John 8 Cross References - Riverside

¹ but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ² EARLY in the morning he came again to the Temple courts and all the people came to him and he sat down and taught them. ³ The scribes and the Pharisees led in a woman taken in adultery and making her stand in the midst, ⁴ they said to him, "Teacher, this woman was taken in the very act of adultery. ⁵ In the Law Moses commanded to stone such. What do you say?" ⁶ This they said, testing him, to have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped over and wrote with his finger on the ground. ⁷ As they kept on questioning him, he lifted himself up and said to them, "Let the sinless one among you be the first to throw a stone at her," ⁸ and again he stooped over and went on writing on the ground. ⁹ After hearing that, they passed out one by one, beginning with the older men, and he was left alone and the woman there in the center. ¹⁰ Jesus raised himself up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one sentenced you?" ¹¹ She said, "No one, Sir." Jesus said, "Neither do I sentence you. Go. From now on sin no more."] ¹² Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." ¹³ The Pharisees said to him, "You are bearing witness to yourself; your witness is not true." ¹⁴ Jesus answered them, "Even if I witness to myself, my witness is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going. You do not know where I came from or where I am going. ¹⁵ You judge according to the flesh, I judge no one. ¹⁶ Even if I judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but when I judge he who sent me is with me. ¹⁷ In our law it is written that the evidence of two persons is true. ¹⁸ I am giving witness to myself and the Father who sent me witnesses to me." ¹⁹ They said to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also." ²⁰ These words he spoke in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple courts, and no one arrested him because his hour had not yet come. ²¹ He said again to them, "I am going away and you will search for me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come." ²² The Jews said, "Will he kill himself, and so says, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?" ²³ He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. ²⁴ Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins. Unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins." ²⁵ They said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Exactly what I have been telling you. ²⁶ I have many things to say about you and to judge. But he who sent me is true, and what I have heard from him I speak in the world." ²⁷ They did not perceive that he was speaking to them of the Father. ²⁸ Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that of myself I do nothing, but as the Father taught me, so I speak. ²⁹ He who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him." 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." ³³ They answered him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have never been in slavery to any man. How do you say, 'You will become free'?" ³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, every one who practices sin is the slave of sin. ³⁵ The slave does not stay in the house forever; the Son stays forever. ³⁶ So if the Son frees you, you will be really free. ³⁷ I know that you are descendants of Abraham; but you are trying to kill me, because my word has no place within you. ³⁸ I am speaking what I have seen with my Father and you are doing what you have heard with your father." ³⁹ They answered him, "Abraham is our father." He said to them, "If you were children of Abraham you would do the works of Abraham. ⁴⁰ But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I have heard from God. Abraham did not do this. ⁴¹ You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of unchastity. We have one father — God." ⁴² Jesus said to them, "If God were your father you would love me; for I came forth from God and am now here. For I have not come of myself, but he sent me. ⁴³ Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message. ⁴⁴ You are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to practice. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not stand in the truth; for truth is not in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks out of his own; for he is a liar and the father of it. ⁴⁵ But me — because I tell you the truth — me you do not believe. ⁴⁶ Who of you convinces me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷ He who is of God listens to God's words. For this reason you do not listen — because you are not of God." ⁴⁸ The Jews answered him, "Do we not say correctly that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?" ⁴⁹ Jesus answered, "I have not a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me. ⁵⁰ I am not seeking my own glory. There is one who seeks it and judges. ⁵¹ Truly, truly, I tell you, if any one keeps my word he will not look on death." ⁵² The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died and the prophets died, and you say, 'If any one keeps my word he will never taste of death.' ⁵³ Are you greater than our father Abraham? And yet he died and the prophets died. Whom do you make yourself out to be?" ⁵⁴ Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is your God. ⁵⁵ Yet you do not know him, but I know him, and if I should say that I did not know him I should be a liar like you. But I know him and I keep his word. ⁵⁶ Abraham your father rejoiced that he was to see my day, and he saw it and was glad." ⁵⁷ The Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham? ⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, before Abraham came into being I am." ⁵⁹ They took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus concealed himself and left the Temple courts.

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?

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

¹⁵ Jesus replied, "Permit it now, for so it is fitting for us to complete every righteous act." Then he permitted him. ¹⁶ Jesus, as soon as he was baptized, went up from the water, and the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and coming upon him. ¹⁷ A voice from the heavens said, "This is my Son, the beloved in whom I delight."

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

¹⁴ so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: ¹⁵ "Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, road to the sea, country beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, ¹⁶ the people that sat in darkness saw a great light and upon those sitting in the land and shadow of death light dawned."

¹ SEEING the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he had seated himself his disciples came to him. ² He opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

¹⁴ You are the light of the world. A city cannot be hidden if set on a hill.

¹⁷ "Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to do away with them, but to fill them full. ¹⁸ I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or part of a letter will pass away from the Law, until all is done.

⁴⁵ that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun to rise upon the bad and the good, and sends rain upon the just and the unjust.

¹ "DO not judge, so that you may not be judged. ² For with whatever judgment you judge you will be judged, and with whatever measure you measure you will be measured. ³ Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, while you do not perceive the beam in your own eye? ⁴ Or how will you say to your brother, 'Let me get out the speck from your eye,' when there is a beam in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite, first get the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to get the speck out of your brother's eye.

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent out and directed them: "Do not go into any way of the Gentiles. Do not enter into any city of the Samaritans.

¹⁶ See, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be as wise as serpents and as pure as doves.

²⁵ It is sufficient for the scholar to fare like his teacher and for the servant to fare like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household.

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.

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

⁶ I tell you that something greater than the Temple is here.

²⁴ The Pharisees when they heard it said, "This man casts out demons only through Beelzebul the Chief of the demons."

³¹ Therefore I say to you, every sin and profane word will be forgiven to men, but any profane word against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

⁴¹ The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and more than Jonah is here. ⁴² The Queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and more than Solomon is here.

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. ¹² For whoever has, to him will be given and he will have abundance. But whoever has not, from him will be taken even what he has.

¹⁵ For the heart of these people has grown fat, and with their ears they are dull of hearing and their eyes they have closed; so that they may not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and repent and I should heal them.'

¹⁷ I tell you truly many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things you see, but they did not see them, and to hear the things you hear, but they did not hear them.

¹⁹ When any one hears the message of the kingdom and does not understand it, the Evil One comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the man who receives seed by the roadside. ²⁰ He who received seed on stony ground is he who bears the word and receives it at once with joy, ²¹ yet has no root in himself, but is inconstant, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the message he stumbles and falls. ²² He who received seed among thorns is he who hears the message, but the care of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the message and it becomes fruitless.

³⁸ The field is the world. The good seeds are the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the Evil One.

⁷ You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you when he said,

²³ But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; she keeps calling out behind us."

¹ THE Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus, and, in order to put him to a test, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

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."

