1 John 3 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ 'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him. ² We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him — for we are to see him as he is. ³ And everyone who rests this hope on him, purifies himself as he is pure. ⁴ Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness: sin is lawlessness, ⁵ and you know he appeared to take [our] sins away. In him there is no sin; ⁶ anyone who remains in him does not sin — anyone who sins has neither seen nor known him. ⁷ Let no one deceive you, my dear children: he who practises righteousness is just, as He is just; ⁸ he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.) ⁹ Anyone who is born of God does not commit sin, for the offspring of God remain in Him, and they cannot sin, because they are born of God. ¹⁰ Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother. ¹¹ For this is the message you have learned from the very beginning, that we are to love one another: ¹² we are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the evil One and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's just. ¹³ Do not wonder, brothers, that the world hates you. ¹⁴ We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death. ¹⁵ Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining within him. ¹⁶ We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood. ¹⁷ But whoever possesses this world's goods, and notices his brother in need, and shuts his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him? ¹⁸ My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real. ¹⁹ Thus it is that we may be sure we belong to the truth and reassure ourselves ²⁰ whenever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart, and he knows all. ²¹ If our heart does not condemn us, beloved, then we have confidence in approaching God, ²² and we get from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight. ²³ Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do; ²⁴ he who obeys his commands remains within him — and He remains within him. And this is how we may be sure he remains within us, by means of the Spirit he has given us.

²¹ She will bear a son, and you will call him 'Jesus,' for he will save his people from their sins."

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart! they will see God.

²⁰ For I tell you, unless your goodness excels that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the Realm of heaven. ²¹ You have heard how the men of old were told, 'Murder not: whoever murders must come up for sentence, ²² whoever maligns his brother must come before the San hedrin, whoever curses his brother must go to the fire of Gehenna.' But I tell you, whoever is angry with his brother [without cause] will be sentenced by God.

²⁸ But I tell you, any one who even looks with lust at a woman has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

⁴⁸ You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

⁷ Ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you; ⁸ for every one who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.

¹⁸ a good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a rotten tree cannot bear sound fruit.

²⁴ Now, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts upon them will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock. ²⁵ The rain came down, the floods rose, the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, for it was founded on rock.

²² and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of the Realm and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart; that is the man who is sown 'on the road.'

³⁸ the field is the world; the good seed means the sons of the Realm; the weeds are the sons of the evil one;

⁵ He was still speaking when a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight: listen to him."

²⁸ just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

²² All that ever you ask in prayer you shall have, if you believe."

³⁹ There is a second like it: you must love your neighbour as yourself.

³⁵ it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

⁹ Then men will hand you over to suffer affliction, and they will kill you; you will be hated by all the Gentiles on account of my name.

⁴⁰ The King will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even to the least of them, you did it to me.' ⁴¹ Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels! ⁴² For I was hungry but you never fed me, I was thirsty but you never gave me drink, ⁴³ I was a stranger but you never entertained me, I was unclothed but you never clothed me, I was ill and in prison but you never looked after me.' ⁴⁴ Then they will answer too, 'Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or unclothed or ill or in prison, and did not minister to you?' ⁴⁵ Then he will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did not do it to one of these, even the least of them, you did not do it to me.'

²³ "Why," said the governor, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted on more fiercely than ever, "Have him crucified!"

²⁴ "Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? We know who you are, you are God's holy One."

¹⁹ Herodias had a grudge against him; she wanted him killed but she could not manage it,

⁷ Then a cloud came overshadowing them, and from the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, listen to him."

²⁴ So I tell you, whatever you pray for and ask, believe you have got it and you shall have it.

¹³ and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

⁷⁵ in holiness and uprightness all our days within his presence.

¹¹ He replied, "Let everyone who possesses two shirts share with him who has none, and let him who has food do likewise."

²² Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;

³⁵ No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil. ³⁶ Be merciful, as your Father is merciful.

¹⁸ He said to them, "Yes, I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.

⁹ So I tell you, ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you; ¹⁰ for everyone who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks. ¹¹ What father among you, if asked by his son for a loaf, will hand him a stone? Or, if asked for a fish, will hand him a serpent instead of a fish? ¹² Or, if asked for an egg, will he hand him a scorpion? ¹³ Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father give the holy Spirit from heaven to those who ask him?"

⁵¹ from the blood of Abel down to the blood of Zechariah who was slain between the altar and the House of God — yes, I tell you, it will all be charged upon this generation.

