Acts 2 Cross References - Riverside

¹ DURING the course of the day of Pentecost they were all together in the same place, ² when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a strong rushing wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. ³ Then there appeared to them, as it were, tongues of flame distributing themselves, and one rested on each of them. ⁴ They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues, as the Spirit gave them power of expression. ⁵ There were Jews living in Jerusalem, pious men from every nation under heaven. ⁶ When this sound was heard, the crowd came together and were astonished because each one heard them speaking in his own language. ⁷ They were amazed and, wondering, said, "Are not all these who are talking, Galilaean? ⁸ How then does each of us hear them in his own native language? ⁹ Parthians and Medes and Elamites and those who live in Mesopotamia, Judas and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, ¹⁰ Phrygia and Pamphilia, Egypt and the regions of Libya toward Cyrene, visitors from Rome, Jews and proselytes, ¹¹ Cretans and Arabians — we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God." ¹² They were all astonished and at a loss, one saying to another, "What does this mean?" ¹³ Some scoffingly said, "They are full of sweet wine." ¹⁴ But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them: "Fellow Jews, and all of you who live in Jerusalem, understand this and listen to my words. ¹⁵ These are not drunk, as you assume, for it is only nine o'clock in the morning; ¹⁶ but this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: ¹⁷ 'It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. ¹⁸ Yes, upon the slave men and slave girls that are mine I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. ¹⁹ I will give portents in heaven above and signs on the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke. ²⁰ The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the day of the Lord comes — that great and glorious day. ²¹ And every one who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.' 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. ²³ But when he had been delivered up according to the fixed purpose and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed him through the hands of lawless men. 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. ²⁵ For David says of him, 'I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is at my right hand so that I may not be cast down. ²⁶ Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices, and my flesh still dwells in hope ²⁷ that thou wilt not leave my soul to Hades and wilt not let thy holy one see decay. ²⁸ Thou makest me know the paths of life. Thou wilt fill me with joy in thy presence.' ²⁹ "Brethren, allow me to say frankly to you regarding the patriarch David that he died and was buried and his tomb is among us to this day. 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, ³¹ he foreseeing spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, saying that he was not left to Hades and that his flesh did not see decay. ³² This Jesus, God raised up, and all of us are witnesses of it. ³³ Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you see and hear. ³⁴ For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, ³⁵ till I make your enemies your footstool.' ³⁶ Let all the house of Israel know surely that this Jesus, whom you crucified, God has made both Lord and Christ." ³⁷ Hearing this they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "What shall we do, brethren?" 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. ³⁹ For the promise belongs to you and to your children and to all those who are far off, as many as the Lord your God may call." ⁴⁰ With many other words he bore witness and exhorted them, "Save yourselves from this perverse generation." ⁴¹ Those who accepted his message were baptized, and there were added on that day about three thousand souls. ⁴² These gave constant attention to the teaching of the apostles and to the fellowship and the breaking of bread and the prayers. ⁴³ Awe came on every soul. Many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. ⁴⁴ All who believed had all things together in common. ⁴⁵ They would sell their lands and goods and distribute to all as any one had need. ⁴⁶ Every day, continuing with one accord in the Temple courts and in breaking bread from house to house, they ate together in joy and simplicity of heart, ⁴⁷ praising God and having favor with all the people. The Lord added daily to their number those who were being saved.

³ When King Herod heard it, he was disturbed, and so was all Jerusalem.

¹⁵ and was there until the death of Herod, in order that the word of the Lord spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, "Out of Egypt I called my Son."

²³ and settled in a town called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, "He will be called a Nazarene."

² and saying, "Repent; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

⁷ When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said, "Brood of vipers, who directed you to flee from the coming wrath? ⁸ Produce fruit fitting for a change of heart,

⁸ Produce fruit fitting for a change of heart, ⁹ and do not think of saying to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you God is able out of these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

⁹ and do not think of saying to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you God is able out of these stones to raise up children for Abraham. ¹⁰ Now the axe is lying at the root of the trees. Every tree that does not yield good fruit will be cut down and cast into the fire. ¹¹ I baptize you with water for a change of heart, but he who is coming after me is more powerful than I; I am not worthy to carry his shoes; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

¹⁵ Jesus replied, "Permit it now, for so it is fitting for us to complete every righteous act." Then he permitted him.

¹⁷ From that time Jesus began to proclaim and say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." ¹⁸ As he was walking along the shore of the lake of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen; ¹⁹ and he said to them, "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men." ²⁰ They at once left the nets and followed him. ²¹ Going on from there, he saw two other brothers — James the son of Zebedee and John his brother — in their boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. ²² They at once left the boat and their father and followed him.

²² "The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is clear your whole body will be lighted up,

⁸ The crowds that saw it were astonished and gave glory to God, who had given such power to men.

¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, do not worry how or what you are to speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you are to say.

² John had heard in prison of the doings of the Christ, and he sent by some of his disciples to ask, ³ "Are you 'the Coming One' or are we to expect some other?" ⁴ Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John what you hear and see. ⁵ Blind men recover sight, lame men walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf men hear, dead men are raised, and poor men have the good news proclaimed to them. ⁶ Blessed is he who does not mistake regarding me!"

²³ And you, Capernaum! No, you will not be exalted to heaven. You will be abased to Hades. Because if those miracles which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

²⁸ But if I am casting out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is right upon you.

³⁴ Brood of vipers, how can you who are evil speak good things? For from the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

⁴⁴ "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man finds and hides again, and for joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. ⁴⁵ "Again the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls. ⁴⁶ Having found one very precious pearl he went away and sold everything that he had and bought it.

⁴ But he answered, "A wicked and adulterous generation is eager for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah"; and he left them and went away.

¹⁷ Jesus answered, "O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long must I be with you? How long must I bear you? Bring him here."

²¹ Jesus said to him, "If you wish to be perfect, go sell your property and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and then come, follow me."

³ He went out about nine o'clock and saw others standing in the market-place idle

¹¹ The crowds said, "This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee."

²⁸ What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go to-day and work in the vineyard.' ²⁹ He answered, 'I will, Sir,' but he did not go. ³⁰ The father went to the second son and said the same. He answered, 'I will not,' but afterwards he changed his mind and went. 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.

⁴² "What do you think in regard to the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said, "David's." ⁴³ He said, "How then does David by inspiration call him 'Lord,' saying,

⁴³ He said, "How then does David by inspiration call him 'Lord,' saying, ⁴⁴ 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet'? ⁴⁵ If David calls him 'Lord,' how is he his son?"

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

¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the inhabited world for a testimony to all the Gentiles. And then will come the end.

²⁹ "Immediately after the distress of those days the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give her light, and the stars will fall from heaven and the powers of heaven will be shaken.

²⁴ The Son of Man is going as it has been written of him, but alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! For that man it would be good not to have been born."

⁷³ After a little those who were standing there came up and said to Peter, "Truly you are one of them, for your accent proves it."

²⁰ The high priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. ²¹ The Governor said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" They said, "Barabbas." ²² Pilate said to them, "What, then, shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" They all said, "Have him crucified." ²³ He said, "Why, what wrong has he done?" But they kept shouting furiously, "Have him crucified!" ²⁴ When Pilate saw that he was doing no good, but rather that an uproar was arising, he took some water and washed his hands before the crowd and said, "I am innocent of this blood. You will have to see to it." ²⁵ All the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!"

³² As they were going out, they chanced upon a man from Cyrene by the name of Simon. This man they impressed to carry the cross of Jesus.

³⁵ When they had crucified him, they divided his clothes by casting lots.

⁴⁵ From noon darkness came over all the land until three o'clock.

⁶³ and said, "Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was alive, 'After three days I shall be raised up.'

¹⁸ Jesus came to them and talked with them. He said, "To me has been given all authority in heaven and on earth.

¹⁸ Jesus came to them and talked with them. He said, "To me has been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 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,

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, ²⁰ teaching them to keep all the commands that I have given you. And, behold, I am with you all the days to the end of the world."

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

²⁴ "What have you to do with us, Nazarene Jesus? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are — the Holy one of God."

²⁷ They were all amazed so that they discussed together, "What is this? A new powerful teaching! He commands even the impure spirits and they obey him!"

