Colossians Cross References - Riverside

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, ² to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ in Colossae: Grace be to you and peace from God our Father! ³ We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in praying for you, ⁴ because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have to all the holy ⁵ because of the hope laid up for us in heaven. Of this you have already heard in the true message of the good news ⁶ which has come to you. Just as in all the world it is bearing fruit and growing, so also it is among you since the day that you heard and learned of the grace of God in truth. ⁷ So you learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ in your behalf, ⁸ and who has told us of your love in the Spirit. ⁹ For this reason we also, from the day we heard it, never cease praying for you and asking that you may have full knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight, ¹⁰ and that you may live lives worthy of the Lord and please him in every way. May you bear fruit in every good work and grow in the knowledge of God. ¹¹ May you be strengthened with all strength according to his glorious power, so as to have all patience and endurance. ¹² May you joyfully give thanks to the Father who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy in light. ¹³ He has saved us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins. ¹⁵ He is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation; ¹⁶ for in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, both visible and invisible, whether thrones or lordships or archangels or powers — all things have been created through him and for him, ¹⁷ and he is before all things and in him all things unite. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he may be first in all things, ¹⁹ because it pleased God to have all his fullness dwell in him ²⁰ and to reconcile all things to himself through him, making peace through the blood of his cross — all things, I say, whether on earth or in heaven. ²¹ And you who were once alienated and enemies in your minds, living in wicked works, he has reconciled ²² by his body of flesh through death, to present you holy and spotless and blameless before him, 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. ²⁴ Now I rejoice in what I suffer for your sake, and in my turn am filling up in my flesh what was lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body, that is, the church. ²⁵ I became a servant of the church according to the commission from God given to me for you, to deliver fully God's message, ²⁶ the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now made plain to his holy ones, ²⁷ to whom God willed to make known what is the glorious wealth of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you the hope of glory. ²⁸ And we are announcing him, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom in order that we may present every man complete in Christ. ²⁹ For this also I labor, wrestling with the energy of him who works powerfully within me.

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?

¹⁷ A voice from the heavens said, "This is my Son, the beloved in whom I delight."

¹¹ "Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and say every evil thing against you falsely for my sake! ¹² Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for your reward is great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

⁴⁸ You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

¹⁹ "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust corrode and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰ But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrodes and where thieves do not break in nor steal.

²⁴ "Every one, therefore, who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock; ²⁵ and the rain descended and the rivers rose and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house; but it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock.

²⁵ At that time Jesus said, "I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to babes. ²⁶ Yes, Father, I thank thee that such was thy good pleasure. ²⁷ "All things have been delivered tome by my Father, and no one knows the Son but the Father, nor does any one know the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son may choose to reveal him.

²⁹ How can any one enter the house of a strong man and seize his goods unless he first binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house. ³⁰ "He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

¹¹ He answered, "Because to you it is granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to those people it is not granted.

⁵ While he was speaking, a bright cloud suddenly overspread them and a voice issued from the cloud, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I delight. Hear him."

²⁸ just as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many."

⁸ But do not you be called Rabbi. For one is your Teacher and all of you are brothers.

¹³ But he who endures to the end, he will be saved. 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.

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.

⁴⁵ Who, then, is the faithful and wise servant whom the master has placed over his household to give them food in due season?

²¹ His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will place you over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.'

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

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, 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."

⁸ Other seed fell into good ground and grew tall and strong and yielded thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold."

¹¹ He replied, "To you the mystery of the kingdom of God has been confided. But to outsiders all things come in figures of speech

²⁶ He said again, "The kingdom of God is like this: A man casts seed on the ground ²⁷ and goes on sleeping by night and rising by day, and the seed sprouts and grows up, he knows not how. ²⁸ The ground of itself yields fruit: first the stalk, then the ear, then comes the full grain in the ear. ²⁹ When the grain is ripe immediately he puts in the sickle because the harvest has come."

³⁴ When Jesus landed, he saw a great crowd, and he was filled with compassion for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began and taught them many things.

¹⁵ He said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to all the creation.

⁷⁵ in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

¹⁴ "Glory in highest heaven to God, and peace on earth among men in whom he delights."

²⁰ He saw their faith and said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."

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

⁴⁷ For this reason I tell you her sins, many as they are, have been forgiven, for she loved much. For he to whom little is forgiven loves little." ⁴⁸ He said to her, "Your sins have been forgiven." ⁴⁹ The other guests began to say to themselves, "Who is this that even forgives sins?" ⁵⁰ He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."

¹⁰ He said: "To you it is granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God. But to the rest the message comes in figures of speech, so that although they see they may not see, and although they hear they may not understand.

¹³ Those on the rock are those who, though they receive the message with joy, yet have no root, who for a while believe, but in the time of trial desert. ¹⁴ That which fell among thorns means those who hear, and as they go on are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life and bring nothing to completion. ¹⁵ That in the good ground means those who with a noble and good heart hear the message and hold it fast and bear fruit in patience.

²¹ At that hour in exultant joy through the Holy Sprit he said, "I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and hast revealed them to babes. Yea, Father, I thank thee that such became thy good pleasure.

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;

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

²¹ nor will they say, 'Here it is!' or, 'There it is!' For indeed the kingdom of God is among you."

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

³² But I have prayed for thee that thy faith may not fail. And when you come back to yourself, strengthen your brothers."

⁵³ In the daytime while I was with you in the Temple courts you did not stretch out your hands to take me. But this is your hour and the power of darkness."

¹ IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

¹ IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God. ³ All things came into being through him, and apart from him not one thing came into being that has come into being.

³ All things came into being through him, and apart from him not one thing came into being that has come into being.

¹⁴ The Word became flesh and tented among us, and we looked upon his glory, glory as of an only son from a father, full of grace and truth.

¹⁶ For of his fullness we all have received, and grace for grace.

¹⁸ No one has ever seen God; God the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has interpreted him.

²⁷ the One who is coming after me — for whom I am not worthy to loosen the strap of his sandal."

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that every one who believes in him may not perish, but have life eternal.

