2 Corinthians 12 Cross References - NSB

¹ I must brag, although it does not do any good. I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. ² I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I do not know; or whether out of the body, I do not know; God knows), such a one caught up even to the third heaven. ³ And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I do not know; God knows), ⁴ how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to speak. ⁵ I will brag about this person, but I will not brag about myself unless it is about my weaknesses. 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. ⁷ I was given a painful physical ailment that will keep me from being puffed up with pride because of the many wonderful things I saw. It acts as Satan's messenger to beat me and keep me from being proud. ⁸ Three times I prayed to God about this and asked him to take it away. 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. ¹¹ I have become a fool in boasting. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended about you: for in nothing am I inferior to the most prominent apostles, though I am nothing. ¹² Truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. ¹³ What is it in which you were inferior to other congregations, except that I was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong. 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. ¹⁶ Just the same, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you by cunning. ¹⁷ Did I gain you by any of them whom I sent to you? ¹⁸ I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus gain you? Did we not conduct ourselves in the same mental disposition? Did we not walk in the same steps? 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.

¹⁴ Then God said: »Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. Let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years. ¹⁵ »Let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth.« It was so. ¹⁶ God made the two great lights. The sun was to govern the day. The moon was to govern the night. He made the stars also. ¹⁷ He placed the lights in the sky to shine on the earth. ¹⁸ The lights were to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. ²⁰ God said: »Let the waters be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.«

³⁵ »Jehovah has greatly blessed my master and made him a rich man. He has given him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, silver, gold, male and female slaves, camels, and donkeys. ³⁶ »Sarah, my master’s wife, did not have any children until she was very old. Then she had a son, and my master has given him everything.

¹⁴ Rachel and Leah asked: »Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house? ¹⁵ »Are we not accounted as foreigners by him? He sold us and also utterly consumed the price paid for us.

²⁵ The man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob. He gave him a blow in the hollow part of his thigh, so that his leg was damaged.

³¹ The sun rose as he passed Penuel. He was limping because of his thigh.

¹¹ But Moses said: »Who am I to go to Pharaoh and lead your people out of Egypt?« ¹² God said: »I will be with you! This shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain.«

¹⁰ Moses said: »O Jehovah I am not a man of words. I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant. Talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue.« ¹¹ Jehovah said to him: »Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Jehovah? ¹² »Now then go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth. I will teach you what you are to say.« ¹³ But Moses said: »Please, Jehovah, send the message by whomever you will.« ¹⁴ Then the anger of Jehovah burned against Moses, and He said: »Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently. He is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. ¹⁵ »You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth and his mouth. I will teach you what you are to do.

³¹ So Moses went back to Jehovah and said: »These people have committed such a serious sin! They made a god out of gold for themselves.

⁶ He said: »Listen to my words: ‘When there are prophets of Jehovah among you, I make myself known to them in visions or speak to them in dreams.

¹⁵ Moses became angry and said to Jehovah: »Do not accept their offering. I have not taken anything from them, not even a donkey. And I have not mistreated any of them.«

⁵⁵ »If you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those that are left will be as troublesome as splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will fight against you.

²³ »Then I pleaded with Jehovah: ²⁴ »‘O Sovereign Lord Jehovah, you have begun to show me how great and powerful you are. What kind of god is there in heaven or on earth that can do the deeds and the mighty acts you have done? ²⁵ »‘Please let me go over and see the beautiful land on the other side of the Jordan River. Let me see those beautiful mountains in Lebanon.’ ²⁶ »Jehovah was angry with me because of you, so he would not listen to me. He said: ‘Enough of that! Do not talk to me anymore about this. ²⁷ »‘Go to the top of (Mount) Pisgah, and look west, north, south, and east. You may look at the land, but you will never cross the Jordan River.

¹⁴ »When this happens, be careful that you do not become arrogant and forget Jehovah your God. He brought you out of slavery in Egypt.

¹⁵ »So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire. I carried the two stone tablets of the covenant in my two hands.

²⁵ »So I fell down prostrate before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights. I did this because Jehovah said he would destroy you.

²⁵ »Your locks will be iron and bronze. According to your days, so will your leisurely walk be. ²⁶ »There is none like the God of Jeshurun (Israel). He rides the heavens to give you help. He goes through the skies in his majesty. ²⁷ »The eternal God is a dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He drove out the enemy from before you, and said: ‘Destroy!’

⁹ »Have I commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage. Do not be afraid, neither be dismayed; for Jehovah your God is with you wherever you go.«

²⁰ »He must not think he is better than the rest of his people. He will not disobey these commandments in any way. So he and his sons will rule for a long time in Israel.

³ »I also said: ‘I will not drive them out from before you. They will be thorns in your sides. Their gods will snare (trap) you.’«

³ »Here I am! Testify against me before Jehovah and before his anointed one. Whose bull have I stolen? Whose donkey have I taken? Have I cheated anyone? Have I oppressed any? Have I ever taken a bribe? Tell me and I will make it right.« ⁴ The people answered: »You have not cheated us or oppressed us. You have not taken anything from anyone.«

¹¹ »I am sorry that I made Saul king. He has turned away from me and disobeyed my commands.« Samuel was angry. All night long he pleaded with Jehovah.

³⁵ Samuel never saw Saul again until the day of his death. Samuel went into mourning for Saul. It was no longer Jehovah’s pleasure for Saul to be king over Israel.

