James 3 Cross References - MNT

¹ Do not become many teachers, my brothers, because you know well that we teachers shall be judged by a severer standard than others. ² For in many respects we often stumble. If any man never stumbles in speech, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well. ³ When we put bits in the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we control their whole body also. ⁴ Look at the ships too, though they are so large, even when driven by fierce winds they are turned by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the helmsman wills. ⁵ So also the tongue is a small member and makes great boasts. Behold, how great a forest is set on fire by a little spark! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire; it is a very world of iniquity among our members, defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the wheel of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. ⁷ For while every kind of beast and bird, and of reptiles and sea-creatures are tamable, and actually have been tamed by mankind, ⁸ no man can tame the tongue, restless evil that it is, full of deadly poison. 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. ¹⁰ From out of the same mouth pour forth blessings and cursings! My brothers, this ought not to be so. ¹¹ Does a spring pour forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter? ¹² Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives; or a grape-vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh water. ¹³ Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show his deeds by his good life, in the meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth. ¹⁵ Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike. ¹⁶ For wherever jealousy and faction exist, there is confusion and every evil deed. 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. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is being sown in peace by those who are working peace.

⁵ "Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth."

⁸ "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. ⁹ "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

²² but I say to you that he who becomes angry with his brother shall be liable to condemnation by the court; and he who says to his brother 'Raca,' shall be liable to condemnation by the Sanhedrin, while he who curses his brother shall be liable to the Gehenna of Fire.

⁴⁴ "But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.

¹ "Judge not, that you may be judged, yourselves; ² "for with what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and in what measure you measure, others will measure to you.

¹⁶ "By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes gathered of thorns, or figs of thistles? ¹⁷ "No, every good tree bears good fruit, but a worthless tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ "A good tree cannot bear bad fruit; neither can a worthless tree bear good fruit. ¹⁹ "Every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. ²⁰ "Hence it is by their fruit you will know them.

²⁴ "Every one who hears my words and does them I will liken to a wise man who built his house upon the rock.

²⁴ and behold, a sudden storm arose on the sea, so that the boat began to be buried by the waves.

¹¹ When the Pharisees saw it, they kept saying to his disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with the tax-gatherers and sinners?"

²⁴ "A pupil is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his masters.

²⁹ "Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

²⁴ When the Pharisees heard it they said, "It is only by the aid of Beelzebub, the Prince of the demons, that this fellow is driving out demons."

³² "And if any man say a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in that which is to come. ³³ "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for by its fruit the tree is known.

³³ "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for by its fruit the tree is known. ³⁴ "You generation of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. "When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the vine-dressers seized to get his fruit. ³⁵ "A good man out of his good treasure brings forth good; and from his evil treasure a bad man brings out evil. ³⁶ "I tell you that for every careless word that men speak they shall give account on the day of judgment. ³⁷ "For by your words you will each be justified, and by your words be condemned."

¹¹ "Listen, and pay attention. It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him, but what comes out of it, that defiles the man." ¹² Then his disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees were scandalized when they heard that saying?" He replied. ¹³ "Any plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. ¹⁴ "Let them alone. They are blind men leading the blind; and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a ditch." ¹⁵ Then Peter said to Jesus, "Explain the parable to us." ¹⁶ He answered. "Are even you still without understanding? ¹⁷ "Do you not know how all that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterward evacuated; ¹⁸ while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart—and that is what defiles a man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander. ²⁰ These are the things that defile a man; to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."

⁵ Say to the daughter of Zion, "Behold thy King cometh to thee, Gentle and sitting upon an ass, And upon a colt, the fool of a beast of burden."

⁸ "But you are not to be called 'Rabbi'; for one is your Teacher, and you are all brothers; ⁹ "and call no one 'Father' on earth, for One is your Father in heaven. ¹⁰ "And call no one 'Leader,' because One is your leader, even the Christ.

¹³ "But woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces; for you do not enter, yourselves, nor do you permit those who are about to come in, to enter.

²⁸ "Just so you also outwardly appear to men, just, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

⁷⁴ Then he began to curse and swear, saying, "I never knew the man." Immediately the cock crew!

¹⁸ He knew well that it was because of enmity that they had brought Jesus before him.

⁴ Not even with a chain could any man bind him, for he had been bound with fetters and chains again and again, and had snapped the chains, and broken the fetters; and there was no one strong enough to master him.

¹⁵ "Listen to me, all of you, and understand; there is nothing outside a man which by entering in can defile him; but it is what comes from him that defiled him."

