1 Corinthians 6 Cross References - Riverside

¹ DOES any one of you, if he has a grievance against another, dare to bring the case before the unrighteous and not before the holy? ² Do you not know that the holy are going to judge the world? If the world is to be judged by you, are you unfit for the most trivial cases? ³ Do you not know that we are to judge angels, to say nothing of affairs of this life? ⁴ If then you have affairs of this life, do you ask men who in the view of the church count for nothing to sit as judges? ⁵ I say this to your shame. Is it true that there is among you no one wise enough to judge between a man and his brother, ⁶ but brother goes to law with brother and that before unbelievers? ⁷ Now this is an utter failure on your part that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather let yourselves be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? ⁸ But you yourselves practice wrongs and frauds — and that upon your brethren. ⁹ Do you not know that unrighteous people will not inherit the kingdom of God? Make no mistake, neither the unchaste, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who practice unnatural vices, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such some of you were. But you have washed yourselves; but you have been made holy; but you have been pronounced righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. ¹² All things are lawful for me, but not everything is beneficial. All things are lawful, but I will not be overpowered by anything. ¹³ Food of all kinds is for the stomach and the stomach for foods. But God will end the function of one and the other. The body is not for unchastity, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. ¹⁴ God raised the Lord and will also raise us through his power. ¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶ Do you not know that he who unites himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For God says, "The two shall become one flesh." ¹⁷ He who is united to the Lord is one spirit. ¹⁸ Shun unchastity. Every other sin that a man does is apart from the body, but the unchaste sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? ²⁰ For you were bought with a price. Glorify God then in your bodies.

¹⁶ So let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

³⁹ But I tell you not to resist a wicked man, but if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him also the other; ⁴⁰ and if any one is determined to sue you for your tunic, let him have your cloak too; ⁴¹ and if any one commandeers you for a mile, go with him two.

¹⁷ Do you not know that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is cast out into the sewer?

²⁰ These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."

¹⁵ "If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault between yourself and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother. ¹⁶ If he does not listen to you, take along with you one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses, or three, every word may be confirmed. ¹⁷ If he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. If he refuses to hear the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

⁵ and said, 'For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh'? ⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What, therefore, God has yoked together let not man put asunder."

²⁸ Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly, you who have followed me, in the rebirth, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you also will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. ²⁹ And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for my name's sake will receive manifold more and will inherit life eternal.

¹⁹ and seeing a solitary fig tree at the roadside he went to it, but found on it nothing but leaves only. He said to it, "Let there no more be fruit from you forever." The fig tree immediately withered up.

³¹ Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The last." Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly the tax collectors and the bad women are going before you into the kingdom of God. ³² For John came to you in the path of righteousness and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and the bad women believed him. And you when you saw it did not change your minds afterwards and believe him.

¹³ "But alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut the kingdom of heaven before men. You yourselves do not enter nor do you permit those who are entering to go in.

³³ Serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?

³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right hand, 'Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world!

⁴¹ Then he will say to those on his left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the fire eternal prepared for the Devil and his angels.

¹⁹ for it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach and passes out into the sewer?" Thus he pronounced all foods clean.

⁸ and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

¹⁹ You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor thy father and thy mother.'

²⁹ To him who strikes you on one cheek, offer also the other. To him who takes your cloak, do not refuse your tunic.

¹⁴ That which fell among thorns means those who hear, and as they go on are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life and bring nothing to completion.

¹⁴ I tell you this man went down to his house justified rather than the other. For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

¹⁶ He will come and destroy those grape-growers and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they exclaimed, "May it never be!"

³⁴ Take care that your hearts are not dull through overeating and drinking and the cares of life, so that that day may come on you unexpectedly like a trap.

³⁰ that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. You shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

²¹ But he was speaking of the temple of his body.

⁶ What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

²⁸ Do not wonder at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice ²⁹ and will come forth — those who have done good to a resurrection of life and those who have done evil to a resurrection of condemnation.

²⁷ Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to life eternal, which the Son of Man will give you. For him God the Father has sealed."

