2 Timothy 2 Cross References - Moffatt

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. 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. ⁶ The farmer who has done the work must have the first share of the fruit. ⁷ Think what I mean! The Lord will help you to understand perfectly. ⁸ Never forget "Jesus Christ risen from the dead, descended from David" — that is my gospel, ⁹ for which I have to suffer imprisonment as if I were a criminal. (But there is no prison for the word of God.) ¹⁰ All I endure is for the sake of the elect, to let them obtain their share of the salvation of Christ Jesus and also of eternal glory. ¹¹ It is a sure word, that "If we have died with him, we shall live with him, ¹² if we endure, then we shall reign with him, if we disown him, then he shall disown us, ¹³ if we are faithless, he remains faithful" — for he cannot be untrue to himself. 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. ¹⁵ Do your utmost to let God see that you at least are a sound workman, with no need to be ashamed of the way you handle the word of the Truth. 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; ¹⁸ they have failed in the Truth by arguing that the resurrection has taken place already, and they are undermining some people's faith. ¹⁹ But the solid foundation laid by God remains, and this is its inscription: the Lord knows who are his, and 'let everyone who names the name of the Lord give up evil.' ²⁰ In any great house there are indeed vessels not only of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for noble, some for menial service. ²¹ If one will only keep clear of the latter, he will be put to noble use, he will be consecrated and useful to the Owner of the House, he will be set apart for good work of all kinds. 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; ²⁵ he must be gentle in his admonitions to the opposition — God may perhaps let them change their mind and admit the Truth; ²⁶ they may come to their senses again and escape the snare of the devil, as they are brought back to life by God to do his will.

¹ The birth-roll of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

²³ Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from my presence, you workers of iniquity.'

²⁵ The rain came down, the floods rose, the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, for it was founded on rock.

³⁷ Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is rich, but the labourers are few; ³⁸ so pray the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to gather his harvest."

³³ and whoever will disown me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;

¹⁹ He will not wrangle or shout, no one will hear his voice in the streets.

²⁸ But if I cast out daemons by the Spirit of God, then the Reign of God has reached you already. ²⁹ Why, how can anyone enter the strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first of all binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

⁵² So he said to them, "Well then, every scribe who has become a disciple of the Realm of heaven is like a householder who produces what is new and what is old from his stores."

¹³ He replied, "Any plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.

²⁶ What profit will it be if a man gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul? What will a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?

²⁸ Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me shall also sit on twelve thrones to govern the twelve tribes of Israel. ²⁹ Everyone who has left brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands or houses for my name's sake will get a hundred times as much and inherit life eternal.

¹ For the Realm of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard;

³² For John showed you the way to be good and you would not believe him; the taxgatherers and harlots believed him, and even though you saw that, you would not change your mind afterwards and believe him. ³³ Listen to another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a wine-vat inside it, and built a watchtower: then he leased it to vinedressers and went abroad. ³⁴ When the fruit-season was near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers to collect his fruit; ³⁵ but the vinedressers took his servants and flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third. ³⁶ Once more he sent some other servants, more than he had sent at first, and they did the same to them. ³⁷ Afterwards he sent them his son; 'They will respect my son,' he said. ³⁸ But when the vinedressers saw his son they said to themselves, 'Here is the heir; come on, let us kill him and seize his inheritance!' ³⁹ So they took and threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. ⁴⁰ Now, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to these vinedressers?" ⁴¹ They replied, "He will utterly destroy the wretches and lease the vineyard to other vinedressers who will give him the fruits in their season."

²⁹ Jesus answered them, "You go wrong because you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

²² Had not those days been cut short, not a soul would be saved alive; however, for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.

²⁴ for false Christs and false prophets will rise and bring forward great signs and wonders, so as to mislead the very elect, — if that were possible. ²⁵ (I am telling you this beforehand.)

³¹ He will despatch his angels with a loud trumpet call to muster his elect from the four winds, from the verge of heaven to the verge of earth.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

³⁵ Peter said to him, "Even though I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And all the disciples said the same thing.

⁷⁵ Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said, that 'before the cock crows you will disown me three times.' And he went outside and wept bitterly.

¹⁹ go and make disciples of all nations, baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the holy Spirit,

³ the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him' — ⁴ John appeared baptizing in the desert and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;

¹⁵ he said, "The time has now come, God's reign is near: repent and believe in the gospel."

³³ In many a parable like this he spoke the word to them, so far as they could listen to it;

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.

³³ "We are going up to Jerusalem," he said, "and the Son of man will be betrayed to the high priests and scribes; they will sentence him to death and hand him over to the Gentiles,

²² for false Christs and false prophets will rise and perform signs and wonders to mislead the elect if they can.

⁴⁸ He is like a man engaged in building a house, who dug deep down and laid his foundation on the rock; when a flood came, the river dashed against that house but could not shake it, for it had been well built.

