Colossians Cross References - MNT

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, ² to the holy and believing brothers in Christ who are in Colosse. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father. ³ Whenever I pray for you I am continually thanking God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ⁴ (since I heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love to all the saints) ⁵ because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Long ago you heard of this hope in the message which came to you of the truth of the gospel. ⁶ And just as it is spreading through the whole world, bearing fruit and increasing, so also is it among you, from the day in which you heard it, and came truly to know the grace of God, ⁷ as you learned it from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow slave. He is a faithful minister of Jesus Christ in your behalf, ⁸ and it is he who has told me of your love for me in the spirit. 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; 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; 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. ¹² I ask that you may give thanks to the Father who has made us fit to receive our share of the heritage of the saints in the light. ¹³ For he has delivered us out of the dominion of the darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of his dear Son, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins. ¹⁵ He is a visible image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; ¹⁶ for in him was the universe created, things in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; by him and for him all have been created; ¹⁷ and HE IS before all, and in him all things subsist. ¹⁸ He is the head of his Body, the Church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, in order that in all things he may become preeminent. ¹⁹ For in him all the divine fulness chose to dwell; ²⁰ and by him it chose to reconcile all things alike on earth or in heaven to himself; making peace by him, through the blood of his cross. ²¹ And you, alienated as you once were, hostile at heart in your evil deeds, ²² he has now in his human body reconciled to God by his death, in order that he may bring you into his presence, holy and unblemished and irreproachable. ²³ And this he will do if, indeed, you continue in the faith, firmly founded and stedfast, and never moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, and which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, that gospel of which I, Paul, was made a minister. 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. ²⁵ It is of this I was made a minister, according to the stewardship entrusted to me by God for you, fully to declare God's message; ²⁶ that secret truth, which, although hidden from ages and generations of old, has now been made manifest to his saints. ²⁷ To them God willed to make known among the Gentiles how glorious are the riches of that secret truth, which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory." 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.

⁷ But when John saw that many of the Pharisees and Sadducees were coming for baptism, he said: "O brood of vipers! Who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

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

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

⁴⁸ "You then must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."

¹⁹ "Store up for yourselves no treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; ²⁰ "but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.

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.

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.

²⁹ "Or how can any one enter the strong man's house and carry off his goods without first binding the strong man? Then he can rob his house. ³⁰ "He who is not with me is against me; and he who is not gathering with me, scatters.

¹¹ "Why do you speak to them in parables?" Jesus answered. "To you it has been granted to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it has not been granted.

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."

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."

⁸ "But you are not to be called 'Rabbi'; for one is your Teacher, and you are all brothers;

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

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

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

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

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; ²⁰ teaching them to observe every command which I have given you. and lo! I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."

⁸ But some seed fell into good soil and yielded a crop that sprang up and increased, yielding thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold.

¹¹ He went on to say to them. "The secret truth concerning the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside everything is told in parables,

²⁶ "It is with the kingdom of God," he continued, "as if a man should have sown seed in the earth; ²⁷ night and day he sleeps and wakes while the seed is sprouting and growing tall, he knows not how. ²⁸ Of its own accord the earth bears its crops; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. ²⁹ Then as soon as the crop is ready the man has the sickle put in at once, because harvest-time is come.

³⁴ So when Jesus landed he saw a vast multitude, and he was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

¹⁵ And he said to them. "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

⁷⁵ "In holiness and righteousness before him All our days.

¹⁴ "Glory to God in the highest, And in earth peace among men who please him"

²⁰ When Jesus saw their faith, he said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you!"

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.

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. ⁴⁸ "Your sins are forgiven," he said to her. ⁴⁹ Then the other guest began to say among themselves, "Who is this even to forgive sins?" ⁵⁰ But he said to the woman. "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."

¹⁰ He answered. "To you it is given to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of God; But all others are taught in parables so that seeing they shall not see, and hearing they shall not hear.

¹³ "Those on the rock are people who, upon hearing, receive the word with joy; but they have no root. For a time indeed they all believe, but in time of temptation they fall away. ¹⁴ "And that which fell upon thorns is those who have heard, but as they go on their way of word is choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of life; so they bring no fruit of perfection. 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.

²¹ In the same hour he thrilled with joy in the Holy Ghost. "I praise thee, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth," he said "for hiding these things from the wise and prudent, and for revealing them to babes. Yea, Father, for so it was well pleasing in thy sight!

³³ "Sell what you have and give alms. Provide yourselves with purses which do not grow old, a treasure inexhaustible in the heavens, where no thief draws near, nor does moth destroy.

²⁴ "Struggle to enter in by the narrow door," he answered, "for I tell you that many will try to enter and not be able,

²¹ "nor will they say, 'Look here it is!' or 'See there!'—for the kingdom of God is now in your midst."

¹⁵ "for I will give you utterance and a wisdom which none of your adversaries will be able to answer or withstand.

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."

⁵³ "When daily I was with you in the temple you did not stretch out your hands to take me; but this is your hour and the power of darkness."

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was face to face with God, and the Word was God.

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was face to face with God, and the Word was God. ² He was face to face with God in the Beginning. ³ All things came into being through him, and apart from him nothing that exists came into being.

³ All things came into being through him, and apart from him nothing that exists came into being.

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.

¹⁶ For out of his fulness we have all received, yes, grace upon grace.

¹⁸ No man has ever seen God; God, only begotten, who is in the bosom of the Father—he has interpreted him.

²⁷ One who is to come after me, whose sandal-strap I am not worthy to untie."

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.

²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So then this joy of mine has now complete fulfilment. ³⁰ He must increase, but I must decrease. ³¹ "He that comes from above is above all; but one who is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaks. He who comes from heaven is above all.