¹⁶ David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and lay on the ground all night. ¹⁷ The elders in his palace stood beside him to raise him up from the ground. But he was unwilling and he would not eat with them. ¹⁸ On the seventh day the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead. They thought: »While the child was alive, we talked to him, and he would not listen to us. How can we tell him the child is dead? He may harm himself.«

³³ The king was shaken by the news. He went to the room above the gate and cried. »My son Absalom!« He said. »My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!«

³⁹ King David longed for Absalom once people had consoled him over Amnon’s death.

¹ Later Ahithophel said to Absalom: »Let me choose twelve thousand men. Tonight I will set out after David. ² »I will attack him while he is tired and discouraged. He will be frightened! All his men will run away. I will kill only the king. ³ »Then I will bring back all his men to you. It will be like a bride returning to her husband. Kill one man and the rest of the people return safely.« ⁴ This seemed like good advice to Absalom and all the Israelite leaders.

²⁷ »Can you, O God, really live on earth? Not even heaven or the heaven of heavens is large enough to hold you. How can this Temple I have built be large enough?

¹⁵ The fifty prophets from Jericho saw him and said: »The power of Elijah is on Elisha!« So they went to meet him and bowed down before him. ¹⁶ They said: »There are fifty of us here. We are all strong men. Let us go and look for your master. Maybe the Spirit of Jehovah has carried him away and left him on some mountain or in some valley.« Elisha answered: »You must not go.«

¹² »What if the Spirit of Jehovah carries you off to some unknown place as soon as I leave? Then, when I tell Ahab that you are here and he cannot find you, he will put me to death. Remember that I have been a devout worshiper of Jehovah ever since I was a boy.

¹⁶ Elisha the prophet answered: »By the living God Jehovah whom I serve, I swear that I will not accept a gift.« Naaman insisted that he accept it, but he would not.

²⁰ when Elisha's servant Gehazi said to himself: »My master has let Naaman get away without paying a thing! He should have accepted what that Syrian offered him. By the living God Jehovah I will run after him and get something from him.« ²¹ He ran after Naaman. When Naaman saw a man running after him, he got down from his chariot to meet him, and asked: »What is wrong?« ²² »Nothing is wrong,« answered Gehazi. »But my master sent me to tell you that just now two members of the group of prophets in the hill country of Ephraim arrived. He would like you to give them three thousand pieces of silver and two changes of fine clothes.« ²³ »Please take six thousand pieces of silver,« Naaman replied. He tied the silver in two bags and gave them and two changes of fine clothes to two of his servants, and sent them on ahead of Gehazi. ²⁴ They reached the hill where Elisha lived. Gehazi took the two bags and carried them into the house. Then he sent Naaman's servants back. ²⁵ He went into the house. Elisha asked him: »Where have you been?« »Oh, nowhere,« he answered. ²⁶ Elisha said: »Was I there in spirit when the man got out of his chariot to meet you? This is no time to accept money and clothes, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and cattle, or servants! ²⁷ »Naaman's leprosy will come upon you. You and your descendants will have it from generation to generation!« When Gehazi left, he had the disease. His skin was as white as snow.

¹⁶ However when he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. He was unfaithful to Jehovah his God. He went into Jehovah’s Temple to burn incense on the incense altar.

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.

³¹ When the leaders of Babylon sent ambassadors to ask him about the miraculous sign that had happened in the land, God left him. God did this to test him, to find out everything that was in Hezekiah’s heart.

³ Hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.

¹ While Ezra was saying his prayer and his confession of wrongdoing he wept and fell down before the house of God. A very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together around him, for the people were weeping bitterly.

¹⁴ From the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, my servants and I have never taken the food that was the right of the ruler.

⁷ Satan left Jehovah’s presence and struck Job with painful boils from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.

²⁵ »If it is not so, who will prove me a liar, and show that there is nothing in what I say?«

² From the mouths of little children and infants, you have built a fortress against your opponents to silence the enemy and the avenger.

⁷ All who hate me whisper together (gossip) against me; against me they devise my hurt, saying:

² In the day of my trouble I sought Jehovah. My hand was stretched out in the night, and did not get tired. I refused to be comforted. ³ I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. ⁴ You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I cannot speak. ⁵ I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. ⁶ I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires: ⁷ Will Jehovah reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more? ⁸ Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations? ⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion? ¹⁰ Then I thought: I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. ¹¹ I will remember Jehovah's deeds! I will remember your wonders of old.

¹³⁶ My eyes shed streams of water, because they do not keep your law.

⁴ Praise him, you highest heaven and the water above the sky.

³⁰ The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who gains life is wise.

²² A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. The wealth of the sinner is preserved for the righteous.

¹⁴ Real estate and riches are the inheritance of fathers. A prudent (wise) (sensible) wife is from Jehovah.

²⁸ A perverse man sows discord. A whisperer separates good friends.

⁵ Then Jehovah will create over the entire area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night. A canopy (shelter) will be over all as the glory (honor). ⁶ There will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain.

² The Spirit of Jehovah will rest on him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and respect for Jehovah will be his.

³ Strengthen the tired hands and the knees that tremble with weakness. ⁴ Tell the discouraged ones with anxious heart: »Be strong and do not be afraid! God is coming to your rescue! He is coming to punish your enemies.«

² »When you go through the sea, I am with you. When you go through rivers, they will not sweep you away. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned, and the flames will not harm you.

²⁹ »He gives strength to those who grow tired and increases the strength of those who are weak. ³⁰ Even young people grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. ³¹ »Those who hope in Jehovah will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary! They will walk and not be faint.«

¹³ »I AM JEHOVAH, YOUR GOD! I take hold of your right hand and say to you: Do not fear; I will help you. ¹⁴ »Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I will help you. This is the declaration of Jehovah, your Redeemer, and the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁵ »See I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them. You will reduce the hills to chaff. ¹⁶ »You will winnow them. The wind will pick them up and a gale will blow them away. But you will rejoice in Jehovah and glory in the Holy One of Israel.

²⁴ »It will be said of me: ‘Certainly, righteousness and strength are found in Jehovah alone. All who are angry with him will come to him and be ashamed. ²⁵ »‘All the descendants of Israel will be declared righteous, and they will praise Jehovah.’«

¹⁵ The High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy, says: ‘I dwell in the high and holy and also with him who has a contrite and humble spirit. I revive the spirit of the humble, and the heart of the contrite ones.’

⁶ I, Jeremiah, said: »Lord Jehovah, I do not know how to speak. I am only a child!« ⁷ Jehovah said to me: »‘Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ You must go wherever I send you. You must say whatever I command you to say. ⁸ »Do not be afraid of people. I am with you. I will rescue you,« says Jehovah. ⁹ Then Jehovah stretched out his hand and touched my mouth. Jehovah said to me: »I have put my words in your mouth.

¹ Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears. Then I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

¹⁷ If you will not listen, I will cry secretly over your arrogance. I will cry bitterly, and my eyes will flow with tears because Jehovah’s flock will be taken captive.

¹ I was living among the exiles by the Chebar River. On the fifth day of the fourth month in the thirtieth year the [figurative] heaven opened and I saw visions from God. ² On the fifth day of the month during the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiakin, ³ The word of Jehovah (YHWH) spoke to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi. It was in Babylon by the Chebar River. The power of Jehovah came upon him. ⁴ I saw a storm coming from the north. There was an immense cloud with flashing lightning surrounded by a bright light. The center of the lightning looked like glowing metal. ⁵ In the center of the cloud I saw what looked like four living creatures. They were shaped like humans. ⁶ Each of them had four faces and four wings. ⁷ Their legs were straight. Their feet were like those of calves and they glittered like polished copper. ⁸ They had human hands under their wings on each of their four sides. All four of them had faces and wings. ⁹ Their wings touched each other. The creatures went straight ahead and they did not turn as they moved. ¹⁰ Their faces looked like this: From the front, each creature had the face of a human. From the right side, each one had the face of a lion. From the left, each one had the face of a bull. And from the back, each one had the face of an eagle. ¹¹ That is what their faces looked like. Their wings were spread out and pointed upward. Each creature had two wings with which they touched each other. The other two wings covered their bodies. ¹² Each of the creatures went straight ahead. They went wherever the spirit wanted to go, and they did not turn as they moved. ¹³ The living creatures looked like burning coals and torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures. The fire was bright and lightning came out of the fire. ¹⁴ The living creatures ran back and forth like lightning. ¹⁵ As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each of them, with its four faces. ¹⁶ This is how the wheels looked and how they were made: They looked like beryl (chrysolite) (precious stones). All four wheels looked the same. They looked like a wheel within a wheel. ¹⁷ When they moved, they moved in any of the four directions without turning as they moved. ¹⁸ The rims of the wheels were large and frightening. They were covered with eyes. ¹⁹ When the living creatures moved the wheels moved with them. When the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels also rose. ²⁰ Wherever the spirit wanted to go the creatures went. The wheels rose with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. ²¹ When the creatures moved, the wheels moved. When the creatures stood still, the wheels stood still. And when the creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose with them. This is because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. ²² Something like a dome was spread over the heads of the living creatures. It looked like dazzling crystal. ²³ Under the dome, each creature had two wings that were stretched out straight, touching one another. Each creature had two wings that covered its body. ²⁴ When the creatures moved I heard the sound of their wings. The sound was like the noise of rushing water. It was like the thunder (voice) of the Almighty. It was like the commotion in an army camp. When the creatures stood still, they lowered their wings. ²⁵ A voice came from above the dome over their heads as they stood still with their wings lowered. ²⁶ Above the dome over their heads was something that looked like a throne made of sapphire. On the throne was a figure that looked like a human. ²⁷ Then I saw what he looked like from the waist up. He looked like glowing copper with fire all around it. From the waist down he looked like fire. A bright light surrounded him. ²⁸ The brightness all around him looked like a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day. It was the likeness of Jehovah’s glory. When I saw it I immediately fell down with my face to the ground. I heard someone speaking.

¹ On the fifth day of the sixth month in the sixth year, I was sitting in my home. Judah's older men were sitting in front of me. The power of the Lord Jehovah came over me. ² As I looked, I saw something that looked like a human. From the waist down its body looked like fire, and from the waist up its body looked like bright glowing metal. ³ It stretched out what looked like a hand and grabbed me by the hair on my head. In these visions from God, the Spirit carried me between heaven and earth. He took me in vision to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the idol of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy, was located.

²⁴ The Spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God to the exiles in Chaldea. So the vision that I had seen left me.

