1 Thessalonians Cross References - MLV

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the congregation of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
² We are always giving-thanks to God concerning all of you, making a remembrance of you in our prayers; ³ constantly remembering your work of the faith, and labor of love, and of the endurance of the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father, ⁴ knowing beloved brethren your choice by God. ⁵ You know because our good-news did not happened to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much full assurance; just-as you know what manner of men we became among you, because of you. ⁶ And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Spirit; ⁷ so-that you became examples to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. ⁸ For the word of the Lord has echoed forth from you, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth; so-that we do not need to say anything. ⁹ For they themselves are reporting concerning us, what sort of entrance we had toward you, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a living and true God, ¹⁰ and to await his Son Jesus from the heavens, whom he raised up from the dead; who rescues us from the coming wrath.

²⁷ Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will also be reporting to you the same things through their speech.

³² And Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brethren through much speech also further strengthened them. ³³ Now having spent some time there, they were dismissed in peace from the brethren to the apostles.

⁴⁰ but Paul went forth, having chosen Silas, having been given to the favor of the Lord by the brethren.

¹ Now he arrived in Derbe and Lystra, and behold, a certain disciple was there, Timothy by name, the son of a certain believing Jewess and a Greek father. ² He was being testified of by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium. ³ This one, Paul wished to go forth together with him, and he took Timothy and circumcised him because of the Jews who are in those places; for they all knew that his father was Greek.

¹⁹ But when her lords saw that the hope of their business was gone, grabbing Paul and Silas, they dragged them into the marketplace in front of the rulers.

²⁵ But toward midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were their audience;

²⁹ Now when he asked for lights, he dashed in and came in trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,

¹ Now having traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was the synagogue of the Jews. ² Now according to his custom, Paul entered to them and upon three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, ³ opening and placing before them that it was essential for the Christ to have suffered and to have risen up from the dead, and that this Jesus, whom I am proclaiming to you, is the Christ. ⁴ And some of them obeyed and adhered to Paul and Silas and a large multitude of the pious Greeks, and not just a few of the foremost women.
⁵ But the disobedient Jews took for themselves some evil men from among the market-loafers, and having amassed a crowd, the city was in an uproar, and standing against the house of Jason, they were seeking to lead them into the public court. ⁶ Now when they did not find them, they were dragging Jason and some brethren in front of the city rulers, crying, These men who have unsettled the inhabited-earth are also present ly here; ⁷ whom Jason has accepted and all these practice things adverse to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is a different king, a Jesus. ⁸ Now hearing these things, they disturbed the crowd and city rulers, ⁹ and having taken sufficient money from Jason and the rest, they released them.

¹¹ Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they accepted the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily, to see if these things were so.

¹³ Now as the Jews of Thessalonica knew that the word of God was also proclaimed by Paul in Berea, they also went there, shaking up the crowds. ¹⁴ Now the brethren then immediately sent Paul forth to travel as far as to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy were remaining back there.


¹⁵ But those standing over Paul led him to Athens. And taking a commandment to Silas and Timothy in order that they might come to him as quickly as possible, they went out there.

⁵ Now as Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was being troubled in the spirit, thoroughly testifying to the Jews: the Christ Jesus.

²² Now having sent Timothy and Erastus, two of those serving him, into Macedonia, he held back in Asia for a short time.

⁴ Now Sopater from Berea, and the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius from Derbe, and Timothy and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia, were accompanying him to Asia.

⁷ To all those who are in Rome, beloved of God, called holy-ones: grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

² to the congregation of God which is in Corinth–those who have been made holy in Christ Jesus, called ones, holy-ones, together with all who are calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will be of God and Timothy our brother, to the congregation of God who are in Corinth, together with all the holy-ones who are in the whole of Achaia:

¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you through us, that is, through me and Silvanus and Timothy, did not become yes and no, but in him it has become yes.

² and all the brethren who are together with me, to the congregations of Galatia:

²² But I was still unrecognized by face to the congregations of Judea, which are in Christ;

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

¹ Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Jesus Christ, to all the holy-ones in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons :

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: ² to Timothy, my genuine child in the faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

² To Timothy, my beloved child: grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

²³ Do you know that our brother Timothy has been released? With whom, I will be seeing you if he comes shortly.

¹² Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I count him, I have written to you a few words, encouraging and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which you are standing.

³ What we have seen and have heard, we report to you, in order that you may also have fellowship with us, but also our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ;

¹ Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to the called one, those who have been made holy in God the Father and have been kept in Jesus Christ:

⁸ First indeed, I am giving-thanks to my God through Jesus Christ on behalf of all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world. ⁹ For God is my witness, to whom I am giving-divine service in my spirit in the good-news of his Son, as I constantly make a remembrance of you.

¹⁷ But gratitude to God, that, though you were bondservants of sin, you obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were given;

⁴ I am always giving-thanks to my God concerning you, on the basis of the grace of God which was given to you in Christ Jesus;

¹⁵ Because of this, I, also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is in you and the love which you have toward all the holy-ones, ¹⁶ am not ceasing giving-thanks on your behalf, making a remembrance of you in my prayers;

³ I am giving-thanks to my God upon every remembrance of you, ⁴ always in my every supplication on behalf of all of you, making the supplication with joy,

³ We are giving-thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying concerning you, ⁴ I am always giving-thanks to my God, making a remembrance of you in my prayers,

²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed to him but a few days in the love he had for her.

