2 Corinthians 5 Cross References - MNT

¹ For I know, if this earthly tent of mine were struck, I have a mansion built by God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ² For in this tent I am groaning, earnestly longing to be under the cover of my heavenly habitation; if so be that being so covered, ³ I shall not be found naked. ⁴ For in this tent of mine I am groaning in deep trouble; not that I wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up in life. ⁵ And He who has wrought me out for this very end is God, who has given me his Spirit as pledge. ⁶ Therefore I am always of good courage, because I well know that while I am at home in the body, I am in banishment from the Lord, ⁷ for I am walking by faith, not by sight. ⁸ So I have good courage, and am well pleased rather, to be in banishment from the body and to be at home with the Lord. ⁹ And for this reason I also make it home with the Lord. ¹⁰ For we must all be made manifest, in our true characters, before the Judgment-seat of Christ; so that each one may receive according to that which he has done in his body, whether good or evil. ¹¹ So, because I know the fear of God, I "persuade men." What I am is manifest to God, and I hope manifest also to your conscience. ¹² I am not "commending myself to you again," but I am giving you an occasion of boasting on my behalf, so that you may have an answer ready for those who boast in externals, and not in the heart. ¹³ For if I was "beside myself," it was to God; of if I am now "of sound mind," it is for you. ¹⁴ For the love of Christ overmasters me; because I thus judge that if One has died for all, then all have died; 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. ¹⁶ Therefore henceforth I know no one simply as a man—even if I have known Christ as a man, yet now I do so no longer. ¹⁷ So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come. ¹⁸ And all this is from God, who through Christ reconciled me to himself, and gave me the ministry of reconciliation; ¹⁹ how that God was in Christ reconciling a world to himself, not reckoning to men their trespasses; and that to me he has entrusted the message of that reconciliation. ²⁰ On Christ's behalf, then, I come as ambassador. It is as though God was entreating you, through me, on Christ's behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God. ²¹ Him who knew no sin, in our behalf he has made to be sin; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

²³ Behold! the virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a son; and they shall call his name Immanuel, a word which means "God with us."

¹⁶ "No one ever sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old cloak. If they did, the patch put on to fill it up would tear away from the cloak, and the rent be made worse. ¹⁷ "Nor do they put new wine into old wine-skins; if they did, the wine-skins would split, the wine would run out, and the skins be ruined. Instead, they put new wine into fresh wine-skins and both are preserved."

²⁸ "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but fear rather him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

³⁷ "He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

³⁷ "He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; ³⁸ "and he who does not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

³³ "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for by its fruit the tree is known.

⁴⁸ But he answered the man who told him, "Who is my mother and who are my brothers?" ⁴⁹ And stretching his hand toward his disciples, he said, 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."

³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

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; 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. 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?' 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."

⁴⁶ "And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the righteous into eternal life."

³¹ Then his mother and his brothers came up, and standing outside, they sent a messenger to him to call him. ³² Now a crowd was sitting round him and they told him, "See! your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, wanting to see you." ³³ "Who are my mother and my brothers?" he replied. ³⁴ Then, with a glance at those who were in the circle sitting around him, he added. ³⁵ "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God, that one is my brother and sister and mother."

³⁵ For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever, for my sake and the gospel's, loses his life will save it. ³⁶ For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own life? ³⁷ Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life? 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."

⁴³ "If your hand cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to be maimed and to enter into life than to have two hands and go away into hell, into the fire that cannot be put out. ⁴⁴ OMITTED TEXT. ⁴⁵ If your foot cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to enter into the life a cripple, than to have two feet and be cast into hell. ⁴⁶ OMITTED TEXT. ⁴⁷ If your eye cause you to stumble, tear it out! It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God one-eyed that to keep both your eyes and be cast into hell, ⁴⁸ where their worm never dies and the fire does not go out. ⁴⁹ For by fire every one will be salted; ⁵⁰ salt is excellent, but if the salt has lost its savor, what will you use to restore its saltness? Then have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

⁵⁸ "We heard him say, 'I will tear down this temple made by hands, and in three days I will build another temple not made by hands.'"

¹⁵ And he said to them. "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. ¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who disbelieves shall be condemned.

³⁵ "The Holy Spirit shall come upon you," said the angel, "and the power of the most High shall overshadow you, and therefore the holy offspring which is born, shall be called the son of God.

⁷⁴ "That he we should be delivered out of the Hand of our enemies, And should serve him without fear,

²⁹ "Now lettest thou thy slave depart, O Master; according to thy word in peace,

⁴² "When they had nothing pay he forgave them with such charm. "Tell me, then, which of these will love him most?" ⁴³ "I take it," said Simon, "the one he forgave the most." ⁴⁴ "You have rightly judged." answered Jesus, and turning to the woman, he said to Simon. "Do you see this woman? When I came into your house you gave me no water for my feet; but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. ⁴⁵ "You gave me no kiss; but she, since she came in, has never ceased tenderly kissing my feet; ⁴⁶ "you never anointed my head with oil; but she has anointed my feet with my feet with perfume. ⁴⁷ "This is why I tell you that her sins, many as they are, are forgiven, for her love is great; but he who is forgiven little, loves but little.

