Luke 11 Cross References - Living_Oracles

⁴⁸ Surely you are both vouchers and accessories to the deeds of your fathers; for they killed them, and you build their monuments. ⁴⁹ Wherefore, thus says the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and Apostles: some of them they will kill, others they will banish; ⁵⁰ so that the blood of all the prophets, which has been shed since the formation of the world, shall be required of this generation; ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel, to the blood of Zechariah, who fell between the altar and the house of God. Yes, I assure you, all shall be required of this generation. ⁵² Alas, for you, lawyers! because you have carried off the key of knowledge; you have not entered yourselves, and those who entering, you hindered. ⁵³ While he spoke these things, the Scribes and the Pharisees began vehemently to press him with questions, on many points; ⁵⁴ laying snares for him, in order to draw from his own mouth, matter of accusation against him. ¹ It happened that Jesus was praying in a certain place; and when he had done, one of his disciples said to him, Master, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. ² He said to them, When you pray, say, Father, thy name be hallowed; thy Reign come; ³ give us each day our daily bread; ⁴ and forgive us our sins, for even we forgive all who offend us; and lead us not into temptation. ⁵ Moreover, he said to them, Should one of you have a friend, and go to him at midnight, and say, Friend, lend me three loaves; ⁶ for a friend of mine is come off his road to see me, and I have nothing to set before him; ⁷ and he, from within, should answer, Do not disturb me; the door is now locked; I and my children are in bed; I can not rise to give you: ⁸ I tell you, though he will not rise and supply him, because he is his friend; he will, because of his importunity, get up, and give him as many as he wants. ⁹ I likewise tell you, ask, and you shall obtain; seek, and you shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you: ¹⁰ for whosoever asks, obtains; whosoever seeks, finds; and to every one who knocks, the door is opened. ¹¹ What father amongst you, would give his son a stone when he asks bread; or, when he asks a fish, would, instead of a fish, give him a serpent; ¹² or, when he asks an egg, would give him a scorpion? ¹³ If you, therefore, bad as you are, can give good things to your children; how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him! ¹⁴ Again, he was expelling a demon, which caused dumbness; and when the demon was gone out, the dumb spake, and the people wondered. ¹⁵ Some, however, said, He expels demons by Beelzebub, the prince of demons. ¹⁶ Others, to try him, asked of him a sign from heaven. ¹⁷ But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, By intestine broils, any kingdom may be desolated, one family falling after another. ¹⁸ Now, if there be intestine broils in the kingdom of Satan; how can that kingdom subsist? for, you say, that I expel demons by Beelzebub. ¹⁹ Moreover, if I by Beelzebub expel demons; by whom do your sons expel them? Wherefore they shall be your judges. ²⁰ But if I, by the finger of God, expel demons, the Reign of God has overtaken you. ²¹ When the strong one armed, guards his palace, his effects are secure. ²² But if he who is stronger, shall attack and overcome him, he will strip him of his armor, on which he relied, and dispose of his spoils. ²³ He who is not for me, is against me; and he who gathers not with me, scatters. ²⁴ The unclean spirit, when he is gone out of a man, wanders over parched deserts, in search of a resting place. But not finding any, he says, I will return to my house, whence I came. ²⁵ Being come, he finds it swept and embellished. ²⁶ Then he goes and brings seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and having entered, they dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. ²⁷ While he was saying these things, a woman, raising her voice, cried to him, from amidst the crowd, Happy the womb which bore you! and the breast which suckled you! ²⁸ Say, rather, replied he, Happy they who hear the word of God, and obey. ²⁹ When the people crowded together, he said, This is an evil generation. They demand a sign; but no sign shall be given them, only the sign of Jonah. ³⁰ For, as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so shall the Son of Man be to this generation. ³¹ The queen of the south country will arise in the judgment against the men of this generation, and cause them to be condemned: because she came from the extremities of the earth, to hear the wise discourses of Solomon: and behold, here is something greater than Solomon. ³² The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment against this generation, and cause it to be condemned: because they reformed when warned by Jonah: and behold, here is something greater than Jonah. ³³ A lamp is lighted, not to be concealed, or put under a vessel, but on a stand; that they who enter may have light. ³⁴ The lamp of the body is the eye: when, therefore, your eye is sound, the whole body is enlightened; but when your eye is distempered, your body is in darkness. ³⁵ Take heed, then, lest the light which is in you, be darkness. ³⁶ If your whole body, therefore, be enlightened, having no part dark; the whole will be so enlightened, as when a lamp lights you by its flame. ³⁷ While he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him. And he went and placed himself at table. ³⁸ But the Pharisee was surprised to observe that he used no washing before dinner. ³⁹ Then the Lord said to him, As for you, Pharisees, you cleanse the outside of your cups and dishes, while you yourselves are inwardly full of rapacity and malevolence. ⁴⁰ Unthinking men! did not he who made the outside, make the inside also? ⁴¹ Only give in alms what you have, and all things shall be clean to you. ⁴² Alas, for you, Pharisees! because you pay the tithe of mint and rue, and of every kind of herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These things you ought to have practiced, and not to have omitted those. ⁴³ Alas, for you, Pharisees! because you love the most conspicuous seats in synagogues, and salutations in public places. ⁴⁴ Alas, for you! because you are like concealed graves, over which people walk without knowing it. ⁴⁵ Here, one of the lawyers interposing, said, By speaking thus, Rabbi, you reproach us also. ⁴⁶ He answered, Alas, for you, lawyers! also; because you lade men with intolerable burdens-burdens which you yourselves will not so much as touch with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ Alas, for you! because you build the monuments of the prophets, whom your fathers killed.

² Reform, for the Reign of Heaven approaches.

⁷ But he seeing many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to him to receive immersion, said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has prompted you to flee from the impending vengeance?

¹⁰ Jesus answered, Satan, begone; for it is written, "Thou shalt worship the Lord they God, and shall serve him only."

¹⁵ A lamp is lighted to be put, not under a vessel, but on a stand, that it may shine to all the family. ¹⁶ Thus, let your light shine before men, that they, seeing your good actions, may glorify your Father, who is in heaven.

¹⁶ Thus, let your light shine before men, that they, seeing your good actions, may glorify your Father, who is in heaven.

⁴² Give to him that asks you; and him that would borrow from you, put not away.

⁴⁵ that you may be children of your Father in heaven, who makes his sun arise on bad and good, and sends rain on just and unjust.

¹ Take heed that you perform not your religious duties before men, in order to be observed by them; otherwise you will obtain no reward from your Father who is in heaven. ² When, therefore, you give alms, do not proclaim it by sound of trumpet, as the hypocrites do, in the assemblies and in the streets, that they may be extolled by men. Indeed, I say to you, they have received their reward. ³ But you, when you give alms, let not your left hand know what your right hand does; ⁴ that your alms may be in secret; and your Father, to whom nothing is secret, will himself recompense you.

⁶ But you, when you would pray, retire to your closet; and having shut the door, pray to your Father; and your Father, to whom, though he is unseen himself, nothing is secret, will recompense you. ⁷ And in prayer, use not a multiplicity of words as the Pagans do, who think that using many words will gain them acceptance. ⁸ Imitate them not; for your Father knows what things you want, before you ask him. ⁹ Thus, therefore, pray you: Our Father, who art in heaven, thy name be hallowed; ¹⁰ thy Reign come; thy will be done upon earth, as it is in heaven; ¹¹ give us today our daily bread;

¹¹ give us today our daily bread; ¹² forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; ¹³ and lead us not into temptation, but preserve us from evil. ¹⁴ For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you;

¹⁴ For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; ¹⁵ but if you forgive not others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

²² The eye is the lamp of the body. If, therefore, your eye be sound, your whole body will be enlightened; ²³ but if your eye be distempered, your whole body will be dark. And if even the light which is in you be darkness, how great will the darkness be!

²⁹ Yet I affirm that even Solomon in all his glory, was not equally adorned with one of these. ³⁰ If, then, God so array the herbage, which today is in the field, and to-morrow will be cast into the oven, will he not much more array you, O you distrustful!

³² For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

³⁴ Be not then anxious about the morrow: the morrow will be anxious about itself. Sufficient for every day is its own trouble.