²⁴ »‘There will be no more prickling brier or a painful thorn for the house of Israel from any round about them who scorned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

² »Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy to these shepherds. Tell them: ‘The Lord Jehovah says: »How horrible it will be for the shepherds of Israel who have been taking care of only themselves. Should shepherds take care of the sheep?

⁹ »‘I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches. All the trees of Eden in the garden of God were jealous of it.’

²⁰ »But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened with pride he dealt proudly. He was deposed from his kingly throne and they took his glory from him:

²⁸ »In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions! (Ac 2:17; Isa 44:3) ²⁹ »I will also pour out my Spirit upon the male and female servants in those days. (Ac 10:45; Zec 12:10; Eze 36:27)

⁵ I looked up to see a man clothed in linen. His loins were girded with pure gold of the Uphaz region. ⁶ His body also was like chrysolite and his face as the appearance of lightning. His eyes were like flaming torches and his arms and his feet like burnished copper. The sound of his words was like the sound of a crowd. ⁷ I, Daniel, saw the vision alone, for the men that were with me did not see the vision. A great quaking fell upon them and they ran away to hide. ⁸ I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me. My appearance turned deathlike (pallor) (livid) (pale) and I had no strength. ⁹ Yet I heard the sound of his words. When I heard the sound of his words I fell with my face toward the ground into a deep sleep. ¹⁰ A hand touched me and set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.

¹⁶ Then one who looked like a human touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke to him: »O my lord, by reason of the vision I have convulsions and I have no strength. ¹⁷ »For how can the servant of my lord talk? I had no strength in me. I was also without breath.« ¹⁸ Then the one with the human appearance touched me and he strengthened me. ¹⁹ He said, »O man greatly beloved, do not fear, peace be to you, be strong, yes, be strong.« And when he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, »Let my lord speak for you have strengthened me.«

¹⁷ »Jehovah your God is with you! He is a mighty one. He will exult over you with joy. He will refresh you with his love. He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.

¹⁹ »When they hand you over, do not worry about what to say and how to say it. You will be given the words to speak at that time. ²⁰ »You will not speak on your own. Your Father’s Spirit will speak through you.

¹¹ »Blessed are you when men revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake. ¹² »Rejoice, and be filled with joy, for great is your reward in heaven. The prophets, who came before you, were also persecuted.

⁶⁷ They spat in his face and hit him, saying:

²¹ »What is your desire?« he asked. She said to him: »Let my two sons be seated, the one at your right hand, and the other at your left, in your kingdom.« ²² Jesus told her: »You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup I am about to take? »

³⁹ Then he went forward a little, and fell on his face, and prayed: »My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.« ⁴⁰ When he came to the disciples, they were sleeping. He said to Peter: »Could you not watch with me one hour? ⁴¹ »Watch and pray continually that you do not enter into temptation!« ⁴² A second time he went away and prayed, saying: »Father, if this cannot pass away, except I drink it, your will be done.« ⁴³ He returned to find them sleeping again, for their eyes were heavy. ⁴⁴ He went away to pray a third time, saying the same words.

¹⁸ Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying: »All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

²⁰ »Teach them to observe all the things I have commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.«

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.

⁴¹ Jesus answered: »O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and put up with you? Bring your son to me.« ⁴² When he came near the demon slammed him down and through him in to a convulsion. Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy and gave him back to his father.

¹⁰ The same applies to you. When you have done all you have been told to do, you say, we are unworthy servants. We have done what we ought to have done.«

¹⁶ »Here is a descendant of Abraham whom Satan has kept in bonds for eighteen years. Should she be released on the Sabbath?«

¹⁵ »I will give you ability to talk and words of wisdom, which your adversaries shall not be able to resist or refute.

⁵¹ While he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven.

⁴³ He replied: »Today I tell you this. You will be with me in paradise.«

⁴⁸ »Until you see signs and wonders you will not believe,« Jesus said.

⁵⁶ »He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides with me, and I with him.

¹⁰ »The thief comes to steal, and kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. ¹¹ »I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

⁴ »Remain with me, and I with you. The branch cannot bear fruit by itself. It must remain on the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain with me. ⁵ »I am the vine and you are the branches. He that remains with me, and I with him, the same bears much fruit. You can do nothing apart from me. ⁶ »If a man does not remain with me, he is removed as a branch, and withers. They gather them and throw them into the fire where they are burned (destroyed) (consumed).

²¹ »They will do all these things to you for my name’s sake. It is because they do not know the one that sent me.

⁷ »Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away. For if I do not go away the helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send it to you. (Greek: autos: it)

²¹ »May they all be united (in agreement) as one. Just as you, Father, are with me, and I am with you. Help them be united with us! That way the world may believe that you sent me. ²² »I have given them the glory that you gave me in order that they may be one even as we are one. ²³ »I with them, and you with me, that they may accomplish complete unity. That way the world may know that you sent me and that you love them just as you love me.

¹⁴ Caiaphas was the man who gave counsel to the Jews that it was for their benefit that one man should die for the people.

