John 5 Cross References - MNT

¹ After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now there is in Jerusalem a pool near the Sheep-gate, called in the Hebrew, Bethesda. ³ It has five colonnades. In these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people—blind, lame, paralyzed. ⁴ OMITTED TEXT. ⁵ And there was one man there for thirty-eight years in his infirmity. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well?" ⁷ "Sir," answered the sick man, "I have no man to put me into the pool whenever the water is troubled; and while I am trying to come, some one else steps down before me." ⁸ "Rise," said Jesus, "take up your bed and go walking away." ⁹ Instantly the man became well, and he took up his bed and started to walk. Now it was Sabbath on that day; ¹⁰ so the Jews kept saying to the man who had been cured. "It is the Sabbath Day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed." ¹¹ He replied, "The man who healed me told me to take up my bed and walk." ¹² "Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'take up your bed and go walking away'?" ¹³ But he who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had moved away, as there was a crowd in that place. ¹⁴ Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him. "Look! You have become well. Do not go on sinning, lest a worse thing befall you." ¹⁵ The man went to and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well; ¹⁶ and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he had done it on the Sabbath. 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. ¹⁹ So Jesus answered them in these words. "In solemn truth I tell that the Son cannot do anything of himself, except what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does also. ²⁰ "For the Father loves the Son, and shows him every thing that he himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will he show him, that you may wonder. ²¹ "For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, even so the Son makes whom he will alive. ²² "The Father indeed does not judge any one, but has given all judgment to the Son, ²³ "in order that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor Son, does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴ "I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life. ²⁵ "Solemnly I tell you that the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live. ²⁶ "For as the Father has life in himself, so also has he granted to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷ "And he has given him authority to pronounce judgment, because he is Son of man. ²⁸ "Do not wonder at this, because an hour is coming in which all who are in their graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth again; ²⁹ "those who have done good into a resurrection of life, and those who have practised evil to a resurrection of condemnation. ³⁰ "I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me. ³¹ "If I bear testimony concerning myself, my testimony is not valid. ³² "Another bears testimony to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears concerning me is valid. ³³ "You yourselves sent to John, and he has been and is a witness to the truth. ³⁴ "(Though for myself I accept no witness from man; I only mention that you may be saved.) ³⁵ "That man was the Lamp-burning and shining—and you were willing for a time rejoice in his light. ³⁶ "But I have testimony greater than that of John; for the work which the Father has given me to bring to completion—the work which I am doing—bears testimony concerning me, that the Father has sent me. ³⁷ "And the Father who sent me has himself borne testimony concerning me. None of you has heard his at any time or seen him, ³⁸ nor had his word dwelling within you, because you do not believe him whom he sent. ³⁹ "You are searching the Scriptures because you suppose that in tem you have eternal life; and though these are they that bear witness concerning me, ⁴⁰ "you will not come to me that you may have life. ⁴¹ "I am not receiving honor from men, but I know you, ⁴² "that you have not the love of God in yourselves. ⁴³ "I am come in the name of my Father and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, him you will receive. ⁴⁴ "How can you believe when you receive glory from, one another, and have no desire for the glory which comes from the only God? ⁴⁵ "Do not imagine that I shall accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser, on whom you build your hopes. ⁴⁶ "For if you believed Moses you would believe me, for he wrote about me. ⁴⁷ And if you do not believe his writings, how will you ever believe my words?"

⁵ Then Jerusalem began to go out to him, and all Judea, and the whole neighborhood of the Jordan, ⁶ and were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 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?

¹⁵ But Jesus answered, "Permit it now, for so it is fitting for us to fulfill every religious duty."

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

³³ "But continue to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

⁶ "But that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins"—he then says to the paralytic, "Rise, take up your bed, and go to your home."

²⁹ "Are not two sparrows sold for a half-penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your father.

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

⁴ "Go and tell John," was Jesus' answer, "what you hear and see;

⁷ As these men started to go away, Jesus began to speak to the throngs, about John. ⁸ "What did you go out into the desert to behold?" he asked; "A reed shaken by the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, those who wear soft raiment dwell in kings' palaces! ⁹ "But why did you go? To see a prophet? I tell you, yes, and more than a prophet;

¹¹ "In solemn truth I tell you that there has not arisen among those born of women a greater than John the Baptist; yet one of the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. ¹² "From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by storm.

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.

² But the Pharisees, when they perceived it, said to him. "Look! Your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!" ³ "Have you not read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was hungry, and his men, too? ⁴ "How he went into the House of God, and there they ate the loaves of the Presence, which neither he nor his men were permitted to eat, but the priests only? ⁵ "Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless?

⁵ "Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless? ⁶ "But I tell you that One is here who is greater than the temple. ⁷ "And if you knew what this means, "It is mercy I desire, not sacrifice, ⁸ "you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath."

¹⁰ And in order to get a charge against him they asked him, "Is it permitted to heal on the Sabbath?" (So that they might have something to accuse him.) ¹¹ "Is there a man of you," he replied, "who has but a single sheep, who will not lay hold of it and lift it out, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath Day? ¹² "And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Therefore it is right to do good on the Sabbath." ¹³ Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand."

¹³ Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand."

²¹ And in his name shall the Gentiles hope.

⁴⁵ "Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits worse than itself; and they enter in and dwell there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it be with this wicked generation."

²⁰ "This is the seed sown by the wayside. And the word, and at once receives it with joy. ²¹ "But he has no root in himself; he continues for a time, but when trouble arises, or persecutions, on account of the word, at once he stumbles and falls.

³⁰ Great crowds came to him, bringing the crippled, the blind, the maimed, the dumb, and many others. They laid them at his feet and he healed them;

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

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."

⁷ They answered, "Why then did Moses command the husband to give her 'a written bill of divorce,' and so to put her away?" ⁸ "Moses," said Jesus, "permitted you to divorce your wives on account of the hardness of your hearts, but from the beginning it was not so.

¹⁶ But look! a certain man came up to him and asked, "Teacher, what good thing shall I do to inherit eternal life?" ¹⁷ "Why do you ask me about what is good?" asked Jesus. "There is but One who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments." ¹⁸ "Which commandments?" asked the man. Jesus replied. "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt not commit adultery; Thou shalt not steal; Thou shalt not bear false witness; ¹⁹ "Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." ²⁰ The young man answered. "I have carefully kept them all. What yet do I lack?"

²³ When he had entered the Temple courts, and was teaching, the high priests and elders of the people came to him and asked him, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"

²⁶ "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?' But if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the crowd, for they all regard John as a prophet."

³ "He sent out his slaves to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they did not want to come.

²⁹ In answer Jesus said: "You err because you do not know the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

³⁷ Jesus answered, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. ³⁸ "This is the great and first commandment.