³⁴ For he whom God sent utters the words of God; for God does not give the Spirit sparingly.

³⁴ For he whom God sent utters the words of God; for God does not give the Spirit sparingly. ³⁵ the Father loves the Son and has committed everything into his hands.

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

²³ But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father is seeking such as his worshipers.

¹⁷ But he answered them, "My Father has continued working until now, and I am working too." ¹⁸ For this reason the Jews continued to seek the more eagerly to put him to death, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was actually speaking of God as his own Father, thus making himself of God's equal.

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.

⁵⁶ "He who feeds upon my flesh abides in me and I in him.

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

³⁰ When he spoke in this way, many of the Jews believed in him. ³¹ So Jesus spoke to the Jews that believed him, saying. "If you abide in my teaching, you are my true disciples; ³² "and you shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

⁵⁸ "In solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that before Abraham came into existence, I am."

²⁵ "I am the resurrection and the life," said Jesus. "He who believes in me, even if he has died, shall live. ²⁶ And every one who is living and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

³¹ Now is a judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be driven out. ³² "AND I, IF I BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH, WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO MYSELF."

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

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'?

¹⁷ "The world cannot receive him because it does not see him nor know him, but you know him, for he is ever with you and within you.

²⁰ "At that day you shall understand that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

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. ³ "Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ "Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me. 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. 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.

⁸ "By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples. ⁹ "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ "If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love.

¹⁶ "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

²⁴ "If I had not done among them such works as none ever did, they would have had no sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

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

⁵ And now, O Father, glorify thou me with own self, with the glory I had with thee before the world began.

²² And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one even as we are one, 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.

²⁶ And I have declared—and will declare—thy name unto them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."

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.'"

⁸ "yet you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you are to be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the very ends of the earth."

¹⁷ "For he was numbered among us, and he did get his allotted share of this ministry.

²⁵ "in this ministry of this apostles from which Judas went out to go to his own place."

⁵ Now there were, staying in Jerusalem. devout Jews from many and distant lands.

³⁸ "Repent," answered Peter, "and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

²⁰ "and that he may send Jesus, your appointed Messiah,

¹² "There is no salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men, in which we must be saved."

⁴¹ So they left Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been deemed worthy to suffer disgrace for the sake of the Name; ⁴² but not for a single day did they desist from teaching and preaching in the Temple, and in private houses, the Gospel of Jesus, the Messiah.

⁵ Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and began to preach Christ there.

³⁵ Then Philip opened his lips, and beginning from that same scripture, he preached the gospel of Jesus to him.

²⁰ And he began at once to proclaim in the synagogues Jesus as the Son of God.

³⁰ Cornelius answered. "Three days ago, at this very hour, I was praying in my house at three o'clock in the afternoon, when suddenly a man in a shining robe stood by me,

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;

⁴³ "To him all the prophets bear witness, testifying that through his name every one that believes on him will receive remission of sins."

¹⁸ On hearing this they held their peace and glorified God, saying, "Forsooth then, to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance unto life."

²⁰ Some of them, however, were Cyprians and Cyrenaeans, who, on reaching Antioch, began to tell the Greeks also the Good News concerning the Lord Jesus.

²³ When he arrived, and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he encouraged them all to remain faithful to the Lord, with full purpose of heart;

⁵ So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God was made by the church for him.

²⁴ But the word of God grew and multiplied;

²⁶ "Brothers, sons of Abraham's race, and all among you who reverence God, to us has the word of this salvation been sent.

³⁸ "Be it known unto you therefore, brothers, that remission of sins is proclaimed to you through this man;

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.

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

¹⁴ Among them was a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, who belonged to the town of Thyatira. She, since she was a worshiper of God, listened to us, and the Lord opened her heart to attend to what Paul said.

³ explaining and quoting passages to prove that the Messiah had to suffer and to rise again from the dead and that "This Jesus whom I am proclaiming unto you is the Messiah."

¹⁸ A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him again and again. Some were saying, "What has this beggarly fellow to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

²⁸ "for in him we live and move and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, "'For we also are his offspring.'

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.

²⁷ I never shrank from telling you the whole counsel of God. ²⁸ Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, and be shepherds of the church of God which he has purchased with his own blood.

²⁸ Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, and be shepherds of the church of God which he has purchased with his own blood.

³¹ So be on guard; and remember that for three years I ceased not to admonish you all, night and day, even with tears. ³² "And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace. He is able to build you up, and to give you your inheritance among all those who are consecrated.

⁶ Then perceiving that half the Sanhedrin were Sadducees and the other half Pharisee, he cried out in the Sanhedrin. "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees! It is for the hope of the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial!"

¹⁵ "and having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there is to be a resurrection both of the just and the unjust.

⁶ "Today I am standing trial because of the hope of the promise made by God to our ancestors, ⁷ "a promise which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. It is concerning this hope, King Agrippa, that I am accused by the Jews.

¹⁶ "'But rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you my minister and my witness both of what you have already seen and of those things in which I will appear to you.

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.'

²³ "how that the Christ must suffer, and how he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should bring a message of light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."

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

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. ⁸ First I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout all the world.

⁸ First I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout all the world. ⁹ God is my witness, to whom I render holy service in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I am ever making mention of you in my prayers,

⁹ God is my witness, to whom I render holy service in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I am ever making mention of you in my prayers, ¹⁰ always entreating him that now at length, if such be his will, the way may be made clear for me to come to you.

¹³ I want you to know, brothers, that many a time I have planned to come to you—though until now I have been hindered—so as to have some harvest-fruit among you also, even as I have among the rest of the Gentiles.

