1 Peter 4 Cross References - MKJV

¹ Therefore, Christ having suffered for us in the flesh, also you arm yourselves with the same thought, that he suffering in the flesh has been made to rest from sin, ² in order no longer to live in the lusts of men, but in the will of God the remaining time in the flesh. ³ For the time of life which is past is enough for us to have worked out the will of the nations, having gone on in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, parties, carousings, and abominable idolatries. ⁴ In these things they are surprised, that you are not running with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming. ⁵ But they shall give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. ⁶ For to this end the gospel was preached also to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit. ⁷ But the end of all things has drawn near. Therefore be of sound mind, and be sensible to prayers. ⁸ And above all things have fervent love to yourselves, for love will cover a multitude of sins. ⁹ Be hospitable to one another, without grudging; ¹⁰ each one as he received a gift, ministering it to yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. ¹¹ If anyone speaks, let it be as the words of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as of the ability which God gives, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory, and the might forever and ever. Amen. ¹² Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though a strange thing happened to you, ¹³ but rejoice according as you are partakers of Christ's suffering, so that when His glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy. ¹⁴ If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of God and of glory rests on you. Truly according to them, He is blasphemed, but according to you He is glorified. ¹⁵ But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or a meddler in the affairs of others. ¹⁶ But if one suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God because of this. ¹⁷ For the time has come for the judgment to begin from the house of God. And if it first begins from us, what will be the end of those disobeying the gospel of God? ¹⁸ And if the righteous one is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? ¹⁹ Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing, as to a faithful Creator.

¹³ But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before Jehovah, exceedingly so.

²⁵ And Jehovah came down in a cloud and spoke to him, and took of the spirit on him and gave it to the seventy elders. And it happened when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they never did so again. ²⁶ But two of the men stayed in the camp; the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other was Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. And they were of those who were written, but did not go out to the tabernacle. And they prophesied in the camp.

³⁰ take heed to yourself that you do not become snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not ask about their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods, that I too may do likewise? ³¹ You shall not do so to Jehovah your God. For every abomination to Jehovah, which He hates, they have done to their gods; even their sons and their daughters they have burned in the fire to their gods.

¹⁸ And Jehovah sent you on the way and said, Go and completely destroy the sinners, Amalek, and fight against them until you destroy them.

²⁸ And Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, And watch when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Strike Amnon, you shall kill him. Do not fear. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous, and be brave.

⁸ Happy are your men, happy are these who are your servants, who stand always before you, and who hear your wisdom.

²⁶ And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Jehovah cast out before the sons of Israel.

¹⁵ And when the sons of the prophets across in Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah rests upon Elisha! And they came to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.

¹¹ O Jehovah, Yours is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty. For all in the heavens and in the earth is Yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Jehovah, and You lift up Yourself to all as Head. ¹² And the riches and the honor are from You, and You reign over all. And in Your hand is power and might. And it is in Your hand to make great and to give strength to all. ¹³ And now, our God, we thank You and praise Your glorious name. ¹⁴ But who am I, and who my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? For all things are from You, and we have given to You that which is Yours. ¹⁵ For we are strangers before You, and pilgrims, as our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and none abides. ¹⁶ O Jehovah our God, all this store that we have prepared to build You a house for Your holy name comes from Your hand, and is all Your own.

⁸ And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim. And he renewed the altar of Jehovah before the porch of Jehovah.

¹⁶ Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, night or day. My maidservants and I will also fast in the same way. And so I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law. And if I perish, I perish.

⁴ The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away. ⁵ Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. ⁶ For Jehovah knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

⁵ Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Jehovah, the God of truth.

¹ A Psalm of David. A Contemplation. Blessed is the man whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. ² Blessed is the man to whom Jehovah does not charge iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

⁵ Roll your way on Jehovah; trust also in Him, and He will work.

⁹ yea, he shall yet live forever; he shall never see corruption.

⁵¹ with which Your enemies have cursed, O Jehovah; with which they have cursed the footsteps of Your anointed.

⁸ Jehovah will perfect His work in me; Your mercy, O Jehovah, endures forever; do not forsake the work of Your own hands.

¹⁰ Teach me to do Your will; for You are my God; Your Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

¹³ Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your rule endures throughout all generations.

⁵ Blessed is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose help is in Jehovah his God,

⁵ Blessed is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose help is in Jehovah his God, ⁶ who made the heavens and earth, the sea and all that is in it; who keeps truth forever;

¹² Hatred stirs up fights, but love covers all sins.

³¹ Behold, the righteous shall be rewarded in the earth; much more the wicked and the sinner.

¹⁶ A fool's vexation is known in a day, but the astute one covers shame.

⁹ He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends.

