Romans 6 Cross References - NSB

⁵ If we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be in the likeness of his resurrection. ⁶ We know this that our old self was impaled with him that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer be in bondage to sin. ⁷ He who has died is freed from sin. ⁸ If we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. ⁹ We know that Christ being raised from the dead died no more; death no longer has dominion over him. ¹⁰ For the death that he died, he died with reference to sin once. But the life that he lives, he lives to God. ¹¹ Consider yourselves to be dead with reference to sin, but alive with reference to God through Christ Jesus. ¹² Let no sin rule in your mortal body, that you should obey the lustful desires. ¹³ Also do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness for God. ¹⁴ Sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid! ¹⁶ Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient servants you are his (voluntary) servants because you obey him? This could be obedience to sin with death in view or obedience to righteousness with holiness in view? ¹⁷ But thanks to God, that you were the servants of sin yet you became obedient from the heart to the teachings delivered to you. ¹⁸ After being made free from sin, you became servants of righteousness. ¹⁹ I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. You once presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to sin. Now you present your members as servants to righteousness and sanctification (purification) (holiness). ²⁰ When you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ²¹ You are now ashamed of the fruit you had at that time. For the results of these things is death. ²² Now you are free from sin and are servants to God. You have your fruit in holiness, and the end everlasting (eternal) life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift from God is everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ¹ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? ² God forbid. We died to sin! How could we any longer live in it? ³ Or are you ignorant to the fact that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴ We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death. Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, that we might walk in the newness of life.

¹⁷ »But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When you eat of it you will surely die.«

¹⁹ »You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.«

⁹ »No one in this house is greater than I. He has kept nothing back from me except you. You are his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?«

¹⁷ »‘You are to say to Joseph: »Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you. If it is your pleasure, forgive the sin of the servants of your father’s God.«’« Upon hearing these words Joseph was overcome with weeping.

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.

¹⁰ »‘The descendants of Jacob are like specks of dust. Who can count them or number even one-fourth of the people of Israel? Let me die the death of innocent people. Let my end be like theirs.’«

² »Jehovah your God will deliver them to you. You must crush them! Completely destroy them. You should make no covenant with them. Do not show them mercy.

²² »If a man commits a sin worthy of death and he is put to death. You hang him on a tree (stake).

¹⁶ »Everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to Jehovah your God.

⁶ »On the evidence and testimony of two witnesses or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. He shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.

¹² »If you are disloyal and join with the nations that are still left among you and intermarry with them, ¹³ »Jehovah your God will no longer drive these nations out as you advance. Rather, they will be as dangerous for you as a trap or a pit and as painful as a whip on your back or thorns in your eyes. This will last until none of you are left in this good land that Jehovah your God gave you.

¹⁵ »‘If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve Jehovah.’«

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.’«

⁵ David became very angry with the rich man. He said: »I swear by the living God Jehovah that the man who did this should die! ⁶ »For doing such a cruel thing he should pay back four times for the lamb he took, for he had no compassion.« ⁷ »You are that man!« Nathan said to David. »And this is what the Lord Jehovah the God of Israel says: ‘I made you king of Israel and rescued you from Saul.

²⁶ The king spoke to Abiathar the priest: »Go to your fields at Anathoth. You deserve death. But I will not put you to death now, because you carried the Ark of Jehovah God before David my father. You were with him in all his troubles.«

¹⁷ So Naaman said: »If you will not accept my gift, then let me have two mule-loads of earth to take home with me. From now on I will not offer sacrifices or burnt offerings to any god except Jehovah.

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.

⁸ »Do not stiffen your neck like your fathers, but yield to Jehovah and enter his sanctuary that he has consecrated from generation to generation. Serve Jehovah your God that His burning anger may turn away from you.

²⁷ Praise be to Jehovah, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing into the heart of the king, to make fair the house of Jehovah that is in Jerusalem.

⁶ I said, »O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face (praying) to you (being in your presence), my God: for our sins have increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

⁸ »Did you notice my servant Job?« Jehovah asked. »There is no one on earth as faithful and good as he is. He respects me and is careful not to do anything evil.«

⁶ »Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.«

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

⁹ That is why my heart is glad and I rejoice. My body rests securely. ¹⁰ You do not abandon me to the grave or allow your holy one to decay. ¹¹ You make the path of life known to me. Complete joy is in your presence. It is pleasant to be at your right hand forever.

⁴⁴ As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me. Foreigners will cringe in front of me.

¹³ Keep me from sinning. Do not let anyone gain control over me. Then I will be blameless, and I will be free from any great offense.

¹⁷ I understood their end when I went into the sanctuary of God.

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous reflects on wisdom. His tongue speaks what is fair.

³⁷ Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright. His future will be filled with peace. ³⁸ But transgressors will be altogether destroyed. The posterity of the wicked will be destroyed.

² Protect me, for I am a godly man. You are my God. Save your servant who trusts you.

¹³ They are planted in Jehovah’s house. They blossom in our God's courtyards. ¹⁴ Even when they are old, they still bear fruit. They are always healthy and fresh.

³² I shall run the way of your commandments, for you will enlarge my heart (increase my understanding) (set me free from sin).

⁴⁵ And I will walk at liberty, for I seek your precepts.

¹³³ Establish my footsteps in your word, and do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.

¹⁶ O Jehovah, I am indeed your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.