³⁹ and this is the will of him who sent me, that of the whole that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise all up on the last day. ⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father, that every one who looks upon the Son and believes in him shall have life eternal, and I will raise him up on the last day."

⁴⁹ Your fathers ate the manna in the desert and they died.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in me even though he dies will live, ²⁶ and no one who lives and believes in me will ever die. Do you believe this?"

⁶ He said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and having the purse used to pilfer what was put into it.

¹⁰ Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed has no need to be washed, except his feet, but is all clean. And you are clean, though not all."

²¹ that all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that they may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou didst send me. ²² The glory that thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one as we are one, ²³ I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that thou didst send me and didst love them just as thou didst love me.

¹⁵ In those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren (the company numbered about a hundred and twenty) and said:

²⁴ But God freed him from the pangs of death and raised him up, since it was impossible that he should be held under the power of death.

² Then the twelve called the body of disciples together and said, "We do not wish to leave the message of God and wait on tables. ³ Therefore, brethren, pick out seven men from among you, men of reputation, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, and we will appoint them to look after this need. ⁴ But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the service of the message."

²⁶ On the next day Moses appeared when two of them were fighting, and tried to make peace between them, saying, 'Men, you are brethren. Why are you injuring each other?'

³⁹ Yes, every one who believes in him is cleared from all the sins from which you could not be cleared by the Law of Moses.

³¹ since he has set a day in which he will soon judge the world in justice by the man whom he has appointed, and of whom he has given evidence to all men by raising him from the dead."

¹⁴ As Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it was some crime or wicked knavery, O you Jews, I would have reasonable patience with you. ¹⁵ But if it is a dispute about doctrine and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I will not be a judge of these things,"

³⁸ If Demetrius and the artisans with him have a charge against any one, there are court days and there are proconsuls; let the parties state their cases.

²⁸ "Be watchful of yourselves and of all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers. Shepherd the church of God which he bought with his own blood.

¹⁶ And now why delay? Rise, be baptized and wash away your sins, calling upon his name.'

²⁵ While Paul was reasoning about righteousness and self-discipline and the judgment that is to come, Felix became alarmed and said," Go for the present. When I find a convenient time I will send for you."

¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among those who are made holy by faith in me.'

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and wickedness of men who hold the truth but practice unrighteousness.

²⁴ Therefore God gave them over, in the lusts of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonor their bodies mutually.

²⁶ Therefore God gave them over to disgraceful passions. For their females changed the natural use for one contrary to nature, ²⁷ and their males, leaving the natural use of the female, burned in their lust for one another, males with males practicing indecency and receiving in themselves the deserved penalty of their error.

³ For what if some were faithless, will their faithlessness prevent the faithfulness of God? ⁴ Never. Let God be true, but every man a liar, as it is written, "That thou mayest be proved right in thy words and triumph when thou art judged."

⁶ Never. If so how can God judge the world?

²⁴ All are pronounced righteous by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

²⁶ for a manifestation at the present time of his righteousness, that he may himself be righteous and may accept as righteous him who has faith in Jesus. ²⁷ Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? That of works? No, but by the law of faith. ²⁸ For we reason that a man is pronounced righteous by faith aside from works of law. ²⁹ Does God belong to the Jews only? Does he not belong also to the Gentiles? Yes, to the Gentiles, ³⁰ if God is one and will pronounce the circumcision righteous by faith and the uncircumcision righteous through faith. ³¹ Do we then by faith nullify the Law? Never. On the contrary we establish the Law.

⁵ but to him who does not work, but believes in him who calls the unrighteous man righteous, his faith is credited for righteousness.

¹ SO then, since we have been accounted righteous by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ Much more then, now that we have been pronounced righteous through his blood, shall we be saved from wrath by him.

² Never. How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

⁴ We were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if we have grown into union with him by the likeness of his death, surely we shall be united with him by the likeness of his resurrection. ⁶ For we know this, that our old-time humanity was crucified with him, in order that the sinful body might be made powerless, that we might no longer be slaves of sin. ⁷ For one who has died has been pronounced righteous and free from sin. ⁸ But if we died with Christ we believe that we shall live with him,

¹² Do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you will obey its lusts,

¹² Do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you will obey its lusts, ¹³ and do not yield your members to sin as the instruments of wickedness; but present yourselves to God as men once dead, but now living, and yield your members to God as the instruments of righteousness.

