3 John 1 Cross References - MLV

¹ The elder to beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth. ² Beloved Gaius, I am praying for you to be prospered and to be sound concerning all things, just-as your soul is prospering. ³ For I rejoiced exceedingly of brethren coming and testifying of your truth, just-as you are walking in truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy from these things, in order that I may hear my children are walking in the truth.
⁵ Beloved, you practice faithfully whatever you have worked toward the brethren and toward strangers; ⁶ who testified to your love in the sight of the congregation; whom you will do well, having sent onward worthily of God. ⁷ For they went forth on behalf of the Name, taking nothing from the Gentiles. ⁸ Therefore we ought to receive those who are such, in order that we should become fellow workers for the truth.
⁹ I wrote to the congregation, but Diotrephes, who loves to be their foremost one, is not accepting us. ¹⁰ Because of this, if I come, I will be reminding him of his works in which he practices: gossiping against us with evil words and not being content in these, nor does he himself accept the brethren and he forbids those who plan to come, and casts them out of the congregation.
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. 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.
¹³ I had many things to write to you, but I do not wish to write them to you through ink and reed. ¹⁴ But I hope to see you immediately and we will be speaking mouth to mouth

²⁹ And the whole city was filled with confusion and they rushed united into the theater, having seized Paul’s fellow traveling-associates, Gaius and Aristarchus, who were Macedonians.

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.

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

¹⁴ I thank God that I immersed none of you, except Crispus and Gaius;

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

¹ The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth; ² because of the truth which abides in us and it will be with us forever. ³ Grace, mercy, peace will be with us, from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
⁴ I rejoice exceedingly that I have found some out of your children walking in truth, just-as we received commandment from the Father. ⁵ And now I ask you lady, not as though I write to you a new commandment, but what we have had from the beginning, in order that we should love one another. ⁶ And this is love, in order that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just-as you have heard from the beginning, in order that you should walk in it. ⁷ Because many misleaders have entered into the world, those who are not confessing Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the misleader and the antichrist. ⁸ Beware in yourselves, in order that you should not destroy the things which we have worked in you, but in order that we may receive a full reward. ⁹ Everyone who transgresses and is not abiding in the teaching of the Christ, does not have God. He who abides in the teaching of Christ, this one has both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If anyone is coming to you and is not bringing this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not say hello to him; ¹¹ for he who says hello to him is sharing in his evil works.
¹² Having many things to write to you, I did not plan to write them through paper and ink, but I am hoping to come to you and to speak mouth to mouth, in order that our joy may be fulfilled. ¹³ The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen.

¹ Jehovah answer you in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob set you up on high, ² send you help from the sanctuary and strengthen you out of Zion, ³ remember all your offerings and accept your burnt-sacrifice (Selah), ⁴ grant your heart's desire and fulfill all your counsel.
⁵ We will triumph in your salvation and in the name of our God we will set up our banners. Jehovah fulfill all your petitions.

⁴ each one, do not note the things of yourselves, but each one note also the things of others.

²⁷ For indeed he was sick–close to death. But God showed-mercy on him, now not him only, but also me, in order that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the holy-ones, ⁵ because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard beforehand in the word of the truth of the good-news. ⁶ This good-news which is present for you; just-as it also is in all the world. And is bearing-fruit and growing, just-as it also does in you, from the day you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth;

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.

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.

¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting, or is it not also you, which is before our Lord Jesus Christ at his presence? ²⁰ For you are our glory and our joy.

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. ⁷ Brethren, because of this, we were comforted on the basis of you in all our affliction and calamity through your faith, ⁸ because now we live, if you stand-firm in the Lord. ⁹ For what thanksgiving are we able to repay to God concerning you? Over all the joy in which we are rejoicing before our God is because of 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;

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;

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.

¹² My brethren, but before all things, do not swear, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes and your no be no; in order that you may not fall into hypocrisy.

⁸ But before all things, having the intense love for yourselves, because love will hide a multitude of sins.

³ As his divine power has been bestowed to us as a gift, (all things pertaining to life and godliness), through the full knowledge of the one who called us through glory and virtue; ⁴ through which he has bestowed to us as a gift, his precious and greatest promises; in order that you might become partners of the divine nature through these things, having fled away from the corruption in the world among its lust.
⁵ Now also for this same thing, besides having entered in all diligence, supply in your faith, virtue, and in your virtue, knowledge ⁶ and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, endurance, and in your endurance, godliness; ⁷ and in your godliness, brotherly-love, and in your brotherly-love, love. ⁸ For if these things are existing and increasing in you, none will designate you idle or unfruitful toward the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For the one is blind in whom these things are not present, being short-sighted, having taken on himself the forgetfulness of the cleansing from his old sins.

¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory is to him, both now and toward the final day of this world. Amen.

³ For I rejoiced exceedingly of brethren coming and testifying of your truth, just-as you are walking in truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy from these things, in order that I may hear my children are walking in the truth.
⁵ Beloved, you practice faithfully whatever you have worked toward the brethren and toward strangers; ⁶ who testified to your love in the sight of the congregation; whom you will do well, having sent onward worthily of God.

⁹ I know your works, your affliction and your poverty (but you are rich) and the blasphemy of those who saying about themselves they are Jews and they are not, but are a synagogue of the Adversary.

¹¹ I have laid your word up in my heart that I might not sin against you.

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.

⁶ But God, who encourages the humble, encouraged us at the presence of Titus; ⁷ and not only at his presence, but also at the encouragement to which he was encouraged in you, while reporting to us your longing, your anguish, your zeal on my behalf; so-that I rejoiced even more.

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;

⁴ always in my every supplication on behalf of all of you, making the supplication with joy,

⁷ just-as you also learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow bondservant, who is a faithful servant of the Christ on your behalf, ⁸ who also indicated to us your love in the Spirit.

² because of the truth which abides in us and it will be with us forever.

⁴ I rejoice exceedingly that I have found some out of your children walking in truth, just-as we received commandment from the Father.

⁴ I have no greater joy from these things, in order that I may hear my children are walking in the truth.

⁴ That Jehovah may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there will not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.

⁶ And Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, just-as he walked before you in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with you. And you have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne as it is this day.

³ Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart and have done what is good in your sight. And Hezekiah wept greatly.

¹ Judge me, O Jehovah, because I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in Jehovah without wavering. ² Examine me, O Jehovah and prove me. Try my heart and my mind. ³ Because your loving kindness is before my eyes and I have walked in your truth.

²⁴ The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice and he who begets a wise son will have joy of him.

¹⁸ Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.

³ and said, O Jehovah, I beseech you, remember now how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart and have done what is good in your sight. And Hezekiah wept greatly.

³⁵ Therefore Jesus said to them, The light is still with you for a little time. Walk while you have the light, in order that darkness might not overtake you and he who is walking in the darkness does not know where he is going. ³⁶ While you have the light, believe in the light, in order that you might become sons of light.
Jesus spoke these things and he went away and hid himself from them.

¹⁴ I am not writing these things to be embarrassing you, but I am admonishing you as my beloved children. ¹⁵ For even if you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, but you do not have many fathers, for I fathered you in Christ Jesus through the good-news.

¹⁴ But when I saw that they are not being straightforward according to the truth of the good-news, I said to Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like a Gentile and not like a Jew, why do you urge the Gentiles to live like Jews?

¹⁹ My little-children, of whom I am in travail again till whenever Christ has been formed in you.

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.

¹⁰ I am encouraging you concerning my child, whom I have fathered in my bonds, Onesimus,

⁴⁵ Who then is the faithful and prudent bondservant, whom his lord has designated over his bondservants, to give them their nourishment in season?

⁴² But the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and prudent steward, whom his lord will be designating over his bondservants, to give them their food-allowance in season?

¹⁰ The faithful in the least matters is also faithful in much, and the unrighteous in the least matters is also unrighteous in much. ¹¹ Therefore, if you have not become faithful in the unrighteous money, who will be entrusting the true riches to you? ¹² And if you have not become faithful in what is another’s, who will be giving you what is yours?

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,

¹⁰ Therefore consequently, as we have opportunity, we should work what is the good thing toward all men but especially in the household of the faith.

¹⁷ And everything, anything, whatever you do in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving-thanks to the God and Father through him.

¹⁰ just-as each has received a gift, serving it for yourselves, as good stewards of the various favor s of God. ¹¹ If anyone is speaking, speak as the oracles of God; if anyone is serving, serve as from the strength which God is supplying; in order that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ to whom is the glory and the dominion forevermore. Amen.

⁷ If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire will be for you and you should rule over it.

⁴ And Jehovah said, Do you well to be angry?

²¹ But his lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful bondservant. You were over a few things, I will be designating you over many things; enter into the joy of your lord.
²² Now he who also received the two talants came and said, Lord, You gave to me two talants. Behold, I have gained in addition to them, another two talants.
²³ His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful bondservant. You were faithful over a few things, I will be designating you over many things; enter into the joy of your lord.