⁵ "For they do all their good deeds to be gazed on of men. They widen their phylacteries,

³⁷ "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

⁵ for many will come in my name saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many.

²⁴ For false christs and false prophets will arise, and will work great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if it were possible, the very elect.

²¹ "'Well done, good and faithful slave,' replied his master; 'You have been faithful over many things. Enter into your master's joy.' ²² "The second, who had received the two talents, came up and said: "'Master, it was two talents that you entrusted to me; see, I have gained two more.' ²³ "'Well done, good and faithful slave,' his master replied, 'You have been faithful over many things; enter into your master's joy.'

³¹ "But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he take his seat on the throne of his glory; ³² "and all the nations will be gathered in his presence. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats; ³³ "and he will place the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left. ³⁴ "Then he, the King will say to those on his right hand. "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ³⁵ "'For I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in; ³⁶ "'I was naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to see me.' ³⁷ "Then shall the righteous answer him, saying. 'Master, when did we see you hungry and feed you; or thirsty and give you drink? ³⁸ "'When did we see you a stranger and take you in; or naked and clothe you? ³⁹ "'When did we see you sick or in prison, and come to see you?' ⁴⁰ "'In solemn truth I tell you,' the King will answer them, 'that inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these, my brothers, you have done it unto me.' ⁴¹ "Then he will say to those also at his left hand. 'Depart from me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; ⁴² "for I was hungry, and you gave me no food; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; ⁴³ "I was a stranger, and you took me not in; naked, and you clothed me not; sick, or in prison, and you visited me not.' ⁴⁴ "Then will they also answer, 'Master, when did we ever see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you?' ⁴⁵ "But he will reply, 'In solemn truth I tell you that inasmuch as you did not do it unto one of these least, you did not do it unto me.' ⁴⁶ "And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the righteous into eternal life."

³⁹ Then he went forward a short distance, and fell on his face and prayed. "O, my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt."

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

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

³¹ So he came and took her hand and raised her up. The fever left her at once, and she began to wait upon them.

⁴² The leprosy at once left him, and he was made clean.

⁴⁵ But he went out and began to tell every one and to publish it broadcast, so that Jesus could no longer enter any town openly; but he had to remain outside in lonely places, and people kept coming to him from every quarter.

⁵ Then Jesus, when he perceived their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son your sins are forgiven."

⁹ "Why do you reason thus in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your cot and walk'? ¹⁰ But to let you see that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins"—he said to the paralytic— ¹¹ "I bid you rise, take up your cot, and go home."

¹¹ "I bid you rise, take up your cot, and go home."

²⁴ "Look," said the Pharisees to him, "Why are they doing on the Sabbath Day what is against the law?"

¹ Again he went into a synagogue where there was a man with his hand withered. ² And they kept watching Jesus to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath; so as to have some charge to bring against him. ³ "Stand up," Jesus said to the man with the withered hand, "and come forward." ⁴ Then he asked them. "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath Day, or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it?"

⁴ Then he asked them. "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath Day, or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it?"

⁶ As soon as they came out, the Pharisees plotted against him with the Herodians, in order to destroy him.

²⁹ At once the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was cured of her complaint.

⁴¹ Then he took the child's hand and said to her, "Talitha, cumi," that is to say, "Little girl, I am speaking to you; arise!" ⁴² And instantly the little girl stood up, and began to walk, for she was twelve years old, They were at once beside themselves with utter amazement.

²⁰ but she could not, for Herod was afraid of John because he knew that he was a just and holy man. So he kept him safe. When he listened to John he was much exercised, yet he found pleasure in listening to him.

²¹ Then Jesus asked the father, "How long has he been like this?"

⁵² "Go," said Jesus, "your own faith has saved you," and immediately he received his sight, and began to follow Jesus along the road.

¹⁰ "Have you not read this Scripture?" (he continued) "The very stone which the builders rejected Has now become the corner-stone;

¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who disbelieves shall be condemned.

¹⁵ "For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, "He shall drink neither wine nor strong drink, "He shall be filled with the Holy Spirit from the hour of his birth, ¹⁶ "And shall win many of the sons of Israel to the Lord, their God. ¹⁷ "He shall go before Him in the wisdom and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, and so to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."

⁷⁶ "And thou, child, shalt be called the Prophet of the Most High, For thou shalt go before the Lord to prepare the way ⁷⁷ "To give to his people a knowledge of salvation Through the remission of their sins,

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

³⁰ But he, passing through the midst of them, took his departure.

²⁴ But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins (he said to the paralytic), "I bid you rise, take up your bed, and go to your house."

² And some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?"

¹¹ He did so; and his hand was restored. But they were filled with fury, and they began to talk over together what they could do to Jesus.

¹⁴ And he came near and touched the bier; the bearer stopped and he said, "Young man, I bid you to rise." ¹⁵ And he who was dead sat up and began to speak; and he gave him to his mother.

²² So he answered them. "Go your way, tell John what you have seen and heard. How the blind are seeing, the lame are walking, the lepers are being cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised, and the poor are hearing the proclamations of glad tidings.

²⁸ "I tell you that among all that are born of women not one is greater than John; yet he that is little in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

⁴³ And a woman who for twelve years had had a hemorrhage, and had spent on doctors all that she had, but none had cured her,

⁵⁴ But he took her by the hand and called to her, "Little daughter, rise!" ⁵⁵ And her spirit returned and instantly she stood up.

⁶⁰ "Leave the dead to bury their own dead," said Jesus to him, "go you and announce, far and wide the kingdom of God."

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

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

²⁵ Then a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him. "Master," he said "what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" ²⁶ And he said to him. "What is written in the Law? What do you read there?" ²⁷ "You must love the Lord your God," he answered, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself." ²⁸ "You have answered right," said Jesus "do that and you shall live." ²⁹ But he, determined to justify himself, said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbor?" Jesus answered.

⁸ "And I tell you that whoever confesses me before men, the Son of man will confess him before the angels of God; ⁹ "and whoever disowns me before men, shall be disowned before the angels of God.

¹⁰ Once he was teaching in one of the synagogues, on the Sabbath, ¹¹ a woman was present who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years. she was bent double, and could not lift herself up at all. ¹² Jesus noticed her and called to him and said, "Woman, you are free from your weakness." ¹³ Then he placed his hand on her, and she instantly stood upright and began to give glory to God. ¹⁴ But the ruler of the synagogue was indignant at Jesus for healing her on the Sabbath, and said to the crowd. "There are six days of the week on which men ought to work. Therefore come during those, and get cured, but not on the Sabbath Day."