²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine is complete. ³⁰ He must increase, but I must decrease." ³¹ He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth is of the earth and he speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

³⁴ He whom God has sent speaks the word of God, for he does not give him the Spirit by measure.

³⁴ He whom God has sent speaks the word of God, for he does not give him the Spirit by measure. ³⁵ The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in his hand.

³⁵ The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in his hand.

²³ But the hour is coming — yes, is now here — when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father seeks for such worshipers.

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.

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.

⁵⁶ He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I abide in him.

¹⁷ Jesus answered them, "If any one wills to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking out of my own mind.

³⁰ While he was speaking these things, many believed in him. 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."

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, before Abraham came into being I am."

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?"

³¹ Now is the judgment of this world. Now the Ruler of this world will be cast out. ³² And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to me."

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

⁹ Jesus said, "Have I been so much time with you and you have not known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

¹⁷ the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot accept because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him because he abides with you and will be in you.

²⁰ On that day you will know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you.

²³ Jesus answered him, "If any one loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and abide with him.

² Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every one that bears fruit he cleanses, that it may bear more fruit. ³ You are already clean through the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me. ⁵ I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him — he bears much fruit; but without me you cannot do anything. ⁶ If any one does not abide in me, he is cast out like a branch and withers, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and they are burned.

⁸ By this is my Father glorified — by your bearing much fruit and becoming my disciples. ⁹ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands, you will abide in my love as I have kept my Father's commands and abide in his love.

¹⁶ It was not you who chose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give 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.

³ This is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.

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

²² The glory that thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one as we are one, ²³ I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that thou didst send me and didst love them just as thou didst love me. ²⁴ Father, those thou didst give me — I will that they also may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

²⁶ I have made known thy name to them and will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."

¹⁷ Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brethren and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'

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."

¹⁷ For he was numbered among us and received a share in this service.

²⁵ to take the place in this service and apostleship which Judas deserted to go to his own place."

⁵ There were Jews living in Jerusalem, pious men from every nation under heaven.

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.

²⁰ and he may send Jesus Christ, long ago appointed,

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."

⁴¹ but they went away from before the Council rejoicing because they were thought worthy to be put to shame for the Name. 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.

⁵ Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.

³⁵ Philip opened his mouth and beginning with that Scripture told him the good news about Jesus.

²⁰ and at once he began to proclaim in the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God.

³⁰ Cornelius said, "Four days ago, at this hour, I was offering the three o'clock prayer in my house, when suddenly a man stood before me in shining dress

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 —

⁴³ All of the prophets testify to this, that every one who believes in him obtains forgiveness of sins through his name."

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

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.

⁵ So Peter was under guard in the prison. But prayer was continually made by the church to God for him.

²⁴ But God's message grew and spread.

²⁶ "Brethren, sons of Abraham's race and those among you who reverence God, the message of this salvation has been sent to you.

³⁸ "Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.

³⁸ "Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. ³⁹ Yes, every one who believes in him is cleared from all the sins from which you could not be cleared by the Law of Moses.

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."

¹⁴ One woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple, from the city of Thyatira, who reverenced God, was listening. God opened her heart to receive what was said by Paul.

³ explaining and showing that it was necessary that the Christ should suffer and rise from the dead, and saying, "Jesus of whom I am telling you is the Christ."

¹⁸ Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him, and some said, "What can this idle talker mean?" Others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods," because he was telling the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

²⁸ For in him we live and move and are; as some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are his offspring.'

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.

²⁷ For I did not shrink from telling you the whole purpose of God. ²⁸ "Be watchful of yourselves and of all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers. Shepherd the church of God which he bought with his own blood.

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

³¹ Therefore watch, remembering that for three years I never ceased night nor day to exhort each one of you with tears. ³² "And now I commit you to the Lord and to his gracious message, which can build you up and give you the heritage among all those who have been made holy.

⁶ Then Paul, perceiving that one party was of Sadducees and the other of Pharisees, shouted out in the Council, "Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am being tried for the hope of the resurrection of the dead."

¹⁵ and having the hope in God which they themselves also accept — that there will be a resurrection both of the just and of the unjust.

⁶ And now I stand to be tried for the hope of the promise which God made to our fathers, ⁷ to which our twelve tribes devotedly serving God night and day hope to attain. For this hope I am accused by the Jews, O King.

¹⁶ But rise and stand on your feet: for I have appeared to you for the very purpose of appointing you a servant and a witness of the times you have seen me and of the times I shall appear to you.

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

²³ that the Christ would suffer and that he first, by rising from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles."

¹ PAUL, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart to bear the good news of God,

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

⁸ First of all I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is spoken of through all the world. ⁹ For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, is my witness how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

⁹ For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, is my witness how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers ¹⁰ asking if I may somehow at some time by the will of God find the way open to come to you.

¹³ I am not willing that you should be ignorant, brethren, that often I have purposed to come to you (though until now I have been hindered), in order that I might have some fruit among you as among the other Gentiles.

³⁰ slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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

²⁴ All are pronounced righteous by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God has set forth as a propitiation by his blood through faith, for the manifestation of his righteousness, because of the passing over of previous sins in the forbearance of God —

⁶ Just so David speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works, ⁷ "Blessed are they whose lawless acts have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered over. ⁸ Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not charge up to him."

¹² and the father of the circumcised, that is, of those who are not only circumcised, but who walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while uncircumcised.

¹ SO then, since we have been accounted righteous by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. ² Through him we obtained entrance into this grace in which we stand and exult in hope of the glory of God. ³ Not only so, but we also exult in trials, knowing that trial develops endurance,

³ Not only so, but we also exult in trials, knowing that trial develops endurance, ⁴ and endurance develops a tested character, and a tested character develops hope, 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.

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.

⁹ Much more then, now that we have been pronounced righteous through his blood, shall we be saved from wrath by him. ¹⁰ For if while enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

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.

¹⁷ Thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin you became obedient from the heart to the type of teaching in which you were instructed. ¹⁸ You were made free from sin and made servants to righteousness. ¹⁹ I am speaking humanly on account of the weakness of your human nature. As you did present your members as servants to impurity and to lawlessness to do lawlessness, so now you have presented your members as servants to righteousness for holy living. ²⁰ When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness. ²¹ What fruit did you have then? Fruit of which you are now ashamed; for the end of those things is death. ²² But now freed from sin and having become servants of God you have your fruit in holy living and its outcome, life eternal.

