Ephesians 6 Cross References - MLV

¹ The children, obey^*\'b0 your parents in the Lord; for this is righteous. ² Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment in the promise), ³ in order that it may become well with you, and you may be upon the earth a long time. ⁴ And the fathers, do not rouse your children to anger, but rear them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.
⁵ The bondservants, be obedient to your lords according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in clarity of your heart, as to the Christ; ⁶ not according to eye-service, like men-pleasers, but like bondservants of the Christ, practicing the will of God from your soul; ⁷ serving with benevolence to the Lord and not to men. ⁸ Knowing that whatever good thing each one practices, he will be getting this from the Lord, whether bondservant or free man. ⁹ And the lords, do the same things toward them and be lax with the threatening; knowing that your own Lord is also in the heavens and there is no favoritism from him.
¹⁰ Furthermore, my brethren, be empowered in the Lord and in the dominion of his strength. ¹¹ Clothe yourselves with the full-armor of God, that you may be able to stand up to the schemes of the devil. ¹² Because the wrestling in us is not with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world dominions of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual ones of wickedness in the heavenly places. \ulnone\nosupersub ¹³ Because of this, take up the full-armor of God, in order that you may be able to stand against the devil in the evil day, and to stand straight, having worked against all things. ¹⁴ Therefore stand, having girded your loins in truth and having clothed yourselves with the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having tied the feet with the readiness of the good-news of peace. ¹⁶ Upon all these things, when you have taken up the shield of the faith, in which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one; \ulnone\nosupersub ¹⁷ also able to accept the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, ¹⁸ through all prayer and supplication praying in all seasons in the Spirit and watching in this same thing in all perseverance and supplication concerning all the holy-ones. ¹⁹ And pray on my behalf, in order that the word may be given to me, in opening my mouth to make known the mystery of the good-news in boldness, ²⁰ on behalf of which, I am an ambassador in a chain; in order that I should speak boldly in it, as it is essential for me to speak.
²¹ But in order that you may also know the things in regard to me, what I am doing; I will make known to you all things. Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, ²² whom I sent to you for this same thing, in order that you might know the things concerning us, and in order that he might encourage your hearts.
²³ Peace to the brethren and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ Grace is with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption. Amen.

⁷ and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.

¹³ And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come and I will send you to them.
And he said to him, Here I am.

³ Every man will fear his mother and his father. And you* will keep my Sabbaths. I am Jehovah your* God.

¹⁸ If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they discipline him, will not listen to them,

²⁰ And David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the place of the wagons as the army which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.

¹³ You also came down upon Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

²⁰ Esther had not yet made known her kindred nor her people, as Mordecai had charged her. For Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, as when she was brought up with him.

²⁷ He sings before men and says, I have sinned and perverted what was right and it did not profit me.

⁸ The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes.

⁷⁵ I know, O Jehovah, that your judgments are righteous and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

¹²⁸ Therefore I esteem all precepts concerning all things to be right. I hate every false way.

⁸ My son, hear the instruction of your father and do not forsake the law of your mother.

²⁰ My son, keep the commandment of your father and do not forsake the law of your mother.

²² Listen to your father who fathered you and do not despise your mother because she is old.

¹¹ There is a generation who curses their father and does not praise their mother.

¹⁷ The eye that mocks at his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out and the young eagles will eat it.

¹⁴ The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed. And to this day they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment.
But I have spoken to you*, rising up early and speaking and you* have not listened to me.

⁹ Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right and the just will walk in them. But transgressors will fall in them.

⁵¹ And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was being subject to them and his mother was keeping all these words in her heart.

¹² So-that the law indeed is holy and the commandment holy and righteous and good.

² And not to fashion yourselves to this age, but be transfigured by the renewal of your mind, that you may be proving in you what is the will of God: the good and acceptable and mature.

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.

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.

⁵ The bondservants, be obedient to your lords according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in clarity of your heart, as to the Christ; ⁶ not according to eye-service, like men-pleasers, but like bondservants of the Christ, practicing the will of God from your soul;

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing in gratitude in your heart to the Lord. 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.

²⁰ The children: obey^*\'b0 the parents according to all things, for this is well pleasing in the Lord.
²¹ The fathers: do not aggravate your children, in order that they may not be discouraged.
²² The bondservants: be obedient according to all things, those who are your lords according to the flesh; not in eye-services, like men-pleasers, but in clarity of heart, fearing God.
²³ And everything, anything whatever you do, work from your soul, as you would to the Lord and not as to men; ²⁴ knowing that you will be receiving from the Lord the payment of the inheritance; for you are serving the Lord Christ. ²⁵ But he who does wrong will get back what he did wrong and there is no favoritism with God.

⁴ But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to be devout toward their own family and to give back reimbursement to their parents; for this is acceptable in God’s sight.

¹³ Therefore be subject to every human creation because of the Lord: whether to the king, as being superior to you;

¹² Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

¹⁶ Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people will say, Truly.

²⁰ He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in blackness of darkness.

¹⁸ And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Because you* have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your* father and kept all his precepts and done according to all that he commanded you*,

⁷ In you they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of you they have dealt with the traveler by oppression. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

⁶ A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says Jehovah of hosts to you*, O priests, who despise my name. And you* say, How have we despised your name?

⁴ For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘He who is speaking evil of their father or mother, let him be ended by the sentence of death.’ ⁵ But you say, Whoever says to his father or his mother, in whatever you might have been profited from me, it is a gift to God, ⁶ and then should never honor his father and mother, and thus you invalidated the commandment of God because of your tradition.

⁹ And he said to them, You reject well the commandment of God, in order that you may keep your tradition. ¹⁰ For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘He who is speaking evil of father or mother, let him be ended by the sentence of death.’ ¹¹ But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, Whatever you might have been profited from me is Corban. (That is, a gift). ¹² And so you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, ¹³ invalidating the word of God by your tradition, which you have been given, and you practice many such similar things.

⁷ Therefore give to all, their dues: tribute to whom tribute; tax to whom tax; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

⁴⁰ And you will keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you and with your sons after you and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Jehovah your God gives you, forever.

¹⁶ Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commanded you, that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

³ Hear therefore, O Israel and observe to do it, that it may be well with you and that you* may increase mightily, as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹⁸ And you will do what is right and good in the sight of Jehovah, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Jehovah swore to your fathers,

²⁵ You will not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your sons after you, when you will do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

²⁸ Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your sons after you everlasting, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of Jehovah your God.

⁷ You will surely let the dam go, but the young you may take to yourself, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

¹ And Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

¹ All who fear Jehovah are fortunate, who walk in his ways. ² Because you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be fortunate and it will be well with you.

¹⁰ Say you* of the righteous, that it is well, for they will eat the fruit of their practices.

⁶ Whether it is good, or whether it is evil, we will obey the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we send you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of Jehovah our God.

