Luke 15 Cross References - MKJV

¹ And all the tax-collectors and sinners drew near to Him in order to hear Him. ² And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them. ³ And He spoke this parable to them, saying, ⁴ What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost until he finds it? ⁵ And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ⁶ And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost. ⁷ I say to you that likewise joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance. ⁸ Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does she not light a lamp and sweep the house, and seek carefully until she finds it? ⁹ And when she has found it, she calls her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost. ¹⁰ Likewise I say to you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents. ¹¹ And He said, A certain man had two sons. ¹² And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that is coming to me. And he divided his living to them. 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. ¹⁴ And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land. And he began to be in want. ¹⁵ And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country. And he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. ¹⁶ And he was longing to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, and no one gave to him. ¹⁷ And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father abound in loaves, and I perish with hunger! ¹⁸ I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you ¹⁹ and am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants. ²⁰ And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. ²¹ And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you, and am no more worthy to be called your son. ²² But the father said to his servants, Bring the best robe and put it on him. And put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet. ²³ And bring the fattened calf here and kill it. And let us eat and be merry, ²⁴ for this my son was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry. ²⁵ And his elder son was in the field. And as he came and drew near the house, he heard music and dancing. ²⁶ And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. ²⁷ And he said to him, Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received him safe and sound. ²⁸ And he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and entreated him. ²⁹ And answering he said to his father, Lo, these many years I have served you, neither did I transgress your commandment at any time. And yet you never gave me a kid so that I might make merry with my friends. ³⁰ But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fattened calf. ³¹ And he said to him, Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. ³² It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

⁵ but He did not have respect to Cain and to his offering. And Cain glowed with anger, and his face fell. ⁶ And Jehovah said to Cain, Why have you angrily glowed? And why did your face fall? ⁷ If you do well, shall you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin crouches at the door; and its desire is for you, and you shall rule over it.

⁷ And Abraham ran out to the herd and brought a calf, tender and good. And he gave it to a young man. And he hurried to dress it.

¹⁰ I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have done to Your servant. For with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two bands.

⁴ And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell upon his neck and kissed him. And they wept.

⁴² And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand. And he dressed him with fine linen robes, and put a gold chain around his neck.

¹⁴ And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept. And Benjamin wept upon his neck.

²⁸ And Israel said, It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.

²⁹ And Joseph made his chariot ready, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself to him. And he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

³ And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, So says Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.

²⁰ And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand. And all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

⁷ And Jehovah said to Moses, Go! Get down, for your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, are corrupted.

¹¹ And Moses prayed to Jehovah his God, and said, Jehovah, why does Your wrath become hot against Your people whom You have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

⁴⁰ If they shall confess their wilfulness and the wilfulness of their fathers, with their sin which they sinned against Me, and that also they have walked contrary to Me, ⁴¹ I also will walk contrary to them and will bring them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they then pay for their iniquity,

¹⁶ then it shall be in the day when he makes his sons to inherit what he has, he may not cause to inherit the son of the beloved first-born before the son of the hated one, he who is truly the first-born. ¹⁷ But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated as the first-born by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the first-born is his.

² and shall return to Jehovah your God and shall obey His voice according to all that I command you today, you and your sons, with all your heart, and with all your soul, ³ then Jehovah your God will turn your captivity. And He will have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the nations where Jehovah your God has scattered you. ⁴ If you are driven out into the outermost parts of the heavens, Jehovah your God will gather you from there, and He will bring you from there.

²⁵ Your shoes shall be iron and bronze. And as your days, so shall your strength be.

²⁴ And they answered Joshua and said, Because it was certainly told your servants how Jehovah your God commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all those who lived in the land from before you; therefore, we were very much afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing. ²⁵ And now, behold, we are in your hand. As it seems good and right to you to do to us, do it.

¹³ And Samuel came to Saul. And Saul said to him, You are blessed of Jehovah. I have done the command of Jehovah. ¹⁴ And Samuel said, What then is this bleating of the flock in my ears? And what is the sound of the herd which I hear?

²⁸ And his oldest brother Eliab heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David. And he said, Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the naughtiness of your heart. For you have come down to see the battle.

⁸ And Saul was very angry, and this thing was evil in his eyes. And he said, They have given David ten thousands, and to me they have given only thousands. And what more can he have but the kingdom?

¹⁴ And David danced before Jehovah with all his might. And David was girded with a linen ephod.

⁴⁷ yet if they shall think within themselves in the land where they are carried captives, and repent, and pray to You in the land of their captors saying, We have sinned and have done perversely, we have done wickedly, ⁴⁸ and so return to You with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and if they pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, to the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name,

³⁰ But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city. And there a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of those remaining. And Ben-hadad fled and came into the city, into an inner room. ³¹ And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will save your life.

³ And four men, lepers, were at the gate entrance. And they said to one another, Why do we sit here until we die? ⁴ If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we still sit here, we also shall die. And now come and let us fall to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we shall live. And if they kill us, we shall only die.

²² And in the time of his distress he trespassed even more against Jehovah, this King Ahaz.

¹ Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. ² But he did the evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the abominations of the heathen whom Jehovah had cast out before the sons of Israel. ³ For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asherahs, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall My name be forever. ⁵ And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah. ⁶ And he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He also practiced secret arts, and used fortune-telling, and used witchcraft, and dealt with mediums, and with soothsayers. He did much evil in the sight of Jehovah in order to provoke Him to anger. ⁷ And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. ⁸ Nor will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have set apart for your fathers; only if they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses. ⁹ And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem to err, to do worse than the nations whom Jehovah had destroyed before the sons of Israel. ¹⁰ And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to His people, but they would not listen. ¹¹ And Jehovah brought on them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh among the thorns and bound him with chains and carried him to Babylon. ¹² And when he was in affliction, he sought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. ¹³ And he prayed to Him, and He was entreated of him, and heard his prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. And Manasseh knew that Jehovah is God.

