1 Peter 4 Cross References - MNT

¹ Since, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, do you also ever arm yourselves with the same mind (because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin), ² so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God. ³ For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship. ⁴ They are astonished at this, that you do not run into the same excesses of profligacy as they do; and they speak evil of you. ⁵ But they must render account to Him who stands ready to judge the living and the dead. ⁶ The gospel was preached for this cause to those who were dead also, that they might be judged according to men in flesh, but live according to God in spirit. ⁷ But the end of all things is close at hand; so be sober, watch and pray. ⁸ Above everything have fervent love to one another; for love veils a multitude of sins. ⁹ Be hospitable to one another, without grudging. ¹⁰ Whatever the gifts which each has received, use them for one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. ¹¹ If any one preaches, let him always preach as one who utters God's truth; if any one serves another, let it be with the strength which God supplies; so that in every way God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and dominion for ever and ever, Amen. ¹² Do not think it strange, beloved, that a fiery ordeal has come to test you, as though some surprising thing had befallen you. ¹³ But be glad in the degree in which you share in the sufferings of Christ; so that when his glory shall be revealed, you too may be glad with triumphant gladness. ¹⁴ If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God is resting upon you. ¹⁵ But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as a spy upon other people's business. ¹⁶ But if any man is suffering as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him ever glorify God in this Name. ¹⁷ It is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it first begin with us, what shall be the end of those who are disobedient to the gospel? ¹⁸ If the righteous man is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? ¹⁹ So let those who are suffering according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well-doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

⁹ And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father'—I tell you that out of these very stones God is able to raise up descendants for Abraham. ¹⁰ And already the axe is lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree, therefore, that does not bear good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

¹¹ "Blessed are you when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my name's sake. ¹² "Rejoice and exult in it, because your reward was great in the heavens; for so did they persecute the prophets before you.

¹⁶ "So let your light shine before men that they may see good you do, and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

¹³ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the Evil One; For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory. Amen.

²¹ "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

²⁰ Then he began to upbraid the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they had not repented. ²¹ "Woe unto you, Chorazin! Woe unto you, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented, long ago, in sackcloth and ashes. ²² "Moreover, I tell you it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the Day of Judgment, than for you. ²³ "And you too, Capernaum! Will you be exalted even to heaven? You shall go down to the Place of Death! For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which have been done in you, it would have remained until this day. ²⁴ "I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the Day of Judgment, than for you."

³⁶ "I tell you that for every careless word that men speak they shall give account on the day of judgment.

⁵⁰ "Behold my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, is my brother and sister and mother."

²⁷ For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father, and his angels with him, and then will he reward each one in accordance with his actions.

²⁸ "just as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

³¹ "Which of these two did the will of his father?" "The last," they replied. "I tell you truly," said Jesus, "that the tax-gatherers and harlots are going into the kingdom of heaven before you!

²⁵ "Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but within they are filled with extortion and excess.

⁹ Then they will deliver you up to suffer affliction, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

¹³ but he who endures to the end will be saved. ¹⁴ And this gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed throughout the whole inhabited earth, for a testimony to the Gentiles, and then will come the end.

¹⁴ And this gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed throughout the whole inhabited earth, for a testimony to the Gentiles, and then will come the end.

²¹ for then shall be a time of great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never shall be again. ²² And if these days had not been shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but for the elect's sake these days will be cut short. ²³ "If at that time any one should say to you, 'See, here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' believe him not. ²⁴ For false christs and false prophets will arise, and will work great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if it were possible, the very elect.

⁴² Keep guard then, for you do not know the day on which your Master is coming.

⁴⁵ "Who, then, is the faithful and prudent slave, to whom his master has entrusted his household, to give them their food in due season?

¹³ "Be watchful then, for you know neither the day nor the hour. ¹⁴ "For it is like a man going into another country, who summoned his slaves, and committed his property to their care. ¹⁵ "To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another, one—to each according to his individual ability—and then set out on his travels.

²¹ "'Well done, good and faithful slave,' replied his master; 'You have been faithful over many things. Enter into your master's joy.'

²³ "'Well done, good and faithful slave,' his master replied, 'You have been faithful over many things; enter into your master's joy.'

³¹ "But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he take his seat on the throne of his glory;

³¹ "But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he take his seat on the throne of his glory; ³² "and all the nations will be gathered in his presence. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats; ³³ "and he will place the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left. ³⁴ "Then he, the King will say to those on his right hand. "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

³⁴ "Then he, the King will say to those on his right hand. "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ³⁵ "'For I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in; ³⁶ "'I was naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to see me.' ³⁷ "Then shall the righteous answer him, saying. 'Master, when did we see you hungry and feed you; or thirsty and give you drink? ³⁸ "'When did we see you a stranger and take you in; or naked and clothe you? ³⁹ "'When did we see you sick or in prison, and come to see you?' ⁴⁰ "'In solemn truth I tell you,' the King will answer them, 'that inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these, my brothers, you have done it unto me.' ⁴¹ "Then he will say to those also at his left hand. 'Depart from me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; ⁴² "for I was hungry, and you gave me no food; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; ⁴³ "I was a stranger, and you took me not in; naked, and you clothed me not; sick, or in prison, and you visited me not.' ⁴⁴ "Then will they also answer, 'Master, when did we ever see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you?'

