Romans 7 Cross References - NSB

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. ³ So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she will be called an adulteress. If the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man. 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. 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. ¹² The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. ¹³ Did that which is good become death to me? God forbid! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good. This way sin might be shown to be sin. Through the commandment sin could be recognized. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am fleshly and sold under sin. ¹⁵ I do not understand what I am doing. For what I want to do I do not do. What I hate, I do. ¹⁶ But if what I do not want to do, I do, I consent to the law that it is right. ¹⁷ Now then it is no longer I that do it, but the sin that dwells in me. ¹⁸ I know that good does not live in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it. ¹⁹ I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do. ²⁰ If I do what I do not want to do, this means that I am no longer the one who does it. Instead, it is the sin that lives in me. ²¹ I find that this law is at work. When I want to do what is good, what is evil is the only choice I have. ²² My inner person delights in the law of God. 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? 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.

²³ The man said: »This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called ‘Woman.’ This is because she was taken out of Man.« ²⁴ This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

⁶ When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

¹³ Then Jehovah God said to the Eve: »What is this you have done?« The woman answered: »The serpent deceived me, and I ate.«

⁵ Jehovah saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become. Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

²¹ Jehovah smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: »Never again will I curse the ground because of man, for the intent of his heart is evil from childhood. I will never again destroy every living creature, as I have done.

²⁷ »Let us sell him to the Ishmaelites. Let us not hurt him, because he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.« His brothers agreed.

³⁶ Meanwhile, in Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of the king’s officers, who was the captain of the palace guard.

¹⁵ »I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews. And here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon.«

¹⁴ »Do not commit adultery.

¹⁷ »Do not covet (desire) another man’s house. Do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.

² »When you buy a Hebrew slave he will be your slave for six years. In the seventh year he may leave as a free man without paying for his freedom. ³ »If he was single at the time you bought him he alone must be set free. If he was married at that time, both he and his wife must be given their freedom. ⁴ »If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master. He shall go out alone. ⁵ »What if the slave loves his wife and children so much that he will not leave without them? ⁶ »He must stand beside either the door or the doorpost at the place of worship. His owner will punch a small hole through one of his ears with a sharp metal rod. This makes him a slave for life.

³ »But if it happens after sunrise, he is guilty of murder. A thief must make up for what he has stolen. If he is unable to do so, he should be sold as a slave to pay for what he stole.

¹³ and may have had sexual intercourse with another man without her husband’s knowledge. She may have kept it secret if there were no witnesses to accuse her and she was not caught in the act. ¹⁴ »‘A husband may have a fit of jealousy and suspect his wife, whether she was actually unfaithful or not. ¹⁵ »‘He must then take his wife to the priest along with eight cups of barley flour as an offering for her. He must not pour olive oil on the flour or put frankincense on it, since it is a grain offering brought because of the husband’s jealousy. It is an offering used for a confession, to remind someone of a sin that was committed. ¹⁶ »‘The priest will have the woman come forward and stand in Jehovah’s presence. ¹⁷ »‘The priest will then take holy water in a piece of pottery and put some dust from the floor of the tent into the water. ¹⁸ »‘The priest will bring the woman into Jehovah’s presence and loosen her hair. In her hands he will put the offering used for a confession, that is, the grain offering brought because of the husband’s jealousy. The priest will hold the bitter water that can bring a curse in his hands. ¹⁹ »‘The priest will say to her: ‘If no other man has had sexual intercourse with you and you have not been unfaithful to your husband, you are not guilty. This bitter water that can bring a curse will not harm you. ²⁰ »‘If you have indeed been unfaithful and have had sexual intercourse with another man, ²¹ »‘Jehovah will make you an example for your people to see what happens when the curse of this oath comes true: Jehovah will make your uterus drop and your stomach swell. Then the priest will administer the oath and the curse by saying: ²² »‘May this water that can bring a curse go into your body and make your stomach swell and your uterus drop!’« Then the woman will say: »Amen!« »Amen!« ²³ »The priest will write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water. ²⁴ »He will have the woman drink the bitter water that can bring the curse. This water will go into her and become bitter. ²⁵ »The priest will take the grain offering she was holding. He will present it to Jehovah, and bring it to the altar. ²⁶ »The priest will take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar. Then he will have the woman drink the water.

⁵ »‘Obey them and you will live. I am Jehovah.

¹⁸ »‘Do not seek revenge. Never hold a grudge against any of your people. Instead, love your neighbor as you love yourself. I am Jehovah.

¹⁰ »‘If a man commits adultery with the wife of an Israelite, both he and the woman should be put to death.

