1 Corinthians 8 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹ With reference to food that has been offered in sacrifice to idols-We are aware that all of us have knowledge! Knowledge breeds conceit, while love builds up character. ² If a man thinks that he knows anything, he has not yet reached that knowledge which he ought to have reached. ³ On the other hand, if a man loves God, he is known by God. ⁴ With reference, then, to eating food that has been offered to idols-we are aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one. ⁵ Even supposing that there are so-called 'gods' either in Heaven or on earth-and there are many such 'gods' and 'lords'- ⁶ Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things come (and for him we live), and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things come (and through him we live). ⁷ Still, it is not every one that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled. ⁸ What we eat, however, will not bring us nearer to God. We lose nothing by not eating this food, and we gain nothing by eating it. ⁹ But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is a weak man, become so hardened that he, too, will eat food offered to idols? ¹¹ And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak man is ruined-your Brother for whose sake Christ died! ¹² In this way, by sinning against your Brothers and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, if what I eat makes my Brother fall, rather than make my Brother fall, I will never eat meat again.

²³ And then I shall say to them plainly 'I never knew you. Go from my presence, you who live in sin.'

²⁷ Everything has been committed to me by my Father; nor does any one fully know the Son, except the Father, or fully know the Father, except the Son and those to whom the Son may choose to reveal him.

⁴⁹ Then, stretching out his hands towards his disciples, he said: "Here are my mother and my brothers! ⁵⁰ For any one who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

⁶ But, if any one puts a snare in the way of one of these lowly ones who believe in me, it would be best for him to be sunk in the depths of the sea with a great millstone hung round his neck.

⁶ But, if any one puts a snare in the way of one of these lowly ones who believe in me, it would be best for him to be sunk in the depths of the sea with a great millstone hung round his neck. ⁷ Alas for the world because of such snares! There cannot but be snares; yet alas for the man who is answerable for the snare!

¹⁰ Beware of despising one of these lowly ones, for in Heaven, I tell you, their angels always see the face of my Father who is in Heaven.

²¹ Then Peter came up, and said to Jesus: "Master, how often am I to forgive my Brother when he wrongs me? As many as seven times?"

⁴⁰ And the King will reply 'I tell you, as often as you did it to one of these my Brothers, however lowly, you did it to me.'

⁴⁵ And then he will reply 'I tell you, as often as you failed to do it to one of these, however lowly, you failed to do it to me.'

¹⁸ Then Jesus came up, and spoke to them thus: "All authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me.

²⁹ "The first," answered Jesus, "is--'Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is the one Lord;

¹ Jesus said to his disciples: "It is inevitable that there should be snares; yet alas for him who is answerable for them! ² It would be good for him if he had been flung into the sea with a mill-stone round his neck, rather than that he should prove a snare to even one of these lowly ones.

³ Through him all things came into being, and nothing came into being apart from him.

²⁰ For the Father loves his Son, and shows him everything that he is doing; and he will show him still greater things--so that you will be filled with wonder. ²¹ For, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them Life, so also the Son gives Life to whom he pleases. ²² The Father himself does not judge any man, but has 'entrusted the work of judging entirely to his Son,' ²³ So that all men may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son fails to honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴ In truth I tell you that he who listens to my Message and believes him who sent me, has Immortal Life, and does not come under condemnation, but has already passed out of Death into Life. ²⁵ In truth I tell you that a time is coming, indeed it is already here, when the Dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and when those who listen will live. ²⁶ For, just as the Father has inherent Life within him, so also he has granted to the Son to have inherent Life within him; ²⁷ And, because he is Son of Man, he has also given him authority to act as judge. ²⁸ Do not wonder at this; for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice, ²⁹ And will come out--those who have done good rising to Life, and those who have lived evil lives rising for condemnation.

¹⁴ I am the Good Shepherd; and I know my sheep, and my sheep know me--

³⁰ The Father and I are one."