³⁹ After they came out of the water God’s Spirit took Philip away. The eunuch did not see him again. He continued his journey rejoicing. ⁴⁰ Philip was seen passing through Azotus. He preached in all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

¹⁰ The disciple Ananias was in Damascus. The Lord spoke to Ananias in a vision: »Ananias.« He replied: »Yes, I am here, Lord.« ¹¹ The Lord said to him, »Arise, and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus for he is praying. ¹² »He has seen a man named Ananias in a vision. He came in and laid his hand on him that he might receive his sight.« ¹³ Ananias answered: »Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your holy ones at Jerusalem. ¹⁴ »He has authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name.« ¹⁵ The Lord said to him: »Be on your way. This man is a chosen vessel to bear my name to the people of the nations, and kings and the children of Israel. ¹⁶ »I will show him plainly how many things he must suffer for my name.« ¹⁷ Ananias went his way. He entered the house and put his hands on him and said, »Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared to you along the road sent me, that you might receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.«

⁴¹ They left the council and rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

⁶ They knew about it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the country around them.

⁹ The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision: »Do not be afraid, but speak. Do not keep silent!

³³ »I coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or clothes.

³³ »I coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or clothes. ³⁴ »You know that my own hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me. ³⁵ »In all things I gave you an example. You by laboring should help the weak. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus: It is more blessed to give than to receive.«

¹⁷ »I went back to Jerusalem. Then I have a vision while I prayed in the temple.

¹⁷ »I went back to Jerusalem. Then I have a vision while I prayed in the temple. ¹⁸ »I saw the Lord. He said to me: ‘Hurry and leave Jerusalem because the people here will not accept your witness about me.’ ¹⁹ »I answered, ‘Lord they know very well that I went to the synagogues and arrested and beat those who believe in you. ²⁰ ‘»When your witness Stephen was put to death, I was there, approving of his murder and taking care of the coats of his murderers.’« ²¹ »The Lord said: ‘Go! I will send you far away to the people of the nations.’

¹³ »At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven. It was brighter than the sun and shinned all around me. It also shinned around those who journeyed with me. ¹⁴ »We all fell to the ground. I heard a voice speaking to me. It said in the Hebrew tongue: ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ (You only hurt yourself.) ¹⁵ »I said: ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And he answered: ‘I am Jesus whom you persecute. ¹⁶ »Stand up on your feet. I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of these things that you have seen, and of those things I will show to you. ¹⁷ »I will rescue you from the people and the nations. I am sending you to them. ¹⁸ »To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. They may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’ ¹⁹ »You see, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.

¹¹ The following night the Lord stood by him and said: »Be of good courage, Paul, for just as you testified about me in Jerusalem, so you also must bear witness at Rome.«

²⁹ They are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness; they are whisperers,

¹ Those who live through (in union with) (because of) Jesus Christ have no condemnation. [They do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.]

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) ³⁷ In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Ephesians 6:12)

¹ I tell the truth in Christ. I do not lie! My conscience bears witness with me in Holy Spirit. ² I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart.

¹⁹ Dearly beloved, do not avenge yourselves, instead leave room for divine punishment, for it is written: Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 32:35)

⁷ Greet Andronicus and Junia. They are my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners who are well known among the apostles. They were in Christ before me.

⁵ He enriches you in every way, in all speaking, and in all knowledge. ⁶ The testimony of Christ was confirmed (verified) (established) in you. ⁷ You do not lack spiritual gifts as you wait for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹¹ The house of Chloe told me, my brothers, that there are disputes among you.

³⁰ It is because of him you are united with Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.

³ And I came to you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

⁵ that your faith should not exist in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

¹² The father of circumcision to those who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the steps of faith of our father Abraham that he had when he was not circumcised.

³ Not only that, but we also rejoice in our tribulations knowing that tribulation produces endurance.

¹³ Let us walk honestly as in the daytime, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and loose conduct, not in strife and jealousy.

¹⁸ I will not dare to speak of any of those things that Christ has not accomplished through me. I will lead the nations to obey God in word and deed. 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.

³ You are still fleshly! There is envy, strife, and divisions among you. Do you not walk as ordinary men? ⁴ While one said, »I belong to Paul;« and another, »I belong to Apollos;« are you not fleshly human beings?

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. ⁷ Neither he that plants and neither he that waters is anything; but God gives the increase.

⁹ For we are fellow workers together with God. You are God's field under cultivation. You are God's building. 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.

²² Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours!

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

¹ It is reported that there is sexual immorality among you. This type of fornication is not even found among the people of the nations (who do not know God). There is a man who has his father’s wife.

³ I am not there with you in person. But I am with you in spirit. I have already judged the man who did this. ⁴ When you assemble in the name and with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, I will be with you in spirit. 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.

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.

⁹ I wrote in a letter to you not to keep company with fornicators. ¹⁰ Yet you cannot completely avoid the fornicators of this world, nor the greedy persons, nor cheaters and robbers, nor those who worship idols. To do so you would have to leave this world. ¹¹ I wrote you not to keep company with any man who is called a brother who is a fornicator, or who is greedy, or who worships idols, or constantly gets drunk, or cheats people. Do not even eat with such a person.

⁷ It is already a defeat for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not let yourself be wronged? Why not let your selves be defrauded (cheated)? ⁸ Instead you do wrong and defraud, and you do this to your brothers and sisters! ⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous (greedy), nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ That is what some of you were. You have been washed clean and now you are sanctified. The Spirit of our God declares you righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus. ¹² All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient (profitable) (good). All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the authority (power) (control) of anything.

¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and unite them with (turn them into) the members of a prostitute? God forbid! ¹⁶ What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one (united with her) body? For he said: »Two will be one flesh.« ¹⁷ He who is joined to the Lord is one (united with him in) spirit. ¹⁸ Flee from fornication! Every sin that a man does is outside his body. But he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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. ¹⁷ Now in this that I declare to you that I do not praise you. For you come together not for the better but for the worse. ¹⁸ For first of all, when you come together in the congregation, I hear that there are divisions among you and I partly believe it. ¹⁹ For there must be also heresies among you that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.

