2 Peter Cross References - MNT

¹ Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ. ² Grace and peace be multiplied to you by the God and Father of Jesus our Lord. ³ For his power divine has granted to us everything needful for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue. ⁴ By these he has granted his promises to us, precious and splendid; so that through them you may become partners of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. ⁵ For this very reason do your best to add to your faith manliness, and to manliness knowledge, 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. ⁸ For if these virtues are yours in abounding measure, they render you not idle nor unfruitful, until you come into the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For the man who lacks these virtues is blind, short-sighted, forgetful of his cleansing from his old sins. 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. ¹² I shall therefore be always ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it, and are firmly founded in the truth which is with 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. ¹⁵ So I will do my best to enable you, even after my departure, continually to call these things to mind. ¹⁶ For we were not following cunningly devised fables, when we told you of the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eye-witnesses of his Majesty. ¹⁷ For he did receive honor and glory from God the Father, when there was borne such a voice to him from the Majestic Glory, This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I delight; ¹⁸ and this voice we ourselves heard, borne to us out of heaven, when we were with him on the holy hill. ¹⁹ And so we possess the word of prophecy made yet more sure. Unto this you do well to give heed as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. ²⁰ But first be assured of this—that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. ²¹ For no prophecy was ever brought by the will of man; but moved by the Holy Spirit, men spoke for God.

¹⁷ while a voice from heaven said, "This is my son, the beloved, In whom I delight."

¹⁶ The people who were dwelling in darkness Have seen a great light; And on those who were dwelling in the land of the shadows of death Light has dawned.

¹⁸ And as he was walking by the see of Galilee, he saw two brothers—Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother—casting their net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

²⁴ "Every one who hears my words and does them I will liken to a wise man who built his house upon the rock. ²⁵ "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon the house, but it fell not, for it was founded upon the rock.

² These are the names of the apostles (missionaries). First, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother;

²⁵ At that time Jesus answered and said: "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and wary, and hast revealed them to the children. ²⁶ "Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. ²⁷ "Everything has been handed over to me by my Father; neither does any one know the Son, except the Father, nor any one know the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

¹⁸ Behold my servant whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom my soul delights; I will breathe my spirit upon him, and he shall announce justice to the Gentiles.

²² "And the seed sown among thorns is he who hears the word, but the anxieties of the age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

²⁸ Solemnly I tell you, some of those who are standing here shall not taste death, till they have seen the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

³ And behold! Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Jesus.

⁵ While he was yet speaking, behold! a luminous cloud overshadowed them; and a voice out of the cloud, saying. "This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom is my delight. Listen to him." ⁶ When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces and were terrified.

³ "About nine o'clock he went out and noticed some other workmen standing idle in the market-place;

⁶ "When he went out about five o'clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, "'Why have you been standing here idle, all the day long?'

³ When he had seated himself on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"

²⁷ For just as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

²⁶ "'You wicked and lazy slave,' said his master. 'You say you knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather where I have not scattered?'

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.

¹⁸ And Jesus came forward to them and spoke to them, saying. "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. ¹⁹ Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;

¹¹ and a voice from the sky. "Thou art my Son, my beloved; in thee is my delight."

¹ "In solemn truth I tell you," he said, "there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God, come with power." ² Six days later Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and brought them by themselves up a high mountain apart from the rest.

⁷ Then there came a cloud overshadowing them; and there came a voice out of the cloud. "This is my Son, my beloved. Listen to him."

²¹ Jesus loved him as he looked at him, and said: "One thing you lack. Go, sell all you have and give to the poor; and you shall have wealth in heaven; and come, follow me."

³⁶ David himself said in the Holy Spirit, "The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand until I make thy foes the footstool of thy feet.'

⁴⁷ "My spirit exults in the God, who is my Saviour,

⁷⁰ "As he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets Which have been since the world began

⁷⁸ "Through the heart of mercy of our God, Whereby the Dayspring from on high shall visit us, ⁷⁹ "To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, And to guide our feet into the paths of peace."