¹³ Those 'on the rock' are people who on hearing the word welcome it with enthusiasm, but they have no root; they believe for a while and fall away in the hour of trial. ¹⁴ As for the seed that fell among thorns, that means people who hear but who go and get choked with worries and money and the pleasures of life, so that they never ripen.

²⁶ For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

⁴⁴ "Let these words sink into your ears: 'the Son of man is to be betrayed into the hands of men.'"

⁵⁹ He said to another man, "Follow me"; but he said, "Let me go and bury my father first of all." ⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you go and spread the news of the Reign of God." ⁶¹ Another man also said to him, "I will follow you, Lord. But let me first say good-bye to my people at home." ⁶² Jesus said to him, "No one is any use to the Reign of God who puts his hand to the plough and then looks behind him."

² He said to them, "The harvest is rich, but the labourers are few; so pray the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to gather his harvest.

²¹ When the strong man in armour guards his homestead, his property is undisturbed;

⁹ and he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

⁴² The Lord said, "Well, where is the trusty, thoughtful steward whom the lord and master will set over his establishment to give out supplies at the proper time?

²⁴ "Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

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

¹⁷ But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many hired men of my father have more than enough to eat, and here am I perishing of hunger!

¹⁰ He who is faithful with a trifle is also faithful with a large trust, and he who is dishonest with a trifle is also dishonest with a large trust. ¹¹ So, if you are not faithful with dishonest mammon, how can you ever be trusted with true Riches? ¹² And if you are not faithful with what belongs to another, how can you ever be given what is your own?

¹⁵ for I will give you words and wisdom that not one of your opponents will be able to meet or refute.

³¹ Simon, Simon, Satan has claimed the right to sift you all like wheat, ³² but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And you in turn must be a strength to your brothers."

⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. ⁴⁶ "Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

³⁵ You have a saying, have you not, 'Four months yet, then harvest'? Look round, I tell you; see, the fields are white for harvesting! ³⁶ The reaper is already getting his wages and harvesting for eternal life, so that the sower shares the reaper's joy. ³⁷ That proverb, 'One sows and another reaps,' holds true here: ³⁸ I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not toil; other men have toiled, and you reap the profit of their toil."

³⁴ (though I accept no testimony from man — I only speak of this testimony, that you may be saved);

⁵² The Jews then wrangled with one another, saying, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd, I know my sheep and my sheep know me

²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me; ²⁸ and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father who gave me them is stronger than all, and no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one — ."

⁵² and not merely for the nation but to gather into one the scattered children of God.)

² so at supper, knowing that though the devil had suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

¹⁸ When I say 'you,' I do not mean you all; I know the men of my choice, and I made my choice that this scripture might be fulfilled, he who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.

²⁷ and when he took the bread, at that moment Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Be quick with what you have to do."

¹⁹ A little while longer and the world will see me no more; but you will see me, because I am living and you will be living too.

²⁶ but the Helper, the holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and recall to you everything I have said.

¹³ However, when the Spirit of truth comes, he will lead you into all the truth; for he will not speak of his own accord, he will say whatever he is told, and he will disclose to you what is to come.

⁹ I pray for them — not for the world but for those whom thou hast given me do I pray; for they are thine

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.

¹⁵ Then after breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others do?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then feed my lambs," said Jesus. ¹⁶ Again he asked him, for the second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then be a shepherd to my sheep," said Jesus. ¹⁷ For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.

²² Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know),

²⁴ but God raised him by checking the pangs of death. Death could not hold him.

³⁰ (He was a prophet; he knew God had sworn an oath to him that he would seat one of his descendants on his throne;

³⁸ "Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit.

³ "Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan filled your heart and made you cheat the holy Spirit by appropriating some of the money paid for the land?

²¹ With these orders they went into the temple about dawn and proceeded to teach. Meantime the high priest and his allies met, called the Sanhedrin together and the council of seniors belonging to the sons of Israel, and then sent to prison for the men.

³¹ God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel.

³⁹ whereas, if it really springs from God, you will be unable to put them down. You may even find yourselves fighting God!"

¹⁰ rescuing him from all his troubles and allowing him to find favour for his wisdom with Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him viceroy over Egypt and over all his own household.

²⁶ Next day he came upon two of them fighting and tried to pacify them. "You are brothers!" he said, "why injure one another?"

⁵⁹ So they stoned Stephen, who called on the Lord, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

²² So repent of this wickedness of yours, and ask God whether you cannot be forgiven for your heart's purpose.

¹⁴ And in this city too he has authority from the high priests to put anyone in chains who invokes thy Name!" 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. ¹⁶ I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."

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

²⁶ and on finding him he brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were guests of the church and taught considerable numbers. It was at Antioch too that the disciples were originally called "Christians."

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

²³ From his offspring God brought to Israel, as he had promised, a saviour in Jesus,

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."

