2 Timothy 2 Cross References - Riverside

¹ YOU, therefore, my child, must be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, ² and the things you heard from me, which came through many witnesses, you must commit to trustworthy men who will be able to teach others also. ³ Take your share of hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. ⁴ No one while serving as a soldier entangles himself in the affairs of life, for the soldier must please him who enlisted him. ⁵ And if any one enters an athletic contest, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. ⁶ The farmer who does the labor ought first to have his share of the fruits. ⁷ Think over what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight in all things. ⁸ Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David, as my good news teaches. ⁹ In telling it I am suffering hardships even to chains, as if I were an evildoer, but God's message is not chained. ¹⁰ For this reason I am enduring all for the sake of the chosen, that they may gain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. ¹¹ Trustworthy is the saying, "For if we have died with him we shall also live with him; ¹² if we endure we shall also be kings with him; if we disown him, he will disown us; ¹³ if we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he cannot disown himself." ¹⁴ Remind them of these things, charging them before God not to engage in controversy to no profit, but to the ruin of the hearers. ¹⁵ Be earnest in presenting yourself to God as a tested man, a workman who has no cause to be ashamed, rightly handling the message of truth. ¹⁶ But shun profane and empty talk. It will grow into greater impiety, ¹⁷ and its teachings will spread like a gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort. ¹⁸ They have gone astray as to the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and they are overthrowing the faith of some. ¹⁹ However, God's solid foundation stands, with this inscription, "The Lord knows his own," and, "Let every one who names the Lord's name turn from wickedness." ²⁰ In a great house there are not only utensils of gold and silver, but also of wood and earthenware, and some are for honorable and others for dishonorable uses. ²¹ If any one keeps himself pure from these errors, he will be ready for honorable use, holy, fit for the master's service, prepared for every good work. 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. ²³ Avoid foolish disputes of the uneducated, knowing that they give rise to quarrels, ²⁴ and the servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but be courteous to all, skillful in teaching, forbearing, ²⁵ instructing opponents with gentleness, for God may give them a change of heart which will lead them to knowledge of the truth, ²⁶ and they may return to soberness and escape the snare of the Devil when captured by the Lord's servant to do the Lord's will.

¹ THE ancestral line of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham:

²³ And then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work lawlessness.'

²⁵ and the rain descended and the rivers rose and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house; but it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock.

³⁷ Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is great, but the laborers are few. ³⁸ Pray to the Master of the harvest to rush out laborers into his harvest."

³³ Every one who shall disown me before men I too will disown before my Father in heaven.

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls.

¹⁹ He will not strive nor cry, nor will any one hear his voice in the streets.

²⁸ But if I am casting out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is right upon you. ²⁹ How can any one enter the house of a strong man and seize his goods unless he first binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

⁵² He said to them, "Therefore every scribe educated in the kingdom of heaven is like a man who is a householder who brings out from his storehouse new things and old things."

¹³ He replied, "Every plant which my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

²⁶ For what profit will a man have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? or what can a man give to buy back his soul?

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.

¹ "THE kingdom of heaven is like a man who was a householder, who went out in the early morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

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. ³³ "Listen to another illustration: There was a man, a house-holder, who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a wine-vat in it and built a watch-tower, and let it out to grape-growers and went abroad. ³⁴ When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the grape-growers to get his fruit. ³⁵ But the grape-growers seized the servants, and one they beat, one they killed, one they pelted with stones. ³⁶ Again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first, but they treated them just the same. ³⁷ At last he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.' ³⁸ But when the grape-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.' ³⁹ So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. ⁴⁰ When, therefore, the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those grape-growers?" ⁴¹ They said to him, "He will put those miserable men to a miserable death, and will let out the vineyard to other grape-growers who will render him the fruits in their seasons."

²⁹ Jesus replied to them, "You are all astray because you do not understand either the Scriptures or the power of God.

²² "Unless those days had been shortened none would be saved; but for the sake of the chosen those days will be shortened.

²⁴ For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will give great signs and wonders so as to mislead, if possible, even the chosen. ²⁵ See, I have told you beforehand.

³¹ And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet-blast, and they will gather his chosen from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

³⁵ Peter said to him, "Even if I have to die with you, I will not disown you." And so said all of the disciples.

⁷⁵ Peter remembered what Jesus had said, "Before the cock crows you will disown me three times," and he went out and wept bitterly.

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

³ The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord; make his paths straight' "; ⁴ just so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching the baptism of a change of heart for forgiveness of sins.

¹⁵ and saying, "The time has been completed and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the good news."

³³ With many such illustrations he went on talking to them as they were able to listen;

³⁸ Whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with his holy angels."

³³ He said, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the high priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles,

²² False Christs and false prophets will do signs and wonders to mislead if possible the chosen.

⁴⁸ He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood came, the river dashed against that house, and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

¹³ Those on the rock are those who, though they receive the message with joy, yet have no root, who for a while believe, but in the time of trial desert. 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.

²⁶ Whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when he comes in his glory and that of his Father and of the holy angels.

⁴⁴ "Receive these words into your ears. The Son of Man will soon be betrayed into the hands of men."

⁵⁹ He said to another, "Follow me." But he said, "Let me first go and bury my father." ⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and announce far and wide the kingdom of God." ⁶¹ Another said, "I will follow you, Sir, but first let me say good-bye to those at my home." ⁶² Jesus said to him, "No one who has put his hand to the plow and is looking backward is fit for the kingdom of God."

² He said to them, "The harvest is great, but the laborers are few. Pray, therefore, to the Owner of the harvest to hurry out laborers into his harvest.

²¹ "When a strong man fully armed guards his castle, his possessions are in peace.