³⁴ "Are there not," replied Jesus, "these words in your Law--'I said "Ye are gods"'? ³⁵ If those to whom God's word were addressed were said to be 'gods'--and Scripture cannot be set aside--

¹³ "You yourselves call me 'the Teacher' and 'the Master', and you are right, for I am both.

⁹ "Have I been all this time among you," said Jesus, "and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father, how can you say, then, 'Show us the Father'? ¹⁰ Do not you believe that I am in union with the Father, and the Father with me? In giving you my teaching I am not speaking on my own authority; but the Father himself, always in union with me, does his own work.

²⁰ At that time you will recognize that I am in union with the Father, and you with me, and I with you.

³ And the Immortal Life is this--to know thee the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent as thy Messenger.

²¹ That they all may be one--that as thou, Father, art in union with us--and so the world may believe that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger. ²² I have given them the honor which thou has given me, that they may be one as we are one-- ²³ I in union with them and thou with me--that so they may be perfected in their union, and thus the world may know that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger, and that thou has loved them as thou hast loved me.

¹⁷ "Do not hold me," Jesus said; "for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my Brothers, and tell them that I am ascending to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God."

¹⁷ The third time, Jesus said to him: "Simon, son of John, are you my friend?" Peter was hurt at his third question being 'Are you my friend?'; and exclaimed: "Master, you know everything! You can tell that I am your friend." "Feed my sheep," said Jesus.

³⁶ So let the whole nation of Israel know beyond all doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ--this very Jesus whom you crucified."

³¹ It is this Jesus whom God has exalted to his right hand, to be a Guide and a Savior, to give Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins.

⁴ He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him-- "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" ⁵ "Who are you, Lord?" he asked. "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," the voice answered;

¹⁵ "We are only men like yourselves, and we have come with the Good News that you should turn away from these follies to a living God, 'who made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.'

¹⁰ Why, then, do you now provoke God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our ancestors nor we were able to bear?

¹⁹ In my judgment, therefore, we should not add to the difficulties of those Gentiles who are turning to God, ²⁰ But we should write to them to abstain from food that has been polluted by being sacrificed to idols, from impurity, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from blood.

²⁹ That you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from impurity. If you guard yourselves against such things, it will be well with you. Farewell.'

²⁸ For in him we live and move and are. To use the words of some of your own poets--'His offspring, too, are we.'

²⁶ And you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but in almost the whole of Roman Asia, this Paul has convinced and won over great numbers of people, by his assertion that those Gods which are made by hands are not Gods at all.

²⁵ As to the Gentiles who have become believers in Christ, we have sent our decision that they should avoid food offered to idols, and blood, and the flesh of strangled animals, and impurity."

²⁸ But we do know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him-those who have received the Call in accordance with his purpose. ²⁹ For those whom God chose from the first he also destined from the first to be transformed into likeness to his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest among many Brothers.

² God has not rejected his People, whom he chose from the first. Have you forgotten the words of Scripture in the story of Elijah- how he appeals to God against Israel?

²⁵ Brothers, for fear that you should think too highly of yourselves, I want you to recognize the truth, hitherto hidden, that the callousness which has come over Israel is only partial, and will continue only till the whole Gentile world has been gathered in.

³⁶ For all things are from him, through him, and for him. And to him be all glory for ever and ever! Amen.

¹⁶ Let the same spirit of sympathy animate you all, not a spirit of pride; be glad to associate with the lowly. Do not think too highly of yourselves.

¹ As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples. ² One man's faith permits of his eating food of all kinds, while another whose faith is weak eats only vegetable food. ³ The man who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains from it; nor must the man who abstains from eating meat pass judgment on the one who eats it, for God himself has received him.

¹⁰ I would ask the one man 'Why do you judge your Brother?' And I would ask the other 'Why do you despise your Brother?' For we shall all stand before the Bar of God.

¹³ Let us, then, cease to judge one another. Rather let this be your resolve--never to place a stumbling-block or an obstacle in a Brother's way. ¹⁴ Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is 'defiling in itself.' A thing is 'defiling' only to him who holds it to be so.

