Matthew 7 Cross References - Murdock

¹ Judge not, that ye be not judged. ² For with the judgment that ye judge, ye shall be judged; and by the measure that ye measure, shall it be measured to you. ³ And why observest thou the straw in thy brother's eye, and regardest not the beam that is in thine own eye? ⁴ Or how canst thou say to thy brother, Allow me to pluck the straw from thy eye; and lo! a beam is in thy own eye. ⁵ Thou hypocrite; pluck first the beam from thy own eye; and then thou wilt see clearly, to pluck the straw out of thy brother's eye. ⁶ Give not a holy thing to dogs: and cast not your pearls before swine; lest they tread them under their feet, and turn and lacerate you. ⁷ Ask, and it shall be given to you: seek, and ye shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. ⁸ For, every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. ⁹ For what man is there among you, of whom if his son ask bread, will he reach him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he ask of him a fish, will he reach him a serpent? ¹¹ If ye then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? ¹² Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you; so also do ye to them: for this is the law and the prophets. ¹³ Enter ye in by the strait gate; for wide is the gate and broad the way which leadeth to destruction; and many are they that walk in it. ¹⁴ How small the gate and straitened the way that leadeth to life, and few they who find it! ¹⁵ Beware of false prophets; who come to you in the garb of sheep, but internally they are rapacious wolves. ¹⁶ And from their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes; or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ So every good tree beareth good fruits; but a bad tree beareth bad fruits. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot bear bad fruits; nor can a bad tree bear good fruits. ¹⁹ Every tree that beareth not good fruits, is cut down and consigned to the fire. ²⁰ Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know them. ²¹ Not whoever may say to me, My Lord, my Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven. ²² Many will say to me in that day, My Lord, my Lord, have-we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name cast out demons? and in thy name wrought many works of power? ²³ And then will I declare to them; I never knew you. Depart from me, ye doers of evil. ²⁴ Every one therefore that heareth these my discourses, and doeth them, will be like to a wise man, one that built his house upon a rock. ²⁵ And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew; and they rushed upon that house; and it fell not, for its foundations were laid upon a rock. ²⁶ And every one that heareth these my discourses, and doeth them not, will be like a foolish man that built his house upon sand. ²⁷ And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew; and they rushed upon that house, and it fell; and great was the ruin of it. ²⁸ And so it was, that when Jesus had ended these discourses, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching: ²⁹ for he taught them as one having authority; and not as their Scribes and Pharisees.

² and said: Repent; the kingdom of heaven hath approached.

⁸ Bring forth the fruits therefore, that accord with repentance.

¹⁰ And lo, the ax is put to the root of trees. Every tree, therefore, which beareth not good fruit, is felled, and falleth into the fire.

³ Blessed are the poor in spirit for the kingdom of heaven is theirs! ⁴ Blessed are the mourners: for they shall be comforted! ⁵ Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth! ⁶ Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they shall be satiated! ⁷ Blessed are the merciful: for on them shall be mercies! ⁸ Blessed are the clean in heart: for they shall behold God! ⁹ Blessed are the cultivators of peace: for they shall be called sons of God! ¹⁰ Blessed are they that are persecuted on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs! ¹¹ Blessed are ye, when they revile you and persecute you, and speak every evil thing against you, falsely, on my account. ¹² At that time, rejoice and be glad: for your reward in heaven is great. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.

²⁰ For I say to you, that unless your righteousness shall abound more than that of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

²⁸ But I say to you, That whoever gazeth on a woman with concupiscence, at once committeth adultery with her in his heart.

²⁸ But I say to you, That whoever gazeth on a woman with concupiscence, at once committeth adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ If therefore thy right eye make thee offend, pluck it out, and cast it from thee; because it is better for thee that thy one member perish, than that thy whole body fall into hell. ³⁰ And if thy right hand make thee offend, cut it off, and cast it from thee; because it is better for thee that one of thy members perish, than that thy whole body fall into hell. ³¹ It hath been said, That if a man will put away his wife, he must give her a writing of divorcement. ³² But I say to you, That whoever putteth away his wife, except for the offence of whoredom, causeth her to commit adultery: and he that taketh the divorced woman, committeth adultery.

³² But I say to you, That whoever putteth away his wife, except for the offence of whoredom, causeth her to commit adultery: and he that taketh the divorced woman, committeth adultery.

⁴⁴ But I say to you: Love your enemies; and bless him that curseth you; and do good to him that hateth you; and pray for them that lead you in bonds, and that persecute you:

¹⁴ For if ye forgive men their faults, your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you. ¹⁵ But if ye shall not forgive men, your Father also forgiveth not you your faults.

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust spoil, and where thieves dig through and steal. ²⁰ But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where no moth and no rust can spoil, and no thieves dig through nor steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there will your heart also be.

³³ But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness: and all these things shall be added to you.

² For with the judgment that ye judge, ye shall be judged; and by the measure that ye measure, shall it be measured to you.

⁵ Thou hypocrite; pluck first the beam from thy own eye; and then thou wilt see clearly, to pluck the straw out of thy brother's eye.

⁷ Ask, and it shall be given to you: seek, and ye shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. ⁸ For, every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

⁸ For, every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

¹¹ If ye then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

¹³ Enter ye in by the strait gate; for wide is the gate and broad the way which leadeth to destruction; and many are they that walk in it. ¹⁴ How small the gate and straitened the way that leadeth to life, and few they who find it!

¹⁶ And from their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes; or figs from thistles?

²⁰ Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know them. ²¹ Not whoever may say to me, My Lord, my Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent forth: and he commanded them and said: Go not in the way of the Gentiles: and enter not the cities of the Samaritans. ⁶ But, go ye rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷ And as ye go, proclaim and say: The kingdom of heaven hath approached. ⁸ Heal ye the sick; cleanse the leprous; raise the dead; and cast out demons. Freely ye have received; freely give.

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. ¹⁵ Verily I say to you, that it will be comfortable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, rather than for that city.

¹⁵ Verily I say to you, that it will be comfortable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, rather than for that city.

¹⁷ And beware of men; for they will deliver you over to the tribunals, and will scourge you in their synagogues.

³² Wherefore, whoever shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven. ³³ But whoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.

¹ And when Jesus had ended the instructions to his twelve disciples, he went from there, to teach and to proclaim in their cities.

³³ Either make the tree good, and its fruits good; or make the tree bad, and its fruits bad: for a tree is known by its fruits.

³³ Either make the tree good, and its fruits good; or make the tree bad, and its fruits bad: for a tree is known by its fruits. ³⁴ Offspring of vipers, how can ye who are evil, speak good things? For out of the fullnesses of the heart the mouth speaketh. ³⁵ A good man out of good treasures bringeth forth good things, and a bad man out of bad treasures bringeth forth bad things.

⁴³ And when an unclean spirit goeth out of a man, it wandereth in places where is no water, and seeketh comfort and findeth it not. ⁴⁴ Then it saith: I will return to my house, from which I came out. And it cometh, and findeth it vacated, and swept clean, and set in order. ⁴⁵ So it goeth and taketh with it seven other spirits, worse than itself, and they enter and dwell in it; and the end of that man is worse than his beginning. So will it be to this evil generation.

⁵⁰ For every one that doeth the good pleasure of my Father who is in heaven, that person is my brother, and my sister, and my mother.

¹⁹ Every one that heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, the evil one cometh and snatcheth away the seed sowed in his heart: this is what was sowed by the side of the path. ²⁰ And that which was sowed on the rock, is he that heareth the word, and at once receiveth it with joy. ²¹ Yet hath he no root in him, but is of short duration, and when there is trouble or persecution on account of the word, he soon stumbleth. ²² And that which was sowed among thorns, is he that heareth the word; and care for this world and the deceptiveness of riches, choke the word; and he is without fruits.

⁵³ And it was so, that when Jesus had ended these similitudes, he departed thence. ⁵⁴ And he entered into his own city. And he taught them in their synagogues, in such manner that they wondered, and said: Whence hath he this wisdom and these works of power?