²⁷ »If she has become unclean by being unfaithful to her husband, the water that can bring the curse will go into her and become bitter. Her stomach will swell, her uterus will drop, and she will become cursed among her people. ²⁸ »However if the woman is not unclean and is pure, she is not guilty and will be able to have children. ²⁹ »These are the instructions for how to deal with jealousy. They tell you what to do when a woman is unfaithful to her husband and becomes unclean. ³⁰ »They also tell you what to do when a husband has a fit of jealousy and is suspicious of his wife. He will make his wife stand in Jehovah’s presence. The priest will do everything these instructions tell him to do. ³¹ »The husband is not guilty of doing anything wrong. But the woman will suffer the consequences of her sin.«

⁷ she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it. ⁸ »If her husband forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. Jehovah will forgive her.

⁸ »And what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments so righteous as the law I present to you this day?

¹² »Now, O Israel, what does Jehovah your God require from you? You are to respect Jehovah your God. Walk in all his ways and love him! Serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your being.

²¹ »‘Do not desire another man's wife; do not covet another man's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his donkey, or any thing that belongs to him.’

⁵ »You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with your entire mind and with all your strength.

²² »If a man is caught having sexual intercourse with another mans wife, then both of them shall die! Both the man and the woman committing adultery must be killed. Thus you shall purge the evil from Israel. ²³ »Suppose there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man has sexual relations with her. ²⁴ »You must bring them both out to the gate of that city and you must stone them to death! The girl did not protest what was happening and the man has violated his neighbor's woman. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

²⁶ »Do nothing to the woman. There is no sin in the woman worthy of death. This is like the case where a man attacks and murders his neighbor. ²⁷ »When he found her in the field, the woman who is engaged protested, but there was no one to save her.

²¹ »When I saw among the spoils a quality Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them. I hid them in the earth in the middle of my tent.«

¹³ Ruth answered: »You are very kind to me, sir. You make me feel better by speaking gently to me, even though I do not even have the standing of one of your servants.«

³⁹ David heard Nabal was dead. He said: »Blessed is Jehovah who defended me against the insults of Nabal. He kept me from doing wrong. Jehovah has turned Nabal’s own wickedness back on him.« David sent men on his behalf to propose marriage to Abigail. ⁴⁰ David’s servants approached Abigail at Carmel. They told her: »David sent us to you to take you to him to be his wife.« ⁴¹ She bowed down with her face touching the ground. »I am ready to serve,« she said. »I am willing to wash the feet of my master’s servants.« ⁴² Abigail quickly got up and rode on a donkey with five of her female servants following her. So she went with David’s messengers and became his wife.

² Late one afternoon, David got up from his nap and went to the palace roof. He walked around on the roof. He saw a woman taking a bath. She was very beautiful.

³⁸ listen to their prayers. If any of your people Israel, out of heartfelt sorrow, stretch out their hands in prayer toward this Temple,

⁴⁶ »They may sin against you, for everyone sins. You may become angry with them and hand them over to an enemy far or near who takes them to another country as captives.

¹ Naboth the Jezreelite had a garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria. ² Ahab said to Naboth: »Give me your garden so that I may have it for a garden of sweet plants. Since it is near my house let me give you a better vine-garden in exchange. If it seems good to you, let me give you its value in money.« ³ But Naboth said to Ahab, »God forbid that I give you the heritage of my fathers.« ⁴ Ahab returned to his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite said to him: »I will not give you the heritage of my fathers.« Stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would not eat.

²⁰ Ahab said to Elijah: »Have you come face to face with me, O my enemy?« Elijah said: »I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.«

²⁵ No one else devoted himself so completely to doing wrong in Jehovah’s sight as Ahab all at the urging of his wife Jezebel.

¹⁷ They caused their sons and their daughters to go through the fire to be sacrificed. They made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of Jehovah, till they provoked him to anger.

¹⁸ Many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun had not made themselves clean. So they ate the Passover, but not in the way the written instructions said they should. Hezekiah prayed for them: »May Jehovah forgive everyone ¹⁹ who have their hearts set on dedicating their lives to serve God. May Jehovah the God of their ancestors do this for those who are not clean as required for the holy place.«

²⁵ »And you, Ezra, by the wisdom of your God which is in you, are to put rulers and judges to have authority over all the people across the river who have knowledge of the laws of your God. You are to teach any who have no knowledge of them.

¹³ »You came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders.

¹⁴ »What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could be righteous? ¹⁵ »If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes, ¹⁶ how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks up evil like water!

⁴ »Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

¹² »I have not departed from the command of his lips. I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

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

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

² But his delight is in the law of Jehovah (YHWH), and on his law he meditates (ponders) (speaks softly with deep thought) (studies) (contemplates) day and night.

⁶ Jehovah knows (is fully aware of) the way of the righteous. But the way of the wicked will perish.

⁶ I am worn out from groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

⁷ The law of Jehovah is perfect. It gives new life. The testimony of Jehovah is dependable. It makes the simple wise. ⁸ The statutes of Jehovah are correct. They make the heart rejoice. The commandments of Jehovah are radiant. They make the eyes shine.