²⁴ for my son here was dead and he has come to life, he was lost and he is found.' So they began to make merry.

³² We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life again, he was lost but he has been found.' "

¹⁷ You will be hated by all on account of my name;

⁴¹ And we suffer justly; we are getting what we deserve for our deeds. But he has done no harm."

⁴⁷ When the army-captain saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "This man was really innocent."

¹² On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name, ¹³ who owe this birth of theirs to God, not to human blood, nor to any impulse of the flesh or of man.

²⁹ Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!

³¹ I myself did not recognize him; I only came to baptize with water, in order that he might be disclosed to Israel."

²⁴ Jesus, however, would not trust himself to them; he knew all men, ²⁵ and required no evidence from anyone about human nature; well did he know what was in human nature.

³ Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, no one can see God's Realm unless he is born from above."

⁷ Do not wonder at me telling you, 'You must all be born from above.'

¹⁶ For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing.

¹⁴ but anyone who drinks the water I shall give him will never thirst any more; the water I shall give him will turn into a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

²⁴ Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

²⁹ Jesus replied to them, "This is the work of God, to believe in him whom God has sent."

⁵⁴ He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life (and I will raise him up on the last day), ⁵⁵ for my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains within me, as I remain within him.

⁷ the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil.

⁹ And on hearing what he said, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men, till Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

²⁹ He who sent me is at my side; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."

⁴⁴ You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

⁴⁶ Which of you can convict me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷ He who belongs to God listens to the words of God; you do not listen to them, because you do not belong to God."

³¹ God, we know, does not listen to sinners; he listens to anyone who is devout and who obeys his will.

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

²⁹ My Father who gave me them is stronger than all, and no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one — ."

³² Jesus replied, "I have let you see many a good deed of God; for which of them do you mean to stone me?"

³¹ Now is this world to be judged; now the Prince of this world will be expelled.

³⁴ I give you a new command, to love one another — as I have loved you, you are to love one another.

³⁴ I give you a new command, to love one another — as I have loved you, you are to love one another. ³⁵ By this everyone will recognize that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

³⁵ By this everyone will recognize that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

¹ Let not your hearts be disquieted; you believe — believe in God and also in me.

¹³ and I will do whatever you ask in my name, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;

²¹ He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him." ²² "Lord," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "why is it that you are to appear to us, and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him.

³⁰ I will no longer talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me;

⁴ Remain in me, as I remain in you: just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, without remaining on the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing). ⁶ If anyone does not remain in me he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers up; then the branches are gathered and thrown into the fire to be burned. ⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask whatever you like and you shall have it.

⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask whatever you like and you shall have it.

⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask whatever you like and you shall have it. ⁸ As you bear rich fruit and prove yourselves my disciples, my Father is glorified. ⁹ As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain within my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love.

¹⁰ If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love.

¹² This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you.

¹² This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.

¹⁷ This is what I command you, to love one another. ¹⁸ If the world hates you, remember it hated me first. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.

¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember what I told you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they hold to my word, they will hold to yours. ²¹ They will do all this to you on account of my name, because they know not him who sent me. ²² They would not be guilty, if I had not come and spoken to them; but, as it is, they have no excuse for their sin — ²³ he who hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴ They would not be guilty, if I had not done deeds among them such as no one has ever done; but, as it is, they have seen — and they have hated — both me and my Father. ²⁵ It is that the word written in their Law may be fulfilled: they hated me for no cause.

² They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God. ³ This they will do to you, because they have not known the Father nor me.

¹¹ of judgment, because the Prince of this world has been judged.

²³ And on that day you will not ask me any questions. Truly, truly I tell you, whatever you ask the Father, he will give you in my name; ²⁴ hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

³³ I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.

³ And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

²¹ may they all be one! As thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, so may they be in us — that the world may believe thou hast sent me.

²⁴ Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. ²⁵ O just Father, though the world has not known thee, I have known thee, and they have known that thou hast sent me;

³⁷ "So you are a king?" said Pilate, "you!" "Certainly," said Jesus, "I am a king. This is why I was born, this is why I came into the world, to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice." ³⁸ "Truth!" said Pilate, "what is truth!" With these words he went outside to the Jews again and told them, "I cannot find anything wrong about him. ³⁹ But it is your custom that I should release a prisoner for you at the passover. Is it your will that I release you the king of the Jews?" ⁴⁰ Again they yelled, "No, not him! Bar-Abbas!" Now Bar-Abbas was a robber.