²⁶ Because to the man who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives tasks to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

⁷ Many waters cannot quench love, nor can floods drown it. If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

²⁷ Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will be giving to you; for God, the Father, has sealed this one.
²⁸ Therefore they said to him, What should we do, in order that we may work the works of God?
²⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, in order that you might believe in the one whom that one has sent.

¹⁵ If you love me, keep my commandments.

²¹ He who holds my commandments and is keeping them, that one is he who loves me and he who loves me will be loved by my Father and I will love him and will be manifesting myself to him.
²² Judas (not Iscariot) says to him, Lord, what has happened that you are about to manifest yourself to us and not to the world?
²³ Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will be keeping my word and my Father will love him, and we will be coming to him and we will be making our abode with him.

¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will be abiding in my love; just-as I have kept my Father’s commandments and am abiding in his love.

¹⁵ Therefore when they had a meal, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, Son of Jonah, do you ^{F} love me more-than these things?
He says to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.
He says to him, Feed my lambs.
¹⁶ He says to him again a second-time, Simon, Son of Jonah, do you ^{F} love me?
He says to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.
He says to him, Shepherd my sheep.
¹⁷ He says to him the third-time, Simon, Son of Jonah, Do you ^{F} love me?
Peter was sorrowful because he said to him the third-time, Do you ^{F} love me like a friend? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you like a friend.
Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

¹⁹ Therefore, repent and turn again, that your sins may be wiped-away, that seasons of refreshment may come from the presence of the Lord;

³¹ and says, Cornelius, your prayer is heard and your charity is remembered in God’s sight.

⁷ Everlasting life to those who indeed by endurance in good work are seeking glory and honor and incorruption.

³ But not only in this, but we are also boasting in our afflictions, knowing that affliction is working endurance; ⁴ and endurance, approved character, and an approved character, hope; ⁵ and hope does not shame one, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

²⁴ For we were saved in hope; but hope which is seen, is not hope; for why does anyone even hope for what he sees? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not see, then we are waiting for it through endurance.

¹² rejoicing in the hope; enduring in your affliction; persevering in your prayer;

⁴ For as many things as were written beforehand were written beforehand for our instruction, in order that through the endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

¹³ Now the God of hope may fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

⁶ Greet Mary, who labored much for us.

²⁶ (14:25) but now having been manifested and by the prophetic Scriptures, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, has made known to all the nations, into the obedience of the faith; \ulnone\nosupersub

⁴ Love has patience. It is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not brag. It is not arrogant. ⁵ It does not behave improperly. It does not seek its own. It does not irritate. It does not reason evil. ⁶ It does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices together with the truth. ⁷ It is forbearing all things, is believing all things, is hoping for all things, is enduring all things.

¹³ But these three are remaining now: faith, hope, love, and the greater of these is love.

⁵⁸ So-then my beloved brethren, become grounded, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not empty in the Lord.

¹⁷ For we are not as the rest who are peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, in God’s sight, we speak in Christ.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ is holding us together with him, having judged this thing: if one died on behalf of all, consequently, all died; ¹⁵ and he died on behalf of all, in order that those who are living should no longer live to themselves, but to the one who died and rose again on their behalf.

⁷ But just-as you are abounding in everything, in faith and in word and in knowledge and in all diligence and in the love from you to us, see that you also may abound in this favor. ⁸ I do not speak according to commandment, but I am testing the genuineness of your love through the diligence of others. ⁹ For you know the favor of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet he became-poor because of you, in order that you might be enriched through that poverty.

⁴ who gave himself concerning our sins, that he might liberate us out of the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father:

⁶ For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails over anything in Christ Jesus, but faith working through love.

¹³ For brethren, you were called to freedom; only do not use your freedom for a starting-point for the flesh, but serve^*\'b0 one another through love.

⁹ Now we should not be depressed in well doing; for we will be reaping in our own time, if we do not faint.

¹³ And we also are constantly giving-thanks to God because of this, because, when you accepted the word of God from our report, you accepted it not as the word of men, but just-as it truly is, the word of God, which is also working in you who believe. ¹⁴ For brethren, you became imitators of the congregations of God, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you also suffered the same things by your own countrymen, just-as they did also by the Jews.

⁶ But now, when Timothy came to us from you, and proclaimed to us good-news about your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, just-as we also long to see you.

³ Brethren, we always ought to thank God concerning you, just-as it is worthy, because your faith is growing substantially, and the love of each one of you all toward one another is increasing;

¹¹ For which, we are also always praying concerning you, in order that our God might deem you worthy of your calling, and might fulfill every delight of goodness, and every work of faith in power,

³ For this is good and acceptable in God our Savior’s sight;

³ I have gratitude to God, to whom I am giving-divine service from my ancestors in a clean conscience, as I have constant remembrance concerning you in my supplications, night and day. ⁴ I am longing to see you, having been reminded of your tears, in order that I may be filled from joy; ⁵ receiving a reminder of the non-pretended faith, which is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I also have confidence it is in you.

⁵ hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the holy-ones; ⁶ that the fellowship of your faith might become effective in the full knowledge of every good thing, which is in you, to Christ Jesus. ⁷ For we have much gratitude and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the holy-ones have been given-rest through you, brother.

¹¹ Therefore let us be diligent to enter into that rest, in order that no one should fall into the same example of disobedience.

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the labor of the love which you showed toward his name, having served the holy-ones and still serving them. ¹¹ But we are desiring each of you to show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope till the end;

¹⁵ And thus Abraham, having had patience, obtained the promise.