⁹ And he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

⁴² The Master said, "Who then is the faithful, the wise, manager whom the master will appoint over his establishment to give out rations at the proper time?

²⁴ "Try hard to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

²⁷ And he will say to you, 'I do not know where you come from. Go away from me, all you workers of wickedness.'

¹⁷ Then, coming to himself, he said, 'How many hired men of my father have bread more than enough, and here I am perishing with famine.

¹⁰ He who is faithful in the least is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest in the least is also dishonest in much. ¹¹ If, then, you have not been faithful in the dishonest Mammon, who will entrust to you the true? ¹² And if you were not faithful in what was another's, who will give you what is your own?

¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your opponents will be unable to resist or reply to.

³¹ Simon, Simon, Satan has begged to be allowed to sift all of you like wheat. ³² But I have prayed for thee that thy faith may not fail. And when you come back to yourself, strengthen your brothers."

⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, ⁴⁶ and he said to them, "Thus it is written that the Christ is to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

³⁵ Do you not say that there are still four months and then comes harvest? Why, lift up your eyes, I tell you, and look on the fields, for they are white for harvest! ³⁶ Already the reaper is gaining wages and is gathering a harvest for life eternal, that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. ³⁷ Here the saying is true, that 'One is sower and another is reaper.' ³⁸ I have sent you to reap what you have not labored for. Others have labored and you have entered into their labor."

³⁴ still I do not obtain my testimony from a man, but I say this that you may be saved.

⁵² The Jews disputed angrily with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me,

²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice and I know them and they follow me, ²⁸ and I give to them life eternal, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father who gave them to me is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one."

⁵² and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God now scattered far and wide.

² During supper, the Devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him,

¹⁸ I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who is eating my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'

²⁷ After the piece of bread Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, "What you are doing do quickly."

¹⁹ After a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I am living you too will live.

²⁶ The Counselor — the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name — will teach you all things and remind you of all that I have said to you.

¹³ But when he comes — the Spirit of Truth — he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak his own thoughts, but all that he hears he will speak and he will announce to you the things to come.

⁹ "I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine.

²⁴ Father, those thou didst give me — I will that they also may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

¹⁵ When they had breakfasted, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." ¹⁶ He said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Shepherd my sheep." ¹⁷ He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Master, you know all things. You know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.

²² Fellow Israelites, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene was a man proved to be sent to you from God by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through him in the midst of you, as you yourselves know.

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.

³⁰ But being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn to him an oath to place a descendant of his body upon his throne,

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

³ Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land?

²¹ On hearing this they went into the Temple courts about daybreak and began teaching. When the High Priest and his party arrived, they called together the Council and all the eldership of the children of Israel and sent to the jail to have the men brought.

³¹ God has exalted him as Leader and Savior at his own right hand to give to Israel change of heart and forgiveness of sins.

³⁹ but if it is of God you will not be able to suppress them. You might even be found to be fighting against God."

¹⁰ and delivered him out of all his trials, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him governor over the land of Egypt and all his own house.

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?'

⁵⁹ They stoned Stephen as he was praying and saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

²² Repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray the Lord that, if possible, the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

¹⁴ and here he has authority from the high priests to bind all who call upon thy name." ¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, "Go, for this man is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before nations and kings and the children of Israel. ¹⁶ I will show him how much he must suffer for my name."

¹⁸ On hearing this they ceased their criticism and gave glory to God, saying, "Then even to the Gentiles God has granted the change of heart that leads to life."

²⁶ and upon finding him he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a large company, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called "Christians."

¹⁰ and said, "You who are full of every kind of fraud, you son of the Devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you never stop perverting the straight paths of the Lord?

²³ "Of this man's descendants God, according to his promise, brought to Israel a savior — Jesus,

²² reassuring the minds of the disciples and encouraging them to be steadfast in the faith, saying, "Through many trials we must enter into the kingdom of God."

² Since no little dissension and controversy arose between Paul and Barnabas and these men, it was arranged that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

¹⁷ that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles upon whom my name has been bestowed, says the Lord

²⁴ "Inasmuch as we have heard that certain persons from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, — men whom we did not authorize, —

²¹ urging upon both Jews and Greeks the need of a change of heart toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus.

²⁷ For I did not shrink from telling you the whole purpose of God.

¹ "BRETHREN and Fathers, listen to the defense I now make to you." ² Hearing him speaking to them in the Hebrew language, they kept all the more quiet. He continued: ³ "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus, in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel in exact knowledge of our ancestral Law, and I was zealous for God as you all are to-day. ⁴ I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prison both men and women, ⁵ as the High Priest and all the eldership can testify for me. From them I received letters to the brethren and was journeying to Damascus in order to bring back in chains to Jerusalem for punishment those who had gone there. ⁶ It happened that as I was journeying and nearing Damascus, about noon, suddenly a great light flashed from heaven around me. ⁷ I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?' ⁸ I asked, 'Who is speaking?' He said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.' ⁹ My companions saw the light, but did not hear the voice of him who spoke to me. ¹⁰ I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' The Lord said to me, 'Rise and go into Damascus, and there you will be told about all that it has been appointed for you to do.' ¹¹ Since I could not see, owing to the brightness of that light, my companions led me by the hand, and so I entered Damascus. ¹² "Then a man named Ananias, a strict observer of the Law and highly esteemed by all the Jews who lived there, ¹³ came to see me and stood by me and said, 'Brother Saul, receive your sight,' and I, at that moment, could see him. ¹⁴ He said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One and to hear the voice from his mouth, ¹⁵ for you shall be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now why delay? Rise, be baptized and wash away your sins, calling upon his name.' ¹⁷ "After I had returned to Jerusalem, and was praying in the Temple courts, I fell into a trance ¹⁸ and saw Jesus saying to me, 'Hasten and depart quickly from Jerusalem, for they will not receive your testimony concerning me.' ¹⁹ But I said, 'Lord, they know that I used to imprison and beat from synagogue to synagogue those who believe in thee, ²⁰ and when the blood of Stephen thy martyr was shed I myself was standing by and approving it, and taking care of the cloaks of those who were putting him to death.' ²¹ But he said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far away to Gentiles.' ²² They listened up to this point, but now they broke out, shouting, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He ought never to have lived!" ²³ While they were shouting and rending their garments and throwing dust into the air,

⁹ So a great uproar arose, and some of the scribes of the party of the Pharisees arose and contended, saying, "We find nothing wrong in this man. What if a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel?"