¹³ If one answers a matter before he hears, it is folly and shame to him.

²⁹ Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has fighting? Who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? ³⁰ Those who stay long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine. ³¹ Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it goes down smoothly ³² At the last it bites like an asp and stings like an adder. ³³ Your eyes shall look upon strange women and your heart shall speak perverse things. ³⁴ Yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as one who lies upon the top of a mast, ³⁵ saying, They struck me; I was not sick; they beat me, but I did not know it. When I awaken, I will add more. I will seek it again.

² It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

¹⁴ For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it is good, or whether evil.

¹⁶ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil;

¹¹ Woe to those who rise up early in the morning to go after strong drink; tarrying in the twilight while wine inflames them!

²⁰ To the Law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because no light is in them.

¹² And it will be, when the Lord has broken off all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks.

² And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest on Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah.

¹⁵ Therefore glorify Jehovah in the flames, the name of the Lord Jehovah of Israel in the coasts of the sea.

⁹ And one shall say in that day, Lo, this is our God. We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is Jehovah; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.

⁷ But they also have sinned through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way. The priest and the prophet have sinned through drink; they are swallowed up by wine; they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

²¹ For Jehovah shall rise up as in Mount Perazim; He shall be angry as in the valley of Gibeon, so that He may do His work, His strange work; and bring to pass His act, His strange act.

¹⁰ And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy on their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

²⁷ Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from Jehovah and my judgment has passed over from my God? ²⁸ Have you not known? Have you not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not grow weak nor weary? There is no searching of His understanding.

⁷ everyone who is called by My name; for I have created him for My glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

²¹ This people that I formed for Myself; they shall declare My praise.

⁷ For the Lord Jehovah will help Me; therefore I have not been ashamed. On account of this I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

⁷ Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My Law; do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their revilings.

¹¹ Therefore the redeemed of Jehovah shall return and come with singing into Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their head. Gladness and joy shall overtake them; sorrow and mourning shall flee away. ¹² I, I, am He who comforts you. Who are you, that you should fear a man. He shall die, or from the son of man? He shall be made as grass? ¹³ And you forget Jehovah your Maker, who has stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. And you dread continually, every day, because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy. And where is the fury of the oppressor?

⁴ Do not fear; for you shall not be ashamed, nor shall you blush; for you shall not be put to shame; for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more.

¹⁶ Behold, I have created the smith who blows the coals in the fire, and who brings out a tool for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. ¹⁷ No weapon that is formed against you shall be blessed; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment, you shall condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, and their righteousness is from Me, says Jehovah.

⁴ a people who remain among the graves, and sleep in the tombs, who eat swine's flesh, and broth from hateful things in their vessels;

³¹ The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so, and what will you do at the end of it?

¹⁸ And first I will twice repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land, they have filled My inheritance with the dead bodies of their abominable things.

²² But if they had stood in My wisdom and had caused My people to hear My Words, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.

²⁹ For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by My name; and should you be found entirely without guilt? You shall not be without guilt. For I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Jehovah of Hosts.

¹¹ And the priests and the prophets spoke to the rulers and to all the people, saying, Let a death sentence be for this man, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears. ¹² Then Jeremiah spoke to all the rulers and to all the people, saying, Jehovah sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard. ¹³ So now make your ways and your doings good, and obey the voice of Jehovah your God. And Jehovah will repent of the evil that He has spoken against you. ¹⁴ As for me, behold, I am in your hand. Do with me as seems good and right to you. ¹⁵ But know for certain that if you put me to death you shall surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its people. For truly Jehovah has sent me to you to speak all these Words in your ears.

¹² For so says Jehovah: Behold, those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have surely drunk. And are you to be entirely acquitted? You shall not be acquitted, but you shall surely drink.

² And you, son of man, so says the Lord Jehovah to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land. ³ Now the end is on you, and I will send My anger on you and will judge you according to your ways, and will lay on you all your abominations.

⁶ An end has come, the end has come. It awakes against you; behold, it has come.

⁶ Fully destroy old men, young men and virgins, and little children and women. But do not come near any man on whom is the mark. And begin at My sanctuary. And they began at the old men who were before the house.

⁴¹ And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. And I will make you stop whoring; and also, you shall not give hire again.

²⁴ But when the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked do, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be remembered; in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

³⁰ So I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one of you according to his ways, says the Lord Jehovah. Turn and be made to turn from all your sins; and iniquity shall not be your stumbling-block.

⁶ And you shall say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, This says the Lord Jehovah: O house of Israel, let it be more than enough for you, of all your hateful deeds,

⁹ So says the Lord Jehovah: Enough for you, O rulers of Israel. Remove violence and spoil, and do judgment and justice. Take away your demands on My people, says the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁶ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to return a word to you on this matter. ¹⁷ If it is so that our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, then He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. ¹⁸ But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods nor worship the golden image which you have set up.

