1 Timothy Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our Hope, ² to Timotheus his lawful son in the faith: grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. ³ As I asked you when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay where you are at Ephesus and warn certain individuals against teaching novelties ⁴ and studying myths and interminable genealogies; such studies bear upon speculations rather than on the divine order which belongs to faith. 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. ⁶ Certain individuals have failed here by turning to empty argument; ⁷ doctors of the Law is what they want to be, but they have no idea either of the meaning of the words they use or of the themes on which they harp. ⁸ I am quite aware that 'the Law is admirable' — provided that one makes a lawful use of it; ⁹ he must keep in mind that no law is ever made for honest people but for the lawless and the insubordinate, for the impious and the sinful, for the irreverent and the profane, for parricides and matricides, murderers, ¹⁰ immoral persons, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine ¹¹ as laid down by that glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted. ¹² I render thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has made me able for this; he considered me trustworthy and appointed me to the ministry, ¹³ though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance; ¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord flooded my life along with the faith and love that Christ Jesus inspires. 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, ¹⁶ I obtained mercy, for the purpose of furnishing Christ Jesus with the chief illustration of his utter patience; I was to be the typical instance of all who were to believe in him and gain eternal life. ¹⁷ To the King of eternity, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever: Amen. ¹⁸ I transmit these instructions to you, Timotheus my son, in accordance with what the prophets said who first directed me to you; fight the good fight on these lines, ¹⁹ keeping hold of faith and a good conscience. Certain individuals have scouted the good conscience and thus come to grief over their faith — ²⁰ including Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have made over to Satan. That will teach them to stop their blasphemous ongoings!

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.

³³ Once again, you have heard how the men of old were told, 'You must not forswear yourself but discharge your vows to the Lord'. ³⁴ But I tell you, you must not swear any oath, neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God, ³⁵ nor by earth, for it is the footstool of his feet, nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King; ³⁶ nor shall you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black. ³⁷ Let what you say be simply 'yes' or 'no'; whatever exceeds that springs from evil.

¹³ and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.'

²⁷ Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it?

¹³ Go and learn the meaning of this word, I care for mercy not for sacrifice. For I have not come to call just men but sinners."

²¹ Brother will betray brother to death, the father will betray his child, children will rise against their parents and put them to death,

³⁵ The good man brings good out of his good store, and the evil man brings evil out of his store of evil.

¹⁴ Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit."

¹⁰ See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you, their angels in heaven always look on the face of my Father in heaven.

¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church; and if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or a taxgatherer.

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."

²⁷ So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." He said to them, "No more will I tell you what authority I have for acting as I do.

¹⁶ Woe to you, blind guides that you are! you say, 'Swear by the sanctuary, and it means nothing; but swear by the gold of the sanctuary, and the oath is binding.' ¹⁷ You are senseless and blind! for which is the greater, the gold or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred? ¹⁸ You say again, 'Swear by the altar, and it means nothing; but swear by the gift upon it, and the oath is binding.' ¹⁹ You are blind! for which is the greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred? ²⁰ He who swears by the altar swears by it and by all that lies on it; ²¹ he who swears by the sanctuary swears by it and by Him who inhabits it; ²² he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it. ²³ Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised — without omit ting the former. ²⁴ Blind guides that you are, filtering away the gnat and swallowing the camel!

³⁴ Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

²⁰ and teach them to obey all the commands I have laid on you. And I will be with you all the time, to the very end of the world."

¹⁷ On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "Those who are strong have no need of a doctor, but those who are ill: I have not come to call just men but sinners."

²¹ From within, from the heart of man, the designs of evil come: sexual vice, stealing, murder, ²² adultery, lust, malice, deceit, sensuality, envying, slander, arrogance, recklessness,

²⁸ Then a scribe came up, who had listened to the discussion. Knowing Jesus had given them an apt answer, he put this question to him, "What is the chief of all the commands?" ²⁹ Jesus replied, "The chief one is: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, ³⁰ and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole mind, and with your whole strength. ³¹ The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no other command greater than these." ³² The scribe said to him, "Right, teacher! You have truly said, He is One, and there is none else but Him. ³³ Also, to love him with the whole heart, with the whole understanding, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbour as oneself — that is far more than all holocausts and sacrifices." ³⁴ Jesus noted his intelligent answer and said to him, "You are not far off the Realm of God." After that no one ventured to put any more questions to him.

⁴⁷ My spirit has joy in God my Saviour:

¹⁰ but the angel said to them, "Have no fear. This is good news I am bringing you, news of a great joy that is meant for all the People. ¹¹ To-day you have a saviour born in the town of David, the Lord messiah.

¹¹ To-day you have a saviour born in the town of David, the Lord messiah.

¹⁴ "Glory to God in high heaven, and peace on earth for men whom he favours!"

³² I have not come to call just men but sinners to repentance."

⁴⁷ Therefore I tell you, many as her sins are, they are forgiven, for her love is great; whereas he to whom little is forgiven has but little love."

⁴⁷ Therefore I tell you, many as her sins are, they are forgiven, for her love is great; whereas he to whom little is forgiven has but little love." ⁴⁸ And he said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." ⁴⁹ His fellow guests began to say to themselves, "Who is this, to forgive even sins?" ⁵⁰ But he said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."

⁴⁷ The servant who knew his lord and master's orders and did not prepare for them, will receive many lashes;

¹⁰ So, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over a single sinner who repents."

¹³ But the taxgatherer stood far away and would not lift even his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'O God, have mercy on me for my sins!' ¹⁴ I tell you, he went home accepted by God rather than the other man; for everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

⁷ But when they saw this, everyone began to mutter that he had gone to be the guest of a sinner. ⁸ So Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, "I will give the half of all I have, Lord, to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody I will give him back four times as much." ⁹ And Jesus said of him, "To-day salvation has come to this house, since Zacchaeus here is a son of Abraham. ¹⁰ For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."

³⁴ Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing." Then they distributed his clothes among themselves by drawing lots.

⁴³ "I tell you truly," said Jesus, "you will be in paradise with me this very day."

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,

¹⁸ Nobody has ever seen God, but God has been unfolded by the divine One, the only Son, who lies upon the Father's breast.

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!

⁹ Nicodemus answered, "How can that be?" ¹⁰ Jesus replied, "You do not understand this? — you, a teacher in Israel!

¹⁵ that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. 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.

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. ¹⁷ God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him.

³⁶ He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life — God's anger broods over him."

²³ that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.) 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.

³⁷ All those will come to me who are the Father's gift to me, and never will I reject one of them;

⁴⁰ It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."

⁵⁴ He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life (and I will raise him up on the last day),

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.

³⁹ Then said Jesus, "It is for judgment that I have come into this world, to make the sightless see, to make the seeing blind." ⁴⁰ On hearing this the Pharisees who were beside him asked, "And are we blind?" ⁴¹ Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty; but, as it is, you claim to have sight — and so your sin remains."

⁴⁷ If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world.

³¹ but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.

¹⁷ Now I know, brothers, that you acted in ignorance, like your rulers —

²⁶ It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."

³ but Saul made havoc of the church by entering one house after another, dragging off men and women, and consigning them to prison.

¹ Meanwhile Saul still breathed threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest

⁵ "Who are you?" he asked. "I am Jesus," he said, "and you persecute me.

¹³ "But, Lord," Ananias answered, "many people have told me about all the mischief this man has done to thy saints at Jerusalem!

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel.

²² Saul became more and more vigorous. He put the Jewish residents in Damascus to confusion by his proof that Jesus was the Christ;

¹ Now the apostles and the brothers in Judaea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

¹⁸ On hearing this they desisted and glorified God, saying, "So God has actually allowed the Gentiles to repent and live!"

³⁹ and that by him everyone who believes is absolved from all that the law of Moses never could absolve you from.

⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy; they began to contradict what Paul said and to abuse him.

¹ But certain individuals came down from Jerusalem and taught the brothers that "unless you get circumcised after the custom of Moses you cannot be saved."

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

¹¹ No, it is by the grace of the Lord Jesus that we believe and are saved, in the same way as they are."

¹ He also came down to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple called Timotheus, the son of a believing Jewess and a Greek father. ² He had a good reputation among the brothers at Lystra and Iconium; ³ so, as Paul wished him to go abroad with him, he took and circumcised him on account of the local Jews, all of whom knew his father had been a Greek.

¹⁵ When she was baptized, along with her household, she begged us, saying, "If you are convinced I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." She compelled us to come.

¹⁹ When they reached Ephesus, Paul left them there. He went to the synagogue and argued with the Jews,

¹ It was when Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, after passing through the inland districts, came down to Ephesus. There he found some disciples, ² whom he asked, "Did you receive the holy Spirit when you believed?" "No," they said, "we never even heard of its existence." ³ "Then," said he, "what were you baptized in?" "In John's baptism," they replied. ⁴ "John," said Paul, "baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus." ⁵ When they heard this, they had themselves baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, ⁶ and after Paul laid his hands on them the holy Spirit came upon them, they spoke with 'tongues' and prophesied. ⁷ They numbered all together about twelve men. ⁸ Then Paul entered the synagogue and for three months spoke out fearlessly, arguing and persuading people about the Reign of God. ⁹ But as some grew stubborn and disobedient, decrying the Way in presence of the multitude, he left them, withdrew the disciples, and continued his argument every day from eleven to four in the lecture-room of Tyrannus. ¹⁰ This went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants of Asia, Jews as well as Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

³³ Some of the mob concluded it must be Alexander, as the Jews pushed him to the front. So Alexander, motioning with his hand, wanted to defend himself before the people;

¹ When the tumult had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them; he then took leave of them and went his way to Macedonia. ² After passing through the districts of Macedonia and encouraging the people at length, he came to Greece, ³ where he spent three months. Just as he was on the point of sailing for Syria, the Jews laid a plot against him. He therefore resolved to return through Macedonia.

⁴ I persecuted this Way of religion to the death, chaining and imprisoning both men and women,

¹ With a steady look at the Sanhedrin Paul said, "Brothers, I have lived with a perfectly good conscience before God down to the present day."

¹⁶ Hence I too endeavour to have a clear conscience before God and men all the time.

⁹ I once believed it my duty indeed actively to oppose the name of Jesus the Nazarene. ¹⁰ I did so in Jerusalem. I shut up many of the saints in prison, armed with authority from the high priests; when they were put to death, I voted against them; ¹¹ there was not a synagogue where I did not often punish them and force them to blaspheme; and in my frantic fury I persecuted them even to foreign towns.

¹⁶ Now get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you to my service as a witness to what you have seen and to the visions you shall have of me. ¹⁷ I will rescue you from the People and also from the Gentiles — to whom I send you, ¹⁸ that their eyes may be opened and that they may turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, to get remission of their sins and an inheritance among those who are consecrated by faith in me.'

¹ PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God

⁷ to all in Rome who are beloved by God, called to be saints, grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁰ for ever since the world was created, his invisible nature, his everlasting power and divine being, have been quite perceptible in what he has made. So they have no excuse.