¹ Then came to Jesus Pharisees and Scribes that were from Jerusalem, and said: ² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders, and wash not their hands when they eat bread? ³ Jesus replied and said to them: Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, on account of your tradition? ⁴ For God hath said: Honor thy father, and thy mother; and he that revileth his father or his mother, shall be put to death. ⁵ But ye say Whosoever shall say to a father or to a mother, Be that my offering, by which ye get profit from me: then he must not honor his father or his mother. ⁶ And thus ye make void the word of God, for the sake of your tradition. ⁷ Ye hypocrites, well did the prophet Isaiah prophesy of you, and say : ⁸ This people honoreth me with the lips, but their heart is far from me. ⁹ And in vain they pay me homage, while they teach doctrines that are the precepts of men.

²² And lo, a woman, a Canaanitess from those confines, came forth, calling out and saying: Compassionate me, my Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grievously distressed by a demon. ²³ But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and requested of him, and said: Send her away, for she crieth after us. ²⁴ But he answered and said to them: I am not sent, except to the sheep that have strayed from the house of Israel. ²⁵ And she came, and worshipped him, and said: Help me, my Lord. ²⁶ Jesus said to her: It is not proper, to take the bread of the children and throw it to the dogs.

²⁶ Jesus said to her: It is not proper, to take the bread of the children and throw it to the dogs. ²⁷ And she said: Even so, my Lord; yet the dogs eat of the fragments that fall from the tables of their masters, and live. ²⁸ Then Jesus said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: be it to thee, as thou desirest. And her daughter was cured from that hour.

⁶ And he said to them: Take heed, and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

¹¹ How is it that ye do not understand that it was not concerning bread that I spoke to you; but that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

¹⁷ Jesus answered, and said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon son of Jonas; for flesh and blood have not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. ¹⁸ Also I say to thee, that thou art Cephas: and upon this rock, I will build my church: and the gates of death shall not triumph over it.

²⁴ Then said Jesus to his disciples: If any one desireth to come after me, let him deny himself; and let him bear his cross, and come after me. ²⁵ For, whoever chooseth to preserve his life, shall lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake, shall find it.

² And Jesus called a child, and placed him in the midst of them, ³ and said: Verily I say to you, that unless ye be converted, and become like children, ye will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

³ and said: Verily I say to you, that unless ye be converted, and become like children, ye will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

¹⁰ See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, That their angels in heaven, at all times, are beholding the face of my Father who is in heaven.

¹⁹ Again I say to you, That if two of you shall agree on earth concerning any thing that they shall ask, it shall be to them from my Father who is in heaven.

³⁵ So will my Father who is in heaven do to you, unless ye from your heart forgive each his brother his offence.

¹ And when Jesus had ended these discourses, he removed from Galilee, and came to the confines of Judaea on the other side of Jordan.

²⁴ And again, I say to you: It is easier for a camel to enter the aperture of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God

¹⁶ Thus the last shall be first, and the first last: for the called are many, but the chosen are few.

¹⁹ And he saw a fig-tree by the way, and came to it and found nothing on it, except leaves only. And he said to it: There shall no more be fruit on thee for ever. And immediately the fig-tree withered. ²⁰ And the disciples saw it, and admired, and said: How suddenly hath the fig-tree withered!

²² And whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, and shall believe, ye shall receive. ²³ And when Jesus came to the temple, the chief priests and the Elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said to him: By what authority doest thou these things? And who gave thee this authority? ²⁴ Jesus replied and said to them: I also will ask you one question, and if ye will tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. ²⁵ The baptism of John, from whence was it? From heaven, or from men? And they reasoned among themselves, and said: If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Why did ye not believe in him? ²⁶ And if we should say, From men; we are afraid of the multitude, for they all hold John as a prophet. ²⁷ And they answered, and said to him: We do not know. Jesus said to them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

²⁹ And he answered and said, I am not willing. But afterwards he repented and went. ³⁰ And he came to the other, and said the same to him. And he answered and said: I go, my lord, but did not go. ³¹ Which of these two performed the pleasure of his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you That publicans and harlots go before you into the kingdom of God.

⁵ But they showed contempt, and went away, one to his farm, and another to his merchandise; ⁶ and the rest seized his servants, and abused them, and slew them.

¹⁴ For the called are many, and the chosen are few.

¹⁸ But Jesus knew their wickedness, and said: Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?

³³ And when the multitude heard it they were astonished at his doctrine.

³⁹ And the second, which is like it, is, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. ⁴⁰ On these two commands hang the law and the prophets.

² and said to them: The Scribes and Pharisees sit in the seat of Moses. ³ Whatever therefore they tell you to observe, that observe and do. But according to their deeds, practise ye not: for they say, and do not. 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,

¹³ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye devour the houses of widows, under the disguise of protracting your prayers. Therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation.

¹³ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye devour the houses of widows, under the disguise of protracting your prayers. Therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation. ¹⁴ Woe to you. Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye hold the kingdom of heaven closed before men; for ye enter not yourselves, and those that would enter ye suffer not to enter. ¹⁵ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye traverse sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained, ye make him a child of hell twofold more than yourselves.

¹⁵ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye traverse sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained, ye make him a child of hell twofold more than yourselves. ¹⁶ Woe to you, ye blind guides: for ye say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold that is in the temple, he is holden.

¹⁶ Woe to you, ye blind guides: for ye say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold that is in the temple, he is holden. ¹⁷ Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

¹⁷ Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? ¹⁸ And, whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing: but whoever shall swear by the oblation upon it, he is holden.

¹⁸ And, whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing: but whoever shall swear by the oblation upon it, he is holden. ¹⁹ Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the oblation, or the altar that sanctifieth the oblation?

¹⁹ Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the oblation, or the altar that sanctifieth the oblation? ²⁰ He therefore who sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all that is upon it.

²⁰ He therefore who sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all that is upon it. ²¹ And he who sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it.

²¹ And he who sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it. ²² And he who sweareth by heaven, sweareth by throne of God, and by him that sitteth on it.

²² And he who sweareth by heaven, sweareth by throne of God, and by him that sitteth on it. ²³ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and omit the graver matters of the law, judgment, and mercy, and fidelity: these ought ye to do, and those not to omit.

²³ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and omit the graver matters of the law, judgment, and mercy, and fidelity: these ought ye to do, and those not to omit. ²⁴ Ye blind guides, who strain out gnats, and swallow down camels.

²⁴ Ye blind guides, who strain out gnats, and swallow down camels. ²⁵ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, while within they are full of rapine and wickedness. ²⁶ Ye blind Pharisees, cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, that their outside may be clean also. ²⁷ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear comely without, but are within full of bones of the dead and all impurity. ²⁸ So ye also, outwardly, appear to men as righteous; but within, ye are full of iniquity and hypocrisy.

⁴ Jesus answered and said to them: Take heed, that no one deceive you. ⁵ For many will come in my name, and will say, I am the Messiah: and they will deceive many.

¹⁰ Then many will be stumbled: and they will hate one another, and will betray one another. ¹¹ And many false prophets will rise up; and they will deceive many.

²⁴ For there will arise false Messiahs, and mendacious prophets; who will exhibit great signs, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect. ²⁵ Behold, I have told you beforehand.

³⁶ But of that day and of that hour, knoweth no man, nor even the angels of heaven, but the Father only.

¹ Then may the kingdom of heaven be shadowed forth by ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom and bride. ² And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. ³ And the foolish took their lamps, but took no oil with them. ⁴ But the wise took oil in vessels, with their lamps. ⁵ And while the bridegroom delayed, they all became sleepy and fell asleep. ⁶ And at midnight there was an outcry: Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. ⁷ Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. ⁸ And the foolish said to the wise; Give us of your oil; for, behold, our lamps have gone out. ⁹ The wise answered and said: We must refuse, lest there should not be enough for us and for you: but go ye to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. ¹⁰ And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready, went with him into the house of the nuptials, and the door was shut. ¹¹ And at length came also the other virgins, and said: Our lord, our lord, open to us.