⁸ The statutes of Jehovah are correct. They make the heart rejoice. The commandments of Jehovah are radiant. They make the eyes shine. ⁹ The reverence of Jehovah is pure. It endures forever. The decisions of Jehovah are true. They are completely fair.

⁹ The reverence of Jehovah is pure. It endures forever. The decisions of Jehovah are true. They are completely fair. ¹⁰ They are more desirable than gold, even the finest gold. They are sweeter than honey, even the drippings from a honeycomb.

¹⁰ They are more desirable than gold, even the finest gold. They are sweeter than honey, even the drippings from a honeycomb. ¹¹ They warn your servant. There is a great reward in following them. ¹² Who can notice (discern) (understand) every mistake? Forgive my hidden faults.

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

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

³ When I kept silent about my sins, my body wasted away and I groaned all day long. ⁴ Day and night your hand lay heavily on me. My strength drained in the summer heat.

⁴ He plans wickedness upon his bed. He walks on a path that is not good. He does not despise evil.

¹⁰ Listen, O daughter, pay attention and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father's house. ¹¹ Then the King will desire your beauty. Bow down to him because he is your Lord. ¹² The daughter of Tyre will come with a gift. The rich among the people will seek your favor. ¹³ The King's daughter is all glorious within. Her clothing is interwoven with gold. ¹⁴ She will be led to the King in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, will be brought to you. ¹⁵ They will come forward with gladness and rejoicing. They will enter into the King's palace. ¹⁶ In place of your fathers will be your sons. You will make them princes in all the earth.

¹¹ They say: »God has abandoned him. Pursue him and grab him because there is no one to rescue him.«

¹² When he cries he will deliver the needy and the poor who have no helper.

² Your arrows have struck me. Your hand has struck me hard.

⁸ I am numb and completely devastated. I roar because my heart is filling with anguish. ⁹ You know all my desires, O Jehovah. My groaning has not been hidden from you. ¹⁰ My heart pounds. I have lost my strength. In my blindness the light of my eyes has left me.

⁸ »I am pleased to do your will, O my God; Your Law is within my heart.

¹² Countless evils have surrounded me. My sins have caught up with me so that I can no longer see. They outnumber the hairs on my head. I have lost heart (lost strength, courage and motivation).

⁵ Indeed, I was born in perversity (mischief) (evil). I was a sinner when my mother conceived me. ⁶ Yet, you desire truth from the secret person within me. Deep down inside me teach me wisdom.

³ Iniquities prevail against me. You forgive our transgressions.

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?

⁵ I am abandoned with the dead, like those who have been killed and lie in graves. I am like those whom you no longer remember, who are cut off from your hand (power) (care).

¹⁴ Because you love me, I will rescue you. I will protect you because you know my name. ¹⁵ When you call to me, I will answer you. I will be with you when you are in trouble. I will deliver you and honor you.

¹⁰ You who love Jehovah hate evil! He preserves his anointed ones. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

³ I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of unfaithful people. I want no part of it.

²⁰ He heard the groaning of the prisoner, to set free those who were doomed to death.

¹⁵ Let them give thanks to Jehovah because of his goodness. He performed his miracles for the sons of men. ¹⁶ He shattered bronze gates and cut iron bars in two.

¹ Blessed are those whose way is blameless. They walk in the law of Jehovah. ² Blessed are those who obey his written word. They seek him with all their heart. ³ They also do no unrighteousness. They walk in his ways. ⁴ You have ordained your precepts that we should keep them diligently. ⁵ Oh that my ways may be established to keep your statutes!

⁵ Oh that my ways may be established to keep your statutes! ⁶ I will not be ashamed when I look upon all your commandments.

¹⁶ I shall delight in your statutes. I shall not forget your word!

²⁰ I am crushed and long for your ordinances at all times.

²⁴ Your laws are my delight and counsel. ²⁵ I cleave to the dust. Revive me according to your word (as you promised).

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

³⁵ Make me walk in the path of your commandments, for I delight in it.

³⁷ Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity, and revive me in your ways. ³⁸ Establish your word to your servant, as that which produces reverence for you.

⁴⁰ Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me through your righteousness.

⁴⁷ I do love your commandments and will delight in them.

¹¹⁵ Depart from me, evildoers, that I may observe the commandments of my God. ¹¹⁶ Sustain me according to your word that I may live. Do not let me be ashamed of my hope. ¹¹⁷ Uphold me that I may be safe, that I may continually have regard for your statutes.

¹²⁷ Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more then fine gold.

¹²⁷ Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more then fine gold. ¹²⁸ That is why I esteem right all your precepts and I hate every false way.

¹²⁸ That is why I esteem right all your precepts and I hate every false way.

