Matthew 6 Cross References - Riverside

¹ "BE careful not to do your religious actions before men in order to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. ² When you give gifts of mercy, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, in order that they may be honored by men. I assure you they get their payment in full. ³ But you, when you are giving a gift of mercy, must not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴ so that your gift may be in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you. ⁵ "When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so as to be seen by men. I assure you they get their payment in full. ⁶ But you, when you pray, go into your inner room and shut your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you. ⁷ "When praying do not keep repeating, as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their multitude of words. ⁸ Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you have need of before you ask him. ⁹ Pray in this way: 'Our Father in heaven, Thy name be kept holy; ¹⁰ Thy kingdom come; Thy will prevail; As in heaven, so on earth. ¹¹ Our bread for the coming day Give us to-day; ¹² And forgive us our failures As we forgive those who fail toward us; ¹³ And bring us not into trial, But save us from evil.' ¹⁴ For if you forgive men their wrongdoings, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; ¹⁵ but if you do not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your wrongdoings. ¹⁶ "When you fast, do not wear gloomy faces as hypocrites do. For they disfigure their faces so as to be seen by men to be fasting. I assure you they get their payment in full. ¹⁷ But you, when fasting, anoint your head and wash your face, ¹⁸ so as not to appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you. ¹⁹ "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust corrode and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰ But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrodes and where thieves do not break in nor steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is there will your heart be also. ²² "The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is clear your whole body will be lighted up, ²³ but if your eye is bad your whole body will be darkened. If the light that is in you is darkness, how great the darkness is! ²⁴ No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon. ²⁵ "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your physical life — what you are to eat or what you are to drink; nor about your body — what you are to wear. Is not the life more than the food and the body more than the clothing? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air. They do not sow nor reap nor gather into barns, but your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷ But who of you by being anxious can add to his height one foot? ²⁸ And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, bow they grow. They neither toil nor spin. ²⁹ But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was arrayed like one of these. ³⁰ If God so clothes the herbage of the field, to-day growing and to-morrow thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of so little faith? ³¹ So do not be anxious, saying, What are we to eat? or, What are we to drink? or, What are we to wear? ³² For all these things the pagans seek after. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³ But you must seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be supplied to you. ³⁴ Do not be anxious about to-morrow, for to-morrow will take care of itself. Enough for the day is its own trouble.

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

⁴ But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.' "

¹⁰ Jesus said to him, "Begone, Satan, for it is written, 'To the Lord thy God alone shalt thou do homage, and him alone shalt thou serve.' "

¹⁷ From that time Jesus began to proclaim and say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

⁶ "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness! For they will have abundance.

¹⁶ So let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

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.

²² But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall answer for it to the court; and whoever says to his brother, 'Raca' [empty-head], shall answer for it to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool' shall answer for it in the Gehenna of fire. ²³ So then if you are bringing your gift to lay on the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you, ²⁴ leave your gift there before the altar and go, first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. ²⁵ Get on good terms with your adversary quickly while you are on the road with him, for fear that he may deliver you to the judge and the judge may deliver you to the officer and you may be cast into prison. ²⁶ Truly I tell you you will not come out until you pay the last penny." ²⁷ "You have heard that it was said, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' ²⁸ But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman with lustful thoughts has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

³⁶ nor must you swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. ³⁷ But let your yes be yes and your no be no. Whatever is more than these is from evil.

⁴⁶ For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not also the tax collectors do the same thing?

⁴⁶ For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not also the tax collectors do the same thing? ⁴⁷ And if you salute your brothers only, what superiority have you? Do not the Gentiles do the same? ⁴⁸ You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

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

² When you give gifts of mercy, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, in order that they may be honored by men. I assure you they get their payment in full.

⁴ so that your gift may be in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.

⁴ so that your gift may be in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you. ⁵ "When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so as to be seen by men. I assure you they get their payment in full.

⁵ "When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so as to be seen by men. I assure you they get their payment in full. ⁶ But you, when you pray, go into your inner room and shut your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

⁶ But you, when you pray, go into your inner room and shut your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

⁸ Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you have need of before you ask him. ⁹ Pray in this way: 'Our Father in heaven, Thy name be kept holy; ¹⁰ Thy kingdom come; Thy will prevail; As in heaven, so on earth. ¹¹ Our bread for the coming day Give us to-day; ¹² And forgive us our failures As we forgive those who fail toward us;

¹⁴ For if you forgive men their wrongdoings, your heavenly Father will also forgive you;

¹⁴ For if you forgive men their wrongdoings, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; ¹⁵ but if you do not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your wrongdoings. ¹⁶ "When you fast, do not wear gloomy faces as hypocrites do. For they disfigure their faces so as to be seen by men to be fasting. I assure you they get their payment in full.

