Galatians 1:1 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹ To the churches in Galatia, from Paul, an Apostle whose commission is not from men and is given, not by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead;

¹⁸ Then Jesus came up, and spoke to them thus: "All authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the Faith of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ And teaching them to lay to heart all the commands that I have given you; and, remember, I myself am with you every day until the close of the age."

¹⁹ So Jesus made this further reply: "In truth I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself; he does only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does also.

³⁰ The Father and I are one."

²¹ Again Jesus said to them: "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me as his Messenger, so I am sending you."

¹⁶ "Brothers," he said, "it was necessary that the prediction of Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit made by the lips of David about Judas, who acted as guide to the men that arrested Jesus, ¹⁷ For he was one of our number and had his part allotted him in this work of ours." ¹⁸ (This man had bought a piece of land with the price of his treachery; and, falling heavily, his body had burst open, and all his bowels protruded. ¹⁹ This became known to every one living in Jerusalem, so that the field came to be called, in their language, 'Akeldama,' which means the 'Field of Blood.') ²⁰ "For in the Book of Psalms," Peter continued, "it is said-- 'Let his dwelling become desolate, and let no one live in it'; and also--'His office let another take.' ²¹ Therefore, from among the men who have been with us all the time that Jesus, our Master, went in and out among us-- ²² From his baptism by John down to that day on which he was taken from us--some one must be found to join us as a witness of his resurrection." ²³ So they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabas, whose other name was Justus, and Matthias; ²⁴ And they offered this prayer--"O Lord, who reads all hearts, show which of these two men you have chosen ²⁵ To take the place in this apostolic work, which Judas has abandoned, to go to his proper place." ²⁶ Then they drew lots between them; and, the lot having fallen on Matthias, he was added to the number of the eleven Apostles.

²⁴ But God released him from the pangs of death and raised him to life, it being impossible for death to retain its hold upon him. ²⁵ Indeed it was to him that David was referring when he said-- 'I have had the Lord ever before my eyes, For he stands at my right hand, that I should not be disquieted. ²⁶ Therefore my heart was cheered, and my tongue told its delight; Yes, even my body, too, will rest in hope; ²⁷ For you wilt not abandon my soul to the Place of Death, nor surrender me, your holy one, to undergo corruption. ²⁸ Thou have shown me the path to life, you wilt fill me with gladness in your presence.' ²⁹ Brothers, I can speak to you the more confidently about the Patriarch David, because he is dead and buried, and his tomb is here among us to this very day. ³⁰ David, then, Prophet as he was, knowing that God 'had solemnly sworn to him to set one of his descendants upon his throne,' looked into the future, ³¹ And referred to the resurrection of the Christ when he said that 'he had not been abandoned to the Place of Death, nor had his body undergone corruption.' ³² It was this Jesus, whom God raised to life; and of that we are ourselves all witnesses.

¹⁵ The very Guide to Life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead--and of that we are ourselves witnesses.

⁶ "Yet stand up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do."

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him: "Go, for this man is my chosen instrument to uphold my Name before the Gentiles and their kings, and the people of Israel. ¹⁶ I will myself show him all that he has to suffer for my Name."

² While they were engaged in the worship of the Lord and were fasting, the Holy Spirit said: "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul, for the work to which I have called them." ³ Accordingly, after fasting and prayer, they placed their hands on them and dismissed them. ⁴ Barnabas and Saul, sent on this mission, as they were, by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there sailed to Cyprus.

¹⁰ Then I said 'What am I to do, Lord?' 'Get up and go into Damascus,' The Lord said to me, 'and there you shall be told all that you have been appointed to do.'

¹⁴ Then he said 'The God of our ancestors has appointed you to learn his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear words from his lips; ¹⁵ For you shall be a witness for him to all the world of what you have just seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now why wait any longer: Be baptized at once, wash away your sins, and invoke his Name. ¹⁷ After my return to Jerusalem, while I was praying one day in the Temple, I fell into a trance, ¹⁸ And saw Jesus saying to me 'Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, because they will not accept your testimony about me.' ¹⁹ 'Lord,' I answered, 'these people know that I used to imprison and scourge, in Synagogue after Synagogue, those who believed in you; ²⁰ And, when the blood of your martyr, Stephen, was being shed, I was myself standing by, approving of his death, and took charge of the clothes of those who were murdering him. ²¹ But Jesus said to me 'Go; for I will send you to the Gentiles far away'."

¹⁶ But get up and stand upright; for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you a servant and a witness of those revelations of me which you have already had, and of those in which I shall yet appear to you, ¹⁷ Since I am choosing you out from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you, ¹⁸ To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; so that they may receive pardon for their sins, and a place among those who have become God's People, by faith in me.'

¹ To all in Rome who are dear to God and have been called to become Christ's People, From Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, who has been called to become an Apostle, and has been set apart to tell God's Good News.

⁴ But, as to the spirit of holiness within him, was miraculously designated Son of God by his resurrection from the dead. ⁵ Through him we received the gift of the Apostolic office, to win submission to the Faith among all nations for the glory of his Name.

²⁴ But also with reference to us. Our faith, too, will be regarded by God in the same light, if we have faith in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead; ²⁵ For Jesus 'was given up to death to atone for our offences,' and was raised to life that we might be pronounced righteous.

⁹ For, if with your lips you acknowledge the truth of the Message that JESUS IS LORD, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.

⁹ The very purpose for which Christ died and came back to life was this--that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.

¹ To the Church of God in Corinth, to those who have been consecrated by union with Christ Jesus and called to become his People, and also to all, wherever they may be, who invoke the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ-their Master and ours,

¹ To the Church of God in Corinth, and to all Christ's People throughout Greece, from Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, and from Timothy, a Brother.

¹ Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or are we like some who need letters of commendation to you, or from you? ² You yourselves are our letter--a letter written on our hearts, and one which everybody can read and understand. ³ All can see that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, a letter written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the Living God, not on 'tablets of stone,' but on 'tablets of human hearts.'

¹¹ I would remind you, Brothers, that the Good News which I told is no mere human invention. ¹² I, at least, did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through a revelation made by Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ Or even going up to Jerusalem to see those who were Apostles before me, I went to Arabia, and came back again to Damascus.

¹⁹ And the transcendent greatness of the power which he is able to exercise in dealing with us who believe in him. 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,

⁸ Yes, to me, who am less than the least of all Christ's People, was this charge entrusted!--to tell the Gentiles the Good News of the boundless wealth to be found in the Christ,

¹¹ as is taught in the glorious Good News of the ever-blessed God, with which I was entrusted. ¹² I am thankful to Christ Jesus, our Lord, who has been my strength, for showing that he thought me worthy of trust by appointing me to his ministry, ¹³ though I once used to blaspheme, and to persecute, and to insult. Yet mercy was shown me, because I acted in ignorance, while still an unbeliever; ¹⁴ and the loving-kindness of our Lord was boundless, and filled me with that faith and love which come from union with Christ Jesus.

¹ To Timothy, my dear Child, from Paul who, by the will of God, is an Apostle of Christ Jesus, charged to proclaim the Life that comes from union with Christ Jesus. May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord, bless you, and be merciful to you, and give you peace.

³ and has revealed at his own time in his Message, with the proclamation of which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior.

²⁰ May God, the source of all peace, who brought back from the dead him who, 'by virtue of the blood that rendered valid the unchangeable Covenant, is the Great Shepherd of God's Sheep,' Jesus, our Lord--

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.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, ' the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead, and the Ruler of all the Kings of the earth.' To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his own blood--

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.

⁸ To the Angel of the Church in Smyrna write:-- "These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died, but is restored to life:--