¹³¹ I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.

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

¹³⁷ You are righteous, O Jehovah. Your judgments are upright.

¹⁴⁰ Your word is very pure. Your servant loves it.

¹⁴³ Trouble and anguish have come upon me. Even so I am fond of your commandments.

¹⁶³ I hate and despise falsehood and I love your law.

¹⁶⁷ I obey your laws and love them exceedingly.

¹⁷² Let my tongue sing of your word. For all your commandments are righteousness. ¹⁷³ Let Your hand be ready to help me. For I have chosen your precepts. ¹⁷⁴ I long for your salvation, O Jehovah. Your law is my delight.

¹⁷⁶ I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Look for your servant for I have not forgotten your commandments.

¹⁶ O Jehovah, I am indeed your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains. ¹⁷ I will bring a song of thanksgiving to you as a sacrifice. I will call on the name of Jehovah.

⁴⁸ And I shall lift up my hands to (praise) your commandments. I will love and meditate on your statutes.

⁷² The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

⁸¹ I long for your salvation. I wait for your word. ⁸² My eyes fail with longing for your word, while I say: When will you comfort me? ⁸³ Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your statutes.

⁸⁶ All your commandments are faithful. They have persecuted me with a lie; help me!

⁹² If your law had not been my delight I would have perished in my affliction.

⁹⁶ I have seen a limit to all perfection. Your commandment is exceedingly broad. ⁹⁷ O How I love your law! It is my meditation all day long. ⁹⁸ Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever mine. ⁹⁹ I have more insight than all my teachers, for your laws are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ I understand more than the aged, since I have observed your precepts. ¹⁰¹ I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep your word. ¹⁰² I have not turned aside from your ordinances just as you have instructed me. ¹⁰³ How sweet are your words to my taste! Sweeter than honey to my mouth! ¹⁰⁴ I get understanding from your precepts. Therefore I hate every false way.

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

¹¹¹ I have inherited your laws forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

¹¹³ I hate those who are double-minded, but I love your law.

¹ Out of the depths of despair I have cried to you, O Jehovah. ² Jehovah, do hear my voice! Let your ears listen to the voice of my supplications. ³ If You, Jehovah, should record our sins, O Jehovah, who could stand?

⁷ Release me from prison so that I may praise your name. Righteous people will surround me because you are good to me.

²³ For the commandment is a lamp. The law is light. Reproofs for instruction are the way of life.

¹³ »Respect for Jehovah means to hate evil. I hate: pride, and arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

⁵ A righteous man hates lying. A wicked man is loathsome and shameful.

² Surely I am more stupid then any man, and do not have the understanding of a man.

⁵ Every word of God is pure. He is a shield to those who trust him.

²⁰ There is no man on earth who is righteous and does not sin.

⁵ »Woe to me!« I cried. »I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips (a sinner) and I live among a people of unclean (filthy) lips (speech) (language). My eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts.«

⁵ »Woe to me!« I cried. »I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips (a sinner) and I live among a people of unclean (filthy) lips (speech) (language). My eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts.« ⁶ Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand. With tongs he seized it from the altar. ⁷ He touched my mouth with it and said: »See! This has touched your lips, your guilt is taken away and your sin forgiven (pardoned) (atoned for).«

¹ In that day you will say: »I will praise you, O Jehovah. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.

²⁰ They eat ashes because they are deceived. Their own misguided minds lead them astray. They cannot rescue themselves or ask themselves: »Is what I hold in my right hand a false god?«

⁹ Say to those who are bound: »Go forth, to those in the darkness and show yourselves. They will feed along the roads and their pasture is on all bare heights.

¹³ Shout for joy, O heavens! Rejoice, O earth! Break into joyful shouting, O mountains! For Jehovah has comforted his people. He will have compassion on his afflicted.

¹ This is what Jehovah says: »Where are your mother's divorce papers? Did I give her any to get rid of her? To which of my creditors did I sell you? You were sold because of your sins. I got rid of your mother because of your rebellion.

⁷ »Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have my law in your hearts. Do not fear the reproach of men or be terrified by their insults.

³ For this is what Jehovah says: »You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.«

⁵ »For your Maker is your husband. Jehovah of Hosts is his name! The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He is called the God of all the earth.

⁵ »Your sons will marry you like a young man marries a woman. Your God will rejoice over the same way a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.

⁵ You greeted the one who gladly does right and remembers your ways. You were angry because we sinned. We continued to sin for a long time. Can we still be saved? ⁶ All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.

⁶ All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.

⁹ »The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately corrupt. Who can understand it?

¹⁶ »You have frightened other people. Your arrogance has deceived you. You live on rocky cliffs and occupy the highest places in the hills. Even though you build your nest as high as an eagle, I will bring you down from there,« proclaims Jehovah.