²² They claimed to be wise, but they have become fools; ²³ they have exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the semblance of the likeness of mortal man, of birds, of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

²⁶ That is why God has given them up to vile passions; their women have exchanged the natural function of sex for what is unnatural,

³⁰ defamers, loathed by God, outrageous, haughty, boastful, inventive in evil, disobedient to parents,

⁴ Or are you slighting all his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience? Do you not know his kindness is meant to make you repent? ⁵ In your stubbornness and impenitence of heart you are simply storing up anger for yourself on the Day of anger, when the just doom of God is revealed.

⁷ eternal life to those who by patiently doing good aim at glory, honour, and immortality,

¹⁶ on the day when God judges the secret things of men, as my gospel holds, by Jesus Christ.

¹⁹ and are persuaded that you are a guide to the blind, a light to darkened souls, ²⁰ a tutor for the foolish, a teacher of the simple, because in the Law you have the embodiment of knowledge and truth — ²¹ well then, do you ever teach yourself, you teacher of other people? You preach against stealing; do you steal?

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.

¹³ The promise made to Abraham and his offspring that he should inherit the world, did not reach him through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

⁶ For when we were still in weakness, Christ died in due time for the ungodly. For the ungodly!

⁸ But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners. ⁹ Much more then, now that we are justified by his blood, shall we be saved by him from Wrath. ¹⁰ If we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son when we were enemies, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

¹⁵ but the gift is very different from the trespass. For while the rest of men died by the trespass of one man, the grace of God and the free gift which comes by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflowed far more richly upon the rest of men. ¹⁶ Nor is the free gift like the effect of the one man's sin; for while the sentence ensuing on a single sin resulted in doom, the free gift ensuing on many trespasses issues in acquittal. ¹⁷ For if the trespass of one man allowed death to reign through that one man, much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and free gift of righteousness reign in life through One, through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ Well then, as one man's trespass issued in doom for all, so one man's act of redress issues in acquittal and life for all. ¹⁹ Just as one man's disobedience made all the rest sinners, so one man's obedience will make all the rest righteous. ²⁰ Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far,

²⁰ Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far,

²⁰ Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far, ²¹ so that, while sin had reigned the reign of death, grace might also reign with a righteousness that ends in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁴ Sin must have no hold over you, for you live under grace, not under law.

²³ Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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.

¹⁶ Now, when I act against my wishes, that means I agree that the Law is right.

¹⁸ For in me (that is, in my flesh) no good dwells, I know; the wish is there, but not the power of doing what is right.

²² I cordially agree with God's law, so far as my inner self is concerned,

¹ I am telling the truth in Christ — it is no lie, my conscience bears me out in the holy Spirit

⁴ Now Christ is an end to law, so as to let every believer have righteousness.

³⁰ Once you disobeyed God, and now you enjoy his mercy thanks to their disobedience; in the same way they at present are disobedient, ³¹ so that they in turn may enjoy the same mercy as yourselves.

³⁶ All comes from him, all lives by him, all ends in him. Glory to him for ever, Amen!

² Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

⁸ Be in debt to no man — apart from the debt of love one to another. He who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law. ⁹ You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not covet — these and any other command are summed up in a single word, You must love your neighbour as yourself. ¹⁰ Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

¹⁵ If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died.

⁴ All such words were written of old for our instruction, that by remaining stedfast and drawing encouragement from the scriptures we may cherish hope.

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. ¹³ May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in your faith, that you may be overflowing with hope by the power of the holy Spirit!

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

²⁷ to the only wise God be glory through Jesus Christ for ever and ever: Amen.]

¹ PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, with brother Sosthenes,

¹ This is how you are to look upon us, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's secret truths. ² Now in this matter of stewards your first requirement is that they must be trustworthy.

¹⁴ I do not write this to make you feel ashamed, but to instruct you as beloved children of mine. ¹⁵ You may have thousands to superintend you in Christ, but you have not more than one father. It was I who in Christ Jesus became your father by means of the gospel. ¹⁶ Then imitate me, I beg of you. ¹⁷ To ensure this, I am sending you Timotheus, my beloved and trustworthy son in the Lord; he will remind you of those methods in Christ Jesus which I teach everywhere in every church.

⁴ by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ; I have met with you in spirit, and by the power of our Lord Jesus ⁵ I have consigned that individual to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord Jesus.

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 ¹⁰ nor thieves nor the lustful nor the drunken nor the abusive nor robbers will inherit the Realm of God.

²⁵ I have no orders from the Lord for unmarried women, but I will give you the opinion of one whom you can trust, after all the Lord's mercy to him.

¹ With regard to food that has been offered to idols. Here, of course, 'we all possess knowledge'! Knowledge puffs up, love builds up. ² Whoever imagines he has attained to some degree of knowledge, does not possess the true knowledge yet; ³ but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

¹⁷ I get a reward if I do it of my own accord, whereas to do it otherwise is no more than for a steward to discharge his trust.

¹⁹ There must be parties among you, if genuine Christians are to be recognized.

³² As it is, we are chastened when we are judged by him, so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

¹ Thus, I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have no love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal;

¹ Make love your aim, and then set your heart on the spiritual gifts — especially upon prophecy.

⁹ For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them — though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

¹ PAUL an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and brother Timotheus, to the church of God at Corinth as well as to all the saints throughout the whole of Achaia:

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.

⁵ It is not that I am personally qualified to form any judgment by myself; my qualifications come from God, ⁶ and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant — a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.

⁸ surely the administration of the Spirit must be invested with still greater glory. ⁹ If there was glory in the administration that condemned, then the administration that acquits abounds far more in glory ¹⁰ (indeed, in view of the transcendent glory, what was glorious has thus no glory at all); ¹¹ if what faded had its glory, then what lasts will be invested with far greater glory.

¹ Hence, as I hold this ministry by God's mercy to me, I never lose heart in it;

⁴ there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

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.

