Galatians Cross References - MLV

¹ Paul, an apostle, (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him up from the dead), ² and all the brethren who are together with me, to the congregations of Galatia: ³ grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴ who gave himself concerning our sins, that he might liberate us out of the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father: ⁵ the glory is to him, forevermore. Amen.
⁶ I marvel that you are so quickly transferring yourselves from the one who called you by the favor of Christ to a different good-news; ⁷ which is not another good-news, except now there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the good-news of the Christ. ⁸ But even if we or a messenger from heaven, should proclaim to you any good-news contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let him be accursed. ⁹ As we have said before, so now I am saying again, if anyone proclaims to you any good-news contrary to what you received, let him be accursed. ¹⁰ For am I now persuading men or God? Or am I seeking to please men? For if I was still pleasing men, I myself would not be a bondservant of Christ.
¹¹ For I am making known to you, brethren, the good-news which was proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man. ¹² For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹³ For you have heard previously of my conduct in Judaism, how that I was surpassingly persecuting the congregation of believers of God and was making havoc of her; ¹⁴ and how I was progressing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own race, possessing even-more zealousness for the ancestral traditions. ¹⁵ But when God was delighted–he separated me from my mother’s womb, having called me through his grace, 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; ¹⁷ nor did I go up into Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and I returned again into Damascus.
¹⁸ Thereafter, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to make the acquaintance of Peter and remained with him fifteen days.
¹⁹ But I did not see any other of the apostles, except James the Lord’s brother. ²⁰ Now concerning the things which I write to you, behold, in God’s sight, I am not lying. ²¹ Thereafter I came to the districts of Syria and Cilicia. ²² But I was still unrecognized by face to the congregations of Judea, which are in Christ; ²³ but they were only hearing that, He who previously persecuted us is now proclaiming the good-news of the faith of which he was previously making havoc. ²⁴ And they were glorifying God with me.

¹⁸ And Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to me in heaven and upon earth.
¹⁹ When you travel, make disciples of all the nations, immersing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 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.

¹⁹ Therefore, Jesus answered and said to them, Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, The Son is not able to do anything from himself, if he does not see what the Father is doing; for whatever things which he does, the Son is also doing these things likewise.

³⁰ I and the Father are one.

²¹ Therefore Jesus said to them again, Peace to you; just-as the Father has sent me; I am also sending you.

¹⁶ Brethren, it was essential that this Scripture might be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit said beforehand through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who took Jesus, ¹⁷ because he was numbered together with us and was allotted his inheritance in this service.


¹⁸ (Therefore indeed, this one procured a parcel of ground from the reward of his unrighteousness, and he happened to fall-flat and ruptured in the middle and all his bowels were poured out. ¹⁹ And it became known to all the dwellers in Jerusalem; so-that in their own language this place was called Akeldama, that is, The Place of Blood.) ²⁰ For it has been written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation become desolate and do not let there be one dwelling in it’and, ‘Let a different one take his overseership.’ ²¹ Therefore, of those men who have come together with us all the time in which the Lord Jesus entered in and went out among us, ²² having begun from the immersion of John, to the day from which he was received up from us, it is essential one of these is to become a witness together with us of his resurrection. ²³ And they stood up two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus and Matthias. ²⁴ And having prayed, they said, You Lord, knower of the hearts of all, show which one out of these two you have chosen ²⁵ to receive the inheritance of this service and apostleship from which Judas transgressed, so as to travel on to his own place. ²⁶ And they gave them their lots and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was enumerated together with the eleven apostles.

{NOTES: Acts 1:26-2:1- Chapter and verse divisions were added by man. In the original Acts 1:26 & Acts 2:1 are the same sentence. The ‘they’has been disputed by many. Read both Acts 1:26 and Acts 2:1 together without punctuation and decide for yourself. See also Acts 1:5, 2:6.}

²⁴ whom God raised up, having loosed the travails of death, insomuch as it was not possible for him to be held-fast by it. ²⁵ For David says in regard to him, ‘I am seeing the Lord always before my face, in my sight, because he is at my right hand, in order that I might not be shaken. ²⁶ Because of this, my heart was joyous and my tongue was glad. Now my flesh will also reside in hope; ²⁷ because you will not forsake my soul to Hades, neither will you give your Holy One to see decay. ²⁸ You made known to me the ways of life. You will fill me with joy with your countenance.’ ²⁹ Brethren, it is legal for me to speak publicly to you concerning the patriarch David, that he is both dead and was buried and his tomb is among us to this day. ³⁰ Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that from the fruit of his loins, to raise up the Christ according to the flesh to sit upon his throne. ³¹ Foreseeing this, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left to Hades, nor did his flesh see decay. ³² This Jesus, God raised up, of whom we are all witnesses.

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

⁶ And trembling and amazed, he said, What do you wish me to do?
And the Lord said to him, But stand up and enter into the city and it will be spoken to you what it is essential for you to do.

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, Travel on, because this one is a chosen vessel for me to bear my name in the sight of the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel; ¹⁶ for I will be showing him how-much it is essential for him to suffer on behalf of my name.

² Now while ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate^*\'b0 Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them. ³ Then having fasted and prayed and having laid their hands on them, they dismissed them.
⁴ Therefore indeed, these men, having been sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and sailed to Cyprus from there.

¹⁰ But I said, What should I do, Lord?
But the Lord said to me, When you stand up, travel into Damascus, and it will be spoken to you there concerning all things which have been appointed for you to do.

¹⁴ Now he said, The God of our fathers has assigned you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth. ¹⁵ Because you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now, why are you hesitating? When you stand up, be immersed and fully-wash away your sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.
¹⁷ Now it happened to me, having returned to Jerusalem, and in my praying in the temple, I came to be in a trance, ¹⁸ and saw him saying to me, Hurry, and go forth quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not be accepting the testimony from you concerning me.
¹⁹ And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I was imprisoning and whipping them in every synagogue, those who believe on you; ²⁰ and when the blood of Stephen, your witness, was being shed, I was also standing by and was consenting to the his assassination, guarding the garments of those assassinating him.
²¹ And he said to me, Travel on, because I will be sending you forth to the Gentiles who are afar.