³ How great are His signs! And how mighty are His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His rule is from generation to generation.

³⁴ And at the end of days, I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes to Heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored Him who lives forever, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His rule is from generation to generation.

¹⁰ And when he had learned that the document was signed, Daniel went to his house. And his windows were open in his roof room toward Jerusalem; and he kneeled on his knees three times a day and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before. ¹¹ Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and confessing before his God.

²² My God has sent His Angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me, because before Him purity was found in me. And also before you, O king, I have done no harm.

¹⁴ And dominion and glory was given Him, and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations and languages, should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

³⁵ And many of those who understand shall stumble, to refine and purge them, and to make white, to the time of the end. Because it is still for the appointed time.

⁷ But, like Adam, they have broken the covenant. They have acted like traitors against Me there.

² You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

⁹ And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say, It is My people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

⁵ And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

¹³ Your words have been strong against Me, says Jehovah. Yet you say, What have we spoken against You? ¹⁴ You have said, It is vain to serve God; and, What profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked as mourners before Jehovah of Hosts? ¹⁵ And now we are calling the arrogant blessed. Not only are the doers of wickedness built up, they also test God, and escape.

⁹ and do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. ¹⁰ And now also, the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

¹¹ Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for My sake. ¹² Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for your reward in Heaven is great. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

¹⁶ Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in Heaven.

¹³ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil. For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

²¹ Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.

²⁰ Then He began to upbraid the cities in which most of His mighty works were done, because they did not repent. ²¹ Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the powerful acts which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes! ²² But I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. ²³ And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to the heaven, shall be brought down to hell. For if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. ²⁴ But I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.

³⁶ But I say to you that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they shall give account of it in the day of judgment.

⁵⁰ For whoever shall do the will of My Father in Heaven, the same is My brother and sister and mother.

²⁷ For the Son of Man shall come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He shall reward each one according to his works.

²⁸ even as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.

³¹ Which of the two did the will of his father? They said to Him, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that the tax-collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

²⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess.

⁹ Then they will deliver you up to be afflicted and will kill you. And you will be hated of all nations for My name's sake.

¹³ But he who endures to the end, the same shall be kept safe. ¹⁴ And this gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all nations. And then the end shall come.

¹⁴ And this gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all nations. And then the end shall come.

²¹ for then shall be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor ever shall be. ²² And unless those days should be shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened. ²³ Then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ! Or, There! Do not believe it. ²⁴ For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders; so much so that, if it were possible, they would deceive even the elect.

⁴² Therefore watch; for you do not know what hour your Lord comes.

⁴⁵ Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord has made ruler over His household, to give them food in due season?

¹³ Therefore watch, for you do not know either the day or the hour in which the Son of Man comes. ¹⁴ For it is as if a man going abroad called his own servants and gave them his goods. ¹⁵ And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to each according to his ability. And he went abroad at once.

²¹ His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful over a few things; I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.

²³ His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.

³¹ But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He shall sit on the throne of His glory.

³¹ But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He shall sit on the throne of His glory. ³² And all nations shall be gathered before Him. And He shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd divides the sheep from the goats. ³³ And indeed He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats off the left. ³⁴ Then the King shall say to those on His right hand, Come, blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

³⁴ Then the King shall say to those on His right hand, Come, 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 took Me in; ³⁶ I was naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me. ³⁷ Then the righteous shall answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry, and fed You? Or thirsty, and gave You drink? ³⁸ When did we see You a stranger, and took You in? Or naked, and clothed You? ³⁹ Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and came to You? ⁴⁰ And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you have done it to Me. ⁴¹ Then He also shall say to those on the left hand, Depart from Me, you cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels. ⁴² For I was hungry, and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty, and you gave Me no drink; ⁴³ I was a stranger and you did not take Me in; I was naked, and you did not clothe Me; I was sick, and in prison, and you did not visit me. ⁴⁴ Then they will also answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to You?

⁴⁴ Then they will also answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to You? ⁴⁵ Then He shall answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me. ⁴⁶ And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.

³⁸ Then He said to them, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Wait here and watch with Me. ³⁹ And He went a little further and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will. ⁴⁰ And He came to the disciples and found them asleep. And He said to Peter, What! Could you not watch with Me one hour? ⁴¹ Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

³⁵ For whoever does the will of God, the same is My brother and My sister and My mother.

²¹ For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²² thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

³⁸ Therefore whoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My Words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man shall also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.

⁴⁵ For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.