²² heaven opened, and the Holy Spirit, in bodily form like a dove, descended upon him. and a voice came out of heaven, saying. "Thou art my Son, dearly beloved; in thee is my delight."

⁴⁷ "I will show whom the man that comes to me, and listens to my works, and does them, is like. ⁴⁸ "He is like a man who is building a house who digged and went deep and laid a foundation upon rock. And, when a flood came, the torrent dashed against that house, but could not move, because it had been founded upon rock. ⁴⁹ "But he who listens but does not do, is like a man who built a house upon the soil, without foundations, against which the torrent burst, and at once it fell in, and the ruin of that house was great."

¹⁵ "And that in the good soil is those who have listened to the message and, in an honest and good heart, hold fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

²⁸ About eight days after this it happened that Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and went up on the mountain to pray. ²⁹ And as he was praying the appearances of his countenance became different, and his clothing became white and dazzling. ³⁰ And suddenly there were two men talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah. ³¹ These appeared in glory and talked about his departure which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

³¹ These appeared in glory and talked about his departure which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. ³² Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep; but when they were fully awake they saw his glory, and the two men were standing beside him.

³⁴ And while he was saying this, there came a cloud and began to overshadow them; and they were awestruck as they entered into the cloud. ³⁵ And a voice came out of the cloud, saying. "This is my Son, my chosen one; listen to him."

²² "All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father; and who the Father is except the Son, and he the Son wishes to reveal him."

⁴⁹ "For this reason also said the Wisdom of God. 'I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and some they will persecute;

²⁶ "But besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who want to cross from here to you cannot, nor can those who would cross from you to us.'

²⁹ "But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets, let them listen to them.' ³⁰ "'Nay, Father Abraham,' he said 'but if some one went to them from the dead they would repent.' 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.'"

²² And receiving this reply, Jesus said to him. "One thing you are still lacking. Sell all that you have and give it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me."

¹⁹ "In your patience you shall purchase your souls.

³¹ "Simon, Simon," said the Lord, "behold, Satan has asked to have you all that he might sift you like wheat. ³² "But I made supplication for you that your own faith may not fail. And you, when you have turned again, must strengthen your brothers." ³³ "Lord," Simon said to him, "I am ready to go with you, both to prison and to death." ³⁴ "I tell you, Peter," he answered. "the cock will not crow this day until you will three times deny that you know me."

²¹ "But we were hoping that it was he who should redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this is the third day since these things happened.

⁷ He came as a witness, that he might bear testimony concerning the Light—so that all men might believe through him. ⁸ He was not the Light; it was to bear testimony concerning the Light that he came into being. ⁹ The true Light, which enlightens every man, was then coming into the world.

¹² But to all who receive him, to them he has given the right to become children of God, even to those who trust in his name; ¹³ who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and tented with us. And we gazed on his glory—glory as of the Father's only Son—full of grace and truth.

⁴² He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked intently at him and said: "You are Simon, son of John; you shall be called Cephas" (or 'Peter,' which means 'Rock').

³⁵ the Father loves the Son and has committed everything into his hands.

²¹ "For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, even so the Son makes whom he will alive. 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.

²⁶ "For as the Father has life in himself, so also has he granted to the Son to have life in himself.

³⁵ "That man was the Lamp-burning and shining—and you were willing for a time rejoice in his light. ³⁶ "But I have testimony greater than that of John; for the work which the Father has given me to bring to completion—the work which I am doing—bears testimony concerning me, that the Father has sent me. ³⁷ "And the Father who sent me has himself borne testimony concerning me. None of you has heard his at any time or seen him,

³⁹ "You are searching the Scriptures because you suppose that in tem you have eternal life; and though these are they that bear witness concerning me,

⁴² "that you have not the love of God in yourselves.

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."

³⁷ "Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will never reject.

³⁹ "And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day.