⁴⁴ "Then will they also answer, 'Master, when did we ever see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you?' ⁴⁵ "But he will reply, 'In solemn truth I tell you that inasmuch as you did not do it unto one of these least, you did not do it unto me.' ⁴⁶ "And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the righteous into eternal life."

³⁸ and he said to them. "My soul is an anguish, even unto death! Stay here, and keep watch with me." ³⁹ Then he went forward a short distance, and fell on his face and prayed. "O, my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt." ⁴⁰ Then he came to his disciples, and found them asleep, and said to Peter. "So you were none of you strong enough to watch with me even one hour! ⁴¹ "Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

³⁵ "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God, that one is my brother and sister and mother."

²¹ From within, from the heart of man, proceed evil purposes— ²² fornication, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, wantonness, envy, slander, arrogance, reckless folly—

³⁸ Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this unfaithful and wicked generation, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

⁴⁵ and justly, for even the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life, a ransom for many."

²⁰ And had not the Lord cut short those days, not a single person would escape; but for the elect's sake whom he has chosen, he has cut them short. ²¹ "At that time if any one tell you, 'See, here is Christ,' or 'See, there he is,' do not believe it; ²² for false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show signs and wonders, to lead astray the very chosen, if they can.

³³ nor the Son, but only the Father. ³⁴ Take heed! Awake! for you never know the time. As a man gone abroad and leaving his house gives authority to his slaves, to each his task; and orders the porter to keep watch; ³⁵ keep watch then, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming—in the evening, at midnight, at cockcrow, or in the morning— ³⁶ lest he should come unexpectedly and find you sleeping; ³⁷ and what I say to you, I say to all. Be awake and on guard."

³⁷ Then he came and found them asleep, and he said to Peter. "Are you sleeping, Simon? Could you not keep watch one hour? ³⁸ Keep watch, all of you, and pray that you may not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.'

²² "Blessed are you when men shall hate you, And excommunicate you and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of man.

²² "Blessed are you when men shall hate you, And excommunicate you and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of man. ²³ "Rejoice in that day and exult, For your reward is great in heaven; For even so did their fathers to the prophets.

³ and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, who used to minister to him out of their substance.

¹² "For I tell you that it will be mare tolerable for Sodom in that day than for that town. ¹³ "Woe unto you, Chorazin! Woe unto you, Bethsaida! For had the mighty been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ "However, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

⁴² The Lord answered. "Who then is that faithful steward, the wise man whom his Lord will put in charge of the rations in due time?

⁴⁷ "The slave who knew his Lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, will be beaten with many lashes, ⁴⁸ "but he who did not know, but did things worthy of a beating, will receive few lashes. To whom much has been given, from him much will be required, and to whom much is entrusted, of him they will ask the more.

¹ Now all the tax-gatherers and sinners continued to draw near him, and to listen to him.

¹³ "Not many days after that the younger son gathered everything together and took his journey into a distant country; and there he wasted his money on living unsavingly.

¹ To his disciples he said: "There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and this steward was accused to him of wasting his property. ² "He called to him to him and said: "'What is this that I hear about you? Render an account of your stewardship; for you can no longer be steward.'

² "He called to him to him and said: "'What is this that I hear about you? Render an account of your stewardship; for you can no longer be steward.' ³ "Now the steward said to himself. 'What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my stewardship? I am not strong enough to dig, to beg I am ashamed. ⁴ "'I know what I will do, so that when I am put out of my stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.' ⁵ "So he called to him each of his master's debtors and said to the first, 'How much money do you owe my master?' ⁶ "'A hundred measures of oil,' he answered. "He said to him, 'Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty." ⁷ "To a second he said, 'How much do you owe?' "The man answered, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' "'Here is you bill,' he said, 'change it to eighty measures.' ⁸ "And the master praised the unjust steward because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this world are in relation to their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

³⁰ "In the same manner it shall be in the day that the Son of man shall be revealed.

¹³ "And he summoned ten slaves of his, and gave them ten pounds, and said to them, "'Trade with these until I come.'

³⁴ "But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be surcharged with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day catches you suddenly like a trap.

³⁶ "So be on your guard at all times, praying that you may be worthy to escape these things that shall come to pass, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of man."

⁴⁶ and said to them. "Why are you asleep? Get up, and pray that you enter not into temptation."

³¹ "For if this is what they do in the green tree, what will they do in the dry?"

⁴⁶ Then with a loud cry, Jesus said, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit!" And after uttering these words, he yielded up his spirit.

¹³ who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

²² "The Father indeed does not judge any one, but has given all judgment to the Son, ²³ "in order that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

²⁵ "Solemnly I tell you that the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live. ²⁶ "For as the Father has life in himself, so also has he granted to the Son to have life in himself.