¹⁶ If he does not listen to you, take along with you one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses, or three, every word may be confirmed.

³ Then some Pharisees came to him to test him. They said, "Is it allowable for a man to divorce his wife for any and every cause?"

⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What, therefore, God has yoked together let not man put asunder." ⁷ They said to him, "Why, then, did Moses command to give a writing of dismissal and divorce her?" ⁸ He said to them, "Moses, because of your hard-heartedness, permitted you to divorce your wives, but at the beginning it was not so.

¹ WHEN they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,

²⁵ The baptism of John — where did it come from? From heaven or from men?" They debated among themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

²⁸ What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go to-day and work in the vineyard.' ²⁹ He answered, 'I will, Sir,' but he did not go. ³⁰ The father went to the second son and said the same. He answered, 'I will not,' but afterwards he changed his mind and went. ³¹ Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The last." Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly the tax collectors and the bad women are going before you into the kingdom of God.

⁴¹ They said to him, "He will put those miserable men to a miserable death, and will let out the vineyard to other grape-growers who will render him the fruits in their seasons." ⁴² Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, that one has become the corner stone. This stone came from the Lord and is wonderful in our eyes'? ⁴³ Therefore I tell you the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and will be given to a nation that produces the fruits.

¹⁶ They sent to him their disciples with the Herodians and they said, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and that you are afraid of no one, for you do not regard the social standing of men. ¹⁷ Tell us therefore what you think. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" ¹⁸ But Jesus knew their wickedness and said, "Why are you trying to test me, you hypocrites?

¹⁸ But Jesus knew their wickedness and said, "Why are you trying to test me, you hypocrites?

³⁵ and one of them, a lawyer, in order to test him, asked,

²⁵ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full through greed and self-indulgence. ²⁶ Blind Pharisees, cleanse first the inside of your cup so that the outside of it may become clean also. ²⁷ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs which outside appear beautiful, but inside are full of dead men's bones and every kind of uncleanness. ²⁸ So you, too, outwardly appear to men to be righteous, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

³⁹ for I tell you, you will not see me from now on until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!' "

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

²³ Then if any one says to you, 'See, here is the Christ,' or 'here,' do not believe him. ²⁴ For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will give great signs and wonders so as to mislead, if possible, even the chosen.

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

⁴⁶ These will go away into punishment eternal, but the righteous into life eternal."

⁵⁵ Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out to seize me as if against a robber, with swords and clubs? Every day I sat in the Temple teaching and you did not arrest me.

⁶³ But Jesus kept silence. The High Priest said to him, "I adjure you by the living God to tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."

⁶ The high priests took the money and said, "It is not proper to put it in with the consecrated gifts, since it is the price of blood."

⁵⁰ But Jesus, after calling out again with a loud voice, gave up his spirit. ⁵¹ Suddenly the curtain of the Temple was rent in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked. The rocks were split, ⁵² and the tombs were opened and many bodies of the sleeping saints arose, ⁵³ and, coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many. ⁵⁴ The Centurion and his men who were guarding Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that happened, were greatly terrified and said, "Truly this man was a son of God!"

¹⁴ The name of Jesus was so much talked about that King Herod heard of it. Some were saying, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these mighty works are done by him." ¹⁵ Others said, "It is Elijah," and others said, "It is a prophet like one of the old prophets." ¹⁶ But Herod, when he heard about him, said, "John, the man whom I beheaded, has risen again."

¹¹ The Pharisees came out and began to argue with him, asking him for a sign from heaven, in order to test him.

² Some Pharisees came up and asked him, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife?" They meant to catch him.

¹ WHEN they were approaching Jerusalem, near Bethphage and Bethany, on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples

³¹ But they discussed among themselves, "If we say 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

¹⁵ Shall we pay or shall we not pay?" But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why are you testing me? Bring me a coin and let me see it."

⁴¹ Having seated himself across from the contribution box, he was watching how the crowd dropped money into the box. Many rich people were dropping in large gifts.

⁴³ Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said to them, "I tell you truly, this widow, poor as she is, has dropped in more than all the others who are dropping money into the contribution box.

³ Then, when he was sitting on the Mount of Olives across from the Temple buildings, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,

⁶ Many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and they will deceive many.

¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned.

⁷⁸ Through the tender compassion of our God, With which the sunrise from on high will shine upon us; ⁷⁹ To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the path of peace."

²⁶ It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he was not to see death before he saw the Lord's Christ.

²⁸ he took him into his arms and blessed God, and said, ²⁹ "Now, O Lord, thou art letting thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word. ³⁰ For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,

³² a light for revelation to Gentiles and a glory to thy people Israel."

¹⁸ "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to captives and sight to the blind, to set at liberty the crushed,

²⁰ Then he rolled up the book and handed it over to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him.

²⁹ and they rose up and expelled him from the city, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, intending to throw him down. ³⁰ But he passed through the midst of them and went away.

³ He got into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to push off a little from the land. Then, sitting down, he taught the people from the boat.

³² I have not come to call righteous men, but sinners to a change of heart."

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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. ²² "All things have been committed to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, or who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the Son may will to reveal him."

²² "All things have been committed to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, or who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the Son may will to reveal him."

²⁴ I tell you, many prophets and kings wished to see the things that you see and did not see them, and to hear the things that you hear and did not hear them." ²⁵ Then a certain lawyer stood up to test him, and said, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit life eternal?"

¹⁶ Others, by way of test, demanded of him a sign from heaven.

⁵³ After he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon him angrily and cross-question him on many points, ⁵⁴ laying traps to catch something from his mouth.

¹ MEANWHILE, as the myriads of the crowd were thronging together so that they trod down one another, he began and said to his disciples first, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy. ² For nothing is covered up which will not be revealed, nor secret which will not be known. ³ Whatever you have said in darkness will, on the contrary, be heard in the light, and what you have spoken into the ear in inner moms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

¹³ One out of the crowd said to him, "Teacher, bid my brother to divide the inheritance with me." ¹⁴ But he said, "Man, who appointed me judge or divider over you?"

¹⁴ But he said, "Man, who appointed me judge or divider over you?"

³ No, I tell you, but unless you have a change of heart, you will all perish in the same way.

⁵ No, I tell you, but unless you have a change of heart, you will all perish just the same."

¹⁷ As he said this, all his opposers were ashamed, and all the crowd rejoiced at all the glorious things that he did.

³¹ At that time there came to him some Pharisees, saying, "Go out and leave this place, for Herod purposes to kill you." ³² He said to them, "Go tell that fox, 'See, I am casting out demons and performing cures to-day and to-morrow, and on the third day I will finish.' ³³ But I must journey to-day, and to-morrow and the next day, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem.

⁷ I tell you there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner whose heart is changed than over ninety-nine righteous men who have no need to change.

¹⁰ So I tell you there springs joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner whose heart is changed."

³¹ But the father said to him, 'Child, you are always with me and all that I have is yours. ³² We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life; he was lost and is found.'

²² It happened that the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴ He called and said, 'Father Abraham, have compassion on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.' ²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you had your good things in full in your lifetime, and Lazarus likewise had his evil things. Now he is here receiving comfort and you are in anguish. ²⁶ Moreover, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who wish to cross from here to you cannot, nor can any cross from there to us.'

³⁷ and as he approached the descent of the Mount of Olives all the multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God in a loud voice for all the miracles they had seen,

¹⁹ The scribes and the high priests were eager to lay hands on him at that very time, for they knew that he had aimed the illustration at them; but they were afraid of the people. ²⁰ So watching insidiously for an opportunity they sent spies, who pretended to be honest men, to seize upon anything he might say, so as to hand him over to the authorities and to the power of the Governor. ²¹ They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach correctly and that you do not regard personal influences, but you teach the way of God according to truth. ²² Is it right for us to give tribute to Caesar or not?" ²³ He saw through their cunning and said to them,

⁸ He said, "Be on your guard against being misled. For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is at hand.' Do not follow them.

³⁷ During the days he continued to teach in the Temple courts, but every night he went out and stayed on the mount called Olive Orchard.

⁶⁷ "If you are the Christ, tell us." He said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe.

³¹ And their eyes were opened and they recognized him; but he vanished from their sight.

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.

⁴ In him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men. ⁵ And the Light shone in the darkness, but the darkness did not understand it. ⁶ There came a man, sent from God. His name was John. ⁷ He came for testimony, to testify about the Light, that all might believe through him. ⁸ He was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light. ⁹ The true Light, which enlightens every man, was coming into the world. ¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world had come into being through him, yet the world did not know him.

¹² All who received him — to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, ¹³ who were born not of blood nor of the will of flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. 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.

¹⁸ No one has ever seen God; God the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has interpreted him. ¹⁹ This is the testimony of John when the Jews of Jerusalem sent to him priests and Levites to ask him, "Who are you?"

²² They said then, "Who are you? Let us have an answer to give to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said, "See, here is a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

¹¹ This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana in Galilee and displayed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

²³ When he was in Jerusalem at the Feast of the Passover, many believed in his name, seeing his signs that he did,

³ Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a man is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

¹¹ Truly, truly, I tell you, we are speaking of what we know, and we are witnessing to what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.

¹³ No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven — the Son of Man. ¹⁴ As Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, ¹⁵ that every one who believes in him may have life eternal." 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. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him. ¹⁸ He who believes in him is not condemned. He who does not believe has been already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. ¹⁹ This is the condemnation, that Light has come into the world and men have loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were wicked.

¹⁹ This is the condemnation, that Light has come into the world and men have loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were wicked. ²⁰ Every one who is doing base things hates the Light and does not come to the Light, that his deeds may not be reproved.

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. ³² What he has seen and heard, that he testifies to, yet no one accepts his testimony.

³² What he has seen and heard, that he testifies to, yet no one accepts his testimony. ³³ He who accepts his testimony has set his seal that God is true.

³⁶ He who believes in the Son has life eternal. He who disbelieves in the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.

⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, "How do you, a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

¹² Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank of it, himself and his sons and his flocks?"

²⁶ Jesus said to her, "I am he, I who am talking to you."

³⁴ Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete his work.

¹³ The cured man did not know who it was. For Jesus had taken himself away, a crowd being in that place. ¹⁴ Afterwards Jesus found him in the Temple court and said to him, "See, you have become well. Sin no more, for something worse might happen to you."

¹⁶ On this account the Jews persecuted Jesus because he did such things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷ He answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I am working."

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.

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.

¹⁸ On this account the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only kept breaking the Sabbath, but even spoke of God as his own Father, making himself equal with God. ¹⁹ Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself; he does only what he sees the Father doing; whatever things he does, those the Son does likewise.

¹⁹ Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself; he does only what he sees the Father doing; whatever things he does, those the Son does likewise. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son and shows him what he is doing, and he will show him greater works than these that you may wonder.

²⁰ For the Father loves the Son and shows him what he is doing, and he will show him greater works than these that you may wonder. ²¹ For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.

²¹ For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. ²² Neither does the Father judge any one, but he has committed all judgment to the Son,

²² Neither does the Father judge any one, but he has committed all judgment to the Son,

²² Neither does the Father judge any one, but he has committed all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

²³ that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

²³ that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

²³ that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has life eternal and does not come into condemnation, but has passed over from death into life.

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.

²⁴ Truly, truly, I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has life eternal and does not come into condemnation, but has passed over from death into life. ²⁵ Truly, truly, I tell you that the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

²⁵ Truly, truly, I tell you that the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself.

²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷ He has given him authority to do judgment, because he is Son of Man.

²⁷ He has given him authority to do judgment, because he is Son of Man. ²⁸ Do not wonder at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

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

²⁹ and will come forth — those who have done good to a resurrection of life and those who have done evil to a resurrection of condemnation. ³⁰ "I cannot of myself do anything. As I hear I judge and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

³⁰ "I cannot of myself do anything. As I hear I judge and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me. ³¹ If I testify regarding myself, my testimony is not true.

³¹ If I testify regarding myself, my testimony is not true.

³¹ If I testify regarding myself, my testimony is not true. ³² There is another who testifies regarding me and I know that the testimony that he bears regarding me is true.

³² There is another who testifies regarding me and I know that the testimony that he bears regarding me is true.

³² There is another who testifies regarding me and I know that the testimony that he bears regarding me is true. ³³ You sent to John and he testified to the truth,

³³ You sent to John and he testified to the truth, ³⁴ still I do not obtain my testimony from a man, but I say this that you may be saved.

³⁴ still I do not obtain my testimony from a man, but I say this that you may be saved. ³⁵ He was the burning and shining light and you were willing to rejoice for an hour in his light.

³⁵ He was the burning and shining light and you were willing to rejoice for an hour in his light. ³⁶ But I have testimony greater than John's. For the works which the Father has granted to me to accomplish — the very works that I do — witness for me that the Father has sent me.

³⁶ But I have testimony greater than John's. For the works which the Father has granted to me to accomplish — the very works that I do — witness for me that the Father has sent me. ³⁷ The Father who sent me — he has witnessed regarding me. You have neither heard his voice nor seen his form,

³⁷ The Father who sent me — he has witnessed regarding me. You have neither heard his voice nor seen his form, ³⁸ and you have not his word abiding in you; because you do not believe him whom he has sent.

³⁸ and you have not his word abiding in you; because you do not believe him whom he has sent. ³⁹ You search the Scriptures because you think that you have in them life eternal, and it is they that testify of me,

³⁹ You search the Scriptures because you think that you have in them life eternal, and it is they that testify of me, ⁴⁰ and yet you will not come to me to have life.

⁴⁰ and yet you will not come to me to have life. ⁴¹ I do not accept honor from men,

⁴¹ I do not accept honor from men, ⁴² but I know that you have not the love of God within you.