¹⁵ What then? May we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Never.

¹⁷ Thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin you became obedient from the heart to the type of teaching in which you were instructed. ¹⁸ You were made free from sin and made servants to righteousness. ¹⁹ I am speaking humanly on account of the weakness of your human nature. As you did present your members as servants to impurity and to lawlessness to do lawlessness, so now you have presented your members as servants to righteousness for holy living.

¹⁹ I am speaking humanly on account of the weakness of your human nature. As you did present your members as servants to impurity and to lawlessness to do lawlessness, so now you have presented your members as servants to righteousness for holy living.

⁴ So, my brethren, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ, that you might become wedded to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God.

⁷ What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Never. But I should not have come to know sin except through the Law. I should not have known lust if the Law had not said, "Thou shalt not lust."

¹³ Did then what is good become death to me? Never. But sin, that it might appear sin, worked death in me through the good, in order that it might become beyond measure sinful. ¹⁴ For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

¹¹ If the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead gives life even to your mortal bodies, through his indwelling Spirit in you.

³⁰ And those whom he predetermined he also called, and those whom he called he also pronounced righteous, and those whom he pronounced righteous he also glorified.

³³ Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? God pronounces them righteous.

¹ I BEG you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, pleasing to God — your rational worship.

⁵ so we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

¹⁷ Repay to no one evil for evil. Aim at what is honorable in the sight of all men. ¹⁸ If possible, so far as depends on you, live at peace with all men. ¹⁹ Do not revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord."

⁷ For no one of us is living for himself and no one dies for himself. ⁸ If we live we live for the Lord and if we die we die for the Lord. So whether we live or die we are the Lord's. ⁹ For to this end Christ died and lived again, in order that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is defiling in itself. But to one who thinks anything to be defiling it is defiling. ¹⁵ If because of your food your brother is grieved, you are no longer walking in love. Do not with your food destroy him for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Do not let what is good to you be spoken of as evil. ¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ For he who thus serves Christ is pleasing to God and esteemed by men. ¹⁹ Therefore, let us seek for what makes for peace and our mutual upbuilding. ²⁰ Do not for the sake of food break down the work of God. All things are pure, but anything is evil to the man who eats it with a feeling of doing wrong. ²¹ It is noble not to eat meat or to drink wine or to do anything over which your brother stumbles. ²² The faith that you have, have to yourself before God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself for what he allows himself. ²³ He who has doubts and still eats stands condemned, because he is not acting from faith. But whatever does not spring from faith is sin.

² to the Church of God in Corinth, made holy in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

³⁰ By God's act you are in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God and righteousness and holiness and deliverance,

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

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you thinks himself wise in this world, let him become a fool in order to become wise.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you have glory, but we are despised.

¹⁴ I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.

¹ IT is generally reported that there is unchastity among you, and such unchastity as is not even among the Gentiles, so that a man has his father's wife!

¹⁰ certainly not meaning the unchaste of this world, or the covetous or extortionate or idolaters, since in that case you would have to leave the world. ¹¹ But now I write to you not to associate with any one who is called a brother, if he is unchaste or covetous or idolatrous or abusive or drunken or extortionate — not even to eat with such a one. ¹² For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those inside?

¹ DOES any one of you, if he has a grievance against another, dare to bring the case before the unrighteous and not before the holy? ² Do you not know that the holy are going to judge the world? If the world is to be judged by you, are you unfit for the most trivial cases? ³ Do you not know that we are to judge angels, to say nothing of affairs of this life? ⁴ If then you have affairs of this life, do you ask men who in the view of the church count for nothing to sit as judges?