¹² Immediately the man rose and took up his pallet and went out before all, so that they were astounded and gave praise to God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

¹⁶ These are they likewise who received seed on stony places — such as hear and immediately and gladly receive the word, ¹⁷ but, since they have no root, but are fickle, whenever trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fail.

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."

³⁶ David himself, guided by the Holy Spirit, said, 'The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand till I put your enemies under your feet.'

²⁴ "But in those days, after that misery, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give her light

²¹ They impressed a man who was passing by, Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country (the father of Alexander and Rufus), to carry his cross.

¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned. ¹⁷ These signs will follow those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak strange languages;

¹⁹ Then the Lord Jesus, after talking with them, was taken up into heaven and sat down on the right hand of God.

¹⁵ For he will be great before the Lord. He will not drink wine or strong drink. He will be full of the Holy Spirit even from his birth,

³¹ You will conceive in your womb and will bear a son, and you must call his name Jesus. ³² He will be great and will be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David. ³³ He will be king over the house of Jacob through the ages, and of his kingdom there will be no end."

³⁵ The angel replied, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Highest will overshadow you. For that reason the child that is begotten will be called holy, Son of God.

⁴¹ When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the babe leapt in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit

⁶⁷ Zacharias, his father, was filled with the Holy Spirit and said prophetically:

⁶⁹ He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of David his servant, ⁷⁰ As he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets of old,

¹⁰ but the angel said to them, "Have no fear! Indeed, I am bringing you good news of a great joy which is to be for all the people; ¹¹ for there was born for you to-day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ and Lord.

¹¹ for there was born for you to-day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ and Lord.

¹³ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude from the army of heaven, praising God, and saying,

²⁵ There was in Jerusalem a man named Simeon, and this man was upright and God-fearing, looking forward to the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

⁵² And Jesus grew in wisdom and in height and in favor with God and with men.

⁶ and all men shall see the salvation of God."

¹⁰ The crowds asked him, "What then shall we do?"

¹² Some tax collectors came to be baptized and said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?"

¹⁴ Soldiers asked him, "And what shall we do?" He said to them, "Do violence to no man; bring no false accusations; be content with your rations."

¹ JESUS, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan and was led about in the Spirit in the wilderness

³⁴ "Ha, what have you to do with us, Nazarene Jesus? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are — The Holy One of God."

⁵ Simon answered, "Master, we have worked all night and caught nothing. But at your word I will let down the nets." ⁶ When they had done this, they enclosed a great mass of fishes and their nets began to break. ⁷ They beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and take hold with them. They came, and both the boats were filled so that they began to sink.

¹⁶ All were awe-struck, and they gave praise to God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us and God has visited his people."

²⁰ When they came to him, the men said, "John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, Are you 'the Coming One' or are we to expect some other person?" ²¹ At that very time he was curing many of diseases and pains and wicked spirits, and to many blind people he was giving sight. ²² He answered them, "Go and relate to John what you have seen and heard. Blind men see, lame men walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf men hear, dead men are raised, poor men hear good news. ²³ Blessed is he who does not stumble through misunderstanding me!"

³⁷ Whereupon all the crowd from the region of the Gerasenes asked him to go away from them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into a boat and returned.

²⁰ But if I am casting out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has already reached you.

⁴¹ But give the things inside as gifts of mercy and at once all will be clean for you.

¹² For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that hour what you must say."

³³ Sell what you have and give gifts of mercy. Make for yourselves purses that never grow old, an unfailing treasure in heaven where no thief approaches nor moth consumes; ³⁴ for where your treasure is there your heart will be.

¹ ALL the tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him in order to hear him. ² The Pharisees and the scribes grumbled to one another, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them." ³ He gave them this illustration: ⁴ "What man of you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until he has found it? ⁵ And when he has found it he lays it on his shoulders with joy, ⁶ and when he comes home he calls together his friends and neighbors and says, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost!' ⁷ I tell you there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner whose heart is changed than over ninety-nine righteous men who have no need to change. ⁸ "Or what woman who has ten shillings, if she loses one shilling, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and look for it carefully until she finds it? ⁹ And when she finds it, she calls together her friends and neighbors and says, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the shilling that I lost.' ¹⁰ So I tell you there springs joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner whose heart is changed." ¹¹ He said further, "A certain man had two sons. ¹² And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the portion of the property that is coming to me.' So he divided his wealth between them. ¹³ Not many days later, the younger son got everything together and went away to a far country and there squandered his property in a dissolute life. ¹⁴ When he had spent everything, there came a terrible famine in that land and he began to be in want. ¹⁵ So he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country who sent him into his fields to feed swine. ¹⁶ And he would fain have filled his stomach with the pods the swine were eating, but no one gave him anything. 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. ¹⁸ I will arise and go to my father and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. ¹⁹ I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired men.' ²⁰ And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and pitied him, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him tenderly. ²¹ The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son' — ²² But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out quickly the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet; ²³ and bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry. ²⁴ For this, my son, was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.' And they began to be merry. ²⁵ Now his older son was in the field, and when on returning he drew near the house he heard music and dancing. ²⁶ Calling to him one of the servants, he inquired what this was. The servant said to him,

²⁶ Calling to him one of the servants, he inquired what this was. The servant said to him, ²⁷ 'Your brother has come and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received him back in health.' ²⁸ But he grew angry, and would not go in. Then his father came out and begged him. ²⁹ But he answered his father, 'See, all these years I have been serving you, and I never broke a command of yours, yet you have never given me a kid to make merry with my friends. ³⁰ But when this son of yours, who has wasted your property with bad women, came, you have killed for him the fattened calf.' ³¹ But the father said to him, 'Child, you are always with me and all that I have is yours. ³² We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life; he was lost and is found.'

⁹ I tell you, make for yourselves friends with the Mammon of unrighteousness, so that when it fails they may welcome you into the eternal tents.

²³ And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom.

²⁴ For as the lightning when it flashes shines from one part of the heavens to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

²² On hearing that, Jesus said to him, "You lack still one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven, and then come and follow me."

³⁶ Hearing a crowd passing, he inquired what this was.

⁸ Zacchaeus stood and said to the Master, "See, the half of my property, Sir, I give to the poor, and if I have unjustly taken anything from any one, I will give him back four-fold."

²⁷ But those enemies of mine, who did not want me to be king over them, bring here and slaughter them before me.'

⁴⁸ But they could find no way to do it; for all the people hung upon him listening.

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!" ¹⁷ He turned his eyes upon them and said, "What does this Scripture mean, 'The stone which the builders rejected — that one has become the corner stone'? ¹⁸ Every one who falls upon that stone will be shattered, but whomever it falls on it will crush to pieces."

⁴² David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right ⁴³ until I make your enemies your footstool.'

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

²⁵ "There will be portents in the sun and in the moon and in the stars, and on earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roar of the sea and its surges,

³⁶ Be watchful at every season in prayer that you may be able to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."

²² The Son of Man is going, as it is appointed, but alas for that man by whom he is betrayed!"

³⁷ For I tell you that the prophecy must be fulfilled in me — the prophecy, 'He was numbered among the lawless.' For what concerns me is coming to an end."

¹ BUT on the first day of the week at early dawn they came to the tomb, bringing the perfumes which they had prepared. ² They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, ³ and on entering they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. ⁴ While they were at a loss about this, suddenly two men in glittering robes stood beside them. ⁵ They were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why are you looking for the living among the dead? ⁶ He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you while he was still in Galilee ⁷ that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and rise on the third day." ⁸ Then they remembered his words ⁹ and turned back from the tomb and told all this to the eleven and all the rest. ¹⁰ It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them also told these things to the apostles. ¹¹ But these reports seemed in their eyes like idle talk. They did not believe the women. ¹² But Peter rose and ran to the tomb and stooping down he saw nothing but the linen cloths, and he went away to his place wondering at what had happened. ¹³ On that day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, seven miles distant from Jerusalem, ¹⁴ and they were talking to each other about all these occurrences. ¹⁵ It happened as they talked and discussed that Jesus himself drew near and walked along with them. ¹⁶ But their eyes were restrained from recognizing him. ¹⁷ He said to them, "What are these matters that you are debating with each other as you walk?" They stood still with sad faces. ¹⁸ One of them, named Cleopas, said to him, "Are you a stranger living alone in Jerusalem and do you not know the things that have happened there in recent days?"