²⁰ "What comes out of a man," he continued, "is what defiles him. ²¹ From within, from the heart of man, proceed evil purposes— ²² fornication, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, wantonness, envy, slander, arrogance, reckless folly—

⁵⁵ Meanwhile the high priests and all of the Sanhedrin were trying to get evidence against Jesus, so as to have him put to death, but they found none; ⁵⁶ for though many gave false witness against him, their testimony did not agree. ⁵⁷ Some came forward and swore falsely, saying,

³⁶ "Do you therefore be merciful, As your Father is merciful. ³⁷ "Do not judge, and you shall not be judged; Do not condemn, and you shall not be condemned;

⁴³ "For there is not good tree which bears worthless fruit, nor again any worthless tree which bears good fruit; for each tree is known by its own fruit. ⁴⁴ "You do not gather figs from thorns, and grapes are not plucked from a bramble-bush.

¹ Meanwhile when myriads of the multitudes were thronging around him so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples, first of all. "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisee, which is hypocrisy. ² "There is nothing hidden which shall not be revealed; nothing concealed that shall not be known.

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

² "He called to him to him and said: "'What is this that I hear about you? Render an account of your stewardship; for you can no longer be steward.'

⁸ "And the master praised the unjust steward because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this world are in relation to their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

²⁴ "And he cried out and said, 'Father Abraham have mercy on me; and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.'

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

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.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and said, "Behold a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

¹⁰ "Are you the Teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?" said Jesus.

¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

³⁶ The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

⁴⁴ "You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

² "They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God's service.

²⁶ "Therefore my heart is glad, my tongue exults, my very body also shall pitch its tent in hope.

³ "Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan so filled your heart that you are lying to the Holy Spirit, and keeping back part of the price of the land?

¹⁷ This aroused bitter indignation among the high priest and his followers who were of the sect of the Sadducees,

¹³ They also set up false witnesses who testified. "This fellow is continually talking against the Holy Place and against the law.

⁹ "The patriarchs out of jealousy sold Joseph into Egypt.

³⁶ Among the disciples at Joppa was a woman named Tabitha—which may be translated Dorcas or "Gazelle"—a woman whose life was full of good works and almsgiving, which she was doing continually.

²⁴ for he was a good man, and full of faith and the Holy Spirit. And a great multitude was added to the Lord.

¹ Now there were in the church in Antioch prophets and teachers; Barnabas and Symeon, surnamed "the Black," Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.

¹⁰ "O full of all craft and cunning, you son of the devil! You enemy of all goodness! Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

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

²⁹ The city was filled with commotion. They rushed like one man into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's companions in travel.

²⁶ So I testify to you this day that I am clear from the blood of all men; ²⁷ I never shrank from telling you the whole counsel of God.

³⁰ and that from among your own number, men will arise, perverting the truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

⁹ "I indeed once thought with myself that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus, the Nazarene.

¹⁴ But it was not long before a furious wind, called Euroclydon, rushed down from the island; ¹⁵ when the ship was caught and could not face the wind, we gave way to it, and let her drive. ¹⁶ Then we ran under the lee of a little island named Claudia, where with great difficulty we were able to secure the ship's boat. ¹⁷ After hauling it aboard, they used ropes to undergird the ship, and since they were fearful lest they should be driven upon the Syrtes, they lowered the gear and lay to. ¹⁸ And as we were being terribly battered by the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard, ¹⁹ and on the third day with their own hands they threw the ship's tackling overboard. ²⁰ Then when for many days neither sun nor stars were seen, and a great tempest still beat upon us, all hope that we should be saved was now taken away from us. ²¹ When for a long time they had been without food, Paul stood among them and said: "Men, you ought to have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and so have spared yourselves this injury and loss. ²² "But now take courage. There will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship, ²³ "for last night an angel of the God whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me and said: ²⁴ "'Fear not, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you the lives of all who are sailing with you.' ²⁵ "So take courage, men! I believe God, I believe that things will turn out exactly as it has been told me. ²⁶ "But we must be cast upon a certain island." ²⁷ It was now the fourteenth night, and we were drifting through the Adriatic Sea when, about midnight, the sailors began to suspect that they were drawing near to some land. ²⁸ So they sounded and found twenty fathoms; and after a little they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms. ²⁹ Then, fearing lest we should run ashore on the rocks, they threw out four anchors from the stern, and longed for day to come. ³⁰ And when the sailors were trying to flee from the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea under pretext of laying anchors from the bow, ³¹ Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these men remain on the ship, you cannot be saved." ³² Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship's boat and let her fall off. ³³ And while day was dawning, Paul kept urging them all to take some food. "This is the fourteenth day," he said, "that you have been on the watch, fasting, having eaten nothing. ³⁴ "So I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety. For there shall not a hair perish from the head of any one of you." ³⁵ When he had so said and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God before them all, and broke it and began to eat. ³⁶ Then they all cheered up and themselves took food. ³⁷ There were in the ship two hundred and seventy-six souls, all told. ³⁸ After eating a hearty meal, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the wheat overboard.