²⁸ "Do not wonder at this, because an hour is coming in which all who are in their graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth again; ²⁹ "those who have done good into a resurrection of life, and those who have practised evil to a resurrection of condemnation.

¹⁷ "If any one wills to do God's will he shall know concerning my teaching, whether it is from God, or I speak my own authority. Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth."

⁴⁷ "Surely you have not been led astray, have you? answered the Pharisees. ⁴⁸ "Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ "As for this mob who do not understand the Law, they are accursed!" ⁵⁰ Nicodemus, one of their number, he who had formerly visited Jesus, said to them, ⁵¹ "Our law does not condemn the accused, does it, before hearing his defense, and finding out what he is doing?" ⁵² In answer they said to him. "You are not from Galilee, are you? Search for yourself, and see that from Galilee arises no prophet."

⁴⁸ In reply the Jews said to him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan, and you also have a demon?"

²⁸ Then they stormed at him. "You are his disciple. We are Moses' disciples.

³⁴ They answered, "You were wholly born in sins, and do you teach us?" Then they cast him out.

²¹ "But they will do all these things to you for my name's sake, because they know not Him who sent me.

⁴¹ So they left Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been deemed worthy to suffer disgrace for the sake of the Name;

³⁸ "This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness along with the angel who spoke to him in Mt. Sinai, and with our ancestors to whom he gave living words to hand down to us.

⁵⁹ So they stoned Stephen while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

⁴² "when he charged us to preach to the people, and to testify that this was he whom God ordained to be the judge of the living and of the dead.

²⁶ and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were guests of the church, and taught many people. And it was in Antioch that the disciples first received the name of "Christians."

⁴⁵ When they saw the crowds, the Jews were filled with jealousy, and began to contradict Paul's statements, and to abuse him.

²² Everywhere they strengthened the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold to the faith. "It is through many tribulations," they said, "that we must enter into the kingdom of God."

²⁵ But at midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

³⁰ "The times of ignorance God overlooked, but he now commands all men that they should all, everywhere, repent; ³¹ inasmuch as he has fixed a day in which he will judge the world justly, by the Man whom he has ordained, and he has given proof of all this by raising him from the dead."

⁶ But as they opposed him and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, and said: "Your blood be upon your own hands. I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

¹¹ He came to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, saying, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'so will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the owner of this girdle, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'" ¹² As soon as we heard these words, both we and those who were standing near entreated Paul not to go up to Jerusalem. ¹³ "What do you mean by thus breaking my heart with your grief?" answered Paul. "For I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus." ¹⁴ And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, "The will of the Lord be done."

²⁸ Agrippa answered, "In short, you are doing your best to persuade me to become a Christian."

²⁴ "'Fear not, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you the lives of all who are sailing with you.'

³¹ Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these men remain on the ship, you cannot be saved."

⁴² Now the soldiers were planning to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim off and so escape. ⁴³ But the centurion kept them from their purpose, because he wished to save Paul. He gave orders that those who could swim should first jump overboard and get to land; ⁴⁴ and that the rest should follow, some on planks and some on other bits of wreckage. And so it came to pass that all escaped safe to the land.

¹⁸ For God's wrath is ever being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who smother the truth by their unrighteousness.

²⁰ For ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, even his everlasting power and divinity, has been clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made. So they have no excuse. ²¹ For although they knew God, yet they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks; but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. ²² While they professed to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and exchanged the majesty of the imperishable God for an idol, graven in the likeness of perishable man, or of birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. ²⁴ So God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their own bodies; ²⁵ because they exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, and worshiped and served the creature, rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen. ²⁶ That is why God has given them up to passions of dishonor; for on the one hand their women actually changed the natural function of sex into that which is against nature; ²⁷ and on the other hand their men likewise abandoned the natural use of women, and were ablaze with passion for one another; men with men practising shameless acts and receiving in their own person that recompense of their wrong-doing which necessarily followed. ²⁸ And just as they refused to continue to retain God in their knowledge, so did God cast them out to an outcast mind, to do those things which were indecent. ²⁹ They were overflowing with every kind of iniquity, depravity, greed, and malice. They were full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and malignity. ³⁰ They became whisperers, back-biters, hated of God, insolent, haughty, boastful. They invented sins. They were disobedient to parents. ³¹ They were without sense, without faith, without natural affection, without mercy. ³² Though they knew well the ordinance of God, that those who practise such vices are worthy of death, they not only continue to do the same, but were even applauding those who practise vice.

⁷ eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;

⁹ Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practices evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile;

² Much in every way. First of all, because to them were entrusted the oracles of God.

² Through him also we have had our access into this grace in which we have taken our stand, and are exulting in hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

³ And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude, ⁴ and fortitude character, and character, hope— ⁵ a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts. ⁶ For while we were still without strength, Christ died in due time for the ungodly.

⁸ But God gives proof of his love to us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

² No indeed; how shall we who have died to sin still go on living in it any longer?