¹⁰⁴ I get understanding from your precepts. Therefore I hate every false way.

⁷ O Israel hope in Jehovah! For with Jehovah there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption. ⁸ He will save his people Israel from all their sins.

¹² In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies and destroy all those who afflict me. For I am your servant.

³¹ »Now you will get what you deserve for what you have done. Your own advice will make you sick.

¹⁰ Strangers will be filled with your financial strength. Strangers will benefit from your hard work. ¹¹ You mourn at last, when your flesh and your body are consumed. ¹² You say: »How I have hated instruction! My heart despised reproof. ¹³ »I did not obey the voice of my teachers. I did not listen to my instructors!

¹⁷ »Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.« ¹⁸ He does not know the dead are there. Her guests are in the depths of the grave.

¹⁸ There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword. The tongue of the wise brings a cure.

¹² There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof is the way of death.

²⁵ There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end is the way of death!

¹⁰ Tell the righteous that blessings will come to them. They will taste the fruit of their labor.

¹⁰ Tell the righteous that blessings will come to them. They will taste the fruit of their labor. ¹¹ How horrible it will be for the wicked! Disaster will strike them. What they have done to others will be done to them.

¹¹ How horrible it will be for the wicked! Disaster will strike them. What they have done to others will be done to them.

² He dug the soil all around and removed its stones. He planted it with the choicest vine. And he built a tower in the middle of it and also hewed out a wine vat in it. Then he expected it to produce good grapes, but it only produced worthless ones.

¹³ O Jehovah, our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone do we honor.

¹⁷ »Weapons forged against you will not prevail! You will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah and this is their vindication from me,« declares Jehovah.

⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to Jehovah, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

²¹ »I planted you like a choice grapevine from the very best seed. Now you have turned against me and have become a wild vine.

³ »Accordingly the rain has been withheld, and there have been no spring showers. Yet, you have the unashamed (conspicuous) (impudent) look of a prostitute, and you refuse to be ashamed.

¹² »Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done? They certainly were not ashamed! And they did not know how to blush. For that reason they will fall among those who fall. At the time of their punishment they will be brought down,« Says Jehovah.

¹³ »My people planted wheat. They gathered weeds! They worked hard and got nothing for it. Because of my fierce anger their crops have failed.«

¹⁰ »I, Jehovah, search the heart and examine the mind (inner man). I give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds.

¹⁹ »‘We turned away from you. But soon we wanted to return. After you had punished us we hung our heads in grief. We were ashamed and disgraced because we sinned when we were young.’«

²³ »This present disaster has come on you because you offered sacrifices to other gods and sinned against Jehovah by not obeying all his commandments.« ²⁴ »I told all the people, especially the women, what Jehovah, the God of Israel, was saying to the people of Judah living in Egypt.

²⁰ Then I said to all the men and the women who had answered me in this way: ²¹ »About the sacrifices you and your ancestors, your kings and your leaders, and the people of the land offered in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: do you think that Jehovah did not know about them or that he forgot them? ²² »This very day your land lies in ruins and no one lives in it. It has become a horrifying sight. People use its name as a curse because Jehovah could no longer endure your wicked and evil practices.

⁶¹ ‘»You will remember how you have acted, and be ashamed of it when you get your older sister and your younger sister back. I will let them be like daughters to you, even though this was not part of my covenant with you.’ ⁶² ‘»I will renew my covenant with you, and you will know that I am Jehovah. ⁶³ ‘»I will forgive all the wrongs you have done, but you will remember them and be too ashamed to open your mouth.’ The Lord Jehovah has spoken.«

⁴ ‘»The life of every person belongs to me. The life of the father as well as the life of the son is mine. The person who sins will die.

²⁰ ‘»The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son's iniquity. The righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself. And the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.

³¹ »‘Then you will remember your evil ways and the bad things that you did. You will hate yourselves for all these wicked and disgusting things. ³² »‘I want you to know that I am not doing this for your sake,’ proclaims the Lord Jehovah. ‘Be ashamed and disgraced because of your ways, people of Israel.’

¹¹ »Suppose they are ashamed of everything that they have done. Then show them the design of the Temple, its arrangements, its exits and entrances-its entire design. Tell them about all its rules and regulations. Then write these things down for them so that they can remember its design and follow all its rules.

²⁶ Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning blazing furnace. He called out: »Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God come here!« Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fire.

²⁸ Nebuchadnezzar said: »Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! He sent his angel and delivered his servants who trusted in him. They violated the king's command and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

²⁰ He came near to the den and cried with a lamentable voice to Daniel: »O Daniel, servant of the living God, did the God you serve deliver you from the lion?«

² »Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

⁷ »O Jehovah, righteousness belongs to you! Shame belongs to us this day! To the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you. ⁸ »O Jehovah, to us belongs shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

¹⁹ You will again have compassion on us. You will tread our iniquities under foot. You will throw all our sins into the depths of the sea.

²¹ »She will give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus (»Jehovah (YHWH) is salvation«), because he will save his people from their sins.«

²⁴ »You cannot serve two masters. You will hate one and love the other. You will be loyal to one master and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money (wealth) (material possessions).

⁴⁰ »The weeds are gathered up and burned (destroyed) with fire. It will be this way at the end of the age.

⁴³ »The righteous will shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that has ears let him hear.