⁷ Ask, and you shall obtain; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. ⁸ For whosoever asks, obtains; whosoever seeks, finds; and to every one who knocks, the door shall be opened. ⁹ Who of you men would give his son a stone, when he asks bread;

⁹ Who of you men would give his son a stone, when he asks bread; ¹⁰ or a serpent, when he asks a fish? ¹¹ If you then, though evil, can give good things to your children, how much more will your Father, who is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him?

¹¹ If you then, though evil, can give good things to your children, how much more will your Father, who is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him?

¹⁵ Beware of false teachers, who come to you in the garb of sheep, while inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

²¹ Not every one who says to me, Master, Master, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of my Father, who is in heaven. ²² Many will say to me on that day, Master, Master, have we not taught in thy name, and in thy name performed many miracles? ²³ To whom I will declare, I never acknowledged you. Depart from me, you who practice iniquity. ²⁴ Therefore, whosoever hears these my precepts, and does them, I will compare to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock. ²⁵ For although the rain descended, and the rivers overflowed, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, it fell not, because it was founded upon the rock.

⁴ But Jesus knowing their sentiments, said, Why do you harbor evil thoughts?

³² They were scarcely gone, when a dumb demoniac was presented to him. ³³ The demon being expelled, the dumb spoke, and the people wondered, saying, Nothing like this was ever seen in Israel. ³⁴ But the Pharisees said, He expels the demons by the prince of the demons.

³⁴ But the Pharisees said, He expels the demons by the prince of the demons.

²⁵ It is enough for the disciple to be as his teacher, and for the servant to be as his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more his domestics?

²⁷ What I tell you in the dark, publish in the light; and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the house tops.

³² Whoever, therefore, shall acknowledge me before men, him will I also acknowledge before my Father, who is in heaven.

²⁵ On that occasion Jesus said, I adore thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because, having concealed these things from sages and the learned, thou hast revealed them to babes: ²⁶ yes, Father, because such is thy pleasure.

²² Then was brought to him a demoniac, dumb, and blind, and he cured him, so that he both spoke and saw. ²³ And all the people said with amazement, Is this the son of David? ²⁴ But the Pharisees hearing them, said, This man expels demons only by Beelzebub, prince of the demons.

²⁴ But the Pharisees hearing them, said, This man expels demons only by Beelzebub, prince of the demons. ²⁵ But Jesus, knowing their surmises, said to them, By intestine dissensions any kingdom may be desolated; and no city or family, where such dissensions are, can subsist.

²⁵ But Jesus, knowing their surmises, said to them, By intestine dissensions any kingdom may be desolated; and no city or family, where such dissensions are, can subsist. ²⁶ Now if Satan expel Satan, his kingdom is torn by intestine dissensions; how can it then subsist?

²⁶ Now if Satan expel Satan, his kingdom is torn by intestine dissensions; how can it then subsist?

²⁶ Now if Satan expel Satan, his kingdom is torn by intestine dissensions; how can it then subsist? ²⁷ Besides, if I expel demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons expel them? Wherefore they shall be your judges.

²⁷ Besides, if I expel demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons expel them? Wherefore they shall be your judges.

²⁷ Besides, if I expel demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons expel them? Wherefore they shall be your judges. ²⁸ But if I expel demons by the Spirit of God, the Reign of God has overtaken you.

²⁸ But if I expel demons by the Spirit of God, the Reign of God has overtaken you.

²⁸ But if I expel demons by the Spirit of God, the Reign of God has overtaken you.

²⁸ But if I expel demons by the Spirit of God, the Reign of God has overtaken you. ²⁹ For how can one enter the strong one's house, and plunder his goods, unless he first overpower the strong one? Then indeed he may plunder his house.

²⁹ For how can one enter the strong one's house, and plunder his goods, unless he first overpower the strong one? Then indeed he may plunder his house.

²⁹ For how can one enter the strong one's house, and plunder his goods, unless he first overpower the strong one? Then indeed he may plunder his house. ³⁰ He who is not for me, is against me; and he who gathers not with me, scatters.

³⁰ He who is not for me, is against me; and he who gathers not with me, scatters. ³¹ Wherefore I say to you, though every other sin and detraction in men is pardonable, their detraction from the Spirit is unpardonable: ³² for whosoever shall inveigh against the Son of Man may obtain pardon; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, shall never be pardoned, either in the present state or the future. ³³ Either call the tree good, and its fruit good; or call the tree bad, and its fruit bad: for we distinguish the tree by its fruit.

³³ Either call the tree good, and its fruit good; or call the tree bad, and its fruit bad: for we distinguish the tree by its fruit. ³⁴ Offspring of vipers! how can you that are evil speak good things, since it is out of the fullness of the heart that the mouth speaks.

³⁴ Offspring of vipers! how can you that are evil speak good things, since it is out of the fullness of the heart that the mouth speaks. ³⁵ The good man, out of his good treasure, produces good things; the bad man, out of his bad treasure, produces bad things.

³⁸ Then some of the Scribes and Pharisees interposed, saying, Rabbi, we desire to see a sign for you.

³⁸ Then some of the Scribes and Pharisees interposed, saying, Rabbi, we desire to see a sign for you. ³⁹ He answering, said to them, An evil and adulterous race demands a sign; but no sign shall be given it, but the sign of the Prophet Jonah.

³⁹ He answering, said to them, An evil and adulterous race demands a sign; but no sign shall be given it, but the sign of the Prophet Jonah. ⁴⁰ For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the bosom of the earth. ⁴¹ The Ninevites will stand up in the judgment against this race, and cause it to be condemned, because they reformed when they were warned by Jonah; and behold here something greater than Jonah. ⁴² The Queen of the South country will arise in the judgment against this race, and cause it to be condemned; because she came from the extremities of the earth to hear the wise discourses of Solomon; and behold here something greater than Solomon.

⁴² The Queen of the South country will arise in the judgment against this race, and cause it to be condemned; because she came from the extremities of the earth to hear the wise discourses of Solomon; and behold here something greater than Solomon. ⁴³ An unclean spirit, when he is gone out of a man, wanders over the parched deserts in search of a resting-place. And not finding any, ⁴⁴ he says, I will return to my house whence I came; and being come, he finds it empty, swept, and garnished. ⁴⁵ Then he goes, and brings with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and having entered, they dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first: thus will it fare with this evil race.

⁴⁵ Then he goes, and brings with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and having entered, they dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first: thus will it fare with this evil race.

⁴⁸ He answering, said to him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brothers? ⁴⁹ The stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, Behold my mother and my brothers. ⁵⁰ For whosoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, is my brother, and sister, and mother.

¹¹ He answering, said to them, Because it is your privilege, and not theirs, to know the secrets of the Reign of Heaven. ¹² For to him that has, more shall be given, and he shall abound; but from him that has not, even that which he has shall be taken.

⁵² He added, Every scribe, therefore, instructed for the Reign of Heaven, is like a householder, who brings out of his storehouse new things and old.

² Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders; for they was not their hands before meals. ³ Jesus answering, said to them, Why do you yourselves by your tradition, transgress the commandment of God?

¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed malicious contrivances, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, calumnies.

²² and behold! a Canaanitish woman of these territories came to him, crying, Master, Son of David, have pity on me; my daughter is grievously afflicted by a demon. ²³ But he gave her no answer. Then his disciples interposed, and entreated him, saying, Dismiss her, for she clamors after us. ²⁴ He answering said, My mission is only to the lost sheep of the stock of Israel. ²⁵ She, nevertheless, advanced, and prostrating herself before him, said, O Lord, help me. ²⁶ He replied, It is not seemly to take the children's bread, and throw it to the dogs. ²⁷ True, Sir, returned she. Yet even the dogs are allowed the crumbs which fall from their master's table. ²⁸ Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman! great is your faith. Be it to you as you desire. And that instant her daughter was healed.

¹ Thither some Pharisees and Sadducees repaired, who, to try him, desired that he would show them a sign in the sky. ² He answering, said to them, In the evening you say, it will be fair weather, for the sky is red: ³ and in the morning, There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and lowering. You can judge aright of the appearance of the sky, but can you not discern the signs of the times? ⁴ An evil and adulterous race demands a sign, but no sign shall be given it, except the sign of the Prophet Jonah. Then leaving them he departed.

