3 John Cross References - Murdock

¹ THE Elder, to my beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth. ² Our beloved; in all things, I pray for thee that thou mayest prosper and be in health, as thy soul doth prosper. ³ For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified concerning thy integrity, even as thou walkest in the truth. ⁴ And I have no greater joy, than to hear that my children walk in the truth. ⁵ Our beloved, thou doest in faith, what thou performest towards the brethren; and especially towards strangers, ⁶ who have borne testimony to thy charity before the whole church, to whom thou doest good, as is pleasing to God. ⁷ For they went forth in behalf of his name, taking nothing of the Gentiles. ⁸ We therefore ought to receive such persons, that we may be aiders of the truth. ⁹ I was desirous of writing to the church; but he who loveth to be foremost among them, Diotrephes, receiveth us not. ¹⁰ Therefore, if he come, remember those his doings, that he treated us with malignant words; and this not sufficing him, he received not the brethren; and those who would receive them, he prohibited, and even ejected them from the church. ¹¹ Our beloved, be not a follower of what is evil, but of what is good. He that doeth good, is of God; but he that doeth evil, hath not seen God. ¹² Of Demetrius, there is good testimony from every one, and from the church, and from the truth itself: and we also bear him testimony, and ye know that our testimony is true. ¹³ I had many things to write to thee; but I will not write them to thee with ink and pen. ¹⁴ { But I hope soon to see thee, and to converse mouth to mouth. [ (III John 1:15) Peace be with thee. The friends salute thee. Salute the friends, severally, by name. ]}

¹⁴ And whoever will not receive you, nor hear your discourses, when ye depart from that house or that town, shake off the dust from your feet.

⁴⁰ He that entertaineth you, entertaineth me: and he that entertaineth me, entertaineth him that sent me.

⁴⁰ He that entertaineth you, entertaineth me: and he that entertaineth me, entertaineth him that sent me. ⁴¹ He that entertaineth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward: and he that entertaineth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward. ⁴² And whoever shall give one of these little ones to drink a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.

²⁰ Then came, to him the mother of Zebedee's children, she and her sons; and she worshipped him, and asked something from him. ²¹ And he said to her, What desirest thou? She said to him: Say, that these my two sons shall sit, the one on thy right hand and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom. ²² Jesus answered and said: Ye know not what ye ask for. Can ye drink of the cup, of which I am to drink? or be baptized with the baptism, that I am baptized with? They say to him: We can. ²³ He saith to them: Ye will indeed drink of my cup, and will be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but that ye should sit on my right hand and on my left, is not mine to give, except to those for whom it is prepared by my Father. ²⁴ And when the ten heard it, they were angry against the two brothers. ²⁵ And Jesus called them, and said to them: Ye know that the princes of the nations are their lords, and their great men exercise authority over them. ²⁶ Not so shall it be among you. But whoever among you desireth to be great, let him be to you, a ministerer: ²⁷ and whoever among you desireth to be first, let him be your servant: ²⁸ even as the Son of man came, not to be served, but to serve; and to give his life a ransom for many.

⁴ They tie up heavy burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but will not themselves touch them with their finger. ⁵ And all their works they do, to be seen of men: for they make their phylacteries broad, and extend the fringes of their garments. ⁶ And they love the highest couches at suppers and the highest seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and the greeting in the market places, and to be addressed by men with Rabbi. ⁸ But be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your Rabbi, and ye are all brethren.

⁴⁵ Who then, is that faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath placed over his domestics, to give them their food in its time?

²¹ His lord said to him: Well done! good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful with a little; I will set thee over much: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. ²² And he of the two talents came, and said: My lord, thou gavest me two talents; behold, I have by trading gained two more to them. ²³ His lord said to him: Well done! good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful with a little; I will set thee over much: enter thou into the Joy of thy lord.

³⁴ And they were silent; for by the way they had contended with one another, which should be the great among them.

³⁷ Whoever receiveth one in my name, like this child, he receiveth me; and he that receiveth me, receiveth not me only, but him that sent me.