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

⁷ Therefore fleshly mindedness is hostile to God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, nor can it be. ⁸ Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

¹⁰ If Christ is in you the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.

¹⁷ And if children, we are also heirs — heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ, since we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him. ¹⁸ For I estimate that the sufferings of this present time amount to nothing in comparison with the glory that is to be revealed for us. ¹⁹ For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.

²⁹ For those whom he foreknew he also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

²⁹ For those whom he foreknew he also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren. 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.

³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor archangels, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

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

⁸ But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" — that is, the word of faith which we are proclaiming,

¹⁷ So then faith comes from the report and report comes through the word of Christ. ¹⁸ But I say, it cannot be true that they have not heard, can it? On the contrary, "Their sound has gone out into all the earth and their words to the ends of the world."

¹⁸ But I say, it cannot be true that they have not heard, can it? On the contrary, "Their sound has gone out into all the earth and their words to the ends of the world."

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,

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!

³⁶ For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory through the ages! Amen.

² Do not follow the fashions of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your minds so as to recognize what is the good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁵ But I have written rather boldly to you, partly to remind you, because of the grace given to me from God, ¹⁶ that I may be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, in priestly service of the good news of God, in order that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁶ that I may be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, in priestly service of the good news of God, in order that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ I do boast in Christ Jesus of my work for God. ¹⁸ For I will not venture to speak except of what Christ has done through me to promote obedience of Gentiles, by word and deed, ¹⁹ through the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit, so that from Jerusalem around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the good news of Christ,

¹⁹ through the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit, so that from Jerusalem around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the good news of Christ, ²⁰ being ambitious to tell the good news where Christ has not been named, so that I might not build on any other man's foundation,

²⁷ They have been pleased to do this and indeed they are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared their things of the spirit, they owe them sacred service in things of the body. ²⁸ So after completing this and sealing to them this fruit, I shall come away and pass by you to Spain.

³⁰ I beg you, brethren, for the sake of our Lord Jesus and the love of the Spirit to join me in wrestling in prayer to God on my behalf,

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

²⁵ To him who is able to make you strong according to the good news which I bear, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, and according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret through ages, ²⁶ but now made manifest through the prophetic Scriptures by the command of the eternal God, to promote obedience to the faith made known to all the Gentiles —

²⁶ but now made manifest through the prophetic Scriptures by the command of the eternal God, to promote obedience to the faith made known to all the Gentiles —

¹ PAUL called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and Sosthenes our brother, 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:

⁴ I am always thanking God for you because of the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus, ⁵ that you are rich in him in everything, in readiness of speech and in all knowledge,

²³ but we proclaim Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, to Gentiles folly,

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

⁶ We do speak wisdom among the mature, but a wisdom not of this world nor of the defeated rulers of this world. ⁷ But we speak a wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the world began for our glory.

¹² But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we know the gracious gifts of God. ¹³ And these we speak of, not in words taught by man's wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual things in spiritual words. ¹⁴ But the animal man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, nor can he know them because they are spiritually understood. ¹⁵ But the spiritual man understands all things though he himself is understood by no one.

⁵ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to faith, as the Lord granted to each of us.

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

¹ LET a man view us as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries. ² Moreover, in the case of stewards it is required that a man be found faithful.

² Moreover, in the case of stewards it is required that a man be found faithful. ³ But it is of very slight importance to me to be judged by you or any human court. I do not even pass judgment on myself.

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

¹⁷ For this very purpose I have sent to you Timothy, who is my loved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Christ — how I teach everywhere in every church.

⁹ Do you not know that unrighteous people will not inherit the kingdom of God? Make no mistake, neither the unchaste, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who practice unnatural vices, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such some of you were. But you have washed yourselves; but you have been made holy; but you have been pronounced righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

²⁵ In regard to unmarried women I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who through the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy.

⁶ still to us there is one God the Father, of whom are all things and we for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through him.

¹⁷ If I do it voluntarily I have a reward, but if reluctantly, I have been charged with a responsibility.

²³ I do all things for the sake of the good news that I may become a partner with it.

²⁵ Every one who contends in the games practices self-restraint in all things. They do it to win a fading crown, but we for an unfading one. ²⁶ Thus I run with no uncertain goal: thus I strike, not as if pounding the air. ²⁷ On the contrary, I maul and master my body so that I may not, after preaching to others, become myself unable to stand the test.

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

⁶ And there are varieties of products, but the same God who produces all things in all.

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

¹¹ One and the same Spirit produces all of these gifts, distributing to each one individually as he will.

¹³ But now faith, hope, love — these three — endure. And the greatest of these is love.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not without result, but I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not without result, but I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. ¹¹ Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you believed. ¹² But if Christ is proclaimed — that he has been raised from the dead — how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable. ²⁰ But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first-fruit of those who have fallen asleep. ²¹ For since by a man came death, by a man also came resurrection of the dead. ²² For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. ²³ But each in his own order. The first-fruit is Christ, then those who are Christ's, at his coming.

²³ But each in his own order. The first-fruit is Christ, then those who are Christ's, at his coming. ²⁴ Then will be the end when he delivers up the kingship to God his Father, when he has defeated every archangel and authority and power. ²⁵ For he must be king until he "puts all his enemies under his feet."

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

⁵⁸ So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; since you know that your labor is not fruitless in the Lord.

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth with all the holy that are in all Achaia:

⁵ Because as the sufferings of Christ are abundant in our case, so through Christ our encouragement is abundant. ⁶ But if we are in distress, it is for your encouragement and salvation. If we are encouraged, it is for your encouragement which is effective in the endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer. ⁷ Our hope is strong regarding you, since we know that as you are partakers of the sufferings so you are of the encouragement. 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.

¹⁴ Thanks be to God who always leads us in his triumph in Christ and spreads through us the sweet odor of the knowledge of him in every place.

