Titus 1 Cross References - MLV

¹ Paul, a bondservant of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen and the full knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, ² upon the hope of everlasting life, which God, who is incapable of lying, promised before times everlasting.
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.
⁴ To Titus, my genuine child according to our common faith: grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior.
⁵ Because of this, I left you in Crete, in order that you might amend the things which are deficient and should designate elders in every city, as I commanded you. ⁶ If anyone is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having believing children, who is not in an accusation of riotousness or rebellious. ⁷ For it is essential for the overseer to be irreproachable as God’s steward; not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not a drunkard, not a bully, not covetous; ⁸ but hospitable, who loves good, sensible, just, holy, self-controlled; ⁹ holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, in order that he may be able also to encourage in the sound teaching and to convict those who contradict it.
¹⁰ For there are many even rebellious men, empty-talkers and deceivers, especially those out of the circumcision, ¹¹ whom it is essential to gag; men who are perverting whole houses, teaching things which they ought not teach, because of shameful gain. ¹² Someone from them, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are habitually liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons. ¹³ This testimony is true. Because of which case, reprove them sharply, in order that they may be sound in the faith, ¹⁴ not taking-heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who are turning away from the truth. ¹⁵ Indeed, all things are clean to the clean, but nothing is clean to those who have been defiled and are unbelieving, but both their mind and their conscience have been defiled. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but they are denying him by their works, being detestable and disobedient and unapproved toward every good work.

⁴⁹ But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of burnt offering and upon the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

²⁶ But you do not believe, for you are not from my sheep just-as I said to you. ²⁷ My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they are following me,

⁴⁸ And when the Gentiles heard this, they were rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and they believed as many as were appointing themselves toward everlasting life.

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

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:

⁸ For you are saved by the grace through the faith, and this thing, the gift of God, is not from you;

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 :

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,

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.

⁴ nor to take-heed to fables and unending genealogies, which provide more debates, rather than a stewardship of God which is in faith. ⁵ But the end of the command is love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and a non-pretended faith;

⁴ who wishes all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.

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.

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;

²³ But renounce foolish and non-instructive debates, knowing that they give-birth to quarrels.

²⁵ in meekness educating those who are placing themselves in opposition; if maybe God might give them repentance to come to the full knowledge of the truth,

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared, which is salvation to all men, ¹² educating us in order that we should live with self-discipline and righteously and devoutly in this current age, after having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts;

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;

¹¹ Therefore, with all these things being dissolved, see what sort of things you ought to possess in all holy conduct and godliness,

²³ Everyone who is denying the Son, he does not have the Father.

¹⁹ God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said and will he not do it? Or has he spoken and will he not make it good?

²⁹ And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent, for he is not a man that he should repent.

²³ I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was, ²⁴ when there were no depths. I was brought out when there were no fountains abounding with water, ²⁵ before the mountains were settled, before the hills. I was brought out ²⁶ while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
²⁷ When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle upon the face of the deep, ²⁸ when he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong, ²⁹ when he gave to the sea its boundary that the waters should not transgress his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, ³⁰ then I was by him, a master workman. And I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, ³¹ rejoicing in his habitable earth. And my delight was with the sons of men.

³⁴ Then the King will be saying to those at his right, Come-here, those who have been blessed from my Father, inherit the kingdom which has been prepared for you from the conception of the world:

⁴⁶ And these will be going away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.

¹⁷ And while traveling toward the road, one ran up to him and knelt before him, and asked him, Good Teacher, what should I practice in order that I may inherit everlasting life?

³⁰ who may not receive a hundred-times that now in this time, houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and fields, with persecutions, and everlasting life in the world to come.

¹⁵ in order that everyone who believes in him might not perish but may have everlasting life.
¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, in order that everyone who believes in him might not perish, but may have everlasting life.

³⁹ You are searching the Scriptures because you think that in them you have everlasting life, and these are those which are testifying concerning me;

⁵⁴ He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life and I will raise him up in the last day.

⁶⁸ Therefore Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom will we go? You have the words of everlasting life.