¹⁷ For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.

¹² But when Peter saw this, he said to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you surprised at this? Why do you stare at us, as if we had made him walk by any power or piety of ours?

²⁰ Certainly we cannot give up speaking of what we have seen and heard."

³³ When they heard this, they were so furious that they determined to make away with the apostles.

⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Just One. And here you have betrayed him, murdered him! —

³⁵ but that he who reverences Him and lives a good life in any nation is welcomed by Him.

¹⁰ and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all good, full of all craft and all cunning, will you never stop diverting the straight paths of the Lord?

⁹ in cleansing their hearts by faith he made not the slightest distinction between us and them.

³¹ "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ," they said, "and then you will be saved, you and your household as well."

³⁰ Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent,

²¹ bearing my testimony, both to Jews and Greeks, of repentance before God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁸ Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the holy Spirit has appointed you guardians; shepherd the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his own blood.

¹² When day broke, the Jews formed a conspiracy, taking a solemn oath neither to eat nor to drink till they had killed Paul.

¹⁴ They then went to the high priests and elders, saying, "We have taken a solemn oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul.

⁶ For he will render to everyone according to what he has done, ⁷ eternal life to those who by patiently doing good aim at glory, honour, and immortality, ⁸ but anger and wrath to those who are wilful, who disobey the Truth and obey wickedness —

¹³ For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just in the eyes of God, it is those who obey the Law who will be acquitted, ¹⁴ [Move vss 14,15 to follow vs 16] (When Gentiles who have no law obey instinctively the Law's requirements, they are a law to themselves, even though they have no law; ¹⁵ they exhibit the effect of the Law written on their hearts, their conscience bears them witness, as their moral convictions accuse or it may be defend them.)

²⁰ for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

²⁴ but they are justified for nothing by his grace through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over; ²⁶ it was to demonstrate his justice at the present epoch, showing that God is just himself and that he justifies man on the score of faith in Jesus.

¹⁵ (What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)

²¹ and felt convinced that He was able to do what He had promised.

⁴ endurance produces character, and character produces hope — ⁵ a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

⁸ But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

² Never! How can we live in sin any longer, when we died to sin?

¹⁶ Do you not know you are the servants of the master you obey, of the master to whom you yield yourselves obedient, whether it is Sin, whose service ends in death, or Obedience, whose service ends in righteousness? ¹⁷ Thank God, though you did serve sin, you have rendered whole-hearted obedience to what you were taught under the rule of faith; ¹⁸ set free from sin, you have passed into the service of righteousness.

⁷ What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet. ⁸ The command gave an impulse to sin, and sin resulted for me in all manner of covetous desire — for sin, apart from law, is lifeless. ⁹ I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died; ¹⁰ the command that meant life proved death for me. ¹¹ The command gave an impulse to sin, sin beguiled me and used the command to kill me. ¹² So the Law at any rate is holy, the command is holy, just, and for our good. ¹³ Then did what was meant for my good prove fatal to me? Never! It was sin; sin resulted in death for me by making use of this good thing. This was how sin was to be revealed in its true nature; it was to use the command to become sinful in the extreme.

⁷ For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).

⁹ But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells within you. Anyone who does not possess the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. ¹⁰ On the other hand, if Christ is within you, though the body is a dead thing owing to Adam's sin, the spirit is living as the result of righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells within you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives. ¹² Well then, my brothers, we owe a duty — but it is not to the flesh! It is not to live by the flesh! ¹³ If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live. ¹⁴ For the sons of God are those who are guided by the Spirit of God.

¹⁴ For the sons of God are those who are guided by the Spirit of God. ¹⁵ You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!",

¹⁵ You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!", ¹⁶ it is this Spirit testifying along with our own spirit that we are children of God; ¹⁷ and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ — for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory. ¹⁸ Present suffering, I hold, is a mere nothing compared to the glory that we are to have revealed.

²¹ the hope being that creation as well as man would one day be freed from its thraldom to decay and gain the glorious freedom of the children of God.

²⁹ For he decreed of old that those whom he predestined should share the likeness of his Son — that he might be the firstborn of a great brotherhood.

³² The God who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, surely He will give us everything besides!