⁴ »Go through the whole city of Jerusalem and put a mark (signature) on the forehead of everyone who is distressed and troubled because of all the disgusting things being done in the city.«

¹⁹ ‘»I will give them one (united) heart, and put a new spirit within them. I will take the heart of stone (unkind attitude) out of them and give them a heart of flesh (loving disposition).

¹¹ ‘»»I gave them my laws and made my rules known to them. If people obey them they will live.

¹³ ‘»»But the people of Israel rebelled against me in the desert. They did not live by my laws. They rejected my rules. If people obey them, they will live. They dishonored the days to worship me. So I was going to pour out my fury on them in the desert and completely wipe them out.

²¹ ‘»»But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes. They were not careful to obey my ordinances. If a man obeys them, he will live. They profaned my Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

²⁶ »I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove your stubborn hearts and give you obedient hearts.

¹⁹ »I will engage you to me for a very long time! Yes I will engage you to me in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. ²⁰ »I will even engage you to me in faithfulness. Then you will know Jehovah.

⁶ Jehovah said: »I will not withdraw punishment for (three sins of Israel, even for four) the many transgressions of Israel! They sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes.

¹⁵ »Hate evil, and love good! Establish justice in the gate. It may be that Jehovah, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.«

³ »Your proud heart has deceived you. You reside in the refuge of the rock. Your habitation is high above others and you say in your heart: ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’«

² »They covet fields and seize them. They covet houses and confiscate them! They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.«

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.

⁷ Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble! He knows (protects) (takes care of) those who take refuge in him.

¹ He showed me Joshua the high priest. Joshua was standing before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan was standing at his right hand to be his adversary. ² Jehovah said to Satan: »Jehovah rebukes you, O Satan; yes, Jehovah, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you. Is this a brand plucked out of the fire?« ³ Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel. ⁴ He spoke to those who stood before him: »Take the filthy garments from him. Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you and I will clothe you with rich apparel.«

¹¹ »I set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. This is because of the blood of your covenant! ¹² »Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. I declare today: I shall repay you a double portion.

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.«

²¹ »You were told in the past, do not murder (kill). Any one who murders will be brought to trial. ²² »Now I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother [without cause] shall be guilty before the court. Whoever speaks to his brother with words of contempt shall receive condemnation before the Sanhedrin [Supreme Court]. Curse your brother and you will be guilty enough to be destroyed by fire, with the burning trash, at the Valley of Hinnom, outside of Jerusalem (Greek: Gehenna).

²² »Now I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother [without cause] shall be guilty before the court. Whoever speaks to his brother with words of contempt shall receive condemnation before the Sanhedrin [Supreme Court]. Curse your brother and you will be guilty enough to be destroyed by fire, with the burning trash, at the Valley of Hinnom, outside of Jerusalem (Greek: Gehenna). ²³ »When making an offering at the altar and you remember your brother has something against you, ²⁴ »leave your gift at the altar and go make peace with your brother. Then return and make your offering. ²⁵ »Come to an agreement quickly with the one who has a legal case against you. Do it before he turns the case over to the judge and you are thrown into jail. ²⁶ »Take it from me; you will stay in jail until you pay the very last penny of your fine.

²⁸ »However, I tell you that whoever looks at a woman with lustful thoughts commits adultery with her in his heart.

³² »I say to you that everyone divorcing his wife, except for the reason of fornication, makes her liable to commit adultery. And if she marries again, the man she marries also commits adultery.

⁴ »Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

⁶ »Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

⁴ »God said, ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ‘He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.’ ⁵ »You teach that a man should tell his father or mother that what he has that could help them, is given to God. ⁶ »You say there is no need for him to give honor to his father. You have invalidated the word of God because of your tradition!

²⁵ »He was not able to make payment. So his lord gave orders for him to be sold. His wife, sons, and daughters were all to be sold along with every possession. The money would be used for payment of what he owed.

²⁰ The man said to him: »I have done all these things; what more is there?«

³⁷ Jesus told him: »You shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart (Greek: kardia: feelings, emotions), and with all your being, and with your entire mind (Greek: dianoia: understanding). (Deuteronomy 6:5) ³⁸ »This is the greatest and first commandment. ³⁹ »The second like it is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ »The law and the prophets are based on these two commandments.«

¹⁹ »Evil thoughts come from the heart! Thoughts about murder, adultery, fornication, theft, lying, and slander come from the heart!