¹⁹ For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice, to the end that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what he has spoken of him.

¹⁴ And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? ¹⁵ Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us and has also devoured our money.

²⁶ And it will happen, when your* sons will say to you*, What do you* mean by this service? ²⁷ that you* will say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah's Passover, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, when he killed* the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshiped.

¹⁴ And it will be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is this? that you will say to him, By strength of hand Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.
¹⁵ And it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Jehovah killed* all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that opens the womb, being males, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.

⁹ Only take heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life, but make them known to your sons and your son's sons–

⁷ And you will teach them diligently to your sons and will talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.

²⁰ When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God has commanded you*? ²¹ Then you will say to your son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. ²² And Jehovah showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his house, before our eyes. ²³ And he brought us out from there that he might bring us in to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.
²⁴ And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God for our good always, that he might preserve us alive as at this day.

¹⁹ And you* will teach them to your* sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.
²⁰ And you will write them upon the door-posts of your house and upon your gates, ²¹ that your* days may be multiplied and the days of your* sons, in the land which Jehovah swore to your* fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

⁶ that this may be a sign among you*, that, when your* children ask in time to come, saying, What do you* mean by these stones? ⁷ Then you* will say to them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. And these stones will be for a memorial to the sons of Israel everlasting.

²¹ And he spoke to the sons of Israel, saying, When your* sons will ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do these stones mean?
²² Then you* will let your* sons know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. ²³ For Jehovah your* God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you*, until you* were passed over, as Jehovah your* God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were passed over, ²⁴ that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Jehovah, that it is mighty, that you* may fear Jehovah your* God forever.

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you* to serve Jehovah, choose you* this day whom you* will serve: whether the gods which your* fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you* dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

³⁰ Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan and he said to him, You son of a perverse rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness? ³¹ For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon the ground, you will not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and fetch him to me, for he will surely die.
³² And Jonathan answered Saul his father and said to him, Why should he be put to death? What has he done? ³³ And Saul cast his spear at him to kill* him. By this Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to put David to death.
³⁴ So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David because his father had done him shame.

¹⁰ He will build a house for my name. And he will be my son and I will be his father and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel until everlasting.
¹¹ Now, my son, Jehovah be with you and prosper you and build the house of Jehovah your God as he has spoken concerning you. ¹² Only Jehovah give you discretion and understanding and give you charge concerning Israel, so that you may keep the law of Jehovah your God. ¹³ Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Jehovah charged Moses with concerning Israel. Be strong and of good courage. Do not fear, neither be dismayed.

⁹ And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind, for Jehovah searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever. ¹⁰ Take heed now, for Jehovah has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.

²⁰ And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage and do it. Do not fear, nor be dismayed, for Jehovah God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of Jehovah be finished.

¹⁹ And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies and your statutes and to do all these things and to build the palace for you, for which I have made provision.

¹⁷ O God, you have taught me from my youth and I have declared your wondrous works until now.
¹⁸ Yes, even when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not, until I have declared your strength to a generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

⁴ We will not hide them from their sons, telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah and his strength and his wondrous works that he has done.
⁵ For he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their sons, ⁶ that the generation to come might know, even the sons who should be born, who should arise and tell to their sons, ⁷ that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

¹ Hear sons, the instruction of a father and attend to know understanding. ² Because I give you* good doctrine. Do not forsake my law.
³ Because I was a son to my father, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. ⁴ And he taught me and said to me, Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments and live.

¹⁸ Chasten your son because there is hope and do not let your soul spare for his crying.

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

¹⁵ Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction will drive it far from him.

¹³ Do not withhold correction from the child, because if you beat him with the rod, he will not die. ¹⁴ You will beat him with the rod and will deliver his soul from Sheol.

¹⁵ The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

¹⁷ Discipline your son and he will give you rest, yes, he will give delight to your soul.

¹⁹ The living, the living, he will praise you, as I do this day. The father to the sons will make known your truth.

²¹ The fathers: do not aggravate your children, in order that they may not be discouraged.

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.

¹⁵ And you have known, that from a baby, the sacred Scriptures which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

⁷ It is for disciplining that you endure; God is dealing with you as with sons; for what is the son whom his father is not disciplining? ⁸ But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, consequently, you are illegitimate and not sons. ⁹ Thereafter, we have indeed had the fathers of our flesh as correctors of us, and we were revering them. Will we not much rather be made subject to the Father of spirits and we will live? ¹⁰ For they indeed were disciplining us for a few days according to what did seem right to them, but he does it upon what is advantageous for us, that we may receive of his holiness.

⁹ And the messenger of Jehovah said to her, Return to your mistress and submit yourself under her hands.

¹⁴ Now therefore fear Jehovah and serve him in sincerity and in truth. And put away the gods which your* fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt and serve you* Jehovah.

¹⁷ I know also, my God, that you try the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

¹¹ Teach me your way, O Jehovah, I will walk in your truth. Unite my heart to fear your name.

² Behold, as the eyes of servants to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are to Jehovah our God, until he has mercy upon us.

²² The lamp of the body is the eye, because if your eye is clear, your whole body will be radiant.

²⁴ No one is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and will love the other; or he will hold to one and will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and ^{F} money.

⁹ For I am a man also under authority, having soldiers under me and I say to this one, Travel on and he travels on, and to another, Come and he comes, and to my bondservant, Do this and he does it.

⁴⁶ And persevering, united in the temple and breaking bread, house to house, they were taking their nourishment in gladness and simplicity of heart,

⁷ Now as the messenger, the one who had been speaking to Cornelius, went away, he summoned two of his domestic servants and a devout soldier of those who are persevering with him; ⁸ and having described all these things to them, he sent them to Joppa.

³ And I happened to be with you in weakness and in fear, and in much trembling.

²² For he who was called in the Lord, having been a bondservant, is the Lord’s freedman; likewise, the free one who was called, is Christ’s bondservant.

¹² For this is our boasting, the testimony of our conscience, that in clarity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world and even-more toward you.

¹⁵ And his affections is even-more toward you, while he is remembering the obedience of all of you, how with fear and trembling you accepted him.

² For I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God; for I espoused you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to the Christ. ³ But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted away from the clarity and the purity which is leading to the Christ.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the holy-ones who are in Ephesus and the faithful in Christ Jesus: ² grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
³ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is gracious, who has blessed us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 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. ⁵ Having predetermined us to the sonship through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the delight of his will, ⁶ to the praise of the glory of his favor, in which he has favored us in the beloved, ⁷ in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace. ⁸ The grace which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, ⁹ having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his delight which he purposed in him, ¹⁰ to a stewardship of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth. ¹¹ In him in whom, we were also made an inheritance, having been predetermined according to the purpose of the one who is working all things after the plan of his will. ¹² That we should be for the praise of his glory, we who have hoped before in the Christ, ¹³ in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the good-news of your salvation, in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, ¹⁴ which is a down-payment of our inheritance, to the redemption of the ownership of God to the praise of his glory.
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; 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, ²¹ up above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name that is being named, not only in this age, but also in the future age. \ulnone\nosupersub ²² And he subjected all things under his feet and gave him to be head above all things to the congregation of believers, ²³ which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all in all.