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.

¹⁸ I thank God that I speak with tongues more then all of you.

²⁶ How is it then, brothers? When you come together, every one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a tongue, has a revelation, and has an interpretation. Let all things be done to clarify and offer understanding!

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

³⁶ Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached? ³⁷ If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

⁸ And last of all I also saw him, as of one with an untimely birth. ⁹ I am the least of the apostles and do not deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the people of God. 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.

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.

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.

¹⁴ as also you did acknowledge us in part, that we are your reason to be proud, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus. ¹⁵ In this confidence I was willing to come to you first that you might have a second benefit.

¹⁸ But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yes and 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. 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.

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. ⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears. Not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly for you. ⁵ But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all. ⁶ Sufficient to such a one is this punishment that was inflicted by the many. ⁷ To the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excess sorrow. ⁸ I urge you to confirm your love toward him. ⁹ I write for this purpose, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things. ¹⁰ Whoever you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes I have forgiven it in the presence of Christ, ¹¹ that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices. ¹² Now when I came to Troas for the good news of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord, ¹³ I had no relief for my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother: but leaving them, I went to Macedonia.

¹ Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some do, letters of commendation to you or from you?

⁵ We are not adequate by ourselves to account for anything. Our adequacy is from God. ⁶ He also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant. This is a covenant not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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. 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.

¹⁷ Our light affliction is for the moment. It works more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory for us.

⁶ We are always confident for we know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. ⁷ We walk by faith, not by sight. ⁸ We are of good courage, I say, and are willing to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

¹² We are not again commending ourselves to you. But we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us. That way you may have an answer for those who glory in appearance, and not in heart. ¹³ For if we are beside ourselves (crazy) (insane) it is to God. If we are of sound mind, it is to you.

¹³ For if we are beside ourselves (crazy) (insane) it is to God. If we are of sound mind, it is to you.

¹⁵ He died for all that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for their sakes and rose again.

¹⁷ If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.

²¹ He made the one who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That way we might become the righteousness of God in him.

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; ⁶ in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love, ⁷ in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, ⁸ by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; ⁹ as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; ¹⁰ Also as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

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)!

¹ Having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness with deep reverence for God. ² Open your hearts to us. We wronged no person. We wronged and corrupted no one. We took advantage of no person. 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. ⁴ Great is my confidence in you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in our entire affliction.

⁶ Nevertheless he who comforts the lowly, even God, comforted us by the coming of Titus.

⁹ I now rejoice, not because you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance; for you were made sorry after a godly fashion, that you might not suffer loss by us. ¹⁰ For godly sorrow works repentance leading to salvation. This is a repentance that brings no regret: but the sorrow of the world works death. ¹¹ This very thing that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it made in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, yes what vindication! You demonstrated yourself to innocent in the matter.

⁶ We exhorted Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

¹⁰ I give my judgment: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to make a beginning a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.

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.

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.

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. ¹³ Do you not know that they who minister about holy things live off the things of the temple? And they who wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? 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.

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!

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.

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. ¹⁹ For, though I am free from all persons, yet I have made myself a servant to all, that I might gain more. ²⁰ To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews. To those under the Law, as under the Law, that I might gain those under the Law. ²¹ To those without Law I became like those without Law that I might gain them. I am not without law to God, but under the law to (toward) (of) Christ. ²² To the weak I became as the weak, that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. ²³ And this I do for the sake of the good news that I might be a partaker of it with others.

¹³ No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to man. God is faithful and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your limits. He will make a way out, that you will be able to endure it. ¹⁴ My dearly beloved, flee (run away) from idolatry.

²³ All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient (profitable). All things are lawful for me, but all things do not build up (confirm) (strengthen). ²⁴ Let no one seek his own advantage, but that of the other [person].

³³ Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.

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.

⁴ He comforts us in all our trouble, that we may be able to comfort those who also have trouble, through the comfort with which we are comforted from God.

⁶ If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort. It works through patience and longsuffering and is the same sufferings that we also suffer.

¹⁶ But thanks to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus. ¹⁷ For he accepted indeed our exhortation; but being himself very earnest, he went forth to you of his own accord. ¹⁸ And we have sent together with him the brother, whose praise in the good news has spread through all the congregations, ¹⁹ and not only so, but who was also appointed by the congregations to travel with us in the matter of this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and to show our readiness. ²⁰ Avoid this, that any man should blame us in the matter of this bounty that is ministered by us: ²¹ for we think of honorable things, not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of men. ²² We send our brother with them, whom we have many times proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you. ²³ Whether any inquire about Titus, he is my partner and my fellow-worker to you or our brothers, they are the messengers of the congregations, and they are the glory of Christ. ²⁴ Show to them as representatives of the congregations the quality of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

³ But I have sent the brothers that our boasting about you may not be made void in this respect. Even as I said, you may be prepared: ⁴ Lest by any means, if any from Macedonia come with me and find you unprepared, we, not to speak of you, should be put to shame in this respect. ⁵ I thought it necessary therefore to request the brothers to go before me to you, and prepare your generous gift before hand, that the same might be ready as a gift and not extortion.

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.

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. ³ For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

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.

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.

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.

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. ⁹ I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

⁹ I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters. ¹⁰ For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong. But his bodily presence is weak and his speech of no account.

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. ⁵ For I do not consider myself inferior to the super apostles. ⁶ Though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not in knowledge. We have in every way made this evident to you in all things. ⁷ Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you the good news of God without charge? ⁸ I robbed other congregations, taking pay from them that I might minister to you. ⁹ When I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man. For the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will continue to do the same.

⁹ When I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man. For the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will continue to do the same. ¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me from doing this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me from doing this boasting in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹ Why? Is it because I do not love you? God knows I do!

¹⁶ I say again, let no man think me foolish. If you do, yet receive me as foolish that I also may boast a little.

¹⁶ I say again, let no man think me foolish. If you do, yet receive me as foolish that I also may boast a little.

¹⁶ I say again, let no man think me foolish. If you do, yet receive me as foolish that I also may boast a little. ¹⁷ That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

¹⁷ That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. ¹⁸ Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I will boast also. ¹⁹ You being wise tolerate the foolish. ²⁰ You suffer, if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes advantage of you, if a man exalts himself, if a man strikes you on the face.

²⁰ You suffer, if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes advantage of you, if a man exalts himself, if a man strikes you on the face. ²¹ I speak concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. If any are bold, I speak foolishly for I am also bold.

²² I was still unknown by face to the congregations of Judea that are in Christ.

² I went in response to a revelation. I demonstrated to them the way I spread the good news among the people of the nations. I did this privately before them for they have a reputation. I am concerned that by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.

⁶ Those who were recognized as important people did not add a single thing to my message. What sort of people they were makes no difference to me. God does not play favorites (show partiality). ⁷ On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the good news to people who are not circumcised. Just as Peter had been entrusted with the good news to the people who are circumcised. ⁸ The one who made Peter an apostle to the Jewish people (who are circumcised) also made me an apostle to the people of the nations (who are not circumcised). ⁹ When they saw the grace that was given to me, James, Cephas (Peter) and John, they who were known to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship. We were to go to the nations and they were to go to the people who are circumcised. ¹⁰ They wanted us to remember the poor. I was eager (zealous) to do this very thing. ¹¹ When Cephas came to Antioch, I openly resisted him because he was completely wrong. ¹² He ate with the people of the nations until some men James sent arrived. When they arrived, he drew back and separated himself. He feared those who were of the circumcised people. ¹³ The rest of the Jews were hypocrites with him, so much that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. ¹⁴ I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the good news. Therefore I said to Cephas, in front of them all: »If you, being a Jew, live as the nations do and not as the Jews, why do you compel the people of the nations to live like the Jews?«

¹⁰ You observe days and months, seasons and years.

¹³ You know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the good news to you the first time.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision means anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

¹⁵ But if you continue to bite and devour one another, take care that you do not consume one another.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct,

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, wrath, contentions, divisions, sects, ²¹ envies, drunkenness, revelries, and things like these. I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that those who practice such things would not inherit the kingdom of God.

²⁶ Let us not become egotistical, stirring up competition with one another, envying one another.

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

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.

¹⁶ That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man.

¹⁰ He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and screaming, and abusive speech, be put away (removed) (expiated) from you, along with all malice. ³² You should be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also forgave you through (by means of) Christ.

⁵ For you know this with certainty, that no fornicator, no unclean person, no covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words. It is because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

²² But you know of his proven worth. It was like a son with his father that he served with me to further the good news.

¹⁸ Many live as enemies of the stake of Christ. I often wept as I told you about them. ¹⁹ Their end is destruction. Their god is their belly. Their glory is in their shame. They set their mind on earthly things.

¹ Therefore, my beloved brothers I long to see you. You are my joy and crown. In this way stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.

¹³ I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

¹⁷ Not that I seek the gift but I seek the fruit that adds to your account.

¹¹ God will strengthen you with all power, according to the might of his glory, to all patience and longsuffering with joy.

²² Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I! 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. ²⁸ Beside those things that are from the outside, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the congregations. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I do not burn with indignation? ³⁰ If I need to boast, I will boast about the things that concern my infirmities.

³⁰ If I need to boast, I will boast about the things that concern my infirmities. ³¹ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed forever knows I do not lie.

³ And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I do not know; God knows), ⁴ how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to speak. ⁵ I will brag about this person, but I will not brag about myself unless it is about my weaknesses.

⁵ I will brag about this person, but I will not brag about myself unless it is about my weaknesses. 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. ⁷ I was given a painful physical ailment that will keep me from being puffed up with pride because of the many wonderful things I saw. It acts as Satan's messenger to beat me and keep me from being proud.

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)

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.

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. ¹¹ I have become a fool in boasting. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended about you: for in nothing am I inferior to the most prominent apostles, though I am nothing. ¹² Truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. ¹³ What is it in which you were inferior to other congregations, except that I was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong. 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.

¹⁸ I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus gain you? Did we not conduct ourselves in the same mental disposition? Did we not walk in the same steps?

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.

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. ⁵ Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith. Prove your own selves. Do you not know this about yourselves that Jesus Christ is with you, unless you are disqualified?

⁹ We are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong. We also pray that you be readjusted.

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.

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.

¹² I did not receive it from man. I was not taught it! It came to me through revelation from Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in his mighty strength.

²² If I live in the flesh this will bring fruit from my labor. I do not know what to choose. ²³ I am hard pressed between the two. I have the desire to depart and be with Christ for it is far better.

²⁹ It has been granted to you in behalf of Christ. Not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf.

¹⁷ If I am offered for the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice with you all.

¹⁷ If I am offered for the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice with you all. ¹⁸ You should also rejoice in the same manner. ¹⁹ I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly that I may be encouraged when I know your circumstances. ²⁰ For I have no man likeminded, who will truly care for you. ²¹ They all seek their own interest and not the things of Jesus Christ.

²⁴ I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake. I do my share in behalf of his body, the congregation, to provide what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ.

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. ²⁹ I work hard to get this done. I use the mighty strength Christ supplies. It is at work in me.

⁵ Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.

³ For our presentation (exhortation) is not based on error, or of uncleanness, or in deceit.

⁵ You know very well that we did not come to you with flattering talk (praise for selfish gain). We did not use words to cover up greed (insatiable desire for wealth). God is our witness!

⁵ You know very well that we did not come to you with flattering talk (praise for selfish gain). We did not use words to cover up greed (insatiable desire for wealth). God is our witness! ⁶ We did not try to get praise from anyone, either from you or from others, even though as apostles of Christ we could have made demands on you.

⁸ Having much affection for you, we were well pleased to impart the good news of God to you and also to share our lives with you. You have become very dear to us.

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!

³ This is the will of God, for your sanctification (holiness) (purification), that you should abstain from fornication. ⁴ Every one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in holiness and honor, ⁵ not in the lust of sexual desire like the nations who do not know God. ⁶ Let no man defraud his brother in any matter. Jehovah is the avenger of this. We also have warned you and testified. ⁷ For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

¹⁷ We that are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so will we ever be with the Lord.

⁴ That is why we boast (rejoice) (have glory) about you in the congregations of God. We boast (rejoice) (have glory) about the way you continue to endure and believe through all the persecutions and sufferings you experience.

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.

¹⁴ The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love in Christ Jesus.

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

¹⁶ Let us approach the throne of grace (loving-kindness) with confidence, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for help in time of need.

⁷ In the days of his life on earth, when he [Christ] offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to the one who was able to save him out of death, and was heard because of his godly reverence. (Galatians 1:1) (Psalm 69:13)

²⁴ Christ has not entered into the Holy Place made with human hands. This is a copy of the true one. He has entered into heaven to appear before the presence of God for us.

³⁴ quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, and turned to flight foreign armies.

⁴ Let marriage be honorable among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

¹⁷ Obey those who lead you. Submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your lives and must account for this. Obey them that their work may be a joy and not a burden; that would be without gain for you.

² Count it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials.

⁶ You greatly rejoice in this, though you have been grieved with various trials for a little while. 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.

¹ Put away all badness and all deception, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil talk.

³ You have tasted that the Lord is kind.

¹⁰ This is primarily for those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble at glorious ones but speak abusively. ¹¹ Angels, though greater in might and power, do not bring an accusation of abusive judgment against them before Jehovah. ¹² But these are creatures without reason. They were born mere animals to be taken and destroyed! They speak abusively in matters of which they are ignorant. They suffer destruction in their own course of destruction. ¹³ They suffer wrong as their reward for wrongdoing. They are men that count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you. ¹⁴ They have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin! They entice unsteady persons. Their hearts are full of covetousness. They are children of cursing.

¹⁸ For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.

¹⁴ If you have bitter jealousy (envy) and greedy ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom is not a wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish. ¹⁶ For where jealousy and selfishness are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

¹ What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you? ² You lust, and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain! You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask. ³ You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly (with bad motives) that you may spend it on your pleasures. ⁴ Adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity (hatred) (hostility) toward God? Whoever would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ⁵ Or do you think the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the attitude of the heart (mental disposition) that he induced to live in us cause us to envy?

²¹ For this you were called because Christ also suffered for you. He left you an example (a copy for imitation) (a model) that you should follow in his steps.

² From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God’s will and not by human desires (lusts). ³ You have spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols (false gods).

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.

² Shepherd the flock of God in your care. Exercise the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God. Do not do it for dishonest gain, but eagerly. 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.

¹⁶ These murmur, complain, and walk after their lusts, they speak arrogantly, flattering people to gain advantage.

²³ Save some, snatch them out of the fire. Have mercy on some with alarm. Hate even the garment defiled (polluted) by the flesh.

¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day when I heard a strong voice behind me. It sounded like a trumpet.

³ »'You have endured and are patient. You suffer for my name's sake and have not grown weary.

⁷ »'He who can hear should listen to what the Spirit says to the congregations! To him who overcomes I will give the right to eat the fruit of the tree of life that grows in the (Paradise) Garden of God.'

² Immediately I was in the spirit. In front of me was a throne in heaven and someone sat on the throne.

⁵ She gave birth to a male-child, who was to rule all nations with a rod (scepter) of iron. Her child was caught up to God and to his throne.

⁸ »But the fearful and unbelieving, abominable and murderers, fornicators and those practicing spiritism, idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur: which is the second death.«

²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding. We know him that is true for we are in him who is true, [and] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and everlasting life.

⁷ Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them are an example for they, in like manner with these surrendered to fornication and went after flesh for unnatural use. They received justice by ever burning fire.

¹⁵ »'Outside are the dogs (impure men) and those who practice spiritism, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone who tells lies.'

²⁰ He who testifies to these things says: »I come quickly.« Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!