³⁵ Thus will my heavenly Father treat every one of you, who forgives not, from his heart, his brother.

²² Whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, with faith, you shall receive.

³¹ Now, which of the two obeyed his father? They said, The first. Jesus replied, Indeed, I say to you, even the publicans and harlots show you the way into the kingdom of God.

³⁵ But they seized his servants, beat one, drove away with stones another, and killed another. ³⁶ Again he sent other servants more respectable; but they received the same treatment; ³⁷ finally he sent his son to them: for he said, They will reverence my son. ³⁸ But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir, come, let us kill him, and keep possession of his inheritance.

⁶ And the rest seizing his servants, abused and killed them.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees retired, and having consulted how they might entrap him in his words,

¹⁸ Jesus, perceiving their malice, said, Dissemblers, why would you entangle me?

³⁵ Then, one of them, a lawyer, trying him, proposed this question,

² saying, The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' chair; ³ therefore observe and do whatsoever they enjoin you; nevertheless, follow not their example; for they say and do not. ⁴ Heavy and intolerable burdens they prepare for other men's shoulders, burdens to which they themselves will not put a finger.

⁶ and love the uppermost places at entertainments, and the principal seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and salutations in public places; and to hear men addressing them, cry, Rabbi, Rabbi.

¹³ But alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees! hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; and will neither enter yourselves, nor permit others that would, to enter.

¹⁵ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees! hypocrites! because you traverse sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained, you make him a son of hell doubly more than yourselves.

¹⁷ Foolish and blind! which is more sacred, the gold, or the temple that consecrates the gold?

²³ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees! hypocrites! because you pay the tithe of mint, dill, and cummin, and omit the more important articles of the law, justice, humanity, and fidelity. These you ought to have practiced without omitting those.

²⁵ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees! hypocrites! because you cleanse the outside of those cups and platters, which within are laid with rapine and iniquity. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee! begin with cleansing the inside of the cup, and of the platter, if you would make even the outside clean.

²⁶ Blind Pharisee! begin with cleansing the inside of the cup, and of the platter, if you would make even the outside clean. ²⁷ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees! hypocrites! because you resemble whitened sepulchers, which without indeed, are beautiful, but within are full of corruption, and of dead men's bones.

²⁷ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees! hypocrites! because you resemble whitened sepulchers, which without indeed, are beautiful, but within are full of corruption, and of dead men's bones. ²⁸ Thus you outwardly appear righteous to men; but are inwardly fraught with subtlety and injustice. ²⁹ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees! hypocrites! because you build the sepulchers of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the righteous, ³⁰ and say, Had we lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been their accomplices in the slaughter of the prophets. ³¹ Thus you testify against yourself, that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

³¹ Thus you testify against yourself, that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³² Fill you up, then, the measure of your fathers. ³³ Ah! serpents, offspring of vipers! how can you escape the punishment of hell? ³⁴ Therefore, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will scourge in your synagogues, and banish from city to city; ³⁵ so that all the innocent blood shed upon the earth shall be charged upon you, from the blood of righteous Abel, to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the altar and the sanctuary.

³⁵ so that all the innocent blood shed upon the earth shall be charged upon you, from the blood of righteous Abel, to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the altar and the sanctuary. ³⁶ Indeed, I say to you, all shall be charged upon this generation.

¹⁰ While they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready, went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.

³⁴ Then will the King say to those at his right hand: Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: ³⁵ for I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you lodged me; I was a stranger, and you lodged me; ³⁶ I was naked, and you clothed me; I was sick and you assisted me; I was in prison, and you visited me. ³⁷ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and feed thee; or thirsty, and give thee drink? ³⁸ When did we see thee a stranger, and lodged thee; or naked, and clothed thee? ³⁹ When did we see thee sick, or in prison, and visited thee? ⁴⁰ The King will reply to them, Indeed, I say to you, that inasmuch as you have done this to any the least of these my brethren, you have done it to me.

¹¹ For you have the poor always amongst you, but me you have not always.

⁴¹ Watch and pray, that you be not overcome by temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

⁵⁰ so that the blood of all the prophets, which has been shed since the formation of the world, shall be required of this generation;

⁵² Alas, for you, lawyers! because you have carried off the key of knowledge; you have not entered yourselves, and those who entering, you hindered.

¹ Meantime, while the crowd, in myriads flocked about him, so that they trod one upon another, he said, addressing himself to his disciples, Above all things, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

²⁰ But God said to him, Fool! this very night your soul is required of you. Whose, then, shall those things be, which you have provided?

³³ Sell your goods and give alms; provide yourselves purses which wear not out; treasure inexhaustible in heaven, where no thieves approach, where nothing is spoiled by worms.

³⁶ Simpleton! what you sow is not made alive, except it die.

² Favor to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ For not even do the circumcised themselves keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

¹⁷ Henceforth let no one give me trouble, for I bear the scars of the Lord Jesus in my body.

² Favor to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ Be sober, be vigilant: your adversary, the devil, is walking about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour:

² And they, with a design to accuse Jesus, watched him, to see whether he would heal the man on the Sabbath.

²² And the scribes who came from Jerusalem, said, He is confederate with Beelzebub, and expels demons by the prince of demons.) ²³ Jesus having called them, said to them by similitudes, How can Satan expel Satan?

²³ Jesus having called them, said to them by similitudes, How can Satan expel Satan? ²⁴ If a kingdom be torn by factions, that kingdom can not subsist.

²⁴ If a kingdom be torn by factions, that kingdom can not subsist. ²⁵ And if a family be torn by factions, that family can not subsist.

²⁵ And if a family be torn by factions, that family can not subsist. ²⁶ Thus, if Satan fight against himself, and be divided, he can not subsist, but is near his end.

²⁶ Thus, if Satan fight against himself, and be divided, he can not subsist, but is near his end. ²⁷ No one who enters the strong one's house, can plunder his goods, unless he first overpower the strong one; then, indeed, he may plunder his house.

²⁷ No one who enters the strong one's house, can plunder his goods, unless he first overpower the strong one; then, indeed, he may plunder his house.

²⁷ No one who enters the strong one's house, can plunder his goods, unless he first overpower the strong one; then, indeed, he may plunder his house. ²⁸ Indeed, I say to you, that though all other sins in the sons of men are pardonable, and whatever slanders they shall utter; ²⁹ whosoever shall speak slanderously against the Holy Spirit, shall never be pardoned, but be liable to eternal punishment. ³⁰ He said this because they affirmed he was leagued with an unclean spirit.

¹² that they may not perceive what they look at, or understand what they hear; lest they should be reclaimed, and obtain the forgiveness of their sins.

²¹ He said further, Is a lamp brought to be put under a vessel, or under a bed, and not to be set on a stand? ²² For there is no secret, that is not discovered; nor has anything been concealed, which is not to be divulged.

²⁴ He said, moreover, Consider what you hear: with the measure with which you give, you shall receive. ²⁵ For to him who has, more shall be given; but from him who has not, even that which he has shall be taken.

¹⁰ And he earnestly entreated him not to drive them out of the country.

² And observing some of his disciples eating with impure hands, that is, unwashed hands; ³ (for the Pharisees, and indeed all the Jews who observed the tradition of the elders, eat not until they have washed their hands by pouring a little water upon them: ⁴ and if they be come from the market, by dipping them; and many other usages there are, which they have adopted, as immersions of cups and pots, and brazen vessels and beds:) ⁵ then the Pharisees and Scribes asked him, Whence comes it that your disciples observe not the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?

²² insatiable desires, malevolence, fraud, immodesty, envy, calumny, arrogance, levity.

³² And they brought to him a deaf man, who had also an impediment in his speech, and entreated him to lay his hand upon him. ³³ Jesus having taken him aside from the crowd, spit upon his own fingers, and put them into the man's ears, and touched his tongue. ³⁴ Then looking up to heaven, and sighing, he said, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. ³⁵ Immediately his ears were opened, and his tongue loosed, and he spoke distinctly. ³⁶ He charged them to tell no person: but the more he charged them, the more they published it, ³⁷ saying with inexpressible amazement, He does everything well: he makes both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

¹¹ Thence some Pharisees came, who began to argue with him; and in order to prove him, demanded of him a sign in the sky. ¹² Jesus answered with a deep groan, Wherefore does this generation require a sign? Indeed, I say to you, that no sign shall be given to this generation.