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.'

³¹ proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all freedom of speech, unhindered.

³ concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord (who became one of the descendants of David according to the flesh, ⁴ and was with power proved to be the Son of God according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead);

⁷ To those who by constancy in good work seek for glory and honor and immortality he will award life eternal.

¹⁶ on the day when God judges the secrets of men through Jesus Christ, as my good news sets forth.

³ For what if some were faithless, will their faithlessness prevent the faithfulness of God?

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.

⁸ But if we died with Christ we believe that we shall live with him,

¹⁷ And if children, we are also heirs — heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ, since we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.

²⁸ We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

³¹ What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not with him graciously give us all things? ³³ Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? God pronounces them righteous. ³⁴ Who is there to condemn? Christ Jesus died, or rather was raised, and he is on the right hand of God interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from Christ's love? Shall trial or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

⁶ Not that God's word has failed. For not all who are of Israel are Israel;

¹¹ though the same man was father of both children and they were not yet born and had done nothing good or bad, in order that the purpose of God according to his choice might stand, not according to their works, but according to his call,

²¹ Has not the potter the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? ²² What if God, choosing to exhibit his wrath and to make known what he can do, bore in long patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction, ²³ and in order to make known the richness of his glory upon the vessels of mercy which he had prepared for glory

²³ and in order to make known the richness of his glory upon the vessels of mercy which he had prepared for glory

² God has not repudiated his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah, how he prays to God against Israel?

⁹ Let your love be without pretense. Abhor what is evil; cling to the good.

¹ WELCOME him who is weak in the faith, but not in order to decide disputed questions.

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.

⁵ May the God of patience and encouragement grant to you to have harmony with one another, in the manner of Christ Jesus, ⁶ so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy, as it is written, "For this will I confess thee among the Gentiles and sing to thy name."

²⁰ being ambitious to tell the good news where Christ has not been named, so that I might not build on any other man's foundation,

¹⁰ Give my greetings to Apelles, that tested man in Christ. Give my greetings to the household of Aristobulus.

²⁵ To him who is able to make you strong according to the good news which I bear, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, and according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret through ages,

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:

⁹ God is faithful, and it is by him that you have been called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. ¹⁰ I beg you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, all to say the same thing and not to have divisions among you, but to be united in the same mind and in the same opinion.

⁶ We do speak wisdom among the mature, but a wisdom not of this world nor of the defeated rulers of this world.

¹ AND I myself, brethren, could not speak to you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as babes in Christ. ² I fed you with milk, not solid food. For you were not able to take it. Nor are you yet able, for you are still fleshly.

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow. ⁷ So then neither is he who planted anything nor he who watered, but God who makes the seed grow. ⁸ Each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ We are God's fellow workers: you are God's farm God's building.

⁹ We are God's fellow workers: you are God's farm God's building. ¹⁰ According to the grace of God granted to me, as a wise master-builder I have laid a foundation and another is building on it. But let each be careful how he builds on it. ¹¹ For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ Do you not know that you are God's temple and the Spirit of God dwells in you? ¹⁷ If any one mars the temple of God, God will mar him, for the temple of God is holy, and you are the temple.

² Moreover, in the case of stewards it is required that a man be found faithful.

⁶ Your boasting is unbecoming. Do you not know that a little yeast sets the whole mass fermenting? ⁷ Cleanse out the old yeast that you may be new dough, free from yeast, as indeed you are. For Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed.

¹⁸ Shun unchastity. Every other sin that a man does is apart from the body, but the unchaste sins against his own body.

²² For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman. Just so the free man, when called, is the slave of Christ. ²³ You were bought with a price. Do not become slaves of men.

³ If any one loves God, he is known by him.

⁷ Who ever serves as a soldier and supplies his own pay and rations? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Who keeps a flock and does not drink any of the milk of the flock? ⁸ Am I saying these things from a man's point of view or does not the Law also say them? ⁹ For in the Law of Moses it is written, "You shall not muzzle an ox when he is treading out grain." Is God thinking of the oxen? ¹⁰ or does he say this wholly for our sakes? For our sakes; for it was written because the plowman ought to plow in hope and the thresher ought to thresh in hope of having a share. ¹¹ If we sowed for you things of the spirit, is it a great matter if we reap your things of the flesh?

²² To the weak I became weak to gain the weak. To all men I became all things in order by all means to save some. ²³ I do all things for the sake of the good news that I may become a partner with it. ²⁴ Do you not know that those who run in a stadium all run, yet one gets the prize? Run so as to win. ²⁵ Every one who contends in the games practices self-restraint in all things. They do it to win a fading crown, but we for an unfading one.

²⁵ Every one who contends in the games practices self-restraint in all things. They do it to win a fading crown, but we for an unfading one. ²⁶ Thus I run with no uncertain goal: thus I strike, not as if pounding the air.

²⁶ Thus I run with no uncertain goal: thus I strike, not as if pounding the air. 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.

¹⁴ Therefore, my beloved, shun idolatry.

