Luke 11 Cross References - Thomson

¹ It came to pass also when he was at a certain place, praying, that soon as he had done, one of his disciples said to him, Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples. ² Whereupon he said to them, When you pray, say, Our Father, who art in heaven; hallowed be thy name; thy reign come; thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven; ³ give us day by day our daily bread, ⁴ and forgive us our sins, for we indeed do forgive every one who offendeth us: and bring us not into temptation; but deliver us from the evil one. ⁵ Then he said to them, Should any of you have a friend, and go to him at midnight, and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; ⁶ for a friend of mine is come off his road to me, and I have nothing to set before him: ⁷ and he from within should say in reply, Do not trouble me now: the door is shut, and my children as well as I are in bed: I cannot rise and give thee: ⁸ I say to you, though he will not rise and give him on account of being his friend; yet on account of his importunity he will rise and give him what he wanteth. ⁹ Now I say to you, Ask, and you shall obtain: seek, and you shall find: knock, and the door will be opened to you. ¹⁰ For every one who asketh obtaineth: and he who seeketh, findeth: and to him who knocketh, the door will be opened. ¹¹ What father among you would give his son a stone, when he asketh for bread? Or, if he asketh for a fish, would, instead of a fish, give him a serpent? ¹² Or, if he asked for an egg, would give him a scorpion? ¹³ If you, then, bad as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children; how much more will your heavenly father give a holy spirit to them who ask him? ¹⁴ Again, when he was expelling a demon, which was dumb, and as soon as the demon went out the dumb man spoke, and the people expressed admiration, ¹⁵ but some of them said, By Beelzebub, the prince of the demons, he expelleth the demons; ¹⁶ and others, to try him, demanded of him a sign from heaven; ¹⁷ he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and house after house falleth. ¹⁸ Now if Satan be divided against himself, how can his kingdom subsist? Because you say that I expel the demons by Beelzebub; ¹⁹ therefore if I expel the demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons expel them? Let them therefore be your judges. ²⁰ But if I, with the finger of God, expel the demons, then indeed the kingdom of God hath reached you. ²¹ While the strong one armed guardeth his court, his goods are safe. ²² But when one stronger than he attacketh and overcometh him, he taketh from him his armour on which he relied. Then he divideth his spoils. ²³ He who is not with me is against me. And he who doth not gather with me scattered! ²⁴ When the unclean spirit hath gone out of the man; it walketh about through dry places, seeking rest: and finding none, it saith, I will return to my house from which I came out. ²⁵ And when it is come, it findeth the house swept and garnished. ²⁶ Then it goeth and taketh along seven other spirits worse than itself; and they having entered in, dwell there. So the last state of that man is worse than the first, ²⁷ As he was thus speaking, it happened that a woman among the crowd, raising her voice, said to him, Happy the womb which bore thee and the breasts which thou hast sucked! ²⁸ Whereupon he said, Nay, rather happy they who hear the word of God and keep it. ²⁹ Now the crowds being collected in a body, he took occasion to say, This is a wicked generation. It seeketh a sign; but to it no sign shall be given, save the sign of the prophet Jonas. ³⁰ For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninevites, so will the son of man be to this generation. ³¹ The queen of the south will be raised up at the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them; because she came from the extreme parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold something greater than Solomon is here. ³² The men of Nineve will stand up at the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonas, and behold something greater than Jonas is here. ³³ No one having lighted a lamp putteth it in a secret place, or under the corn measure, but on a stand, that they who come in may see the light. ³⁴ The eye is the lamp of the body; therefore when the eye is clear, the whole body is enlightened; but when it is distempered, the whole body is dark. ³⁵ See therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. ³⁶ Is then thy whole body enlightened? To one who hath no part dark, the whole, being enlightened. ³⁷ After he had spoken, a certain Pharisee invited him to dine with him, so he went and placed himself at table. ³⁸ And when the Pharisee who saw this expressed surprise that he had not first washed before dinner, ³⁹ the Lord said to him, Now as for you Pharisees, yon cleanse the outside of the cup and plate; but as to the inside, it is full of your rapacity and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Unthinking men! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also? ⁴¹ But with respect to the things in it, give alms, and behold they are all clean to you. ⁴² But alas for you, Pharisees! because you pay tithe of mint, and rue, and of all kinds of pulse, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have practised, without, however, neglecting the other. ⁴³ Alas for you, Pharisees! because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and salutations in public places. ⁴⁴ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you are like concealed graves, over which men walk without perceiving them. ⁴⁵ Upon this, one of the teachers of the law, interposing, saith to him, Teacher, by speaking thus dost thou reproach us also? ⁴⁶ Thereupon he said, Alas for you also, ye teachers of the law, because you load men with heavy burdens hard to be borne, and will not yourselves touch these burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ Alas for you; because you build the monuments of the prophets, and your fathers slew them. ⁴⁸ You therefore bear testimony, and approve the works of your fathers. Because they slew them, you, therefore, build their monuments; ⁴⁹ on this account indeed said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill, and others they will persecute, ⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets, which hath been shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation. ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias who was slain between the altar and the temple: Verily I say to you, it will be required of this very generation. ⁵² Alas for you, teachers of the law! because you have taken away the key of knowledge. You entered not in yourselves; and them who were entering you hindered. ⁵³ Now while he was saying these things to them, the Scribes and the Pharisees took occasion to urge him vehemently, and provoke him to speak of many things, ⁵⁴ laying snares for him, and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him;

²⁶ Then God said, "Let us make man after our image and after a likeness; and let them have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the cattle, and the whole earth, and all the reptiles which creep on the earth."

⁷ then God formed the man, dust from the earth, and breathed upon his face a breath of life, and the man became a living soul.

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman; and between thy seed and her seed. He will wound thy head, and thou wilt wound his heel."

⁸ Then Cain said to Abel his brother, "Let us go into the plain." And when they were in the plain, Cain rose upon Abel his brother and slew him. ⁹ And when the Lord God said to Cain, "Where is Abel thy brother?" he said I know not. Am I my brother's keeper? ¹⁰ Then the Lord said, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me out of the ground. ¹¹ Now therefore thou art cursed from this land, which hath opened its mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand.

⁵ So when the Lord God saw that the wickedness of the men on the earth was multiplied, and that every one was in his heart studiously and continually bent upon evils,

⁵ So when the Lord God saw that the wickedness of the men on the earth was multiplied, and that every one was in his heart studiously and continually bent upon evils, ⁶ God was grieved that he had made man on the earth.

²¹ And the Lord God smelled a sweet savour, and the Lord God having come to a determination, said, "I will no more curse the ground on account of the works of men. Though the imagination of man is studiously bent upon evils from his youth, I will not on that account again smite all living flesh, as I have done.

⁵ For with regard to your blood of your lives, I will indeed make inquisition for it at the hand of the beasts. At the hand of a man's brother I will make inquisition for the life of man. ⁶ He who sheddeth man's blood shall for it have his own blood poured out; for in an image of God I have made man.

¹¹ and smote with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they were tired seeking the door.

²⁶ And he said to him, Let me go: for the dawn approached. But Jacob said I will not let thee go unless thou bless me.

¹⁶ the Angel who delivered me from all evils, bless these children! And let them be called by my name and by the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaak; and may they be increased to a great multitude on the earth!

¹⁹ Therefore the sorcerers said to Pharao, This is the finger of God. But Pharao's heart was inflexible and he hearkened not to them as the Lord had said.

¹⁵ And when the Israelites saw this they said one to another, What is this? for they did not know what it was. Upon which Moses said to them. This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. ¹⁶ This is what the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it, every one for his family a gomer a head according to the number of souls, you must every one gather for those in the tent with you. ¹⁷ And the children of Israel did so and gathered some more and some less, ¹⁸ and when they measured it by the gomer, he who had gathered much had nothing over, and he who had gathered little did not fall short. Every one had gathered sufficient for the family with him. ¹⁹ Then Moses said to them, Let none leave any of it till the morning. ²⁰ Notwithstanding this they hearkened not to Moses, but some left of it till the morning. And it bred worms and gave an offensive smell. On which Moses was angry with them. ²¹ So they gathered it every morning, every one a sufficiency for his family. And when the sun grew warm, it melted away. ²² Now on the sixth day when they were gathering a double quantity, two gomers for every one, all the heads of the congregation came and told Moses,

⁵ thou shalt not worship them; nor serve them; for I, the Lord thy God, am a zealous God, retributing to them who hate me the sins of fathers upon children to the third and fourth generation;

³ Whereupon Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord spoke, saying, I will be hallowed by them who come near me, and glorified by all the congregation; and Aaron was pierced with anguish.

²³ A young bull, or a sheep which hath its ear cropped, or its tail cut, these thou mayst slaughter for thyself; but in discharge of thy vow they will not be accepted.

³⁰ The whole tenth of the land, both of the produce of the land, and of the fruit of the trees, is for the Lord. It is dedicated to the Lord. ³¹ And if any man chuse to redeem his tenth by purchase, he shall add to the valuation a fifth, and it shall be his. ³² Now the whole tenth of herds and flocks; even every one which in numbering shall come under the rod, that tenth shall be dedicated to the Lord. ³³ Thou shalt not change a good for a bad, nor a bad for a good; and if thou shalt actually make an exchange, that given in exchange shall also be consecrated, and shall not be redeemed.

²² At this they fell on their faces and said, God, the God of the spirits even of all flesh! If one man hath sinned, is the wrath of the Lord against the whole congregation?

¹⁶ And every one who, in the open field, toucheth one slain, or dead, or a human bone, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

³³ So you will not pollute with blood the land in which you dwell; for this blood polluteth the land; and the land cannot be cleansed from the blood which is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

¹² Now therefore, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, and to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul; ¹³ to keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and his rules of rectitude, which I this day command thee, that it may be well with thee?

⁸ Thou shalt open thy hands liberally to him, and lend him what he is in want of, according to his necessity. ⁹ Take heed to thyself that there be not a lurking thought in thy heart; a wicked suggestion, saying, The seventh year, the year of remission is near at hand. When thou shalt look with an evil eye at thy brother who is in want, and not give him, he will cry to the Lord against thee, and it will be a great sin in thee. ¹⁰ Thou shalt surely give him, and lend him freely, what he is in want of, according to his necessity. And thou shalt not be grieved at heart when thou givest to him; for on this account the Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy works, and in all the labours of thy hands.

²² Then Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord to serve him.

³⁷ behold I lay this fleece of wool on the threshing floor; If there be dew on this fleece only, and all the ground be dry, then I shall know that thou wilt save Israel by my hand as thou hast spoken. ³⁸ This was accordingly done. And when he arose early the next morning he pressed the fleece, and wringed out the dew from the fleece, a bowl full of water. ³⁹ Then Gideon said to God, Let not, I beseech thee, thy anger be kindled against me: let me, I pray thee, make one trial more with the fleece; and let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew. ⁴⁰ And God did so that night; and it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.

²² And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in whole burnt offerings, and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold obedience is better than good sacrifice; and to hearken, is better than the fat of rams.

³⁴ thou indeed wilt hear from heaven and pardon the sins of thy people Israel, and bring them back to the land which thou gavest to their fathers.

³⁶ thou indeed wilt hearken from heaven, and pardon the sins of thy servant and of thy people Israel; for thou wilt shew them the good way, and give rain for the land which thou gavest to thy people for an' inheritance.

⁴³ thou indeed wilt hearken from heaven; from thy settled habitation, and do according to all, for which the stranger may call upon thee, that all nations may know thy name and fear thee as thy people Israel do, and that they may know that this house which I have built, is called by thy name.

¹ When the queen of Saba heard of the fame of Solomon and the name of the Lord, she came to try him with questions hard to be solved, ² and came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, and with camels carrying spices, and gold in great abundance, and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon and had propounded to him all that was in her mind, ³ Solomon answered all her questions. There was not a question overlooked by the king which he did not explain to her. ⁴ And when the queen of Saba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had built, ⁵ and his provisions, and the order in which his servants sat at table, and in which the attendants stood; and his dress, and his cup bearers, and his whole burnt offerings which he offered in the house of the Lord, she was struck with surprise, ⁶ and said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in my own country concerning thy knowledge and thy understanding; ⁷ but I did not believe them who told me till I came and my own eyes have seen. Now behold what they told me was not one half. Thou surpassest in good qualities all the report which I heard of thee in my own country. ⁸ Happy thy wives, and happy these servants of thine who stand continually in thy presence and hear all thy wisdom. ⁹ Blessed be the Lord thy God who delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel. Because the Lord thy God loveth to establish Israel for ever, therefore he hath made thee king over them, to administer justice according to their righteousness and their demerits. ¹⁰ Then she gave Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones. There came no more such an abundance of spices as the queen of Saba gave Solomon. ¹¹ The fleet of Chiram also which brought the gold from Suphar brought a great quantity of hewn timber and precious stones. ¹² And of the hewn timber the king made the wainscottings of the house of the Lord and of the king's house, and nablas and kinyras for the musicians. There never had come such hewn timber into the country nor hath any such been any where seen to this day. ¹³ And when king Solomon had given the queen of Saba all that she desired, even all that she asked, over and above all that he gave her out of his royal bounty, she set out on her return and went to her own country, she and all her servants.

⁸ And the king of Israel said to Josaphat, There is a certain man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him; for he never speaketh good of me; but evil; one Michaias, son of Jemblaa. And Josaphat king of Juda said, Let not the king speak so.

¹⁵ And when Elisha's servant arose early in the morning and went out, behold an army with horses and chariots surrounded the city, whereupon the servant said to him, my lord, what shall we do? ¹⁶ And Elisha said, Fear not; for there are more with us than with them. ¹⁷ Then Elisha prayed and said, Lord I beseech thee, open his eyes that he may see. Accordingly the Lord opened his eyes and he looked and lo! the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha. ¹⁸ And as the Syrians were coming down upon him Elisha prayed to the Lord and said, Smite I pray thee, this people with dimness of sight. And when he had smitten them with dimness of sight, according to the word of Elisha, ¹⁹ Elisha said to them, This is not the city; nor this the way. Come, follow me, and I will lead you to the man whom you are seeking. ²⁰ So he led them away to Samaria; and when they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, Open, Lord, I beseech thee, their eyes, and let them see. So he opened their eyes and looked, and behold they were in the midst of Samaria.

¹⁹ But now, Lord our God, save us out of his hand, and all the kingdoms of the earth will know that thou the Lord alone art God.

⁴ Joakim shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with it. Therefore the Lord would not be pacified.

¹ When the queen of Saba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem with a great retinue, to try him with hard questions, and brought with her camels carrying spices in abundance, and gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon and propounded to him all the questions which were in her mind,

¹⁶ for the king hath not hearkened to them, the people answered the king, and said, What portion have we in David? And what inheritance in the son of Jessai? To your tents Israel! Now David, look thou to thine own house. So Israel went away to their habitations; ¹⁷ and when some men of Israel and they who dwelt in the cities of Juda, had made Roboam king over them, ¹⁸ and Roboam the king sent to them Adoniram, who was over the tribute, the sons of Israel stoned him with stones, till he died. Upon which the king Roboam hastened to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem; ¹⁹ and Israel revolted from the house of David to this day.

¹⁶ And the Israelites fled before Juda, and the Lord delivered them into their hands, ¹⁷ so that Abia and his people smote them with a great slaughter, and there fell of Israel, slain, fifty thousand warriors.

⁶ and said, O Lord the God of my fathers, art not thou God in heaven above? Thou indeed rulest over all the kingdoms of the nations: and in thy hand is the majesty of power; and there is none who can withstand thee.

¹⁷ And after the death of Jodae the chiefs of Juda came and paid homage to the king; and the king hearkened to them. ¹⁸ And they forsook the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served the Astartes and the idols, and there was wrath against Juda and against Jerusalem at that time. ¹⁹ When he had sent prophets to them to turn them to the Lord, and they would not hearken; when he had testified against them and they would not obey; ²⁰ then the Spirit of God came upon Azarias the priest, the son of Jodae, and he stood above the people and said, Thus saith the Lord, Why do you transgress the commandments of the Lord? You cannot prosper. Because you have forsaken the Lord, therefore he will forsake you. ²¹ Upon this they fell upon him and stoned him by the command of the king, in the court of the house of the Lord. ²² Thus Joas remembered not the kindness which Jodae his father had done him, but put to death his son, and when he was dying he said, May the Lord see and judge.

² and he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.

⁵ And soon as he published the order, Israel brought, in abundance, dedications of corn and wine, and oil and honey. Both the children of Israel and of Juda, brought abundantly the productions of the field, and all the tythes. ⁶ And they who dwelt in the cities of Juda brought the tythe of cattle and sheep, and the tythe of goats, and dedicated them to the Lord their God. And what they brought was stored up in heaps. ⁷ The heaping was begun in the third month and finished in the seventh. ⁸ And when Ezekias came with the chiefs, and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and his people Israel. ⁹ Then Ezekias questioned the priests and the Levites, touching the heaps; ¹⁰ and Azarias the priest, the head of the house of Sadok, answered him and said, From the time the dedications began to be brought to the house of the Lord, we have eaten and drunk, and left in great abundance. Because the Lord hath blessed his people, therefore we have this great superabundance left.

²⁰ Thus did Ezekias through all Juda, and he did what was right in the sight of the Lord his God. ²¹ And in every work which he undertook in the service of the house of the Lord, and in the law and in the statutes, he sought his God with his whole heart, and did it and prospered.

¹⁶ But they continued to deride his messengers, and to despise his words, and insult his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord ascended against his people; until there was no remedy.

³⁷ and that we will bring the dedications of our corn including the fruit of trees, and of wine and oil to the stores of the house of God for the priests; and the tythe of our land for the Levites. But the Levites themselves shall receive the tythes in all the cities of our bondage;

⁷ and the Lord said to Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan in reply said to the Lord, Having gone round the earth, and roved the whole of it under heaven, I am come here.

² And the Lord said to Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan said before the Lord, Having traversed that under heaven, and roved through the whole of it, I am come here

¹⁶ And this will contribute to my deliverance: for no deceit shall come before him. ¹⁷ Hear, hear my words: for I will proclaim them in your hearing. ¹⁸ Behold I am near my trial. I know that I shall appear just. ¹⁹ For who is there who will emplead me? For now I will be silent and expire. ²⁰ Now two things thou art to grant me: then I will not hide myself from thy presence;

⁶ Let thine own mouth and not me convict thee: thine own lips indeed will testify against thee.

¹⁴ For who being mortal can be irreprehensible? Or can the offspring of woman be righteous? ¹⁵ If in his holy ones he placeth not confidence; and the heaven is not pure in his sight; ¹⁶ how abominable and filthy must man be; who drinketh iniquity in, like water!

¹ Happy the man, who hath not walked by the counsel of the wicked; nor stood in the way of sinners; nor sat in the seat of the scornful. ² His delight will be in the law of the Lord only. And on his law he will meditate day and night. ³ And he will be like the tree planted by the streams of water, which will yield its fruit in due season, and its fruit shall not fall untimely. In all that he doth he shall be prospered.

⁹ Their heart is false; their throat, an open sepulchre: with their tongue they practised deceit.

¹² for in making inquisition for blood, he had them in remembrance; he forgot not the prayer of the distressed.

¹⁷ The Lord hath hearkened to the desire of the oppressed: Thine ear hath attended to the preparation of their heart;

⁴ The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord, whose throne is in heaven; whose eyes look down on the needy; whose eye lids examine the sons of men;

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. The fool said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt and by their works abominable: there is none who doeth good. No not one.

¹⁴ And the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart, will be continually acceptable in thy sight: Lord, my helper and my redeemer.

¹² Many bulls have encompassed me; fat bulls have beset me around. ¹³ Against me they have opened their mouth, like a ravening and roaring lion.

¹³ Against me they have opened their mouth, like a ravening and roaring lion.

¹¹ For the sake of thy name therefore, Lord, pardon this sin of mine, for it is manifold;

¹⁸ Look on my humiliation and my trouble and for give all my sins.

⁴ One favour I have asked of the Lord; and this I will earnestly seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life; that I may contemplate the delight of the Lord; and visit his temple.

⁸ To thee my heart said, I have sought thy lace; thy face, O Lord, I will seek.

²² As for me, on my surprisal I said, I am cast far from thy presence; therefore thou, Lord, didst hear the voice of my supplication when I cried to thee.

¹ On understanding. By David. Happy they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. ² Happy the man, to whose account the Lord will not charge sin, and in whose mouth there is no guile. ³ Because I kept silence, my bones were consumed; by reason of my crying all the live long day. ⁴ Because day and night thy hand was heavy on me, I was reduced to misery by a piercing thorn. ⁵ I acknowledged my sin and did not conceal mine iniquity. I said, Against myself I will confess mine iniquity to the Lord, thereupon thou didst forgive the wickedness of my heart.

¹⁵ It is he alone who formed their hearts: he knoweth completely all their works.

⁴ I sought the Lord and he heard me; and brought me safe out of all my sojourns.

¹⁰ Rich men have become poor and hungry: But they who seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He would not be wise to do good.

³² The sinner watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to kill him; ³³ but the Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor suffer him to condemn him when he is judged.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. Happy he who is considerate with regard to the distressed and needy; in time of trouble the Lord will deliver him.

¹⁵ Then call on me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver thee and thou shalt praise me."

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had gone to Bersabe. Have mercy upon me, God, according to thy great compassion: and according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out this my crime, ² wash me thoroughly from this iniquity of mine; and purify me from this my sin. ³ For I acknowledge my transgression; and my sin is continually before me.

⁵ For behold I was born in iniquity; in sins my mother conceived me:

⁵ All the day long they spurned my words: all their thoughts were against me for mischief. ⁶ Some are to dwell near and hide themselves: some are to watch my footsteps.

¹¹ Be thou, God, exalted above the heavens, and thy glory over all the earth.

¹ A Psalm by David, when he was in the wilderness of Idumea. O GOD, my God! to approach thee, I rise early. My soul thirsted for thee. For thee [I thirst] with all the vehement desire with which my flesh pines in a land, desert, trackless and without water.

⁸ when their tongues vilified him. All that saw them were troubled:

¹⁸ Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel; who alone doth wonderful things. ¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious name for ever and ever: and let all the earth be filled with his glory. Amen. Amen.

⁴ I ordered the transgressors not to transgress, and said to sinners, Exalt not a horn. ⁵ Lift not up your horn on high; speak not iniquity against God.

¹¹ But my people did not hearken to my voice; nor did Israel attend to me. ¹² Therefore I gave them up to the devices of their own hearts. Let them walk in their own devices.

¹² Therefore I gave them up to the devices of their own hearts. Let them walk in their own devices.

⁸ Consider I beseech you, ye brutish among the people. And ye fools, at length be wise. ⁹ Doth not he, who hath planted the ear, hear? And doth not he who formed the eye, see?

²⁰ Bless the Lord, all ye his angels; ye mighty powers, who execute his word, on hearing the voice of his commands.

³ Sing praises to his holy name. Let the heart of them, who seek the Lord, be glad. ⁴ Seek the Lord and be confirmed in strength; seek his face continually.

⁵ Be thou, God, exalted above the heavens; and over all the earth thy glory.

¹ An Alleluia. Happy the man who feareth the Lord! in his commandments he will greatly delight.

⁹ He hath dispersed, he hath given to the needy; his righteousness shall endure forever. His horn shall be gloriously exalted:

⁵ Because of affliction I called on the Lord, and he heard me for enlargement.

¹ An Alleluia. ALEPH. Happy the undefiled in the way! who walk in the law of the Lord. ² Happy they who search his testimonies, and seek him with their whole ³ heart: for they are not workers of iniquity; they have walked in his ways. ⁴ Thou hast enjoined the strict observance of thy precepts. ⁵ O that my ways may be directed, that I may keep thy rules of rectitude. ⁶ Then I cannot be put to shame, when I have respect to all thy commandments.

¹⁸ Open mine eyes, that I may discern the wonderous things of thy law.

⁹⁷ MEM. O! how I have loved thy law, Lord! It is my meditation all the day. ⁹⁸ Thou hast given me a knowledge of thy law above mine enemies; because it is mine forever. ⁹⁹ I had more understanding than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my study. ¹⁰⁰ I understood more than elders: because I diligently sought thy commandments. ¹⁰¹ From every evil way I restrained my feet; that I might keep thy words. ¹⁰² I have not turned aside from thy judgments: because thou didst instruct me. ¹⁰³ How sweet are thine oracles to my taste! They are sweeter than honey to my mouth. ¹⁰⁴ From thy precepts I got understanding: Therefore I hated every wicked way. ¹⁰⁵ NUN. Thy law is a lamp to my feet; and a light to my paths.

⁷ May the Lord preserve thee from all evil! the Lord will keep thy soul.

⁵ But them who turn aside into crooked ways, the Lord will drive away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!

¹ A Song of the steps. Happy are all they who fear the Lord, who walk continually in his ways.

³ Shouldst thou, Lord, mark iniquities; Lord, who can subsist? ⁴ Because there is forgiveness with thee, for thy name's sake,

² to give a knowledge of wisdom and instruction; the perception of the words of prudence; ³ the interpretation of sentences; a discernment of true justice; and to direct judgment, ⁴ that he might give sagacity to the innocent; and to the youth knowledge and discretion: ⁵ for by attending to them a wise man will become wiser; and a man of understanding will possess a ride of government

⁵ for by attending to them a wise man will become wiser; and a man of understanding will possess a ride of government ⁶ and will understand a proverb and dark speech and the sayings of the wise and parables.

²² "While the innocent adhere to justice they shall not be put to shame: but as for fools who delight in mischief, having become wicked they hated knowledge and are become liable to censures. ²³ Behold I will pour forth to you the dictate of my spirit: and teach you this word of mine;

¹ My son, if thou wilt receive the dictate which I enjoin and hide it with thee, ² thine ear will hearken to wisdom; and thou wilt apply thy heart to understanding, and transmit it for instruction to thy son. ³ For if thou wilt call upon wisdom: and utter thy voice for understanding; ⁴ if thou wilt seek for it as silver; and search for it as for treasures; ⁵ then thou shalt understand the fear of the Lord; and find the knowledge of God. ⁶ For the Lord giveth wisdom; and from his presence is knowledge and understanding: ⁷ and he treasureth up salvation for the upright. He will protect their going, ⁸ that they may keep the paths of rectitude. And he will guard the way of them who reverence him. ⁹ Then thou shalt understand judgment and justice; and direct all thy wheels right. ¹⁰ For when wisdom entereth into thine understanding: and knowledge appeareth pleasant to thy soul: ¹¹ good counsel will keep thee, and holy prudence will guard thee:

¹⁶ for they cannot sleep. Unless they do evil; their sleep is taken from them and they cannot lie down to rest.

¹⁸ But the paths of the just shine like light; shining more and more until it is perfect day. ¹⁹ But the ways of the wicked being dark; they know not at what they stumble.

²³ For the command of a law is a lamp and light; and reproof and instruction is the way of life,

¹ As for thee thou art to proclaim wisdom; that understanding may attend thee. ² For she is on the lofty summits; and hath taken her stand in the middle of highways. ³ For at the gates of the mighty she hath taken a seat, and at the entrance thereof chanteth her song. ⁴ "To you, men, I call, and utter my voice to the sons of men. ⁵ Ye who are innocent learn discretion: and ye who are uninstructed give attention.

⁵ Ye who are innocent learn discretion: and ye who are uninstructed give attention. ⁶ Hearken to me, for I will speak solemn things; and with my lips disclose things which are right. ⁷ For my mouth shall speak truth; lying lips are indeed abominable in my sight. ⁸ All the words of my mouth are with righteousness; they have nothing crooked; nothing deceitful in them. ⁹ They are all plain to men of understanding: and right to them who find knowledge. ¹⁰ Receive instruction in preference to silver, and knowledge rather than fine gold. ¹¹ For wisdom is better than precious stones: and no costly thing is equal to it in value. ¹² I wisdom have inhabited counsel and knowledge; and I have made an appeal to understanding.

¹ Wisdom hath built herself a house, and fixed underneath it seven pillars. ² She hath slain her victims. She hath mixed her wine for the cup and furnished her table. ³ She hath sent out her servants, and with a loud proclamation hath given an invitation to her entertainment, saying,

³¹ He who oppresseth the poor, provoketh his maker; but he who honoureth him, compassionateth the distressed.

¹⁸ Pride goeth before destruction: and a haughty spirit before a fall.

²⁵ There are ways which seem right to a man: but the latter ends of them look to the bottom of Hades.

¹⁷ He who is kind to the poor lendeth to God; and according to his gift he will repay him.

²⁷ The spirit of man is a light of the Lord, who searcheth the inward recesses of the body.

³ To do justice and to adhere to truth are more acceptable to God than the blood of victims.

¹² I have seen a man who thought himself wise: but there was more hope of a fool than of him.

²⁵ Though an enemy intreat thee with a loud voice, believe him not: for in his heart there is seven fold wickedness.

²² An envious man hasteth to be rich, and knoweth not that the bountiful shall have mastery over him.

⁸ Give me neither riches nor poverty, but order for me things necessary and convenient;

¹² A wicked progeny judge themselves righteous, but have not purged their ways.

² be thou not rash with thy mouth; nor let thy heart be hasty to utter a word in the presence of God. Because God is in the heaven above, and thou art on the earth, let thy words there fore be few.

¹⁸ It is good to restrain thyself in the one case; and surely for the other consideration thou shouldst not pollute thy hand. Because to them who fear God all things may happen,

¹ Send away thy bread on the face of the water; for after many days thou shalt find it. ² Give a portion to seven and even to eight; for thou knowest not what evil may be on the earth.

¹ By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loved. I sought him but did not find him. I called him but he made me no answer. ² I will rise now and take a circuit in the city; in the places of publick resort and in the streets; and seek him whom my soul loveth. I sought him but did not find him. ³ The watchmen who take their rounds in the city, met me. Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? ⁴ It was but a little while after I parted from them, till I found him whom my soul loveth. I took hold of him and did not let him go till I brought him to my mother's house and into the chambers of her who conceived me.

⁶ I opened for my dear brother. He was gone! my soul melted for the speech of him. I sought him but did not find him: I called him but he made me no answer.

¹⁰ Hear a word of the Lord, chiefs of Sodom! Attend to the law of God, ye people of Gomorra! ¹¹ "What is the multitude of your sacrifices to me?" saith the Lord: I am cloyed with whole burnt offerings of rams: in the fat of lambs and the blood of bulls and goats I have no delight; ¹² nor should you come to appear before me: for who hath required these at your hands? You shall no more be admitted to tread my court. ¹³ Though you bring fine flour; it is a vain incense: it is an abomination to me. Your new moons and sabbaths and great day I cannot endure: ¹⁴ your fasting and cessation from labour; and your new moons and your festivals my soul hateth. You are become loathsome to me; I will no longer remit your sins. ¹⁵ When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn mine eyes from you: and though you multiply prayer, I will not hearken to you: for your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash and become clean: remove iniquities from your souls; in my presence, cease from your evil deeds; ¹⁷ learn to do good; seek judgment; deliver him who is injured; administer justice to the orphan, and plead the cause of the widow:

² Because in the last days, the mount of the Lord will be conspicuous; and the house of God will be on the top of mountains; and exalted above the hills: therefore all the nations will come to it. ³ Many nations indeed, will go saying, "Come, let us go up to the mount of the Lord; and to the house of the God of Jacob. And he will teach us his way, and we will walk therein." For from Sion shall go forth a law; and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. ⁴ And he will judge among the nations; and work conviction in many a people: and they shall beat their swords into plough shares; and their spears into pruning hooks: and nation shall not lift up a sword against nation; nor shall they learn war any more. ⁵ Now therefore, O house of Jacob; come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.

²⁰ Woe to them who call evil good; and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet; and sweet for bitter. ²¹ Woe to them who are wise in their own conceit, and in their own eyes prudent.

² And seraphs stood around him, each having six wings; and with two they covered the face, and with two they covered the feet, and two they used in flying. ³ And they cried one to another and said, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is filled with his glory."

¹⁰ for the heart of this people is stupefied; and their ears are dull of hearing; and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes; and hear with their ears; and understand with their hearts; and return that I may heal them.

²⁰ For he hath given a law for assistance; that they may not speak like such an oracle as this, which is not worth the giving of gifts for it.

⁶ because for us a child is born, and to us a son is given, whose government is on his own shoulder; and his name is called, "The Messenger of Great Counsel." For I will bring peace on the rulers and health for him. ⁷ His government shall be great and to his peace there is no boundary, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to reestablish it, and support it with judgment and justice, henceforth and forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

¹² Syria in the east, and the Greeks in the west, who are devouring Israel with open mouth; for all this his anger is not turned away, but still his hand is lifted high.

²⁰ but will turn to the right because he is hungry, and devour on the left, but shall not be satisfied. Man is devouring the flesh of his brother's arm; ²¹ for Manasses is devouring Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasses; for they will both together besiege Juda. For all this his anger is not turned away; but still his hand is lifted high.

¹ Woe to them who write wickedness! For writers are writing wickedness;

² And they shall be stirred up, Egyptians against Egyptians, and shall fight; brother against brother and neighbour against neighbour, city against city, and nome against nome. ³ And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them: and I will dissipate their counsel; and they will consult their gods and their idols; and them who cause a voice to proceed from the ground, namely the belly speakers.

²¹ For behold the Lord from his sanctuary is about to bring wrath on the inhabitants of this land; and the land will disclose the blood on it, and will no longer cover the slain.

¹ In that day God will bring his holy sword, even his great and powerful sword, upon the dragon, the flying serpent; Upon the dragon, the crooked serpent; he will slay the dragon.

¹⁰ for the Lord hath drenched you with a spirit of stupefaction, and will close up the eyes of them and of their prophets and their rulers. As for your seers of hidden things,

¹⁶ he shall dwell in a lofty cavern of a strong rock: bread shall be given him and his water shall not fail.

¹ Rejoice, O desert; shout for joy, O thirsty desert and blossom like a lilly. ² Let the deserts of Jordan also bloom and rejoice; to it hath been given the glory of Lebanon an the honour of Channel. And my people shall see the glory of the Lord, and the majesty of our God.

⁷ therefore the glowing sand shall become pools, and for the thirsty soil there will be fountains of water. The reedy beds and the pools there will be the joy of birds.

¹⁷ and the poor and the needy shall exult with joy: for when they shall seek water and there shall be none, and their tongue is parched with thirst; I the Lord their God, I the God of Israel will hear and will not forsake them; ¹⁸ but will open rivers on the mountains, and fountains in the midst of plains: I will turn the wilderness into watery fens, and with streams refresh the thirsty ground. ¹⁹ And I will plant in the dry wilderness the cedar and box, the myrtle and cypress and elm:

¹⁶ and lead the blind in a way which they know not, and cause them to walk in paths which they have not known. For them I will make the darkness light, and the crooked ways a straight road. These things 1 will do, and I will not forsake them:

¹⁹ [J] Who indeed is blind but my servants? And deaf, but those who rule over them? Even the servants of God are become blind.

²⁵ I even I, THE I AM, am he who blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and of thy sins I will no more make mention: ²⁶ but do thou mention them and let us be judged; do thou first state thy transgressions, that thou mayst be acquitted.

³ for I will give water in their thirst to them who are travelling in a desert. I will put my spirit on thy seed, and my blessings on thy children;

³ for I will give water in their thirst to them who are travelling in a desert. I will put my spirit on thy seed, and my blessings on thy children; ⁴ and they shall spring up like grass among water, and like a willow by the side of a flowing stream.

¹⁸ They had not sense to think; for they were so involved in darkness that they could not see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts:

¹⁹ am the Lord and there is none else. I have not spoken in secret nor in an obscure part of the earth. I have not said to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye a vain thing. I am THE I AM, the Lord, who speak righteousness and proclaim truth.

¹⁷ Thus saith the Lord who hath redeemed thee, the Holy One of Israel, I am thy God. I pointed out to thee, how to find the way in which thou shouldst walk. ¹⁸ And hadst thou hearkened to my commandments thy peace would have been like a river and thy righteousness like a wave of the sea;

²² "There is no peace, " saith the Lord, "for the wicked."

¹⁵ can a woman forget her child? or not have compassion on the offspring of her womb? Grant that a woman may forget even these, but I will not forget thee, said the Lord.

²⁴ [a] Can any one take spoils from a giant? [b] And if any one captivate unjustly shall he be safe. ²⁵ For thus saith the Lord, When one captivateth a giant he shall take spoils. [a] But can one take from a mighty man and be safe? [b] But it is I who vindicateth thy cause, and I will deliver thy children.

¹² therefore he shall inherit many and divide the spoils of the strong. [p] Because his soul was delivered up to death and he was numbered among transgressors and bore away the sins of many and on account of their iniquities was delivered up;

¹⁷ Perish every weapon formed against thee! I will not prosper it. Though every voice should rise up against thee for judgment, thou shalt overcome them all and in the trial they shall be condemned. There is an inheritance for them who serve the Lord, therefore you are to be just for me, saith the Lord.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord; and when you find him call upon him. And when he draweth near to you; ⁷ let the wicked man forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his counsels, and turn to the Lord and he shall find mercy; for he will abundantly pardon your sins.

³ But as for you, draw near hither, ye lawless sons! ye seed of adulterers and of fornication! ⁴ in what have you indulged yourselves? and at whom have you opened your mouth, and at whom lolled your tongue? are you not children of destruction; a lawless race?

²⁰ But the wicked shall be tossed like waves and shall not be able to rest. "There is no peace, "said God, "to the wicked."

² Day after day they seek me, and desire to know my ways; like a people who have practised righteousness, and who have not forsaken the ordinance of God. They now ask of me a just decision and desire to draw near to God. ³ Saying, "Why have we fasted and thou hast not seen? We have humbled our souls and thou hast not known." In the very days of your fasts you enjoy your own pleasures and goad all them who are under your controul. ⁴ You fast for strife and debate; and smite the poor with your fists. Why fast ye for me as today that by a cry your voice may be heard? ⁵ This is not such a fast as I have chosen, that a man should afflict his soul for a day. No: though thou shouldst bend thy neck like a hook and lay sackcloth and ashes under thee: even in that case you are not to call it an acceptable fast. ⁶ It is not such a fast as this that I have chosen, saith the Lord. But loose every bond of iniquity; dissolve the obligations of onerous contracts; set at liberty them who are oppressed, and tear in pieces every unjust stipulation in writing:

⁶ It is not such a fast as this that I have chosen, saith the Lord. But loose every bond of iniquity; dissolve the obligations of onerous contracts; set at liberty them who are oppressed, and tear in pieces every unjust stipulation in writing: ⁷ deal out thy bread to the hungry, and take into thy house the poor who have no shelter; if thou seest one naked, clothe him, and look not scornfully on dependants of thy race; ⁸ then shall thy light break forth like the morning, and thy remedies shall spring up speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of the Lord will surround thee. ⁹ Then thou shalt cry and God will answer thee; and whilst thou art speaking he will say, Lo I am here. If thou remove from thee the bond, and the vote and decree which occasion murmuring, ¹⁰ and from thy soul give bread to the hungry and satisfy an afflicted soul; then shall thy light spring up in darkness; and thy darkness shall be as the noon day: ¹¹ and thy God will be with thee continually; and thou shalt be satisfied as thy soul desireth; and thy bones shall be made fat and be like a watered garden, and like a spring whose water never failed.

¹ [c] Who is this who is coming from Edom? What redness of mantles from Bosor! He so magnificent in apparel? He marcheth with majesty! [M] I proclaim righteousness and the judgment of salvation. ² [c] Why are thy garments red and thy clothing, as from a trodden wine vat? ³ [M] I am full of a country trodden down; and of the nations there is not a man with me. I have trodden them down in my wrath, and crumbled them like dust and shed their blood on the earth. ⁴ For the day of retribution came upon them and the year of redemption is at hand.

¹⁶ For thou art our father. Because Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel hath not acknowledged us; do thou, Lord, our father, do thou deliver us. From the beginning thy name is upon us;

¹¹ Then the Lord said to me, Israel hath justified herself more than the treacherous Juda;

¹⁴ Jerusalem! wash thy heart from wickedness that thou mayst be saved. How long do ill grounded reasonings for thy troubles remain in thee?

²¹ [p] Hear these things I beseech you, O foolish and stupid people! [J] They have eyes, but they do not see; ears they have, but they do not hear.

¹⁰ [p] To whom shall I speak and give warning that he may hearken? behold their ears are uncircumcised and they cannot hear. [J] Behold the word of the Lord was to them an object of reproach and they would not.

² Hear a word of the Lord, all ye of Judea! ³ thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: amend your ways and your pursuits: and I will cause you to dwell in this place. ⁴ Trust not in yourselves; in lying words: for you will derive no benefit from them who say, "The temple of the Lord! it is the temple of the Lord!" ⁵ For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your pursuits, and actually execute judgment between man and man: ⁶ and do not oppress the stranger and orphan and widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place, nor go after strange gods to your hurt: ⁷ then will I cause you to dwell in this place; [in the land which I gave to your fathers] from age to age. ⁸ But if you continue to trust in lying words from which you can derive no benefit; ⁹ and commit murder, and adultery and steal and swear to a falsehood, and burn incense to Baal; and when you have gone after strange gods which you did not know; ¹⁰ you, because of your calamities, have then come and stood before me, in the house which is called by my name, and said, "We have been restrained from committing these abominations;"

²¹ Thus saith the Lord, Collect your whole burnt offerings with your sacrifices and eat flesh. ²² Because I did not speak to your fathers nor give them a charge, on the day when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, concerning the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices;

²⁸ "This is the nation which hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, nor received instruction: faithfulness is gone from their mouth: ²⁹ shave thy head and throw away the hair, and take up with thy lips a song of lamentation, for the Lord hath rejected and cast off the generation which hath done these things."

⁸ How can you say, "We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us." In vain was it made; the scribes had a lying pen. ⁹ Are the wise ashamed? They are indeed dismayed and taken. Because they rejected the law of the Lord; therefore be their wisdom what it may,

¹⁸ Upon this they said, "Come let us settle on account with Jeremias. Because law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor a word from the prophet, Come and that we may smite him with the tongue, let us hear all his words."

⁸ Because for my bitter word I am to be derided, shall I appeal to a breach of covenant and misery? because the word of the Lord became a reproach to me; a subject of mockery all the day long;

¹⁰ Because I heard the whisper of many collected from all around saying, "Join in conspiracy and let us all conspire against him; ye men who are his friends watch his thoughts; if he can be deceived, we shall then prevail over him and take our revenge on him."

³ Cry to me and I will answer thee and shew thee great and marvellous things which thou hast not known.

⁸ Though I scream and cry, he shut out my prayer.

¹⁸ so my strength was destroyed and the hope which I had from the Lord.

⁵⁴ Water was poured above upon my head. I said, I am cast off. ⁵⁵ I called on thy name, O Lord, out of the deepest dungeon. ⁵⁶ Thou hast heard my voice; stop not thine ear against my supplication. ⁵⁷ To my assistance thou didst draw near. On the day I called on thee, thou saidst to me, Fear not. [a] An objection, [b] The answer. ⁵⁸ Thou, O Lord, hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

⁶ And thou son of man, be not afraid of them nor daunted at their presence. Because they will sting thee and rise up against thee on all sides and thou dwellest in the midst of scorpions, be not afraid of their words nor terrified at their looks; because they are a provoking house,

¹⁹ Now should you say, Why hath not the son borne the iniquity of his father? Because the son hath practised justice and mercy; hath kept all my statutes and done them, he shall live.

²⁵ Its princes in the midst of it were like roaring lions, ravening prey, devouring souls by oppression, yet receiving honours; and thy widows were multiplied in the midst of thee.

²⁷ Its chiefs in the midst of it were like wolves, ravening prey, to the shedding of innocent blood, that they may glut their greediness.

²³ For I will hallow my great name which hath been profaned, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, when I am hallowed by you before their eyes.

²⁷ And I will put my spirit in you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and to keep my judgments and practise them.

⁸ And he said to me, This water which is flowing out to the eastern part of Galilee, hath indeed gone down to Arabia, and hath come to the sea to the water of the outlet, and it will heal the waters; ⁹ so that every of the animals which breed in all the places whithersoever the stream cometh, shall live, and there shall be fish there in great abundance, Because this water is come there and healeth, therefore they shall live. Every thing to which the stream cometh shall live. ¹⁰ And fishermen shall there take a stand, from Engadin to Enagallim. There shall be a place for drying nets. The nets shall be of a peculiar kind; and the fishes thereof shall be like the fishes of the great sea; a very great multitude. ¹¹ But when it is forced from its channel and when it is turned from its course, and when it is caused to swell immoderately, the waters will not heal. They are turned into salt.

²⁸ There is none but God in heaven who revealeth secrets. He indeed hath made known to the king Nabuchodonosar what must come to pass in latter days. With regard to thy dream, and the visions of thy head, on thy bed, this is it.

⁴⁴ And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and this kingdom of his shall not be left to another people. It shall break in pieces, and blow away all those kingdoms and shall itself stand forever.

²⁷ For this cause, king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee; and make atonement for thy sins by acts of kindness, and for thy transgressions by tender mercies for the distressed. Perhaps God may forgive thine offences.

¹⁸ These shall be removed, and the holy ones of the Most High shall take the kingdom and hold it to an age of the ages.

²⁷ For the kingdom and the dominion and the majesty of the kings who are under the whole heaven, is given to the holy ones of the Most High. And his kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all the governments shall serve and obey him.

³ Therefore I turned my face to the Lord my God, to seek a prayer and supplication by fasting and sackcloth.

¹⁹ O Lord hear! O Lord, be appeased! Attend, Lord! Defer not, my God, for thine own sake! for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

³ Let us acknowledge; let us continue our pursuit to know the Lord; sure as the morning we shall find him. He will come like rain for us; like the former and latter rain for the earth."

⁸ [p] Ephraim was a watchman with God, a prophet was a cunning snare in all his ways, they had fixed a madness by a house of God;

² take words with you and return to the Lord your God, and, that you may not receive the punishment of iniquity but may receive good things, say to him, "We will render to thee the fruit of our lips.

²⁸ And it shall come to pass after these things that I will pour out a portion of my spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; and your old men shall dream dreams; and your young men shall see visions.

⁴ Wherefore, thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek me and you shall live. ⁵ But seek not Baithel, nor go to Galgal, nor pass on to the Well of Oath: because Galgal shall surely go into captivity, and Baithel shall be as if it had never existed. ⁶ Seek the Lord and live, that the house of Joseph may not blaze like a fire, and devour him: and the house of Israel have none to quench it.

¹⁰ Then Amasias the priest of Baithel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos is raising insurrections against thee in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words. ¹¹ For thus Amos saith, "Jeroboam shall die by the sword; and Israel shall be carried away captive from his land." ¹² Moreover Amasias said to Amos, "Begone, seer. Get thee to the land of Juda and dwell there; and prophesy there: ¹³ but against Baithel thou shalt not continue to prophesy; for it is the sanctuary of the king. It is the king's house."

² "Arise and go to Ninive that great city and proclaim in it, That the cry of its wickedness is come up to me." ³ Jonas arose to flee to Tharsis from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa, and finding a ship bound to Tharsis, he paid his fare and went on board with a design to sail with them to Tharsis, from the presence of the Lord.

¹⁷ Now the Lord had commanded a great fish to swallow Jonas, so Jonas was three days and three nights, in the belly of the fish.

² and said, In my affliction I cried to the Lord my God, and he hearkened to me: thou didst hear my cry from the womb of Hades: thou didst hearken to my prayer: ³ thou hast cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea. When streams encompassed me; all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. ⁴ Then I said, I am cast out from thy sight; nevertheless I will continue to look towards thy holy temple. ⁵ The water was poured around me to my soul; and the lowest abyss encompassed me; my head hath gone down into the clefts of mountains; ⁶ I have gone down to a land, the bars of which are everlastingly fixed: let my soul now, corrupted as it is, ascend, Lord, my God. ⁷ When my soul was fainting I remembered the Lord; let my prayer now come to thee into thy holy temple. ⁸ They who worship vanities and lies have forsaken their mercy:

¹⁰ Upon this a command was given by the Lord to the fish, and it cast forth Jonas upon the dry ground.

² " Arise and go to Ninive that great city, and proclaim in it according to the former proclamation which I spoke to thee." ³ So Jonas arose and went to Ninive as the Lord had spoken. Now Ninive was an exceeding great city, of about three days' journey. ⁴ And Jonas began at his entering the city, and for about one day's journey cried with a loud voice and said, "Yet three days and Ninive shall be destroyed" ⁵ And the men of Ninive believed God and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.

⁵ And the men of Ninive believed God and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. ⁶ When the word reached the king of Ninive, he arose from his throne and stripped off his robes and clothed himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. ⁷ And proclamation was made and orders issued in Ninive from the king and from his nobles, saying, With regard to men and beasts, including herds and flocks, Let them not taste any thing; let them neither feed nor drink water. ⁸ So both men and beasts were covered with sackcloth; and there was an incessant cry to God; and every one turned from his evil way, and from the wickedness of their hands, saying, ⁹ "Who knoweth but God will relent and turn away from his fierce wrath, so that we may not perish. ¹⁰ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways. And God relented at the evil which he said he would do to them, and did it not.

⁹ And God said to Jonas, Art thou very sorry] for the colocynthis. And he said I am sorry even to death.

⁸ [Balaam.] "Must thou, man, be told what is good? What doth the Lord require from thee, but to do justice and to love mercy, and to be prepared to walk with the Lord thy God?"

¹⁴ that the earth may be filled with a knowledge of the glory of God. Like water it will cover them.

⁶ and them who turn aside from the Lord, and them who seek not the Lord, and them who cleave not to him.

³ her chiefs within her were like roaring lions, and her judges like the Wolves of Arabia. They left nothing for the morning:

¹ In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zacharias the Barachite, the son of Addo, the prophet, saying,

¹ The burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. The Lord who stretcheth out the heaven and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him,

⁶ A son honoureth a father; and a servant, his master. Now if I be a father, where is my honour? And if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord Almighty. As for you priests, you are they who bring dishonour on my name. Do you say, By what have we brought dishonour on thy name?

⁷ Because the lips of a priest were to keep knowledge therefore law was to be sought from his mouth; since he is a messenger of the Lord Almighty:

¹⁷ You have provoked God with your sayings. And do you ask, By what have we provoked him? By your saying, "Every one doing evil doth that which is good in the sight of the Lord." Now were he well pleased with such; where then is the God of Righteousness?

⁸ Will a man supplant God? For you supplant me: and will you say, "wherein have we supplanted thee?" Because the tythes and the first fruits are with you,

² "Reform; for the reign of the heavens is at hand."

⁷ And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them," Brood of vipers! who hath prompted you to flee from the impending wrath.

¹⁰ Whereupon Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan: for it is written, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and serve him alone.

¹⁵ A lamp is not lighted and put under the corn measure, but on the stand, that it may give light to all the family. ¹⁶ Thus let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your father who is in heaven.

¹⁶ Thus let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your father who is in heaven.

⁴² Give to him who asketh thee. And from him who would borrow of thee, turn not thou away.

⁴⁵ that you may be the children of your Father in heaven: for he causeth the sun to rise on bad and good, and sendeth the rain on just and unjust.

¹ Take heed not to practise your righteousness before men in order to be observed by them; otherwise you have no reward from your father who is in heaven. ² Therefore when thou dost an act of charity, sound not a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets that they may be extolled by men. Verily I say to you, they have their reward. ³ But when thou art doing an act of charity, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand is doing; ⁴ that thine act of charity may be in secret; and thy father who seeth in secret will himself reward thee openly.

⁶ But as for thee, when thou wouldst pray, retire to thy closet, and having shut the door pray to thy father who is in secret, and thy father who seeth in secret will reward thee openly. ⁷ And when you pray, use not a vain multiplicity of words as the heathen do. For they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. ⁸ Be not ye therefore like them; for your father knoweth what things you have need of, before you ask him. ⁹ In this manner therefore pray ye, "Our Father, who art in the heavens, hallowed be thy name; ¹⁰ thy reign come; thy will be done on the earth, as it is in heaven; ¹¹ give us to day our daily bread;

¹¹ give us to day our daily bread; ¹² and forgive us our debts, as we do forgive our debtors; ¹³ and bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil [for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for the ages, amen. ¹⁴ For if you forgive men their offences, your heavenly father will also forgive you;

¹⁴ For if you forgive men their offences, your heavenly father will also forgive you; ¹⁵ but if you do not forgive men their offences, neither will your father forgive your offences.

²² The eye is the lamp of the body. If therefore thine eye be sound thy whole body will be enlightened: ²³ but if thine eye be distempered, thy whole body will be dark. If then the light which is in thee be darkness, how great will the darkness be!

²⁹ yet I affirm, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ³⁰ Now if God thus arrayeth the herbage which is today in the field, and tomorrow to be cast into a furnace, will he not much more clothe you, O ye mistrustful?

³² For about all such things the nations are solicitous: for your heavenly father knoweth that you have need of all these things.

³⁴ Wherefore be not anxious about the morrow; for the morrow will be anxious about its own concerns. Sufficient for every day is its own trouble.

⁷ Ask, and ye shall obtain; seek and ye shall find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ For every one who asketh, obtaineth; and he who seeketh, findeth; and to him who knocketh the door will be opened. ⁹ Is there any man among you, who, when his son asketh bread, will give him a stone;

⁹ Is there any man among you, who, when his son asketh bread, will give him a stone; ¹⁰ or if he ask for a fish will give him a serpent? ¹¹ If you therefore, bad as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father who is in heaven give good things to them who ask him?

¹¹ If you therefore, bad as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father who is in heaven give good things to them who ask him?

¹⁵ Now beware of false teachers, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but are inwardly ravenous wolves.

²¹ Not every one who saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who doeth the will of my father who is in heaven. ²² Many will say to me on that day Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name cast out demons, and in thy name done many miracles, ²³ to whom I will then declare, I never acknowledged you; Depart from me ye who work iniquity. ²⁴ Therefore whoever heareth these words of mine and putteth them in practice, him I will compare to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock. ²⁵ When the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, it did not fall, because it was founded on the rock.

⁴ But Jesus knowing their thoughts, said, Why do ye harbour evil thoughts in your hearts?

³² At their going out, behold a dumb man, a demoniac, was brought to him; ³³ and the demon being expelled, the dumb man spake, and the crowds expressed their amazement, saying, Nothing like this was ever seen in Israel. ³⁴ But the Pharisees said, By the prince of the demons he expelleth the demons.

³⁴ But the Pharisees said, By the prince of the demons he expelleth the demons.

²⁵ It is enough for the scholar to be as his teacher; and the servant, as his master. If they have called the master of the family Beelzebub, how much more, his domestics.

²⁷ What I say to you in darkness, speak ye in the light; and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim on the house tops.

³² Whosoever therefore will acknowledge me before men, him I will acknowledge before my father, who is in heaven:

²⁵ At that time Jesus took occasion to say, I thank thee, O father, Lord of heaven and earth; that thou having hid these things from the wise and prudent, hast revealed them to babes. ²⁶ Yes, O father, because it thus seemed good in thy sight.

²² Then there was brought to him a demoniac, blind and dumb, and he healed him, so that he who was blind and dumb both spake and saw. ²³ And all the people were astonished and said, Is this the son of David? ²⁴ But the Pharisees, hearing them said, This man expelleth the demons, only by Beelzebub, the chief of the demons.

²⁴ But the Pharisees, hearing them said, This man expelleth the demons, only by Beelzebub, the chief of the demons. ²⁵ Thereupon Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. And no city or family divided against itself can subsist.

²⁵ Thereupon Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. And no city or family divided against itself can subsist. ²⁶ Now if Satan expelleth Satan, he is at variance with himself, how then can his kingdom subsist?

²⁶ Now if Satan expelleth Satan, he is at variance with himself, how then can his kingdom subsist?

²⁶ Now if Satan expelleth Satan, he is at variance with himself, how then can his kingdom subsist? ²⁷ Besides if I expel demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons expel them? Let them therefore be your judges.

²⁷ Besides if I expel demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons expel them? Let them therefore be your judges.

²⁷ Besides if I expel demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons expel them? Let them therefore be your judges. ²⁸ But if I expel the demons by the Spirit of God, then indeed the reign of God over you is come.

²⁸ But if I expel the demons by the Spirit of God, then indeed the reign of God over you is come.

²⁸ But if I expel the demons by the Spirit of God, then indeed the reign of God over you is come.

²⁸ But if I expel the demons by the Spirit of God, then indeed the reign of God over you is come. ²⁹ How can anyone enter the house of the strong and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong one, in which case he may then plunder his house.

²⁹ How can anyone enter the house of the strong and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong one, in which case he may then plunder his house.

²⁹ How can anyone enter the house of the strong and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong one, in which case he may then plunder his house. ³⁰ He who is not for me is against me; and he who gathereth not with me, scattereth.

³⁰ He who is not for me is against me; and he who gathereth not with me, scattereth. ³¹ Therefore I say to you, all manner of sin and slander may be forgiven men; but this slanderous speaking against the spirit is not to be forgiven men ³² Even though one speak against the son of man, it may be forgiven him; but whoever shall speak against the holy Spirit is not to be forgiven, either in the present age, or in that to come. ³³ Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad. For the tree is known by its fruit

³³ Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad. For the tree is known by its fruit ³⁴ Brood of vipers! how can you who are evil speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

³⁴ Brood of vipers! how can you who are evil speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produceth good things; and the bad man, out of his bad treasure produceth bad things.

³⁸ Then some of the Scribes and Pharisees interposed, saying, Teacher, we desire to see a sign from thee.

³⁸ Then some of the Scribes and Pharisees interposed, saying, Teacher, we desire to see a sign from thee. ³⁹ In reply to which he said to them, an evil, and an adulterous generation demand a sign, but no sign shall be given them, save the sign of the prophet Jonas.

³⁹ In reply to which he said to them, an evil, and an adulterous generation demand a sign, but no sign shall be given them, save the sign of the prophet Jonas. ⁴⁰ For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. ⁴¹ The men of Ninive will be raised up at the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it; because they repented at the proclamation of Jonas; and behold something greater than Jonas is here. ⁴² The queen of the south will be raised up at the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because she came from the extremities of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold something greater than Solomon is here,

⁴² The queen of the south will be raised up at the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because she came from the extremities of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold something greater than Solomon is here, ⁴³ When the unclean spirit hath gone out of the man, it walketh through dry places seeking rest, but doth not find it. ⁴⁴ Then it saith I will return to my habitation from which I came out. And when it is come, it findeth it unoccupied, swept and furnished. ⁴⁵ Then it goeth and bringeth with it seven other spirits worse than itself, and they enter and dwell there. So the last state of that man is worse than the first. Thus also will it be with this wicked generation.

⁴⁵ Then it goeth and bringeth with it seven other spirits worse than itself, and they enter and dwell there. So the last state of that man is worse than the first. Thus also will it be with this wicked generation.

⁴⁸ In reply to which he said to him who told him, who is my mother? And who are my brethren? ⁴⁹ Then, stretching out his hand towards his disciples, he said, Behold my mother, and my brethren! ⁵⁰ for whoever will do the will of my father who is in heaven, the same is my brother and sister and mother.

¹¹ And he in reply said to them, To you it hath been granted to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens; but to them it hath not been granted. ¹² For to him who improveth, more shall be given and he shall abound: but from him who improveth not, even that which he hath shall be taken.

⁵² Then he said to them, Every Scribe then who is instructed for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a family who bringeth out of his treasury things new and old.

² Why do thy disciples transgress the doctrine of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. ³ In reply to which he said to them, Why do you transgress the commandment of God, from a regard to your doctrines?

¹⁹ For out of the heart come malicious surmises, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, calumnies.

²² And lo! a Chananitish woman from those quarters came out and cried with a loud voice, saying to him, Have pity on me, O my lord, Son of David; my daughter is grievously afflicted by a demon. ²³ But he made her no answer. Then his disciples came near and intreated him, saying, Dismiss this woman, for she crieth after us. ²⁴ And he in reply said, My mission is only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ²⁵ She nevertheless advanced, and prostrating herself before him, said, O my lord, help me. ²⁶ Whereupon he in reply said, It is not seemly to take the childrens bread and cast it to the dogs. ²⁷ And she said, True, Sir. Yet even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table. ²⁸ Thereupon Jesus in reply said to her, O woman, great is thy faith; Be it to thee as thou desirest. And from that instant her daughter was healed.

¹ And the Pharisees and the Sadducees having come thither with a view to try him, desired that he would show them a sign from heaven. ² Whereupon he in reply said to them, When it is evening you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red: ³ and in the morning, there will be a storm today, for the sky is red and lowering. Hypocrites! you know how to distinguish the appearance of the sky, and can you not discern the signs of the times? ⁴ An evil and adulterous generation demand a sign, but no sign shall be given them, save that of the prophet Jonas. So leaving them he departed.

³⁵ Thus also will my heavenly father deal with you, if you do not from your hearts forgive, everyone the trespasses of his brother.

²² And whatever you ask in prayer, with faith, you shall obtain.

³¹ Which of the two did the will of his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus saith to them, Verily I say to you, The publicans and the harlots lead the way for you to the kingdom of God.

³⁵ But the tenants seizing his servants, beat one and killed another, and stoned another. ³⁶ Again he sent other servants in greater number than the first, and they treated them in the same manner. ³⁷ At last he sent to them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. ³⁸ But when the tenants saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir. Come let us kill him and keep possession of his inheritance.

⁶ and the rest seized his servants, insulted, and slew them.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went out and consulted how they might ensnare him by a discourse.

¹⁸ But Jesus, knowing their malice, said, Hypocrites! Why do ye try me?

³⁵ And one of them, an expounder of the law, with a view to 36 try him, asked him this question,

² saying, The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' chair. ³ Observe then and do whatever they enjoin you: but do not act as they do. For they say and do not practise. ⁴ For they bind up heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on men's shoulders: but they themselves will not move them with their finger.

⁶ and love the uppermost places at entertainments; and the first seats in the synagogues; ⁷ and salutations in places of public resort; and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

¹³ Now alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens against men. For you neither enter in yourselves, nor suffer them who are going in, to enter.

¹⁵ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you traverse sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained, you make him doubly more a child of hell, than yourselves.

¹⁷ Foolish and blind! which is greater? The gold? Or the temple which halloweth the gold?

²³ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you pay tithe of mint, and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law; justice, mercy and fidelity. These you ought to have practised without omitting those.

²⁵ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the plate; but on the inside they are full of rapine, and intemperance. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee, cleanse first what is within the cup, and the plate; so the outside will be clean.

²⁶ Blind Pharisee, cleanse first what is within the cup, and the plate; so the outside will be clean. ²⁷ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you are like whitened sepulchres. These indeed appear beautiful on the outside; but within they are full of dead men's bones, and of all Corruption.

²⁷ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you are like whitened sepulchres. These indeed appear beautiful on the outside; but within they are full of dead men's bones, and of all Corruption. ²⁸ In like manner you also appear outwardly to men to be righteous; but you are inwardly full of hypocrisy and iniquity. ²⁹ Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, ³⁰ and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been their accomplices in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of them who killed the prophets.

³¹ So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of them who killed the prophets. ³² As for you then, fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³ Serpents! brood of vipers! how can you escape the punishment of hell? ³⁴ For this, behold I am about to send you prophets, wise men and Scribes: and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; ³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth; from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth; from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Verily I say to you, All these things will come upon this generation.

¹⁰ And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and they who were ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was shut.

³⁴ Then the king will say to them on his right, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom which hath been prepared for you from the formation 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 lodged me; ³⁶ naked, and you clothed me; sick, and you took care of me; I was in prison, and you visited me. ³⁷ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and feed thee; or thirsty, and give thee drink? ³⁸ When saw we thee a stranger, and lodged thee; or naked, and clothed thee? ³⁹ Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came to thee? ⁴⁰ And the king in reply will say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as you have done this to one of these my brethren, even the least, you have done it to me.

¹¹ For you have the poor always with you; but me you have not always.

⁴¹ Watch and pray, that you may not come to a trial. The spirit indeed is willing; but the flesh is weak.

² and they watched him to see whether he would heal on the sabbath, that they might accuse him.

²² and the Scribes who had come down from Jerusalem, said, He is possessed by Beelzebub, and by the prince of the demons he expelleth the demons;] ²³ Jesus having called them to him, said to them in parables, How can Satan expel Satan?

²³ Jesus having called them to him, said to them in parables, How can Satan expel Satan? ²⁴ If indeed a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand;

²⁴ If indeed a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand; ²⁵ and if a family be divided against itself, that family cannot subsist;

²⁵ and if a family be divided against itself, that family cannot subsist; ²⁶ and if Satan is risen up against himself, and divided, he cannot subsist; but hath an end.

²⁶ and if Satan is risen up against himself, and divided, he cannot subsist; but hath an end. ²⁷ No one can enter the house of the strong, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong one. Then indeed he may rifle his house.

²⁷ No one can enter the house of the strong, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong one. Then indeed he may rifle his house.

²⁷ No one can enter the house of the strong, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong one. Then indeed he may rifle his house. ²⁸ Verily I say to you, All transgressions may be forgiven the sons of men, and what slanderous speeches soever they may utter, ²⁹ but whoever shall utter slanders against the Holy Spirit, hath not forgiveness in this age, but is liable to everlasting punishment. ³⁰ Because it was said he hath an unclean spirit,

¹² so that seeing they see, though they may not perceive; and hearing they hear, though they may not understand. Perhaps they may turn, that their sins may be forgiven them.

²¹ Then he said to them, Is a lamp brought to be put under the corn measure, or under the bed? Is it not that it may be set on a stand? ²² For there is nothing hidden which shall not be discovered, nor any thing laid up in secret, but that it may be brought to light.

²⁴ Moreover he said to them, Consider what you hear. With whatever measure you deal out, you shall receive; and to you who are attentive more shall be given. ²⁵ For to him who improveth, more shall be given; but from him who improveth not, even what he hath shall be taken away.

¹⁰ and earnestly intreated him not to send them out of that country.

² resort to him in a body, and seeing some of his disciples eating bread with unclean, that is with unwashen hands, they found fault. ³ For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, holding the doctrine of the elders, do not eat with out washing the hands with the doubled fist: ⁴ and if they come from the market they do not eat without dipping them. And there are many other usages which they have adopted, such as the dipping of cups, and pots, and brass vessels, and couches. ⁵ Therefore the Pharisees and the Scribes ask him, Why do not thy disciples walk according to the doctrines of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

²² thefts, inordinate desires, malice, fraud, sensuality, envy, detraction, pride, foolishness.

³² And they bring to him a man who was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech, and beseech him to lay his hands on him. ³³ Whereupon he taketh him apart from the multitude, and put his fingers in his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue; ³⁴ Then, looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. ³⁵ And immediately his ears were opened, and his tongue loosed, and he spake distinctly. ³⁶ Though he commanded them not to tell any one, yet the more he enjoined them the more abundantly they proclaimed .his miracles. ³⁷ And being struck with inexpressible amazement, said, He hath done all things well, he maketh the deaf hear, and the dumb speak.

¹¹ And the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with him; and, in order to try him, desired of him a sign from heaven. ¹² Whereupon with a deep sigh, he saith, "Why doth this generation demand a sign? Verily I say to you, There shall be no sign given to this generation."

¹⁸ Having eyes do you not see? And having ears do you not hear? And have you no memory?

³⁸ For whoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the son of man will be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his father, with his holy angels.

²⁵ And when Jesus saw that the people were crowding upon him, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I command thee; Go out of him; and enter no more into him;

⁴⁰ For whoever is not against us is for us.

²⁴ Therefore I say to you, What things soever you ask when you pray, believe that you will receive, and you shall have them.

¹³ and send to him some of the Pharisees, and the Herodians, to entrap him with a speech.

³⁸ he said to them in his manner of teaching, Beware of the Scribes, who are fond of walking in long robes, and of salutations in public places of resort, ³⁹ and of the principal seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost places at entertainments

³⁷ Now what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.

²⁸ And when the angel entered, he said to her, Hail, favourite of heaven! The Lord is with thee! Blessed thou among women!

⁴² and with a loud acclamation said, Blessed thou among women! and blessed the fruit of thy womb.

⁴⁸ because he hath regarded the low condition of his handmaid. For behold! henceforth all generations will call me happy.

²² and the Holy Spirit, in a bodily form, came down like a dove upon him, and there came a voice from heaven, saying, "Thou art my son, the Beloved; in thee I am well pleased."

¹² Now about that time he went out to the mountain to pray, and spent the whole night in a place set apart for prayer to God.

⁴⁷ With regard to every one who cometh to me, and hearkeneth to my words, and doth them, I will tell you to whom he is like. ⁴⁸ He is like a man building a house, who digged deep and laid a foundation on the rock. And when a flood came, the current beat against that house, but could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

⁶ So Jesus went with them. But when he was now at no great distance from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying, Sir, trouble not thyself; for I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof:

¹³ And when the Lord beheld her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, Weep not.

³⁶ When one of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he had gone to the Pharisee's house and placed himself at table,

¹³ By the rocky ground are meant those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy; but not having it rooted in them, they are but temporary believers, and in time of trial apostatise.

¹⁶ Now no one having lighted a lamp covereth it with a vessel or putteth it under a couch; but setteth it on a stand that they who come in may see the light. ¹⁷ For there is nothing obscure which shall not be made clear; nor any thing concealed which shall not be made known and come to light.

²¹ he in reply, said to them, My mother and mv brethren are they who hear the word of God and do it.

¹⁸ After that, when he was praying in a retired place, his disciples were with him, and he asked them, saying, Who do the people say that I am?

²⁸ About eight days after these discourses, he took Peter, and John, and James, and went up to the mountain to pray.

³⁵ And there came a voice from the cloud, saying, This is my son, the Beloved; hearken to him.

⁴¹ In reply to this, Jesus said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you! how long shall I endure you!

⁴⁹ Then John addressing him, said, Master, we saw one casting out the demons in thy name, and we forbade him because he doth not follow [thee] with us. ⁵⁰ Thereupon Jesus said to him, Forbid not; for he who is not against us is for us.

⁹ And heal the sick therein, and say to them, The reign of God is come near to you.

⁹ And heal the sick therein, and say to them, The reign of God is come near to you. ¹⁰ But whatever city you enter, when they do not receive you, go out into the streets thereof and say, ¹¹ The very dust of this city of yours which cleaveth to us, we wipe off for you: nevertheless, know this, that the reign of God hath come nigh unto you.

¹¹ The very dust of this city of yours which cleaveth to us, we wipe off for you: nevertheless, know this, that the reign of God hath come nigh unto you.

¹⁹ behold I give you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and upon all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall in anywise hurt you.

² Whereupon he said to them, When you pray, say, Our Father, who art in heaven; hallowed be thy name; thy reign come; thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven;

¹⁵ but some of them said, By Beelzebub, the prince of the demons, he expelleth the demons; ¹⁶ and others, to try him, demanded of him a sign from heaven;

¹⁸ Now if Satan be divided against himself, how can his kingdom subsist? Because you say that I expel the demons by Beelzebub; ¹⁹ therefore if I expel the demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons expel them? Let them therefore be your judges.

³¹ The queen of the south will be raised up at the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them; because she came from the extreme parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold something greater than Solomon is here.

³¹ The queen of the south will be raised up at the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them; because she came from the extreme parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold something greater than Solomon is here. ³² The men of Nineve will stand up at the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonas, and behold something greater than Jonas is here.

⁴⁵ Upon this, one of the teachers of the law, interposing, saith to him, Teacher, by speaking thus dost thou reproach us also?

⁴⁵ Upon this, one of the teachers of the law, interposing, saith to him, Teacher, by speaking thus dost thou reproach us also? ⁴⁶ Thereupon he said, Alas for you also, ye teachers of the law, because you load men with heavy burdens hard to be borne, and will not yourselves touch these burdens with one of your fingers.

⁴⁶ Thereupon he said, Alas for you also, ye teachers of the law, because you load men with heavy burdens hard to be borne, and will not yourselves touch these burdens with one of your fingers.

⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets, which hath been shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation.

⁵² Alas for you, teachers of the law! because you have taken away the key of knowledge. You entered not in yourselves; and them who were entering you hindered.

¹ by which myriads of the people being drawn together, so as to trample upon one another, he took occasion to say to his disciples, Above all, things beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;

²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided?

³³ sell your possessions and give alms: provide for yourselves purses which do not wear out; a treasure in the heavens, which will never fail; where no thief approacheth, nor moth spoileth:

²⁴ Strive with all your might to enter in through the narrow gate; for many, I assure you, will seek to enter, who will not be able. ²⁵ When the master of the house is raised up, and shall have shut the door and you begin to stand without and knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, he will Answer and say to you, I do not know you, whence you are.

²⁵ When the master of the house is raised up, and shall have shut the door and you begin to stand without and knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, he will Answer and say to you, I do not know you, whence you are.

¹ It happened also on a sabbath day, when he went to eat at the house of one of the chiefs who were Pharisees, and they were watching him,

⁷ Then observing how eager the guests were for the first places at table, he addressed them in a parable, and said, ⁸ When thou art invited by any one to a wedding, do not take the uppermost place, lest a person of greater distinction than thou be invited by him. ⁹ In which case he who invited thee and him will come and say to thee, Give place to this man. Then thou, with confusion, must take the lower place. ¹⁰ But when thou art invited, go and take the lowest place, that when he who invited thee cometh, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher. Then thou wilt have honour in the sight of them who are at table with thee. ¹¹ For whoever exalteth himself, shall be humbled, and he who humbleth. himself, shall be exalted. ¹² Then he said to him who had invited him; When thou makest a dinner or a supper, invite not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy relations, nor thy rich neighbours, lest they also invite thee in their turn, and a recompense be made thee. ¹³ But when thou makest an entertainment, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame and the blind, ¹⁴ and thou shall be happy. For as they are not of ability to requite thee, a requital will be made to thee at the resurrection of the righteous.

²⁵ As great multitudes were travelling with him, he turned to them and said, ²⁶ If any one cometh to me, and slighteth not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, nay, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

³⁰ but soon as this son of thine is come, who hath devoured thy substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. ³¹ In reply, to which his father said to him, Son, thou art always with me; and all that I have is thine. ³² But we ought to feast and rejoice because this thy brother was dead and is come to life. He was indeed lost and is now found.

⁹ therefore I say to you, From the worldly prudence of this unrighteousness, make ye friends for yourselves, that when you fail, ye may be received into the everlasting abodes.

¹⁵ Whereupon he said to them, You are they who justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts. Because that which is high among men, is an abomination in the sight of God,

¹ Then he addressed them with a parable, to shew them that they ought to persevere in prayer, and not be discouraged;

¹ Then he addressed them with a parable, to shew them that they ought to persevere in prayer, and not be discouraged; ² saying, There was in a certain city a judge, who neither feared God, nor regarded man. ³ And there was in that city a widow, who went to him, saying, Do me justice on mine adversary. ⁴ And for a while he would not. But afterwards he said within himself, Though I neither fear God, nor regard man, ⁵ yet because this widow giveth me trouble, I will do her justice, that she may not, by coming perpetually, torment me. ⁶ And the Lord said, Hear what this unjust judge saith! ⁷ And will not God vindicate the cause of his chosen, who are crying to him day and night"? Will he linger in their cause? ⁸ He will, I assure you, vindicate their cause speedily. But will the son of man, when he cometh, find this belief in this land"?

¹² I fast twice a week. I pay tithes of all that I possess.

²² Upon hearing this, Jesus said to him, There is still one thing wanting to thee. Sell all that thou hast and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me.

⁸ Whereupon Zaccheus, standing up, said to the Lord, Behold, Sir, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have wronged any man, I make him fourfold restitution:

²² Whereupon he Saith to him, Out of thine own mouth I will condemn thee, thou malignant slave. Thou knowest that I am an austere man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I did not sow!

³⁹ Upon this, some of the Pharisees who were in the crowd, said to him, Teacher, rebuke these disciples of thine. ⁴⁰ In reply to which, he said to them, I tell you, If these keep silence, those stones would exclaim.

²⁰ Therefore, having watched him diligently, they sent to him spies who should feign themselves to be righteous men, that they might lay hold of some word of his, in order to deliver him up to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor.

²⁷ Then some of the Sadducees, who deny a future state, came and asked him,

⁴⁶ Beware of the Scribes, who are fond of walking in robes, and love salutations in places of public resort, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost places at entertainments;

¹⁶ You will indeed be delivered up by parents, and brothers, and kinsmen, and friends. And some of you will be put to death. ¹⁷ And on the account of my name you will be hated by all.

³⁹ Then he went out and retired as usual to the mount of olives; and his disciples followed him. ⁴⁰ And when he came to the place, he said to them, Pray, that you may not come to trial. ⁴¹ Then having withdrawn about a stone's throw from them, he kneeled down and prayed, ⁴² saying, O Father, if thou wilt remove this cup from me; but not my will, but thine be done. ⁴³ Then an angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him. ⁴⁴ And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly. And his sweat was like great drops of blood falling on the ground. ⁴⁵ Then he arose from prayer, and went to his disciples, and found them asleep, oppressed with grief. ⁴⁶ And he said to them, What! Are you asleep! Rise and pray that you may not come to trial.

²⁹ for lo! days are coming in which they will say, Happy the barren, and the wombs which never bare, and the breasts which never gave suck.

²⁵ Then he said to them, O thoughtless, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

⁴⁶ and he said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved the Christ to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day; ⁴⁷ and that for his name reformation and remission of sins should be proclaimed to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

⁴⁷ and that for his name reformation and remission of sins should be proclaimed to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

⁴⁵ Philip finding Nathaniel, saith to him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets have written, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. ⁴⁶ Upon which Nathaniel saith to him, Of Nazareth can there be any thing good! Philip saith to him, Come and see. ⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to him and saith respecting him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile! ⁴⁸ Nathaniel saith to him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus in reply said to him, Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. ⁴⁹ In answer to this, Nathaniel said to him, Rabbi, thou art the son of God. Thou art the king of Israel.

¹⁸ Hereupon the Jews addressed him, and said, What sign dost thou shew us to justify thy doing these things?

²⁵ And because he had no need that any one should testify of man, for he himself knew what was in man;

⁵ Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say to thee, unless a man be born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ⁶ That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the spirit, is spirit.

²⁵ There was therefore a dispute between some of the disciples of John, and the Jews, respecting purification,

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, If thou hadst known the bounty of God, and who it is who saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

¹⁴ After this Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, Behold thou art made well. Sin no more, lest something worse befall thee.

⁴² But I know you that you have not the love of God in you.

²⁷ Labour not to procure the food which perisheth, but the food which endureth for an everlasting life, which the son of man will give you; for him the Father, namely God, hath sealed. ²⁸ Thereupon they said to him, What must we do that we may work the works of God? ²⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God that you believe in him whom he hath sent. ³⁰ Then they said to him, What miracle dost thou perform that we may see and believe in thee? What workest thou?

³⁰ Then they said to him, What miracle dost thou perform that we may see and believe in thee? What workest thou? ³¹ Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness, as it is written, "He gave them bread from heaven to eat." ³² Upon this Jesus said to them, Verily, verily I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread of heaven: ³³ for the bread of God is that which cometh down from heaven and giveth life to the world.

⁷ The world cannot hate you: but it hateth me, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

²⁰ The people answered and said, Thou art possessed by a demon; Who seeketh to kill thee?

³⁷ It being now the last the great day of the festival, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. ³⁸ He who believeth in me; as the scripture hath said, Out of his belly will flow streams of living water. ³⁹ Now this he said in reference to the spirit which they who believed in him were to receive; for a holy spirit was not yet received, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

⁴⁷ Thereupon the Pharisees answered them, Are you also seduced? ⁴⁸ Hath any of the chief priests believed in him, or any of the Pharisees?

⁴⁸ Hath any of the chief priests believed in him, or any of the Pharisees?

⁴⁸ Hath any of the chief priests believed in him, or any of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ But this multitude, which know not the law, are accursed.

⁴⁹ But this multitude, which know not the law, are accursed. ⁵⁰ Nicodemus, he who came to Jesus by night, and who was one of them, said to them, ⁵¹ Doth our law condemn the man without hearing him, and knowing what he hath done? ⁵² In reply to which, they said to him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search and see that a prophet of Galilee hath not been raised up.

⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and bent upon executing the desires of your father. He was a manslayer from the beginning, and did .not abide in the truth. Because there is no truth in him, when he speaketh falsehood he speaketh what is. natural to him, for he is a liar, and the father of it.

⁴⁸ Thereupon the Jews answered, and said to him, Are we not right in saying, Thou art a Samaritan, and possessed by a demon?

⁵² Thereupon the Jews said to him, Now we know that thou art possessed by a demon. Abraham is dead and the prophets; yet thou sayest, I any one keep this doctrine of mine, he shall never taste death.

²⁴ Then they called a second time the man who had been blind, and said to him, Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner. ²⁵ Upon this he answered and said, If he be a sinner, I know not. One thing I know, that I was blind, and now I see. ²⁶ Then they said to him again, What did he do to thee? How did he open thine eyes? ²⁷ He answered them, I have told you already. Did you not hear? Why do you desire to hear it again? Have you indeed a mind to be his disciples? ²⁸ Upon this they reviled him and said, Thou art a disciple of his; but as for us, we are disciples of Moses. ²⁹ We know that God spake to Moses; but as for this man, we know not whence he is. ³⁰ In reply to this the man said to them, Why; in this there is something marvellous, that you do not know whence he is, though he hath opened mine eyes. ³¹ Now we know that God hearkeneth not to sinners; but if any one be a worshipper of God, and do his will, to him he hearkeneth. ³² From the beginning of the world it was never heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind. ³³ If this man were not from God he could do nothing. ³⁴ They answered and said to him, Thou wast altogether born in sin, and dost thou teach us? And they excommunicated him.

³⁹ Then Jesus said, I am come into this world for judgment that they who do not see may see, and that they who see may become blind; ⁴⁰ and some of the Pharisees who were with him, when they heard this, said, Are we blind?

⁴⁰ and some of the Pharisees who were with him, when they heard this, said, Are we blind? ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would not have had sin; but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

²⁰ And many of them said, He is possessed by a demon, and is mad, Why do you. hearken to him?

⁹ Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walketh in the day he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world:

⁶ Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the purse and carried off what was put into it.

⁴⁶ I being light am come into the world, that whoever believeth in me may not remain in darkness.

² When they were at supper [the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot son of Simon to deliver him up,]

¹⁷ If you know these things, happy are you if you practise them.

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

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

¹⁶ It was not you who chose me; but it was I who chose you, and placed you that you may go forth bearing fruit, and that your fruit may continue, that the Father may give you whatever you ask of him in my name.

² They will excommunicate you. Indeed a time is coming, when whosoever killeth you will think he doth an act of religious worship to God.

²³ Now in that day you will not ask me any thing. Verily, verily, I say to you, whatever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he will give you. ²⁴ Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be complete.

¹⁵ I do not ask thee to remove them out of the world, but to preserve them from the evil one.

⁸ But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit is come upon you; and you shall be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the remotest part of the earth.

³⁸ Thereupon Peter said to them, Repent and let every one of you be baptized to the remission of sins for the name of Jesus Christ, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

⁴⁶ And continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they partook of food with joy and singleness of heart,

¹⁷ But that it may not spread farther among the people, let us severely threaten them not to speak any more for this name to any man. ¹⁸ So having called them in, they gave them this general charge, not to make solemn addresses, nor teach, for the name of that Jesus.

³ Upon which Peter said, Ananias, Why hath Satan filled thy heart that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Spirit, and keep back a part of the price of the land?

⁴⁰ So to him they agreed: and having called in the apostles and scourged them, they charged them not to speak about the name of Jesus and dismissed them.

⁵¹ O stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears Ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do ye.

⁵¹ O stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears Ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do ye. ⁵² Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? Indeed they have slain them who prophesied concerning the coming of that Righteous one, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers:

⁵⁷ At which they screamed aloud, and stopped their ears and rushed upon him with one accord.

³ Saul was making havock of the congregation. Entering into houses and dragging out men and women, he committed them to prison.

²¹ thou hast no portion nor share in this matter, for thy heart is not right in the sight of God. ²² Repent therefore of this wickedness of thine; and beseech God, if indeed this thought of thy heart can be forgiven thee. ²³ For I perceive that thou art for bitter gall and for a bond of iniquity.

¹ As for Saul he was still breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord. Having gone to the chief priest, ² he asked letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, that if he should find any of this way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

³⁶ Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha [the signification of which in Greek, is Dorcas [a Roe.]] This woman abounded in good works and in acts of charity. ³⁷ And at this time she fell sick and died. And when they had washed her, they laid her out in an upper room. ³⁸ And as Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, intreating him to come to them without delay. ³⁹ Accordingly Peter arose and went with them. And when he came they took him up to the upper room. And all the widows stood by him, weeping and shewing the tunicks and mantles which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

⁴ Upon which he having fixed his eyes on him, and being terrified, said, Lord! what is it? Then the angel said to him, Thy prayers and thine acts of benevolence have ascended for a memorial before God. ⁵ Now therefore send men to Joppa and call for Simon who is surnamed Peter. ⁶ He lodgeth with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea side. He will tell thee what thou must do.

¹⁵ And a voice said to him a second time, What God hath cleansed call not thou that common.

³¹ and said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine acts of benevolence are remembered before God; ³² send therefore to Joppa for Simon who is surnamed Peter. He lodgeth at the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea side. He will come and speak to thee.

²⁹ Whereupon the disciples determined, every one according to his ability to send relief to the brethren who dwelt in Judea.

¹ Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to afflict some of the congregation, ² and slew with the sword James the brother of John.

¹¹ Now therefore behold the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shall be blind and shall not see the sun for a season. And instantly there fell upon him a mist and darkness. And groping about he sought some to lead him by the hand.

²⁵ And now behold I know that all you among whom I have gone proclaiming the reign of God, shall no more see my face;

⁴ one who persecuted this sect to death, binding and delivering into custody both men and women, ⁵ as even the chief priest and the whole Sanhedrim can witness for me; from whom when I had received letters to the brethren at Damascus, I went with a design to bring those also who were there, in chains to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.

²⁰ and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was shed, I was standing by and gladly consenting to the slaughter of him, and watching the clothes of them who were killing him.

³ Whereupon Paul said to him, God is about to smite thee, thou whited wall! Dost thou sit to judge according to the law, and in defiance of the law order me to be smitten?

¹⁷ Now after many years I went to bring contributions for my nation and religious offerings;

¹⁰ And this I did at Jerusalem: and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received this authority from the chief priests. And when they were put to death, I gave assent. ¹¹ And in all the synagogues many a time did I, by torments, urge them to blaspheme. And being transported to madness against them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.

¹⁸ to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of satan to God, that they may receive a remission of sins and an inheritance among them who are sanctified by the belief in me.

²³ So having set him a day, they came to him at his lodging, in greater numbers; to whom he explained the kingdom of God, testifying and endeavouring to reconcile them to the things concerning Jesus, from the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning till evening. ²⁴ And some indeed were reconciled by what were spoken, and some disbelieved. ²⁵ And being at variance among themselves they broke up, upon Paul's saying one word, that the holy spirit had spoken well to our fathers by the prophet Esaias, ²⁶ saying, "Go and say to the people, Hearing you shall hear, though you may not understand; and seeing you shall see, though you may not perceive; ²⁷ for the heart of this people is callous, and their ears are dull of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn that I may heal them." ²⁸ Be it known therefore to you, that this salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will hearken to it.

⁷ to all who are at Rome, beloved of God, called and consecrated; favour be to you, and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

²² pretending to be wise, they became fools,

⁷ to them who by perseverance in well-doing, seek for glory and honour, and incorruption [he will grant] everlasting life;

¹⁹ and hast a confidence that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light to them who are in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law. ²¹ Thou therefore who teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? Thou who proclaimest not to steal, dost thou steal? ²² Thou who sayest, Commit not adultery', dost thou commit adultery? Thou who abominatest idols, dost thou violate things sacred? ²³ Thou who gloriest in a law, dost thou by the breach of that law dishonour God?

²⁷ And may not the uncircumcision which in a state of nature performeth the law, judge thee who being under a written law and circumcision art a transgressor of law?

¹⁹ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world stand convicted before God.

⁹ Much more therefore shall we, being now acquitted by his blood, be saved by him from the wrath; ¹⁰ For if we, when enemies, were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more shall we, being reconciled, be saved by his life.

¹⁷ free gift is an acquittal from many transgressions. For if for the offence of the one, death reigned by that one; much more shall they who receive the superabundance of this favour and of the free gift of this acquittal, reign in life by the other, namely Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good doth not dwell. For to will is present with me, but the performance of what is good, I do not find.

¹⁵ For you have not received a spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received a spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.

²⁶ and in such a manner as the spirit joineth in helping our infirmities: for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the spirit itself intercedeth for us with groans which cannot be expressed in words. ²⁷ And he who searcheth the hearts knoweth the bent of the spirit, that it pleadeth for saints according to the will of God.

³² He who spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also with him freely grant us all things?

⁸ As it is written, "God hath given them a spirit of stupefaction, eyes not to see and ears not to hear even to this day." ⁹ And David saith, "Let their table be for a snare and for a trap, and for a stumbling block, and for a retribution to them. ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, And bow down their neck continually."

¹⁰ in brotherly love be tenderly affectionate one to another: in honour prefer one another;

¹⁴ I know and am fully assured by the Lord Jesus; that nothing is of itself unclean. But to him who thinketh any thing unclean, to him it is unclean. ¹⁵ Now if on account of thy food thy brother is grieved, thou no longer walkest According to love. Destroy not by thy food him for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Let not therefore the good which you enjoy be ill spoken of. ¹⁷ For the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in a holy spirit. ¹⁸ For he who serveth the Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

³⁰ Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the spirit, to join with me in earnest supplications to God, for me;

³ favour be to you, and peace from God our father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁹ For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and abolish the understanding of the prudent." ²⁰ Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this age? Hath not God shewn the wisdom of this world to be folly? ²¹ For when, amidst the wisdom of God, the world did not, by means of that wisdom, know God; it pleased God by the foolishness of this proclamation to save them who believe; ²² so when the Jews demand a sign and the Greeks seek wisdom,

²⁴ but to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God;

³⁰ And it is owing to him that you are in Christ Jesus, who hath been made to us wisdom from God, namely, righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption,

¹⁸ Whosoever you are, let no one deceive himself. If am one among you seemeth to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God: for it is written, He entangleth the wise in their craft." ²⁰ And again, "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they are vain."

¹⁹ For being free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all that I may gain the more. ²⁰ To the Jews I became as a Jew that I might gain the Jews: to them under law, as if I were under law, that I might gain those under law: ²¹ to them without law, as if I were without law [not as without law to God, but under a law to Christ] that I might gain those with out law: ²² To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak; to all those I have become all this that I may save all. ²³ And this I do in consequence of the glad tidings that I may be a joint sharer thereof.

¹³ No trial hath come upon you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, and will not suffer you to be tried above your strength, but will with the trial make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

⁵ It doth not behave itself unbecomingly. It is not self interested. It is not easily provoked. It placeth not the evil to account.

³⁶ Simpleton! that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened unless it dieth.

² Favour be to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² For this is the matter of our boasting; the testimony of our conscience, that with simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more especially towards you.

⁹ For if that ministration of condemnation was attended with glory, much more doth this ministration of justification abound in glory. ¹⁰ For that indeed which was glorious, is in this respect not glorious because of this super-excellent glory. ¹¹ For if that which was temporary was with glory, much more shall this which is permanent be attended with glory.

⁴ with which the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the disbelieving, that the splendour of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is an image of God, may not shine upon them.

⁶ Because it is God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who hath shined in our hearts, to give a lustre of the knowledge of the glory of God in the person of Jesus Christ;

² For he saith, "In an acceptable time I have hearkened to thee, And in a day of salvation helped thee. "Behold now is an acceptable time! Behold now is a day of salvation; [and this we do]

⁷ that, as you abound in every thing; in belief, and doctrine, and knowledge, and in all earnestness even in your love for us, you might abound also in this bounty. ⁸ I do not say this by way of command, but am, during the exertion of others, proving the genuineness of your love. ⁹ For you know the bounty of our Lord Jesus Christ, that rich as he was, he for your sakes became poor, that through his poverty you might become rich.

¹² For if there be a willingness, a person is accepted according to what he hath; not according to what he hath not.

⁶ Now considering this, that he who soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly, and that he who soweth bountifully will reap bountifully, ⁷ let every one give as he is predisposed in his heart, not with regret, nor reluctance; for God loveth a cheerful giver: ⁸ and God is able to make every bounty redound to your advantage. That you having always a sufficiency in every thing, may abound to every good work, ⁹ [as it is written, "He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor, his righteousness shall endure for ever;" ¹⁰ and may He who furnisheth abundantly seed for the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed, and increase the products of your righteousness!] ¹¹ you are enriched in every thing for every act of bounty, which operateth through us to produce thanksgiving to God. ¹² Because the distribution of this religious offering not only supplieth the wants of the saints, but also superaboundeth with many thanksgivings to God; ¹³ [by the experience of this distribution they glorify God for your avowed subjection to the glad tidings of the Christ;] therefore, for the liberality of this contribution for them and for all; ¹⁴ and for the supplication which is made for you by them who love you on account of the supereminent favour of God for you, ¹⁵ thanks be to God for this his unspeakable gift.

³ but I am afraid lest by some means as the serpent by his subtilty deceived Eve, so your affections should be corrupted from their singleness for the Christ.

²⁴ Of the Jews I five times received forty stripes save one. ²⁵ Thrice I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Thrice I have been shipwrecked. In the deep I spent a whole night and day.

⁷ Indeed that I might not be too much elated by the astonishing greatness of these revelations, there was given me a thorn for the flesh, a messenger of satan to buffet me, that I might not be too much elated. ⁸ For this I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

⁸ For this I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

⁸ For this I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. ⁹ Whereupon he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is perfected in weakness. Therefore I will with the greatest pleasure, rather boast of my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may shelter me.

⁴ who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

¹⁴ and that I made a greater proficiency in Judaism than many fellow students of my age, in my own nation, being more abundantly a zealot for the doctrines of my fathers:

¹³ For even they themselves, being circumcised, do not keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

¹⁷ For the future let no one trouble me, for on this body of mine I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus.

² Favour be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the acknowledgment of him

² in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world; according to the prince of the power of the air, that spirit which is now working powerfully in the children of disobedience;

¹¹ and he hath given some to be apostles, and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some pastors, and teachers,

¹⁴ that we may no longer be infants, tossed like waves, and whirled about by every wind of doctrine, by the cheating sleight of men, by a skill in the art of deceiving:

²⁸ Let the stealer steal no more; but rather labour, and procure honestly with the work of his hands, that he may have wherewithal to relieve the needy.

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and detraction, be banished from among you, with malice of every sort; ³² and be kind to one another, tenderly compassionate, forgiving one another. And as God hath in Christ forgiven you,

⁵ Servants, obey them who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your hearts, as you do the Christ

² favour be to you and peace from God our father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ upon nothing out of a spirit of contention or vain glory, but in lowliness of mind esteeming one another better than yourselves,

¹⁵ that you may be blameless and sincere, spotless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, amongst whom shine ye forth as lights in the world, ¹⁶ displaying the word of life, that I may have matter of boasting for the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labour in vain,

²⁰ Now to our God and father be the glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.

² to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ at Colosse: favour be to you, and peace, from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ who is an image of the invisible God, a first born of the whole creation. ¹⁶ Because all the things which are in the heavens and which are on the earth were created by him, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, they were all created by him, and for him; ¹⁷ therefore he is before all, and they are all kept in consistence by him, ¹⁸ and he is the head of the body, namely of the congregation. He who is the beginning is a first born from the dead that in all things he might be pre-eminent. ¹⁹ Because all the plenitude was pleased to dwell in him, and by him to reconcile all to himself,

¹ For I wish you to know what a great struggle I have for you, and for them in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen me in person,

³ in which are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

¹⁵ having divested himself of the principalities and the powers, he exposed them to public view- when he triumphed over them on it.

¹³ bearing with one another, and forgiving one another. If any one hath a cause of complaint against another; as the Christ hath freely forgiven you, so do ye.

¹⁶ Let the word of the Christ dwell richly in you with all wisdom, when you teach and admonish one another; when with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs you sing gratefully to the Lord with your heart.

²² Servants, obey in all respects them who are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service as men pleasers, but with singleness of heart, fearing God;

¹² Epaphras who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always in his prayers making the most fervent supplications for you, that you may stand perfect and confirmed in all the will of God.

¹ Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the congregation of the Thessalonians in God the father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Favour be to you, and peace, from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ remembering incessantly the work of your belief, and the labour of your love, and the perseverance of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father;

¹⁵ [from those indeed who slew the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and persecuted us, and who please not God, and are in opposition to all men,

¹¹ now may he himself, our God and father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you! ¹² and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all men, [as we do for you] ¹³ so as to establish your hearts unblameable in holiness, in the presence of our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.

¹ Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the congregation of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: ² Favour be to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ there is a clear evidence of the righteous judgment of God that you are accounted worthy of the kingdom of God for which you, actually suffer;

⁹ of him, whose coming is according to the energy of satan, with' all the power, and signs, and wonders of falsehood, ¹⁰ and with all the deceit of this unrighteousness among them who perish. Because they did not embrace the love of the truth that they might be saved; ¹¹ for this cause therefore God will send them the energy of delusion, that they may believe this falsehood; ¹² that all may be condemned who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in unrighteousness.

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who hath loved us and graciously given us everlasting comfort and good hope,

³ But the Lord is faithful, and will establish you, and guard you from the wicked one:

⁴ that every thing which God created is good, and nothing to be rejected; for when taken with thankfulness ⁵ it is sanctified by the permission of God and prayer.

⁵ having a form of religion but denying the power of it. From such turn away;

¹⁵ and that, from thy childhood, thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise for salvation by trusting in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All scripture, given by divine inspiration, is indeed profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for reformation, for instruction in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly fitted for every good work.

¹⁸ And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory, for the ages of the ages. Amen.

¹⁵ To the pure, all things are indeed pure but to the polluted and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Their mind and conscience are polluted:

¹¹ For the favour of God which is for salvation hath been brightly displayed for all men ¹² teaching us in order that we, renouncing impiety and worldly lusts, may live soberly and righteously and piously in this present world,

³ For we, even we ourselves were formerly foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to divers lusts and pleasures living in malice and envy, objects of hatred, hating one another;

¹⁶ Let us therefore come with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find favour for seasonable assistance.

⁷ He, [who in the days of his flesh, having, with a strong cry and tears, offered up prayers and supplications to him who was able to save him from death, and being hearkened to, did, from a reverential awe notwithstanding his being a son, learn obedience from what he suffered;

¹⁴ and this strong food is for full grown men, who by long practice and exercise have their senses improved for the discernment of both good and evil.

⁴ for with regard to them who have been once enlightened, and have tasted this free, this heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of a holy spirit, ⁵ and tasted the good word of God, and the miraculous powers of the age about to come, ⁶ and have fallen off; it is impossible to renew them again for a reformation, since they are crucifying for themselves afresh the son of God and exposing him to open shame. ⁷ For ground which drinketh up the rain that frequently falleth on it, and produceth plants fit for the use of them for whom it is cultivated, receiveth a blessing from God; ⁸ but that which produceth briars and thorns is rejected, and near a curse, the end of which is for burning.

¹⁰ For God is not unjust to forget your work, and the labour of that love which you have shewn for his name, by the assistance which you have given and continue to give to the saints.

²⁶ For it suited us to have such a chief priest"one holy, innocent, undefined, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens,

²⁶ For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more any sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. ²⁸ Whoever hath set at naught the law of Moses dieth without mercy, on the evidence of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much greater punishment, think ye, will he be thought worthy, who hath trampled upon the Son of God, and accounted the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, a common thing, and treated contemptuously the spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will requite, saith the Lord;" and, again, "The Lord will judge his people." ³¹ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain; by means of which he received a testimonial of being righteous, God himself giving a testimony in favour of his gifts; and by it he, though dead, still speaketh.

⁶ Now without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing; for he who cometh to God must believe that he existeth, and that he is the rewarder of them who diligently seek him. ⁷ By faith Noah, when warned of unforeseen events, with a religious concern prepared an ark for the saving of his household; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of that righteousness which is by faith.

³⁵ Women received their dead children, by a restoration of them to life. As for others, some were tortured, not expecting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection; ³⁶ and others received the trial of mockings, and scourgings, besides bonds and imprisonments. ³⁷ They were stoned; they were sawn asunder; they were tempted; they were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheep skins, in goats skins, destitute, afflicted, tormented, ³⁸ [of whom the world was not worthy] wandering in deserts, and mountains, and dens, and caves of the earth.

⁹ Well then: we have had fathers of our flesh who have corrected us, and we have reverenced them; shall we not much more submit ourselves to the father of our spirits, and live?

⁹ Well then: we have had fathers of our flesh who have corrected us, and we have reverenced them; shall we not much more submit ourselves to the father of our spirits, and live? ¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days corrected us as they thought fit; but he for our advantage, that we may partake of his holiness.

²⁴ and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel.

¹⁶ and forget not beneficence and contribution: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

⁵ And if any of you wanteth wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it will be given him.

²¹ Therefore having thrown off all the filth and scum of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word which is able to save your souls; ²² and be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man viewing his natural face in a glass. ²⁴ For having viewed himself, and gone away, he instantly forgot what manner of person he was. ²⁵ But whosoever hath looked carefully into the perfect law of this liberty, and continued therein; he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, shall by his doing be happy.

²⁵ But whosoever hath looked carefully into the perfect law of this liberty, and continued therein; he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, shall by his doing be happy.

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and father is this, to take the oversight and care of orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.

² For if there should come into your assembly a man in splendid dress, having his fingers adorned with gold rings; and there should come in also a poor man in mean apparel; ³ and you should pay respect to the man in the splendid dress, and say to him, sit thou here in an honourable place; and say to the poor man, stand thou there; or, sit here below my footstool: ⁴ have you not actually made distinctions among yourselves, and become ill principled judges?

¹³ for the sentence of judgment shall be without mercy for him who hath not exercised mercy, though mercy glorieth over a sentence of judgment. ¹⁴ What is the advantage, my brethren, though one should say he hath belief, when he hath not works? Can that belief save him? ¹⁵ Suppose a brother or a sister be naked, or in want of daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you should say to them, go in peace: be warmed, and be fed to the full; and you do not give them the things necessary for the body, is this any advantage?

⁵ So also the tongue is a very small member, yet it boasteth great things. See what a great pile of wood a little fire kindleth to a flame! ⁶ Now, the tongue is a fire, the leader of iniquity; the tongue is set among the members, staining the whole body, and setting the wheel of nature in a blaze, when it is itself set in a blaze by hell. ⁷ For all kinds of beasts, and birds, and reptiles, and fishes, are subdued and have been subdued by man; ⁸ But the tongue of man none can subdue. It is an ungovernable monster: it is full of deadly poison.

¹³ Whoever among you is a man of wisdom and knowledge, let him, by a virtuous course of life, shew his works with the meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter zeal, and strife in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom which cometh down from above; but that which is of an earthly, sensual, and devilish nature. ¹⁶ For where there is a zeal with strife, there will be confusion, and every thing which is bad. ¹⁷ Now the wisdom which cometh from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

² You covet and use not. You kill, and envy, and cannot enjoy. You fight, and wage war, and do not possess, because you do not ask. ³ You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may lavish on your sensual appetites.

³ You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may lavish on your sensual appetites.

⁸ Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

¹⁰ For an example of enduring adversity, and of long suffering, take, my brethren, the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Behold we call those sufferers happy. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord's termination" that the Lord is full of compassion and tender mercy.

¹⁵ And the prayer of this faith will cure the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And though he may have committed sin, he will be forgiven.

⁸ be sober, be watchful: because your adversary the devil is walking about, like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour,

⁹ for he who is without these is blind, having closed his eyes, having contracted a forgetfulness of the purification of his past sins.

¹⁰ and more especially them who go after flesh, in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority. Being audacious, and self sufficient they tremble not when they revile glories; ¹¹ whereas angels who are greater in might and power, do not bring against them a railing accusation before the Lord. ¹² But these, like irrational brute beasts, made for capture and destruction, railing at what they are ignorant of, shall perish with their own destruction. 13 Receiving wages of iniquity, esteeming riot by day a pleasure; being spots and blemishes; rioting by their deceits; banquetting with you;

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and unceasing sin; ensnaring unstable souls; having a heart practised in greediness; an execrable race; ¹⁵ having forsaken the right road they have gone quite astray, following the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity, ¹⁶ and was convicted of his transgression. [A dumb beast, speaking with a human voice, restrained the madness of the prophet.] ¹⁷ They are wells without water; clouds impelled by a whirlwind, for whom is reserved in the bowels of the earth the gloom of everlasting darkness. ¹⁸ For uttering, with a solemn tone, swelling words of vanity, they by the lusts of the flesh. by acts of lasciviousness, ensnare them who are indeed flying from those conversant in error;

¹⁸ For uttering, with a solemn tone, swelling words of vanity, they by the lusts of the flesh. by acts of lasciviousness, ensnare them who are indeed flying from those conversant in error; ¹⁹ promising them liberty while they themselves are slaves to corruption; for by whatever one is subdued, by that he is enslaved ²⁰ For if alter fleeing from the pollutions of the world by an acknowledgment of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, any are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of such persons is worse than the first. ²¹ For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it hath happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog is returned to his vomit," and "the washed hog to its wallowing slough."

¹⁸ but increase in the favour and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

⁸ If we say that we have not 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 to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a false speaker, and his word is not in us.

⁸ He who practiseth sin is of the devil, because the devil sinneth from the beginning; for this [purpose] the son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

¹² and not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

¹⁶ By this we know the love of God. Because he laid down his life for us, therefore we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷ Whosoever hath worldly substance, and seeth his brother in want, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

²¹ Beloved, if our heart doth not condemn us, we have confidence towards God, ²² and whatever we ask we obtain from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.

²² and whatever we ask we obtain from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things which are pleasing in his sight. ²³ Now this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he hath commanded us. ²⁴ And he who keepeth his commandments will abide in him, and he will abide in that man. And by this we know that he abideth in us, even by the spirit which he hath given us.

⁴ You, children, are of God, and have overcome them, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

²⁰ If anyone saith, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar. For how can he who doth not love his brother whom he hath seen, love God, whom he hath not seen?

¹⁴ this also is the confidence which we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will he hearkeneth to us. ¹⁵ Now, if we know that he hearkeneth to us in whatever we may ask; we know that we obtain from him the petitions which we have asked. ¹⁶ If any one see his brother committing a sin not unto death, let him ask, and he will give him life for them who do not sin unto death: there is a sin unto death, with respect to this I do not say that he should make petition.

⁹ I wrote to the congregation, but Diotrephes, who affecteth a preeminence among them, doth not regard us.

⁸ so likewise shall these dreamers. They indeed defile the flesh, and despise authority and revile glories, ⁹ whereas Michael the archangel, when he contended with the devil, and disputed about the body of Moses, did not take the liberty to bring against him a railing accusation, but said "the Lord rebuke thee:" ¹⁰ but these rail at what they do not know; and what they do know in a natural way as irrational animals, with these they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Alas for them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and rambled in the error of Balaam's reward and perished in the rebellion of Kore. ¹² They are hidden rocks in your love feasts. When they feast with you, they feed themselves without restraint. They are clouds without water, impelled by winds; autumnal trees without fruit, twice dead, and to be rooted up; ¹³ raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom is reserved the gloom of everlasting darkness.

²⁰ But as for you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying with a holy spirit,

¹⁰ Be not terrified at what thou art about to suffer. Behold the devil will soon cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and ye will have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

²³ and I will slay her children with death; and all the congregations shall know, that I am the searcher of reins and hearts, and will give to every one of you according to your works. ²⁴ But to you I say, even to the rest at Thyatira, to as many as do not hold this doctrine, and who have not known the depths [as they call them] of satan; on you I will lay no other burthen, besides what you have;

¹⁰ Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will keep thee from the hour of trial which is coming soon on the whole world, to try the inhabitants of the earth.

¹⁵ I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I wish thou wert cold or hot. ¹⁶ So then; because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit thee out of my mouth, ¹⁷ because thou sayest, "I am rich and become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

¹⁰ and they have tails like scorpions and there were stings in their tails; and their power was to hurt men five months;

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel sounded and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of the world are become [the kingdom] of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for the ages of the ages.

⁴ Who would not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou alone art perfect. For all the nations will come and worship before thee, For thy rules of rectitude are made manifest.

²⁰ Rejoice over her, O heaven! and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. ²¹ Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea saying, Thus with violence shall Babylon that great city be dashed down and shall be found no more. ²² And the sound of harpers and of musicians and of pipers and of trumpeters shall no more be heard in thee. And no artist of any kind shall ever be found in thee again. And the sound of a millstone shall never be heard in thee again; ²³ nor shall the light of a lamp ever shine in thee any more, nor the voice of a bridegroom and bride ever be heard in thee; for thy merchants were the nobles of the earth; for by thy bewitching arts all the nations were led astray. ²⁴ And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints and of all who were slain on the earth.

⁶ And I heard as it were a voice of a great multitude and as a sound of many waters, and as it were a peal of mighty thunder saying, Alleluia. Because the Lord God the Omnipotent reigneth,

¹ Then I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the bottomless gulf and a great chain in his hand; ² and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent which is the Devil and Satan and bound him a thousand years ³ and cast him into the bottomless gulf and shut him up, and sealed it on him that he might not lead the nations astray any more until the thousand years were ended. And after that he must be loosed for a short time. ⁴ And I saw thrones and to them who sat on them judgment was given, and [I saw] the souls of them who had been slain for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God and who had not worshipped the beast nor its image, nor received the mark on their forehead or on their hand. And they lived and reigned with the Christ the thousand years;

¹⁴ Happy they who perform his commandments that they may have access to the tree of life and enter by the gates into the city: