1 Corinthians 4 Cross References - NSB

¹ People should regard us as servants of Christ. God has trusted us with his secrets. ² It is required of stewards that a man is trustworthy. ³ But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. I do not even judge myself. ⁴ I know nothing against myself. Yet this does not acquit me, but he that judges me is God. ⁵ Do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make apparent the counsels of the hearts. Then each man’s praise will come from God. ⁶ Brothers I have applied these things to myself and to Apollos for your sakes. That way you might learn the value of the saying: Do not go beyond the things written. None of you should be arrogant (self-important) against one another. ⁷ For who made you superior to (different than) another? What do you have that you did not receive? If you did receive it, why do you brag, as if you did not receive it? ⁸ You are full and now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us. I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you. ⁹ For I think that God has placed us apostles last as men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men. ¹⁰ We are fools for Christ. But you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honorable, but we are despised. ¹¹ Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst. We are naked. We are treated badly and we are homeless. ¹² We labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; ¹³ being slandered, we answer kindly. We are made as the filth of the world and are the refuse of all things to this day. ¹⁴ I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. ¹⁵ Though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news. ¹⁶ For this reason I urge you to imitate me. ¹⁷ I send Timothy, my beloved son faithful in the Lord, to you for this purpose. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ, just as I teach it in every congregation. ¹⁸ Now some have become proud (arrogant), thinking that I would not come to you. ¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if God wills, and I will get to know what the proud ones do and not what they say, but their power. ²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. ²¹ What do you want? Shall I come to you with punishment or with love, and in the mild spirit of meekness?

²⁸ Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses’ helper since he was a young man, spoke up and said to Moses: »Stop them, sir!« ²⁹ Moses asked him: »Do you think you need to stand up for me? I wish all Jehovah’s people were prophets and that Jehovah would put his Spirit on them!«

²⁹ Moses asked him: »Do you think you need to stand up for me? I wish all Jehovah’s people were prophets and that Jehovah would put his Spirit on them!«

⁷ »‘But this is not the way I treat my servant Moses. He is the most faithful person in my household.

⁷ But Jehovah said to Samuel: »Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature. I have rejected him. God does not see as man sees. Man looks at the outward appearance. Jehovah looks at the heart (inner man).«

¹¹ Jehu went back to his fellow officers. They asked him: »Is everything all right? What did this mad fellow want with you?« Jehu answered: »You know what he wanted.«

⁷ That night God appeared to Solomon. He said: »What do you want me to I give you?« ⁸ Solomon answered: »You always showed great love for my father David. Now you have allowed me to succeed him as king. ⁹ »O Jehovah my God, fulfill the promise you made to my father David. You have made me king over a people, who are so many that they cannot be counted. ¹⁰ »Please give me the wisdom and knowledge I need to rule over them. Otherwise, how would I ever be able to rule this great people of yours?« ¹¹ God replied to Solomon: »You have made the right choice. Instead of asking for wealth, treasure, fame or the death of your enemies or even for long life for yourself, you have asked for wisdom and knowledge so that you can rule my people, over whom I have made you king. ¹² »For this reason I will give you wisdom and knowledge. And in addition, I will give you more wealth, treasure, and fame than any king has ever had before or will ever have again.«

¹¹ »You are great and powerful, glorious, splendid, and majestic. Everything in heaven and earth is yours, and you, O Jehovah, are king, supreme ruler over all. ¹² »All riches and wealth come from you. You rule everything by your strength and power. You are able to make anyone great and strong. ¹³ »Now, our God, we give you thanks, and we praise your glorious name. ¹⁴ »Yet my people and I cannot really give you anything. This is because everything is a gift from you, and we have only given back what is yours already. ¹⁵ »You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death. ¹⁶ »O Jehovah, our God, we have brought together all this wealth to build a Temple to honor your holy name. It all came from you and all belongs to you.

²³ Many people still went to Jerusalem to bring gifts to Jehovah and expensive presents to King Hezekiah of Judah. From that point in history he was considered important by all the nations. ²⁴ Hezekiah became sick and was about to die. He prayed to Jehovah, who answered him and gave him a miraculous sign. ²⁵ But Hezekiah was conceited. So he did not repay Jehovah for his kindness. Jehovah became angry with him, with Judah, and with Jerusalem. ²⁶ Hezekiah and the people living in Jerusalem humbled themselves when they realized they had become conceited. Thus Jehovah did not vent his anger on them during Hezekiah’s time. ²⁷ Hezekiah became richer and was highly honored. He prepared storehouses for himself to hold silver, gold, precious stones, spices, shields, and all kinds of valuables. ²⁸ He built storehouses for the produce of grain and wine and oil; and buildings for all sorts of beasts and flocks. ²⁹ He made towns for himself. He gathered much property in flocks and herds: for God had given him great wealth.

² »Truly I know it is so, but how can a man be righteous before God? ³ »If one wished to argue with God, he could not answer or respond to him once in a thousand times.

²⁰ »Though I was righteous, my own mouth would condemn me. If I were blameless it would prove me perverse.

¹¹ »He recognizes deceitful men. When he sees evil, does he not take note? ¹² »An empty headed man can no more become wise than a wild donkey’s colt can be born a man.

¹⁴ »What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could be righteous?