¹¹ And at length came also the other virgins, and said: Our lord, our lord, open to us. ¹² But he answered, and said to them: Verily I say to you, I know you not.

¹² But he answered, and said to them: Verily I say to you, I know you not.

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.

⁴¹ Then will he say also to them on his left hand: Go from me, ye accursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the Calumniator and his angels,

⁴⁶ And these will go into everlasting torment, and the righteous into everlasting life.

¹ And it came to pass, when Jesus had concluded all these discourses, that he said to his disciples:

³⁹ And retiring a little, he fell on his face, and prayed, and said: My Father, if it can be so, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I choose, but as thou.

⁴² Again he went away the second time, and prayed, and said: My Father, if it cannot be that this cup pass, except I drink it, thy will be done.

¹⁸ And Jesus came near, and discoursed with them, and said to them: All authority is given to me, in heaven and on earth. And as my Father sent me, so also I send you.

²² And they were astonished at his doctrine; for he taught them, as having authority, and not as their Scribes.

³⁵ For whoever shall do the pleasure of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and my mother.

²⁴ And he said to them: Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you: and there shall more be given to you who hear.

² And when the sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue. And many who heard him were astonished, and said: Whence hath he obtained these things? And, what wisdom is this, which is given to him! and that such mighty works are done by his hands!

⁵ And the Scribes and Pharisees asked him: Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the Elders, but eat bread with their hands unwashed? ⁶ And he said to them: Well did Isaiah the prophet prophecy concerning you, ye hypocrites; as it is written: This people honoreth me with its lips, but their heart is very far from me. ⁷ And in vain do they give me reverence, while teaching as doctrines the precepts of men. ⁸ For ye have forsaken the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men, the baptisms of cups, and of pots, and many things like these. ⁹ He said also to them: Full well do ye spurn the precept of God, that ye may establish your tradition! ¹⁰ For Moses said: Honor thy father and thy mother; and whoever shall revile his father or his mother, shall surely die. ¹¹ But ye say: If a man say to his father or to his mother, Be it my oblation, whatever thou mayest gain from me: ¹² then ye suffer him not to do any thing for his father or his mother. ¹³ And ye reject the word of God, on account of the tradition which ye hand down. And many things like these, ye do.

³⁴ And Jesus called the multitude, together with his disciples, and said to them: Whoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and come after me.

⁴⁷ And if thy eye make thee offend, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter with one eye into the kingdom of God, than, having two eyes, to fall into the hell of fire;

²³ And Jesus looked upon his disciples, and said to them: How hard for those who possess wealth, to enter into the kingdom of God! ²⁴ And the disciples wondered at the remark. And Jesus, replied again, and said to them: My children, how hard it is, for those who trust in riches, to enter into the kingdom of God.

¹⁸ And the chief priests and the Scribes heard him, and they sought how they might destroy him; for they were afraid of him, because all the people admired his doctrine. (l9) And when it was evening, they went out from the city.

²⁴ Therefore I say to you, That whatsoever ye shall pray and ask for, believe that it will be, and it will be to you.

²⁹ Jesus said to him: The first of all the commandments is: Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord: ³⁰ and thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy might. This is the first commandment. ³¹ And the second, which is like it, is: Thou shalt love thy neighbor, as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these. ³² The Scribe said to him: Excellently! Rabbi; thou hast spoken the truth; for he is one God, and there is no other beside him. ³³ And for a man to love him, with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the soul, and with all the might; and to love his neighbor, as himself; is better than all holocausts and sacrifices. ³⁴ And Jesus perceived that he replied wisely; and he answered, and said to him: Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no one dared again to question him.

³⁸ And he said to them in his teaching Beware of the Scribes, who choose to walk in long robes, and love the salutation in the streets, ³⁹ and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the chief couches at feasts. ⁴⁰ They devour the houses of widows, under pretence that they prolong their prayers. These shall receive a greater condemnation.

²² For false Messiahs will arise, and lying prophets; and they will give signs and wonders; and will deceive, if possible, even the elect. ²³ But take ye heed. Lo, I have told you the whole beforehand.

¹⁰ And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold I announce to you great joy, which will be to all the world. ¹¹ For there is born to you this day a deliverer, who is the Lord Messiah, in the city of David

⁹ And lo, the ax is put to the root of trees. Every tree therefore that beareth not good fruits, is hewed down, and falleth into the fire.

²² And all bare him witness, and admired the gracious words which proceeded from his mouth; and they said: Is not this the son of Joseph? ²³ Jesus said to them: Perhaps, ye will speak to me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: and whatever we have heard of thy doing in Capernaum, do thou here also in thy city.

³² And they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was authoritative.

²⁶ Woe to you, when men shall speak your praise; for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

³¹ And as ye would that men should do to you, so do ye also to them.

³⁷ Judge not, and ye will not be judged: condemn not, and ye will not be condemned: release, and ye will be released. ³⁸ Give ye, and it will be given to you; in good measure, pressed down, and running over, will they cast into your lap. For, with what measure ye measure, it will be measured to you.

⁴¹ And why observest thou the straw that is in thy brother's eye, but regardest not the beam that is in thy own eye?

⁴¹ And why observest thou the straw that is in thy brother's eye, but regardest not the beam that is in thy own eye? ⁴² Or how canst thou say to thy brothers, My brother, allow me to pluck the straw from thy eye; when, lo, the beam that is in thy own eye, thou regardest not. Hypocrite! first cast the beam out thy eye, and then thy vision will be clear to pluck the straw from thy brother's eye.

⁴² Or how canst thou say to thy brothers, My brother, allow me to pluck the straw from thy eye; when, lo, the beam that is in thy own eye, thou regardest not. Hypocrite! first cast the beam out thy eye, and then thy vision will be clear to pluck the straw from thy brother's eye. ⁴³ There is no good tree, that beareth bad fruits; nor a bad tree, that beareth good fruits. ⁴⁴ For every tree is known by its fruits. Do men gather figs from thorn-bushes? So, neither do they pluck grapes from brambles. ⁴⁵ A good man, from the good treasure that is in his heart, bringeth out good things: and a bad man, from the bad treasure that is in his heart, bringeth out bad things. For, from the abundance of the heart, the lips speak. ⁴⁶ And why call ye me, My Lord, my Lord; while ye do not that which I command you? ⁴⁷ Every one that cometh to me, and heareth my words, and doeth them, I will show to whom he is like: ⁴⁸ He is like a man that built a house; and he dug and went deep, and laid the foundations on a rock: and when a flood occurred, the flood rushed upon that house, and could not move it, for its foundation rested on a rock. ⁴⁹ But he that heareth and doeth not, is like a man that built his house upon the earth, without a foundation; and when the torrent rushed upon it, it fell immediately, and the ruin of that house was great.

⁴⁹ But he that heareth and doeth not, is like a man that built his house upon the earth, without a foundation; and when the torrent rushed upon it, it fell immediately, and the ruin of that house was great.

³³ And when they began t to retire from him, Simon said to Jesus: Rabbi, it is delightful for us to be here. And let us make here three booths, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah. But he knew not what he said.

¹² I say to you, that for Sodom there will be comfort in that day, rather than for that city.

⁹ I say also to you: Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and ye will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. ¹⁰ For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it is opened. ¹¹ For which of you being a father, if his son shall ask him for bread, will he reach to him a stone? Or, if he ask of him a fish, will he, instead of a fish, reach to him a serpent? ¹² Or, if he ask of him an egg, will he reach to him a scorpion? ¹³ And if ye, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

²⁸ He said to her: Blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.

¹⁵ And he said to his disciples: Beware of all avarice, for life consisteth not in abundance of riches.

³² Fear not, little flock; for your Father is disposed to give you the kingdom

⁵⁶ Ye hypocrites, ye know how to distinguish the aspect of the heavens and the earth; and why can ye not distinguish the present time?