² As a sharp dispute and controversy sprang up between them and Paul and Barnabas, it was arranged that Paul and Barnabas, along with some others of their number, should go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and presbyters at Jerusalem about this question.

¹⁷ that the rest of men may seek for the Lord, even all the Gentiles who are called by my name, saith the Lord,

²⁴ Having learned that some of our number, quite unauthorized by us, have unsettled you with their teaching and upset your souls,

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

²⁷ I never shrank from letting you know the entire purpose of God.

¹ "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defence I now make before you." ² When they heard him addressing them in Hebrew they were all the more quiet. So he went on. ³ "I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel in all the strictness of our ancestral Law, ardent for God as you all are to-day. ⁴ I persecuted this Way of religion to the death, chaining and imprisoning both men and women, ⁵ as the high priest and all the council of elders can testify. It was from them that I got letters to the brotherhood at Damascus, and then journeyed thither to bind those who had gathered there and bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment. ⁶ Now as I neared Damascus on my journey, suddenly about noon a brilliant light from heaven flashed round me. ⁷ I dropped to the earth and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?' ⁸ 'Who are you?' I asked. He said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazarene, and you are persecuting me.' ⁹ (My companions saw the light, but they did not hear the voice of him who talked to me.) ¹⁰ I said, 'What am I to do?' And the Lord said to me, 'Get up and make your way into Damascus; there·you shall be told about all you are destined to do.' ¹¹ As I could not see owing to the dazzling glare of that light,. my companions took my hand and so I reached Damascus. ¹² Then a certain Ananias, a devout man in the Law, who had a good reputation among all the Jewish inhabitants, ¹³ came to me and standing beside me said, 'Saul, my brother, regain your sight!' The same moment I regained my sight and looked up at him. ¹⁴ Then he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, to see the Just One, and to hear him speak with his own lips. ¹⁵ For you are to be a witness for him before all men, a witness of what you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now, why do you wait? Get up and be baptized and wash away your sins, invoking his name.' ¹⁷ When I returned to Jerusalem, it happened that while I was praying in the temple I fell into a trance ¹⁸ and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste, leave Jerusalem quickly, for they will not accept your evidence about me.' ¹⁹ 'But, Lord,' I said, 'they surely know it was I who imprisoned and flogged those who believed in you throughout the synagogues, ²⁰ and that I stood and approved when the blood of your martyr Stephen was being shed, taking charge of the clothes of his murderers!' ²¹ But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles — — '" ²² Till he said that, they had listened to him. But at that they shouted, "Away with such a creature from the earth! He is not fit to live!" ²³ They yelled and threw their clothes into the air and flung dust about,

⁹ Thus a loud clamour broke out. Some of the scribes who belonged to the Pharisaic party got up and contended, "We find nothing wrong about this man. What if some spirit or angel has spoken to him?"

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.'

³¹ he preached the Reign of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ quite openly and unmolested.

³ concerning his Son, who was born of David's offspring by natural descent ⁴ and installed as Son of God with power by the Spirit of holiness when he was raised from the dead — concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,

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.

³ Even supposing some of them have proved untrustworthy, is their faithlessness to cancel the faithfulness of God?

⁵ For if we have grown into him by a death like his, we shall grow into him by a resurrection like his,

⁸ We believe that as we have died with Christ we shall also live with him;

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.

²⁸ We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

³¹ Now what follows from all this? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² The God who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, surely He will give us everything besides! ³³ Who is to accuse the elect of God? When God acquits, ³⁴ who shall condemn? Will Christ? — the Christ who died, yes and rose from the dead! the Christ who is at God's right hand, who actually pleads for us! ³⁵ What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?

⁶ It is not, of course, as if God's word had failed! Far from it! 'Israel' does not mean everyone who belongs to Israel;

¹¹ and though the children were still unborn and had done nothing either good or bad (to confirm the divine purpose in election which depends upon the call of God, not on anything man does),

²¹ What! has the potter no right over the clay? Has he no right to make out of the same lump one vessel for a noble purpose and another for a menial? ²² What if God, though desirous to display his anger and show his might, has tolerated most patiently the objects of his anger, ripe and ready to be destroyed? 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 —

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 —

² God has not repudiated his People, his predestined People! Surely you know what scripture says in the passage called 'Elijah'? You know how he pleads with God against Israel:

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

¹ Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his scruples.

¹⁷ The Reign of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, it means righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit; ¹⁸ he who serves Christ on these lines, is acceptable to God and esteemed by men. ¹⁹ Peace, then, and the building up of each other, these are what we must aim at.

⁵ May the God who inspires stedfastness and encouragement grant you such harmony with one another, after Christ Jesus, ⁶ that you may unite in a chorus of praise and glory to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!

⁹ and also in order that the Gentiles should glorify God for His mercy — as it is written, Therefore will I offer praise to Thee among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name;

²⁰ my ambition always being to preach it only in places where there had been no mention of Christ's name, that I might not build on foundations laid by others,

¹⁰ Salute that tried Christian, Apelles. Salute those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.

²⁵ [Now to Him who can strengthen you by my gospel, by the preaching of Jesus Christ, by revealing the secret purpose which after the silence of long ages

² to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, as well as to all who, wherever they may be, invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord no less than ours:

⁹ Faithful is the God who called you to this fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. ¹⁰ Brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ I beg of you all to drop these party-cries. There must be no cliques among you; you must regain your common temper and attitude.

⁶ We do discuss 'wisdom' with those who are mature; only it is not the wisdom of this world or of the dethroned Powers who rule this world,

¹ But I could not discuss things with you, my brothers, as spiritual persons; I had to address you as worldlings, as mere babes in Christ. ² I fed you with milk, not with solid food. You were not able for solid food, and you are not able even now;

⁶ I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but it was God who made the seed grow. ⁷ So neither planter nor waterer counts, but God alone who makes the seed grow. ⁸ Still, though planter and waterer are on the same level, each will get his own wage for the special work that he has done. ⁹ We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.

⁹ We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built. ¹⁰ In virtue of my commission from God, I laid the foundation of the house like an expert master-builder. It remains for another to build on this foundation. Whoever he is, let him be careful how he builds. ¹¹ The foundation is laid, namely Jesus Christ, and no one can lay any other.

¹⁶ Do you not know you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells within you? ¹⁷ God will destroy anyone who would destroy God's temple, for God's temple is sacred — and that is what you are.

² Now in this matter of stewards your first requirement is that they must be trustworthy.

⁶ Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump? ⁷ Clean out the old dough that you may be a fresh lump. For you are free from the old leaven; Christ our paschal lamb has been sacrificed.

¹⁸ Shun immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his body.

²² But a slave who is called to be in the Lord is a freedman of the Lord. Just as a free man who is called is a slave of Christ ²³ (for you were bought for a price; you must not turn slaves to any man).

³ but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

⁷ Does a soldier provide his own supplies? Does a man plant a vineyard without eating its produce? Does a shepherd get no drink from the milk of the flock? ⁸ Human arguments, you say? But does not Scripture urge the very same? ⁹ It is written in the law of Moses, You must not muzzle an ox when he is treading the grain. Is God thinking here about cattle? ¹⁰ Or is he speaking purely for our sakes? Assuredly for our sakes. This word was written for us, because the ploughman needs to plough in hope, and the thresher to thresh in the hope of getting a share in the crop. ¹¹ If we sowed you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great matter if we reap your worldly goods?

²² to the weak I have become as weak myself, to win over the weak. To all men I have become all things, to save some by all and every means. ²³ And I do it all for the sake of the gospel, to secure my own share in it. ²⁴ Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize. ²⁵ Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading.

²⁵ Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading. ²⁶ Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air —

²⁶ Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air — ²⁷ no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.

¹⁴ Shun idolatry, then, my beloved.

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

⁸ One man is granted words of wisdom by the Spirit, another words of knowledge by the same Spirit;

⁷ always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful, always patient.

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

¹ Now, brothers, I would have you know the gospel I once preached to you, the gospel you received, the gospel in which you have your footing,

⁴ that he was buried, that he rose on the third day as the scriptures had said,

¹¹ At any rate, whether I or they have done most, such is what we preach, such is what you believed. ¹² Now if we preach that Christ rose from the dead, how can certain individuals among you assert that 'there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead'?

¹² Now if we preach that Christ rose from the dead, how can certain individuals among you assert that 'there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead'? ¹³ If 'there is no such thing as a resurrection from the dead,' then even Christ did not rise; ¹⁴ and if Christ did not rise, then our preaching has gone for nothing, and your faith has gone for nothing too. ¹⁵ Besides, we are detected bearing false witness to God by affirming of him that he raised Christ — whom he did not raise, if after all dead men never rise. ¹⁶ For if dead men never rise, Christ did not rise either; ¹⁷ and if Christ did not rise, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins. ¹⁸ More than that: those who have slept the sleep of death in Christ have perished after all. ¹⁹ Ah, if in this life we have nothing but a mere hope in Christ, we are of all men to be pitied most! ²⁰ But it is not so! Christ did rise from the dead, he was the first to be reaped of those who sleep in death.

³³ Make no mistake about this: 'bad company is the ruin of good character.' 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.

¹³ Watch, stand firm in the faith, play the man, be strong!

⁶ If I am in distress, it is in the interests of your comfort and salvation; if I am comforted, it is in the interests of your comfort, which is effective as it nerves you to endure the same sufferings as I suffer myself.

¹¹ in case Satan should take advantage of our position — for I know his manœuvres!

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.