⁶ »You have indeed exacted pledges from your family for no reason, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

⁴ »How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

⁴ what is man that you remember him or the son of man that you take care of him?

⁶ »I will maintain my righteousness and never let go of it! My conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.

⁴ »I am so insignificant. How can I answer you? I will put my hand over my mouth.

³ O Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, ⁴ if I have repaid my ally with harm or plundered my foe without cause, ⁵ then let the enemy pursue and overtake me, trample my life to the ground, and lay me in the dust.

¹² Who can notice (discern) (understand) every mistake? Forgive my hidden faults.

¹² My feet stand on level ground. I will praise Jehovah in the congregation.

²² We are being killed all day long because of you. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.

⁶ The heavens declare his righteousness because God is the judge.

⁵ The court of justice sits there. It consists of princes who are David's descendants. ⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May those who love you prosper. ⁷ May there be peace inside your walls and prosperity in your palaces. ⁸ For the sake of my brothers and friends let me say: »May it go well for you!« ⁹ For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God, I will seek what is good for you.

³ If You, Jehovah, should record our sins, O Jehovah, who could stand?

² Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

³ Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.

⁶ Jehovah gives wisdom. From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

¹² He who is void of wisdom despises his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

⁷ There is one who claims to be rich, yet has nothing. There is one who claims to be poor, yet has great riches.

¹⁷ A wicked messenger falls into adversity. A faithful ambassador brings healing.

² Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Jehovah measures the hearts.

¹⁴ He who falsely boasts of a gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in your youth. Let your heart cheer you in your early days. Walk in the ways of your heart, and in the desires of your eyes. Yet you know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.

¹⁴ For God will bring every work into judgment with every secret thing, whether it is good or whether it is evil.

²² Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?

²¹ You are doomed! You think you are wise. You think you are so very clever.

³ He was despised and rejected by men. He was a man of sorrows familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised. We did not consider him to be worth much.

⁸ »How can you say you are wise and that you have Jehovah’s Laws? The scribes have used their pens to spread falsehoods. ⁹ »Wise people are put to shame, confused, and trapped. They have rejected the word of Jehovah. They do not really have any wisdom.

⁵ This is what Jehovah says: »Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah. ⁶ »He will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes. He will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant.

⁶ »Amen! I hope Jehovah will do this! I certainly hope he will make the prophecy come true and will bring back from Babylon all the Temple treasures and all the people who were taken away as prisoners.

⁴⁵ You made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.

²¹ »If you warn righteous people not to sin, and they do not sin, they will certainly live because they listened to the warning and you will save yourself.«

³ »Say this, ‘The Lord Jehovah says: »I am against you Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great monster (Egypt) (Psalm 74:13,14) that lies in the midst of his rivers. You have said: ‘My Nile is mine! I have made it!’«

² »Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »‘»In your arrogance you say, ‘I am a god (strong deity). I sit on God's throne in the sea.’ But you are only human and not a god, although you think you are a god. (2 Thes 2:4) ³ ‘»You think that you are wiser than Daniel and that no secret can be hidden from you. ⁴ ‘»Because you are wise and understanding, you have made yourself rich. You saved gold and silver in your treasuries. ⁵ ‘»Because of your great skill in trading, you have made yourself very wealthy. You have become arrogant because of your wealth.’«

³⁰ The king spoke: »Is this not great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?« ³¹ While the word was in the king's mouth a voice came from heaven, saying: »O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from you. ³² »You will be driven from men. Your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You will have to eat grass like bulls. Seven times shall pass over you until you know the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.«

¹⁸ »O you king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

²³ »You lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of his house before you and your lords, wives and concubines. They drank wine from them. You praise the gods of silver and gold, of copper, iron, wood, and stone, which you do not see, nor hear, nor know. You have not glorified the God whose hand holds your breath and life.

⁷ The time for them to be punished will come. The time for them to pay for their sins will come. When this happens, Israel will know it. They think that prophets are fools and that spiritual people are crazy. They have sinned a lot, and are filled with hostility.«

¹⁸ »Once again my people will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between the person who serves God and the one who does not.«

⁴⁴ »I say love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!

¹ »Stop judging, so that you will not be judged. ² »As you judge, so you will be judged. As you measure, it will be measured to you.

²⁰ Jesus replied: »Foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.«

²² »Men will hate you because of me. He who endures to the end will be saved. ²³ »When they persecute you in this city, flee to the next. I tell you; before you have gone through all the cities of Israel the Son of man will come. ²⁴ »A disciple is not greater than his teacher, nor a servant his master. ²⁵ »It is enough for the disciple (student) that he is like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub (Satan), others of the household could also be called the same!

¹¹ He responded: »You are allowed to know the divine secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but it is not for others to know. (The Greek word for »you« is plural and is applied to the disciples as a group.)

¹¹ »Blessed are you when men revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.

⁸ »Do not be called Rabbi (master) (teacher) (leader), for only one is your teacher. You are all brothers. ⁹ »Call no man your father on the earth, for only one is your Father in heaven. ¹⁰ »Do not be called master (teacher) (leader), for only one is your master, and he is Christ.

⁹ »People will cause you tribulation, and kill you. You will be hated by all the nations for my name’s sake.

³⁰ »The sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of earth will mourn. They will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

⁴⁵ »Who then is the faithful, thoughtful, and wise servant, whom his lord put in charge of his other servants, to give them their food at the proper time? ⁴⁶ »That servant is blessed when his lord comes and finds him doing his will.

¹⁴ »It is like a man going to another country. He called his servants and put them in charge of his property. ¹⁵ »To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one. He assigned according to the servants’ ability. Then he went on his journey.

²¹ »His lord said: ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, so I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

²³ »His lord said: ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You were faithful over a few things. I will appoint you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

¹¹ He told them: »The secret of the kingdom of God is given to you. Illustrations are spoken to outsiders.

⁵¹ »He shows strength with his arm. He scatters the proud in the thoughts of their heart. ⁵² »He removes rulers from their thrones and exalts the humble. ⁵³ »He fills the hungry with good things and sends the rich away empty handed.

²² »Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.

²⁵ »Woe to you who are full now! For you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now! You will mourn and weep.

²⁸ »Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who despitefully use you.

³⁷ »Do not judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.

¹⁰ He said: »You are meant to know the secrets of the kingdom of God. I speak to the rest in illustrations, that seeing they may not see and hearing they may not understand.

¹⁶ »He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me.«

¹ Thousands of people in the crowd were gathered together so much that they bumped into one another. He said to his disciples: »First of all, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. ² »Everything covered up will be revealed. Everything hidden will be made known. ³ »That which you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. That which you have spoken in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.

⁴² The Lord said: »Who is the faithful and wise steward, whom his master shall appoint over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

¹ Jesus told his disciples: »There was a rich man who had a servant who managed his property. The rich man learned that the manager was accused of wasting his master’s money. ² »He said: ‘Is it true what I hear about you? Give me a complete accounting of your management of my property for you may not be my manager any longer.’ ³ »The servant thought: ‘I am fired from my job. What shall I do? I am not strong enough for heavy work and I am ashamed to beg.

¹⁰ »Whoever is faithful in little things will be faithful in large ones. Whoever is unrighteous in small things will be unrighteous in large ones. ¹¹ »If you have not been faithful in handling worldly wealth, how can you be trusted with true wealth? ¹² »If you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what belongs to you?

⁹ He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others:

¹³ »He called ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds, and said do business with this until I return.

¹⁶ Out of the fullness of his undeserved kindness he gives us one blessing after another.

²⁶ They went to John and said: »Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, the one about whom you witnessed, he and the men with him baptize.« ²⁷ John answered: »A man can receive nothing unless it is given to him from heaven.

²⁷ John answered: »A man can receive nothing unless it is given to him from heaven.

³⁴ [Jesus said: »Father, forgive them for they do not know what they do.«](This verse not found in older manuscripts.) They cast lots and divided his garments among themselves.

⁴⁴ »How can you believe? You seek praise and glory from one another? Why do you not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

²⁴ »Do not judge according to appearance! Judge a righteous judgment.«

⁴ »When all of his own are out he leads them. The sheep follow him for they know his voice. ⁵ »They will not follow a stranger but will flee from him. They do not know the voice of a stranger.«

²⁰ »Remember the word I said to you. A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.

¹⁷ The third time Jesus said to him: »Simon, son of John, do you have affection for me?« Peter was grieved. Because he said to him the third time, do you have affection for me? Peter replied: »Lord, you know all things; you know I have affection for you!« Jesus said to him: »Feed my sheep.«

²² Jesus said: »If it is my will that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.«

⁶⁰ He kneeled down and cried with a loud voice: »Jehovah, do not charge this sin against them.« After saying this he fell asleep in death.

¹⁶ »I will show him plainly how many things he must suffer for my name.«

¹⁹ Jews from Antioch and Iconium took control of the crowd. They persuaded the people to stone Paul. Then they threw him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

²³ After they were severely beaten, they threw them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safe.

¹⁸ The Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. Some said: What is this babbler saying? Others: He seems to be advocating strange gods because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

³² Some mocked when they heard about the resurrection of the dead. Yet others said: »We will hear you again concerning this«.

³ He was of the same trade as Paul. So he stayed with them and worked at their tentmaker trade. ⁴ He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks. ⁵ Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia. He witnessed to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. ⁶ When they opposed Paul and treated him abusively he shook out his garment and said to them: »Your blood is upon your own heads. I am clean. From now on I will go to the people of the nations.« ⁷ He left the synagogue and went next door to the house of a man named Titus Justus, one who worshiped God. ⁸ Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord and so did his household. Many of the Corinthians who heard and believed were baptized. ⁹ The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision: »Do not be afraid, but speak. Do not keep silent! ¹⁰ »I am with you and no man will harm you. I have many people in this city.« ¹¹ He lived there a year and six months teaching the word of God to them.

²¹ »I will return again to you if it is God’s will,« Paul said. Then he set sail from Ephesus.

²¹ After this ended Paul was directed in the spirit to go to Jerusalem after he passed through Macedonia and Achaia. He said: »After I have been there, I must also see Rome.«

²¹ After this ended Paul was directed in the spirit to go to Jerusalem after he passed through Macedonia and Achaia. He said: »After I have been there, I must also see Rome.« ²² He sent two of his helpers Timothy and Erastus to Macedonia. He stayed in Asia for a while.

²⁹ The city was filled with the confusion. They rushed with one accord into the theatre and seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.

³¹ Some of the officials and his friends sent him a message begging him not to enter the theatre.