¹⁴ But the ruler of the synagogue was indignant at Jesus for healing her on the Sabbath, and said to the crowd. "There are six days of the week on which men ought to work. Therefore come during those, and get cured, but not on the Sabbath Day." ¹⁵ But the Lord answered him. "Hypocrites!" he said, "does not each one of you loose his ox or his ass from the stall on the Sabbath Day, and lead it to water, ¹⁶ "and this woman, who is the daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound these eighteen years, ought she not have been loosened from bondage, though the day be the Sabbath?"

¹⁶ "and this woman, who is the daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound these eighteen years, ought she not have been loosened from bondage, though the day be the Sabbath?"

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, ²⁵ "when once the master of the house is risen up and has shut the door. You will begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, crying, "'Lord, open to us.' "'I do not know were you came from,' he will reply. ²⁶ "Then you will begin saying, 'But we have eaten and drunk in your presence, and you have taught in our streets.' ²⁷ "But he will answer. "'I tell you I do not know were you came from; ²⁸ "'depart from me, all of you, you evil-doers.' There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves cast out.

³⁴ "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

¹⁴ "Then you will be blessed, because they have no means to repay you, but you shall be paid in the Resurrection of the Just."

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

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

¹⁵ He said to them. "You are those that justify themselves in the eyes of men; but God knows you hearts; for that which is lofty in the eyes of men is abomination in the eyes of God. ¹⁶ "The Law and the Prophet lasted until John; since then the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and any one presses in.

²⁹ "But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets, let them listen to them.'

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

⁴¹ "What do you want me to do for you?" "Lord," he answered, "that I might see again."

¹⁰ "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save the lost."

¹⁷ "And he said to him, 'Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.'

⁴¹ And when he came into view of the city, as he approached it he broke into loud weeping, ⁴² exclaiming. "Oh that at this time you knew, yes, even you, on what your peace depends! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

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

⁵⁶ Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes.

²⁷ And beginning with Moses and the Prophets, he interpreted all the passages concerning himself.

³¹ their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, "These are my words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, how all things must be fulfilled which are written in the Law of Moses, and the prophets, and the Psalms concerning me."

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

⁴ In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

⁶ A man came into being, sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷ He came as a witness, that he might bear testimony concerning the Light—so that all men might believe through him. ⁸ He was not the Light; it was to bear testimony concerning the Light that he came into being.

¹¹ He came to his own creation, and his own folk welcomed him not.

¹⁵ John bore witness concerning him, and cried aloud, saying, "This is he of whom I said, 'He who is coming after me has been put before me, for he was before me.'" ¹⁶ For out of his fulness we have all received, yes, grace upon grace. ¹⁷ For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ No man has ever seen God; God, only begotten, who is in the bosom of the Father—he has interpreted him.

¹⁸ No man has ever seen God; God, only begotten, who is in the bosom of the Father—he has interpreted him. ¹⁹ Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent some priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

¹⁹ Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent some priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" ²⁰ He acknowledged—he did not deny it—but acknowledged, "I am not the Christ." ²¹ "What then?" they questioned; "Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he replied. ²² Then said they to him. "Who are you? That we may give some answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?" ²³ He said, "I am a voice of one who cries aloud in the desert, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as said the prophet Isaiah." ²⁴ Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him; ²⁵ so they questioned him, saying, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?" ²⁶ "I indeed am baptizing in water," John said in reply, "but in your midst stands One whom you do not recognize, ²⁷ One who is to come after me, whose sandal-strap I am not worthy to untie."

²⁹ The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said: "Behold, that is God's Lamb, who takes and bears away the sin of the world. ³⁰ This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes One who has been put before me, for he was before me.' ³¹ I myself did not recognize him; I only came baptizing in water, in order that he might be openly shown to Israel." ³² John also bore this testimony, saying. "I saw the Spirit like a dove descend from heaven and rest upon him. ³³ And I did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting upon him, is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

³³ And I did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting upon him, is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.' ³⁴ This I have seen, and I am become a witness to the fact that he is the Son of God."

⁴⁵ Then Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found him about whom Moses wrote in the Law, as did the prophets—Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph's son."

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and said, "Behold a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit." ⁴⁸ "How do you know me?" asked Nathanael. "Before Philip called you," replied Jesus, "when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." ⁴⁹ "Rabbi," answered Nathanael, "you are the Son of God; you are King of Israel."

¹³ Now the Passover of the Jews was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁹ "Destroy this temple," answered Jesus, "and in three days I will raise it up."

²³ Now when he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many believed in his name, when they beheld the signs which he did;

²⁵ and did not need any one's testimony concerning man, for he himself knew what was in man.

² This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him. "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent from God; for no man can do these signs which you are continually doing, unless God is with him." ³ "In very truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

⁷ Marvel not at my telling you, 'You must all be born again from above.'

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

¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. ¹⁸ He who trusts in him is not condemned, but he who does not trust has already been condemned, because he has not put his trust in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

¹⁸ He who trusts in him is not condemned, but he who does not trust has already been condemned, because he has not put his trust in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For every one who practices wrong hates light, and does not come to the light, lest his actions be exposed;

²⁰ For every one who practices wrong hates light, and does not come to the light, lest his actions be exposed; ²¹ but he who does what is true, comes to the light, in order that his actions may be shown to have been wrought in God."

²⁶ "Rabbi, see! The man who was with you on the other side of Jordan, and to whom you yourself have borne testimony, is now baptizing, and everybody is coming to him." ²⁷ In reply John said: "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven. ²⁸ You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but have been sent before him.' 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. ³² He bears testimony to what he has heard and seen, yet no one receives his testimony. ³³ Whoever does receive it has set his seal that God is true. 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. ³⁶ Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him."

³⁶ Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him."

¹⁰ "If you had known the free gift of God," Jesus answered, "and who it is that says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water."

²¹ "Woman, believe me," said Jesus, "that the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

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.

²⁹ "Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can't be the Christ, can he?"

³⁴ Jesus said to them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

³ It has five colonnades. In these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people—blind, lame, paralyzed.

⁵ And there was one man there for thirty-eight years in his infirmity.

¹⁰ so the Jews kept saying to the man who had been cured. "It is the Sabbath Day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed." ¹¹ He replied, "The man who healed me told me to take up my bed and walk." ¹² "Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'take up your bed and go walking away'?"

¹² "Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'take up your bed and go walking away'?" ¹³ But he who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had moved away, as there was a crowd in that place. ¹⁴ Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him. "Look! You have become well. Do not go on sinning, lest a worse thing befall you."

¹⁶ and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he had done it on the Sabbath.