³⁸ For I am certain neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future,

²⁵ As indeed he says in Hosea, Those who were no people of mine, I will call 'my People,' and her 'beloved' who was not beloved; ²⁶ on the very spot where they were told, 'You are no people of mine,' there shall they be called 'sons of the living God.'

⁹ Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

¹² or again, as Isaiah says, Then shall the Scion of Jessai live, he who rises to rule the Gentiles; on him shall the Gentiles set their hope.

⁴ who have risked their lives for me; I thank them, and not only I but all the Gentile churches as well.

²⁰ The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet! The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

⁹ No, as it is written, what no eye has ever seen, what no ear has ever heard, what never entered the mind of man, God has prepared all that for those who love him.

¹⁶ Do you not know you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells within you?

⁴ for, although I am not conscious of having anything against me, that does not clear me. It is the Lord who cross-questions me on the matter.

⁹ What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites

¹⁹ Do you not know your body is the temple of the holy Spirit within you — the Spirit you have received from God? You are not your own,

⁴ Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs, ⁵ is never rude, never selfish, never irritated, never resentful; ⁶ love is never glad when others go wrong, love is gladdened by goodness, ⁷ always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful, always patient.

¹² At present we only see the baffling reflections in a mirror, but then it will be face to face; at present I am learning bit by bit, but then I shall understand, as all along I have myself been understood.

²⁴ Whereas, if everybody prophesies, and some unbeliever or outsider comes in, he is exposed by all, brought to book by all; ²⁵ the secrets of his heart are brought to light, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, declaring, 'God is really among you.'

⁴⁹ Thus, as we have borne the likeness of material Man, so we are to bear the likeness of the heavenly Man.

¹² My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.

¹⁸ But we all mirror the glory of the Lord with face unveiled, and so we are being transformed into the same likeness as himself, passing from one glory to another — for this comes of the Lord the Spirit.

⁶ For God who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," has shone within my heart to illuminate men with the knowledge of God's glory in the face of Christ.

¹⁷ The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,

¹ I know that if this earthly tent of mine is taken down, I get a home from God, made by no human hands, eternal in the heavens.

⁶ Come what may, then, I am confident; I know that while I reside in the body I am away from the Lord ⁷ (for I have to lead my life in faith, without seeing him): ⁸ and in this confidence I would fain get away from the body and reside with the Lord.

²¹ For our sakes He made him to be sin who himself knew nothing of sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

¹⁶ What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.

¹⁸ I will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord almighty.

¹ As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].

⁹ (You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)

¹⁴ it is a matter of give and take; at the present moment your surplus goes to make up what they lack, in order that their surplus may go to make up what you lack. ¹⁵ Thus it is to give and take — as it is written, He who got much had nothing over, and he who got little had not too little.

⁵ That is why I have thought it necessary to ask these brothers to go on in advance and get your promised contribution ready in good time. I want it to be forthcoming as a generous gift, not as money wrung out of you. ⁶ Mark this: he who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and he who sows generously will reap a generous harvest. ⁷ Everyone is to give what he has made up his mind to give; there is to be no grudging or compulsion about it, for God loves the giver who gives cheerfully. ⁸ God is able to bless you with ample means, so that you may always have quite enough for any emergency of your own and ample besides for any kind act to others; ⁹ as it is written, He scatters his gifts to the poor broadcast, his charity lasts for ever.

²¹ afraid that when I come back to you, my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn for many who sinned some time ago and yet have never repented of the impurity, the sexual vice, and the sensuality which they have practised.

²⁶ you are all sons of God by your faith in Christ Jesus

²⁹ Now if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring; in virtue of the Promise, you are heirs.

⁵ to ransom those who were under the Law, that we might get our sonship. ⁶ It is because you are sons that God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying 'Abba! Father!'

⁶ It is because you are sons that God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying 'Abba! Father!'

¹³ Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

¹⁷ For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh — the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please.

²⁰ idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit, ²¹ envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God. ²² But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

¹ Even if anyone is detected in some trespass, brothers, you are spiritual, you must set the offender right in a spirit of gentleness; let each of you look to himself, in case he too is tempted. ² Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

² Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

⁷ Make no mistake — God is not to be mocked — a man will reap just what he sows; ⁸ he who sows for his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, and he who sows for the Spirit will reap life eternal from the Spirit.