¹³ And he prayed to Him, and He was entreated of him, and heard his prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. And Manasseh knew that Jehovah is God. ¹⁴ And after this he built a wall outside the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and went around Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. And he put army commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah. ¹⁵ And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Jehovah, and in Jerusalem, and threw them out of the city. ¹⁶ And he repaired the altar of Jehovah and sacrificed on it peace offerings and thank-offerings. And he commanded Judah to serve Jehovah, the God of Israel. ¹⁷ But the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to Jehovah their God. ¹⁸ And the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel; ¹⁹ and his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up Asherahs and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the Matters of the Seers.

¹⁹ and his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up Asherahs and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the Matters of the Seers.

¹⁰ And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.

² And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

¹³ They spend their days in good, and in a moment go down to the grave. ¹⁴ And they say to God, Depart from us; for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways; ¹⁵ what is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have if we pray to Him?

¹⁷ who said to God, Depart from us; and, What can the Almighty do to them? ¹⁸ Yet He filled their houses with substance; and the wisdom of the wicked is far from me.

²⁷ He will observe to men, and say, I have sinned and perverted righteousness; and it was not equally repaid to me, ²⁸ He has redeemed my soul from passing over into the Pit, and my life shall see the light.

⁸ And if they are bound in chains, and are held in cords of affliction, ⁹ then He shows them their work, and their sins, that they have behaved themselves proudly. ¹⁰ He also opens their ears to teaching, and commands that they return from iniquity.

⁶ Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

⁴ Through the pride of his face the wicked will not seek Him; There is no God in all his schemes. ⁵ His ways are always perverted; Your judgments are high, out of his sight. As for all his enemies, he puffs at them. ⁶ He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation, never in evil!

⁵ Jehovah is the portion of my inheritance, and of my cup; You shall uphold my lot. ⁶ The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yea, I have a beautiful inheritance.

¹⁴ from men by Your hand, O Jehovah, from men of the world whose portion is in this life, and whose belly You fill with Your treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and will leave their riches to their babes.

³³ He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me on my high places.

¹¹ For Your name's sake, O Jehovah, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.

¹¹ You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have torn off my sackcloth, and have clothed me with gladness,

³ When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long. ⁴ For by day and by night Your hand was heavy on me; my sap is turned into the droughts of summer. Selah. ⁵ I confessed my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, I will confess my transgression to Jehovah; and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

¹³ The king's daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is trimmed with gold.

³ For I confess my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me. ⁴ Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done evil in Your sight; that You might be justified when You speak, and be clear when You judge.

⁴ Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done evil in Your sight; that You might be justified when You speak, and be clear when You judge. ⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

⁸ Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which You have broken may rejoice.

⁵ My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips,

²⁰ like a dream when one awakens; so, O Jehovah, when You awake, You shall despise their image.

²² So foolish was I, and I did not know; I was like a beast before You.

²⁷ For lo, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all who go lusting away from You.

¹⁰ For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

⁵ For You, Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and rich in mercy to all those who call on You.

¹⁵ But You, O God, are God full of pity, and gracious, long-suffering, and rich in mercy and truth.

¹⁰ He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. ¹¹ For as the heavens are high above the earth, so is His mercy toward those who fear Him. ¹² As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. ¹³ As a father pities his children, Jehovah pities those who fear Him.

³ The sorrows of death hemmed me in, and the pains of hell took hold on me; I found trouble and sorrow. ⁴ Then I called on the name of Jehovah; O Jehovah, I beseech You, deliver my soul. ⁵ Gracious is Jehovah, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. ⁶ Jehovah keeps the simple; I was brought low, and He helped me. ⁷ Return to your rest, O my soul; for Jehovah has dealt bountifully with you.

¹⁷⁶ I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant; for I do not forget Your Commandments.

¹ A Song of degrees. When Jehovah turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream.

⁹ Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.

¹⁶ I also will clothe her priests with salvation; and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

⁴ I looked on my right hand, and I watched, but no one recognized me; escape was lost to me; no man cared for my soul.

² And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living is just.

³ Let them praise His name in the dance; let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp.

⁴ Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; praise Him with stringed instruments and pipes.

⁸ Remove your ways far from her, and do not come near the door of her house, ⁹ lest you give your honor to others and your years to the cruel; ¹⁰ that strangers not be filled with your strength, and your labors be in the house of a stranger; ¹¹ and you moan when your end comes, when your flesh and muscle are eaten away, ¹² and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised correction; ¹³ and I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor bowed down my ears to those who taught me! ¹⁴ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

²⁶ For by means of a harlot a man comes to a piece of bread; and another man's wife will hunt for the precious life.

² she has killed her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table.

⁹ Also he who is slack in his work is brother to a great destroyer.

¹⁷ He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

²⁰ A desirable treasure and oil are in the home of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

¹³ Do not withhold correction from a boy, for if you beat him with the rod, he will not die.

¹⁹ My son, hear and be wise, and guide your heart in the way. ²⁰ Do not be among those who drink much wine, among gluttons for flesh for themselves, ²¹ for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags. ²² Listen to your father who sired you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

⁸ As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

⁷ Whoever keeps the law is a wise son, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

³ Whoever loves wisdom rejoices his father; but a companion of harlots wastes wealth.

¹² There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their own filth.

⁴ a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

³ This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

⁹ Rejoice, in your youth, young man; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. ¹⁰ Therefore remove vexation from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for childhood and prime of life are vanity.