¹⁹ So Jesus answered them in these words. "In solemn truth I tell that the Son cannot do anything of himself, except what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does also. ²⁰ "For the Father loves the Son, and shows him every thing that he himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will he show him, that you may wonder. ²¹ "For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, even so the Son makes whom he will alive. ²² "The Father indeed does not judge any one, but has given all judgment to the Son, ²³ "in order that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor Son, does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴ "I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life. ²⁵ "Solemnly I tell you that the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live.

²⁵ "Solemnly I tell you that the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live. ²⁶ "For as the Father has life in himself, so also has he granted to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷ "And he has given him authority to pronounce judgment, because he is Son of man. ²⁸ "Do not wonder at this, because an hour is coming in which all who are in their graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth again;

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

²⁹ "those who have done good into a resurrection of life, and those who have practised evil to a resurrection of condemnation. ³⁰ "I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

³² "Another bears testimony to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears concerning me is valid.

³⁴ "(Though for myself I accept no witness from man; I only mention that you may be saved.)

³⁶ "But I have testimony greater than that of John; for the work which the Father has given me to bring to completion—the work which I am doing—bears testimony concerning me, that the Father has sent me.

³⁶ "But I have testimony greater than that of John; for the work which the Father has given me to bring to completion—the work which I am doing—bears testimony concerning me, that the Father has sent me. ³⁷ "And the Father who sent me has himself borne testimony concerning me. None of you has heard his at any time or seen him,

⁴¹ "I am not receiving honor from men, but I know you, ⁴² "that you have not the love of God in yourselves. ⁴³ "I am come in the name of my Father and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, him you will receive. ⁴⁴ "How can you believe when you receive glory from, one another, and have no desire for the glory which comes from the only God?

⁴⁶ "For if you believed Moses you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

⁴⁶ "For if you believed Moses you would believe me, for he wrote about me. ⁴⁷ And if you do not believe his writings, how will you ever believe my words?"

¹⁵ When Jesus perceived that they intended to seize him in order to make him a king, he retired again to the hill all by himself.

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

³⁷ "Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will never reject. ³⁸ "For I am come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. ³⁹ "And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁰ "For this is my Fathers will, that every one who beholds the Son and believes on him, shall have eternal life. and I will raise him up at the last day."

⁴⁰ "For this is my Fathers will, that every one who beholds the Son and believes on him, shall have eternal life. and I will raise him up at the last day."

⁴⁷ "I tell you solemnly that he who believes has eternal life.

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

⁶⁶ Therefore many of his disciples drew back and no longer companied with him.

⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered. "To whom shall we go Master? You have words of eternal life; ⁶⁹ "and we have learned to believe and we know that you are the holy one of God."

¹ After these things Jesus continued to travel about in Galilee, for he did not wish to go about in Judea, because the Jews kept trying to kill him.

¹⁸ "The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him. ¹⁹ "Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?"

¹⁹ "Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?" ²⁰ The crowd answered. "You have a demon! Who is trying kill you?"

²² "Consider, therefore, Moses has given you circumcision—not that Moses originated it, but the fathers—and you are accustomed to circumcise a child even on the Sabbath. ²³ "If a child receives circumcision on the Sabbath, in order that the Law of Moses may not be broken, how can you be angry with me because I made a man sound and well on the Sabbath?

²³ "If a child receives circumcision on the Sabbath, in order that the Law of Moses may not be broken, how can you be angry with me because I made a man sound and well on the Sabbath?

²⁵ Then some of the men of Jerusalem were saying. "Is not this the man they are seeking to kill?

³⁷ Now the last day, that the great day of the feast, Jesus stood up and cried in a loud voice. ³⁸ "If any man thirst let him come to me and drink. From the heart of him who believes in me will flow, as the Scripture said, rivers of living water."

⁵² In answer they said to him. "You are not from Galilee, are you? Search for yourself, and see that from Galilee arises no prophet."

⁵ "Now Moses, in the Law, has commanded us to stone such creatures. But you, what do you say?" ⁶ (This they said to tempt him, so that they could bring a charge against him.)

⁹ When they heard that, they went out one by one, beginning with the eldest. And Jesus was left behind alone—and the woman in the middle of the court.

¹¹ "No one, Sir," she answered. "Neither do I condemned you," said Jesus. "Go, and never sin again."

¹³ Then said the Pharisees to him. "You are bearing testimony to yourself; your testimony is not true." ¹⁴ In reply Jesus said to them. "Even if I do bear testimony to concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from, or where I am going. ¹⁵ "For you are judging according to the flesh. I am judging no man. ¹⁶ "Though even if I do judge, my judgment is trustworthy, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me. ¹⁷ "And in your Law it is written that the testimony of two men is true. ¹⁸ "I am one who gives testimony concerning myself, and the Father who sent me gives testimony concerning me."

¹⁸ "I am one who gives testimony concerning myself, and the Father who sent me gives testimony concerning me."

²⁸ so Jesus added. "When you lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He; and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I speak just as the Father has taught me,

²⁸ so Jesus added. "When you lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He; and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I speak just as the Father has taught me, ²⁹ "and he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I do always the things that please him."

³⁷ "I know you are Abraham's descendants; but you are seeking to kill me, Because my teaching has no place in you.

⁴² Jesus said to them. "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and am now come from God. I did not come on my own authority, but God himself sent me. ⁴³ "How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to my message.

⁴⁵ "But as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ "Which one of you convicts me of sin? Why then, if I am speaking the truth, do you not believe me?

⁴⁶ "Which one of you convicts me of sin? Why then, if I am speaking the truth, do you not believe me? ⁴⁷ "He who is from God listens to God's words. For this reason you do not listen, because you are not from God."

⁴⁷ "He who is from God listens to God's words. For this reason you do not listen, because you are not from God."

⁵⁰ "Yet I am not seeking my own honor. There is One who is seeking it, and He is judge. ⁵¹ "In solemn truth I tell you that if any one obeys my teaching he shall never behold death."

⁵⁴ "If I glorify myself." said Jesus, "my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifies me, and you say, 'He is our God.' ⁵⁵ "You are not acquainted with him; I know him. Were I to say, 'I do not know him,' I should be like you, a liar. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

⁵⁸ "In solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that before Abraham came into existence, I am." ⁵⁹ Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.

¹ Now as he was passing along he saw a man, blind from birth.

⁴ "I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.

¹¹ He answered. "The man who is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash'; so I went and washed and received my sight." ¹² "Where is he?" they asked. "I do not know," answered the man.

¹⁴ Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes; ¹⁵ so the Pharisees again began to ask him questions about how he had regained his sight; and he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I see." ¹⁶ Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"

²¹ "but how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who has opened his eyes. Ask him, himself. He is of age. He will speak for himself."

²⁵ "Give glory to God! we know that this man is a sinner." Upon this the blind man answered. "I do not know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that once I was blind, and know I can see."