⁷ for he who is dead is set free from sin.

¹¹ Even so count yourselves also to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

⁴ So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God.

² for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

⁹ But you are not earthly, but spiritual, if indeed the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, though your bodily self is dead because of sin, your spirit is full of life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also make your dying bodily self live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives. ¹² Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—but not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; ¹³ for if you go on living according to the flesh, you are on the road to die; but if by the Spirit you keep putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

¹⁷ and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; but to share his glory, we must now be sharing his sufferings.

³⁶ For of him and through him, and for him, are all things. All glory to him forever and ever! Amen.

² And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

⁶ But we have gifts differing according to the grace which was given to us. He that has the gift of prophecy, let him prophesy according to the proportion of his faith. ⁷ If it is the gift of administration, let us give ourselves to our service. ⁸ Let the teacher give himself to his teaching; and he who exhorts others to his exhortation. He who gives, let him do it in singleness of mind. He who rules, let him rule with diligence; and he who shows mercy must be cheerful.

¹² Rejoice in hope; be patient under affliction; continue stedfast in prayer. ¹³ Be liberal to needy saints. Practise hospitality.

¹¹ Carry out these injunctions because you know the crisis that we are in, that now it is high time for you to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed. ¹² The night is far spent; The day is at hand. Let is therefore take off the deeds of darkness, Let us put on the armor of light.

¹² The night is far spent; The day is at hand. Let is therefore take off the deeds of darkness, Let us put on the armor of light. ¹³ Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy;

¹³ Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy; ¹⁴ But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, And make no provisions for your earthly nature And the gratification of its lusts.

⁷ For not one of us lives unto himself, and not one dies unto himself.

¹⁰ But you the abstainer, why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you again the non-abstainer, why do you despise yours? For we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God. ¹¹ For it is written, "As I live," says the Lord, "to me every knee shall bow, And to God shall every tongue confess." ¹² So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God.

²⁵ Just now I am going to Jerusalem to serve the saints.

²⁷ Yes, it has been made their good pleasure, and their debt, too. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual riches, they owe it to them also to minister to them the Jews in worldly goods.

²³ Gaius, my host, and the host of the church, salutes you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, salutes you, and so does brother Quartus.

²⁷ Unto Him, the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory forever. Amen.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God vouchsafed me, like a skillful master-builder, I have laid a foundation; but another will be building upon it. Let each take heed how he builds on it.

¹³ The Day will disclose it, for it dawns in fire, and the fire will test each man's work, of what quality it is.

¹ Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God. ² Now it is required of stewards, that a man be found faithful.

⁷ For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

¹¹ Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

²⁰ You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.

²⁹ Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,

¹² So then let him who imagines that he is standing so securely beware lest he fall. ¹³ No temptation has overtaken you that is beyond man's power; but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but will, with every temptation, provide the way of escape also, so that you may be able to withstand.

³¹ Because whether you are eating or whether you are drinking, you are to do it all for the glory of God.

³¹ If however, we were judging ourselves aright, we should not now be condemned; ³² but through our condemnation by the Lord, we are trained so that we may not be condemned;

² You know that when you were heathen you went astray after dumb idols, wherever he be led.

⁴ Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;

⁴ Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; ⁵ there are various forms of service, and the same Lord; ⁶ and varieties of work, and the same God, who works in all. ⁷ Now to each man has been given his manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. ⁸ For to one man by the Spirit has been given a word of wisdom, to another a word of insight by the same Spirit; ⁹ to one man by the same Spirit is given faith, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit; ¹⁰ to another the powers which work miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits; to another varieties of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ But the one and the same Spirit gives power to all, distributing his gifts to each as he wills.

¹ Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.

¹ Hotly pursue this love, yet seek earnestly spiritual gifts, and chiefly that you may prophesy.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.

²⁴ And then the end, when he shall hand over his kingdom to God his Father, after he has abolished all rule and authority and power.

⁵¹ Lo, I tell you a secret truth. we shall not all be sleeping, but we shall be changed, ⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet sounds. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised, incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

⁷ My hope for you is firm; for I know that as you are comrades in my sufferings, so also are you comrades in my comfort.

¹⁰ Wherever I go, I am always carrying about in my body the dying of Jesus, in order that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in this body of mine.

¹⁷ For my light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

¹⁵ and that he died for all in order that the living may live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again for them.

¹ As a worker with him I beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

¹ It is indeed unnecessary for me to write you in regard to the ministration to the saints at Jerusalem,

⁷ But let each give according to the purpose of his heart; not grudgingly of under compulsion. It is a cheerful giver that God loves.

¹³ For this ministration proves you. On account of it men glorify God for your faithfulness to your professions of the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your gifts to them and to all.