³⁰ They became whisperers, back-biters, hated of God, insolent, haughty, boastful. They invented sins. They were disobedient to parents.

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

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,

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.

¹² He is the father of circumcision to those who are not merely circumcised, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he held while he was as yet uncircumcised.

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

³ And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude, ⁴ and fortitude character, and character, hope— ⁵ a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

⁵ a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

⁹ By how much more, then, being now justified in his blood, shall we be saved through him from the wrath of God. 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.

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.

¹⁷ But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed; ¹⁸ and being set free from sin, you became the slaves 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. ²⁰ For when you were the slaves of sin, you were under no subjection to righteousness. ²¹ What harvest-fruit then had you at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. ²² But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, the harvest-fruit which you are reaping tends to produce holiness, and it ends is life eternal.

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

⁷ For to be earthly minded is enmity against God; For such a mind is not subject to the Law of God, Nor can it be; ⁸ And they who are earthly minded cannot please God.

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.

¹⁷ and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; but to share his glory, we must now be sharing his sufferings. ¹⁸ For I count as nothing what we now suffer, in comparison with the glory which will soon be unveiled to us. ¹⁹ All nature even is waiting with eager longing for the unveiling of the vision of God's sons.

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.

³⁸ For I am fully persuaded that neither death nor life, Neither angels nor principalities, nor powers, Neither the present world nor the world to come, Nor the powers of Nature,

²³ And what if he thus purposed to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory?

⁸ But what does it say? The word is near thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart. That is the very word of faith which we preach;

¹⁷ So faith comes from a message heard, and the message comes from the teaching of Christ. ¹⁸ But I ask, Did they fail to hear? Yes, truly, Their sound has gone out unto all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.

¹⁸ But I ask, Did they fail to hear? Yes, truly, Their sound has gone out unto all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.

¹⁷ Supposing that some of the branches have been broken off, and you, although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among the branches and have become a partaker with them of the fatness of the olive tree, do not glory over the branches;

³³ Oh, the depths of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unfathomable are his judgments, and how unsearchable his paths!

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

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

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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. ¹⁶ I act as priest of the gospel of God; so that the Gentiles, when offered before him, may be an acceptable sacrifice, because consecrated by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁶ I act as priest of the gospel of God; so that the Gentiles, when offered before him, may be an acceptable sacrifice, because consecrated by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ I have then my boast in Christ Jesus concerning the things of God. ¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of any thing except that which Christ has done through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed, ¹⁹ through the might of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit. So that beginning at Jerusalem and its environs, I have proclaimed without reserve the gospel of Christ, even as far as Illyricum.

¹⁹ through the might of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit. So that beginning at Jerusalem and its environs, I have proclaimed without reserve the gospel of Christ, even as far as Illyricum. 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.

²⁷ Yes, it has been made their good pleasure, and their debt, too. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual riches, they owe it to them also to minister to them the Jews in worldly goods. ²⁸ When, therefore, I have settled this, and have secured to them the poor at Jerusalem the fruit of this collection, I shall come on by you into Spain.

³⁰ Brothers, I beseech you, by Jesus Christ our Lord, and by the love which the Spirit gives, to help me in my struggle by your prayers to God on my behalf,

²⁵ Now I commend you to Him who is able to keep you stedfast, according to my gospel, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, whereby is unveiled the secret truth which was kept secret through immemorial ages,

²⁵ Now I commend you to Him who is able to keep you stedfast, according to my gospel, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, whereby is unveiled the secret truth which was kept secret through immemorial ages, ²⁶ but now has been brought to light, and by command of the eternal God made known to the Gentiles by the scriptures of the Prophets, so that the Gentiles might hold obedience of the faith.

²⁶ but now has been brought to light, and by command of the eternal God made known to the Gentiles by the scriptures of the Prophets, so that the Gentiles might hold obedience of the faith.

¹ Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Sosthenes, his brother. ² to the Church of God at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all, wherever they are, who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.

⁴ I am always thanking God on your behalf, for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus; ⁵ that in everything you have been enriched in him, in all speech, and in all knowledge

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,

⁶ Notwithstanding, among those who are mature I do teach philosophy; though not the philosophy of the present age, nor of its rulers who are coming to nought. ⁷ No, it is God's wisdom that I utter, that hidden wisdom which God had decreed before the world began, unto our glory.

¹² But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may realize the blessings freely given us by God. ¹³ Of these high themes we speak in words not taught by human philosophy, but by the Spirit; interpreting spiritual things to spiritual men. 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, ¹⁵ But the spiritual man discerns everything, yet is himself discerned by no one.

⁵ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him.

¹⁶ Do you not know what you are God's sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling within you?

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

² Now it is required of stewards, that a man be found faithful. ³ But to me it matters very little that I am judged by you, or by any earthly court.

¹⁴ I am not writing this to shame you, but to admonish you, as my beloved children.

¹⁷ With this in mind I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dear and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ; the manner in which I ever teach everywhere in every church.

⁹ Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites, ¹⁰ or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

²⁵ I have no command from the Lord to give you concerning unmarried women; but I give you my opinion, and it is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

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.

¹⁷ For if I do this of my own accord, I have my pay; but if unwilling, I have at least discharged my stewardship.

²³ And I am doing it all for the gospel's sake, that I may become a copartner in it.

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. 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.

³ But I wish you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and of a wife her husband is head; and that God is head of Christ.

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

⁸ For to one man by the Spirit has been given a word of wisdom, to another a word of insight by the same Spirit;

¹¹ But the one and the same Spirit gives power to all, distributing his gifts to each as he wills.

¹³ Faith, Hope, Love endure—these three; but the greatest of these is Love.