⁵ "Into whatever you first enter, say, 'Peace be to this house!'

¹⁶ "He who listens to you listens to me. and he who rejects you, rejects me; he who rejects me, rejects him who sent me."

⁵ "I will warn you whom you ought to fear. Fear him who, after he was after he has killed, has power to throw you into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

²³ "Said the master to his slave. 'Go out into the roads and the hedges, and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.

²⁴ "'for this son of mine was dead and is alive again—he was lost and is found.'

³² "'But it was fitting that we should make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive; he was lost and is found.'"

³¹ "'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets,' said Father Abraham, 'neither will they be persuaded if one should rise from the dead.'"

²⁹ But they urged him to stay with them, saying, "Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is now far spent."

⁴⁷ "and that repentance unto remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

²⁹ The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said: "Behold, that is God's Lamb, who takes and bears away the sin of the world.

⁴ "Woman," said Jesus, "what have you to do with me? My time is not yet come."

³ "In very truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

⁵ "I tell you solemnly," Jesus answered, "that unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

¹⁵ in order that every one who believes in him may have eternal life. ¹⁶ "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever trusts in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

¹⁶ "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever trusts in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

²⁷ In reply John said: "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven.

²⁴ "I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life. 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.

²⁷ "Labor not for food which perishes, but for the food that endures eternal life—that which the Son of man will give you; for on the Father—God—has set his seal."

⁵⁷ "Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so also that man who feeds on me shall live by me.

⁶³ "The spirit is what gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words which I have been speaking to you, are spirit and are life.

²⁵ "I am the resurrection and the life," said Jesus. "He who believes in me, even if he has died, shall live.

⁵⁰ "You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation be destroyed." ⁵¹ now he did not say this of his own accord; but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die in behalf of the nation, ⁵² and not in behalf of the nation alone, but in order that he might gather into one the widely scattered children of God.

² In my Father's house there are many rooms If it were not so, would I have told you that I went to prepare a place for you? ³ I will return and will take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be also.

³ I will return and will take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be also.

¹⁰ "Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of myself; but the Father, who ever dwells in me, is doing his own work. ¹¹ "Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very words' sake.

²⁰ "At that day you shall understand that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. ²¹ "It is he who has my commands and obeys them that loves me; and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him." ²² "How is it, Lord," said Judas (not Iscariot) "that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus replied. "If any loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

² "He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more.

⁵ "I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.

¹⁴ "You are my friends if you do what I command you.

²³ I in them and thou in me; that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou didst send me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me. ²⁴ "Father, it is my will that wherever I am these also, thy gift to me, may be with me, that they may see the glory, my glory which thou hast given me, because thou didst love me before the foundations of the world.

²¹ Then Jesus said to them again. "Peace to you. As my Father has sent me forth, I also now am sending you."

¹⁵ When they were through breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these others do?" "Yes, Lord, you know that you are dear to me." he answered. Jesus said to him, "Feed my lambs." ¹⁶ He said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He answered, "Yes, Lord, you know that you are dear to me." "Be a shepherd to my sheep," said Jesus. ¹⁷ The third time Jesus asked him, "Am I really dear to you?" Peter was grieved because the third time he asked, "Am I really dear to you?" and he answered, "Master, you know all things, you know that you are dear to me."

¹⁴ "but you disowned the holy and righteous One, and asked as a favor the release of a murderer.

¹⁹ But Peter and John said in reply. "Do you decide whether in the sight of God it is right to obey you rather than God; ²⁰ but for our part, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard."

³⁵ "but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him. ³⁶ "You cannot but know the message which he sent to the descendants of Israel, when he preached the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ who is Lord of all;

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.

³⁸ "Be it known unto you therefore, brothers, that remission of sins is proclaimed to you through this man; ³⁹ "and that by him every one that believes is justified from all things from which you could never be justified by the law of Moses.

⁴³ When the congregation broke up, many of the Jews, and of the devout proselytes, followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked to them, and urged them to continue in the grace of God.

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."

⁴ Every Sabbath he used to preach in the synagogue, and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks. ⁵ And when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in his message, earnestly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.

¹³ "This fellow," they said, "is persuading men to offer unlawful worship to God."

²⁶ "And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but almost throughout all of Asia, this fellow Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, by telling them that they are no gods at all who are made with hands.

¹⁸ and when they arrived, he said to them. "You yourselves know quite well, how I lived among you, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, ¹⁹ "serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and amid trials that befell me through the plots of the Jews. ²⁰ "You know that I never shrank from declaring to you anything that was profitable, nor from teaching you publicity and in your homes, ²¹ testifying both to Jews and Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. ²² And now I am going to Jerusalem, bound in the Spirit, not knowing what will befall me there, ²³ except that in city after city the Holy Spirit is warning me that bonds and afflictions are awaiting me. ²⁴ But I hold not my life of any account, as dear unto myself, if only I may run my race, and accomplish the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to attest the gospel of the grace of God. ²⁵ And now I know that not one of you among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will ever see my face again. ²⁶ So I testify to you this day that I am clear from the blood of all men; ²⁷ I never shrank from telling you the whole counsel of God.