¹⁹ For there must be parties among you in order that it may become plain who are worthy of approval.

⁸ To one are given, through the Spirit, words of wisdom, to another words of knowledge by the same Spirit,

⁷ excuses all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

¹ SEEK love earnestly, be eager for spiritual gifts, but most to prophesy.

¹ LET me recall to your minds, brethren, the good news which I announced to you and which you accepted, in which also you stand,

⁴ and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures,

¹¹ Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you believed. ¹² But if Christ is proclaimed — that he has been raised from the dead — how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

¹² But if Christ is proclaimed — that he has been raised from the dead — how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ If there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁴ If Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is an empty thing and your faith is an empty thing. 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.

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.

¹³ Watch, stand firmly in the faith, be manly, be strong,

⁶ But if we are in distress, it is for your encouragement and salvation. If we are encouraged, it is for your encouragement which is effective in the endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.

¹¹ that Satan may not take advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his purposes.

⁶ who has fitted us to be servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the spirit. For the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.

² but we have renounced shameful secret things, not living in craftiness nor adulterating God's message, but by the openness of truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen jars, that the surpassing power may be God's and not ours —

¹⁰ always bearing about in our bodies the death of Jesus that the life also of Jesus may be manifest in our bodies.

¹⁵ For all things are for your sake, that grace abounding through many may overflow in thanksgiving to the glory of God.

¹⁷ For our momentary and light distress is working out for us a far surpassing and eternal weight of glory

⁹ Therefore also we are ambitious to be pleasing to him, whether at home with him or in this foreign land.

³ We give no occasion for stumbling to any one that our service may not be blamed, ⁴ but in everything we commend ourselves as God's servants in great patience, in distresses, in necessities, in hardships,

¹ HAVING then these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every defilement of flesh or spirit, in reverence for God making our holiness complete.

¹ I MYSELF, Paul, beg you by the gentleness and sweet reasonableness of Christ — I who "to your face am humble when among you, but when absent am bold toward you" —

³ For although living in the flesh we do not carry on our warfare according to the flesh, ⁴ for the weapons of our warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but powerful under God for the destruction of fortresses.

⁴ for the weapons of our warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but powerful under God for the destruction of fortresses. ⁵ We overthrow reasonings and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and take captive every thought into obedience to Christ

¹⁸ For it is not he who commends himself that is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

⁹ But he has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you; for power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly then will I boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may abide upon me. ¹⁰ Therefore I rejoice in weaknesses, in rough treatment, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

⁴ He was crucified in weakness, but he is living by the power of God. And we are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God for you.

⁷ though it is not another good news. But there are some who are perplexing you and wishing to pervert the good news of Christ.

¹⁰ Am I now trying to please men or God? If I were still trying to please men I should not be Christ's servant.

¹⁹ For I through law died to law that I might live to God. 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.

⁹ But now that you know God, or rather have been known by God, how are you turning back to the weak and beggarly elementary lessons to which you wish to be slaves again?

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, slowness to anger, kindness, benevolence, faithfulness,

¹ BRETHREN, if a man is surprised in some sin, you who are spiritual are to restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, each looking out for himself to avoid being tempted.

¹³ In him you also, after hearing the message of the truth, the good news of your salvation, and putting your faith in him, were sealed by the promised Holy Spirit,

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father most glorious, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of himself, ¹⁸ enlightening the eyes of your heart, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the glorious wealth of his inheritance in the holy,

¹⁰ For we are his work, formed in Christ Jesus for good works in which God had prepared beforehand to have us live.

²⁰ built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner stone.

²² in whom you also are being built for a dwelling of God in the Spirit.

¹ FOR this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles, —

¹³ So I beg you not to lose heart because of the distresses that come on me for your sake. They are a high honor to you.

¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

² with all modesty and gentleness, being slow to anger, bearing with one another 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,

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,

³⁰ Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

¹ BE imitators of God as beloved children ² and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God yielding a fragrant odor. 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. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words; for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Do not, then, be partakers with them. ⁸ For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light — ⁹ for the fruit of light appears in all generosity and righteousness and truth — ¹⁰ testing what is pleasing to the Lord, ¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them,

¹⁴ Therefore it says, "Wake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead and Christ will give you light."

¹⁰ To conclude: Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. ¹¹ Put on the complete armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the cunning arts of the Devil. ¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the arch-angels, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly heights. ¹³ Therefore take the complete armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and, after going through everything, to stand. ¹⁴ Stand, then, belted with truth, wearing the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ shod with the readiness of the good news of peace. ¹⁶ In every event take up the shield of faith by which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the Evil One, ¹⁷ and accept the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. ¹⁸ Pray at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty; be awake to this with all intentness and with prayer for all the holy ¹⁹ and in my behalf, that words may be given to me when I open my month to make known with fearlessness the mystery of the good news, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may tell it fearlessly as I ought.

⁷ So it is right for me to think of you all, because you have me in your hearts, and in my chains and in my defense and in establishing the good news you are all sharers in my privilege.

¹² I wish you to know, brethren, that my affairs have turned out rather to the furtherance of the good news, ¹³ so that my chains have become well known as for Christ to the whole Praetorian Guard and to all the rest, ¹⁴ and the most of the brethren in the Lord, made confident by my chains, are unusually brave in speaking the message fearlessly. ¹⁵ Some indeed proclaim Christ because of envy and rivalry, some also because of good will.

²⁸ and not frightened in anything by your adversaries, which for them is a sign of ruin, but for you of salvation, and that from God;

³ doing nothing in a partisan or vainglorious way, but each modestly regarding the others as of more account than himself.

¹⁴ Do everything without murmurings or disputings

⁸ To conclude, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is dignified, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovable, whatever is highly spoken of — if there is any virtue or any praise — think of that.