²⁵ Then Jesus prayed: »I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and have revealed them to children. (Acts 2:36) ²⁶ »Yes, Father, for it was very pleasing in your sight.

¹³ In answer he replied: »Every plant my Father in heaven has not planted in the earth will be pulled out by the roots.

²⁹ »Everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will receive many times as much, and have everlasting life.

⁴⁶ »These will go away into ever-burning fire (everlasting cutting off) (death) (total destruction) (doom) (punishment) (everlasting penalty), but the righteous to everlasting life.’«

² Suddenly there was a great earthquake, as an angel of God descended from heaven and rolled away the stone and sat on it. ³ His appearance was as lightning, and his clothing white as snow.

¹⁹ »Go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

⁷⁴ »He gave us deliverance out of the hand of our enemies so we could serve him without fear. ⁷⁵ »May we serve in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

¹⁷ »Finally it dawned on him, my father’s hired workers have more than they can eat and I am about to starve! ¹⁸ »I will go to my father and say: ‘Father I have sinned against God and against you. ¹⁹ »I am not fit to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired workers.’ ²⁰ »He went to his father. He was a long way from home when his father saw him. His heart filled with pity. He ran and threw his arms around his son and kissed him. ²¹ »Father, the son said: ‘I have sinned against God and against you. I am not fit to be called your son.’

²⁴ »‘My son was dead. Now he is alive. He was lost. Now he has been found. The feasting began.’

³² »‘We had to celebrate and be happy. Your brother was dead. Now he is alive! He was lost and now he has been found!’«

³⁸ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live for him.«

¹⁷ The law came through Moses. Loving-kindness and truth came through Jesus Christ.

¹¹ This was the first miracle Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee. It gave evidence of his glory and his disciples believed in him.

¹⁹ Jesus replied: »Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.« ²⁰ The Jews responded: »It took forty-six years to build this temple and you will raise it up in three days?«

¹⁴ »As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of man must also be lifted up. ¹⁵ »Everyone who has an active faith in him may have everlasting life. ¹⁶ »For God loved the world so much, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever has an active faith in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ »God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world. Instead the world should be saved through him.

³⁶ »He who puts active faith in the Son has everlasting life. He who disobeys* the Son will not see life for the wrath of God remains upon him.« (*Greek: apeitheo: willfully disobey, not having faith)

¹⁴ »But whoever drinks from the water that I give him will never thirst. The water that I will give him will be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.«

³⁶ »He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for life eternal. Both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

²⁴ »Truly, Truly I say to you, he who hears my word, and believes him that sent me, has everlasting life. He will not receive judgment for he has passed out of death into life.

³⁹ »You search (investigate) (study) the Scriptures because you think that in them you have everlasting life. These Scriptures testify about me. ⁴⁰ »And yet you will not come to me that you may have life.

²⁷ »Do not work for food that perishes but for food that offers everlasting life. The Son of man will give you this food. The Father, even God, has set his seal upon him.«

³² Jesus responded: »I speak the truth! It was not Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven. My Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. ³³ »For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven. It gives life to the world.«

⁴⁰ »For this is the will of my Father. Every one who sees the Son and puts active faith in him will have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day.«

⁵⁰ »This is the bread that comes down out of heaven that a man may eat of it and not die. ⁵¹ »I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. If any man eats of this bread he will live forever. Yes and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.« ⁵² The Jews argued with one another saying: »How can this man give us his flesh to eat?« ⁵³ Jesus responded to them: »Truly I tell you if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood you will not have life in yourselves. ⁵⁴ »He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life! I will raise him up at the last day. ⁵⁵ »For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. ⁵⁶ »He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides with me, and I with him. ⁵⁷ »The living Father sent me and I live because of the Father. He who takes me for his food will live because of me. ⁵⁸ »This is the bread that came down out of heaven. It is not like the bread (manna) the fathers ate and then died. He who eats this bread will live forever.«

⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him: »Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of everlasting life!

³² »You will know the truth and the truth will make you free!«

³⁴ Jesus answered: »Truly I tell you every one who commits sin is a slave of sin.

³⁴ Jesus answered: »Truly I tell you every one who commits sin is a slave of sin. ³⁵ »The slave does not abide in the house forever. The son abides forever. ³⁶ »If therefore the Son will make you free, you will be free indeed.

³⁶ »If therefore the Son will make you free, you will be free indeed.

²⁸ »I give them eternal life. They will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.

²⁴ »Truly I tell you unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies it bears much fruit.

¹⁹ »A little while and the world will not see me anymore, but you will. I live and you will also live.

¹ »I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator. ² »He takes away the branches in me that do not bear fruit. He cleans every branch that bears fruit. That way it may bear more fruit.

² »He takes away the branches in me that do not bear fruit. He cleans every branch that bears fruit. That way it may bear more fruit. ³ »You are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 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). ⁷ »If you remain with me, and my words remain with you, ask whatever you will, and it will be done for you. ⁸ »My Father is glorified when you bear much fruit. You will be my disciples.

¹⁶ »You did not choose me. I chose you and appointed you. You should go and bear fruit and your fruit should remain. Whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

⁴⁰ Jesus said to her: »Did I not say that if you believe you shall see the glory of God?«

² »You have given him authority over all flesh that he may give everlasting life to the ones whom you have given him.

³¹ These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. By believing you may have life in his name.

²⁴ »God resurrected him, loosing the pains of death. This is because it was not possible that he should be held fast by it.

²⁴ »God resurrected him, loosing the pains of death. This is because it was not possible that he should be held fast by it. ²⁵ »David spoke concerning him: ‘I had Jehovah always before my face, for he is at my right hand, that I should not be shaken. (Psalm 16:8) ²⁶ ‘»Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: ²⁷ ‘»Because you will not leave me in the grave, neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption. (Psalm 16:10) ²⁸ ‘»You have made known to me the ways of life, and you will fill me with joy with your presence.’

³⁸ Then Peter said: »Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁶ They were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus but had not yet received the Spirit.

¹⁸ When they heard this they objected no more and praised God, saying: »God has granted the people of the nations repentance to life.«

⁵ When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁵ When the brothers had news for us they came out from town as far as Appius Forum (Market place on the Appian Road) and the Three Taverns to have a meeting with us. Paul saw them and praised God. He was encouraged.

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

⁸ First, I thank my God for all of you through Jesus Christ, for your faith is reported throughout the whole world.

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

³² They know the judgment of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death! And yet, they not only do the same, but also approve of those who do them.

⁴ Do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and long-suffering? Do you not know that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

⁷ [He offers] everlasting life for those who search for incorruptible glory and honor by enduring in good works. ⁸ Those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will receive wrath and indignation.

⁸ Those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will receive wrath and indignation. ⁹ [There will be] tribulation and distress on every person who works evil, for the Jew first and for the Greek.

¹ What then is the superiority of the Jew? What is the benefit of circumcision? ² Much in every way. First they were entrusted with the oracles of God. ³ For what? If some have not believed, will their unbelief make the faith of God of no effect? ⁴ Certainly not! But let God be true, and every man false. It is written: So that you should be proved righteous in your words and should overcome when you are judged. ⁵ If our unrighteousness defines God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? God is not unrighteous when he vents his anger is he? I speak in human terms.

⁵ If our unrighteousness defines God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? God is not unrighteous when he vents his anger is he? I speak in human terms. ⁶ Not at all! For how will God judge the world? ⁷ But what if my untruth serves God’s glory by making his truth stand out more clearly? Why should I be condemned as a sinner? ⁸ Why not say, »Let us do evil so that good may come?« Some people have insulted me by accusing me of saying this very thing! They should be condemned and they will be. ⁹ Are we Jews in any better condition than the people of the nations? Not at all! I have already shown that Jews and the people of the nations are all under the power of sin.

⁵ If we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be in the likeness of his resurrection.

⁵ If we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be in the likeness of his resurrection. ⁶ We know this that our old self was impaled with him that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer be in bondage to sin. ⁷ He who has died is freed from sin.

⁷ He who has died is freed from sin. ⁸ If we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.

⁸ If we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.

⁸ If we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. ⁹ We know that Christ being raised from the dead died no more; death no longer has dominion over him.

⁹ We know that Christ being raised from the dead died no more; death no longer has dominion over him.

⁹ We know that Christ being raised from the dead died no more; death no longer has dominion over him. ¹⁰ For the death that he died, he died with reference to sin once. But the life that he lives, he lives to God.

¹⁰ For the death that he died, he died with reference to sin once. But the life that he lives, he lives to God. ¹¹ Consider yourselves to be dead with reference to sin, but alive with reference to God through Christ Jesus.

¹¹ Consider yourselves to be dead with reference to sin, but alive with reference to God through Christ Jesus.

¹¹ Consider yourselves to be dead with reference to sin, but alive with reference to God through Christ Jesus. ¹² Let no sin rule in your mortal body, that you should obey the lustful desires.

¹² Let no sin rule in your mortal body, that you should obey the lustful desires.

¹² Let no sin rule in your mortal body, that you should obey the lustful desires. ¹³ Also do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness for God.

¹³ Also do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness for God. ¹⁴ Sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid! ¹⁶ Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient servants you are his (voluntary) servants because you obey him? This could be obedience to sin with death in view or obedience to righteousness with holiness in view?

¹⁶ Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient servants you are his (voluntary) servants because you obey him? This could be obedience to sin with death in view or obedience to righteousness with holiness in view? ¹⁷ But thanks to God, that you were the servants of sin yet you became obedient from the heart to the teachings delivered to you.

¹⁷ But thanks to God, that you were the servants of sin yet you became obedient from the heart to the teachings delivered to you. ¹⁸ After being made free from sin, you became servants of righteousness. ¹⁹ I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. You once presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to sin. Now you present your members as servants to righteousness and sanctification (purification) (holiness).

¹⁹ I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. You once presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to sin. Now you present your members as servants to righteousness and sanctification (purification) (holiness).

¹⁹ I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. You once presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to sin. Now you present your members as servants to righteousness and sanctification (purification) (holiness). ²⁰ When you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

²⁰ When you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ²¹ You are now ashamed of the fruit you had at that time. For the results of these things is death.

²¹ You are now ashamed of the fruit you had at that time. For the results of these things is death. ²² Now you are free from sin and are servants to God. You have your fruit in holiness, and the end everlasting (eternal) life.