¹⁸ so as not to appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

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

²⁵ "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your physical life — what you are to eat or what you are to drink; nor about your body — what you are to wear. Is not the life more than the food and the body more than the clothing?

²⁷ But who of you by being anxious can add to his height one foot? ²⁸ And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, bow they grow. They neither toil nor spin.

³¹ So do not be anxious, saying, What are we to eat? or, What are we to drink? or, What are we to wear? ³² For all these things the pagans seek after. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

³⁴ Do not be anxious about to-morrow, for to-morrow will take care of itself. Enough for the day is its own trouble.

² For with whatever judgment you judge you will be judged, and with whatever measure you measure you will be measured.

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.

⁷ "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened. ⁸ For every one who asks obtains, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door is opened. ⁹ Is there any man of you who if his son asks him for bread will give him a stone?

¹¹ If you, though evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him.

²¹ "Not every one who says to me, 'Master, Master,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

⁴ Jesus said to him, "Be sure and do not say a word to any one, but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift which Moses prescribed as evidence for them."

²⁶ But he said, "Why are you frightened, you men of little faith?" Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the lake, and there was a great calm.

¹⁴ Then the disciples of John came to Jesus and said, "Why are we and the Pharisees fasting while your disciples are not fasting?" ¹⁵ He said, "Can the bridal party fast while the bridegroom is with them? But days will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.

³⁰ And their eyes were opened. Jesus sternly commanded them, "Be sure and let no one know of this."

³⁸ Pray to the Master of the harvest to rush out laborers into his harvest."

¹⁰ no bag for the road, nor two tunics nor shoes nor stick, for the workman has a right to his food.

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

²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet one of them will not fall on the ground without your Father.

²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet one of them will not fall on the ground without your Father. ³⁰ But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. ³¹ So do not fear. You are worth more than many sparrows.

⁴¹ He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will get a prophet's reward, and he who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will get a righteous man's reward. ⁴² Whoever gives merely a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple, I tell you truly he will not lose his reward."

⁴² Whoever gives merely a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple, I tell you truly he will not lose his reward."

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

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

⁵⁰ For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

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.

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

²³ After dismissing the crowd, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray, When evening came, he was there alone.

³¹ At once Jesus stretched out his hand and grasped him and said, "O man of little faith, why did you doubt?"

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

³³ The disciples said to him, "Where can we get enough bread in this uninhabited place to feed such a crowd?"

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⁶ and Jesus said to them, "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees."

⁸ But Jesus, when he knew it, said, "Why are you discussing among yourselves, O men of little faith, because you have no bread?

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 I tell you truly there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste of death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."

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

¹⁷ If he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. If he refuses to hear the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

²¹ Then Peter came to him and said, "How often, Sir, if my brother sins against me, shall I forgive him? Up to seven times?" ²² Jesus said to him, "I do not say up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. ²³ "Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a man who was a king, who determined to settle accounts with his servants. ²⁴ When he had begun the accounting there was brought to him one who owed him ten thousand talents. ²⁵ Since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, as well as his wife and his children and whatever he had, and payment to be made. ²⁶ But the servant fell down and did homage and said, 'Have patience with me and I will pay you in full.' ²⁷ Then the master, pitying the servant, released him and cancelled his debt. ²⁸ But that servant, on going out, found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred shillings, and he seized him and choked him, saying, 'Pay in full what you owe.' ²⁹ His fellow servant fell down and begged, saying, 'Have patience with me and I will pay you in full.' ³⁰ But he would not, but went and threw him into prison until he should pay off the debt. ³¹ When his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were deeply grieved and went and informed their master about everything. ³² The master summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked servant, all that debt of yours I cancelled when you begged me. ³³ Ought you not to have had pity on your fellow servant as I had pity on you?' ³⁴ Then his master was angry and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay off all that was owing to him. ³⁵ Just so will my Father in heaven do to you if you do not forgive each one his brother from your hearts."

³⁵ Just so will my Father in heaven do to you if you do not forgive each one his brother from your hearts."

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

²⁹ And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for my name's sake will receive manifold more and will inherit life eternal.

¹⁵ Have I not the right to do what I will with my own? Is your eye evil because I am good?'

²⁵ But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them and their great ones wield power over them. ²⁶ It is not so among you. But whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant,

²² and whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will obtain."

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

⁵ All their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and make their tassels large. ⁶ They love the best couches at dinners and the front seats in the synagogues

⁹ And do not call any one on earth Father, for one is your Father in heaven.

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.

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.'

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.' ¹⁷ Fools and blind, which is greater, the gold or the Temple that makes the gold holy?

¹⁷ Fools and blind, which is greater, the gold or the Temple that makes the gold holy? ¹⁸ You say, 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on the altar is bound.'

¹⁸ You say, 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on the altar is bound.' ¹⁹ You blind, which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy?

¹⁹ You blind, which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy? ²⁰ He, then, who swears by the altar swears by it and everything on it,

²⁰ He, then, who swears by the altar swears by it and everything on it, ²¹ and he who swears by the Temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it,

²¹ and he who swears by the Temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it, ²² and he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it.

²² and he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it. ²³ "Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint, dill, and carraway and have disregarded the weightier matters of the law — justice and kindness and good faith. These you should have practiced, without neglecting those other things.

²³ "Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint, dill, and carraway and have disregarded the weightier matters of the law — justice and kindness and good faith. These you should have practiced, without neglecting those other things. ²⁴ Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and drink down a camel!

²⁴ Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and drink down a camel! 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.

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.

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.

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.

²⁸ So you, too, outwardly appear to men to be righteous, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

²⁸ So you, too, outwardly appear to men to be righteous, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. ²⁹ "Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous

²⁹ "Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous ³⁰ and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'

⁵¹ and will cut him asunder and assign his part with the hypocrites. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right hand, 'Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world! ³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; ³⁶ naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you cared for me. I was in prison and you came to me.' ³⁷ Then will the righteous answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? ³⁸ When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? ³⁹ When did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?' ⁴⁰ The King will answer, 'I tell you truly, inasmuch as you did it to one of these my brothers — even the least — you did it to me.'

⁴⁰ The King will answer, 'I tell you truly, inasmuch as you did it to one of these my brothers — even the least — you did it to me.'

²⁹ I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I shall drink it with you, new, in the kingdom of my Father."

³⁶ Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, "Sit here while I go and pray yonder." ³⁷ He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed. ³⁸ He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sad, even to death. Stay here and watch with me." ³⁹ Then he went a little farther and fell on his face and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I will, but as thou wilt."

³⁹ Then he went a little farther and fell on his face and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I will, but as thou wilt."

⁴¹ Watch and pray so as not to enter into temptation. Your spirit is eager, but your flesh is weak." ⁴² Again a second time he went away and prayed, "My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, thy will be done."

⁴⁴ So he left them and went away again and prayed a third time, saying again the same words.

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

⁴⁴ "Be sure, do not say anything to anybody, but go and show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed for evidence."

¹⁸ The disciples of John as well as the Pharisees were fasting. They came and said to Jesus, "Why is it that the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but your disciples are not fasting?"

³⁵ Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."

¹⁹ but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the passions for other things come in and choke the word, and it turns out barren.

⁴⁰ Then he asked them, "Why are you so timid? How is it you have no faith?"

⁶ He replied, "Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites when he wrote: 'This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

²² adulteries, lusts, wickednesses, deceit, sensuality, an evil eye, slander, arrogance, recklessness —

¹⁵ Jesus warned them, "Beware, be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."

¹⁹ Jesus answered, "O faithless generation! how long must I be with you? How long must I bear with you? Bring him to me."

²⁹ Jesus said, "I tell you truly there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the good news, ³⁰ who will not receive a hundred fold more now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come life eternal.

¹⁰ Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! God in highest heaven save him!"

²⁵ And when you stand praying, forgive if you have anything against any one, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your failings."

³⁸ In his teaching he said, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes and to have greetings in the market-places ³⁹ and front seats in the synagogues and the best couches at banquets.

¹¹ When they are taking you along to deliver you up, feel no anxiety what you are to say, but say whatever is given to you in that hour. For it will not be you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

⁶ They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and regulations of the Lord blameless.

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

³⁷ and having been a widow for now eighty-four years. She never left the Temple courts, but worshiped by fastings and prayers, night and day.

¹¹ He answered, "Let him who has two tunics give to him who has none, and let him who has food do likewise."

²⁴ "But alas for you rich men! For you have now your comfort in full.

³⁷ Do not judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.

⁴² How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me get out the speck that is in your eye,' while you yourself never notice the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite, take out first the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to get out the speck in your brother's eye.

⁴⁰ Jesus, answering his thought, said to him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." "Teacher," he said, "say it." ⁴¹ "A certain money-lender had two debtors; one owed him five hundred shillings; the other fifty. ⁴² Because they had nothing to pay with, he graciously forgave both. Which of them will love him most?" ⁴³ Simon answered, "I suppose the one to whom he forgave most." He said to him, "You have answered correctly." ⁴⁴ Then, turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet. But she has rained tears upon my feet and has wiped them with her hair. ⁴⁵ You gave me no kiss, but she, since I came in, has not ceased passionately kissing my feet. ⁴⁶ My head with oil you did not anoint, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. ⁴⁷ For this reason I tell you her sins, many as they are, have been forgiven, for she loved much. For he to whom little is forgiven loves little." ⁴⁸ He said to her, "Your sins have been forgiven."

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

¹⁴ That which fell among thorns means those who hear, and as they go on are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life and bring nothing to completion.

¹⁷ For there is nothing hidden which will not become manifest, nor secret which will not be known and come to light.

⁴¹ Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverted generation, how long must I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here."

⁴⁰ But Martha was busy and worried over a great deal of service. Coming to him she said, "Master, do you not care that my sister has left me to do the work alone? Tell her to take hold with me." ⁴¹ But the Master answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things,

¹ ONCE he was in a certain place praying. When he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, "Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." ² He said to them, "When you pray say: Father, thy name be kept holy; Thy kingdom come; ³ Our bread for the coming day Give us day by day;

³ Our bread for the coming day Give us day by day; ⁴ And forgive us our sins; For we ourselves forgive every one who fails toward us. And bring us not into trial."

⁴ And forgive us our sins; For we ourselves forgive every one who fails toward us. And bring us not into trial."

¹¹ What father is there among you who if his son asks for bread will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead? ¹² Or if he asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion? ¹³ If then you, evil though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give a holy spirit to those who ask him."

³⁴ The lamp of the body is the eye. When your eye is clear the whole body is lighted. But when it is bad, your body is dark. ³⁵ Make sure that the light that is in you is not darkness.

³⁵ Make sure that the light that is in you is not darkness. ³⁶ If your body is all lighted up, not having any part dark, it will be all lighted as when the lamp lights you by its brilliance."

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

⁴³ Alas for you, Pharisees! for you love the first seats in the synagogues and greetings in the market-places.

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.

⁴ I tell you, my friends, never fear those who kill the body and after that have nothing more that they can do. ⁵ But I will show you whom you should fear. Fear him who, after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I say, fear him. ⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God. ⁷ But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Never fear; you are worth more than many sparrows. ⁸ But I tell you every one who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man confess before the angels of God. ⁹ And he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

¹¹ When they bring you in before synagogues and magistrates and authorities, do not be anxious about how to defend yourselves or what to say.

¹⁵ He said to them, "See to it and be on your guard against every form of covetousness, for not even when one has a superabundance is his life from the things he owns."

²¹ So is he who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God." ²² He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, never worry about your life, what you are to eat, nor about your body, what you are to put on. ²³ For the life is more than the food and the body is more than the clothing. ²⁴ Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have neither granary nor barn; yet God feeds them. How much more you are worth than the birds!

²⁴ Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have neither granary nor barn; yet God feeds them. How much more you are worth than the birds! ²⁵ Which of you can by worrying add a foot to his height?

²⁵ Which of you can by worrying add a foot to his height?

²⁵ Which of you can by worrying add a foot to his height? ²⁶ If you cannot do the least, why do you worry about the rest?

²⁶ If you cannot do the least, why do you worry about the rest?

²⁶ If you cannot do the least, why do you worry about the rest? ²⁷ Consider the lilies, how they neither spin nor weave. Yet I tell you even Solomon in all his splendor was not arrayed like one of these.

²⁷ Consider the lilies, how they neither spin nor weave. Yet I tell you even Solomon in all his splendor was not arrayed like one of these.

²⁷ Consider the lilies, how they neither spin nor weave. Yet I tell you even Solomon in all his splendor was not arrayed like one of these. ²⁸ But if God so clothes the herbage which to-day is in the field and to-morrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O men of little faith!

²⁸ But if God so clothes the herbage which to-day is in the field and to-morrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O men of little faith!

²⁸ But if God so clothes the herbage which to-day is in the field and to-morrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O men of little faith! ²⁹ Do not seek after something to eat and something to drink, and do not be agitated by cares.

²⁹ Do not seek after something to eat and something to drink, and do not be agitated by cares.

²⁹ Do not seek after something to eat and something to drink, and do not be agitated by cares. ³⁰ For these things all the nations of the world are seeking after.

³⁰ For these things all the nations of the world are seeking after.

³⁰ For these things all the nations of the world are seeking after. ³¹ But strive for his kingdom and these things will be provided for you.

³¹ But strive for his kingdom and these things will be provided for you.

³¹ But strive for his kingdom and these things will be provided for you. ³² Never fear, little flock! For it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. ³³ Sell what you have and give gifts of mercy. Make for yourselves purses that never grow old, an unfailing treasure in heaven where no thief approaches nor moth consumes; ³⁴ for where your treasure is there your heart will be.

⁵⁶ Hypocrites, you know how to interpret the face of the earth and the sky, why do you not interpret this crisis?

¹⁵ The Master answered him, "Hypocrite, does not each of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the manger and lead him away and water him?

¹² He said, too, to the man who had invited him, "When you make a breakfast or a dinner, do not call your friends or your brothers or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, for they may invite you in return and you may be repaid. ¹³ But when you hold a reception, invite poor men, maimed men, lame men, blind men. ¹⁴ And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, and you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

¹⁴ And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, and you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

¹⁸ I will arise and go to my father and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.

²¹ The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son' —

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

¹¹ If, then, you have not been faithful in the dishonest Mammon, who will entrust to you the true?

¹³ No house servant can serve two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon."

¹⁵ He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination before God.

³ "Be on your guard. If your brother sins against you, reprove him, and if he changes his mind, forgive him. ⁴ Even if seven times in the day he sins against you and seven times turns to you, saying, 'I repent,' forgive him." ⁵ The apostles said to the Master, "Increase our faith."

¹ HE gave them an illustration that they ought always to pray and not to lose courage.

¹⁰ "Two men went up to the Temple courts to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank thee that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, cheats, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. ¹² I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all I get.' ¹³ But the tax collector stood far off and would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God be merciful to me, the sinner!'

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

²⁴ Jesus looked at him and said, "With how much difficulty do those who have riches enter the kingdom of God!

²⁹ He said to them, "I tell you truly there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God ³⁰ who will not receive many times more in this world, and in the world to come life eternal."

¹¹ While they were listening to this, he added an illustration, because he was near to Jerusalem and they were thinking that the kingdom of heaven was going to appear immediately.

³⁸ saying: "Blessed be he who comes as king, in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the heights above!"

⁴⁶ "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes and love salutations in the market-places and front seats in the synagogues and the best couches at dinners, ⁴⁷ who devour widows' houses and in pretense make long prayers. These will receive unusual condemnation."

³¹ Simon, Simon, Satan has begged to be allowed to sift all of you like wheat. ³² But I have prayed for thee that thy faith may not fail. And when you come back to yourself, strengthen your brothers." ³³ Peter said to him, "Master, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death." ³⁴ Jesus said, "I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow to-day before you three times deny that you know me." ³⁵ He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse or bag or shoes, did you lack for anything?" They said, "We lacked for nothing."

³⁵ He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse or bag or shoes, did you lack for anything?" They said, "We lacked for nothing." ³⁶ He said to them, "But now whoever has a purse must take it, and so with a bag, and he who has no sword must sell his cloak and buy one.

³⁶ He said to them, "But now whoever has a purse must take it, and so with a bag, and he who has no sword must sell his cloak and buy one. ³⁷ For I tell you that the prophecy must be fulfilled in me — the prophecy, 'He was numbered among the lawless.' For what concerns me is coming to an end." ³⁸ They said, "Master, here are two swords." He said to them, "That is enough." ³⁹ He went out and made his way, according to his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. ⁴⁰ When he came to the place, he said to them, "Pray not to enter into temptation." ⁴¹ He parted from them about a stone's throw and kneeled down and prayed, ⁴² "Father, if thou wilt, take away this cup from me. Yet not my will, but thine, be done."

⁴² "Father, if thou wilt, take away this cup from me. Yet not my will, but thine, be done." ⁴³ An angel from heaven appeared to him strengthening him. ⁴⁴ Being in agony, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood failing upon the ground. ⁴⁵ Then he rose from prayer and came to the disciples and found them sleeping from sorrow. ⁴⁶ He said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."

⁴⁸ Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

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

⁴¹ I do not accept honor from men,

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

²⁷ Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to life eternal, which the Son of Man will give you. For him God the Father has sealed."

³¹ Our fathers ate the manna in the desert as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.' " ³² Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven. ³³ For the bread of God is he who came down from heaven and gives his life for the world." ³⁴ They said to him, "Sir, always give us this bread." ³⁵ Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never hunger, and he who believes in me will never thirst. ³⁶ But, I tell you, you have seen me and do not believe. ³⁷ All that the Father gives me will come to me, and him who comes to me I will not cast away; ³⁸ for I came down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me; 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. ⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father, that every one who looks upon the Son and believes in him shall have life eternal, and I will raise him up on the last day."

⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father, that every one who looks upon the Son and believes in him shall have life eternal, and I will raise him 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," ⁴² and they were saying, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he say now, 'I have come down from heaven'?" ⁴³ Jesus answered them, "Do not be muttering with one another. ⁴⁴ No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. 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. ⁴⁷ Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has life eternal. ⁴⁸ I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ Your fathers ate the manna in the desert and they died. ⁵⁰ This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that any one may eat of it and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread that comes down from heaven. If any one eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh: I will give it for the life of the world." ⁵² The Jews disputed angrily with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you have no life in you. ⁵⁴ He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life eternal, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I abide in him. ⁵⁷ As the living Father sent me and I am living because of the Father, so he who eats me — he will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down from heaven, not such as your fathers ate and died. He who eats this bread will live forever." ⁵⁹ These things he said while teaching in a synagogue in Capernaum.

⁴ For no one does anything in secret while desiring to be known publicly. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world."

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.

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."

⁴³ for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

²⁹ Some thought, since Judas had the purse, that Jesus was telling him, "Buy what we need for the feast," or to give something to the poor.

²⁷ Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor fearful.

²³ On that day you will ask me no questions. Truly, truly, I tell you, if you ask the Father for anything in my name, he will give it to you. ²⁴ So far you have asked for nothing in my name; ask and you will obtain, that your joy may be made full.

²⁴ So far you have asked for nothing in my name; ask and you will obtain, that your joy may be made full. ²⁵ "I have spoken these things to you in figures. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father. ²⁶ On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not tell you that I will make request of the Father for 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.

³³ I have spoken these things to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you have distress. But he courageous. I have conquered the world."

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

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

²⁷ Then he said to Thomas, "Reach your finger here. Here are my hands. Reach your hand and put it into my side, and become not faithless, but believing."

⁴⁶ Every day, continuing with one accord in the Temple courts and in breaking bread from house to house, they ate together in joy and simplicity of heart,

²¹ You have no part or lot in this matter. For your heart is not right before God.

³⁶ In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (in Greek Dorcas, Gazelle). She abounded in good works and acts of kindness which she was accustomed to do.

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

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

⁴ He gazed at him in alarm and asked, "What is it, my Lord?" The angel said to him, "Your prayers and your gifts of charity have come up as an evidence before God.

⁹ On the next day, while they were on the road and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray. It was about noon.

³⁰ Cornelius said, "Four days ago, at this hour, I was offering the three o'clock prayer in my house, when suddenly a man stood before me in shining dress ³¹ and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your gifts of charity have been remembered before God.

²⁹ Then the disciples determined, each according to his means, to send something for the help of the brethren who were living in Judaea.

² As they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." ³ Then, after fasting and praying and laying their hands upon them, they sent them off.

²² After removing him, God raised up David to be their king, to whom he bore testimony, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He will carry out all my purposes.'

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

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 They appointed elders for them in every church, and after prayer and fasting committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

³⁴ But when they recognized that he was a Jew, there arose one shout from all for about two hours, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

²⁵ And now I know that you all, among whom I have gone about heralding the kingdom, will never see my face again.

¹⁴ When he would not be persuaded, we stopped talking, saying, "The Lord's will be done."

¹⁴ He said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One and to hear the voice from his mouth,

¹⁷ "After many years I came to my nation to make gifts of charity and offerings.

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

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.

¹⁷ For a righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith to faith, as it is written, "He who is righteous by faith shall live."

²² Boasting of being wise, they became fools

⁶ He will give to each an award according to his works.

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? 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?

²¹ But now, apart from law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, confirmed by the Law and the Prophets — ²² a righteousness from God through faith in Jesus Christ for all believers. For there is no difference.

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. ²¹ What fruit did you have then? Fruit of which you are now ashamed; for the end of those things is death. ²² But now freed from sin and having become servants of God you have your fruit in holy living and its outcome, life eternal.

⁵ For when we were in the flesh the sinful passions that arise through the Law were active in our members, so that we bore fruit to death. ⁶ But now the Law has been made inoperative on us, since we have died to that by which we were held, so that we serve in newness of the spirit and not in oldness of the letter. ⁷ What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Never. But I should not have come to know sin except through the Law. I should not have known lust if the Law had not said, "Thou shalt not lust."

⁵ For those who are living according to the flesh have their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are living according to the spirit have their minds on the things of the spirit.

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.

³¹ What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not with him graciously give us all things?

³ For, ignorant of God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted to God's righteousness.

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

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

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

¹⁸ For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹ For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and I will bring to nought the prudence of the prudent." ²⁰ Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

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

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.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you thinks himself wise in this world, let him become a fool in order to become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their own craftiness,"

²² Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come — all are yours

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.

⁵ Do not deprive one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may have freedom for prayer, and again come together. You must not let Satan tempt you through your lack of self-control.

³² I wish you to be free from worry. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord — how be may please the Lord.

¹⁷ If I do it voluntarily I have a reward, but if reluctantly, I have been charged with a responsibility. ¹⁸ What then is my reward? That in telling the good news I make the good news free, and do not take full advantage of my rights in the good news.

¹³ No trial has taken you but what belongs to human nature. God is faithful and he will not let you be tried beyond your power, but will make, with the trial, a way of escape so that you can endure it.

¹⁸ But now God has placed the members each one of them in the body as he pleased.

¹⁶ If you thank God with the spirit, how shall he who fills the place of the ordinary man say Amen to your thanksgiving? For he does not know what you are saying.

²⁰ For all the promises of God, however many, have their yes in him. Therefore also through him is the Amen to the glory of God through us.

¹⁸ while we contemplate not the things that are seen, but the things unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things unseen are eternal.

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

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

⁵ in floggings, in prisons, in riots, in toils, in sleepless nights, in fastings,

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

⁹ as it is written, "He scattered, he gave to the poor, his righteousness endures forever." ¹⁰ He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and make abundant your seed and will increase the fruits of your righteousness.

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

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.

²⁷ in toil and labor, in many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

⁷ and because of the surpassing nature of the revelations. For this reason, that I should not be puffed up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan, to torment me, so that I should not be puffed up. ⁸ Regarding this I three times begged the Lord that it might leave me. ⁹ But he has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you; for power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly then will I boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may abide upon me.

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

⁴ who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present wicked world according to the will of our God and Father!

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

¹⁰ Only they wished us to remember the poor. This very thing I also was earnest in doing.

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

¹² All who wish to make a fair show in the flesh are trying to compel you to receive circumcision, but only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

⁷ in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, according to the wealth of his loving kindness

¹⁴ For this reason I bow my knees to the Father

¹⁷ This then I say and solemnly protest in the Lord: that you are no longer to live as the Gentiles live in vacancy of mind, ¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, aliens from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, and because of the hardness of their hearts.

²⁸ He who steals must steal no longer, but rather he must labor, working with his own hands something good, so as to have something to share with any one in need.

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

⁸ For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light —

⁵ Slaves, obey those who according to the flesh are your masters, with reverence and awe in singleness of your hearts as to Christ, ⁶ not with eye service as pleasers of men, but as Christ's slaves, doing the will of God in a whole-souled way,

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

⁹ and be found in him, not having my own righteousness that was from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God and rests on faith,

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

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

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

¹³ He has saved us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

¹ IF then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. ² Have your minds on the things above and not on the things on the earth. ³ For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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

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

²² Slaves, obey in everything your masters in the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, because you reverence the Lord. ²³ Whatever you do, do it heartily as for the Lord and not for men, ²⁴ for you know that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. You are slaves to the Lord Christ.

² Be earnest and constant in prayer. Be thankfully watchful in it. ³ Pray along with us and for us that God may open for us a door for the message, so that I may tell the mystery of Christ for the sake of which I am in chains —

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

⁶ nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or others, although we could have claimed the dignity of Christ's apostles.

³ that no one might be disturbed in these trials. For you yourselves know that we are destined to this. ⁴ For when we were with you we told you in advance, "We shall soon have trouble." And so it came to pass, as you know.

³ For this is the will of God: to have you become holy and have you shun unchastity;

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

¹⁷ Pray without ceasing. ¹⁸ In everything give thanks, for this is God's will in Christ for you.

⁵ This is a proof of God's righteous judgment. It is to make you worthy of God's kingdom, on behalf of which you are suffering,

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

¹² Such we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and eat their own bread.

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

⁹ Also that the women adorn themselves in becoming dress modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothes, ¹⁰ but — as is becoming for women professing piety — with good deeds.

⁸ Bodily exercise is useful to a small degree, but godliness is useful for everything. "It has the promise of the present life and of the life that is to come."

⁸ If we have food and clothing we will be content with these.

⁸ If we have food and clothing we will be content with these. ⁹ But those who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and injurious passions which plunge men into destruction and ruin. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some men grasping for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pangs.

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.

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. ¹⁷ Command those who are rich in this world not to be haughty nor to fix their hope on uncertain wealth, but on God who provides all things richly for our enjoyment.

¹⁷ Command those who are rich in this world not to be haughty nor to fix their hope on uncertain wealth, but on God who provides all things richly for our enjoyment. ¹⁸ They must do good work, be rich in noble deeds, be generous, ready to share, ¹⁹ treasuring up for themselves a good fund for the future, that they may lay hold on the life that is real.

⁴ No one while serving as a soldier entangles himself in the affairs of life, for the soldier must please him who enlisted him.

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

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

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

⁷ For I have had great joy and encouragement in your love, because the hearts of the holy have been refreshed by you, brother.

¹⁹ I, Paul, write it with my own hand. I will pay it — not to mention to you that you owe me your own self besides.

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth for service in behalf of those who are to inherit salvation?

¹ FOR this reason we should give special attention to the things that we have heard, so as not to drift away from them.