¹⁸ It is all the doing of the God who has reconciled me to himself through Christ and has permitted me to be a minister of his reconciliation. ¹⁹ For in Christ God reconciled the world to himself instead of counting men's trespasses against them; and he entrusted me with the message of his reconciliation. ²⁰ So I am an envoy for Christ, God appealing by me, as it were — be reconciled to God, I entreat you on behalf of Christ.

⁹ but I am glad now — not glad that you were pained but glad that your pain induced you to repent. For you were pained as God meant you to be pained, and so you got no harm from what I did; ¹⁰ the pain God is allowed to guide ends in a saving repentance never to be regretted, whereas the world's pain ends in death.

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.)

³ I do live in the flesh, but I do not make war as the flesh does; ⁴ the weapons of my warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but divinely strong to demolish fortresses —

⁶ I am prepared to court-martial anyone who remains insubordinate, once your submission is complete.

⁹ but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life. ¹⁰ It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

¹⁰ I am writing thus to you in absence, so that when I do come I may not have to deal sharply with you; I have the Lord's authority for that, but he gave it to me for building you up, not for demolishing you.

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

¹ PAUL an apostle — not appointed by men nor commissioned by any man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead, —

³ grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ

⁶ I am astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel.

⁶ I am astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel. ⁷ It simply means that certain individuals are unsettling you; they want to distort the gospel of Christ.

⁷ It simply means that certain individuals are unsettling you; they want to distort the gospel of Christ. ⁸ Now even though it were myself or some angel from heaven, whoever preaches a gospel that contradicts the gospel I preached to you, God's curse be on him!

¹¹ No, brothers, I tell you the gospel that I preach is not a human affair;

¹³ You know the story of my past career in Judaism; you know how furiously I persecuted the church of God and harried it,

⁷ On the contrary, when they saw I had been entrusted with the gospel for the benefit of the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been for the circumcised

² I simply want to ask you one thing: did you receive the Spirit by doing what the Law commands or by believing the gospel message?

⁵ When He supplies you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, is it because you do what the Law commands or because you believe the gospel message?

¹⁰ Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it. ¹¹ And because no one is justified on the score of the Law before God (plainly, the just shall live by faith, — ¹² and the Law is not based on faith: no, he who performs these things shall live by them), ¹³ Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet), ¹⁴ that the blessing of Abraham might reach the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promised Spirit.

¹⁹ Then what about the Law? Well, it was interpolated for the purpose of producing transgressions till such time as the Offspring arrived to whom the Promise was made; also, it was transmitted by means of angels through the agency of an intermediary

²¹ Then the Law is contrary to God's Promises? Never! Had there been any law which had the power of producing life, righteousness would really have been due to law,

²¹ Tell me, you who are keen to be under the Law, will you not listen to the Law?

³ I insist on this again to everyone who gets circumcised, that he is obliged to carry out the whole of the Law. ⁴ You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,

⁴ You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,

⁶ in Christ Jesus circumcision is not valid, neither is uncircumcision, but only faith active in love.

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. ¹⁴ For the entire Law is summed up in one word, in You must love your neighbour as yourself

¹⁹ Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality, 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.

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, ²³ gentleness, self-control: — there is no law against those who practise such things.

⁶ redounding to the praise of his glorious grace bestowed on us in the Beloved, ⁷ in whom we enjoy our redemption, the forgiveness of our trespasses, by the blood he shed. ⁸ So richly has God lavished his grace upon us!

¹² to make us redound to the praise of his glory by being the first to put our hope in Christ.

⁷ to display throughout ages to come his surpassing wealth of grace and goodness toward us in Christ Jesus.

⁸ less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

¹⁰ intending to let the full sweep of the divine wisdom be disclosed now by the church to the angelic Rulers and Authorities in the heavenly sphere,

²⁰ Now to him who by the action of his power within us can do all things, aye far more than we ever ask or imagine, ²¹ to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations for ever and ever: Amen.

¹² for the equipment of the saints, for the business of the ministry, for the upbuilding of the Body of Christ, ¹³ till we should all attain the unity of the faith and knowledge of God's Son, reaching maturity, reaching the full measure of development which belongs to the fulness of Christ — ¹⁴ instead of remaining immature, blown from our course and swayed by every passing wind of doctrine, by the adroitness of men who are dexterous in devising error;

¹⁴ instead of remaining immature, blown from our course and swayed by every passing wind of doctrine, by the adroitness of men who are dexterous in devising error; 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, ¹⁶ as the entire Body is welded together and compacted by every joint with which it is supplied, the due activity of each part enables the Body to grow and build itself up in love.

³ Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you — that is the proper course for saints to take; ⁴ no, nor indecent, silly, or scurrilous talk — all that is improper. Rather, voice your thanks to God. ⁵ Be sure of this, that no one guilty of sexual vice or impurity or lust (that is, an idolater) possesses any inheritance in the realm of Christ and 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.

¹² For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere. ¹³ So take God's armour, that you may be able to make a stand upon the evil day and hold your ground by overcoming all the foe. ¹⁴ Hold your ground, tighten the belt of truth about your loins, wear integrity as your coat of mail, ¹⁵ and have your feet shod with the stability of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ above all, take faith as your shield, to enable you to quench all the fire-tipped darts flung by the evil one, ¹⁷ put on salvation as your helmet, and take the Spirit as your sword (that is, the word of God), ¹⁸ praying at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty — be alive to that, attend to it unceasingly, interceding on behalf of all the saints

¹¹ and every tongue confess that 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' to the glory of God the Father.

¹⁹ I hope in the Lord Jesus to send you Timotheus before long, that I may be heartened by news of you. ²⁰ I have no one like him, for genuine interest in your welfare. ²¹ Everybody is selfish, instead of caring for Jesus Christ. ²² But you know how he has stood the test, how he has served with me in the gospel, like a son helping his father.