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

¹ THEREFORE, having this service through God's mercy, we are not downhearted,

⁴ in whom the god of this world has blinded the thinking of the unbelieving so that the light of the glorious good news of Christ, who is the image of God, may not shine in. ⁵ For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. ⁶ Because it is the God who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts bringing the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ. ⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen jars, that the surpassing power may be God's and not ours — ⁸ in every way distressed, but not reduced to straits, perplexed, but not in despair, ⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken, cast down, but not destroyed, ¹⁰ always bearing about in our bodies the death of Jesus that the life also of Jesus may be manifest in our bodies. ¹¹ For we, though living, are always delivered up to death for Jesus' sake, that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹² So death works in us, but life in you.

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

⁵ He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, and he has given to us the pledge of the Spirit.

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

¹⁸ And all things are from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given to us the service of reconciliation —

¹⁸ And all things are from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given to us the service of reconciliation — ¹⁹ to proclaim that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting against men their sins, and that he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

¹⁹ to proclaim that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting against men their sins, and that he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

¹⁹ to proclaim that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting against men their sins, and that he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 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.

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. ²¹ Him who knew no sin God made sin for our sake that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

¹ AS God's fellow workers we also beg you not to receive his grace fruitlessly.

⁴ but in everything we commend ourselves as God's servants in great patience, in distresses, in necessities, in hardships, ⁵ in floggings, in prisons, in riots, in toils, in sleepless nights, in fastings,

⁵ in floggings, in prisons, in riots, in toils, in sleepless nights, in fastings, ⁶ with purity, with knowledge, with long-suffering, with kindness, with the Holy Spirit, with sincere love, ⁷ with the message of truth, with the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and the left,

¹⁶ What agreement has the Temple of God with idols? For we are the Temple of the living God, as God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people. 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 ¹⁸ and will be a Father to you and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord, the Ruler of all."

⁴ Great is my frankness in speaking to you; great is my boasting of you; I am filled with encouragement, running over with joy at every distress of ours.

⁷ and not by his coming only, but also by the encouragement by which he was encouraged about you. He told us of your longing for me, your lamentation, your zeal in my behalf, so that I rejoice the more.

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,

¹⁴ For we are not stretching ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to reach you with the good news of Christ.

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

²³ Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind) I superlatively — in labors beyond measure, in prisons beyond measure, in floggings excessively, in deaths often.

²³ Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind) I superlatively — in labors beyond measure, in prisons beyond measure, in floggings excessively, in deaths often. ²⁴ From Jews five times I received forty stripes less one, ²⁵ three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was ship-wrecked, a night and day I have been in the deep; ²⁶ in journeys often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the open country, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren; ²⁷ in toil and labor, in many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

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

³ since you are eager to have a test of Christ speaking in me. He is not weak toward you, but powerful among you.

³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁵ But when he who had appointed me when I was in my mother's womb, and had called me by his grace, ¹⁶ was pleased to reveal his Son in me that I might tell the good news of him among the Gentiles, immediately I did not consult with flesh and blood,

⁷ But, on the contrary, seeing that I was entrusted with the good news for the uncircumcision as Peter was for the circumcision, ⁸ for he who had worked in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcision had worked in me for the Gentiles,

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

⁹ So then those who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

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

¹¹ You make me afraid that I have labored over you uselessly.

¹⁹ my children, for whom I again am suffering birth pangs until Christ is formed in you.

⁵ For we in the Spirit because of faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness. ⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither has circumcision any value nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love. ⁷ You were running finely. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

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

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, slowness to anger, kindness, benevolence, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.

⁹ Let us not grow discouraged in doing what is noble, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow faint.

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the Holy who are at Ephesus, faithful in Christ Jesus:

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly heights in Christ, ⁴ even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and spotless before him in love. ⁵ He predestined us to recognition as sons to himself through Jesus Christ according to the kindness of his will, ⁶ to the praise of his glorious grace which he bestowed on us in the Beloved, ⁷ in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, according to the wealth of his loving kindness ⁸ which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and understanding.

¹⁰ for the government of the fullness of the ages, to bring to unity all things in Christ, both things in the heavens and things on the earth. ¹¹ In him we were predestined according to the plan of him who works in all things according to the purpose of his will,

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

¹⁵ For this reason I also, since hearing of your faith in Jesus and your love to all the saints,

¹⁵ For this reason I also, since hearing of your faith in Jesus and your love to all the saints, ¹⁶ never cease giving thanks for you when I mention you in my prayers, ¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father most glorious, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of himself,

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father most glorious, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of himself,

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

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,

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,

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, ¹⁹ and what the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe according to the inworking of his vast might,

¹⁹ and what the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe according to the inworking of his vast might,

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

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, ²³ which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

²³ which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

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

³ Among these we all lived once in the passions of our flesh and of our thoughts, and we were by nature children of wrath like the rest. ⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in misdeeds, made us alive along with Christ — by grace we have been saved — ⁶ and raised us up with him and made us sit with him in the heavenly heights in Christ Jesus, ⁷ that he might show in the ages to come the surpassing richness of his grace in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, ⁹ not of works, that no one may boast. ¹⁰ For we are his work, formed in Christ Jesus for good works in which God had prepared beforehand to have us live.

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

¹² and that you were then apart from Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world. 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,

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.

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.

¹⁹ So then you are no longer strangers and resident aliens, but fellow citizens with the holy and members of the household of God,

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.

¹ FOR this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles, — ² if you have heard of the gracious commission which God has given me to you, ³ that by revelation the mystery has been disclosed to me, as I wrote before briefly, ⁴ In reading that letter you can learn my understanding in the mystery of Christ, 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,

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.

⁷ of which I became a servant according to the free grace of God which was given me by the inworking of his power.