³⁵ And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him, and said to him: Teacher, we desire that thou wouldst do for us all that we ask. ³⁶ He saith to them: What would ye, that I should do for you? ³⁷ They say to him: Grant to us, that one may sit on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy glory. ³⁸ But he said to them: Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup, of which I drink? and to be baptized with the baptism, that I am baptized with? ³⁹ They say to him: We are able. Jesus saith to them: The cup that I drink, ye will drink, and the baptism that I am baptized with, ye will be baptized with: ⁴⁰ But that ye should sit on my right hand and on my left, is not mine o give, except to those for whom it is prepared. ⁴¹ And when the ten heard it, they began to murmur against James and John. ⁴² And Jesus called them, and said to them: Ye know, that they who are accounted chiefs of the nations, are their lords; and their great men have authority over them. ⁴³ But it shall not be so among you: but he that would be great among you, must be a servitor to you. ⁴⁴ And he of you that would be first, must be servant to every one. ⁴⁵ And also the Son of man came, not to be served, but to serve; and to give his life a ransom for many.

²² Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and repel you, and revile you, and cast out your names as base, for the Son of man's sake.

⁴⁸ and said to them: Whoever receiveth a child like this, in my name, receiveth me; and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. For he that shall be least among you all, he will be the great one.

⁷ And his friend within shall answer, and say to him: Do not disturb me, for lo, the door is closed, and my children with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.

⁴² Jesus said to him: Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will place over all his domestics, to give them their portion in due time?

¹⁰ He that is faithful in the little, is also faithful in the much; and he that is unjust in the little, is also unjust in the much. ¹¹ If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will intrust to you the reality? ¹² And if ye have not been found faithful in that which is not yours, who will give to you that which is yours?

²⁴ And there was contention also among them, who among them would be greatest. ²⁵ And Jesus said to them: The kings of the nations, are their lords; and those exercising authority over them, are called benefactors. ²⁶ But ye, not so: but he that is great among you, must be as the least; and he that is chief, as the servitor. ²⁷ For, which is the greater, he that reclineth, or he that serveth? Is not he that reclineth? But I am among you, as he that serveth.

²⁰ For every one that doeth abominable things, hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

²² These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had decided, that if any one should confess him to be Messiah, they would expel him from the synagogue.

³⁴ They replied, and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins; and dost thou teach us? And they expelled him. ³⁵ And Jesus heard that they had expelled him; and he found him, and said to him: Believest thou on the Son of God?

³ And to him the door-keeper openeth the door; and the sheep hear his voice. And he calleth the sheep by their names, and leadeth them out.

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice: and I know them: and they go after me.

²⁶ If any one is servant to me, he will come after me; and where I am, there also will my servant be. Him that serveth me, will the Father honor.

³⁵ Jesus said to them: A short time longer, the light is with you. Walk, while ye have the light, lest the darkness overtake you. He that walketh in the dark, knoweth not whither he goeth. ³⁶ While the light is with you, confide in the light; that ye may be children of the light. These things said Jesus, and departed, and concealed himself from them.

³⁵ And he who saw it, hath testified: and his testimony is true: and he knoweth, that he speaketh the truth, that ye also may believe.

²⁴ This is the disciple who hath testified of all these things, and hath written them: and we know, that his testimony is true.

⁴¹ And they went from before them, rejoicing that they were worthy to suffer abuse on account of that name.

⁴ And they who were dispersed, travelled about and preached the word of God.

¹⁶ For I will show him, how much he is to suffer on account of my name.

²² They say to him: A certain man whose name is Cornelius, a centurion fearing God, and of whom all the people of the Jews bear good report, was told in vision, by a holy angel, to send and bring thee to his house, that he might hear discourse from thee.

³ And the church waited on them, and sent them away; and they travelled through all Phenicia and the territory of the Samaritans, narrating the conversion of the Gentiles, and causing great joy to all the brethren.

²⁹ that ye keep aloof from a sacrifice to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from whoredom. And if ye keep yourselves from these, ye will do well. Be ye steadfast in the Lord.

²⁹ And the whole city was in commotion; and they ran together, and entered the theatre. And they caught, and bore along with them, Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, and associates of Paul.

⁴ And there departed with him, as far as Asia, Sopater of the city Berea, and Aristarchus and Secundus who were of Thessalonica, and Gaius who was of the city of Derbe, and Timothy of Lystra, and of Asia Tychicus and Trophimus.

⁵ And after those days, we departed and went on our way; and they all clung to us, they and their wives and their children, until we were without the city; and they fell on their knees by the seaside, and prayed.

¹² And a certain man, Ananias, who was upright according to the law, as all the Jews there testified concerning him, came to me.

⁸ In the first place, I give thanks to God by Jesus Messiah, on account of you all; because your faith is heard of in all the world. ⁹ And God, whom in spirit I serve in the gospel of his Son, is my witness, that I unceasingly make mention of you, at all times, in my prayers.

¹⁰ Be affectionate to your brethren: and love one another. Be foremost in honoring one another.

²⁴ when I go to Spain, I hope to come and see you; and that ye will accompany me thither, when I shall have been satisfied, in some measure, with visiting you.

¹ And I commend to you Phebe, our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea: ² that ye may receive her in our Lord, as is just for saints; and that ye may assist her, in whatever thing she may ask of you: for she also hath been assistant to many, and to me also. ³ Salute ye Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow-laborers in Jesus Messiah; ⁴ who, for my life, surrendered their own necks; and to whom, not only I am grateful, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. ⁵ And give a salutation to the church which is in their house. Salute my beloved Epenetus, who was the first-fruits of Achaia in Messiah. ⁶ Salute Mary, who hath toiled much with you. ⁷ Salute Andronicus and Junia, my relatives, who were in captivity with me, and are of note among the legates, and were in Messiah before me. ⁸ Salute Amplias, my beloved in our Lord. ⁹ Salute Urbanus, a laborer with us in Messiah; and my beloved Stachys. ¹⁰ Salute Apelles, chosen in our Lord. Salute the members of the house of Aristobulus. ¹¹ Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Salute the members of the house of Narcissus, who are in our Lord. ¹² Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who toil in our Lord. Salute my beloved Persis, who toiled much in our Lord. ¹³ Salute Rufus, chosen in our Lord; and his and my mother. ¹⁴ Salute Asyncritus, and Phlegon, and Hermas, and Patrobas, and Hermes, and the brethren who are with them. ¹⁵ Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them. ¹⁶ Salute one another, with a holy kiss. All the churches of Messiah salute you.

²³ Gaius, hospitable to me and to all the church, saluteth you. Erastus, the steward of the city, and Quartus a brother, salute you.

¹⁴ I thank my God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius;

⁵ For, who is Paul, or who is Apollos, but the ministers by whom ye believed, each one as the Lord gave to him? ⁶ I planted, and Apollos watered; but God produced the growth. ⁷ Not therefore he that planted, is to be accounted of, nor he that watered, but God who produced the growth. ⁸ And he that planted, and he that watered are on a par; each receiveth his reward, according to his labor. ⁹ For we labor with God: and ye are God's husbandry, and God's edifice.

¹⁴ I write these things, not to shame you; but I instruct you, as dear children. ¹⁵ For though ye have a myriad of teachers in Messiah, yet not many fathers; for in Jesus Messiah, I have begotten you by preaching. ¹⁶ I beseech you, therefore, that ye be like me.

¹ In short, it is reported, there is whoredom among you; and such whoredom as is not even named among the heathen, that a son should even take the wife of his father. ² And ye are inflated, and have not rather sitten down in grief, that he who hath done this deed might be separated from you. ³ And I, while distant from you in body but present with you in spirit, have already, as if present, judged him who perpetrateth this deed; ⁴ that ye all assemble together, in the name of our Lord Jesus Messiah, and I with you in spirit, together with the energy of our Lord Jesus Messiah; ⁵ and that ye deliver him over to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that in spirit he may have life, in the day of our Lord Jesus Messiah.

¹² And if others have this prerogative over you, doth it not belong still more to us? Yet we have not used this prerogative; but we have endured every thing, that we might in nothing impede the announcement of the Messiah. ¹³ Know ye not, that they who serve in a temple, are fed from the temple? And they who serve at the altar, participate with the altar? ¹⁴ Thus also hath our Lord commanded, that they who proclaim his gospel, should live by his gospel. ¹⁵ But I have used none of these things: and I write not, that it may be so done to me; for it would be better for me to actually die, than that any one should make void my glorying.