²³ He turned to Peter and said: »Get behind me, Satan. You are a stumbling block to me. You think the things of men, not of God.«

²⁶ As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed, and broke it; and he gave to the disciples. Then he said: »Take, eat; this is (represents) (means) (exemplifies) my body.«

⁸ Speaking to the Pharisees and scribes He said: »You abandon the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men. ⁹ »You totally reject the commandment of God that you may keep your tradition. ¹⁰ »Moses said: ‘Honor your father and your mother. He also said: ‘He that speaks evil of father or mother must die.’ ¹¹ »But you say: ‘If a man says to his father or his mother that which would benefit you is a gift to God, ¹² he no longer has to do anything for his father or mother.’ ¹³ »You make the word of God invalid by your tradition.«

²¹ »It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, ²² coveting, wickedness, deceit, loose conduct, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. ²³ »All these evil things come from within and defile the man.«

⁶ »God made male and female from the beginning of creation. ⁷ »For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife. ⁸ »The two shall become one flesh. They are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ »That which God has joined together let not man take apart (separate).« ¹⁰ In the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. ¹¹ He said: »He who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. ¹² »If she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.

¹ Jesus was full of God’s Holy Spirit when he returned from the Jordan. Holy Spirit led him into the wilderness.

¹⁸ »The Spirit of Jehovah is upon me. He anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind. To set at liberty those who are bruised.

⁸ When Simon Peter saw this he fell down at Jesus’ knees. He said: »Depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord.«

⁶ Jesus went with them. As he approached the house, the centurion sent friends to him saying, »Lord do not trouble yourself. I am not worthy that you should come under my roof.

²⁵ A lawyer stood up to test him. He asked: »Teacher what shall I do to inherit everlasting life?« ²⁶ He said: »What is written in the law? How do you read it?« ²⁷ He answered: »Love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your life, with all your strength and with all your mind. (Feelings and total existence) (Might and total thinking capacity) And you should love your neighbor as yourself.« (Deuteronomy 6:5) (Leviticus 19:18) ²⁸ He told him: »You answered correctly, do this and you will live.« ²⁹ Desiring to justify himself, he said to Jesus: »Who is my neighbor?«

¹³ »If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?«

⁴⁸ »Therefore you are witnesses and consent to the works of your fathers. They killed them and you build their tombs.

¹⁵ Jesus said: »Be careful, do not covet, for life does not come from your possessions.«

²⁹ »He spoke to his father in anger. All these years I have worked like a slave for you. I have never disobeyed you. What have you given me? Not even a goat for me to have a feast with my friends!

⁹ He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others: ¹⁰ »Two men went to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. ¹¹ »The Pharisee stood and prayed like this: God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

¹¹ »The Pharisee stood and prayed like this: God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. ¹² »I fast twice per week. I give tithes of all that I get.

¹² »I fast twice per week. I give tithes of all that I get. ¹³ »But the tax collector stood far away and would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner. ¹⁴ »I tell you the tax collector and not the Pharisee was right with God when he went home. He who exalts himself will be humbled! He who humbles himself will be exalted!«

²¹ The man replied: »I have observed all these things from my youth.«

⁶ »That which is born from the flesh is flesh and that which is born from the Spirit is spirit.

²⁹ »He that has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens to him. He rejoices greatly because he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This fills me with joy.

³⁴ Jesus said: »My food is to do the will of him that sent me. To finish his work!

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.«

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

⁸ »My Father is glorified when you bear much fruit. You will be my disciples.

²² »If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. Now they have no excuse for their sin!

²⁴ »If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would have no sin. They have seen and hated both my Father and me.

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

⁹ God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit (whole heart and mind) in the good news of his Son. Without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers.

¹³ I want you to know, brothers, that I was often determined to come to you, but was hindered until now, that I might have some fruit among you as well as the rest of the nations.

²⁶ For this cause God gave them up to vile affections for even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature.

¹⁷ If you are a Jew in name and are resting on the law and taking glory in God, ¹⁸ you know his will. You approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law.

²⁷ The uncircumcised person is by nature, fulfilling the law. He will judge you because you transgress the law with your written code and circumcision. ²⁸ He is not a Jew who is one on the outside. Neither is circumcision that which is on the outside in the flesh. ²⁹ But he is a Jew who is so on the inside with circumcision of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

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

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 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.

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.

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!

¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid!

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.

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).

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 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?

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. 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.

⁸ But sin, finding occasion, worked out in me through the commandment all manner of coveting. Apart from the law sin is dead.

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.

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.

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.

¹¹ For sin, finding occasion, through the commandment deceived me, and through it killed me.

¹¹ For sin, finding occasion, through the commandment deceived me, and through it killed me. ¹² The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

¹² The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. ¹³ Did that which is good become death to me? God forbid! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good. This way sin might be shown to be sin. Through the commandment sin could be recognized.

¹³ Did that which is good become death to me? God forbid! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good. This way sin might be shown to be sin. Through the commandment sin could be recognized. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am fleshly and sold under sin. ¹⁵ I do not understand what I am doing. For what I want to do I do not do. What I hate, I do.