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

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

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 ⁹ and to show what is the working of the mystery which has been hidden for ages in God, who created all things ¹⁰ in order to disclose now to the archangels and powers in the heavenly heights, through the church, the varied wisdom of God,

¹³ So I beg you not to lose heart because of the distresses that come on me for your sake. They are a high honor to you. ¹⁴ For this reason I bow my knees to the Father ¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, ¹⁶ that he may grant to you according to his glorious wealth to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man,

¹⁶ that he may grant to you according to his glorious wealth to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man,

¹⁶ that he may grant to you according to his glorious wealth to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man, ¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and that you, rooted and founded in love,

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and that you, rooted and founded in love,

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and that you, rooted and founded in love, ¹⁸ may be able with all the holy to comprehend what is the breadth and length and height and depth — ¹⁹ yes, to know the love of Christ, which yet surpasses knowledge, and may be filled with all the fullness of God. ²⁰ To him who is able to do far beyond all we ask or think by the power that works in us,

¹ I, THE prisoner of the Lord, beg you, then, to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called, ² with all modesty and gentleness, being slow to anger, bearing with one another in love,

⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

¹⁰ He who descended is also he who "ascended" high above all the heavens to fill all things. ¹¹ And he "gave" to some to be apostles, some prophets, some tellers of the good news, some shepherds and teachers, ¹² for the equipment of the saints, for the work of service, for building up the body of Christ, ¹³ until we all attain oneness in the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, and the maturity of manhood and the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

¹³ until we all attain oneness in the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, and the maturity of manhood and the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

¹⁵ but speaking the truth in love we shall grow wholly into him who is the head, Christ, ¹⁶ from whom the whole body framed together and strengthened by what every joint supplies vigorously, in the measure of each, makes growth in building itself up in love.

¹⁶ from whom the whole body framed together and strengthened by what every joint supplies vigorously, in the measure of each, makes growth in building itself up in love.

¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, aliens from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, and because of the hardness of their hearts.

²¹ if you have heard him and have been taught in him as the truth is in Jesus,

²³ and that you should be made new in the spirit of your minds

³² Be kind to one another, sympathetic, forgiving one another just as God in Christ has forgiven you.

² and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God yielding a fragrant odor.

⁴ nor should there be indecent and foolish talk or jesting, which are unbecoming, but rather thanksgiving.

⁸ For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light — ⁹ for the fruit of light appears in all generosity and righteousness and truth — ¹⁰ testing what is pleasing to the Lord,

¹⁵ Be strictly careful, then, how you live, not as unwise but as wise.

¹⁷ Therefore do not be thoughtless, but understand what is the Lord's will.

²⁰ giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father. ²¹ Be subject to one another in reverence for Christ,

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

²⁷ that he might present to himself the church glorious, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and faultless.

⁶ not with eye service as pleasers of men, but as Christ's slaves, doing the will of God in a whole-souled way,

¹⁰ To conclude: Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the arch-angels, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly heights.

²¹ That you also may know my situation, what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord,

¹ PAUL and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the Holy in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with Bishops and Deacons:

³ I thank my God for all your remembrance of me, ⁴ always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy

⁴ always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy ⁵ for your fellowship in spreading the good news from the first day until now,

⁹ And this is my prayer that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and all insight, ¹⁰ so that you may discriminate between the things that differ, that you may be pure and blameless in the day of Christ, ¹¹ filled with the fruit of knowledge through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

¹¹ filled with the fruit of knowledge through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

¹⁵ Some indeed proclaim Christ because of envy and rivalry, some also because of good will. ¹⁶ Some announce Christ from love, knowing that I am placed for the defense of the good news, ¹⁷ but others out of partisanship, thinking to add distress to my chains. ¹⁸ What then? Still in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed and in that I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.

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

³⁰ and you have the same struggle that you saw in me and now hear of in me.

⁶ who, though he was in the form of God, did not think that equality with God was something to be grasped,

¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee may bow, of beings in heaven and those on earth and those under the earth,

¹³ For it is God who is working in you both the willing and the doing because of his kindness.

¹⁶ holding forth the message of life, so that on the day of Christ I can boast that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. ¹⁷ But if I am poured out as a libation on your sacrificial offering of faith, I rejoice and share the joy of you all. ¹⁸ In the same way you must rejoice and share my joy. ¹⁹ But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I may be cheered by knowing about you. ²⁰ For I have no one likeminded with him who will so sincerely care for your interests. ²¹ For all pursue their own aims, not those of Christ Jesus. ²² But you know how he has been tested and how like a child with a father he has served with me in spreading the good news.

²⁵ I think it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my needs,

¹⁰ that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming like him in death,

⁶ Do not worry, but in everything by prayer and entreaty with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

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

¹⁷ Not that I am seeking for the gift, but I am seeking for the fruit that increases to your credit. ¹⁸ I have enough of everything and more than enough. I am fully supplied since receiving from Epaphroditus the things from you, a fragrant odor, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. ¹⁹ My God will supply every need of yours according to his wealth in glory in Christ Jesus.

³ We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in praying for you, ⁴ because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have to all the holy

⁴ because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have to all the holy ⁵ because of the hope laid up for us in heaven. Of this you have already heard in the true message of the good news

⁵ because of the hope laid up for us in heaven. Of this you have already heard in the true message of the good news ⁶ which has come to you. Just as in all the world it is bearing fruit and growing, so also it is among you since the day that you heard and learned of the grace of God in truth.

⁶ which has come to you. Just as in all the world it is bearing fruit and growing, so also it is among you since the day that you heard and learned of the grace of God in truth.

⁹ For this reason we also, from the day we heard it, never cease praying for you and asking that you may have full knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight, ¹⁰ and that you may live lives worthy of the Lord and please him in every way. May you bear fruit in every good work and grow in the knowledge of God.

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

¹⁵ He is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation; ¹⁶ for in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, both visible and invisible, whether thrones or lordships or archangels or powers — all things have been created through him and for him, ¹⁷ and he is before all things and in him all things unite. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he may be first in all things,

²⁰ and to reconcile all things to himself through him, making peace through the blood of his cross — all things, I say, whether on earth or in heaven. ²¹ And you who were once alienated and enemies in your minds, living in wicked works, he has reconciled ²² by his body of flesh through death, to present you holy and spotless and blameless before him,

²² by his body of flesh through death, to present you holy and spotless and blameless before him, 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. ²⁴ Now I rejoice in what I suffer for your sake, and in my turn am filling up in my flesh what was lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body, that is, the church. ²⁵ I became a servant of the church according to the commission from God given to me for you, to deliver fully God's message,

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

¹ FOR I wish you to know how I am wrestling for you and for those in Laodicea and for all who have not seen my face in the flesh, ² that your hearts may be encouraged and that joined together in love you may reach all the wealth of the full assurance of insight into the knowledge of the mystery of God, which is Christ. ³ In him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge lie hidden.