⁶ And he spoke this similitude: A man had a fig-tree that was planted in his vineyard: and he came, seeking fruits upon it, and found none. ⁷ And he said to the cultivator: Lo, these three years, I have come seeking fruits on this fig-tree, and I find none. Cut it down: why should it cumber the ground? ⁸ The cultivator said to him: My Lord, spare it this year also, until I shall work about it, and manure it. ⁹ And if it bear fruits, well; and if not, thou wilt cut it down: why should it live?

¹⁵ But Jesus replied, and said to him: Thou hypocrite! Doth not every one of you, on the sabbath, loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him to water?

²³ And a person asked him, whether they were few who would have life? ²⁴ And Jesus said to them: Strive to enter the narrow gate: for I say to you, many will seek to enter, and will not be able.

²⁴ And Jesus said to them: Strive to enter the narrow gate: for I say to you, many will seek to enter, and will not be able. ²⁵ From the time that the lord of the house shall rise and close the door, then ye will stand without, and knock at the door; and ye will begin to say: Our Lord, our Lord, open to us and he will answer, and say: I tell you, I know you not, whence ye are.

²⁵ From the time that the lord of the house shall rise and close the door, then ye will stand without, and knock at the door; and ye will begin to say: Our Lord, our Lord, open to us and he will answer, and say: I tell you, I know you not, whence ye are.

²⁵ From the time that the lord of the house shall rise and close the door, then ye will stand without, and knock at the door; and ye will begin to say: Our Lord, our Lord, open to us and he will answer, and say: I tell you, I know you not, whence ye are.

²⁵ From the time that the lord of the house shall rise and close the door, then ye will stand without, and knock at the door; and ye will begin to say: Our Lord, our Lord, open to us and he will answer, and say: I tell you, I know you not, whence ye are. ²⁶ And ye will begin to say: We have eaten and drunken before thee; and thou hast taught in our streets.

²⁶ And ye will begin to say: We have eaten and drunken before thee; and thou hast taught in our streets. ²⁷ And he will say to you: I know you not, whence ye are: depart from me, ye doers of falsehood.

²⁷ And he will say to you: I know you not, whence ye are: depart from me, ye doers of falsehood.

²⁷ And he will say to you: I know you not, whence ye are: depart from me, ye doers of falsehood. ²⁸ There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye will see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God; and yourselves will be thrust out. ²⁹ And they will come from the east and from the west, and from the south and from the north, and will recline in the kingdom of God. ³⁰ And lo, there are last that will be first, and there are first that will be last.

³³ So every one of you who doth not give up all his possessions, cannot be my disciple.

¹ And he spoke to them a similitude also, that men should pray at all times, and not become weary.

¹¹ And the Pharisee stood by himself, and prayed thus: God, I thank thee that I have not been like the rest of men, rapacious, oppressive, and adulterous; nor like this publican.

²⁵ It is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle, than a rich man the kingdom of God.

⁴⁸ But they found not, what they could do to him; for all the people hung upon him to hear him.

⁸ Jesus said to them: Neither do I tell you, by what authority I do these things.

⁴⁶ Beware of the Scribes, who choose to walk in long robes, and love a salutation in the streets, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the chief couches at suppers: ⁴⁷ who eat up the houses of widows, under pretence that they prolong their prayers. They will receive a greater condemnation.

¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your enemies will be unable to withstand.

⁴² And he said to Jesus: My Lord, remember me, when thou comest into thy kingdom. ⁴³ Jesus said to him: Verily I say to you, That this day thou shalt be with me in paradise.

² And also Jesus and his disciples were invited to the feast.

⁵ Jesus replied, and said to him Verily, verily, I say to thee, That, unless a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

⁸ The wind bloweth where it chooseth; and thou hearest its sound, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one, that is born of the Spirit. ⁹ Nicodemus answered, and said to him: How can these things be? ¹⁰ Jesus answered, and said to him: Art thou a teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things?

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him, should not perish, but should have life eternal.

¹⁰ Jesus replied and said to her: If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living waters.

¹⁷ But Jesus said to them: My Father worketh until now, and I work.

⁴⁰ For this is the pleasure of my Father, that every one who seeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have life eternal; and I will raise him up at the last day.

¹⁵ And the Jews wondered, and said: How knoweth this man literature, having not been educated?

¹⁷ He that wisheth to do his pleasure, will understand my doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I speak from my own pleasure.

⁴⁶ The constables say to them: Never did a man speak, as this man speaketh.

⁷ And as they continued asking him, he straightened himself up, and said to them: Whoever among you is without sin, let him first cast a stone at her. ⁸ And, having again stooped down, he wrote on the ground. ⁹ And they, when they heard it, went out one by one, beginning with the older; and the woman was left, alone where she had stood in the midst.

⁹ I am the door: and if any enter by me, he will live, and will come in and go out, and will find pasture.

¹² But a hireling, who is not the shepherd, and to whom the sheep do not belong, when he seeth the wolf coming, leaveth the flock, and fleeth; and the wolf cometh, and teareth, and disperseth the flock.

¹⁴ I am a good shepherd; and I know my own sheep, and am known by my own.

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice: and I know them: and they go after me. ²⁸ And I give to them life eternal: and they will never be lost: nor will any one pluck them from my hand. ²⁹ For my Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; nor can any pluck from my Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one.

⁵¹ This he said, however, not from the promptings of his own mind; but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied, that Jesus was about to die for the people:

¹⁷ If ye know these things, happy will ye be if ye do them.

⁶ Jesus said to him: I am the way, and truth, and life: no one cometh unto my Father, but by me. ⁷ If ye had known me, ye would also have known my Father: and henceforth, ye know him, and have seen him.

¹³ And what ye shall ask in my name, I will do for you; that the Father may be glorified in his Son. ¹⁴ And if ye shall ask of me, in my name, I will do it. ¹⁵ If ye love me, keep my commands.

²² Judas, not Iscariot, said to him: My Lord, how is it that thou art to manifest thyself to us, and not to the world? ²³ Jesus answered, and said to him: He that loveth me, observeth my instruction; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him. ²⁴ But he that loveth me not, observeth not my instruction. And the instruction which ye hear, is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

² Every branch in me, which yieldeth not fruits, he taketh it away: and that which yieldeth fruits, he cleanseth it, that it may yield more fruits. ³ Ye henceforth are clean, on account of the discourse I have held with you. ⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot yield fruits of itself, unless it abide in the vine; so also, neither can ye, unless ye abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine, and ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, he yieldeth much fruit; for without me, ye can do nothing. ⁶ And if a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a withered branch; and they gather it up, and cast it into the fire to be burned. ⁷ But if ye shall abide in me, and my instructions shall abide in you, whatever ye shall be pleased to ask, it will be given to you.

¹⁰ If ye shall keep my commands, ye will abide in the love of me, as I have kept the commands of my Father, and abide in his love.

¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do all that I command you.

¹⁶ It is not ye that chose me, but I that have chosen you; and I have appointed you, that ye also should go and yield fruits, and that your fruits should continue; so that whatever ye may ask of my Father in my name, he may give it you.

¹⁸ And if the world hate you, know ye, that it hated me before you. ¹⁹ And if ye were of the world, the world would love what is of it. But ye are not of the world, for I have chosen you out of the world; for this cause, the world hateth you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I spoke to you, That there is no servant, who is greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; and if they have observed my teaching, they will also observe yours.

²³ He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.

² For they will eject you from their synagogues; and the hour will come, that whoever shall kill you, will suppose that he presenteth an offering to God.

²³ And in that day ye will ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say to you, That whatsoever ye shall ask of my Father in my name, he will give to you. ²⁴ Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and ye will receive; that your joy may be complete.

³³ These things have I said to you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye will have trouble: but, take courage, I have vanquished the world.

³⁸ Simon said to them: Repent, and be baptized every one of you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, for the remission of sins; so that ye may receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ³⁹ For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all those afar off whom God will call. ⁴⁰ And in many other words he testified to them, and entreated of them, saying: Live ye from this perverse generation.