²² Now you are free from sin and are servants to God. You have your fruit in holiness, and the end everlasting (eternal) life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift from God is everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift from God is everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹ Do you not know, for I speak to men who know the law, that the law has dominion (jurisdiction) over a man as long as he lives? ² Law binds the married woman to her husband while he lives. But if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

⁴ Brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

⁴ Brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God. ⁵ When we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

⁵ When we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death. ⁶ We have been discharged (released) from the law. We have died to that by which we were held. So we serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

⁶ We have been discharged (released) from the law. We have died to that by which we were held. So we serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. ⁷ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid! I had not known sin except through the law. For I had not known coveting except the law had said: You should not covet. ⁸ But sin, finding occasion, worked out in me through the commandment all manner of coveting. Apart from the law sin is dead. ⁹ I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. ¹⁰ The commandment, which was to life, this I found to be to death. ¹¹ For sin, finding occasion, through the commandment deceived me, and through it killed me.

²³ However I see a different law at work in my body. This law fights against the law that my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin that is at work in my body.

²³ However I see a different law at work in my body. This law fights against the law that my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin that is at work in my body. ²⁴ Miserable man that I am! Who will rescue me from the body undergoing this death?

²⁴ Miserable man that I am! Who will rescue me from the body undergoing this death? ²⁵ Thanks to God, through our Lord Jesus Christ! So then I can serve God’s law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.

²⁵ Thanks to God, through our Lord Jesus Christ! So then I can serve God’s law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.

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.] ² The law of the Spirit gives us life through (with) (because of) Christ Jesus. It has set me free from the law of sin and death. ³ God did what the Law could not do, because human nature was weak. He sent his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering and do away with sin. So he condemned sin in sinful human nature.

³ God did what the Law could not do, because human nature was weak. He sent his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering and do away with sin. So he condemned sin in sinful human nature. ⁴ God did this so that the righteous requirements of the Law might be fully satisfied in us who live according to the Spirit, and not according to human nature.

⁶ The mind of sinful flesh (fleshly thought) means death; but the mind influenced by the Spirit gives life and peace.

¹¹ If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from among the dead dwells with you, he who raised Christ from among the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive. This is on account of his Spirit that dwells with you. ¹² So then, brothers we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh (human nature), ¹³ for if you live according to flesh, you are about to die. If by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

¹⁸ I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us.

²⁶ Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses. We do not know what we should pray for, as we should. The Spirit [of God] makes intercession with groaning that cannot be spoken.

⁶ If it is by grace then it is no longer on the basis of works. Otherwise grace is not grace (undeserved kindness). But if it is of works then it is not by grace. Otherwise works are no longer works.

¹ I request (urge) (implore) you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

¹ I request (urge) (implore) you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ² Do not be conformed to this world (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement). But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Prove what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.

²⁶ It is now made known by the Scriptures of the prophets according to the commandment of the everlasting God. It is made known to all nations for the obedience of faith. ²⁷ To God, wise alone, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.

⁴ I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God that is given you by Jesus Christ.

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.

³¹ Do we nullify the law through faith? No we do not! In fact, we establish (continue) (stand by) (uphold) the law.

¹⁶ For this reason it is by faith that it may be according to grace (divine influence) (loving-kindness). The promise may be sure to all descendants! This is not only to that which is of the law, but to that also which is by the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

¹ We are justified (acquitted) (made righteous) by faith. And we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹¹ We also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation (restoration) (atonement) (divine favor). ¹² Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.

¹⁴ Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even for those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam’s transgression. Adam is in some ways like Christ who came later.

¹⁷ It was by the transgression of the one that death ruled as king through that one. Even more so shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, rule as kings in life by the one, Jesus Christ.

²⁰ The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God’s loving kindness increased even more. ²¹ And what for? Just as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

²¹ And what for? Just as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? ² God forbid. We died to sin! How could we any longer live in it?

² God forbid. We died to sin! How could we any longer live in it? ³ Or are you ignorant to the fact that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

³ Or are you ignorant to the fact that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴ We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death. Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, that we might walk in the newness of life.

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. ¹⁴ Put on (live like) (clothe yourself with) the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

¹⁴ Put on (live like) (clothe yourself with) the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself. ⁸ For if we live, we live to God and if we die, we die to God. Therefore should we live or die, we are God’s. ⁹ To this end Christ both died, and rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living.

¹ We who are strong in the faith ought to help the weak to carry their burdens. We should not just please ourselves.

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.

¹⁶ Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Do you know that a little leaven ferments the whole batch of dough?

² Do you not know that the holy ones will judge the world? And if you will judge the world, are you unworthy to judge these small matters? ³ Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the matters that pertain to this life?

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,

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,

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.

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.

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.

¹⁴ God has resurrected the Lord, and will also resurrect us by his own power. 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!

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.«

¹⁹ What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? That one (Greek: »hos he ho« which, that one) is in you. You received it from God. You are not your own. ²⁰ You are bought with a price! Therefore glorify God in your body.

²¹ Were you called being a slave? Do not let it worry you. But if you can become free, do so. ²² He who is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman. Likewise also he who is called, being free, is Christ's slave.

²² He who is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman. Likewise also he who is called, being free, is Christ's slave.

¹³ For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether we are Jews or people of the nations, whether we are bond or free; we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

¹⁴ Thanks to God, who always leads us in triumph (triumphal procession) in Christ. He makes known through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

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. ⁷ The ministry of death was written and engraved on stones. Glory came with it so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly upon the face of Moses. And this glory was passing away. ⁸ How shall the ministry of the Spirit not be with glory? ⁹ For if the ministry of condemnation has glory then the ministry of righteousness would exceed in glory.