⁴² but I know that you have not the love of God within you. ⁴³ I have come in the name of my Father and you do not accept me. If another comes in his own name, you will accept him.

⁴³ I have come in the name of my Father and you do not accept me. If another comes in his own name, you will accept him.

⁴³ I have come in the name of my Father and you do not accept me. If another comes in his own name, you will accept him. ⁴⁴ How can you believe, you who accept honor from one another and do not seek honor from the only God?

⁴⁴ How can you believe, you who accept honor from one another and do not seek honor from the only God? ⁴⁵ Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. You have an accuser, Moses in whom you trust.

⁴⁵ Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. You have an accuser, Moses in whom you trust. ⁴⁶ If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. ⁴⁷ But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

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

³⁸ for I came down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me;

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Every one who has heard from the Father and has learned comes to me.

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Every one who has heard from the Father and has learned comes to me. ⁴⁶ Not that any one has seen the Father but he who is from God — he has seen the Father.

⁴⁶ Not that any one has seen the Father but he who is from God — he has seen the Father.

⁵⁰ This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that any one may eat of it and not die.

⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.

⁶⁰ Many of his disciples, after hearing him, said, "This is a hard doctrine. Who can listen to it?"

⁶⁵ He said, "For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him from the Father." ⁶⁶ After that many of the disciples drew back from him and no longer went about with him. ⁶⁷ Jesus said to the twelve, "Will you also go away?" ⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, "Sir, to whom shall we go? You have the words of life eternal, ⁶⁹ and we are persuaded and know that you are the Holy One of God." ⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!"

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!" ⁷¹ He was speaking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. For he was going to betray him, though he was one of the twelve.

¹ AFTER this Jesus went about in Galilee; for he would not go about in Judaea because the Jews were trying to kill him.

⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it that its ways are wicked. ⁸ Go on up to the feast yourselves; I am not going up yet to this feast, for my time has not fully come."

¹⁶ TEXT OMITTED 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. ¹⁸ One who speaks out of his own mind is seeking his own glory. He who seeks the glory of him who sent him — he is true, and wickedness is not in him. ¹⁹ Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet no one of you keeps the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?" ²⁰ The crowd answered, "You have a demon. Who is trying to kill you?"

²⁴ Do not judge by appearances, but judge fair judgment." ²⁵ Some of the Jerusalem people were saying, "Is not this the man they are trying to kill?

²⁷ But we know where this man comes from. The Christ, when he comes — no one will know where he comes from." ²⁸ Jesus, while teaching in the Temple courts, cried out loudly, "You know me and you know where I come from. I have not come of myself, but he is true who sent me. You do not know him,

²⁸ Jesus, while teaching in the Temple courts, cried out loudly, "You know me and you know where I come from. I have not come of myself, but he is true who sent me. You do not know him, ²⁹ but I know him, for I am from him and he sent me." ³⁰ They tried to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, for his hour had not yet come. ³¹ From the crowd many believed in him and said, "The Christ, when he comes, will not do more signs than this man does, will he?"

³⁴ You will look for me and will not find me, and where I am you cannot come." ³⁵ The Jews said to one another, "Where is this man going that we shall not find him? Will he go to the Jews who are scattered among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

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

⁴⁴ Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁶ The officers answered, "Never any man spoke as this man speaks."

² EARLY in the morning he came again to the Temple courts and all the people came to him and he sat down and taught them.

⁵ In the Law Moses commanded to stone such. What do you say?" ⁶ This they said, testing him, to have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped over and wrote with his finger on the ground.

⁶ This they said, testing him, to have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped over and wrote with his finger on the ground. ⁷ As they kept on questioning him, he lifted himself up and said to them, "Let the sinless one among you be the first to throw a stone at her,"

¹⁰ Jesus raised himself up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one sentenced you?" ¹¹ She said, "No one, Sir." Jesus said, "Neither do I sentence you. Go. From now on sin no more."] ¹² Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

¹⁵ You judge according to the flesh, I judge no one. ¹⁶ Even if I judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but when I judge he who sent me is with me.

¹⁶ Even if I judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but when I judge he who sent me is with me. ¹⁷ In our law it is written that the evidence of two persons is true.

¹⁹ They said to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also." ²⁰ These words he spoke in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple courts, and no one arrested him because his hour had not yet come. ²¹ He said again to them, "I am going away and you will search for me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."

²⁴ Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins. Unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins." ²⁵ They said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Exactly what I have been telling you. ²⁶ I have many things to say about you and to judge. But he who sent me is true, and what I have heard from him I speak in the world." ²⁷ They did not perceive that he was speaking to them of the Father.

²⁹ He who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to 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." ³³ They answered him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have never been in slavery to any man. How do you say, 'You will become free'?" ³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, every one who practices sin is the slave of sin.

³⁶ So if the Son frees you, you will be really free. ³⁷ I know that you are descendants of Abraham; but you are trying to kill me, because my word has no place within you.

³⁷ I know that you are descendants of Abraham; but you are trying to kill me, because my word has no place within you. ³⁸ I am speaking what I have seen with my Father and you are doing what you have heard with your father."

³⁸ I am speaking what I have seen with my Father and you are doing what you have heard with your father." ³⁹ They answered him, "Abraham is our father." He said to them, "If you were children of Abraham you would do the works of Abraham.

³⁹ They answered him, "Abraham is our father." He said to them, "If you were children of Abraham you would do the works of Abraham. ⁴⁰ But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I have heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

⁴⁰ But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I have heard from God. Abraham did not do this. ⁴¹ You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of unchastity. We have one father — God." ⁴² Jesus said to them, "If God were your father you would love me; for I came forth from God and am now here. For I have not come of myself, but he sent me. ⁴³ Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message. ⁴⁴ You are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to practice. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not stand in the truth; for truth is not in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks out of his own; for he is a liar and the father of it. ⁴⁵ But me — because I tell you the truth — me you do not believe.

⁴⁵ But me — because I tell you the truth — me you do not believe. ⁴⁶ Who of you convinces me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷ He who is of God listens to God's words. For this reason you do not listen — because you are not of God."

⁴⁷ He who is of God listens to God's words. For this reason you do not listen — because you are not of God." ⁴⁸ The Jews answered him, "Do we not say correctly that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

⁵⁰ I am not seeking my own glory. There is one who seeks it and judges. ⁵¹ Truly, truly, I tell you, if any one keeps my word he will not look on death." ⁵² The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died and the prophets died, and you say, 'If any one keeps my word he will never taste of death.'

⁵⁴ Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is your God.

⁵⁴ Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is your God. ⁵⁵ Yet you do not know him, but I know him, and if I should say that I did not know him I should be a liar like you. But I know him and I keep his word.

⁵⁵ Yet you do not know him, but I know him, and if I should say that I did not know him I should be a liar like you. But I know him and I keep his word. ⁵⁶ Abraham your father rejoiced that he was to see my day, and he saw it and was glad."

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, before Abraham came into being I am." ⁵⁹ They took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus concealed himself and left the Temple courts.

⁵ While I am in the world I am the light of the world."

²⁴ They called a second time the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."

²⁹ We know that God spoke to Moses, but this man — we do not know where he comes from." ³⁰ The man answered them, "There is something wonderful in this. You do not know where he comes from, yet he has opened my eyes!

³⁹ Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind." ⁴⁰ Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and said to him, "Are we blind also?" ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now that you say, 'We see,' your sin remains with you."

⁹ I am the gate: if any one enters through me he will be saved, and will go in and go out and find pasture.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

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

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, ¹⁵ just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

¹⁵ just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

²⁰ Many of them said, "He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to him?"

²⁴ The Jews came in a circle around him and said to him, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us frankly."

²⁶ But you do not believe because you are not of my sheep. ²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice and I know them and they follow me,

²⁹ My Father who gave them to me is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one."

³⁰ I and my Father are one."

³⁰ I and my Father are one." ³¹ Again the Jews took up stones to stone him.

³¹ Again the Jews took up stones to stone him. ³² Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from my Father. For which of these works are you stoning me?" ³³ The Jews answered him, "For a good work we are not stoning you, but for profane words, because you, a man, are making yourself God."

³³ The Jews answered him, "For a good work we are not stoning you, but for profane words, because you, a man, are making yourself God." ³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said you are Gods'?

³⁶ do you say to him whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, 'You speak profane words,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

³⁹ Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped from their hands

³⁹ Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped from their hands ⁴⁰ and went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was at first when he was baptizing, and he stayed there.

⁴² Many believed in him there.

⁴ When Jesus heard it he said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it."

⁸ The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, just now the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?" ⁹ Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if any one walks in the night, he stumbles because the light is not in him."

²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in me even though he dies will live,

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?"

⁴² I know that thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd that stand around I say it, that they may believe that thou didst send me."

⁴⁵ Many of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen what Jesus did believed in him.

⁵³ From that day they plotted to kill him. ⁵⁴ So Jesus no more walked about openly among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near the wild lands, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with his disciples.

²⁸ Father, glorify thy name!" There came a voice from heaven, "I have glorified it and will again glorify it."

³² And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to me." ³³ This he said indicating by what death he was to die.

³³ This he said indicating by what death he was to die. ³⁴ The crowd answered him, "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

³⁴ The crowd answered him, "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?" ³⁵ Jesus said to them, "A little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, that darkness may not overtake you. He who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. ³⁶ While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so as to become sons of Light." Jesus said these things and then went away and hid himself from them.

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

³⁹ For this reason they could not believe, because Isaiah said again, ⁴⁰ "He has blinded their eyes and dulled their mind so that they may not see with their eyes nor understand with their mind and repent so that I should heal them."

⁴⁰ "He has blinded their eyes and dulled their mind so that they may not see with their eyes nor understand with their mind and repent so that I should heal them." ⁴¹ Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and he spoke of him. ⁴² Nevertheless, even of the rulers many did believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, in order not to be expelled from the synagogue; ⁴³ for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

⁴⁶ I have come as a Light into the world that no one who believes in me may remain in darkness. ⁴⁷ If any one hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

⁴⁷ If any one hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

⁴⁷ If any one hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. ⁴⁸ He who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge. The message that I have spoken — that will judge him on the last day.

⁴⁸ He who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge. The message that I have spoken — that will judge him on the last day. ⁴⁹ But he who sent me — the Father himself — has given me a command what I am to say and what I am to speak,

⁴⁹ But he who sent me — the Father himself — has given me a command what I am to say and what I am to speak, ⁵⁰ and I know that his command is life eternal. So what I am speaking I am speaking just as the Father has told me."

³ Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he had come from God and was going to God,

¹³ You call me Teacher and Master and you say rightly, for so I am.

¹⁹ I am now telling you before it occurs that when it does occur you may believe that I am he.

³¹ When Judas had gone, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified and God has been glorified in him. ³² If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and immediately will glorify him. ³³ Children, yet a little while I am with you. You will look for me and, as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going you cannot come,' so I say now to you.

⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through 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. ⁷ If you had known me you would have known my Father also. But now you know him and have seen him." ⁸ Philip said to him, "Master, show us the Father and we shall be satisfied." 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'? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I speak not of myself. The Father abides in me and does his works.

¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I speak not of myself. The Father abides in me and does his works. ¹¹ Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me. But if not, believe on account of the works themselves.

¹³ Whatever you ask in my name that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

¹⁹ After a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I am living you too will live. ²⁰ On that day you will know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you.

²⁴ He who loves me not does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine, but is the word of the Father who sent me.

³⁰ I shall no longer speak much with you, for the Ruler of this world is coming and he has no part in me. ³¹ But that the world may know that I love the Father, even as the Father commanded me, so I am doing. Rise, let us go hence."

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. ⁷ If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask what you will and it will be done for you. 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.

¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I call you friends, for all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you.

¹⁸ "If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world the world would love its own. But you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world. For this reason the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, 'The servant is not superior to his Master.' If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But all these things they will do to you because of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

²³ He who hates me hates my Father also. 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. ²⁵ But in order that the saying written in their Law may be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a cause.'

³ These things they will do because they have not known the Father nor me.

⁸ And he, when he comes, will convince the world regarding sin and regarding righteousness and regarding judgment —

¹⁰ regarding righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you no longer see me;

¹² I have still many things to tell you; but you cannot bear them now. ¹³ But when he comes — the Spirit of Truth — he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak his own thoughts, but all that he hears he will speak and he will announce to you the things to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me because he will take of mine and will announce it to you. ¹⁵ All things that the Father has are mine. For that reason I say, 'He will take of mine and announce it to you.'

²⁷ for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came forth from the Father's presence. ²⁸ I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again I am leaving the world and am going to the Father."

²⁸ I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again I am leaving the world and am going to the Father."

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

¹ THESE words spoke Jesus, and lifted his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify thy Son that the Son may glorify thee,

³ This is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ. ⁴ I have glorified thee on the earth by completing the work that thou gavest me to do. ⁵ And now glorify me, Father, at thy side with the glory that I had at thy side before the existence of the world. ⁶ I have revealed thy name to the men whom thou didst give me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou didst give them to me, and they have kept thy word. ⁷ Now they know that all the things that thou hast given me are from thee. ⁸ For the words that thou didst give me I have given them, and they have accepted them and have perceived truly that I came forth from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

⁸ For the words that thou didst give me I have given them, and they have accepted them and have perceived truly that I came forth from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

¹⁶ They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁷ Make them holy through the truth. Thy word is truth.

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. ²⁵ Righteous Father, the world did not know thee, but I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me.

²⁵ Righteous Father, the world did not know thee, but I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me. 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."