²⁸ and I give to them everlasting life, and they may never perish and not anyone will be taking them out of my hand.

² just-as you gave him authority over all flesh, in order that to all whom you have given him, he will be giving everlasting life to them.

²⁴ Father, I wish that they, whom you have given me, may also be with me where I am, in order that they may view my glory, which you gave me, because you loved me before the conception of the world.

¹⁸ (known to God are all his works from the age.)

² which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

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

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.

⁴ and endurance, approved character, and an approved character, hope;

²¹ in order that, just-as sin reigned in death, so also the favor might also reign through righteousness to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

²³ For the compensations of sin is death, but the gift of God is everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁵ (14:24) Now to the one who is able to establish you^\'b0 according to my good-news and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept-silent in times everlasting, \ulnone\nosupersub

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.

¹⁵ The Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and banished us, and were not pleasing to God, and are adverse to all men;

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.

¹² Fight the good fight of the faith, grab the everlasting life, to which you were called and professed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

¹⁹ storing up for themselves a good foundation toward the future, in order that they may grab the everlasting life.

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

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

¹³ if we are unfaithful, that one is remaining faithful; he is not able to deny himself.

¹⁵ Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed worker, cutting-straight the word of truth.

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

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

⁷ in order that we might become heirs according to the hope of everlasting life, having been made righteous in that grace.

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.

³ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is gracious, who according to his much mercy has born us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ into an incorruptible, undefiled and unfading inheritance having been guarded in the heavens for you;

²⁰ who indeed, having been known beforehand, before the conception of the world, but was manifested in the last times because of you, 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. ²² Having purified your souls in the obedience to the truth through the Spirit toward non-pretended brotherly-love, intensely love^*\'b0 one another from a clean heart; ²³ having been born again, not out of corruptible seed, but from the incorruptible, through the word of God, which is living and remaining forever.

²⁵ And this is the promise which he promised to us–everlasting life.

² Beloved, we are now the children of God and it was not yet manifested what we will be. But we know that, if he is manifested, we will be similar to him, because we will be seeing him just-as he is. ³ And everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, just-as that man is pure.

¹¹ And the testimony is this, that God gave to us everlasting life and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who has the Son, has life; he who does not have the Son of God, does not have the life.
¹³ I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have everlasting life, and in order that you may believe in the name of the Son of God.

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.

²¹ Keep yourselves in God’s love, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for everlasting life.

⁸ And all who are dwelling upon the earth will be worshiping him, everyone whose name has not been written in the Book of Life of the lamb, who has been slaughtered from the conception of the world.

⁸ And those who are dwelling upon the earth will be marveling, those whose names have not been written in the Book of Life from the conception of the world, when they see the beast, how that he was and is not and will be present.

² Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and will not be afraid, for Jehovah, even Jehovah, is my strength and song and he has become my salvation.

¹⁵ Verily you are a God who hides yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

²¹ Declare and bring it forth. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from long-ago? Who has declared it long since? Have not I, Jehovah? And there is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is none besides me.

²³ And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce countenance and understanding hidden things, will stand up.

²⁴ Seventy weeks are decreed upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish transgression and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy.

²⁷ And as for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief and they will speak lies at one table. But it will not prosper, for yet the end will be at the time appointed.

³ For the vision is yet for the appointed time and it breathes-out toward the end and will not lie. Though it abide, wait for it, because it will surely come. It will not delay.

¹⁰ And it is essential for the good-news to first be preached to all the nations.

¹⁵ And he said to them, When you travel into all the world, preach the good-news to all creation.

⁴⁷ and my spirit was glad in God my Savior.

³⁶ The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming the good-news of peace through Jesus Christ (this one is Lord of all).

²⁶ And he made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons and the borders of their residence;

⁶ For when we were still weak, according to the proper time, Christ died on behalf of the ungodly.

¹⁴ Therefore how will they call upon him in whom they have not believed? But how will they believe of whom they have not heard? But how will they hear without someone preaching? ¹⁵ But how will they preach, if they are not sent? Just-as it has been written, ‘How Beautiful are the feet of those who are proclaiming the good-news of peace and of those who are proclaiming the good-news of good things!’