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."

¹⁷ "'I will deliver you from the Jewish people, and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes ¹⁸ "'so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order to receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

²⁴ As Paul thus made his defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice. "Paul, you are raving mad; your great learning is driving you mad." ²⁵ "I am not mad, most noble Festus," said Paul, ²⁶ "I am speaking words of sober truth. For the King, to whom I am speaking freely, knows of these matters. I am persuaded that not one of these things has escaped his notice; for these things were not done in a corner.

²³ So they arranged a day with him and came to him in his lodgings in great numbers. He expounded the matter to them; testifying to the Kingdom of God, and persuading them about Jesus, from morning till evening, both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.

¹⁷ FOR IN IT IS BEING REVEALED A RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH PROCEEDS FROM GOD, FROM FAITH UNTO FAITH; AS IT IS WRITTEN.

² "We know that God's judgment against those who practise such vices is in accord with the truth," you say?

⁵ In your hardness and impenitence of heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath on the Day of Wrath, when the righteous judgment of God is revealed. ⁶ For He will render to every man according to his works; ⁷ eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality; ⁸ but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness. ⁹ Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practices evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile; ¹⁰ but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

²¹ But now, quite apart from any law, a righteousness coming from God has been fully brought to light, continually witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets. ²² I mean a righteousness coming from God through faith in Jesus Christ, for all who believe. For there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile, ²³ since all have sinned and lack the glory which comes from God; ²⁴ but they are now being justified by his free grace through the deliverance that is in Christ Jesus. ²⁵ For God openly set him forth for himself as an offering of atonement through faith, by means of his blood, in order to show forth his righteousness—since in his forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed—to show forth his righteousness, ²⁶ I say, at this present time; that he himself might be just, and yet the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

⁶ Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from actions. ⁷ Blessed he says are they whose iniquities have been forgiven, And whose sins have been covered. ⁸ Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

²⁵ who was betrayed to death for our transgressions, and raised again to life for our justification.

¹ Since we stand justified as the result of faith, let us continue to enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved in his life. ¹¹ And not only that, but we exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now obtained our reconciliation.

¹⁵ But the free gift is not like the transgression; for if through the transgression of that one man the rest on men died, much more did the grace of God and the gift given in his grace in the one Man, Jesus Christ, overflow unto the rest of men.

¹⁹ For just as through the disobedience of one man the rest were made sinners; even so by the obedience of One shall all the rest be made righteous.

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

⁴ We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life. ⁵ For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, so we shall also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection. ⁶ For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin—

⁶ For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin—

¹¹ Even so count yourselves also to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. ¹² Therefore let not sin rule as king in your mortal body, compelling you to obey its lusts. ¹³ Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.

¹⁹ I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature—just as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.

⁶ But now we have been released from the Law, because we are dead to that in which we were held; so that we are now in thralldom in new and spiritual conditions, and not under the old written code.

²⁴ Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this slave of death?

¹ Thus there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;

¹ Thus there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus; ² for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

² for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death. ³ For God has done what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; ⁴ in order that the Law might be fulfilled in us who order our lives not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

⁶ To be earthly minded means death; To be spiritually minded means life and peace.

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.

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.

²³ And not only that, we ourselves, although we are grasping the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we are waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body. ²⁴ For by hope we are saved; but hope which is clearly seen is no longer hope. ²⁵ Who hopes for what he clearly sees? But if we hope for something that we do not see, we then patiently wait for it.

³ For because they were ignorant of God's righteousness, and sought to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God. ⁴ For to every believer Christ is an end of law as a means of righteousness.

¹⁵ For if their casting out is the reconciliation of the world to God, what will their restoration be but life out of death?

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

¹ I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship.

¹ I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship. 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. ³ For, through the grace that was given to me, I tell every man among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think, as to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God has given him.

⁷ For not one of us lives unto himself, and not one dies unto himself. ⁸ If we live, we live unto our Lord; if we die, we die unto our Lord. So then, whether we live or die, we belong to our Lord.

⁸ If we live, we live unto our Lord; if we die, we die unto our Lord. So then, whether we live or die, we belong to our Lord. ⁹ For this purpose Christ died and became alive again, that he might be the Lord both of the dead and of the living. 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.

¹⁸ Those who are slaving for Christ devotedly in these ways, are well pleasing to God and highly commended by man.

²⁰ My ambition has been, however, to preach the gospel where Christ's name was not already known, so that I might not build upon another man's foundation.

⁷ and Andronicus and Junia, my kinsfolk and fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, and who became Christians before I did.

¹¹ and Herodion, my kinsman. Salute the believing members of the household of Narcissus.

³⁰ It is of him that you are in Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

¹⁴ The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God's Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,

⁹ For we are God's fellow workers; and you are God's field, you are God's building.

⁴ Indeed I do not even judge myself; for though I know nothing against myself, yet that does not vindicate me; for he who judges me is the Lord. ⁵ So make no hasty judgment until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make plain the purpose of men's hearts. Then each man's due praise will come to him from God.