⁶ Since, then, you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, live in him, ⁷ rooted and built up in him, growing strong in the faith as you have been taught, and overflowing with thanksgiving.

⁹ For in him dwells all the fullness of God in bodily form, ¹⁰ and you have been filled in him. He is the head of every archangel and authority.

¹⁰ and you have been filled in him. He is the head of every archangel and authority. ¹¹ In him you were circumcised with a circumcision not done by hands, by laying aside your fleshly body in the circumcision of Christ. ¹² You were buried with him in baptism and raised again through faith in the inworking of God who raised him from the dead. ¹³ You who were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh God has made alive with him, and has forgiven us all our sins.

¹³ You who were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh God has made alive with him, and has forgiven us all our sins. ¹⁴ He erased the writing that was against us in the rules, the writing that was opposed to us. He has taken it out of the way by nailing it to his cross. ¹⁵ He despoiled the archangels and authorities and fearlessly made an example of them when he triumphed over them on the cross.

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

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

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

¹⁵ Let the peace of Christ be umpire in your hearts. For this you were called into one body. And be thankful. ¹⁶ The message of Christ must dwell in you richly, as you teach in all wisdom and admonish one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs and sing with grace in your hearts to God. ¹⁷ And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

²⁰ Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

⁵ Behave wisely towards outsiders, buying up the opportunity.

⁷ Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful worker and fellow servant in the Lord, will tell you everything about me.

¹² Epaphras, the servant of Christ Jesus, who is one of you, sends his greetings to you. He always wrestles in prayer on your behalf that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

¹ PAUL and Silvanus and Timothy, to the Church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. ² We thank God always for you all when we mention you in our prayers, ³ unceasingly remembering your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before God our Father.

⁵ and that our good news came to you not in word only but in power and in the Holy Spirit and in great assurance, just as you know we acted among you for your benefit.

⁹ For you remember, brethren, our toil and labor as we worked night and day so as not to burden any one of you while we proclaimed to you the good news of God.

¹² to live lives worthy of the God who is calling you into his own kingdom and glory. ¹³ For this reason we unceasingly give thanks to God that when you received from us the report of the message of God you accepted it not as the message of men, but, as it truly is, the message of God, which also is doing its work in you who believe.

² and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the good news of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith, ³ that no one might be disturbed in these trials. For you yourselves know that we are destined to this.

³ that no one might be disturbed in these trials. For you yourselves know that we are destined to this. ⁴ For when we were with you we told you in advance, "We shall soon have trouble." And so it came to pass, as you know. ⁵ Therefore, when I could no longer endure the anxiety, I sent to know about your faith for fear that the tempter had tempted you and our labor had gone for nothing. ⁶ But now that Timothy has come to us from you and has brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always keep us well in mind and long to see us, just as we long to see you,

¹⁰ while we pray beyond measure night and day that we may see your faces and make good whatever lacks there may be in your faith? ¹¹ May our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus Christ open the way for us to come to you. ¹² The Lord make you to abound and overflow in love toward one another and toward all men, just as we do toward you, ¹³ that your hearts may be made firm and you may be blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones.

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

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

⁹ Regarding brotherly love you have no need for me to write to you. For you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, ¹⁰ and you do the same to all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still further

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.

¹² We beg you, brethren, to regard those who are laboring among you and who preside over you in the Lord and give you counsel, ¹³ and to esteem them very highly in love on account of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. ¹⁴ We urge you, brethren, to warn the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, help the weak, be patient with all.

¹⁷ Pray without ceasing.

¹ PAUL and Silvanus and Timothy to the Church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

³ We ought always to thank God for you, brethren, as is fitting, since your faith is growing greatly and the love of each and all of you toward one another is increasing,

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.

¹⁶ May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal encouragement and good hope through grace,

¹⁶ May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal encouragement and good hope through grace, ¹⁷ encourage your hearts and make you strong in every good word and work.

⁸ nor did we eat bread with any one without paying, but with labor and toil night and day we worked in order not to burden any one of you.

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the appointment of God, our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope,

¹² I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has given me strength, because he thought me faithful and put me into his service,

¹⁵ The saying is trust-worthy and deserving of full acceptance that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," of whom I am the foremost.

¹⁷ To the King of the ages, the immortal, invisible, only God, be honor and glory for the ages of the ages! Amen.

⁶ who gave himself as a ransom for all, a fact to be witnessed to at the fitting time. ⁷ To this I was appointed a herald and an apostle — I am telling the truth, I am not lying — a teacher of Gentiles in faith and truth.

² A bishop, then, should be above reproach, true to one woman, temperate, self-controlled, dignified, hospitable, with a gift for teaching,

¹⁶ Confessedly great is the mystery of godliness: "Who was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory."

⁶ In teaching this to the brethren you will be a noble servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and of the excellent teaching which you have followed.

¹⁶ who alone has immortality, who dwells in light unapproachable, whom no man has seen or can see. To him be honor and power eternal! Amen.

³ I thank God whom, I serve, following in the steps of my forefathers, with a pure conscience, while I constantly mention you in my prayers night and day,

³ I thank God whom, I serve, following in the steps of my forefathers, with a pure conscience, while I constantly mention you in my prayers night and day, ⁴ remembering your tears and longing to see you, that I may be filled with joy.

⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and self-control. ⁸ Do not be ashamed to testify for our Lord or for me his prisoner, but join in suffering hardships for the good news as God gives power.

¹⁰ but now manifested by the appearance of our Savior Christ Jesus, who has defeated death and brought to light life and immortality by the good news. ¹¹ For this I was made a herald and an apostle and a teacher, ¹² and for this reason I am suffering these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know in whom I have put my faith, and am confident that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.

¹ YOU, therefore, my child, must be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, ² and the things you heard from me, which came through many witnesses, you must commit to trustworthy men who will be able to teach others also.

