2 Thessalonians Cross References - Moffatt

¹ PAUL and Silvanus and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: ² grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ We are bound always to thank God for you, brothers — it is proper that we should, because your faith grows apace and your mutual love, one and all, is increasing. ⁴ So much so, that throughout the churches of God we are proud of you, proud of the stedfastness and faith you display through all the persecutions and the troubles in which you are involved. ⁵ They are proof positive of God's equity; you are suffering for the realm of God, and he means to make you worthy of it — ⁶ since God considers it but just to repay with trouble those who trouble you, ⁷ and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power ⁸ in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus, ⁹ men who will pay the penalty of being destroyed eternally from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 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). ¹¹ In view of this we always pray for you, asking our God to make you worthy of his calling and by his power to fulfil every good resolve and every effort of faith, ¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you (and you glorified in him), by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of goodness! the Realm of heaven is theirs. ¹¹ Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake; ¹² rejoice and exult in it, for your reward is rich in heaven; that is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

²² Many will say to me at that Day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? did we not cast out daemons in your name? did we not perform many miracles in your name?' ²³ Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from my presence, you workers of iniquity.'

³⁹ the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are angels. ⁴⁰ Well then, just as the weeds are gathered and burnt in the fire, so will it be at the end of the world; ⁴¹ the Son of man will despatch his angels, and they will gather out of his Realm all who are hindrances and who practise iniquity, ⁴² and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will wail and gnash their teeth. ⁴³ Then the just will shine like the sun in the Realm of their Father. He who has an ear, let him listen to this.

²⁷ For the Son of man is coming in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward everyone for what he has done.

¹³ Then said the king to his servants, 'Take him hand and foot, and throw him outside, out into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth.

³⁰ Then the Sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven; then all tribes on earth will wail, they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with great power and glory.

³⁶ Now no one knows anything about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, but only my Father.

³¹ When the Son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory,

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!

⁴⁶ So they shall depart to eternal punishment, and the just to eternal life."

²⁴ The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

⁶⁴ Jesus said to him, "Even so! But I tell you, in future you will all see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."

²⁸ (For the earth bears crops by itself, the blade first, the ear of corn next, and then the grain full in the ear.)

³⁸ Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this disloyal and sinful generation, the Son of man will be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

⁴³ If your hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better be maimed and get into Life, than keep your two hands and go to Gehenna, to the fire that is never quenched. ⁴⁴ -- ⁴⁵ If your foot is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better get into Life a cripple, than keep your two feet and be thrown into Gehenna. ⁴⁶ -- ⁴⁷ If your eye is a hindrance to you, tear it out: better get into God's Realm with one eye, than keep your two eyes and be thrown into Gehenna, ⁴⁸ where their worm never dies and the fire is never put out. ⁴⁹ Everyone has to be consecrated by the fire of the discipline.

⁶² Jesus said, "I am. And, what is more, you will all see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven."

¹² I tell you, on the great Day it will be more bearable for Sodom than for that town.

³² Fear not, you little flock, for your Father is delighted to give you the Realm.

²⁷ 'I tell you,' he will say, 'I do not know where you come from; begone everyone of you, you evildoers.'

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.' "

²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Remember, my son, you got all the bliss when you were alive, just as Lazarus got the ills of life; he is in comfort now, and you are in anguish.

²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Remember, my son, you got all the bliss when you were alive, just as Lazarus got the ills of life; he is in comfort now, and you are in anguish. ²⁶ Besides all that, a great gulf yawns between us and you, to keep back those who want to cross from us to you and also those who want to pass from you to us.'

⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith!"

³⁰ So will it be on the day the Son of man is revealed.

³⁵ but those who are considered worthy to attain yonder world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are married,

³⁶ From hour to hour keep awake, praying that you may succeed in escaping all these dangers to come and in standing before the Son of man."

³ through him all existence came into being, no existence came into being apart from him.

⁵¹ He said to him, "Truly, truly I tell you all, you shall see heaven open wide and God's angels ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

¹⁹ And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil;

¹⁴ Later on Jesus met him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well and strong; commit no more sins, in case something worse befalls you."

²⁷ Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him." ²⁸ Then they asked him, "What must we do to perform the works of God?" ²⁹ Jesus replied to them, "This is the work of God, to believe in him whom God has sent."

¹⁹ "Where is your Father?" they said. Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father; if you had known me you would have known my Father also."

⁴ When Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness is not to end in death; the end of it is the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby."

² he cuts away any branch on me which is not bearing fruit, and cleans every branch which does bear fruit, to make it bear richer fruit.

¹⁰ (all mine is thine and thine is mine), and I am glorified in them.

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. ²² Yea, I have given them the glory thou gavest me, that they may be one as we are one — ²³ I in them and thou in me — that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved 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; ²⁶ so have I declared, so will I declare, thy Name to them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."

¹¹ who said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come back, just as you have seen him depart to heaven."

⁷ And the word of God spread; the number of the disciples in Jerusalem greatly increased, and a host of priests became obedient to the faith.

⁴⁶ So Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. "The word of God," they said, "had to be spoken to you in the first instance; but as you push it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, well, here we turn to the Gentiles!

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."

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.

⁵ through whom I have received the favour of my commission to promote obedience to the faith for his sake among all the Gentiles,

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. ⁸ First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because the report of your faith is over all the world. ⁹ God is my witness, the God whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I always mention you in my prayers,

²⁸ Yes, as they disdained to acknowledge God any longer, God has given them up to a reprobate instinct, for the perpetration of what is improper,

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,

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 —

³ Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance, 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.

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 and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ — for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory.

²⁵ But if we hope for something that we do not see, we wait for it patiently.

³⁰ Then he calls those whom he has thus decreed; then he justifies those whom he has called; then he glorifies those whom he has justified.

²³ What if he means to show the wealth that lies in his glory for the objects of his mercy, whom he has made ready beforehand to receive glory — ²⁴ that is, for us whom he has called from among the Gentiles as well as the Jews?

¹⁶ But they have not all given in to the gospel of glad news? No, Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed what they heard from us?

¹² let your hope be a joy to you; be stedfast in trouble, attend to prayer,

¹⁸ I will not make free to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished by me in the way of securing the obedience of the Gentiles, by my words and by my deeds,

²⁶ has now been disclosed and made known on the basis of the prophetic scriptures (by command of the eternal God) to all the Gentiles for their obedience to the faith —

³ grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴ I always thank my God for the grace of God that has been bestowed on you in Christ Jesus;

⁶ all of which verifies the testimony we bore to Christ when we were with you.

⁸ and to the very end he will guarantee that you are vindicated on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ but in every case the nature of his work will come out; the Day will show what it is, for the Day breaks in fire, and the fire will test the work of each, no matter what that work may be.

¹⁷ Only, everyone must lead the lot assigned him by the Lord; he must go on living the life in which God's call came to him. (Such is the rule I lay down for all the churches).

³⁴ Get back to your sober senses and avoid sin, for some of you — and I say this to your shame — some of you are insensible to God.

¹⁹ for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by us (by myself and Silvanus and Timotheus) was not 'yes and no' — the divine 'yes' has at last sounded in him,

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

¹⁴ I told him of my pride in you, and I have not been disappointed. No, just as all I have had to say to you has been true, so all I said about you to Titus, all my pride in you, has also proved true.

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.)

² I know how willing you are, I am proud of it, I have boasted of you to the Macedonians: "Achaia," I tell them, "was all ready last year." And your zeal has been a stimulus to the majority of them.

⁴ in case any Macedonians accompany me and find you are not ready — which would make me (not to speak of yourselves) ashamed of having been so sure.

⁵ I demolish theories and any rampart thrown up to resist the knowledge of God, I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ,

⁴ For though he was crucified in his weakness, he lives by the power of God; and though I am weak as he was weak, you will find I am alive as he is alive by the power of God.

²⁴ which made them praise God for me.

¹ O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you — you who had Jesus Christ the crucified placarded before your very eyes?

⁸ In those days, when you were ignorant of God, you were in servitude to gods who are really no gods at all;

² grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ destining us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ. Such was the purpose of his will, ⁶ redounding to the praise of his glorious grace bestowed on us in the Beloved,

⁹ He has granted us complete insight and understanding of the open secret of his will, showing us how it was the purpose of his design

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

¹⁴ which is the pledge and instalment of our common heritage, that we may obtain our divine possession and so redound to the praise of his glory.

¹⁶ I never cease to give thanks for you, when I mention you in my prayers.

¹⁸ illuminating the eyes of your heart so that you can understand the hope to which He calls us, the wealth of his glorious heritage in the saints, ¹⁹ and the surpassing greatness of his power over us believers — a power which operates with the strength of the might ²⁰ which he exerted in raising Christ from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavenly sphere,

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

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,

¹⁴ For this reason, then, I kneel before the Father ¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name and nature, ¹⁶ praying Him out of the wealth of his glory to grant you a mighty increase of strength by his Spirit in the inner man.

¹⁶ praying Him out of the wealth of his glory to grant you a mighty increase of strength by his Spirit in the inner man. ¹⁷ May Christ dwell in your hearts as you have faith! 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! 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.