¹ How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince's daughter! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.

⁴ Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger; they have gone away backward. ⁵ Why should you be stricken any more? You will revolt more and more; the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

⁹ Except Jehovah of Hosts had left us a very small remnant, we would be as Sodom; we would be like Gomorrah. ¹⁰ Hear the Word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear to the Law of our God, people of Gomorrah. ¹¹ To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? says Jehovah; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats. ¹² When you come to appear before Me, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts? ¹³ Bring no more vain sacrifice; incense is an abomination to Me; the new moon and sabbath, the going to meeting; I cannot endure evil and the assembly!

¹³ Then, lo, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, saying, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!

⁶ And in this mountain Jehovah of Hosts shall make a feast of fat things for all the people, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of refined wine on the lees.

¹¹ go out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

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.

¹⁰ Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come with a strong hand, and His arm shall rule for Him; behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him. ¹¹ He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those with young.

²⁰ He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

³ Listen to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who are borne by Me from the belly, who are lifted from the womb; ⁴ even to old age I am He; and to gray hairs I will bear you. I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.

⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each one to his own way; and Jehovah has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

¹⁰ Yet it pleased Jehovah to crush Him; to grieve Him; that He should put forth His soul as a guilt-offering. He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the will of Jehovah shall prosper in His hand. ¹¹ He shall see the fruit of the travail of His soul. He shall be fully satisfied. By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify for many; and He shall bear their iniquities.

² Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

⁶ Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. ⁸ For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways My ways, says Jehovah. ⁹ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.

¹² They say, come, Let us take wine, and let us gulp strong drink; and tomorrow shall be like today, and much more abundant.

³ But draw near here, sons of the sorceress, seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

¹⁷ For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid Myself, and was angry, and he went on turning away in the way of his heart. ¹⁸ I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will also lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

² Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and one who did not forget the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in drawing near to God. ³ They say, Why have we fasted, and You do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and You take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and crush all your laborers.

¹⁰ I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul will be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the robes of salvation, He covered me with the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom adorns himself with ornaments, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

⁵ For as a young man marries a virgin, so will your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so will your God rejoice over you.

¹² And they will call them, The Holy People, The Redeemed of Jehovah; and you will be called, Sought Out, a city not forsaken.

⁹ In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them; in His love and in His pity He redeemed them; and He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

¹⁶ For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O Jehovah, are our Father, our Redeemer; Your name is from everlasting.

⁵ who say, Keep to yourself, do not come near me; for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in My nose, a fire that burns all the day.

¹³ So the Lord Jehovah says, Behold, My servants will eat, but you will be hungry. Behold, My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, My servants will rejoice, but you will be ashamed. ¹⁴ Behold, My servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will howl because of a breaking of spirit.

⁵ Hear the Word of Jehovah, you who tremble at His Word; your brothers who hated you, who cast you out for My name's sake, said, Let Jehovah be glorified. But He will appear to your joy, and they will be ashamed.

¹⁰ Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all who mourn for her; ¹¹ that you may suck and be satisfied with her comforting breasts; that you may milk out and be delighted with the fullness of her glory.

¹¹ that you may suck and be satisfied with her comforting breasts; that you may milk out and be delighted with the fullness of her glory.

⁵ So says Jehovah, What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

¹³ For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

¹⁷ Have you not brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, when He led you by the way? ¹⁸ And now what is for you toward the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or what for you toward Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? ¹⁹ Your own evil shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you, therefore know and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, and that My fear is not in you, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

³¹ O generation, see the Word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, We roam freely; we will come no more to You?

¹³ Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have sinned against Jehovah your God and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says Jehovah.

¹⁹ But I said, How shall I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance among the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call Me, My Father, and shall not turn away from Me.

³ O Jehovah, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; You have destroyed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return.

⁴ And you shall say to them, So says Jehovah; shall they fall and not arise? Shall he turn away and not return? ⁵ Why has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a never-ending backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return. ⁶ I listened and heard, but they did not speak right; no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turned in their own courses, as the horse rushes into the battle.

⁴ Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel. You shall again put on your tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances of those who rejoice.

⁶ For there shall be a day that the watchmen on Mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise and let us go up to Zion to Jehovah our God! ⁷ For so says Jehovah, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations. Cry out, give praise and say, O Jehovah, save Your people, the remnant of Israel. ⁸ Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the corners of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and she who is in labor with child, together; a great company shall return there. ⁹ They shall come with weeping, and with prayers I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

¹² Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of Jehovah, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the sons of the flock and the herd. And their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not pine away any more at all. ¹³ Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them and make them rejoice from their affliction. ¹⁴ And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness, and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says Jehovah. ¹⁵ So says Jehovah: A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her sons; she refuses to be comforted for her sons, because they are not. ¹⁶ So says Jehovah: Hold back your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Jehovah. And they shall come again from the land of the enemy. ¹⁷ And there is hope for your future, says Jehovah, that your sons shall come again to their own border. ¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim mourning to himself, saying, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not broken in; turn me, and I shall be turned. For You are Jehovah my God. ¹⁹ Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was taught, I struck on my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, I even blushed, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.

¹⁹ Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was taught, I struck on my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, I even blushed, because I bore the disgrace of my youth. ²⁰ Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still. Therefore My heart is troubled for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Jehovah.

⁴¹ Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will truly plant them in this land with all My heart and all My whole soul. ⁴² For so says Jehovah: As I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.

⁴ In those days, and at that time, says Jehovah, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going and weeping. They shall go and seek Jehovah their God. ⁵ They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces there, saying, Come and let us join ourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant never to be forgotten. ⁶ My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.