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.

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

¹⁷ For if I am doing this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if I do so involuntarily, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

⁴ But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born out of a woman, born under the law,

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.

¹⁷ And when he came, he proclaimed the good-news of peace to you who were from afar and peace to those who were near;

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;

¹³ so-that my bonds became apparent in Christ in the whole palace guard and to all the rest;

⁶ This good-news which is present for you; just-as it also is in all the world. And is bearing-fruit and growing, just-as it also does in you, from the day you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth;

²³ if you actually are remaining in the faith, having been founded and grounded and not being moved away from the hope of the good-news which you heard, which was preached in all creation which is under heaven; of which I, Paul, became a servant.

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.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, our hope;

¹¹ according to the good-news of the glory of the blessed God, to which I was entrusted.

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

⁵ For there is one God, and one intermediary of God and of men, the man, Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave himself as a ransom on behalf of all; the testimony given in its own times; 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.

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

¹⁰ but now has been made manifest through the appearing of our Savior, Jesus Christ, who indeed has done-away-with death and has illuminated both life and incorruption through the good-news, ¹¹ to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles.

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.

⁴ But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love of mankind had appeared: ⁵ he saved us (not from any works done in righteousness, which we practiced), but according to his mercy, through the full-washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

¹⁶ And he who sits upon the cloud cast his sickle upon the earth, and the earth was reaped.

¹¹ because there was born to you today in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

⁴² and they were saying to the woman, We believe no longer because of your speech; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is truly the Savior of the world, the Christ.

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.

¹² and this is my prayer to be encouraged together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.

¹³ I had no relief in my spirit because I did not find Titus my brother, but when I had bid farewell to them, I went forth into Macedonia.

¹³ But having the same spirit of the faith, according to what has been written, ‘I believed and hence I spoke.’We also believe and hence we also speak;

⁶ But God, who encourages the humble, encouraged us at the presence of Titus;

¹³ Because of this, we have been encouraged in your encouragement, we rejoiced even-more upon the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been given-rest from all of you. ¹⁴ Because if I have boasted in anything on your behalf to him, I was not ashamed, but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also, our boasting in Titus became truth.

⁶ That we might encourage Titus, in order that just-as he made a beginning, so he might also complete this favor in you.

¹⁶ But gratitude is to God, who is giving the same diligent-aid into the heart of Titus on your behalf.

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

¹⁸ I encouraged Titus and I sent the brother together with him. Did Titus take-advantage of any of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same footprints?

³ But not even Titus who was together with me, being a Greek, was urged to be circumcised.

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, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, our hope; ² to Timothy, my genuine child in the faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

¹ Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are allotted an equally precious faith with us, in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

¹¹ for so the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you.

²⁰ For if, having fled away from the defilements of the world in the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and having been again entangled, they are succumbed in these things, the last state has become worse to them than the first.

² to be reminded of the declarations which have been spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments from your apostles of the Lord and Savior.

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.

¹⁴ And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us;

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.

³² And they ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon had built the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem and they served in their office according to their order.

⁹ And further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered and sought out and set in order many proverbs.

⁷ And who, as I, will call and will declare it and set it in order for me, since I established the people of old? And let them declare the things that are coming and that will happen.

¹¹ Cretans and Arabs, we hear them speaking in our languages the magnificent things of God.

³⁰ which they also did, having sent it to the elders through the hand s of Barnabas and Saul.

²³ Now having assigned elders to them in every congregation, and when they had prayed with fastings, they consigned them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.

⁷ Now at a considerable number of days, we were voyaging slowly and happened to be against Cnidus with difficulty; the wind was not permitting us to land. We sailed under the lee of Crete against Salmone;

¹² But the harbor being unfit for a wintering, most of the counsel purposed to set-sail to sea from there, if somehow they might be able to winter, after having arrived in Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, looking down the northwest and down the southwest.