¹³ I can do all things through him who gives me strength.

⁷ So you learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ in your behalf,

⁹ For this reason we also, from the day we heard it, never cease praying for you and asking that you may have full knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight,

¹³ He has saved us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

²⁴ Now I rejoice in what I suffer for your sake, and in my turn am filling up in my flesh what was lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

²⁷ to whom God willed to make known what is the glorious wealth of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you the hope of glory.

²⁹ For this also I labor, wrestling with the energy of him who works powerfully within me.

¹ IF then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.

³ For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 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. ⁸ But now you also must put away all wrath, anger, malice, abusive language. Vile talk must not be in your mouths.

¹³ bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if any one has a grievance against any. Just as the Lord forgave you, so must you forgive.

³ Pray along with us and for us that God may open for us a door for the message, so that I may tell the mystery of Christ for the sake of which I am in chains —

¹⁸ The greeting of Paul, by my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.

⁴ but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as if we were pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

⁷ But we became gentle in the midst of you like a nursing mother cherishing her own children.

¹ TO conclude, brethren, we beg of you and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live to please God, and are living, you will excel still more.

¹⁷ Then we, the living, who are left, will be caught up along with them into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall forever be with the Lord.

⁹ For God has not destined us to wrath, but to the winning of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁰ who died for us that whether we are waking or sleeping we may live in company with him.

¹⁴ We urge you, brethren, to warn the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, help the weak, be patient with all.

²⁴ He is faithful who calls you and he will do it.

⁴ so that we ourselves glory in you among the churches of God because of your endurance and faith in all of your persecutions and in the distresses you are bearing. ⁵ This is a proof of God's righteous judgment. It is to make you worthy of God's kingdom, on behalf of which you are suffering, ⁶ since it is just on God's part to repay with trouble those who are troubling you, ⁷ and to repay to you, who are being troubled, rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels. ⁸ With flaming fire he will inflict vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the good news of our Lord Jesus.

⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only there is just now one who is restraining it until he passes out of the way. ⁸ And then the Lawless One will be revealed. But the Lord Jesus will sweep him away with the breath of his mouth and will make him powerless by the splendor of his coming. ⁹ For his coming will be when Satan is active in every sort of power and in false signs and wonders ¹⁰ and in every kind of wicked deception of those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved. ¹¹ For this reason God sends to them a deceptive influence so that they believe a lie, ¹² that all who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness may be condemned.

¹⁴ To this he called you through the good news that we brought, so that you may share the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ IN conclusion, brethren, pray for us, that the Lord's message may run and be glorified, as among you,

³ But the Lord is faithful and he will strengthen you and guard you from evil.

⁶ We charge you, brethren, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to stand aloof from every brother who is living in a disorderly way and not according to the teaching that you received from us.

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

⁴ nor give attention to myths and endless genealogies, which promote disputes rather than God's plan in the faith, so I beg you now. ⁵ The aim of the commandment is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. ⁶ Some missing these have turned aside to empty talk,

¹¹ such as accords with the glorious good news of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted. ¹² I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has given me strength, because he thought me faithful and put me into his service, ¹³ though before that I spoke profanely and was a persecutor and insolent in outrages. But I received mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. ¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord overflowed in me with faith and love in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord overflowed in me with faith and love in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ The saying is trust-worthy and deserving of full acceptance that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," of whom I am the foremost.

¹⁸ This command I lay down for you, my child Timothy, in accordance with the prophecies that came in advance regarding you, in order that armed with them you may wage the noble war, ¹⁹ holding to faith and a good conscience, which some have cast aside and thus made shipwreck of their faith. ²⁰ Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, that they may learn not to speak profanely.

⁴ who wishes all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

⁷ To this I was appointed a herald and an apostle — I am telling the truth, I am not lying — a teacher of Gentiles in faith and truth. ⁸ I wish, then, that the men offer prayer in every place, lifting up holy hands without wrath or debate.

¹ THE saying is trustworthy: "If any one aspires to the office of a bishop, he desires a noble work." ² A bishop, then, should be above reproach, true to one woman, temperate, self-controlled, dignified, hospitable, with a gift for teaching,

² A bishop, then, should be above reproach, true to one woman, temperate, self-controlled, dignified, hospitable, with a gift for teaching, ³ not given to wine or to blows, but fair-minded, averse to strife, not a lover of money,

³ not given to wine or to blows, but fair-minded, averse to strife, not a lover of money, ⁴ presiding well over his own house, with children obedient and respectful. ⁵ But if any one does not know how to preside over his own house, how will he take care of the church of God? ⁶ He must not be a new convert, for fear he may be blinded by pride and fall into the condemnation of the Devil. ⁷ He must have a good reputation with outsiders so as not to fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.

⁷ He must have a good reputation with outsiders so as not to fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil. ⁸ Deacons, in the same way, must be dignified, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not eager for base gain, ⁹ holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience.

¹⁵ but so that if I am delayed you may know how people should conduct themselves in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.

⁶ In teaching this to the brethren you will be a noble servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and of the excellent teaching which you have followed. ⁷ But avoid profane and old-womanish myths. Exercise yourself in godliness. ⁸ Bodily exercise is useful to a small degree, but godliness is useful for everything. "It has the promise of the present life and of the life that is to come."

¹² Let no one look down on you because you are young, but be an example to believers in speech, in the life you lead, in love, in faith, in purity.

¹² Let no one look down on you because you are young, but be an example to believers in speech, in the life you lead, in love, in faith, in purity. ¹³ Until I come give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching. ¹⁴ Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.

¹⁴ Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. ¹⁵ Be careful about these things, be fully occupied with them, that your progress may be plain to all.