⁷ In the days of her affliction and her wandering Jerusalem remembered all her desirable things from previous days; when her people fell into the hand of the foe; and there is no ally for her. The foes saw her; they laughed at her annihilation.

¹⁸ And I said, My strength and my hope from Jehovah are gone. ¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my wandering, as wormwood and bitterness. ²⁰ My soul vividly remembers and bows down on me. ²¹ I recall this to my mind; therefore I hope. ²² It is by Jehovah's kindnesses that we are not destroyed, because His mercies never fail.

²⁹ He puts his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there may be hope.

⁴⁰ Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.

⁵ Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those reared in scarlet embrace dunghills.

⁶ And when I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you in your blood, Live! Yes, I said to you in your blood, Live! ⁷ I have caused you to multiply like the bud of the field, and you are grown, and you are great; and you come in the finest ornaments. Your breasts are formed, and hair is grown, yet you were naked and bare. ⁸ And I passed by you and looked on you, and, behold, your time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. And I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Jehovah. And you became Mine. ⁹ And I washed you with water; I washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. ¹⁰ I also clothed you with embroidered work, and I shod you with dugong sandals. And I wrapped you in fine linen, and I covered you with silk. ¹¹ And I adorned you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands and a chain on your neck. ¹² And I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. ¹³ And you were adorned with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered work. You ate fine flour and honey and oil; and you were exceedingly beautiful. And you advanced to regal estate.

²⁷ And, behold, therefore I have stretched out My hand over you, and drew back your portion. And I gave you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your wicked way.

⁵² You also, who have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins which you have committed more abominable than they. They are more righteous than you! Yes, blush and bear your shame, since you have justified your sisters.

⁶³ so that you may remember and be ashamed; and it will not be possible to open your mouth any more because of your shame; in that I am propitiated for all that you have done, says the Lord Jehovah.

²³ Do I actually delight in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Jehovah. Is it not that he should turn from his ways and live?

²⁷ Again, when the wicked turns away from his wickedness that he has committed and does that which is lawful and righteous, he shall save his soul alive. ²⁸ Because he looks carefully, and turns away from all his sins that he has committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

³² For I have no delight in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Jehovah. Therefore turn and live.

¹¹ Say to them: As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I have no delight in the death of the wicked, except in the turning of the wicked from his way, and so to live. Turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

⁴ You have not made the weak strong, nor have you healed the sick, nor have you bound up the broken. You have not brought again those driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost; but you have ruled them with force and with cruelty.

⁸ As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock,

¹¹ For so says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out. ¹² As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out My sheep and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

¹² As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out My sheep and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

¹⁶ I will seek the lost, and bring again those driven away, and will bind up the broken, and will strengthen the sick. But I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

³¹ And you My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord Jehovah.

²⁶ And in that they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; your kingdom shall be sure to you after you have known that Heaven rules.

⁶ Therefore behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and wall up her wall, that she shall not find her paths. ⁷ And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them. She shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.

⁹ So I will return and take away My grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. ¹⁰ And now I will uncover her shamefulness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand. ¹¹ I will also cause all her joy to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts. ¹² And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, They are my rewards that my lovers have given me. And I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. ¹³ And I will visit on her the days of the Baals, in which she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her nose-rings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers and forgot Me, says Jehovah. ¹⁴ Therefore, behold, I will lure her and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her.

⁸ How shall I give you up, Ephraim? How shall I deliver you, Israel? How shall I make you like Admah? How shall I set you as Zeboim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassions are kindled together.

¹ Ephraim feeds on wind and follows after the east wind. He daily multiplies lies and cruelty. And they make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

¹ O Israel, return to Jehovah your God, for you have fallen by your iniquity. ² Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah. Say to Him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously, that we may repay with the calves of our lips. ³ Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. Nor shall we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods, for in You the fatherless finds mercy.

⁹ Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? Understanding, and he shall know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but sinners shall fall in them.

³ You who put the evil day far away, and cause the seat of violence to come near; ⁴ who lie on beds of ivory, and those sprawling on their couches, and eat lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; ⁵ who chant with the mouth of the harp; they invent instruments of music for themselves, like David; ⁶ who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best of oils; nor do they grieve for the breaking of Joseph! ⁷ So now they shall go into exile with the first of the exiles. And the feast of those who stretch themselves shall cease.

⁹ And it shall be in that day, says the Lord Jehovah, I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the light of day. ¹⁰ And I will turn your feast into mourning, and all your songs into weeping; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning of an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day. ¹¹ Behold, the days come, says the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Words of Jehovah. ¹² And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the Word of Jehovah, and shall not find it.

² and he said, I cried to Jehovah from my distress. And He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried for help, and You heard my voice. ³ For You cast me into the depths of the seas, and the current surrounded me. All Your breakers and Your waves passed over me. ⁴ Then I said, I am cast off from Your eyes, yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.

⁴ Then I said, I am cast off from Your eyes, yet I will look again toward Your holy temple. ⁵ Waters encompassed me, even to the soul; the depth closed around me; the seaweed was bound to my head. ⁶ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was around me forever; yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God. ⁷ When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; and my prayer came in to You, into Your holy temple. ⁸ They who take heed to lying vanities forsake their kindness;

⁹ Who knows? He may repent, and God may have pity and turn away from the glow of His anger, so that we do not perish.

¹ But it was a great calamity in Jonah's sight, and it kindled anger in him. ² And he prayed to Jehovah and said, Please, O Jehovah, was this not my saying when I was still in my land? On account of this I fled before to Tarshish. For I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and One who repents over calamity. ³ And now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, take my life from me. For better is my death than my life. ⁴ And Jehovah said, Is anger rightly kindled in you?