²⁸ Then they stormed at him. "You are his disciple. We are Moses' disciples. ²⁹ "We know that God spoke to Moses. But this fellow! We do not know where he comes from." ³⁰ "This is truly astonishing," said the man in reply, "that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes.

³⁰ "This is truly astonishing," said the man in reply, "that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes. ³¹ "We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any one is God-fearing and does his will, to such he listens. ³² "Since the beginning of the world such a thing as opening the eyes of one who was born blind was never heard of. ³³ "If this man had not come of God he could have done nothing." ³⁴ They answered, "You were wholly born in sins, and do you teach us?" Then they cast him out.

³⁹ "For judgment am I come into the world, to make the sightless see, and to make the seeing blind."

¹⁸ "No man is taking it away from me. I am laying it down on my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

²⁵ Jesus answered them. "I have told you, and you do not believe. The works which I am doing in my Father's name, these bear witness concerning me.

²⁷ "My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me. ²⁸ "I am giving them eternal life, and they shall never perish, nor shall any one snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ "My Father who has given them to me is stronger than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. ³⁰ "I and my Father are one."

³⁰ "I and my Father are one."

³² "I have shown you many good deeds from my Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?" ³³ "We are not going to stone you for a good deed," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God."

³⁷ "If I am not doing the deeds of my Father, do not believe me. ³⁸ "But if I am doing them, then though you believe not me, believe the deeds, in order that you may come to know and keep on clearly understanding that the Father is in me and I am in the Father." ³⁹ Then again they attempted to seize him, but he escaped out of their hands,

²⁴ Martha answered, "I know that he will rise in the resurrection, at the Last Day." ²⁵ "I am the resurrection and the life," said Jesus. "He who believes in me, even if he has died, shall live.

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

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?"

²⁶ And every one who is living and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

³⁷ "Could not this man, who has opened the eyes of the blind man, have prevented this man also from dying?"

⁴³ When he had said this he cried with a great voice, "Lazarus, come forth!" ⁴⁴ Out came the dead man, wrapped hand and foot with grave-clothes, and his face bound up in a napkin. Jesus said to them, "Untie him, and let him go."

²⁸ Father, glorify thy name!" Whereupon there came a voice from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

²⁸ Father, glorify thy name!" Whereupon there came a voice from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again." ²⁹ Then the crowd who stood around and heard it, said, "It thundered!" But others said, "An angel has spoken to him." ³⁰ "It is not for my sake," answered Jesus, "that the voice came, but for your sakes.

³⁷ With these words Jesus went away and hid himself from them. But although he had wrought such signs in their presence, still they did not believe in him. ³⁸ So the words spoken by Isaiah, the prophet, were fulfilled. Lord, who hath believed our message, And to whom hath the Arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹ This was why they could not believe, because Isaiah said again. ⁴⁰ He hath blinded their eyes and make their hearts hard, Lest they should see with their eyes, perceive with their minds, And should turn, and I should heal them. ⁴¹ Isaiah uttered these words because he saw his glory, and he spoke of him.

⁴³ For they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God. ⁴⁴ Now Jesus, speaking in a loud voice, had said:

⁴⁴ Now Jesus, speaking in a loud voice, had said: ⁴⁵ "He who believes in me believes not in me, but in Him who sent me; and he who sees me sees him who sent me.

⁴⁵ "He who believes in me believes not in me, but in Him who sent me; and he who sees me sees him who sent me. ⁴⁶ Like light am I come into the world, so that no one who believes in me may remain in darkness.

⁴⁶ Like light am I come into the world, so that no one who believes in me may remain in darkness. ⁴⁷ And if any one hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I am not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

⁴⁷ And if any one hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I am not come to judge the world, but to save the world. ⁴⁸ He who rejects me, and does not receive my words, has indeed a judge. The message which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the Last Day, ⁴⁹ because I have never spoken on my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me gave me commandment what to say and what words to speak. ⁵⁰ And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So whatever I speak, I speak as the Father has told me."

¹ Now just before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come when he should leave this world to go to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, showed forth his love to the end.

¹ "Let not your hearts be troubled. You trust in God, trust in me also.

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

¹⁰ "Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of myself; but the Father, who ever dwells in me, is doing his own work. ¹¹ "Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very words' sake. ¹² "I tell you solemnly that he who trusts in me shall himself do the works that I am doing; and still greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

¹⁶ "and I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter to be with you forever, the Spirit of Truth. 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. ¹⁸ "I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you. ¹⁹ "Yet a little while and the world shall see me no more, but you shall see me; because I live, you, too, shall live.

¹⁹ "Yet a little while and the world shall see me no more, but you shall see me; because I live, you, too, shall live. ²⁰ "At that day you shall understand that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. ²¹ "It is he who has my commands and obeys them that loves me; and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him." ²² "How is it, Lord," said Judas (not Iscariot) "that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus replied. "If any loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

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.

⁷ "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.

¹⁵ "I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

²⁰ "Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.

²³ "He who hates me hates my Father also. 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.

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.

¹⁴ He will glorify me; for he will take of what is mine and will make known to you.

¹ When he had thus spoken, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: "Father, the hour is come. Glorify the Son, that thy Son may glorify thee; ² since thou hast given him authority over all mankind, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

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

³ And this is eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. ⁴ I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

⁴ I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. ⁵ And now, O Father, glorify thou me with own self, with the glory I had with thee before the world began. ⁶ "I have made known thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them to me, and they have kept thy word.

¹⁰ and all thine are mine, and mine are thine; and I am glorified in them.

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."

¹¹ (The slave's name was Malchus.) Then Jesus said to Peter. "Put up your sword in its sheath. the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?"

⁷ The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself out to be God's Son,"

¹³ On hearing what they said, Pilate brought Jesus out and made him sit on the judge's seat in a place called the Mosaic Pavement (the Hebrew name is Gabbatha).

¹⁷ So they took Jesus, who went forth bearing his own cross, to a place called The Place of a Skull—in the Hebrew tongue, Golgotha.

²⁰ This inscription was read by many of the Jews, because the place where they crucified Jesus was near the city, and the inscription was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

¹⁶ "Mary," said Jesus. She turned to him. "Rabboni!" she cried in Hebrew. That is to say, "Teacher."

³¹ but these have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

¹⁷ The third time Jesus asked him, "Am I really dear to you?" Peter was grieved because the third time he asked, "Am I really dear to you?" and he answered, "Master, you know all things, you know that you are dear to me."

²² "Men of Israel, listen to these words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God, through mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, as you yourselves know;

²⁴ but God has raised him to life, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for death to hold him.

² when a man lame from his birth was carried along, who was wont to be laid each day near the gate of the Temple called the Beautiful Gate, to ask alms of those who were going into the Temple.

⁷ Then taking his right hand he lifted him up. Instantly his feet and ankle-bones were strengthened; ⁸ and leaping forth he stood on his feet, and began to walk, and went with them into the Temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

¹² When he saw this, Peter said to the people. "Men of Israel, why are you wondering at this? Why do you stare at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made this man to walk?

²² For the man on whom this miracle of healing had been wrought was over forty years old.

³⁶ "Years ago Theudas arose, claiming to be somebody, and was joined by about four hundred men. He was killed, and all of his followers dispersed and annihilated. ³⁷ "After him Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some of the people after him. He also perished, and all his followers were scattered.

³² Now the portion of Scripture which he was reading was as follows. He was led a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before its shearer is dumb, So he opened not his mouth. ³³ In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who will declare his posterity? For his life is cut off from the earth. ³⁴ "Pray," asked the eunuch of Philip, "of whom is the prophet speaking? Of himself, or of some one else?" ³⁵ Then Philip opened his lips, and beginning from that same scripture, he preached the gospel of Jesus to him.

⁴ He fell to the ground, and heard a voice which said to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" ⁵ And he said, "Who are you Lord?"

³³ Here he found a man named Aeneas, bedridden for eight years, a paralytic. ³⁴ Peter said to him. "Aeneas, Jesus Christ cures you! Rise and make your own bed!"

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

²⁷ "For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

⁸ Now at Lystra there used to sit a certain man, lame in his feet, a cripple from birth, who had never walked.

¹⁷ and yet he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness."

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

²⁵ "neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.

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.'

³¹ inasmuch as he has fixed a day in which he will judge the world justly, by the Man whom he has ordained, and he has given proof of all this by raising him from the dead."

³⁸ "Do you know Greek?" said the tribune; "Are you not, then, the Egyptian who in days gone by stirred up to sedition, and let into the wilderness the four thousand cutthroats?"

⁴⁰ So when he had given leave, Paul stood on the stairs, beckoning with his hands to the people. There came a great hush, and he spoke to them as follows, in Hebrew.

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.

⁸ "Why is it deemed incredible by you all, if God raises the dead?

²² "But having obtained the help that comes from God, I stand even to this day witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said should come;

²² "But having obtained the help that comes from God, I stand even to this day witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said should come; 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."

²⁷ "King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe."

² which through his prophets he promised beforetime, in holy writings;

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.

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

⁵ In your hardness and impenitence of heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath on the Day of Wrath, when the righteous judgment of God is revealed. ⁶ For He will render to every man according to his works; ⁷ eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;

⁷ eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality; ⁸ but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness. ⁹ Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practices evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile; ¹⁰ but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

¹⁰ but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

¹² For all who have sinned without law will also perish without law; and all who have sinned under law will be judged by law.

¹⁶ in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. ¹⁷ Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God,

¹⁷ Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God, ¹⁸ and know his will, and can test the things that differ; if you are instructed out of the Law,

¹⁸ and know his will, and can test the things that differ; if you are instructed out of the Law, ¹⁹ and are confident that you yourself are a darkness, 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? ²² You who keep saying that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who hold idols in abhorrence, are you plundering their temples? 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.

²⁹ but the real Jew is one inwardly, and real circumcision is heart—circumcision, spiritual, not literal, praised not by men, but by God.

² Much in every way. First of all, because to them were entrusted the oracles of God. ³ Supposing some of them have proved faithless?

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be shut, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God. ²⁰ For no man will be justified in God's sight by works of the Law; for through the Law comes the consciousness of sin.

¹⁷ as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations. ¹⁸ For Abraham, hoping against hope, had faith to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So numberless shall your descendants be. ¹⁹ Though he was about a hundred years old, his faith did not fail him when he regarded his own body, now as good as dead. and remembered Sarah's barrenness.

⁶ For while we were still without strength, Christ died in due time for the ungodly.

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.

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. ²³ FOR THE POOR WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, BUT THE FREE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS, OUR MASTER.

⁹ Once I lived apart from the Law, myself; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died; ¹⁰ and the very commandment which should have meant life, this I found to mean death. ¹¹ For sin, when it had gained a vantage-ground through the commandment, beguiled me, and through it slew me. ¹² So then the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. ¹³ Did then that which was good become for me death? Never! but sin did; that it might be manifest as sin, by that the unutterable malignity of sin might become plain through the commandment. ¹⁴ For we know that the Law is spiritual; but as for me, I am a creature of flesh, bought and sold under the dominion of sin.

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

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;

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. ⁹ But you are not earthly, but spiritual, if indeed the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also make your dying bodily self live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

¹⁶ For his Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God; 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.

²⁵ Who hopes for what he clearly sees? But if we hope for something that we do not see, we then patiently wait for it.

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

³³ Who shall accuse God's elect? God acquits them; ³⁴ Who is there to condemn them? Will Christ who died? Yes, and who rose from the dead, The Christ who is also at the right hand of God, And is interceding for us?

¹ Brothers, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for my countrymen, that they may be saved. ² For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, only it is a zeal without knowledge.

⁴ For to every believer Christ is an end of law as a means of righteousness. ⁵ For Moses writes concerning the righteousness of the Law, saying, The man that doeth it shall live by it. ⁶ But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way. Say not in thine heart, "Who shall ascend to heaven?"—that is, to bring Christ down; ⁷ Nor, “who shall descend into the abyss?"—that is, to bring Christ up from the dead. 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; ⁹ Confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God actually raised him from the dead, and you will be saved. ¹⁰ For with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. ¹¹ The Scriptures say, Whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame. ¹² For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile, because the same Lord Jesus is all over, and is rich unto all who call upon Him; ¹³ for Whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.

²¹ But to Israel he says, All day long I have been spreading out my hands unto a disobedient and contrary people.

²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but be overcoming evil with good.

⁷ For not one of us lives unto himself, and not one dies unto himself. ⁸ If we live, we live unto our Lord; if we die, we die unto our Lord. So then, whether we live or die, we belong to our Lord. ⁹ For this purpose Christ died and became alive again, that he might be the Lord both of the dead and of the living. ¹⁰ But you the abstainer, why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you again the non-abstainer, why do you despise yours? For we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God. ¹¹ For it is written, "As I live," says the Lord, "to me every knee shall bow, And to God shall every tongue confess." ¹² So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God.

³ For even Christ pleased not himself; but as it is written, The reproaches of those who were reproaching thee fell upon me.

¹² Or again, as Isaiah says. There shall be the root of Jesse, And he that arises to rule over the Gentiles; On him shall the Gentiles hope.

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

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.

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.

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

²² I am become weak to the weak, to win the weak. I am become all these things to all men that, by any and by all means, I may save some.

²⁴ Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.

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

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

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?

²² For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

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

⁴² So it is in the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, It is raised in incorruption; ⁴³ Sown in weakness, It is raised in power; ⁴⁴ The body sown is animal The body is raised is spiritual. If there is an animal body, there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ Thus it is written. The first man, Adam, became a living being, the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit.

⁴⁵ Thus it is written. The first man, Adam, became a living being, the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit. ⁴⁶ Now it is not the spiritual which is first, but the animal, and then the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man is of the earth, earthly; the second Man is of heaven. ⁴⁸ Like him who was of earth, are the earthy; and like Him who is of heaven, are the heavenly; ⁴⁹ As we have borne the likeness of him who was of earth, so also let us bear the likeness of Him who is of heaven. ⁵⁰ I tell you this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor can corruption inherit incorruption. ⁵¹ Lo, I tell you a secret truth. we shall not all be sleeping, but we shall be changed, ⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet sounds. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised, incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this corruptible must be clothed with incorruption, and this mortal must be clothed with immortality. ⁵⁴ And when this mortal has been clothed with immortality, then will the words of Scripture come to pass, Death has been swallowed up in victory.

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

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. ⁹ Indeed, I had in myself, and still have, the sentence of death, in order that I might not rely on myself, but on God who raises the dead to life.

⁹ Indeed, I had in myself, and still have, the sentence of death, in order that I might not rely on myself, but on God who raises the dead to life. ¹⁰ He delivered me from such a death, and will deliver me. On him I have set my hopes that he will continue to deliver me,

⁷ If, however, the administration of death, written with letters and engraved on stones, began in glory, so that the children of Israel could not gaze steadily on the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face—a glory even then fading— ⁸ how much more shall the ministry of the Spirit abide in glory? ⁹ For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, far more is the ministry of righteousness radiant in glory. ¹⁰ Indeed that which once was glorious has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it. ¹¹ For if that which was fading came in glory, far more will that which ever abides be glorious.

¹⁴ For I know that He who raised from the dead the Lord Jesus, will raise me also with Jesus, and set me at your side in his presence.

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.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ overmasters me; because I thus judge that if One has died for all, then all have died;

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.

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

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.

¹⁴ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

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

¹⁰ but a curse rests on those who have their root in the works of the Law; for it is written. Cursed is every one that continues not in all the things written in the Book of the Law, to do them.

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),

²⁴ So the Law has been our tutor-slave our pedagogue to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith;

⁴ But when the fulness of time was come God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under law,

¹⁵ Why then did you account yourselves so happy? (For I bear you witness that if you could you would have torn out your own eyes and given them to me.) ¹⁶ Am I then become your enemy, because I am telling you the truth?

²¹ Tell me, you who wish to be subject to the Law, why do you not listen to the Law? ²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman; ²³ but while the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, the son by the free woman was born in fulfilment of a promise. ²⁴ Now all this is an allegory, for these women are the two covenants; one from Mount Sinai, which is Hagar bearing children into bondage ²⁵ (for the word Hagar stands for Mt. Sinai in Arabia and represents the present Jerusalem who with her children is in bondage.) ²⁶ But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. ²⁷ For it is written, Rejoice, O thou barren one who dost never bear, Break forth in joy, thou that dost not travail; For the children of the desolate woman are many. Yea, more than hers who has a husband. ²⁸ But you, brothers, are like Isaac, children of the promise; ²⁹ but just as in old times the son born by the flesh used to persecute the son born by the power of the Spirit, so also it is now. ³⁰ But what does the Scripture say? Send away the slave-woman and her son; for the slave's son shall not be heir along with the son of the free woman. ³¹ So, brothers, we are the children of no slave woman, but of free woman. For freedom did not Christ set us free;

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

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. ⁹ And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. ¹⁰ So then, as we have opportunity, let is do good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of faith.

¹² that we who first hoped in Christ should be for the praise of his glory. 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,

¹⁸ and that the eyes of your heart may be flooded with light so that you may understand what is the hope of his calling, what the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and what the surpassing greatness of his might in us who believe, as seen in the energy of that resistless might ²⁰ which he exercised in raising Christ from the dead, and in seating him at his right hand in the heavenly heights, ²¹ far above all hierarchies and authorities and powers and dominions and every name that is named, not only in this age but in that which is to come. 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.

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

⁵ even while we were dead in our trespasses, made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved).

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;

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

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

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.

⁶ who, though from the beginning he had the nature of God, did not reckon equality with God something to be forcibly retained, ⁷ but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men. ⁸ More than this, after he had shone himself in human form, he humbled himself in his obedience even to death; yes, and to death on a cross. ⁹ And for this God highly exalted him, and graciously bestowed upon him the name which is above every name; ¹⁰ that in the name of Jesus every knee in heaven, on earth, and under the earth should bend, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that "Jesus Christ is Lord," to the glory of God the Father.

²¹ who will change the fashion of the body of our abasement into the likeness of his glorious body by the energy with which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

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

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

¹⁶ for in him was the universe created, things in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; by him and for him all have been created;

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,

³ for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, who is our life, appears, then will you also appear with him in glory.

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.

⁶ Now was I seeking glory from men, either yourselves or others, although I might have exercised authority as Christ's apostle.

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.

¹⁴ For if we really believe that Jesus died and rose again, so even so will God through Jesus bring with him those also who have fallen asleep.

¹⁴ For if we really believe that Jesus died and rose again, so even so will God through Jesus bring with him those also who have fallen asleep. ¹⁵ For this I tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are living, who survive unto the coming of the Lord, will in no wise precede those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God will descend from heaven. Then the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ And afterwards we who are alive, who remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

⁹ For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to win salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷ and give to you, who are now troubled, rest, along with me at the unveiling "apocalypse" of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with his mighty angels, ⁸ in flaming fire. Then shall he take vengeance on those who know not God, even on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. ⁹ They shall suffer punishment, even an eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the brightness of his glorious majesty, ¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all believers, on that Day; (for you also believed our testimony).

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

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.

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

³ For this is good and pleasing in the eyes of our Saviour God, ⁴ whose will it is that all men should be saved, and come into full knowledge of the truth.

¹⁶ Give heed to yourself and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.

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.

¹⁸ Charge them to practise benevolence, to be rich in good works, to be open-handed and generous,

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.

¹⁴ But do you hold fast what you have learned and have held to be true. You know those from whom you have learned it, ¹⁵ and how from a child you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ Every Scripture, seeing that it is God-breathed, is also profitable for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may himself be complete, and completely equipped for every good work.

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

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

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 ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

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.