¹⁸ One of them, named Cleopas, said to him, "Are you a stranger living alone in Jerusalem and do you not know the things that have happened there in recent days?" ¹⁹ He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things about Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet powerful in deed and word before God and all the people — ²⁰ how our high priests and leading men handed him over to be condemned to death and crucified him.

²⁰ how our high priests and leading men handed him over to be condemned to death and crucified him. ²¹ But we were hoping that he was the one who was to redeem Israel. But now, however, the third day is passing since these things took place. ²² Yet some women from our company amazed us. They went at dawn to the tomb ²³ and did not find his body, but came back saying that they had seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive. ²⁴ Some of our company went out to the tomb and found things as the women had said, but they did not see him." ²⁵ Jesus said to them, "O men lacking insight and slow in heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! ²⁶ Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and enter into his glory?" ²⁷ Then, beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things about himself. ²⁸ They drew near to the village where they were going and he acted as if he were going on. ²⁹ But they urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the sun is already low." So he went in to stay with them. ³⁰ As he reclined at table with them, he took the bread and blessed it and broke it and gave it to them.

³⁰ As he reclined at table with them, he took the bread and blessed it and broke it and gave it to them. ³¹ And their eyes were opened and they recognized him; but he vanished from their sight. ³² They said to each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us when he was talking to us on the road and was explaining the Scriptures to us?"

³² They said to each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us when he was talking to us on the road and was explaining the Scriptures to us?" ³³ Then, rising that very hour, they returned to Jerusalem and found the eleven and their associates assembled ³⁴ and saying, "Really the Lord has risen and he has appeared to Simon." ³⁵ They then narrated what had happened on the road and how they knew him by his breaking the bread.

³⁵ They then narrated what had happened on the road and how they knew him by his breaking the bread. ³⁶ While they were talking of these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them and said to them, "Peace be with you!" ³⁷ They were terrified and much alarmed, and thought that they were seeing a spirit. ³⁸ But he said to them, "Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? ³⁹ See my hands and my feet — that it is I myself. Feel me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see me having." ⁴⁰ Saying this, he showed them his hands and his feet. ⁴¹ While they still were doubting for joy and wondering, he said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?" ⁴² They gave him a piece of broiled fish, ⁴³ and he took it and ate before them. ⁴⁴ He said to them, "This is what I said to you while I was still with you, that all the things written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and Psalms about me must be fulfilled."

⁴⁴ He said to them, "This is what I said to you while I was still with you, that all the things written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and Psalms about me must be fulfilled."

⁴⁴ He said to them, "This is what I said to you while I was still with you, that all the things written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and Psalms about me must be fulfilled." ⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

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,

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,

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, ⁴⁷ and in his name change of heart for forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

⁴⁷ and in his name change of heart for forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

⁴⁷ and in his name change of heart for forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ You are witnesses of these things.

⁴⁸ You are witnesses of these things. ⁴⁹ And, see, I am sending upon you the promise of my Father. But you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."

⁴⁹ And, see, I am sending upon you the promise of my Father. But you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high." ⁵⁰ He led them out as far as Bethany and lifted up his hands and blessed them. ⁵¹ While he was blessing them he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. ⁵² They bowed down before him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, ⁵³ and were constantly in the Temple courts blessing God.

⁵³ and were constantly in the Temple courts blessing God.

³² John bore witness, "I saw the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven and it remained on him. ³³ I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water — he said to me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining, that is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

⁴⁵ Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the Law and of whom the prophets wrote — Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth."

¹⁹ Jesus answered them, "Demolish this Temple and in three days I will raise it again." ²⁰ The Jews said, "It took forty-six years to build this Temple, and will you raise it in three days?" ²¹ But he was speaking of the temple of his body.

² This man came to Jesus one night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

⁸ The wind blows where it will, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes. So is every one who is born of the Spirit."

³⁵ The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in his hand. ³⁶ He who believes in the Son has life eternal. He who disbelieves in the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.

⁴⁸ Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe."

¹⁷ He answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I am working." ¹⁸ On this account the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only kept breaking the Sabbath, but even spoke of God as his own Father, making himself equal with God. ¹⁹ Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself; he does only what he sees the Father doing; whatever things he does, those the Son does likewise. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son and shows him what he is doing, and he will show him greater works than these that you may wonder.

²² Neither does the Father judge any one, but he has committed all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has life eternal and does not come into condemnation, but has passed over from death into life. ²⁵ Truly, truly, I tell you that the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷ He has given him authority to do judgment, because he is Son of Man. 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.

³⁶ But I have testimony greater than John's. For the works which the Father has granted to me to accomplish — the very works that I do — witness for me that the Father has sent me.

¹⁴ Then the people, seeing the sign that he had done, said, "This is truly the prophet who was to come into the world!"

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."

³¹ From the crowd many believed in him and said, "The Christ, when he comes, will not do more signs than this man does, will he?"

³⁸ He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within him." ³⁹ This he said referring to the Spirit which those who had believed in him were soon to receive. For as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

³⁹ This he said referring to the Spirit which those who had believed in him were soon to receive. For as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

⁵² They answered him, "Can it be that you too are from Galilee? Examine and see that from Galilee no prophet arises."

⁹ After hearing that, they passed out one by one, beginning with the older men, and he was left alone and the woman there in the center.

³¹ Jesus said to the Jews that had believed him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, ³² and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free."

³³ If this man were not from God, he could not do anything."

¹⁸ No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down and have power to take it again. This command I received from my Father."

³⁵ If he called those to whom the word of God came Gods — and the authority of Scripture cannot be denied —

³⁷ if I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me.

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?"

³⁹ Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Master, he is already offensive, for he has been dead four days." ⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?" ⁴¹ So they took away the stone. Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank thee for hearing me. ⁴² I know that thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd that stand around I say it, that they may believe that thou didst send me."

⁴⁷ So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we doing? for this man is doing many signs.

¹⁷ The people that were with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead were bearing witness to it.

²⁰ There were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the feast.

³⁹ For this reason they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,

⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I speak not of myself. The Father abides in me and does his works. ¹¹ Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me. But if not, believe on account of the works themselves. ¹² Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes in me — the works that I am doing he also will do and greater works than these he will do, because I am going to the Father.

¹⁶ and I will ask the Father and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever —

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.

²⁴ If I had not done among them works which no other did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and have hated both me and my Father.

²⁶ "When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father — the Spirit of Truth who goes forth from the Father — he will witness concerning me. ²⁷ And you are witnesses because you have been with me from the beginning."

⁷ I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I should go away. For unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸ And he, when he comes, will convince the world regarding sin and regarding righteousness and regarding judgment —

⁸ And he, when he comes, will convince the world regarding sin and regarding righteousness and regarding judgment — ⁹ regarding sin, because they do not believe in me;

⁹ regarding sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰ regarding righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you no longer see me;

¹⁰ regarding righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you no longer see me; ¹¹ regarding judgment, because the Ruler of this world has been judged.

¹¹ regarding judgment, because the Ruler of this world has been judged. ¹² I have still many things to tell you; but you cannot bear them now. 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. ¹⁴ He will glorify me because he will take of mine and will announce it to you. ¹⁵ All things that the Father has are mine. For that reason I say, 'He will take of mine and announce it to you.'

³² Indeed the hour is coming — it has come — for each one of you to be scattered to his own and leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

² as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that he may give life eternal to all that thou hast given him.

⁵ And now glorify me, Father, at thy side with the glory that I had at thy side before the existence of the world.

³⁶ Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my subordinates would be fighting to prevent my being delivered up to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from here." ³⁷ Pilate said to him, "Are you not a king then?" Jesus answered, "I am a king, as you say. For this I was born and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth listens to my voice."

¹⁹ Pilate wrote a sign and put it up on the cross. It was written: JESUS THE NAZARENE THE KING OF THE JEWS

²⁴ They said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots who shall have it." This was so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "They parted my garments among them and on my clothing they cast lots." The soldiers did this.

³¹ The Jews, because it was Preparation Day, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a great day, requested Pilate to have their legs broken to kill them. ³² So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with him. ³³ But, coming to Jesus, when they saw him already dead, they did not break his legs. ³⁴ But one of the soldiers with his spear pierced his side and immediately there came forth blood and water. ³⁵ He who saw it has borne witness and his witness is true, and he knows that he speaks the truth in order that you may believe. ³⁶ For this happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him shall not be broken." ³⁷ And again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they have pierced."