⁵ So make no hasty judgment until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make plain the purpose of men's hearts. Then each man's due praise will come to him from God.

¹⁰ For Christ's sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast. ¹¹ Even to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows. ¹² Homeless men, we toil, working with our own hands. ¹³ When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we conciliate. We have been made, as it were, scum-o'-the-earth, the very refuse of the world, to this very hour!

¹² "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but not all things are good for me. "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but I will not let myself be enslaved by the power of any. ¹³ "Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body; ¹⁴ and the God who raised up our Lord will up-raise us also by his mighty power. ¹⁵ You know, do you not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid! ¹⁶ Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.) ¹⁷ While a man who is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit? ¹⁸ Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God? ²⁰ You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.

⁶ yet for there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

²⁶ For my part, then, I run with no wavering to the goal. I box not as one beating the air, ²⁷ but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.

³³ For so I also try to please all men in every way, not by seeking my own good, but the good of the many, that they may be saved.

⁶ and varieties of work, and the same God, who works in all.

¹¹ When I was a child I spoke like a child, felt like a child, thought like a child; now that I am become a man, I have done with childish things. ¹² For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

⁴⁶ Now it is not the spiritual which is first, but the animal, and then the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man is of the earth, earthly; the second Man is of heaven. ⁴⁸ Like him who was of earth, are the earthy; and like Him who is of heaven, are the heavenly;

⁵³ For this corruptible must be clothed with incorruption, and this mortal must be clothed with immortality. ⁵⁴ And when this mortal has been clothed with immortality, then will the words of Scripture come to pass, Death has been swallowed up in victory.

⁵⁸ So, my brothers beloved, stand firm, immovable, always abounding in work for the Lord, because you know that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.

²² If any one does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord is coming.

¹² For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you. ¹³ For I am writing to you nothing different from what you read aloud and very well recognize, and I hope will continue to recognize to the very end, ¹⁴ as some indeed did recognize in part at last, that I am your cause of boasting, just as you will be mine on the Day of Jesus our Lord.

¹⁴ as some indeed did recognize in part at last, that I am your cause of boasting, just as you will be mine on the Day of Jesus our Lord.

²² He has also set his seal upon me, and given me the pledge of his Spirit in my heart.

²⁴ (not that I am attempting to lord it over your faith, but rather to work with you for your happiness); for your faith is stedfast.

¹⁷ I am; for I am not like most, trafficking in the word of God, but rather from a sincere heart, like a man of God, I speak in Christ, in the very presence of God.

¹ Am I beginning again to "recommend" myself? Or do I need, as some do, letters of commendation either to you or from you?

⁶ It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive. ⁷ If, however, the administration of death, written with letters and engraved on stones, began in glory, so that the children of Israel could not gaze steadily on the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face—a glory even then fading—

⁹ For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, far more is the ministry of righteousness radiant in glory.

¹ So then, as I have this ministry because of God's mercy to me, I do not lose heart. ² I have renounced the hidden things of shame, not spending my life in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but setting forth the truth openly, I strive to commend myself to every man's conscience as in the sight of God.

⁷ But I hold this treasure in an earthen vessel, in order that the surpassing greatness of the power may be from God, and not from myself.

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, ¹⁸ while I am gazing not at things seen, but at things unseen; for things seen are temporal, but things unseen are eternal.

¹ For I know, if this earthly tent of mine were struck, I have a mansion built by God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ² For in this tent I am groaning, earnestly longing to be under the cover of my heavenly habitation; if so be that being so covered, ³ I shall not be found naked. ⁴ For in this tent of mine I am groaning in deep trouble; not that I wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up in life.

⁴ For in this tent of mine I am groaning in deep trouble; not that I wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up in life.

⁶ Therefore I am always of good courage, because I well know that while I am at home in the body, I am in banishment from the Lord,

⁸ So I have good courage, and am well pleased rather, to be in banishment from the body and to be at home with the Lord. ⁹ And for this reason I also make it home with the Lord.

¹¹ So, because I know the fear of God, I "persuade men." What I am is manifest to God, and I hope manifest also to your conscience.

¹⁶ Therefore henceforth I know no one simply as a man—even if I have known Christ as a man, yet now I do so no longer. ¹⁷ So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come.

¹⁹ how that God was in Christ reconciling a world to himself, not reckoning to men their trespasses; and that to me he has entrusted the message of that reconciliation.

¹⁹ how that God was in Christ reconciling a world to himself, not reckoning to men their trespasses; and that to me he has entrusted the message of that reconciliation. ²⁰ On Christ's behalf, then, I come as ambassador. It is as though God was entreating you, through me, on Christ's behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God.

²⁰ On Christ's behalf, then, I come as ambassador. It is as though God was entreating you, through me, on Christ's behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God. ²¹ Him who knew no sin, in our behalf he has made to be sin; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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

⁴ but in every way I am striving to commend myself as God's minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses,

³ I am not saying this to blame you, for as I have already said, I hold you in my heart to live together and to die together.

¹² So then, even if I did write to you, it was not for the sake of the wrong-doer, or of him who had been wronged, but to make clear to yourselves in the sight of God your earnest care for me.