²² But you know how he has stood the test, how he has served with me in the gospel, like a son helping his father.

²⁴ though I am confident in the Lord that I shall be coming myself before long.

⁶ in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.

¹⁸ For many — as I have often told you and tell you now with tears — many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. ¹⁹ Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!

¹³ In him who strengthens me I am able for anything.

¹⁵ He is the likeness of the unseen God, born first before all the creation —

²⁵ for I am a minister of the church by the divine commission which has been granted me in your interests, to make a full presentation of God's message —

²⁷ It is His will that they should understand the glorious wealth which this secret holds for the Gentiles, in the fact of Christ's presence among you as your hope of glory.

⁶ Since you have had the messiah, even Jesus the Lord, brought to you, lead your life in him, ⁷ fixed and founded in him, confirmed in the faith as you have been taught it, and overflowing with thankfulness to God. ⁸ Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ. ⁹ It is in Christ that the entire Fulness of deity has settled bodily, ¹⁰ it is in him that you reach your full life, and he is the Head of every angelic Ruler and Power; ¹¹ in him you have been circumcised with no material circumcision that cuts flesh from the body, but with Christ's own circumcision,

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

⁴ no, God has attested our fitness to be entrusted with the gospel, and so we tell the gospel not to satisfy men but to satisfy the God who tests our hearts.

² I sent Timotheus our brother, a minister of God in the gospel of Christ, for your strengthening and encouragement in the faith,

⁸ but we must be sober, we who belong to the day, clad in faith and love as our coat of mail, with the hope of salvation as our helmet —

¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his saints and marvelled at in all believers on that day (for our testimony has found confirmation in your lives).

⁸ Then shall the Lawless One be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his lips and quell by his appearing and arrival —

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

¹⁵ You are not to treat him as an enemy, but to put him under discipline, as a brother.

² to Timotheus his lawful son in the faith: grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

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.

¹¹ as laid down by that glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

¹¹ as laid down by that glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted. ¹² I render thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has made me able for this; he considered me trustworthy and appointed me to the ministry,

¹² I render thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has made me able for this; he considered me trustworthy and appointed me to the ministry, ¹³ though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance;

¹⁶ I obtained mercy, for the purpose of furnishing Christ Jesus with the chief illustration of his utter patience; I was to be the typical instance of all who were to believe in him and gain eternal life.

¹⁸ I transmit these instructions to you, Timotheus my son, in accordance with what the prophets said who first directed me to you; fight the good fight on these lines, ¹⁹ keeping hold of faith and a good conscience. Certain individuals have scouted the good conscience and thus come to grief over their faith —

³ it is good to pray thus, it is acceptable to our Saviour,

⁷ and I was appointed to be its herald and apostle (I am not telling a lie, it is quite true), to teach the Gentiles faith and truth.

¹ It is a popular saying that "whoever aspires to office is set upon an excellent occupation."

⁹ they must maintain the divine truth of the faith with a pure conscience.

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."

¹ But in later days, the Spirit distinctly declares, certain people will rebel against the faith; they will listen to spirits of error and to the doctrines that daemons teach ² through plausible sophists who are seared in conscience —

⁴ Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed — provided it is eaten with thanksgiving,

⁶ Lay this before the brotherhood, and you will be an excellent minister of Christ Jesus, brought up on the truths of the faith and on the lessons of the good doctrine you have already followed. ⁷ Shut your mind against these profane, drivelling myths; train for the religious life.

⁹ It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, ¹⁰ that "we toil and strive because our hope is fixed upon the living God, the Saviour of all men" — of believers in particular. ¹¹ Give these orders and teach these lessons.

¹⁴ You have a gift that came to you transmitted by the prophets, when the presbytery laid their hands upon you; do not neglect that gift.

⁷ So lay down the following rules, to prevent any reproach being incurred.

¹⁵ As it is, some widows have already turned after Satan. —

³ Anyone who teaches novelties and refuses to fall in with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the doctrine that tallies with piety,

³ Anyone who teaches novelties and refuses to fall in with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the doctrine that tallies with piety, ⁴ is a conceited, ignorant creature, with a morbid passion for controversy and argument which only leads to envy, dissension, insults, insinuations,

⁴ is a conceited, ignorant creature, with a morbid passion for controversy and argument which only leads to envy, dissension, insults, insinuations, ⁵ and constant friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the Truth. They imagine religion is a paying concern.

⁹ Those who are eager to be rich get tempted and trapped in many senseless and pernicious propensities that drag men down to ruin and destruction. ¹⁰ For love of money is the root of all mischief; it is by aspiring to be rich that certain individuals have gone astray from the faith and found themselves pierced with many a pang of remorse. ¹¹ Shun that, O man of God, aim at integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, and suavity; ¹² fight in the good fight of the faith, secure that life eternal to which you were called when you voiced the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. ¹³ In the presence of God who is the Life of all, and of Christ Jesus who testified to the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you ¹⁴ to keep your commission free from stain, free from reproach, till the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ — ¹⁵ which will be brought about in due time by that blessed and only Sovereign, King of kings and Lord of lords,

¹⁵ which will be brought about in due time by that blessed and only Sovereign, King of kings and Lord of lords, ¹⁶ who alone has immortality, who dwells in light that none can approach, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honour and eternal dominion: Amen. 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;

²⁰ O Timotheus, keep the securities of the faith intact: avoid the profane jargon and contradictions of what is falsely called 'Knowledge.'

²⁰ O Timotheus, keep the securities of the faith intact: avoid the profane jargon and contradictions of what is falsely called 'Knowledge.' ²¹ Certain individuals have failed in the faith by professing that. Grace be with you. [Amen.]