¹⁷ Now God is the Spirit and where the Spirit of God is, there is liberty (freedom).

¹⁰ We always carry in the body the death of Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body.

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.

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. ¹³ But having the same spirit (attitude) of faith, according to that which is written, I believe, and therefore I speak. We also believe, and therefore we also speak. ¹⁴ We know that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

⁴ While in this tabernacle we groan and sigh with prayer. We are concerned that we would be clothed with what is mortal and be swallowed up (devoured) by this life.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ compels us to judge, that one died for all and therefore all died. 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.

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. ¹⁶ From now on we know no man according to the flesh: even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no longer. ¹⁷ If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.

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.

¹ Having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness with deep reverence for God.

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.

⁵ This is not as we hoped. First they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

⁸ I say this from a human point of view. Does the law say the same thing?

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?

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.

²⁴ Do you not know that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain the prize.

²⁹ What will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead?

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. ³³ Do not be deceived: Bad company corrupts good morals.

⁵³ This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. ⁵⁴ When this corruptible shall be clothed with (Greek: enduo: dressed, put on) incorruption, and this mortal shall be clothed with immortality, then the saying will come true: »Death is swallowed up in victory.«

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.

¹⁷ We sought to be righteous in Christ. And we were found to be sinners. Is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid. ¹⁸ If I build up again the things that I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor. ¹⁹ I, through the law, died to the law that I might live to (for) God.

¹⁹ I, through the law, died to the law that I might live to (for) God. ²⁰ I have been impaled with Christ. It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the flesh (physical body) I live by faith. This is the faith that is in the Son of God. He loved me and gave himself up for me.

²⁰ I have been impaled with Christ. It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the flesh (physical body) I live by faith. This is the faith that is in the Son of God. He loved me and gave himself up for me.

²⁰ I have been impaled with Christ. It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the flesh (physical body) I live by faith. This is the faith that is in the Son of God. He loved me and gave himself up for me. ²¹ I do not reject the grace (totally undeserved gift) of God: for if righteousness is [gained] through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

¹⁰ Those who are of the works of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, »Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the Law, by obeying them.«

¹⁵ Brothers, I speak like a man speaks: Though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

²³ But before faith came the Law held us in custody. We were locked up until faith was revealed.

²⁷ For as many of you who were baptized into Christ put on (clothed yourselves with) Christ.

⁴ When the full time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, ⁵ that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

²¹ Tell me, you that desire to be under the Law; do you not hear the Law?

¹ Christ liberated us for freedom (moral liberty). Stand fast therefore, and do not become entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

¹³ For you brothers, were called for freedom; only do not use your freedom for an occasion to the flesh. Serve one another through love!

¹⁶ I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

¹⁸ But if the Spirit leads you, you are not under the Law.

²² The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have impaled the flesh with its passions and lusts.

⁷ Do not be deceived. God is not mocked! A man will harvest what he sows. ⁸ He that sows to his own flesh will harvest corruption of the flesh. But he that sows to the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.

¹⁴ Never should I boast except in the stake (symbolic: self-denial and atonement) of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is through this stake that the world has been impaled to me, and I to the world. ¹⁵ For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision anything, but a new creature is. ¹⁶ The Israel of God will have peace and mercy. All who walk by this rule will also.

¹⁶ I continually give thanks for you in my prayers.

¹⁹ and what the exceeding greatness of his power is toward us who believe, according to the operation of his mighty strength. ²⁰ He operated in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places.

² You once walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the power (authority and jurisdiction) of the air, the spirit that is now active in the sons of disobedience. ³ We all once lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires (lusts) of the flesh and of the mind. We were by nature children of anger and violent passion, like everyone else.

³ We all once lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires (lusts) of the flesh and of the mind. We were by nature children of anger and violent passion, like everyone else.

⁵ even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. For by grace (loving-kindness) you have been saved.

⁵ even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. For by grace (loving-kindness) you have been saved.

⁵ even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. For by grace (loving-kindness) you have been saved. ⁶ God raised us up with him and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, with Christ Jesus.

⁶ God raised us up with him and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, with Christ Jesus. ⁷ So in the ages to come he, with Christ Jesus, might show the exceeding (surpassing) (exceptional) riches of his grace with kindness toward us.

⁷ So in the ages to come he, with Christ Jesus, might show the exceeding (surpassing) (exceptional) riches of his grace with kindness toward us. ⁸ By grace (Greek: charis, divine favor, loving-kindness) you have been saved through faith. It is not from you. It is the gift from God! ⁹ It is not the result of works. So no man should boast. ¹⁰ For we are his workmanship created with Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared these works in advance that we should walk in them.

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify (affirm) in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the vanity (futility) (depravity) of their mind (thinking).

²² You put away your former way (course) (behavior) (conversation) of life, the old self that was corrupt with the lusts of deceit.

²² You put away your former way (course) (behavior) (conversation) of life, the old self that was corrupt with the lusts of deceit. ²³ You are renewed in the spirit (vital principles) (attitude) of your mind (understanding). ²⁴ Put on the new man, that in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

⁸ You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk (live) (be occupied) as children of light ⁹ for the fruit of the light (life) (spirit) consists of all goodness and righteousness and truth.

