Jude Cross References - Riverside

¹ JUDE, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, to those who are in God the Father, beloved, kept for Jesus Christ and called: ² Mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you. ³ Beloved, although I have been making every effort to write to you regarding our common salvation, I now find it necessary to write and urge you to contend vigorously for the faith that was once for all delivered to the holy. ⁴ For certain persons have crept in, who of old were written of as predestined to this doom, godless, changing the grace of our God into profligacy and disowning our only Ruler and Lord, Jesus Christ. ⁵ I wish to remind you, although you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people from the land of Egypt, then destroyed those who had no faith; 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. ⁷ So Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, which in the same way gave themselves up to unchastity and the pursuit of unnatural vices, serve as an example while they undergo the punishment of eternal fire. ⁸ Just so these dreamers defile the flesh, reject government, and speak abusively of glorious beings. ⁹ But Michael, the arch-angel, when in dispute with the Devil he was arguing about the body of Moses, did not venture to bring against him an abusive judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you." ¹⁰ But these speak profanely of whatever they do not know, and all that physically as irrational animals they do understand, in these things they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Alas for them! for they have traveled in the path of Cain, and for hire have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and have perished in the rebellious talk of Korah. ¹² These are the hidden reefs in your love-feasts while they feast freely with you without fear, shepherds who care only for themselves, waterless clouds driven by winds, trees in autumn fruitless, twice dead, uprooted, ¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for which the blackness of darkness is reserved forever. ¹⁴ Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these men when he said, "See, the Lord has come with ten thousand of his holy ones ¹⁵ to do judgment upon all and to convict all the irreverent of all their deeds of irreverence which they have irreverently done, and of all the hard things which they have spoken against him, irreverent sinners that they are." ¹⁶ These men are complaining grumblers, living according to their own passions, and their mouths speak great swelling words. They show admiration for persons for the sake of their own gain. ¹⁷ But you, beloved, remember the words which were long ago spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁸ how they told you that in the latter time there would be scoffers living according to their own ungodly passions. ¹⁹ These are those who cause divisions, sensual and unspiritual. ²⁰ But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ must keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you into life eternal. ²² On some have pity when they are in doubt; ²³ pull them out of the fire and save them. Others pity with fear, hating even the tunic spotted by the flesh. ²⁴ To him who is able to guard you from falling and to make you stand faultless before his glory in great joy, ²⁵ to the only God our Savior, be, through Jesus Christ our Lord, glory, majesty, might, and authority, before all time and now and for all the ages! Amen.

¹² Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for your reward is great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

¹³ And bring us not into trial, But save us from evil.'

²⁹ Suddenly they shouted, "Son of God, what have you to do with us? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"

³ Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector, James the son of Alphaeus and Thaddaeus,

²¹ "Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if in Tyre and Sidon the miracles had been done which were done in you, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes.

²⁴ But I tell you it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you."

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. ³² Whoever says a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven either in this world or in the world to come. ³³ Either make the tree good and its fruit good or make the tree bad and its fruit bad. For from the fruit the tree is known. ³⁴ Brood of vipers, how can you who are evil speak good things? For from the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. ³⁵ The good man out of his good treasury pours out good things, and the bad man out of his bad treasury pours out bad things. ³⁶ I tell you, for every idle word that men speak they will give full account in the day of judgment, ³⁷ for from your words you will be justified and from your words you will be condemned."

⁶ But when the sun rose they were scorched, and because they had no roots they withered.

²⁵ But while people were sleeping his enemy came and sowed weeds through the wheat, and went away.

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

²⁷ For the Son of Man will soon come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will repay each in full according to his actions.

²⁸ Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly, you who have followed me, in the rebirth, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you also will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹⁹ and seeing a solitary fig tree at the roadside he went to it, but found on it nothing but leaves only. He said to it, "Let there no more be fruit from you forever." The fig tree immediately withered up. ²⁰ Upon seeing this, the disciples were astonished and said, "How suddenly the fig tree withered up!"

¹³ "But alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut the kingdom of heaven before men. You yourselves do not enter nor do you permit those who are entering to go in. ¹⁴ TEXT OMITTED ¹⁵ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is won you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves. ¹⁶ Alas for you, blind guides! You say, 'Whoever swears by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the Temple is bound.'