⁹ For they did not yet know the Scripture that he must rise from the dead.

²² When he had said this, he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

²⁶ After eight days the disciples were again within and Thomas was with them. Jesus came and stood in the midst and said, "Peace be with you." ²⁷ Then he said to Thomas, "Reach your finger here. Here are my hands. Reach your hand and put it into my side, and become not faithless, but believing." ²⁸ Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" ²⁹ Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." ³⁰ Jesus did before the disciples many other signs which are not written in this book. ³¹ But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life through his name.

²⁵ There are also many other things that Jesus did, but if these are written, every one, I do not think that the world itself will have room for the books when written.

⁴ Also while eating with them, he charged them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, "which," said he, "you have heard from me. ⁵ For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence."

⁸ But you will receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and in all Judaea and in Samaria and to the ends of the earth."

¹¹ and said, "Men of Galilee, why are you standing and looking up into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way that you have seen him go into heaven."

¹³ When they came into the city, they went up to the upper room where they were staying. There were Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

¹³ When they came into the city, they went up to the upper room where they were staying. There were Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. ¹⁴ All of these continued earnestly and unitedly in prayer with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

¹⁴ All of these continued earnestly and unitedly in prayer with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

¹⁴ All of these continued earnestly and unitedly in prayer with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers. ¹⁵ In those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren (the company numbered about a hundred and twenty) and said:

¹⁵ In those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren (the company numbered about a hundred and twenty) and said: ¹⁶ "Brethren, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became guide to those who arrested Jesus.

²² from the baptism of John down to the day that he was taken up from us — that one of these should become a witness with us of his resurrection."

²⁶ Then they cast lots between them. The lot fell on Matthias and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

¹ DURING the course of the day of Pentecost they were all together in the same place, ² when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a strong rushing wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

⁴ They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues, as the Spirit gave them power of expression.

⁷ They were amazed and, wondering, said, "Are not all these who are talking, Galilaean?

¹¹ Cretans and Arabians — we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God." ¹² They were all astonished and at a loss, one saying to another, "What does this mean?"

¹⁵ These are not drunk, as you assume, for it is only nine o'clock in the morning; ¹⁶ but this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: ¹⁷ 'It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

¹⁷ 'It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. ¹⁸ Yes, upon the slave men and slave girls that are mine I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

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.

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. ²³ But when he had been delivered up according to the fixed purpose and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed him through the hands of lawless men. 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.

²⁷ that thou wilt not leave my soul to Hades and wilt not let thy holy one see decay.

²⁹ "Brethren, allow me to say frankly to you regarding the patriarch David that he died and was buried and his tomb is among us to this day. 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, ³¹ he foreseeing spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, saying that he was not left to Hades and that his flesh did not see decay. ³² This Jesus, God raised up, and all of us are witnesses of it.

³⁷ Hearing this they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "What shall we do, brethren?" 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. ³⁹ For the promise belongs to you and to your children and to all those who are far off, as many as the Lord your God may call."

³⁹ For the promise belongs to you and to your children and to all those who are far off, as many as the Lord your God may call."

⁴¹ Those who accepted his message were baptized, and there were added on that day about three thousand souls. ⁴² These gave constant attention to the teaching of the apostles and to the fellowship and the breaking of bread and the prayers.

⁴⁶ Every day, continuing with one accord in the Temple courts and in breaking bread from house to house, they ate together in joy and simplicity of heart, ⁴⁷ praising God and having favor with all the people. The Lord added daily to their number those who were being saved.

¹ PETER and John were going up into the Temple courts at the hour of prayer, three o'clock,

⁶ But Peter said, "Silver and gold I have not; but what I have I will give you. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk." ⁷ Grasping his right hand he lifted him up. Immediately his feet and ankles became strong, ⁸ and he sprang up and stood and walked and entered the Temple court with them, walking and leaping and praising God. ⁹ All the people saw him walking about and praising God, ¹⁰ and when they recognized that it was he who had sat begging at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple court, they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. ¹¹ While he still clung to Peter and John, all the people ran crowding around them in what was called Solomon's Colonnade, greatly astonished. ¹² Peter, seeing the people, explained, "Fellow Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you gaze so at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk? ¹³ The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus whom you delivered up and disowned before Pilate when he had decided to release him. ¹⁴ You disowned the holy and righteous one and begged to have a murderer granted you.

¹⁴ You disowned the holy and righteous one and begged to have a murderer granted you. ¹⁵ You killed the Author of life, but God raised him from the dead. Of this we are witnesses.

¹⁵ You killed the Author of life, but God raised him from the dead. Of this we are witnesses.

¹⁸ God in this way fulfilled what he had predicted through the mouths of all the prophets that his Christ should suffer. ¹⁹ Therefore, repent and turn about, that your sins may be wiped away and the gracious face of the Lord may bring times of refreshing,

²⁵ You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God established with your fathers when he said to Abraham, 'In your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed.' ²⁶ To you first God, when he raised up his servant, sent him, to bless you by turning each one of you from his wicked ways."

²⁶ To you first God, when he raised up his servant, sent him, to bless you by turning each one of you from his wicked ways."

⁴ But many of those who had heard the message believed, and the number of the men grew to be about five thousand.

⁸ Then Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders,

¹⁰ be it known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead — by this name, this man stands here before you sound.

¹⁰ be it known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead — by this name, this man stands here before you sound. ¹¹ This is the stone which was despised by you the builders, and which has become the corner stone.

¹¹ This is the stone which was despised by you the builders, and which has become the corner stone. ¹² Nor is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

²¹ The Council after further threats set them at liberty, not finding any way to punish them on account of the people; for all were giving glory to God because of what had happened.

²³ The apostles upon being released came to their friends and told them all that the high priests and the elders had said. ²⁴ They hearing it unitedly lifted up their prayer to God and said, "O Lord, thou who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things that are in them,

²⁷ for truly in this city Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered against thy holy servant Jesus, ²⁸ to do all that thy hands and thy will had predetermined should take place —

³¹ After this prayer the place in which they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the message of God with courageous freedom. ³² The multitude of those who had believed was of one heart and one soul, and no one said that any part of his property was his own, but they had all things in common. ³³ With great power the apostles continued to bear witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was upon them all. ³⁴ Nor was any one in need among them, for all who were owners of lands or houses would sell them and bring the money for what had been sold

⁴ While you had it, was it not yours? And after it was sold, was it not at your own disposal? Why have you conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God."

¹¹ Great awe came upon the whole church and upon all who heard these things. ¹² Many signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the apostles. They were all with one purpose in Solomon's Colonnade.

¹² Many signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the apostles. They were all with one purpose in Solomon's Colonnade.

¹² Many signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the apostles. They were all with one purpose in Solomon's Colonnade. ¹³ Of the rest no one dared join them, but the people honored them highly.

¹³ Of the rest no one dared join them, but the people honored them highly. ¹⁴ Believers in the Lord were more and more being added, crowds both of men and of women, ¹⁵ so that they carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on couches and pallets with the hope that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some one of them. ¹⁶ A crowd was coming too from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were troubled by impure spirits, and these were all being healed.

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.

³⁰ The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you had killed by hanging him on a cross.

³⁰ The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you had killed by hanging him on a cross. 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.

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.

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. ³² We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit which God has given to those who obey him." ³³ On hearing this they became furious and wanted to kill them.

³⁵ said, "Men of Israel, consider carefully what you are going to do to these men.

⁴² And every day in the Temple courts and from house to house they unceasingly taught and told the good news of Jesus the Christ.

¹ IN those days, when the number of disciples was increasing, the Greek-speaking Jews began to grumble at the Hebrew Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily service. 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.

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." ⁵ This proposal pleased the whole body. So they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolaus, a proselyte from Antioch.

⁸ Stephen, full of grace and of power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. ⁹ But certain persons from what was called the synagogue of the Libyans and Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen;

¹⁴ We have heard him say that this Jesus, the Nazarene, will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed down to us."