¹⁸ Is your understanding still blinded? Have you no us of your eyes, or of your ears? or do you not remember

³⁸ For whosoever shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him likewise the Son of man will be ashamed, when he shall come in the glory of his Father, accompanied by the holy angels.

²⁵ When Jesus saw that the people came crowding upon him, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, Dumb and deaf spirit, come out of him, I command you, and enter no more into him.

⁴⁰ For whosoever is not against you is for you.

²⁴ for which reason I assure you, that what things soever you pray for, if you believe that you shall obtain them, they shall be yours.

¹³ Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders, leaving Jesus, went away, and sent to him certain Pharisees and Herodians, to catch him in his words.

³⁸ Further, in teaching, he said to them, Beware of the scribes, who affect to walk in robes; who love salutations in public places, ³⁹ and the principal seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost places at entertainments;

³⁷ Now what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.

²⁸ When the angel entered, he said to her, Hail, favorite of heaven! the Lord be with you, happiest of women!

⁴² and cried with a loud voice, You are the most blessed of women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.

⁴⁸ because he has not disdained the low condition of his handmaid; for henceforth, all posterity will pronounce me happy.

²² and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in a bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my Son, the beloved; in thee I delight.

¹² In those days, Jesus retired to a mountain to pray, and spent the whole night in an oratory.

⁴⁷ Whoever comes to me and hears my precepts, and practices them, I will show you whom he resembles: ⁴⁸ he resembles a man who built a house, and digging deep, laid the foundation upon the rock: and when an inundation came, the torrent broke upon that house, but could not shake it; for it was founded upon rock.

⁶ Then Jesus went with them; and when he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, to say, Master, trouble not yourself; for I have not deserved that you should come under my roof;

¹³ When the Lord saw her, he had pity upon her, and said to her, Weep not.

³⁶ Now one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him: and he went into the Pharisee's house, and placed himself at table.

¹³ By the rock are meant those, who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; yet not having it rooted in them, are but temporary believers; for in the time of trial they fall off.

¹⁶ A lamp is never lighted to be covered with a vessel, or put under a bed; but to be set on a stand, that they who enter may see the light. ¹⁷ For there is no secret which shall not be discovered; nor anything concealed which shall not be known, and become public.

²¹ But he, answering, said to them, My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God, and obey.

¹⁸ Afterward, Jesus having withdrawn from the multitude to pray, apart with his disciples, asked them, saying, Who do people say that I am?

²⁸ About eight days after this discourse, he took with him Peter, and John, and James, and went up on a mountain to pray.

³⁵ From the cloud a voice came, which said, This is my Son, the beloved; hear him.

⁴¹ Then, Jesus answering, said, O incredulous and perverse generation! how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring your son hither.

⁴⁹ Then John replied, Master, we saw one expelling demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he consorts not with us. ⁵⁰ Jesus answered, Forbid not such; for whosoever is not against us, is for us.

⁹ cure the sick, and say to them, The Reign of God comes upon you.

⁹ cure the sick, and say to them, The Reign of God comes upon you. ¹⁰ But whatever city you enter, if they do not receive you, go out into the streets, and say, ¹¹ The very dirt of your streets, which cleaves to us, we wipe off against you; know, however, that the Reign of God draws nigh to you.

¹¹ The very dirt of your streets, which cleaves to us, we wipe off against you; know, however, that the Reign of God draws nigh to you.

¹⁹ Lo! I empowered you to turn on serpents, and scorpions, and all the might of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.

² He said to them, When you pray, say, Father, thy name be hallowed; thy Reign come;

¹⁵ Some, however, said, He expels demons by Beelzebub, the prince of demons. ¹⁶ Others, to try him, asked of him a sign from heaven.

¹⁸ Now, if there be intestine broils in the kingdom of Satan; how can that kingdom subsist? for, you say, that I expel demons by Beelzebub. ¹⁹ Moreover, if I by Beelzebub expel demons; by whom do your sons expel them? Wherefore they shall be your judges.

³¹ The queen of the south country will arise in the judgment against the men of this generation, and cause them to be condemned: because she came from the extremities of the earth, to hear the wise discourses of Solomon: and behold, here is something greater than Solomon.

³¹ The queen of the south country will arise in the judgment against the men of this generation, and cause them to be condemned: because she came from the extremities of the earth, to hear the wise discourses of Solomon: and behold, here is something greater than Solomon. ³² The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment against this generation, and cause it to be condemned: because they reformed when warned by Jonah: and behold, here is something greater than Jonah.

⁴⁵ Here, one of the lawyers interposing, said, By speaking thus, Rabbi, you reproach us also.

⁴⁵ Here, one of the lawyers interposing, said, By speaking thus, Rabbi, you reproach us also. ⁴⁶ He answered, Alas, for you, lawyers! also; because you lade men with intolerable burdens-burdens which you yourselves will not so much as touch with one of your fingers.

⁴⁶ He answered, Alas, for you, lawyers! also; because you lade men with intolerable burdens-burdens which you yourselves will not so much as touch with one of your fingers.

²⁴ Force your entrance through the straight gate; for many, I assure you, will request to be admitted, who shall not prevail. ²⁵ If once the master of the house shall have arisen and locked the door, and you standing without and knocking, say, Master, Master, open to us; he will answer, I know not whence you are.

²⁵ If once the master of the house shall have arisen and locked the door, and you standing without and knocking, say, Master, Master, open to us; he will answer, I know not whence you are.

¹ It happened on a Sabbath, when he was gone to eat at the house of one of the rulers, who was a Pharisee, that while the Pharisees were observing him,

⁷ Observing how eager the guests were to possess the higher places at the table, he gave them this injunction, ⁸ When you are invited to a wedding, do not occupy the highest place at table, lest one more considerable than you be bidden, ⁹ and he who invited you both, come and say to you, Give place to this man; and you should then rise with confusion, to take the lowest place. ¹⁰ But when you are invited, go to the lowest place, that when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher; for that will do you honor before the company. ¹¹ For whoever exalts himself, shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself, shall be exalted. ¹² He said also to him who had invited him, When you give a dinner, or a supper, do not invited your rich friends, brothers, cousins, or neighbors, lest they also invite you, in their turn, and you be recompensed. ¹³ But when you give an entertainment, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind; ¹⁴ and you shall be happy; for, as they have not the means to requite you, you shall be requited at the resurrection of the righteous.

²⁵ As great multitudes traveled along with him, he turned to them, and said, ²⁶ If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters; nay, and himself, too; he can not be my disciple.

³⁰ but no sooner did this, your son, return, who had squandered your living on prostitutes, than you killed for him the fatted calf. ³¹ Son, replied the father, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours: ³² it was but reasonable that we should rejoice and be merry; because this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.

⁹ Therefore, I say to you, with the deceitful riches procure to yourself friends, who, after your discharge, may receive you into the eternal mansion.

¹⁵ But he said to them, As for you, you make yourselves pass upon men for righteous, but God knows your hearts; for that which is admired of men is abhorred of God.

¹ He also showed them, by a parable, that they ought to persist in prayer, without growing weary.

¹ He also showed them, by a parable, that they ought to persist in prayer, without growing weary. ² In a certain city, said he, there was a judge, who neither feared God nor regarded man. ³ And there was a widow in that city, who came to him, saying, Do me justice on my adversary. ⁴ For some time he refused; be afterward he argued thus with himself, Although I neither fear God, nor regard man; ⁵ yet, because this widow importunes me, I will judge her cause; let she come perpetually, and plague me. ⁶ Mark, said the Lord, what the unjust judge determined. ⁷ And will not God avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he linger in their cause? ⁸ I assure you, he will suddenly avenge them. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find this belief upon the earth?

¹² I fast twice a-week. I give tithes of all that I possess.

²² Hearing this, Jesus said to him, Yet in one thing you are deficient: sell all that you have, and distribute to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: then come and follow me.