²⁰ And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, whom He has chosen, He has shortened the days. ²¹ And then if anyone shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ! Or, lo, there! Do not believe him. ²² For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will give miraculous signs and wonders in order to seduce, if possible, even the elect.

³³ Take heed, watch and pray, for you do not know when the time is. ³⁴ As a man going away, leaving his house, and giving authority to his servants, and each man's work to him, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. ³⁵ Then you watch, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, at evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or early; ³⁶ lest he come suddenly and find you sleeping. ³⁷ And what I say to you, I say to all. Watch.

³⁷ And He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, do you sleep? Could you not watch one hour? ³⁸ Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. Truly the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

²² Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall cut you off, and when they shall reproach you and shall cast out your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

²² Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall cut you off, and when they shall reproach you and shall cast out your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man. ²³ Rejoice in that day and leap for joy. For behold, your reward is great in Heaven. For so their fathers did according to these things to the prophets.

³ and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered to Him of their possessions.

¹² But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city. ¹³ Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented a long while ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the Judgment than for you.

⁴² And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward whom his lord shall set over his houseservants, to give them their portion of food in season?

⁴⁷ And that servant who knew his lord's will and did not prepare, nor did according to His will, shall be beaten with many stripes. ⁴⁸ But he not knowing, and doing things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For to whomever much is given, of him much shall be required. And to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

¹ And all the tax-collectors and sinners drew near to Him in order to hear Him.

¹³ And not many days afterward, the younger son gathered all together and went away into a far country. And there he wasted his property, living dissolutely.

¹ And He also said to His disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward. And he was accused to him, that he had wasted his goods. ² And he called him and said to him, What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you may no longer be steward.

² And he called him and said to him, What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you may no longer be steward. ³ And the steward said within himself, What shall I do? For my lord is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg. ⁴ I know what I will do, so that when I am put out of the stewardship they may receive me into their houses. ⁵ So he called every one of his lord's debtors and said; to the first, How much do you owe my lord? ⁶ And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty. ⁷ And he said to another, And how much do you owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he said to him, Take your bill and write eighty. ⁸ And the unjust steward's lord commended him because he had done wisely. For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

³⁰ Even so it shall be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

¹³ And He called his ten servants and delivered ten minas, and said to them, Trade until I come back.

³⁴ And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with headaches and drinking and anxieties of this life; and that day should suddenly come on you;

³⁶ Watch therefore, praying in every season that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things which shall occur, and to stand before the Son of Man.

⁴⁶ And He said to them, Why do you sleep? Rise and pray lest you enter into temptation.

³¹ For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

⁴⁶ And crying with a loud voice, Jesus said, Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit. And when He had said this, He breathed out the spirit.

¹³ who were born, not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but were born of God.

²² For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son, ²³ so that all should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

²⁵ Truly, truly, I say to you, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they who hear shall live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has given to the Son to have life within Himself,

²⁸ Do not marvel at this, for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves shall hear His voice, ²⁹ and shall come forth, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have practiced evil to the resurrection of condemnation.

¹⁷ If anyone desires to do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it is of God, or I speak from Myself.

⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees answered them, Also, have you not been deceived? ⁴⁸ Is it not true that not any of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed into him? ⁴⁹ But this crowd, not knowing the Law, is cursed. ⁵⁰ Nicodemus said to them, (he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them), ⁵¹ Does our law judge the Man before it hears Him and knows what He does? ⁵² They answered and said to him, Are you also from Galilee? Search the scriptures and see that a prophet has not been raised out of Galilee.

⁴⁸ Then the Jews answered and said to Him, Do we not say well that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?

²⁸ Then they reviled him and said, You are his disciple, but we are Moses' disciples.

³⁴ They answered and said to him, You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.

²¹ But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.

⁴¹ Then indeed they departed from the presence of the sanhedrin, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be shamed for His name.

³⁸ This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him in Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received the living words to give to us,

⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, who was calling on God and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

⁴² And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained of God to be the Judge of the living and the dead.

²⁶ And finding him, he brought him to Antioch. And it happened to them a whole year they were assembled in the church. And they taught a considerable crowd. And the disciples were first called Christian in Antioch.

⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy and contradicted those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

²² confirming the souls of the disciples, calling on them to continue in the faith and that through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of God.

²⁵ And toward midnight Paul and Silas prayed and praised God in a hymn. And the prisoners listened to them.

³⁰ Truly, then, God overlooking the times of ignorance, now He strictly commands all men everywhere to repent, ³¹ because He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He appointed, having given proof to all by raising Him from the dead.

⁶ And they resisting and blaspheming, shaking his garment, he said to them, Your blood is on your own heads. I am pure from it. From now on I will go to the nations.