⁶ but brother goes to law with brother and that before unbelievers? ⁷ Now this is an utter failure on your part that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather let yourselves be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

⁷ Now this is an utter failure on your part that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather let yourselves be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

⁹ Do you not know that unrighteous people will not inherit the kingdom of God? Make no mistake, neither the unchaste, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who practice unnatural vices, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

¹³ Food of all kinds is for the stomach and the stomach for foods. But God will end the function of one and the other. The body is not for unchastity, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶ Do you not know that he who unites himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For God says, "The two shall become one flesh."

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

²³ You were bought with a price. Do not become slaves of men.

⁴ Regarding the eating of things that have been sacrificed to idols, then, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

⁷ But all have not this knowledge. Some, having been accustomed to idols up to the present time, eat the food as a sacrifice to an idol, and their conscience being weak is stained. ⁸ But food does not bring us near to God, for neither do we lose by not eating nor gain by eating. ⁹ But be careful that this power of yours may not become a stumbling block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if any one sees you who have knowledge reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of that weak one be emboldened to eat things that have been sacrificed to idols? ¹¹ Thus the weak man is ruined by your knowledge — the brother for whom Christ died. ¹² So sinning against the brethren and wounding their weak consciences you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore if food makes my brother stumble I will not eat meat while the world stands, for fear of making my brother stumble.

¹² If others share this right over you, do not we still more? But we have not used this right. No, we endure all things in order not to cause any hindrance to the good news of Christ.

²⁴ Do you not know that those who run in a stadium all run, yet one gets the prize? Run so as to win.

²⁷ On the contrary, I maul and master my body so that I may not, after preaching to others, become myself unable to stand the test.

³ and all ate the same spiritual food ⁴ and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. ⁵ But with the most of them God was not well pleased. For they were strewn in the desert.

²³ All things are lawful, but not all are beneficial. All things are lawful, but not all build up character. ²⁴ Let no one seek his own interest, but the interest of others. ²⁵ Everything that is sold in market eat, raising no questions of conscience. ²⁶ For "the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." ²⁷ If any one of the unbelievers invites you and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, raising no questions of conscience. ²⁸ But if any one says to you, "This is meat that has been sacrificed," do not eat, for the sake of him who mentioned it and for conscience' sake — ²⁹ conscience, I say, not yours, but the other man's. For why is my liberty judged by the conscience of another? ³⁰ If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks? ³¹ Therefore, if you eat or if you drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

³¹ Therefore, if you eat or if you drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. ³² Cause no offense either to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God, ³³ as I also in all things accommodate myself to all men, not seeking my own interest but that of the many, in order that they may be saved.

³ I wish you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

¹⁴ Does not Nature herself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

² For you know that when you were Gentiles you were led away after the dumb idols just as might happen.

¹³ For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and were all made to drink of one Spirit.

²⁷ You are the body of Christ and individually members.

³³ For God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the holy,

¹⁵ And we are found false witnesses of God because we testified regarding God that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise if the dead are not raised. ¹⁶ For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. ¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable. ²⁰ But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first-fruit of those who have fallen asleep.

²³ But each in his own order. The first-fruit is Christ, then those who are Christ's, at his coming.

³³ Do not be led astray; "bad associations corrupt good morals." ³⁴ Return to soberness and cease to sin, for some are ignorant of God. I say it to your shame.

⁵⁰ But I say this, brethren, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor will decay inherit imperishability.

¹ REGARDING the collection for the holy, as I arranged for the churches of Galatia, you must do the same.

¹⁵ I beg you, brethren — you know the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia and they have devoted themselves to serving the holy —

¹⁴ knowing that he who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and place us in his presence with you.

¹⁸ while we contemplate not the things that are seen, but the things unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things unseen are eternal.

¹⁵ and he died for all that the living may no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and was raised again.

¹⁴ Do not be yoked up, like unmatched animals, with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness,

¹⁶ What agreement has the Temple of God with idols? For we are the Temple of the living God, as God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.

² For I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God, for I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

²¹ I am afraid that when I come again my God may humble me in your presence, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have been long sinning and have not repented of the impurity and unchastity and sensuality which they have practiced.