² and the things you heard from me, which came through many witnesses, you must commit to trustworthy men who will be able to teach others also. ³ Take your share of hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. ⁴ No one while serving as a soldier entangles himself in the affairs of life, for the soldier must please him who enlisted him.

⁹ In telling it I am suffering hardships even to chains, as if I were an evildoer, but God's message is not chained. ¹⁰ For this reason I am enduring all for the sake of the chosen, that they may gain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

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

²⁴ and the servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but be courteous to all, skillful in teaching, forbearing, ²⁵ instructing opponents with gentleness, for God may give them a change of heart which will lead them to knowledge of the truth,

² proclaim the message, be at it in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, encourage, with all patience in teaching. ³ For there will be a time when they will not endure wholesome teaching, but following their own fancies and wishing to have their ears tickled, they will get a crowd of teachers. ⁴ They will turn their ears away from the truth and give attention to myths. ⁵ But you must be calm in all circumstances, suffer hardships, do the work of a bringer of the good news, carry out fully all the duties of your office.

⁵ But you must be calm in all circumstances, suffer hardships, do the work of a bringer of the good news, carry out fully all the duties of your office. ⁶ For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is near.

⁸ Now the crown of righteousness is awaiting me. The Lord the righteous judge will give it to me on that day, and not only to me but to all those who have loved his appearing.

² in hope of life eternal, which the God who never lies promised ages ago

¹⁵ To the pure all things are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure. Even their minds and consciences are polluted. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by their deeds they disown him. They are detestable, disobedient, and worthless for any good work.

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all men, ¹² teaching us to renounce all irreligion and worldly passions and to live soberly, justly and piously in this present world,

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

¹ REMIND them to be submissive to ruling authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

³ For we ourselves were once thoughtless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to passions and various pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

³ For we ourselves were once thoughtless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to passions and various pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. ⁴ But when the kindness of our Savior, God, and his love to men appeared,

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 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, ⁷ that we might be declared righteous by his grace and become heirs with the hope of life eternal."

⁷ that we might be declared righteous by his grace and become heirs with the hope of life eternal."

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

¹ PAUL, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,

⁴ I always thank my God when I mention you in my prayers, ⁵ for I hear of the love and the loyalty that you have to the Lord Jesus Christ and to all the holy.

²³ Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus,

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,

⁵ For to which of the angels did he ever say, "Thou art my son; I have to-day become thy Father"? and again, "I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me a Son"? ⁶ And again when he brings his first-born into the world of men he says, "And let all the angels of God bow down to him."

⁶ And again when he brings his first-born into the world of men he says, "And let all the angels of God bow down to him."

¹⁰ And, "Thou, in the beginning, O Lord, didst found the earth, and the heavens are works of thy hands. ¹¹ They will perish, but thou wilt endure. They all will grow old like a garment ¹² and like a mantle thou wilt roll them up. But thou art the same and thy years will never end."

¹⁰ For it was fitting that he through whom are all things and for whom are all things, when leading many sons to glory, should make the great Leader of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

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,

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

¹ THEREFORE, holy brethren, sharers in a heavenly call, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus, ² who was faithful to him who made him as also Moses was in all God's house. ³ For he has been thought worthy of more glory than Moses, just as he who has built a house has more honor than the house. ⁴ For every house is built by some one, but he who built all things is God.

⁶ but Christ as a Son over his own house. We are his house if we hold firmly to the end our confidence and the hope of which we boast.

¹⁴ For we become sharers with Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance with which we began.

¹⁴ Since, then, we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

¹⁰ For God is not so unjust as to forget your work and the love that you have shown to his name as you have served and are still serving the holy.

¹⁹ We have this hope as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and it enters into the tent within the curtain

¹⁹ for the Law brought nothing to perfection — and there is the bringing in of a better hope through which we draw near to God.

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

²² Almost everything is cleansed with blood, according to the Law, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

¹⁰ By this "will" we are made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹² But this Priest after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, took his seat at the right hand of God, ¹³ for the future only waiting until his enemies are made his footstool. ¹⁴ For by one offering he has forever perfected those who are made holy.

¹⁴ For by one offering he has forever perfected those who are made holy.

²⁰ by the new and living way which he has made for us through the curtain, that is, his flesh,

³⁴ For you even suffered with the prisoners and accepted the plundering of your property with joy, knowing that you had a better and enduring possession. ³⁵ Do not, then, cast away your confidence, for it will have a great reward. ³⁶ You have need of patience so that after doing the will of God you may gain the promised blessing.

³⁶ You have need of patience so that after doing the will of God you may gain the promised blessing. ³⁷ For yet "a little, very little, while, and he who is coming will come and will not delay. ³⁸ My righteous man will live by faith; but if he shrinks back, my soul has no delight in him."

³⁸ My righteous man will live by faith; but if he shrinks back, my soul has no delight in him."

⁵ By faith Enoch was taken from the earth so that he did not see death, and he was not found because God had taken him. For before being taken he had this testimony that he had pleased God.

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

³⁴ quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness grew strong, became mighty in war, turned back armies of foreigners. ³⁵ Women received back their dead by a resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to pay for liberation, in order to gain a better resurrection. ³⁶ Still others had experience of mockings and floggings, yes, of chains and prisons. ³⁷ They were stoned, afflicted, sawn in two, murdered with the sword. They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, distressed, maltreated. ³⁸ The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in caves and in holes in the earth.

¹ THEREFORE, surrounded as we are by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies before us, 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.

⁴ You have not yet resisted to blood in the contest against sin,

²³ to the festal assembly and congregation of first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,

⁸ Jesus Christ is yesterday and to-day the same — yes, and through the ages.

¹⁶ Do not forget kindness and generosity, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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, ²¹ equip you with every good thing for doing his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.

²¹ equip you with every good thing for doing his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.

² Think it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into all sorts of trials,

² Think it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into all sorts of trials, ³ since you know that the testing of your faith brings out endurance. ⁴ Let endurance do its complete work, that you may be complete and perfect, lacking in nothing. ⁵ If any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask it from God, who gives to all freely without reproaching, and it will be given to him.

⁹ With it we bless the Lord our Father and with it we curse the men who are made in the image of God.

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

⁴ You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever chooses to be a friend to the world stands as an enemy of God.