³ Therefore indeed, being sent onward by the congregation, they were going through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the turning to God of the Gentiles, and they were producing great joy in all the brethren.

²⁹ that you abstain from idol-sacrifices, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. Keeping yourselves away from these things; you will be practicing well.
Good-bye.

⁵ Now when it happened for us to finish the days there, we came out and were traveling on, and they all, together with their wives and children, sent us onward until we were outside the city, and having placed the knees down upon the beach, we prayed,

²⁴ Like whenever I travel through toward Spain, I will be coming to you, (for I am hoping to see you when I am traveling through and to be sent onward by you, if first I may be partially filled from you).

¹⁶ and through you to go through into Macedonia, and away from Macedonia to come to you again and to be sent onward to Judea by you.

¹⁴ However you did well, having shared together with my affliction.

¹⁰ for you to walk worthy of the Lord for pleasing him in everything, bearing-fruit in every good work and growing into the full knowledge of God;

¹² and testifying, that you should walk worthy of God, who is calling you into his own kingdom and glory.

¹³ Send Zenas, the professor of the law, and Apollos onward diligently in order that nothing may be deficient for them.

²⁰ For what credit is it, if, when you are sinning and are battered for it, you will be enduring it? But if, when you are doing good and are suffering for it, you will be enduring it; this is grace with God.

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.

¹⁵ And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company and came and stood before him. And he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, I beseech you, take a present from your servant. ¹⁶ But he said, As Jehovah lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it, but he refused.

²⁰ But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands what he brought. As Jehovah lives, I will run after him and take something from him.
²¹ So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him and said, Is all well? ²² And he said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even now there come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. I beseech you, give them a talant of silver and two changes of garments.
²³ And Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talants. And he urged him and bound two talants of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments and laid them upon two of his servants and they bore them before him. ²⁴ And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and bestowed them in the house and he let the men go and they departed.
²⁵ But he went in and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, From where did you come, Gehazi? And he said, Your servant went nowhere. ²⁶ And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money and to receive garments and olive-groves and vineyards and sheep and oxen and men-servants and maidservants? ²⁷ The leprosy therefore of Naaman will cling to you and to your seed everlasting. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

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.

⁴ Therefore indeed, those who were dispersed went through out the land, proclaiming the good-news of the word.

¹⁶ for I will be showing him how-much it is essential for him to suffer on behalf of my name.

¹² If others are partaking of this authority over you, do we not more? But we did not use this authority, but we are forbearing all things, in order that we should not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ. ¹³ Do you not know that those who work at the sacred things, eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait-upon the altar have their part together with the altar? ¹⁴ So, the Lord also commanded that those who are proclaiming the good-news, to live out of the good-news. ¹⁵ But I used none of these things, and I do not write these things in order that it may become so with me; for it would be good for me rather to die, than in order that anyone should make my boasting void.

¹⁸ Therefore what is my reward? In order that, in proclaiming the good-news of the Christ without cost, I might place the good-news before you, and that I should not make full use of my authority in the good-news.

⁵ For we are not preaching ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord and ourselves as your bondservants because of Jesus.

⁷ Or did I practice some sin in humbling myself in order that you might be exalted, because I proclaimed freely the good-news of God to you? ⁸ I robbed other congregations, taking compensations from them for your service. 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.

¹³ For in what is it that you were lesser, beyond the rest of the congregations, except in that I myself did not encumber you? Forgive me this unrighteousness!

²⁴ Now I am rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf and I am filling up in my flesh, the things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ on behalf of his body, which is the congregation of believers;

³ and you have endurance and did bear because of my name and have not fatigued.

¹⁴ And whoever did not accept you, nor heard your words, when you go forth from that house or that city, shake-off the dust from your feet.

⁴⁰ He who accepts you, accepts me; and he who receives me, receives the one who sent me.

⁷ And he will answer from inside and should say, Do not be harassing me. The door has already been locked and my children are in the bunk with me. I am not able to give to you bread, even if I rise up.

⁵ Therefore, who is Paul? And who is Apollos? But servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each. ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. ⁷ So-then neither is the one who is planting anything, nor the one who is watering, but God who is causing the growth. ⁸ Now the one who is planting and the one who is watering are one, but each one will be receiving his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s cultivation, God’s building.