¹⁴ For this reason it says: »Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.«

¹⁰ I want to know him and the power of his resurrection. I want to know the fellowship of his sufferings and become conformed to his death. ¹¹ I wish to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

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

⁷ The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

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

³ We always pray for you, and thank God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for you. ⁴ We have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love you have for all the holy ones.

⁹ Since the day we heard about you, we have not ceased to pray and make request for you. We pray for you to be filled with the [intimate accurate] knowledge (discernment) (recognition) of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. (Philippians 1:9) (John 17:3) ¹⁰ Walk worthily of God, fully pleasing him. Bear fruit in every good work, and increase in the knowledge (Greek: epignosis: full discernment, recognition) of God.

¹⁰ Walk worthily of God, fully pleasing him. Bear fruit in every good work, and increase in the knowledge (Greek: epignosis: full discernment, recognition) of God. ¹¹ God will strengthen you with all power, according to the might of his glory, to all patience and longsuffering with joy. ¹² Give thanks to the Father, who made us partakers of the inheritance of the holy ones in the light.

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?

¹⁰ Do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? Am I striving to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

³ I thank my God for all my memories of you. ⁴ I always offer prayer filled with joy for you, ⁵ and for your fellowship in participation of the good news from the first day until now.

¹¹ Be filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God. (John 15:5) (Galatians 5:22, 23)

²⁰ I will not be put to shame according to my earnest expectation and hope. With all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in me, whether by life or by death.

¹¹ You were also circumcised in him with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ.

¹¹ You were also circumcised in him with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ. ¹² You have been buried with him in baptism. You were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

¹² You have been buried with him in baptism. You were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

¹² You have been buried with him in baptism. You were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³ You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.

¹³ You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.

²⁰ If you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances:

¹ If you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

¹ If you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. ² Think about the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. ³ For you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

³ For you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

³ For you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

³ For you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, who is our life, will be made known, then you will also be made known with him in glory.

⁴ When Christ, who is our life, will be made known, then you will also be made known with him in glory. ⁵ Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.

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

⁵ Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry. ⁶ Because of such things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. ⁷ You once walked in these when you lived in them.

⁹ Do not lie to one another, seeing that you got rid of the old self with its evil practices. ¹⁰ You put on the new self that is being renewed to a true knowledge (full discernment) according to the image of the one who created him.

¹⁰ You put on the new self that is being renewed to a true knowledge (full discernment) according to the image of the one who created him.

¹⁷ Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. Give thanks to God the Father through him.

¹ Masters, give your servants that which is just and equal. You know that you also have a Master in heaven.

¹² Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

² We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers. ³ We continually remember your work of faith, labor of love, and patience, and your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

⁹ What thanks can we render to God for you and for all the joy we have for your sakes before our God?

⁵ not in the lust of sexual desire like the nations who do not know God.

¹⁴ If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus. ¹⁵ We tell you this by God’s Word, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ will rise first. 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.

³ Our friends, we should thank God at all times for you. It is right for us to do so, because your faith is growing so much and the love each of you has for the other abounds toward each other.

¹² Then everyone who did not believe the truth, but was delighted with wickedness, will be condemned.

³ I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as my forefathers did, that without ceasing, I remember you in my prayers, day and night. ⁴ I greatly desire to see you, being mindful of your tears, for this will fill me with joy. ⁵ I am mindful of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.

¹³ Hold firmly to the true words that I taught you, as the example for you to follow. Remain in the faith and love that are ours in union with Christ Jesus.

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!

¹⁶ But avoid worldly and empty discussion, for it will lead to further ungodliness. ¹⁷ This kind of talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus.

²² Flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with those who call on the Lord with a clean heart.

¹⁴ Since the »children« are partakers of flesh and blood, he also took part of the same things, that through death he might destroy him that had the power to cause death, [Satan] the Devil. ¹⁵ And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

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. ¹⁶ For this I obtained mercy, which in me as the foremost sinner Jesus Christ might show his long-suffering. This is for an example to those who should later believe in him for eternal life.

¹ Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness. ² It is in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal.

¹¹ For the grace (divine influence) of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all men, ¹² instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present age (world) (period of time).

¹² instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present age (world) (period of time). ¹³ Look for the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of the great God. And look for our Savior, Jesus Christ. ¹⁴ He (Jesus Christ) gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify a people for himself, who are special people, zealous for good works.

¹⁴ He (Jesus Christ) gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify a people for himself, who are special people, zealous for good works.

³ For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

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.

⁴ I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers.

¹⁵ We do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our infirmities (weaknesses). He was tested in all things like ourselves. Yet he was without sin!

⁹ Being made perfect, he became the source (cause) (channel) (conduit) (pathway) (facilitator) of eternal salvation to all who obey him. (Psalm 3:8)

⁸ That which bears thorns and briars is rejected, and is near to being cursed. It ends up being burned.

¹⁶ He would become such, not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

²⁵ He is able to save completely those who approach God through him, because he is always alive to intercede for them.

¹⁰ »‘This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,’ said Jehovah: ‘I will put my teachings (laws) in their mind, I will write them upon their hearts (deep thought) (understanding). I will be their God, and they will be my people. (Jeremiah 31:32)

²⁶ Otherwise he would have to suffer often from the founding of the world. He has presented himself once at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. ²⁷ It is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment: ²⁸ So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. He will appear the second time without sin to those who look to him for their salvation.

¹² But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, ¹³ waiting until his enemies are placed as a stool for his feet.