²² While they professed to be wise, they became fools,

²⁹ They were overflowing with every kind of iniquity, depravity, greed, and malice. They were full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and malignity.

⁸ but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness.

¹⁷ Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God,

²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the young, because you have in the Law the form of knowledge and of the truth—well then, you who are teaching others, do you ever teach yourself? ²¹ You who are preaching that a man should not steal, do you practise theft?

²³ You who are making your boast in the Law, do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of the Law? ²⁴ For the name of God is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as the Scripture itself says. ²⁵ Circumcision does indeed profit, if you are obedient to the Law; but if you habitually break the Law, your circumcision is become uncircumcision. ²⁶ So if the uncircumcised keeps the ordinance of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned equivalent to circumcision. ²⁷ And shall not those who are physically uncircumcised, but who keep the Law, condemn you who are a breaker of the Law, although you have a written law and circumcision? ²⁸ For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not outward in the flesh; ²⁹ but the real Jew is one inwardly, and real circumcision is heart—circumcision, spiritual, not literal, praised not by men, but by God.

¹⁰ As it is written. There is none righteous, no, not one;

¹³ Their throat is an open grave; With their tongues they have used deceit. The venom of asps is under their lips.

¹³ Their throat is an open grave; With their tongues they have used deceit. The venom of asps is under their lips. ¹⁴ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

¹⁴ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

²¹ I find, then, this law, that when I intend to do good, evil is ever present with me.

¹⁶ Now if the first-fruits of the dough Abraham and the Patriarchs are holy, so also is the whole mass their descendants. And if the root of a tree Abraham is holy, so also are the branches his descendants. 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; ¹⁸ or if you are glorying, remember that it is not you who uphold the root, but the root which upholds you.

⁹ Let love be without insincerity. Abhor what is evil; wed yourselves to what is good.

¹⁴ Bless your persecutors, bless, and curse not.

¹⁸ If it be possible, so far as it lies with you, be at peace with all men.

¹³ Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy;

¹⁴ And I myself also am confident regarding you, my brothers, that you yourselves are already full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and well able to give advice to one another.

¹⁷ I exhort you, brothers, to keep watch of those who are causing the divisions among you, and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which you have learned. ¹⁸ Turn away from them. For men of that stamp are not the slaves of Christ, but are slaves to their own appetites. By their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

¹⁹ For thus it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the philosophers, And the prudence of the prudent will I confound. ²⁰ Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age—where are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world?

²⁷ No, God has chosen the world's folly to confound its philosophy; and the world's weakness to confound its strength.

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.

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,

³ You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings?

¹⁹ For the philosophy of this world is foolishness in God's sight. It is written, He snares the wise in their own craftiness,

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

⁷ For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it? ⁸ But you, forsooth, are already full, are you? You are already rich? Without us you are already reigning? Yes, and I would that you did reign, so that we also might reign with you.

² Yet you are puffed up instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this thing.

⁶ Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that even a little leaven leavens all the lump?

⁵ I say this to shame you. Is it so that there is not among you a single wise man, capable of deciding between a man and his brother?

²⁷ but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.

⁷ A man, indeed, ought not to have his head veiled, for he is an image and glory of God; but woman is a glory of man.

²⁹ For whoever eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks condemnation to himself. ³⁰ This is why many among you are feeble and sickly, and many sleep. ³¹ If however, we were judging ourselves aright, we should not now be condemned; ³² but through our condemnation by the Lord, we are trained so that we may not be condemned;

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;

²⁸ And God has appointed those in the church to be first of all apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers. then workers of miracles, healers, helpers, administrators, users of various kinds of "tongues."

⁴ Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,

⁴ Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up, ⁵ is not rude, nor selfish, nor easily provoked. Love bears no malice, never rejoices over wrong-doing, ⁶ but rejoices when the truth rejoices. ⁷ It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring.

³³ for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. This custom prevails in all the churches of the saints.

¹² For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.

¹⁰ For we must all be made manifest, in our true characters, before the Judgment-seat of Christ; so that each one may receive according to that which he has done in his body, whether good or evil.

²⁴ So show to the churches an evidence of your love, and a justification to these brothers of my boasting about you.

¹⁰ He who ever supplies seed to the sower, and bread for the food of man, will supply and make plentous your seed, and increase the harvest springing up from your almsgiving.