¹² Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the light of the world," he said; "He who follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the Light of life."

⁴⁰ Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked, "We are not blind, are we?" ⁴¹ "If you were blind," Jesus answered them, "you would have no sin. But now you are declaring, 'We see'; so your sin remains.

¹⁰ "The thief never comes except to steal and kill and destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it in abundance.

¹⁵ just as the Father knows me, I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

³⁶ do you mean to tell me, whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

²⁶ If any one is ready to serve me, let him follow me; and where I am there shall my servant be also. If any man is ready to serve me, him will my Father honor.

²⁸ Father, glorify thy name!" Whereupon there came a voice from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again." ²⁹ Then the crowd who stood around and heard it, said, "It thundered!" But others said, "An angel has spoken to him."

¹ Now just before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come when he should leave this world to go to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, showed forth his love to the end. ² So while supper was proceeding, and the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him, ³ Jesus, knowing that the Father had given everything into his hands, and that he was come from God,

³⁴ I give you a new commandment, Love one another! ³⁵ By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

⁶ Jesus answered him. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man ever comes to the Father but by me.

⁸ "Lord," said Philip, "cause us to see the Father, and we shall be satisfied." ⁹ "Have I been so long among you, and yet you, Philip, have you not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

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.

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

⁶ "If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷ "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours. ⁸ "By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples.

² since thou hast given him authority over all mankind, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

² since thou hast given him authority over all mankind, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him. ³ And this is eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

³ And this is eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

²¹ that they may all be one, even as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be in us; in order that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

¹⁷ "Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I am not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, "'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

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." ¹⁸ "Feed my sheep," said Jesus. "In solemn truth I tell you that when you were young, you used to put on your own girdle, and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old you will stretch out your hands for some one to gird you, and carry you where you do not wish to go." ¹⁹ This he said to show by what kind of death Peter was to glorify God. After speaking thus, he said to him, "Follow me."

¹⁶ "Men and brothers, it was necessary for the Scripture to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David in regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

¹⁸ "But God has thus fulfilled what he foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.

⁸ "And God, who knows the hearts of all, gave this testimony in their behalf, by bestowing upon them the Holy Spirit just as he did upon us; ⁹ "and he made no distinction between us and them, in cleansing their hearts by faith.

¹⁴ "Brothers, listen to me. Symeon has told how God first looked graciously upon the Gentiles, to take out from among them a people to be called by his name.

²⁹ "that you abstain from food that has been sacrificed to idols, and from tasting blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. Keep yourselves clear from these things and it will be well with you. Farewell."

⁵ So the churches were strengthened in the faith and continued to increase in number daily.

¹¹ The Jews of Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they very readily received the message with all readiness of mind, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether these things were so.

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.

²⁵ And now I know that not one of you among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will ever see my face again.

²⁵ And as he reasoned about morality, self-control, and the future judgment, Felix was terrified, and said, "For the present go on your way, and when I find a convenient season, I will send for you."

²⁵ Unable to agree among themselves, they began to go, but not before Paul had spoken a word to them, saying. "Right well did the Holy Spirit say to your ancestors, through the prophet Isaiah.

¹ From Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for a gospel of God,

⁴ but was by his resurrection from the dead instated as Son of God, with power, in respect of his spirit of holiness.

⁷ To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. May God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, bless you, and give you peace.

¹² that is, that I with you may be encouraged by you, each of us by the other's faith, yours and mine.

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

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

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.

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—

¹ What then shall we say? Shall we continue to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound? ² No indeed; how shall we who have died to sin still go on living in it any longer? ³ For do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ, have been baptized into his death? 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.

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.

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.

²⁸ Now we know that all things continually work together for good to those who love God, to those who have been the called according to his purpose.

²⁸ Now we know that all things continually work together for good to those who love God, to those who have been the called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, so that he might be the eldest of a great brotherhood;

²⁹ For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, so that he might be the eldest of a great brotherhood; ³⁰ and whom he foreordained, those he also called; and whom he called, those he also justified; and whom he justified, those he also glorified.