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

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me. ¹¹ But whether it is I or they, thus do I preach, and thus you came to believe. ¹² If then, we are preaching Christ, that he rose from the dead, how are some of you saying that there is no resurrection from the dead?

¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all mankind most pitiable. ²⁰ But now, now, Christ is risen from the dead, the first-fruit of those who have fallen asleep. ²¹ For since by man came to death, by man came also the resurrection from the dead. ²² For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. ²³ But each in his own order; Christ the first-fruits, then those who belong to Christ at his appearing.

²³ But each in his own order; Christ the first-fruits, then those who belong to Christ at his appearing. ²⁴ And then the end, when he shall hand over his kingdom to God his Father, after he has abolished all rule and authority and power. ²⁵ For he must rule until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

²⁵ For he must rule until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

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.

¹ To the Church of God which is in Corinth, and to all the saints throughout Greece. from Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ, and from brother Timothy.

⁵ For just as I have more than my share in the sufferings of the Christ, so also through the Christ I have more than my share of comfort. ⁶ If I am afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if I am receiving comfort, it is for your comfort—a comfort produced within you by your patient fortitude, under the same sufferings which I also am enduring. ⁷ My hope for you is firm; for I know that as you are comrades in my sufferings, so also are you comrades in my comfort. ⁸ Now, brothers, I want you to know about the troubles which befell me in Asia; how I was burdened altogether beyond my strength, so that I renounced all hope even of life itself.

¹⁴ But thanks be to God, who in every place is leading me in the train of Christ's triumph, and is making manifest through me the knowledge of him, an odor of incense everywhere.

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.

¹ So then, as I have this ministry because of God's mercy to me, I do not lose heart.

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. 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. ⁸ On every side I am hard pressed, yet not hemmed in; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. ¹⁰ Wherever I go, I am always carrying about in my body the dying of Jesus, in order that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in this body of mine. ¹¹ For, alive though I am, I am always given over to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may shine forth in my dying flesh. ¹² So while death is working in me, life is working in you.

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,

⁵ And He who has wrought me out for this very end is God, who has given me his Spirit as pledge.

⁹ And for this reason I also make it home with the Lord.

¹⁸ And all this is from God, who through Christ reconciled me to himself, and gave me the ministry of reconciliation;

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.

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, ⁵ by floggings, by imprisonment; in riots, in labors, in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst;

⁵ by floggings, by imprisonment; in riots, in labors, in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst; ⁶ with purity, understanding, patience, and kindness; by the Holy Spirit, by love sincere, ⁷ by a true teaching and an energy divine; by the weapons of righteousness, for attack or for defense,

¹⁶ And what compact has God's temple with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, as he has said: I will dwell among them, and walk about among them; I will be their God, and they will be my people. ¹⁷ Therefore, Come out from among them and separate yourselves, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean; ¹⁸ then I will receive you and will be to you a Father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

⁴ Great is my faith in you; great is my cheerful assurance in you. I am filled with comfort; in spite of all my troubles, my heart is overflowing with joy.

⁷ and not alone by his coming, but also by the comfort you had been to him. For he told me of your eager longing, of your penitence, and of your zeal on my behalf, so that I was happier still.

⁸ And God is able to give you an overflowing measure of every grace, so that all your wants of every kind may be supplied at all times, and you may give of your abundance to every good work;

¹⁴ For I am not overstepping the limits of my authority, as though I reached you not; since I have already come even as far as Corinth to proclaim the gospel of Christ.

² I have a divine jealousy on your behalf; for I betrothed you to one only husband, even to Christ, that I might present you to him, a chaste virgin.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often. ²⁴ Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes. ²⁵ Three times I have been scourged by the Romans; once I have been stoned; three times have I been shipwrecked; a night and a day have I been adrift in the open sea. ²⁶ My journeys have been many; in perils of rivers, in perils of bandits; in perils from my countrymen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers; ²⁷ in toil and weariness, often in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst, often without anything to eat; in cold and in nakedness.

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

³ Since you want a proof of Christ who is speaking in me, he who is not feeble toward you, but powerful among you.

³ Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁵ But when God who had set me apart from my very birth, ¹⁶ and had called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach his gospel among the Gentiles, without consulting a human being,

⁷ On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter has with the gospel for the circumcised ⁸ (for he who has equipped Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised, equipped me also for the apostleship to the Gentiles),

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.

⁹ So then they who are children of faith are blessed with Abraham the faithful;

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),

¹¹ I am alarmed about you for fear lest I may have bestowed labor on you to no purpose.

¹⁹ O my little children, of whom I travail again in birth until Christ be formed within you!

⁵ But we are not, for we through the Spirit are eagerly waiting by faith for a hope of righteousness (a hope well founded); ⁶ because in Christ neither circumcision has any value, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works through love. ⁷ You were running your race nobly. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

²² But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control;

²² But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control; ²³ against such there is no law.

⁹ And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus,

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. ⁵ For in his love he predestined us (such was the good pleasure of his will) to adoption for himself as sons through Jesus Christ, ⁶ and to the praise of his glorious grace which he graciously bestowed upon us in the Beloved. ⁷ It is in him we have deliverance, the forgiveness of our trespasses, through his blood; ⁸ so abundantly did he lavish upon us the riches of his grace in all wisdom and understanding,

¹⁰ for the government of the fulness of the ages, that all things in heaven and earth are alike should be gathered up in Christ, as Head. ¹¹ It is he in whom we Jews also have our inheritance, having been chosen beforehand according to the purpose of Him who executes all things according to the counsel of his will,

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,

¹⁵ For this reason I also, from the time when I heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which prevails among you, and your love to all the saints,

¹⁵ For this reason I also, from the time when I heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which prevails among you, and your love to all the saints, ¹⁶ do not cease to praise God for you, whenever I mention you in my prayers. 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;

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;

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,

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,

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,

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

¹⁹ and what the surpassing greatness of his might in us who believe, as seen in the energy of that resistless might

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,

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. ²² God has put all things under Christ's feet, and placed him as Head over all in the church, ²³ which is his body, the fulness of Him who fills the universe.