²² The wives be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

²⁴ Grace is with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption. Amen.

¹² So-then my beloved, just-as you have always obeyed, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

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.
¹⁸ The wives: be subject to your own husbands, as is proper in the Lord.
¹⁹ The husbands: love^*\'b0 the wives, and do not be bitter toward them.
²⁰ The children: obey^*\'b0 the parents according to all things, for this is well pleasing in the Lord.
²¹ The fathers: do not aggravate your children, in order that they may not be discouraged.
²² The bondservants: be obedient according to all things, those who are your lords according to the flesh; not in eye-services, like men-pleasers, but in clarity of heart, fearing God.
²³ And everything, anything whatever you do, work from your soul, as you would to the Lord and not as to men; ²⁴ knowing that you will be receiving from the Lord the payment of the inheritance; for you are serving the Lord Christ.

¹ As many as are bondservants under the yoke, let them deem their own masters worthy of all honor, in order that the name of God and the teaching may not be blasphemed. ² But those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren, but rather let them serve them, because they are believing and beloved who are being helped by your good work. Teach and encourage these things.
³ If anyone is teaching a different teaching and is not coming near to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the teaching which is according to godliness;

⁹ Encourage bondservants to subject themselves to their own masters and be well pleasing to them in all things, not contradicting them; ¹⁰ not pilfering things, but showing all good faith fulness; in order that they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior in all things.

¹⁶ no longer as a bondservant, but beyond a bondservant, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

¹⁸ Domestic servants, be subject to your masters in all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the crooked. ¹⁹ For this is grace, if anyone undergoes sorrows, suffering wrongfully because of his consciousness of God. 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. 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.

² having eye-witnessed your pure conduct in fear;

¹⁰ And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says Jehovah.

⁷ And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah. And they will be my people and I will be their God, for they will return to me with their whole heart.

²¹ Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who is practicing the will of my Father, the one in the heavens.

⁵⁰ For whoever practices the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother and sister and mother.

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;

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.

¹⁷ Because of this, do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

⁹ Because of this, we also do not cease praying and asking on your behalf from the day we heard it, in order that you may be filled with the full knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and intelligence,

²² The bondservants: be obedient according to all things, those who are your lords according to the flesh; not in eye-services, like men-pleasers, but in clarity of heart, fearing God.
²³ And everything, anything whatever you do, work from your soul, as you would to the Lord and not as to men;

¹² Epaphras, a bondservant of Christ, the one from you, greets you. He is always fighting on your behalf in his prayers, in order that you might stand complete and having been fulfilled in all the will of God.

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.

³ For this is the will of God, your holiness, for you to abstain from fornication;

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

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.

¹⁵ Because so is the will of God, doing good things to hush the ignorance of foolish men;

² that you should no longer have your life, (the rest of your time in the flesh), in the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

¹⁷ And the world is passing away and its lust, but he who is practicing the will of God abides forever.

⁶ And you* know that with all my power I have served your* father.

³⁸ These twenty years I have been with you, your ewe-lambs and your female-goats have not cast their young and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks. ³⁹ I did not bring to you what was torn by beasts; I bore the loss of it, you required it of my hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
⁴⁰ Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me and the frost by night and my sleep fled from my eyes.

² And the Syrians had gone out in bands and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden and she waited on Naaman's wife. ³ And she said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.

¹³ And his servants came near and spoke to him and said, My father, if the prophet had bid you do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, Wash and be clean?

³¹ Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or if you are doing anything, do all to the glory of God.

²³ And everything, anything whatever you do, work from your soul, as you would to the Lord and not as to men;

¹⁸ A wicked man earns deceitful wages, but he who sows righteousness has a sure reward.

¹⁸ Because surely there is a reward and your hope will not be cut off.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked! It is ill with him, for what his hands have done will be done to him.

¹² Rejoice and be glad, because your reward is much in the heavens; for thus, they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

¹ Take-heed not to do your charity before men, to be seen by them, otherwise you have no reward from your Father, the one in the heavens.

⁴ that your charity may be in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will be repaying you openly.

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.

²⁷ For the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his messengers, and then he will be giving to each one according to his practice.

³⁵ However, love^*\'b0 your enemies and do good things for them and lend, hoping for nothing again. And your reward will be much, and you will be sons of the Highest, because he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

¹⁴ and you will be fortunate, because they do not have anything in which to repay you; for you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.

⁶ who will ‘repay to each according to his works.’ ⁷ Everlasting life to those who indeed by endurance in good work are seeking glory and honor and incorruption. ⁸ But to those seeking things out of selfish ambition and who are indeed disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, he will repay with fury and wrath, ⁹ affliction and distress upon every soul of man who is working evil, both of the Jew first and of the Greek. ¹⁰ But glory and honor and peace to every man who is working good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek;

¹⁰ For it is essential for all of us to appear before the judicial-seat of the Christ; in order that each one may get back the things done in the body, for what he practiced, whether good or evil.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bondservant nor free man, there is no male and female; for you all are one in Christ Jesus.

¹¹ where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free man, but Christ is all things and in all things.

²⁴ knowing that you will be receiving from the Lord the payment of the inheritance; for you are serving the Lord Christ.

³⁵ Therefore do not cast away your boldness, which has great reward.

²⁶ having deemed the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking toward the reward.

¹³ You will not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant will not abide with you all night until the morning.

³⁹ And if your brother becomes poor with you and sells himself to you, you will not impose upon him servile labor. ⁴⁰ He will be with you as a hired servant and as a traveler. He will serve with you to the year of jubilee. ⁴¹ Then he will go out from you, he and his sons with him and will return to his own family. And he will return to the possession of his fathers. ⁴² For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They will not be sold as bondmen. ⁴³ You will not rule over him with rigor, but will fear your God.
⁴⁴ And as for your bondmen and your bondmaids, whom you will have, from the nations that are all around you*, you* will buy bondmen and bondmaids from them. ⁴⁵ Moreover of the sons of the strangers who journey among you*, you* will buy from them and from their families that are with you*, which they have fathered in your* land and they will be your* possession. ⁴⁶ And you* will make them an inheritance for your* sons after you*, to hold for a possession. You* will take your* everlasting bondmen from them, but over your* brothers the sons of Israel you* will not rule, one over another, with rigor.

¹⁷ For Jehovah your* God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty and the awesome, who regards not persons, nor takes reward.