² He went to Greece after traveling through the area giving encouragement.

²⁹ »I know that after my departing grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. ³⁰ »Such men will arise from among you speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after them. ³¹ »Be on guard! Remember I did not cease for three years to admonish you day and night with tears.

³⁴ »You know that my own hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.

²² The people listened to Paul until he said this. Then they shouted at the top of their voices: »Away with him! Kill him! He is not fit to live!«

¹ Paul looked straight at the Council and said: »Fellow Israelites! My conscience is perfectly clear about the way in which I have lived before God to this very day.« ² The high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

²⁴ While he was defending himself, Festus said with a loud voice: »Paul, you are beside yourself. Much learning has made you mad.«

²⁹ Paul replied, »I pray to God, that you and also all that hear me this day were altogether such as I am, except for these bonds.«

²² The people shouted: »It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.« ²³ Immediately the angel of God killed him, because he did not give God the glory. He was eaten by worms and died.

⁵ Through whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, respecting his name.

¹⁶ I am not ashamed of the good news; for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who exerts active faith (believes), to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹ You who judge have no excuse. For when you judge another you condemn yourself. After all you do the same things.

⁷ [He offers] everlasting life for those who search for incorruptible glory and honor by enduring in good works.

¹³ The hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be righteous.

¹⁶ This is in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my good news, by Jesus Christ.

²⁹ But he is a Jew who is so on the inside with circumcision of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

³⁵ Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ It is written: »For your sake we are put to death all day long. We are considered as sheep for the slaughter.« (Psalm 44:22)

¹⁶ So then it does not depend on mans will or effort, but on God who shows mercy. ¹⁷ The scripture says to Pharaoh: »For this reason I have raised you up, that I might through you, show my power and declare my name in all the earth.« ¹⁸ He shows mercy to the one he chooses, and he allows others to be stubborn.

³ I say through the grace given to me that every man among you should not think more highly of himself than he ought to think. But to think soberly, just as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

⁶ We have gifts that differ according to the grace that is given to us. Whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

¹⁴ Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse. ¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. ¹⁶ Be of the same mind as others. Do not think lofty things but be led along by lowly things. Do not be wise in your own conceit (self-love) (vanity) (estimation).

²⁰ Therefore if your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he thirsts, give him drink. For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.

²⁵ Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the secret, which was kept secret since the world began.

¹ This letter is from Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother. ² To the congregation of God at Corinth. To you, who are sanctified in Christ Jesus. You who are called to be holy ones, with all whom in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. He is both their Lord and ours. ³ Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ He enriches you in every way, in all speaking, and in all knowledge.

⁷ You do not lack spiritual gifts as you wait for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² Concerning that I say, that each one of you said, »I follow Paul;« and »I follow Apollos;« and »I follow Cephas;« and »I follow Christ.«

¹⁸ For the preaching of the stake is foolishness to those who perish. It is the power of God to us who are saved. ¹⁹ It is written: »I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.« (Isaiah 29:14)

¹⁹ It is written: »I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.« (Isaiah 29:14) ²⁰ Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

²⁴ To those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, it is Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

²⁶ Consider your calling, brothers. Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. ²⁷ Instead God chose the foolish things of the world to confuse (shame) the wise. God chose the weak things of the world to confuse (shame) the things that are mighty. ²⁸ God also chose the base things of the world, and things which are despised, yes, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are.

³¹ Let it be as it is written, »He that boasts, let him boast in Jehovah!« (Jeremiah 9:24)

³ And I came to you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. ⁴ My speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

⁶ How is it we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who come to nothing (are doomed to destruction)? ⁷ We speak the wisdom of God in a secret, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the ages (generations and human entities) for our glory.

¹⁹ We know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law. Every mouth may be stopped and the entire world may become liable to God for punishment. ²⁰ No flesh will be justified before God by works of the law. Knowledge of sin comes from the law.

² If Abraham was declared righteous by works, he could boast, but not to God.

⁴ Who are you to judge another man’s servant? He stands or falls before his own master. Yes, he will be made to stand for God can make him stand.

¹⁰ Why do you judge your brother? Why do you look down on your brother with contempt? We will all stand before the judgment seat of God (Theos). ¹¹ It is written: As I live, says Jehovah, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will acknowledge (confess to) Jehovah. (Isaiah 45:23) ¹² So then every one of us will give account of himself to God. ¹³ Let us not judge one another any more. Let no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁹ Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God. From Jerusalem, and round about Illyricum, I have fully preached the good news of Christ. ²⁰ I have strived to preach the good news, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man’s foundation:

³² That I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.

¹⁴ But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God. They are foolishness to him! He cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ He that is spiritual judges all things, yet no man judges him.

¹ Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as fleshly men, as babes (infants) in Christ. ² I fed you milk and not solid food. You were not able to receive it. You are not able now!

² I fed you milk and not solid food. You were not able to receive it. You are not able now!

⁴ While one said, »I belong to Paul;« and another, »I belong to Apollos;« are you not fleshly human beings? ⁵ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

⁵ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? ⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered; but God caused the growth.

⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered; but God caused the growth. ⁷ Neither he that plants and neither he that waters is anything; but God gives the increase. ⁸ Now he who plants and he who waters are one [in purpose] and every man will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man take heed how he builds.

¹³ every man's work will be made known, for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will prove what sort every man's work is.