¹⁶ knowing that a man is not declared righteous because of works of law, but through faith in Christ Jesus, we also have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be declared righteous because of faith in Christ, and not because of works of law, for because of works of law no human being will be declared righteous. ¹⁷ If while seeking to be declared righteous in Christ we ourselves are found sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Never.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ. I am living, yet no longer I, but Christ is living in me. The life that I am now living in flesh I am living by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

⁸ For the Scripture, foreseeing that God would declare the Gentiles righteous because of faith, announced the good news in advance to Abraham, "In you all the Gentiles will be blessed."

¹¹ But that by law no one is declared righteous before God is plain, because, "He who is righteous by faith shall live."

¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for our sake, for it is written, "Cursed is every one who hangs on a tree,"

²¹ Is the Law then against the promises of God? Never! For if a law had been given which could give life, then really righteousness would have come by law.

²⁴ Thus the Law became our tutor leading us to Christ, that we might be declared righteous by faith.

¹⁹ The works of the flesh are obvious, such as unchastity, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ idolatry, magic, hatred, strife, jealousy, anger, rivalries, dissensions, factions, ²¹ envyings, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like. Of these I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

²¹ envyings, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like. Of these I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, slowness to anger, kindness, benevolence, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.

¹⁴ But let me never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is crucified to me and I to the world.

¹⁹ and what the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe according to the inworking of his vast might, ²⁰ which he put forth in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his own right hand in the heavenly heights,

²² He put all things under his feet and placed him as head over all for the church, ²³ which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

¹ YOU also God raised to life when you were dead in misdeeds and sins ² in which you once walked, following the ways of this age of the world, led by the Ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience. ³ Among these we all lived once in the passions of our flesh and of our thoughts, and we were by nature children of wrath like the rest.

²¹ In him all the building, framed together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, ²² in whom you also are being built for a dwelling of God in the Spirit.

³ earnest in keeping the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. ⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called with one hope that belongs to your calling,

¹² for the equipment of the saints, for the work of service, for building up the body of Christ,

¹⁵ but speaking the truth in love we shall grow wholly into him who is the head, Christ, ¹⁶ from whom the whole body framed together and strengthened by what every joint supplies vigorously, in the measure of each, makes growth in building itself up in love. ¹⁷ This then I say and solemnly protest in the Lord: that you are no longer to live as the Gentiles live in vacancy of mind, ¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, aliens from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, and because of the hardness of their hearts. ¹⁹ Lost to any sense of shame they have abandoned themselves to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. ²⁰ But you have not so learned Christ, ²¹ if you have heard him and have been taught in him as the truth is in Jesus, ²² that you should put away the old man who belonged to your former way of life and was perishing in deluding passions,

²⁸ He who steals must steal no longer, but rather he must labor, working with his own hands something good, so as to have something to share with any one in need.

³ Unchastity or any kind of impurity or greediness must not be mentioned among you, as befits holy people; ⁴ nor should there be indecent and foolish talk or jesting, which are unbecoming, but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ For you know well that no unchaste or impure person, no greedy person — who is an idolater — has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

⁸ For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light —

²³ because a man is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church and he is the savior of the body.

²⁶ that he might make it holy, cleansing it by the washing with water according to his word,

³⁰ for we are members of his body. ³¹ "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope that I may be put to shame in nothing, but with all courage, as always, so now Christ may be honored in my body, whether by my life or by my death.

⁵ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

¹⁴ Do everything without murmurings or disputings ¹⁵ that you may be blameless and pure, children of God, spotless in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation among whom you shine as lights in the world,

¹⁰ that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming like him in death, ¹¹ if possibly I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

²¹ He will transform the body we have in our low estate into the likeness of the body he has in glory by the power by which he can subject all things to himself.

¹⁹ and not holding to the Head, from whom the whole body, supplied and held together by joints and bands, grows as God gives it growth.

²² referring to things that perish when used? ²³ These rules follow the commandments and teachings of men. They have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed ceremonial and excessive humility and severity to the body, but have no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

⁵ Treat the members of your earthly bodies as dead — dead to unchastity, impurity, passion, evil desire, and avarice, which is idolatry.

