to the other churches, except that I have not been burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong. ¹⁴ Lo! I hold myself ready the third time to come unto you, and I will not burden you; for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up treasure for their parents, but the parents for the children. ¹⁵ And I will most cheerfully spend and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

⁵ for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day even until now;

¹ SO journeying through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of Jews:

⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: for night and day working hard, that we might be no burden to any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

¹⁸ Therefore we wished to have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan prevented us.

⁴⁰ He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. ⁴¹ He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive the reward of a righteous man. ⁴² And whosoever shall give to one of these little ones, if but a cup of cold water to drink, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

³⁴ Then shall the King say to those on his right-hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; ³⁵ for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and ye received me hospitably: ³⁶ naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye took care of me: I was in prison, and ye came to me. ³⁷ Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? ³⁸ When indeed saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? ³⁹ When indeed saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? ⁴⁰ And the king answering shall say to them, Verily I tell you, for as much as ye have done it to one of these my brethren, the very least of them, ye have done it unto me.

¹² Then said he also to the person who had invited him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, invite not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy relations, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also invite thee again, and a recompence be made to thee. ¹³ But when thou makest an entertainment, invite the poor, the maimed, the halt, the blind: ¹⁴ and thou shalt be blessed; because they cannot recompense thee: for a recompence shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just.

⁸ Herein is my Father glorified, that ye should bring forth much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you that ye should go forth and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be permanent: that so whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he may give it you.

³³ The silver, or gold, or apparel of no man have I coveted: ³⁴ but ye yourselves know that these hands have by labour furnished necessaries for my own wants, and for those who were with me.

²⁸ When therefore I have completed this work, and sealed unto them this fruit, I will pass by you into Spain.

¹¹ If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we should reap your corporal things? ¹² if others partake of this power over you, ought not we much more? But we have not used this power, and we suffer all things, that we might not put any obstruction in the way of the gospel of Christ. ¹³ Know ye not that they who are employed about the holy things, are fed from the temple? and they who serve at the altar, partake with the altar? ¹⁴ So also the Lord hath commanded to those who preach the gospel, that they should live by the gospel. ¹⁵ But I have used nothing of these things, nor have I written indeed these things, that it should be so done respecting me; for it would become me to die rather than that any man should make my glorying void.

⁵ have thought it necessary therefore to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and prepare before your promised bounty, that it may be ready as a matter of bounty, and not as [extorted] of covetousness.

⁹ as it is written, "He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor, his righteousness abideth for ever." ¹⁰ Now he that supplieth seed to the sower, shall also supply bread for food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, ¹¹ being in every thing enriched unto all liberality, which [causeth] by us thanksgiving to God. 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;)

¹⁶ I repeat it again, Let no man suppose that I am a fool; but if otherwise, then as a fool receive me, that I too may boast myself a little.

¹¹ filled with fruits of righteousness, which by Jesus Christ are to the glory and praise of God.

¹¹ Not that I mention this with a view to my indigence: for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am, to be content.

⁵ For neither at any time used we insinuating language, as ye know, nor a pretext for covetousness; God is witness:

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;

¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evils, which some coveting, have wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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;

¹⁰ For God is not unjust, to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have demonstrated in his name, having ministered assistance to the saints, and still ministering.

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 And with plausible speeches will they avariciously make gain of you whose condemnation from of old lingereth not, and their perdition doth not slumber.

¹⁵ who forsaking the strait road are gone out of the way, following the path of Balaam the son of Bosor who loved the wages of iniquity.

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.

³ Then Mary taking a pound of unadulterated balm of nard, very valuable, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. ⁴ Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, who was preparing to betray him, ⁵ Wherefore was not this aromatic ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor? 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. ⁷ Then said Jesus, Let her alone: for the day of my burial hath she reserved this. ⁸ For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.

¹⁴ But thanks be to God, who causeth us always to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. ¹⁵ For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God in those who are saved, and in those who perish. ¹⁶ To the one we are the odour of death unto death, to the other the odour of life unto life: and who is sufficient for these things?

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;

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.

²⁵ But I have thought it necessary to send unto you Epaphroditus, my brother, and fellow-labourer, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and the minister who supplied my want. ²⁶ For indeed he greatly longed after you all, and was very sorry that ye had heard that he had been sick.

¹² I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in every state and in all situations I am instructed either to be full or famishing, either to enjoy abundance, or to suffer want:

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 ye also, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices, well pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

³⁰ For after all these things are the nations of the world seeking; and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. ³¹ But seek ye the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be given you over. ³² Fear not, little flock! for your Father takes delight in giving you the kingdom. ³³ Sell all your possessions, and give in charity; make yourselves purses that wax not old, a treasure never failing in the heavens, where no thief approaches, nor doth the moth destroy.