¹⁸ Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. It is written: »He catches the wise in their own craftiness (deception).« (Job 5:13)

²¹ Therefore let no man boast in men. For all things are yours.

² It is required of stewards that a man is trustworthy.

⁵ Do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make apparent the counsels of the hearts. Then each man’s praise will come from God. ⁶ Brothers I have applied these things to myself and to Apollos for your sakes. That way you might learn the value of the saying: Do not go beyond the things written. None of you should be arrogant (self-important) against one another. ⁷ For who made you superior to (different than) another? What do you have that you did not receive? If you did receive it, why do you brag, as if you did not receive it? ⁸ You are full and now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us. I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

⁸ You are full and now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us. I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

¹³ being slandered, we answer kindly. We are made as the filth of the world and are the refuse of all things to this day.

¹⁵ Though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.

¹⁷ I send Timothy, my beloved son faithful in the Lord, to you for this purpose. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ, just as I teach it in every congregation. ¹⁸ Now some have become proud (arrogant), thinking that I would not come to you.

¹⁸ Now some have become proud (arrogant), thinking that I would not come to you. ¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if God wills, and I will get to know what the proud ones do and not what they say, but their power.

²¹ What do you want? Shall I come to you with punishment or with love, and in the mild spirit of meekness?

² And you are proud! You should have been filled with sadness that he did this deed. And you should have ejected (expelled) (excommunicated) (disfellowshiped) him from your congregation.

⁵ Deliver this one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ Your boasting is not good. Do you know that a little leaven ferments the whole batch of dough?

⁵ I speak to shame you. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? Not one who would be able to judge between his brothers?

⁷ I prefer that all men were as I am. But every man has his proper gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

¹⁷ But as God has distributed to every person so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the congregations.

²⁵ Now concerning virgins I have no commandment from the Lord. Yet I give my opinion as one who has obtained the mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

¹ Concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

¹ Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

¹⁶ If anyone is contentious about this we have no other practice, neither do the congregations of God.

²⁶ For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes.

³⁴ If any man is hungry let him eat at home. That way you come together without condemnation. I will give direction to care for other matters when I come.

⁴ There are different gifts, but the same Spirit. ⁵ There are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. ⁶ And there are different operations, but it is the same God who works in all. ⁷ The manifestation (expression) of the Spirit is given to everyone for a beneficial purpose. ⁸ For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; ⁹ To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the one Spirit; ¹⁰ To another the workings of miracles and to another prophesy. To another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ But in all these the same Spirit works, making a distribution to each one as he (God) wills.

⁴ Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not brag and is not arrogant (proud).

⁵ I would like it that you all speak with tongues, but I prefer that you prophesy. The person who announces (teaches) (preaches) God’s Word is greater than the person who speaks with tongues. The person who speaks with tongues should have an interpreter so the congregation may receive understanding and knowledge.

³³ For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the congregations of the holy ones.

¹⁰ By the divine influence of God I am what I am. His grace was not given to me in vain for I labored more than all of them. Yet it was not I. It was the divine influence and favor of God in me.

²³ Everyone will be raised to life in the right order: Christ the first fruits and afterward those who belong to Christ at the time of his coming.

¹⁰ God delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver us. We have set our hope on him. He will deliver us!

¹² This is our pride and testimony of conscience. In holiness and Godly sincerity we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you. It was not by fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God.

¹⁵ In this confidence I was willing to come to you first that you might have a second benefit. ¹⁶ To pass by you to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be helped by you on my journey to Judea. ¹⁷ When I planned this was I unfaithful? Or in other things do I perform according to the flesh. With me should there be a yes or a no?

²³ But I call God for a witness against me. To spare you I did not come to Corinth.

¹ I decided this for myself that I would not come again to you with sorrow.

¹ I decided this for myself that I would not come again to you with sorrow. ² For if I make you sad, who then makes me glad? It is the same one whom I made sad. ³ I wrote this very thing that when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice. I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

¹⁷ For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God; but sincere and from God. We speak in Christ in the sight of God.

¹ Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some do, letters of commendation to you or from you? ² You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men. ³ It is known that you are a letter of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is not written on tablets of stone, but on tablets of flesh that are of the heart.

¹⁰ Even what was glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the greater glory.

² We have renounced the hidden things of shame. And we do not walk in craftiness and deceit. We do not adulterate the word of God. But by the manifestation of the truth we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

⁵ We do not preach about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord. We are your servants for Jesus' sake.

⁸ We are pressed (afflicted) (troubled) on every side, but not crushed. We are perplexed yet not to despair.

⁸ We are pressed (afflicted) (troubled) on every side, but not crushed. We are perplexed yet not to despair. ⁹ We are persecuted, yet not forsaken. We are struck down, yet not destroyed. ¹⁰ We always carry in the body the death of Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body. ¹¹ For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹² So then death works in us, but life in you.

¹⁵ All things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

¹⁰ We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether it is good or bad.

⁴ In everything we commend ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

⁴ In everything we commend ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, ⁵ in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watching, in fasting;

⁹ as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

¹¹ O Corinthians, we have spoken openly to you, our (figurative) heart is wide open (enlarged). ¹² We do not restrict you, but you are restricted by your own affections. ¹³ Now in return for the same in like kind (I speak as to my children), you also be open (open your hearts wide)!