¹¹ For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you, saying, You will surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and to your poor, in your land.
¹² If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you will let him go free from you. ¹³ And when you let him go free from you, you will not let him go empty. ¹⁴ You will furnish him liberally out of your flock and out of your threshing-floor and out of your winepress. As Jehovah your God has blessed you, you will give to him.
¹⁵ And you will remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
¹⁶ And it will be, if he says to you, I will not go out from you, because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you,

¹⁴ You will not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brothers, or of your travelers that are in your land within your gates. ¹⁵ You will give him his hire in his day, neither will the sun go down upon it, for he is poor and sets his heart upon it, lest he cry against you to Jehovah and it is sin to you.

¹⁷ And Samuel said, Though you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And Jehovah anointed you king over Israel.

⁵ Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons as their sons. And behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already. Neither is it in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

⁸ And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers the Jews, who were sold to the nations and would you* even sell your* brothers and should they be sold to us? Then they were silent and found not a word.
⁹ Also I said, The thing that you* do is not good. Ought you* not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

¹⁰ so that they go about naked without clothing and being hungry they carry the sheaves. ¹¹ They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread their winepresses and suffer thirst. ¹² From out of the populous city men groan and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the foolishness.

¹³ If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me, ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

¹² I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted man and justice for the needy.

⁸ If you see the oppression of a poor man and the violent robbery of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. Because a man higher than the high is observing and there are higher men than they.

⁶ I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. you have laid your yoke very heavily upon the aged.

³ Why have we fasted, they say and you do not see? We have afflicted our soul and you take no knowledge. Behold, in the day of your* fast you* find pleasure and exact from all your* laborers. ⁴ Behold, you* fast for strife and contention and to kill* with the fist of wickedness. You* do not fast this day so as to make your* voice to be heard on high.
⁵ Is such the fast that I have chosen, the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and an acceptable day to Jehovah?
⁶ Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke and to let the oppressed go free and that you* break every yoke?

⁶ And he who does not fall down and worship will the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

¹⁵ Now if you* are ready that at what time you* hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, trigon, psaltery and dulcimer and all kinds of music, you* fall down and worship the image which I have made, well. But if you* do not worship, you* will be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is that god who will deliver you* out of my hands?

¹⁹ And because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he wanted, he killed and whom he wanted, he kept alive and whom he wanted, he raised up and whom he wanted, he put down.
²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne. And they took his glory from him,

⁴ Hear this, O you* who would swallow up a needy man and cause the poor of the land to fail, ⁵ saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel great and dealing falsely with balances of deceit, ⁶ that we may buy the poor for silver and a needy man for a pair of shoes and sell the refuse of the wheat?
⁷ Jehovah has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

⁵ And I will come near to you* to judgment and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against the false swearers and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless and who turn aside the traveler and do not fear me, says Jehovah of hosts.

¹² Therefore, all things, as many as you would wish that men should do for you, so do also to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

⁸ Then he says to his bondservants, The wedding is prepared, but those who have been invited were not worthy.

¹⁰ And those bondservants, having gone out into the roads, gathered together all things, as many people as they found, both evil and good and the wedding was filled with people reclining at the table.

⁴⁸ But if that evil bondservant says in his heart, My lord is delaying to come;

⁵¹ and will flog him, and will place his part with the hypocrites–the weeping and the gnashing of teeth will be there.

³¹ And just-as you wish that men may do to you, you also, do likewise to them.

⁴⁵ But if that bondservant says in his heart, my lord delays his coming, and may begin to beat the young-servants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; ⁴⁶ the lord of that bondservant will be coming in a day in which he is not expecting, and in an hour in which he does not know, and will be flogging him and will be placing his part with the unbelieving.

¹³ You address me as the Teacher and, Lord, and you say well; for so I am.

³⁴ Now Peter opened his mouth and said, In truth, I comprehend that God is not one who shows-favoritism

¹¹ for there is no favoritism with God.

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:

⁵ The bondservants, be obedient to your lords according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in clarity of your heart, as to the Christ; ⁶ not according to eye-service, like men-pleasers, but like bondservants of the Christ, practicing the will of God from your soul; ⁷ serving with benevolence to the Lord and not to men.

¹⁰ in order that every knee should bow in the name of Jesus, those from the heavenly and earthly and subterranean places, ¹¹ and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

²⁵ But he who does wrong will get back what he did wrong and there is no favoritism with God.

⁸ Nevertheless, if you complete the royal law, according to the Scripture, ‘You will love your neighbor like yourself,’you are doing well.

¹³ For the judgment is merciless to the one who has not practiced mercy; mercy wins over judgment.

⁴ Behold, the wages of the workers who mowed your farmlands, the wages which have been defrauded by you, are crying out against you and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

³ and will say to them, Hear, O Israel, you* draw near this day to battle against your* enemies. Do not let your* heart faint. Do not fear, nor tremble, neither be you* frightened at them. ⁴ For Jehovah your* God is he who goes with you*, to fight for you* against your* enemies, to save you*.

²³ And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a command and said, Be strong and of good courage, for you will bring the sons of Israel into the land which I swore to them and I will be with you.

⁶ Be strong and of good courage, for you will cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
⁷ Only be strong and very courageous to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Turn not from it, neither to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

⁹ Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage. Do not be frightened, neither be dismayed, for Jehovah your God is with you wherever you go.

¹⁶ And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David into the forest and strengthened his hand in God.

¹⁰ Take heed now, for Jehovah has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.

⁷ But be you* strong and do not let your* hands be slack. For your* work will be rewarded.

³ You answered me in the day that I called. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

³ Strengthen you* the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees. ⁴ Say to those who are of a fearful heart, Be strong, do not fear. Behold, your* God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you*.

²⁸ Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, nor is weary. There is no searching of his understanding.

³¹ But those who wait for Jehovah will renew their strength. They will mount up with pinions like eagles. They will run and not be weary. They will walk and not faint.

⁴ Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says Jehovah and be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest and be strong, all you* people of the land, says Jehovah and work. For I am with you*, says Jehovah of hosts,

⁹ Jehovah of hosts says thus: Let your* hands be strong, you* who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Jehovah of hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.

¹³ And it will happen that, as you* were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you* and you* will be a blessing. Do not fear. Let your* hands be strong.

¹³ Watch. Stand-firm in the faith. Be manly. Be powerful.

⁹ And he has said to me, My grace is enough for you; for my power is completed in weakness. Therefore I will rather gladly be boasting in my weaknesses, in order that the power of the Christ might reside upon me. ¹⁰ Hence I am delighting in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions, in distresses, on behalf of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am mighty.

¹¹ Furthermore brethren: rejoice; be completed; be comforted; be mindful of the same thing; be at peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

¹⁹ and what is the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his strength,

¹⁶ in order that he may give to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be powerful with his power, through his Spirit in the inward man;

¹ Furthermore, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. Indeed, it is not tedious for me to write the same things to you, but a secure thing for you.

⁸ Furthermore brethren, as many things as are true, as many as are honorable, as many as are righteous, as many as are pure, as many as are lovely, as many as have good-repute; if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, reason on these things.

¹³ I am strong in all things in the Christ, who is empowering me.

¹¹ being empowered in all power, according to the dominion of his glory, for all endurance and patience with joy,

¹ You therefore, my child, be empowered in the grace which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁷ But the Lord stood beside me and empowered me; in order that the preaching might be fully assured through me and in order that all the Gentiles might hear and I was rescued out of the mouth of the lion.

⁸ Now to the end, all be like-minded, sympathetic, loving the brethren, affectionate, friendly;

¹⁰ But the God of all grace, who called you to his everlasting glory in Christ Jesus, when you have suffered a small time, he himself may frame you up, will establish, will strengthen and will found you.

²² for there will arise false Christs and false prophets and will be giving signs and wonders to this end, if possible, that they may mislead even the chosen.

²⁹ Lest, when he has laid a foundation and is not strong-enough to complete, all who view it may begin to mock him, ³⁰ saying, This one began to build and was not strong-enough to complete.
³¹ Or what king, while traveling to encounter a different king in war, has not sit down first and plans if he is able at ten-thousand to encounter the one who is coming against him with twenty thousand?

¹² The night has progressed, and the day has drawn near. Therefore, we should place away from ourselves the works of darkness, and should clothe ourselves with the weapons of light.

¹⁴ But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not practice forethought for the lusts of the flesh.

¹³ No temptation has taken you except common human temptations, but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able to undergo, but together with the temptation, he will also make an outlet.

¹¹ in order that we should not be taken-advantage of by the Adversary; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

⁴ in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the illumination of the good-news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn for them.

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,

⁴ For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but are mighty in God, toward the demolition of strongholds,

³ But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted away from the clarity and the purity which is leading to the Christ.

¹³ For such men are false apostles, workers of treachery, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And it is not a marvelous thing; for even the Adversary fashions himself into a messenger of light. ¹⁵ Therefore, it is no great thing if his servants are also fashioned like servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

¹⁴ in order that we may no longer be infants, bobbing on the waves and being carried around in every wind of teaching, in the trickery of men, in craftiness, toward the schemes of error.

²⁴ and to have clothed yourselves with the new man, who was created according to God, in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

¹³ Because of this, take up the full-armor of God, in order that you may be able to stand against the devil in the evil day, and to stand straight, having worked against all things.

¹⁰ and have clothed yourselves with the new man, who is being renewed to the full knowledge according to the image of the one who created him;

⁸ But we, being of the day, should be sober; having clothed yourselves with the breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet-- the hope of salvation.

⁹ even he, whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary in every power and in signs and in lying wonders, ¹⁰ and in all deception of unrighteousness in those who are perishing, because they did not accept the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And because of this, God will be sending them a working of error, that they may believe in the lie;

²⁵ Hence he is also able to completely save those who come to God through him, always living, that he may petition on their behalf.

⁸ Be sober! Watch! Your opponent, the devil, like a roaring lion, is walking around seeking whom he may swallow,

¹ But false prophets happened to be also among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will be smuggling in sects of destruction, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing quick destruction upon themselves. ² And many will be following their unbridled-lusts, because of whom the way of the truth will be blasphemed. \ulnone\nosupersub ³ And in their greed, they will be merchants of you with fabricated words; to whom the condemnation from long-ago is not idle, and their destruction will not be slumbering.

²⁴ Now to the one who is able to guard us from falling and to stand us in the sight of his glory, unblemished in gladness,

²⁴ But I am saying to you and to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as are not holding to this teaching, who did not know the deep things of the Adversary, as they are saying, I am not putting upon you another burden.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast down, the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and the Adversary, the one who is misleading the whole inhabited-earth; he was cast down to the earth and his messengers were cast down with him.

¹¹ And I saw another beast ascending out of the earth, and he was holding two horns similar to a lamb and he was speaking like a dragon. ¹² And he practiced all the authority of the first beast in his sight and was making the earth and those who are dwelling in it in order that they should worship the first beast, whose wound of death was healed. ¹³ And he does great signs, even makes fire in order that it might come down from heaven upon the earth in the sight of men. ¹⁴ And the one who is misleading those of mine who are dwelling upon the earth because of the signs which was given to him to do in the sight of the beast, saying to those who dwell upon the earth to make an image to the beast, who was holding the wound of death from the sword and lived. ¹⁵ And it was given to it to give breath to the image of the beast, in order that the image of the beast should speak and in order that it should make as many as would not worship to the image of the beast in order that they should be killed.

²⁰ And the beast was clutched and with him the false prophet who made the signs in his sight, in which he misled those who had received the mark of the beast and those who are worshiping his image. The two were cast while living into the lake of fire which is burning in brimstone.

² And he took-hold of the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and the Adversary, the one who is misleading the whole inhabited-earth and bound him a thousand years, ³ and cast him into the abyss and locked it and sealed it above him, in order that he may not mislead the nations anymore, till the thousand years might be completed. It is essential for him to be loosed for a little time after these things.

⁷ And whenever the thousand years might be completed, the Adversary will be loosed out of his prison, ⁸ and will be going out to mislead the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together into the war. The number of whom is like the sand of the sea.

² And Jehovah said to Satan, From where did you come? And Satan answered Jehovah and said, From going to and fro on the earth and from walking up and down on it.

¹⁷ And Jesus answered and said to him, You are fortunate, Simon, Son of Jonah, because flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father, the one in the heavens.

²⁴ Struggle to enter in through the narrow gate, because I am saying to you, Many will be seeking to enter in and will not be strong-enough.

⁵³ When I was with you daily in the temple, you did not stretch out your hands against me, but this is your hour and the authority of darkness.

{Mar 14:53 & Mat 26:57 & Luk 22:54a & Joh 18:24 Palace of Caiaphas, before dawn.}

³¹ Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast outside.

³⁰ I will not be speaking much anymore with you, for the ruler of the world is coming and he has nothing in me;

¹¹ and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

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.

³⁸ For I have confidence, that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor present things, nor future things,

²⁵ But everyone who struggles in the race exercises self-control in all things. Therefore indeed, those men do it in order that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we receive an incorruptible crown. \ulnone\nosupersub ²⁶ Now-then, I run so, as not with uncertainty. I am combating so, as not just whipping the air; ²⁷ but I am buffeting my body and enslaving it; lest somehow after having preached to others, I myself might become unapproved.

⁵⁰ Now brethren, I say this, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God; neither is corruption inheriting incorruption.

¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me, in order that I may proclaim the good-news of him among the nations. Immediately, I did not consult with flesh and blood;

³ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is gracious, who has blessed us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

²¹ up above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name that is being named, not only in this age, but also in the future age. \ulnone\nosupersub

² in which you previously walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit which now is working in the sons of disobedience;

¹⁰ in order that now the multifaceted wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places through the congregation of believers. \ulnone\nosupersub

¹³ He rescued us out of the authority of darkness and transplanted us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

¹⁵ having stripped off the principalities and the authorities, he publicly made a show of them, triumphing over them in it.

⁵ And if anyone also contends in the games, he is not crowned, if he has not contended lawfully.

¹ Therefore, since we also have so-great a cloud of witnesses encompassing us, let us run through endurance the contest laying before us, placing away from ourselves every interference, and the easily restricting sin.

⁴ You have not yet stood against this, as far as blood, in your struggle against sin.

²² who is at the right hand of God, having traveled into heaven; with messengers and authorities and powers having been made subject to him.

¹ Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near, when you will say, I have no pleasure in them,

³ You* who put far away the evil day and cause the seat of violence to come near,

² But who can abide the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like launder's soap.

¹³ But those upon the rock are those who, whenever they hear, accept the word with joy, and these have no root, who for a short time believe, and in time of temptation, withdraw.

³⁶ Therefore, watch in every season, beseeching, in order that you might be deemed worthy to flee away from all the things which are about to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words; for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

¹⁶ buying up the time, because the days are evil.

¹¹ Clothe yourselves with the full-armor of God, that you may be able to stand up to the schemes of the devil. ¹² Because the wrestling in us is not with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world dominions of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual ones of wickedness in the heavenly places. \ulnone\nosupersub ¹³ Because of this, take up the full-armor of God, in order that you may be able to stand against the devil in the evil day, and to stand straight, having worked against all things. ¹⁴ Therefore stand, having girded your loins in truth and having clothed yourselves with the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having tied the feet with the readiness of the good-news of peace. ¹⁶ Upon all these things, when you have taken up the shield of the faith, in which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one; \ulnone\nosupersub ¹⁷ also able to accept the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

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.

¹⁷ for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?

⁵ And righteousness will be the belt of his waist and faithfulness the belt of his loins.

¹⁷ And he put on righteousness as a breastplate and a helmet of salvation upon his head. And he put on garments of vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

³⁵ Let your loins be girded, and your lamps burning;

⁹ (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

¹³ Hence when you have girded up the loins of your mind, while being sober, hope completely upon the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

⁹ And they had breastplates, like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses running to war.

¹⁷ And so I saw the horses in the vision and those who sits upon them, having fiery breastplates of hyacinth and of brimstone and the heads of the horses like the heads of lions; and fire and smoke and brimstone is traveling out of their mouths.

²⁵ Your bars will be iron and brass and as your days, so will your strength be.

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

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 Jehovah, the Lord, is my strength. And he makes my feet like female-deers' feet and will make me to walk upon my high places

²² But the father said to his bondservants, Bring out the foremost robe and clothe him, and give him a ring for his hand and shoes for his feet;

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!’

¹⁸ But all things are from God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ and gave the service of reconciliation to us; ¹⁹ as that, God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ not counting to them their trespasses and having placed the word of reconciliation in us. ²⁰ Therefore, we are ambassadors on behalf of Christ; as though God is encouraging you through us. We are beseeching you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. ²¹ For the one who knew no sin, he was made the sin offering on our behalf; in order that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

¹ After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.

³ I am afraid in the day, I will put my trust in you. ⁴ I will praise his word in God. I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

¹⁰ I will praise his word in God. I will praise his word in Jehovah. ¹¹ I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

⁴ Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

¹⁰ The name of Jehovah is a strong tower. A righteous man runs into it and is safe.

²⁴ Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers of your joy; for you are standing in the faith.

¹⁶ Hence we are not depressed, but even if the outward man is decaying, but yet our inward man is renewed day in and day out. ¹⁷ For the momentary light weight of our affliction, is working for us a surpassingly-better everlasting weight of glory; ¹⁸ because we are not noting the things which are seen, but note the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are everlasting.

¹⁹ Do not quench the Spirit.

¹⁷ In which God, planning to show even-more to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable will of his plan, intermediated this with an oath; 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.

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.

⁸ Be sober! Watch! Your opponent, the devil, like a roaring lion, is walking around seeking whom he may swallow, ⁹ to whom, stand against, solid in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are to be completed in the world by your brotherhood.

⁴ Because everyone who has been born from God overcomes the world and this is the victory, our faith, that has overcome the world. ⁵ Who is he who overcomes the world, if not he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁵ And he had a helmet of brass upon his head and he was clad with a coat of mail. And the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.

⁵⁸ And Saul said to him, Whose son are you, young man? And David answered, I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.

² And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hid me in the shadow of his hand and he has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver.

⁵ Therefore I have hewed them by the prophets. I have slain them by the words of my mouth. And your judgments are as the light that goes forth.

⁴ But he answered and said, It has been written, ‘Man will not be living on bread alone, but upon every declaration that travels through the mouth of God!’

⁷ Jesus said to him, Again it has been written, ‘Do not test the Lord, your God.’

¹⁰ Then Jesus says to him, Go behind me, Adversary! For it has been written, ‘You will worship the Lord your God and you will give-divine service to him only.’ ¹¹ Then the devil leaves him, and behold, messengers came and were serving him.


¹² For the word of God is living and effective and sharper beyond that of any two edged sword and is penetrating till the division of both soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow and is a judge of the contemplations and deliberations of the heart.

⁵ And you have forgotten the encouragement which reasons with you as with sons, ‘My son, do not regard-lightly the disciplining of the Lord, nor be fainting when you are reproved by him. ⁶ For whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and scourges every son whom he is accepting.’

⁵ In the manner of life, not being a money-lover, be content with the things which are present; for he himself has said, I may never be lax concerning you, nor should I ever forsake you. ⁶ So-that we, being courageous, may say, The Lord is my helper and I will not be fearing. What will man be doing for me?

¹⁶ And he has in his right hand seven stars and a sharp two edged long-sword traveled out from his mouth and his appearance was as the sun appears in its power.

¹⁶ Therefore repent; otherwise I am coming to you shortly and make war with them with the long-sword of my mouth.

¹¹ And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even to death.

¹⁵ And a sharp two edged long-sword travels out from his mouth, in order that he might strike the nations with it and he will shepherd them with an iron rod and he tramples on the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

²⁴ And Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. ²⁵ And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained as he wrestled with him.
²⁶ And he said, Let me go, because the day breaks. And he said, I will not let you go unless you bless me. ²⁷ And he said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob. ²⁸ And he said, Your name will be called Jacob no more, but Israel, because you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.

⁵² that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.

⁵⁴ And it was so, that, when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to Jehovah, he arose from before the altar of Jehovah, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven.