²³ which is his body, the fulness of Him who fills the universe.

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.

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). ⁶ together with him He raised us from the dead, and together with Christ Jesus seated us in the heavenly realm, ⁷ in order that he might show to the ages to come the amazing riches of his grace by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is God's gift. ⁹ It is not of works, so that any one can boast of it; ¹⁰ for we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good deeds, which God predestined us to make our daily way of life.

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

¹² were once upon a time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants of the Promise, without hope and without God in the world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near in the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our Peace, who has made the two of us Jew and Gentile one, and has broken down the party-wall of partition between us. 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.

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.

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;

¹⁹ Take notice then that no longer are you strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household.

²¹ In him the whole building, fitly framed together, rises into a holy temple in the Lord; ²² and in him you, too, are continuously built together for a dwelling-place of God through his Spirit.

¹ For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— ² for surely you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God entrusted to me for you? ³ You have heard how by direct revelation the secret truth was made known to me, as I have already briefly written you. ⁴ By reading what I have written, you can judge of my insight into that secret truth of Christ 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, ⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel.

⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel. ⁷ It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power.

⁷ It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power.

⁷ It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power. ⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

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

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ; ⁹ and should make all men see the new dispensation of that secret purpose, hidden from eternity in the God who founded the universe, ¹⁰ in order that now his manifold wisdom should, through the church, be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly sphere,

¹³ So I beg you not to lose heart over my tribulations in your behalf; they are your glory. ¹⁴ For this cause I bend my knees before the Father, ¹⁵ from whom every fatherhood in heaven and earth is named, ¹⁶ praying him to grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in your inmost being;

¹⁶ praying him to grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in your inmost being;

¹⁶ praying him to grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in your inmost being; ¹⁷ that Christ may make his home in your hearts through your faith; that you may be so deeply rooted and so firmly grounded in love,

¹⁷ that Christ may make his home in your hearts through your faith; that you may be so deeply rooted and so firmly grounded in love,

¹⁷ that Christ may make his home in your hearts through your faith; that you may be so deeply rooted and so firmly grounded in love, 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. 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. ² With all humility and gentleness and long-suffering forbear with one another in love;

⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

¹⁰ He who descended is he who ascended above the highest heaven, that he might fill the universe. ¹¹ It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, ¹² in order to equip the saints for the work of serving, for the building up of the Body of Christ— ¹³ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the maturity of manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

¹³ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the maturity of manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

¹⁵ but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ. ¹⁶ From him the whole body (knit together and compacted by all its joints) makes continual growth of the body so as to build itself up in love, through the energy of his bounteous provision, according to the need of each several part.

¹⁶ From him the whole body (knit together and compacted by all its joints) makes continual growth of the body so as to build itself up in love, through the energy of his bounteous provision, according to the need of each several part.

¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

²¹ if indeed you have listened to him, and in him been taught the truth as it is in Jesus.

²³ and to be made new in the spirit of your mind,

³² and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ has forgiven you.

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."

⁴ so too with vulgarity and buffoonery and foolish jesting. Such words become you not, but rather thanksgiving.

⁸ For you were once darkness, but are now in the Lord. ⁹ Lead the life of children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in every kind of goodness and uprightness and truth. ¹⁰ Examine carefully what is well pleasing to the Lord,

¹⁵ See to it, then, that you carry on your life carefully; not as foolish, but as wise men.

¹⁷ For this reason do not be thoughtless, but learn to know what the Lord's will is.

²⁰ and at all times for all things give thanks to God, the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²¹ Submit yourselves one to another out of reverence for Christ.

²³ because a husband is the head of his wife even as Christ is head of the church, his body, which he saves.

²⁷ so as to present her to himself, the church glorified, without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish; but on the contrary holy and faultless.

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

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

¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.

²¹ But that you also may know my affairs and how I do, Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make everything known to you.

¹ Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, and to the elders and deacons.

³ Upon every remembrance of you I am ever thanking my God for you all; ⁴ in every petition of mine in your behalf I am offering my prayer with joy for your fellowship in forwarding the gospel,

⁴ in every petition of mine in your behalf I am offering my prayer with joy for your fellowship in forwarding the gospel, ⁵ from the first day you heard it until now.

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may abound yet more and more in intelligence and insight ¹⁰ for testing things that differ, so that you may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, ¹¹ being filled with the fruit of righteousness through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

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

¹⁵ Some indeed are preaching Christ out of envy and contentiousness, but others from good-will. ¹⁶ but the former preach Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely, because they think they are adding bitterness to my bonds. ¹⁷ These latter out of their love, because they know that I am set here for the defense of the gospel; ¹⁸ What of it? In any case, whether in pretence or in honest truth, Christ is still preached, and in that I am rejoicing, yes, and will rejoice.

²⁷ Only do lead lives worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come to see you or hear reports concerning you in my absence, I may know that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul, enlisted in a common struggle for the faith of the gospel,

³⁰ while you wage the same conflict which you once saw in me, and now hear that I maintain.

⁶ who, though from the beginning he had the nature of God, did not reckon equality with God something to be forcibly retained,

¹⁰ that in the name of Jesus every knee in heaven, on earth, and under the earth should bend,

¹³ for it is God who, in his good-will is ever working in you both will and deed.