¹⁵ Hence, as I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

¹ And as with us so with you. You were dead in the trespasses and sins ² in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air — the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

⁴ But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us ⁵ he made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved);

⁵ he made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved);

¹⁸ May you be so fixed and founded in love that you can grasp with all the saints what is the meaning of 'the Breadth,' 'the Length,' 'the Depth' and 'the Height,' ¹⁹ by knowing the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge! May you be filled with the entire fulness of God!

¹ As the Lord's prisoner, then, I beg of you to live a life worthy of your calling, ² with perfect modesty and gentleness, showing forbearance to one another patiently, zealous in love ³ to preserve the unity of the Spirit by binding peace upon yourselves.

¹⁵ we are to hold by the truth, and by our love to grow up wholly into Him. For He, Christ, is the head, and under him,

¹ Copy God, then, as his beloved children, ² and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with specious arguments; these are the vices that bring down God's anger on the sons of disobedience.

⁹ (for the fruit of light consists in all that is good and right and true),

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to consecrate her by cleansing her in the bath of baptism as she utters her confession, ²⁷ in order to have the church as his very own, standing before him in all her glory, with never a spot or wrinkle or any such flaw, but consecrated and unblemished.

¹¹ your life covered with that harvest of righteousness which Jesus Christ produces to the glory and the praise of God.

¹⁷ Even if my life-blood has to be poured as a libation on the sacred sacrifice of faith you are offering to God, I rejoice, I congratulate you all —

³⁰ for he nearly died in the service of Christ by risking his life to make up for the services you were not here to render me.

²¹ who will transform the body that belongs to our low estate till it resembles the body of his Glory, by the same power that enables him to make everything subject to himself.

¹⁸ Your debt to me is fully paid and more than paid! I am amply supplied with what you have sent by Epaphroditus, a fragrant perfume, the sort of sacrifice that God approves and welcomes.

⁴ since we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints, ⁵ due to the hope which is laid up for you in heaven. You heard of this hope originally in the message of the Truth, in that gospel

¹⁰ so that you may lead a life that is worthy of the Lord and give him entire satisfaction. May you be fruitful and increase in the doing of all good, as you thus know God!

¹⁵ when he cut away the angelic Rulers and Powers from us, exposing them to all the world and triumphing over them in the cross.

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

³ as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

¹⁴ for you have started, my brothers, to copy the churches of God in Christ Jesus throughout Judaea; you have suffered from your compatriots just as they have suffered from the Jews,

⁹ You need no one to write you upon brotherly love, for you are yourselves taught by God to love one another,

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

⁵ Whereas the aim of the Christian discipline is the love that springs from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.

¹⁵ It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners,

⁸ Now I want the men to offer prayer at any meeting of the church; and let the hands they lift to heaven be holy — they must be free from anger and dissension.

¹⁶ And who does not admit how profound is the divine truth of our religion? — it is He who was "manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by the angels, preached among the nations, believed on throughout the world, taken up to glory."

¹⁷ Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, and not to fix their hopes on so uncertain a thing as riches but on the living God who richly provides us with all the enjoyments of life; ¹⁸ tell them to be bountiful, rich in good works, open-handed and generous,

¹² and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.

¹⁴ Keep the great securities of your faith intact, by aid of the holy Spirit that dwells within us.

¹² Yes, and all who want to live the religious life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

² serving in hope of the life eternal which God, who never lies, promised ages ago —

¹³ awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus, ¹⁴ who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

⁷ that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."

¹¹ you may be sure a man like that is perverted; he is sinning and he knows it.

³ He, reflecting God's bright glory and stamped with God's own character, sustains the universe with his word of power; when he had secured our purification from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high;

⁸ he says of the Son, 'God is thy throne for ever and ever, thy royal sceptre is the sceptre of equity:

¹⁴ Since the children then share blood and flesh, he himself participated in their nature, so that by dying he might crush him who wields the power of death (that is to say, the devil)

¹³ And no created thing is hidden from him; all things lie open and exposed before the eyes of him with whom we have to reckon.

¹⁵ for ours is no high priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every respect like ourselves, yet without sinning. ¹⁶ So let us approach the throne of grace with confidence, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in the hour of need.

¹⁰ God is not unfair; he will not forget what you have done, or the love you have shown for his sake in ministering, as you still do, to the saints. ¹¹ It is my heart's desire that each of you would prove equally keen upon realizing your full hope to the very end,

¹³ For in making a promise to Abraham God swore by himself (since he could swear by none greater),

¹⁸ so that by these two solid facts (the Promise and the Oath), where it is impossible for God to be false, we refugees might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us,

² who had a tenth part of everything assigned him by Abraham — this Melchizedek is primarily a king of righteousness (that is the meaning of his name); then, besides that, king of Salem (which means, king of peace).