² Stephen said: "Brethren and Fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

⁸ God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham circumcised his son Isaac on the eighth day, and Isaac circumcised his son Jacob, and Jacob circumcised his sons, the twelve patriarchs. ⁹ "The patriarchs becoming jealous of Joseph sold him into Egypt. But God was with him

⁵² Which one of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? Yes, they killed those who announced in advance the coming of the righteous one of whom now you have become the betrayers and murderers —

⁵⁴ As they listened to these things they were cut to the heart and ground their teeth at him. ⁵⁵ But he being full of the Holy Spirit looked up into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand,

² Pious men carried Stephen away for burial and made great lamentation over him.

⁶ The crowds with one mind gave attention to what was said by Philip, listening to his words and seeing the signs that he did. ⁷ For impure spirits came out shrieking from many who had been possessed, and many paralytic and lame people were healed. ⁸ There was great rejoicing in that city.

¹² But when they believed Philip, who was telling the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

¹⁵ They on arrival prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit. ¹⁶ For the Spirit had not yet fallen on any one of them; they had merely been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. ¹⁷ Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.

²⁰ But Peter said to him, "Your money perish with you because you have thought that you could buy the gift of God with money!

²⁷ He arose and went. Now there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of high rank under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over her treasury. He had been to Jerusalem to worship

³⁶ As they were going along the road they came to water, and the eunuch said, "Here is water. What is there to hinder my being baptized?" ³⁷ TEXT OMITTED ³⁸ He ordered the chariot to stop and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

⁵ He asked, "Who is speaking?" The answer was, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. ⁶ But stand up and go into the city and it will be told you what you must do."

¹¹ The Lord said to him, "Rise and go to the street called Straight street, and ask in the house of Judas for a man named Saul from Tarsus. He is now in prayer,

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.

¹⁷ Ananias went and entered the house and put his hands on Saul, and said, "Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me — Jesus who appeared to you on the road as you were coming — that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

³⁴ Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ is healing you. Rise up and make your bed." Immediately he arose.

⁴⁰ Peter sent them all out and kneeling down he prayed. Then turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, rise." She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter she sat up.

² He was a pious man, reverencing God with all his household, doing many acts of charity to the people and praying to God constantly.

⁷ When the angel who had been speaking to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a pious soldier of those who were attached to him,

¹⁷ Peter was thinking this over and was at a loss what the vision meant. Just then the men who had been sent by Cornelius, after inquiring for the house of Simon, came to the door

³⁶ As to the message which he sent to the children of Israel telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ — who is Lord of all — ³⁷ you know the story that spread through all Judaea. It began in Galilee after the baptism which John proclaimed.

³⁷ you know the story that spread through all Judaea. It began in Galilee after the baptism which John proclaimed. ³⁸ You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were harassed by the Devil, for God was with him.

³⁸ You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were harassed by the Devil, for God was with him. ³⁹ We are witnesses of all that he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They hung him on a cross and so killed him.

³⁹ We are witnesses of all that he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They hung him on a cross and so killed him. ⁴⁰ But God raised him up on the third day and granted that he should become visible,

⁴⁰ But God raised him up on the third day and granted that he should become visible, ⁴¹ not to all the people, but to witnesses previously chosen by God, namely, to us who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead.

⁴¹ not to all the people, but to witnesses previously chosen by God, namely, to us who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead. ⁴² God commanded us to proclaim to the people and to testify that he is the divinely appointed Judge of the living and the dead.

⁴² God commanded us to proclaim to the people and to testify that he is the divinely appointed Judge of the living and the dead.

⁴⁴ While Peter was speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who were listening to his message. ⁴⁵ All the believers who were of the circumcision who had come along with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Gentiles,

⁴⁵ All the believers who were of the circumcision who had come along with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Gentiles, ⁴⁶ for they heard them speaking with tongues and glorifying God. Then Peter said,

⁴⁸ And he directed that they should be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain there a few days.

¹⁵ When I began speaking the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as on us at the beginning,

¹⁵ When I began speaking the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as on us at the beginning, ¹⁶ and I remembered the words of the Lord how he said, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.' ¹⁷ If then God gave to them the same gift that he gave to us on believing in the Lord Jesus, who was I that I could oppose God?" 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."

²⁰ Some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, and they on reaching Antioch spoke also to the Greeks, telling them the good news of the Lord Jesus.

²³ When he arrived and saw the grace of God he was delighted, and he encouraged all to be firmly faithful to the Lord. ²⁴ For he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. A considerable number were added to the Lord.

²⁸ One of them named Agabus arose and foretold through the Holy Spirit that a great famine was going to occur over all the inhabited world. (It happened in the time of Claudius.) ²⁹ Then the disciples determined, each according to his means, to send something for the help of the brethren who were living in Judaea.

¹ THERE were in Antioch among the members of the church several prophets and teachers — Barnabas, and Symeon, who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene and Manaen (a companion in childhood of Prince Herod) and Saul.

⁹ But Saul (who is also called Paul), full of the Holy Spirit, fixed his eyes on him

¹³ Sailing away from Paphos, Paul and his companions came to Perga in Pamphylia. John left them there and returned to Jerusalem.

¹⁶ Paul rose and motioning with his hand said, "Israelites and you who reverence God, listen.

²⁷ For the inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, neither understanding him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled those utterances by condemning him.

²⁷ For the inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, neither understanding him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled those utterances by condemning him. ²⁸ Although they found no ground for putting him to death they begged Pilate to have him killed. ²⁹ When they had completely done all that had been predicted about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb. ³⁰ But God raised him from the dead

³⁰ But God raised him from the dead ³¹ and he appeared for many days to those who had gone up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to all the people. ³² "We tell you the good news that the promise to our fathers has been kept;

³² "We tell you the good news that the promise to our fathers has been kept; ³³ for God has fulfilled it for our children in raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second psalm, 'Thou art my son; to-day I have become thy father.'

³³ for God has fulfilled it for our children in raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second psalm, 'Thou art my son; to-day I have become thy father.'

³³ for God has fulfilled it for our children in raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second psalm, 'Thou art my son; to-day I have become thy father.' ³⁴ And as to his raising him from the dead, never to return to decay, he spoke thus; 'I will give you the holy and sure promises made to David.'

³⁴ And as to his raising him from the dead, never to return to decay, he spoke thus; 'I will give you the holy and sure promises made to David.'

³⁴ And as to his raising him from the dead, never to return to decay, he spoke thus; 'I will give you the holy and sure promises made to David.' ³⁵ Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'Thou wilt not let thy holy one see decay.'

³⁵ Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'Thou wilt not let thy holy one see decay.'

³⁵ Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'Thou wilt not let thy holy one see decay.' ³⁶ For David after serving the will of God in his own generation fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw decay.

³⁶ For David after serving the will of God in his own generation fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw decay.

³⁶ For David after serving the will of God in his own generation fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw decay. ³⁷ But he whom God raised up saw no decay.

³⁷ But he whom God raised up saw no decay.

⁴³ After the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and of the pious converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked to them and endeavored to persuade them to hold fast to the grace of God.

⁴⁸ When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the message of the Lord, and all who were predestined to life eternal believed.

⁵⁰ But the Jews stirred up the pious women of high standing and the leading men of the city, and started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their boundaries.

⁵² The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

¹¹ When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in Lycaonian, "The gods have taken human form and come down to us." ¹² They called Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the principal speaker.

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."

²⁴ They passed through Pisidia and came into Pamphylia.

²⁷ Upon their arrival they assembled the church and narrated all that God, working with them, had done, and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

³ So they were sent on by the church and passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles, which caused great joy to all the brethren.

⁸ And God, who knows all hearts, bore witness to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.

¹⁴ Symeon has told how first God graciously visited the Gentiles and took a people for his name.

¹⁸ who does these things foreknown from of old.'

³² Both Judas and Silas, being themselves prophets, encouraged and confirmed the brethren by long addresses.

³⁸ But Paul did not approve of taking him along, since he had left them in Pamphylia and had not gone on with them into the work.

⁵ So the churches grew firmer in faith and increased in numbers from day to day. ⁶ They went through Phrygia and the Galatian country, the Holy Spirit having prevented their speaking the message in Asia.

¹⁵ When she had been baptized along with her household, she begged us, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay," and she insisted on our doing so.

²⁵ But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening. ²⁶ Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. Immediately all the doors were opened and every one's fetters were loosed.

²⁹ Calling for a light he sprang in and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, ³⁰ and led them out and said, "Men, what must I do to be saved?" ³¹ They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, and your household,"

³¹ They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, and your household," ³² and they told the message of God to him and to all who were in his house. ³³ He took them at that hour of the night and washed their stripes. Then he was baptized, he and all of his household, immediately. ³⁴ He brought them into his house and spread the table for them, and rejoiced with his whole family because he had believed in God.

³⁴ He brought them into his house and spread the table for them, and rejoiced with his whole family because he had believed in God.

²⁰ For you are bringing strange and surprising things to our ears. We wish to know what these things are."

³⁰ The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to change, 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."

² There he found a Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus but recently come from Italy with Priscilla his wife, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul visited these people,

²³ After spending some time there he set out and went through the Galatian country and Phrygia, place by place, strengthening all the disciples.

⁴ Paul said, "John baptized with the baptism of a change of heart, telling the people to believe in one who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus." ⁵ On hearing that, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, ⁶ and when Paul laid his hands on them the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.

¹⁰ This went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the message of the Lord.

²⁷ Not only is this trade of ours in danger of coming into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis is in danger of being held of no account, and she whom now all Asia and the wide world worship will be deposed from her majesty."

³¹ Some of the city officials who were his friends sent to him and begged him not to expose himself in the theater.

² Passing through those parts and encouraging them by many addresses, he came into Greece.

⁷ On the first day of the week, when we all were assembled to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them, being about to leave in the morning, and he extended his address until midnight.

⁹ A certain young man named Eutychus, sitting in a window, was overcome with deep sleep while Paul went on discoursing. At last overpowered by sleep he fell from the third story and was taken up dead.

¹¹ Then he went up and broke bread and ate and talked on till daybreak and so departed.

¹⁶ For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus in order not to spend time in Asia. He was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the Day of Pentecost.

¹⁸ When they came to him, he said to them, "You know how I have lived among you the whole time since the first day I set foot in Asia,

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

²⁴ But I do not hold my life as of any account if only I may finish my race and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of the grace of God.

⁹ Philip had four unmarried daughters who had the gift of prophecy. ¹⁰ During our stay of many days a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Jerusalem.

²⁸ shouting, "Men of Israel, help. This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the Law and this place, and moreover, he has brought Greeks into the Temple courts and has desecrated this holy place."

⁸ I asked, 'Who is speaking?' He said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.'

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.'

¹² "Then a man named Ananias, a strict observer of the Law and highly esteemed by all the Jews who lived there,

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

¹¹ On the following night the Lord stood beside Paul and said, "Courage! As you have witnessed for me in Jerusalem, so you must witness in Rome."

⁵ We have found this man a pest and an inciter of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

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." ²⁶ At the same time he was in hopes that money would be given him by Paul and therefore he used to send for him more frequently and converse with him.

⁹ I thought with myself that I ought to do much against the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

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.'

²⁰ but first to the people in Damascus and then to the people of Jerusalem and through all the land of Judaea and to the Gentiles, I proclaimed that they should repent and turn to God and do deeds suitable for a change of heart.

²⁶ The King knows about this, and to him I speak with perfect frankness, for I am persuaded that not one of these things has escaped his attention, for this has not been done in a corner.

⁵ After crossing the sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia.

⁷ By slow sailing for many days we with difficulty arrived off Cnidus. Then the wind being against us, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone

¹² and as the harbor was not convenient to winter in, the majority adopted the purpose of sailing away on the chance of being able to reach Phoenix and winter there. Phoenix is a harbor of Crete facing the southwest and the northwest.

¹⁵ From there the brethren, when they got news of us, came to meet us as far as the Market of Appius and the Three Taverns. On seeing them Paul thanked God and took courage.

²³ They appointed a day for him and many came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying to the kingdom of God, trying to persuade them concerning Jesus from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from early morning until evening.

³ concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord (who became one of the descendants of David according to the flesh,

⁷ to all who are in Rome, beloved by God, called to be holy: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ so, for my part, I am eager to tell the good news also to you in Rome.

¹⁷ (as it is written, "I have made thee a father of many nations"), in the view of the God whom he believed, who makes alive the dead and calls things that are not as if they were.

²⁴ but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited if we believe in him who raised up from the dead Jesus our Lord,

⁵ and hope does not disappoint, for the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit granted to us.

³ Are you ignorant that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 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.

⁹ I was living once, apart from law. But when the commandment came, sin began to live and I died,

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.

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.

³ For I could wish myself to be accursed and cast away from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh, ⁴ who are Israelites, whose is the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the reception of the law and the worship and the promises;

⁴ who are Israelites, whose is the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the reception of the law and the worship and the promises; ⁵ whose are the fathers and from whom by physical descent the Christ came. God who is over all be blessed through the ages! Amen. ⁶ Not that God's word has failed. For not all who are of Israel are Israel;

²⁴ called us not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

²⁷ Isaiah cried aloud regarding Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel is as the sand of the sea, only a remnant will be saved.

⁹ that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved.

¹² For there is no difference between Jew and Greek. For there is the same Lord of all, rich toward all who call upon him. ¹³ For "Every one who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

⁵ So at this present time there is a remnant according to a gracious selection. ⁶ But if it is by grace it is no longer because of works, for then grace would be no longer grace. ⁷ What then? Israel has not found what it is seeking, but the chosen have found it. And the rest have been made dull,

¹⁶ If the first fruit was holy, so will the mass be; and if the root was holy, so will be the branches. ¹⁷ If some of the branches were broken off and you, who are a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a sharer in the root and rich sap of the olive,

²⁹ God never changes his mind about his gifts and his call.

³³ O the depth of the wealth both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, how untraceable his ways! ³⁴ For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who became his counsellor? ³⁵ Who first gave to him so as to receive repayment? ³⁶ For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory through the ages! Amen.

⁸ Let the exhorter use his gift in exhorting. Let him who gives do it in simplicity. Let him who manages do it earnestly. Let him who helps the needy do it cheerfully.

¹² rejoicing in hope, patient in trial, constant in prayer,

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.

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. ¹⁰ But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you, why do you treat your brother with contempt? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God. ¹¹ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bend to me and every tongue shall confess to God." ¹² So then each one of us shall give account for himself to God.

¹⁸ For he who thus serves Christ is pleasing to God and esteemed by men.

⁶ so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² And again Isaiah says, "There will be a root of Jesse, and one who rises to rule Gentiles: in him Gentiles will hope." ¹³ May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit!

⁵ Give my greetings also to the church in their house. Give my greetings to Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first-fruit of Asia for Christ.

²⁰ The God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you!

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:

¹³ Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? ¹⁴ I am thankful that I baptized no one of you except Crispus and Gaius, ¹⁵ so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name. ¹⁶ I baptized also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that I do not know that I baptized any one else. ¹⁷ For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the good news — not in wisdom of words, that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of meaning. ¹⁸ For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

⁵ I decided to deliver over such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

¹⁴ God raised the Lord and will also raise us through his power.

¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband has been made holy by the wife and the unbelieving wife has been made holy by the husband. Otherwise your children would be impure, but now they are holy.

²¹ Were you called when a slave? Let it not trouble you. On the contrary, even if you can become free, take it in preference. 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.

¹⁶ The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a fellowship in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a fellowship in the body of Christ? ¹⁷ Because there is one bread we though many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.

²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

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.

² I praise you because you remember me in all things and hold firmly the traditions as I passed them on to you.

²⁰ When, therefore, you assemble it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper.

²⁰ When, therefore, you assemble it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper. ²¹ For in eating each one tries to get his own supper first and one is hungry and another is drunken.

²¹ For in eating each one tries to get his own supper first and one is hungry and another is drunken. ²² Have you not homes to eat and drink in? Or do you mean to show contempt for the church of God and put to shame those who have no homes? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? For this I do not praise you.

²² Have you not homes to eat and drink in? Or do you mean to show contempt for the church of God and put to shame those who have no homes? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? For this I do not praise you. ²³ For I received from the Lord that which I passed on to you that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread, ²⁴ and when he had given thanks he broke it and said, "This is my body which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me." ²⁵ In like manner he took also the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in memory of me." ²⁶ For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup you proclaim the Lord's death, until he comes.

¹⁰ to another works of power, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another varieties of tongues, to another interpretation of tongues.

²⁸ God placed some in the church first as apostles, secondly as prophets, thirdly as teachers, then miracle-workers, then those with gifts of healing, helpers, administrators, speakers of different kinds of tongues.

²⁸ God placed some in the church first as apostles, secondly as prophets, thirdly as teachers, then miracle-workers, then those with gifts of healing, helpers, administrators, speakers of different kinds of tongues. ²⁹ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle-workers? ³⁰ Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

¹ IF I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

⁸ Love never fails; but if there are prophetic powers, they will become useless; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will become useless.

⁵ I wish you all to speak with tongues, but I wish more to have you prophesy. He who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may receive upbuilding.

¹⁸ I thank God that I speak with tongues more than any of you.

²¹ In the Law it is written, "By men of strange speech and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, and not even thus will they listen to me, says the Lord." ²² So then tongues are for a sign not to believers, but to unbelievers, and prophecy is not for unbelievers, but for believers. ²³ If therefore the whole church assembles and all speak with tongues and ordinary men or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are insane?

²³ If therefore the whole church assembles and all speak with tongues and ordinary men or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are insane? ²⁴ But if all prophesy and any unbeliever or ordinary man comes in, he is convinced by all, he is judged by all, ²⁵ the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so falling on his face he worships God, declaring that God is really among you. ²⁶ What then, brethren? When you assemble each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for the upbuilding of character.

²⁶ What then, brethren? When you assemble each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for the upbuilding of character. ²⁷ If any one speaks with a tongue, let it be two, or at the most three, at a time and in turn and let one interpret.

²⁷ If any one speaks with a tongue, let it be two, or at the most three, at a time and in turn and let one interpret. ²⁸ If there is no interpreter, let the man keep silent in church and let him speak to himself and to God.

²⁸ If there is no interpreter, let the man keep silent in church and let him speak to himself and to God. ²⁹ Of the prophets let two or three speak and let the others reflect.

²⁹ Of the prophets let two or three speak and let the others reflect. ³⁰ If a revelation comes to another who is sitting by, let the first become silent.

³⁰ If a revelation comes to another who is sitting by, let the first become silent. ³¹ For you can all prophesy one by one so that all may learn and all be encouraged.

³¹ For you can all prophesy one by one so that all may learn and all be encouraged. ³² The spirits of the prophets are under the control of the prophets.

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?

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.

²⁵ For he must be king until he "puts all his enemies under his feet."

⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be transformed.

⁵⁵ O Death, where is thy victory? O Death, where is thy sting?"

⁸ I shall remain in Ephesus until Pentecost, ⁹ for a great and effective door has been opened to me, and there are many opponents.

¹⁹ The churches of Asia send you their greetings. Aquila and Prisca with the church in their house greet you heartily in the Lord.

⁸ For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, regarding the distress that came on us in Asia — that we were exceedingly weighed down, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.

¹² For this is what we boast of, the witness of our conscience that in holiness, and sincerity before God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have lived in the world and especially toward you.

¹² When I came to Troas for the good news of Christ and a door had been opened for me in the Lord,

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

¹⁰ For we must all appear as we truly are before the judgment seat of Christ, that each may receive the award for what he has done with his body, according to his actions, whether good or bad.

²⁰ So we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing to you through us. We pray you on Christ's behalf to be reconciled to God.

¹⁷ Therefore come out from the midst of them and be separate, says the Lord, and do not touch an unclean thing, and I will receive you

⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich yet for your sake he became poor, that you by his poverty might become rich.

¹⁴ but by equality at the present time your abundance may supply their need so that their abundance may come at your need — that there may be equality, ¹⁵ as it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing over and he who gathered little had no lack."

¹ REGARDING the service to the holy, it is superfluous for me to write to you.

⁶ Remember this, he who sows sparingly will reap sparingly and he who sows bountifully will reap bountifully. ⁷ Let each give as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly nor of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸ God is able to make every blessing abound for you so that having in everything always all that you need, you may abound in every good work, ⁹ as it is written, "He scattered, he gave to the poor, his righteousness endures forever."

⁹ as it is written, "He scattered, he gave to the poor, his righteousness endures forever." ¹⁰ He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and make abundant your seed and will increase the fruits of your righteousness. ¹¹ You will be enriched in everything so that you will have all liberality which through our agency causes thanksgiving to God. ¹² For the performance of this sacred service not only supplies the needs of the holy, but also overflows to God in many thanksgivings. ¹³ By the proof afforded by this service men are led to glorify God for your fidelity to your profession of faith in the good news of Christ, and for the liberality of your contributions toward them and toward all. ¹⁴ In their prayers in your behalf they pour out their longing love for you because of the surpassing grace of God that is upon you. ¹⁵ Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

³ But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts may be led away from sincerity and purity toward Christ.

¹² The signs of an apostle were performed among you in all patience by miracles and wonders and deeds of power.

¹ PAUL an apostle — not from men or through men, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead —

⁶ I am astonished that you are so quickly changing over from him who called you by the grace of Christ to a different kind of good news,

¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and came back to Damascus.

¹⁴ in order that the blessing of Abraham might in Jesus Christ come on the Gentiles, that they might receive through faith the promise of the Spirit.

²⁸ There cannot be Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female: for you all are one in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ And you did not despise or spurn what was a trial to you in my bodily condition, but welcomed me as you would an angel of God, as you would Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Where now is the blessing you pronounced on me? For I bear you witness that if it had been possible you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.

²⁵ Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. She represents the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery along with her children.

³ I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is under obligation to carry out the whole Law.

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,

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,

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, ²¹ far above every archangel and authority and power and lordship and every name that is named not only in this world but also in the world to come. ²² He put all things under his feet and placed him as head over all for the church,

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.

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far have become near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace. He has made both Jew and Gentile one and has broken down the dividing wall, the enmity. ¹⁵ In his own flesh he has ended the force of the law of commandments in ordinances in order to make the two, in himself, into one new man, thus making peace, ¹⁶ and in order to reconcile both in one body to God through his cross, by slaying the enmity by it. ¹⁷ And he came and brought the good news of peace to you who were far and peace to those who were near. ¹⁸ For through him we, both Jews and Gentiles, have access through one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹ So then you are no longer strangers and resident aliens, but fellow citizens with the holy and members of the household of God, ²⁰ built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner stone.

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

⁵ a mystery which was not disclosed in other generations to the sons of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit, ⁶ namely, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, fellow sharers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the good news, ⁷ of which I became a servant according to the free grace of God which was given me by the inworking of his power. ⁸ To me, the least of all the holy, has this grace been given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the good news of the unsearchable riches of Christ

¹⁹ yes, to know the love of Christ, which yet surpasses knowledge, and may be filled with all the fullness of God.

⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called with one hope that belongs to your calling,

⁸ Therefore it says, "He ascended on high; he led away captives; he gave gifts to men."

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 Do not be drunk with wine, in which there is profligacy, but be full of the Spirit,

⁵ Slaves, obey those who according to the flesh are your masters, with reverence and awe in singleness of your hearts as to Christ,

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

²⁷ Only exercise your citizenship in a manner worthy of the good news of Christ, so that, whether I come and see you or in absence hear news of you, I may know that you are standing in one spirit, with one mind wrestling in the faith of the good news

² fill up my joy by having the same love, being of the same mind, thinking the same thing,

⁹ Therefore, God has highly exalted him and has graciously given him the name which is above every name, ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee may bow, of beings in heaven and those on earth and those under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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,

²³ if you remain in the faith, firm and steadfast, never moving from the hope of the good news which you have heard and which has been proclaimed in all the creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a servant.

¹² You were buried with him in baptism and raised again through faith in the inworking of God who raised him from the dead.

¹¹ Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcision or uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave or freeman, but Christ is all and in all.

²² Slaves, obey in everything your masters in the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, because you reverence the Lord.

² Be earnest and constant in prayer. Be thankfully watchful in it.

⁶ You became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the message in great affliction with joy which the Holy Spirit gave,

¹⁰ and to wait for his Son from heaven — his Son Jesus whom he raised from the dead and who is saving us from the coming wrath.

¹¹ You know that just like a father toward his own children we encouraged each one of you, and warned and conjured you

² For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

⁵ You are all sons of light and sons of day. We do not belong to night or to darkness. ⁶ Then let us not be sleeping like the rest of men, but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For those who sleep sleep in the night and those who drink drink in the night. ⁸ But let us who are of the day be sober. Let us put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

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. ⁹ They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction and be sent away from the face of the Lord and from his glorious power, ¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified among his holy ones and to be wondered at on that day among all believers — for our testimony to you was believed. ¹¹ To this end we are always praying for you that our God will make you worthy of the call, and will by his power bring to completion every one of your kind purposes and works of faith,

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. 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.

¹⁶ Be thoughtful about yourself and your teaching. Persevere in this; for in doing so you will save yourself and those who hear you.

¹⁸ They must do good work, be rich in noble deeds, be generous, ready to share, ¹⁹ treasuring up for themselves a good fund for the future, that they may lay hold on the life that is real.

⁹ It is he who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our deeds but according to his own purpose and grace, given to us in Christ Jesus ages ago

¹⁵ You know that all of those in Asia have deserted me. Among them are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

¹⁷ but when he came to Rome he looked me up eagerly and found me.

⁸ Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David, as my good news teaches.

¹⁴ But you must stand by what you learned and were persuaded of, knowing from whom you learned it

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,

¹² One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, base brutes, lazy gluttons."

⁴ But when the kindness of our Savior, God, and his love to men appeared,

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

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

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,

⁶ which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

² but at the end of these days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things and through whom he made the world,

² but at the end of these days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things and through whom he made the world, ³ who is the reflection of his glory and the expression of his nature and sustains all things by his word of power, and who, when he had made purification from sins, took his seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high, ⁴ having become as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited surpasses theirs.

¹³ To which of the angels did he ever say, "Sit at my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool"?

⁴ while God added his testimony by signs and wonders and many kinds of miracles and impartation of the Holy Spirit according to his will?

¹⁴ Since then the children share in blood and flesh, he himself in the same way shared in them, in order that through death he might defeat him who had the power of death, that is, the Devil,

¹ THEREFORE, holy brethren, sharers in a heavenly call, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,

⁷ Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "To-day if you will hear his voice,

¹² See to it, brethren, that there shall not be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart ready to forsake the living God, ¹³ but encourage one another daily while it is called "to-day," that no one may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

⁷ again he indicates a day, "to-day," saying in David so long after, as has been already quoted, "To-day if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."

¹² For the word of God is living and effective and sharper than any two-edged sword, and it pierces until it divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and it judges the thoughts and purposes of the heart. ¹³ There is not a creature invisible to him, but all things are naked and defenseless before the eyes of him to whom we must account.

¹⁶ Therefore let us come with confidence to the throne of grace and receive compassion and find grace for timely help.

¹⁷ In this case God being abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable purpose of his will gave the surety of an oath,

¹ FOR, this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham when he was returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, ² and to whom Abraham gave a tenth of all (first, by the translation of his name, "King of Righteousness," and then king of Salem, which means "King of Peace"),

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

²¹ for those men have become priests without an oath, but he with an oath from him who said to him, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: thou art a priest forever" —

¹⁵ For this reason he is the mediator of a better covenant that, a death having taken place for redemption from sins under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the eternal inheritance promised to them.

¹² But this Priest after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, took his seat at the right hand of God,

²⁵ not neglecting to assemble yourselves, as some do, but encouraging one another, and so much the more, as you see the day drawing near.

³⁹ But we are not of those who shrink back and perish, but of those who have faith and will win their souls.

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.

²⁰ May the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of an eternal covenant,

⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren, did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

¹⁴ Of what use is it, my brethren, for any one to say that he has faith, if he has not works? Can faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister is naked and lacks food for the day ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and fed," but you do not give them what the body needs, what is the good of it?

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of wickedness. The tongue stands among our members as that which spots the whole body and sets on fire the wheel of nature and is itself set on fire by Gehenna.

⁸ Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Make your hands clean, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. ⁹ Be sorrowful and mourn and lament. Let your laughter be turned into grief and your gladness into gloom. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

¹ COME, now, you rich men, wail and lament over the miseries that are coming upon you. ² Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten, 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.

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. 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. ⁵ You have lived luxuriously in the land and have given yourselves up to pleasure. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

¹ PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the Chosen Ones of the scattered Jews in foreign lands who are living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia — 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.

¹¹ inquired and searched, trying to find out what time, or what sort of time, the Spirit of Christ which was in them was disclosing when it witnessed beforehand regarding the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. ¹² It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who have told you the good news by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven — things which angels earnestly long to look into.

¹² It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who have told you the good news by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven — things which angels earnestly long to look into.

²⁰ who was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of time for your sake ²¹ who through him are faithful to God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

⁸ a stone for the foot to strike, a rock to stumble over." Their feet strike the message because of their unbelief, and to this they were destined.

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. ²² Now that he has gone into heaven he is at the right hand of God, and angels and authorities and powers have been made subject to him.

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.

¹² By Silvanus, your faithful brother, as I esteem him, I am writing to you briefly, to encourage you and to testify that this is the true grace of God. Take your stand in it.

³ Since his divine power has given us all things helpful to life and piety through the knowledge of him who has called us by his own glory and virtue,

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.

²¹ for prophecy never came by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

¹ THIS second letter, beloved, I am writing you. In both I have tried, by awakening your memory, ² to arouse your honest minds to recall the predictions of the holy prophets and the commands of your apostles from the Lord and Savior. ³ First you should know this, that in the last days scoffers will come with their scoffing, living according to their own passions

⁷ But the present heavens and the earth are by the same word treasured up and kept for fire on the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise and the burning elements will be dissolved and the earth and the things in it will not be found.

¹⁷ You, then, beloved, since you know these things beforehand, be on your guard not to be led away by the error of the lawless and fall from your own steadfastness, 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!

³ what wo have seen and heard we are telling you also, so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

⁷ If we live in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

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. ²⁰ You have an anointing from the Holy One and you all know.

¹⁶ By this we have come to know love — that Christ laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷ But if any one has this world's goods and sees his brother in need and shuts away his sympathies from him, how can the love of God remain in him?

¹⁷ But if any one has this world's goods and sees his brother in need and shuts away his sympathies from him, how can the love of God remain in him? ¹⁸ Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

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.

²⁰ But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

⁴ John to the seven Churches in Asia: Grace be to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne,

¹¹ saying, "What you see write in a book, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea."

¹⁸ and the living one. I became dead, but now I am living for the ages of the ages, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

⁷ "To the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia write: "These things says the Holy, the True, he who has the key of David, who opens and no one shuts and who shuts and no one opens:

¹⁷ Because you say, 'I am rich and have grown wealthy and lack nothing,' and do not know that you are wretched and pitiable and poor and blind and naked, ¹⁸ I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments to put on, so that the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. ¹⁹ All that I love I rebuke and discipline. Be earnest, then, and repent.

¹² I saw when he opened the sixth seal and there came a great earthquake and the sun became black, like sackcloth of hair, and the moon became all like blood

³ I will grant to my two witnesses to prophesy a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.

⁸ Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

⁸ All the inhabitants of the earth will worship him, all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the slain Iamb's Book of Life.

⁶ Then I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven having eternal good news to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue and people.

⁸ The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was granted to him to scorch men with fire.

¹⁴ They will make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings. They who are with him, called and chosen and faithful, will also conquer."

⁴ Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you may not take part in her sins nor receive a share in her plagues, ⁵ for her sins have been heaped up to heaven and God has remembered her unrighteous deeds.

⁹ Then he said to me, "Write: Blessed are they who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!" He said to me, "These are the true words of God."

¹⁶ He has on his robe and on his thigh a name written, "King of kings and Lord of lords."

¹⁹ Then I saw the Beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered to do battle with him who sits on the horse and with his army.

⁸ and will come out to mislead the nations that are at the four corners of the earth — Gog and Magog — and gather them to battle in number like the sand of the sea. ⁹ They went up over the breadth of the earth and encircled the camp of the holy and the beloved city. But fire fell from heaven and consumed them, ¹⁰ and the Devil who was misleading them was flung into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are also the Beast and the False Prophet, and they will be tormented day and night for the ages of the ages. ¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and him who was sitting on it, from whose face earth and heaven fled away and no place was found for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. And another book was opened which is the Book of Life. The dead were judged out of what was written in the books according to their deeds. ¹³ The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and they were judged each according to his deeds.

¹³ The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and they were judged each according to his deeds. ¹⁴ Death and Hades were flung into the lake of fire. This is the second death — the lake of fire. ¹⁵ If any one was not found written in the Book of Life he was flung into the lake of fire.