¹ Now I Paul, myself, appeal to you by the humble-heartedness and selflessness of Christ—Paul who "in your presence is humble, but bold enough when he is absent"—

³ But I fear lest, just as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your minds should be seduced from your single-mindedness and purity toward Christ.

¹³ For such fellows are sham apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ No wonder! for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light. ¹⁵ It is no great marvel, then, if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will be according to their works.

²⁰ For I dread that perhaps, when I come, I may not find you to be such as I wish, and that I may be found by you such as you do not wish; I dread lest there should be quarrels, jealousy, tempers, party spirit, slandering, gossip, arrogance, tumults;

²² but the Scripture has shut up the whole world in prison together under sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.

¹⁵ But if you are always biting and devouring one another, take heed lest you be utterly consumed one by another.

¹⁷ For the desire of the flesh is against that of the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against that of the flesh, for they two are antagonistic, so that you may not do those things that you wish.

²⁰ idol-worship, sorcery, quarrels, party-spirit, jealousy, passionate anger, intrigues, factions, sectarianism, ²¹ envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 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.

²³ against such there is no law.

²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

¹ Even if any one should be overtaken in a fault, brothers, you that are spiritual ought, in a gentle spirit, to restore such a one, each one of you looking to himself, lest you too be tempted.

⁴ Let each one test his own work, and he will then have something to be proud of by comparing himself with himself, and not with any one else;

⁸ The man who is sowing to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption; but he who is sowing to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap life eternal.

¹³ Even those who are being circumcised, are not themselves keeping the Law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may glory in your flesh.

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.

² With all humility and gentleness and long-suffering forbear with one another in love;

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

³ As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them; ⁴ so too with vulgarity and buffoonery and foolish jesting. Such words become you not, but rather thanksgiving.

⁹ Lead the life of children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in every kind of goodness and uprightness and truth.

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.

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,

³ Do nothing out of strife, nothing out of vanity, but let each one in true humility consider the others to be of more account than himself.

¹⁹ Their end is destruction, their belly is their god, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are set on earthly things.

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

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;

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.

⁸ But now you also must renounce them all. Anger, passion, and ill-will must be put away; slander, too, and foul talk, so that they may never soil your lips. ⁹ Lie not one to another, but strip off the old self with its doings,

¹² Therefore, as God's chosen people, consecrated and beloved, clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, good temper;

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.

⁷ On the contrary I showed myself among you as gentle as a mother, when she tenderly nurses her own children.

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

⁹ even he whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, in every power and sign and lying wonder, ¹⁰ and with all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth for their salvation. ¹¹ For this reason God is sending on them an energy of delusion, that they should put faith in a falsehood; ¹² so that they all should be condemned, who are faithless to the truth, but take pleasure in evil.

⁷ Although they desire to be teachers of the law, they understand neither the words they use nor the subjects they talk about.

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.

¹ Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons

¹² Let no one despise you on account of your youth, but become an example for the faithful in word, in life, in love, in faith, in purity.

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

²¹ I charge you solemnly in the presence of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice against any man, and do nothing out of partiality.

⁴ he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions,

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

¹¹ Of the gospel I was appointed a herald, apostle, and teacher; and that is the reason I am now undergoing these sufferings.

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,

¹¹ for they upset whole households and, for filthy lucre's sake, teach what they ought not to teach.

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.

² they must speak evil of none, they must not be quarrelsome, but gentle, showing perfect meekness toward all. 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.

¹¹ Now no discipline seems for the present to be joyous, but grievous; but afterward it yields the peaceable fruits of righteousness to those who have been trained under it.

¹⁴ Run swiftly after peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

⁵ Let your life be untainted by love of money; be content with such things as you have; for God himself has said, I will never leave thee; I will never forsake thee.

¹⁷ Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who must give account; that they may do thus with joy and not with lamentation, for this would be unprofitable to you.

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!

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.

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

²⁰ for a man's anger does not further the righteous purpose of God. ²¹ So strip off all filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, and in meekness receive the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls.

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

⁴ are you not drawing distinctions among yourselves, and have you not become judges with evil thoughts?

⁷ Are they not blaspheming that glorious Name by which you are called?

¹⁰ For if a man keeps the whole of the Law, and yet stumbles in one point, he is guilty of all.

¹⁸ Some one indeed may say, "You have faith, and I have deeds." "Then show me your faith," I answer, "apart from any deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds."

¹ Do not become many teachers, my brothers, because you know well that we teachers shall be judged by a severer standard than others.