¹⁵ Be careful about these things, be fully occupied with them, that your progress may be plain to all. ¹⁶ Be thoughtful about yourself and your teaching. Persevere in this; for in doing so you will save yourself and those who hear you.

²¹ I charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the chosen angels to observe these directions without prejudice, doing nothing through partiality. ²² Do not lay hands of ordination upon any one hastily. Have no share in the sins of other men. Keep yourself pure.

⁴ he is conceited, knowing nothing, but morbidly fond of disputes and controversies from which come envy, strife, abusive language, wicked suspicions, ⁵ and wranglings of men of depraved minds who are destitute of the truth. They think of religion as a source of gain.

⁹ But those who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and injurious passions which plunge men into destruction and ruin.

⁹ But those who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and injurious passions which plunge men into destruction and ruin. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some men grasping for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pangs.

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some men grasping for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pangs.

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some men grasping for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pangs. ¹¹ But you, O man of God, must shun this. Pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.

¹¹ But you, O man of God, must shun this. Pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, gentleness. ¹² Play the grand hard game of the faith. Lay hold on life eternal, to which you have been called and have made the noble confession before many witnesses.

¹² Play the grand hard game of the faith. Lay hold on life eternal, to which you have been called and have made the noble confession before many witnesses. ¹³ I charge you in the presence of God who gives life to all, and Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate made the noble confession,

¹⁹ treasuring up for themselves a good fund for the future, that they may lay hold on the life that is real. ²⁰ O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, turning away from profane and empty talk and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge." ²¹ Some while professing it have gone astray as regards the faith. Grace be with you all.

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

⁶ For this reason let me remind you to kindle anew the gift of God that is in you by the laying on of my hands. ⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and self-control. ⁸ Do not be ashamed to testify for our Lord or for me his prisoner, but join in suffering hardships for the good news as God gives power.

¹² and for this reason I am suffering these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know in whom I have put my faith, and am confident that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day. ¹³ Hold to the example of wholesome words which you heard from me in faith and love in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ Guard through the Holy Spirit which dwells in us the precious trust committed to you.

¹⁶ The Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, for he often cheered me and was not ashamed of my chain;

³ Take your share of hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

¹⁰ For this reason I am enduring all for the sake of the chosen, that they may gain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

¹⁴ Remind them of these things, charging them before God not to engage in controversy to no profit, but to the ruin of the hearers.

¹⁶ But shun profane and empty talk. It will grow into greater impiety,

²⁰ In a great house there are not only utensils of gold and silver, but also of wood and earthenware, and some are for honorable and others for dishonorable uses.

²³ Avoid foolish disputes of the uneducated, knowing that they give rise to quarrels, ²⁴ and the servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but be courteous to all, skillful in teaching, forbearing, ²⁵ instructing opponents with gentleness, for God may give them a change of heart which will lead them to knowledge of the truth,

⁷ always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

¹⁰ But you have kept track of my teaching, my course of life, my purpose, my faith, my slowness to anger, my love, my patience, ¹¹ my persecutions, my sufferings — what happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, what persecutions I underwent. But the Lord delivered me out of all of them.

¹³ Wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. ¹⁴ But you must stand by what you learned and were persuaded of, knowing from whom you learned it

¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

¹ I CHARGE you before God and Christ Jesus, who will soon judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

⁵ But you must be calm in all circumstances, suffer hardships, do the work of a bringer of the good news, carry out fully all the duties of your office.

⁷ I have played the grand hard game, I have finished my race, I have kept the faith. ⁸ Now the crown of righteousness is awaiting me. The Lord the righteous judge will give it to me on that day, and not only to me but to all those who have loved his appearing.

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

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me so that through me the proclamation might be fully published and all the Gentiles might hear it, and I was saved from the mouth of the lion.

¹ PAUL, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to promote the faith of God's chosen and their knowledge of the truths of religion, ² in hope of life eternal, which the God who never lies promised ages ago

⁵ For this reason I left you in Crete: to arrange the things that are lacking and appoint elders in every city as I directed you, ⁶ wherever there is a man of irreproachable character, true to one woman, with believing children who are not charged with dissolute conduct and not unruly. ⁷ For a bishop, as God's steward, must be above reproach, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not given to blows, not eager for base gain,

⁷ For a bishop, as God's steward, must be above reproach, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not given to blows, not eager for base gain, ⁸ but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, just, holy, temperate, ⁹ holding to the trustworthy message which is according to the teaching, so that he may be able also to encourage others by wholesome teaching and to refute opposers.

⁹ holding to the trustworthy message which is according to the teaching, so that he may be able also to encourage others by wholesome teaching and to refute opposers.

¹¹ who ought to be silenced, for they are upsetting whole house-holds, teaching what they should not, merely for the sake of base gain.

¹⁴ not giving attention to Jewish myths and rules laid down by men who are turning away from the truth.

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all men, ¹² teaching us to renounce all irreligion and worldly passions and to live soberly, justly and piously in this present world, ¹³ waiting for the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the great God and of our Savior Christ Jesus, ¹⁴ who gave himself for us to redeem us from all sin and purify us as his own people earnest in honorable work.

¹ REMIND them to be submissive to ruling authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, ² to speak abusively to no one, to be peaceable, to be fair, showing all gentleness toward all men.

⁸ That is a trustworthy saying. I wish you to insist on these things so that those who have put their faith in God may give earnest attention to honorable work. These things are honorable and also useful to men. ⁹ But avoid foolish disputes and genealogies and strife and quarrels about the Law; for they are unprofitable and futile.

⁹ But avoid foolish disputes and genealogies and strife and quarrels about the Law; for they are unprofitable and futile. ¹⁰ If a man is factious, after one or two warnings, have nothing more to do with him, ¹¹ knowing that such a one is perverted and goes on sinning though self-condemned.