³⁶ For you have need of endurance, in order that, having done the will of God, you may get the promise for yourselves.

⁷ In faith, Noah, having been divinely-warned concerning things not yet seen, and being scared, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; through which he condemned the world and he became an heir of righteousness according to faith. ⁸ In faith, Abraham obeyed, being called to go out to the place which he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going.

¹⁷ In faith, Abraham, being tested, has offered up Isaac. And he who had accepted the promises was offering up his only begotten son;

²⁴ In faith, Moses, having become great, denied to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; ²⁵ having selected for himself to be mistreated together with the people of God rather than to have temporary enjoyment of sin, ²⁶ having deemed the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking toward the reward. ²⁷ In faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the fury of the king; for he persevered, as seeing the invisible one. ²⁸ In faith, he has made the Passover and the splashing of the blood on the door frames, in order that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them. ²⁹ In faith, they crossed over the Red Sea as if through dry land; from which the Egyptians having taken an attempt at it, were swallowed up.
³⁰ In faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, having been surrounded for seven days. ³¹ In faith, Rahab the prostitute did not perish together with the disobedient, having accepted the spies with peace.
³² And what more should I say? For the time will fail me if I describe the things concerning Gideon, Barak, and both Samson and Jephthah; both David and Samuel, and the prophets: ³³ who through faith conquered kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, sealed the mouths of lions, ³⁴ quenched the power of fire, fled away from the edge of the sword, were empowered away from weakness, became mighty in war, the encampments of aliens bowed down.

²¹ may he complete you in every good work, that you should practice his will, doing what is well pleasing in his sight in you, through Jesus Christ in whom is the glory, forevermore. Amen.

³ knowing that the proving of your faith is working out endurance. ⁴ But let endurance have its completed work, in order that you may be complete and whole, deficient in nothing.

¹⁷ So also your faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself.
¹⁸ But someone will say, You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith away from your works. I will also show you my faith from my works. ¹⁹ You believe that God is one; you are doing well. The demons also believe and they are shuddering. ²⁰ But O vain man, are you willing to know that faith is dead without works?
²¹ Was not Abraham our father made righteous from works, having offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? ²² Do you see that faith was working together with his works and his faith was completed from his works? ²³ And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, ‘And Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,' and he was called the friend of God. ²⁴ Now-then, are you seeing that a man is made righteous from works and not from faith alone? ²⁵ Now likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also made righteous from works, when she accepted the messengers and put them out a different way? ²⁶ For just-as the body without a spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead.

⁷ Therefore brethren, have patience until the presence of the Lord. Behold, the farmer is waiting for the precious fruit of the earth, having patience over it, until it should receive the morning and evening rainfall. ⁸ You also, have patience; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord has drawn near.

⁴ but let it be the hidden human things of the heart, in the incorruptible clothing of a meek and quiet spirit, which is greatly-valued in God’s sight.

³ And everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, just-as that man is pure.

¹⁸ My little-children, do not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in work and in truth.

²¹ Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

³ For this is the love of God, in order that we should keep his commandments and his commandments are not burdensome.

² I know your works and your labor and endurance and that you are not able to bear evil men and you tested those who are saying about themselves, They are apostles and are not and you have found them false; ³ and you have endurance and did bear because of my name and have not fatigued. ⁴ But I have this against you; that you left your first love.

¹⁹ I know your works and love and faith and service and endurance and that your last works are more-than the first ones.

¹⁰ Because you kept the word of my endurance, I also will be keeping you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole inhabited-earth, to test those who are dwelling upon the earth.

²⁸ Now we know that all things work together toward good, to those who love God, to those who are an invited one according to his purpose. ²⁹ Because, whom he knew beforehand, he also predetermined, one transformed to the image of his Son, that he himself might be the firstborn among many brethren; ³⁰ and whom he predetermined, he also invited these and whom he invited, he also made these righteous and whom he made righteous, he also glorified these.

²⁵ As he also says in Hosea, ‘I will be calling those who are not my people, my people, and those not beloved, beloved.’

⁵ Therefore so there has also become a remnant according to the chosen of grace in this current time. ⁶ But if it is by grace, it is no more from works, otherwise grace becomes grace no more. But if it is from works, no more is it grace; otherwise work is work no more. ⁷ Therefore what? What Israel is seeking after, it did not obtain this, but the chosen obtained it and the rest were hardened;

⁴ just-as he chose us in him before the conception of the world, for us to be holy and unblemished in his sight in love.

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of his much love with which he loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead through our trespasses, he made us alive together with the Christ; you are saved in his grace.

⁶ I have confidence of this same thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will be completing it till the day of Jesus Christ; ⁷ just-as it is a righteous thing for me to be mindful of this on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the good-news, all of you being joint partners with me of the grace.

¹² Therefore as chosen ones of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with a heart of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, patience,

³ constantly remembering your work of the faith, and labor of love, and of the endurance of the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father,

¹³ But we ought to thank God always concerning you brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God himself selected you from the beginning to salvation in holiness of the Spirit and in faith of the truth;

⁹ who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times everlasting, ¹⁰ but now has been made manifest through the appearing of our Savior, Jesus Christ, who indeed has done-away-with death and has illuminated both life and incorruption through the good-news,

⁴ But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love of mankind had appeared: ⁵ he saved us (not from any works done in righteousness, which we practiced), but according to his mercy, through the full-washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

² according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the holiness of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: grace to you and may peace be multiplied.