¹⁹ Repent, therefore, and be converted; that so your sins may be blotted out,

²² For Moses said: A prophet, like me, will the Lord raise up to you, from among your brethren; to him hearken ye, in all that he shall say to you. ²³ And it will be, that every soul who will not hearken to that prophet, that soul shall perish from his people.

³⁸ And now, I say to you: Desist from these men, and let them lone. For if this device and this work originate from men, they will dissolve and come to nothing.

¹⁰ And they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit that spoke by him.

¹¹ And our Lord said to him: Arise, go to the street which is called Straight; and inquire in the house of Judas, for Saul who is from the city of Tarsus: for, lo, while he prayed,

⁶ And when they had travelled over the whole island as far as the city Paphos, they found a certain man, a sorcerer, a Jew, who was a false prophet, and whose name was Bar-Suma.

⁴⁰ Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you, which is written in the prophets:

⁴⁵ And when the Jews saw the great assembly, they were filled with envy, and set them selves against the words which Paul spoke, and blasphemed. ⁴⁶ And Paul and Barnabas said openly: To you first, ought the word of God to be spoken; but because ye repel it from you, and decide, against yourselves, that ye are not worthy of life eternal, lo, we turn ourselves to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷ For so hath our Lord commanded us; as it is written: I have set thee a light to the Gentiles; that thou shouldst be for life unto the ends of the earth.

²² confirming the souls of the disciples, and entreating them to persevere in the faith; and they told them, that it was necessary, through much affliction, to enter into the kingdom of God.

¹³ And moreover certain Jews, who went: about exorcising demons, were disposed to exorcise in the name of our Lord Jesus over those who had unclean spirits, by saying: We adjure you, in the name of that Jesus whom Paul announceth.

¹³ And moreover certain Jews, who went: about exorcising demons, were disposed to exorcise in the name of our Lord Jesus over those who had unclean spirits, by saying: We adjure you, in the name of that Jesus whom Paul announceth. ¹⁴ And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, who did this.

¹⁴ And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, who did this. ¹⁵ And the evil demon answered and said to them: Jesus I well know, and Paul I know, but as for you, who are ye?

¹⁵ And the evil demon answered and said to them: Jesus I well know, and Paul I know, but as for you, who are ye?

¹⁵ And the evil demon answered and said to them: Jesus I well know, and Paul I know, but as for you, who are ye? ¹⁶ And the man in whom was the evil demon leaped upon them, and overpowered them, and threw them down: and they fled out of the house denuded and bruised. ¹⁷ And this became known to all the Jews and Gentiles, who resided at Ephesus. And fear fell on them all, and the name of our Lord Jesus Messiah was exalted. ¹⁸ And many of them that believed, came and narrated their faults, and confessed what they had done. ¹⁹ And also many magicians collected their books, and brought and burned them before every body: and they computed the cost of them, and it amounted to fifty thousand pieces of silver. ²⁰ And thus with great power was the faith of God strengthened and increased.

²⁹ For I know, that after I am gone, fierce wolves will come in among you, and will have no mercy on the flock. ³⁰ And also, from among yourselves, there will rise up men speaking perverse things, that they may turn away the disciples to go after them. ³¹ Therefore be ye vigilant; and remember, that for three years I ceased not to admonish each one of you, by day and by night, with tears.

¹ There is therefore no excuse for thee, O man, that judgest thy neighbor; for by judging thy neighbor, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest, dost practise the same things. ² And we know that the judgment of God is in accordance with truth, in regard to those who practise these things.

⁶ who will recompense to every man, according to his deeds; ⁷ to them who, by perseverance in good works, seek for glory and honor and immortality, to them he will give life eternal;

⁷ to them who, by perseverance in good works, seek for glory and honor and immortality, to them he will give life eternal; ⁸ but to them who are obstinate and obey not the truth, but obey iniquity, to them he will retribute wrath and ire. ⁹ And tribulation and anguish will be to every man that doeth evil; to the Jews first, and also to the Gentiles:

¹³ (for not the hearers of the law, are righteous before God; but the doers of the law are justified;

⁹ What then, have WE the superiority, when we have before decided as to both Jews and Gentiles, that all of them are under sin?

⁹ What then, have WE the superiority, when we have before decided as to both Jews and Gentiles, that all of them are under sin? ¹⁰ As it is written: There is none righteous; no, no one: ¹¹ and none that understandeth; nor that seeketh after God.

¹¹ and none that understandeth; nor that seeketh after God. ¹² They have all turned aside, together; and become reprobates. There is none that doeth good; no, not one. ¹³ Their throats are open sepulchres, and their tongues treacherous; and the venom of the asp is under their lips. ¹⁴ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; ¹⁵ and their feet are swift to shed blood. ¹⁶ Destruction and anguish are in their paths: ¹⁷ and the path of peacefulness they have not known: ¹⁸ and the fear of God is not before their eyes. ¹⁹ Now we know, that whatever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be guilty before God.

¹⁹ Now we know, that whatever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be guilty before God.

⁸ God hath here manifested his love towards us. Because, if when we were sinners, Messiah died for us; ⁹ how much more, shall we now be justified by his blood and be rescued from wrath by him? ¹⁰ For if when we were enemies, God was reconciled with us by the death of his Son; how much more shall we, in his reconciliation, lived by his life?

³² And, if he spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not give us all things, with him?

²² And if God, being disposed to exhibit his wrath and to make known his power, in abundance of long-suffering, brought wrath upon the vessels of wrath which were complete for destruction;

²⁷ And Isaiah proclaimed concerning the children of Israel: Though the number of the children of Israel should be as the sand on the sea, a remnant of them will live. ²⁸ He hath finished and cut short the matter: and the Lord will do it on the earth. ²⁹ And according to what Isaiah had before said: If the Lord of hosts had not favored us with a residue, we had been as Sodom, and had been like Gomorrha.

³² And why? Because they sought it, not by faith, but by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone:

⁵ So also at the present time, a remnant is preserved, by the election of grace. ⁶ But if by grace, it is not by works: otherwise, grace is not grace. And if by works, it is not by grace: Otherwise, work is not work.

² And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed, by the renovation of your minds: and discern ye what is the good and acceptable and perfect pleasure of God.

⁸ And owe nothing to any one; but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbor, hath fulfilled the law. ⁹ For this likewise, which it saith: Thou shalt not kill; nor commit adultery; nor steal; nor covet; and if there is any other commandment, it is completed in this sentence: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. ¹⁰ Love doeth no evil to one's neighbor; because love is the fulfillment of the law.

³ And he that eateth, should not despise him that eateth not; and he that eateth not, should not judge him that eateth, for God hath received him. ⁴ Who art thou, that thou judgest a servant not thine; and who, if he standeth, he standeth to his Lord; and if he falleth, he falleth to his Lord? But he will assuredly stand; for his Lord hath power to establish him.

¹⁰ But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we must all stand before the judgment seat of Messiah, ¹¹ as it is written: As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow; and to me every tongue shall give praise. ¹² So then, every one of us must give account of himself to God. ¹³ Henceforth, judge ye not one another; but rather, judge ye this, that thou erect not a stumbling-block for thy brother.

¹⁷ And I beseech you, my Brethren, that ye beware of them who cause divisions and stumblings among you, aside from the doctrine which ye have learned: and that ye stand aloof from them. ¹⁸ For they who are such, do not serve our Lord Jesus Messiah, but their own belly: and by bland speeches and good wishes, they beguile the hearts of the simple.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God which was given me, I laid the foundation like a wise architect; and another buildeth on it. But let each one see, how he buildeth on it. ¹¹ For any other foundation can no man lay, different from that which is laid, which is Jesus Messiah.

¹³ the work of each will be exposed to view; for the day will expose it; because it is to be tested by fire; and the fire will disclose the work of each, of what sort it is.

¹³ the work of each will be exposed to view; for the day will expose it; because it is to be tested by fire; and the fire will disclose the work of each, of what sort it is. ¹⁴ And that builder whose work shall endure, will receive his reward. ¹⁵ And he, whose work shall burn up, will suffer loss; yet himself will escape; but it will be, as from the fire.