⁵⁹ And let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Jehovah, be near to Jehovah our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as every day will require,

³ And Jehovah said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there until everlasting. And my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.

⁸ Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther and to declare it to her and to charge her that she should go in to the king to make supplication to him and to make request before him for her people.

¹⁰ Will he delight himself in the Almighty and call upon God at all times?

¹ Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness. You have enlarged me in distress. Have mercy upon me and hear my prayer.

⁹ Jehovah has heard my supplication. Jehovah will receive my prayer.

¹⁶ Jehovah, in trouble they have visited you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was upon them.

¹⁰ And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem) and he knelt upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he did formerly.

²⁰ And while I was speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my supplication before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God,

⁴ Yes, he had strength over the messenger and prevailed, as he wept and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel and there he spoke with us.

¹⁰ And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication. And they will look to me whom they have pierced. And they will mourn for him, as a man mourns for his only son and will be in bitterness for him, as a man who is in bitterness for his firstborn.

²⁵ But she came and worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me.
²⁶ Now he answered and said, It is not good to take the children’s bread and cast it to the puppies.
²⁷ But she said, Yes, Lord; for even the puppies eat from the crumbs which are falling from the table of their lords.
²⁸ Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith. Let it happen for you as you will it. And her daughter was healed from that hour.

⁴¹ Watch and pray, in order that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit is indeed eager, but the flesh is weak.

³³ Beware, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.

³⁸ Watch and pray, in order that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit is indeed eager, but the flesh is weak.

²⁶ from Maath, from Mattathias, from Semein, from Joseph, from Joda,

³⁷ from Methuselah, from Enoch, from Jared, from Mahalaleel, from Cainan,

⁵ And he said to them, Which out of you will have a friend, and will be traveling to him at midnight and may say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves, ⁶ since a friend has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing as to what I will be placing beside him. 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. ⁸ I say to you, Even if he will not rise and will be giving to him because he is his friend, yet because of his irreverence, having arisen, he will be giving him as many as he needs.

¹ Now he also spoke a parable to them, to show that it is essential for them to always pray, and not to be depressed; ² saying: A certain judge was in a certain city, who did not fear God and did not revere man. ³ Now a widow was in that city, and she was coming often to him, saying, Avenge me of my opponent. ⁴ And he did not wish to at that time, but after these things, he said in himself, Even if I do not fear God, and do not revere man; ⁵ yet because this widow is harassing me, I will avenge her, in order that she may not pester me, coming often for an end of her opponent.
⁶ But the Lord said, Hear with understanding what the judge of the unrighteousness says about himself.
⁷ Now, should God not do the avenging of his chosen who are crying to him day and night? Also, should he not have patience upon them?
⁸ I say to you, that he will be doing the avenging on them quickly.
However, when the Son of Man comes, will he then be finding the faith upon the earth?

⁴⁶ and said to them, Why are you sleeping? Rise^*\'b0 up and pray, in order that you may not enter into temptation.

¹⁴ All these men together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and together with his brethren were persevering, united in prayer and supplication.

⁴ But we will be persevering in prayer and in the service of the word.

² a devout man, who feared God together with all his house and doing much charity for the people and always beseeching God.

⁵ Therefore indeed, Peter was being kept in the prison, but intense prayer was happening by the congregation to God on his behalf.

¹⁵ For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the spirit of sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father.

²⁶ Now likewise, the Spirit is also jointly helping our weaknesses; for we do not know what we are praying for, that is according to what is essential for us; but the Spirit himself is petitioning on our behalf with unspeakable groans; ²⁷ and he who is searching the hearts knows what the mindset of the Spirit is, because he is petitioning on behalf of the holy-ones according to the will of God.

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

⁶ And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

¹⁶ am not ceasing giving-thanks on your behalf, making a remembrance of you in my prayers;

²² in whom you are also built together into a residence of God in the Spirit.

⁸ This grace was given to me the least of all the holy-ones, to proclaim the good-news of the untraceable riches of Christ among the Gentiles;

¹⁸ having been rooted and having been founded in love, in order that you may have strength to grab, together with all the holy-ones, of what is the width and length and depth and height,

¹⁹ And pray on my behalf, in order that the word may be given to me, in opening my mouth to make known the mystery of the good-news in boldness,

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

⁶ Be anxious in nothing, but in everything, let your requests be made known to God by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving.

⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the holy-ones,

² Persevere in your prayer, watching in it in thanksgiving;

¹⁷ Pray constantly.

¹ Therefore I am encouraging first of all that supplications, prayers, petitions, thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men,

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.

⁵ hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the holy-ones;

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, has offered up both prayers and supplications with a strong outcry and tears to the one who was able to save him from death and having been heard from his piety.

⁷ But the end of all things has drawn near. Therefore, be sensible and be sober for prayers.

²⁰ But you, beloved, keep building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

⁴ And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, just-as the Spirit was giving to them to speak out.

¹³ Now viewing the boldness of Peter and John, they were marveling, having comprehended that they were illiterate and unskilled men. And they recognized them, that they had been together with Jesus.

²⁹ And hereafter, Lord, look upon their threats and give to your bondservants to speak your word with all boldness,

³¹ And having besought the Lord, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they were speaking the word of God with boldness.

²⁷ But Barnabas grabbed him and led him to the apostles, and described to them how he saw the Lord on the road and that he spoke to him and how in Damascus he spoke boldly in the name of Jesus.

²⁹ And he both was speaking and was debating together with the Grecian Jews, but they were undertaking the task to assassinate him.

⁴⁶ But Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. But since you are thrusting it away from yourselves and are judging yourselves unworthy of everlasting life. Behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

³ Therefore, they indeed stayed a considerable time there, speaking boldly in the Lord, who was testifying to the word of his favor, giving signs and wonders to happen through their hands.

²⁶ And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him over to themselves and expounded to him the way of God more accurately.

⁸ Now having entered into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading as to the things concerning the kingdom of God.

³¹ preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, unforbidden by any.

³⁰ Now brethren, I am encouraging you through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to struggle together with me, and on my behalf in your prayers to God;

⁵ that you were enriched in him in everything, in all speech and all knowledge;

⁷ but we are speaking God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom which has been hidden, which God predetermined before the ages, for our glory.

¹ So let a man count us as attendants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

¹¹ You^\'b0 are also working together on our behalf by your supplication; in order that the gift to us from many faces might be a thanksgiving through many people on our behalf.

¹² Therefore having such a hope, we are using it in much boldness,

⁴ My boldness of speech toward you is much; my boasting on your behalf is much. I have been filled with your encouragement. I over-abound with joy in all our affliction.

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.

⁹ having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his delight which he purposed in him,

³ that he made known the mystery to me according to revelation, just-as I wrote before in few words, ⁴ to which, you are able, by reading it, to perceive my understanding in the mystery of the Christ;

¹⁹ For I know that this will be transpiring for my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, ²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will be shamed in nothing, but as always, now Christ will also be magnified in my body in all boldness, whether through life or through death.