² I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

⁷ But I possess this treasure in a frail vessel of earth, to show that the transcending power belongs to God, not to myself;

¹⁰ wherever I go, I am being killed in the body as Jesus was, so that the life of Jesus may come out in my body:

¹⁵ It is all in your interests, so that the more grace abounds, the more thanksgiving may rise and redound to the glory of God.

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

⁹ Hence also I am eager to satisfy him, whether in the body or away from it;

³ I put no obstacle in the path of any, so that my ministry may not be discredited; ⁴ I prove myself at all points a true minister of God, by great endurance, by suffering, by troubles, by calamities,

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

¹ I appeal to you myself by the gentleness and consideration of Christ — the Paul who is 'humble enough to your face when he is with you, but outspoken enough when he gets away from you.'

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 —

⁴ the weapons of my warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but divinely strong to demolish fortresses — 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,

¹⁸ for it is not the self-praiser with his own recommendations who is accepted, it is the man whom the Lord recommends.

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.

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.

⁷ It simply means that certain individuals are unsettling you; they want to distort the gospel of Christ.

¹⁰ Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.

¹⁹ For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God; ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

⁹ but now that you know God — or rather, are known by God — how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

²² But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

¹ Even if anyone is detected in some trespass, brothers, you are spiritual, you must set the offender right in a spirit of gentleness; let each of you look to himself, in case he too is tempted.

¹³ You also have heard the message of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, and in him you also by your faith have been stamped with the seal of the long-promised holy Spirit

¹⁷ May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation for the knowledge of himself, 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,

¹⁰ God has made us what we are, creating us in Christ Jesus for the good deeds which are prepared beforehand by God as our sphere of action.

²⁰ you are a building that rests on the apostles and prophets as its foundation, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone;

²² and in him you are yourselves built into this to form a habitation for God in the Spirit.

¹ For this reason I Paul, I whom Jesus has made a prisoner for the sake of you Gentiles —

¹³ So I beg of you not to lose heart over what I am suffering on your behalf; my sufferings are an honour to you.

¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name and nature,

² with perfect modesty and gentleness, showing forbearance to one another patiently, zealous in love

¹⁷ Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

¹⁷ Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile, ¹⁸ their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them — ¹⁹ men who have recklessly abandoned themselves to sensuality, with a lust for the business of impurity in every shape and form. ²⁰ That is not how you have understood the meaning of Christ ²¹ (for it is Christ whom you have been taught, it is in Christ that you have been instructed — the real Christ who is in Jesus); ²² you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

³⁰ And do not vex God's holy Spirit, by whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

¹ Copy God, then, as his beloved children, ² and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 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. ⁷ So avoid the company of such men. ⁸ For while once upon a time you were darkness, now in the Lord you are light; lead the life of those who are children of the light ⁹ (for the fruit of light consists in all that is good and right and true), ¹⁰ verifying what pleases the Lord. ¹¹ Have nothing to do with the fruitless enterprises of the darkness; rather expose them.

¹⁴ Thus it is said, 'Wake up, O sleeper, and rise from the dead; so Christ will shine upon you.'

¹⁰ To conclude. Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might; ¹¹ put on God's armour so as to be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil. 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 ¹⁹ and on my behalf also, that I may be allowed to speak and open my lips in order to expound fully and freely that open secret of the gospel ²⁰ for the sake of which I am in custody as its envoy. Pray that I may have freedom to declare it as I should.

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.

¹² I would have you understand, my brothers, that my affairs have really tended to advance the gospel; ¹³ throughout the whole of the praetorian guard and everywhere else it is recognized that I am imprisoned on account of my connexion with Christ, ¹⁴ and my imprisonment has given the majority of the brotherhood greater confidence in the Lord to venture on speaking the word of God without being afraid. ¹⁵ Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, others from goodwill;

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.

³ never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man,

¹⁴ In all that you do, avoid grumbling and disputing,

⁸ Finally, brothers, keep in mind whatever is true, whatever is worthy, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is attractive, whatever is high-toned, all excellence, all merit.

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

⁷ You got that lesson from our beloved fellow-servant Epaphras, a minister of Christ who is faithful to your interests;

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,

¹³ rescuing us from the power of the Darkness and transferring us to the realm of his beloved Son!

²⁴ I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;

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.

²⁹ I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.

¹ Since then you have been raised with Christ, aim at what is above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God;

³ for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you will appear with him in glory. ⁵ So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry), ⁶ things that bring down the anger of God on the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Once you moved among them, when you lived in them; ⁸ but off with them all now, off with anger, rage, malice, slander, foul talk!

¹³ forbear and forgive each other in any case of complaint; as Christ forgave you, so must you forgive.

³ and pray for me as well, that God may give me an opening for the word, to speak of the open secret of Christ for which I am in custody.

¹⁸ This salutation is in my own hand, from Paul. 'Remember I am in prison. Grace be with you.'