¹⁰ Now if Timothy comes, see to it, in order that he may become fearless toward you; for he is working the work of the Lord, as I also am. ¹¹ Therefore let no one scorn him. But send him onward in peace, in order that he may come to me; for I am waiting for him with the brethren.

¹ And working together with him, we are also encouraging you to not accept the grace of God in vain;

² Make room for us in your^\'b0 hearts: we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took-advantage of no one. ³ I am not saying this toward your condemnation; for I have said before, that you are in our hearts, that we may die together with you and we may live together with you.

²³ If anyone inquires in regard to Titus, whether our brethren, the ambassadors of the congregations (the glory of Christ)– he is my partner and my fellow worker for you.

³ Yes, I am also requesting you, genuine colleague, help these women, who contended together with me in the good-news, also with Clement, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

¹¹ and Jesus who is called Justus, who is from the circumcision. These are my only fellow workers in the kingdom of God, those who became a comfort to me.

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;

² and to the beloved Apphia and to Archippus our fellow soldier and to the congregation in your house:

²⁴ so do my fellow workers Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke.

¹⁰ Because of this, if I come, I will be reminding him of his works in which he practices: gossiping against us with evil words and not being content in these, nor does he himself accept the brethren and he forbids those who plan to come, and casts them out of the congregation.

⁴⁰ He who accepts you, accepts me; and he who receives me, receives the one who sent me. ⁴¹ He who accepts a prophet in the name of a prophet, will be receiving a prophet’s reward, and he who accepts a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, will be receiving a righteous man’s reward. ⁴² And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to drink to one of these little ones, in the name of a disciple, assuredly I am saying to you, He may never lose his reward.

²⁰ Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, came to him, worshiping him, and asking something from him. ²¹ But he said to her, What do you wish?
She says to him, Say that these, my two sons, may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left hand in your kingdom.
²² But Jesus answered and said, You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup which I am about to drink, or to be immersed with the immersion to which I am about to be immersed?
They say to him, We are able.
²³ And he says to them, Indeed, you will be drinking my cup and you will be immersed with the immersion to which I am immersed, but to sit at my right and at my left, is not mine to give, but it is for them for whom it has been prepared by my Father. ²⁴ And having heard this, the ten were indignant concerning the two brothers.
²⁵ But Jesus called them and said, You know that the rulers of the Gentiles are lording it over them, and their great ones wield authority over them. ²⁶ But it will not be so among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you, he will be your servant; ²⁷ and whoever wishes to be first among you, let him be your bondservant; ²⁸ just-like the Son of Man did not come to be served to, but to serve and to give his life as a redemption in exchange-for many.

⁴ For they bind burdensome and unbearable loads, and place them upon men’s shoulders, but they are not willing to move them even with their finger. ⁵ And they are practicing all their works to be seen by men. And they widen their phylacteries and magnify the hems of their garments, ⁶ and they love the foremost-place in the suppers and the foremost seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and the greetings in the marketplaces and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi. ⁸ But do not be called Rabbi; for only one is your leader, the Christ, and you are all brethren.

³⁴ But they were silent; for they had reasoned with one another on the road, who was greater.

³⁷ Whoever accepts one little child of such in my name, accepts me, and whoever accepts me, does not accept me, but he who sent me.

³⁵ And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, travel before him, saying, Teacher, we wish that whatever we ask, you might do it for us.
³⁶ But he said to them, What are you wishing me to do for you?
³⁷ Now they said to him, Give to us that we may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left hand in your glory.
³⁸ But Jesus said to them, You do not know what you are asking for yourselves. Are you able to drink the cup that I am drinking? And to be immersed in the immersion that I am immersed in?
³⁹ Now they said to him, We are able.
But Jesus said to them, Indeed the cup that I am drinking, you will be drinking, and the immersion that I am immersed in, you will be immersed in. ⁴⁰ But to sit at my right and at my left is not mine to give, but it is for them for whom it has been prepared. ⁴¹ And when the ten heard it, they began to be indignant concerning James and John.
⁴² Now having called them to him, Jesus says to them, You know that those who seem to rule over the Gentiles are lording it over them, and their great ones are wielding authority over them. ⁴³ But it will not be so among you, but rather, whoever wishes to become great among you will be your servant; ⁴⁴ and whoever wishes to become first among you will be bondservant of all. ⁴⁵ For the Son of Man also did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a redemption in exchange-for many.

⁴⁸ and said to them, Whoever accepts this little child in my name accepts me, and whoever accepts me, accepts the one who sent me; for he who is least among you all, this one will be great.