¹⁴ Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is 'defiling in itself.' A thing is 'defiling' only to him who holds it to be so. ¹⁵ If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your Brother's feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died!

¹⁵ If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your Brother's feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died!

¹⁷ For the Kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and gladness through the presence of the Holy Spirit.

²⁰ Do not undo God's work for the sake of what you eat. Though everything is 'clean,' yet, if a man eats so as to put a stumbling- block in the way of others, he does wrong. ²¹ The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your Brother.

²¹ The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your Brother. ²² As for yourself--keep this faith of yours to yourself, as in the presence of God. Happy is he who never has to condemn himself in regard to the very thing which he thinks right!

²² As for yourself--keep this faith of yours to yourself, as in the presence of God. Happy is he who never has to condemn himself in regard to the very thing which he thinks right! ²³ He, however, who has misgivings stands condemned if he still eats, because his doing so is not the result of faith. And anything not done as the result of faith is a sin.

²³ He, however, who has misgivings stands condemned if he still eats, because his doing so is not the result of faith. And anything not done as the result of faith is a sin.

¹ We, the strong, ought to take on our own shoulders the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.

¹ We, the strong, ought to take on our own shoulders the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves. ² Let each of us please his neighbor for his neighbor's good, to help in the building up of his character. ³ Even the Christ did not please himself! On the contrary, as Scripture says of him--'The reproaches of those who were reproaching thee fell upon me.'

¹⁴ I am persuaded, my Brothers--yes, I Paul, with regard to you- that you are yourselves full of kindness, furnished with all Christian learning, and well able to give advice to one another.

² From Paul, who has been called to be an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, And from Sosthenes, our Brother.

⁵ For through union with him you were enriched in every way-in your power to preach, and in your knowledge of the Truth;

¹⁰ But I appeal to you, Brothers, by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree in what you profess, and not to allow divisions to exist among you, but to be united-of one mind and of one opinion. ¹¹ For I have been informed, my Brothers, by the members of Chloe's household, that party feeling exists among you.

⁹ It is what Scripture speaks of as-'What eye never saw, nor ear ever heard, what never entered the mind of man-even all that God has prepared for those who love him.'

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you imagines that, as regards this world, he is a wise man, let him become a 'fool,' that he may become wise.

¹⁰ We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools,' but you, by your union with Christ, are men of discernment. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are despised.

¹⁸ Some, I hear, are puffed up with pride, thinking that I am not coming to you.

² Instead of grieving over it and taking steps for the expulsion of the man who has done this thing, is it possible that you are still puffed up?

⁶ Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough?

¹² Everything is allowable for me! Yes, but everything is not profitable. Everything is allowable for me! Yes, but for my part, I will not let myself be enslaved by anything. ¹³ Food exists for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will put an end to both the one and the other. The body, however, exists, not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

¹ With reference to food that has been offered in sacrifice to idols-We are aware that all of us have knowledge! Knowledge breeds conceit, while love builds up character.

¹ With reference to food that has been offered in sacrifice to idols-We are aware that all of us have knowledge! Knowledge breeds conceit, while love builds up character. ² If a man thinks that he knows anything, he has not yet reached that knowledge which he ought to have reached.

² If a man thinks that he knows anything, he has not yet reached that knowledge which he ought to have reached.

⁴ With reference, then, to eating food that has been offered to idols-we are aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

⁶ Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things come (and for him we live), and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things come (and through him we live). ⁷ Still, it is not every one that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled.

⁷ Still, it is not every one that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled.

⁹ But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is a weak man, become so hardened that he, too, will eat food offered to idols?

¹⁰ For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is a weak man, become so hardened that he, too, will eat food offered to idols?

¹⁰ For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is a weak man, become so hardened that he, too, will eat food offered to idols? ¹¹ And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak man is ruined-your Brother for whose sake Christ died! ¹² In this way, by sinning against your Brothers and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, if what I eat makes my Brother fall, rather than make my Brother fall, I will never eat meat again.

¹² If others share in this right over you, do not we even more? Still we did not avail ourselves of this right. No, we endure anything rather than impede the progress of the Good News of the Christ.

¹⁹ Although I was entirely free, yet, to win as many converts as possible, I made myself everyone's slave. ²⁰ To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win Jews. To those who are subject to Law I became like a man subject to Law-though I was not myself subject to Law-to win those who are subject to Law. ²¹ To those who have no Law I became like a man who has no Law- -not that I am free from God's Law; no, for I am under Christ's Law-to win those who have no law. ²² To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men, so as at all costs to save some.

²² To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men, so as at all costs to save some. ²³ And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that with them I may share in its blessings.

¹⁹ What do I mean? you ask. Than an offering made to an idol, or the idol itself, is anything?

¹⁹ What do I mean? you ask. Than an offering made to an idol, or the idol itself, is anything? ²⁰ No; what I say is that the sacrifices offered by the Gentiles 'are offered to demons and to a Being who is no God,' and I do not want you to share with demons.

²⁰ No; what I say is that the sacrifices offered by the Gentiles 'are offered to demons and to a Being who is no God,' and I do not want you to share with demons.

²⁰ No; what I say is that the sacrifices offered by the Gentiles 'are offered to demons and to a Being who is no God,' and I do not want you to share with demons. ²¹ You cannot drink both the Cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake at the Table of the Lord and at the table of demons.

²¹ You cannot drink both the Cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake at the Table of the Lord and at the table of demons. ²² Or 'are we to rouse the jealousy of the Lord'? Are we stronger than he?

²⁴ A man must not study his own interests, but the interests of others.

²⁸ But, if any one should say to you 'This has been offered in sacrifice to an idol,' then, for the sake of the speaker and his scruples, do not eat it.

²⁸ But, if any one should say to you 'This has been offered in sacrifice to an idol,' then, for the sake of the speaker and his scruples, do not eat it. ²⁹ I do not say 'your' scruples, but 'his.' For why should the freedom that I claim be condemned by the scruples of another?

²⁹ I do not say 'your' scruples, but 'his.' For why should the freedom that I claim be condemned by the scruples of another?

³² Do not cause offence either to Jews or Greeks or to the Church of God; ³³ For I, also, try to please everybody in everything, not seeking my own advantage, but that of men in general, that they may be saved.

³ Therefore I tell you plainly that no one who speaks under the influence of the Spirit of God says 'JESUS IS ACCURSED,' and that no one can say 'JESUS IS LORD,' except under the influence of the Holy Spirit.

¹² For just as the human body is one whole, and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many though they are, form but one body, so it is with the Christ;

¹ Though I speak in the 'tongues' of men, or even of angels, yet have not Love, I have become mere echoing brass, or a clanging cymbal! ² Even though I have the gift of preaching, and fathom all hidden truths and all the depths of knowledge; even though I have such faith as might move mountains, yet have not Love, I am nothing! ³ Even though I dole my substance to the poor, even though I sacrifice my body, that I may boast, yet have not Love, it avails me nothing! ⁴ Love is long-suffering, and kind; Love is never envious, never boastful, never conceited, never behaves unbecomingly; ⁵ Love is never self-seeking, never provoked, never reckons up her wrongs;

⁵ Love is never self-seeking, never provoked, never reckons up her wrongs; ⁶ Love never rejoices at evil, but rejoices in the triumph of Truth; ⁷ Love bears with all things, every trustful, ever hopeful, ever patient. ⁸ Love never fails. But, whether it be the gift of preaching, it will be done with; whether it be the gift of 'tongues,' it will cease; whether it be knowledge, it, too, will be done with.

⁸ Love never fails. But, whether it be the gift of preaching, it will be done with; whether it be the gift of 'tongues,' it will cease; whether it be knowledge, it, too, will be done with. ⁹ For our knowledge is incomplete, and our preaching is incomplete,

⁹ For our knowledge is incomplete, and our preaching is incomplete, ¹⁰ But, when the Perfect has come, that which is incomplete will be done with. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; now that I am a man, I have done with childish ways. ¹² As yet we see, in a mirror, dimly, but then-face to face! As yet my knowledge is incomplete, but then I shall know in full, as I have been fully known.

¹² As yet we see, in a mirror, dimly, but then-face to face! As yet my knowledge is incomplete, but then I shall know in full, as I have been fully known. ¹³ Meanwhile Faith, Hope, and Love endure-these three, but the greatest of these is Love.

²⁰ Brothers, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves men.

³⁴ Awake to a righteous life, and cease to sin. There are some who have no true knowledge of God. I speak in this way to shame you.

³ Never do we put an obstacle in any one's way, that no fault may be found with our ministry.

²¹ I admit, to my shame, that we have been weak. But whatever the subject on which others are not afraid to boast--though it is foolish to say so--I am not afraid either!

²⁹ Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led astray without my burning with indignation?

⁸ Yet formerly, in your ignorance of God, you became slaves to 'gods' which were no gods. ⁹ But now that you have found God--or, rather, have been found by him--how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves?

¹³ Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.

³ If a man imagines himself to be somebody, when he is really nobody, he deceives himself.

³ Blessed is the God and Father of Jesus Christ, our Lord, who has blessed us on high with every spiritual blessing, in Christ.

²⁰ The same mighty power was exerted upon the Christ, when he raised the Christ from the dead and 'caused him to sit at his right hand' on high, exalting him above all Angels and Archangels of every rank, ²¹ And above every name that can be named, whether in the present age, or in the age to come. ²² And God placed 'all things under Christ's feet,' and gave him to the Church as its supreme Head; ²³ For the Church is Christ's Body, and is filled by him who fills all things everywhere with his presence.

¹⁴ For this reason, then, I kneel before the Father--

⁵ There is but one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism. ⁶ There is but one God and Father of all--the God who is over all, pervades all, and is in all.

⁶ There is but one God and Father of all--the God who is over all, pervades all, and is in all.

¹⁶ For from him the whole Body, closely joined and knit together by the contact of every part with the source of its life, derives its power to grow, in proportion to the vigor of each individual part; and so is being built up in a spirit of love.

⁹ And that is why God raised him to the very highest place, and gave him the Name which stands above all other names, ¹⁰ So that in adoration of the Name of Jesus every knee should bend, in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth, ¹¹ And that every tongue should acknowledge JESUS CHRIST as LORD- -to the glory of God the Father.

⁶ Bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you, from the very day that you heard of God's loving-kindness, and understood what that loving-kindness really is.

¹⁶ For in him was created all that is in Heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible--Angels and Archangels and all the Powers of Heaven. ¹⁷ All has been created through him and for him. He was before all things, and all things unite in him;

¹⁸ Do not let any one defraud you of the reality by affecting delight in so-called 'humility' and angel-worship. Such a man busies himself with his visions, and without reason is rendered conceited by his merely human intellect.

²⁰ Since, with Christ, you became dead to the puerile teaching of this world, why do you submit, as though your life were still that of the world, ²¹ To such ordinances as 'Do not handle, or taste, or touch'? ²² For all the things referred to in them cease to exist when used. You are following mere human directions and instructions. ²³ Such prohibitions appear reasonable where there is a desire for self-imposed service, and so-called 'humility,' and harsh treatment of the body, but are of no real value against the indulgence of our earthly nature.

⁴ Who so opposes himself to every one that is spoken of as a God or as an object of worship, and so exalts himself above them, that he seats himself in the Temple of God, and displays himself as God!

⁵ The object of all instruction is to call forth that love which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith. ⁶ And it is because they have not aimed at these things that the attention of certain people has been diverted to unprofitable subjects. ⁷ They want to be Teachers of the Law, and yet do not understand either the words they use, or the subjects on which they speak so confidently.

¹⁷ To the Immortal King, ever-living, invisible, the one God, be ascribed honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

⁵ There is but one God, and one mediator between God and men--the man, Christ Jesus,

⁵ There is but one God, and one mediator between God and men--the man, Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave himself as a ransom on behalf of all men. This must be our testimony, as opportunities present themselves;

³ Any one who teaches otherwise, and refuses his assent to sound instruction--the instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ--and to the teaching of religion, ⁴ is puffed up with conceit, not really knowing anything, but having a morbid craving for discussions and arguments. Such things only give rise to envy, quarreling, recriminations, base suspicions,

¹⁹ Yet God's firm foundation still stands unmoved, and it bears this inscription-- 'THE LORD KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE HIS'; and this-- 'LET ALL THOSE WHO USE THE NAME OF THE LORD TURN AWAY FROM WICKEDNESS.'

⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these people, in their turn, oppose the Truth. Their minds are corrupted, and, as regards the Faith, they are utterly worthless. ⁹ They will not, however, make further progress; for their wicked folly will be plain to every one, just as that of Jannes and Jambres was.

² has in these latter days spoken to us by the Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. ³ For he is the radiance of the Glory of God and the very expression of his Being, upholding all creation by the power of his word; and, when he had made an expiation for the sins of men, he 'took his seat at the right hand' of God's Majesty on high,

⁹ Do not let yourselves be carried away by the various novel forms of teaching. It is better to rely for spiritual strength upon the divine help, than upon regulations regarding food; for those whose lives are guided by such regulations have not found them of service.

¹² Blessed is the man who remains firm under temptation, for, when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of Life, which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

⁵ Listen, my dear Brothers. Has not God chosen those who are poor in the things of this world to be rich through their faith, and to possess the Kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

² and who were chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the consecration of the Spirit, to learn obedience, and to be purified by the sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ, from Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ. May blessing and peace be yours in ever-increasing measure. ³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has, in his great mercy, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

⁸ Though you have never seen him, yet you love him; though you do not even now see him, yet you believe in him, and exalt with a triumphant happiness too great for words,

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

¹⁶ Act as free men, yet not using your freedom as those do who make it a cloak for wickedness, but as Servants of God.

¹⁹ They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to corrupt habits; for a man is the slave of anything to which he gives way.

¹⁹ We love, because God first loved us.

² By this we know that we love God's Children--when we love God and carry out his commands. ³ For to love God is to lay his commands to heart; and his commands are not burdensome,

²⁵ to the one God, our Saviour, be ascribed, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, glory, majesty, power, and dominion, as it was before time began, is now, and shall be for all time to come. Amen.

¹⁸ the Everliving. I died, and I am alive for ever and ever. And I hold the keys of the Grave and of the Place of the Dead.

⁹ I know your persecution and your poverty--yet you are rich! I know, too, the slander that come from those who declare that they are Jews, though they are not, but are a Congregation of Satan.

¹³ I know where you dwell, where the Throne of Satan stands. And yet you hold to my Name, and you did not disown my Faith even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death among you where Satan dwells. ¹⁴ Yet I have a few things against you--You have among you those who hold to the Teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put temptations in the way of the Israelites, so that they should eat idol-offerings and commit licentious acts.

¹⁹ I know your life, your love, faith, service, and endurance; and I know that your life of late has been better than it was at first. ²⁰ Yet I have this against you--You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who declares that she is a Prophetess, and misleads my servants by her teaching, till they commit licentious acts and eat idol-offerings.

⁸ I know your life (see, I have set a door open before you which no one is able to shut), I know that, though you have but little strength, you kept my teaching in mind, and did not disown my Name. ⁹ Listen, I give some of the Congregation of Satan, the men who declare that they are Jews, though they are not, but are lying----I will make them 'come and bow down at your feet,' and they shall learn that I loved you.

¹⁵ I know your life; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! ¹⁶ But now, because you are lukewarm, neither hot not cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.