Jude 1 Cross References - MNT

¹ Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and a brother of James. To those who are in God, the Father beloved, kept for Jesus Christ, and called. ² May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you. ³ Beloved, although I was making all haste to write to you in regard to our common salvation, I am compelled to write you an appeal to defend the faith once for all committed to the saints. ⁴ For certain men have crept in stealthily—men predestined in ancient prophecies for this condemnation—impious ones! They pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness, and deny Jesus Christ, our sole Master and Lord. ⁵ I wish to remind you of what you already know right well, that although the Lord once saved a people out of the land of Egypt, he afterward destroyed those who did not believe; ⁶ while the angels who did not keep their first domain but left their proper abode, are held by him in blank darkness, in everlasting chains, in preparation for the judgment of the Great Day. ⁷ So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the near-by cities which in like manner glutted themselves in sensuality and unnatural vice, are exhibited as a warning of the eternal fire, in the punishment they undergo. ⁸ Yet in just the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, while they set at naught dominion and scoff at dignities. ⁹ But Michael, the Archangel, when in contending with the devil, he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to pronounce sentence for blasphemy, but said, "The Lord rebuke you." ¹⁰ Yet these men blaspheme about matters of which they know nothing, while they use such things as they do understand by instinct (like the animals who have no reason) for their own destruction. ¹¹ Alas for them! They have walked in the path of Cain; for the sake of gain they have rushed headlong into Balaam's error, and have perished in Koran's rebellion. ¹² These are they who are stains upon your love-feasts; when they feast sumptuously without scruple, looking after none but themselves. They are clouds without water, driven along by the winds; trees of autumn, fruitless, doubly dead, torn up by the roots, ¹³ wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. ¹⁴ It was to these, too, that Enoch, the "seventh in descent from Adam," prophesied, saying, "Lo! the Lord is come with myriads of his saints, ¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly deeds which in their ungodliness they have committed; and of all the hard things which they have spoken against Him, ungodly sinners that they are!" ¹⁶ For these are murmurers, always complaining. They always go where their passions lead, and their mouth speaks great swelling words, while they pay court to men for the sake of the advantage they can get. ¹⁷ But as for you, dearly beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁸ how they used to say to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will be led only by their godless passions." ¹⁹ These are the men, sensual and unspiritual, who cause divisions. ²⁰ But you, beloved, continually building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and ever praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ must keep yourselves in the love of God, while waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, which ends in life eternal. ²² Pity some who are wavering, and save by dragging them out of the fire; ²³ others pity, but with caution, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. ²⁴ Now unto Him who has power to guard you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, faultless and exultant, ²⁵ to the only God, our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be ascribed glory, majesty, might, and authority, as it was before time began, is now, and ever shall be to all the ages. Amen.

¹² "Rejoice and exult in it, because your reward was great in the heavens; for so did they persecute the prophets before you.

¹³ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the Evil One; For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory. Amen.

²⁹ "You Son of God," they shouted, "what have you to do with us? Are you come to torment us before the time?"

³ Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew, the tax-gatherer; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname is Thaddeus;

²¹ "Woe unto you, Chorazin! Woe unto you, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented, long ago, in sackcloth and ashes.

²⁴ "I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the Day of Judgment, than for you."

³¹ "Therefore I tell you that every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven. ³² "And if any man say a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in that which is to come. ³³ "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for by its fruit the tree is known. ³⁴ "You generation of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. "When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the vine-dressers seized to get his fruit. ³⁵ "A good man out of his good treasure brings forth good; and from his evil treasure a bad man brings out evil. ³⁶ "I tell you that for every careless word that men speak they shall give account on the day of judgment. ³⁷ "For by your words you will each be justified, and by your words be condemned."

⁶ but when the sun rose it was scorched, and withered away because it had no root.

²⁵ "but while men were asleep his enemy came and sowed tares among his wheat and went away.

¹³ "Any plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

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

²⁸ "In solemn truth I tell you," Jesus answered, "that in the New Creation, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you also who have followed me shall sit on twelve thrones, to govern the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹⁹ and when he saw a solitary fig tree beside the road, he went to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. And he said to it, "Let no man gather fruit from you forever." And at once the fig tree withered away. ²⁰ When his disciples saw this, they were astonished. "How instantaneously," they said, "the fig tree withered!"

¹³ "But woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces; for you do not enter, yourselves, nor do you permit those who are about to come in, to enter. ¹⁴ OMITTED TEXT. ¹⁵ "Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you scour sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is gained, you make him twofold more a son of hell than you are, yourselves. ¹⁶ "Woe unto you, blind guides, who say, If any one swears by the Sanctuary, it is nothing, but if any one swears by the gold of the Sanctuary, the oath is binding.

³⁰ "Then the signs of the Son of man will appear in the sky; and then all the tribes of the earth will lament, when they see the Son of man coming upon the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. ³¹ And he will send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather his elect together from the four winds, from utmost heaven to utmost earth.

⁴² Keep guard then, for you do not know the day on which your Master is coming. ⁴³ But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have been on his guard, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁴ Therefore you also must be ready, for in an hour when you do not expect him, the Son of man is coming. ⁴⁵ "Who, then, is the faithful and prudent slave, to whom his master has entrusted his household, to give them their food in due season? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that slave whom his Master, when he comes, shall find so doing. ⁴⁷ In solemn truth I tell you that he will set him over all his property. ⁴⁸ But if, because he is a bad slave, he should say to himself, 'My Master is a long time in coming,' ⁴⁹ and if he begins to beat his fellow slaves, and to eat or drink with the drunkards, ⁵⁰ on a day when he is not expecting him, and at an hour which he does not know, the Master of that servant will arrive ⁵¹ and will scourge him severely, and allot him a place among hypocrites, where will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

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;

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;

¹⁸ and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Zealot,

⁶ but when the sun rose it was scorched and withered away because it had no root.

⁴³ "If your hand cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to be maimed and to enter into life than to have two hands and go away into hell, into the fire that cannot be put out. ⁴⁴ OMITTED TEXT. ⁴⁵ If your foot cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to enter into the life a cripple, than to have two feet and be cast into hell. ⁴⁶ OMITTED TEXT. ⁴⁷ If your eye cause you to stumble, tear it out! It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God one-eyed that to keep both your eyes and be cast into hell, ⁴⁸ where their worm never dies and the fire does not go out. ⁴⁹ For by fire every one will be salted;

²⁰ and as they (he and his disciples) were passing along in the morning, they saw the fig tree already withered from the root. ²¹ Then Peter remembered, and exclaimed, "Look, Rabbi, the fig tree which you cursed is withered up."

²⁹ And the passers-by kept jeering at him, wagging their heads and saying. "Ah! you who were to 'destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days,' save yourself!

³⁰ And the Pharisees and their scribes began complaining to his disciples, saying, "Why are you eating and drinking with tax-gatherers and sinners?"

¹⁶ Jude the son of James, and Judas Iscariot who was the traitor.

⁶ "Some other seed dropped on the rock, as soon as it grew it withered away, because it had no moisture.

²⁶ "For whoever is ashamed of me and of my teachings, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in his own and in his Father's glory, and in that of the holy angels.

⁴² "But woe unto you Pharisee! for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and disregard justice and the love of God; but these you ought to have done, and not leave the other undone. ⁴³ "Woe unto you Pharisee! for you delight in the best seats in the synagogue, and in the salutation in the market-places. ⁴⁴ "Woe unto you! for you are like the tombs which are hidden, and men walk over them unsuspecting." ⁴⁵ Hereupon one of the lawyers exclaimed, "But teacher, in saying such things you are also reproaching us also." ⁴⁶ "Woe unto you lawyers also!" said Jesus, "for you load men with irksome burdens, and you yourselves will not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ "Woe to you! for you are building the tombs of the prophets whom you ancestors killed.

¹⁹ "'And I will say to my soul, "'Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years! Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.' ²⁰ "But God said to him. 'Foolish man! This very night your soul is wanted! And these things you have prepared, whose shall they be?

³⁶ "and be yourselves like men who are looking for the Lord, on his return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they may at once open the door for him. ³⁷ "Happy are those slaves whom their master shall find watching when he comes. I tell you truly that will gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and come and serve them. ³⁸ "And whether it be in the second watch, or in the third, that he comes, and so finds them, happy are those slaves. ³⁹ "However, you know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not have allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁰ "Do you also be ready, for in an hour that you think not the Son of man is coming."

⁴⁵ "But if that slave should say to himself, 'My master delays his coming,' and should begin to beat the men and the maids, and to eat and drink and to get drunk,

² And the Pharisees and Scribes began to complain, saying, "He is welcoming sinners and eating with them!"

¹⁹ "Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and made merry every day in splendor.

²⁹ "but on the day that Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

⁷ When they all saw it, they began to complain, saying "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."

¹⁴ "But this fellow citizens hated him, and sent a deputation after him to say, 'We do not wish this man to become our king.'

³⁴ "But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be surcharged with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day catches you suddenly like a trap.

³⁹ And one of the criminals who had been hung there kept reviling him, saying. "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us." ⁴⁰ But the other, answering, reproved him, saying. "Have you no fear of God even? When you are suffering the same punishment as he?

¹⁷ For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

⁵ "I tell you solemnly," Jesus answered, "that unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ⁶ What is born of the flesh is flesh; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

²² You are worshiping something you do not know. we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.

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.

²⁷ "And he has given him authority to pronounce judgment, because he is Son of man.

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?

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.

⁴¹ Then the Jews began to find fault with Jesus, because he said, "I am the bread which comes down out of heaven," and they kept asking.

⁶¹ Jesus, conscious within himself that his disciples were finding fault with him about his teaching, said to them.

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

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."

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

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?"

⁴ "Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me. ⁵ "I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ "If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned.

⁹ "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ "If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love.

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

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

¹¹ I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one. ¹² While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

¹⁵ I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

¹⁷ Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth.

¹⁹ And for their sakes I dedicate myself, that they also may be thoroughly dedicated in the truth.

¹³ On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were accustomed to meet. They were Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

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

⁸ Meanwhile Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought great wonders and signs among the people. ⁹ But certain men from the so-called "Synagogue of the Freedmen" and certain Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, Cilicians, and men from Roman Asia, started to dispute with Stephen, ¹⁰ but were unable to withstand the wisdom and spirit with which he used to speak.

²⁷ "But the man who was ill-treating his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, "'Who made you a magistrate and ruler over us?

³⁹ "To him our ancestors would not be obedient, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts turned back into Egypt.

²² But Saul gained more and more influence, and kept putting the Jews who lived in Damascus to confusion by his proof that Jesus was the Christ.

³¹ Now throughout the whole of Judea, Galilee, and Samaria the Church continued to enjoy peace and to be spiritually built up. It was increasing in members also, as it kept walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

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

⁴⁶ So Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly. "It was necessary," they said, "first to proclaim the word of God to you. But since you push it away from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷ "For such is God's command to us, saying, "I have set thee for a light to the Gentiles, That thou shouldest be for salvation to the uttermost part of the earth."

⁹ "and he made no distinction between us and them, in cleansing their hearts by faith.

²⁴ "as we have heard that some of your number who went out from us have troubled you with words and upset your souls, without having received any such instruction from us;

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

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

⁴ Every Sabbath he used to preach in the synagogue, and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks. ⁵ And when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in his message, earnestly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. ⁶ But as they opposed him and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, and said: "Your blood be upon your own hands. I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

²⁸ for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public argument, proving to them from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah.

²⁷ I never shrank from telling you the whole counsel of God.

²⁹ I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock;

³² "And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace. He is able to build you up, and to give you your inheritance among all those who are consecrated.

³⁵ "In all things I have set you an example, how that so toiling, you ought to help the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

⁵ "Brothers, I did not know that he was the high priest," exclaimed Paul, "for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of a ruler of my people."

¹⁸ "'so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order to receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

²³ "for last night an angel of the God whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me and said:

²⁸ "Be fully assured, therefore, that this salvation of God is now sent unto the Gentiles. They will listen to it."

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

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

²¹ For although they knew God, yet they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks; but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. ²² While they professed to be wise, they became fools,

²⁶ That is why God has given them up to passions of dishonor; for on the one hand their women actually changed the natural function of sex into that which is against nature; ²⁷ and on the other hand their men likewise abandoned the natural use of women, and were ablaze with passion for one another; men with men practising shameless acts and receiving in their own person that recompense of their wrong-doing which necessarily followed.

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.

¹⁶ in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

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.

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

²¹ in order that as sin has ruled as king in death, so also grace might rule as king in righteousness which issues in eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord,—ours!

¹ What then shall we say? Shall we continue to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound? ² No indeed; how shall we who have died to sin still go on living in it any longer?

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 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.

¹⁵ For you have not received a spirit of slavery in order that you should once more be afraid; but you have received a spirit of adoption, in which we cry out, "My Father, my dear Father!"

²⁶ In the same way the Spirit also takes hold with us in our weakness; for we know knot how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. ²⁷ And the Searcher of Hearts knows what the Sprit's meaning is, because his intercessions for the saints are according to the will of God.

³⁰ and whom he foreordained, those he also called; and whom he called, those he also justified; and whom he justified, those he also glorified. ³¹ What shall we say then, to these things? If God be for us, Who can be against us?

³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, Nor any other created thing, Shall be able to separate us from the love of God Which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²¹ Or has not the potter power over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for noble, and another for ignoble uses? ²² But what if God, while intending to show forth his wrath, and to make known his power, yet endured, with much long-suffering, vessels of wrath, fitted to destruction?

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

¹⁴ if by any means I might "provoke to jealousy" my kinsmen, and save some among them.

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

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

⁴ Who are you just that judges the household-servant of another? To his own lord he stands or falls. And stand he will, for his Master has power to make him stand.

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.

² Let each one of us try to make his neighbor happy for his good, unto his upbuilding.

¹⁵ Still I have written unto you the more boldly, in part, by way of reminding you, because of that gift of grace which God bestowed upon me, in making me a priest of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles.

¹⁵ Still I have written unto you the more boldly, in part, by way of reminding you, because of that gift of grace which God bestowed upon me, in making me a priest of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles. ¹⁶ I act as priest of the gospel of God; so that the Gentiles, when offered before him, may be an acceptable sacrifice, because consecrated by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ Turn away from them. For men of that stamp are not the slaves of Christ, but are slaves to their own appetites. By their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

²⁵ Now I commend you to Him who is able to keep you stedfast, according to my gospel, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, whereby is unveiled the secret truth which was kept secret through immemorial ages, ²⁶ but now has been brought to light, and by command of the eternal God made known to the Gentiles by the scriptures of the Prophets, so that the Gentiles might hold obedience of the faith. ²⁷ Unto Him, the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory forever. Amen.

²⁷ Unto Him, the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory forever. Amen.

² to the Church of God at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all, wherever they are, who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.

⁸ He will also keep you perfectly stedfast unto the end, so that you will be unreproveable in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

¹⁵ If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames.

¹⁷ If any one tear down God's sanctuary, God will tear him down; for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are.

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.

³ For I, although absent in body, yet present in spirit, have already passed sentence, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, on him who has done this thing. ⁴ When you are gathered together, and my spirit is with you together with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵ I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

⁹ I told you in my letter not to associate with the immoral. ¹⁰ Not that in this world you were actually to have no contact with the immoral, the avaricious, the thievish, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world, altogether. ¹¹ But what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral, or avaricious, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. No, with such persons do not even sit at table.

¹³ Expel that wicked man from among you.

⁹ Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,

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?

¹ For I would not have you ignorant, brothers, how our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, ² and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. ³ They all ate of the same spiritual bread, ⁴ and all drank from the same spiritual stream, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. ⁵ But in most of them God was not well pleased, for they were laid low in the desert. ⁶ Now this happened as a warning for us, that we might not long for evil things as they longed. ⁷ And you must not be idolaters like some of them. as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, And they rose up for idol dances. ⁸ Nor must we act licentiously, as some of them did, and fell in a single day, twenty-three thousand of them. ⁹ Neither must we presume upon the patience of our Lord, as some of them presumed, and were destroyed by the serpents; ¹⁰ nor murmur, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel.

¹⁰ nor murmur, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel. ¹¹ Now these things were happening to them typically, but were written down for our admonition who stand at the meeting of the ages. ¹² So then let him who imagines that he is standing so securely beware lest he fall.

²³ "All things are lawful," you say? But not all things are expedient; "all things are lawful"; but not all build up.

²⁰ Again, when you meet together, there is no true eating of the Lord's Supper; ²¹ for each one of you begins to eat his own supper; one goes hungry, while another gets drunk. ²² What! Have you no houses in which to eat or drink? or do you wish to show your contempt for the church of God, and to shame those who have no homes to eat in? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I certainly do not praise you.

⁴ He who speaks in a tongue upbuilds himself; but he who prophesies upbuilds the church. ⁵ Now I should like you all to speak with "tongues"; but I should rather that you prophesied, For he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may be built up.

¹⁵ What then? I will pray with my spirit, and I will pray also with my mind. I will praise God with my spirit, but I will praise him with my mind, also.

²⁶ What follows, then, brothers? Whenever you meet together, each contributes something; a psalm, a sermon, a revelation, a tongue, an interpretation. Let all be done for edification.

³ For the very first thing I taught you was that I had myself been taught, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture,

³³ Do not deceive yourselves. Evil companions ruin good morals.

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.

¹⁷ For my light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

¹⁰ For your pain came from God, and so you took no harm from me. For the pain which is from God works repentance leading to salvation, a repentance never to be regretted. But the world's pain works death. ¹¹ Note the results of this pain which God permitted; what earnestness it has called forth in you, what explanations, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what fervor, what punishment of wrong. In every way you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter. ¹² So then, even if I did write to you, it was not for the sake of the wrong-doer, or of him who had been wronged, but to make clear to yourselves in the sight of God your earnest care for me.

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

⁴ Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again. ⁵ To them we did not yield submission even for an hour, in order that the truth of the gospel might abide unshaken among you.

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

⁶ And because you are sons, God sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Dear, dear Father!"

²⁰ How I wish I could be with you now, that I might change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.

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

¹⁶ This is my meaning. Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

²⁴ And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and appetites.

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

¹¹ See with what large letters I have written to you in my own handwriting!

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

⁸ so abundantly did he lavish upon us the riches of his grace in all wisdom and understanding,

²⁰ You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone.

¹⁰ in order that now his manifold wisdom should, through the church, be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly sphere,

²⁰ Now unto him who, according to his might that is at work within us, is able to do infinitely more than all we ask or even think, ²¹ to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, to all generations, world without end, Amen.

¹¹ It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, ¹² in order to equip the saints for the work of serving, for the building up of the Body of Christ—

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

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

²⁹ From your lips let no evil words come forth, but such as occasion warrants, such as are good for upbuilding and give a blessing to the hearers.

²⁶ in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word, ²⁷ so as to present her to himself, the church glorified, without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish; but on the contrary holy and faultless.

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

¹⁸ Continue to pray at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching for it with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

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

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

¹⁴ Do everything without grumbling and disputes,

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

² to the holy and believing brothers in Christ who are in Colosse. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father.

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

²⁸ Him I am ever proclaiming, warning every one and teaching every one, in all wisdom; that I may bring every man into his presence, full grown in Christ.

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

⁴ When Christ, who is our life, appears, then will you also appear with him in glory.

² for you remember that although I had already borne ill-treatment and insult at Philippi, I took courage in my God to tell you the gospel of God, in the face of much opposition.

¹² exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

¹³ 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.

⁵ Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles who know not God.

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

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.

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.

⁶ So then let us not be sleeping as do the rest, but let us be watchful and self-controlled. ⁷ For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.

¹¹ So comfort one another, and try to build one another up, as indeed you are doing.

²³ May the God of peace consecrate you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept altogether faultless until the coming of 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.

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.

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

¹⁴ If any man does not give heed to what I have said in this letter, mark that man; do not associate with him, so as to make him feel ashamed;

² to Timothy, my true son in the faith; Grace, mercy and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

⁹ but he must remember that the Law is not enacted for a good man, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the irreligious and sinful, for the godless and profane, for parricides and murderers, ¹⁰ for the immoral, for sexual perverts, for slave dealers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

¹⁷ Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be glory and honor forever and ever. Amen! ¹⁸ This charge then, I am laying upon you, Timothy, my son, according to the predictions formerly made concerning you. Fight the good fight in the spirit of these predictions,

³ For this is good and pleasing in the eyes of our Saviour God,

¹ Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons ² speaking lies in hypocrisy. These are men whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron,

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.

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

⁵ and wrangling between men whose minds are corrupt and destitute of the truth; who suppose that godliness is a source of gain.

¹² Keep contending in the noble contest of the faith; seize hold on eternal life, to which you were called when you confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

¹⁵ For in his own good time this will be brought about by that blessed and only potentate, King of kings and Lord of lords, 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.

² To Timothy, my beloved child; Grace mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁵ I have been reminded of that sincere faith which is in your heart; which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and, I am fully persuaded, dwells in you also.

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

¹³ Hold fast the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ The Lord show mercy to the house hold of Onesiphorus; for many a time he refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain.

¹⁸ The Lord grant him to find mercy form the Lord in that Day! And you know better than I how many services he rendered in Ephesus.

¹ But of this be sure. In the last days grievous times will come. ² For men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreligious, ³ without natural affection, merciless, slanderous, dissolute, and brutal. ⁴ They will hate goodness, they will be treacherous, reckless, blinded with pride, lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God. ⁵ For although they keep up the outward form of religion, they deny its power. ⁶ Turn away from all such. Some of them creep into private houses and lead captive silly women who, laden with sins,

¹³ But wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving others, and being themselves deceived.

³ For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will heap up for themselves teachers upon teachers to satisfy their own fancies.

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

⁸ Henceforth there is laid up for me the garland of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that Day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

¹⁸ And the Lord will rescue me from every evil assault, and will preserve me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen!

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

³ but manifested in his own time; that word of his in proclaiming which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour. ⁴ Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

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

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

¹⁰ not to contradict nor pilfer, but to exhibit praiseworthy trustworthiness in every thing, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. ¹¹ "For God's grace has shined forth bringing salvation to all men ¹² And schooling us to renounce impiety and evil passions, And to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age; ¹³ While we look for the blessed hope and epiphany of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

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,

¹ Therefore, holy brothers, comrades of a heavenly calling, fix your thoughts then upon Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.

¹⁶ For who were they that heard and yet provoked him? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

⁴ For in the case of those who have been once for all enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift, ⁵ and become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the Future Age, ⁶ and then fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance. For they repeatedly crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and expose him to an open shame. ⁷ For land that has drunk the showers that now and again fall upon it, and produced vegetation useful for those for whom it was tilled, receives a blessing from God; ⁸ but if it produces thorns and thistles, it is considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed, and its end will be to be burned.

²⁸ so also the Christ, after being once for all offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who wait for him for salvation.

²⁵ not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting one another; all the more as you behold the Day drawing near.

²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fiery indignation which is about to devour the adversaries.

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice more acceptable than that of Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God giving the testimony by accepting his gifts; and through it he, although he is dead, still speaks. ⁵ By faith Enoch was translated so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had translated him. Before his translation he had witness borne to him that he pleased God. ⁶ now without faith it is impossible to please him; for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he ever rewards those who are seeking.

¹⁵ Look carefully that there be no one who falls back from the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up to trouble you, and by its means many become defiled. ¹⁶ Take care lest there be any fornicator or scorner like Esau among you, who for one meal sold his birthright.

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

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

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of an eternal covenant, ²¹ equip you in every good deed for the doing of his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory unto the ages of the ages! Amen! ²² But I entreat you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

¹ James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greeting to the twelve tribes that are scattered abroad.

¹⁴ But each man is tempted by his own lusts that allure and entice him. ¹⁵ Then lust conceives and gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is mature, brings forth death.

¹ My brothers, do not hold the faith of the Lord Jesus, the Lord of Glory, in a spirit of caste. ² Suppose a man comes into your synagogue with a gold ring and dazzling clothes, and suppose a poor man comes in, also, in shabby clothes, ³ and you look up to him who wears the fine clothing, and say to him, "Sit here in this fine place!" and to the poor man you say, "Stand there!" or "Sit on the floor at my feet!" ⁴ are you not drawing distinctions among yourselves, and have you not become judges with evil thoughts? ⁵ Listen, my dear brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and to inherit the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him? ⁶ But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you to court? ⁷ Are they not blaspheming that glorious Name by which you are called? ⁸ If you are keeping the royal law, which says, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself, you are doing well. ⁹ If you have the spirit of caste you are committing sin, and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.

²² You see how faith was cooperating with deeds, and faith was made perfect by deeds.

¹⁵ Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike.

⁵ You have lived luxuriously on earth, you have taken your pleasure, you have fattened your hearts for a day of slaughter.

¹⁹ My brothers, if any one of you strays from the truth, and some one brings him back, ²⁰ let him know that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his ways, saves his soul from death, and hides a multitude of sins.

² according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ; Grace and peace be multiplied to you.

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

¹⁴ Like obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former passions of your days of ignorance,

⁸ and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble over it because they are disobeying God's word, and to this they were also appointed. ⁹ But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you may show forth the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light—

¹¹ I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.

¹⁶ Live like free men; and yet do not make your freedom a cloak for misconduct, but be the slaves of God. ¹⁷ Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Reverence God. Honor the Emperor.

⁹ not paying back evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but on the contrary giving a blessing. Because for this you have been called—to inherit a blessing.

² so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God.

¹¹ If any one preaches, let him always preach as one who utters God's truth; if any one serves another, let it be with the strength which God supplies; so that in every way God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and dominion for ever and ever, Amen.

¹³ But be glad in the degree in which you share in the sufferings of Christ; so that when his glory shall be revealed, you too may be glad with triumphant gladness.

¹⁸ If the righteous man is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

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

¹⁰ But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. ¹¹ His is the dominion forever and ever; Amen. ¹² By Sylvanus, a faithful brother of yours, as I suppose, I have written you briefly, to comfort you, and to testify that this is the true grace of God. In this stand fast.

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

¹² I shall therefore be always ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it, and are firmly founded in the truth which is with you.

¹² I shall therefore be always ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it, and are firmly founded in the truth which is with you. ¹³ So I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," to rouse you by way of reminding you,

¹³ So I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," to rouse you by way of reminding you, ¹⁴ since I know that the time for me to strike tent comes swiftly on, even as our Lord Jesus Christ pointed out to me. ¹⁵ So I will do my best to enable you, even after my departure, continually to call these things to mind.

¹ But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.

¹ But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves. ² Then there will be many who will follow their immorality, because of whom the Way of the Truth will be maligned. ³ In their covetousness, with cunning words, they will make merchandise of you; those whose doom has not been idle from of old, and whose destruction has not been slumbering. ⁴ For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to chains of darkness, and reserved them for judgment; ⁵ if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon an ungodly world; ⁶ if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and reduced them to ashes, thus holding them up as a warning to all who would live ungodly;

⁶ if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and reduced them to ashes, thus holding them up as a warning to all who would live ungodly;

⁶ if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and reduced them to ashes, thus holding them up as a warning to all who would live ungodly; ⁷ and he delivered righteous Lot who was worn out by the lascivious life of the wicked ⁸ (for that righteous man, living among them, tormented his righteous soul in seeing and hearing, day after day, their lawless deeds), ⁹ then be sure that the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the wicked (who are even now enduring punishment) for the "Day of Judgment";

⁹ then be sure that the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the wicked (who are even now enduring punishment) for the "Day of Judgment"; ¹⁰ especially those who spend their lives following the flesh in the lust of defilement, and in despising all authority. Audacious and willful, they feel no awe in railing against dignities;

¹⁰ especially those who spend their lives following the flesh in the lust of defilement, and in despising all authority. Audacious and willful, they feel no awe in railing against dignities; ¹¹ even where angels, though surpassing them in strength and might, do not bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

¹¹ even where angels, though surpassing them in strength and might, do not bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord. ¹² But these men, like irrational creatures, mere animals, born to be taken and destroyed, continually rail about matters of which they know nothing. In their corruption they will surely be destroyed,

¹² But these men, like irrational creatures, mere animals, born to be taken and destroyed, continually rail about matters of which they know nothing. In their corruption they will surely be destroyed, ¹³ suffering wrong as the wage of wrong which they have done. These are men who count it pleasure to carouse in open daylight; they are spots and blemishes reveling in their deceit, even while they are feasting with you. ¹⁴ They have eyes full of harlots, eyes that cannot stop sinning. They entice unsteady souls. Their heart is trained in greed. They are an accursed generation. ¹⁵ They have forsaken the right way; they have lost their way, and followed the road of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing.

¹⁷ Such men are like waterless springs, or mists storm-driven; for them the blackness of darkness has been reserved.

¹⁷ Such men are like waterless springs, or mists storm-driven; for them the blackness of darkness has been reserved. ¹⁸ For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they entangle, by their lasciviousness, in the lusts of the flesh, those who are just about to escape from the men that live in misconduct.

¹⁸ For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they entangle, by their lasciviousness, in the lusts of the flesh, those who are just about to escape from the men that live in misconduct.

¹⁸ For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they entangle, by their lasciviousness, in the lusts of the flesh, those who are just about to escape from the men that live in misconduct. ¹⁹ They promise them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of rottenness! (For indeed a man is the slave of anything which masters him.)

¹⁹ They promise them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of rottenness! (For indeed a man is the slave of anything which masters him.) ²⁰ For if, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them and overpowered, their last state is become worse than their first.

²⁰ For if, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them and overpowered, their last state is become worse than their first. ²¹ Indeed it would have been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them. ²² In their case it has happened according to the true proverb, The dog returns again to his own vomit, and The sow, after washing, to her wallowing in the mire.

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

¹ This is now my second letter to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your pure minds by putting you in remembrance. ² I want you to recollect the words that were foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of your Lord and Saviour, given you through your apostles.

² I want you to recollect the words that were foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of your Lord and Saviour, given you through your apostles. ³ Know this first, that mockers will come in the last days, in their mockery, men who walk the way of their own lusts

⁷ But the heavens and earth that now are, by the same word of God, have been reserved for fire, and are being kept for the Day of Judgment, and for the destruction of ungodly men.

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

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.

²² Who is the liar if not the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, even he who disowns the Father and the Son.

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

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

⁶ But you are of God. He who is beginning to know God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we may distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

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

⁴ For whoever is a child of God is overcoming the world; and our faith is the victory that has overcome the world.

¹⁰ He who believes on the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God, has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. ¹¹ And the testimony is this, "God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son."

¹⁶ If any one sees his brother committing a sin that is not deadly, he shall ask, and God will give him life, for any one who is not committing a deadly sin. There is a deadly sin; concerning that I do not say that he should pray. ¹⁷ All unrighteousness is sin; and there is sin that is not deadly. ¹⁸ We know that whoever is a child of God is not habitually committing sin; but he who is God's child guards himself, and the Evil One never touches him.

¹⁸ We know that whoever is a child of God is not habitually committing sin; but he who is God's child guards himself, and the Evil One never touches him.

²¹ My little children, guard yourselves from idols.

³ Beloved, although I was making all haste to write to you in regard to our common salvation, I am compelled to write you an appeal to defend the faith once for all committed to the saints. ⁴ For certain men have crept in stealthily—men predestined in ancient prophecies for this condemnation—impious ones! They pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness, and deny Jesus Christ, our sole Master and Lord. ⁵ I wish to remind you of what you already know right well, that although the Lord once saved a people out of the land of Egypt, he afterward destroyed those who did not believe; ⁶ while the angels who did not keep their first domain but left their proper abode, are held by him in blank darkness, in everlasting chains, in preparation for the judgment of the Great Day. ⁷ So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the near-by cities which in like manner glutted themselves in sensuality and unnatural vice, are exhibited as a warning of the eternal fire, in the punishment they undergo. ⁸ Yet in just the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, while they set at naught dominion and scoff at dignities. ⁹ But Michael, the Archangel, when in contending with the devil, he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to pronounce sentence for blasphemy, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."

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

¹⁰ Yet these men blaspheme about matters of which they know nothing, while they use such things as they do understand by instinct (like the animals who have no reason) for their own destruction. ¹¹ Alas for them! They have walked in the path of Cain; for the sake of gain they have rushed headlong into Balaam's error, and have perished in Koran's rebellion. ¹² These are they who are stains upon your love-feasts; when they feast sumptuously without scruple, looking after none but themselves. They are clouds without water, driven along by the winds; trees of autumn, fruitless, doubly dead, torn up by the roots, ¹³ wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly deeds which in their ungodliness they have committed; and of all the hard things which they have spoken against Him, ungodly sinners that they are!" ¹⁶ For these are murmurers, always complaining. They always go where their passions lead, and their mouth speaks great swelling words, while they pay court to men for the sake of the advantage they can get. ¹⁷ But as for you, dearly beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁸ how they used to say to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will be led only by their godless passions."

²⁰ But you, beloved, continually building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and ever praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ must keep yourselves in the love of God, while waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, which ends in life eternal.

²⁴ Now unto Him who has power to guard you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, faultless and exultant,

⁴ From John to the seven churches that are in Asia the Roman Province. Grace to you, and peace from Him that is and was and is to be, and from the Seven Spirits that are before his throne, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins in his own blood; ⁶ and has made us to be a kingdom of priests unto his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever, Amen.

⁶ and has made us to be a kingdom of priests unto his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever, Amen. ⁷ Behold, he is about to come among the clouds; and every eye will see him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. So shall it be, Amen.

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

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

⁴ Yet you have a few names in Sardis that have not defiled their garment; and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

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

⁹ And whenever the Living Creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever, ¹⁰ the four and twenty Elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying. ¹¹ "Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, To receive the glory and the honor and the power; For thou didst create all things, And because of thy will they came into being And were created."

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.

¹⁰ And the third angel blew his trumpet, and there fell from heaven a great star, blazing like a torch. It fell upon a third of the rivers and upon the springs. (The name of the star is called Wormwood.) ¹¹ A third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

⁷ And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels went forth to war with the dragon; and the dragon also fought, and his angels;

¹¹ And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb, And by the word of their testimony; And they loved not their life, even unto death.

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

¹⁰ Whoever is destined to go into captivity, goes into captivity. Whoever shall kill with the sword, shall surely be killed by the sword. (Here is the endurance and faith of the saints.) ¹¹ And I saw another beast ascending from the land; and he had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon;

⁵ No lie was ever found on their lips; they are spotless.

¹⁰ He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, Poured out unmixed in the cup of his anger; And he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone In the presence of the holy angels, And in the presence of the Lamb, ¹¹ And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; And they have no rest day or night, Who worship the beast and his image, And all who receive the brand of his name."

⁴ Who shall not fear, O Lord, And glorify thy name? For thou only art holy. For all the nations shall come and worship before thee; For thy righteous acts have been made evident."

¹⁰ and the devil who had been deceiving them was hurled into the lake of fire and brimstone, where lie also the beast and the false prophet. And they will be tortured day and night, forever and ever.

⁸ But as for the cowards, the faithless, the abominable, And for the murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, Idolaters, and all liars, Their part will be in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. "This is the second death."

¹² Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, To give to each man what his actions merit. ¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, The First and the Last, The Beginning and the End. ¹⁴ "Blessed are they who wash their robes, so that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in by the gates into the City. ¹⁵ Without are the dogs, the sorcerers, the immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who live and make a lie.

²⁰ He who testifies this says, "Yea, I am coming quickly." Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!