⁸ But Zaccheus, presenting himself before Jesus, said, Master, half of my goods I will give to the poor; and if in anything I have wronged any man, I will restore fourfold.

²² He answered, Out of your own mouth, you malignant servant, I will condemn you. Did you know that I am a hard master, exacting what I did not give, and reaping what I did not sow?

³⁹ Upon this, some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, Rabbi, rebuke your disciples. ⁴⁰ He answered, I tell you, that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.

²⁰ And they watched him, and set spies upon him, instructing them to personate conscientious men, and surprise him in his words, that they might deliver him to the power and authority of the procurator.

²⁷ Afterward, some of the Sadducees, who deny a future state, came to him

⁴⁶ Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in robes, and affect salutations in public places, and the principal seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost places at feasts;

¹⁶ And you shall be given up even by parents, and brothers, and kinsmen, and friends; and some of you will be put to death. ¹⁷ And, on my account, you shall be universally hated.

³⁹ Then he went out, and repaired, as he was wont, to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. ⁴⁰ Being arrived there, he said to them, Pray that you may not yield to temptation. ⁴¹ Then, being withdrawn from them about a stone's cast; he kneeled down and prayed, ⁴² saying, Father, if thou wilt, take this cup away from me; nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done. ⁴³ And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. ⁴⁴ And being in an agony of grief, he prayed the more fervently, and his sweat fell like clotted blood to the ground. ⁴⁵ Having risen from prayer, and returned to the disciples, he found them sleeping, oppressed with grief; ⁴⁶ and said to them, Why do you sleep? Arise, and pray, lest the trial overcome you.

²⁹ for the days are coming, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, the wombs which never bare, and the breasts which never gave suck!

²⁵ Then he said to them, O thoughtless men, and backward to believe things which have been all predicted by the prophets!

⁴⁶ and said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved the Messiah to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day; ⁴⁷ and that reformation and the remission of sins should be proclaimed, in his name, among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

⁴⁷ and that reformation and the remission of sins should be proclaimed, in his name, among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

⁴⁵ Philip meets Nathanael, and says to him, We have found the person described by Moses in the law, and by the prophets, Jesus, the son of Joseph, of Nazareth. ⁴⁶ Nathanael says to him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip answered, Come and see. ⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said, concerning him, Behold an Israelite, indeed, in whom is no guile. ⁴⁸ Nathanael said to him, Whence do you know me? Jesus answered, I saw you when you were under the fig tree, before Philip called you. ⁴⁹ Nathanael replying, said to him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.

¹⁸ Therefore, the Jews answered, and said to him, By what miracle do you show us your title to do these things?

²⁵ He needed not to receive from others a character of any man, for he knew what was in man.

⁵ Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a man be born of water and Spirit, he can not enter the kingdom of God. ⁶ That which is born of the flesh is flesh; that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

²⁵ Now John's disciples had a dispute with a Jew, about purification.

¹⁰ Jesus replied, If you knew the bounty of God, and who it is that says to you, Give me some drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.

¹⁴ Jesus, afterward, finding him in the temple, said to him, Behold, you are cured; sin no more, lest something worse befall you.

⁴² but I know you, that you are strangers to the love of God.

²⁷ Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures through eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you; for to him the Father, that is, God, has given his attestation. ²⁸ They asked him, therefore, What are the works which God requires us to do? ²⁹ Jesus answered, This is the work which God requires-- that you believe on him whom he has sent forth. ³⁰ They replied, What miracles, then, do you, that seeing it, we may believe you? What do you perform?

³⁰ They replied, What miracles, then, do you, that seeing it, we may believe you? What do you perform? ³¹ Our fathers eat the manna in the desert; as it is written, "He gave them bread of heaven to eat." ³² Jesus then said to them, Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread of heaven: but my Father gives you the true bread of heaven: ³³ for the bread of God is that which descends from heaven, and gives life to the world.

⁷ The world can not hate you; but me it hates, because I disclose the wickedness of its actions.

²⁰ The people answered, You are possessed. Who seeks to kill you.

³⁷ On the last, and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink. ³⁸ He who believes on me, as the scripture says, shall be like a cistern, whence rivers of living waters shall flow. ³⁹ This he spoke of the Spirit, which they who believed on him were to receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

⁴⁷ The Pharisees replied, Are you also seduced? ⁴⁸ Has any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees, believed on him?

⁴⁸ Has any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees, believed on him?

⁴⁸ Has any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees, believed on him? ⁴⁹ But this populace, which knows not the law, is accursed.

⁴⁹ But this populace, which knows not the law, is accursed. ⁵⁰ Nicodemus, one of themselves, (he who came to Jesus by night,) ⁵¹ said to them, Does our law permit us to condemn a man, without hearing him, and knowing what he has done? ⁵² They answered him, Are you also a Galilean? Search, and you will find that prophets arise not out of Galilee.

⁴⁴ The devil is your father, and the desires of your father you will gratify: he was a manslayer from the beginning; he swerved from the truth, because there was no veracity in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks suitably to his character; for he is a liar, and the father of lying.

⁴⁸ The Jews then answered, Have we not reason to say, You are a Samaritan, and have a demon?

⁵² The Jews then said to him, Now we are certain that you have a demon: Abraham is dead, and the prophets; yet you say, Whoever keeps my word, shall never taste death.

²⁴ A second time, therefore, they called the man, who had been born blind, and said to him, Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner. ²⁵ He replied, Whether he be a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, I now see. ²⁶ They said to him again, What did he do to you? How did he make you see? ²⁷ He answered, I told you before; did you not hear? Why would you hear it repeated? Will you, also, be his disciples? ²⁸ They reviled him and said, You are his disciple. As for us, we are disciples of Moses. ²⁹ We know that God spoke to Moses: as for this man, we know not whence he is. ³⁰ The man replied, This is surprising, that you know not whence he is, although he has given me sight. ³¹ We know that God hears not sinners; but if any man worship God, and obey him, that man he hears. ³² Never was it heard before, that any man gave sight to one born blind. ³³ If this man were not from God, he could do nothing. ³⁴ They replied, You were altogether born in sin, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.

³⁹ And Jesus said, For judgment am I come into this world, that they who see not, may see; and that they who see, may become blind. ⁴⁰ Some Pharisees, who were present, hearing this, said to him, Are we also blind?

⁴⁰ Some Pharisees, who were present, hearing this, said to him, Are we also blind? ⁴¹ Jesus answered, If you were blind, you would not have sin: but you say, We see: therefore your sin remains.

²⁰ Many of them said, He has a demon, and is mad: why do you hear him?

⁹ Jesus replied, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbles not: because he sees the light of the world:

⁶ This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the purse, and carried what was put in it.

⁴⁶ I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believes on me, may not remain in darkness.

² Now while they were at the supper, (the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,)

¹⁷ Happy are you, who know these things, provided you practice them.

¹³ and will do whatsoever you shall ask in my name. That the Father may be glorified in the Son,

⁷ If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you may ask what you will, and it shall be granted you.

¹⁶ It is not you who have chosen me; but it is I who have chosen you, and ordained you to go and bear fruit: fruit which will prove permanent, that the Father may give you whatsoever you shall ask him in my name.

² They will expel you from the synagogue; nay, the time is coming, when, whosoever kills you, will think he offers sacrifice to God.

²³ On that day, you will put no questions to me. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatsoever you shall ask the Father, in my name, he will give you. ²⁴ Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be complete.

¹⁵ I do not pray thee to remove them out of the world, but to preserve them from evil.

⁸ But you shall receive power by the Holy Spirit coming upon you, and shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and even to the remotest parts of the earth.

³⁸ And Peter said to them, Reform, and be each of you immersed in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

⁴⁶ Moreover, they continued unanimously in the temple every day; and breaking bread from house to house, they partook of their food with joy and simplicity of heart,

¹⁷ Nevertheless, that it may not spread any further among the people, let us charge them, with the severest threats, to speak no more to any man in this name. ¹⁸ And having called them, they charged them neither to speak nor teach any more in the name of Jesus.

³ But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart, that you should attempt to impose on the Holy Spirit, and to secrete a part of the price of the land?