²¹ Certain individuals have failed in the faith by professing that. Grace be with you. [Amen.]

² to his beloved son Timotheus: grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. ³ I render thanks to God, the God of my fathers whom I worship with a pure conscience, as I mention you constantly in my prayers.

⁵ for I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, as it dwells (I feel sure) in yourself.

¹⁰ and has now revealed in the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has put down death and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel. ¹¹ Of that gospel I have been appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,

¹¹ Of that gospel I have been appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,

¹³ Model yourself on the sound instruction you have had from me in the faith and love of Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ Keep the great securities of your faith intact, by aid of the holy Spirit that dwells within us.

¹ Now, my son, be strong in the grace of Christ Jesus,

¹ Now, my son, be strong in the grace of Christ Jesus, ² and transmit the instructions I gave you in presence of many witnesses to trustworthy men, that they may be competent to teach others.

² and transmit the instructions I gave you in presence of many witnesses to trustworthy men, that they may be competent to teach others. ³ Join the ranks of those who bear suffering, like a loyal soldier of Christ Jesus. ⁴ No soldier gets entangled in civil pursuits; his aim is to satisfy his commander. ⁵ Again, a competitor in the games is not crowned unless he observes the rules.

⁵ Again, a competitor in the games is not crowned unless he observes the rules.

¹¹ It is a sure word, that "If we have died with him, we shall live with him,

¹⁴ Remind men of this: adjure them before the Lord not to bandy arguments — no good comes out of that, it only means the undoing of your audience.

¹⁶ Avoid all that profane jargon, for it leads people still further into irreligion, ¹⁷ and their doctrine spreads like a gangrene. So it is with Hymenaeus and Philetus;

¹⁷ and their doctrine spreads like a gangrene. So it is with Hymenaeus and Philetus; ¹⁸ they have failed in the Truth by arguing that the resurrection has taken place already, and they are undermining some people's faith.

¹⁸ they have failed in the Truth by arguing that the resurrection has taken place already, and they are undermining some people's faith.

²² So shun the lusts of youth and aim at integrity, faith, love and peace, in the company of those who invoke the Lord out of a pure heart. ²³ Shut your mind against foolish, popular controversy; be sure that only breeds strife. ²⁴ And the Lord's servant must not be a man of strife; he must be kind to everybody, a skilled teacher, a man who will not resent injuries;

¹ Mark this, there are hard times coming in the last days. ² For men will be selfish, fond of money, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreverent,

² For men will be selfish, fond of money, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreverent, ³ callous, relentless, scurrilous, dissolute, and savage; they will hate goodness, ⁴ they will be treacherous, reckless and conceited, preferring pleasure to God — ⁵ for though they keep up a form of religion, they will have nothing to do with it as a force. Avoid all such. ⁶ Some of them worm their way into families and get hold of the women-folk who feel crushed by the burden of their sins — wayward creatures of impulse, ⁷ who are always curious to learn and never able to attain the knowledge of the Truth.

¹ In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who will judge the living and the dead, in the light of his appearance and his reign, ² I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching, ³ for the time will come when people will decline to be taught sound doctrine and will accumulate teachers to suit themselves and tickle their own fancies;

³ for the time will come when people will decline to be taught sound doctrine and will accumulate teachers to suit themselves and tickle their own fancies; ⁴ they will give up listening to the Truth and turn to myths.

⁷ I have fought in the good fight; I have run my course; I have kept the faith.

¹⁰ for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia,

¹⁴ Alexander the blacksmith has done me a lot of harm: the Lord will pay him back for what he has done (beware of him), ¹⁵ for he has been bitterly hostile to anything I have said.

¹⁷ But the Lord supported me and gave me strength to make a full statement of the gospel and let all the heathen hear it. I was rescued from the jaws of the lion.

¹ Paul a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God's elect and for their knowledge of the Truth that goes with a religious life,

³ he gave effect to his word in due time by a proclamation with which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour: — ⁴ to Titus my lawful son in a faith we hold in common; grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

⁹ he must hold by the sure truths of doctrine so as to be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and refute objections raised by any.]

⁹ he must hold by the sure truths of doctrine so as to be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and refute objections raised by any.] ¹⁰ For there are plenty of insubordinate creatures who impose on people with their empty arguments, particularly those who have come over from Judaism;

¹⁰ For there are plenty of insubordinate creatures who impose on people with their empty arguments, particularly those who have come over from Judaism; ¹¹ they must be silenced, for they are undermining whole families by teaching objectionable doctrine for the base end of making money.

¹³ That is a true statement. So deal sharply with them, to have them sound in the faith ¹⁴ instead of studying Jewish myths and rules laid down by men who have discarded the Truth. ¹⁵ For the pure all things are pure, but nothing is pure for the polluted and unbelieving; their very mind and conscience are polluted. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, and useless for good work of any kind.

¹ You must instruct people in what is due to sound doctrine. ² Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, masters of themselves, sound in faith, in love, and in stedfastness.

¹⁰ not to embezzle, but to prove themselves truly faithful at all points, so as to be an ornament to the doctrine of God our Saviour in all respects.

¹³ awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus,

³ For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another. ⁴ But "the goodness and affection of God our Saviour appeared;

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

⁸ It is a sure saying. I want you to insist on this, that those who have faith in God must profess honest occupations. Such counsels are right and good for men. ⁹ But avoid foolish controversy, and let genealogies and dissensions and strife over the Law alone, for these are fruitless and futile.

¹⁰ I appeal to you on behalf of my spiritual son born while I was in prison. It is Onesimus!

