1 Corinthians Cross References - WPNT

¹ Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and brother Sosthenes, ² to the church of God in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, along with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—ours, theirs and yours: ³ Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴ Concerning you, I always thank my God because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus; ⁵ for in Him you were enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge, ⁶ even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, ⁷ so that you lack no spiritual gift as you expectantly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁸ who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. ¹⁰ Now I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be restored to the same mind and to the same purpose. ¹¹ You see, my brothers, it has been reported to me concerning you, by some from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you. ¹² What I mean is that you are individually saying: “I am of Paul”, or “I am of Apollos”, or “I am of Cephas”, or “I am of Christ”! ¹³ Has Christ been divided? It wasn’t Paul who was crucified for you, was it? You weren’t baptized into the name of Paul, were you? ¹⁴ I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, ¹⁵ lest anyone should say that I had baptized into my own name. ¹⁶ O yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanus; besides them I don’t remember if I baptized anyone else. ¹⁷ Because Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the Gospel —not with eloquent ‘wisdom’, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of power. ¹⁸ The message of the cross, you see, is foolishness to those who are being wasted, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹ For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and confound the shrewdness of the intelligent.” ²⁰ Where is the wise one? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its ‘wisdom’ did not get to know God, it pleased God to save the believing ones through the ‘foolishness’ of what was preached— ²² since Jews request a sign while Greeks seek after wisdom, ²³ but we proclaim a crucified Christ: an offense to Jews, foolishness to Greeks. ²⁴ Now to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, ²⁵ because the ‘foolishness’ of God is wiser than men, and the ‘weakness’ of God is stronger than men. ²⁶ Just look at your calling, brothers: not many are wise, not many are powerful, not many are of noble birth, by human standards; ²⁷ but God has chosen the foolish things of the world that He might put the wise to shame, and God has chosen the weak things of the world that He might put the strong things to shame; ²⁸ and God has chosen the lowly things of the world and the despised things—even the ‘nothings’—that He might nullify the ‘somethings’; ²⁹ so that no flesh should boast in God’s presence. ³⁰ It is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God—also righteousness and sanctification and redemption — ³¹ so that, as it is written: “He who boasts, let him boast in the LORD.”

²¹ And she will give birth to a Son and you will call His name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

¹⁸ And walking by the Sea of Galilee He saw two brothers, Simon (the one called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen). ¹⁹ And He says to them, “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men”. ²⁰ So leaving the nets immediately they followed Him. ²¹ And going on from there He saw two other brothers, James (the one of Zebedee) and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. And He called them. ²² So leaving the boat and their father immediately they followed Him.

⁹ And going on from there Jesus saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office, and He says to him, “Follow me”. So getting up he followed Him.

¹⁶ “And no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment and the tear becomes worse.

⁶ And, blessed be whoever is not offended at Me!”

²⁵ At that time Jesus reacted and said: “‘I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes.

²⁵ At that time Jesus reacted and said: “‘I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes. ²⁶ Yes, Father, because thus it was good to You.’

³⁸ Then some of the scribes and Pharisees reacted saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you”. ³⁹ But in answer He said to them: “A malignant and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

⁵⁷ So they were offended at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house”.

¹ The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him they asked Him to show them a sign from heaven. ² But in answer He said to them: “When it is evening you say, ‘Fair weather, for the sky is red’; ³ and in the morning, ‘Today will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast’. Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky but cannot discern the signs of the times. ⁴ A malignant and adulterous generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” And leaving them behind He went away.

¹⁶ and said to Him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” So Jesus says to them: “Yes. Have you never read that ‘Out of the mouth of babies and nursing infants You have prepared praise for Yourself ’?”

⁹ And do not call anyone on earth your ‘father’; because your Father is one, He who is in the heavens. ¹⁰ Neither be called leaders/guides; because your Leader is one, the Christ.

³⁵ The heaven and the earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

¹ “Then the kingdom of the heavens will be like ten virgins who, taking their lamps, went out to meet the bridegroom.

¹⁹ As you go make disciples in all ethnic nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;

²¹ “Further, no one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the new tears away some of the old, and a worse hole results.

¹¹ The Pharisees came out and began to argue with Him, requesting of Him a sign from heaven, by way of testing Him.

²⁰ And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the message by the accompanying signs. Amen.

³ it seemed good to me also, most excellent Theophilus, having taken careful note of everything from Above, to write to you with precision and in sequence,

³⁴ Then Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother: “Listen, this One is appointed to bring about the fall and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that is spoken against,

¹³ When it was day He called His disciples, and from them He chose twelve, whom He also named apostles:

³⁵ Still, by all her children wisdom is justified.”

²¹ In that same hour Jesus exulted in His spirit and said: “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to ‘infants’. Yes, Father, because it pleased you to do so.”

¹⁶ While others kept asking Him for a sign from heaven, testing.

²⁰ But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, surely the Kingdom of God has come upon you.

⁴⁹ Also, because of this ‘the wisdom of God’ said: ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute’,

³⁶ and you yourselves like men waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately.

²⁴ Because just like the lightning that lights the whole sky when it flashes, so also will the Son of Man be in His day.

³⁰ Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

²⁴ When Jesus saw that he became sad, He said: “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter the Kingdom of God! ²⁵ It is actually easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God!”

³⁹ Some of the Pharisees said to Him from the crowd, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” ⁴⁰ In answer He said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the very stones would cry out!”

¹⁵ because I will give you a mouth and wisdom such that all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or withstand.

⁴⁶ And He said to them: “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, ⁴⁷ and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

¹⁸ No one has ever seen God. The Only-begotten Son, who exists in the bosom of the Father, He has interpreted Him .

⁴² And he led him to Jesus. Looking at him Jesus said, “You are Simon, the son of Jonah; you will be called Cephas” (which is translated ‘Stone’).

¹⁸ So the Jews answered and said to Him, “What sign do you show us, since you do these things.”

²⁸ You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent ahead of Him.’ ²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and hears him, has great joy at the bridegroom’s voice. So this my joy has been fulfilled.