⁴⁰ And they yielded to him; and having called in the Apostles, and scourged them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them.

⁵¹ Oh! stiff necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do you.

⁵¹ Oh! stiff necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do you. ⁵² Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? yes, they slew those who spoke before, of the coming of that Righteous One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers.

⁵⁷ But crying out with a loud voice, they stopped their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord.

³ But Saul made havoc of the congregation, entering into houses, and dragging men and whom, whom he committed to prison.

²¹ You have no part nor lot in this matter; for your heart is not upright in the sight of God. ²² Reform, therefore, from this your wickedness; and beg of God, if, indeed, the thought of your heart may be forgiven you; ²³ for I perceive that you are in the gall of bitterness, and bond of iniquity.

¹ But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest, ² and petitioned for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus; that, if he found any of that way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

³⁶ And there was at Joppa, a certain female disciple, named Tabitha, who, by interpretation, is called Dorcas; and she was full of good works, and alm-deeds, which she did. ³⁷ And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died. And when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper chamber. ³⁸ And as Lydda was near to Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, entreating him that he would not delay to come to them. ³⁹ And Peter arose, and went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber; and all the widows stood by him weeping; and showing the coats and mantles, which Dorcas made, while she was with them.

⁴ And having fixed his eyes upon him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your alms are come up, as a memorial before God. ⁵ And now send men to Joppa and bring hither Simon, whose surname is Peter: ⁶ he lodges with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the seaside.

¹⁵ And the voice said to him again, the second time, Those things which God has cleansed, do not you call common.

³¹ and said, Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your alms are remembered before God: ³² send, therefore, to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he lodges in the house of one Simon, a tanner, by the seaside; who, when he is come, shall speak to you.

²⁹ And the disciples determined, that, according to the respective abilities of each, they should send to the assistance of the brethren who dwelt in Judea.

¹ Now, about that time, Herod, the king, laid hands on some of the congregation, to afflict them. ² And he slew James, the brother of John, with the sword.

¹¹ And, behold, now the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, and not see the sun for a time. And, immediately, a mist and darkness fell upon him; and going about, he sought some to lead him by the hand.

²⁵ And now, behold, I know that you all, with whom I have conversed, proclaiming the kingdom of God, shall not see my face any more.

⁴ who persecuted this way to the death; binding both men and women, and delivering them into prisons: ⁵ as also the high priest is my witness, and all the national senate: from whom also having received letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus; to bring those that were there bound, to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.

²⁰ and when the blood of Stephen thy martyr was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting, and kept the garments of those who slew him.

³ Then Paul said to him, God is about to strike you, you whited wall! For do you sit to judge me according to the law, and yet, in violation of the law, command me to be struck?

¹⁷ Now, after several years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:

¹⁰ Which, accordingly, I did in Jerusalem; and I shut up many of the saints in prison, having received authority from the chief priests. And when some of them were killed, I gave my vote against them: ¹¹ and frequently punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme: and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; that they may receive forgiveness of sons, and an inheritance amongst the sanctified, through faith in me.

²³ And having appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging; to whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them of the things that relate to Jesus; both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning till evening. ²⁴ And some were persuaded by the things which were spoken; and some believed not. ²⁵ And disagreeing with each other, they broke up the assembly: Paul saying this one word, Surely, well did the Holy Spirit speak, by Isaiah the prophet, to our fathers, ²⁶ when he said, "Go to this people and say, Hearing you will hear, and will not understand; and seeing you will see, and will not perceive: ²⁷ for the heart of this people is become gross, and with their ears they hear heavily; and they have drawn their eyes together, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them." ²⁸ Therefore be it known to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear it.

⁷ To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints; favor be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

²² Professing to be wise men, they became fools:

⁷ eternal life, indeed, to them who, by perseverance in well-doing, seek glory, honor, and immortality:

¹⁹ and boast that you yourselves are a guide of the blind, a light of them who are in darkness, ²⁰ and instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the representation of knowledge and of truth in the law: ²¹ you, then, who teach another; do you not teach yourself? You who proclaim, Do not steal; do you steal? ²² You who command, Do not commit adultery; do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols; do you rob temples? ²³ You who boast in the law; by the breaking of the law, do you dishonor God?

²⁷ And will not the uncircumcision which by nature fulfills the law, condemn you, a transgressor of law, though in possession of the scriptures and circumcision?

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever things the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and that all the world may be liable to punishment before God.

⁹ Much more, then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. ¹⁰ For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son; much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

¹⁷ For if by the offense of the one, death reigned by the one; much more shall they who receive the abundance of favor, and of the gift of justification, reign in life, by the one-Jesus Christ.)

¹⁸ For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, there dwells no good thing: for to desire what is good, is easy for me; but to do it, I find difficult.

¹⁵ For you have not received the spirit of bondage, again, to fear; but you have received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.

²⁶ In like manner, also, the Spirit helps our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for, as we ought; however, the Spirit himself intercedes for us, in sighs, which can not be uttered. ²⁷ But he who searches the hearts, knows the mind of the Spirit; that, according to the will of God, he makes intercession for the saints.

³² He, certainly, who spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all; how will he not, with him, also, graciously give us all things?

⁸ As it is written, "God has given them a spirit of deep sleep; eyes not seeing, and ears not hearing, until this present day." ⁹ And David says, "Let their table be for a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense to them. ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened, so as not to see; and let them bow down their back continually.

¹⁰ In brotherly love, be tenderly affectionate to one another-in honor, prefer one another.

¹⁴ I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; yet, to him who accounts anything to be unclean, to that man it is unclean. ¹⁵ Now, if your brother be hurt through your meat, you no longer walk as love requires. Do not destroy him with your meat for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Let not your good, then, be an evil spoken of. ¹⁷ For the Reign of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy, in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ And he who, by these things, serves Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved by men.

³⁰ Now, I beseech you, brethren, by the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me, by prayers for me to God;

³ favor and peace be with you from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁹ Therefore, it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will set aside the knowledge of the prudent." ²⁰ Where is the wise man? where the scribe? where the disputers of this world? Has not God shown the wisdom of this world to be folly? ²¹ For, when, in the wisdom of God, the world, through wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, through the foolishness of this proclamation, to save them who believe. ²² And though the Jews demand a sign, and the Greeks seek wisdom;

²⁴ but to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.

³⁰ Of him, therefore, you are in Christ Jesus, who is become to us wisdom from God, justification, also, and sanctification, and redemption.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you think to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, "He entangled the wise in their own craftiness." ²⁰ And again, "The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain."

¹⁹ For, though I be a freeman, with respect to all; I have made myself a servant to all, that I might gain the more. ²⁰ So, to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to those under the law, (though not under the law) as under the law, that I might gain those under the law: ²¹ to those without law, as without law, (not being without law to God, but under law to Christ,) that I might gain those that are without law. ²² To the weak, I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. To all, I have become all things, that, by all means, I might same some. ²³ Now, this I do for the sake of the gospel, and that I may become a joint partaker of its rewards.

¹³ No trial has come upon you but such as belongs to man; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tried above what you are able, but will, with the trial, also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear.

⁵ does not behave itself unbecomingly; does not seek its own things; is not exasperated; does not imagine evil;

¹² For this is our glorying-the testimony of our conscience, that with godly simplicity and sincerity, (not with fleshly wisdom, but by the favor of God,) we have behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly among you.

⁹ For if the ministration of condemnation was glorious, much more does the ministration of justification abound in glory. ¹⁰ For, indeed, that which was glorified, was not glorified, in this respect, by reason of the transcendent glory. ¹¹ For if that which is abolished was with glory, much more that which continues, is with glory.

⁴ among whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might shine into them.

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

² (for he says, "In an accepted season I have hearkened to you; and in a day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is a highly accepted season; behold, now is a day of salvation:)

⁷ Now as you abound in every gift, (in faith, and speech, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us,) I wish that you may abound in this gift also. ⁸ I speak not this as an injunction, but on account of the diligence of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. ⁹ (For you know the charity of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor; that you, through his poverty, might be rich.)

¹² For if there be a willing mind, according to what a person has, he is accepted; and not according to what he has not.