³ I say it not to condemn you: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

² If I am not an apostle to others, I most certainly am to you, for you are the seal (stamp) (proof) of my apostleship in the Lord.

⁴ Do we have a right to eat and drink?

⁶ Or is it only Barnabas and I who do not have the right to refrain from secular work?

¹² If others are partakers of the right over you, should we also partake? Nevertheless we have not used this power! We suffer all things, lest we should hinder the good news of Christ.

¹⁴ Even so, has the Lord ordained that they who preach the good news should earn their living from the good news? ¹⁵ But I have used none of these rights! Neither have I written these things, that it should be done to me. It would be better for me to die, than that any man should make my reason for boasting void. ¹⁶ Though I preach the good news I do not brag about it. Preaching the good news is my duty (obligation) and I must do it! It would be terrible if I did not preach the good news! ¹⁷ For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward. But if I do it against my will, I am just performing the trust of the good news committed to me. ¹⁸ What is my reward then? When I preach the good news, I may offer the good news of Christ without charge. That is way I do not abuse my power in the good news.

¹⁸ What is my reward then? When I preach the good news, I may offer the good news of Christ without charge. That is way I do not abuse my power in the good news.

²³ And this I do for the sake of the good news that I might be a partaker of it with others.

¹² Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.

¹⁴ My dearly beloved, flee (run away) from idolatry. ¹⁵ I speak as to wise men. You judge what I say.

¹ Be followers (imitators) of me, even as I also am of Christ. ² Now I praise you, brothers, because you remember me in all things, and carefully follow the teachings (precepts) (doctrine) just as I delivered them to you.

³⁰ Why do we stand in jeopardy (in danger) every hour? ³¹ I face death daily even as I rejoice over you in Christ Jesus our Lord. ³² If I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me if the dead do not rise? Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.

³⁴ Wake up to righteousness and do not sin. Some do not have knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

¹ Now concerning the collection for the holy ones, you should do the same as I told the congregations of Galatia.

⁵ Now I will come to you when I pass through Macedonia, for I do pass through Macedonia.

¹⁰ Now if Timothy comes, see that he may be with you without fear, for he works the work of God, as I also do.

⁸ We do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that began in Asia. We were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life. ⁹ Yes, we have had the sentence of death within ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

¹ Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you. ² I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.

⁴ The weapons we use in our fight are not of the flesh but God's powerful weapons, which we use to destroy strongholds. We destroy false arguments. ⁵ We cast down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God. We bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. ⁶ We are ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is complete. ⁷ You look at the things that are before you. If any man trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again within himself that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we. ⁸ I should boast a great deal concerning the authority the Lord gave us to build you up, and not to tear you down, I would not be put to shame.

¹⁰ For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong. But his bodily presence is weak and his speech of no account.

¹² For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves. But they measure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves with themselves. They are without understanding.

¹⁵ We did not boast beyond our assignment in other men's labors. Having hope that, as your faith grows, we shall be made great among you according to our territory for further abundance.

¹⁸ It is not he that commends himself that is approved. It is the one whom Jehovah commends. (Proverbs 29:26)

¹ I hope you can put up with me in a little foolishness: but indeed you do put up with me.

⁴ If someone comes and preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different good news, which you did not accept, you do well to put up with him.

¹¹ Why? Is it because I do not love you? God knows I do! ¹² But what I do, I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that in whatever matter they boast, they may be found equal with me. ¹³ For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder for even Satan fashions himself into an angel of light. ¹⁵ It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.

¹⁹ You being wise tolerate the foolish.

¹⁹ My little children, of whom I am again in labor pains until Christ is formed in you

³ So if any one of you thinks you are important when you really are not, you are only fooling yourself.

⁹ He made known to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure and purpose.

³ The secret was made known to me by revelation, just as I wrote before in few words.

³ The secret was made known to me by revelation, just as I wrote before in few words. ⁴ When you read this you can understand my insight into the secret of Christ.

⁴ When you read this you can understand my insight into the secret of Christ. ⁵ It was not made known to other generations of the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.

⁵ It was not made known to other generations of the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. ⁶ The Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the good news. ⁷ I was made a minister, according to the gift of God’s grace that was given me according to the working of his power. ⁸ To me, the very least of all the holy ones, was given grace (loving divine influence) to preach to the people of the nations the untraceable riches of Christ. ⁹ To make all men see what is the administration of the secret which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things.

¹⁷ Brothers, be imitators of me. Pay attention to those who live by the example we have given you.

⁹ The things that you have learned, received, heard and saw in me; do these things and the God of peace will be with you.

¹² I know how to be poor. I also know how to live with abundance. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to have abundance and to suffer need.

⁷ You learned about Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more in labors more abundant, beaten beyond number, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more in labors more abundant, beaten beyond number, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often. ²⁴ Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one. ²⁵ Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, I suffered shipwreck three times, a night and a day I have spent in the deep. ²⁶ In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brothers; ²⁷ In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness.

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I do not burn with indignation?

⁶ If I ever wanted to brag, I would not be a fool. Instead, I would be telling the truth. But I am going to spare you so that no one may think more of me than what he sees or hears about me.

⁹ He told me: »My grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness.« Most gladly therefore, I would rather glory in my infirmities (frailities), that the power of Christ may rest upon me (cover me like a tent) (descend upon me) (abide with me). (Isaiah 40:29-31) ¹⁰ Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then I am strong.