²⁶ Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful,

²⁶ for in that case he would have had to suffer repeatedly, ever since the world was founded. Nay, once for all, at the end of the world, he has appeared with his self-sacrifice to abolish sin.

²⁸ so Christ, after being once sacrificed to bear the sins of many, will appear again, not to deal with sin but for the saving of those who look out for him.

²² let us draw near with a true heart, in absolute assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from a bad conscience, and our bodies washed in pure water;

⁴ It was by faith that Abel offered God a richer sacrifice than Cain did, and thus won from God the record of being 'just,' on the score of what he gave; he died, but by his faith he is speaking to us still.

¹³ (These all died in faith without obtaining the promises; they only saw them far away and hailed them, owning they were 'strangers and exiles upon earth.'

¹⁴ Aim at peace with all — and at that consecration without which no one will ever see the Lord;

²⁴ to Jesus who mediates the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood whose message is nobler than Abel's.

¹ Let your brotherly love continue.

¹⁶ Do not forget beneficence and charity, either; these are the kind of sacrifices that are acceptable to God.

²¹ furnish you with everything for the doing of his will, creating in your lives by Jesus Christ what is acceptable in his own sight! To him be glory for ever and ever: Amen.

⁵ Whoever of you is defective in wisdom, let him ask God who gives to all men without question or reproach, and the gift will be his.

¹⁵ then Desire conceives and breeds Sin, while Sin matures and gives birth to Death.

²² Act on the Word, instead of merely listening to it and deluding yourselves.

⁹ but if you pay servile regard to people, you commit a sin, and the Law convicts you of transgression. ¹⁰ For whoever obeys the whole of the Law and only makes a single slip, is guilty of everything. ¹¹ He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not kill. Now if you do not commit adultery but if you kill, you have transgressed the Law.

¹⁵ Suppose some brother or sister is ill-clad and short of daily food;

¹⁵ Suppose some brother or sister is ill-clad and short of daily food; ¹⁶ if any of you says to them, "Depart in peace! Get warm, get food," without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that?

¹⁹ You believe in one God? Well and good. So do the devils, and they shudder.

¹ Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members? ² You crave, and miss what you want: you envy and covet, but you cannot acquire: you wrangle and fight — you miss what you want because you do not ask God for it;

⁴ (Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.

¹ Come now, you rich men, weep and shriek over your impending miseries! ² your wealth lies rotting, and your clothes are moth-eaten; ³ your gold and silver lie rusted over, and their rust will be evidence against you, it will devour your flesh like fire. [Moved to the end of 5:1] You have been storing up treasure in the very last days;

¹⁵ the prayer of faith will restore the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up; even the sins he has committed will be forgiven him. ¹⁶ So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed; the prayers of the righteous have a powerful effect.

¹⁵ as He who called you is holy, so you must be holy too in all your conduct — ¹⁶ for it is written, You shall be holy because I am holy.

¹⁸ you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,

²⁰ He was predestined before the foundation of the world and has appeared at the end of the ages for your sake;

²² Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily. ²³ You are born anew of immortal, not of mortal seed, by the living, lasting word of God;

²² He committed no sin, no guile was ever found upon his lips;

²⁴ he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

⁸ Lastly, you must all be united, you must have sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility,

¹⁸ Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.

⁴ and it astonishes them that you will not plunge with them still into the same flood of profligacy. They abuse you,

⁸ Above all, be keen to love one another, for love hides a host of sins.

⁴ bestowing on us thereby promises precious and supreme, that by means of them you may escape the corruption produced within the world by lust, and participate in the divine nature —

⁷ piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love.

⁴ For if God did not spare angels who had sinned, but committing them to pits of the nether gloom in Tartarus, reserved them under punishment for doom:

¹⁴ Then, beloved, as you are expecting this, be eager to be found by him unspotted and unblemished in serene assurance.

² (the Life has appeared; we saw it, we testify to it, we bring you word of that eternal Life which existed with the Father and was disclosed to us) —

⁵ Here is the message we learned from him and announce to you: 'God is light and in him there is no darkness, none.'