¹¹ And coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, and binding his hands and feet, he said, The Holy Spirit says these things: So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man whose belt this is, and will deliver him into the hands of the nations. ¹² And when we heard these things, both we and those of the place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem. ¹³ Then Paul answered, What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. ¹⁴ And he not being persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

²⁸ And Agrippa said to Paul, Do you persuade me to be a Christian in but a little?

²⁴ saying, Fear not, Paul! You must stand before Caesar. And behold! God has given you all those who sail with you.

³¹ Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Unless these remain in the ship, you cannot be saved.

⁴² And the mind of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape. ⁴³ But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, kept them from their purpose and commanded those who could swim, to throw themselves overboard, to go out on the land. ⁴⁴ And the rest went, some on boards and others on some of the things from the ship. And so it happened that all were saved on the land.

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

²⁰ For the unseen things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being realized by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, for them to be without excuse. ²¹ Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. ²² Professing to be wise, they became fools ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things. ²⁴ Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves. ²⁵ For they changed the truth of God into a lie, and they worshiped and served the created thing more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. ²⁶ For this cause, God gave them up to dishonorable affections. For even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature. ²⁷ And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another; males with males working out shamefulness, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error. ²⁸ And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right, ²⁹ being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers, ³⁰ backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, ³¹ undiscerning, perfidious, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; ³² who, knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those practicing them.

⁷ indeed to those who with patience in good work are seeking for glory, and honor, and incorruptibility, everlasting life.

⁹ tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man who has worked out evil; of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

² Much, by every way! Chiefly, indeed, because they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

² Through Him we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice on the hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only this, but we glory in afflictions also, knowing that afflictions work out patience,

³ And not only this, but we glory in afflictions also, knowing that afflictions work out patience, ⁴ and patience works out experience, and experience works out hope. ⁵ And hope does not make us ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us. ⁶ For we yet being without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

⁸ But God commends His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

² Let it not be! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

⁷ For he who died has been justified from sin.

¹¹ Likewise count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁴ So, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ so that you should be married to Another, even to Him raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.

² But the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

⁹ But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. ¹⁰ And if Christ is in you, indeed the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of the One who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One who raised up Christ from the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you. ¹² Therefore, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. ¹³ For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die. But if you through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.

¹⁷ And if we are children, then we are heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; so that if we suffer with Him, we may also be glorified together.

³⁶ For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things; to Him be glory forever! Amen.

² And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

⁶ Then having gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, if prophecy, according to the proportion of faith; ⁷ or ministry, in the ministry; or he who teaches, in the teaching; ⁸ or he who exhorts, in the encouragement; or he who shares, in simplicity; or he who takes the lead, in diligence; or he who shows mercy, in cheerfulness.

¹² rejoicing in hope, patient in affliction, steadfastly continuing in prayer, ¹³ distributing to the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality.

¹¹ This also, knowing the time, that it is already time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. ¹² The night is far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

¹² The night is far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. ¹³ Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in carousings and drinking; not in co-habitation and lustful acts; not in strife and envy.

¹³ Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in carousings and drinking; not in co-habitation and lustful acts; not in strife and envy. ¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take thought beforehand for the lusts of the flesh.

⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

¹⁰ But why do you judge your brother? Or also why do you despise your brother? For all shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ. ¹¹ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God." ¹² So then each one of us will give account concerning himself to God.

²⁵ But now I am going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.

²⁷ Truly it has pleased them, and they are their debtors. For if the nations have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in fleshly things.

²³ Gaius my host, and the host of me and the whole church, greets you. Erastus the steward of the city greets you, and Quartus a brother.

²⁷ to God only wise be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man be careful how he builds on it.

¹³ each one's work shall be revealed. For the Day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try each one's work as to what kind it is.

¹ So let a man think of us as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. ² And the rest, it is sought among stewards that one be found faithful.

⁷ For who makes you to differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

¹¹ And such were some of you. But you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

²⁰ for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

²⁹ But this I say, brothers, The time is short. It remains that both those who have wives should be as not having one.

¹² So let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. ¹³ No temptation has taken you but what is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation also will make a way to escape, so that you may be able to bear it.

³¹ Therefore whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

³¹ For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. ³² But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

² You know that being led away, you nations were led to dumb idols.

⁴ But there are differences of gifts, but the same Spirit.

⁴ But there are differences of gifts, but the same Spirit. ⁵ And there are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. ⁶ And there are differences of workings, but it is the same God working all things in all. ⁷ But to each one is given the showing forth of the Spirit to our profit. ⁸ For through the Spirit is given to one a word of wisdom; and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; ⁹ and to another faith by the same Spirit; and to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; ¹⁰ and to another workings of powers, to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; and to another kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing separately to each one as He desires.

¹ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.