¹⁶ But rise up and stand upon your feet; for to this end I have appeared to you, to assign you to be an attendant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which will be seen by you. ¹⁷ I will be liberating you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary to God, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among those who have been made holy in faith, the faith in me.

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Paul, bondservant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good-news of God,

⁴ who has been determined as being the Son of God in power, according to the spirit of holiness, out of the resurrection of the dead), Jesus Christ our Lord. ⁵ Through whom, we received grace and apostleship, into the obedience of the faith in all the nations, on behalf of his name;

²⁴ but also, because of us to whom it is about to be counted, who believe on the one who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, ²⁵ who was given up because of our trespasses and was raised up because of our justification
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⁹ that if you confessed the Lord Jesus in your mouth and if you have believed in your heart that God raised him up from the dead, you will be saved;

⁹ For Christ both died and rose up and lived for this, in order that he might have lordship over both the dead and the living.

¹ Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

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

¹ Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? As if we have no need, as some people, letters of commendation to you or ones of commendation from you? ² You are our letter, having been inscribed in our hearts, being known and read by all men; ³ being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, being served by us, not having been inscribed with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets, in fleshly hearts.

¹¹ For I am making known to you, brethren, the good-news which was proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man. ¹² For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ nor did I go up into Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and I returned again into Damascus.

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,

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;

¹¹ according to the good-news of the glory of the blessed God, to which I was entrusted.
¹² And I have gratitude to the one who empowered me, namely, the Christ, Jesus our Lord, because he deemed me faithful, placing me into his service; ¹³ even though I was a former blasphemer and a persecutor and an insolent man, but I was shown-mercy, because I did it being ignorant in unbelief; ¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord overwhelmed me with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus.

³ But in his own seasons, he manifested his word in the preaching in which I was entrusted, according to the commandment of God our Savior.

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought up the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, from the dead in the blood of an everlasting covenant,

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

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and washed us away from our sins in his blood;

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

⁸ And write to the messenger of the congregation in Smyrna:
The first and the last, who became dead and lived again says these things:

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

⁴¹ Now he was going through Syria and Cilicia, further strengthening the congregations.

⁵ Therefore indeed, the congregations were being strengthened in the faith, and were abounding in number every day.
⁶ Now they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia;

²³ And having spent some time there, he came out and went through the region of Galatia and afterwards Phrygia, further strengthening all the disciples.

¹ Now concerning the collection which is for the holy-ones, just-as I commanded to the congregations of Galatia, so you also, practice such!

²² But you know the trial of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served together with me for the good-news.

²¹ Greet every holy-one in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are together with me greet you.

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.
⁸ First indeed, I am giving-thanks to my God through Jesus Christ on behalf of all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world. ⁹ For God is my witness, to whom I am giving-divine service in my spirit in the good-news of his Son, as I constantly make a remembrance of you. ¹⁰ I beseech God always in my prayers, if somehow now, I will be prospered in the will of God to come to you someday, ¹¹ for I am longing to see you, in order that I may give to you some spiritual gift, that you may be established; ¹² and this is my prayer to be encouraged together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine. ¹³ Now brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant that I often purposed to come to you (and I was prevented till presently), in order that I might also have some fruit among you, just-as among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁴ I am a debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. ¹⁵ So, as in me, I am eager to proclaim the good-news to you also who are in Rome.

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

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

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.

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

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

² to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ who are in Colosse: grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the congregation of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
² grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
³ Grace, mercy, peace will be with us, from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

⁸ I delight to do your will, O my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.

¹⁷ For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.

⁹ Therefore pray thus: our Father, the one in the heavens, let your name be made holy.

²⁸ just-like the Son of Man did not come to be served to, but to serve and to give his life as a redemption in exchange-for many.

²⁸ for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out on behalf of many into the forgiveness of sins.

⁴² Having gone away again a second-time, he prayed, saying, My Father, if this cup is not able to pass from me, if I do not drink it–let your will happen.

⁴⁵ For the Son of Man also did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a redemption in exchange-for many.

¹⁹ And he took bread and having given-thanks, he broke it and gave to them, saying, This is my body which is given on your behalf. Practice this in my remembrance.

⁴² saying, Father, if you are willing to carry this cup away from me, however not my will, but let yours happen.

³⁰ I am able to do nothing of myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

³⁸ Because I have come down from heaven, not in order that I should do my own will, but do the will of the one who sent me.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life on behalf of the sheep.

¹⁷ Because of this, the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, in order that I may again take it. ¹⁸ No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down out of myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it up again. I received this commandment from my Father.

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; ³¹ but in order that the world may know that I love the Father and just-as the Father commanded me, thus I am doing.
Arise, we should go from here.

¹⁸ If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me first, then you. ¹⁹ If you were from the world, the world would love its own, but because you are not from the world, but I chose you out of the world, the world is hating you because of this.

¹⁴ I have given them your word, and the world hated them, because they are not from the world, just-as I am not from the world.
¹⁵ I am not requesting that you should take them from the world, but in order that you should keep them from the evil one.

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.

²⁵ who was given up because of our trespasses and was raised up because of our justification
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³ For the law being powerless, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh;

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.

³² Yet, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all, how will he not also be granting to us all things together with him?

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.

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.

²⁰ I have been crucified together with Christ. I am now no longer living, but Christ is living in me and that life which I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith, the faith which is of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up on my behalf.

¹⁴ But let it not happen for me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.

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,

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.

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;

² and walk in love, just-as the Christ also loved us and gave himself up on our behalf as an offering and a sacrifice to God for an aroma of a sweet-fragrance.

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

²⁰ Now to our God and Father is the glory forevermore. Amen.

¹¹ Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus Christ, steer our way toward you.

¹³ that he might establish your hearts, blameless in holiness before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his holy-ones.

¹⁶ Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God and Father who loved us and gave us everlasting encouragement and good hope in his grace,

⁶ who gave himself as a ransom on behalf of all; the testimony given in its own times;

¹⁴ who gave himself on our behalf, in order that he might redeem us away from all lawlessness and might cleanse a treasured people for himself, zealous of good works.

⁵ For he did not subject the future inhabited-earth to messengers, concerning what we are speaking.

⁵ and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the future world

¹⁴ how much more the blood of Christ, (who through the everlasting Spirit offered himself unblemished to God), will be cleansing your conscience from dead works, that you may give-divine service to the living God.

⁴ For it is impossible that the blood of oxen and male-goats should take away sins. ⁵ Hence when he enters into the world, he says, ‘You did not wish to have sacrifice and offering, but you, yourself, completed a body for me. ⁶ You were not delighted in whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices concerning sin. ⁷ Then I said, (as it has been written concerning me in the volume of the book), Behold, I am coming to do your will, O God.’ ⁸ After saying this above, You do not wish, nor were you delighted in sacrifice and offering and whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices concerning sin, (which are offered according to the law), ⁹ then he has said, ‘Behold, I am coming to do your will, O God.’He assassinates
the first covenant, in order that he should establish the second covenant, ¹⁰ in which will, we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wills to be a friend of the world is designated as an enemy of God.

²⁴ who, himself, carried our sins in his body upon the tree, in order that we might live to righteousness, having died to our sins; by whose wound s you were healed.

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

² And he is the atonement concerning our sins, but not concerning ours only, but also concerning the whole world.

¹⁵ Do not love the world, nor the things which are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ Because all the things which are in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the self-importance of life, are not from the Father, but are from the world. ¹⁷ And the world is passing away and its lust, but he who is practicing the will of God abides forever.

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.

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?

¹⁹ We know that we are from God and the whole world lays in the evil one. ²⁰ Now we know that the Son of God has come and has given us perception, in order that we might know the true one and we are in the true one, that is, in his son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and the everlasting life.

⁹ And they are singing a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, because you were slaughtered and bought us in your blood for God out of every tribe and language and people and nation.

⁹ I saw and behold after these things, a large crowd, which no one was able to number, out of every nation and tribes and peoples and languages, standing in the sight of the throne and in the sight of the Lamb, having been dressed in white robes and palm trees in their hands;

¹³ Now therefore, our God, we thank you and praise your glorious name.

¹³ Praise Jehovah, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. Truly and Truly.

¹⁹ And praise his glorious name everlasting. And let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Truly and Truly.

¹⁵ Therefore glorify you* Jehovah in the east, even the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.

¹² Let them give glory to Jehovah and declare his praise in the islands.

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.

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.

¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and peace upon earth, in men–delight.

³⁶ It is because all things are from him and through him and to him. The glory is for him, forever. Amen.

²⁷ (14:26) to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, in whom is the glory is forever. Amen.

¹² That we should be for the praise of his glory, we who have hoped before in the Christ,

¹⁷ Now to the King of the ages, incorruptible, invisible, the only wise God, is honor and glory forevermore. Amen.

¹⁸ The Lord will be rescuing me from every evil work and will save me for his heavenly kingdom: in whom is the glory, forevermore. Amen.

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.

¹¹ The glory and the dominion is to him, forevermore. Amen.

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

²⁵ to the only wise God our Savior, is the glory and majesty, dominion and authority, both now and forever. Amen.

{Footnotes: Jude 1:14, or: with tens of thousands of his holy-ones; or: with his holy tens of thousands.}

⁹ And whenever the living creatures gave glory and honor and thanks to the one who is sitting upon the throne, to the one who lives forevermore, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders will fall down in his sight who is sitting upon the throne and will be worshiping the one who lives forevermore and will put their crowns in the sight of the throne, saying, ¹¹ Worthy are you, our Lord and our God, the holy one, to receive the glory and the honor and the power because you created all things and because they are your will and they were created.

¹² saying in a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb who has been slaughtered to receive the power and the riches, and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and thanks.

¹² saying, Assuredly, the thanks and the glory and the wisdom and the thanksgiving and the honor and the power and the strength is to our God, forevermore. Amen.

⁷ and he says in a loud voice, Fear the Lord and give glory to him, because the hour of his judgment has come and worship the one who made the heaven and the earth and sea and springs of waters.

¹³ They soon forgot his works. They did not wait for his counsel,

¹³ And the Lord said, Inasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, but in vain they worship me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.

¹² Be astonished, O you* heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be you* very desolate, says Jehovah. ¹³ For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

⁶ And he was marveling because of their unbelief.

And he was going around the villages in a circle, teaching.

³⁰ The man answered and said to them, For a marvelous thing is in this, because you do not know where he is from and yet he opened my eyes.

¹¹ But we believe that we will be saved through the favor of the Lord Jesus, according to what is in the same manner as they are also.

² through whom we also have had our access to this grace in the faith in which we are standing, and we are boasting in hope of the glory of God.

³ For being ignorant of God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

¹⁵ For even if you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, but you do not have many fathers, for I fathered you in Christ Jesus through the good-news.

⁴ For if he who indeed comes, is preaching a another Jesus, whom we did not preach or if you accept a different spirit, which you did not receive or a different good-news, which you did not accept, you were tolerating him well. \ulnone\nosupersub

¹ O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you that the truth is not to be obeyed, (in whose eyes, Jesus Christ was portrayed among you as having been crucified)? ² I only wish to learn this thing from you. Did you receive the Spirit from the works of the law or from the report of faith? ³ Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being completed in the flesh? ⁴ You suffered vainly so-many things? If actually it was even vainly. ⁵ Therefore, is the one supplying the Spirit to you, and working miracles among you, are they from the works of the law or from the report of faith?

⁹ But now having known God, but rather having been known by God, how are you turning back again to the weak and poor fundamental principles? Do you again wish to be enslaved to these anew? ¹⁰ You yourselves observe days and months and seasons and years. ¹¹ I fear for you, lest somehow I have vainly labored toward you.
¹² Brethren, I beseech of you, become like I am, because I have also become like you are. You wronged me in nothing; ¹³ but you know that I myself proclaimed the good-news to you beforehand because of a weakness of the flesh. ¹⁴ And you did not scorn, nor spurn my test, which was in my flesh; but you accepted me as a messenger of God, even as Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Therefore what was your good-fortune? For I testify of you, that, if possible, you would have given your eyes to me, having popped them out.

⁴ You have been done-away-with, cut off from the Christ, you who are made righteous by the law; you have fallen from the grace of God. \ulnone\nosupersub

⁷ You were running well; who hindered you, saying, The truth is not to be obeyed? ⁸ This persuasion is not from the one who is calling you.

¹⁴ to which he called you through our good-news, for the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

⁹ who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times everlasting,

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

¹⁵ but according to he who called you, who is holy, you yourselves also become holy in all your conduct;

³ As his divine power has been bestowed to us as a gift, (all things pertaining to life and godliness), through the full knowledge of the one who called us through glory and virtue;

²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with all the holy-ones. Amen.

²⁶ How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

²⁴ For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will be giving great signs and wonders; so-then to mislead, if possible, even the chosen.

¹⁰ and said, O full of all treachery and all villainy, you son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

¹ And some, came down from Judea, were teaching the brethren, saying, If you are not circumcised after the custom of Moses, you are unable to be saved. ² Therefore, when it happened, (not just a small dissension and debate by Paul and Barnabas with them), the brethren appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others out of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this debate.
³ Therefore indeed, being sent onward by the congregation, they were going through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the turning to God of the Gentiles, and they were producing great joy in all the brethren. ⁴ Now when they came to Jerusalem, they were accepted by the congregation, and the apostles and the elders, and they reported how-much God did with them. ⁵ But there rose up some of the sect of the Pharisees who have believed, saying, It is essential to circumcise them and to command them to keep the Law of Moses.

²⁴ Since we have heard that some who went out from us have disturbed you with words, upsetting your souls; saying you must be circumcised and to keep the law, to whom we ordered no such thing;

³⁰ and men will be standing up from among yourselves, speaking perverse things, to pull away the disciples after themselves.

¹⁷ Now brethren, I am encouraging you, to note those making the dissensions and the offenses contrary to the teaching which you learned and are practicing, and shun away from them. ¹⁸ For such are not serving our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and they are deceiving the hearts of the guiltless through their smooth-talk and blessings.

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

² But we ourselves have scoffed at the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in God’s sight.

¹³ For such men are false apostles, workers of treachery, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.

⁴ But it was because of false brethren who were smuggled in, who entered in beside us to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they might enslave us;

¹⁷ They are zealous for you in no good way. But they wish to lock you out from us, in order that you may be zealous for them.

¹⁰ I have confidence in you in the Lord, that you will not be mindful of another person and he who is disturbing you will be bearing his judgment, whoever he is.

¹² I wish-that those who are unsettling you will even castrate themselves.

¹² As many as wish to have a good countenance in the flesh, these are urging you to be circumcised; only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of the Christ. ¹³ For not even those who have been circumcised themselves observe the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, in order that they may boast in your flesh.

¹⁷ Furthermore let no one be harassing me, for I bear the brands of the Lord Jesus on my body.

¹ But the Spirit expressly says, In later times some will be withdrawing from the faith, taking-heed to misleading spirits and teachings of demons, ² through the hypocrisy from the speakers of lies, having been branded in their own conscience; ³ forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from foods, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the believing and those who have fully known the truth,

¹⁸ They have deviated concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has happened already and are perverting the faith of some.

⁸ Now in the manner that Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses so also, are these standing against the truth. Men having been utterly corrupted in their mind, unapproved concerning the faith. ⁹ But they will be progressing no more-than this. For their mindlessness will be obvious to all people, as that of those men also became.

³ For the time will be coming when they will not be tolerating the sound teaching, but having itchy ears, they will be piling up for themselves teachers according to their own lusts; ⁴ and will indeed turn their ears away from the truth and their ears will be turned aside to fables.

¹⁰ For there are many even rebellious men, empty-talkers and deceivers, especially those out of the circumcision, ¹¹ whom it is essential to gag; men who are perverting whole houses, teaching things which they ought not teach, because of shameful gain.

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.

¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour and just-as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have become known; hence we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out away from us, but they were not from us; for if they had been from us, they would have remained with us, but they went out, in order that they might be made manifest that all of them are not from us.

²⁶ I have written to you these things concerning those who are misleading you.

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

⁷ Because many misleaders have entered into the world, those who are not confessing Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the misleader and the antichrist.

¹⁰ If anyone is coming to you and is not bringing this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not say hello to him;

⁴ For some men sneaked in among you, those who have been written about, from long-ago for this condemnation of the ungodly, those who are transferring the grace of our God into unbridled-lusts and denying our only Master, God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

² I know your works and your labor and endurance and that you are not able to bear evil men and you tested those who are saying about themselves, They are apostles and are not and you have found them false;

⁶ But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have there some holding-fast the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast an offense in the sight the sons of Israel, even to eat idol-sacrifices and to fornicate. ¹⁵ So you also have some holding-fast the similar teaching of the Nicolaitans.

²⁰ But I have this against you, that you are allowing your woman Jezebel, she who calls herself a prophetess, and she who is teaching and misleading my bondservants to fornicate and to eat idol-sacrifices.

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.

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.

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.

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.

²⁵ And he said, Cursed be Canaan. He will be a servant to his brothers.

¹⁵ Cursed be the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to Jehovah, the work of the hands of the craftsman and sets it up in secret. And all the people will answer and say, Truly.
¹⁶ Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people will say, Truly.
¹⁷ Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people will say, Truly.
¹⁸ Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people will say, Truly.
¹⁹ Cursed be he who distorts the justice to the traveler, fatherless and widow. And all the people will say, Truly.
²⁰ Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people will say, Truly.
²¹ Cursed be he who lies with any manner of beast. And all the people will say, Truly.
²² Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people will say, Truly.
²³ Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. And all the people will say, Truly.
²⁴ Cursed be he who slays his neighbor in secret. And all the people will say, Truly.
²⁵ Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent man. And all the people will say, Truly.
²⁶ Cursed is every man who does not continue in all things written in the book of the law, to do them. And all the people will say, Truly.

²³ Now therefore you* are cursed and there will never fail to be bondmen of you*, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

¹⁹ Now therefore, I beseech you, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is Jehovah who has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering, but if it is the sons of men, cursed be they before Jehovah. For they have driven me out this day that I should not cling to the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.

²⁵ And I contended with them and cursed them and killed* certain of them and plucked off their hair and made them swear by God, saying, You* will not give your* daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your* sons, or for yourselves.

⁴¹ Then he will also say to them at the left, Travel away from me, you those who have been cursed into the everlasting fire which has been prepared for the devil and his messengers:

⁷¹ But he began to curse and swear, I do not know this man of whom you speak.

¹⁴ who came to the high-priests and the elders and said, We have vowed to be accursed, to taste nothing until we should have killed Paul.

³ For I was praying for myself to be accursed from the Christ on behalf of my brethren, my relatives according to the flesh,

³ Hence I make known to you, that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed, and no one is able to say, Jesus is Lord, except in the Holy Spirit.

²² If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. The Lord has come!

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.

⁹ As we have said before, so now I am saying again, if anyone proclaims to you any good-news contrary to what you received, let him be accursed.

¹⁰ For as many as are from the works of the law are under a curse; for it has been written, ‘Cursed is everyone who is not remaining in all things which have been written in the book of the law, and to practice them.’

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

¹⁹ holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away, are shipwrecked concerning the faith; ²⁰ of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I gave to the Adversary, in order that they might be disciplined not to blaspheme.

¹⁰ Renounce a sectarian man after a first and second admonition;

¹⁴ having eyes full of an adulteress and an unceasing sin; enticing unstable souls; having a heart which has been exercised from greed; children of the curse;

¹⁸ I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone should add onto them, God might add onto him the wounds which have been written in this book. ¹⁹ And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God takes away his part from the Tree of Life and out of the holy city, which have been written in this book.

² You* will not add to the word which I command you*, neither will you* diminish from it, that you* may keep the commandments of Jehovah your* God which I command you*.

³² Whatever thing I command you*, that will you* observe to do. You will not add to it, nor diminish from it.

⁶ Do not add to his words, lest he reprove you and you are found a liar.

¹⁷ Now brethren, I am encouraging you, to note those making the dissensions and the offenses contrary to the teaching which you learned and are practicing, and shun away from them.

¹⁷ Therefore while planning this certain thing, I did not consequently use fickleness, did I? Or what I plan, do I plan those things according to the flesh, in order that there should be from me the yes, yes and the no, no?

¹ This will be the third-time I am coming to you. (Upon the mouth of two or three witnesses every declaration will be established.) ² I have spoken to you beforehand and I do say again like beforehand, being present the second-time and so being absent now, I am writing to warn those who have sinned before and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not be sparing them,

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.

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, Rejoice.

⁷ Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Jehovah. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the foremost of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

¹⁶ And they send their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God in truth, and do not care concerning anyone’s appearance; for you do not look at the countenance of men.

¹⁴ And if this is heard by the governor, we will be persuading him and will be making you carefree.

¹⁹ But Peter and John answered and said to them, Judge for yourselves if it is righteous in God’s sight to listen to you rather than to God. ²⁰ For we are not able to speak, but the things which we saw and heard.

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

²⁰ Now Herod was quarreling furiously with those from Tyre and Sidon. But they were united here with him, and having persuaded Blastus, the one over the king’s bedroom, they were asking for peace, because their region is nourished from the king’s region.

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,

²⁹ but he is a Jew in the hidden thing, and the circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in the writing; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

¹ Now we, the able, ought to bear the weaknesses of the powerless and not to please ourselves. ² Let each of us please his neighbor for what is the good thing toward building him up.

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

⁹ Hence we also make it our aim to be well pleasing to him, whether at home, or away from home. 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.
¹¹ Therefore knowing the fear of the Lord, we are persuading men, but we have been manifested to God, and I hope to have also been manifested in your consciences.

¹⁹ Again, do you think that we are defending ourselves to you? We speak in Christ in God’s sight. But beloved, all things are on behalf of your building up.

⁶ not according to eye-service, like men-pleasers, but like bondservants of the Christ, practicing the will of God from your soul;

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.

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.

⁹ Everyone who has been born from God does not practice sin, because his seed abides in him and he is not able to practice sin, because he has been born from God.

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

⁹ but as it has been written, ‘Things which the eye did not see and the ear did not hear and things which did not come up in the heart of man, which God prepared for those who love him.’
¹⁰ But God revealed them to us through his Spirit; for the Spirit is searching all things, even the depths of God.

²³ For I received from the Lord what I also gave to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was being given up, took bread;

¹ Now I make known to you brethren, the good-news which I proclaimed to you, which you also received, in which you are also standing, ² through which you are also saved, if you are holding-onto the good-news of the word which I proclaimed to you–unless you vainly believed. ³ For I gave to you first, what I also received: that Christ died on behalf of our sins according to the Scriptures;

¹ Paul, an apostle, (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him up from the dead),

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; ⁵ which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations, as it now was revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit. ⁶ The mystery is that the Gentiles are to be joint heirs and a joint body and joint partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good-news, ⁷ of which I became a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power. 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;

¹⁰ But God revealed them to us through his Spirit; for the Spirit is searching all things, even the depths of God.

¹ It is not advantageous for me to boast! For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

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;

¹ Now Saul was consenting to the assassination of him.
Now there became a great persecution in that day upon the congregation which was in Jerusalem, and they were all dispersed throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

³ Now Saul was devastating the congregation of believers, traveling into every house and dragging men and women away, he was giving them up to prison.

{37 AD. Samaria. Tiberius Caesar dies March 16. Caligula attempts to put his statue in the Temple.}

¹ But Saul, still breathing threatening and murder toward the disciples of the Lord, having come to the high-priest, ² asked from him letters for Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found some who were of the Way, both men and women, having been bound, he might lead them to Jerusalem.

¹³ But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many concerning this man and how-much evil he did to your holy-ones in Jerusalem, ¹⁴ and he has authority from the high-priests here to bind all who are calling upon your name.

²¹ Now all who heard him were being astonished and were saying, Is this not the one who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who are calling upon this name? And he has come here for this purpose, in order that he might lead them who have been bound in front of the high-priests.

²⁶ Now when he came into Jerusalem, he was attempting to be joined to the disciples, and all were fearing him, not believing that he is a disciple.

³ I Indeed am a Jew, and having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been reared in this city beside the feet of Gamaliel, having been educated according to the exactness of the Law of our forefathers, being a zealous one of God, just-as you all are today; ⁴ and I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and giving into prisons both men and women. ⁵ As also the high-priest and all the eldership can testify of me; from whom I also accepted letters to the brethren, and I was traveling to Damascus and would be leading also the ones there who were bound to Jerusalem in order that they might be punished.

⁴ Therefore my lifestyle indeed which happened from my youth up, from the beginning in my own nation and in Jerusalem, all the Jews know this. ⁵ If they are willing to testify, (knowing me beforehand, from the start), that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our religion.

⁹ Therefore I indeed thought in myself, that I ought to do many things adverse to the name of Jesus the Nazarene. ¹⁰ I also did this in Jerusalem, and I locked up many of the holy-ones in prisons, having received authority from the high-priests, and when they were assassinated, I brought my voting-pebble against them. ¹¹ And punishing them often throughout all the synagogues, I was urging them to blaspheme, and being exceptionally enraged with them, I was persecuting them, insofar as possible, even to the cities outside our nation.

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who is not sufficient to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the congregation^* of believers of God.

⁶ according to zeal, I was persecuting the congregation of believers; according to the righteousness in the law, I became blameless.

¹³ even though I was a former blasphemer and a persecutor and an insolent man, but I was shown-mercy, because I did it being ignorant in unbelief;

¹² I will declare your righteousness. And as for your works, they will not profit you.

¹⁴ but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.

² And it will happen, when they say to you, Where will we go forth? Then you will tell them, Jehovah says thus: Such as are for death, to death and such as are for the sword, to the sword and such as are for the famine, to the famine and such as are for captivity, to captivity.

² Why are your disciples transgressing the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread.
³ But he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?

⁶ and then should never honor his father and mother, and thus you invalidated the commandment of God because of your tradition.

³ For the Pharisees and all the Jews, if they do not wash their hands scrubbing with the fist, do not eat, holding-fast the tradition of the elders; ⁴ and when coming from the marketplace, they do not eat if they do not immerse of cups and pint pitchers and brass kettles and cots. ⁵ Thereafter, the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why are your disciples not walking according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?
⁶ But he answered and said to them, Isaiah did prophesy well concerning you hypocrites, as it has been written, ‘This people are honoring me with their lips, but their heart is faraway from me. ⁷ But they are worshiping me in futility, teaching as their teachings–the commandments of men.’ ⁸ For while leaving the commandment of God, you are holding-fast the tradition of men, like immersions of pint pitchers and cups, and you practice many other such similar things.
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.

³ I Indeed am a Jew, and having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been reared in this city beside the feet of Gamaliel, having been educated according to the exactness of the Law of our forefathers, being a zealous one of God, just-as you all are today;

⁵ If they are willing to testify, (knowing me beforehand, from the start), that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our religion.

⁹ Therefore I indeed thought in myself, that I ought to do many things adverse to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

⁴ although I myself might have confidence in the flesh; if some other is thinking to have confidence in the flesh, I yet even more. ⁵ I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew out of Hebrews; according to the law, a Pharisee; ⁶ according to zeal, I was persecuting the congregation of believers; according to the righteousness in the law, I became blameless.

⁸ Beware, that there will not be anyone there who is leading you away as his prey through philosophy and vain deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the fundamental principles of the world, and not according to Christ,

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

⁷ Jehovah did not set his love upon you*, nor choose you*, because you* were more in number than any people, for you* were the fewest of all peoples, ⁸ but because Jehovah loves you*. And because he would keep the oath which he swore to your* fathers, Jehovah has brought you* out with a mighty hand and redeemed you* out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt.

²² For Jehovah will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Jehovah to make you* a people to himself.

⁴ However Jehovah, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel everlasting. For he has chosen Judah to be ruler and in the house of Judah, the house of my father and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
⁵ And of all my sons (for Jehovah has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah over Israel.

¹ Listen, O isles, to me and listen, you* peoples from far. Jehovah has called me from the womb. From the guts of my mother he has made mention of my name.

⁵ And now says Jehovah who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Jehovah and my God has become my strength),

⁵ Before I formed you in the belly I knew you and before you came forth out of the womb I made you holy. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.

²⁶ Yes, Father, because thus it became a delight before you.

¹⁵ For he will be great in the Lord’s sight, and he may never drink wine or liquor, and he will be filled more with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb. ¹⁶ And he will be turning many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God.

²¹ Jesus was glad in the spirit in that same hour, and said, I profess you, O Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, because you hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to infants. Yes Father, because thus it became a delight before you.

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, Travel on, because this one is a chosen vessel for me to bear my name in the sight of the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;

² Now while ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate^*\'b0 Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.

¹⁴ Now he said, The God of our fathers has assigned you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth. ¹⁵ Because you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

⁵ Through whom, we received grace and apostleship, into the obedience of the faith in all the nations, on behalf of his name;

³⁰ and whom he predetermined, he also invited these and whom he invited, he also made these righteous and whom he made righteous, he also glorified these.

²⁴ whom he also invited, not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

⁹ God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

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

¹⁰ But I am what I am by the grace of God and his grace toward me has not become empty, but I labored even-more than they all did; but not I, but the grace of God which was together with me.

⁶ I marvel that you are so quickly transferring yourselves from the one who called you by the favor of Christ to a different good-news;

⁵ Having predetermined us to the sonship through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the delight of his will,

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

¹¹ This was according to the everlasting purpose which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord;

¹³ But we ought to thank God always concerning you brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God himself selected you from the beginning to salvation in holiness of the Spirit and in faith of the truth; ¹⁴ to which he called you through our good-news, for the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

⁹ who said of his father and of his mother, I have not seen him, neither did he acknowledge his brothers, nor knew he his own sons, for they have observed your word and keep your covenant.

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.

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

²³ Now he said to all, If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and lift up his cross and follow me. ²⁴ For whoever wishes to save his life will be losing it, but whoever loses his life because of me, this one will be saving it. ²⁵ For what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, but has lost or forfeited himself?

⁵⁹ But he said to a different one, Follow me.
But he said, Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.
⁶⁰ But Jesus said to him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but while you are going, thoroughly proclaim the kingdom of God.
⁶¹ But a different one also said, I will be following you, Lord, but permit me first to bid farewell to those who are in my house.
⁶² But Jesus said to him, No one, having put his hand upon the plow and looking behind, is fit for the kingdom of God.

²¹ And he said to me, Travel on, because I will be sending you forth to the Gentiles who are afar.

¹⁷ I will be liberating you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary to God, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among those who have been made holy in faith, the faith in me.
¹⁹ Hence, O King Agrippa, I did not become disobedient to the heavenly vision. ²⁰ But I was proclaiming first to them in Damascus, and in Jerusalem, and then to all the region of Judea and to the Gentiles, to repent and to turn to God, practicing works worthy of repentance.

¹³ Now brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant that I often purposed to come to you (and I was prevented till presently), in order that I might also have some fruit among you, just-as among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁴ I am a debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

¹³ For I speak to you who are Gentiles, inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my service;

¹⁶ that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, having done the sacred work of the good-news of God, in order that the offering up of the Gentiles might become acceptable, having been made holy in the Holy Spirit.
¹⁷ Therefore, I have my boasting in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to God. ¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of anything of the things which Christ did not work through me, except for the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and works, ¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So-then, I have fulfilled the good-news of the Christ from Jerusalem and in a circle, as far as Illyricum.

⁹ but as it has been written, ‘Things which the eye did not see and the ear did not hear and things which did not come up in the heart of man, which God prepared for those who love him.’
¹⁰ But God revealed them to us through his Spirit; for the Spirit is searching all things, even the depths of God. ¹¹ For who from men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? So also, no one knows the things of God, except the Spirit of God. ¹² But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God; in order that we might know the things which were granted to us by God. ¹³ We also speak these things, not in the taught things from mankind, in words of wisdom, but in the taught things from the Holy Spirit; combining together with spiritual words of wisdom, spiritual things.

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

⁶ Because it is God, who said, ‘Illumination shine’out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ So-then from hereafter we know no one according to the flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, but now we know him as such no more.

¹ Thereafter, I went up again to Jerusalem after fourteen years with Barnabas, also taking Titus together with me.

⁶ Now they did not contribute anything to me, that is from those of repute and from those reputed to be something (what sort of person they were previously, carries nothing of any-value to me; God does not accept the countenance of man). ⁷ But instead, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the good-news of the uncircumcision, just-as Peter that of the circumcision ⁸ (for he who worked in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision also worked in me to the Gentiles). ⁹ And having known the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, (those reputed to be pillars), gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that indeed we should go to the Gentiles but they should go to the circumcision,

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,

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

⁵ which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations, as it now was revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit. ⁶ The mystery is that the Gentiles are to be joint heirs and a joint body and joint partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good-news, ⁷ of which I became a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power. 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; ⁹ and to enlighten all with what the stewardship of the mystery is, of which has been hidden from the ages, in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; 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

²⁵ of which I became a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God, 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.

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

⁷ to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle, (I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying), and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

¹¹ to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles.

¹⁴ Therefore since the children have shared of flesh and blood, in like-manner he partook of the same; in order that through death, he might do-away-with the one who had the dominion of death, this is the devil;

²⁰ And immediately in the synagogues he was preaching the Christ, that he is the Son of God. ²¹ Now all who heard him were being astonished and were saying, Is this not the one who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who are calling upon this name? And he has come here for this purpose, in order that he might lead them who have been bound in front of the high-priests. ²² But Saul was being empowered more and was confusing the Jews who are dwelling in Damascus, lecturing that this Jesus is the Christ.
²³ Now as a considerable number of days were being fulfilled, the Jews planned together to assassinate him; ²⁴ but their pact became known to Saul. And they were guarding the gates both day and night that they might assassinate him. ²⁵ But the disciples took him by night and dropped him down through the wall, having lowered him in a basket.

{37-39 AD. Arabia. Saul’s retirement. Gal 1:17-18. AD dates vary due to many not putting this in the chronology.}

³² In Damascus the Ethnarch of Aretas, the king, was guarding the Damascenes’city, wishing to arrest me; ³³ and I was lowered through a window in a hamper and through the wall and fled away from his hands.