⁷ but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin. ⁸ If we say, 'We are not guilty,' we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us;

¹ My dear children, I am writing this to you that you may not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father in Jesus Christ the just;

³ This is how we may be sure we know him, by obeying his commands. ⁴ He who says, 'I know him,' but does not obey his commands, is a liar and the truth is not in him;

⁶ he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived. ⁷ Beloved, I am not writing you any new command, but an old command which you have had from the very beginning: the old command is the word you have heard. ⁸ And yet it is a new command I am writing to you — realized in him and also in yourselves, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

⁸ And yet it is a new command I am writing to you — realized in him and also in yourselves, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. ⁹ He who says he is 'in the light' and hates his brother, is in darkness still.

⁹ He who says he is 'in the light' and hates his brother, is in darkness still. ¹⁰ He who loves his brother remains in the light — and in the light there is no pitfall;

¹⁰ He who loves his brother remains in the light — and in the light there is no pitfall; ¹¹ but he who hates his brother is in darkness, he walks in darkness and does not know where he is going, for the darkness has blinded his eyes.

¹³ fathers, I am writing to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I am writing to you, because you have conquered the evil One. Children, I have written to you, because you know the Father: ¹⁴ fathers, I have written to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I have written to you, because you are strong, and the word of God remains within you, and you have conquered the evil One.

²⁶ I am writing to you in this way about those who would deceive you,

²⁸ Remain within him now, my dear children, so that when he appears we may have confidence, instead of shrinking from him in shame at his arrival. ²⁹ As you know he is just, be sure that everyone who practises righteousness is born of him.

¹ 'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him. ² We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him — for we are to see him as he is. ³ And everyone who rests this hope on him, purifies himself as he is pure.

⁵ and you know he appeared to take [our] sins away. In him there is no sin;

⁷ Let no one deceive you, my dear children: he who practises righteousness is just, as He is just; ⁸ he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.)

⁸ he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.)

⁸ he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.) ⁹ Anyone who is born of God does not commit sin, for the offspring of God remain in Him, and they cannot sin, because they are born of God.

⁹ Anyone who is born of God does not commit sin, for the offspring of God remain in Him, and they cannot sin, because they are born of God. ¹⁰ Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother. ¹¹ For this is the message you have learned from the very beginning, that we are to love one another:

¹⁴ We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.

¹⁴ We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death. ¹⁵ Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining within him.

²¹ If our heart does not condemn us, beloved, then we have confidence in approaching God, ²² and we get from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight. ²³ Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do;

²³ Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do; ²⁴ he who obeys his commands remains within him — and He remains within him. And this is how we may be sure he remains within us, by means of the Spirit he has given us.

³ and every spirit which does not confess Jesus [incarnate] does not come from God. This latter is the spirit of antichrist; you were told it was coming, and here it is already in the world. ⁴ My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.

⁴ My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.

⁶ we belong to God — he who knows God listens to us, he who does not belong to God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. ⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God; ⁸ he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.

⁸ he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love. ⁹ This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live.

⁹ This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live.

⁹ This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live. ¹⁰ Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us — in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

¹⁰ Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us — in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

¹⁰ Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us — in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.

¹¹ Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another. ¹² God no one has ever seen; but if we love one another, then God remains within us, and love for him is complete in us.

¹² God no one has ever seen; but if we love one another, then God remains within us, and love for him is complete in us.

¹² God no one has ever seen; but if we love one another, then God remains within us, and love for him is complete in us. ¹³ This is how we may be sure we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us a share in his own Spirit;

¹³ This is how we may be sure we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us a share in his own Spirit; ¹⁴ and we have seen, we can testify, that the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever confesses that 'Jesus is the Son of God,' in him God remains, and he remains in God; ¹⁶ well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. ¹⁷ Love is complete with us when we have absolute confidence about the day of judgment, since in this world we are living as He lives.

²⁰ If anyone declares, 'I love God,' and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who will not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love the God whom he has never seen.

²⁰ If anyone declares, 'I love God,' and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who will not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot possibly love the God whom he has never seen. ²¹ And we get this command from him, that he who loves God is to love his brother as well.

²¹ And we get this command from him, that he who loves God is to love his brother as well.

¹ Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ, is born of God; and everyone who loves the Father, loves the sons born of him. ² This is how we are sure that we love God's children, by loving God and obeying his commands

⁴ for whatever is born of God conquers the world. Our faith, that is the conquest which conquers the world.