¹ As the Lord's prisoner, then, I beg of you to live a life worthy of your calling,

²⁰ and render thanks to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ at all times and for all things.

⁶ of this I am confident, that he who has begun the good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ. ⁷ It is only natural for me to be thinking of you all in this way, for alike in my prison and as I defend and vindicate the gospel, I bear in mind how you all share with me in the grace divine.

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more rich in knowledge and all manner of insight, enabling you to have a sense of what is vital,

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more rich in knowledge and all manner of insight, enabling you to have a sense of what is vital, ¹⁰ so that you may be transparent and no harm to anyone in view of the day of Christ, ¹¹ your life covered with that harvest of righteousness which Jesus Christ produces to the glory and the praise of God.

²⁸ Never be scared for a second by your opponents; your fearlessness is a clear omen of ruin for them and of your own salvation — at the hands of God.

⁹ Therefore God raised him high and conferred on him a Name above all names, ¹⁰ so that before the Name of Jesus every knee should bend in heaven, on earth, and underneath the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' to the glory of God the Father.

¹³ for it is God who in his goodwill enables you to will this and to achieve it.

⁹ and be found at death in him, possessing no legal righteousness of my own but the righteousness of faith in Christ, the divine righteousness that rests on faith.

¹⁴ to press on to the goal for the prize of God's high call in Christ Jesus.

¹⁹ Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!

⁹ Hence, from the day we heard of it, we have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and insight, 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! ¹¹ May his glorious might nerve you with full power to endure and to be patient cheerfully, whatever comes, ¹² thanking the Father who has qualified us to share the lot of the saints in the Light,

¹² thanking the Father who has qualified us to share the lot of the saints in the Light, ¹³ rescuing us from the power of the Darkness and transferring us to the realm of his beloved Son!

¹⁶ for it was by him that all things were created both in heaven and on earth, both the seen and the unseen, including Thrones, angelic Lords, celestial Powers and Rulers; all things have been created by him and for him;

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;

²⁵ for the wrongdoer will be paid back for his wrongdoing — there will be no favour shown.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace and peace to you. ² We always thank God for you all when we mention you constantly in our prayers,

² We always thank God for you all when we mention you constantly in our prayers, ³ as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

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

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 O brothers beloved by God, we know he has chosen you; ⁵ for our gospel came to you not with mere words but also with power and with the holy Spirit, with ample conviction on our part (you know what we were to you, for your own good),

⁵ for our gospel came to you not with mere words but also with power and with the holy Spirit, with ample conviction on our part (you know what we were to you, for your own good), ⁶ and you started to copy us and the Lord, welcoming the word, though it brought you heavy trouble, with a joy inspired by the holy Spirit. ⁷ Thus you became a pattern to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia; ⁸ for the word of the Lord has resounded from you not only through Macedonia and Achaia — no, your faith in God has reached every place. We never need to speak about it. ⁹ People tell us of their own accord about the visit we paid to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and a real God ¹⁰ and to wait for the coming of his Son from heaven — the Son whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who rescues us from the Wrath to come.

¹ But you remember yourselves, brothers, that our visit to you was no failure.

¹² to lead a life worthy of the God who called you to his own realm and glory. ¹³ We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

¹³ We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers, 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,

¹⁹ For who is our hope, our joy, our crown of pride (who but you?) in the presence of our Lord Jesus on his arrival?

² I sent Timotheus our brother, a minister of God in the gospel of Christ, for your strengthening and encouragement in the faith, ³ to prevent anyone being disturbed by these troubles. (Troubles are our lot, you know that well; ⁴ for we told you beforehand, when we were with you, that "we Christians are to have trouble" — and, as you know, it has been so.) ⁵ Well then, unable to bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, in case the Tempter had tempted you and our labour had been thrown away. ⁶ But when Timotheus reached me a moment ago, on his return from you, bringing me the good news of your faith and love and of how you always remember me kindly, longing to see me as I long to see you,

⁶ But when Timotheus reached me a moment ago, on his return from you, bringing me the good news of your faith and love and of how you always remember me kindly, longing to see me as I long to see you, ⁷ then, amid all my own distress and trouble, I was cheered — this faith of yours encouraged me. ⁸ It is life to me now, if you stand firm in the Lord. ⁹ How can I render thanks enough to God for you, for all the joy you make me feel in the presence of our God?

⁹ How can I render thanks enough to God for you, for all the joy you make me feel in the presence of our God? ¹⁰ Night and day I pray specially that I may see your faces and supply what is defective in your faith. ¹¹ May our God and Father and our Lord Jesus direct my way to you! ¹² And may the Lord make you increase and excel in love to one another and to all men (as is my love for you),

¹² And may the Lord make you increase and excel in love to one another and to all men (as is my love for you), ¹³ so as to strengthen your hearts and make them blameless in holiness before our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones. [Amen.]