¹ Follow after charity and desire spiritual things, but rather that you may prophesy.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which was toward me has not been without fruit, but I labored more abundantly than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

²⁴ then is the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He makes to cease all rule and all authority and power.

⁵¹ Behold, I speak a mystery to you; we shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed; ⁵² in a moment, in a glance of an eye, at the last trumpet. For a trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.

⁷ And our hope of you is certain, knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the consolation.

¹⁰ always bearing about the dying of the Lord Jesus in the body, so that the life of Jesus also might be revealed in our body.

¹⁷ For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory,

¹⁵ and He died for all, that the living ones may live no more to themselves, but to Him who died for them and having been raised.

¹ But working together, we also call on you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

¹ For indeed regarding the ministry to the saints, it is not necessary for me to write to you.

⁷ Each one, as he purposes in his heart, let him give; not of grief, or of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

¹³ through the proof of this ministry they glorify God for your freely expressed submission to the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of the fellowship toward them and toward all,

⁹ And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may overshadow me. ¹⁰ Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

¹⁰ Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

²¹ lest in my coming again my God will humble me with you; and I shall mourn many who have already sinned, and not repenting over the uncleanness, and fornication, and lustfulness which they have practiced.

²⁴ And they glorified God in me.

¹⁹ For through the Law I died to the law, that I might live to God.

¹⁹ For through the Law I died to the law, that I might live to God. ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith toward the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself on my behalf.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith toward the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself on my behalf.

¹ O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, to whom before your eyes Jesus Christ was written among you crucified?

⁷ You were running well. Who hindered you that you do not obey the truth?

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness,

²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

²⁴ But those belonging to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. ²⁵ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

² in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience; ³ among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

³ among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

³ among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. ⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us ⁵ (even when we were dead in sins) has made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),

⁸ This grace is given to me (who am less than the least of all saints) to preach the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ among the nations,

¹³ For this reason I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. ¹⁴ For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ of whom the whole family in Heaven and earth is named,

²⁰ Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, ²¹ to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, forever. Amen.

¹¹ And truly He gave some to be apostles, and some to be prophets, and some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart. ¹⁹ For they, being past feeling, have given themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

²² For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, ²³ and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. ²⁴ And you should put on the new man, who according to God was created in righteousness and true holiness.

²⁹ Let not any filthy word go out of your mouth, but if any is good to building up in respect of need, that it may give grace to the ones hearing.

⁷ Therefore do not be partakers with them. ⁸ For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light

¹⁷ Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. ¹⁸ And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,

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

⁶ not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

¹⁰ Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

¹³ Therefore take to yourselves the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

¹⁸ praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching to this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.

¹¹ being filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but as always now Christ shall be magnified in my body with all boldness, whether it is by life or by death.

²⁹ For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

⁵ For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

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

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputings,

¹⁰ that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death;

⁵ Let your moderation be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

⁹ For this cause we also, since the day we heard, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

¹⁶ For all things were created in Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through 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, the church, who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that He may be pre-eminent in all things. ¹⁹ For it pleased the Father that in Him all fullness should dwell. ²⁰ And through Him having made peace through the blood of His cross, it pleased the Father to reconcile all things to Himself through Him, whether the things on earth or the things in Heaven.

²⁴ who now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and I fill up the things lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, on behalf of His body, which is the church;

³ For you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ our Life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. ⁵ Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),

⁷ among whom you also once walked, when you lived in these. ⁸ But now also put off all these things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, shameful speech out of your mouth.

¹⁴ And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

² Continue in prayer and watch in it with thanksgiving,

⁶ Let your speech be always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

¹² Epaphras greets you, he being of you, a servant of Christ, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

² And we sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith, ³ so that no one should be drawn aside by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to them. ⁴ For truly, when we were with you, we told you before that we were going to suffer affliction, as it also happened, even you know.

¹² And may the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all, even as we also toward you,

⁵ (not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God),

⁹ But regarding brotherly love, you do not need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. ¹⁰ And indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we beseech you, brothers, that you abound more and more, ¹¹ and that you try earnestly to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

⁶ Therefore let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be calm. ⁷ For those sleeping sleep in the night, and those being drunken are drunken in the night. ⁸ But let us, who are of the day, be calm, having put on the breastplate of faith and love and the hope of salvation for a helmet.

¹⁸ In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

³ We are bound to thank God always for you, my brothers, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;

⁷ and to give rest with us to you who are troubled, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with the angels of His power, ⁸ in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁸ in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁹ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, ¹⁰ when He shall come to be glorified in His saints and to be admired in all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that Day.

¹⁰ when He shall come to be glorified in His saints and to be admired in all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that Day. ¹¹ Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of the calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power, ¹² that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹¹ For we hear that there are some who walk disorderly among you, not working at all, but being busybodies.