⁹ but he has answered me. "My grace is sufficient for you; it is in weakness that my power is perfected." ¹⁰ Most gladly therefore will I boast rather of my weakness, that over me like a tent may be pitched the power of Christ. That is why I rejoice in weakness, in ill-treatment, in troubles, in persecutions and calamities for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

¹⁰ Most gladly therefore will I boast rather of my weakness, that over me like a tent may be pitched the power of Christ. That is why I rejoice in weakness, in ill-treatment, in troubles, in persecutions and calamities for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

²¹ and lest when I come again my God may humble me before you, and lest I shall mourn for many those who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurity and immorality and wantonness which they have practised.

²⁴ And they were giving glory to God on my account.

¹⁹ For it is through law I died to law, in order to live to God.

¹⁹ For it is through law I died to law, in order to live to God. ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

¹ O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!

⁷ You were running your race nobly. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,

²¹ envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

²⁴ And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and appetites. ²⁵ If we are living by the Spirit, let us also keep step in the Spirit.

² in which you passed your lives after the way of this world, under the sway of the Prince of the Powers of the Air, the spirit who is now working among the sons of disobedience. ³ And among them we all once passed our lives, indulging the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of our senses and temperament, and were by nature the children of wrath like all the rest.

³ And among them we all once passed our lives, indulging the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of our senses and temperament, and were by nature the children of wrath like all the rest.

³ And among them we all once passed our lives, indulging the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of our senses and temperament, and were by nature the children of wrath like all the rest. ⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, ⁵ even while we were dead in our trespasses, made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved).

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

¹³ So I beg you not to lose heart over my tribulations in your behalf; they are your glory. ¹⁴ For this cause I bend my knees before the Father, ¹⁵ from whom every fatherhood in heaven and earth is named,

²⁰ Now unto him who, according to his might that is at work within us, is able to do infinitely more than all we ask or even think, ²¹ to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, to all generations, world without end, Amen.

¹¹ It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

¹⁷ This then I tell you and implore you in the Master's name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds;

¹⁷ This then I tell you and implore you in the Master's name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds; ¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts. ¹⁹ These being past feeling have given themselves over to sensuality, in order to practise every form of impurity with greedy zest.

²² You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive; ²³ and to be made new in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and to put on the new self, created after God's likeness, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth.

²⁹ From your lips let no evil words come forth, but such as occasion warrants, such as are good for upbuilding and give a blessing to the hearers.

⁷ therefore do not become sharers with them. ⁸ For you were once darkness, but are now in the Lord.

¹⁷ For this reason do not be thoughtless, but learn to know what the Lord's will is. ¹⁸ Do not be drunk with wine, in which is riotous living, but drink deep in the Spirit,

²⁰ and at all times for all things give thanks to God, the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁶ not with eye service, as men-pleasers, but as the slaves of Christ, doing the will of God;

¹⁰ Finally, my brothers, let your hearts be strengthened in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

¹³ Therefore take up the panoply of God, so that when the evil day comes you may be able to withstand them, and having overthrown them all, to stand your ground.

¹⁸ Continue to pray at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching for it with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

¹¹ being filled with the fruit of righteousness through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

²⁰ So it is my keen expectation and hope that I shall never feel ashamed, but that with fearless courage, now as hither to, Christ may be magnified in my body, whether by my life or by my death.

²⁹ For it has been granted you in Christ's behalf, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake,

⁵ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

¹¹ and every tongue confess that "Jesus Christ is Lord," to the glory of God the Father.

¹⁴ Do everything without grumbling and disputes,

¹⁰ I long to know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, by sharing the likeness of his death;

⁵ Let your reasonableness be recognized by every one. The Lord is near you.

⁹ For this reason from the day I heard of it I have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will with every kind of wisdom and spiritual insight;

¹⁶ for in him was the universe created, things in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; by him and for him all have been created; ¹⁷ and HE IS before all, and in him all things subsist. ¹⁸ He is the head of his Body, the Church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, in order that in all things he may become preeminent. ¹⁹ For in him all the divine fulness chose to dwell; ²⁰ and by him it chose to reconcile all things alike on earth or in heaven to himself; making peace by him, through the blood of his cross.

²⁴ I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

³ for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, who is our life, appears, then will you also appear with him in glory. ⁵ So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

⁷ among whom you once led your daily life when you lived in them. ⁸ But now you also must renounce them all. Anger, passion, and ill-will must be put away; slander, too, and foul talk, so that they may never soil your lips.

¹⁴ Over them all bind on love, which is the girdle of completeness.

² Be unwearied in prayer, and keep awake in it when giving thanks.

⁶ Let your speech be always gracious, with a savor of salt, and learn how to give every man a fitting answer.

¹² Epaphras, one of yourselves, salutes you, a slave of Christ who is always agonizing for you in his prayers, that you may stand firm, mature, and fully assured in all the will of God.

² I sent Timothy, my brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and to hearten you in your faith. ³ So that no one should be shaken by these troubles—for you know well that we are appointed to troubles. ⁴ For even when I was with you I used to tell you beforehand that I was to suffer affliction; and so it proved, as you know.

¹² Meanwhile, may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as I do toward you.

⁵ Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles who know not God.