³⁰ And then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. Then will all the tribes of the earth beat their breasts for grief, and they will see the Son of Man as he comes on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. ³¹ And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet-blast, and they will gather his chosen from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

⁴² Watch, therefore, for you do not know what day your Master is coming. ⁴³ But this you do know, that if the householder had known in which watch the thief was coming he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴ Therefore be you also ready, for in an hour that you do not think the Son of Man is coming. ⁴⁵ Who, then, is the faithful and wise servant whom the master has placed over his household to give them food in due season? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. ⁴⁷ I tell you truly that he will place him over all that he owns. ⁴⁸ But if that wicked servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying,' ⁴⁹ and begins to strike his fellow servants and to eat and drink with the drunken, ⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not expecting and at an hour when he is unaware, ⁵¹ and will cut him asunder and assign his part with the hypocrites. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

³¹ "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne

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.

¹⁸ Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddeus, Simon the Zealot,

⁶ but when the sun came up it was scorched and because it had no root it withered away.

⁴³ If your hand is a snare to you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go away into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire. ⁴⁴ TEXT OMITTED ⁴⁵ If your foot is a snare to you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame than with two feet to be cast into Gehenna. ⁴⁶ TEXT OMITTED ⁴⁷ If your eye is a snare to you, tear it out. It is better to enter into the kingdom of God one-eyed than with two eyes to be cast into Gehenna, ⁴⁸ where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁹ For every one will be salted with fire.

²⁰ As they were passing by early in the morning they saw the fig tree withered from the roots. ²¹ Peter, calling to mind, said to him, "Rabbi, see, the fig tree that you cursed has withered up."

²⁹ The people who passed by scoffed at him, shaking their heads and saying, "Ha, you who can pull down the Temple and build it up in three days,

³⁰ The Pharisees and their scribes grumbled to his disciples, and said, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

¹⁶ and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

⁶ Other seed fell on the rock, and when it sprang up it withered away because it had no moisture.

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

⁴² But alas for you, Pharisees! Because you tithe mint, and rue, and every herb, and pass by justice and the love of God. These things you ought to have practiced, without omitting the others. ⁴³ Alas for you, Pharisees! for you love the first seats in the synagogues and greetings in the market-places. ⁴⁴ Alas for you! for you are like unmarked graves. The men who walk over them do not know it." ⁴⁵ One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying this you treat us roughly too." ⁴⁶ He said, "Alas for you lawyers also! for you burden men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ Alas for you! for you build the tombs of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years, take your ease, eat, drink, be merry!' ²⁰ But God said to him, 'Foolish man, this night your soul will be required of you; and the things that you have prepared — whose will they be?'

³⁶ and be like men expecting their Master when he returns from the wedding, so that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately. ³⁷ Blessed are those servants whom the Master, when he comes, will find watching! Truly I tell you he will gird himself and make them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. ³⁸ If he comes in the second watch or in the third watch and finds them so, blessed are they! ³⁹ But know this, if the householder had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁰ And you be ready, for in an hour that you do not think the Son of Man is coming."

⁴⁵ But if that servant says in his heart, 'My master will be long in coming,' and begins to strike the men servants and the maids and to eat and drink and get drunk,

² The Pharisees and the scribes grumbled to one another, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."

¹⁹ "A certain man was rich and was clothed in purple and fine linen and lived merrily every day in splendor.

²⁹ But on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

⁷ All who saw it grumbled, saying that Jesus was going in to stay with a sinner.

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him to say, 'We do not want this man to be king over us.'

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

³⁹ One of the criminals who were crucified insulted him, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us." ⁴⁰ But the other rebuked him and said, "Have you no fear of God, since you are under the same sentence?

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

⁵ Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a man is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. ⁶ What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

²² You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

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.

²⁷ He has given him authority to do judgment, because he is Son of Man.

⁴⁴ How can you believe, you who accept honor from one another and do not seek honor from the only God?

³⁹ and this is the will of him who sent me, that of the whole that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise all up on the last day.

⁴¹ The Jews were muttering to each other about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"

⁶¹ Jesus, knowing in his own mind that his disciples were muttering about this, said to them, "Does this make you stumble?

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.

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

²⁶ If any one is serving me, let him follow me and where I am there my servant shall be. If any one is serving me, him my Father will honor.

²¹ He who has my commands and keeps them — he is the one that loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will show myself to him." ²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Master, what has happened that you are going to show yourself to us and not to the world?"

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.