³⁰ and whom he foreordained, those he also called; and whom he called, those he also justified; and whom he justified, those he also glorified. ³¹ What shall we say then, to these things? If God be for us, Who can be against us? ³² He that spared not his own Son, But freely delivered him up for us all, How shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

⁴ For they are Israelites; to them belong the sonship, the Shekinah glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law; the service of the temple, and the promises;

²⁴ Now such are we whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the Gentiles.

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.

¹⁰ As for brotherly love, be tenderly affectionate one to another, in honor preferring one another. ¹¹ In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master.

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.

⁴ For everything that was written of old has been written for our instruction, that through patience, and through the comfort of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

⁶ so that with one heart and with one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ And I myself also am confident regarding you, my brothers, that you yourselves are already full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and well able to give advice to one another. ¹⁵ Still I have written unto you the more boldly, in part, by way of reminding you, because of that gift of grace which God bestowed upon me, in making me a priest of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles.

⁷ so that you lack no divine gift, while you are waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ Faithful is the God by whom you were called into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁷ For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.

²³ but we come preaching a crucified Messiah—to Jews a stumbling-block, to Greeks foolishness,

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

¹ And when I came to you, brothers, I came not to proclaim God's great secret purpose in fine language of philosophy;

⁴ My message and my preaching were not in the persuasive language of philosophy, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

²¹ So let no one make boast in men. For all things are yours; ²² Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, things present or things to come; all things are yours; ²³ and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

⁴ When you are gathered together, and my spirit is with you together with the power of our Lord Jesus,

¹ Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

²⁵ Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.

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. ² Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And though I sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing. ⁴ Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up, ⁵ is not rude, nor selfish, nor easily provoked. Love bears no malice, never rejoices over wrong-doing, ⁶ but rejoices when the truth rejoices. ⁷ It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring. ⁸ Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.

²⁰ Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, I who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

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.

³ Thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort,

²⁰ For however many are the promises of God, in him they are "Yes." Therefore also through him let the Amen be said by our voices to the glory of God.

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.

¹⁸ And we all, with unveiled faces, reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are ourselves continually being transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.

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. ³ But even if my gospel, too, is "veiled," it is among those who are on the way to perish that it is "veiled." ⁴ Among them the god of this age has blinded the understanding of the unbelieving so that the sunshine of the gospel of God, should not dawn upon them.

⁴ Among them the god of this age has blinded the understanding of the unbelieving so that the sunshine of the gospel of God, should not dawn upon them. ⁵ It is not myself that I proclaim, but Christ Jesus as Master, and myself that I proclaim, and myself your slave for Jesus' sake. ⁶ For God who said, "Out of darkness light shall shine," is he who has shone in my heart, that the sunrise of the knowledge of God may shine forth in the face of Christ.

⁶ For God who said, "Out of darkness light shall shine," is he who has shone in my heart, that the sunrise of the knowledge of God may shine forth in the face of Christ.

¹³ But having the same spirit of faith of which it is written, I believed, and therefore have spoken, I also believe and so I speak.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

¹⁷ Therefore, Come out from among them and separate yourselves, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean;

² For although in heavy trial of affliction, their overbrimming happiness, even in spite of their deep poverty, abounded to the opulence of their unselfishness.

⁷ Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

¹⁴ Moreover, in their prayers for you they will be longing after you, because of the exceeding grace of God that is resting upon you.

³¹ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am telling the truth.

⁹ but he has answered me. "My grace is sufficient for you; it is in weakness that my power is perfected."

¹⁶ But though it be granted that I was not a burden to you, yet, you say, this was my cunning with which I caught you by a trick. ¹⁷ Did I make gain of you through any of those whom I sent to you?

⁵ Examine yourselves to see if you are in the faith; put your own selves to the proof. Or do you not know, your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed you fail to abide the proof?