⁹ And God said to Jonah, Is your anger rightly kindled over the plant? And he said, My anger is rightly kindled, even to death. ¹⁰ And Jehovah said, You have had pity on the plant, for which you had not labored, nor made it grow, which was a son of a night, and perished the son of a night. ¹¹ And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand men who do not know between their right and their left hand, besides much cattle?

⁴ And He shall stand and feed in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah His God. And they shall sit, for now He shall be great to the ends of the earth.

³ O My people, what have I done to you? And in what have I made you weary? Testify against Me!

¹⁸ Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not keep His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.

¹⁸ Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not keep His anger forever, because He delights in mercy. ¹⁹ He will turn again; He will have pity on us. He will trample our iniquities. Yea, You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

⁶ And I will cast filth upon you, and will dishonor you, and will set you as a gazing-stock.

¹⁷ Jehovah your God is mighty in your midst; He will save, He will rejoice over you with joy; He is silent in His love; He rejoices over you with joyful shout.

³ Now Joshua was clothed with filthy clothes, and stood before the Angel. ⁴ And He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy clothes from him. And to him He said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with ceremonial robes. ⁵ And I said, Let them set a clean turban on his head. And they set a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments. And the Angel of Jehovah stood by.

³ to speak to the priests who belong to the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, consecrating myself, as I have done these many years?

¹² But you are profaning it when you say, The table of Jehovah, it is polluted; and its fruit, His food, is to be despised. ¹³ You also said, Behold, what a weariness it is! And you have puffed at it, says Jehovah of Hosts. And you bring plunder, and the lame, and the sick, and you bring the food offering. Should I accept it from your hand, says Jehovah?

⁹ Therefore I have also made you despised and low before all the people, just as you have not kept My ways but are lifting up faces in the law.

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?

⁶ And they were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

⁹ Therefore pray in this way: Our Father, who is in Heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

¹⁴ For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you;

¹¹ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him?

¹⁰ And it happened as Jesus reclined in the house, behold, many tax-collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Him and His disciples. ¹¹ And when the Pharisees saw, they said to His disciples, Why does your master eat with tax-collectors and sinners?

¹¹ And when the Pharisees saw, they said to His disciples, Why does your master eat with tax-collectors and sinners? ¹² But when Jesus heard, He said to them, The ones who are whole do not need a physician, but the ones who are sick. ¹³ But go and learn what this is, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

¹¹ And He said to them, What man among you will be, who will have one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the sabbaths, will he not lay hold on it and lift it out?

²⁶ But He answered and said, It is not good to take the children's bread and to throw it to dogs. ²⁷ And she said, True, O Lord; but even the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' tables.

¹⁰ Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I say to you that in Heaven their angels always behold the face of My Father in Heaven.

¹⁰ Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I say to you that in Heaven their angels always behold the face of My Father in Heaven. ¹¹ For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost. ¹² What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, does he not leave the ninety and nine and go into the mountains and seek the straying one?

¹² What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, does he not leave the ninety and nine and go into the mountains and seek the straying one? ¹³ And if it happens that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety and nine which did not stray.

¹³ And if it happens that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety and nine which did not stray.

¹³ And if it happens that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety and nine which did not stray. ¹⁴ Even so it is not the will of your Father in Heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

¹⁴ Even so it is not the will of your Father in Heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

¹¹ And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house, ¹² saying, These last have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and heat of the day. ¹³ But he answered one of them and said, Friend, I do you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? ¹⁴ Take yours, and go; I will give to this last one the same as to you. ¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do what I want with my own? Is your eye evil because I am good? ¹⁶ So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, but few are chosen.

²³ And when He had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him as He was teaching, and said, By what authority do you do these things? And who gave you this authority? ²⁴ And Jesus answered and said to them, I will also ask you one thing; which if you tell Me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things. ²⁵ The baptism of John, where was it from? From Heaven or from men? And they reasoned within themselves, saying, If we shall say, From Heaven, he will say to us, Why then did you not believe him? ²⁶ But if we shall say From men, we fear the people; for all consider John as a prophet. ²⁷ And they answered Jesus and said, We cannot tell. And He said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. ²⁸ But what do you think? A man had two sons; and he came to the first and said, Son, go work in my vineyard today. ²⁹ He answered and said, I will not. But afterwards he repented and went. ³⁰ And he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir; and did not go. 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.

² The kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who made a marriage for his son. ³ And he sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they would not come. ⁴ Again he sent out other servants, saying, Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage. ⁵ But not caring, they went their ways, one to his field, another to his trading. ⁶ And the rest took his servants and treated them spitefully, and killed them. ⁷ But when the king heard, he was angry. And he sent out his armies and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. ⁸ Then he said to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they who were invited were not worthy. ⁹ Therefore go into the exits of the highways, and as many as you shall find, invite them to the marriage. ¹⁰ So the servants went out into the highways and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. And the wedding was filled with reclining guests. ¹¹ And the king coming in to look over the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment.

¹¹ And the king coming in to look over the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment. ¹² And he said to him, Friend, how did you come in here without having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

¹² And he said to him, Friend, how did you come in here without having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. ¹³ Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ¹⁴ For many are called, but few chosen.

⁵ And the angel answered and said to the women, Do not fear, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. ⁶ He is not here, for He has risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. ⁷ And go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead. And, behold, He goes before you into Galilee. There you shall see Him. Lo, I have told you.

²⁷ But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be filled. For it is not right to take the children's loaves and to throw it to the dogs. ²⁸ And she answered and said to Him, Yes, Lord, yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

²² And He came to Bethsaida. And they brought a blind man to Him and begged Him to touch him.