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.

²⁷ Afterwards he spake to Thomas, Bring hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and take thy hand, and thrust into my side: and be not incredulous, but a believer.

⁸ First then I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all, because your faith is proclaimed through the whole world.

⁴ Or despisest thou the riches of his kindness and patience and long-suffering, ignorant that this goodness of God is leading thee to repentance?

¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of the present moment are not worthy to be placed against the future glory that shall be revealed to us.

²³ and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon the vessels of mercy which he had before prepared for glory:

³³ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and how incomprehensible his ways!

¹⁷ For our momentary light affliction worketh for us a transcendently far more exceeding eternal weight of glory;

⁸ And God is able to make all grace abound towards you; that in every case having always all sufficiency, ye may abound unto every good work: ⁹ as it is written, "He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor, his righteousness abideth for ever." ¹⁰ Now he that supplieth seed to the sower, shall also supply bread for food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, ¹¹ being in every thing enriched unto all liberality, which [causeth] by us thanksgiving to God.

²¹ and lest when I come to you again, my God should bow me down, and I should lament over many who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurities, and whoredom, and lasciviousness which they have committed.

⁷ in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

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,

⁷ That he might shew forth in the ages to come the transcendent riches of his grace, in the kindness shewed to us in Christ Jesus.

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;

²⁷ to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

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.

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

¹⁷ Charge the rich in this world not to be lifted up with pride, nor to trust on the stability of wealth, but on the living God, who giveth us richly all things for our enjoyment;

⁴ I thank my God always, making mention of thee in my prayers,

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:

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.

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

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

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

²⁷ to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

⁴ who gave himself for our sins, that he might pluck us out of this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father: ⁵ to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

²¹ to him be glory in the church, in Christ Jesus, unto all generations for ever and ever. Amen.

²³ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

¹⁷ Now to the king eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

²⁵ to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, might and dominion, both now and unto all eternity. Amen.

⁶ and made us kings and priests to his God and Father; to him be glory and might for ever and ever. Amen.

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.

¹² crying with a loud voice, Worthy is the slaughtered lamb to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and might, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

¹² saying, Amen: blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might be to our God for ever and ever. Amen.

¹³ And in the same hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and there were slain in the earthquake seven thousand men of note: and the rest were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

⁷ saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

³ Salute Priscilla and Aquila my fellow-labourers in Christ Jesus: ⁴ (who for my life have laid down their own neck: to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles:) ⁵ and the church which is in their house. Salute Epinetus my beloved, who is the first-fruits of Achaia unto Christ. ⁶ Salute Mary, who laboured in many things to serve us. ⁷ Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and fellow-prisoners, who are eminent among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. ⁸ Salute Amplias my beloved in the Lord. ⁹ Salute Urban, our fellow-labourer in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. ¹⁰ Salute Apelles the approved in Christ. Salute those who are of the family of Aristobulus. ¹¹ Salute Herodion my kinsman. Salute those which belong to the family of Narcissus, who are in the Lord. ¹² Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who have laboured hard in the Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who laboured much in the Lord. ¹³ Salute Rufus elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine. ¹⁴ Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Dermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them. ¹⁵ Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them. ¹⁶ Salute one another with the holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

²¹ There salute you Timothy, my fellow-labourer, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen. ²² I Tertius, who have written this epistle, salute you in the Lord.

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:

² and all the brethren with me, to the churches of Galatia:

³ And even Titus, who was with me, though a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised:

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

¹⁰ There salute you Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner, and Mark nephew to Barnabas, concerning whom ye have received injunctions; if he come unto you, receive him, ¹¹ and Jesus, who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellow-labourers for the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort to me. 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. ¹³ For I bear him witness that he hath great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis. ¹⁴ Luke, the beloved physician, saluteth you, and Demas.

²³ There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus; ²⁴ Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-labourers.

¹³ But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how many evils he hath inflicted on thy saints at Jerusalem:

¹⁶ Salute one another with the holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

¹³ All the saints salute you.

¹³ so that my bonds are manifest in Christ through the whole palace, and all other places;

²⁴ Salute all your presiding ministers, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.

¹³ She who is co-elect at Babylon, saluteth you, and my son Mark.

¹⁴ but I hope shortly to see thee, and we shall speak mouth to mouth. Peace be to thee. The friends salute thee. Salute the friends by name.

²³ Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.

¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen.