Titus 3 Cross References - Riverside

¹ REMIND them to be submissive to ruling authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, ² to speak abusively to no one, to be peaceable, to be fair, showing all gentleness toward all men. ³ For we ourselves were once thoughtless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to passions and various pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. ⁴ But when the kindness of our Savior, God, and his love to men appeared, ⁵ "not because of works that we had done in righteousness, but out of his own mercy he saved us through the bath of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ that we might be declared righteous by his grace and become heirs with the hope of life eternal." ⁸ That is a trustworthy saying. I wish you to insist on these things so that those who have put their faith in God may give earnest attention to honorable work. These things are honorable and also useful to men. ⁹ But avoid foolish disputes and genealogies and strife and quarrels about the Law; for they are unprofitable and futile. ¹⁰ If a man is factious, after one or two warnings, have nothing more to do with him, ¹¹ knowing that such a one is perverted and goes on sinning though self-condemned. ¹² When I send Artemas to you or Tychicus, try to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to pass the winter there. ¹³ Do your best in helping Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos forward on their journey so that they may lack nothing. ¹⁴ Our people too must learn to give attention to honorable work, so as to be able to meet pressing needs, that they may not be fruitless. ¹⁵ All who are with me send you their greetings. Give our greetings to those who love us in the faith. Grace be with all of you.

¹⁹ Every tree that does not yield fine fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls.

¹⁵ "If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault between yourself and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother. ¹⁶ If he does not listen to you, take along with you one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses, or three, every word may be confirmed. 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.

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.

²⁹ He answered, 'I will, Sir,' but he did not go.

²¹ They said, "Caesar's." He said to them, "Then pay to Caesar what is Caesar's, and pay to God what is God's."

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

² He said, "The scribes and Pharisees have seated themselves on Moses' seat. ³ So whatever they tell you, do and observe, but do not do as they do. For they say and do not.

²⁶ His master replied, 'You wicked and idle servant. Did you know that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not thresh? ²⁷ Then you ought to have turned over my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received my own with interest. ²⁸ Take from him the talent and give it to him who has the ten talents.

⁵⁰ His kindness is from generation to generation upon those who fear him.

⁵⁴ He brings help to Israel his servant, mindful of kindness,

⁷² Dealing kindly with our forefathers, mindful of his holy covenant,

⁷⁸ Through the tender compassion of our God, With which the sunrise from on high will shine upon us;

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the lawyers had thwarted the purpose of God in reference to themselves by not being baptized by him.)

²⁵ Then a certain lawyer stood up to test him, and said, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit life eternal?"

²⁷ He answered, " 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself.' ²⁸ Jesus said to him, "You have answered correctly; do this and you will live." ²⁹ But he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

⁴⁵ One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying this you treat us roughly too."

⁵² Alas for you lawyers! because you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves have not entered and you have prevented those who were entering."

⁶ He gave this illustration: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard and came looking for fruit on it and found none. ⁷ He said to the gardener, 'See, three years I have been coming, looking for fruit on this fig tree, and I do not find any. Gut it down. Why should we waste land for it?' ⁸ But he answered him, 'Leave it this year too, Sir, until I dig around it and throw on manure. ⁹ Then, if it yields fruit in the future, all right. But if not, then you shall cut it down.'

³ Jesus said to the lawyers and Pharisees, "Is it allowable to heal on the Sabbath or is it not?"

²² He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. Did you know that I was an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping where I did not sow?

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

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

³ Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a man is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God." ⁴ Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter into his mother's womb a second time and be born?" 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.

¹⁸ He who believes in him is not condemned. He who does not believe has been already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

¹⁰ Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."

²⁴ Truly, truly, I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has life eternal and does not come into condemnation, but has passed over from death into life.

³⁷ On the last day, the great day, of the feast Jesus stood and cried out, "If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, every one who practices sin is the slave of sin.

⁴⁴ Jesus cried out, "He who believes in me does not believe in me, but in him who sent me,

¹⁶ and I will ask the Father and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever — ¹⁷ the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot accept because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him because he abides with you and will be in you.

⁸ By this is my Father glorified — by your bearing much fruit and becoming my disciples.

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.

⁷ I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I should go away. For unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

³³ Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you see and hear.

¹ SAUL was still breathing out threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the High Priest ² and asked from him letters to the synagogues in Damascus, that if he should find any persons who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. ³ On his journey he was getting near to Damascus when suddenly a light from heaven flashed round him. ⁴ He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" ⁵ He asked, "Who is speaking?" The answer was, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. ⁶ But stand up and go into the city and it will be told you what you must do."

⁴⁵ All the believers who were of the circumcision who had come along with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Gentiles,

¹⁵ They said to her, "You are insane." But she was positive that it was so. They said, "It is his angel."

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.

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 and because he was of the same trade stayed with them and they worked together; for by trade they were tent-makers.

²⁴ A certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, a learned man, had come to Ephesus.

⁴ There were in company with him Sopater of Beraea, the son of Pyrrhus, and of the Thessalonians Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe and Timothy, and from Asia Tychicus and Trophimus.

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 But when we had finished the days, we left and continued our journey, and they all with their wives and children escorted us until we got outside of the city. Then, after kneeling down on the beach and praying,

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.' "

¹⁹ After that, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, ²⁰ but first to the people in Damascus and then to the people of Jerusalem and through all the land of Judaea and to the Gentiles, I proclaimed that they should repent and turn to God and do deeds suitable for a change of heart.

¹⁰ They bestowed many honors on us and when we sailed they put on board supplies for our needs.

²⁹ filled with all injustice, wickedness, greed, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, fraud, malignant craftiness, whisperers, ³⁰ slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, ³¹ without common sense, without faithfulness, without family affection, without pity.

⁴ Or do you despise the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God is calling you to a change of heart?

⁹ What then? Have we an advantage? Not at all. We have already brought the charge against both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin, ¹⁰ as it is written, "There is not even one righteous; ¹¹ there is none that seeks God. ¹² All have turned away; together they have become worthless; there is none who does what is useful, not even one. ¹³ Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they deceive; the poison of asps is under their lips. ¹⁴ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; ¹⁵ their feet are swift to shed blood; ¹⁶ ruin and misery are in their paths. ¹⁷ The path of peace they do not know. ¹⁸ There is no reverence for God before their eyes." 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.

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.

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.

²⁴ All are pronounced righteous by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

²⁸ For we reason that a man is pronounced righteous by faith aside from works of law.

⁴ To him who works, wages are credited not as by grace, but as due; ⁵ but to him who does not work, but believes in him who calls the unrighteous man righteous, his faith is credited for righteousness.

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

¹ SO then, since we have been accounted righteous by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. ² Through him we obtained entrance into this grace in which we stand and exult in hope of the glory of God.

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.

¹⁵ But the gracious gift is not like the fall. For if by the fall of the one the many sinned, much more did the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abound to the many. ¹⁶ And the free gift was not like the sentence that came through one who sinned; for the sentence came from one fall for condemnation, but the free gift was that men should be called righteous in spite of many falls. ¹⁷ For if by the fall of one man death reigned through that one, much more those who receive the abounding grace and the free gift of righteousness will reign in life through one, that is, through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ As then through one fall sentence came upon all men and they were condemned; so through one righteous act the free gift came to all men so that they are pronounced righteous and live. ¹⁹ For as by the disobedience of the one man the many were set down as sinners, so by the obedience of the one the many will be set down as righteous. ²⁰ But law came in alongside that the fall might be greater; but where sin became greater grace became greater still, ²¹ in order that as sin reigned in death grace might reign through righteousness and issue in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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.

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

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

¹⁷ And if children, we are also heirs — heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ, since we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.

²³ And not the creation alone, but we ourselves also who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, groan within ourselves in expectation of the sonship, the liberation of our bodies. ²⁴ For we are saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope, for what any one sees, why does he hope for?

¹¹ though the same man was father of both children and they were not yet born and had done nothing good or bad, in order that the purpose of God according to his choice might stand, not according to their works, but according to his call,

¹⁶ So then it is not a question of the man who wills or who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

³⁰ What shall we say then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained righteousness, the righteousness of faith,

⁶ But if it is by grace it is no longer because of works, for then grace would be no longer grace.

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.

¹ LET every person be obedient to the superior authorities. For there is no authority except from God and the actual authorities have been appointed by God. ² So he who resists the authority opposes the arrangement of God. Those who resist will bring on themselves condemnation. ³ For rulers are not a terror to good deeds, but to bad. Do you wish not to fear the authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from it. ⁴ For he is a servant of God to promote your good. But if you are doing evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword to no purpose. For he is God's servant to inflict his wrath on him who practices evil. ⁵ Therefore we must be obedient, not only because of the punishment but as a matter of conscience. ⁶ For this reason also you pay tribute. For they are God's officers attending to this very thing. ⁷ Pay to all their dues, tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

²⁴ while making a journey to Spain, I hope to see you as I pass through and to be furthered on my journey by you, after first partially satisfying my desire of being with you.

²⁸ So after completing this and sealing to them this fruit, I shall come away and pass by you to Spain.

¹ I COMMEND to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchreae, ² that you may receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of the holy, and help her in any matter in which she may need you. For she has been a provider for many, myself included. ³ Give my greetings to Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, ⁴ who for my life risked their own necks, to whom not I alone give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. ⁵ Give my greetings also to the church in their house. Give my greetings to Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first-fruit of Asia for Christ. ⁶ Give my greetings to Mary, who has worked hard for you. ⁷ Give my greetings to Andronicus and Junias, men of my race and my companions in prison, who are eminent among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. ⁸ Give my greetings to Ampliatus my beloved in the Lord. ⁹ Give my greetings to Urbanus our fellow worker in Christ, and to Stachys my beloved. ¹⁰ Give my greetings to Apelles, that tested man in Christ. Give my greetings to the household of Aristobulus. ¹¹ Give my greetings to Herodion, who is of my race. Give my greetings to those of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord. ¹² Give my greetings to Tryphaena and Tryphosa, those workers in the Lord. Give my greetings to Persis the beloved, who has worked hard in the Lord. ¹³ Give my greetings to Rufus the chosen in the Lord, and to his mother and mine. ¹⁴ Give my greetings to Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Petrobas, Hermas, and the brethren with them. ¹⁵ Give my greetings to Philologus, and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the holy with them. ¹⁶ Give my greetings to one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send their greetings to you. ¹⁷ I beg you, brethren, to keep your eye on those who are making divisions and occasions for sin contrary to the teaching which you have learned, and to shun them.

¹⁷ I beg you, brethren, to keep your eye on those who are making divisions and occasions for sin contrary to the teaching which you have learned, and to shun them. 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. ¹⁹ For your obedience has come to the knowledge of all men. Therefore I rejoice over you, but I wish you to be wise regarding what is good, and simple in regard to what is evil. ²⁰ The God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you! ²¹ Timothy, my fellow worker, sends his greeting, and so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, who are of my race. ²² I, Tertius, who penned this letter, greet you in the Lord. ²³ Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, sends his greetings. Erastus the city treasurer sends his greetings, and so does Quartus the brother.

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. ⁶ Your boasting is unbecoming. Do you not know that a little yeast sets the whole mass fermenting? ⁷ Cleanse out the old yeast that you may be new dough, free from yeast, as indeed you are. For Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed. ⁸ So let us keep the festival, not with the old yeast nor with the yeast of evil and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 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. ¹² For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those inside? 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, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such some of you were. But you have washed yourselves; but you have been made holy; but you have been pronounced righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

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.

¹ NOW as to things that have been sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

¹⁹ For though I am free from all I have enslaved myself to all that I may gain the more.

¹⁹ For there must be parties among you in order that it may become plain who are worthy of approval.

² And if I have the power of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

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

⁶ and perhaps I shall make some stay with you or pass the winter with you, so that you may send me forward wherever I may be going.

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

¹¹ So let no one think him of no account. Send him forward in peace on his journey to me, for I am expecting him with the brethren.

²³ The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

¹³ Having the same spirit of faith, as it is written, "I believed, therefore I spoke," we too believe and therefore speak,

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!

¹ I MYSELF, Paul, beg you by the gentleness and sweet reasonableness of Christ — I who "to your face am humble when among you, but when absent am bold toward you" —

²⁰ For I am afraid that when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and I myself may not be found by you such as you wish. I am afraid that there may be strife, jealousy, anger, rivalry, slanders, whisperings, conceit, disorders.

² Those who have been long sinning and all the rest I have forewarned and now forewarn, when I was present with you the second time and now when absent, that if I come again I shall not spare;

¹⁶ knowing that a man is not declared righteous because of works of law, but through faith in Christ Jesus, we also have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be declared righteous because of faith in Christ, and not because of works of law, for because of works of law no human being will be declared righteous.

¹⁶ But the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "and to offsprings," as meaning many, but as if meaning one, "and to your offspring," who is Christ. ¹⁷ I mean this, a covenant ratified by God, the Law that came four hundred and thirty years afterward does not annul, so as to defeat the promise. ¹⁸ For if the inheritance is by law, it is no longer by promise. But God granted it to Abraham by promise. ¹⁹ Why then was the Law? It was added later to make transgressions, until the Offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was arranged through angels by the hand of a mediator. ²⁰ A mediator does not belong to one person, but God is one. ²¹ Is the Law then against the promises of God? Never! For if a law had been given which could give life, then really righteousness would have come by law.

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

⁷ So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then also an heir, through God's act.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither has circumcision any value nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

¹² Would that those who are troubling you would even cut off all!

²⁰ idolatry, magic, hatred, strife, jealousy, anger, rivalries, dissensions, factions,

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

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.

³ If any one thinks that he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

⁹ Let us not grow discouraged in doing what is noble, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow faint. ¹⁰ So then as we have opportunity let us work for the good of all men, and especially of those who belong to the household of the faith.

¹⁰ So then as we have opportunity let us work for the good of all men, and especially of those who belong to the household of the faith.

⁶ to the praise of his glorious grace which he bestowed on us in the Beloved, ⁷ in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, according to the wealth of his loving kindness

¹ YOU also God raised to life when you were dead in misdeeds and sins ² in which you once walked, following the ways of this age of the world, led by the Ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience. ³ Among these we all lived once in the passions of our flesh and of our thoughts, and we were by nature children of wrath like the rest. ⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in misdeeds, made us alive along with Christ — by grace we have been saved — ⁶ and raised us up with him and made us sit with him in the heavenly heights in Christ Jesus, ⁷ that he might show in the ages to come the surpassing richness of his grace in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, ⁹ not of works, that no one may boast.

⁹ not of works, that no one may boast. ¹⁰ For we are his work, formed in Christ Jesus for good works in which God had prepared beforehand to have us live.

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

⁸ To me, the least of all the holy, has this grace been given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the good news of the unsearchable riches of Christ

² with all modesty and gentleness, being slow to anger, bearing with one another in love,

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

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.

³¹ Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and abusive language be put away from you with every kind of malice.

²⁶ that he might make it holy, cleansing it by the washing with water according to his word,

²³ Peace to the brethren and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! ²⁴ Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with undying love!

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

⁵ Let your fairness be known to all men. The Lord is near.

¹⁷ Not that I am seeking for the gift, but I am seeking for the fruit that increases to your credit.

¹⁰ and that you may live lives worthy of the Lord and please him in every way. May you bear fruit in every good work and grow in the knowledge of God.

²¹ And you who were once alienated and enemies in your minds, living in wicked works, he has reconciled

⁷ To them you also were once habituated when you lived in them.

¹⁰ and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed into knowledge in the image of its Creator.

¹² Put on, then, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, sympathies, compassions, kindness, humility, gentleness, slowness to anger, 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.

¹⁸ The greeting of Paul, by my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.

⁷ But we became gentle in the midst of you like a nursing mother cherishing her own children.

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

¹⁴ We urge you, brethren, to warn the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, help the weak, be patient with all. ¹⁵ Take care that no one repays evil with evil, but always seek eagerly what is good in dealing with one another and with every one.

⁶ We charge you, brethren, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to stand aloof from every brother who is living in a disorderly way and not according to the teaching that you received from us.

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

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.

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the appointment of God, our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope, ² to Timothy my true child in faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. ³ As I begged you to stay in Ephesus when I was leaving for Macedonia, that you might charge some not to teach new and strange doctrines 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. ⁵ The aim of the commandment is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

⁵ The aim of the commandment is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. ⁶ Some missing these have turned aside to empty talk, ⁷ wishing to be teachers of the Law, but not understanding either what they are saying or what the things are that they are so positive about.

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

¹⁹ holding to faith and a good conscience, which some have cast aside and thus made shipwreck of their faith. ²⁰ Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, that they may learn not to speak profanely.

² in behalf of kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all piety and sobriety. ³ This is excellent and pleasing in the sight of God, our Savior,

³ not given to wine or to blows, but fair-minded, averse to strife, not a lover of money,

¹¹ Women, in the same way, must be dignified, not slanderers, temperate, trustworthy in everything.

⁶ In teaching this to the brethren you will be a noble servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and of the excellent teaching which you have followed. ⁷ But avoid profane and old-womanish myths. Exercise yourself in godliness.

¹⁰ For to this end we are laboring and wrestling, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

¹⁰ has a reputation for good deeds, has brought up children, has entertained strangers, has washed the feet of the holy, has ministered to people in distress, has been active in every good work.

⁶ For this reason let me remind you to kindle anew the gift of God that is in you by the laying on of my hands.

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 ¹⁰ but now manifested by the appearance of our Savior Christ Jesus, who has defeated death and brought to light life and immortality by the good news.

¹⁴ Remind them of these things, charging them before God not to engage in controversy to no profit, but to the ruin of the hearers.

¹⁶ But shun profane and empty talk. It will grow into greater impiety,

²¹ If any one keeps himself pure from these errors, he will be ready for honorable use, holy, fit for the master's service, prepared for every good work.

²³ Avoid foolish disputes of the uneducated, knowing that they give rise to quarrels, ²⁴ and the servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but be courteous to all, skillful in teaching, forbearing, ²⁵ instructing opponents with gentleness, for God may give them a change of heart which will lead them to knowledge of the truth,

² 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,

⁵ They will have a form of religion, but will cast off its power. Avoid such people.

⁹ Make haste to come to me quickly.

¹² I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.

²¹ Try to come before winter. Eubulus and Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren send their greetings to you. ²² The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.

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

⁹ holding to the trustworthy message which is according to the teaching, so that he may be able also to encourage others by wholesome teaching and to refute opposers.

¹¹ who ought to be silenced, for they are upsetting whole house-holds, teaching what they should not, merely for the sake of base gain.

¹⁴ not giving attention to Jewish myths and rules laid down by men who are turning away from the truth.

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,

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all men,

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.

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

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

⁸ That is a trustworthy saying. I wish you to insist on these things so that those who have put their faith in God may give earnest attention to honorable work. These things are honorable and also useful to men.

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

⁵ for I hear of the love and the loyalty that you have to the Lord Jesus Christ and to all the holy.

¹¹ who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

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

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.

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. ⁹ But we are persuaded of better things regarding you, beloved, things that belong with salvation, though we thus speak. 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. ¹¹ But we desire to have each one of you show to the end the same earnestness for the fulfillment of our hope, ¹² that you may not be dull, but imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

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

²⁶ then he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now, once for all, at the end of the ages, he has appeared to do away with sin by his sacrifice.

²⁶ For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there remains no longer any sacrifice for sins,

⁷ By faith Noah, after receiving a divine warning regarding things as yet unseen, reverently built an ark for the saving of his household. Thus he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness of faith.

⁹ By faith he made his home in the promised land as in a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

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.

²⁵ Grace be with you all.

¹⁹ I wish you to know this, my beloved brethren: Every man must be quick to hear, but slow to speak, slow to anger. ²⁰ For a man's anger does not work out God's righteousness.

²⁶ If any one thinks himself religious while he does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, that man's religion is worthless.

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?

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

¹¹ Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against his brother speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

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

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

²¹ who through him are faithful to God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

¹ THEN lay aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and every kind of slander,

¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God: once you had not found compassion, but now you have found compassion.

¹³ Be submissive to every human institution for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme, ¹⁴ or to governors as those sent by him for the punishment of wrongdoers and the praise of those who do good. ¹⁵ For this is the will of God — that by doing good we shall silence the ignorance of thoughtless men. 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.

¹⁷ Honor all men, love the brotherhood, reverence God, honor the king. ¹⁸ Household servants, be submissive with all reverence to your lords, not only to the good and fair, but also to the surly.

⁷ In the same way, you husbands must live with your wives wisely, since woman's sex is weaker, but you must give them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. ⁸ Finally, all must be like-minded, sympathetic, full of brotherly love, compassionate, humble-minded,

¹⁰ For "He who would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

²¹ This is a type of baptism, which now saves us — not the putting off of soil from the flesh, but the endeavor for a good conscience toward God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

¹ SINCE, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, you also must arm yourselves with the same mind. For he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 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. ³ The time that has passed was enough to spend doing the will of the Gentiles, when you went on in indecencies, passions, hard drinking, revelries, carousings, and lawless idolatries. ⁴ In these they think it strange that you are not running with them to the same excess of profligacy, and they slander you.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony within himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar; because he has not believed the testimony which God has borne regarding his Son. ¹¹ This is the testimony: that God has given to us life eternal and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who has the Son has life; he who has not the Son of God has not life. ¹³ I am writing this to you so that you may know that you have life eternal, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

¹ THE Elder to the chosen Lady and her children, whom I love in truth (and not I alone, but also all who have come to know the truth) ² for the sake of the truth which remains in us and will be with us forever:

¹⁰ If any one comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house and do not bid him welcome.

¹ THE Elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth:

⁶ and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to help them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God. ⁷ For it was for the Name that they came out, taking nothing from the Gentiles. ⁸ We ought to help such men so as to be fellow workers with the truth.

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;

⁸ Just so these dreamers defile the flesh, reject government, and speak abusively of glorious beings.

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.

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

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

² He shouted with a powerful voice, saying, "Babylon the Great has fallen, has fallen, and has become a habitation of demons and a stronghold of every impure spirit and a stronghold of every unclean and detested bird.