¹³ I have written in this way to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may be sure you have life eternal. ¹⁴ Now the confidence we have in him is this, that he listens to us whenever we ask anything in accordance with his will;

¹⁷ All iniquity is sin, but there are sins which are not deadly. ¹⁸ We know that anyone who is born of God does not sin; He who was born of God preserves him, and the evil One never catches him. ¹⁹ We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One.

¹⁹ We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One. ²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to know Him who is the Real God; and we are in Him who is real, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the real God, this is life eternal.

¹ The presbyter, to the elect Lady and her children whom I love in the Truth (and not only I but all who know the Truth) ² for the sake of the Truth which remains within us and will be with us for ever: ³ grace, mercy, peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, in truth and love. ⁴ I was overjoyed to find some of your children leading the true Life, as we were commanded to do by the Father. ⁵ And now I entreat you, Lady — not as though I were writing you any new command, it is the command which we have had from the very beginning — let us love one another.

⁵ And now I entreat you, Lady — not as though I were writing you any new command, it is the command which we have had from the very beginning — let us love one another. ⁶ To live by his commands, that is what love means: and the command is, live in love as you have learned to do from the very beginning. ⁷ I say this, because a number of impostors have emerged in the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; that marks the real 'impostor' and 'antichrist.' ⁸ Watch yourselves; you must not lose what you have been working for, but gain a full reward. ⁹ Anyone who is 'advanced' and will not remain by the doctrine of Christ, does not possess God: he who remains by the doctrine of Christ possesses both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not admit him to the house — do not even greet him, ¹¹ for he who greets him shares in his wicked work. ¹² I have a great deal to write to you, but I do not mean to use ink and paper; I hope to visit you and have a talk with you, so that your joy may be unimpaired. ¹³ The children of your elect Sister greet you.

¹ The presbyter, to the beloved Gaius whom I love in the Truth. ² Beloved, I pray you may prosper in every way and keep well — as indeed your soul is keeping well. ³ For I was overjoyed when some brothers arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do lead the true Life; ⁴ I have no greater joy than to hear of my children living in the Truth. ⁵ Beloved, you are acting loyally in rendering any service to the brothers and especially to strangers; ⁶ they have testified to your love before the church. Pray speed them on their journey worthily of God; ⁷ they have started out for his sake and declined to take anything from pagans; ⁸ hence we are bound to support such men, to prove ourselves allies of the Truth. ⁹ I have written to the church; only, Diotrephes, who likes to take the lead among them, repudiates me. ¹⁰ So when I come, I shall bring up what he is doing, babbling against me with wicked words — and, not satisfied with words, he refuses to welcome the brothers, checks those who want to welcome them, and excommunicates them from the church. ¹¹ Beloved, do not imitate evil but good; he who does good belongs to God, he who does evil has never seen God.

¹¹ Beloved, do not imitate evil but good; he who does good belongs to God, he who does evil has never seen God. ¹² Everybody testifies to Demetrius, and so does the Truth itself: I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true. ¹³ I had a great deal to write to you, but I do not want to write to you with ink and pen; ¹⁴ I am hoping to see you soon, and we will have a talk. [15] Peace to you! The friends salute you: salute the friends one by one.

⁶ while the angels who abandoned their own domain, instead of preserving their proper rank, are reserved by him within the nether gloom, in chains eternal, for the doom of the great Day —

¹¹ Woe to them! they go the road of Cain, rush into Balaam's error for what it brings them, and perish in Korah's rebellion.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood —

²³ and her children I will exterminate. So shall all the churches know that I am the searcher of the inmost heart; I will requite each of you according to what you have done.

⁹ singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

⁶ Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and as I looked at her I marvelled greatly. ⁷ But the angel said to me, "Why marvel? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman, and of the Beast with the seven heads and the ten horns who carries her.

² he gripped the dragon, that old serpent (who is the devil and Satan), and bound him for a thousand years, ³ flinging him into the abyss and shutting and sealing it on the top of him, to prevent him seducing the nations again until the thousand years were completed — after which he has to be released for a little while.

¹⁰ and their seducer, the devil, was flung into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the false Prophet also lie, to be tortured day and night for ever and ever.

¹⁵ and whoever was not found enrolled in the book of Life was flung into the lake of fire — which is the second death, the lake of fire.

⁷ The conqueror shall obtain this, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son; ⁸ but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds — their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

⁴ they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.