¹⁶ holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing. ¹⁷ Nay, even if my life is to be poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of you faith, ¹⁸ I will rejoice and congratulate you all; and in the same way you must rejoice and congratulate me. ¹⁹ Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be of good comfort when I learn the news concerning you. ²⁰ For I have no other like him with a genuine concern for your welfare, ²¹ for they are all seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. ²² And you know Timothy's worth, how he has shared my servitude in furtherance of the gospel, like a son helping his father.

²⁵ Epaphroditus, my brother and coworker and fellow soldier, who is your messenger and minister to my needs, I have thought it necessary to send to you;

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

⁶ Do not worry about anything; but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

¹³ I am strong for everything in Him who gives me strength.

¹⁷ It is not your gifts I am eager for, but I am eager for the abundant profit that accrues to your divine account. ¹⁸ But I give you a receipt in full for all things abound. I am amply supplied with what you sent by Epaphroditus—an odor of sweet fragrance, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God. ¹⁹ All your own needs my God will fully supply, according to his riches in glory, in Christ Jesus.

³ Whenever I pray for you I am continually thanking God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ⁴ (since I heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love to all the saints)

⁴ (since I heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love to all the saints) ⁵ because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Long ago you heard of this hope in the message which came to you of the truth of the gospel.

⁵ because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Long ago you heard of this hope in the message which came to you of the truth of the gospel. ⁶ And just as it is spreading through the whole world, bearing fruit and increasing, so also is it among you, from the day in which you heard it, and came truly to know the grace of God,

⁶ And just as it is spreading through the whole world, bearing fruit and increasing, so also is it among you, from the day in which you heard it, and came truly to know the grace of God,

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; 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;

¹³ For he has delivered us out of the dominion of the darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of his dear Son,

¹⁵ He is a visible image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; ¹⁶ for in him was the universe created, things in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; by him and for him all have been created; ¹⁷ and HE IS before all, and in him all things subsist. ¹⁸ He is the head of his Body, the Church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, in order that in all things he may become preeminent.

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, ²² he has now in his human body reconciled to God by his death, in order that he may bring you into his presence, holy and unblemished and irreproachable.

²² he has now in his human body reconciled to God by his death, in order that he may bring you into his presence, holy and unblemished and irreproachable. ²³ And this he will do if, indeed, you continue in the faith, firmly founded and stedfast, and never moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, and which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, that gospel of which I, Paul, was made a minister. 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. ²⁵ It is of this I was made a minister, according to the stewardship entrusted to me by God for you, fully to declare God's message;

²⁷ To them God willed to make known among the Gentiles how glorious are the riches of that secret truth, which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory."

¹ For I would have you know how great a contest I am waging for you and the brethren in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen my face. ² May their hearts be comforted! May they be knit together in love! May they gain in all its riches the full assurance of their understanding! May they come to a perfect knowledge of the secret truth of God, which is Christ himself. ³ In Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge!

⁶ As then you have received Jesus Christ, your Lord, in him live your lives; 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.

⁹ For it is in Christ that all the fullness of deity dwells bodily, ¹⁰ and in him you have your fulness, and he is the Lord of all the principalities and powers.

¹⁰ and in him you have your fulness, and he is the Lord of all the principalities and powers. 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,

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, ¹⁴ blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that stood against us and was hostile to us, and took it out of our way, nailing it to his cross. ¹⁵ Principalities and powers he disarmed, and openly displayed them as his trophies, when he triumphed over them in the cross.

¹⁹ instead of keeping connection with the Head from the whole body draws nourishment for all its needs by the joints which bind it; and is knit together, and grows with a divine growth.

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.

¹³ bearing with one another and forgiving each other, if any one has a grievance against another. Just as Christ the Lord forgave you, so must you forgive.

¹⁵ Let the peace of Christ, to which also you were called in one body, rule in your hearts, and show yourselves thankful. 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. 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.

²⁰ Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is well pleasing in Christians.

⁵ Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward those without, buying up your opportunities.

⁷ Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow slave in the Lord, will make known to you all that concerns me.

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

¹ Paul and Silas and Timothy. To the church of the Thessalonians which is in God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be to you, and peace. ² I am continually thanking God for all, always making mention of you in my prayers, 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.

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.

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.

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. ¹³ For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.

² I sent Timothy, my brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and to hearten you in your faith. ³ So that no one should be shaken by these troubles—for you know well that we are appointed to troubles.

³ So that no one should be shaken by these troubles—for you know well that we are appointed to troubles. ⁴ For even when I was with you I used to tell you beforehand that I was to suffer affliction; and so it proved, as you know. ⁵ So, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that my labor had been in vain. ⁶ But now that Timothy has returned from you to me, and has brought good news of your faith and love, and that you are still holding me in affectionate remembrance, always longing to see me as I also am longing to see you.

¹⁰ Night and day I am praying earnestly that I may see you face to face, and may perfect whatever is yet lacking in your faith. ¹¹ Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct my path to you. 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. ¹³ And so may he establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus, with all his saints.

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.

⁶ That no man overreach or take advantage of his brother in such matters, because "the Lord takes vengeance" in all these things, as also I repeatedly forewarned you and testified to you. 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.

⁸ But let us who are of the day be self-controlled, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

¹² I entreat you, brothers, to acknowledge those who are toiling among you and are your leaders in the Lord, and give you counsel. ¹³ Esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Live in peace among yourselves. ¹⁴ And, brothers, we urge you to admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, lose patience with none.