¹⁵ I do not understand what I am doing. For what I want to do I do not do. What I hate, I do. ¹⁶ But if what I do not want to do, I do, I consent to the law that it is right.

¹⁶ But if what I do not want to do, I do, I consent to the law that it is right. ¹⁷ Now then it is no longer I that do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

¹⁷ Now then it is no longer I that do it, but the sin that dwells in me. ¹⁸ I know that good does not live in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.

¹⁸ I know that good does not live in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it. ¹⁹ I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do.

¹⁹ I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do.

¹⁹ I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do. ²⁰ If I do what I do not want to do, this means that I am no longer the one who does it. Instead, it is the sin that lives in me.

²⁰ If I do what I do not want to do, this means that I am no longer the one who does it. Instead, it is the sin that lives in me.

²⁰ If I do what I do not want to do, this means that I am no longer the one who does it. Instead, it is the sin that lives in me. ²¹ I find that this law is at work. When I want to do what is good, what is evil is the only choice I have.

²¹ I find that this law is at work. When I want to do what is good, what is evil is the only choice I have.

²¹ I find that this law is at work. When I want to do what is good, what is evil is the only choice I have. ²² My inner person delights in the law of God.

²² My inner person delights in the law of God.

²² My inner person delights in the law of God. 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.

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? 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.

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. ⁵ They who live according to flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh. They who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ⁶ The mind of sinful flesh (fleshly thought) means death; but the mind influenced by the Spirit gives life and peace. ⁷ This is because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God. It is not subject to the law of God for it cannot be.

⁷ This is because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God. It is not subject to the law of God for it cannot be. ⁸ Those influenced by the sinful flesh cannot please God.

⁸ Those influenced by the sinful flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God’s Spirit dwells in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to him.

⁹ But you are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God’s Spirit dwells in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to him. ¹⁰ If Christ is with you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit is life on account of righteousness. 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.

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.

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.

³ I could wish that I were accursed (separated) (banned) (excommunicated) from Christ for the good of (in behalf of) my countrymen and brothers (the Jews).

¹ Brothers, my hearts desire and my prayer to God for Israel is for their salvation.

⁵ Moses writes down the righteousness that is of the law. The man who has practiced those things shall live by them.

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.

⁹ Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil and cling to good.

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.

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.

¹ What shall we say about Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?

⁷ saying: »Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. ⁸ »Blessed is the man to whom, Jehovah will not impute sin.« (Psalm 32:2)

¹⁵ The law produces wrath (violent passion) (indignation). But where there is no law there is no sin.

²⁰ The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God’s loving kindness increased even more.

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.

⁹ For the Law code says: You must not commit adultery, you must not murder, you must not steal, you must not bear false witness, and you must not covet. If there is any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying; namely, you must love your neighbor as yourself.

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

²² Do you have faith? Have it for yourself before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in that thing that he allows.

¹ Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as fleshly men, as babes (infants) in Christ. ² I fed you milk and not solid food. You were not able to receive it. You are not able now! ³ You are still fleshly! There is envy, strife, and divisions among you. Do you not walk as ordinary men?

⁴ The wife has no authority over her own body, but her husband does. Likewise also the husband has no authority over his own body, but his wife does.

³⁹ The wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

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

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.

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.

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.

¹⁶ We do not give up! Though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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

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

¹⁶ The cup of blessing we bless, is it not the sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread we break, is it not the sharing of the body of Christ?

⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. ⁵⁷ But thanks to God, because he gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

¹² For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he does not have.

¹⁵ Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

² For I am zealous over you with a godly fervor (ardor) (zeal)! For I promised you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

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.

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.«

¹² The Law is not based on faith. »He that does them will live by them.« ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. It is written; »Cursed is everyone who is hung on a stake.«

²¹ Is the Law then against the promises of God? God forbid! If a law had been given which could impart life, righteousness would have been from the Law.

²³ But before faith came the Law held us in custody. We were locked up until faith was revealed. ²⁴ The Law was our schoolmaster (Greek: paedagogue: a combination of schoolmaster, instructor, servant and guardian in charge of us) to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. ²⁵ Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

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?

¹⁶ I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. These are in opposition to one another that you may not do the things that you would.

¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. These are in opposition to one another that you may not do the things that you would.

¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. These are in opposition to one another that you may not do the things that you would. ¹⁸ But if the Spirit leads you, you are not under the Law.

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

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.

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

²² The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ meekness (mildness), self-control; against such there is no law.

²³ meekness (mildness), self-control; against such there is no law. ²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have impaled the flesh with its passions and lusts.

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

¹⁵ For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision anything, but a new creature is.

¹ You were once dead because of your trespasses and sins. 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. ⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. For by grace (loving-kindness) you have been saved.

¹¹ Remember that you were once people of the nations in the flesh. You are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision, in the flesh, made by human hands.