⁵ So also the tongue is a small member and makes great boasts. Behold, how great a forest is set on fire by a little spark! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire; it is a very world of iniquity among our members, defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the wheel of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire; it is a very world of iniquity among our members, defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the wheel of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth. ¹⁵ Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike. ¹⁶ For wherever jealousy and faction exist, there is confusion and every evil deed. 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.

¹ Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members? ² You continually crave and do not obtain; you are killing and coveting and cannot acquire; you are fighting and at war. You do not have, because you do not ask. ³ You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures. 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. ⁵ Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the Scripture says, "The spirit which has its home in us yearns over us unto jealousy?"

⁸ Draw near to God And he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, And purify your hearts, you double-minded.

¹⁹ My brothers, if any one of you strays from the truth, and some one brings him back,

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;

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

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

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

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

¹ In the same way you wives must be submissive to your own husbands; so that if some of them will not believe the message, they may apart from the message be won over by the behavior of their wives, ² when they see how pure and reverent you are.

⁴ but rather that hidden personality of the heart, the imperishable ornament of a quiet and gentle spirit, which in the sight of God is indeed precious.

⁹ not paying back evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but on the contrary giving a blessing. Because for this you have been called—to inherit a blessing. ¹⁰ He who would love life and enjoy happy days, Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking guile;

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. ¹⁶ See that you have a clear conscience, so that, although they speak of you as evil-doers, these libelers of your good Christian lives may be ashamed.

³ not by way of lording it over your heritage, but by becoming examples to the flock.

¹⁰ But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

¹ But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves. ² Then there will be many who will follow their immorality, because of whom the Way of the Truth will be maligned.

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.

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

⁸ If we say, "We have no sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. 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. ¹⁰ If we say, "We have not sinned," we are making him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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. ⁹ Whoever is a child of God cannot go on sinning, because his seed is abiding in him; and he cannot go on sinning because he is a child of God. ¹⁰ In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

¹² We are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? It was because his own deeds were evil, and his brother's, righteous.

¹⁸ My children, let us not love in word nor in talk, but in deed and in truth.

¹⁰ Do them when I come I will recall to mind the deeds which he is doing, prating against me with wicked words. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to receive the brothers, forbids those that would receive them, and excommunicates them from the church.

⁸ Yet in just the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, while they set at naught dominion and scoff at dignities. ⁹ But Michael, the Archangel, when in contending with the devil, he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to pronounce sentence for blasphemy, but said, "The Lord rebuke you." ¹⁰ Yet these men blaspheme about matters of which they know nothing, while they use such things as they do understand by instinct (like the animals who have no reason) for their own destruction.

¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly deeds which in their ungodliness they have committed; and of all the hard things which they have spoken against Him, ungodly sinners that they are!" ¹⁶ For these are murmurers, always complaining. They always go where their passions lead, and their mouth speaks great swelling words, while they pay court to men for the sake of the advantage they can get.

¹⁶ For these are murmurers, always complaining. They always go where their passions lead, and their mouth speaks great swelling words, while they pay court to men for the sake of the advantage they can get. ¹⁷ But as for you, dearly beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁸ how they used to say to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will be led only by their godless passions." ¹⁹ These are the men, sensual and unspiritual, who cause divisions.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat food offered to idols, and to practise immorality. ¹⁵ So you have also some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

²⁴ But to the rest of you in Thyatira, those who do not hold his teaching, and who do not know the "deep things" of Satan (as they call them),

¹¹ They have a king over them, the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon; in Greek he is called Apollyon.

⁹ Now the great dragon was thrown down—that old Serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

¹ Then I saw rising up out of the sea a beast who had ten horns and seven heads. On his horns he had ten diadems, and on his heads blasphemous titles. ² The beast I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were bear's feet, and his mouth a lion's mouth. The dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority. ³ And I saw that one of his heads seemed to have been mortally wounded, but its deadly wound had been healed. The whole earth was following the beast, wondering. ⁴ Men worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying. "Who is like the beast? Who can fight with him?" ⁵ And he was permitted to utter loud boasts and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty-two months.

⁵ And he was permitted to utter loud boasts and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty-two months. ⁶ So he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle (those who live in his tabernacle in heaven).

¹⁴ And he deceives those who dwell on the earth, because of the miracles, which he is permitted to perform in the sight of the beast. He tells those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the sword-stroke, yet lived.

²³ No light of a lamp shall ever shine in you again; And in you shall the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride be heard no more. For your merchants were the princes of the earth; And with your sorcery were all the nations deceived;

²⁰ And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed miracles in his presence to deceive those who had received the brand of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire, blazing with brimstone.