⁸ I do not say this by way of command, but by the zeal of others I am trying to prove the reality of your love. ⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

⁸ If, however, I were to boast more loudly concerning the authority which the Lord gave me (not to cast you down, but to build you up), I should have no cause for shame.

¹² I have not indeed the audacity to class myself among, or compare myself with, certain of the self-commenders; yet they are not wise in measuring themselves by one another and in comparing themselves with one another.

¹⁸ For a man is proved worthy, not by his self-commendation, but when he is commended by the Lord.

¹ Would that you could put up with a little "folly" from me! Nay, do bear with me.

¹² I am doing and will continue to do this in order to cut away the ground from under those who wish some cause for slander; and that the ground of their boasting may appear as does mine. ¹³ For such fellows are sham apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ No wonder! for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light. ¹⁵ It is no great marvel, then, if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will be according to their works. ¹⁶ I say again, let no one think me a fool. Or, if you must, at least bear with me as a fool, that I, too, may do a little boasting.

¹⁶ I say again, let no one think me a fool. Or, if you must, at least bear with me as a fool, that I, too, may do a little boasting. ¹⁷ What I am about to say I am not speaking by the Lord's command, but as it were in pure folly, in this boldness of boasting. ¹⁸ Since so many are making worldly boasts, I shall boast, too!

¹ I am forced to boast, though it is unprofitable, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. ² I know a Christian man who, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body, I know not. God knows), was caught up—this man of whom I speak—even into the third heaven.

² I know a Christian man who, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body, I know not. God knows), was caught up—this man of whom I speak—even into the third heaven.

² I know a Christian man who, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body, I know not. God knows), was caught up—this man of whom I speak—even into the third heaven. ³ And I know such a man (whether in the body or apart from the body I know not, God knows),

³ And I know such a man (whether in the body or apart from the body I know not, God knows), ⁴ who was caught up into Paradise, and heard unutterable words which no human being is permitted to utter. ⁵ Of such a one I will boast; but on my own behalf I will not boast except in my weaknesses. ⁶ If I should choose to continue boasting I should not be foolish, for I should be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest by the stupendous grandeur of the revelation any one should estimate me beyond what he sees in me, or hears from me.

⁶ If I should choose to continue boasting I should not be foolish, for I should be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest by the stupendous grandeur of the revelation any one should estimate me beyond what he sees in me, or hears from me. ⁷ It was for this reason, lest I should be over-elated, that there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, lest I should be over-elated. ⁸ Concerning this, three times over I supplicated the Lord that it might leave me; ⁹ but he has answered me. "My grace is sufficient for you; it is in weakness that my power is perfected."

¹¹ I am become a fool—you have forced me to; for you yourselves ought to have been my vindicators. In no respect am I inferior to these superapostolic apostles, even though I am nothing.

¹⁰ Think you that I am now trying to conciliate men or God? Or am I "seeking to please men"? If I were still seeking to please men, I should not be a slave of Christ.

⁵ To them we did not yield submission even for an hour, in order that the truth of the gospel might abide unshaken among you. ⁶ But those in authority—what they once were makes no difference to me; God is no respecter of persons—those I say who were in authority had no additions to make my message.

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.

¹³ Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us (for it is written, Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree),

²⁸ In him there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

⁶ because in Christ neither circumcision has any value, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works through love.

²⁵ If we are living by the Spirit, let us also keep step in the Spirit.

⁷ Be not deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, that will he also reap. ⁸ The man who is sowing to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption; but he who is sowing to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap life eternal.

¹² Those who are trying to compel you to be circumcised are such as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. ¹³ Even those who are being circumcised, are not themselves keeping the Law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may glory in your flesh. ¹⁴ God forbid that I should glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world has been crucified to me and I have been crucified to the world. ¹⁵ For in Jesus Christ neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ. ⁴ Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish in his sight.

⁶ and to the praise of his glorious grace which he graciously bestowed upon us in the Beloved.

¹³ And in him, because you listened to the proclamation of the truth, the evangel of your salvation, and trusted it, you Gentiles too were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, ¹⁴ who for the praise of his glory is the pledge of our common heritage, unto the complete redemption of his purchased property.

¹ And so God has given life to you Gentiles also, who were once dead in your trespasses and sins, 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. 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).

¹⁰ for we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good deeds, which God predestined us to make our daily way of life.

¹⁵ In his own body he abolished the cause of our enmity, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, in order to make the two into one new man in himself, so making peace. ¹⁶ Thus he reconciled us both in one body to God by his cross, on which he slew our enmity. ¹⁷ So he came preaching "Peace" to you Gentiles who were afar off, and "Peace" to us Jews who were near;

¹⁸ that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is "the breadth," "the length," "the depth," and "the height," ¹⁹ and may know the love of Christ which transcends all knowing, so that you may be filled with all the "plenitude" of God.

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;

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.

³⁰ And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

² and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."

¹⁴ For this reason it is said, "Awake, thou sleeper! Arise from the dead; And Christ shall shine upon thee!"

⁸ because you know that whatever good any man does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be slave or free man.

²⁰ and in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it boldly as I ought to speak.

²⁴ May grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with sincerity.

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.

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. ²¹ For, with me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

²¹ For, with me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. ²² But now, if life in the flesh, if this be the fruit of my toil—what to choose I do not know, ²³ but am in a quandary between the two. I am perplexed. I have a strong desire to break camp and to be with Christ, which is far better;

²³ but am in a quandary between the two. I am perplexed. I have a strong desire to break camp and to be with Christ, which is far better; ²⁴ but for your sakes it is more necessary that I should still live on in the body.

⁷ But what was once gain to me, that I have counted loss for Christ.

⁷ But what was once gain to me, that I have counted loss for Christ. ⁸ In very truth I count all things but loss compared to the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and esteem them but refuse that I may gain Christ,

⁸ In very truth I count all things but loss compared to the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and esteem them but refuse that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and be found in him; not having my own righteousness of the Law, but that alone which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which comes from God, founded upon faith.

⁹ and be found in him; not having my own righteousness of the Law, but that alone which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which comes from God, founded upon faith.

²⁰ But commonwealth is in heaven; and it is from heaven also that we are anxiously awaiting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ who will change the fashion of the body of our abasement into the likeness of his glorious body by the energy with which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

²¹ Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me salute you.

¹⁰ that you may walk worthy of the Lord in every kind of pleasing; that you may be fruitful in every kind of good work, and may increase in the knowledge of God;

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.

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. ²¹ And you, alienated as you once were, hostile at heart in your evil deeds,

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.

²⁸ Him I am ever proclaiming, warning every one and teaching every one, in all wisdom; that I may bring every man into his presence, full grown in Christ. ²⁹ For that end I am ever toiling, wrestling with all that energy of his which is mightily at work within me.

²⁹ For that end I am ever toiling, wrestling with all that energy of his which is mightily at work within me.

⁹ For it is in Christ that all the fullness of deity dwells bodily,

¹¹ In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands; even in putting off your sensual nature in Christ's own circumcision, ¹² when you were buried with him in baptism. In baptism also you were raised with him, through your faith in the energy of that God who raised him from the dead. ¹³ And you also, at one time dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sensual nature, he has made alive together with himself. For he forgave us all our transgressions,

¹ If you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ abides, seated on the right hand of God.

¹ If you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ abides, seated on the right hand of God. ² Set your heart on things above, not on earthly things; 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. ⁶ These things are ever bringing down the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience, 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. ⁹ Lie not one to another, but strip off the old self with its doings, ¹⁰ and put on that new self which is continually made over according to the likeness of its Creator, into full understanding. ¹¹ In it that new creation there is no "Greek and Jew," "circumcised and uncircumcised," "barbarian," "Scythian," "slave," "free man," but Christ is all, and in us all.

¹⁷ And whatever you do, whether in word of in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God our Father through him.

²³ And whatever you do, do it heartily as for the Lord, and not for men. ²⁴ You know that from the Lord you will receive reward of the inheritance, for you are the Lord Christ's slaves. ²⁵ For he who wrongs another will be paid back for his wrong-doing, and there will be no favoritism.

⁵ for my gospel did not come to you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. For you know also the manner in which I behaved myself among you for your sakes.

³ For my preaching was not grounded on a delusion, or on impure motives, on in deceit.

³ For my preaching was not grounded on a delusion, or on impure motives, on in deceit. ⁴ But as my fitness to be entrusted with the gospel has been tested and approved by God, I so speak, not to please men, but to please God, who is testing my motives.

⁴ But as my fitness to be entrusted with the gospel has been tested and approved by God, I so speak, not to please men, but to please God, who is testing my motives. ⁵ For as you well know, I never resorted to flattery, nor to any pretext for enriching myself. God is my witness!

⁵ For as you well know, I never resorted to flattery, nor to any pretext for enriching myself. God is my witness! ⁶ Now was I seeking glory from men, either yourselves or others, although I might have exercised authority as Christ's apostle.

⁶ Now was I seeking glory from men, either yourselves or others, although I might have exercised authority as Christ's apostle. ⁷ On the contrary I showed myself among you as gentle as a mother, when she tenderly nurses her own children.

⁷ On the contrary I showed myself among you as gentle as a mother, when she tenderly nurses her own children. ⁸ So in my fond affection it was my joy to give you, not only the gospel of God, but my very life also, because you had become dear to me.

⁸ So in my fond affection it was my joy to give you, not only the gospel of God, but my very life also, because you had become dear to me. ⁹ You recall, brothers, my labor and toil; how, while working at my trade day and night, so as not to become a burden to any of you, I proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

⁹ You recall, brothers, my labor and toil; how, while working at my trade day and night, so as not to become a burden to any of you, I proclaimed to you the gospel of God. ¹⁰ You are witnesses—and so is God—how pure and just and blameless was my behavior among you believers.

¹⁰ You are witnesses—and so is God—how pure and just and blameless was my behavior among you believers. ¹¹ You know how I was wont to treat each of you as a father treats his children,

¹¹ You know how I was wont to treat each of you as a father treats his children, ¹² exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

¹ Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God—and you are actually doing so—that you abound in it yet more and more.