⁹ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands, you will abide in my love as I have kept my Father's commands and abide in his love.

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

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

¹¹ Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep in thy name those whom thou hast given to me, that they may be one, as we are. ¹² When I was with them I kept in thy name those whom thou hast given to me, and I guarded them, and none of them has perished but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

¹⁵ I do not pray thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil.

¹⁷ Make them holy through the truth. Thy word is truth.

¹⁹ and for them I consecrate myself, that they may be consecrated through the truth.

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

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."

⁸ Stephen, full of grace and of power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. ⁹ But certain persons from what was called the synagogue of the Libyans and Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen; ¹⁰ yet they could not hold their own against the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

²⁷ But he who was injuring his neighbor pushed him away, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and judge over us?

³⁹ Our fathers would not obey him, but thrust him away and turned back in their hearts toward Egypt,

²² But Saul grew stronger and put to confusion the Jews who lived at Damascus, as he proved that this man was the Christ.

³¹ So the church had peace throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and was built up, and advancing in the reverence of the Lord and by the encouragement of the Holy Spirit grew continually in numbers.

²³ When he arrived and saw the grace of God he was delighted, and he encouraged all to be firmly faithful to the Lord.

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas said with fearless plainness, "The message of God had to be spoken first to you. But since you thrust it away and do not judge yourselves worthy of life eternal — now, we turn to the Gentiles. 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.'

⁹ He made no difference between us and them in cleansing their hearts by faith.

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

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

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."

⁴ But in the synagogue every Sabbath he reasoned and endeavored to persuade both Jews and Greeks. ⁵ When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was absorbed by the message, bearing witness to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. ⁶ When they resisted and spoke profane words, he rent his garments and said to them, "Your blood is on your own heads. I am clear, and from now on I am going to the Gentiles."

²⁸ For he powerfully and publicly refuted the Jews, showing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

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

²⁹ I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come among you, not sparing the flock.

³² "And now I commit you to the Lord and to his gracious message, which can build you up and give you the heritage among all those who have been made holy.

³⁵ In all things I showed you that so laboring we ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

⁵ Paul said, "I did not know, brethren, that he was High Priest. It is written, 'Thou shalt not speak evil of the Ruler of thy people.' "

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

²³ For this night an angel of the God whose I am and whom I serve stood by me

²⁸ Therefore be it known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles. They will listen."

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

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

²¹ For although they knew God they did not glorify him as God and did not give him thanks, but fell into futile speculations and their stupid hearts were darkened. ²² Boasting of being wise, they became fools

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

⁵ Are you with a hard and unrepentant heart treasuring for yourself wrath for the day of wrath and for the revelation of the just judgment of God?

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

¹⁹ We know that all that the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world may come under the condemnation of God. ²⁰ Therefore by works of the Law no human being will be pronounced righteous before him. For through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

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

²¹ in order that as sin reigned in death grace might reign through righteousness and issue in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹ WHAT shall we say then? Shall we remain in sin so that grace may be great? ² Never. How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

²² But now freed from sin and having become servants of God you have your fruit in holy living and its outcome, life eternal. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁹ But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you. If any one has not the Spirit of Christ, that man is not his.

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.

²⁶ Thus also the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with sighs beyond words. ²⁷ And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for the holy according to the will of God.

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. ³¹ What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us?

³⁹ nor height nor depth nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

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

¹⁴ if in any way I may arouse to emulation my own kindred and save some of them —

³³ O the depth of the wealth both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, how untraceable his ways!

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

⁴ Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls, and stand he will, for God is able to make him stand.

¹⁰ But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you, why do you treat your brother with contempt? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God.

² Each of us should please his neighbor for his good so as to build him up.

¹⁵ But I have written rather boldly to you, partly to remind you, because of the grace given to me from God,

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

¹⁸ For such persons are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own stomachs, and by their smooth and pleasing talk they mislead the hearts of the innocent.

²⁵ To him who is able to make you strong according to the good news which I bear, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, and according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret through ages, ²⁶ but now made manifest through the prophetic Scriptures by the command of the eternal God, to promote obedience to the faith made known to all the Gentiles — ²⁷ to God, the only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for the ages of the ages!

²⁷ to God, the only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for the ages of the ages!

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

⁸ He will keep you strong to the end and free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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 If any one's work burns up he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

¹⁷ If any one mars the temple of God, God will mar him, for the temple of God is holy, and you are the temple.