²¹ Now they are without much food, then Paul, having been standing in the midst of them, said, O men, it was essential for you to have been obedient to me and to have not set-sail away from Crete and then to have gained this disaster and damage.

³⁴ But if anyone is hungry, let him eat in his own house; in order that you may not come together for condemnation. Now I will be commanding accordingly the rest as to whenever I come.

⁴⁰ But let all things happen decently and according to some order.

⁵ For even if I am absent in the flesh, but yet I am together with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order and the firmness of your faith in 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,

² And the things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, consign these to faithful men, who will also be competent to teach others.

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.

⁷ They will not take a woman who is a prostitute, or profane, neither will they take a woman put away from her husband, for he is holy to his God.

¹⁴ A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a prostitute, these he will not take, but he will take as a wife a virgin of his own people.

¹¹ And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house and the child ministered to Jehovah before Eli the priest.

²² Now Eli was very old. And he heard all that his sons did to all Israel and how that they lay with the women who assembled at the door of the tent of meeting.

²⁹ Why do you* kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chief of all the offerings of Israel my people?
³⁰ Therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house and the house of your father, should walk before me everlasting, but now Jehovah says, Be it far from me, for those who honor me I will honor and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.

¹² In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end. ¹³ For I have told him that I will judge his house everlasting, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse upon themselves and he did not restrain them.

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

²² Neither will they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away, but they will take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

¹⁵ And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed.
Therefore take heed to your* spirit and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

⁵ It happened in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, there was a certain priest, Zacharias by name, from the class of Abijah and he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron and her name was Elisabeth.

¹⁸ And do not be drunken with wine, in which there is riotousness, but be filled in the Spirit;

¹⁴ But brethren, we encourage you : admonish the disorderly, console the fainthearted, hold up the weak, have patience toward all.

² Therefore, it is essential for the overseer to be: unimpeachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, orderly, hospitable, skilled in teaching; ³ not a drunkard, not a bully, not covetous, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a money-lover; ⁴ the one who is governing his own house well, having his children in subjection with all honesty; ⁵ (but if anyone does not know how to govern his own house, how will he be caring for the congregation of God?;) ⁶ not a new-convert, (in order that when he is puffed up, he might not fall into the condemnation of the devil). ⁷ But it is also essential for him to have a good testimony from those who are outside the congregation; in order that he may not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

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

¹² Let deacons be husbands of one wife, governing their children and their own houses well.

⁶ If anyone is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having believing children, who is not in an accusation of riotousness or rebellious. ⁷ For it is essential for the overseer to be irreproachable as God’s steward; not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not a drunkard, not a bully, not covetous; ⁸ but hospitable, who loves good, sensible, just, holy, self-controlled;

¹⁰ For there are many even rebellious men, empty-talkers and deceivers, especially those out of the circumcision,

⁶ O my soul, do not come into their council, to their assembly, my glory, do not be united, because they killed* a man in their anger and they hocked an ox in their self-will.

⁹ Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you* go into the tent of meeting, that you* not die–it will be an everlasting statute throughout your* generations–

¹⁷ He who is soon angry will deal foolishly. And a man of wicked devices is hated.

¹⁸ A wrathful man stirs up contention, but he who is slow to anger appeases strife.

³² He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

⁴ It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers to say, Where is strong drink? ⁵ Lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the justice due to any who is afflicted.

⁹ Do not be hasty in your spirit to be angry, because anger rests in the bosom of fools.

⁷ And even these reel with wine and wander around with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up of wine. They wander around with strong drink; they reel in vision; they stumble in judgment.

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. ¹¹ Yes, the dogs are greedy; they can never have enough. And these are shepherds who cannot understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. ¹² Come you*, they say, I will fetch wine and we will fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow will be as this day, great beyond measure.

²¹ Neither will any of the priests drink wine when they enter into the inner court.

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

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

¹ So let a man count us as attendants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. ² But furthermore, it is required in stewards, in order that someone should be found faithful.