⁸ (for he who has equipped Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised, equipped me also for the apostleship to the Gentiles),

¹⁶ Now it was to Abraham that the promises were spoken, and to his offspring. God did not say, "offsprings" as if speaking of many, but "and to your offspring," as of one; and this is Christ.

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

¹³ For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another.

²³ against such there is no law.

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.

¹⁰ So then, as we have opportunity, let is do good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of faith.

¹⁷ I am praying that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father most glorious, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation, through an intimate knowledge of himself; ¹⁸ and that the eyes of your heart may be flooded with light so that you may understand what is the hope of his calling, what the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and what the surpassing greatness of his might in us who believe, as seen in the energy of that resistless might ²⁰ which he exercised in raising Christ from the dead, and in seating him at his right hand in the heavenly heights, ²¹ far above all hierarchies and authorities and powers and dominions and every name that is named, not only in this age but in that which is to come.

⁵ which was not disclosed to the sons of men in former generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets,

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,

¹ I summon you then, I the prisoner in the Lord, to live lives worthy of the calling to which you were called.

⁴ There is one body and one spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling. ⁵ There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

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

¹⁴ So we shall no longer be children, tossed up and down, and blown about by every wind of teaching, tricked by the craft of men in the snares of misleading error;

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.

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.

²⁶ in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word,

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may abound yet more and more in intelligence and insight

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,

¹² And so, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, with reverence and self-distrust work out your own salvation;

¹ Finally, my brothers, continue to rejoice in the Lord. To write the same thing is not indeed wearisome to me, and it is safe for you.

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.

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.

⁸ Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if virtue is anything, if honor is anything, be always thinking about these.

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;

¹¹ that you may be strengthened in every kind of strength by the might of his glory for every kind of patience and fortitude with good cheer.

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;

³ In Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge!

⁷ since you are rooted in him, and in him continually built up. Be firmly established in the faith as you were taught it, and continually abound in it with thanksgiving.

¹⁰ and put on that new self which is continually made over according to the likeness of its Creator, into full understanding.

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

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ have its home in you richly, in all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ever singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

³ as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father.

³ as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father. ⁴ For I know, O brothers, beloved of God, that he has chosen you;

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.

¹⁹ For what is my hope, or joy? What is the victor's wreath in which I exult? What but your own selves in the presence of our Lord Jesus, at his coming!

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.

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.

⁷ For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.

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.

¹⁵ Take care that none of you ever return evil for evil, but always pursue what is kind to one another and to all.

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. ⁴ So that I myself am boasting about you among the churches of God, boasting of the stedfastness and faith which you are displaying in all the troubles and afflictions which you are enduring.

⁹ even he whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, in every power and sign and lying wonder,

¹³ But for you, brothers, whom the Lord loves, I ought to give thanks to God continually, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth. ¹⁴ For this he called you through my gospel, so that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ For this he called you through my gospel, so that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ May the Lord incline your hearts to the love of God and to the stedfastness of Christ.

⁴ nor to be paying attention to myths and interminable genealogies, which tend to promote discussions rather than a stewardship entrusted by God, a stewardship which is in faith.

⁹ but he must remember that the Law is not enacted for a good man, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the irreligious and sinful, for the godless and profane, for parricides and murderers,

² for kings and all who are in authority, in order that we may lead a tranquil and peaceful life in all godliness an gravity.

¹⁰ but (as becomes women proclaiming godliness) with the ornament of good deeds.

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

⁶ As you lay all these things before the brothers, you will be a noble minister of Christ Jesus, nourishing yourself in the precepts of the faith and that noble teaching which you have followed. ⁷ Ever reject these profane and old womanish myths; and continually train yourself for the contest of godliness.

⁷ Ever reject these profane and old womanish myths; and continually train yourself for the contest of godliness. ⁸ For physical training is of some small service, but godliness is of service in everything; since it carries with it a promise of life, both here and hereafter.