¹⁵ Christ abolished in his flesh the enmity (ill will), which the law of commandments contained in ordinances. That [way] he might create one new man, out of the two, with himself establishing peace.

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.

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

³ Fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among holy ones.

²⁰ Always give thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father.

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the congregation, he being the savior of the body. ²⁴ The congregation is subject to Christ. Likewise let the wives also be to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it. ²⁶ This is so he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word. ²⁷ So he will be able to present the congregation to himself as a glorious congregation, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It should be holy and without blemish.

³ We are those with true circumcision who worship by the Spirit of God. We glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.

⁵ I was circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; ⁶ as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

⁸ I count all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. I suffered the loss of all things. Yet I count them as refuse (garbage) (dung) that I may gain Christ. ⁹ I want to be united with him. I no longer want a righteousness of my own that is gained by obeying the law. The righteousness from God is by faith in Christ.

¹² Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect. But I press on, that I may obtain that for which Christ Jesus also obtained.

¹² Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect. But I press on, that I may obtain that for which Christ Jesus also obtained. ¹³ Brothers, I could not yet have obtained it. But one thing I do, I forget the things that are behind, and stretch forward to the things that are ahead. ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

⁶ Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

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

⁶ It came to you even as it did. Everywhere in the entire world it bears fruit and it increases in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace (loving-kindness) of God in truth.

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.

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)

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 Put on the full armor (every implement) of God, that you may be able to stand against the cunning (inventive) (clever) methods of the devil. ¹² Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places. ¹³ For that reason, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, having done everything, to stand firm.

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)

¹³ It is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

²² But he (Christ) reconciled you in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and without accusation before Him (God).

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.

¹⁴ He blotted out the bond written in ordinances. It was against us and was contrary to us. He has taken it out of the way. He nailed it to the stake.

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:

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

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.

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.

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

¹¹ Refuse younger widows: for when their sexual impulses come between them and Christ, they desire to marry. ¹² They have judgment, because they have rejected their first pledge. ¹³ They also learn to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but gossipers and busybodies, speaking things that they should not. ¹⁴ I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.

¹¹ But you, O man of God, run from these things. Pursue (set your heart on) righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience and meekness. ¹² Fight the good fight of the faith! Lay hold on everlasting life! You were called and confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

¹⁹ The foundation of God stands firm having this seal: »Jehovah knows those who belong to him,« and: »Everyone who names the name of Jehovah is to abstain from wickedness.«

²⁵ He should instruct those who oppose using meekness. Perhaps God will give them repentance that they may know the truth. ²⁶ They should come to their senses out of the snare of the Devil. He has taken them captive and they do his will.

⁹ »You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness more than your companions.«

¹⁵ And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

¹⁷ This means that he had to become like his »brothers« in every way, in order to be their faithful and merciful High Priest in his service to God, in order to offer a propitiatory sacrifice (pay atonement) (to make reconciliation) for the sins of the people.

¹³ Encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called »Today,« that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

⁸ But we know that the Law is good, if a man uses it legitimately.

¹⁸ The Lord will deliver me from every evil work. He will save me to his heavenly kingdom. To him is the glory forever and ever. Amen.

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.

¹² The Word of God is alive and active and sharper than any two-edged sword. (Ephesians 6:17) It separates the physical person from the spiritual person, of both joints and marrow. And it can discern (judge) the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (John 12:48)

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!

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)

¹⁰ We are sanctified by his »will« through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

⁴ You have not yet resisted by shedding blood in your striving against sin.

¹³ Let no man say when he is tempted: »God tempts me.« God cannot be tempted with evil, and he tempts (entices) (tests) (trys) no one. 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.

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.

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

⁷ If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. ⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

²² Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, who deceive themselves.

²⁶ If any man thinks he is religious, while he does not control his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain (worthless) (useless).

⁹ But when you show partiality you commit sin. The law then convicts you as transgressors. ¹⁰ Whoever obeys the whole law and yet stumbles in one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

¹⁰ Whoever obeys the whole law and yet stumbles in one point is guilty of breaking all of it. ¹¹ For he who said: »Do not commit adultery,« also said: »Do not murder« (Greek: phoneuo: kill, slay, murder). Now if you do not commit adultery, but you commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

² We all stumble in many things. If any do not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able to restrain (control) the whole body.

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

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? ⁶ But he gives more grace. The scripture said, »God resists the proud, but gives grace (loving-kindness) to the humble.«

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).

⁴ Let your appearance be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit. This is of great value in the sight of God.

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

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.

⁴ Everyone who practices (exercises) sin also commits lawlessness, because sin is lawlessness.

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

⁷ »Let us be glad, rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife made herself ready.

⁴ »God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow nor crying. There will be no more pain! The former things have passed away.«

⁹ One of the seven angels came to me. He had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues. He said: »Come here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.«