¹⁷ Pray without ceasing.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy. To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

¹¹ To this end I am making my constant prayer for you, beseeching God to make you worthy of your calling, and to fulfil mightily every desire of goodness and effort of faith;

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.

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and a good hope in grace,

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and a good hope in grace, ¹⁷ comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good work and word.

⁸ I did not eat my food as a gift from any man, but in toil and travail, night and day, I worked, so that I might not be a burden to any of you.

¹ Paul, and apostle of Jesus Christ by command of God our Saviour and Jesus Christ our Hope,

¹² And I am thankful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has thus enabled me, that he accounted me faithful, and appointed me to his service,

¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners"! And there is no greater sinner than I!

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

⁶ who gave himself as a ransom in behalf of all, to be attested in due time. ⁷ It was for this testimony that I myself was appointed a herald and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), to be a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

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

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.

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

³ I give thanks to God whom I worship with a pure conscience as my fathers did, when I remember you unceasingly in my prayers.

³ I give thanks to God whom I worship with a pure conscience as my fathers did, when I remember you unceasingly in my prayers. ⁴ Night and day when I recall your tears I am longing to see you, that my happiness may be complete.

⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but a spirit of power and of love and of self-control. ⁸ Do not then be ashamed to bear witness for our Lord, nor for me, his prisoner. Nay, join with me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.

¹⁰ This has now been made manifest through the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who has put an end to death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. ¹¹ Of the gospel I was appointed a herald, apostle, and teacher; and that is the reason I am now undergoing these sufferings. 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.

¹ Do you then, my son, strengthen you heart in the grace which is in Christ Jesus. 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.

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. ³ Take your share in suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. ⁴ A soldier in active service avoids entangling himself in the every-day affairs of life, so that he may please his commander.

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

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,

² proclaim the message, be urgent in season and out of season; convince, rebuke, encourage, with never-failing patience and teaching. ³ For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will heap up for themselves teachers upon teachers to satisfy their own fancies. ⁴ They will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to myths. ⁵ But as for you, be always self-controlled, face hardships, do the work of a missionary, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

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

² I write in hope of life eternal which God who never lies, promised before times eternal,

¹⁵ All things are pure to the pure; but to the contaminated and the faithless nothing is pure, nay, their very minds and consciences are tainted. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by their deeds they disown him; in that they are detestable, disobedient, and reprobate for good work of any sort.

¹¹ "For God's grace has shined forth bringing salvation to all men ¹² And schooling us to renounce impiety and evil passions, And to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

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

¹ Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; let them be obedient, ready for every good work;

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

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

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

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

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

⁷ In order that being justified by his grace, We might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

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.

¹ To my beloved friend and coworker Philemon,

⁴ I am ever mentioning you in my prayers, and giving thanks to God, ⁵ because I am hearing of your love and of the faith which you hold, not only toward the Lord Jesus Christ, but toward all the saints.

²³ Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greeting;

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

⁵ For to what angel did God ever say, Thou art my son; this day have I become thy Father? and again, I will be a father to him, and he shall be to me a son? ⁶ And further, when he brought the firstborn into the habitable world, he said, Let all the angels of God worship him.

⁶ And further, when he brought the firstborn into the habitable world, he said, Let all the angels of God worship him.

¹⁰ And, Thou, O Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundations of the earth, And the heavens are the work of thy hands. ¹¹ They will perish, but thou remainest; They all will grow old like a garment, ¹² Like a mantle thou wilt fold them up, And like a garment they will be changed. But thou art the same, And thy years will never fail.

¹⁰ For it befitted him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

¹⁴ Therefore, since the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also similarly partook of the same, in order that through death he might render powerless him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

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.

¹ Therefore, holy brothers, comrades of a heavenly calling, fix your thoughts then upon Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession. ² How faithful he was to the God who appointed him! For while Moses also was faithful in all God's house, ³ Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built a house has higher honor than the house itself. ⁴ For every house has its builder; but he who built the universe is God.

⁶ but Christ as a Son in his own house; and we are that house, if we retain the cheerful courage and pride of our hope firm unto the end.

¹⁴ For we are become comrades of the Christ, if we hold our first title deed firm until the very end.

¹⁴ Inasmuch, then, as we have a great High Priest, Jesus, the Son of God, who has passed through the heavens, let us hold fast our confession of faith.

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.

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

¹⁹ (for the Law brought nothing to perfection); and there is the bringing in of a better hope by which we draw near to God;

¹² not taking the blood of goats and oxen, but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy Place, obtaining for us an eternal redemption.

²² almost everything is purified by blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.

¹⁰ And it is by this will that we have been sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹² this Priest, after offering one Sacrifice for sins, sat down forever on God's right hand; ¹³ henceforth waiting until his enemies be put as the footstool of his feet. ¹⁴ For by one single offering he has perfected forever those whom he is sanctifying.

¹⁴ For by one single offering he has perfected forever those whom he is sanctifying.

²⁰ by the way which he dedicated for us, that new and living way, through the veil (that is, his flesh);

³⁴ For you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you did take joyfully the confiscation of your goods; conscious that you had for yourselves greater, even lasting possessions. ³⁵ Now do not fling away your bold confidence, for it has a great recompense of reward. ³⁶ For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise,

³⁶ For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise, ³⁷ For yet a very, very little while, and then The Coming One will have come, without delay. ³⁸ But it is by faith that my Righteous One will live, And if he draws back, my soul takes no pleasure in him.

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

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.

