1 Corinthians 13 Cross References - WPNT

¹ If I speak the languages of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 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. ³ Even if I give away all my possessions and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. ⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy; love does not brag, is not proud, ⁵ is not indecent, is not self-seeking, is not ‘short-fused’, is not malicious; ⁶ it does not take pleasure in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; ⁷ it bears all, believes all, hopes all, endures all; 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 Now as for prophecies, they will be set aside; as for languages, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded; ⁹ since we know in part and prophesy in part. ¹⁰ But whenever the complete should come, then the ‘in part’ will be done away with. ¹¹ (When I was a small child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; but when I became a man, I put away the things of the child.) ¹² Because now we see blurred images as in a metal mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also am fully known. ¹³ For now these three obtain: faith, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

²² But I say to you that whoever gets angry with his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Numbskull!’ will be liable to the council. But whoever says, ‘You absolute idiot!’ will be liable to hell fire.

¹ “Be careful not to do your charitable giving before the people so as to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father who is in the heavens. ² Therefore, whenever you do charitable giving do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by the people. Assuredly I say to you, they already have their reward. ³ But when you do charitable giving do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴ so that your charitable giving may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself repay you openly.

²² Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and cast out demons in Your name, and perform many mighty works in Your name?’ ²³ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me you practitioners of lawlessness!’

⁴ So Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said: “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

²² And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake; but the one enduring to the end, he will be delivered.

²⁷ “All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one really knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone really know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son may will to reveal Him .

¹¹ So in answer He said to them: “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it has not been given.

²⁰ So Jesus said to them: “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly I say to you, if you have faith like a mustard seed has, you (ye) will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

¹⁰ “See to it that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father, who is in the heavens.

¹⁹ And seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He went up to it and found nothing on it, just leaves. And He says to it, “May you never again produce fruit!” And forthwith the fig tree became withered.

²¹ So in answer Jesus said to them: “Assuredly I say to you, if you (pl.) have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you should say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and be thrown into the sea’, it will happen.

⁵ “Rather, they do all their works in order to be seen by people. They make their phylacteries broad and the tassels on their garments large;

⁴⁵ Then He will answer them saying, ‘Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, neither did you do it to me’.

¹⁸ For he knew that they had handed Him over through envy.

⁵ After looking around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardness of their hearts, He says to the man, “Stretch out your hand!” So he stretched, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other!

²² So in answer Jesus said to them: “Have faith in God. ²³ Because I tell you assuredly, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be picked up and be thrown into the sea’, and does not doubt in his heart but believes that the things he says will happen, he will have whatever he says.

²⁹ Jesus answered him: “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the LORD your (pl) God, the LORD is one; ³⁰ and you (sg) shall love the LORD your (sg) God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. ³¹ And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’. There is no other commandment greater than these.”

³⁵ “So, love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; because He is kind toward the ungrateful and wicked. ³⁶ So be compassionate, even as your Father is compassionate.

³⁷ But then, a woman in the town who was a sinner, when she found out that He was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume, ³⁸ and as she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and kept wiping them with the hair of her head; and she kept kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume. ³⁹ Now as the Pharisee who had invited Him observed this, he was saying to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him, including what sort of woman she is—because she is a sinner!”

³⁹ Now as the Pharisee who had invited Him observed this, he was saying to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him, including what sort of woman she is—because she is a sinner!”

⁴⁴ Then He turned toward the woman and said to Simon: “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head. ⁴⁵ You gave me no kiss, but she has not stopped kissing my feet since the time I came in. ⁴⁶ You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfume.

¹³ Those on the rock ledge are the ones who, whenever they hear, receive the word with joy; yet these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of testing fall away. ¹⁴ Now that which fell into the thorns: these are the ones who heard, yet as they go they are choked by cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. ¹⁵ But that on the good ground: these are the ones who having heard the word with a noble and good heart, hold on to it and produce fruit with perseverance.”

²⁷ In answer he said: “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and, your neighbor as yourself.”

⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith”. ⁶ So the Lord said: “If you had faith like a mustard seed has, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea’, and it would obey you.

²² Well upon hearing these things Jesus said to him, “You still lack one thing: sell all you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

²⁸ Then Peter said, “Notice that we have left all and followed you!”