³¹ Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put any one to death."

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

⁷ The Jews answered, "We have a law and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."

⁹ and went into the Castle and said to Jesus, "Where do you come from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.

¹⁸ where they crucified him. And with him they crucified two others, one on this side and one on that, and Jesus between them.

²⁵ There were standing beside the cross of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

⁴¹ Those who accepted his message were baptized, and there were added on that day about three thousand souls.

¹³ The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus whom you delivered up and disowned before Pilate when he had decided to release him.

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

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."

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

⁵¹ "You stiff-necked men, uncircumcised in hearts and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so do you.

⁵⁷ With a great shout they stopped their ears and rushed upon him with one purpose,

²³ For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and the fetters of unrighteousness."

³⁹ When they had come up out of the water, the Spirit caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more. He went on his way rejoicing. ⁴⁰ But Philip found himself at Azotus, and passing through all the cities he told the good news until he came to Casarea.

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

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

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

⁴⁷ For so the Lord has commanded us, 'I have set you for a light of the Gentiles, that you may be for salvation to the ends of the earth.'

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."

²³ For in passing about and contemplating your sacred objects I came upon an altar on which was inscribed, 'To an unknown God.' What you are worshiping in ignorance — that I am making known to you.

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

²² But obtaining help from God I have continued until this day witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would be, 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."

⁴ and was with power proved to be the Son of God according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead);

¹ THEREFORE you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are, when you judge. For in judging another you condemn yourself. For you, the judge, practice the same things.

¹ THEREFORE you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are, when you judge. For in judging another you condemn yourself. For you, the judge, practice the same things. ² But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who practice such things. ³ Do you think, O man, you who judge those who practice such things while you do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? ⁴ Or do you despise the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God is calling you to a change of heart?

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

¹⁵ they show the requirements of the Law written in their hearts, since their conscience corroborates it and their thoughts argue in mutual accusation or in self-defense),

¹⁷ But if you bear the name of Jew and rely upon the Law, and make your boast in God ¹⁸ and know his will and are a judge of things that differ, because you have been taught out of the Law ¹⁹ and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the unwise, a teacher of the simple, because you have the form of knowledge and of truth in the Law — ²¹ you who are teaching another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal?

²¹ you who are teaching another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal? ²² You who say not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

²² You who say not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

²² You who say not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? ²³ You who boast of the Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law?

²³ You who boast of the Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law? ²⁴ For "The name of God is reviled among the Gentiles because of you," as it is written.

²⁴ For "The name of God is reviled among the Gentiles because of you," as it is written. ²⁵ Circumcision has value if you obey the Law. But if you are a breaker of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

²⁵ Circumcision has value if you obey the Law. But if you are a breaker of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶ If an uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be credited for circumcision? ²⁷ And the natural uncircumcision if it keeps the Law will judge you who with a written code and circumcision are still a law-breaker. ²⁸ For it is not he who is one outwardly that is a Jew, nor is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh. ²⁹ But he who is one secretly is a Jew, and circumcision is of the heart and in the spirit, not in the letter. His praise is not from men, but from God.

¹¹ there is none that seeks God.

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.

¹⁶ Therefore all depends on faith, that it may be of grace, and thus the promise be sure for all his descendants, not only those who are of the Law, but also those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of all of us

²⁰ But law came in alongside that the fall might be greater; but where sin became greater grace became greater still, ²¹ in order that as sin reigned in death grace might reign through righteousness and issue in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁶ For we know this, that our old-time humanity was crucified with him, in order that the sinful body might be made powerless, that we might no longer be slaves of sin.

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

¹⁴ For sin shall not be king over you; for you are not under law, but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? May we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Never. ¹⁶ Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as servants intending obedience, you are the servants of the one you obey, whether of sin, resulting in death, or of obedience, resulting in righteousness?

¹⁶ Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as servants intending obedience, you are the servants of the one you obey, whether of sin, resulting in death, or of obedience, resulting in righteousness? 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.

²² But now freed from sin and having become servants of God you have your fruit in holy living and its outcome, life eternal.

¹⁴ For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

²⁵ Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then I myself with my mind serve the Law of God, but with my flesh the law of sin.

² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the Law of sin and death.

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.

¹⁵ For you did not receive a spirit of bondage leading again to fear, but you received a spirit of sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father.

¹⁵ For you did not receive a spirit of bondage leading again to fear, but you received a spirit of sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit itself witnesses with our spirits that we are children of God. 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.

²¹ because the creation itself will be freed from the slavery of decay into the glorious freedom of the children 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. 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.

⁵ whose are the fathers and from whom by physical descent the Christ came. God who is over all be blessed through the ages! Amen.

⁷ nor because they are descendants of Abraham are they all children; but "through Isaac shall your descendants be named."

⁷ What then? Israel has not found what it is seeking, but the chosen have found it. And the rest have been made dull, ⁸ as it is written, "God gave them a stupid spirit, eyes not for seeing and ears not for hearing until this day." ⁹ And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution. ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened so as not to see, and bow down their backs always."

²² See the kindness and the rigor of God, toward those who fell rigor, but toward you God's kindness, if you continue in his kindness, else you too will be cut off.

³ For rulers are not a terror to good deeds, but to bad. Do you wish not to fear the authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from it. ⁴ For he is a servant of God to promote your good. But if you are doing evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword to no purpose. For he is God's servant to inflict his wrath on him who practices evil.

³ For Christ did not please himself, but, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who were reproaching thee fell on me."

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.

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. ⁴ For I am not conscious of any wrong, but I am not proved by that to be faultless. The Lord is my judge. ⁵ So do not judge anything before the time, before the Lord comes. He will throw light on the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the purposes of hearts. Then each one will have his praise from God.

¹² For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those inside?

⁹ Nor let us try the patience of the Lord, as some of them tried him and were destroyed by serpents.

²⁴ But if all prophesy and any unbeliever or ordinary man comes in, he is convinced by all, he is judged by all, ²⁵ the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so falling on his face he worships God, declaring that God is really among you.

¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

³⁴ Return to soberness and cease to sin, for some are ignorant of God. I say it to your shame.

⁴⁷ The first man was from the earth, earthly; the second man is the Lord from heaven. ⁴⁸ As is the earthly man such are also those who are earthly, and as is the heavenly man such are also those who are heavenly.

²² If any one does not love the Lord, let him be accursed! Maran atha!

¹⁸ As God is faithful, my word to you is not yes and no.

¹⁷ The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.

¹⁷ The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. ¹⁸ And we all, with unveiled face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same likeness from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord.

³ If our good news is veiled, it is veiled to those who are going to ruin, 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder, for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light. ¹⁵ So it is no great thing if his servants too disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will be according to their deeds.

³¹ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows, he who is blessed forever, that I am not lying.

¹¹ I have become foolish; you made me. For I ought to have been recommended by you. For in nothing have I been inferior to the most eminent apostles, even though I am nothing.

¹⁹ Are you thinking all this while that we are defending ourselves to you? We are speaking before God in Christ. All this, beloved, is to build you up.

¹ THIS third time I am coming to you. "By the evidence of two witnesses, or three, every matter shall be proved."

⁷ You know, then, that those who are of faith — they are children of Abraham.

⁷ You know, then, that those who are of faith — they are children of Abraham. ⁸ For the Scripture, foreseeing that God would declare the Gentiles righteous because of faith, announced the good news in advance to Abraham, "In you all the Gentiles will be blessed." ⁹ So then those who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

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

²⁹ If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring and heirs according to the promise.

⁴ but, when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son born of a woman, born under the Law,

⁴ but, when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son born of a woman, born under the Law, ⁵ that he might redeem those who were under Law, that we might receive the recognition as sons. ⁶ Because you are sons, God has sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son crying Abba, Father. ⁷ So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then also an heir, through God's act.

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

¹⁶ Have I become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

²¹ Tell me, you who wish to be under law, do you not hear the Law?

²⁹ But just as then he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now. ³⁰ But what says the Scripture? "Cast out the slave girl and her son. For the son of the slave girl shall not inherit along with the son of the free wife." ³¹ Therefore, brethren, we are not children of a slave girl, but of the free wife.

¹ STAND firm, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ set us free, and do not wear any yoke of slavery.

¹³ For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not let your freedom be an opportunity for the flesh, but in love be servants to one another.

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,

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.

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.

⁶ who, though he was in the form of God, did not think that equality with God was something to be grasped, ⁷ but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant and coming into the likeness of men, ⁸ and when found in the condition of a man he humbled himself by becoming obedient even to death — death on the cross. ⁹ Therefore, God has highly exalted him and has graciously given him the name which is above every name, ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee may bow, of beings in heaven and those on earth and those under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹⁹ Their end is ruin, their God is their stomach, their glory is in their shame, they think earthly thoughts. ²⁰ For the state of which we are citizens is in the heavens and from there we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. ²¹ He will transform the body we have in our low estate into the likeness of the body he has in glory by the power by which he can subject all things to himself.

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.

¹⁵ He is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation;

¹⁷ and he is before all things and in him all things unite.

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.

³ For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

⁶ Let what you say be always with grace, seasoned with salt. Know how you should answer each one.

¹⁵ who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out and do not please God and are enemies to all men, ¹⁶ trying to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. All this goes always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's fiercest wrath has overtaken them.

⁹ For his coming will be when Satan is active in every sort of power and in false signs and wonders ¹⁰ and in every kind of wicked deception of those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved.

¹⁰ and in every kind of wicked deception of those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved. ¹¹ For this reason God sends to them a deceptive influence so that they believe a lie,

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. ¹⁶ But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might show all of his long-suffering for an example for those who are to believe in him and gain life eternal.

¹⁵ But they will be saved through child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

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

³ Honor widows if they are really widows. ⁴ If any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to act piously toward their own family and to repay what they owe to their parents and grandparents. For this is pleasing in the sight of God. ⁵ A real widow who is left alone has set her hope on God and devotes herself to prayers and supplications night and day.

²⁵ instructing opponents with gentleness, for God may give them a change of heart which will lead them to knowledge of the truth, ²⁶ and they may return to soberness and escape the snare of the Devil when captured by the Lord's servant to do the Lord's will.

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

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

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.

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

²² The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.

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 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,

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."

² For if the message spoken through angels was sure and every violation and disobedience received merited punishment, ³ how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the beginning was spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

³ how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the beginning was spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him, ⁴ while God added his testimony by signs and wonders and many kinds of miracles and impartation of the Holy Spirit according to his will?

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

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.

⁵ Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant for a testimony to the things that were to be spoken, ⁶ but Christ as a Son over his own house. We are his house if we hold firmly to the end our confidence and the hope of which we boast.

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

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

¹⁵ For we have not a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, for he has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.

⁴ And no one takes this honor upon himself unless called by God, as Aaron was. ⁵ So too Christ did not take for himself the glory of becoming a high priest, but he who said to him, "Thou art my Son, to-day I have become thy Father,"

⁸ Although he was a Son he learned obedience from his sufferings, ⁹ and being thus made perfect he became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

¹¹ Regarding Melchizedek we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. ¹² For when, considering the time, you ought to be teachers you need to have some one teach you again the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk and not solid food.

¹ FOR, this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham when he was returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, ² and to whom Abraham gave a tenth of all (first, by the translation of his name, "King of Righteousness," and then king of Salem, which means "King of Peace"), ³ without father, without mother, without ancestors, without either birthday or end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest permanently. ⁴ But see how great this man was, since Abraham the patriarch gave him a tenth of his choicest spoils. ⁵ And even those of the sons of Levi who attain the priesthood have command according to the Law to take a tenth from the people, their own brethren, although these have sprung from the loins of Abraham. ⁶ But he who had no genealogy from these took a tenth from Abraham and pronounced a blessing on him who had the promises. ⁷ Without dispute the less is blessed by the greater.

²⁶ For such was the High Priest that we needed, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens.

⁹ not in the manner of the covenant which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not abide by my covenant and I ceased to care for them, says the Lord.

⁵ Therefore on coming into the world he says, "Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire: a body thou hast prepared for me. ⁶ Whole burnt offerings and sin offerings thou dost not delight in. ⁷ Then I said, 'Here I have come — in the roll of the book it is written of me — to do thy will, O God.' " ⁸ He first says, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin offerings thou dost not desire nor delight in," such as are offered according to the Law, ⁹ and then he says, "Here I have come to do thy will." He takes away the first to establish the second. ¹⁰ By this "will" we are made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

²⁶ For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there remains no longer any sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a dreadful expectation of doom and a fury of fire that will devour the opposers. ²⁸ Any one who sets aside a law of Moses dies without pity on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²⁸ Any one who sets aside a law of Moses dies without pity on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy who has trampled on the Son of God, who has thought the blood of the covenant, by which it was made holy, an unholy thing, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

³⁸ My righteous man will live by faith; but if he shrinks back, my soul has no delight in him." ³⁹ But we are not of those who shrink back and perish, but of those who have faith and will win their souls.

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.

¹³ These all died in faith, not having obtained the promised blessings, but they saw them and greeted them afar and confessed that they were strangers and foreigners in the land.

³⁹ All these won God's approval by their faith. Yet they did not obtain the fulfillment of the promise.

³ Think of him who endured such hostile speaking of sinners against him, that you may not grow weary and despondent in heart.

²⁵ Beware of rejecting him who is speaking. For if those did not escape who rejected him who taught the divine will on earth, much less shall we if we reject him who speaks from heaven.

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

¹³ Let us go out to him outside the camp and bear the reproaches cast on him.

²⁵ But he who looks earnestly into the perfect law of liberty and continues to do so, and becomes not a forgetful hearer but a doer of work — that man will be blessed in what he does.

⁴ are you not making distinctions in your own minds and have you not become judges with wicked thoughts?

¹² So speak and so act as those who are soon to be judged by a law of liberty.

¹⁹ You have faith that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons have that faith, and they shudder.

²² You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was made perfect ²³ and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham had faith in God and it was credited to him for righteousness" and he was called "God's friend." ²⁴ You see that a man is pronounced righteous because of works and not because of faith alone.

¹⁵ This wisdom does not come down from on high, but is earthly, animal, demoniacal. ¹⁶ For where jealousy and party-spirit are, there is confusion and every base affair. ¹⁷ But the wisdom from on high is first pure, then peaceable, fair-minded, easily persuaded, full of compassion and good fruits, impartial, sincere.

¹ WHENCE come wars and whence come strifes among you? Is it not from your pleasures which carry on war in your members? ² You long for something and do not have it. You murder and envy and cannot obtain it. You battle and war. You do not have, because of your not asking. ³ You ask and do not receive, because you ask wickedly to waste it on your pleasures. ⁴ You 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.

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. ⁵ Do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit which he made dwell in us long enviously? ⁶ But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble." ⁷ Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you.

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 — 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.

¹⁰ Regarding this salvation the prophets who foretold the grace that was to come to you ¹¹ inquired and searched, trying to find out what time, or what sort of time, the Spirit of Christ which was in them was disclosing when it witnessed beforehand regarding the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. ¹² It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who have told you the good news by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven — things which angels earnestly long to look into.

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

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.

¹⁶ Live as free men, yet not using freedom as a cloak for wickedness, but as God's slaves.

²² He had done no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth. ²³ When he was reviled he did not revile back; he suffered, but made no threat; he committed himself to him who judges justly.

⁸ Be sober, watch. Your enemy the Devil, like a roaring lion, goes about seeking some one to devour.

¹⁷ For he received from God the Father honor and glory when such words as these were borne to him from the majestic glory, "This is my Son, the Beloved; in him I delight."

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

¹⁷ These men are springs without water, storm-driven mists for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved.

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.

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.

¹ MY children, I am writing this to you in order that you may not sin. Even if any one sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, who is righteous.

⁴ He who says, "I know him," and does not keep his commands, is a liar and truth is not in him.

¹⁵ Do not love the world nor the things that are in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; ¹⁶ for all that is in the world, the passions of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the show and pride of life, is not from the Father, but from the world.

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

²² Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the Antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

²⁴ Let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

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

¹⁰ By this the children of God are plain to see, also the children of the Devil. Every one who is not doing righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

¹² Not like Cain, who was of the Wicked One and killed his brother. And for what reason did he kill him? Because his own deeds were wicked and his brother's righteous.

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

¹⁵ Every one who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has life eternal remaining in him.

²⁰ because if our hearts condemn us God is greater than our hearts and knows all things.

¹ BELOVED, do not trust every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are from God. For many false prophets have come out into the world. ² By this we know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, ³ and no spirit that does not confess Jesus is from God. This is the spirit of Antichrist, which you have heard is coming into the world and is already in the world. 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. ⁵ They belong to the world and for that reason they speak as the world speaks and the world listens to them. ⁶ We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us: whoever is not of God does not listen to us. In this way we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

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.

¹⁴ We have seen and we bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

¹ EVERY one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and every one who loves the father who gave him life loves every one who has received life from that father.

¹ EVERY one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and every one who loves the father who gave him life loves every one who has received life from that father. ² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commands.

⁶ This is he who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ. Not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is the truth. ⁷ TEXT OMITTED ⁸ For there are three that bear witness, the Spirit and the water and the blood, and the three are in accord. ⁹ If we accept the testimony of men the testimony of God is greater; for this is God's testimony, that he has testified regarding his Son.

⁹ If we accept the testimony of men the testimony of God is greater; for this is God's testimony, that he has testified regarding his Son. ¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony within himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar; because he has not believed the testimony which God has borne regarding his Son.

¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony within himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar; because he has not believed the testimony which God has borne regarding his Son. ¹¹ This is the testimony: that God has given to us life eternal and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who has the Son has life; he who has not the Son of God has not life.

¹⁹ We know that we are of God and the whole world lies in the Evil One. 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.

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.

⁹ Every one who goes forward and does not remain in the teaching of Christ is without God. He who remains in the teaching, he has the Father and the Son.

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

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

¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for which the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

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."

¹⁶ He had in his right hand seven stars, and from his mouth there issued a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in full strength. 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.

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.

¹⁶ Repent, therefore. Otherwise I am coming to you shortly, and I will make war upon them with the sword of my mouth.

²¹ I gave her time to repent, but she will not repent of her unchastity. ²² See, I will cast her into a bed and those who commit adultery with her into great distress, unless they repent of their deeds,

⁹ See, I will make those from the synagogue of Satan, men who call themselves Jews when they are not but are lying — I will make them come and bow down before your feet and they shall know that I have loved you.

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:

¹¹ They have over them a king, the angel of the abyss, whose name (Destroyer) is in Hebrew Abaddon, but in Greek Apollyon.

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

⁴ and his tail dragged a third of the stars of heaven and hurled them to the ground. The Dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth to a child, so that he might devour the child as soon as it was born.

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

¹² Therefore, rejoice, O heavens, and you who tent in them! Alas for the land and the sea! For the Devil has gone down to you in great wrath, knowing that he has but a little time." ¹³ When the Dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth he pursued the woman who had given birth to the man-child.

¹⁷ Then the Dragon was enraged against the woman and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring who keep the commands of God and hold the testimony concerning Jesus.

⁶ He opened his mouth to insult God, to speak profanely of his name and of his Tent and of those who tent in heaven. ⁷ It was granted to the Beast to make war with the holy and to conquer them, and power was granted to him over every tribe and people and tongue and nation. ⁸ All the inhabitants of the earth will worship him, all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the slain Iamb's Book of Life.

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

¹¹ Then I saw heaven open and there was a white horse, and he who was sitting on it was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.

¹⁵ From his mouth issues a sharp sword to smite the nations. He will shepherd them with a rod of iron, and he treads the winepress of the fierce wrath of God Almighty.

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

⁷ When the thousand years are ended, Satan will be loosed from his prison ⁸ and will come out to mislead the nations that are at the four corners of the earth — Gog and Magog — and gather them to battle in number like the sand of the sea. ⁹ They went up over the breadth of the earth and encircled the camp of the holy and the beloved city. But fire fell from heaven and consumed them, ¹⁰ and the Devil who was misleading them was flung into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are also the Beast and the False Prophet, and they will be tormented day and night for the ages of the ages.

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

²⁴ The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it,

¹ THEN he showed me a river of water of life bright as crystal, issuing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

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