⁴⁴ For all cast in from their abundance. But she, out of her poverty, has cast in all that she had, all her livelihood.

¹ And it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. ² (This taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) ³ And all went to be registered, each to his own city. ⁴ And Joseph also went up from Galilee to be taxed (out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David). ⁵ And he took Mary his betrothed wife, being with child. ⁶ And while they were there, the days for her deliverance were fulfilled. ⁷ And she brought forth her son, the First-born, and wrapped Him, and laid Him in a manger-- because there was no room for them in the inn. ⁸ And in the same country there were shepherds living in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. ⁹ And lo, the angel of the Lord came on them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them. And they were grievously afraid. ¹⁰ And the angel said to them, Do not fear. For behold, I give to you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. ¹¹ For to you is born today, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. ¹² And this is a sign to you. You will find the babe wrapped, lying in a manger. ¹³ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, ¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

⁸ And seeing, Simon Peter fell at the knees of Jesus, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.

²⁹ And Levi made a great feast in his own house for Him. And there was a great company of tax-collectors and of others who were reclining with them. ³⁰ But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against His disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with tax-collectors and sinners?

³⁰ But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against His disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with tax-collectors and sinners? ³¹ And Jesus answered and said to them, Those who are sound do not need a physician, but those who are sick. ³² I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.

³² I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.

⁶ Then Jesus went with them. But He being yet not far off from the house, the centurion sent friends to Him, saying to Him, Lord, do not trouble Yourself. For I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof. ⁷ Therefore neither did I think myself worthy to come to You; but say a word, and my servant will be healed.

²⁹ And all the people and the tax-collectors who heard Him justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

³² They are like children sitting in a market and calling to one another, and saying, We have played the flute to you, and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you did not weep.

³⁴ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!

³⁹ But seeing this, the Pharisee who had invited Him, spoke within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, for she is a sinner.

⁴⁷ Therefore I say to you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, he loves little.

³² And there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain. And they begged Him that He would allow them to enter into them. And He allowed them. ³³ And coming out of the man, the demons entered into the pigs. And the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake and were choked. ³⁴ And those feeding the pigs, and seeing the thing, fled. And leaving, they reported to the city and to the farms. ³⁵ And they went out to see what had been done. And they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had departed sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.

¹⁹ Behold, I give to you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the authority of the enemy. And nothing shall by any means hurt you.

² And He said to them, When you pray, say: Our Father, who is in Heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done, as in Heaven, so also on the earth.

⁵ I tell you, No. But unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

¹⁵ And the Lord answered him and said, Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the sabbath loosen his ox or ass from the stall and lead it away, to give it drink?

³⁰ And behold, there are last ones which will be first, and there are first ones which will be last.

³⁴ Jerusalem! Jerusalem! the one killing the prophets, and stoning those having been sent to her; how often I desired to gather your children in the way a hen gathers her brood under the wings, and you did not desire it.

² And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.

⁴ What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost until he finds it?

⁴ What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost until he finds it? ⁵ And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ⁶ And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost. ⁷ I say to you that likewise joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

⁷ I say to you that likewise joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

⁷ I say to you that likewise joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance. ⁸ Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does she not light a lamp and sweep the house, and seek carefully until she finds it? ⁹ And when she has found it, she calls her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost. ¹⁰ Likewise I say to you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents. ¹¹ And He said, A certain man had two sons. ¹² And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that is coming to me. And he divided his living to them.

¹² And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that is coming to me. And he divided his living to them. 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.

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.

¹⁸ I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you ¹⁹ and am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.

²¹ And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you, and am no more worthy to be called your son. ²² But the father said to his servants, Bring the best robe and put it on him. And put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet. ²³ And bring the fattened calf here and kill it. And let us eat and be merry,

²³ And bring the fattened calf here and kill it. And let us eat and be merry, ²⁴ for this my son was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.

²⁴ for this my son was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.

²⁹ And answering he said to his father, Lo, these many years I have served you, neither did I transgress your commandment at any time. And yet you never gave me a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.

²⁹ And answering he said to his father, Lo, these many years I have served you, neither did I transgress your commandment at any time. And yet you never gave me a kid so that I might make merry with my friends. ³⁰ But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fattened calf.

³⁰ But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fattened calf.

³² It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

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.

¹⁵ And He said to them, You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

¹⁹ There was a certain rich man who was customarily clothed in purple and fine linen and making merry in luxury every day.

²³ And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

¹⁰ So likewise you, when you shall have done all the things commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants, for we have done what we ought to do.

⁹ And He spoke this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves, that they were righteous, and despised others:

⁹ And He spoke this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves, that they were righteous, and despised others: ¹⁰ Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-collector. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed within himself in this way: God, I thank You that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed within himself in this way: God, I thank You that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed within himself in this way: God, I thank You that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector. ¹² I fast twice on the Sabbath, I give tithes of all that I possess. ¹³ And standing afar off, the tax-collector would not even lift up his eyes to Heaven, but struck on his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner!

²⁰ You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and your mother. ²¹ And he said, I have kept all these from my youth up.

⁷ And seeing, they all murmured, saying, He has gone in to stay with a sinful man.

⁹ And Jesus said to him, This day salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. ¹⁰ For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.

²¹ For I feared you, because you are a harsh man. You take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow. ²² And he said to him, I will judge you out of your own mouth, wicked servant! You knew that I was a harsh man, taking up what I had not laid down and reaping what I did not sow. ²³ And why did you not give my silver on the bank table, and coming I might have exacted it with interest?

⁴³ And Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you shall be with Me in Paradise.