⁸ he says of the Son, 'God is thy throne for ever and ever, thy royal sceptre is the sceptre of equity: ⁹ thou hast loved justice and hated lawlessness, therefore God, thy God, has consecrated thee with the oil of rejoicing beyond thy comrades' — ¹⁰ and, 'Thou didst found the earth at the beginning, O Lord, and the heavens are the work at thy hands; ¹¹ they will perish, but thou remainest, they will all be worn out like a garment, ¹² thou wilt roll them up like a mantle and they win be changed, but thou art the same, and thy years will never fail.' ¹³ To what angel did he ever say, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet'?

¹⁴ For we only participate in Christ provided that we keep firm to the very end the confidence with which we started,

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.

⁴ For in the case of people who have been once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly Gift, who participated in the holy Spirit,

⁴ For in the case of people who have been once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly Gift, who participated in the holy Spirit, ⁵ who tasted the goodness of God's word and the powers of the world to come, and then fell away —

⁵ who tasted the goodness of God's word and the powers of the world to come, and then fell away — ⁶ it is impossible to make them repent afresh, since they crucify the Son of God in their own persons and hold him up to obloquy.

⁶ it is impossible to make them repent afresh, since they crucify the Son of God in their own persons and hold him up to obloquy. ⁷ For land which absorbs the rain that often falls on it, and bears plants that are useful to those for whom it is tilled, receives a blessing from God; ⁸ whereas, if it produces thorns and thistles, it is reprobate and on the verge of being cursed — its fate is to be burned.

²⁵ Hence for all time he is able to save those who approach God through him, as he is always living to intercede on their behalf.

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?

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;

²⁶ For if we sin deliberately, after receiving the knowledge of the Truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left, ²⁷ nothing but an awful outlook of doom, of that burning Wrath which will consume the foes of God. ²⁸ Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy, on the evidence of two or of three witnesses. ²⁹ How much heavier, do you suppose, will be the punishment assigned to him who has spurned the Son of God, who has profaned the covenant-blood with which he was sanctified, who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

⁵ It was by faith that Enoch was taken to heaven, so that he never died (he was not overtaken by death, for God had taken him away). For before he was taken to heaven, his record was that he had satisfied God; ⁶ and apart from faith it is impossible to satisfy him, for the man who draws near to God must believe that he exists and that he does reward those who seek him.

²⁷ It was by faith that he left Egypt, not from any fear of the king's wrath; like one who saw the King Invisible, he never flinched.

³¹ It was by faith that Rahab the harlot did not perish along with those who were disobedient, as she had welcomed the scouts peaceably.

¹⁶ that no one turns to sexual vice or to a profane life as Esau did — Esau, who for a single meal parted with his birthright.

⁴ Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.

⁹ Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food — that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.

¹⁸ Pray for me, for I am sure I have a clean conscience; my desire is in every way to lead an honest life.

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

² whom God the Father has predestined and chosen, by the consecration of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: may grace and peace be multiplied to you. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

¹¹ the Spirit of messiah within them foretold all the suffering of messiah and his after-glory, and they pondered when or how this was to come; ¹² to them it was revealed that they got this intelligence not for themselves but for you, regarding all that has now been disclosed to you by those who preached the gospel to you through the holy Spirit sent from heaven. The very angels long to get a glimpse of this!

²¹ it is by him that you believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory; and thus your faith means hope in God. 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.

⁷ Now you believe, you hold him 'precious,' but as for the unbelieving — the very stone the builders rejected is now the cornerstone,

¹⁰ you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied.

¹⁵ but reverence Christ as Lord in your own hearts. Always be ready with a reply for anyone who calls you to account for the hope you cherish, but answer gently and with a sense of reverence; ¹⁶ see that you have a clean conscience, so that, for all their slander of you, these libellers of your good Christian behaviour may be ashamed.

¹⁶ see that you have a clean conscience, so that, for all their slander of you, these libellers of your good Christian behaviour may be ashamed.

²⁰ who had disobeyed at the time when God's patience held out during the construction of the ark in the days of Noah — the ark by which only a few souls, eight in all, were brought safely through the water.) ²¹ Baptism, the counterpart of that, saves you to-day (not the mere washing of dirt from the flesh but the prayer for a clean conscience before God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ

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

¹⁸ If the just man is scarcely saved, what will become of the impious and sinful?

¹¹ The dominion is his for ever and ever: Amen.

¹ Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted a faith of equal privilege with ours, by the equity of our God and saviour Jesus Christ:

⁷ piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love.

¹⁶ For it was no fabricated fables that we followed when we reported to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus Christ; we were admitted to the spectacle of his sovereignty,

¹ Still, false prophets did appear among the People, as among you also there will be false teachers, men who will insinuate destructive heresies, even disowning the Lord who ransomed them; they bring rapid destruction on themselves, ² and many will follow their immorality (thanks to them the true Way will be maligned); ³ in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments — men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.

¹² But those people! — like irrational animals, creatures of mere instinct, born for capture and corruption, they scoff at what they are ignorant of; and like animals they will suffer corruption and ruin,

¹² But those people! — like irrational animals, creatures of mere instinct, born for capture and corruption, they scoff at what they are ignorant of; and like animals they will suffer corruption and ruin, ¹³ done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight — spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! — ¹⁴ their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation! ¹⁵ they have gone wrong by leaving the straight road, by following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who liked the profits of evil-doing — ¹⁶ but he got reproved for his malpractice: a dumb ass spoke with human voice and checked the prophet's infatuation. ¹⁷ These people are waterless fountains and mists driven by a squall, for whom the nether gloom of darkness is reserved. ¹⁸ By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct — ¹⁹ promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him). ²⁰ After escaping the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, if they get entangled and overpowered again, the last state is worse for them than the first. ²¹ Better had they never known the Way of righteousness, than to know it and then turn back from the holy command which was committed to them. ²² They verify the truth of the proverb: "The dog turns back to what he has vomited, the sow when washed will wallow in the mire."