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.

⁷ no, we behaved gently when we were among you, like a nursing mother cherishing her own children,

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.

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.

⁹ for God destined us not for Wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁰ who died for us that waking in life or sleeping in death we should live together with him.

¹⁴ We beseech you, brothers, keep a check upon loafers, encourage the faint-hearted, sustain weak souls, never lose your temper with anyone;

²⁴ He who calls you is faithful, he will do this.

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,

⁷ For the secret force of lawlessness is at work already; only, it cannot be revealed till he who at present restrains it is removed. 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 — ⁹ that One whose arrival is due to Satan's activity, with the full power, the miracles and portents, of falsehood, ¹⁰ and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them. ¹¹ Therefore God visits them with an active delusion, till they put faith in falsehood, ¹² so that all may be doomed who refuse faith in the Truth but delight in evil.

¹⁴ it was for this that he called you by our gospel, to gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed on and triumph, as in your own case,

³ However, the Lord is faithful; he will be sure to strengthen you and protect you from the Evil one.

⁶ Brothers, we charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun any brother who is loafing, instead of following the rule you got from us.

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

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;

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.

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,

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!

⁴ to the God who desires all men to be saved and to attain the knowledge of the Truth.

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

¹ It is a popular saying that "whoever aspires to office is set upon an excellent occupation." ² Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher,

² Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher, ³ not a drunkard or violent, but lenient and conciliatory, not a lover of money,

³ not a drunkard or violent, but lenient and conciliatory, not a lover of money, ⁴ able to manage his own household properly and keep his children submissive and perfectly respectful ⁵ (if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?); ⁶ he must not be a new convert, in case he gets conceited and incurs the doom passed on the devil; ⁷ also, he must have a good reputation among outsiders, in case he incurs slander and is trapped by the devil.

⁷ also, he must have a good reputation among outsiders, in case he incurs slander and is trapped by the devil. ⁸ Deacons in turn are to be serious men; they are not to be tale-bearers or addicted to drink or pilfering; ⁹ they must maintain the divine truth of the faith with a pure conscience.

¹⁵ in case I am detained, to let you see how people ought to behave within the household of God; it is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the Truth.

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. ⁸ The training of the body is of small service, but religion is of service in all directions; it contains the promise of life both for the present and for the future.

¹² Let no one slight you because you are a youth, but set the believers an example of speech, behaviour, love, faith, and purity.

¹² Let no one slight you because you are a youth, but set the believers an example of speech, behaviour, love, faith, and purity. ¹³ Attend to your Scripture-reading, your preaching, and your teaching, till I come. 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.

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. ¹⁵ Attend to these duties, let them absorb you, so that all men may note your progress.

¹⁵ Attend to these duties, let them absorb you, so that all men may note your progress. ¹⁶ Watch yourself and watch your teaching; stick to your work; if you do that, you will save your hearers as well as yourself.

²¹ In the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels, I adjure you to be unprejudiced in carrying out these orders; be absolutely impartial. ²² Never be in a hurry to ordain a presbyter; do not make yourself responsible for the sins of another man — keep your own life pure.

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.

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.

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.

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;

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.

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

¹⁹ amassing right good treasure for themselves in the world to come, in order to secure the life which is life indeed. 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.]

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

⁶ Hence I would remind you to rekindle the divine gift which you received when my hands were laid upon you; ⁷ for God has not given us a timid spirit but a spirit of power and love and discipline. ⁸ So do not be ashamed to testify to our Lord, and do not be ashamed of a prisoner of the Lord like me; join me in bearing suffering for the gospel by the power of the God

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. 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.

¹⁶ May the Lord show favour to the household of Onesiphorus, for many a time he braced me up; he was not ashamed of my imprisonment —

³ Join the ranks of those who bear suffering, like a loyal soldier of Christ Jesus.

¹⁰ All I endure is for the sake of the elect, to let them obtain their share of the salvation of Christ Jesus and also of eternal glory.

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,

²⁰ In any great house there are indeed vessels not only of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for noble, some for menial service.

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; ²⁵ he must be gentle in his admonitions to the opposition — God may perhaps let them change their mind and admit the Truth;

⁷ who are always curious to learn and never able to attain the knowledge of the Truth.

¹⁰ Now you have followed my teaching, my practice, my aims, my faith, my patience, my love, my stedfastness, ¹¹ my persecutions, my sufferings — all that befell me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, all the persecutions I had to undergo, from which the Lord rescued me.

¹³ Bad characters and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves; ¹⁴ but hold you to what you have been taught, hold to your convictions, remember who your teachers were,

¹⁷ to make the man of God proficient and equip him for good work of every kind.

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,

⁵ Whatever happens, be self-possessed, flinch from no suffering, do your work as an evangelist, and discharge all your duties as a minister.