¹⁴ Our people too must learn to give attention to honorable work, so as to be able to meet pressing needs, that they may not be fruitless.

⁷ Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels. With glory and honor thou hast crowned him.

⁹ but we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death that by the grace of God he might taste of death for every man, now crowned with glory and honor.

¹⁷ And for that reason he had to be made like his brethren in everything, so as to be a compassionate and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

¹ THEREFORE, holy brethren, sharers in a heavenly call, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus, ² who was faithful to him who made him as also Moses was in all God's house.

² who was faithful to him who made him as also Moses was in all God's house. ³ For he has been thought worthy of more glory than Moses, just as he who has built a house has more honor than the house.

³ For he has been thought worthy of more glory than Moses, just as he who has built a house has more honor than the house. ⁴ For every house is built by some one, but he who built all things is God. ⁵ Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant for a testimony to the things that were to be spoken, ⁶ but Christ as a Son over his own house. We are his house if we hold firmly to the end our confidence and the hope of which we boast.

¹⁰ Therefore I was much displeased with that generation and said, 'They always go astray in their hearts and they do not know my paths.'

¹¹ Let us endeavor then to enter into that rest so that no one shall fall, after that example of lack of faith.

¹¹ Regarding Melchizedek we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. ¹² For when, considering the time, you ought to be teachers you need to have some one teach you again the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk and not solid food. ¹³ For every one who takes milk is inexperienced in the doctrine of righteousness, for he is a child. ¹⁴ But solid food is for adults who through practice have their senses exercised in distinguishing good and bad.

¹⁵ And so after patient waiting Abraham obtained what was promised.

¹⁸ that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible for God to be false, we might have strong encouragement, we who have fled to lay hold on the hope that lies before us.

¹⁸ that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible for God to be false, we might have strong encouragement, we who have fled to lay hold on the hope that lies before us. ¹⁹ We have this hope as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and it enters into the tent within the curtain

⁴ But see how great this man was, since Abraham the patriarch gave him a tenth of his choicest spoils.

³² Remember the early days in which, after being enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings,

³⁶ You have need of patience so that after doing the will of God you may gain the promised blessing.

¹⁰ For he was looking for the city that has the foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger; for he endured as if seeing him who is unseen.

² looking to Jesus the beginner and finisher of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured a cross, thinking little of the shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Think of him who endured such hostile speaking of sinners against him, that you may not grow weary and despondent in heart.

³ Think of him who endured such hostile speaking of sinners against him, that you may not grow weary and despondent in heart. ⁴ You have not yet resisted to blood in the contest against sin,

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,

⁷ Remember your leaders, those who have spoken to you God's message, think how they ended their lives and imitate their faith.

⁹ Do not be carried away with all sorts of foreign teachings. It is well to have the heart strengthened by grace, not by special kinds of food. Those who live in that way are not profited.

¹ JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the Twelve Tribes which are scattered in foreign lands: Greeting.

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.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has been tested he will gain the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

¹⁷ every good gift and every perfect boon is from above; it descends from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or shadow caused by turning. ¹⁸ Of his own will he made us his children through the message of truth, so that we might be a sort of first fruits of his creatures. ¹⁹ I wish you to know this, my beloved brethren: Every man must be quick to hear, but slow to speak, slow to anger. ²⁰ For a man's anger does not work out God's righteousness.

¹⁵ This wisdom does not come down from on high, but is earthly, animal, demoniacal.

¹⁷ But the wisdom from on high is first pure, then peaceable, fair-minded, easily persuaded, full of compassion and good fruits, impartial, sincere.

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 your gold and silver are rusted over and the rust on them will be an evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire.

¹⁹ My brethren, if one of you strays from the truth and any one brings him back,

⁷ so that your tested faith, much more precious than gold that perishes though tested by fire, may be found to your praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed,

¹³ Therefore brace up your minds, be calm and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed. ¹⁴ As obedient children, do not shape your lives by the passions that ruled you in the former days of ignorance, ¹⁵ but, like the Holy One who has called you, become yourselves holy in all your way of life, ¹⁶ for it is written, "You shall be holy because I am holy." ¹⁷ And if you call upon him as Father who impartially judges by each one's work, live out the time of your sojourn here in reverence, ¹⁸ for you know that you were not ransomed with perishable things, silver or gold, from your purposeless life handed down from your forefathers, ¹⁹ but by precious blood, as of a faultless, spotless lamb, the blood of Christ,

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.

¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God: once you had not found compassion, but now you have found compassion. ¹¹ Beloved, I beg you, as foreigners and resident aliens, to shun the passions of the flesh which war against the soul. ¹² Keep your daily life among the Gentiles honorable, so that, although they talk against you as if you were wrongdoers, they may, from your noble deeds that they see, glorify God on the day of inspection.

¹⁴ or to governors as those sent by him for the punishment of wrongdoers and the praise of those who do good.

⁸ Finally, all must be like-minded, sympathetic, full of brotherly love, compassionate, humble-minded,

¹¹ He must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

¹⁵ but exalt Christ as Lord in your hearts and be always ready to defend yourselves to every one who asks you to give account of the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence. ¹⁶ Keep a good conscience that, although you are slandered, those who misrepresent your good life in Christ may be put to shame.

¹³ But rejoice since to this extent you are sharing the sufferings of Christ, that when his glory is revealed you may rejoice and exult. ¹⁴ If you are reproached for the name of Christ you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. 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.

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. ¹⁶ But if he suffers as a Christian he should not be ashamed, but should glorify God by that name.

⁴ Then when the chief Shepherd appears you will be repaid with the never-fading crown of glory.