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.

³ For I, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already as if I were present judged the man who has acted thus. ⁴ When you assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit was also present with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵ I decided to deliver over such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

⁹ I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with unchaste people, ¹⁰ certainly not meaning the unchaste of this world, or the covetous or extortionate or idolaters, since in that case you would have to leave the world. ¹¹ But now I write to you not to associate with any one who is called a brother, if he is unchaste or covetous or idolatrous or abusive or drunken or extortionate — not even to eat with such a one.

¹³ But outsiders God will judge. Expel the wicked man from among yourselves.

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

¹¹ And such some of you were. But you have washed yourselves; but you have been made holy; but you have been pronounced righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

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

¹ I DO not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea ² and all received baptism in the cloud and in the sea, ³ and all ate the same spiritual food ⁴ and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. ⁵ But with the most of them God was not well pleased. For they were strewn in the desert. ⁶ These things happened as warnings for us, that we may not be eager for evil things as they were eager. ⁷ Be not idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to dance." ⁸ Nor let us be unchaste, as some of them were and twenty-three thousand fell dead in one day. ⁹ Nor let us try the patience of the Lord, as some of them tried him and were destroyed by serpents. ¹⁰ Nor murmur, as some of them murmured and perished by the destroyer.

¹⁰ Nor murmur, as some of them murmured and perished by the destroyer. ¹¹ These things happened to those people as warnings and they were written for the instruction of us to whom the closing events of the ages have come. ¹² So let him who thinks that he is standing beware of falling.

²³ All things are lawful, but not all are beneficial. All things are lawful, but not all build up character.

²⁰ When, therefore, you assemble it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper. ²¹ For in eating each one tries to get his own supper first and one is hungry and another is drunken. ²² Have you not homes to eat and drink in? Or do you mean to show contempt for the church of God and put to shame those who have no homes? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? For this I do not praise you.

⁴ He who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but he who prophesies builds up the church. ⁵ I wish you all to speak with tongues, but I wish more to have you prophesy. He who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may receive upbuilding.

¹⁵ What then? I will pray with the spirit and with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit and with the understanding.

²⁶ What then, brethren? When you assemble each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for the upbuilding of character.

³ For among the first things I passed on to you what I had received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

³³ Do not be led astray; "bad associations corrupt good morals."

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

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

¹⁰ For such grief as God approves works a change of heart leading to salvation and is never to be regretted. But the grief of the world results in death. ¹¹ Notice this very grieving as God approves, how great earnestness resulted from it in your case, what effort to defend yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what just punishment! In everything you showed yourselves blameless in the matter. ¹² So although I wrote to you, I did it not for the sake of him who did the wrong, nor for the sake of him who suffered wrong, but that your earnestness for us might be made plain to you before God.

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

⁴ though it was suggested on account of false brethren who had been brought in, who had crept in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us. ⁵ But we did not yield in subjection to them even for an hour, that the truth of the good news might continue with you.

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

⁶ Because you are sons, God has sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son crying Abba, Father.

²⁰ Would that I could be present with you now and could change my tone, for I am at a loss about you.

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.

¹⁶ I say, walk in the Spirit and you will not carry out the passions of the flesh.

²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.

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

¹¹ See with what great letters I write with my own hand.

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

⁸ which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and understanding.

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

¹⁰ in order to disclose now to the archangels and powers in the heavenly heights, through the church, the varied wisdom of God,

²⁰ To him who is able to do far beyond all we ask or think by the power that works in us, ²¹ to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus through all the generations of the ages! Amen.

¹¹ And he "gave" to some to be apostles, some prophets, some tellers of the good news, some shepherds and teachers, ¹² for the equipment of the saints, for the work of service, for building up the body of Christ,

¹⁴ Then we shall be no longer children tossed and borne about by every wind of teaching through the trickery of men and craftiness in the devices of deceit,

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

²⁹ Let no vile word come out of your mouth, but, if anything, a good word for needed upbuilding of character to give grace to those who hear.

²⁶ that he might make it holy, cleansing it by the washing with water according to his word, ²⁷ that he might present to himself the church glorious, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and faultless.

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

¹⁸ Pray at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty; be awake to this with all intentness and with prayer for all the holy

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

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

¹⁴ Do everything without murmurings or disputings

¹⁹ Their end is ruin, their God is their stomach, their glory is in their shame, they think earthly thoughts.