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

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

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

⁵ I left you behind in Crete in order to finish putting things right and to appoint presbyters in every town as I told you, ⁶ men who are above reproach, only once married, with children who believe and who are not liable to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate. ⁷ [For a bishop must be above reproach — he is a steward of God's house — he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering;

⁷ [For a bishop must be above reproach — he is a steward of God's house — he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering; ⁸ he must be hospitable, a lover of goodness, master of himself, a just man, a religious man, and abstemious; 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.]

¹¹ they must be silenced, for they are undermining whole families by teaching objectionable doctrine for the base end of making money.

¹⁴ instead of studying Jewish myths and rules laid down by men who have discarded the Truth.

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared to save all men, ¹² and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world, ¹³ awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus, ¹⁴ who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

¹ Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; they must obey, they must be ready for any good work, ² they must abuse no one, they must not quarrel, but be conciliatory and display perfect gentleness to all men.

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.

⁹ But avoid foolish controversy, and let genealogies and dissensions and strife over the Law alone, for these are fruitless and futile. ¹⁰ After a first and a second warning have no more to do with a factious person; ¹¹ you may be sure a man like that is perverted; he is sinning and he knows it.

¹⁴ Our people must really learn to profess honest occupations, so as to be able to meet such special occasions; they must not be idle.

⁷ For a little while thou hast put him lower than the angels, crowning him with glory and honour,

⁹ what we do see is Jesus who was put lower than the angels for a little while to suffer death, and who has been crowned with glory and honour that by God's grace he might taste death for everyone.

¹⁷ He had to resemble his brothers in every respect, in order to prove a merciful and faithful high priest in things divine, to expiate the sins of the People.

¹ Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle and high priest of our confession; ² he is faithful to Him who appointed him. For while Moses also was faithful in every department of God's house,

² he is faithful to Him who appointed him. For while Moses also was faithful in every department of God's house, ³ Jesus has been adjudged greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the founder of a house enjoys greater honour than the house itself.

³ Jesus has been adjudged greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the founder of a house enjoys greater honour than the house itself. ⁴ (Every house is founded by someone, but God is the founder of all.) ⁵ Besides, while Moses was faithful in every department of God's house as an attendant — by way of witness to the coming revelation — ⁶ Christ is faithful as a Son over God's house. Now we are this house of God, if we will only keep confident and proud of our hope.

¹⁰ Therefore I grew exasperated with that generation, I said, 'They are always astray in their heart': They would not learn my ways;

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

¹¹ On this point I have a great deal to say, which it is hard to make intelligible to you. For you have grown dull of hearing. ¹² Though by this time you should be teaching other people, you still need someone to teach you once more the rudimentary principles of the divine revelation. You are in need of milk, not of solid food. ¹³ (For anyone who is fed on milk is unskilled in moral truth; he is a mere babe. ¹⁴ Whereas solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by exercise to distinguish good and evil.)

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

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

¹⁸ so that by these two solid facts (the Promise and the Oath), where it is impossible for God to be false, we refugees might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us, ¹⁹ anchoring the soul to it safe and sure, as it enters the inner Presence behind the veil.

⁴ Now mark the dignity of this man. The patriarch Abraham paid him a tenth of the spoils.

³² Recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle of suffering,

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

¹⁰ he was waiting for the City with its fixed foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

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.

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.

³ Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing. ⁴ You have not had to shed blood yet in the struggle against sin.

¹⁴ Aim at peace with all — and at that consecration without which no one will ever see the Lord; ¹⁵ see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you;

⁷ Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the word of God to you; look back upon the close of their career, and copy their faith.

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.

¹ James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: greeting.

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

¹² Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.

¹⁷ all we are given is good, and all our endowments are faultless, descending from above, from the Father of the heavenly lights, who knows no change of rising and setting, who casts no shadow on the earth. ¹⁸ It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures. ¹⁹ Be sure of that, my beloved brothers. Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to talk, slow to be angry — ²⁰ for human anger does not promote divine righteousness;

¹⁵ That is not the wisdom which comes down from above, it is an earthly wisdom, sensuous, devilish;

¹⁷ The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, forbearing, conciliatory, full of mercy and wholesome fruit, unambiguous, straightforward;

² You crave, and miss what you want: you envy and covet, but you cannot acquire: you wrangle and fight — you miss what you want because you do not ask God for it;

³ your gold and silver lie rusted over, and their rust will be evidence against you, it will devour your flesh like fire. [Moved to the end of 5:1] You have been storing up treasure in the very last days;

¹⁹ My brothers, if anyone of you goes astray from the truth and someone brings him back,

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.

¹³ Brace up your minds, then, keep cool, and put your hope for good and all in the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴ Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance; ¹⁵ as He who called you is holy, so you must be holy too in all your conduct — ¹⁶ for it is written, You shall be holy because I am holy. ¹⁷ And as you call upon a Father who judges everyone impartially by what he has done, be reverent in your conduct while you sojourn here below; ¹⁸ you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past, ¹⁹ but by the precious blood of Christ, a lamb unblemished and unstained.