²⁶ the mystery that has been hidden away from the ages and away from the generations, but now it has been manifested to his holy-ones. ²⁷ To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, who is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

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,

³ praying at the same time concerning us also, in order that God may open a door of the word to us, to speak the mystery of the Christ, because of which I have also been bound;

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.

²⁵ Brethren, pray concerning us.

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;

¹⁶ And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness : God was manifested in the flesh, was made righteous in the Spirit, was seen by messengers, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory.

²² But also at the same time, prepare me a lodging. For I am hoping that through your prayers I will be granted to you.

¹⁸ Pray concerning us; for we have confidence that we have a good conscience, wishing to conduct ourselves in a good manner in all things.

² And David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me. So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the sons of Ammon.
³ But the rulers of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Think you that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?
⁴ So Hanun took David's servants and shaved off the one half of their beards and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks and sent them away. ⁵ When they told it to David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Abide at Jericho until your* beards be grown and then return.
⁶ And when the sons of Ammon saw that they stunk to David, the sons of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen and the king of Maacah with a thousand men and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.

¹⁷ A wicked messenger falls into evil, but a faithful ambassador is health.

⁷ Behold, their valiant ones cry outside. The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

¹ Cry aloud, spare not. Lift up your voice like a trumpet and declare to my people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.

⁷ But Jehovah said to me, Do not say, I am a child. For I will send you to whomever; you will go and whatever I will command you; you will speak.
⁸ Do not be afraid because of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says Jehovah.

¹⁷ You therefore gird up your loins and arise and speak to them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.

⁴ And the sons are impudent and stiff hearted.
I send you to them and you will say to them, The Lord says thus Jehovah. ⁵ And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear (for they are a rebellious house), yet will know that there has been a prophet among them.
⁶ And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. ⁷ And you will speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, for they are most rebellious.

²⁷ What I am speaking to you in the darkness, speak in the light, and what you hear in your^\'b0 ear, preach upon the housetops. ²⁸ And do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

²⁹ But Peter and the apostles answered and said, It is essential for us to obey God rather than men.

³³ Now the commander drew near and grabbed him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he might be, and what he is doing.

²⁹ But Paul said, I would pray to God, that both in a few words or in many words, not only you, but also all who hear me today, are to become such: what sort of person I am, except-for these bonds.

²⁰ Therefore, because of this accusation, I pleaded to see and to speak with you; for I am encompassed with this chain because of the hope of Israel.

²⁰ Therefore, we are ambassadors on behalf of Christ; as though God is encouraging you through us. We are beseeching you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

¹ Because of this, I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

¹ Therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, am encouraging you to walk worthily of the calling in which you were called,

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.

¹³ so-that my bonds became apparent in Christ in the whole palace guard and to all the rest; ¹⁴ and that most of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence because of my bonds, are even-more daring to speak fearlessly the word of God.

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will be shamed in nothing, but as always, now Christ will also be magnified in my body in all boldness, whether through life or through death.

⁴ in order that I may manifest it, as it is essential for me to speak.

¹⁶ May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and is not ashamed of my chain;

⁹ in which I am suffering evil treatment, even as far as bonds, like a criminal, but the word of God has not been bound.

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

¹⁶ We have known love in this, because that man laid down his life on our behalf and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brethren.

³ Beloved, making all diligence to write to you concerning our common salvation, I had a necessity to write to you encouraging you to fight earnestly for the faith which was given once for all to the holy-ones.

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.

¹⁷ Because of this, I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will be reminding you of my ways, the ones in Christ, just-as I am teaching everywhere in every congregation.

¹² Now brethren, I am planning for you to know, that the things against me have come rather for the progress of the good-news;

⁷ just-as you also learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow bondservant, who is a faithful servant of the Christ on your behalf,

⁷ Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant, and my fellow bondservant in the Lord will make all things known to you from me; ⁸ whom I have sent to you for this same thing, in order that he might know about the things concerning you and in order that he may comfort your hearts; ⁹ together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one from you. They will be making all things known to you which are done here.

⁶ If you suggest these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of the faith and of the good teaching in which you have followed closely.

¹² But Tychicus I sent to Ephesus.

¹² Whenever I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, be diligent to come to me in Nicopolis; for I have decided to winter there.

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.

¹⁵ And deem the patience of our Lord to be salvation; just-as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom which was given to him;

¹⁹ Now I am hoping in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you shortly, in order that I may also be in good spirits when I know about the things concerning you.

²⁵ But I deemed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your ambassador and minister to my need;

⁷ Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant, and my fellow bondservant in the Lord will make all things known to you from me; ⁸ whom I have sent to you for this same thing, in order that he might know about the things concerning you and in order that he may comfort your hearts;

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;

¹⁷ may comfort your hearts and may establish them in all the word and in good work.

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.

⁶ And thus you* will say to him who lives in prosperity, Peace be to you and peace be to your house and peace be to all that you have.

⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. They will prosper who love you. ⁷ Peace be within your walls and prosperity within your palaces.
⁸ For my brothers and companions' sakes I will now say, Peace be within you. ⁹ For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek your good.

²⁷ I am leaving peace with you. I am giving my peace to you; not like the world gives, I am giving to you. Let your heart not be disturbed, nor let it be cowardly.

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.

³ grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

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

¹⁶ And as many as will be marching by this standard, peace is upon them and mercy and upon the Israel of God.

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;

¹⁶ Now the Lord of peace himself may give you peace always in every manner. The Lord is with all of you.

³ As I encouraged you to remain in Ephesus, when I was traveling into Macedonia, in order that you might command to some not to teach a different teaching,

¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord overwhelmed me with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

⁸ But if anyone is not planning-for his own and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

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.

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

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⁴ John to the seven congregations which are in Asia: grace to you and peace from God who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits that are in the sight of his throne;

¹³ And do not bring us into temptation, but rescue us from the evil one, because yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.

³⁷ Now Jesus said to him, You will love the Lord your God in your whole heart and in your whole soul and in your whole mind.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, as many things as I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the earth.
Amen.

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.

²² If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. The Lord has come! ²³ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with you.

⁸ I do not speak according to commandment, but I am testing the genuineness of your love through the diligence of others.

¹² For if the eagerness lays before you, according to whatever someone has, it is acceptable, not according to what he does not have.

¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, is with all of you.
Amen.

¹⁸ The greeting from me, Paul, with my own hand. Remember my bonds. Grace is with you. Amen.

²² The Lord Jesus Christ, is with your spirit. Grace is with you. Amen.

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

¹⁵ All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in the faith.
Grace is with all of you. Amen.

²⁵ Grace is with all of you. Amen.