¹⁴ Since then the children share in blood and flesh, he himself in the same way shared in them, in order that through death he might defeat him who had the power of death, that is, the Devil, ¹⁵ and set free all those who through fear of death were all their lives doomed to slavery.

¹² See to it, brethren, that there shall not be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart ready to forsake the living God,

¹³ 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.

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

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.' "

³⁴ For you even suffered with the prisoners and accepted the plundering of your property with joy, knowing that you had a better and enduring possession.

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

²⁶ and he thought the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. For he was looking to the final reward.

³⁶ Still others had experience of mockings and floggings, yes, of chains and prisons.

⁵ Let your lives be free from the love of money. Be content with what you have. For he has said, "I will not fail you nor will I forsake you."

⁵ Let your lives be free from the love of money. Be content with what you have. For he has said, "I will not fail you nor will I forsake you." ⁶ So we may say with courage, "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

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

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.

¹⁰ and let the rich brother glory in his lowly station, for he will pass away like a flower of the grass. ¹¹ For the sun rises with scorching heat and dries up the grass, and the flower of it falls and the beauty of its face perishes. So shall the rich man wither in his pursuits.

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?

¹³ For judgment is merciless to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

¹⁵ If a brother or sister is naked and lacks food for the day ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and fed," but you do not give them what the body needs, what is the good of it?

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.

⁶ But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

¹ COME, now, you rich men, wail and lament over the miseries that are coming upon you. ² Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten, ³ your gold and silver are rusted over and the rust on them will be an evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire.

¹⁵ The prayer of faith will save the sick and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins they will be forgiven him. ¹⁶ Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another in order to be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man has great power.

⁴ a birth into an inheritance immortal, unstained and unfading, kept in heaven for you

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

¹⁷ And if you call upon him as Father who impartially judges by each one's work, live out the time of your sojourn here in reverence,

²⁴ For "All flesh is like grass and all its glory is like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls,

¹³ Be submissive to every human institution for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme,

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

² when they look at your pure, reverential behavior. ³ Your adornment must not be of the external kind — braiding the hair and putting on gold and wearing fine dresses; ⁴ but the hidden personality of the heart must wear the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in God's sight most precious. ⁵ For so of old the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves. They were submissive to their own husbands,

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.

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

⁷ Cast all your anxiety on him, for he cares for you. ⁸ Be sober, watch. Your enemy the Devil, like a roaring lion, goes about seeking some one to devour.

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:

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

⁹ the Lord knows how to rescue the pious from trial and how to keep the wicked under punishment for the day of judgment,

⁷ If we live in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. ⁸ If we say, "We have no sin," we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness:

¹¹ He who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and knows not where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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.

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.

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.

¹⁷ But if any one has this world's goods and sees his brother in need and shuts away his sympathies from him, how can the love of God remain in him? ¹⁸ Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. ¹⁹ By this we shall know that we are of the truth and shall give confidence to our hearts in his presence,

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

⁸ Guard yourselves so as not to lose what we have worked for, but so that you may gain a full reward.

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

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.

⁹ I know your distress and poverty, but you are rich, and I know the profane words from those who say that they are Jews though they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. 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.

²³ and her children I will surely kill. All the churches shall know that I am he who searches hearts and will give to each of you according to your deeds.

¹⁰ Because you have kept my command of patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which is about to come on all the world, to try the inhabitants of the earth.

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:

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

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."

¹² crying aloud, "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing." ¹³ And every creature that is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all creatures in them, I heard saying, "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and power for the ages of the ages."

¹⁴ I said to him, "My Lord, you know." He said to me, "These have come out of the great distress and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ For this reason they are before the throne of God and worship him day and night in his Temple, and he who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them. ¹⁶ They will not hunger any more nor thirst any more, nor will the sun strike on them nor any burning heat, ¹⁷ for the Lamb who is in the center before the throne will be their shepherd and will lead them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

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

¹⁰ I heard a loud voice in heaven say, "Now has come the salvation and power and kingship of our God and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brethren has been hurled down, he who accuses them before our God day and night.

¹ AFTER this I heard what seemed the loud voices of a great multitude in heaven saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,

⁴ Then the twenty-four elders fell down and the four living creatures worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, "Amen! Hallelujah!"

⁶ Then I heard what seemed like the voices of a great multitude, like the sound of many waters, like the sound of mighty thunders, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty is king.

⁴ Then I saw thrones, and men took their seats on them and the power to judge was granted to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for God's message, and who had not worshiped the Beast nor his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. They lived and reigned as kings with Christ a thousand years,

⁴ He will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death shall be no more; neither shall there any longer be sorrow or wailing or painful toil; for the first things have passed away."