⁸ So that he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gave you his Holy Spirit.

¹¹ Also, that you endeavor to live quietly and to mind your own business, and to work with your hands (as I charged you).

¹⁷ And afterwards we who are alive, who remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord. ¹⁸ So comfort one another with these words.

¹⁰ He died for us, in order that whether we are keeping vigil in life or sleeping in death we may ever be living together with him.

⁶ who gave himself as a ransom in behalf of all, to be attested in due time.

¹⁶ Yes! without contradiction, great is the mystery of godliness!

¹⁰ "We toil and agonize because our hopes are set on the ever-living God, who is the Saviour of all men,—of believers in particular.

⁶ But she who lives in wantonness is dead even while she still lives.

²¹ I charge you solemnly in the presence of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice against any man, and do nothing out of partiality. ²² Never ordain any one hastily, nor take part in the wrong-doing of others. Keep yourself pure.

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.

¹⁰ But God's message is no prisoner. That is why I endure everything for the sake of the chosen, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

²⁴ The Lord's slave must not quarrel, but must be kind to all men; a skilful teacher, patient of wrong. ²⁵ He must be gentle when instructing opponents; for possibly God may give them a change of mind for the recognition of the truth, ²⁶ and they may come to their senses again, and escape the snare of the devil, as they are restored to life by God to do his will.

⁷ I have fought in the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have kept the faith. ⁸ Henceforth there is laid up for me the garland of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that Day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

¹⁴ He gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity, and to purify unto himself a people zealous of good works."

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.

⁹ What we do see is Jesus, who was made for a time a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor, because of the suffering of death, in order that through God's grace he might taste death for every man.

¹⁷ And so it was necessary that he should in all points be made like his brothers, so that he might become a compassionate and faithful high priest, in all that relates to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

¹¹ Let us, then, be earnest to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall into the same example of disobedience.

¹⁵ For we have not a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin.

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.

²⁶ For we needed just such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;

⁹ Not according tot he covenant which I made with their forefathers, On the day when I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in my covenant, And therefore I disregarded them," says the Lord. ¹⁰ "For this is the covenant which I will covenant with the house of Israel, After these days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their minds, And upon their hearts will I write them; And I will be their God, And they shall be my people; ¹¹ And they shall not teach every man his fellow citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them. ¹² For I will have mercy upon their wrong-doings, And their sins I will remember no more." ¹³ By calling the covenant "new," He has made the first one obsolete; and whatever is becoming obsolete and aged, is near to vanishing.

¹¹ But when Christ came, a High Priest of good things to come, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is to say, not of this material creation,

²⁴ For it was not into a Sanctuary made by hands, a mere type of the reality, that Christ entered, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the very presence of God on our behalf.

³¹ IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD!

³⁵ Now do not fling away your bold confidence, for it has a great recompense of reward.

³⁸ But it is by faith that my Righteous One will live, And if he draws back, my soul takes no pleasure in him.

¹ Now faith is the title-deed of things hoped for; the putting to the proof of things not seen. ² For by it men of old times had witness borne to them. ³ By faith we understand that the world was fashioned by the Word of God, so that what we see was not made out of what is visible. ⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice more acceptable than that of Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God giving the testimony by accepting his gifts; and through it he, although he is dead, still speaks. ⁵ By faith Enoch was translated so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had translated him. Before his translation he had witness borne to him that he pleased God. ⁶ now without faith it is impossible to please him; for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he ever rewards those who are seeking. ⁷ By faith Noah, warned of God of things not yet seen, reverently gave heed, and built an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is of faith. 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. ⁹ It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land as an alien, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, his fellow heirs of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he continually looked for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

¹⁰ For he continually looked for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. ¹¹ By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed, although she was past the age for child-bearing, because she counted Him faithful who had promised; ¹² and thus there sprang from one man, and him practically dead, a nation like the stars in the heavens in multitude, or grains of sand upon the seashore, innumerable. ¹³ These all died in faith, not having yet received the promises; nay, but they saw them from afar, and hailed them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

¹³ These all died in faith, not having yet received the promises; nay, but they saw them from afar, and hailed them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. ¹⁴ For those who say such things make it plain that they are seeking a Fatherland. ¹⁵ And if they had cherished the memory of that land from which they went out, they would have found an opportunity to return; ¹⁶ but now they are longing for a better homeland, that is, a heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; and he has prepared a city for them. ¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when he was put to the test, was on the point of offering up Isaac; yes, he who had received the promise was about to offer up his only son, ¹⁸ of whom it had been said, It is through Isaac that your posterity will be traced. ¹⁹ For he accounted God able even to raise from the dead, from whence, figuratively speaking, he did indeed receive him back again. ²⁰ By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. ²¹ By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff. ²² By faith Joseph, when his end was nigh, made mention of the exodus of the children of Israel, and gave instructions in regard to his bones. ²³ By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's decree. ²⁴ By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, ²⁵ choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. ²⁶ He accounted the obloquy of Christ to be greater than the treasures of Egypt; for he fixed his eyes on the reward. ²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not because he feared the wrath of the king, but he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

²⁸ Wherefore since we are receiving a kingdom which is unshakable, let us give thanks, and so offer acceptable worship to God, with holy awe and fear,

¹⁴ For we have not here an abiding city, but we are earnestly seeking the city that is to be.