²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not because he feared the wrath of the king, but he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

³⁴ quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, proved valiant in warfare, and routed armies of aliens. ³⁵ Woman received their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were broken on the wheel, not accepting the offered deliverance, in order that they might obtain a better resurrection. ³⁶ Others again bore trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, even of chains and imprisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, persecuted, tormented— ³⁸ of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

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, ² looking unto Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and has now taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

⁴ Not yet have you resisted unto blood in your fight against sin;

²³ to the festal assemblage and church of the firstborn, registered in heaven, to a Judge who is God of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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

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!

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

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

² My brothers, when you are beset by various temptations, count it all joy, ³ because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance. ⁴ But let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, not lacking in anything. ⁵ If any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask it from the God who gives to all men freely and without upbraiding; and it will be given to him.

⁹ With it we continually bless our Lord and Father, and with it we are accustomed to curse men made in the image of God.

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 You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, then, desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself and enemy of God.

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!

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.

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.

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. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whose great mercy we have been born anew into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whose great mercy we have been born anew into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whose great mercy we have been born anew into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whose great mercy we have been born anew into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead; ⁴ and into an inheritance imperishable and undefiled and fadeless, which has been kept in heaven for you

⁴ and into an inheritance imperishable and undefiled and fadeless, which has been kept in heaven for you ⁵ who, through faith, are continuously guarded by the power of God for a salvation, ready to be revealed in the last days.

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

¹⁹ but with precious blood, like that of a lamb without spot or blemish, even the blood of Christ. ²⁰ He was indeed foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of the times for your sake. ²¹ Through him you believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope are now in God. 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.

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. ²³ For you have been born anew, not of perishable, but of imperishable seed, by the living, lasting word of God.

² Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;

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—

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

¹⁵ But consecrate Christ in your hearts, as Lord. Be always in readiness to make and answer to any one who asks you a reason for the hope that is within you, yet with gentleness and reverence.

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.

²² He is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; to Him angels and authorities and powers have been made subject.

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.

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.

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.

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.

⁶ and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety,

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.

¹¹ For so the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you.

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. ²¹ Indeed it would have been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them. ²² In their case it has happened according to the true proverb, The dog returns again to his own vomit, and The sow, after washing, to her wallowing in the mire.

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. ¹⁵ Regard our Lord's longsuffering as salvation; even as our dear brother Paul also wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him.

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.

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.

⁹ But if we confess our sins, faithful is he and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all wrong-doing.

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

⁸ Yet again it is a new commandment which I am writing to you, which is true in him and is you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.

¹² I am writing to you, little children, because you sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

¹⁷ and the world and its lusts are passing away, but he who ever does the will of God abides forever.

²⁷ As to you, the unction you received from him remains ever in you, and you need no teaching from any one. But since his unction teaches you concerning all things and is true, and is no lie, abide continually in him, as it has taught you to do.

¹ Behold what manner of love the Father has given us in allowing us to be called "Children of God!" And that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not know him. 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. ³ And every one who is holding this hope in him is purifying himself, even as he is pure.

³ And every one who is holding this hope in him is purifying himself, even as he is pure.

⁸ He who is committing sin is of the devil, because from the beginning of the devil is sinning. It was for this cause that the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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.

²² and whatever we ask we are receiving from him, because we are keeping his commandments and doing those things that are pleasing in his sight. ²³ His commandment is this, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do.

⁴ My little children, you are of God and have conquered them; because he that is within you is greater than he that is in the world.

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.

¹⁶ And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God, and God is abiding in him.

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.

³ For I was glad when brothers came and bore testimony to your truth, as indeed you are passing your life in truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are passing their lives in the truth.

² May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

²⁴ Now unto Him who has power to guard you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, faultless and exultant, ²⁵ to the only God, our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be ascribed glory, majesty, might, and authority, as it was before time began, is now, and ever shall be to all the ages. Amen.

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, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins in his own blood;

⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.

¹¹ saying, "Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches; to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying. "Fear not; I am the first and the last, and the Living One. ¹⁸ I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore; and hold the keys of death and of Hades.

³ You are holding fast, and have borne up for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.

⁸ And unto the angel of the Church in Smyrna, write. These are the words of the First and the Last, he who died and has returned to life.

¹⁰ Fear not what you are about to suffer! Behold, the devil is indeed going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested, and you will have persecution for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

¹⁴ To the angel of the Church in Laodicea, write. These things says the Amen, the witness, faithful and true, the beginning of the creation of God.

²⁰ Behold, I am standing at the door and knocking! If any one listens to my voice, and opens the door, I will come to him, and sup with him, and he with me.

⁹ And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book And to open its seals; For thou wast slain and didst ransom for God Men out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

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

¹³ And I heard every created thing that is in heaven, or on earth, or beneath the earth, or on the sea, and all things that are in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, Be the blessing and the honor, And the glory and the power, Forever and ever!" ¹⁴ And the four Living Creatures kept saying, "Amen!" And the Elders fell down and worshiped.

¹⁵ And the seventh angel blew his trumpet; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, "THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD ARE BECOME THE KINGDOM OF OUR LORD AND OF HIS CHRIST, AND HE WILL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER."

⁴ These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are celibates. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from among men to be the first-fruits unto God and the Lamb.

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

⁶ He also said: "It has now come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, The Beginning and the End. To him who thirsts I will freely give Of the spring of the Water of life.

²³ And the city has no need of the sun, Nor of the moon, to shine upon it; For the glory of God has lightened it, And its lamp is the Lamb.

²³ And the city has no need of the sun, Nor of the moon, to shine upon it; For the glory of God has lightened it, And its lamp is the Lamb. ²⁴ And the nations will walk by its light. And into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory;

⁵ Night will be no more. They will need no lamplight nor sunlight, Because the Lord God will give them light; And they will reign forever and ever.

¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, The First and the Last, The Beginning and the End. 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.