⁹ It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another. ¹⁰ As indeed you do love all the brothers in Macedonia. But I exhort you, brothers, to abound in this yet more. ¹¹ Also, that you endeavor to live quietly and to mind your own business, and to work with your hands (as I charged you).

⁶ So then let us not be sleeping as do the rest, but let us be watchful and self-controlled. ⁷ For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night. ⁸ But let us who are of the day be self-controlled, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

¹⁸ Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.

³ I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another.

⁷ and give to you, who are now troubled, rest, along with me at the unveiling "apocalypse" of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with his mighty angels, ⁸ in flaming fire. Then shall he take vengeance on those who know not God, even on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

⁸ in flaming fire. Then shall he take vengeance on those who know not God, even on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. ⁹ They shall suffer punishment, even an eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the brightness of his glorious majesty, ¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all believers, on that Day; (for you also believed our testimony).

¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all believers, on that Day; (for you also believed our testimony). ¹¹ To this end I am making my constant prayer for you, beseeching God to make you worthy of your calling, and to fulfil mightily every desire of goodness and effort of faith; ¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in him, according to the grace of our God and of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹¹ But I hear that there are those of your number who are leading idle and disorderly lives, who are not busy, but mere busybodies.

⁵ Now the end of the exhortation is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and an undissembled faith.

¹⁷ Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be glory and honor forever and ever. Amen!

² The minister should be a man of blameless character; he should be husband of but one wife; he should live a sober, self-restrained, orderly life; he should be hospitable, skilled in teaching;

¹³ Moreover, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and are not only idlers, but gossips also, and busybodies, repeating things they ought not.

¹⁶ who alone possesses immortality, who dwells in light that none can approach, whom no man has ever seen or can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

¹² But I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have fully believed, and I am thoroughly persuaded that he is able to keep what I have given him until the Day.

¹⁸ The Lord grant him to find mercy form the Lord in that Day! And you know better than I how many services he rendered in Ephesus.

⁹ For preaching it I am suffering, and am even put in chains as a malefactor.

¹² If we endure suffering, we shall also reign with him. If we disown him, he too will disown us.

¹² Yes, and all who purpose to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

¹ I adjure you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is about to judge the living and the dead—by his appearing and his kingdom, I adjure you—

⁵ But as for you, be always self-controlled, face hardships, do the work of a missionary, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

⁷ For indeed a presiding officer, as God's steward, ought to be blameless, not self-willed or quick-tempered, not a drunkard or violent, or greedy of filthy lucre; ⁸ but he must be hospitable, a lover of the good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled.

¹² And schooling us to renounce impiety and evil passions, And to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

³ For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another.

³ For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another.

³ For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another. ⁴ But when the kindness of God our Saviour, And his love toward men shined forth,

⁴ But when the kindness of God our Saviour, And his love toward men shined forth, ⁵ He saved us, not because of any deeds that we had done in righteousness, But because of his own pity for us. He saved us by that washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit

⁵ He saved us, not because of any deeds that we had done in righteousness, But because of his own pity for us. He saved us by that washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

⁶ which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour; ⁷ In order that being justified by his grace, We might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

⁷ In order that being justified by his grace, We might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. ⁸ This saying is trustworthy. On this I want you to firmly insist; that those who have faith in God must be careful to maintain honest occupations. Such counsels are good and profitable for men.

¹⁴ But without your consent I was unwilling to do anything, so that your kindness to me might be of your own free will, and not of compulsion.

² has at the end of these days spoken to us in a Son whom he appointed heir of all things; through whom also he made the universe. ³ He being an emanation of God's glory and stamp of his substance, and upholding the universe by the utterances of his power, after by himself making purification of our sins, has taken his seat on the right hand of the Majesty on High.

² For if the word uttered through angels stood firm, so that every transgression and act of disobedience met with its just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?

⁴ God himself corroborating their testimony by signs and wonders and a variety of miraculous powers, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit imparted in accordance with his own will.

¹ Let us be on our guard, then, though there is a promise still standing of being admitted to his rest, lest any one of you should be found to have come short of it.

¹⁰ For whoever has entered into his rest has rested from his works, just as God did from his.

⁹ and by being thus made perfect, he became the source of enduring salvation to all who obey him,

¹² And this too, although you ought by this time to be teaching others, you are still needing some one to teach you the very rudiments of divine revelation. You need milk, not solid food.

¹⁰ For God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you showed for his cause, in sending help to your fellow Christians, as you are still doing.

²⁵ not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting one another; all the more as you behold the Day drawing near.

³⁸ But it is by faith that my Righteous One will live, And if he draws back, my soul takes no pleasure in him. ³⁹ "But we are not of defections unto perdition, but of faith unto the gaining of the soul."

⁸ By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

²⁶ He accounted the obloquy of Christ to be greater than the treasures of Egypt; for he fixed his eyes on the reward.

² looking unto Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and has now taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Compare yourselves with him who endured such hostility against himself at the hands of sinners, lest you grow weary, fainting in your souls.

³ Compare yourselves with him who endured such hostility against himself at the hands of sinners, lest you grow weary, fainting in your souls.