¹ Faithful is the word: if a any man is aspiring to the overseership, he is desiring a good work. ² Therefore, it is essential for the overseer to be: unimpeachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, orderly, hospitable, skilled in teaching; ³ not a drunkard, not a bully, not covetous, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a money-lover; ⁴ the one who is governing his own house well, having his children in subjection with all honesty; ⁵ (but if anyone does not know how to govern his own house, how will he be caring for the congregation of God?;) ⁶ not a new-convert, (in order that when he is puffed up, he might not fall into the condemnation of the devil). ⁷ But it is also essential for him to have a good testimony from those who are outside the congregation; in order that he may not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

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


⁸ Deacons likewise must be honorable, not double-tongued, not taking-heed to much wine, not covetous; ⁹ holding the mystery of the faith in a clean conscience. ¹⁰ But let these also first be tested; thereafter let them serve, being irreproachable.
¹¹ Women likewise must be honorable, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.
¹² Let deacons be husbands of one wife, governing their children and their own houses well. ¹³ For those who have served well are acquiring for themselves a good rank and much boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

²⁴ But it is essential for the Lord’s bondservant to not quarrel, but to be mild toward all, skilled in teaching, tolerating it when being mistreated, ²⁵ in meekness educating those who are placing themselves in opposition; if maybe God might give them repentance to come to the full knowledge of the truth,

⁵ Because of this, I left you in Crete, in order that you might amend the things which are deficient and should designate elders in every city, as I commanded you.

³ Likewise, teach elderly-women to be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers, not having been enslaved to much wine, but teachers of what is good,

¹⁹ So-then my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. ²⁰ For the wrath of man is not working out the righteousness of God.

¹⁰ just-as each has received a gift, serving it for yourselves, as good stewards of the various favor s of God.

² Shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising the oversight, not by compulsion, but willfully, nor covetously, but eagerly;

¹⁰ and especially those who are conducting-themselves after the flesh in the lust of defilement and while despising lordship. Daring and self-willed, they are not trembling when blaspheming heavenly glories;

¹ And it happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

¹ And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, for Hiram was ever a devotee of David.

⁷ And it happened, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly and said, Praise Jehovah this day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people.

³ As for the holy ones who are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight.

¹⁵ Hate the evil and love the good and establish justice in the gate. It may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

⁴ But we are commending ourselves in everything, as servants of God: in much endurance, in afflictions, in calamities, in distresses, ⁵ in lashes, in prisons, in unrest, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fasts; ⁶ in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in non-pretended love, ⁷ in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the weapons of righteousness from the right hand and from the left hand, ⁸ through glory and dishonor, through defamation and good-repute; as misleaders and yet true;

¹⁰ You and God are witnesses, as we became holy and righteous and blameless toward you who believe.

² Therefore, it is essential for the overseer to be: unimpeachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, orderly, hospitable, skilled in teaching;

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

¹¹ But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue: righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, meekness.

²² But flee the youthful lusts; pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with those who are calling upon the Lord out of a clean heart.

³ cold-hearted, implacable, slanderers, with no self-control, untamed, not lovers of good,

¹⁴ We know that we have stepped out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother is abiding in death.

¹ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born from God and everyone who loves the one who fathered us, also loves the one who has been born from him.

³ And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without cause.

⁶ I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

²³ Buy the truth and do not sell it, yes, wisdom and instruction and understanding.

²⁸ for he was thoroughly and intensely refuting the Jews in public, showing through the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

{May, 55 - May 58 AD. Ephesus. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians is written.}

²⁴ But if all prophesy and some unbelieving or unskilled person comes in, he is reproved by all. He is judged by all.

²¹ Test all things. Hold-onto the good things.

¹⁵ Therefore, consequently, brethren, stand-firm and hold-fast the traditions which you were taught, whether through speech or through our letter.

¹⁰ for fornicators, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers and if any other thing which lays in opposition to sound teaching;

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.

¹⁹ holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away, are shipwrecked concerning the faith;

⁹ Faithful is the word and worthy of all acceptance.

¹³ Hold to the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love in Christ Jesus.

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;

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 as for you, speak the things which are suitable to the sound teaching.