⁷ Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient over it until he receives the early and the late rains. ⁸ You too must be patient. Keep your hearts steadfast, for the coming of the Lord is near.

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.

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.

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. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead —

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead —

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead —

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead — ⁴ a birth into an inheritance immortal, unstained and unfading, kept in heaven for you

⁴ a birth into an inheritance immortal, unstained and unfading, kept in heaven for you ⁵ who are guarded by the power of God through faith for the salvation which is ready to be revealed on the last day.

⁵ who are guarded by the power of God through faith for the salvation which is ready to be revealed on the last day.

¹⁹ but by precious blood, as of a faultless, spotless lamb, the blood of Christ, 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. ²² Now that you have made your souls holy by obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, you must love one another steadily from your hearts,

²² Now that you have made your souls holy by obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, you must love one another steadily from your hearts, ²³ for you have been reborn, not from mortal seed but from immortal by the living and enduring word of God.

² and, like new-born babes, long for the reasonable pure milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation,

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

¹⁵ For this is the will of God — that by doing good we shall silence the ignorance of thoughtless men.

¹⁵ but exalt Christ as Lord in your hearts and be always ready to defend yourselves to every one who asks you to give account of the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence.

¹⁸ For Christ once for all died for sins, a righteous man for unrighteous men, so that he might lead us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

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.

² so that he does not go on living what remains of his time in the flesh according to human passions, but according to God's will.

¹ THE elders among you I beg — I who am a fellow elder and a witness to the sufferings of Christ and a sharer in the glory soon to be revealed —

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.

² Grace be to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

² Grace be to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 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,

⁶ and to your knowledge self-control, and to your self-control endurance, and to your endurance reverence,

⁸ For when you have these in abundance they make you to be neither idle nor fruitless regarding the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹¹ For so entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly provided for you.

¹⁸ For by speaking great empty swelling words they entrap in the passions of the flesh — wanton excesses — those who are nearly escaping from those who live in error. ¹⁹ While they promise them liberty they themselves are the slaves of corruption; for by whatever any one is overcome to that he is enslaved. ²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they have been again entangled and overcome, their last state has become worse than the first. ²¹ For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment that has been committed to them. ²² That has happened to them which the true proverb says, "The dog returns to his own vomit and the sow after bathing returns to wallowing in the mire."

¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, since you expect this, endeavor earnestly to be found by him in peace, spotless and faultless, ¹⁵ and regard the long-suffering of our Lord as salvation, as also our beloved brother Paul has written to you, according to the wisdom given to him.

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!

¹ WHAT was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon and our hands touched — it is about the Word of Life

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.

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

² And he is an atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but for those of the whole world.

⁸ Again I am writing a new command, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining.

¹² I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven for his name's sake.

¹⁷ And the world is passing away with its passions. But he who does the will of God endures forever.

²⁷ But as for you, the anointing that you have received from him remains in you and you have no need for any one to teach you, but as his anointing teaches you about all things and is true and is no lie and as it has taught you, you must remain in him.

¹ SEE what love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God. And so we are. The reason why tho world does not know us is that it did not know him. ² Beloved, we are now children of God and it is not yet plain what we shall be. But we know that if he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. ³ And every one who has this hope set upon Christ purifies himself just as Christ is pure.

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

⁸ He who is committing sin is of the Devil, for the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this the Son of God appeared — to undo the works of the Devil.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death into life because we love the brethren. Whoever does not love remains in death.

²² and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight. ²³ And this is his command — to believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another as he has given us command.

⁴ But you are of God, little children, and have conquered them, because he who is in us is greater than he who is in the world.

⁹ By this the love of God to us was made plain: that God sent his only Son into the world so that we may have life through him. ¹⁰ In this is love — not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

¹⁶ We have come to know and have put our trust in the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God and God remains in him.

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

³ For I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified to your truth — that you are living in the truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living in the truth.

² Mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

²⁴ To him who is able to guard you from falling and to make you stand faultless before his glory in great joy, ²⁵ to the only God our Savior, be, through Jesus Christ our Lord, glory, majesty, might, and authority, before all time and now and for all the ages! Amen.

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

⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who shall be, the Almighty."

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."

¹⁷ When I saw him I fell at his feet as if dead. But he laid his right hand on me and said: "Do not fear. I am the first and the last 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.

³ You have endurance and you have borne for the sake of my name and you have not been discouraged.

⁸ "To the Angel of the Church in Smyrna write: "These things says the First and the Last, who died and returned to life:

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

¹⁴ "To the Angel of the Church in Laodicea write: "These things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God:

²⁰ See, I am standing at the door and knocking. If any one listens to my voice and opens his door, I will come in with him and will feast with him and he with me.

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

⁹ Then they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and didst ransom for God by thy blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation, ¹⁰ and hast made them a kingdom of priests to our God, and they shall be kings on the earth." ¹¹ Then I looked and I heard the voices of many angels encircling the throne and the voices of the four living creatures and of the elders — the number of them was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands — ¹² crying aloud, "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing." ¹³ And every creature that is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all creatures in them, I heard saying, "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and power for the ages of the ages."

¹³ And every creature that is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all creatures in them, I heard saying, "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and power for the ages of the ages." ¹⁴ The four living creatures said, "Amen," and the elders fell down and worshiped.

¹⁵ The seventh angel sounded his trumpet and there came loud voices in heaven saying, "The kingship of the world has become our Lord's and his Christ's and he will be king for the ages of the ages."

⁴ These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were ransomed from among men as first-fruits for God and the Lamb.

¹² Here is the endurance of the holy who keep the commands of God and the faith of Jesus.

⁶ He said to me, "They have come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To him who is thirsting I will give from the spring of the water of life freely.

²³ And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it; for the glory of God illumines it and the Lamb is its light.

²³ And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it; for the glory of God illumines it and the Lamb is its light. ²⁴ The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it,

⁵ There will not be night any more and they will have no need of lamplight or of sunlight; for the Lord God will shine upon them and they will be kings for the ages of the ages.

¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. ¹⁴ Blessed will those be who wash their robes so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter by the gates into the city.