⁴⁷ and that repentance and remission of sins should be proclaimed in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom who stands and hears him rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. Then my joy is fulfilled.

³⁴ Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work. ³⁵ Do you not say, It is yet four months, and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white to harvest already.

²¹ For as the Father raises the dead and makes alive, even so the Son of Man makes alive whomever He wills.

²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, He who hears My Word and believes on Him who sent Me has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death to life. 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.

¹⁵ Even as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep. ¹⁶ And I have other sheep who are not of this fold. I must also lead those, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one Shepherd.

¹⁶ And I have other sheep who are not of this fold. I must also lead those, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one Shepherd.

²⁶ But you did not believe because you are not of My sheep. As I said to you, ²⁷ My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. ²⁸ And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never ever perish, and not anyone shall pluck them out of My hand.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection and the Life! He who believes in Me, though he die, yet he shall live.

⁵² and not for that nation only, but also that He should gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

¹¹ I have spoken these things to you so that My joy might remain in you and your joy might be full.

¹⁴ You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

³⁷ And hearing this, they were stabbed in the heart, and said to Peter and to the other apostles, Men, brothers, what shall we do?

³⁹ For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.

¹⁹ But the angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night and brought them out, and said,

¹ And Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest ² and asked letters from him to Damascus to the synagogues; so that if he found any of the Way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. ³ But in going, it happened as he drew near to Damascus, even suddenly a light from the heaven shone around him. ⁴ And he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? ⁵ And he said, Who are you, lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecute. It is hard for you to kick against the goads. ⁶ And trembling and astonished, he said, Lord, what will You have me to do? And the Lord said to him, Arise and go into the city, and you shall be told what you must do. ⁷ And the men who journeyed with him stood speechless, indeed hearing a voice but seeing no one. ⁸ And Saul was lifted up from the earth, his eyes were opened, but he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. ⁹ And he was three days not seeing, and did not eat or drink. ¹⁰ And there was a certain disciple in Damascus named Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias! And he said, Behold me, Lord. ¹¹ And the Lord said to him, Arise and go into the street which is called Straight and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying, ¹² and has seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him so that he might receive his sight. ¹³ And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how many evil things he has done to Your saints at Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your Name. ¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, Go! For this one is a chosen vessel to Me, to bear My name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel. ¹⁶ For I will show him what great things he must suffer for My name's sake. ¹⁷ And Ananias went and entered into the house. And putting his hands on him, he said, Brother Saul, the Lord, Jesus, who appeared to you in the way in which you came, has sent me to you that you might see and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

³ About the ninth hour of the day he saw plainly in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius! ⁴ And he was gazing at him, and becoming terrified, he said, What is it, lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your merciful deeds have come up for a memorial before God. ⁵ And now send men to Joppa and call for Simon, whose last name is Peter.

³ saying, You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them.

¹⁸ When they heard these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted repentance to life to the nations.

²³ who was glad when he had come and had seen the grace of God. And he exhorted all with purpose of heart to remain near to the Lord.

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.

⁵⁰ But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief ones of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their borders.

² But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the nations and made them evil-hearted against the brothers.

¹⁹ And Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, who, having persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, they drew him out of the city, supposing him to have died.

³ And indeed being set forward by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations. And they caused great joy to all the brothers.

²⁹ Then asking for a light he rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. ³⁰ And leading them outside, he said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

³⁷ And there was much weeping of all, and falling on the neck of Paul, they ardently kissed him,

¹³ coming to me and standing by, said to me, Brother Saul, look up! And the same hour I looked up on him.

²¹ And He said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the nations. ²² And they listened to him until this word, and then they lifted up their voice, saying, Take such a one from the earth! For it is not fitting that he should live.

¹¹ And I punished them often in every synagogue; I compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to the outside cities. ¹² In which pursuit also traveling to Damascus with authority and power of decision from the chief priests, ¹³ at midday, along the highway, O king, I and those with me saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun; shining around me. ¹⁴ And all of us falling to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads. ¹⁵ And I said, Who are you, lord? And He said, I am Jesus whom you persecute. ¹⁶ But rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of what you saw, and in what I shall appear to you; ¹⁷ delivering you from the people and the nations, to whom I now send you ¹⁸ in order to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me. ¹⁹ After this, king Agrippa, I did not disobey the heavenly vision.

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.

¹ Therefore you are without excuse, O man, everyone who judges; for in that in which you judge another, you condemn yourself, for you who judge do the same things.

⁴ Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and the forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

⁴ Let it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, "That You might be justified in Your sayings, and will overcome when You are judged."

¹⁹ But we know that whatever things the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be under judgment before God, ²⁰ because by the works of the Law none of all flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law is the knowledge of sin.

²² even the righteousness of God through the faith of Jesus Christ, toward all and upon all those who believe. For there is no difference,

²⁷ Then where is the boasting? It is excluded. Through what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith.

²⁰ But the Law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,

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

¹³ Do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as one alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

¹⁹ I speak in the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawless act unto lawless act, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness. ²⁰ For when you were the slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness. ²¹ What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. ²² But now, being made free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.

⁹ For I was alive without the law once. But when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

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

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!

⁴ who are Israelites; to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of God, and the promises;

³ For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.

¹⁹ But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you." ²⁰ But Isaiah is very bold and says, "I was found by those who did not seek Me, I became known to those who did not ask after Me." ²¹ But to Israel He says, "All day long I have stretched forth My hands to a disobeying and gainsaying people."

¹ I say then, Did not God put away His people? Let it not be said! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

¹⁵ For if their casting away is the reconciling of the world, what is the reception except life from the dead?

³⁵ Or who first gave to Him, and it will be repaid to him?