⁶ Now this I say, he who sows sparingly, shall reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully, shall reap bountifully. ⁷ Every one according as he has purposed in his heart, ought to give; not with regret, nor by constraint; for God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸ And God is able to make every blessing abound to you; that in everything, always having all sufficiency, you may abound in every good work. ⁹ As it is written, "He has dispersed, he has given to the poor: his righteousness remains forever." ¹⁰ Now, may he who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the products of your righteousness. ¹¹ That you may be enriched in everything, for all liberality, which produces, through us, thanksgiving to God. ¹² For the ministry of this public service, not only fill us up completely the wants of the saints; but also abounds in many thanksgivings to God. ¹³ They, through the proof of the ministry, glorifying God for you avowed subjection to the gospel of Christ; and for the liberality of your contribution for them, and for all; ¹⁴ and for their prayer for you, who ardently love you, on account of the exceeding favor of God bestowed on you. ¹⁵ Now, thanks to God for his unspeakable gift.

³ But I am afraid that, by some means, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity due to Christ.

²⁴ of the Jews, five times I received forty stripes, save one: ²⁵ thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stone, thrice I was ship-wrecked: I have spent a night and a day in the deep.

⁷ Indeed, that I might not be exalted above measure by the transcendency of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. ⁸ Concerning this, I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

⁸ Concerning this, I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

⁸ Concerning this, I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. ⁹ But he said to me, My favor is sufficient for you, besides, my power is perfected in weakness: most gladly, therefore, I will boast rather of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell upon me.

⁴ who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

¹⁴ and made progress in Judaism above many of the same age with myself, in my own nation, being more exceedingly jealous of the traditions of my fathers.

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

² in which you formerly walked, according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air-of the spirit which now effectually works in the children of disobedience;

¹¹ And he gave some, indeed, Apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

¹⁴ that we may be no longer children, tossed and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sight of men, and by cunning craftiness for an artifice of seduction:

²⁸ Let him that stole, steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have to impart to him who has need.

³¹ Let all bitterness, and anger, and wrath, and clamor, and detraction, be taken away from among you, with all malice. ³² But be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, even as God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven you.

⁵ Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the integrity of your heart, as to Christ.

² Favor to you, and peace from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

³ Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but, in humbleness of mind esteem each other better that yourselves:

¹⁵ that you may be blameless and harmless, the children of God, unblemished in the midst of a crooked and perverse race; among whom shine as lights in the world, ¹⁶ holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor have labored in vain.

²⁰ Now, to God, even our Father, be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

² to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ, who are at Colosse: Favor to you, and peace from God our Father.

¹⁵ He is the image of the invisible God, the first born of the whole creation. ¹⁶ Because, by him were created all things which are in the heavens, and which are upon the earth; things visible, and things invisible; whether thrones, or lordships, or governments, or powers; all things were created by him and for him. ¹⁷ And he is before all things; and by him all things consist. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, even the congregation. He is the beginning, the first born from the dead, that in all respects he might be pre-eminent. ¹⁹ For it pleased the Father that all fullness should dwell in him;

¹ Wherefore, I wish you to know how great a combat I have for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

³ in whom are laid up all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

¹⁵ having spoiled governments and powers, he made a show of them openly, having triumphed over them by it.

¹³ Bear with one another, and forgive each other, if any one have a complaint against any one: even as Christ forgave you, so also do you.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; and with all wisdom teach and admonish each other by psalms and hymns, and spiritual songs; singing with gratitude in your hearts to the Lord.

²² Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but with integrity of heart, as fearing God.

¹² Epaphras, who came from you, a servant of Christ, salutes you; at all times fervently striving for you by prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in the whole will of God.

¹ Paul, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, to the congregation of the Thessalonians, which is in God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Favor to you, and peace from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

³ incessantly remembering your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God, even our Father;

¹⁵ who both killed the Lord, and the prophets, and have greatly persecuted us, and do not please God, and are contrary to all men;

¹¹ Now may God himself, even our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, make straight our way to you. ¹² And may the Lord fill you, and make you overflow with love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you; ¹³ that he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness, before God, even our Father, at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints.

¹ Paul, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, to the congregation of the Thessalonians, which is in God, our Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ: ² Favor to you, and peace from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ a proof of the righteous judgment of God, that you might be counted truly worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you thus suffer:

⁹ he will, indeed, utterly destroy him, whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, with all the power, and signs, and wonders of falsehood; ¹⁰ and with all the deceit of unrighteousness among the destroyed; because they did not embrace the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ For this cause, God will send them strong delusion, that they may believe a lie; ¹² that all may be condemned who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in iniquity.

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, who has loved us, and given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through favor,

³ But the Lord is faithful, who will establish and keep you from the evil one.

⁴ that every creature of God is good, being received with thanksgiving, and nothing is to be rejected; ⁵ for it is sanctified, by the word of God, and by prayer.

⁵ having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it. Now, from these, turn away.

¹⁵ and that, from a child, you have known the sacred scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All scripture, given by divine inspiration, is indeed profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: ¹⁷ that the man of God may be perfect-completely fitted for every good work.

¹⁸ And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and preserve me to his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

¹⁵ To the pure, all meats are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving, nothing is pure; for both their understanding and conscience are polluted.

¹¹ For the favor of God, which brings salvation, has appeared to all men; ¹² teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world-

³ For even we ourselves were formerly foolish, disobedient, erring, slavishly serving diverse inordinate desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

¹⁶ Let us, therefore, approach, with boldness, to the throne of favor, that we may receive mercy, and obtain favor for the purpose of seasonable help.

⁷ He, (who, in the days of his flesh, having, with loud cries, and with tears, offered up prayers and supplications to him who was able to save him from death, and was delivered from his fear,)

¹⁴ but solid food is for those of a mature age, whose faculties have been habituated by long practice to discriminate both good and evil.

⁴ For it is impossible to renew again to reformation those who have been once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age which was to come, ⁶ and yet have fallen away, crucifying again to themselves the Son of God and exposing him to contempt. ⁷ For the land that drinks in the rain, which often comes upon it, and brings forth herbs, fit for them by whom it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God: ⁸ but that which produces thorns and briers, is reprobated, and nigh to a curse; whose end is to be burned.

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous, to forget your work, and the love which you have showed toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

²⁶ Now such a High Priest became us; who, being holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens,

²⁶ For if we sin willfully, after having received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins; ²⁷ but a dreadful expectation of judgment, and of a fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. ²⁸ Any one who disregarded the law of Moses, died without mercy, by two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much sorer punishment, think you, shall he be counted worthy, who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and reckoned the blood of the institution by which he was sanctified, a common thing, and has insulted the Spirit of Favor? ³⁰ For we know him who has said, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord": and again, "The Lord will judge his people." ³¹ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, on account of which he was commended as righteous; God testifying in favor of his oblations: and so, by it, though dead he still speaks.

⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he who comes to God, must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him. ⁷ By faith, Noah, when he received a revelation concerning things not yet seen, being seized with religious fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his family; by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

³⁵ Women received their dead by a resurrection, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. ³⁶ And others had trial of mockings and scourgings; and, moreover of bonds and imprisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they died by the slaughter of the sword, they went about in sheep skins, and in goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, maltreated; ³⁸ of these the world was not worthy: they wandered in deserts, and mountains, and in caves, and holes of the earth.

⁹ Farther, we have had fathers of our flesh, who chastised us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?

⁹ Farther, we have had fathers of our flesh, who chastised us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live? ¹⁰ For they, indeed, during a very few days, chastised us according to their pleasure; but he, for our advantage, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

²⁴ and to Jesus the mediator of the new institution, and to the blood of sprinkling, which speaks better things than that of Abel.

¹⁶ But to do good, and to communicate, forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

⁵ If any of you be deficient in wisdom, let him ask it of God: who gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not, and it shall be given to him.

²¹ Wherefore, putting away all filthiness, and overflowing of maliciousness, embrace with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. ²² And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves by false reasoning. ²³ For if any one be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man who views his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ for he who looks at himself and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was. ²⁵ But he who looks narrowly into the perfect law of liberty, and perseveres, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of its work, shall, in so doing, be happy.