³ But to me, it is a light matter to be judged of by you, or by any man whatever; nay, I am no judge of myself. ⁴ -(For I am not conscious in myself of any thing flagrant; yet I am not by this justified; for the Lord is my judge.) ⁵ Therefore pronounce not judgments before the time, or until the Lord come, who will pour light upon the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the thoughts of men's hearts: and then will each one have due praise from God.

¹ If I could speak in every tongue of men, and in that of angels, and there should be no love in me, I should be like brass that resoundeth, or the cymbal that maketh a noise. ² And if there should be in me the gift of prophecy, and I should understand all the mysteries, and every science; and if there should be in me all faith, so that I could move mountains, and love should not be in me, I should be nothing.

⁴ to them whose minds the God of this world hath blinded, in order that they might not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of the Messiah (who is the likeness of God) should dawn upon them.

¹⁷ Wherefore, come ye out from among them, and be ye separate from them, saith the Lord; and come not near the unclean thing, and I will receive you;

⁶ And this I say: He that soweth sparingly, shall also reap sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully, shall also reap bountifully.

⁸ For it is in the power of God, to make all good abound to you, so that ye may have, at all times, and in every thing, what is sufficient for you; and may abound in every good work. ⁹ As it is written, He hath dispersed and given to the poor; and his righteousness is established for ever. ¹⁰ Now he that giveth seed to the sower, and bread for food, may he give and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness: ¹¹ so that in every thing, ye may be enriched unto all liberality, to the completion of our thanksgiving to God. ¹² For the performance of this ministration, not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is also rich in many thanksgivings to God. ¹³ For on account of the test of this ministration, we glorify God, that ye do subject yourselves to the profession of the gospel of the Messiah, and that in your liberality, ye communicate with them and with all men: ¹⁴ and they put up prayer for you, with much love, because of the abundance of the grace of God that is upon you. ¹⁵ Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

¹³ For they are false legates, crafty workers, and feign themselves to be legates of the Messiah. ¹⁴ And in this there is nothing strange. For if Satan feigneth himself an angel of light, ¹⁵ it is no great thing if his ministers feign themselves ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

²⁶ In journeyings many, in peril by rivers, in peril by robbers, in peril from my kindred, in peril from Gentiles: I have been in peril in cities; I have been in peril in the desert, in peril in the sea, in peril from false brethren.

⁴ And in regard to the false brethren, who had crept in to spy out the liberty we have in Jesus the Messiah, in order to bring me under subjection;

²² But the scripture hath inclosed all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus the Messiah might be given to them that believe.

⁶ For, in the Messiah Jesus, circumcision is nothing, neither is uncircumcision, but the faith that is perfected by love. ⁷ Ye did run well: who hath interrupted you, that ye acquiesce not in the truth?

¹³ And ye, my brethren, have been called into liberty: only let not your liberty be an occasion to the flesh; but, by love, be ye servants to each other. ¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one sentence; in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

¹⁷ For the flesh craveth that which is repugnant to the Spirit; and the Spirit craveth that which is repugnant to the flesh: and the two are the opposites of each other, so that ye do not that which ye desire.

²² But the fruits of the Spirit are, love, joy, peace, long suffering, suavity, kindness, fidelity, modesty, patience. ²³ Against these there standeth no law. ²⁴ And they who are of the Messiah, have crucified their flesh, with all its passions and its cravings.

²⁴ And they who are of the Messiah, have crucified their flesh, with all its passions and its cravings.

¹ My brethren, if one of you should be overtaken in a fault, do ye who are of the Spirit recover him, in a spirit of meekness: and be ye cautious, lest ye also be tempted.

⁷ Do not mistake; God is not deceived; for what a man soweth, that also will he reap. ⁸ He who soweth in the flesh, reapeth from the flesh corruption: and he who soweth in the Spirit, will from the Spirit reap life everlasting.

¹ and also you, he filleth, who were dead in your sins, and in your offences, ² in the which ye before walked, according to the worldliness of this world, and according to the pleasure of the prince potentate of the air, that spirit which is active in the children of disobedience:

² in the which ye before walked, according to the worldliness of this world, and according to the pleasure of the prince potentate of the air, that spirit which is active in the children of disobedience: ³ in which deeds we also, formerly, were conversant, in the cravings of our flesh; and we did the pleasure of our flesh, and of our mind, and were altogether the children of wrath, like the rest.

³ in which deeds we also, formerly, were conversant, in the cravings of our flesh; and we did the pleasure of our flesh, and of our mind, and were altogether the children of wrath, like the rest. ⁴ But God who is rich in his mercies, because of the great love with which he loved us, ⁵ when we were dead in our sins, quickened us with the Messiah, and rescued us by his grace;

¹⁷ the Messiah may dwell by faith, and in your hearts by love, while your root and your foundation waxeth strong;

¹⁴ and that we might not be children, agitated and turned about by every wind of the crafty doctrines of men who plot to seduce by their subtilty:

⁶ Let no man deceive you with vain words; for it is on account of these things that the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

⁹ For the fruits of the light are in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth.

⁶ Not in the sight of the eye, as if ye were pleasing men; but as the servants of the Messiah, who are doing the will of God.

¹¹ and be full of the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus the Messiah, to the praise and glory of God.

² Beware of dogs; beware of evil doers; beware of the clipped in flesh.

¹⁹ whose end is destruction; whose god is their belly, and their glory their shame; whose thoughts are on things of the earth.

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;

⁷ strengthening your roots and building up yourselves in him, and establishing yourselves in the faith which ye have learned, in which may ye abound in thanksgiving. ⁸ Beware, lest any man make you naked by philosophy, and by vain deception, according to the doctrines of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to the Messiah,

¹² Epaphras saluteth you, who is from among you, a servant of the Messiah, always laboring for you in prayer, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the good pleasure of God.

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: ³ lest any of you should be disheartened by these afflictions; for ye know, that we are appointed thereto. ⁴ For also when we were with you, we forewarned you, that we were to be afflicted; as ye know did occur. ⁵ Therefore also I could not be quiet, until I sent to learn your faith; lest the Tempter should have tempted you, and our labor have been in vain.

³ For this is the pleasure of God, your sanctification; and that ye be separated from all whoredom;

⁴ But ye, my brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

¹⁸ And in every thing be thankful: For this is the pleasure of God in Jesus the Messiah, concerning you.

⁶ And since it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense trouble to them that trouble you: ⁷ and you, who are the troubled, he will vivify, with us, at the manifestation of our Lord Jesus the Messiah from heaven, with the host of his angels; ⁸ when he will execute vengeance, with the burning of fire, on them that know not God, and on them that acknowledge not the gospel of our Lord Jesus the Messiah. ⁹ For these will be recompensed with the judgment of eternal destruction, from the presence of our Lord, and from the glory of his power; ¹⁰ when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to display his wonders in his faithful ones; for our testimony concerning you, will be believed, in that day.

⁵ Now the end of the command is love, which is from a pure heart, and from a good conscience, and from true faith.

¹ But the Spirit saith explicitly, that in the latter times, some will depart from the faith; and will go after deceptive spirits, and after the doctrine of demons. ² These will seduce, by a false appearance; and will utter a lie, and will be seared in their conscience; ³ and will forbid to marry; and will require abstinence from meats, which God hath created for use and for thankfulness, by them who believe and know the truth.

¹² Therefore I suffer these things: and I am not ashamed; for I know in whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is competent to keep for me my deposit against that day.

¹⁸ May our Lord grant him, that he may find mercy with our Lord, in that day. And how he ministered to me at Ephesus, thou very well knowest.

¹⁹ But the firm foundation of God standeth; and it hath this seal, The Lord knoweth them who are his: and, Let every one who invoketh the name of our Lord, stand aloof from iniquity.