⁵ But the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned,

¹⁷ Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

² Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching,

¹³ And with it all they also learn to be idle, going around the houses; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things they ought not.

¹⁶ who alone has immortality, dwelling in light which cannot be approached, whom no one of men have seen, nor can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

¹² For this cause I also suffer these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to guard My deposit unto that Day.

¹⁸ May the Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that Day. And in what things he ministered to me at Ephesus, you know very well.

⁹ in which I suffer ill as an evildoer, even to bonds. But the Word of God is not chained.

¹² If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us.

¹² Yea, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

¹ Therefore I solemnly witness before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is going to judge the living and the dead according to His appearance and His kingdom,

⁵ But you watch in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fully carry out your ministry.

⁷ For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not full of passion, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain; ⁸ but hospitable, a lover of good, discreet, just, holy, temperate,

¹² teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world,

³ For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

³ For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

³ For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. ⁴ But when the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared,

⁴ But when the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, ⁵ not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

⁵ not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

⁶ whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ that being justified by His grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

⁷ that being justified by His grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. ⁸ Faithful is the Word, and as to these things, I desire that you strongly affirm that those believing God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

¹⁴ But without your consent I was willing to do nothing, that your good should not be of necessity, but willingly.

² has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds, ³ who being the shining splendor of His glory, and the express image of His essence, and upholding all things by the word of His power, through Himself cleansing of our sins, He sat down on the right of the Majesty on high,

² For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and if every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,

⁴ God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with different kinds of miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?

¹ Therefore, a promise being left to enter into His rest, let us fear lest any of you should seem to come short of it.

¹⁰ For he who has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from His.

⁹ And being perfected, He became the Author of eternal salvation to all those who obey Him,

¹² For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food.

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

²⁵ not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

³⁸ Now, "the Just shall live by faith. But if he draws back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him." ³⁹ But we are not of those withdrawing to destruction, but of those who believe to the preserving of the soul.

⁸ By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he was afterward going to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he went.

²⁶ esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.

² looking to Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right of the throne of God. ³ For consider Him who endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest you be weary and faint in your minds.

³ For consider Him who endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest you be weary and faint in your minds.

²⁴ and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. ²⁵ See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, those who refused him that spoke on earth, much more we shall not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from Heaven,

¹ Let brotherly love continue. ² Do not be forgetful of hospitality, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.

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

²¹ make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

² My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into different kinds of temptations,

² My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into different kinds of temptations, ³ knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.

³ knowing that the trying of your faith works patience. ⁴ But let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

¹⁸ Of His own will He brought us forth with the Word of truth, for us to be a certain firstfruit of His creatures. ¹⁹ Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

²⁶ If anyone thinks to be religious among you, yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is vain.

¹ My brothers, do not be many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. ² For in many things we all offend. If anyone does not offend in word, the same is a full-grown man, able also to bridle the whole body. ³ Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body. ⁴ Behold also the ships being so great, and driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small rudder, where the impulse of him steering desires. ⁵ Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold how little a fire kindles how large a forest! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell.

⁸ You also be patient, establish your hearts, for the coming of your Lord draws near. ⁹ Do not grudge against one another, brothers, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge stands before the door.

⁹ Do not grudge against one another, brothers, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge stands before the door.

¹¹ Behold, we count blessed those who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is full of pity and of tender mercy. ¹² But before all things, my brothers, do not swear; neither by the heaven nor by the earth, nor any other oath. But let your yes be yes, and your no, no, lest you fall into condemnation.

²⁰ know that he who turns back the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

⁵ by the power of God, having been kept through faith to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time; ⁶ in which you greatly rejoice, yet a little while, if need be, grieving in manifold temptations;

⁶ in which you greatly rejoice, yet a little while, if need be, grieving in manifold temptations; ⁷ so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

⁷ so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, ⁸ whom having not seen, you love; in whom not yet seeing, but believing in Him you exult with unspeakable joy, and having been glorified,

¹³ Therefore girding up the loins of your mind, being sober, perfectly hope for the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance,

²² Purifying your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,

¹ Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings,

⁵ you also as living stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁸ and a Stone-of-stumbling and a Rock-of-offense to those disobeying, who stumble at the Word, to which they also were appointed.

¹² having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of His visitation, seeing your good works.

¹⁴ or to governors as sent by Him for vengeance on evildoers, but for praise on well-doers. ¹⁵ For such is the will of God, doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish men;

¹⁵ For such is the will of God, doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish men;

¹⁹ For this is a grace, if for conscience toward God anyone endures grief, suffering wrongfully. ²⁰ For what glory is it if you patiently endure while sinning and being buffeted? But if you suffer while doing good, and patiently endure, this is a grace from God.