²⁴ Now there happened to be also contention among them, which of them is thought to be the greater. ²⁵ But he said to them, The kings of the Gentiles have lordship over them, and those who have authority over them are called benefactors. ²⁶ But not so with you, but the greater one among you, let him become like the younger, and the leader, as he who is serving. ²⁷ For what is greater one, he who reclines at the meal, or he who is serving? Is it not he who reclines? But I am in your midst like he who serves.

¹⁰ Be tenderly loving to one another in the love of the brethren; being the leader for one another in honor;

³ (nothing according to selfish ambition or through empty conceit, but in humility): deeming one another superior to yourselves; ⁴ each one, do not note the things of yourselves, but each one note also the things of others. ⁵ For let this mindset be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

⁷ For it is essential for the overseer to be irreproachable as God’s steward; not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not a drunkard, not a bully, not covetous; ⁸ but hospitable, who loves good, sensible, just, holy, self-controlled; ⁹ holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, in order that he may be able also to encourage in the sound teaching and to convict those who contradict it.
¹⁰ For there are many even rebellious men, empty-talkers and deceivers, especially those out of the circumcision, ¹¹ whom it is essential to gag; men who are perverting whole houses, teaching things which they ought not teach, because of shameful gain. ¹² Someone from them, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are habitually liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons. ¹³ This testimony is true. Because of which case, reprove them sharply, in order that they may be sound in the faith, ¹⁴ not taking-heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who are turning away from the truth. ¹⁵ Indeed, all things are clean to the clean, but nothing is clean to those who have been defiled and are unbelieving, but both their mind and their conscience have been defiled. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but they are denying him by their works, being detestable and disobedient and unapproved toward every good work.

⁸ Therefore we ought to receive those who are such, in order that we should become fellow workers for the truth.

⁸ The wise in heart will receive commandments, but a pouring fool will fall.

¹⁰ He who winks with the eye causes sorrow. And a fool will fall from his lips.

⁵ Hear the word of Jehovah, you* who tremble at his word: Your* brothers who hate you*, who cast you* out for my name's sake, have said, Let Jehovah be glorified, that we may see your* joy. But it is those who will be put to shame.

²² You are fortunate, whenever men hate you and whenever they separate you from themselves, and may reproach you and may cast out your name like evil, because of the Son of Man.

²² His parents said these things, because they feared the Jews; for the Jews, themselves, had covenanted already, in order that if anyone confesses him as Christ, he should become expelled from the synagogue.

³⁴ They answered and said to him, You were born entirely in sins and you are teaching us! And they cast him outside.
³⁵ Jesus heard that they had cast him outside, and having found him, he said to him, Do you believe in the Son of God?

¹ Fornication is heard literally to be among you (and such fornication which is not even named among the Gentiles), that someone has his father’s wife. ² And you have been arrogant, and did not rather mourn in order that he who did this work might be taken away out of your midst. ³ For indeed, as being absent in the body, but being present in the spirit, I have already judged him thus, who has worked this thing, (as though I am present), ⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. When you and my spirit are gathered together, together with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵ to give such a one to the Adversary for the utter-destruction of the flesh, in order that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

¹ Now I, Paul, myself, encourage you through the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who when face to face am indeed humble among you, but being absent am courageous toward you. ² But I am beseeching you (not when I am present) to be courageous with the confidence in which I am reasoning to dare against some who reason us as walking according to the flesh. ³ For although we are walking in the flesh, we are not warring according to the flesh. 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; ⁶ and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience, whenever your obedience is fulfilled.
⁷ Are you looking at things according to their countenance? If anyone has confidence in himself to be Christ’s, let him count this again from within himself, that, just-as he is Christ’s, so are we also Christ’s. ⁸ For even if I am boasting even-more of something concerning our authority (which the Lord gave to us for your building up and not for your demolition), I will not be shamed; ⁹ in order that I may not seem as if I wished to make you fearful through my letters. ¹⁰ Because indeed he says, The letters are weighty and mighty, but the body’s presence is weak and the speech has been nothing special. ¹¹ Let such a one count this, that, such-as we are in word through letters, being absent, such will we also be in work, when we are present.

² I have spoken to you beforehand and I do say again like beforehand, being present the second-time and so being absent now, I am writing to warn those who have sinned before and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not be sparing them,

⁵ Beloved, you practice faithfully whatever you have worked toward the brethren and toward strangers;

² You will not follow a multitude to do evil, neither will you speak in a case to turn aside after a multitude to distort justice,

¹⁴ Depart from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it.