⁷ providing yourself as an example of good works concerning all things; in the teaching have integrity, honesty, incorruption, ⁸ sound speech which is not condemnable; in order that the adverse one might be embarrassed, having no evil thing to say concerning us.

²⁵ However hold-fast^\'b0 to what you have, till whenever I have come.

³ Therefore remember how you have received and heard, and keep it and repent. Therefore if you do not watch, I will be coming upon you like a thief and you may never know what hour I will be coming upon you.

¹¹ I am coming shortly. Hold-fast what you have, in order that no one may take your crown.

² And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision were arguing with him,

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.

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;

²⁹ I know this: after my goodbye, cruel wolves will be entering into you, not sparing the flock;

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.

¹² But what I am doing, I will also continue to be doing it in order that I may cut off the starting-point from those who wish for a starting-point in order that they may be found just-as we in what they are boasting. 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.

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.

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;

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)?

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. ¹⁸ But it is always good to be zealous in a good thing and not only while I am present with you. ¹⁹ My little-children, of whom I am in travail again till whenever Christ has been formed in you. ²⁰ But I wished to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am perplexed at you.
²¹ Tell me, you who wish to be under the law, are you not hearing the law?

¹ Therefore stand-firm in the freedom in which Christ made us free, and do not be held again in a yoke of bondage. ² Behold, I Paul say to you, that, if you are circumcised, Christ will be profiting you nothing. ³ Now, I am testifying again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to practice the whole law. 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

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.

² Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the mutilation. ³ For we are the circumcision, who are giving-divine service in the spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

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; ¹² in order that they all might be judged who did not believe the truth, but were delighted in unrighteousness.

⁴ nor to take-heed to fables and unending genealogies, which provide more debates, rather than a stewardship of God which is in faith.

⁶ from which some having deviated, turned aside to empty-talking;

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; ⁴ he has been puffed up, knowing nothing, but being mentally diseased concerning debates and quarrels over words, out of which become: envy, strife, blasphemies, evil suspicions, ⁵ incessant wranglings of men who have been corrupted in the mind and who have been deprived of the truth, supposing that godliness is a method to earnings. Withdraw yourself from such.

¹³ But evil men and impostors will be progressing from bad on to worse, misleading and being misled.

⁴ and will indeed turn their ears away from the truth and their ears will be turned aside to fables.

²⁶ If anyone among you thinks himself to be outwardly religious, though he does not bridle his tongue but deceiving his heart; this one’s religion is futile.

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

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.

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.

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.

¹¹ But the king will rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will glory, because the mouth of those who speak lies will be stopped.

⁴² The upright will see it and be glad. And all unrighteousness will stop her mouth.

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. ¹¹ Yes, the dogs are greedy; they can never have enough. And these are shepherds who cannot understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

¹⁰ Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

¹⁹ And you* have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your* lying to my people who listen to lies.

⁶³ that you may remember and be confounded and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the lord Jehovah.

⁵ Jehovah says thus concerning the prophets who make my people go-astray, who bite with their teeth and cry, Peace. And he who does not put into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

¹¹ The heads of it judge for a bribe and the priests of it teach for a wage and the prophets of it divine for money.
Yet they lean upon Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? No evil will come upon us.

¹³ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are devouring widows’houses, and praying long prayers for a pretext, because of this, you will be receiving even-more condemnation.

⁴⁰ But they were not daring anymore to ask him anything.

¹² But the hired-servant and not being the shepherd, whose sheep are not his own, views the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.

¹⁹ Now we know how-much, as many things as the law says, it is speaking to those in the law; in order that every mouth may be sealed and all the world may become under the sentence of God;

¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, that this boasting will not be sealed up in me in the districts of Achaia.

⁵ incessant wranglings of men who have been corrupted in the mind and who have been deprived of the truth, supposing that godliness is a method to earnings. Withdraw yourself from such.

⁶ For out of these people are those who are sneaking into houses and capturing immature women, who have been piled up with sins and are led away by various lusts,

⁷ For it is essential for the overseer to be irreproachable as God’s steward; not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not a drunkard, not a bully, not covetous;

⁹ holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, in order that he may be able also to encourage in the sound teaching and to convict those who contradict it.