¹ Finally, brothers, we beg and beseech you in the Lord Jesus to follow our instructions about the way you are to live so as to satisfy God; you are leading that life, but you are to excel in it still further.

⁵ not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God —

⁹ You need no one to write you upon brotherly love, for you are yourselves taught by God to love one another, ¹⁰ as indeed is your practice towards all the brothers throughout all Macedonia. We beseech you, brothers, to excel in this more and more;

¹⁶ The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first; ¹⁷ then we the living, who survive, will be caught up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall be with the Lord for ever.

³ when 'all's well' and 'all is safe' are on the lips of men, then all of a sudden Destruction is upon them, like pangs on a pregnant woman — escape there is none.

⁵ They are proof positive of God's equity; you are suffering for the realm of God, and he means to make you worthy of it — ⁶ since God considers it but just to repay with trouble those who trouble you, ⁷ and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power

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). ¹¹ In view of this we always pray for you, asking our God to make you worthy of his calling and by his power to fulfil every good resolve and every effort of faith, ¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you (and you glorified in him), by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 —

¹³ Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth; ¹⁴ it was for this that he called you by our gospel, to gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ May the Lord direct your hearts towards God's love and towards Christ's patience!

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.

¹⁸ (may he find favour with the Lord on the great Day! The Lord grant it!). And you know very well what a help he was to me in Ephesus.

¹² if we endure, then we shall reign with him, if we disown him, then he shall disown us,

⁸ Now the crown of a good life awaits me, with which the Lord, that just Judge, will reward me on the great Day — and not only me but all who have loved and longed for his appearance.

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared to save all men,

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

⁴ But "the goodness and affection of God our Saviour appeared; ⁵ and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, ⁷ that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."

³ how shall we escape the penalty for neglecting a salvation which was originally proclaimed by the Lord himself and guaranteed to us by those who heard him,

¹ Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle and high priest of our confession;

¹ Well then, as the promise of entrance into his Rest is still left to us, let us be afraid of anyone being judged to have missed it.

⁹ There is a sabbath-Rest, then, reserved still for the People of God

¹¹ Let us be eager then to enter that Rest, in case anyone falls into the same sort of disobedience.

⁹ and by being thus perfected he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,

¹⁵ Thus it was that Abraham by his stedfastness obtained what he had been promised.

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.

²⁷ nothing but an awful outlook of doom, of that burning Wrath which will consume the foes of God.

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? ³⁰ We know who said, Vengeance is mine, I will exact a requital: and again, The Lord will pass sentence on his people.

³² Recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle of suffering, ³³ partly by being held up yourselves to obloquy and anguish, partly by making common cause with those who fared in this way;

³⁶ Steady patience is what you need, so that after doing the will of God you may get what you have been promised.

⁸ It was by faith that Abraham obeyed his call to go forth to a place which he would receive as an inheritance; he went forth, although he did not know where he was to go.

¹ Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily, ² our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith — upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

² our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith — upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.

²⁹ but with godly fear and awe, for our God is indeed a consuming fire.

³ sure that the sterling temper of your faith produces endurance; ⁴ only, let your endurance be a finished product, so that you may be finished and complete, with never a defect.

⁷ Be patient, then, brothers, till the arrival of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious crop of the land, biding his time patiently till he gets the autumn and the spring rains; ⁸ have patience yourselves, strengthen your hearts, for the arrival of the Lord is at hand.

¹¹ See, we call the stedfast happy; you have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen that the Lord is very compassionate and pitiful.

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.

⁷ that is only to prove your faith is sterling (far more precious than gold which is perishable and yet is tested by fire), and it redounds to your praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ⁸ You never knew him, but you love him; for the moment you do not see him, but you believe in him, and you will thrill with an unspeakable and glorious joy

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.

⁹ But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light —

⁶ Thus Sara obeyed Abraham by calling him 'lord'. And you are daughters of Sara if you do what is right and yield to no panic.

²² who is at God's right hand — for he went to heaven after angels, authorities, and powers celestial had been made subject to him.)

¹⁴ If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you.

¹⁴ If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you. ¹⁵ None of you must suffer as a murderer or a thief or a bad character or a revolutionary; ¹⁶ but if a man suffers for being a Christian, he must not be ashamed, he must rather glorify God for that. ¹⁷ It is time for the Judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the fate of those who refuse obedience to God's gospel?