¹⁸ What then is my reward? It is, that when I preach, I make the announcement of the Messiah without cost, and use not the prerogative given me in the gospel.

¹ Be ye imitators of me, as I am of the Messiah.

¹⁰ And if Timothy come to you, see that he may be without fear among you; for he doeth the work of the Lord, as I do. ¹¹ Therefore, let no one despise him; but conduct him on in peace, that he may come to me; for I wait for him with the brethren.

¹⁶ and to pass by you into Macedonia, and again to come to you from Macedonia, and so ye would accompany me to Judaea.

¹ Therefore, we are not weary in this ministry which we have received, according to the mercies that have been upon us: ² But we have renounced the concealments of dishonor, and we walk not in craftiness, nor do we treat the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth, we exhibit ourselves to all the consciences of men before God. ³ And if our gospel is vailed, it is vailed to them that perish;

⁵ For it is not ourselves that we preach, but the Messiah, Jesus our Lord; and, as to ourselves, that we are your servants for Jesus' sake.

¹ And as aiders we entreat of you, that the grace of God which ye have received, may not be ineffectual in you.

² Bear with us, my brethren; we have done evil to no one; we have corrupted no one; we have wronged no one. ³ I speak thus, not to condemn you; for I have said before, that ye are treasured in our hearts, to die and to live together.

⁶ But God who comforteth the depressed, comforted us by the arrival of Titus. ⁷ And not merely by his arrival, but also by the refreshing with which he was refreshed by you. For he told us of your love towards us, and of your grief, and of your zeal in our behalf: and when I heard it, my joy was great.

²³ And therefore, if Titus be inquired about, he is my associate and assistant among you: or if our other brethren, they are the legates of the churches of the Messiah's glory.

¹ Now I, Paul, beseech you, by the mildness and gentleness of the Messiah, although I am mild towards you when present, but bold towards you when absent! ² yet I beseech of you that, when I come, I may not be compelled by the boldness that is in me to be daring, as I estimate it, towards the persons who think we walk according to the flesh. ³ For, although we walk in the flesh, our warfare is not after the flesh. ⁴ For the arms of our warfare are not those of the flesh, but those of the power of God; by which we subdue rebellious castles. ⁵ And we demolish imaginations, and every lofty thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and subjugate all reasonings to obedience to the Messiah. ⁶ And we are prepared, when your obedience shall be complete, to execute judgment on all the disobeying. ⁷ Do ye look on outward appearances? If any one is confident in himself that he is of the Messiah, let him know, from himself, that as he is of the Messiah, so also are we. ⁸ For if I should glory somewhat more, in the authority which our Lord hath given me, I should not be ashamed; for he gave it to us for your edification, and not for your destruction. ⁹ But I forbear, lest I should be thought to terrify you terribly, by my epistles. ¹⁰ For there are some who say, His epistles are weighty and forcible, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. ¹¹ But let him who saith so, consider this, that such as we are in our epistolary discourse, when absent, such also are we in action, when present.

⁷ Did I indeed commit an offence, by humbling myself that ye might be exalted? and by proclaiming the gospel of God to you gratis? ⁸ And I robbed other churches, and I took pay of them for ministering to you. ⁹ And when I came among you and was needy, I was burdensome to none of you; for the brethren who came from Macedonia, supplied my wants: and in all things I kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.

¹³ For in what fell ye short of the other churches; except in this, that I was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this fault.

² I have before said to you, and again I say to you beforehand, (as also I said to you a second time, while I was with you; and now also, while absent, I write to those who have sinned and to the others,) that if I come again, I will not spare:

¹⁴ And when I saw, that they did not walk correctly, in the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas, before them all: If thou art a Jew, and livest in the Gentile way, and not in the Jewish, why dost thou compel the Gentiles to live in the Jewish way?

¹⁹ Ye are my children, of whom I travail in birth again, till the Messiah be formed in you.

¹⁶ And I say: Walk ye in the Spirit; and never follow the cravings of the flesh.

¹⁰ Now, therefore, while we have the opportunity, let us practice good works towards all men, and especially towards them of the household of faith.

¹⁵ Therefore, lo I also, since I heard of your faith in our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and of your love towards all the saints, ¹⁶ cease not to give thanks on your account, and to remember you in my prayers;

¹ Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dear children:

²³ Peace be with the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

⁴ in all my prayers respecting you; and while I rejoice, I adore;

³ And do nothing in strife, or in vain glory; but, with lowliness of mind, let each esteem his neighbor as better than himself. ⁴ And let not each be solicitous only for himself, but every one also for his neighbor.

⁴ And let not each be solicitous only for himself, but every one also for his neighbor. ⁵ And think ye so in yourselves, as Jesus the Messiah also thought;

²⁷ And indeed he was sick, nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him: nor was it on him only, but also on me, that I might not have trouble upon trouble.

¹⁷ Be like me, my brethren; and contemplate them, who walk after the pattern ye have seen in us.

³ I also beseech of thee, my true yokefellow, that thou assist those women who toiled with me in the gospel; together with Clement, and with the rest of my helpers, whose names are written in the book of life.

¹⁴ Yet ye have done well, in that ye communicated to my necessities.

⁴ lo, ever since we heard of your faith in Jesus the Messiah, and of your love to all the saints; ⁵ because of the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, of which ye heard before in the word of truth of the gospel; ⁶ which is announced to you, as also to all the world; and which groweth and yieldeth fruits, as it doth also among you from the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in reality: ⁷ as ye learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister of the Messiah; ⁸ and who hath made known to us your love in the Spirit.

¹⁰ that ye may walk as is right, and may please God with all good works, and may yield fruits, and grow in the knowledge of God;

²⁴ And I rejoice in the sufferings which are for your sakes; and, in my flesh, I fill up the deficiency in the afflictions of the Messiah, in behalf of his body, which is the church;

¹⁷ And whatever ye do in word or act, do it in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and give thanksgiving through him to God the Father.

¹¹ also Jesus, who is called Justus. These are of the circumcision, and they only have aided me in the kingdom of God; and they have been a comfort to me.

³ and we call to mind before God the Father the works of your faith, and the toil of your love, and the patience of your hope in our Lord Jesus the Messiah. ⁴ For we know your election, my brethren, beloved of God. ⁵ For our preaching among you, was not in words only; but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in genuine persuasion. Ye also know, how we were among you for your sakes. ⁶ And ye became imitators of us, and of our Lord, in that ye received the word in great affliction, and with the joy of the Holy Spirit.

⁶ And ye became imitators of us, and of our Lord, in that ye received the word in great affliction, and with the joy of the Holy Spirit. ⁷ And ye were a pattern for all the believers who are in Macedonia and in Achaia. ⁸ For from you the word of our Lord sounded forth; and not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place, your faith in God is heard of; so that we have no need to say any thing concerning you. ⁹ For they declare, what an ingress we had to you, and how ye turned from the worship of idols unto God, that ye might worship the living and true God; ¹⁰ while ye wait for his Son from heaven, that Jesus whom he raised from the dead, who delivereth us from the wrath to come.

¹² and we charged you, to walk as it becometh God, who hath called you to his kingdom and his glory. ¹³ Therefore also we give thanks unceasingly to God, that the word of God which ye received from us, ye did not receive as the word of men, but as being truly the word of God, which worketh efficiently in you and in them that believe. ¹⁴ For ye, my brethren, became assimilated to the churches of God in Judaea, the persons who are in Jesus the Messiah; in that ye so suffered, even ye from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,

¹⁴ For ye, my brethren, became assimilated to the churches of God in Judaea, the persons who are in Jesus the Messiah; in that ye so suffered, even ye from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,

¹⁹ For what is our hope, and our joy, and the crown of our glorying; unless it be ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming? ²⁰ For ye are our glory, and our joy.

² and to send to you Timothy our brother, a servant of God, and our assistant in the announcement of the Messiah; that he might strengthen you, and inquire of you respecting your faith:

⁶ But now, since Timothy hath come to us from among you, and hath informed us respecting your faith and your love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us at all times, and that ye desire to see us, even as we to see you; ⁷ therefore we are comforted in you, my brethren, amid all our straits and afflictions, on account of your faith. ⁸ And now, we live, if ye stand fast in our Lord. ⁹ For what thanks can we render to God in your behalf, for all the joy with which we are joyful on your account;

¹² and that ye walk becomingly towards those without; and that ye be dependent on no man.

³ We are bound to give thanks to God always, on your account, my brethren, as it is proper; because your faith groweth exceedingly, and, in you all, the love of each for his fellow increaseth.

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks to God always, on your account, my brethren beloved of our Lord, that God hath from the beginning chosen you unto life, through sanctification of the Spirit, and through faith in the truth.

² to Timothy, my true son in the faith: grace and mercy and peace, from God our Father, and the Messiah, Jesus our Lord.

⁷ And there ought to be good testimony of him from those without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of Satan.

² to Timothy a beloved son; grace, and mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

¹⁰ But thou hast followed after my doctrine, and my manner of life, and my aims, and my faith, and my long suffering, and my love, and my patience,

⁷ For an elder ought to be blameless, as the steward of God; and not be self-willed, nor irascible, nor excessive in wine, nor with hands swift to strike, nor a lover of base gains. ⁸ But he should be a lover of strangers, and a lover of good deeds, and be sober, upright, kind-hearted, and restraining himself from evil passions; ⁹ and studious of the doctrine of the word of faith, that he may be able by his wholesome teaching both to console, and to rebuke them that are contentious. ¹⁰ For many are unsubmissive, and their discourses vain; and they mislead the minds of people, especially such as are of the circumcision. ¹¹ The mouth of these ought to be stopped: they corrupt many families; and they teach what they ought not, for the sake of base gains. ¹² One of them, a prophet of their own, said, The Cretans are always mendacious, evil beasts, idle bellies. ¹³ And this testimony is true. Therefore chide them sharply; that they may be sound in the faith, ¹⁴ and may not throw themselves into Jewish fables, and into the precepts of men who hate the truth. ¹⁵ For to the pure, every thing is pure; but to them who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their understanding is defiled, and their conscience. ¹⁶ And they profess that they know God, but in their works they deny him; and they are odious, and disobedient, and to every good work reprobates.

¹³ As for Zenas the scribe, and Apollos, endeavor to help them well on their way, that they may want nothing.

² and to our beloved Apphia, and to Archippus a laborer with us, and to the church in thy house.

⁵ lo, from the time that I heard of thy faith, and of the love thou hast towards our Lord Jesus, and towards all the saints; ⁶ that there may be a fellowship of thy faith, yielding fruits in works, and in the knowledge of all the good things ye possess in Jesus the Messiah. ⁷ For we have great joy and consolation, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thy love.

¹⁰ I beseech thee for my son, whom I had begotten in my bonds for Onesimus;

²⁴ and Mark, and Aristarchus, and Demas, and Luke, my coadjutors.

¹² and that ye faint not; but that ye be emulators of them who by faith and patience have become heirs of the promise.

¹² But above all things, my brethren, swear ye not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your language be yes, yes, and no, no, lest ye become obnoxious to judgment.

²⁰ But they who endure afflictions on account of their offences, what praise have they? But if, when ye do well, they vex you, and ye endure it; then great is your praise with God.

¹¹ let him turn away from evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and follow after it.

¹³ And who will do you harm, if ye are zealous of good works?

⁸ And above all things, have fervent love one towards another; for love covereth a multitude of sins.

¹⁰ And let each of you minister to his associates the gift which he hath received from God; as being good stewards of the manifold grace of God. ¹¹ Whoever will speak, let him speak as the word of God: and whoever will minister, as of the ability that God hath given him: so that in all ye do, God may be glorified, through Jesus the Messiah; to whom belongeth glory, and honor, for ever and ever. Amen.

¹⁴ Salute ye one another with a holy kiss. Peace be with you all, who are in the Messiah. Amen.