⁸ For physical training is of some small service, but godliness is of service in everything; since it carries with it a promise of life, both here and hereafter.

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.

³ If any one teaches heterodoxy, and refuses to consent to the wholesome words of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teachings of religion,

⁶ Now godliness with contentment is truly gainful;

¹¹ But you, O servant of God, flee from these things, and run after integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, gentleness.

⁵ I have been reminded of that sincere faith which is in your heart; which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and, I am fully persuaded, dwells in you also. ⁶ For this reason let me remind you to keep ever blazing that gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

⁹ He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not dealing with us according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.

² The teachings which you have heard from me, attested by many witnesses, deliver into the keeping of faithful men, who in their turn will be able to teach others also.

¹⁹ Nevertheless God's firm foundation stands unshaken, bearing this inscription, THE LORD KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE HIS, and this also, LET EVERY ONE WHO NAMES THE NAME OF THE LORD RENOUNCE WICKEDNESS.

⁵ For although they keep up the outward form of religion, they deny its power.

¹⁵ and how from a child you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ Every Scripture, seeing that it is God-breathed, is also profitable for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may himself be complete, and completely equipped for every good work.

⁶ I for my part am a libation already being poured in sacrifice; and the time of my unmooring is at hand.

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.

¹ To Titus, my true son in a common faith, from Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and to the knowledge of the truth which goes with piety;

⁴ Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

⁸ but he must be hospitable, a lover of the good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled.

¹⁴ so as to make them sound in the faith, not giving heed to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

² that the older men be self-controlled, serious and sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

¹³ While we look for the blessed hope and epiphany of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. ¹⁴ He gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity, and to purify unto himself a people zealous of good works."

¹⁴ Let them want nothing, and "let our people learn to devote themselves to honest work to supply the necessities of their teachers," so that they be not unfruitful.

⁶ And I pray that your participation may become effectual, as you come to acknowledge every good thing which is in you to Christ.

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.

⁷ Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says. If you hear God's voice today,

¹¹ but I am longing that each of you continue to show the same diligence to realize the fulness of your hope, even to the end. ¹² Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

¹⁵ And so by patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the promise.

¹⁷ On which principle God, wishing to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his purpose, mediated with an oath;

¹⁹ This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, secure and strong, and passing into the sanctuary which is beyond the veil;

⁶ But Jesus has obtained a better ministry, by so much as he is also Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted upon better promises. ⁷ For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second. ⁸ But finding fault with them, He says. "There are days coming," says the Lord, "When I will establish with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant; 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."

⁸ The Holy Spirit teaching by this that the way into the Holiest has not yet been disclosed while the first tent is still standing.

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through his eternal spirit offered himself free from blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works unto the service of an ever-living God! ¹⁵ And because of this he is the Mediator of a new testament, in order that, since a death has taken place to atone for offenses committed under the first testament, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

¹⁵ And the Holy Spirit also gives his testimony, when he said:

³² But ever call to mind the former days, in which, after having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;

³⁶ For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise,

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.

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.

¹ Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

¹⁰ For they only disciplined us for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, that we may share his holiness.

¹⁵ Look carefully that there be no one who falls back from the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up to trouble you, and by its means many become defiled.

¹ Let brotherly love continue.

³ Remember those who are in prison, as if you were fellow prisoners; remember too, those who are being ill-treated, since you too, are in the body.

⁹ Do not allow yourselves to be swept away by various and strange teachings. For it is a beautiful thing to be established in heart by grace, and not by regulations regarding food, from which those that occupied themselves with them have derived no benefit.

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.

⁸ If you are keeping the royal law, which says, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself, you are doing well.