² to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ in Colossae: Grace be to you and peace from God our Father!

²² by his body of flesh through death, to present you holy and spotless and blameless before him,

²⁸ And we are announcing him, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom in order that we may present every man complete in Christ.

⁷ rooted and built up in him, growing strong in the faith as you have been taught, and overflowing with thanksgiving.

⁴ When Christ, our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

² but after we had suffered and been roughly treated, as you know, in Philippi, we made bold in our God to speak to you the good news of God with great wrestling.

¹² to live lives worthy of the God who is calling you into his own kingdom and glory.

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

⁵ not in the passion of lust, as the Gentiles do who know not God;

⁸ Therefore he who disregards this disregards not man, but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

¹⁶ For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and with God's trumpet-call, and first the dead in Christ will rise.

¹⁶ For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and with God's trumpet-call, and first the dead in Christ will rise. ¹⁷ Then we, the living, who are left, will be caught up along with them into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall forever be with the Lord.

⁶ Then let us not be sleeping like the rest of men, but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For those who sleep sleep in the night and those who drink drink in the night.

¹¹ Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, as indeed you are doing.

²³ May the God of peace himself make you completely holy, and may your spirits and souls and bodies be kept faultless and blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷ and to repay to you, who are being troubled, rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels. ⁸ With flaming fire he will inflict vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the good news of our Lord Jesus.

¹³ We ought always to thank God for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through the Spirit's making you holy and your own faith in the truth. ¹⁴ To this he called you through the good news that we brought, so that you may share the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ The Lord guide your hearts in the love of God and the patience of Christ.

¹⁴ If any one does not obey our words in this letter, mark that man and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

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

⁴ nor give attention to myths and endless genealogies, which promote disputes rather than God's plan in the faith, so I beg you now.

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

¹⁷ To the King of the ages, the immortal, invisible, only God, be honor and glory for the ages of the ages! Amen. ¹⁸ This command I lay down for you, my child Timothy, in accordance with the prophecies that came in advance regarding you, in order that armed with them you may wage the noble war,

³ This is excellent and pleasing in the sight of God, our Savior,

¹ THE Spirit says distinctly that in later times some will desert from the faith, giving attention to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons, ² through the hypocrisy of men who teach falsely, branded in their own consciences,

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

⁶ But the pleasure-loving widow, though living, is already dead.

⁵ and wranglings of men of depraved minds who are destitute of the truth. They think of religion as a source of gain.

¹² Play the grand hard game of the faith. Lay hold on life eternal, to which you have been called and have made the noble confession before many witnesses.

¹⁵ which in due time he will show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, ¹⁶ who alone has immortality, who dwells in light unapproachable, whom no man has seen or can see. To him be honor and power eternal! Amen.

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

⁵ I remember the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and then in your mother Eunice, and I am confident that it lives in you also.

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

¹³ Hold to the example of wholesome words which you heard from me in faith and love in Christ Jesus.

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

¹⁸ The Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord on that day! And in how many ways he served me in Ephesus you know better still.

¹ I WOULD have you know this, that in the last days trying times will come; ² for people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, haughty, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane, ³ without family affection, relentless, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, ⁴ treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. ⁵ They will have a form of religion, but will cast off its power. Avoid such people. ⁶ For of this class are those who make their way into houses and take captive weak women loaded with sins, led by varying passions,

¹³ Wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

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.

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

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

¹⁸ The Lord will rescue me from every wicked attack and will keep me safe for his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for the ages of the ages! Amen.

¹ PAUL, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to promote the faith of God's chosen and their knowledge of the truths of religion,

³ but in due time made known as his message through the proclamation with which I was entrusted by the commission of God our Savior, ⁴ to Titus my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus, our Savior.

⁴ to Titus my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus, our Savior.

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

¹⁰ not pilfering, but showing all kindly fidelity, so as to make the teaching about God our Savior seem beautiful in all respects. ¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all men, ¹² teaching us to renounce all irreligion and worldly passions and to live soberly, justly and piously in this present world, ¹³ waiting for the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the great God and of our Savior Christ Jesus,

¹³ waiting for the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the great God and of our Savior Christ Jesus, ¹⁴ who gave himself for us to redeem us from all sin and purify us as his own people earnest in honorable work.

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

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

¹⁶ who when they heard made him angry? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses?