²⁹ What about those who despise the Son of God? Those who treat as a cheap thing the blood of God’s covenant that purified them from sin? Those who insult the Spirit of grace? Think how much worse the punishment they deserve will be!

⁸ By faith, when Abraham was called, he obeyed. He went to a place that he was to receive for an inheritance. He went even though he did not know where he was going.

¹⁵ See that no one misses the grace of God; that no bitter root spring up to cause trouble and defile many.

¹ This letter is from James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. Greetings to the twelve tribes that are scattered.

¹⁴ Each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his evil desire (lust). He is enticed (allured). ¹⁵ Then evil desires, when conceived, give birth to sin: and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

¹⁵ Then evil desires, when conceived, give birth to sin: and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

²⁰ let him know, that he who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will save a person from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy he gave us a new birth to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. ⁴ You are born to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that does not fade away and is reserved in heaven for you.

⁹ You receive your salvation as the outcome of your faith.

¹⁴ Live as children of obedience. Do not fashion yourself according to your former lusts, for you were ignorant at that time.

²² You have purified your hearts by obeying the truth. You have genuine affection for the brothers and sisters. So always love one another intensely (extremely) (deeply) from the heart.

⁵ You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁹ You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God’s own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

¹¹ Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.

¹⁶ Be free, and yet do not use your freedom for a covering for evil, but as servants of God.

⁶ Include self-control with your knowledge. Supply patience to your self-control. Your patience should be helped by godliness. ⁷ Add brotherly kindness to your godliness. And to your brotherly kindness add love. ⁸ For if these things are yours and abound in you they will keep you from being inactive or unfruitful regarding the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For he who lacks these qualities is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

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. ¹⁵ They went astray, forsaking the right way. They followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing.

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. ¹⁹ They promise them freedom, while they are bondservants of corruption. A man is brought into bondage by one and enslaved by another.

¹⁹ They promise them freedom, while they are bondservants of corruption. A man is brought into bondage by one and enslaved by another.

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

⁵ The tongue also is a little member. It boasts great things. Consider how great a forest fire a small fire kindles! ⁶ The tongue is like fire, the place of iniquity among our members. It defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of our life. It is set ablaze like the ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction).

¹ What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?

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.

²⁴ He bore our sins in his body upon the stake, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed because of his wounds (stripes).

¹ In like manner, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands. Even if your husband does not obey God’s word, he may be won without a word by observing the way you live.

¹⁸ Because Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.

²¹ This was a symbol pointing to baptism, which now saves you. It is not the washing off of bodily dirt, but the promise made to God for a good conscience. It saves you through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

¹ Since Christ suffered physically for us, you too must strengthen yourselves with the same way of thinking that he had. Whoever suffers physically has ceased from sin.

¹ Since Christ suffered physically for us, you too must strengthen yourselves with the same way of thinking that he had. Whoever suffers physically has ceased from sin.

¹ Since Christ suffered physically for us, you too must strengthen yourselves with the same way of thinking that he had. Whoever suffers physically has ceased from sin. ² From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God’s will and not by human desires (lusts).

² From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God’s will and not by human desires (lusts).

² From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God’s will and not by human desires (lusts).

² From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God’s will and not by human desires (lusts).

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).

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).

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). ⁴ They think it strange that you do not run with them in wild and reckless living and they speak evil about you.

⁴ They think it strange that you do not run with them in wild and reckless living and they speak evil about you. ⁵ They will give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead. ⁶ The good news was preached for this purpose even to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but may live according to God in the spirit.

¹¹ If any man speaks, speak as it were utterances of God. If any man ministers, minister with the strength which God supplies! May God be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ. The glory and dominion belong to God forever and ever. Amen.

¹⁷ For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God. If it begins with us first what will it be like in the end for those who do not obey the good news of God?

⁴ He offered us his precious and exceedingly great promises. Through these you may become partakers of the divine nature. You will escape from the corruption that is in the lust-filled world. ⁵ Yes, for this very reason you do your part with all diligence. Supply virtue to your faith. Add knowledge to your virtue.

⁶ He that says he lives in union with him should walk as he walked.

¹⁵ Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ The entire world, the desire of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of material wealth, is not from the Father, but is from the world. ¹⁷ The world and its desires (lusts) are passing away; but he who does the will of God lives forever.

²⁵ This is the promise he promised us, life eternal.

²⁸ Now, my little children dwell (Greek: meno: stay, dwell, be present) with him. If he shall be made known we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming (presence) (being near).

⁹ Whoever is born of God does not practice sin! His seed abides in him and he cannot sin because he has been born of God.

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

¹⁸ They said to you: In the last time there will be mockers (scoffers), walking after their own ungodly lusts.

¹⁸ »I am alive! I was dead and, behold, I am alive forever, Amen. I have the keys of death and the grave.

⁶ »They have shed the blood of the holy ones and prophets. You give them blood to drink for they deserve it.«

¹⁴ Death and the grave were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

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.«

¹¹ The testimony is this that God gave us everlasting life and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who has the Son has the life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

⁴ I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

³ For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and witnessed about the truth that is in you and that you walk in truth. ⁴ Certain men crept in unnoticed. They were appointed long ago for this condemnation. These ungodly men turned the grace of our God into loose conduct. They deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

¹³ One of the elders asked me: »Who are these dressed in white robes? And where are they from?«