²⁵ But he who looks narrowly into the perfect law of liberty, and perseveres, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of its work, shall, in so doing, be happy.

²⁷ Pure religion, and undefiled, with God, even the Father, is this: To take care of orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.

² For if there enter into your synagogue a man having gold rings on his fingers, and with splendid clothing, and there enter likewise a poor man, with sordid apparel; ³ and you look on him who has the splendid clothing, and say, Sit you here honorably; and to the poor man, Stand you there; or, Sit here at my footstool: ⁴ are you not, then, partial among yourselves, and have become judges who reason wickedly?

¹³ for judgment without mercy, will be to him who showed no mercy: but mercy exults over judgment. ¹⁴ What is the advantage, my brethren, if any one say he have faith, but have not works? Can faith save him? ¹⁵ For if a brother or a sister be naked, or destitute of daily food, ¹⁶ and any one of you say to him, Depart in peace: be warmed, and be filled; yet give him none of the things needful for the body, what is the advantage?

⁵ so, also, the tongue is a little member, yet it works mightily. Behold, how much wood a little fire kindles! ⁶ Now the tongue is a fire-a world of iniquity; the tongue is so placed among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets the wheel of nature in a blaze, and is set on fire from hell. ⁷ Now every species of wild beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of sea monsters, is subdued, and has been subdued by man: ⁸ but the tongue of men, no one can subdue; it is an unruly evil thing, full of deadly poison.

¹³ Is any one wise and intelligent among you? let him show, by good behavior, his works, with meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter anger and strife in your heart, do you not boast and lie against the truth? ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom which comes from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish: ¹⁶ for where there is anger and strife, there is disorder, and every evil work. ¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is, indeed, first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be persuaded, full of compassion and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

² You strongly desire, and have not; you kill, and are zealous, and can not obtain. You fight and war, but have not, because you ask not. ³ You ask, and do not receive, because you ask wickedly, that you may spend upon your lusts.

³ You ask, and do not receive, because you ask wickedly, that you may spend upon your lusts.

⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you men of two minds.

¹⁰ Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord: for an example of suffering evil, and of patience. ¹¹ Behold, we call them happy, who are patient. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

¹⁵ And the prayer of faith will save the sick person, and so the Lord will raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

⁹ But he who has not these things, is blind, shutting his eyes, having become forgetful of the purification of his old sins.

¹⁰ but especially those who go after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and who despise government: being audacious, self-willed, who fear not to revile dignitaries; ¹¹ whereas, angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord. ¹² But these, as natural, irrational animals, made for capture and destruction, speaking evil of matters which they do not understand, shall be utterly destroyed by their own corruptions; ¹³ receiving the due reward of unrighteousness. These delight to spend the day in luxurious festivity: they are spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceits when they feast with you; ¹⁴ having eyes full of the adulteress, incessantly sinning, alluring unstable souls; having a heart exercised with insatiable desires; an accursed progeny: ¹⁵ having forsaken the right path, they have wandered, following in the way of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity, ¹⁶ and was convicted of his transgression; the dumb brute, speaking with man's voice, reprimanded the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are wells without water, clouds driven by a tempest; for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever: ¹⁸ for, speaking great swelling words of falsehood, they allure by the lusts of the flesh, even by lasciviousness, those who have actually fled away from them who are living in error.

¹⁸ for, speaking great swelling words of falsehood, they allure by the lusts of the flesh, even by lasciviousness, those who have actually fled away from them who are living in error. ¹⁹ They promise them liberty, whilst they themselves are slaves of corruption: for every one is enslaved by that which overcomes him. ²⁰ Now, if, having fled away from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and being again entangled, they are overcome by them; their last condition is worse than the first. ²¹ Therefore, it has been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But the saying of the true proverb has happened to them: "The dog is returned to his own vomit; and the washed hog, to its wallowing in the mire."

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

⁸ If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

⁸ He who works sin, is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

¹² Not being of the wicked one, as Cain was, who slew his brother. And on account of what, did he slay him? Because his own works were wicked, and his brother's righteous.

¹⁶ By this we have known the love of Christ, because he laid down his life for us; therefore we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷ Whoever, therefore, has the goods of this world, and sees his brother in need, and yet shuts up his compassion from him, how abides the love of God in him?

²¹ Beloved, if our heart do not condemn us, we have confidence with God. ²² And whatever we ask, we receive from him; because we keep his commandments, and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.

²² And whatever we ask, we receive from him; because we keep his commandments, and do the things which are pleasing in his sight. ²³ For this is his commandment, that we should believe on the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and should love one another as he gave us commandment. ²⁴ Now he who keeps His commandments, abides in him, and He in him; and by this we know that he abides in us, even by the Spirit, which he has given us.

⁴ You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because he is greater, who is with you, than he who is with the world.

²⁰ If any one say, Indeed I love God, and yet hate his brother, he is a liar: for he who loves not his brother, whom he has seen, how can he love God, whom he has not seen?

¹⁴ And this is the confidence which we have with him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hearkens to us. ¹⁵ And if we know that he hearkens to us, concerning whatever we ask; we know that we shall obtain the petitions which we have asked from him. ¹⁶ If any one see his brother sinning a sin, not to death, let him ask, and he will grant to him life, for those who sin not to death. There is a sin leading to death. I do not say concerning it, that you should ask.

⁹ I wrote to the congregation: but Diotrephes, who affects a pre-eminence among them, does not receive us.

⁸ Truly, in like manner, also, shall these dreamers be punished-who, indeed, defile the flesh, despise authority, and blaspheme dignities. ⁹ Whereas, Michael, the Arch Angel, when contending with the devil, (he disputed about the body of Moses,) did not attempt to bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke": ¹⁰ but these, indeed, revile those things which they do not know; but what things they do know, naturally, as animals void of reason, by these things they destroy themselves. ¹¹ Alas for them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and have run evidently in the error of Balaam's hire, and have perished in the rebellion of Korah. ¹² These men are spots in love feasts, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear. They are clouds without water, carried about of winds: withered autumnal trees without fruit; twice dead; rooted out; ¹³ raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness for ever is reserved.

²⁰ But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying with a holy spirit;

¹⁰ Fear none of the things which you shall suffer; behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and you shall have tribulation ten days: be you faithful until death, and I will give you a crown of life.

²³ and I will say her children with death; and all the congregations shall know that I am he who search the reins and the heart; and I will give to every one of you according to your works. ²⁴ But I say to you, even to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not hold this doctrine, and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will lay upon you no other burden.

¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patience, I will also keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try the inhabitants of the earth.

¹⁵ I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I wish you were either cold or hot. ¹⁶ Therefore, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth. ¹⁷ Because you say, I am wealthy, and have enriched myself, and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

¹⁰ And they had tails like scorpions, and their stings were in their tails; and their power was to hurt men five months.

¹⁵ And the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

⁴ Who should not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou alone art perfect. Surely all nations shall come and worship before thee, because thy righteous judgments are made manifest.

²⁰ Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and you saints, and apostles, and prophets; for on your account God has pronounced sentence upon her. ²¹ And a strong angel took a stone, like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea; saying, Thus shall Babylon, the great city, he dashed down with violence, and never be found again. ²² And the voice of harpers, and musicians, of them that play the flute, and sound the trumpet, shall be heard no more in thee; nor shall the noise of the millstone be heard any more in thee; ²³ and the light of a lamp shall be seen no more in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom, and of the bride, shall be heard no more in thee: because they merchants were the grandees of the earth-because by thy sorceries were all the nations deceived: ²⁴ and in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, even of all those who were slain upon the earth.

⁶ And I heard a sound, which was as the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and like the peal of mighty thunderings, saying, Hallelujah! for the Lord God, the Omnipotent, reigns!

¹ And I saw an angel descending from heaven, who had the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand. ² And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; ³ and he cast him into the abyss, and shut him down, and set a seal upon him, that he might not deceive the nations any more, till the thousand years were accomplished; and then he must be loosed again for a little time. ⁴ And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them-even the souls of them who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast, nor his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads, and upon their hands; and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years:

¹⁴ (Happy are they who keep his commandments, that they may have the privilege to eat of the tree of life; and they shall enter by the gates into the city.