⁵ Treat the members of your earthly bodies as dead — dead to unchastity, impurity, passion, evil desire, and avarice, which is idolatry. ⁶ On account of these things comes the wrath of God. ⁷ To them you also were once habituated when you lived in them.

²⁵ He who does wrong will be repaid for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

¹³ that your hearts may be made firm and you may be blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones.

³ For this is the will of God: to have you become holy and have you shun unchastity;

³ For this is the will of God: to have you become holy and have you shun unchastity; ⁴ to have each of you know how to take a wife for himself in holiness and honor, ⁵ not in the passion of lust, as the Gentiles do who know not God;

⁵ not in the passion of lust, as the Gentiles do who know not God; ⁶ to have no one trespass or take advantage of his brother in this matter; for the Lord is the punisher of all such, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.

⁶ to have no one trespass or take advantage of his brother in this matter; for the Lord is the punisher of all such, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you. ⁷ God has not called us to live in impurity, but in holiness.

¹⁴ For since, as we believe, Jesus died and rose, so too God will through Jesus bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

¹⁵ Take care that no one repays evil with evil, but always seek eagerly what is good in dealing with one another and with every one.

¹³ We ought always to thank God for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through the Spirit's making you holy and your own faith in the truth.

⁹ Not that we have not the authority, but in order to give you ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

⁹ But we know this: that law is not laid down for a righteous man, but for the lawless and the insubordinate, the ungodly and sinners, the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, ¹⁰ for the unchaste, for those who practice unnatural vices, for slave-dealers, liars, perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to wholesome teaching

⁴ No one while serving as a soldier entangles himself in the affairs of life, for the soldier must please him who enlisted him.

²² But flee the passions of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, in the company of those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

¹⁰ For Demas deserted me because he loved the present world and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us to redeem us from all sin and purify us as his own people earnest in honorable work.

³ For we ourselves were once thoughtless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to passions and various pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. ⁴ But when the kindness of our Savior, God, and his love to men appeared, ⁵ "not because of works that we had done in righteousness, but out of his own mercy he saved us through the bath of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ that we might be declared righteous by his grace and become heirs with the hope of life eternal."

¹¹ For he who makes holy and they who are made holy are all of one. For this cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

¹² and not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, into the holy place, and thereby found eternal redemption.

²² let us come with true hearts in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies bathed in pure water.

³¹ By faith Rahab, the prostitute, did not perish with those who had refused to believe; because she had welcomed the spies with peace.

¹⁴ Follow after peace with all men and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. ¹⁵ Be on your guard that no one shall fail of the grace of God, that no bitter root shall sprout up and trouble you and through it many be stained, ¹⁶ that there shall be none unchaste, or profane like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

¹⁶ that there shall be none unchaste, or profane like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

⁴ Let marriage be held in honor by all and let the bed be undefiled; for unchaste persons and adulterers God will judge.

⁵ If any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask it from God, who gives to all freely without reproaching, and it will be given to him.

¹⁶ Make no mistake, my beloved brethren,

²¹ Was not Abraham, our father, pronounced righteous because of works when he laid Isaac his son on the altar? ²² You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was made perfect ²³ and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham had faith in God and it was credited to him for righteousness" and he was called "God's friend." ²⁴ You see that a man is pronounced righteous because of works and not because of faith alone. ²⁵ In the same way was not Rahab, the prostitute, pronounced righteous because of works when she had received the messengers and sent them out by a different road? ²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead.

¹³ Who is wise and intelligent among you? Let him show out of the noble life that he lives his works in wise gentleness. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and party-spirit in your hearts, do not boast and falsely contradict the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom does not come down from on high, but is earthly, animal, demoniacal. ¹⁶ For where jealousy and party-spirit are, there is confusion and every base affair. ¹⁷ But the wisdom from on high is first pure, then peaceable, fair-minded, easily persuaded, full of compassion and good fruits, impartial, sincere. ¹⁸ The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

¹ WHENCE come wars and whence come strifes among you? Is it not from your pleasures which carry on war in your members? ² You long for something and do not have it. You murder and envy and cannot obtain it. You battle and war. You do not have, because of your not asking. ³ You ask and do not receive, because you ask wickedly to waste it on your pleasures.