²⁴ to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant, and to his sprinkled Blood whose message cries louder than that of Abel. ²⁵ See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape punishment when they refused to listen to their instructor on earth, much less shall we escape if we turn away from him who is teaching us from heaven;

¹ Let brotherly love continue. ² Do not neglect to show hospitality; for by it some have even entertained angels unawares.

¹⁶ And forget not to be kind and liberal; for with that sort of sacrifice God is well pleased.

²¹ equip you in every good deed for the doing of his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory unto the ages of the ages! Amen!

² My brothers, when you are beset by various temptations, count it all joy,

² My brothers, when you are beset by various temptations, count it all joy, ³ because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance.

³ because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance. ⁴ But let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, not lacking in anything.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

¹⁸ Because he willed, he gave us birth through the word of truth, so that we should be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures. ¹⁹ Mark this well, my dear brothers. Let every man be swift in hearing, slow in speaking, slow in growing angry;

²⁶ If a man thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own religion,

¹ Do not become many teachers, my brothers, because you know well that we teachers shall be judged by a severer standard than others. ² For in many respects we often stumble. If any man never stumbles in speech, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well. ³ When we put bits in the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we control their whole body also. ⁴ Look at the ships too, though they are so large, even when driven by fierce winds they are turned by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the helmsman wills. ⁵ So also the tongue is a small member and makes great boasts. Behold, how great a forest is set on fire by a little spark! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire; it is a very world of iniquity among our members, defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the wheel of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.

⁸ So you also must be patient. Stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is at hand! ⁹ Do not make complaints against each other, brothers, lest you yourselves be condemned. Behold the Judge is standing before the very door!

⁹ Do not make complaints against each other, brothers, lest you yourselves be condemned. Behold the Judge is standing before the very door!

¹¹ Remember we count those that were stedfast happy. You have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen how the Lord is full of tenderness. ¹² Again, above all things, my brothers, swear not at all, neither by the heavens, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. Let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no," so you will not fall under condemnation.

²⁰ let him know that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his ways, saves his soul from death, and hides a multitude of sins.

⁵ who, through faith, are continuously guarded by the power of God for a salvation, ready to be revealed in the last days. ⁶ Exult in this, though now for a brief moment, if need be, you have suffered many hardships.

⁶ Exult in this, though now for a brief moment, if need be, you have suffered many hardships. ⁷ These are in order that the test of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable and yet is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honor, at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

⁷ These are in order that the test of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable and yet is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honor, at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ⁸ Him you love, though you have never seen him; in him you ever believe, though even now you see him not, and you are rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory,

¹³ So then brace up your minds, be steady in spirit, and fix your hope firmly in the grace that is coming to you, at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴ Like obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former passions of your days of ignorance,

²² Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your lives for a brotherly love without hypocrisy, you must love one another from your hearts, fervently.

¹ Therefore put away all malice, all deceit, insincerity, jealousy, and slander of every sort.

⁵ And yourselves like living stones be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God, through Christ Jesus.

⁸ and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble over it because they are disobeying God's word, and to this they were also appointed.

¹² Let your manner of life before the Gentiles be honest; so that, although they are now slandering you as evil-doers, they may, by beholding your noble conduct, come to glorify God, in the day of visitation.

¹⁴ or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the encouragement of well-doers. ¹⁵ For it is the will of God that by well-doing you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.

¹⁵ For it is the will of God that by well-doing you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.

¹⁹ For it is an acceptable thing to God, if from a sense of duty to him, a man endures a wrong, even suffering unjustly. ²⁰ For what credit is it if, when you are struck for a fault, you take it patiently? But if when you are doing well and suffer for it, you always take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

⁷ In the same way you husbands live with your wives, according to knowledge, honoring your wife as of the weaker sex, yet as an heir with yourself of the grace of life; so that your prayers may not be hindered.

¹⁴ But even if you should suffer in behalf of righteousness, you are happy. Do not be afraid of their terror, neither be troubled.

¹⁶ See that you have a clear conscience, so that, although they speak of you as evil-doers, these libelers of your good Christian lives may be ashamed. ¹⁷ For it is better that you suffer for doing right, if such be God's will, than for doing wrong;

¹⁷ For it is better that you suffer for doing right, if such be God's will, than for doing wrong; ¹⁸ because Christ also once for all suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but make alive in spirit.

¹⁸ because Christ also once for all suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but make alive in spirit. ¹⁹ (It was in spirit that he went and preached the Word to the spirits who were in prison,

¹ Since, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, do you also ever arm yourselves with the same mind (because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin), ² so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God.

⁴ They are astonished at this, that you do not run into the same excesses of profligacy as they do; and they speak evil of you.

⁴ They are astonished at this, that you do not run into the same excesses of profligacy as they do; and they speak evil of you. ⁵ But they must render account to Him who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.