¹⁴ Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you. I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. The children should not provide for the parents, but the parents for the children. ¹⁵ I will gladly spend and be spent for you. When I love you more abundantly should I be loved less.

¹⁹ Do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for you’re up building. ²⁰ I am afraid that I may come and find you different from what I want you to be, and that you may find me different from what you want me to be. I fear that there may be rivalry, jealousy, hot tempers, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct. ²¹ I am afraid that the next time I come my God will humiliate me in your presence, and I shall weep over many who sinned in the past and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication and loose conduct that they have practiced.

¹ This is now the third time that I am coming to visit you. The testimony of two or three witnesses must uphold an accusation. (Deuteronomy 19:15) ² I told you in advance as if I were present the second time. Being absent now I write to those who have sinned and to all others. If I come again I will not spare you.

² I told you in advance as if I were present the second time. Being absent now I write to those who have sinned and to all others. If I come again I will not spare you. ³ Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you but is mighty in you. ⁴ Though he was impaled through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. We are weak through him also, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

⁹ We are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong. We also pray that you be readjusted. ¹⁰ Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power that the Lord gave me to enlightenment and not to destruction.

¹⁹ Pray on my behalf, that ability to speak may be given to me, to make known with boldness the secret of the good news.

²¹ That you also may know my affairs, how I do, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make known to you all things.

²⁷ Let your manner of life be worthy of the good news about Christ. Whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your conduct, that you stand fast in one spirit (common purpose) (mental disposition) (vital principle), with one mind striving together for the faith of the good news.

²⁹ It has been granted to you in behalf of Christ. Not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf. ³⁰ You have the same conflict that you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

¹² My beloved, you have always obeyed, not just in my presence, but now much more in my absence. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

¹⁹ I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly that I may be encouraged when I know your circumstances.

²⁵ God gave me this stewardship to perform for your good. He has made me a servant of the congregation. It is for the task of fully proclaiming the word of God. ²⁶ It is the secret he hid through all past ages from all human beings but has now revealed to his holy ones. ²⁷ It was God’s will to make known his secret to the people of the nations, this rich and glorious secret that he has for people. The secret is that Christ is in union with you, which means that you will share in his glory. ²⁸ We preach Christ to everyone. With all possible wisdom we warn and teach them in order to bring each one to God as a mature individual in union with Christ.

² I do this that they may be filled with courage and be united (knit) together in love. I have the full assurance that only true understanding brings. In this way they will accurately know God’s secret, which is Christ himself.

¹⁸ Let no man rob you of your prize by a self-abasement and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things that he has seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

³ Pray also for us that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the secret of Christ, for which I have also been imprisoned.

⁷ Tychicus will make known all my affairs to you, the beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.

⁹ He will be with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all things that are done here.

¹⁷ Say to Archippus, »Take heed to the ministry you received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.«

⁵ We preached the good news to you, not in words only but with power from Holy Spirit and with conviction of its truth. You know how we lived when we were with you. It was for your own good. ⁶ You imitated the Lord and us, even though you suffered much affliction. Yet you received the word with the joy that comes from the Holy Spirit.

⁷ But we were gentle when we were with you, like a mother taking care of her children.

⁹ You may remember, brothers, our labor and hardship. We worked day and night that we would not burden any of you when we preached the good news of God to you.

¹¹ You know how we dealt with each one of you. It was like a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging and showing you.

¹⁹ Who is our hope, or joy, or crown of exultation? Is it not you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus, at his coming? ²⁰ For you are our glory and joy!

² So we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s fellow worker in the good news of Christ. He came to strengthen and encourage you concerning your faith. ³ We do not want anyone to be discouraged by these troubles. You know we were bound to suffer persecution.

³ We do not want anyone to be discouraged by these troubles. You know we were bound to suffer persecution.

⁶ Timothy came from you to us, and brought us good news about your faith and love. We want you to have good memories of us always, and that you desire to see us just as we also desire to see you. ⁷ Brothers, your faith has comforted us. In all our trouble and suffering we are encouraged. ⁸ Now we live, if you (persevere) stand fast in the Lord. ⁹ What thanks can we render to God for you and for all the joy we have for your sakes before our God?

⁸ He therefore that rejects this, rejects not man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to us.

² For you know perfectly that the »Day of Jehovah« will come like a thief in the night. (Zephaniah 1:14)

⁹ For God has not appointed us to experience his wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ He died for us, that, whether we are awake in this life or sleep in death, we should live together with him.

¹⁴ We ask you brothers to warn the unruly and comfort the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with all men.

¹² Then everyone who did not believe the truth, but was delighted with wickedness, will be condemned. ¹³ We always have to thank God for you, brothers. Jehovah loves you and we thank God that in the beginning he chose you to be saved through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. ¹⁴ It was for this he called you through our good news. This is so you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ This is why we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

² to Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

² What you have heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others as well.

¹⁰ For this reason I endure all things for the sake of the chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory. ¹¹ This is a faithful saying: If we died with him, we will also live with him. ¹² If we endure, we will also reign with Him. If we deny him, He will deny us!

¹⁰ You carefully follow my teaching in conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, and patience, ¹¹ and also persecutions and sufferings. The things that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. Out of them the Lord delivered me.