¹⁵ Rejoice with rejoicing ones, and weep with weeping ones;

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.

¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take thought beforehand for the lusts of the flesh.

⁹ and that the nations might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written, "For this cause I will confess to You in the nations, and I will praise Your name." ¹⁰ And again He says, "Rejoice, O nations, with His people." ¹¹ And again, "Praise the Lord, all the nations, and praise Him, all the peoples." ¹² And again Isaiah says, "There shall be a root of Jesse, and He who shall rise to reign over the nations, in Him shall the nations trust." ¹³ And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

⁹ I wrote to you in the letter not to associate intimately with fornicators; ¹⁰ yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you must go out of the world. ¹¹ But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 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.

¹² And sinning in this way against your brothers, and wounding their conscience, being weak, you sin against Christ.

²⁶ And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it.

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles and am not sufficient to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constrains us, judging this, that if one died for all, then all died; 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.

²⁰ Then we are ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as God exhorting through us, we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

¹⁰ For the grief according to God works repentance to salvation, not to be regretted, but the grief of the world works out death.

¹² For before some came from James, he ate with the nations. But when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision.

²⁷ For as many as were baptized into Christ, you put on Christ.

⁵ that He might redeem those under Law, so that we might receive the adoption of sons. ⁶ And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

¹³ in whom also you, hearing the Word of Truth, the gospel of our salvation, in whom also believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, ¹⁴ who is the earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

¹⁹ and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us, the ones believing according to the working of His mighty strength ²⁰ which He worked in Christ in raising Him from the dead, and He seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies,

¹ And He has made you alive, who were once dead in trespasses and sins,

¹ And He has made you alive, who were once dead in trespasses and sins, 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;

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

⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us

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),

⁵ (even when we were dead in sins) has made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),

⁵ (even when we were dead in sins) has made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),

⁵ (even when we were dead in sins) has made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved), ⁶ and has raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

⁶ and has raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus, ⁷ so that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, ⁹ not of works, lest anyone should boast. ¹⁰ For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

¹⁰ For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who were once afar off are made near by the blood of Christ.

¹⁷ And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off, and to those who were near.

⁷ Of this gospel I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of His power.

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.

¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. ¹² For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

¹⁴ Therefore he says, "Awake, sleeping ones! And arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."

¹⁵ and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.

⁴ always in every prayer of mine making my request for you all with joy

¹⁷ Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.

⁴ though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more. ⁵ I was circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews. As regards the Law, I was a Pharisee; ⁶ concerning zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in the Law, blameless.

⁶ concerning zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in the Law, blameless. ⁷ But whatever things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

¹ Therefore, my brothers, ones loved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand fast in this way in the Lord, beloved ones.

¹³ And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

⁵ Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry), ⁶ on account of which things' sake the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience, ⁷ among whom you also once walked, when you lived in these.

⁵ For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.

¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are you not even to be in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?

⁷ then, my brothers, we were comforted over you, through your faith, even in all our affliction and needs; ⁸ for now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. ⁹ For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

¹³ the one who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and insolent. But I obtained mercy, because being ignorant, I did it in unbelief. ¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Faithful is the Word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

¹⁵ Faithful is the Word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. ¹⁶ But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, as a pattern to those being about to believe on Him to life everlasting.

⁶ But she who lives in self-pleasure has died while living.

²⁵ in meekness instructing those who oppose, if perhaps God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, ²⁶ and that they awake out of the snare of the Devil, having been taken captive by him, so as to do the will of that one.

²⁶ and that they awake out of the snare of the Devil, having been taken captive by him, so as to do the will of that one.

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.

¹⁵ For perhaps because of this he was separated from you for an hour, that you should receive him eternally, ¹⁶ not now as a slave, but beyond a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation?

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.

¹⁶ Do not err, my beloved brothers. ¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning. ¹⁸ Of His own will He brought us forth with the Word of truth, for us to be a certain firstfruit of His creatures.

⁸ Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, double-minded ones. ⁹ Be afflicted, and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness. ¹⁰ Be humbled before the Lord, and He will lift you up.

⁵ by the power of God, having been kept through faith to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time;

¹⁰ you who then were not a people, but now the people of God, those not pitied then, but now pitied.

²⁵ For you were as sheep going astray, but now you are turned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

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.

⁶ Therefore be humbled under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time,

¹³ being about to receive the wages of unrighteousness, deeming indulgence as pleasure in the daytime, and reveling in spots and blemishes, feasting along with you in their deceits,

⁸ If we say that 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 us 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.

¹² These are sunken rocks in your love feasts, feasting together with you; feeding themselves without fear; waterless clouds being carried about by winds; fruitless autumn trees, having died twice, having been plucked up by the roots;

¹⁷ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows except he who receives it .

²¹ And I gave her time that she might repent of her fornication, and she did not repent. ²² Behold, I am throwing her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of their deeds.

¹ And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars says these things. I know your works, that you have a name that you live, and are dead.

⁴ You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments. And they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. ⁵ The one who overcomes, this one will be clothed in white clothing. And I will not blot out his name out of the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.

¹⁷ Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, ¹⁸ I counsel you to buy from Me gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed, and so that the shame of your nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.

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.

¹¹ And white robes were given to each one of them. And it was said to them that they should rest yet for a little time, until both their fellow servants and their brothers (those about to be killed as they were) should have their number made complete.

⁹ After these things I looked, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palms in their hands.

¹³ And one of the elders answered, saying to me, Who are these who are arrayed in white robes, and from where do they come? ¹⁴ And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes, and have whitened them in the blood of the Lamb.

⁸ And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white. For the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.