⁹ The Lord is not slow with what he promises, according to certain people's idea of slowness; no, he is longsuffering for your sake, he does not wish any to perish but all to betake them to repentance.

¹⁵ And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord means salvation; as indeed our beloved brother Paul has written to you out of the wisdom vouchsafed to him,

¹⁸ but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory now and to the day of eternity: Amen.

¹⁹ They withdrew from us, but they did not belong to us; had they belonged to us, they would have remained with us, but they withdrew to make it plain that they are none of us.

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;

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.)

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;

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. 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. 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; ¹⁴ and we have seen, we can testify, that the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world.

¹⁴ and we have seen, we can testify, that the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world.

¹¹ And the testimony is, that God gave us life eternal and this life is in his Son.

¹¹ And the testimony is, that God gave us life eternal and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who possesses the Son possesses life: he who does not possess the Son does not possess life.

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.'

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,

⁷ just as Sodom and Gomorra and the adjacent cities, which similarly glutted themselves with vice and sensual perversity, are exhibited as a warning of the everlasting fire they are sentenced to suffer.

¹⁰ But these people scoff at anything they do not understand; and whatever they do understand, like irrational animals, by mere instinct, that proves their ruin. 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. ¹² These people are stains on your love-feasts; they have no qualms about carousing in your midst, they look after none but themselves — rainless clouds, swept along by the wind, trees in autumn without fruit, doubly dead and so uprooted, ¹³ wild waves foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved eternally.

²⁵ to the only God, our saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and for all time: Amen.

¹ To the angel of the church at Ephesus write thus: — These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who moves among the seven golden lampstands: ² I know your doings, your hard work and your patient endurance; I know that you cannot bear wicked men, and that you have tested those who style themselves apostles (no apostles they!) and detected them to be liars;

¹⁴ But I have one or two things against you: you have some adherents there of the tenets of Balaam, who taught Balak how to set a pitfall before the sons of Israel by making them eat food which had been sacrificed to idols and give way to sexual vice.

²⁰ Still I have this against you: you are tolerating that Jezebel of a woman who styles herself a prophetess and seduces my servants by teaching them to give way to sexual vice and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.

³ Now remember what you received and heard, hold to it and repent. If you will not wake up, I shall come like a thief; you will not know at what hour I come upon you.

⁸ Lo, I have set a door open before you which no one is able to shut; for though your strength is small, you have kept my word, you have not renounced my Name.

¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I will keep you safe through the hour of trial which is coming upon the whole world to test the dwellers on earth.

¹⁹ I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be in warm earnest and repent.

⁸ The four living Creatures, each with six wings apiece, are full of eyes all over their bodies and under their wings, and day and night they never cease the chant, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God almighty, who was and is and is coming." ⁹ And whenever the living Creatures render glory and honour and thanksgiving to him who is seated on the throne, who lives for ever and ever, ¹⁰ the four and twenty Presbyters fall down before him who is seated on the throne, worshipping him who lives for ever and ever, and casting their crowns before the throne, with the cry, ¹¹ "Thou deservest, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for it was thou who didst create all things: they existed and were created by thy will."

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;

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; ¹⁰ thou hast made them kings and priests for our God, and they shall reign on earth." ¹¹ Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels round the throne and of the living Creatures and of the Presbyters, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, ¹² crying aloud, "The slain Lamb deserves to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honour and glory and blessing." ¹³ And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth crying, "Blessing and honour and glory and dominion for ever and ever, to him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!" ¹⁴ "Amen," said the four living Creatures, and the Presbyters fell down and worshipped.

¹⁰ and they cried with a loud voice, "Saved by our God who is seated on the throne, and by the Lamb!" ¹¹ And all the angels surrounded the throne and the Presbyters and the four living Creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne, worshipping God ¹² and crying, "Even so! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be to our God for ever and ever: Amen!"

¹² and crying, "Even so! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be to our God for ever and ever: Amen!"

¹ Then I stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw a Beast rising out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, ten diadems on his horns, and blasphemous titles on his heads.

⁵ He was allowed to utter loud and blasphemous vaunts, and allowed to exert authority for two and forty months; ⁶ so he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his dwelling (that is, the dwellers in heaven).

³ and they were singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb — "Great and marvellous are thy deeds, Lord God almighty! Just and true thy ways, O King of nations!

¹⁴ They will wage war on the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings — the Lamb and the elect, the chosen, the faithful who are with him."

¹³ with cinnamon, balsam, spices, myrrh, frankincense, wines, olive-oil, fine flour and wheat, with cattle, sheep, horses, carriages, slaves, and the souls of men.

¹ After that I heard what was like the shout of a great host in heaven, crying, "Hallelujah! salvation and glory and power are our God's!

⁶ Then I heard a cry like the shout of a great host and the sound of many waves and the roar of heavy thunder — "Hallelujah! now the Lord our God almighty reigns!

¹⁶ And on his robe, upon his thigh, his name is written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

⁵ Then he who was seated on the throne said, "Lo, I make all things new." And he said, "Write this: 'these words are trustworthy and genuine.'"

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."

²⁷ Nothing profane, none who practises abomination or falsehood shall enter, but those alone whose names are written in the Lamb's book of Life.

⁶ [vss 6,7 relocated between vss 9 & 10] And he said to me, "These words are trustworthy and genuine, for the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets has sent his angel to show his servants what must very soon come to pass.

¹⁵ Begone, you dogs, you sorcerers, you vicious men, you murderers, you idolaters, you who love and practise falsehood, everyone of you!"

²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.