³ as the giver to us of all things that be of the power of God, unto life and the fear of God, through the recognition of him who hath called us unto his own glory and moral excellence: ⁴ wherein he hath given you very great and precious promises; that by them ye might become partakers of the nature of God, while ye flee from the corruptions of the lusts that are in the world. ⁵ And, while ye apply all diligence in the matter, add to your faith moral excellence; and to moral excellence, knowledge; ⁶ and to knowledge, perseverance; and to perseverance, patience; and to patience, the fear of God; ⁷ and to the fear of God, sympathy with the brotherhood; and to sympathy with the brotherhood, love. ⁸ For, while these are found in you, and abounding, they render you not slothful, and not unfruitful, in the recognition of our Lord Jesus the Messiah. ⁹ For he, in whom these things are not found, is blind and seeth not, and hath forgotten the purgation of his former sins.

¹⁸ But be ye growing in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Redeemer Jesus the Messiah, and of God the Father: whose is the glory, now, and always, and to the days of eternity. Amen.

²⁹ If ye know that he is righteous, ye also know, that whoever doeth righteousness, is from him.

⁶ And every one that abideth in him, sinneth not: and every one that sinneth, hath not seen him, nor hath known him. ⁷ My children, let no one deceive you: he that doeth righteousness, is righteous, as the Messiah also is righteous. ⁸ And he that committeth sin, is of Satan; because Satan was a sinner from the beginning: and for this cause, the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of Satan. ⁹ Every one that is born of God, doth not practise sin; because his seed is in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

¹⁸ My children, let us not love one another in words and in tongue, but in acts and in truth.

¹ THE Elder, to Kuria the elect, and to her children: whom I love in the truth, and not I only, but all they who know the truth; ² for the sake of the truth, which abideth in us and is with us for ever.

² for the sake of the truth, which abideth in us and is with us for ever. ³ May grace be with you, and mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. ⁴ I have rejoiced greatly, that I found some of thy children, who walked in the truth, as we have received commandment from the Father.

⁴ I have rejoiced greatly, that I found some of thy children, who walked in the truth, as we have received commandment from the Father. ⁵ And now, I beseech thee, Kuria, (I write no new commandment to thee, but that which was with us from the beginning,) that we should love one another. ⁶ And this is love, that we walk according to the commandment. This is the commandment, as ye have heard from the beginning, that we should walk in it. ⁷ Because many seducers have gone forth into the world, who confess not that Jesus the Messiah hath come in the flesh. This is a seducer and Antichrist. ⁸ Take heed to yourselves, that ye lose not what ye have wrought; but that ye may be recompensed with a full reward. ⁹ Every one who transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of the Messiah, God is not in him. And he who abideth in his doctrine, he hath the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If any one cometh to you, and bringeth not this doctrine, entertain him not in your house, nor say to him, Joy to thee: ¹¹ for he that saith to him, Joy to thee, is a participator in his evil deeds. ¹² Having many things I could write to you, I would not with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you, and to converse mouth to mouth, that our joy may be complete.

¹² Having many things I could write to you, I would not with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you, and to converse mouth to mouth, that our joy may be complete. ¹³ The children of thy elect sister salute thee. Grace be with you. Amen.

³ For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified concerning thy integrity, even as thou walkest in the truth. ⁴ And I have no greater joy, than to hear that my children walk in the truth.

⁴ And I have no greater joy, than to hear that my children walk in the truth. ⁵ Our beloved, thou doest in faith, what thou performest towards the brethren; and especially towards strangers,

⁵ Our beloved, thou doest in faith, what thou performest towards the brethren; and especially towards strangers, ⁶ who have borne testimony to thy charity before the whole church, to whom thou doest good, as is pleasing to God.

⁸ We therefore ought to receive such persons, that we may be aiders of the truth.

¹⁰ Therefore, if he come, remember those his doings, that he treated us with malignant words; and this not sufficing him, he received not the brethren; and those who would receive them, he prohibited, and even ejected them from the church.

¹² Of Demetrius, there is good testimony from every one, and from the church, and from the truth itself: and we also bear him testimony, and ye know that our testimony is true.

³ And thou hast had patience, and hast borne the burden, on account of my name, and hast not fainted.

⁹ I know thy works, and the affliction, and the poverty, (yet thou art rich;) and the railing which is from them who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are of the congregation of Satan.