⁴ You have laid up treasures in the last days. See, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, fraudulently kept back by you, call aloud, and the cries of the harvesters have come into the ears of the Lord of armies.

² chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and made holy by the Spirit to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace be to you and peace be multiplied.

¹⁸ for you know that you were not ransomed with perishable things, silver or gold, from your purposeless life handed down from your forefathers,

²² Now that you have made your souls holy by obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, you must love one another steadily from your hearts,

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

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may proclaim the virtues of him who called you from darkness into his wonderful light.

¹¹ Beloved, I beg you, as foreigners and resident aliens, to shun the passions of the flesh which war against the soul.

¹⁹ For this is grace if for conscience toward God any one bears pain, suffering unjustly. ²⁰ For what credit is it if when you sin and are struck with the fist you are patient? But if though doing well, you suffer and are patient, that is grace in God's sight. ²¹ For to this you were called, because Christ too suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow in his foot-steps. ²² He had done no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth. ²³ When he was reviled he did not revile back; he suffered, but made no threat; he committed himself to him who judges justly.

⁹ not repaying evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but rather blessing, for that is what you were called for — to inherit a blessing.

²¹ This is a type of baptism, which now saves us — not the putting off of soil from the flesh, but the endeavor for a good conscience toward God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

² so that he does not go on living what remains of his time in the flesh according to human passions, but according to God's will. ³ The time that has passed was enough to spend doing the will of the Gentiles, when you went on in indecencies, passions, hard drinking, revelries, carousings, and lawless idolatries.

¹⁵ No one of you must suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as a wrongdoer or as a meddler in other men's affairs.

¹ BUT false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among yourselves, and they will craftily bring in deadly heresies, even disowning the Lord who bought them and bringing on themselves quick ruin.

⁴ For if God did not spare angels that had sinned, but thrust them down to Tartarus and committed them to pits of darkness to be kept for judgment,

⁹ He who says that he is in the light and hates his brother is in darkness still. ¹⁰ He who loves his brother remains in the light and there is no stumbling block in him. ¹¹ He who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and knows not where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

¹⁶ for all that is in the world, the passions of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the show and pride of life, is not from the Father, but from the world. ¹⁷ And the world is passing away with its passions. But he who does the will of God endures forever.

¹¹ For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we must love one another. ¹² Not like Cain, who was of the Wicked One and killed his brother. And for what reason did he kill him? Because his own deeds were wicked and his brother's righteous. ¹³ Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you. ¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death into life because we love the brethren. Whoever does not love remains in death. ¹⁵ Every one who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has life eternal remaining in him.

⁶ and angels who did not keep their own rank, but left their own abode, he has kept for the judgment of the great day in everlasting chains under blackness of darkness.

¹² These are the hidden reefs in your love-feasts while they feast freely with you without fear, shepherds who care only for themselves, waterless clouds driven by winds, trees in autumn fruitless, twice dead, uprooted,

¹⁴ Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these men when he said, "See, the Lord has come with ten thousand of his holy ones ¹⁵ to do judgment upon all and to convict all the irreverent of all their deeds of irreverence which they have irreverently done, and of all the hard things which they have spoken against him, irreverent sinners that they are."

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood,

²⁶ He who conquers and keeps my commands to the end — I will give him authority over the nations, ²⁷ and he will shepherd them with a rod of iron, as earthenware is broken to pieces, just as I also have received from my Father.

²¹ He who conquers — to him I will grant to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

⁹ Then they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and didst ransom for God by thy blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

¹⁴ I said to him, "My Lord, you know." He said to me, "These have come out of the great distress and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

⁴ Then I saw thrones, and men took their seats on them and the power to judge was granted to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for God's message, and who had not worshiped the Beast nor his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. They lived and reigned as kings with Christ a thousand years,

⁸ But the timid and faithless and abominable and murderers and the unchaste and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars will have their lot in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

¹⁵ Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the unchaste and the murderers and the idolaters and every one who loves and makes a lie.