¹⁰ The God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little will equip, establish and strengthen you.

⁴ and thereby great and precious promises have been granted to us, that through them you may escape the corruption that is in the world through passion and become sharers in the divine nature, ⁵ for this very reason make it your whole endeavor to supply to your faith virtue, and to your virtue knowledge, ⁶ and to your knowledge self-control, and to your self-control endurance, and to your endurance reverence, ⁷ and to your reverence brotherliness, and to your brotherliness love. ⁸ For when you have these in abundance they make you to be neither idle nor fruitless regarding the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ But he who lacks these is blind, dim-sighted, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. ¹⁰ Therefore endeavor more earnestly, brethren, to make sure that you have been called and chosen. For while doing these things you will never stumble.

¹⁰ Therefore endeavor more earnestly, brethren, to make sure that you have been called and chosen. For while doing these things you will never stumble.

¹³ I think it right so long as I am in this tent to arouse you by reminding you,

¹⁵ I will endeavor also on every occasion to make it so that after my going you shall have these things in memory.

² Many will follow their shameless ways and by these the path of truth will be profanely spoken of.

¹⁸ For by speaking great empty swelling words they entrap in the passions of the flesh — wanton excesses — those who are nearly escaping from those who live in error.

¹⁸ For by speaking great empty swelling words they entrap in the passions of the flesh — wanton excesses — those who are nearly escaping from those who live in error. ¹⁹ While they promise them liberty they themselves are the slaves of corruption; for by whatever any one is overcome to that he is enslaved. ²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they have been again entangled and overcome, their last state has become worse than the first.

²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they have been again entangled and overcome, their last state has become worse than the first.

¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, since you expect this, endeavor earnestly to be found by him in peace, spotless and faultless,

¹⁸ but grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory now and to the day of eternity!

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us they would have continued with us. But they went out so that it might be plainly seen that not all are of us.

²² Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the Antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. ²³ No one who denies the Son has the Father either. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

³ And every one who has this hope set upon Christ purifies himself just as Christ is pure.

⁷ Little children, let no one deceive you. He who is doing righteousness is righteous as Christ is righteous. ⁸ He who is committing sin is of the Devil, for the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this the Son of God appeared — to undo the works of the Devil. ⁹ No one who has been born of God commits sin, for God's life-giving germ remains in him and he cannot continue sinning, because he has been born of God. ¹⁰ By this the children of God are plain to see, also the children of the Devil. Every one who is not doing righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

¹⁶ If any one sees his brother committing a sin that is not deadly, he must ask and God will give him life for those who are committing sin that is not deadly. There is sin that is deadly. I do not say that he should pray in behalf of that.

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

¹¹ Beloved, do not imitate evil, but good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil has not seen God.

³ Beloved, although I have been making every effort to write to you regarding our common salvation, I now find it necessary to write and urge you to contend vigorously for the faith that was once for all delivered to the holy. ⁴ For certain persons have crept in, who of old were written of as predestined to this doom, godless, changing the grace of our God into profligacy and disowning our only Ruler and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁶ and made us a kingdom, priests to God his Father, to him be glory and power for the ages of the ages! Amen.

⁹ I, John, your brother and fellow sharer in the distresses and the kingdom and the endurance in Jesus, came to the island called Patmos, for the sake of the message of God and the testimony of Jesus.

¹⁰ Do not fear what you are soon to suffer. The Devil will soon cast some of you into prison so that you may be tested, and you will have distress ten days. Be faithful to death and I will give you the crown of life.

¹⁰ Do not fear what you are soon to suffer. The Devil will soon cast some of you into prison so that you may be tested, and you will have distress ten days. Be faithful to death and I will give you the crown of life. ¹¹ Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who conquers will not be hurt by the second death. ¹² "To the Angel of the Church in Pergamum write: "These things says he who has the sharp two-edged sword: ¹³ I know where you live, where the throne of Satan is. Yet you are holding fast my name and did not disown faith in me even in the days when Antipas, my faithful witness, was killed beside you where Satan lives.

¹³ I know where you live, where the throne of Satan is. Yet you are holding fast my name and did not disown faith in me even in the days when Antipas, my faithful witness, was killed beside you where Satan lives.

⁸ "I know your deeds. See, I have set before you an opened door which no one can shut, because you have a little power and you have kept my word and have not disowned my name.

¹¹ I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may take your crown.

⁴ Around the throne I saw twenty-four thrones and on these thrones twenty-four elders seated, clothed in white garments and with golden crowns on their heads.

¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for the ages of the ages, and they cast their crowns before the throne saying,

⁵ Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep. The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered and can open the book and its seven seals."

¹⁰ and hast made them a kingdom of priests to our God, and they shall be kings on the earth."

⁹ Then was hurled down the great Dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the Devil and Satan, who misleads the whole world — he was hurled to the earth and his angels were hurled with him.

³ I saw one of his heads, as it were, mortally wounded, but the mortal wound was healed. The whole world followed the Beast in amazement,

¹⁴ It leads astray the inhabitants of the earth because of the signs which it has been granted power to do in the presence of the Beast. It tells the inhabitants of the earth to make an image of the Beast which was wounded by the sword, yet lived.

⁸ The Beast which you saw was and is not and will soon come up out of the abyss and go into destruction. And the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life will be amazed when they see the Beast that was and is not and will be.

² He laid hold of the Dragon, the ancient Serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and chained him for a thousand years ³ and flung him into the abyss and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he should not mislead the nations until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be loosed for a little while. 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,

⁶ Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection! Over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests and kings of God and of Christ, and will reign with him the thousand years.

¹⁴ The wall of the city had twelve foundations and upon them were twelve names, the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

⁴ They will see his face and his name will be on their foreheads.