¹⁸ Thereafter, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to make the acquaintance of Peter and remained with him fifteen days.

²² But Saul was being empowered more and was confusing the Jews who are dwelling in Damascus, lecturing that this Jesus is the Christ.
²³ Now as a considerable number of days were being fulfilled, the Jews planned together to assassinate him;

²⁶ Now when he came into Jerusalem, he was attempting to be joined to the disciples, and all were fearing him, not believing that he is a disciple. 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. ²⁸ And as he was traveling into Jerusalem with them, he was speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. ²⁹ And he both was speaking and was debating together with the Grecian Jews, but they were undertaking the task to assassinate him.

¹⁷ Now it happened to me, having returned to Jerusalem, and in my praying in the temple, I came to be in a trance, ¹⁸ and saw him saying to me, Hurry, and go forth quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not be accepting the testimony from you concerning me.

³ Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus and Lebbaeus who was surnamed Thaddaeus;

⁴⁶ But while he is still speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and his brethren stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

⁵⁵ Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is his mother not called Mary? And his brethren, James and Joses and Simon and Jude?

¹⁸ and Andrew and Philip and Bartholomew and Matthew and Thomas and James the son of Alphaeus and Thaddaeus and Simon the Canaanite,

³ Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Jude and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they were being offended at him.

¹⁵ and Matthew and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus and Simon who was called the Zealot,

¹³ And having entered, they went up into the upstairs-room, where they were remaining; both Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James
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¹⁷ But he, having beckoned to them with the hand to be silent, described to them how the Lord had led him out of the prison. Now he said, Report these things to James and to the brethren. And having gone out, he traveled to a different place.

⁵ Have we no authority to lead around a wife, (a sister in the Lord), even as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?

¹ James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes, those who are in the dispersion. Hail to you!

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

¹ I say the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience is testifying together with me in the Holy Spirit,

¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, that this boasting will not be sealed up in me in the districts of Achaia. ¹¹ Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do.

³¹ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is gracious forever, knows that I am not lying.

⁹ But there stood up some of those who were of the synagogue called the Synagogue of the Freedmen both those from Cyrene and from Alexandria, and those from Cilicia and Asia, debating together with Stephen.

³⁰ Now when the brethren fully knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him forth to Tarsus.

²⁵ Now Barnabas went forth to Tarsus to seek Saul; ²⁶ and having found him, he led him to Antioch. Now it happened, they were gathered together with him in the congregation a whole year and he taught a considerable crowd, and the disciples were first divinely-called Christians, in Antioch.

¹ Now there were some prophets and teachers in the congregation which was in Antioch: both Barnabas, and Symeon who was called Niger, and Lucius from Cyrene, and Manaen, a foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.

²³ They wrote these things through their hand:
The apostles and the elders and brethren, to the brethren, those from the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia. Hail to you!

¹⁸ But Paul, having remained after this still a considerable number of days, bid farewell to the brethren.


Now he sailed away to Syria, and together with him was Priscilla and Aquila; having sheared his head in Cenchreae; for he had a vow.

³ Now when Cyprus had appeared, leaving it on the left, we were sailing to Syria and brought the ship into Tyre; for the ship was unloading her cargo there.

³⁹ But Paul said, I am a Jew, indeed a man from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city, and I beseech of you, permit me to speak to the people.

³⁴ Now the governor read the letter and having asked: What province is he from? And having inquired: he is from Cilicia.

⁷ Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow captives, who are notable even among the apostles, who has also happened to be in Christ before me.

³⁰ But you are from him, in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom and righteousness and holiness and redemption from God;

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

¹⁴ For brethren, you became imitators of the congregations of God, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you also suffered the same things by your own countrymen, just-as they did also by the Jews.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

⁷ And the word of God was growing, and the number of the disciples were extremely multiplying in Jerusalem, and a large crowd of the priests were obedient to the faith.

¹³ But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many concerning this man and how-much evil he did to your holy-ones in Jerusalem,

²⁰ And immediately in the synagogues he was preaching the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

⁸ and last of all, like to the premature-baby, he was seen also to me. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who is not sufficient to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the congregation^* of believers of God. ¹⁰ But I am what I am by the grace of God and his grace toward me has not become empty, but I labored even-more than they all did; but not I, but the grace of God which was together with me.

¹³ even though I was a former blasphemer and a persecutor and an insolent man, but I was shown-mercy, because I did it being ignorant in unbelief; ¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord overwhelmed me with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Faithful is the word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am foremost. ¹⁶ But I was shown-mercy because of this, in order that Jesus Christ might show all his patience in me as foremost, for a pattern of those who are afterward about to believe on him for everlasting life.

²³ Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God worked!

⁸ Now when the crowds saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

¹⁶ Now fear took all and they were glorifying God, saying, A great prophet has arisen among us, and that God has visited his people.

¹⁰ Even so, I say to you, There becomes joy in the sight of the messengers of God over one repenting sinner.

³² But we ought to be joyous and rejoice, because this one, your brother was dead, and then lived again, and was perishing and then was found.

¹⁸ But having heard these things, they were quiet and glorifying God, saying, Consequently, God has also given repentance to the Gentiles into life.

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

¹⁹ And having greeted them, he was describing one by one each of the things God had done among the Gentiles through his service. ²⁰ Now when they heard it, they were glorifying the Lord, having said to him, You are now viewing brother, how many tens of thousands there are of the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealous ones of the law;

¹³ because through the trial of you from this service they are glorifying God upon the subjection of your confession toward the good-news of the Christ and at the liberality of your generosity toward them and toward all;

³ We are giving-thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying concerning you, ⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the holy-ones,

¹⁰ whenever he may come to be glorified in his holy-ones, and to be marveled at in that day in all those who have believed, (because our testimony to you was believed).

¹² that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ might be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.