³ For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine. Having their ears tickled, they will accumulate teachers who follow after their own lusts.

¹¹ He was once worthless to you, but now is useful to you and me. ¹² I send him back to you, like sending my heart.

¹⁹ I Paul write with my own hand. I will repay. I do not say that you owe your own self (life) to me.

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to minister for those who will be heirs of salvation?

⁸ We did not eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, we worked hard and struggled night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you. ⁹ It is not because we do not have the right, but to make ourselves an example for you to imitate us.

² to Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹² I thank him that enabled me and counted me faithful, appointing me to his service, Christ Jesus our Lord. ¹³ I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a violent aggressor. I was shown mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. ¹⁴ The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am foremost.

⁶ He should not be a new believer, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation of the Devil.

⁹ They should maintain the secret of the faith with a clear conscience.

¹⁶ The secret of godliness is great and it is without controversy. ‘He (Jesus Christ) was manifested (revealed) in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, and seen by angels. He preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, and received up in glory.’

⁴ To Titus, my true child sharing a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

⁷ The overseer must be blameless as God's steward. He must not be self-willed, not prone to anger, not a brawler, and not violent (quarrelsome) (pugnacious), not greedy of dishonest gain.

³ For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. ⁴ When the kindness of God our Savior, and his love toward man, appeared, ⁵ not by works done in righteousness, which we did, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration (restoration) (spiritual rebirth) and renewing (renovation) of the Holy Spirit. ⁶ He poured Spirit out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior. ⁷ Being justified by his grace (loving kindness), we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

¹⁰ I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment.

¹³ Nothing in all creation is hidden from God. All things are uncovered and laid bare before him. We must account to him. (Romans 2:16; 14:12)

³ We will do this if God permits.

³³ You were at times publicly insulted and mistreated. Other times you were ready to join those who were being treated in this way.

³⁶ And others had trial of cruel mocking and scourging and bonds and imprisonment.

⁷ Remember those who are taking the lead among you, men that spoke the Word of God to you. Consider their behavior and imitate their faith.

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights (truth and spiritual purity), with whom there is no variation. He does not change like shifting shadows.

¹⁵ You should say, »If God wills, we should both live, and do this or that.«

⁷ Be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and late rains.

⁷ The proof of your faith is more precious than gold that perishes. Though it is tested by fire, it may be found in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

²³ You have been given a new birth, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and endures.

⁴ Saying, »Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep [in death], all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.«

¹² Look for and earnestly desire the coming presence of the »Day of Jehovah.« (Zephaniah 1:14) The heavens being on fire will be dissolved (destroyed), and the elements will melt with intense heat!

¹⁸ Using his own will, he gave us birth through the word of truth. This way we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

¹⁷ But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable (yielding), full of mercy and good fruits, without discord (partiality), without hypocrisy.

¹¹ Brothers, do not speak against each other. He who speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

²³ When he was reviled (insulted), he did not revile in return. When he suffered he did not threaten, but committed himself to him that judges righteously.

⁹ Do not repay evil for evil, or insult for insult. Do just the opposite. For you were called to inherit a blessing.

¹⁴ Even if you suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. Do not fear! Do not be troubled (distressed) (intimidated)!

¹⁰ According to the gift you have received, minister among yourselves, as good stewards of the increased grace (divine influence) (love) of God.

¹² Beloved ones do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, for it comes upon you like a test, as though some strange thing were happening to you. ¹³ As much as you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy. ¹⁴ If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

¹⁴ If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

¹⁹ Let them also that suffer according to the will of God commend themselves in well doing to a faithful Creator.

³ Do not lord it over your charge, but make yourselves examples to the flock. ⁴ When the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.

²⁰ If our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us we have confidence toward God.

¹⁴ Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these, saying: »Behold, Jehovah came with many thousands of his holy ones.

⁷ Behold, he comes with the clouds. Every eye will see him, and those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn over him. So it will be, Amen.

¹⁰ »'Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The devil (false accuser) (Devil) is about to throw you into prison, that you may be tested. You will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful even if you must die, and I will give you the crown of life.

¹³ »'I know where you live and where the throne of Satan is. You cling to my name and have not denied my faith, even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness. He was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

¹⁷ »'You say, «I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing." You do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

¹⁰ »You made them kings and priests to our God. They will reign as kings over the earth.«

⁹ When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the persons who were slaughtered because of the word of God, and for the witness they gave. ¹⁰ They cried with a loud voice, saying: »How long, O Lord, holy and true, before you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?« ¹¹ Each of them was given a white robe. They were told that they should rest for a little while. [They were to wait] until the [number] of their fellow servants and their brothers, who would be killed, as they were, should be fulfilled.

⁶ I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the holy ones, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her I wondered greatly. ⁷ The angel said: »Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns.

¹² I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. The books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged according to the things written in the books, according to their works.

⁴ I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth.

⁹ Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil disputed about the body of Moses. He did not speak evil judgment against him in abusive terms, but said: »Jehovah rebukes you.« (Zechariah 3:2)

¹¹ All the angels stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures. They fell before the throne on their faces, and worshiped God. ¹² They said: »Amen! Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen.« ¹³ One of the elders asked me: »Who are these dressed in white robes? And where are they from?« ¹⁴ I said to him: »Sir, you know.« He said to me: »These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.