²⁷ Depart from evil and do good and dwell everlasting.

¹¹ He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who pursues vanities is void of understanding.

¹⁶ Wash you*, make you* clean, put away the evil of your* practices from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. ¹⁷ Learn to do good. Seek justice, make the oppressed fortunate, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

²⁰ For everyone who is practicing evil, hates the light, and is not coming to the light, in order that his works should not convict him.

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they are following me,

²⁶ If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, my servant will also be there. And if anyone serves me, the Father will be honoring him.

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

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

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.

⁶ And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Spirit;

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.

¹⁰ But you have followed closely my teaching, my lead, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

¹² in order that you should not become sluggish, but imitators of those who are inheriting the promises through faith and patience.

¹¹ Let him shun evil and let him practice good. Let him seek peace and let him pursue it,

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

²⁹ If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who is practicing righteousness has been born from him.

⁶ Everyone who abides in him is not sinning. Everyone who is sinning has not seen him, nor has known him. ⁷ Let no one mislead you, my little-children. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just-as that man is righteous. ⁸ He who is practicing sin is from the devil, because the devil sins from the beginning, to this end the Son of God was manifested, in order that he might tear-down the works of the devil. ⁹ Everyone who has been born from God does not practice sin, because his seed abides in him and he is not able to practice sin, because he has been born from God.

³⁵ And he who has seen, has testified and his testimony is true and he knows that he says true things, in order that you might believe.

²⁴ This is the disciple who is testifying concerning these things and wrote these things and we know that his testimony is true.

²² Now they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man and fearing God, being well testified of by the whole nation of the Jews, was divinely-warned by a holy messenger to send for you to come to his house and to hear words from you.

¹² Now a certain one named Ananias, a devout man according to the law, being testified of by all the Jews dwelling there,

¹² in order that you may walk decently toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

⁷ But it is also essential for him to have a good testimony from those who are outside the congregation; in order that he may not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

{‘Unimpeachable,’(below, G423), ‘irreproachable,’(Tit 1, G410), are both in the qualifications of the Lord’s earthly congregation’s leadership, described in various Bible versions and locations within as: elders, bishops, overseers, pastors, shepherds, presbyters; (all terms are always plural in the Bible). These words do not translate well into English. They are simply a description of a person not under an accusation by an enemy or legal system or better as under any kind of accusation, this person is blameless, guiltless and has an impeccable reputation. Another note: ‘children’is plural in Greek.}

¹² Having many things to write to you, I did not plan to write them through paper and ink, but I am hoping to come to you and to speak mouth to mouth, in order that our joy may be fulfilled.

²³ And he said, Peace be to you*, do not fear. Your* God and the God of your* father, has given you* treasure in your* sacks. I had your* money.
And he brought Simeon out to them.

¹ Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you*.

¹ I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of my needs from the congregation in Cenchreae: ² in order that you should accept her in the Lord, worthy of the holy-ones, and that you should stand beside her in whatever matter she has need from you. For she herself has also become an assistant of many, and of me myself.
³ Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, ⁴ who have risked their own neck on behalf of my life; whom I not only give-thanks, but also all the congregations of the Gentiles; ⁵ and the congregation who is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first-fruit of Achaia to Christ. ⁶ Greet Mary, who labored much for us. ⁷ Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow captives, who are notable even among the apostles, who has also happened to be in Christ before me. ⁸ Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord. ⁹ Greet Urbanus our fellow worker in Christ and Stachys my beloved. ¹⁰ Greet Apelles, the approved, in Christ. Greet those who are from the household of Aristobulus. ¹¹ Greet Herodion my relative. Greet those from the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord. ¹² Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who are laboring in the Lord. Greet the beloved Persis, who labored much in the Lord. ¹³ Greet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. ¹⁴ Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Hermas, Patrobas and the brethren who are together with them. ¹⁵ Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the holy-ones who are together with them. ¹⁶ Greet one another with a holy kiss. The congregations of Christ greet you.

¹⁶ But I am saying, walk by the Spirit and you may never complete the lust of the flesh.

²³ Peace to the brethren and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ Greet one another with a kiss of love.
Peace to all of you who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

{NOTES: Please read the Preface and other non-bible sections. is our universal footnoting for words contained in the ‘Definitions’section. These words are NOT the same Greek word as the non-asterisk form; i.e. FOR is different from FOR is different from FOR.}

³ The doorkeeper opens to him, and the sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.