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

⁷ Thou hast made him only a little lower that the angels; With glory and honor hast thou crowned him; And hast set him to govern the works of thy hands; ⁸ Thou hast put all things under his feet. For this putting all things under man means leaving nothing not subject to him. But we do not yet see all things subject to him. ⁹ What we do see is Jesus, who was made for a time a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor, because of the suffering of death, in order that through God's grace he might taste death for every man.

¹² See to it, brothers, that there shall never be in any one of you an evil and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in apostasy from the living God.

¹² For living is the Word of God, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the severance of soul form spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart. ¹³ And there is not a creature hidden form him, but all things are naked and laid prostrate before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

¹³ And there is not a creature hidden form him, but all things are naked and laid prostrate before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

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

⁴ Again no one takes this honorable office for himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was. ⁵ So even the Christ was not raised to the high glory of the priesthood by himself, but on the contrary by Him who said to him. Thou art my Son; this day have I become thy Father;

¹ It was this Melchizedek, King of Salem and Priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him; ² and it was to him that Abraham apportioned a tithe of all the spoil. He was first, as his name signifies, King of righteousness, and then King of Salem, that is, King of Peace; ³ without father or mother, without lineage, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest in perpetuity. ⁴ But observe how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the Patriarch, gave a tenth part of the spoils. ⁵ Now those of the sons of Levi who are appointed to the priesthood, are authorized by the Law to take tithes of the people, that is, of their brothers, and that too, although these are descended from Abraham. ⁶ But this man who had no Levitical genealogy actually took tithes of Abraham, and blessed him to whom the promises belong. ⁷ Now it is beyond all controversy that the inferior is always blessed by the superior. ⁸ Again it is mortal men who receive tithes in the one case; while in the other it is he of whom it is attested, "He lives." ⁹ And even Levi, who is the receiver of tithes, so to speak, paid tithes through Abraham; ¹⁰ for Levi was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met Abraham.

¹⁶ but now they are longing for a better homeland, that is, a heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; and he has prepared a city for them.

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.

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

²¹ So strip off all filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, and in meekness receive the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls. ²² And become doers of the Word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves.

¹ My brothers, do not hold the faith of the Lord Jesus, the Lord of Glory, in a spirit of caste.

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.

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

⁷ These are in order that the test of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable and yet is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honor, at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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

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.

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

¹¹ Let him turn from evil and do good, Let him seek peace, and pursue it.

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.

³ For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship.

⁵ But they must render account to Him who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.

¹ Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ For he did receive honor and glory from God the Father, when there was borne such a voice to him from the Majestic Glory, This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I delight;

¹⁹ And so we possess the word of prophecy made yet more sure. Unto this you do well to give heed as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

¹⁹ And so we possess the word of prophecy made yet more sure. Unto this you do well to give heed as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. ²⁰ But first be assured of this—that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. ²¹ For no prophecy was ever brought by the will of man; but moved by the Holy Spirit, men spoke for God.

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.

¹ It is of what has existed from the beginning, of what we have listened to, of what we have seen with our own eyes, of what we have witnessed and touched with our own heads, it is concerning the Logos of Life that we are now writing. ² And the Life was made visible, and we have seen it and are bearing witness, and are bringing you word of that Eternal Life which was face to face with the Father and was made visible to us.

² And the Life was made visible, and we have seen it and are bearing witness, and are bringing you word of that Eternal Life which was face to face with the Father and was made visible to us. ³ It is what we have seen and heard that we are announcing to you, in order that you also may have partnership with us; and our partnership is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

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

¹⁴ I have written to you, fathers, because you have learned to know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is abiding in you, and you have fully overcome the Evil One. ¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

²³ Whoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father; but he who confesses the Son has the Father also. As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you.

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.

¹⁷ But whoever has this world's goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his heart against him, how can the love of God continue to abide in him?

¹² No man has ever gazed on God; but if we love one another, God ever abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

²⁰ If any one says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love God, whom he has not seen.

¹ Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father, loves him also who is the Father's Child.

⁶ Jesus Christ is he who came by water and blood, not by the water only, but by the water and by the blood. The spirit is he who bears testimony, because the Spirit is the truth. ⁷ For there are three who bear testimony, the Spirit, and the water, ⁸ and the blood; and the three are one. ⁹ If we accept men's testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God, that he has borne testimony concerning his Son.

⁹ If we accept men's testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God, that he has borne testimony concerning his Son.

¹¹ And the testimony is this, "God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son."

¹¹ And the testimony is this, "God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." ¹² He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

¹² He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life. ¹³ I have written these words to you so that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

⁹ Whoever is going ahead, and is not abiding in the teachings of Christ, does not possess God; but he who is abiding in the teaching possesses both the Father and the Son.

²¹ I have given her time for repentance; but she is determined not to turn from her immorality. ²² Behold, I will lay her on a sick bed, and bring great distress upon those who have committed adultery with her, unless they turn away from her works. ²³ And moreover, her children will I kill with pestilence. And all the churches shall know that I am he who searches the hearts and souls of men. I will give to each of you according to his works.

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

¹ To the angel of the Church at Sardis, write. These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your works, that you have the name of being alive, but are really dead.

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.

⁸ When he took the book, the four Living Creatures and the four and twenty Elders fell down before the Lamb. And each had a harp and a golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. ⁹ And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book And to open its seals; For thou wast slain and didst ransom for God Men out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation; ¹⁰ Thou hast made them kings and priests unto our God, And they shall reign on earth." ¹¹ Then I looked and heard a voice of many angels encircling the throne and a voice of the Living Creatures and of the Elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, ¹² singing aloud, "Worthy is the Lamb who has been slain, To receive power and riches and wisdom And might and honor and glory and blessing." ¹³ And I heard every created thing that is in heaven, or on earth, or beneath the earth, or on the sea, and all things that are in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, Be the blessing and the honor, And the glory and the power, Forever and ever!" ¹⁴ And the four Living Creatures kept saying, "Amen!" And the Elders fell down and worshiped.

¹⁷ For the Lamb in the midst of the throne Will shepherd them, And will lead them to fountains of living water; And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

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

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and One who sat thereon; from his presence fled earth and sky, and no place was found for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne; and books were opened, and another book—the Book of Life—was opened; and the dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the books.

¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne; and books were opened, and another book—the Book of Life—was opened; and the dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the books.

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.

²² And I saw no temple in the city; For the temple is the Lord God, the Almighty, And 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.

¹ And he showed me the river of the Water of Life, clear as crystal, Flowing out from the throne of God, and of the Lamb,

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

¹⁷ "And the Spirit and the Bride say 'Come!' And let him who hears, say 'Come!' And let him who thirsts, come; And whoever wills, let him take the Water of Life freely."