⁵ having a form of respect for God, but wide from the power of God. Them who are such, repel from thee. ⁶ For of them are they who creep into this and that house, and captivate the women who are plunged in sins and led away by divers lusts, ⁷ who are always learning, and can never come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these withstand the truth: men whose mind is corrupted, and they reprobates from the faith. ⁹ But they will not make progress, for their infatuation will be understood by every one, as theirs also was understood.

¹³ But evil and seducing men will add to their wickedness, while they deceive and are deceived.

³ For the time will come, when they will not give ear to sound teaching; but, according to their lusts, will multiply to themselves teachers, in the itching of their hearing;

⁸ and henceforth there is preserved for me a crown of righteousness, with which my Lord, the righteous Judge, will recompense me in that day; and not me only, but them also who love his manifestation.

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith showed me many ills: our Lord will reward him according to his doings. ¹⁵ And do thou also beware of him; for he is very insolent against our words.

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.

³ For we also were formerly reckless, and disobedient, and erring, and serving divers lusts, and living in malice and envy, and were hateful and also hating one another. ⁴ But when the kindness and compassion of God our Life-giver was revealed, ⁵ not by works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his mercy, he vivified us, by the washing of the new birth, and by the renovation of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which he shed on us abundantly, by Jesus the Messiah our Life-giver: ⁷ that we might be justified by his grace, and become heirs in the hope of eternal life.

⁶ Therefore, because there was a place, whither one and another might enter; and those earlier persons, to whom the announcement was made, entered not, because they believed not:

¹² For the word of God is living, and all-efficient, and sharper than a two-edged sword, and entereth even to the severance of the soul and the spirit, and of the joints and the marrow and the bones, and judgeth the thoughts and reasonings of the heart: ¹³ neither is there any creature, which is concealed from before him; but every thing is naked and manifest before his eyes, to whom we are to give account.

⁴ But they who have once descended to baptism, and have tasted the gift from heaven, and have received the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and have tasted the good word of God, and the power of the world to come, ⁶ cannot again sin, and a second time be renewed to repentance; or a second time crucify and insult the Son of God.

⁶ cannot again sin, and a second time be renewed to repentance; or a second time crucify and insult the Son of God.

⁸ But if it should put forth thorns and briers, it would have reprobation, and be not far from a curse, and its end would be a burning.

²⁶ For if a man sin, voluntarily, after he hath received a knowledge of the truth, there is no longer a sacrifice which may be offered for sins: ²⁷ but the fearful judgment impendeth, and the zeal of fire that consumeth the adversaries. ²⁸ For if he, who transgressed the law of Moses, died without mercies, at the mouth of two or three witnesses; ²⁹ how much more, think ye, will he receive capital punishment, who hath trodden upon the Son of God, and hath accounted the blood of his covenant, by which he is sanctified, as the blood of all men, and hath treated the Spirit of grace with contumely?

²⁹ how much more, think ye, will he receive capital punishment, who hath trodden upon the Son of God, and hath accounted the blood of his covenant, by which he is sanctified, as the blood of all men, and hath treated the Spirit of grace with contumely? ³⁰ For we know him who hath said, Retribution is mine; and I will repay: and again, The Lord will judge his people. ³¹ It is very terrible, to fall into the hands of the living God.

⁶ But, without faith, a man cannot please God. For he that draweth near to God, must believe his existence, and that he will recompense those who seek him.

²¹ make you perfect in every good work, that ye may do his pleasure; and himself operate in you that which is pleasing In his sight, through Jesus the Messiah; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

⁵ And if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth to all freely, and reproacheth not; and it will be given him. ⁶ But let him ask in faith, not hesitating: he who hesitateth is like the waves of the sea, which the wind agitateth.

¹² Blessed is the man who endureth temptations; so that when he is proved he may receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.

¹⁷ Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no mutation, not even the shadow of change.

²¹ Wherefore, remove far from you all impurity, and the abundance of wickedness; and, with meekness, receive the word that is implanted in our nature, which is able to vivify these your souls. ²² But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only; and do not deceive yourselves.

²² But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only; and do not deceive yourselves. ²³ For if any man shall be a hearer of the word, and not a doer of it, he will be like one who seeth his face in a mirror: ²⁴ for he seeth himself, and passeth on, and forgetteth what a man he was. ²⁵ But every one that looketh upon the perfect law of liberty and abideth in it, is not a hearer of something to be forgotten, but a doer of the things; and he will be blessed in his work. ²⁶ And if any one thinketh that he worshippeth God, and doth not restrain his tongue, but his heart deceiveth him; his worship is vain. ²⁷ For the worship that is pure and holy before God the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and that one keep himself unspotted from the world.

¹⁰ For he that shall keep the whole law, and yet fail in one precept, is obnoxious to the whole law. ¹¹ For he who said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill. If then thou commit no adultery, but thou killest, thou hast become a transgressor of the law. ¹² So speak ye, and so act, as persons that are to be judged by the law of liberty. ¹³ For judgment without mercy shall be on him, who hath practised no mercy: by mercy, ye will be raised above judgment.

¹³ For judgment without mercy shall be on him, who hath practised no mercy: by mercy, ye will be raised above judgment.

¹⁷ So also faith alone, without works, is dead. ¹⁸ For a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works; show to me thy faith that is without works; and I will show to thee, my faith by my works. ¹⁹ Thou believest that there is one God; thou dost well; the demons also believe, and tremble. ²⁰ Wouldst thou know, O frail man, that faith without works is dead?

²⁰ Wouldst thou know, O frail man, that faith without works is dead? ²¹ Abraham our father, was not he justified by works, in offering his son Isaac upon the altar? ²² Seest thou, that his faith aided his works; and that by the works his faith was rendered complete? ²³ And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith: Abraham believed in God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness, and he was called the Friend of God. ²⁴ Thou seest, that by works a man is justified, and not by faith alone. ²⁵ So also Rahab, the harlot, was not she justified by works, when she entertained the spies, and sent them forth by another way? ²⁶ As the body without the spirit, is dead; so faith without works, is dead also.

¹ Let there not be many teachers among you, my brethren; but know ye, that we are obnoxious to, a severer judgment.

¹² Or can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives? or the vine, figs? So also salt waters cannot be made sweet. ¹³ Who is wise and instructed among you? Let him show his works in praiseworthy actions, with modest wisdom. ¹⁴ But if bitter envy be in you, or contention in your hearts, exalt not yourselves against the truth, and lie not. ¹⁵ For this wisdom cometh not down from above; but is earthly, and from the devices of the soul, and from demons. ¹⁶ For where envy and contention are, there also is confusion, and every thing wrong. ¹⁷ But the wisdom which is from above, is pure, and full of peace, and mild, and submissive, and full of compassion and of good fruits, and without partiality, and without respect of persons. ¹⁸ And the fruits of righteousness are sown in stillness, by them who make peace.

¹¹ Speak not against each other, my brethren; for he that speaketh against his brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law. And if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but its judge. ¹² There is one Law-giver and Judge, who can make alive, and can destroy: but who art thou, that thou judgest thy neighbor?

¹⁵ and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and our Lord will raise him up; and if sins have been committed by him, they will be forgiven him.

⁵ while ye are kept, by the power of God and by faith, for the life that is prepared and will be revealed in the last times;

⁷ so that the proof of your faith may appear more precious than refined gold that is tested by fire, unto glory and honor and praise, at the manifestation of Jesus the Messiah:

¹⁵ For so is the pleasure of God, that by your good deeds ye may stop the mouth of the foolish, who know not God:

²⁰ which were formerly disobedient, in the days of Noah, when the long suffering of God commanded an ark to be made, in hope of their repentance; and eight souls only entered into it, and were kept alive in the waters. ²¹ And ye also, by a like figure, are made alive by baptism, (not when ye wash your bodies from filth, but when ye confess God with a pure conscience,) and by the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah;

² that he may no longer be alive to the lusts of men, while he is in the body, but only to do the pleasure of God.