² (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples),

²⁸ So the woman left her water jar, went her way into the town, and says to the men,

⁴⁶ So Jesus went again to Cana of Galilee, where He made the water wine. Now there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum. ⁴⁷ When this man heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die. ⁴⁸ So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders you won’t believe!” ⁴⁹ The official says to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!” ⁵⁰ Jesus says to him, “Go; your son lives.” Well the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and off he went. ⁵¹ Now while he was still going down his slaves met him and reported saying, “Your son lives!” ⁵² So he inquired of them the hour in which he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” ⁵³ So the father knew that it was at the exact hour in which Jesus told him, “Your son lives.” Both he himself and his whole household believed.

⁵³ So Jesus said to them: “Most assuredly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood you do not have life within yourselves. ⁵⁴ Whoever chews my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁵⁵ Really, my flesh is genuine food and my blood is genuine drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever chews my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down out of Heaven. Whoever feeds on this bread of mine will live forever (in contrast to your fathers who ate the manna and died).” ⁵⁹ He said these things while teaching in a synagogue in Capernaum. ⁶⁰ Therefore, upon hearing this many from among His disciples said, “This word is hard! Who is able to hear it?” ⁶¹ So Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were complaining about this, said to them, “Does this offend you? ⁶² What if you should see the Son of Man going up to where He was at first? ⁶³ The Spirit is the One who makes alive; the flesh does not benefit anything. The words that I speak to you are spirit, are life. ⁶⁴ But there are some among you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the start who they were who didn’t believe, and who was betraying Him.) ⁶⁵ And He said, “That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by my Father.” ⁶⁶ From that time many of His disciples turned back and stopped going around with Him.

¹⁸ Someone who speaks on his own is seeking his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

⁴³ So there developed a division in the crowd because of Him.

⁴⁷ So the Pharisees answered: “You haven’t been fooled too, have you? ⁴⁸ None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed into him, have they? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that doesn’t know the law is accursed!”

¹² Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the Light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk around in the darkness, but will have the light of the life.”

¹⁶ Then some of the Pharisees said, “This man can’t be from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others were saying, “How can a sinful man do such signs?” And there was a division among them.

¹⁹ Therefore there was another division among the Jews because of these words.

³⁰ I and the Father are one.”

³⁴ “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you —that you also love one another. ³⁵ By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

⁶ Jesus says to him: “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one goes to the Father except through me.

¹⁴ If you ask anything in my name, I will do it!

¹⁶ Also, I will ask the Father and He will give you another Helper, so that He may stay with you throughout the age

²⁶ But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things and remind you of everything I said to you.

¹ “I am the vine, the true one, and my Father is the vinedresser. ² Any branch in me which does not produce fruit He lifts up, and every one producing fruit He prunes, so that it may produce more fruit. ³ You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in me and I in you. Just as a branch is incapable of producing fruit by itself, except it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me.

⁴ Abide in me and I in you. Just as a branch is incapable of producing fruit by itself, except it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me. ⁵ “I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who abides in me and I in him, he is the one who produces much fruit, because apart from me you are incapable of doing anything.

⁵ “I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who abides in me and I in him, he is the one who produces much fruit, because apart from me you are incapable of doing anything. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown out, like a branch, and dries up; well they gather such and throw them into the fire, and he is burned up.

¹⁶ It wasn’t you who chose me but I who chose you, and I appointed you so that you should go and produce fruit, and that your fruit should endure, so that whatever you may ask the Father in my name He may give you.

²⁶ “Now when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of the Truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify concerning me.

⁸ because I have given them the sayings which You have given to me; and they have received and known for sure that I came forth from You, and they have believed that You sent me.

¹⁷ Sanctify them by Your truth; Your word is truth. ¹⁸ Just as You sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

²¹ that they all may be one, just as You, Father, are in me and I in You; that in Us they also may be one, so that the world may believe that You sent me.

²¹ that they all may be one, just as You, Father, are in me and I in You; that in Us they also may be one, so that the world may believe that You sent me. ²² In fact, the glory that You gave to me I have given to them, so that they may be one just as We are one: ²³ I in them and You in me, so that they may be perfected into one; also so that the world may know that You sent me and have loved them just as You have loved me.

²³ I in them and You in me, so that they may be perfected into one; also so that the world may know that You sent me and have loved them just as You have loved me.

²⁶ Yes, I have made Your name known to them and will make it known, so that the love with which You have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

³⁸ After these things Joseph, the one from Arimathea (being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews), requested Pilate that he might remove the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave permission. So he came and removed Jesus’ body. ³⁹ Now Nicodemus also came (the one who at first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.

²¹ So Jesus said to them again: “Peace to you! Just as the Father sent me, I also send you.”

² until the day in which He was taken back, after He had given commandment, by Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom He had chosen;

²⁵ to receive the portion of this ministry and apostleship, out of which Judas turned aside to go into his own place.” ²⁶ And they cast their lots, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven Apostles.

⁴ And they were all filled with Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages, as the Spirit was granting to them to speak out.

³⁸ So Peter said to them: “Repent and be baptized, each one of you, upon the name of Jesus Christ, for forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

⁴⁷ praising God and having favor with all the people. And day by day the Lord added to the Church those who were being saved.

¹¹ This is ‘the stone which was despised by you, the builders, which has become the chief cornerstone’. ¹² Also, the salvation does not exist in anyone else, because there is no other name under heaven, given among men, by which we must be saved.” ¹³ Now upon observing the boldness of Peter and John and perceiving that they were uneducated and unskilled men, they marveled; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus. ¹⁴ Further, seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. ¹⁵ So ordering them to go out from the council they began to confer among themselves, ¹⁶ saying: “What can we do to these men? Because, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it. ¹⁷ But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them to no longer speak to anyone in this name.” ¹⁸ So summoning them they commanded them absolutely not to speak or teach in the name of ‘Jesus’. ¹⁹ But in answer Peter and John said to them: “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves; ²⁰ because we cannot help but speak the things we have seen and heard.” ²¹ So threatening them some more they released them, not finding any way to punish them, because of the people, since they were all glorifying God over what had happened;

³² Now the multitude of those who believed was of one heart and soul; indeed not one was saying that any of his belongings was his own, but they had all things in common.