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

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.

²⁸ For we live and move and are in him; as some also, according to your own poets, have said, For we are also his offspring.

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.

² through the hypocrisy from the speakers of lies, having been branded in their own conscience;

¹² But these unrighteous men are like natural unreasoning creatures, having been born for apprehension and corruption, blaspheming in what they are ignorant of, and they will be utterly corrupted in their corruption.

¹⁵ having left the straight way. They were misled, having followed in the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

⁸ Nevertheless, these also dreaming likewise, indeed are defiling the flesh and rejecting lordship and blaspheming the heavenly glories.
⁹ But Michael the archangel, when arguing with the devil, after he was reasoning concerning the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a judging of blasphemy against him, but said, The Lord rebuke you.
¹⁰ But these men, they indeed blaspheme as many things as they do not know. But as many things as they know naturally, like the unreasoning creatures that they are, they corrupt themselves in those things.
¹¹ Woe to them! Because they traveled in the way of Cain and poured themselves into the error of Balaam’s reward and perished in the dispute of Korah.
¹² These people are hidden-reefs in your love-feasts, sumptuously feasting fearlessly alongside you, shepherding themselves, they are waterless clouds, being carried away by the winds; unfruitful autumn trees, twice dead, having been uprooted, ¹³ wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames, misleading stars–for whom the blackness of darkness has been kept forever.

¹⁷ You will not hate your brother in your heart. You will surely rebuke your neighbor and not bear sin because of him.

⁸⁰ Let my heart be perfect in your statutes that I am not put to shame.

⁵ Let a righteous man kill* me, as a kindness. And let him reprove me, as oil upon the head. Do not let my head refuse it. Because my prayer will continue even in their wickedness.

⁵ Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.

⁸ Because even if I made you sorrowful in the previous letter, I do not regret it; even if I was regretting it. For I see that, that letter made you sorrowful, even if but for a season. ⁹ I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, in order that you might suffer-damage in nothing from us. ¹⁰ For the sorrow which is according to the will of God is working unregrettable repentance for salvation, but the sorrow of the world is working death. ¹¹ For behold how much diligence this same thing, (your being sorrowful according to the will of God), has worked in you : but what a defense, but what indignation, but what fear, but what longing, but what zeal, but what vengeance! In everything you commended yourselves to be pure in the matter. ¹² Consequently, if I also wrote to you, it was not because of the one who did wrong, nor because of the one who had been wronged, but because of your diligent-aid on our behalf to be made manifest to you in God’s sight.

¹⁰ I am writing these things because of this, while being absent, in order that I may not need to treat you sharply when being present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for demolition.

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.

²⁰ Reprove those who are sinning in the sight of all, in order that the rest may also have fear.

² Preach the word. Stand-ready opportunely and inopportunely. Reprove, rebuke and encourage in all patience and teaching.

² Teach elderly-men to be temperate, honorable, sensible, sound in the faith, in love, in endurance.

¹⁵ Speak and encourage and reprove these things with every commandment. Let no one despise you.

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.

⁹ But they are worshiping me in futility, teaching as their teachings–the commandments of men.’

⁷ But they are worshiping me in futility, teaching as their teachings–the commandments of men.’

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?

²² (which things in the using are all leading to corruption), according to the commandments and teachings of men?

⁴ nor to take-heed to fables and unending genealogies, which provide more debates, rather than a stewardship of God which is in faith. ⁵ But the end of the command is love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and a non-pretended faith; ⁶ from which some having deviated, turned aside to empty-talking; ⁷ wishing to be teachers of the law, perceiving neither what they are saying, nor the things concerning what they are confidently confirming.

²⁵ Beware that you do not renounce the one who speaks. For if those men did not flee when they renounced the one who divinely-warned them upon the earth, much more we may not flee who are turning away from him, who is from the heavens;

²² But it has befallen to them as the way of the true proverb, ‘ The dog having turning again toward his own vomit,’and the sow that had fully-washed, to wallowing in the mud.

⁴ A high look and a proud heart, even the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

¹³ Then Haggai said, If a man who is unclean because of a dead body touches any of these, will it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It will be unclean.

⁵ Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When you* fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did you* at all fast to me, even to me? ⁶ And when you* eat and when you* drink, do you* not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

¹⁸ But these things which are traveling from the mouth, come out from the heart, and they desecrate the man.

³⁹ But the Lord said to him, Now you, the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but the inside of you is full from swindling and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Fools, he who made the outside, did he not also make the inside? ⁴¹ However, the things which are within you, give those as charity, and behold, all things are clean to you.

¹⁵ And a voice came to him again the second-time, What God has cleansed, you, do not make common.

¹⁴ I know, and have confidence in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is desecrated through itself, except to the one who counts something to be desecrated, to that one it is desecrated.

²⁰ Do not tear-down the work of God because of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is evil to the man who eats through a stumbling block.

²³ But he who is doubting has been condemned if he eats, because he does not eat out of faith, and everything which is not from faith is sin.

¹² All things are legal for me, but not all things are advantageous. All things are legal for me, but I will not be brought-under the authority by anything. ¹³ Foods are for the belly and the belly is for foods, but God will be doing-away-with both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

⁷ But the knowledge is not in all people, but until now some, with the conscience of the idol, eat it like an idol-sacrifice, and their conscience is defiled, being weak.

²³ All things are legal for me, but not all things are advantageous. All things are legal for me, but not all things build up.

²⁵ Eat everything which is sold in the meat-markets, judging nothing because of conscience,

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

²⁷ So-then whoever eats this bread or drinks the cup of the Lord, unworthily of the Lord, will be liable to the body and of the blood of the Lord. ²⁸ But let a man test himself and so let him eat from the bread and let him drink out of the cup. ²⁹ For he who unworthily eats and drinks, is eating and drinking condemnation to himself, if he is not discerning the body of the Lord.

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, ⁴ because every created thing of God is good and casting off nothing if it is received with thanksgiving,

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.

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

¹⁶ he says who hears the words of God and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down and having his eyes open.

²² And Samuel said, Has Jehovah as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice and to listen than the fat of rams.

²⁴ And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of Jehovah and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

¹⁶ How much less one who is abominable and morally-corrupt, a man who drinks unrighteousness like water!

¹ Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and have come forth out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of Jehovah and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness

² Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.

³⁰ Waste silver, men will call them, because Jehovah has rejected them.

³¹ And they come to you as the people come and they sit before you as my people. And they hear your words, but do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

² They will cry to me, My God, we, Israel know you. ³ Israel has cast off what is good. The enemy will pursue him.

²⁸ And just-as they did not approve to have God in their full knowledge, God gave them up to an unapproved mind, to do those things which are not proper.

¹⁸ and know God’s will and approve the things which carry more-value, being instructed out of the law, ¹⁹ and have confidence that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness, ²⁰ a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
²¹ Therefore you who are teaching a different one, are you not teaching yourself? You who are preaching not to steal, are you stealing? ²² You who are saying to not commit adultery, are you committing adultery? You who detest idols, are you a temple looter? ²³ You who are boasting in the law, through your transgression of the law, are you dishonoring God? ²⁴ ‘For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,’just-as it has been written.

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.

⁹ knowing this: that law is not laid down for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for killers of their fathers and killers of their mothers, for murderers,

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 holding to a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Now turn yourself away from these people. ⁶ For out of these people are those who are sneaking into houses and capturing immature women, who have been piled up with sins and are led away by various lusts, ⁷ always learning and never being able to come to the full knowledge of the truth. 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.

⁴ He who says, I have known him and is not keeping his commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in this one;

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.

⁸ But to the cowardly and unbelieving and sinners and detestable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and to all the false witnesses, their part will be in the lake which is burning with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

²⁷ And any desecrated thing or anyone practicing an abomination and a lie may never enter into it; except those who have been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life may enter into it.