¹⁰ Hence brethren, be more diligent to make your calling and choice steadfast; for, you may never trip someday while practicing these things;

² The poor man is hotly-pursued in the pride of the wicked man. Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived. ³ Because the wicked man boasts of his heart's desire. And the greedy man renounces, yes, despises Jehovah.

¹¹ so will my word be that goes forth out of my mouth. It will not return to me void, but it will accomplish what I please. And it will prosper in the thing to which I sent it.

²⁰ Now those apostles went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working together with them, and confirming the word through the signs that followed. Amen.

⁷ But I tell you the truth. It is advantageous for you that I should go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not be coming to you, but if I travel on, I will be sending him to you. ⁸ And when he has come, that one will be convicting the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment. ⁹ Concerning sin, indeed, because they did not believe in me; ¹⁰ concerning righteousness, because I am going to my Father and you view me no more; ¹¹ and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. ¹² I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now. ¹³ But whenever that one, the Spirit of the truth, comes, he will be guiding you into all the truth; for he will not be speaking from himself, but as many things as he may hear, these he will be speaking and he will be reporting to you the things which are to come. ¹⁴ He will be glorifying me, because he will receive from me and will be proclaiming it to you. ¹⁵ All things, as many things as the Father has are mine, because of this, I said, He is receiving from me and will be proclaiming it to you.

³³ Therefore having been exalted by the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out this, which you are seeing and hearing now.

⁴⁴ While Peter is still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word. ⁴⁵ And the believing ones from the circumcision, were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit has also been poured out upon the Gentiles. ⁴⁶ For they were hearing them speak in foreign languages and extolling God.
Then Peter answered,

¹⁵ Now while I was beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just-like upon us also in the beginning. ¹⁶ Now I was reminded of the declaration of the Lord, how he said, John indeed immersed in water, but you will be immersed in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ Therefore, if God gave to them the equal gift like he also did to us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, now who was I, that I am able to forbid God? ¹⁸ But having heard these things, they were quiet and glorifying God, saying, Consequently, God has also given repentance to the Gentiles into life.

{40-41 AD. Antioch, Phoenicia, Cyprus, etc. The Good-news extended to all the Gentiles. Jan., 41 AD Claudius becomes Emperor.}

²¹ And the hand of the Lord was with them and a large number who believed turned to the Lord.

¹⁴ And a certain woman, Lydia by name, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira was hearing us and worshiping God, whose heart the Lord opened to take-heed to the things being spoken from Paul.

¹⁸ Now as they came to him, he said to them, You know, from the first day of which I stepped into Asia, how I happened to be with you all the time, ¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility and from many tears, and from tests which befell me among the pacts of the Jews;

³³ I coveted no one’s silver or gold or garment. ³⁴ You yourselves know that these hands attended to my needs, and to those being with me. ³⁵ I showed to you an example in all things, that so laboring, it is essential to help the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more fortunate to give than to receive.

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the good-news of the Christ; for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes; both to the Jew first and to the Greek.

¹⁶ in the day when God will be judging the secrets of men through Jesus Christ, according to my teaching of the good-news.

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of anything of the things which Christ did not work through me, except for the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and works, ¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So-then, I have fulfilled the good-news of the Christ from Jerusalem and in a circle, as far as Illyricum.

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

² For I decided not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ and this one having been crucified. ³ And I happened to be with you in weakness and in fear, and in much trembling. ⁴ And my speech and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵ in order that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but be in the power of God.

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.

¹⁶ Do you not know that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God is dwelling in you?

⁹ For I am thinking that God has showed us, the apostles, last of all, as men doomed to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to messengers and men. ¹⁰ We are foolish because of Christ, but you are prudent in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are glorious, but we are dishonored. ¹¹ We are both hungry and thirsty, till the current hour, and are naked and are battered and are homeless; ¹² and we are laboring, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we are speaking well of them; being persecuted, we are tolerating it; ¹³ being blasphemed, we are encouraging. We have become like the scums of the world, the garbage of all things, even until now.

²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.

¹⁹ For although being free from all, I enslaved myself to all, in order that I might gain all the more. ²⁰ And I became like a Jew to the Jews, in order that I might gain Jews. I became like those under the law to those who are under the law, in order that I might gain those who are under the law. ²¹ I became like the lawless to those who are lawless, (not being lawless to God, but lawful to Christ), in order that I might gain the lawless. ²² I became like the weak to the weak, in order that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, in order that I may certainly save some. ²³ But I am doing this because of the good-news, in order that I might become a fellow partner of it.

³³ just-as I am also pleasing all people in all things, not seeking what is advantageous for me, but what is advantageous for many, in order that they may be saved.

⁷ But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for what is advantageous: ⁸ for the word of wisdom is given to one through the Spirit, and the word of knowledge to another according to the same Spirit; ⁹ and miraculous faith to different one in the same Spirit; and gifts of healing to another in the same Spirit; ¹⁰ and workings of miracles to another; and prophecy to another; and the discernings of spirits to another; varieties of languages to a different one; and the translation of foreign languages to another; ¹¹ but the one and the same Spirit is working all these things, sectioning off to each one in his own way just-as he wills.

⁶ who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not from the writing, but from the Spirit; for the writing kills, but the Spirit gives-life.

¹ Because of this, having this service, just-as we have been shown-mercy, we are not depressed. ² But we ourselves have scoffed at the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in God’s sight. ³ But even if our good-news is being hidden, it is being hidden among those who are perishing,

³ giving no one a stumbling block in anything, in order that the service from us might not be blamed. ⁴ But we are commending ourselves in everything, as servants of God: in much endurance, in afflictions, in calamities, in distresses, ⁵ in lashes, in prisons, in unrest, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fasts; ⁶ in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in non-pretended love, ⁷ in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the weapons of righteousness from the right hand and from the left hand, ⁸ through glory and dishonor, through defamation and good-repute; as misleaders and yet true; ⁹ as being unrecognized and yet being fully known; as dying and behold, we live; as being disciplined and yet not being slain; ¹⁰ as sorrowful, yet even habitually rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet having all things.

⁴ For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but are mighty in God, toward the demolition of strongholds, ⁵ demolishing evil reasonings and every exalted thing which is lifting itself up against the knowledge of God and capturing every device of the Adversary to the obedience of the Christ;

⁸ But even if we or a messenger from heaven, should proclaim to you any good-news contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let him be accursed. ⁹ As we have said before, so now I am saying again, if anyone proclaims to you any good-news contrary to what you received, let him be accursed. ¹⁰ For am I now persuading men or God? Or am I seeking to please men? For if I was still pleasing men, I myself would not be a bondservant of Christ.
¹¹ For I am making known to you, brethren, the good-news which was proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man. ¹² For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

² But I went up according to revelation, and I myself submitted to them the good-news which I am preaching among the Gentiles, (but privately before those of repute), lest I might be running or had run in vain.

² I only wish to learn this thing from you. Did you receive the Spirit from the works of the law or from the report of faith? ³ Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being completed in the flesh? ⁴ You suffered vainly so-many things? If actually it was even vainly. ⁵ Therefore, is the one supplying the Spirit to you, and working miracles among you, are they from the works of the law or from the report of faith?

⁵ For we are waiting for the hope of righteousness in a Spirit from faith.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ meekness and self-control. There is no law against such.

¹⁷ in order that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him, ¹⁸ the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the holy-ones, ¹⁹ and what is the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his strength, ²⁰ which he worked in the Christ, having raised him up from the dead and seated him by his right hand in the heavenly places,

¹⁰ For we are his product, created in Christ Jesus toward good works, in which God prepared beforehand in order that we should walk in them.

²⁰ Now to the one who is able to do, exceptionally beyond all things, what we are asking or are perceiving, according to the power which is working in us,

¹³ For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work, on behalf of his delight.

⁹ The things which you both learned and received and heard and saw in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

² in order that their hearts might be encouraged, having been knitted together in love and in all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God and Father and of the Christ,

¹ For brethren, you yourselves know our entrance to you, that it has not become empty. ² But having suffered before, and having been abused in Philippi, just-as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the good-news of God, even in our large struggle.
³ For our encouragement is not from deceit, nor from uncleanness, nor in treachery. ⁴ But just-as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, so we are speaking; not as pleasing men, but it is God who tests our hearts. ⁵ For just-as you know, (God being witness), we neither previously came in words of flattery, nor in a pretext of greed, ⁶ nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, while being able to be a burden to you as apostles of Christ. ⁷ But we became mild in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children. ⁸ So having kindly-feelings of you, we were delighted to have given to you not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us.
⁹ For brethren, you remember our labor and hardship. For we were working night and day, that we might not burden any of you while we preached to you the good-news of God. ¹⁰ You and God are witnesses, as we became holy and righteous and blameless toward you who believe. ¹¹ Just-as you know, as we became with each one of you, like a father with his own children, encouraging you and consoling you\super\'b0

¹³ And we also are constantly giving-thanks to God because of this, because, when you accepted the word of God from our report, you accepted it not as the word of men, but just-as it truly is, the word of God, which is also working in you who believe. ¹⁴ to which he called you through our good-news, for the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷ For you yourselves know how it is essential for you to imitate us. Because we did not act-disorderly among you; ⁸ nor did we eat bread freely from anyone, but in labor and hardship, working night and day, that we might not burden anyone of you; ⁹ not because we did not have the authority, but in order that we might give ourselves as an example to you, that you might imitate us.

¹² Let no one despise your youth, but become an example of the believing ones : in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. ¹³ Until I come, take-heed to the public-reading, to the encouragement, to the teaching. ¹⁴ Do not neglect the gift which is in you, which was given to you through prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. ¹⁵ Meditate on these things; be diligent in them; in order that your progress may be apparent to all. ¹⁶ Take-heed to yourself and to the teaching. Abide in these things; for while practicing this, you will be saving both yourself and those who hear you.

⁸ Remember Jesus Christ, who has been raised from the dead, was born out of the seed of David, according to my good-news;

¹⁰ Because of this, I endure all things, because of the chosen, in order that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with everlasting glory.

⁵ he saved us (not from any works done in righteousness, which we practiced), but according to his mercy, through the full-washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

³ how shall we flee, having neglected so-great a salvation, which having received at the beginning was spoken through the Lord, which was confirmed to us from those who heard it? ⁴ God was testifying together with them, both by signs and by wonders and by various powers and by distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will.

¹¹ But we are desiring each of you to show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope till the end;

¹⁸ in order that through two unchangeable matters, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge, to take-hold of the hope that lays before us. ¹⁹ This hope which we have as an anchor of the soul, is both secure and steadfast and entering into the inner side of the curtain;

²² let us come near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled away from an evil conscience and our body, having been fully-washed in clean water.

¹⁶ Do not be misled, my beloved brethren!
¹⁷ Every good act of giving, and every complete gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor a shadow of turning. ¹⁸ Having willed it, he gave-birth to us with the word of truth, that we might be a certain first-fruit of his created things.

³ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is gracious, who according to his much mercy has born us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

¹² To whom it was revealed, that they were serving these things not to themselves, but to you; which things now have been reported to you through those who proclaimed the good-news to you in the Holy Spirit, when he was sent forth from heaven; into which things messengers desire to peer into.

³ nor like one lording it over his inheritances, but by becoming examples to the flock.

¹⁹ And we have the steadfast prophetic word, (as to a lamp appearing in a dreary place, until the day should dawn and the morning-star might rise), to which you are doing well, and taking-heed in your hearts.

¹⁴ Therefore, behold, I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak soothingly to her.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, If anyone is willing to come after me, let him deny himself and lift up his cross and follow me.

²⁹ But Jesus answered and said, Assuredly I am saying to you, There is no one who has left his house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields, because of me and because of the good-news, ³⁰ who may not receive a hundred-times that now in this time, houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and fields, with persecutions, and everlasting life in the world to come.

¹² Therefore, again Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He who is following me may never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.

¹³ You address me as the Teacher and, Lord, and you say well; for so I am. ¹⁴ Therefore, if I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵ For I gave you an example, in order that you should also do like I have done for you.

¹⁶ And I will be requesting of the Father and he will be giving you another Helper, in order that he may abide with you forever, ¹⁷ the Spirit of the truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it does not view him, nor knows him, but you know him, because he is abiding with you and will be in you. ¹⁸ I will not be leaving you orphans. I am coming to you.

⁴¹ Therefore indeed, they were traveling from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were deemed worthy to be dishonored on behalf of the name of Jesus.

³¹ Therefore indeed, all the congregations throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace. They were being multiplied, being built up, and having conducted-themselves in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

⁵² Now the disciples were being filled from joy and the Holy Spirit.

⁵ But the disobedient Jews took for themselves some evil men from among the market-loafers, and having amassed a crowd, the city was in an uproar, and standing against the house of Jason, they were seeking to lead them into the public court. ⁶ Now when they did not find them, they were dragging Jason and some brethren in front of the city rulers, crying, These men who have unsettled the inhabited-earth are also present ly here; ⁷ whom Jason has accepted and all these practice things adverse to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is a different king, a Jesus. ⁸ Now hearing these things, they disturbed the crowd and city rulers, ⁹ and having taken sufficient money from Jason and the rest, they released them.
¹⁰ Now the brethren immediately sent out both Paul and Silas through the night to Berea, who, when they came there, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

¹⁶ The Spirit himself is testifying together with our spirit, that we are children of God; ¹⁷ and if children, then heirs; indeed, heirs of God and joint heirs of Christ; if indeed we are suffering together with him, in order that we might also be glorified together with him.
¹⁸ For I reason that the sufferings of this current time are not worthy of complaint to the glory which is about to be revealed to us.

¹⁶ Therefore I am encouraging you. Become imitators of me.

¹ Become imitators of me, just-as I also am of Christ.

¹ Now brethren, we are making known to you the grace of God which has been given in the congregations of Macedonia; ² because the abundance of their joy in much trial of affliction and according to the depth of their poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

⁵ and, not only as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us through the will of God.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

¹ Therefore become imitators of God, as beloved children,

¹⁷ Brethren, become joint imitators of me, and note those who are walking so, just-as you have us as an example.

² And we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant and our fellow worker in the good-news of the Christ, that he might establish you and to encourage you concerning your faith; ³ that no one be shook up in these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are destined for this thing. ⁴ For even when we were with you, we were telling you beforehand that we are about to be afflicted; just-as it also happened and you know.

⁴ so-that we ourselves boast in you in the congregations of God, on behalf of your endurance and faith in all your persecutions, and in the afflictions which you are tolerating.

⁹ not because we did not have the authority, but in order that we might give ourselves as an example to you, that you might imitate us.

³⁴ For you also sympathized together with me in my bonds, and you accepted the plunder of your possessions with joy, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession in the heavens and an abiding one.

⁶ In which hope you are glad now for a few moments, if it is essential, you have been made sorrowful in various tests,

⁸ You love whom you have not seen; now you believe in whom you do not see; in both you are glad with unspeakable and glorified joy;

¹³ And who is he who will be mistreating you, if you become imitators of the good one?

¹¹ Beloved, do not imitate the evil one, but the good one. He who practices good is from God. He who practices evil has not seen God.

¹³ And having entered, they went up into the upstairs-room, where they were remaining; both Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James
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¹² and from there to Philippi, which is the first city of that part of Macedonia, a Roman colony. Now we were staying in the city for some days.

¹ Now after these things, Paul, having departed from Athens, came to Corinth.

² for I know your eagerness, of which I am boasting on your behalf to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been prepared from the past-year, and the zeal from you has stimulated most of them. \ulnone\nosupersub

⁹ And being present with you and having come-short, I did not encumber anyone; for the brethren who came from Macedonia, replenished my lack of things and I kept and will be keeping myself not burdensome to you in everything. ¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, that this boasting will not be sealed up in me in the districts of Achaia.

⁸ For the word of the Lord has echoed forth from you, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth; so-that we do not need to say anything.

¹⁰ for you are also practicing it toward all the brethren who are in the whole of Macedonia. But brethren, we encourage you, that you abound even more,

¹² Let no one despise your youth, but become an example of the believing ones : in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

⁷ providing yourself as an example of good works concerning all things; in the teaching have integrity, honesty, incorruption,

⁹ And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Jehovah had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

³ And many peoples will go and say, Come and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion will go forth the law and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

⁷ How lovely are the feet of him who brings good news upon the mountains, who proclaims peace, who brings good news of good, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns!

¹⁹ And I will set a sign among them and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory and they will declare my glory among the nations.

⁸ First indeed, I am giving-thanks to my God through Jesus Christ on behalf of all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.

¹⁴ Therefore how will they call upon him in whom they have not believed? But how will they believe of whom they have not heard? But how will they hear without someone preaching? ¹⁵ But how will they preach, if they are not sent? Just-as it has been written, ‘How Beautiful are the feet of those who are proclaiming the good-news of peace and of those who are proclaiming the good-news of good things!’ ¹⁶ But not all obeyed the good-news; for Isaiah says, ‘Lord, who has believed our report?’ ¹⁷ Consequently, the faith comes from our report but our report comes through the declaration of God. ¹⁸ But I am saying, ‘Did they not hear?’But-rather, ‘Their sounds went out into all the earth and their declarations to the ends of the inhabited-earth.’

¹⁹ For your obedience has reached out to all men. Therefore I rejoice over you, but I wish for you to be indeed wise as to what is good, and harmless to what is evil.

³⁶ What? Was it from you that the word of God went forth? Or did it arrive only for you?

⁴ Now we have such confidence through Christ toward God;

¹ Furthermore, brethren, pray concerning us, in order that the word of the Lord may run onward and may be glorified, just-as it is also with you;

¹² As for Demetrius, he has been testified of by all and by the truth itself. But we also are testifying and you know that our testimony is true.

⁶ And I saw a messenger flying in mid-heaven, having the everlasting good-news to proclaim to those who sit upon the earth and to every nation and tribe and language and people;

¹⁷ And the Spirit and the bride are saying, Come. And he who hears, let him say, Come. And he who is thirsty, let him come. He who wills, let him take the water of life freely.

²⁶ For who is there of all flesh, who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have and lived?

²⁶ And David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What will be done to the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?

³⁶ Your servant killed* both the lion and the bear and this uncircumcised Philistine will be as one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.

² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

² My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of Jehovah. My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God.

¹⁷ And the loftiness of man will be bowed down and the haughtiness of men will be brought low and Jehovah alone will be exalted in that day. ¹⁸ And the idols will utterly pass away. ¹⁹ And men will go into the caves of the rocks and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
²⁰ Men will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold in that day, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats, ²¹ to go into the caverns of the rocks and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

⁴ It may be Jehovah your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God and will rebuke the words which Jehovah your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.

¹⁷ Incline your ear, O Jehovah and hear. Open your eyes, O Jehovah and see and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

¹⁰ But Jehovah is the true God. He is the living God and an everlasting King. At his wrath the earth trembles and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.

¹⁹ O Jehovah, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and will say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there is no profit.

²⁶ I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God and steadfast forever. And his kingdom is what will not be destroyed and his dominion will be even to the end.

¹⁰ Yet the number of the sons of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it will happen that, in the place where it was said to them, You* are not my people, it will be said to them, The sons of the living God.

¹¹ Jehovah will be terrible to them, for he will famish all the gods of the earth. And men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the isles of the nations.

²⁰ Jehovah of hosts says thus: Peoples will yet come and the inhabitants of many cities. ²¹ And the inhabitants of one city will go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Jehovah and to seek Jehovah of hosts. I will go also. ²² Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of Jehovah.
²³ Jehovah of hosts says thus: In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you*, for we have heard that God is with you*.

¹¹ For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles. And in every place incense is offered to my name and a pure offering. For my name is great among the Gentiles, says Jehovah of hosts.

¹⁵ and saying, Men! Why are you doing these things? We are also human, of like-feelings with you and are proclaiming the good-news to you : to turn away from these futile things to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things in them;

¹⁷ I will be liberating you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary to God, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among those who have been made holy in faith, the faith in me.

²⁶ And it will be, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people; they will be called sons of the living God there.’

² You know that when you were Gentiles, you were being led away to those voiceless idols, as you would be led now.

¹⁶ And what alliance has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God; just-as God said, ‘I will be dwelling among them and will be walking among them, and I will be their God and they will be a people to me.’ ¹⁷ Hence ‘Come out from the midst of them and be separate,’says the Lord, ‘And touch no unclean thing, and I will accept you\super\'b0

⁸ But indeed back then, not knowing God, you were enslaved to those who by nature are not gods. ⁹ But now having known God, but rather having been known by God, how are you turning back again to the weak and poor fundamental principles? Do you again wish to be enslaved to these anew?

⁵ You know because our good-news did not happened to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much full assurance; just-as you know what manner of men we became among you, because of you. ⁶ And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Spirit;

¹ For brethren, you yourselves know our entrance to you, that it has not become empty.

¹⁰ For we are also laboring and are reproached toward this end, because we have hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of the believing ones.

²² But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to tens of thousands of messengers,

² with whom the kings of the earth fornicated and those who are dwelling in the earth were made drunken from the wine of her fornication.

¹⁸ I have waited for your salvation, O Jehovah.

²⁵ But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives and at last he will stand up upon the earth. ²⁶ And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I will see God, ²⁷ whom I, even I, will see on my side and my eyes will behold and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

⁸ He will swallow up death in victory and the lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from all faces. And he will take away the reproach of his people from all the earth. For Jehovah has spoken it.
⁹ And it will be said in that day, Behold, this is our God. We have waited for him and he will save us. This is Jehovah. We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

²¹ Now she will be bearing a son, and you will call his name Jesus, for he will be saving his people from their sins.

⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the future wrath?

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

⁷ Therefore, he was saying to the crowds who traveled out to be immersed by him, Offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the future wrath?

¹¹ who also said, Men, Galileans! Why are you standing here, looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was received up from you into heaven will be coming back thus in the manner you saw him traveling on into heaven.

²⁴ whom God raised up, having loosed the travails of death, insomuch as it was not possible for him to be held-fast by it.

¹⁵ and killed the Author of life; whom God raised up from the dead; of whom we are witnesses.

²¹ whom it is indeed essential for the heaven to accept till the times of restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouth of all his holy prophets that have been from of old.

¹⁰ Let it be known to you all here and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ from Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised up from the dead; in him, this one who is standing in your sight is healthy.

³⁰ The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you yourselves exterminated, having hanged him upon a tree. ³¹ This Jesus is the Author and Savior who God exalted to his right hand, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

⁴⁰ God raised this one up on the third day and gave him to become manifest, ⁴¹ not to all the people, but to witnesses that have been assigned before by God, even to us, who ate and drank together with him after he rose up from the dead.

³¹ because he has established a future day in which to judge the inhabited-earth in righteousness in the man whom he has determined beforehand; having provided the faith to all, by having raised him from the dead.

⁴ who has been determined as being the Son of God in power, according to the spirit of holiness, out of the resurrection of the dead), Jesus Christ our Lord.

²⁵ who was given up because of our trespasses and was raised up because of our justification
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⁹ Therefore much more, having been now made righteous in his blood, we will be saved from the wrath of God through him. ¹⁰ For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved in his life;

²³ But not only they, but we ourselves also who have the first-fruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves are groaning in ourselves, waiting for our sonship, that is, the redemption of our body.

³⁴ Who is the one who condemns? Christ is the one who died, but rather, who was also raised up from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also is petitioning on our behalf.

⁷ so-that you are lacking in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁴ and that he was buried, and that he has been raised up on the third day according to the Scriptures.


⁵ And that he appeared to Cephas; then to the twelve; ⁶ thereafter he was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, out of whom most remain until now, but some have also fallen-asleep; ⁷ thereafter he was seen by James; thereafter by all the apostles; ⁸ and last of all, like to the premature-baby, he was seen also to me. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who is not sufficient to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the congregation^* of believers of God. ¹⁰ But I am what I am by the grace of God and his grace toward me has not become empty, but I labored even-more than they all did; but not I, but the grace of God which was together with me. ¹¹ Therefore whether it is I, or it is those men, so we preach and so you believed.
¹² Now if Christ is preached that he has been raised up from the dead, how are some among you saying that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised up; ¹⁴ and if Christ has not been raised up, consequently, our preaching is empty, your faith is also empty. ¹⁵ Now, we are also found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God in saying that he raised the Christ up; whom consequently, he did not raise up, if indeed the dead are not raised up. ¹⁶ For if the dead are not raised up, not even Christ has been raised up; ¹⁷ and if Christ has not been raised up, your faith is futile. You are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Consequently, also those who have fallen-asleep in Christ have perished. ¹⁹ If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are the most pitiful of all men.
²⁰ But now Christ has been raised up from the dead, he became the first-fruit of those who have fallen-asleep. ²¹ For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.

¹³ Christ bought us up out of the curse of the law, having become a curse on our behalf; for it has been written, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree,’

²⁰ For our citizenship exists in the heavens; out of which we are also waiting for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the congregation of believers; who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, in order that he might become foremost in all things.

⁷ so-that you became examples to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

⁷ But we became mild in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children.

¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles in order that they might be saved; that they should always fill up their sins, but the wrath has arrived-unexpectedly upon them–to the end.

¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will be coming down from heaven, in a commanding yell, in the voice of the archangel and at the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be rising up first; ¹⁷ thereafter we, the living, who are left, will be taken away at the same time together with them in the clouds, to the encounter of the Lord in the air, and so we will always be together with the Lord.

⁹ Because God appointed us not for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹ Therefore, I am thoroughly testifying in the sight of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge the living and the dead according to his appearing and his kingdom.

¹³ waiting for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ;

²⁸ so the Christ, (having been offered once for all, that he should carry the sins of many), will also be seen a second-time for salvation, separate from sin, to the same who are waiting for him.

²⁷ but a certain fearful expectancy of judgment and a zeal of fire which is about to eat the adversaries.

²¹ who believe through him in God. The God who raised him up from the dead and gave him glory; so-that your faith and hope might be in God.

²¹ For you were called into this, because Christ also suffered on our behalf, leaving a model for you, in order that you should follow after his footprints.

¹⁸ Because Christ also suffered once for all on behalf of our sins, the righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, in order that he might lead you to God; having indeed been slain in the flesh, but was given-life in the Spirit;

¹² expecting, and diligently wanting the presence of the day of God, through which, the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt, being burnt with heat.

¹⁴ Hence, beloved, while expecting these things, be diligent that you may be found in peace, unstained and unblemished in his sight.

⁷ Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will be seeing him and those who stabbed him, and all the tribes of the earth will be grieving over him. Yes he comes, Amen.

¹⁸ and the Living One, and I became dead and behold, I am living forevermore and I have the keys of death and of Hades. Amen.