¹⁷ It is time for the Judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the fate of those who refuse obedience to God's gospel? ¹⁸ If the just man is scarcely saved, what will become of the impious and sinful?

¹⁰ Once you have suffered for a little, the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will repair and recruit and strengthen you.

⁵ for this very reason, do you contrive to make it your whole concern to furnish your faith with resolution, resolution with intelligence, ⁶ intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety,

⁶ intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety, ⁷ piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love. ⁸ For as these qualities exist and increase with you, they render you active and fruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁹ whereas he who has not these by him is blind, shortsighted, oblivious that he has been cleansed from his erstwhile sins. ¹⁰ So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;

¹³ so long as I am in this tent, I deem it proper to stir you up by way of reminder,

¹⁷ These people are waterless fountains and mists driven by a squall, for whom the nether gloom of darkness is reserved.

⁷ but the present heavens and earth are treasured up by the same word for fire, reserved for the day when the impious are doomed and destroyed.

¹⁰ The day of the Lord will come like a thief, when the heavens will vanish with crackling roar, the stars will be set ablaze and melt, the earth and all its works will disappear. ¹¹ Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour, ¹² you who expect and hasten the advent of the Day of God, which dissolves the heavens in fire and makes the stars blaze and melt!

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.

¹³ wild waves foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved eternally. ¹⁴ It was of these, too, that Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied, when he said, Behold the Lord comes with myriads of his holy ones, ¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the impious of all the impious deeds they have committed, and of all the harsh things said against him by impious sinners.

⁴ John to the seven churches in Asia: grace be to you and peace from HE WHO IS AND WAS AND IS COMING, and from the seven Spirits before his throne,

⁷ Lo, he is coming on the clouds, to be seen by every eye, even by those who impaled him, and all the tribes of earth will wail because of him: even so, Amen.

⁴ Still, you have a few souls at Sardis who have not soiled their raiment; they shall walk beside me in white, for they deserve to.

¹⁰ thou hast made them kings and priests for our God, and they shall reign on earth."

¹⁰ and they cried aloud, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long wilt thou refrain from charging and avenging our blood upon those who dwell on earth?"

¹⁶ calling to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne and from the anger of the Lamb; ¹⁷ for the great Day of their anger has come, and who can stand it?"

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!"

¹⁴ I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ For this they are now before the throne of God, serving him day and night within his temple. and he who is seated on the throne shall overshadow them. ¹⁶ Never again will they hunger, never again will they thirst, never shall the sun strike them, nor any scorching heat;" ¹⁷ for the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, guiding them to fountains of living water; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

¹⁸ the nations were enraged, but thine anger has come; the time has come for the dead to be judged, the time for rewarding thy servants the prophets, and the saints who reverence thy name, both low and high, the time for destroying the destroyers of the earth."

¹⁰ he shall drink the wine of God's passion, poured out untempered in the cup of his anger, and shall be tortured with fire and brimstone before the holy angels and before the Lamb: ¹¹ the smoke of their torture rises for ever and ever, and they get no rest from it, day and night, these worshippers of the Beast and his statue, and all who are marked with his name." ¹² This is what shows the patience of the saints — they who keep God's commands and the faith of Jesus. ¹³ Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: — 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth! Even so, it is the voice of the Spirit — blessed in resting from their toils; for what they have done goes with them.'"

⁴ Who shall not fear, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou alone art holy. Yea, all nations shall come and worship before thee, for thy judgments are disclosed."

⁵ Then I heard the angel of the waters cry, "O holy One, who art and wast, just art thou in this thy sentence. ⁶ They poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink! They deserve it!" ⁷ And I heard the altar cry, "Even so, Lord God almighty: true and just are thy sentences of doom."

²⁰ O heaven, rejoice over her! Saints, apostles, prophets, rejoice! For God has avenged you on her now."

²⁴ And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, of all who were slain upon earth."

² True and just are his sentences of doom; he has doomed the great Harlot who destroyed earth with her vice, he has avenged on her the blood of his servants."

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. ¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne, and One who was seated thereon; from his presence earth and sky fled, no more to be found.

¹⁴ Then Death and Hades were flung into the lake of fire,

¹⁴ Then Death and Hades were flung into the lake of fire, 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.

⁴ he will wipe every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more — no more wailing or crying or pain, for the first things have passed away."

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."

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.

⁹ But he said to me, "No, not that! I am but a servant like yourself and your brothers the prophets, who lay to heart the words of this book. Worship God."

¹⁵ Begone, you dogs, you sorcerers, you vicious men, you murderers, you idolaters, you who love and practise falsehood, everyone of you!" ¹⁶ "I Jesus have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches; I am the Scion and offspring of David, the bright star of the morning.