⁷ Likewise, husbands, live together according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, the female, as truly being co-heirs together of the grace of life, not cutting off your prayers.

¹⁴ But if you also suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. And do not fear their fear, nor be troubled,

¹⁶ having a good conscience, that while they speak against you as evildoers they may be shamed, those falsely accusing your good behavior in Christ. ¹⁷ For it is better, if the will of God wills it, to suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.

¹⁷ For it is better, if the will of God wills it, to suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing. ¹⁸ For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;

¹⁸ For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit; ¹⁹ in which also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,

¹ Therefore, Christ having suffered for us in the flesh, also you arm yourselves with the same thought, that he suffering in the flesh has been made to rest from sin, ² in order no longer to live in the lusts of men, but in the will of God the remaining time in the flesh.

⁴ In these things they are surprised, that you are not running with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

⁴ In these things they are surprised, that you are not running with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming. ⁵ But they shall give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

¹⁰ each one as he received a gift, ministering it to yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

¹² Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though a strange thing happened to you, ¹³ but rejoice according as you are partakers of Christ's suffering, so that when His glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy. ¹⁴ If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of God and of glory rests on you. Truly according to them, He is blasphemed, but according to you He is glorified. ¹⁵ But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or a meddler in the affairs of others. ¹⁶ But if one suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God because of this.

¹⁹ Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing, as to a faithful Creator.

¹ I exhort the elders who are among you, I being also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed.

⁸ Be sensible and vigilant, because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour; ⁹ whom firmly resist in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions in the world are being completed in your brotherhood. ¹⁰ But the God of all grace, He calling us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, He will perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. ¹¹ To Him be the glory and the might forever and ever. Amen.

⁶ and with knowledge self-control, and with self-control, patience, and with patience, godliness, ⁷ and with godliness, brotherly kindness, and with brotherly kindness, love.

² And many will follow their pernicious ways, and because of them the way of truth will be evil spoken of.

⁵ And He did not spare the old world, but saved Noah the eighth one, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly. ⁶ And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, He condemned them with an overthrow, setting an example to men intending to live ungodly.

¹² But these, as unreasoning natural brute animals having been born for capture and corruption, speak evil of the things that they do not understand. And they will utterly perish in their own corruption,

²² But the word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog turning to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to wallowing in the mire.

⁷ But the present heavens and the earth being kept in store by the same Word, are being kept for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

⁹ The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. ¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up. ¹¹ Then, all these things being about to be dissolved, what sort ought you to be in holy behavior and godliness,

¹⁷ And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides forever. ¹⁸ Little children, it is the last time. And just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have risen up, from which we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out so that it might be revealed that they were not all of us.

² Beloved, in regard to all things I pray that you prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.

⁴ For certain men crept in secretly, those having been of old previously written into this condemnation, ungodly ones perverting the grace of our God for unbridled lust, and denying the only Master, God, even our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ But what things they do not know, they speak evil of. And what things they understand naturally, like the animals without reason, they are corrupted by these.

¹⁴ And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied to these, saying, Behold, the Lord came with myriads of His saints, ¹⁵ to do judgment against all, and to rebuke all the ungodly of them concerning all their ungodly works which they ungodly did, and concerning all the hard things ungodly sinners spoke against Him.

¹⁵ to do judgment against all, and to rebuke all the ungodly of them concerning all their ungodly works which they ungodly did, and concerning all the hard things ungodly sinners spoke against Him.

²⁵ to the only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty and might and authority, even now and forever. Amen.

⁵ even from Jesus Christ the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, ⁶ and made us kings and priests to God and His Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. ⁷ Behold, He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, and those who pierced Him will see Him, and all the kindreds of the earth will wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.

⁹ I, John, who also am your brother and companion in the affliction, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the island that is called Patmos, for the Word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fell down before the One sitting on the throne. And they worshiped Him who lives for ever and ever, and threw their crowns before the throne, saying, ¹¹ O Lord, You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power, because You created all things, and for Your will they are and were created.

⁹ And they sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for You were slain and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation. ¹⁰ And You made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign over the earth. ¹¹ And I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, and the living creatures and the elders. And the number of them was myriads and myriads, and thousands of thousands, ¹² saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. ¹³ And I heard every creature which is in the Heaven and on the earth, and under the earth, and those that are in the sea, and all who are in them, saying, Blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb forever and ever. ¹⁴ And the four living creatures said, Amen. And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped the One living forever and ever.

¹⁸ And another angel came out from the altar, who had authority over fire. And he spoke with a great cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe.

¹⁵ Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is the one who watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.

⁴ And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet. And she was gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication. ⁵ And on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.