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of an eternal covenant, 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!

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and is ever coming down to us from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of eclipse.

¹ My brothers, do not hold the faith of the Lord Jesus, the Lord of Glory, in a spirit of caste. ² Suppose a man comes into your synagogue with a gold ring and dazzling clothes, and suppose a poor man comes in, also, in shabby clothes, ³ and you look up to him who wears the fine clothing, and say to him, "Sit here in this fine place!" and to the poor man you say, "Stand there!" or "Sit on the floor at my feet!" ⁴ are you not drawing distinctions among yourselves, and have you not become judges with evil thoughts?

¹⁷ But the wisdom which comes from on high is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, conciliatory, overflowing with mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without insincerity.

⁴ and into an inheritance imperishable and undefiled and fadeless, which has been kept in heaven for you

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. 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,

¹⁴ Like obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former passions of your days of ignorance, ¹⁵ but become yourselves holy in your whole manner of living, as He who has called you is holy,

²² He committed no sin, Neither was guile found in his mouth. ²³ He was reviled, and reviled not back. When he suffered he never threatened but always committed his cause to the One who judges rightly. ²⁴ He bore our sins in his own body upon the tree, in order that we might become dead to sins, and be alive unto righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

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.

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.

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.

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 So, brothers, take diligent care to make your calling and election sure; for if you do this, you will never stumble. ¹¹ For so the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you.

¹³ So I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," to rouse you by way of reminding you,

¹³ So I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," to rouse you by way of reminding you, ¹⁴ since I know that the time for me to strike tent comes swiftly on, even as our Lord Jesus Christ pointed out to me.

¹⁴ since I know that the time for me to strike tent comes swiftly on, even as our Lord Jesus Christ pointed out to me. ¹⁵ So I will do my best to enable you, even after my departure, continually to call these things to mind.

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;

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;

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; ¹² while you look for and hasten the coming of the Day of God. At its coming the heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt with fervent heat.

¹² while you look for and hasten the coming of the Day of God. At its coming the heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt with fervent heat. ¹³ But according to his promise, we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness makes her dwelling. ¹⁴ And so, beloved, since you are looking for these things, continually give diligence that you may be found in peace, unspotted and blameless in his sight.

¹ My children, I am writing this to you that you may not continue to sin; but if any one sin, we ever have a Comforter before the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous. ² And he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

² And he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

² We are God's children now, beloved; what we shall be has never yet been made manifest. But we know that when he is manifested we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

⁵ And you know that he was manifested to take away sins; and in him is no sin.

¹⁴ We know that we have migrated, out of death into life, because we love our brothers. He who has no love is abiding in death.

¹⁹ By this we shall come to know that we are really of the truth,

²⁴ He who keeps his commandments is abiding in Him, and Christ in him. By this we know that Christ is abiding in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

⁹ In this was the love of God clearly shown toward us, by his sending his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.

¹⁹ We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the Evil One.

¹⁹ We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the Evil One. ²⁰ And we know that the Son of God is come, and has granted us and understanding, so that we may come to know him who is true. And we are in him who is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and life eternal.

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!"

²³ others pity, but with caution, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

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.

¹⁸ I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore; and hold the keys of death and of Hades.

²³ And moreover, her children will I kill with pestilence. And all the churches shall know that I am he who searches the hearts and souls of men. I will give to each of you according to his works.

¹⁸ I advise you to buy of me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white raiment to clothe yourself, so that the shame of your nakedness may not be made manifest; and eye-salve to anoint your eyes, in order that you may see.

¹⁴ And I said to him, "You know, my Lord." And he said to me, "These are those who have come out of the great persecution, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ For this they are now before the throne of God, and are serving him day and night in his temple. "And He who sits on the throne Will spread his tabernacle over them. ¹⁶ They hunger no more, Neither thirst any more; Neither will the sun strike upon them, Nor any scorching heat; ¹⁷ For the Lamb in the midst of the throne Will shepherd them, And will lead them to fountains of living water; And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

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.

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and One who sat thereon; from his presence fled earth and sky, and no place was found for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne; and books were opened, and another book—the Book of Life—was opened; and the dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the books. ¹³ The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. ¹⁴ And all were judged according to their deeds. And Death and Hades were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵ And if any one was found who was not written in the Book of Life, he was hurled into the lake of fire.

¹⁵ And if any one was found who was not written in the Book of Life, he was hurled into the lake of fire.

¹ Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and the sea is no more. ² And I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, crying. "Behold, God's tent is with men, And he will tent with them, And they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them, ⁴ And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more, Nor will there be mourning, Nor crying, nor pain any more. Because the first things have passed away." ⁵ And He who sat on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." And He said to me, "Write this, for these words are trustworthy and genuine."

³ And there will be no more curse But in it will be the throne of God and of the Lamb.

¹² Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, To give to each man what his actions merit.