⁴ For it is impossible for those who have been once for all enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift and have become sharers in the Holy Spirit ⁵ and have tasted God's word and the powers of the coming world, ⁶ and then have fallen away, to have again a change of heart, since they are crucifying for themselves afresh the Son of God and putting him to open shame. ⁷ For ground that drinks the rain that comes often upon it and bears plants useful to those for whom it is farmed shares in God's blessing; ⁸ but if it bears thorns and thistles it is judged worthless and is near to being cursed. In the end it will be burnt over.

²⁸ so Christ was once for all offered to bear the sins of many and will appear the second time, apart from sin, to those who are looking for him, and bring them salvation.

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

²⁷ but a dreadful expectation of doom and a fury of fire that will devour the opposers.

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, for which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God testifying to his gifts, and by it, though dead, he still speaks. 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. ⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must have faith that he exists and that he becomes the rewarder of those who seek him.

¹⁵ Be on your guard that no one shall fail of the grace of God, that no bitter root shall sprout up and trouble you and through it many be stained, ¹⁶ that there shall be none unchaste, or profane like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

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

¹⁷ Obey your leaders and yield to their authority; for they watch over your souls as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with sighing. That would be unprofitable for you.

²⁰ May the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of an eternal covenant, ²¹ equip you with every good thing for doing his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for the ages of the ages. Amen. ²² I beg you, brethren, to bear with my words of exhortation; for I have written to you briefly.

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

¹⁴ Every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own passions and enticed. ¹⁵ Then when passion has conceived it gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is full grown, gives birth to death.

¹ MY brethren, do not hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality for persons. ² For if there comes into your assembly a man with gold rings and in fine clothes, and there comes in a poor man in soiled clothes, ³ and you look up to the man who is wearing the fine clothes and say, "Take this good seat," and say to the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit under my footstool," ⁴ are you not making distinctions in your own minds and have you not become judges with wicked thoughts? ⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren, did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him? ⁶ But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you before courts? ⁷ Do they not speak profanely of the noble name by which you are called? ⁸ If you keep the royal law according to the Scripture, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," you do well. ⁹ But if you have partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as law-breakers.

²² You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was made perfect

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

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

¹⁹ My brethren, if one of you strays from the truth and any one brings him back, ²⁰ I wish you to know that he who brings back a sinner from his wanderings will save his soul from death and will hide a host of sins.

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.

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

¹⁴ As obedient children, do not shape your lives by the passions that ruled you in the former days of ignorance,

⁸ a stone for the foot to strike, a rock to stumble over." Their feet strike the message because of their unbelief, and to this they were destined. ⁹ But you are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may proclaim the virtues of him who called you from darkness into his wonderful light.

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

¹⁶ Live as free men, yet not using freedom as a cloak for wickedness, but as God's slaves. ¹⁷ Honor all men, love the brotherhood, reverence God, honor the king.

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

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

¹¹ If any one speaks, let it be as uttering the oracles of God. If any one serves, let it be from the strength that God supplies. Thus in all things let God be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him be glory and strength for the ages of the ages! Amen.

¹³ But rejoice since to this extent you are sharing the sufferings of Christ, that when his glory is revealed you may rejoice and exult.

¹⁸ If the righteous is saved with difficulty, where will the godless and sinful appear?

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

¹⁰ The God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little will equip, establish and strengthen you. ¹¹ To him be power for the ages of the ages! Amen. ¹² By Silvanus, your faithful brother, as I esteem him, I am writing to you briefly, to encourage you and to testify that this is the true grace of God. Take your stand in it.

¹ SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have been allotted a faith as precious as ours: ² Grace be to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

¹² For this reason I shall always keep reminding you of these things, although you know them and are steadfast in the truth that you have.

¹² For this reason I shall always keep reminding you of these things, although you know them and are steadfast in the truth that you have. ¹³ I think it right so long as I am in this tent to arouse you by reminding you,

¹³ I think it right so long as I am in this tent to arouse you by reminding you, ¹⁴ since I know that the laying aside of my tent will come soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made plain to me. ¹⁵ I will endeavor also on every occasion to make it so that after my going you shall have these things in memory.

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

¹ BUT false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among yourselves, and they will craftily bring in deadly heresies, even disowning the Lord who bought them and bringing on themselves quick ruin. ² Many will follow their shameless ways and by these the path of truth will be profanely spoken of. ³ In covetousness they will make gain out of you by their cunning words. But their condemnation from of old has not been inactive, and their destruction has not been sleeping. 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, ⁵ and did not spare the ancient world, but guarded Noah, a herald of righteousness, and seven others, when he brought the flood on the world of the ungodly; ⁶ and if reducing to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah he condemned them to destruction, making them an example for the godless of what would come upon them,

⁶ and if reducing to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah he condemned them to destruction, making them an example for the godless of what would come upon them,

⁶ and if reducing to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah he condemned them to destruction, making them an example for the godless of what would come upon them, ⁷ and rescued righteous Lot worn out by the indecent lives of the lawless, — ⁸ for that righteous man living among them was tortured day and night in his righteous soul by the sight and hearing of their lawless deeds, — ⁹ the Lord knows how to rescue the pious from trial and how to keep the wicked under punishment for the day of judgment,

⁹ the Lord knows how to rescue the pious from trial and how to keep the wicked under punishment for the day of judgment, ¹⁰ especially those who go after flesh in polluting passions, and despise lordship. They are daring, self-willed; they do not tremble to speak insultingly of glorious beings

¹⁰ especially those who go after flesh in polluting passions, and despise lordship. They are daring, self-willed; they do not tremble to speak insultingly of glorious beings ¹¹ even where angels greater in strength and power do not bring against them an insulting charge before the Lord.

¹¹ even where angels greater in strength and power do not bring against them an insulting charge before the Lord. ¹² But they, like irrational creatures, born mere animals for capture and destruction, while speaking profanely of things they are ignorant of, will be corrupted by their own corruption,

¹² But they, like irrational creatures, born mere animals for capture and destruction, while speaking profanely of things they are ignorant of, will be corrupted by their own corruption, ¹³ and will suffer unrighteously as the reward of their own unrighteousness. They think it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are spots and blots as they revel in their deceptions while they feast sumptuously with you. ¹⁴ They have eyes engrossed with some adulteress, eyes which never cease from sin. They seduce unsteady souls. They have hearts practiced in covetousness. They are children of a curse. ¹⁵ Leaving the straight path they have wandered away following the path of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.

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

¹⁷ These men are springs without water, storm-driven mists for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved. ¹⁸ For by speaking great empty swelling words they entrap in the passions of the flesh — wanton excesses — those who are nearly escaping from those who live in error.

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

¹⁸ For by speaking great empty swelling words they entrap in the passions of the flesh — wanton excesses — those who are nearly escaping from those who live in error. ¹⁹ While they promise them liberty they themselves are the slaves of corruption; for by whatever any one is overcome to that he is enslaved.

¹⁹ While they promise them liberty they themselves are the slaves of corruption; for by whatever any one is overcome to that he is enslaved. ²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they have been again entangled and overcome, their last state has become worse than the first.

²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they have been again entangled and overcome, their last state has become worse than the first. ²¹ For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment that has been committed to them. ²² That has happened to them which the true proverb says, "The dog returns to his own vomit and the sow after bathing returns to wallowing in the mire."

¹ THIS second letter, beloved, I am writing you. In both I have tried, by awakening your memory,

¹ THIS second letter, beloved, I am writing you. In both I have tried, by awakening your memory, ² to arouse your honest minds to recall the predictions of the holy prophets and the commands of your apostles from the Lord and Savior.

² to arouse your honest minds to recall the predictions of the holy prophets and the commands of your apostles from the Lord and Savior. ³ First you should know this, that in the last days scoffers will come with their scoffing, living according to their own passions

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

¹² you who are looking for and hastening toward the coming of the day of God, when the blazing heavens will be dissolved and the burning elements melted?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

⁴ because all that is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith.

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.

¹⁶ If any one sees his brother committing a sin that is not deadly, he must ask and God will give him life for those who are committing sin that is not deadly. There is sin that is deadly. I do not say that he should pray in behalf of that. ¹⁷ All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin that is not deadly. ¹⁸ We know that every one who has been born of God lives without sinning, but he who was born of God keeps him, and the Evil One does not lay hold of him.

¹⁸ We know that every one who has been born of God lives without sinning, but he who was born of God keeps him, and the Evil One does not lay hold of him.

²¹ Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

³ Beloved, although I have been making every effort to write to you regarding our common salvation, I now find it necessary to write and urge you to contend vigorously for the faith that was once for all delivered to the holy. ⁴ For certain persons have crept in, who of old were written of as predestined to this doom, godless, changing the grace of our God into profligacy and disowning our only Ruler and Lord, Jesus Christ. ⁵ I wish to remind you, although you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people from the land of Egypt, then destroyed those who had no faith; 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. ⁷ So Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, which in the same way gave themselves up to unchastity and the pursuit of unnatural vices, serve as an example while they undergo the punishment of eternal fire. ⁸ Just so these dreamers defile the flesh, reject government, and speak abusively of glorious beings. ⁹ But Michael, the arch-angel, when in dispute with the Devil he was arguing about the body of Moses, did not venture to bring against him an abusive judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."

⁹ But Michael, the arch-angel, when in dispute with the Devil he was arguing about the body of Moses, did not venture to bring against him an abusive judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you." ¹⁰ But these speak profanely of whatever they do not know, and all that physically as irrational animals they do understand, in these things they corrupt themselves.

¹⁰ But these speak profanely of whatever they do not know, and all that physically as irrational animals they do understand, in these things they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Alas for them! for they have traveled in the path of Cain, and for hire have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and have perished in the rebellious talk of Korah. ¹² These are the hidden reefs in your love-feasts while they feast freely with you without fear, shepherds who care only for themselves, waterless clouds driven by winds, trees in autumn fruitless, twice dead, uprooted, ¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for which the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

¹⁵ to do judgment upon all and to convict all the irreverent of all their deeds of irreverence which they have irreverently done, and of all the hard things which they have spoken against him, irreverent sinners that they are." ¹⁶ These men are complaining grumblers, living according to their own passions, and their mouths speak great swelling words. They show admiration for persons for the sake of their own gain. ¹⁷ But you, beloved, remember the words which were long ago spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁸ how they told you that in the latter time there would be scoffers living according to their own ungodly passions.

²⁰ But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ must keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you into life eternal.

²⁴ To him who is able to guard you from falling and to make you stand faultless before his glory in great joy,

⁴ John to the seven Churches in Asia: Grace be to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood, ⁶ and made us a kingdom, priests to God his Father, to him be glory and power for the ages of the ages! Amen.

⁶ and made us a kingdom, priests to God his Father, to him be glory and power for the ages of the ages! Amen. ⁷ He is coming with clouds and every eye will see him, even of those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will beat their breasts because of him. Yes, Amen.

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

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have some who hold the teaching of Balaam who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the sons of Israel: to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit unchastity.

⁴ But you have a few names in Sardis which have not stained their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

¹⁸ I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments to put on, so that the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.

⁹ And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne, who lives for the ages of the ages, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for the ages of the ages, and they cast their crowns before the throne saying, ¹¹ "Worthy art thou, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou didst create all things and because of thy will they existed and were created."

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

¹⁰ The third angel sounded his trumpet and there fell from heaven a great star burning like a torch. It fell upon a third of the rivers and upon the springs of water. ¹¹ The name of the star is called Wormwood. Then a third of the waters became worm-wood, and many people died from the waters because they had been made bitter.

⁷ War arose in heaven. Michael and his angels fought with the Dragon. The Dragon and his angels fought,

¹¹ But they have conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of testimony to him, and they loved not their lives even to death.

⁵ There was given to him a mouth speaking boasts and profanities, and there was given to him power to act for forty-two months. 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.

¹⁰ If any one is destined to captivity, into captivity he will go. If any one is to be killed by the sword, by the sword must he be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the holy. ¹¹ Then I saw another Beast coming up out of the land. It had two horns like those of a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.

⁵ No lie was found in their mouths. They are stainless.

¹⁰ he also will drink of the wine of God's passion which has been mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tortured in fire and brimstone in the presence of holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. ¹¹ And the smoke of their torture will ascend for ages of ages and they will have no rest day or night — those who worship the Beast and his image, and any one who receives the mark of his name."

⁴ Who will not reverence and glorify thy name, O Lord? For thou only art holy. All the nations will come and worship before thee, because thy righteous acts have been made manifest."

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."

¹² I am coming soon and my reward is with me, to pay each in full as his work is. ¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. ¹⁴ Blessed will those be who wash their robes so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter by the gates into the city. 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.

²⁰ He who bears this testimony says, "Yes, I am coming soon." Amen, come, Lord Jesus.