¹⁴ My brothers, what good is it if any one says that he has faith, if he has no deeds? Can such faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister be naked and in need of daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, find warmth and food for yourselves," but at the same time you do not give the necessaries of the body, what good would that do them? ¹⁷ In just the same way faith, if it have not deeds, is by itself a lifeless thing. ¹⁸ Some one indeed may say, "You have faith, and I have deeds." "Then show me your faith," I answer, "apart from any deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds." ¹⁹ You believe that God is one? You do well; even the demons believe, and they shudder. ²⁰ But do you want to be convinced, O foolish man, that faith apart from deeds is barren? ²¹ Was not Abraham our ancestor justified by deeds, in that he offered up Isaac, his son, upon the altar? ²² You see how faith was cooperating with deeds, and faith was made perfect by deeds. ²³ And the Scripture was fulfilled which said, And Abraham believed God, and this was imputed to him as righteousness, and he was called God's friend. ²⁴ You see, then, that it is by his deeds a man is justified, and not simply by his faith. ²⁵ In like manner was not Rahab, the harlot, justified by her deeds, in the fact that she received the messengers and sent them forth by another way? ²⁶ So just as the body without a spirit is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.

¹ Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members? ² You continually crave and do not obtain; you are killing and coveting and cannot acquire; you are fighting and at war. You do not have, because you do not ask. ³ You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures.

⁷ Be patient, then, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it gets the early and the latter rains. 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! ¹⁰ Take, my brothers, for an example the suffering and the patience of the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

¹ Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Roman Asia, and Bithynia, ² according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ; Grace and peace be multiplied to you.

⁵ who, through faith, are continuously guarded by the power of God for a salvation, ready to be revealed in the last days.

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.

¹⁰ Concerning this salvation the Prophets who prophesied regarding the grace intended for you, diligently sought and searched. ¹¹ They were searching to know to what time, or to what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them kept pointing, when he ever testified beforehand concerning the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.

¹⁵ but become yourselves holy in your whole manner of living, as He who has called you is holy,

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.

⁷ For you, then, that believe, is the preciousness; but for those who do not believe, A stone which the builders rejected, The same has become the head stone of the corner,

⁹ But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you may show forth the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light—

¹⁷ Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Reverence God. Honor the Emperor.

²¹ For this is your calling; because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps;

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. ⁸ Finally, you should all be harmonious, sympathetic, loving as brothers, tender-hearted, humble-minded; ⁹ not paying back evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but on the contrary giving a blessing. Because for this you have been called—to inherit a blessing.

²¹ Baptism, the counterpart of that, now saves you (not the washing off of the filth of the flesh, but the prayer for a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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.

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.

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.

¹² By Sylvanus, a faithful brother of yours, as I suppose, I have written you briefly, to comfort you, and to testify that this is the true grace of God. In this stand fast.

¹ Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ. ² Grace and peace be multiplied to you by the God and Father of Jesus our Lord.

² Grace and peace be multiplied to you by the God and Father of Jesus our Lord. ³ For his power divine has granted to us everything needful for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue.

³ For his power divine has granted to us everything needful for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue. ⁴ By these he has granted his promises to us, precious and splendid; so that through them you may become partners of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

⁴ By these he has granted his promises to us, precious and splendid; so that through them you may become partners of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. ⁵ For this very reason do your best to add to your faith manliness, and to manliness knowledge,

⁵ For this very reason do your best to add to your faith manliness, and to manliness knowledge, 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. ⁸ For if these virtues are yours in abounding measure, they render you not idle nor unfruitful, until you come into the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ So, brothers, take diligent care to make your calling and election sure; for if you do this, you will never stumble.

¹² I shall therefore be always ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it, and are firmly founded in the truth which is with 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. ¹⁵ So I will do my best to enable you, even after my departure, continually to call these things to mind.

¹⁸ For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they entangle, by their lasciviousness, in the lusts of the flesh, those who are just about to escape from the men that live in misconduct. ¹⁹ They promise them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of rottenness! (For indeed a man is the slave of anything which masters him.) ²⁰ For if, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them and overpowered, their last state is become worse than their first.

²⁰ For if, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them and overpowered, their last state is become worse than their first.

¹ This is now my second letter to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your pure minds by putting you in remembrance.

³ Know this first, that mockers will come in the last days, in their mockery, men who walk the way of their own lusts

³ Know this first, that mockers will come in the last days, in their mockery, men who walk the way of their own lusts ⁴ and say, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the day that our fathers fell asleep everything continues as it was from the beginning of the creation."

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;

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.

¹⁷ Do you therefore, beloved, because you know these things beforehand, be on your guard lest you be led astray by the error of the wicked, and so fall from your own stedfastness. ¹⁸ But grow continually in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the Day of Eternity, Amen.

¹ It is of what has existed from the beginning, of what we have listened to, of what we have seen with our own eyes, of what we have witnessed and touched with our own heads, it is concerning the Logos of Life that we are now writing. ² And the Life was made visible, and we have seen it and are bearing witness, and are bringing you word of that Eternal Life which was face to face with the Father and was made visible to us. ³ It is what we have seen and heard that we are announcing to you, in order that you also may have partnership with us; and our partnership is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

⁷ But is we are passing our life in the light, as he is in the light, we ever have partnership with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ is cleansing us from every sin.

⁹ He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now. ¹⁰ But he who loves his brother is abiding in the light, and in it there is no cause of stumbling. ¹¹ But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and is spending his life in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the proud glory of life, is not from the Father, but from the world;

²¹ I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and know that no lie is of the truth.

²⁵ And this is the promise which he has promised to us even life eternal.

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.

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.

¹⁶ By this we learn to know love, because he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

¹⁹ By this we shall come to know that we are really of the truth, ²⁰ and shall persuade our heart in his presence whenever our heart condemns us, because God is greater than our heart and knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence toward God,

¹⁴ and we have beheld and do testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

²¹ And we have this command from God: HE WHO LOVES GOD IS TO LOVE HIS BROTHER ALSO.

¹⁰ He who believes on the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God, has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.

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. ²¹ My little children, guard yourselves from idols.

² I love you for the sake of the truth which is abiding in us and will be with us forever. ³ Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love.

⁶ They have borne testimony to your love before the church. You will do well to speed them on their way worthily of God;

¹ Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and a brother of James. To those who are in God, the Father beloved, kept for Jesus Christ, and called. ² May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you. ³ Beloved, although I was making all haste to write to you in regard to our common salvation, I am compelled to write you an appeal to defend the faith once for all committed to the saints.

⁵ I wish to remind you of what you already know right well, that although the Lord once saved a people out of the land of Egypt, he afterward destroyed those who did not believe;

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,

¹⁷ But as for you, dearly beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁴ From John to the seven churches that are in Asia the Roman Province. Grace to you, and peace from Him that is and was and is to be, and from the Seven Spirits that are before his throne,

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.

² I know your works and your toil and stedfastness, and that you cannot endure evil men, and that you tested those who called themselves apostles, though they are not, and how you found them false.

²⁸ and I will give him the Morning Star."

¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from that hour of trial which is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to test those who dwell on the earth. ¹¹ I am coming quickly. Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.

¹⁷ For you keep saying, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and do not know that you are the wretched one, and pitiable and beggared and blind and naked.

²¹ To him who overcomes, I will grant to sit down with me on my throne, as I myself have overcome and have taken my seat with my Father on his throne.

¹⁰ Thou hast made them kings and priests unto our God, And they shall reign on earth."

¹⁰ Whoever is destined to go into captivity, goes into captivity. Whoever shall kill with the sword, shall surely be killed by the sword. (Here is the endurance and faith of the saints.)

¹² Here is the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

¹⁰ And I fell down at his feet to worship him, and he said to me. "See that you do it not. I am a fellow slave of yours and of your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus; for the testimony of Jesus is the vital breath of prophecy."

¹⁴ "Blessed are they who wash their robes, so that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in by the gates into the City.

¹⁶ "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright and morning Star.