⁹ Then there arose some from what is called the Synagogue of the Freedmen (Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia), disputing with Stephen. ¹⁰ And they weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

³² ‘I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’ Moses started trembling and didn’t dare to look. ³³ So the LORD said to him: ‘Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. ³⁴ I have definitely seen the mistreatment of my people in Egypt, and have heard their groaning; and I have come down to deliver them. So now come, I will send you to Egypt.’ ³⁵ “This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God sent him as leader and deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.

³⁵ “This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God sent him as leader and deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.

⁵⁴ Well as they heard these things their hearts were being sawed in half, and they started gnashing their teeth at him.

⁵⁹ Yes, they stoned Stephen as he called out and said, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit”. ⁶⁰ Then kneeling down he called out at the top of his voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” And upon saying this he fell asleep. (Saul was in full agreement with his murder.)

¹⁶ because He had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had only been baptized into the name of Jesus, the Christ.

¹⁴ Moreover here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who are calling on Your name.”

²¹ Well, all who heard him were astounded and started saying: “Isn’t this the one who tried to destroy, in Jerusalem, those who called on this name? Even here he had come with that purpose, that he might take them bound to the high priests.”

³⁶ The word that He sent to the sons of Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all—

³⁹ —yes, we are witnesses of all that He did, both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem—whom they also killed, hanging Him on a tree. ⁴⁰ Him God raised on the third day, and gave Him to become visible, ⁴¹ not to all the people but to witnesses who had been chosen beforehand by God, to us, who ate and drank with Him after He arose out of the dead. ⁴² And He ordered us to proclaim to the people, that is to testify that He is the One who has been ordained by God as Judge of living and dead. ⁴³ To Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes into Him will receive forgiveness of sins.”

⁴⁸ So he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they asked him to stay a few days.

¹⁷ So if God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed upon the Lord Jesus, who was I to be able to withstand God?”

²¹ And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

²³ Upon arriving and seeing the grace of God, he was glad, and he kept encouraging them all to remain true to the Lord with purpose of heart

⁷ who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, really wanting to hear the word of God.

¹² Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had happened, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

⁴¹ ‘Look you despisers, marvel and perish! For I am working a work in your days to which you will not give credence, even if someone were to explain it in detail to you’.”

⁹ and He made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

¹⁵ When she and her household were baptized, she appealed saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay”. So she persuaded us.

³³ In that same hour of the night he took them aside and washed their wounds, and thereupon he and all his family were baptized.

¹⁸ Then certain philosophers, both Epicureans and Stoics, encountered him. Some said, “What might this idea-scavenger want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

¹⁸ Then certain philosophers, both Epicureans and Stoics, encountered him. Some said, “What might this idea-scavenger want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. ¹⁹ So taking him in tow they led him to the Areopagus and said: “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? ²⁰ Because you are bringing some strange things to our ears, and we would like to know what they might mean.” ²¹ (Now all Athenians and resident foreigners spent their time in nothing else but to tell, or else to hear, some novelty.)

³² Well when they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some started scoffing, while others said, “We will hear you again about this”.

³⁴ However some men believed and joined him, among them Dionysius the Areopagite, also a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

¹ Now after these things Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

⁵ But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the Spirit, solemnly insisting to the Jews: Jesus is the Christ.

⁸ Then Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his household; and as they were hearing, many of the Corinthians were believing and being baptized.

⁸ Then Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his household; and as they were hearing, many of the Corinthians were believing and being baptized. ⁹ Now the Lord said to Paul by a vision at night: “Do not be afraid; rather speak and do not keep silent, ¹⁰ because I am with you and no one will attack you to harm you, because I have many people in this city.” ¹¹ So he stayed on for a year and six months, teaching the Word of God among them.

¹⁷ Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judgment seat. But none of this was a delay to Gallio.

²⁴ Now a certain Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, an eloquent man, mighty in the Scriptures, arrived in Ephesus.

⁵ So upon hearing this they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

²¹ solemnly proclaiming to both Jews and Greeks the repentance toward God and the faith into our Lord Jesus.

²⁴ However none of this moves me, nor do I regard my life as valuable to myself, just so that I may complete my course with joy, even the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly proclaim the Good News of the grace of God.

²⁰ But after listening they ‘glorified’ the Lord by saying to him: “You see, brother, how many tens of thousands are the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law;

¹⁶ And now why hesitate? Get up, be baptized and wash away your sins, invoking the name of the Lord.’

¹⁸ and saw Him saying to me, ‘Hurry up and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me’.

²¹ And He said to me, ‘Get going, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles’.”

¹¹ Now the following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, Paul, because as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome”.

²⁴ Now after some days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith into Christ Jesus. ²⁵ But as he expounded on righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix became afraid and answered, “Go away for now; when I have occasion I will summon you”.

¹⁷ delivering you from ‘the people’ and the ethnic nations, to which I am sending you: ¹⁸ to open their eyes, so as to bring them back from darkness into light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified, by faith into me.’

¹⁸ to open their eyes, so as to bring them back from darkness into light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified, by faith into me.’

²³ So arranging a day with him, even more people came to him at his lodging, to whom he kept expounding from morning until evening: solemnly testifying about the Kingdom of God and trying to convince them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

¹ Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been set apart to the Gospel of God,

⁴ who was established to be God’s powerful Son (according to His spirit of holiness) by resurrection from the dead —Jesus Christ our Lord— ⁵ through whom we have received grace and apostleship to promote obedience of faith among all ethnic nations concerning His name

⁷ to all the called saints who are in Rome, beloved of God: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁸ First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world.

¹⁶ I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, because it is the power of God for the salvation of each one who believes (for the Jew first, then the Greek); ¹⁷ because in it God’s righteousness is revealed, from faith to faith; just as it is written: “The righteous one will live by faith.”

²⁰ Because His invisible attributes, namely His eternal power and divine nature, are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood from what has been made, so that they are inexcusable; ²¹ precisely because, knowing God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks; so their reasonings became worthless and their senseless hearts were darkened. ²² Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

²² Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

²⁸ So precisely because they determined not to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a debased mind, to do wrong things:

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world become accountable to God.

²¹ But now, apart from law, a righteousness from God has been revealed, being attested by the Law and the Prophets, ²² namely, a righteousness from God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and upon all those who believe. There is no difference:

²² namely, a righteousness from God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and upon all those who believe. There is no difference: ²³ all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

²⁷ Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law, that of works? No, but by a law of faith.

² If Abraham was really justified by works, he has a boast—but not before God.

⁶ Just as David speaks of the blessing of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

¹⁷ just as it is written: “I have made you a father of many ethnic nations” —in the presence of Him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead and calls the non-existent things as though they did exist.

²⁵ who was delivered up because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

¹⁹ For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the One the many will be constituted righteous.

²¹ so that just as sin reigned in the death, so also the grace might reign through righteousness into eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁷ But thanks be to God that although you used to be the slaves of the sin you wholeheartedly obeyed that pattern of doctrine into which you were delivered.

¹ Now then, there is no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit,

⁹ You, however, are not ‘in flesh’ but ‘in Spirit’, if indeed God’s Spirit dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

¹⁹ You see, the creation waits with eager anticipation for the revelation of God’s sons;

²³ Not only that, we ourselves also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we groan within ourselves, eagerly awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body.

²⁸ Further, we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to purpose.

²⁸ Further, we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to purpose. ²⁹ Because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰ Further, whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

³⁰ Further, whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

²⁴ even us whom He called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

³² Why not? Because it was not from faith, but as from works of the law. They stumbled over the ‘stumbling stone’; ³³ as it is written: “Look! I am placing in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense, and no one who believes on Him will be put to shame.”

¹² because there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call upon Him;

¹² Now if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss riches for the nations, how much more their fulfillment!

¹⁷ Now if some of the branches were broken off, while you, being a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them, and with them have become a partaker of the root and the rich sap of the cultivated olive,

³³ Oh, the depth of the riches of God’s wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable His judgments and untraceable His ways!

³³ Oh, the depth of the riches of God’s wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable His judgments and untraceable His ways! ³⁴ Because “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?” ³⁵ Or “Who has ever given to Him and has to be repaid?” ³⁶ Because from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.

³⁶ Because from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.

¹ Now then, brothers, I exhort you, in view of God’s compassions, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, satisfying to God—your intelligent duty.

⁵ so we, who are many, are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

¹⁶ Regard each other as being on the same level—do not distinguish the upper classes, but associate with the lower classes; do not exalt yourself.

⁴ Who are you to judge someone else’s household servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And stand he will, for God has the power to make him stand.

⁸ Because if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. ⁹ For this very reason Christ both died and rose, and lived, so as to rule both dead and living.

⁹ For this very reason Christ both died and rose, and lived, so as to rule both dead and living.

⁴ Whatever things were written before were so written for our instruction, so that through the fortitude and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. ⁵ Now may the God of that fortitude and that encouragement grant you to be of the same mind among yourselves according to Christ Jesus, ⁶ so that you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one heart and voice.

¹⁴ Now I myself am really confident about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

¹⁷ So in Christ Jesus I do have a boast in things pertaining to God;

¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of God’s Spirit, so that I have fully proclaimed the Gospel of the Christ from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum.

³⁰ Now I implore you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in prayers to God on my behalf,

⁷ Greet Andronicus and Junias, my countrymen and my fellow prisoners, who are outstanding among the apostles, and who were in Christ before me.

¹¹ Greet Herodian, my countryman. Greet those who are of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

¹⁷ Now I exhort you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine you have learned, and avoid them.

²³ Gaius, host to me and the whole congregation, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, greets you, as does brother Quartus.

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² to the church of God in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, along with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—ours, theirs and yours: ³ Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴ Concerning you, I always thank my God because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus;

⁹ God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁵ lest anyone should say that I had baptized into my own name.

¹⁸ The message of the cross, you see, is foolishness to those who are being wasted, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹ For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and confound the shrewdness of the intelligent.” ²⁰ Where is the wise one? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its ‘wisdom’ did not get to know God, it pleased God to save the believing ones through the ‘foolishness’ of what was preached—

²³ but we proclaim a crucified Christ: an offense to Jews, foolishness to Greeks. ²⁴ Now to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God,

²⁴ Now to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, ²⁵ because the ‘foolishness’ of God is wiser than men, and the ‘weakness’ of God is stronger than men.

²⁷ but God has chosen the foolish things of the world that He might put the wise to shame, and God has chosen the weak things of the world that He might put the strong things to shame; ²⁸ and God has chosen the lowly things of the world and the despised things—even the ‘nothings’—that He might nullify the ‘somethings’;

²⁸ and God has chosen the lowly things of the world and the despised things—even the ‘nothings’—that He might nullify the ‘somethings’; ²⁹ so that no flesh should boast in God’s presence. ³⁰ It is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God—also righteousness and sanctification and redemption — ³¹ so that, as it is written: “He who boasts, let him boast in the LORD.”

¹ So when I came to you, brothers, I did not come proclaiming God’s testimony to you with a ‘superior’ speech or wisdom.

¹ So when I came to you, brothers, I did not come proclaiming God’s testimony to you with a ‘superior’ speech or wisdom. ² For I determined to ‘know’ nothing while among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

² For I determined to ‘know’ nothing while among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. ³ Also, I was with you in weakness, in fear, and with much trembling. ⁴ Yes, my message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

⁴ Yes, my message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵ so that your faith not be in men’s wisdom, but in God’s power.

⁵ so that your faith not be in men’s wisdom, but in God’s power. ⁶ However, we do speak wisdom among the mature, albeit not the wisdom of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are being set aside;

⁶ However, we do speak wisdom among the mature, albeit not the wisdom of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are being set aside;

⁸ that none of the rulers of this age have understood (because if they had understood, they would not have crucified the Lord of the glory).

¹³ which things we also expound, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to spiritual people. ¹⁴ Now a soulish man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; indeed, he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

³ because you are still fleshly! For since there is envy, strife and divisions among you, are you not carnal and acting like ordinary people? ⁴ For when one says, “I am of Paul”, and another, “I am of Apollos”, are you not carnal? ⁵ Who then is Paul, who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord has given to each one? ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God keeps making it grow.

⁹ Yes, we are God’s coworkers; you are God’s ‘field’, God’s ‘building’.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become ‘foolish’ so that he may become wise. ¹⁹ Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness;”

¹⁹ Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness;” ²⁰ and again, “The LORD knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are futile.” ²¹ So then, let no one boast in men, for all things are yours: ²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, whether the world or life or death, whether things present or things to come—all are yours, ²³ and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

⁵ Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and expose the motives of the hearts. At that time the praise that comes to each will be from God. ⁶ I have illustrated these things using myself and Apollos, brothers, for your sakes, so that you may learn from us not to think beyond what is written, that no one of you be puffed up in favor of the one against the other. ⁷ Now who is distinguishing you? Or what do you have that you did not receive? So if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

⁷ Now who is distinguishing you? Or what do you have that you did not receive? So if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as though you did not? ⁸ You are already stuffed! You are already rich! You have become ‘kings’ without us! I could wish that you really did reign, so that we might be kings with you too! ⁹ For I keep thinking that God has displayed us, the apostles, at the end of the line, like men sentenced to death; because we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. ¹⁰ We are fools for Christ while you are wise! We are weak but you are strong! You are esteemed, we are despised!

¹⁶ Therefore I am urging you, become my imitators.

⁵ we must hand such a one over to Satan for a destruction of the ‘flesh’, that the spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?

¹ How can anyone of you who has a dispute with another dare to have it judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? ² Don’t you know that the saints are to be judging the world? So if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to judge the smallest matters? ³ Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! ⁴ Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint those who are least esteemed in the congregation to judge! ⁵ I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is not a single wise man among you who would be competent to conduct a hearing among his brothers? ⁶ Instead, brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers! ⁷ Actually, the very fact that you have lawsuits among you already represents a defeat for you. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why not rather accept being cheated?

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor the greedy, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor swindlers can inherit the Kingdom of God, absolutely. ¹¹ And that is what some of you were; but you were bathed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

¹¹ And that is what some of you were; but you were bathed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

¹⁶ Can you not know that the one who joins himself with a prostitute is one body with her ? For “the two”, He says, “will become one flesh.” ¹⁷ But he who is joined with the Lord is one spirit with Him .

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? ²⁰ Because you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

²⁹ Now I say this, brothers, the time has been shortened, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none,

⁶ yet for us there is one God, the Father, out of whom are all things and we into Him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through Him.

¹¹ And so the weak brother, for whom Christ died, will be wasted because of your knowledge.

¹ Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? ² If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you, because you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

⁵ Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, just as the rest of the apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

² —all were baptized into Moses by the cloud and by the sea—

¹³ No testing has overtaken you except what is common to man, and God is competent, who will not allow you to be tested beyond what you can stand, but with the testing will also provide the way out, that you may be able to endure it.

¹⁶ The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing of the body of Christ?

¹⁸ Because, to begin, I hear that when you come together in an assembly there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it.

⁸ So to one a word of wisdom is given, by the Spirit; to another a word of knowledge, by the same Spirit;

¹⁰ to another workings of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discernings of spirits; to a different one kinds of languages, to another interpretation of languages.

¹⁸ But God has really placed the members in the body, each one of them, just as He pleased.

²⁵ so that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another;

²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

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

⁸ love never fails. Now as for prophecies, they will be set aside; as for languages, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded;

⁵ I could wish that you all spoke in ‘languages’, but even more that you might prophesy; because the one prophesying is greater than the one speaking in ‘languages’ (unless he interprets), so that the congregation may receive edification. ⁶ Now then, brothers, what good will I do you if I come to you speaking in ‘languages’ instead of addressing you with revelation, or with knowledge, or with prophecy, or with teaching?

¹⁸ I thank my God speaking in ‘languages’ more than you all,

²⁶ So what goes on, brothers? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a ‘language’, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

² through which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word that I proclaimed to you—unless you believed in vain.

⁵ and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the Twelve.

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.

⁵⁰ Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither will deterioration inherit incorruptibility.

⁵⁴ So whenever this corruptible puts on incorruption and this mortal puts on immortality, then this written word will happen: “Death has been swallowed down into victory.” ⁵⁵ “Where, O Death, is your sting? Where, O Hades, is your victory?” ⁵⁶ The stinger of death is sin, and the adjunct of sin is the law. ⁵⁷ Now thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

¹² Now about brother Apollos: I repeatedly urged him to go to you with the brothers, but he just did not want to go at this time; he will go whenever he has an opportunity.

¹⁵ Now brothers, you know that the household of Stephanas is the firstfruits of Achaia and that they have really devoted themselves to ministering to the saints,

¹⁷ I am glad about the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus, for what was lacking on your part they have supplied;

¹ Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia: ² Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ (as indeed some of you have acknowledged) that we are your boast, just as you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁸ As God is faithful, our word to you was not “Yes” and “No”,

²¹ Now He who establishes us together with you into Christ, and who anointed us, is God,

¹⁴ Now thanks be to the God who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Him in every place. ¹⁵ Because we are the aroma of Christ for God, among those who are being saved and those who are being wasted — ¹⁶ to these a smell of death into death, while to those a fragrance of life into life—and who is adequate for such things?

² Rather, we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in deception nor falsifying the Word of God, but by the open proclamation of the Truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience, in the sight of God. ³ So where our Gospel has actually been concealed, it has been hidden from those who are being wasted,

⁵ Now we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake; ⁶ because the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness is He who shined in our hearts to give the light that comes from the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. ⁷ Further, we have this treasure in jars of clay, so that this all-surpassing power may be of God and not from ourselves

¹⁴ For Christ’s love impels us, having concluded this: if One died for all it follows that all died; ¹⁵ and He died for all so that those who now live should no longer live for themselves but for the One who died for all and was raised again.

¹⁷ so then, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old things have passed on; look, all has become new! ¹⁸ And that ‘all’ is from the God who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and given us the ministry of the reconciliation, ¹⁹ namely that in Christ God was reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, including committing to us the message of this reconciliation. ²⁰ So then, we are Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God!

²⁰ So then, we are Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God! ²¹ Because He made the One who did not know sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become God’s righteousness.

¹ So working together we really urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain,

⁷ that as you excel in everything—in faith, in word, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us—that you excel in this grace too.

⁶ Now then, whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

¹¹ as you are being enriched in everything so as to always be generous, which passing through us produces thanksgiving to God.

¹ Now I, Paul, am myself appealing to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ (I who am ‘humble when present’ among you, but ‘bold when absent’ toward you).

³ Well, we do walk about in flesh, but we do not wage war that way, ⁴ because the weapons of our warfare are not physical, but are powerful in God for demolishing strongholds:

⁴ because the weapons of our warfare are not physical, but are powerful in God for demolishing strongholds:

⁴ because the weapons of our warfare are not physical, but are powerful in God for demolishing strongholds: ⁵ demolishing sophistries and every arrogance that sets itself up against the knowledge of God; taking captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ;

¹⁰ Because some say, “His letters are ‘heavy’ and forceful, but his physical presence is weak, and his speech can be disdained.”

¹⁷ “He who boasts, let him boast in the LORD.”

² For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, because I betrothed you to one man to present you to Christ as a pure virgin.

⁴ For if someone comes and preaches another ‘Jesus’ whom we did not preach, or you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you easily put up with it. ⁵ Now I consider that I am not at all inferior to the very best apostles. ⁶ Though I may not be a trained speaker, I do have knowledge—but we have been fully manifested to you in all things.

² I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or outside of it, I don’t know, God knows.

¹¹ I have been boasting foolishly, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, because in nothing have I been inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing. ¹² Truly the apostolic signs were produced among you with all perseverance, by signs and wonders and miracles. ¹³ Now in just what were you inferiorized, compared to the other congregations, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong.

²⁰ Yes, I am afraid that when I come I may not find you such as I wish, and you not find me such as you wish—may there be no strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, factions, slanders, gossipings, conceits, disorders—

⁴ (although He was crucified in weakness, He lives by the power of God). Now we also are weak in Him, but we will live with Him by the power of God toward you.

¹¹ Finally, brothers, rejoice; restore each other; encourage one another; be of one mind; live in peace; and the God of the love and the peace will be with you.

¹ Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through a man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead — ² and all the brothers with me, to the congregations in Galatia:

⁴ who gave Himself for our sins, so that He might deliver us out of this present malignant age, according to the will of our God and Father,

⁷ —it is not a mere variation, but certain people are unsettling you and wanting to distort the Gospel of the Christ.

¹⁵ But when God—who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace—resolved

¹⁵ But when God—who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace—resolved ¹⁶ to reveal His Son in me so that I might proclaim Him among the nations/Gentiles, I did not start by consulting with flesh and blood,

⁷ but on the contrary, upon seeing that I had been entrusted with the Gospel for the uncircumcised, just as was Peter for the circumcised ⁸ (for He who was at work with Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised was also at work with me for that to the uncircumcised), ⁹ and upon perceiving the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, while they to the Jews.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me; what I now live in this body I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself in my place.

¹ O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you not be persuaded by the Truth —Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as having been crucified, before your very eyes!

⁵ Furthermore, He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, is He activated by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? —

¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse in our place—because it stands written, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree” —

¹⁷ Further, I say this: a covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ cannot be annulled by the law that came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to make the promise of no effect.

¹² Brothers, I plead with you, become as I am, for I became like you. You did me no wrong.

¹¹ But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that event the offense of the cross would have been removed.

¹⁵ But if you bite and tear at each other, beware lest you be consumed by one another!

²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, fits of anger, selfish ambition, dissentions, factions,

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control—against such things there is no law. ²⁴ Further, those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

¹² Those who want to make a good showing in the flesh are pressuring you to be circumcised, but only so as not to be persecuted for the cross of Christ. ¹³ For not even those who are circumcised keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. ¹⁴ But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹⁴ But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹ Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, that is, the faithful in Christ Jesus: ² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ; ⁴ just as He\up6 [F]\up0 chose us in Him\up6 [S]\up0 before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him\up6 [F]\up0, in love,

⁷ in whom we have the redemption through His\up6 [S]\up0 blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His\up6 [F]\up0 grace,

¹⁰ with a view to administering the fullness of the times so as to bring all things together under one head in Christ—those on the heavens and those on the earth—in Him\up6 [S]\up0,

¹⁴ who is the down payment on our inheritance until the release of the possession, to the praise of His glory.

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the real knowledge of Himself,

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the real knowledge of Himself, ¹⁸ the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know \up6 1)\up0 what is the hope of His\up6 [F]\up0 calling, and \up6 2)\up0 what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

⁷ in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, through His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

⁹ not by works, so that no one may boast. ¹⁰ You see, we are His ‘poem’, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance in order that we should walk in them.

²⁰ built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone; ²¹ in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; ²² in whom you also are being built together to become a habitation of God by the Spirit.

⁶ that the Gentiles are joint-heirs, of the same body, and fellow partakers of His promise in the Christ through the Gospel,

⁸ To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, ⁹ and to enlighten all as to the program of the secret that from the beginning of the ages has been hidden by the God who created all things through Jesus Christ; ¹⁰ to the intent that now, through the Church, the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms,

¹⁰ to the intent that now, through the Church, the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms,

¹ So then, as the prisoner in the Lord I urge you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, ² with all humility and courtesy, with patience, bearing with one another in love, ³ taking pains to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace. ⁴ There is one body and one Spirit (just as you also were called in one hope of your calling), ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in us all. ⁷ Now to each one of us the grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift was given.

¹¹ Yes, He Himself gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,

³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and slander be removed from you, with all malice. ³² Rather, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as in Christ God forgave you.

²⁰ always giving thanks to God the Father concerning all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

²⁶ in order that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of the water: in a word, ²⁷ that He might present her—the splendid Church—to Himself, not having a blemish or a wrinkle or any such thing, but that she be holy and blameless.

¹⁹ —on my behalf too, that when I open my mouth utterance may be given to me with boldness, to make known the mystery of the Gospel,

⁶ being certain of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

⁹ This is what I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more in real knowledge and full discernment, ¹⁰ for you to identify the things that really matter; that you may be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ,

²⁷ Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent I may hear about you that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together for the faith of the Gospel with one soul,

¹ Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship from the Spirit, if any tenderness and acts of compassion, ² make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. ³ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard one another as being better than yourselves. ⁴ Let each of you look out not only for his own concerns, but also for what concerns others.

⁹ Indeed, that is why God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow—of those in heaven, those on earth and those under the earth— ¹¹ and every tongue will acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father.

¹⁴ Do all things without grumbling or arguing, ¹⁵ so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and depraved generation, among whom you shine as light bearers in the world, ¹⁶ holding fast the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I did not run in vain nor labor for nothing.

³ For it is we who are the circumcision, the ones who worship by God’s Spirit and glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in flesh

⁹ and be found in Him, not having as my righteousness that of the Law but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness of God based on faith;

¹⁶ Only, in what we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.

²⁰ But our citizenship is in Heaven, and it is from there that we eagerly await our Deliverer, the Lord Jesus Christ;

²² All the saints greet you, but especially those who are of Caesar’s household.

¹ Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Timothy,

⁹ For this very reason, since the day we heard of it, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the real knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, ¹⁰ in order for you to walk worthily of the Lord, pleasing Him in every way, being fruitful in every good work and growing into the real knowledge of God;

¹⁴ in whom we have the redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our sins.

²² by His physical body through His death, so as to present you before Him holy and blameless and above reproach —

²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf and supplement in my flesh the things lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the Church,

² that their hearts may be encouraged, being united in love and into a great wealth of confident understanding, into a real knowledge of the mystery of the God and Father and of the Christ, ³ in whom all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge are hidden.

³ in whom all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge are hidden.

⁴ Whenever Christ, our life, is revealed then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

¹⁰ and have put on the new one, who is being renewed into real knowledge according to the image of his creator,

¹⁵ Let the peace of God rule in your hearts, into which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing with grace in your heart to the Lord, with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. ¹⁷ Whatever you may do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

³ at the same time praying for us, that God may open to us a door for the Word, to speak the mystery of Christ (for which I am also in chains), ⁴ that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

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

⁵ You see, our Gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with complete certainty (of course you know what sort of men we proved to be among you for your sake).

¹⁰ and to wait for His Son coming out of the heavens (whom He raised from among the dead) —Jesus, who preserves us from the coming wrath.

¹² insisting that you conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

¹³ so as to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His holy ones.

¹ Finally then, brothers, we urge and exhort you in the Lord Jesus: as you received from us how you ought to behave and please God, do so even more ² —you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

⁷ Because God did not call us for uncleanness, but by holiness.

¹³ and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

¹⁸ Give thanks in everything, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

²³ Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ He who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.

¹ Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

⁷ and rest (along with us) to you who are being afflicted, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His powerful angels in blazing fire,

¹⁰ whenever He comes to be glorified by His saints, yes to be marveled at by all who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed); in that Day.

¹ Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to Him, we urge you

¹⁰ and with all wicked deception among those who are wasting themselves, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved.

¹⁴ to which He called you through our gospel, so as to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope, by grace, ¹⁷ encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and work.

³ But the Lord is faithful, who will strengthen you and guard you from the wicked one.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the command of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

¹² I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who enables me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into a ministry;

¹⁴ the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

⁶ who gave Himself as a ransom on behalf of all people (to be testified in its own seasons), ⁷ to which ransom I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying—a teacher of nations in faith and truth.

¹⁵ in case I am delayed, so that you may know how it is necessary to conduct oneself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, pillar and foundation of the truth.

²¹ I charge you in the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you observe these things without prejudgment, doing nothing by partiality.

⁴ he is conceited and understands nothing. Rather he is obsessed with controversies and hair-splitting word battles, from which come envy, strife, slanderings, evil suspicions,

¹⁴ to keep this commandment without spot, blameless until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ which He will manifest at the proper time—He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and the Lord of lords;

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,

⁸ So don’t be ashamed to identify with our Lord or with me His prisoner, but join in suffering for the Gospel according to the power of God ⁹ —the One who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not because of our works but because of His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

²² Flee the lusts of youth; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. ²³ Refuse foolish and ignorant arguments, knowing that they breed quarrels. ²⁴ Now a slave of the Lord should not quarrel but be gentle towards all, skillful at teaching, forbearing, ²⁵ correcting courteously those who oppose him, in hopes that God may grant them repentance leading to a real knowledge of Truth

¹⁵ and that from infancy you have known the Sacred Scriptures which are able to make you wise into salvation through the faith that is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All Scripture is God-breathed and is valuable for teaching, for reproving, for correcting, for training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may be fully competent, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

¹ Now then, in the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge both living and dead with a view to His appearing and His Kingdom, I give you this charge:

⁸ Now the crown of the righteousness is reserved for me, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that Day; and not only to me, but also to all those who have longed for His appearing.

² in hope of eternal life —which life God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time

¹³ looking for the blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who gave Himself for us, so that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for Himself a special people, zealous for good works.

⁴ I always thank my God as I make mention of you (sg) in my prayers,

⁹ I—being none other than Paul the old man and now also a prisoner for Jesus Christ—would rather appeal to you, for love’s sake. ¹⁰ I appeal to you on behalf of the son that I begot while in my chains, Onesimus, whom I am sending back

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¹⁷ That is why He was obliged to become like those ‘brothers’ in all respects, so that He could be a merciful and faithful high priest, in what concerns God, with a view to making propitiation for the sins of the people.

¹ So then, holy brothers, you who share in the celestial calling, do contemplate the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus Christ!

¹⁴ For we have become associates of the Christ, if, that is, we hold fast the beginning of the Endeavor firm to the end,

¹² Because the Word of God is living and efficient, and sharper than any two-edged sword, actually penetrating to the point of separating soul and spirit, joints and marrow; in fact, it is able to evaluate a heart’s reflections and intentions.

¹⁸ so that by two unalterable things in which it is impossible for God to lie we should have a strong encouragement, we who have taken refuge by grasping the hope set before us;

¹² and with His own blood, not that of goats and calves.

²⁸ so the Christ also, having been offered once for all to bear the sins of many—He will appear a second time to those who are eagerly waiting for Him, apart from sin, into salvation.

¹⁰ By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

²³ Let us hold fast the confession of the Hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

³⁶ You need perseverance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. ³⁷ For in a very little while, “He who is coming will come and will not delay.

¹¹ By faith Sarah herself also received power to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the normal age, since she judged Him faithful who had promised.

¹² therefore Jesus also, so that He might sanctify the people by His own blood, suffered outside the city gate.

⁵ But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from the giving God, who gives to all liberally and does not reproach, and it will be given to him.

⁹ Now the lowly brother should glory in his high position, ¹⁰ but the rich brother in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a flower of wild grass. ¹¹ For the sun rises with its burning heat and withers the grass, and its flower falls off and the beauty of its face perishes. Just so the rich man will be withered in his undertakings.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those loving Him?

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him exhibit his works in the meekness of wisdom, by his good way of life.

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him exhibit his works in the meekness of wisdom, by his good way of life.

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him exhibit his works in the meekness of wisdom, by his good way of life. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth—

¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth— ¹⁵ such ‘wisdom’ is not coming down from Above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.

¹⁵ such ‘wisdom’ is not coming down from Above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. ¹⁶ Because where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is unruliness and every foul practice.

¹⁶ Because where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is unruliness and every foul practice. ¹⁷ In contrast, the wisdom from Above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

¹⁷ In contrast, the wisdom from Above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ Now the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those making peace.

¹ Where do the wars and disputes among you come from? Is it not precisely from your pleasures, the ones at war in your members? ² You crave and do not have; you murder and covet and are not able to obtain; you fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.

⁷ Therefore, brothers, be patient until the coming of the Lord. Consider, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receives the early and late rain. ⁸ You also be patient. Keep your hearts firm, because the coming of the Lord has approached.

² elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the setting apart of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

¹³ Therefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, staying sober, rest your hope fully upon the grace being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ —

¹⁵ but just as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your way of life, ¹⁶ because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

¹⁸ knowing that it was not with perishable things (silver or gold) that you were redeemed from the futile way of life handed down by your forefathers, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a faultless and pure lamb;

⁸ also “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense;” being disobedient to the Word, they stumble, to which, indeed, they were appointed.

¹¹ Dear ones, I urge you to abstain from the lusts of the flesh, that war against the soul,

⁸ Finally, all of you be likeminded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous, ⁹ not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this so that you may inherit a blessing.

¹³ but to the extent that you share in Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that at the revelation of His glory you also may rejoice a great deal more.

⁴ And when the Chief Shepherd is revealed you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

¹⁰ Now may the God of all grace, who called you into His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, Himself perfect, establish, strengthen and ground you—after you have suffered a while.

¹ Simon Peter, slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained with us the same kind of faith in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

¹⁶ Now then, we did not follow craftily devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, rather we were attentive eyewitnesses of His majesty

¹⁰ However, the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night, in which heavens will pass away with a whoosh, while the elements will be dissolved by burning—both the earth and the works in it will be completely consumed.

¹² expecting and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

¹⁴ Therefore, dear ones, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, faultless and blameless;

¹⁸ Rather, may you grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and into the eternal day. Amen.

³ that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, so that you also may have fellowship with us; indeed, our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.

⁷ But if we walk in the light just as He is in the light we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

² Dear ones, right now we are children of God and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is

¹³ By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

⁶ This is He who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ—not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is the Truth;

¹¹ And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. ¹² He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. ¹³ I have written these things to you who believe into the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life, really believing into the name of God’s Son.

¹ The elder, to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth—and not I only, but also all who have known the truth—

¹ The elder, to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth. ² Dear one, I pray for you to prosper in every way and to be healthy, just as your soul prospers. ³ Because it gave me great joy when some brothers came and testified to the truth about you, how you are walking in Truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in Truth.

¹ Jude, slave of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called, those who have been sanctified by God the Father and preserved through Jesus Christ:

²¹ keep yourselves in God’s love, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ into eternal life.

²⁴ Now to Him who is able to keep them from stumbling and to present them before His glorious presence without fault and with exultation— ²⁵ to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, power and authority, both now and throughout all the ages! Amen.

² who gave witness to the word of God, even the testimony of Jesus Christ—to all that He saw, both the things that are and those that must happen after these.

⁹ I, John, your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and endurance in Christ Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the Word of God and on account of the testimony of Jesus Christ.

⁹ And they sing a new song saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals; because You were slaughtered, and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe and language and people and ethnic nation;

⁹ And when He opened the fifth seal I saw underneath the altar the souls of the people who had been slaughtered on account of the Word of God and on account of the testimony of the Lamb which they held.

¹¹ And they conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not cherish their lives, even up to death.

¹⁷ So the dragon was furious about the woman and off he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, those who keep the commands of God and hold the testimony of Jesus.

⁴ These are the ones not defiled with women, for they are virgins; these are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He may go. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, firstfruits for God and for the Lamb;

¹⁷ because in one hour such great wealth was laid waste.’ “And every ship captain, and all who travel by ship—sailors and as many as work the sea—stood afar off

¹⁰ And I fell at his feet to worship him, but he says to me, “Don’t! I am your fellow slave and among your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” ¹¹ I saw the heaven opened, and wow, a white horse! And the One who sits on it, called Faithful and True, both judges and makes war with righteousness.

¹⁶ And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh, King of kings and Lord of lords!