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.

⁵ come and, like living stones yourselves, be built into a spiritual house, to form a consecrated priesthood for the offering of those spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied. ¹¹ Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul. ¹² Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

¹⁴ and to governors as deputed by him for the punishment of wrongdoers and the encouragement of honest people —

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

¹¹ let him shun wrong and do right, let him seek peace and make peace his aim.

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.

¹³ You are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it, that you may also rejoice and exult when his glory is revealed. 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;

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.

⁴ Then you will receive the unfading crown of glory, when the chief Shepherd makes his appearance.

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.

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

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,

¹⁵ Yes, and I will see to it that even when I am gone, you will keep this constantly in mind.

² and many will follow their immorality (thanks to them the true Way will be maligned);

¹⁸ By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct —

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.

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.

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

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.

²² Who is the real liar? who but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is 'antichrist,' he who disowns the Father and the Son. ²³ No one who disowns the Son can possess the Father: he who confesses the Son possesses the Father as well.

³ And everyone who rests this hope on him, purifies himself as he is pure.

⁷ Let no one deceive you, my dear children: he who practises righteousness is just, as He is just; ⁸ he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.) ⁹ Anyone who is born of God does not commit sin, for the offspring of God remain in Him, and they cannot sin, because they are born of God. ¹⁰ Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.

¹⁶ If anyone notices his brother committing a sin which is not deadly, he will ask and obtain life for him — for anyone who does not commit a deadly sin. There is such a thing as deadly sin; I do not mean he is to pray for that.

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

¹¹ Beloved, do not imitate evil but good; he who does good belongs to God, he who does evil has never seen God.

³ Beloved, my whole concern was to write to you on the subject of our common salvation, but I am forced to write you an appeal to defend the faith which has once for all been committed to the saints; ⁴ for certain persons have slipped in by stealth (their doom has been predicted long ago), impious creatures who pervert the grace of our God into immorality and disown our sole liege and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁶ he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, — to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.

⁹ I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.

¹⁰ Have no fear of what you are to suffer. The devil indeed is going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested; you will have a distressful ten days. Be faithful, though you have to die for it, and I will give you the crown of Life.

¹⁰ Have no fear of what you are to suffer. The devil indeed is going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested; you will have a distressful ten days. Be faithful, though you have to die for it, and I will give you the crown of Life. ¹¹ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror shall not be injured by the second death.' ¹² Then to the angel of the church at Pergamum write thus: — These are the words of him who wields the sharp sword with the double edge: ¹³ I know where you dwell, where Satan sits enthroned, and yet you adhere to my Name, you have not renounced your faith in me even during the days when my witness, my faithful Antipas, was martyred in your midst — where Satan dwells.

¹³ I know where you dwell, where Satan sits enthroned, and yet you adhere to my Name, you have not renounced your faith in me even during the days when my witness, my faithful Antipas, was martyred in your midst — where Satan dwells.

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.

¹¹ I am coming very soon: hold to what you have, in case your crown is taken from you.

⁴ also round the throne four and twenty thrones, and on these thrones four and twenty Presbyters seated, who were clad in white raiment with golden crowns upon their heads.

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,

⁵ but one of the Presbyters told me, "Weep not; lo, the Lion of Judah's tribe, the Scion of David, he has won the power of opening the scroll and its seven seals."

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

⁹ So the huge dragon was thrown down — that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, the seducer of the whole world — thrown down to the earth, and his angels thrown down along with him.

³ One of his heads looked as if it had been slain and killed, but the deadly wound was healed, and the whole earth went after him in wonder,

¹⁴ and by dint of the miracles he is allowed to perform in presence of the Beast, he seduces the dwellers on earth; he bids the dwellers on earth erect a statue to the Beast who lived after being wounded by the sword,

⁸ The Beast you have seen was, is not, but is to rise from the abyss — yet to perdition he shall go — and the dwellers on earth will wonder (all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life), when they see that the Beast was, is not, but is coming.

² he gripped the dragon, that old serpent (who is the devil and Satan), and bound him for a thousand years, ³ flinging him into the abyss and shutting and sealing it on the top of him, to prevent him seducing the nations again until the thousand years were completed — after which he has to be released for a little while. ⁴ And I saw thrones with people sitting on them, who were allowed to judge — saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and God's word, those who would not worship the Beast or his statue, and who would not receive his mark on their forehead or hand; they came to life and reigned along with the Christ for a thousand years.

⁶ Blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection; over such the second death has no power, they shall be priests of God and the Christ, and reign along with him during the thousand years.

¹⁴ And the wall of the City has twelve foundation-stones, bearing the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

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