¹⁰ Whatever the gifts which each has received, use them for one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

¹² Do not think it strange, beloved, that a fiery ordeal has come to test you, as though some surprising thing had befallen you. ¹³ But be glad in the degree in which you share in the sufferings of Christ; so that when his glory shall be revealed, you too may be glad with triumphant gladness. ¹⁴ If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God is resting upon you. ¹⁵ But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as a spy upon other people's business. ¹⁶ But if any man is suffering as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him ever glorify God in this Name.

¹⁹ So let those who are suffering according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well-doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

¹ Now to you who are presbyters I make this appeal; for I am myself a presbyter, and was a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory about to be revealed.

⁸ Be temperate, be vigilant; because your enemy, the devil, is prowling about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. ⁹ Resist him, standing firm in the faith, knowing well that the same afflictions are being accomplished in your brothers that are in the world. ¹⁰ But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. ¹¹ His is the dominion forever and ever; Amen.

⁶ and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety, ⁷ and to piety brotherly love, and to brotherly love, love itself.

² Then there will be many who will follow their immorality, because of whom the Way of the Truth will be maligned.

⁵ if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon an ungodly world; ⁶ if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and reduced them to ashes, thus holding them up as a warning to all who would live ungodly;

¹² But these men, like irrational creatures, mere animals, born to be taken and destroyed, continually rail about matters of which they know nothing. In their corruption they will surely be destroyed,

²² In their case it has happened according to the true proverb, The dog returns again to his own vomit, and The sow, after washing, to her wallowing in the mire.

⁷ But the heavens and earth that now are, by the same word of God, have been reserved for fire, and are being kept for the Day of Judgment, and for the destruction of ungodly men.

⁹ The Lord does not loiter over his promise, as some men esteem loitering; but he is longsuffering toward you, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should pass on to repentance. ¹⁰ But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief; and on that Day the heavens will vanish with a crash, the heavenly bodies will melt with fervent heat, and the earth and all its works will be burned up. ¹¹ Now since all things are in the process of dissolution, what kind of men ought you to be, in all holy living and piety;

¹⁷ and the world and its lusts are passing away, but he who ever does the will of God abides forever. ¹⁸ My children, this is the last hour, and as you have heard that an antichrist was coming, and now many antichrists are already risen, whence we may know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They came forth from us, but they did not belong to us. If they had belonged to us they would certainly have remained with us, but they went out that they might be manifest that they all are not of us.

² I pray that you may prosper, beloved, in every way, and be in good health, even as your soul is prospering.

⁴ For certain men have crept in stealthily—men predestined in ancient prophecies for this condemnation—impious ones! They pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness, and deny Jesus Christ, our sole Master and Lord.

¹⁰ Yet these men blaspheme about matters of which they know nothing, while they use such things as they do understand by instinct (like the animals who have no reason) for their own destruction.

¹⁴ It was to these, too, that Enoch, the "seventh in descent from Adam," prophesied, saying, "Lo! the Lord is come with myriads of his saints, ¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly deeds which in their ungodliness they have committed; and of all the hard things which they have spoken against Him, ungodly sinners that they are!"

¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly deeds which in their ungodliness they have committed; and of all the hard things which they have spoken against Him, ungodly sinners that they are!"

²⁵ to the only God, our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be ascribed glory, majesty, might, and authority, as it was before time began, is now, and ever shall be to all the ages. Amen.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins in his own blood; ⁶ and has made us to be a kingdom of priests unto his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever, Amen. ⁷ Behold, he is about to come among the clouds; and every eye will see him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. So shall it be, Amen.

⁹ I, John, who am your brother and who share with you in the woes and kingdom and stedfastness of Jesus, found myself in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

¹⁰ the four and twenty Elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying. ¹¹ "Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, To receive the glory and the honor and the power; For thou didst create all things, And because of thy will they came into being And were created."

⁹ And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book And to open its seals; For thou wast slain and didst ransom for God Men out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation; ¹⁰ Thou hast made them kings and priests unto our God, And they shall reign on earth." ¹¹ Then I looked and heard a voice of many angels encircling the throne and a voice of the Living Creatures and of the Elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, ¹² singing aloud, "Worthy is the Lamb who has been slain, To receive power and riches and wisdom And might and honor and glory and blessing." ¹³ And I heard every created thing that is in heaven, or on earth, or beneath the earth, or on the sea, and all things that are in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, Be the blessing and the honor, And the glory and the power, Forever and ever!" ¹⁴ And the four Living Creatures kept saying, "Amen!" And the Elders fell down and worshiped.

¹⁸ And another angel came from the altar, the angel who has power over fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Thrust in your sharp sickle, And gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, For its grapes are fully ripe."

¹⁵ Lo, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the who is on the watch and guarding his clothing, so that he may not walk naked, and they gaze on his shame.

⁴ The woman was enwrapped in purple and scarlet and was encrusted with gold and precious stones and pearls. In her hand she held a golden cup filled with abominations, even the impurities of her immorality. ⁵ Upon her forehead a name was written, a mystery, "BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, AND ABOMINABLE THINGS OF THE EARTH."