¹⁷ For it is the time when judgment will commence with the house of God: and if it commence with us, what will be the end of those who obey not the gospel of God? ¹⁸ And if the righteous scarcely liveth, where will the ungodly and the sinner be found!

¹ But in the world, there have been also false prophets, as there will likewise be false teachers among you, who will bring in destructive heresies, denying the Lord that bought them; thus bringing on themselves swift destruction. ² And many will go after their profaneness; on account of whom, the way of truth will be reproached. ³ And, in the cupidity of raving words, they will make merchandise of you: whose judgment, of a long time, is not idle; and their destruction slumbereth not.

¹⁰ and especially them who go after the flesh in the lusts of pollution, and despise government. Daring and arrogant, they shudder not with awe while they blaspheme; ¹¹ whereas angels, greater than they in might and valor, bring not against them a reproachful denunciation. ¹² But these, like the dumb beasts that by nature are for slaughter and corruption, while reviling the things they know not, will perish in their own corruption; ¹³ they being persons with whom iniquity is the reward of iniquity, and by them rioting in the daytime is accounted delightful; defiled and full of spots are they, indulging themselves at their ease, while they give themselves up to pleasure; ¹⁴ having eyes that are full of adultery, and sins that never end; seducing unstable souls; and having a heart exercised in cupidity; children of malediction: ¹⁵ and, having left the way of rectitude, they have wandered and gone in the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of iniquity, ¹⁶ and who had for the reprover of his transgression a dumb ass, which, speaking with the speech of men, rebuked the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are wells without water, clouds driven by a tempest, persons for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness. ¹⁸ For, while they utter astonishing vanity, they seduce, with obscene lusts of the flesh, them who have almost abandoned these that walk in error.

¹⁸ For, while they utter astonishing vanity, they seduce, with obscene lusts of the flesh, them who have almost abandoned these that walk in error. ¹⁹ And they promise them liberty, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for, by whatever thing a man is vanquished, to that is he enslaved. ²⁰ For if, when they have escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Redeemer Jesus the Messiah, they become again involved in the same, and are vanquished, their latter state is worse than the former. ²¹ For it would have been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness, than after having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was delivered to them. ²² But the true proverb hath happened to them: the dog returneth to his vomit and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

²² But the true proverb hath happened to them: the dog returneth to his vomit and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

¹⁷ Ye therefore, my beloved, as ye know these things beforehand, guard yourselves, lest, by going after the error of the lawless, ye fall from your steadfastness.

³ And by this we shall be sensible that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

¹⁹ From us they went out, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out from us, that so it might be known, that they were not of us.

¹ And ye see, how great is the love of the Father towards us, who hath called us sons, and made us such. Therefore the world knoweth us not, because it likewise knoweth him not.

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. ¹⁰ By this are the children of God discriminated from the children of Satan. Every one that practiseth not righteousness, and that loveth not his brother, is not of God:

²¹ My beloved, if our heart condemneth us not, we have open countenances before God. ²² And whatever we ask, we receive from him; because we keep his commandments, and do acceptable things before him.

²² And whatever we ask, we receive from him; because we keep his commandments, and do acceptable things before him. ²³ And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of his Son Jesus the Messiah, and that we love one another as he hath commanded us. ²⁴ And he that keepeth his commandments, is kept by him, and he dwelleth in him: and by this we understand that he abideth in us, from his Spirit which he hath given to us.

¹ My beloved, believe not all spirits; but discriminate among spirits, whether they are of God: for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

¹⁰ In this is love; it was not that we loved God, but that God loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

³ For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome. ⁴ Because, whoever is born of God, overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, our faith. ⁵ For who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹⁴ And this is the confidence that we have towards him, that whatever we ask of him, agreeably to his will, he heareth us. ¹⁵ And if we are persuaded that he heareth us respecting what we ask of him, we are confident of receiving presently the petitions which we asked of him.

¹⁹ We know, that we are of God; and all the world is reposing on the evil one.

⁴ For some have obtained entrance, who from the beginning were registered beforehand under this condemnation: wicked men, who pervert the grace of God to impurity, and deny him who is the only Lord God and our Lord, Jesus the Messiah.

¹⁰ But these men revile things which they do not understand; and in the things of which they have a natural persuasion as animal beings, in these they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Woe to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain; and, after the error of Balaam, they have lusted for gain; and, in the rebellion of Korah, they have perished. ¹² These are they who, in their feastings, riot while polluting themselves, feeding themselves without fear; clouds without rain, moved about by the winds; trees whose fruit hath failed, and they are without fruit, twice dead, and uplifted from their root;

¹² These are they who, in their feastings, riot while polluting themselves, feeding themselves without fear; clouds without rain, moved about by the winds; trees whose fruit hath failed, and they are without fruit, twice dead, and uplifted from their root; ¹³ raging waves of the sea, which, by their foam, manifest their confusion; shootingstars, for which is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. ¹⁴ And of them also prophesied Enoch, who was the seventh from Adam, when he said: Behold, the Lord cometh, with myriads of his saints; ¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all; and to convict all the wicked, because of all the deeds they have wickedly committed; and because of all the hard speeches, which they, ungodly sinners, have uttered. ¹⁶ These are they who murmur and complain of every thing, while they walk according to their lusts; and their mouth speaketh shocking things; and they flatter people, for the sake of gain. ¹⁷ But do ye, my beloved, remember the words which were before spoken by the legates of our Lord Jesus the Messiah; ¹⁸ because they told you, that in the end of the times there would be scoffers, going after wickedness, according to their lusts. ¹⁹ These are they that separate themselves, sensual persons, not having the Spirit.

²⁷ and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; and like vessels of pottery, shall they be broken: as I also have received of my Father.

⁵ He that is victorious, shall be so clothed in white robes; and I will not blot out their name from the book of life; and I will confess their name before my Father, and before his angels.

¹⁷ Because thou sayest, I am rich and affluent, and have no want of any thing; and thou knowest not, that thou art impotent, and miserable, and needy, and blind, and naked; ¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white raiment, to be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not be seen; and put eye-salve on thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, who is called the Deceiver, and Satan, who seduceth all the inhabited world: he was cast upon the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

⁸ And all that dwell on the earth, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, will worship him.

¹¹ And I saw another beast of prey, which came out of the earth; and he had two horns like those of a lamb, and he spoke like the dragon. ¹² And before him he exercised all the authority of the first beast of prey, whose deadly wound was healed. ¹³ And he wrought great signs, even so as to make fire come down from heaven upon the earth, before men. ¹⁴ And he seduced them that dwell on the earth, to erect an image to the beast of prey who had the wound from a sword and recovered. ¹⁵ And it was given him to put life into the image of the beast of prey; and to cause that all they who would not worship the image of the beast of prey, should be slain: ¹⁶ and to cause that all, great and small, rich and poor, bond and free, should receive a mark on their right hands, or upon their foreheads; ¹⁷ so that no one might be able to buy or to sell, except those who had the mark of the name of the beast of prey, or the number of his name.

¹³ And I saw issuing from the mouth of the dragon, and from the mouth of the beast of prey, and from the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs:

⁶ And I saw that the woman was intoxicated with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

⁶ Recompense ye to her, as she also hath recompensed; and render to her double, according to her deeds; in the cup which she hath mixed, mix ye to her two fold.

²⁰ And the beast of prey was captured, and the false prophet that was with him, who did those prodigies before him, whereby he seduced them who had received the mark of the beast of prey and who worshipped his image. And they were both cast alive into the lake of fire, which burneth with sulphur.

³ And he cast him into the abyss, and closed and sealed upon him; so that he might deceive the nations no more, until these thousand years shall be completed: but after that, he will be loosed for a little time.

¹⁵ And if any one was not found enrolled in the book of life, he was cast into this lake of fire.

¹⁴ Blessed are they who do his commandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.

¹⁴ Blessed are they who do his commandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. ¹⁵ Without will be dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and manslayers, and idolaters, and every one that loveth and doeth falsehood.

¹⁵ Without will be dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and manslayers, and idolaters, and every one that loveth and doeth falsehood.