⁴ And running on ahead he climbed up into a sycamore tree, in order to see Him, since He was about to pass by there. ⁵ And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because today I must stay at your house”. ⁶ So he came down quickly, and received Him joyfully. ⁷ But when they saw it, they all started complaining, saying, “He has entered to lodge with a sinful man!” ⁸ Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Indeed, Lord, I herewith give half of my goods to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone, I restore fourfold”.

⁸ Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Indeed, Lord, I herewith give half of my goods to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone, I restore fourfold”. ⁹ So Jesus said about him, “Today salvation has happened in this house, in that he also is a son of Abraham; ¹⁰ because the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

⁴¹ Now as He approached, observing the city He wept over it, ⁴² saying: “If you, yes you, especially in this your day, had known the things pertaining to your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

³ So He said: “I tell you truly that this poor widow put in more than all of them; ⁴ because all these others put in gifts for God out of their abundance, but she, out of her destitution, put in all she had to live on.”

⁵ They were glad, and agreed to give him silver coins.

³² But I have prayed for you (sg) so that your faith not fail completely; so you, when you have recovered, strengthen your brothers.”

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.

¹⁵ Just as the Father knows me, I also know the Father, and I lay down my life on behalf of the sheep.

⁴³ for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

³⁷ Peter says to Him: “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for your sake!”

¹³ No one has greater love than this, that someone should lay down his life for his friends.

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.

⁹ “The patriarchs, being envious, sold Joseph into Egypt; yet God was with him

⁶ And as Paul laid his hands on them the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they started speaking languages and prophesying.

¹³ But Paul answered: “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, depravity; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; gossips,

³² who, knowing full well God’s just sentence, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do them but also approve of other practitioners.

⁴ and the perseverance, proven character; and the proven character, hope; ⁵ and the hope does not humiliate, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

¹⁸ I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is going to be revealed in us.

²⁴ Yes, we were saved in the hope, but a hope that is seen is not hope—why would anyone hope for what he sees?

²⁴ Yes, we were saved in the hope, but a hope that is seen is not hope—why would anyone hope for what he sees? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await it with endurance.

²⁵ Brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant of this ‘mystery’ (so that you not be conceited): hardening has come upon Israel in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

³⁴ Because “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

⁹ Love is to be genuine: abhorring the malignant; clinging to the good;

¹³ Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual orgies and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy.

¹² So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. ¹³ Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another, but rather resolve this: not to put a stumbling block or pitfall in a brother’s way. ¹⁴ I know and have been convinced by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself (still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean), ¹⁵ but if your brother is offended because of food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not, with your food, ruin someone for whom Christ died.

¹⁵ but if your brother is offended because of food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not, with your food, ruin someone for whom Christ died.

¹ Now we who are strong ought to bear with the limitations of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

¹ Now we who are strong ought to bear with the limitations of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² Let each of us please the neighbor with a view to what is good for edifying.

¹³ Now may the God of the hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in that hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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⁹ However, as it is written: “Things no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and no heart of man has imagined, such things has God prepared for those who love Him.”

¹ Brothers, I was not able to address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ. ² I gave you milk and not solid food, because you were not ready yet. Alas, you are still not ready, 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?

¹⁴ If the work that anyone built endures, he will receive a reward.

¹ Let a man consider us like this: as Christ’s subordinates and stewards of God’s mysteries.

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.

¹⁸ Now some have been puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

² And you are puffed up and not even grieved, so as to exclude the one who has done this deed from your fellowship.

¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, compared to keeping God’s commandments.

³⁶ Now if anyone thinks he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past her prime and thus it should be, let him do what he desires; he does not sin; let them marry.

¹ Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. ² And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has come to know nothing yet as he ought to know. ³ But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him. ⁴ Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and no one else is God except the One.

¹² If others have a share in this right from you, do not we even more? Nevertheless we have not used this right, but we put up with everything so as not to cause any hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.

¹⁸ So what is my reward? That when I evangelize I may present the Gospel of Christ without charge, so as not to use my rights in the Gospel. ¹⁹ Though being free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, in order that I might win the more: ²⁰ To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those under law as under law, that I might win those under law; ²¹ to those without law as without law (not being without law toward God but under law toward Christ), that I might win those without law; ²² to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

²⁴ Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being .

³³ —even as I try to please everyone in every way, not seeking my own profit but that of the many, that they may be saved.

¹³ Judge among yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God uncovered? ¹⁴ Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? ¹⁵ But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, because that hair has been given for a covering. ¹⁶ But if anyone decides to be contentious, neither we nor the congregations of God have any other practice.

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

²¹ Because in eating, each one tries to get his meal first, and one goes hungry while another gets drunk! ²² Now really, don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise God’s congregation and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? Indeed not!

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

⁸ So to one a word of wisdom is given, by the Spirit; to another a word of knowledge, by the same Spirit; ⁹ to a different one faith, by the same Spirit; to another presents of healings, 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.

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.

¹⁶ And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” it would not therefore cease to be of the body.

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

²⁸ And those whom God has appointed in the Church are: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; after that miracles, then presents of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of languages.

²⁸ And those whom God has appointed in the Church are: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; after that miracles, then presents of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of languages. ²⁹ All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not miracle workers, are they? ³⁰ All do not have presents of healings, do they? All do not speak languages, do they? All do not interpret, do they?

¹ If I speak the languages of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

¹ If I speak the languages of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

¹ If I speak the languages of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 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.

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.

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. ³ Even if I give away all my possessions and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

³ Even if I give away all my possessions and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

³ Even if I give away all my possessions and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. ⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy; love does not brag, is not proud,

⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy; love does not brag, is not proud, ⁵ is not indecent, is not self-seeking, is not ‘short-fused’, is not malicious; ⁶ it does not take pleasure in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; ⁷ it bears all, believes all, hopes all, endures all; 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;

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; ⁹ since we know in part and prophesy in part. ¹⁰ But whenever the complete should come, then the ‘in part’ will be done away with.

¹⁰ But whenever the complete should come, then the ‘in part’ will be done away with.

¹² Because now we see blurred images as in a metal mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also am fully known. ¹³ For now these three obtain: faith, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love.

¹ Pursue love, and desire the spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

¹ Pursue love, and desire the spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. ² Because he who speaks in a ‘language’ isn’t speaking to people but to God, since no one understands; in spirit he speaks mysteries.

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?

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? ⁷ Take lifeless things like a flute or a harp; if they make no distinction in the notes when they produce sound, how will it be known what is being piped or harped?

⁷ Take lifeless things like a flute or a harp; if they make no distinction in the notes when they produce sound, how will it be known what is being piped or harped? ⁸ Also a trumpet; if it gives an indistinct sound, who will prepare for battle?

⁸ Also a trumpet; if it gives an indistinct sound, who will prepare for battle? ⁹ So it is with you: if you do not deliver an intelligible message with the ‘language’, how will it be known what is being said? You will just be speaking into the air.

²⁰ Brothers, stop thinking like children—well, in malice be ‘infants’, but in thinking be adults.

³³ Further, God is not a God of disorder but of peace. As in all the congregations of the saints, ³⁴ your wives should keep silent in the assemblies, for they are not permitted to speak, but to be in subordination, as the law also says. ³⁵ If they want to learn about something, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for women to speak in church. ³⁶ Or was it from you that the Word of God went forth? Or was it only to you that it came? ³⁷ If anyone thinks that he is a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things I write to you are the Lord’s commands. ³⁸ But if anyone is ignorant, let him remain so. ³⁹ So then, brothers, seek to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in ‘languages’.

³⁹ So then, brothers, seek to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in ‘languages’. ⁴⁰ Let all things be done properly and in order.

¹⁴ Do all you do in love.

²² If anyone does not love our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. The Lord is coming!

¹⁸ So we all, contemplating as in a mirror the glory of the Lord with unveiled face, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, precisely from Lord Spirit.

⁷ —we walk by faith, not by sight—

⁷ —we walk by faith, not by sight— ⁸ indeed, we are confident in preferring to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

¹⁰ Because we must all be exposed before Christ’s Judgment Seat, that each one may receive his due for the things he did while in the body, whether good or bad.

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.

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.

⁶ by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love,

⁹ Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry as God intended, so as not to be harmed by us in any way. ¹⁰ Now godly sorrow produces repentance into salvation without regret, but the world’s sorrow produces death. ¹¹ Just consider your own being caused to sorrow in a godly manner, how much diligence it produced in you—what self-defense, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have demonstrated yourselves to be clear in the matter. ¹² So even though I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the wrongdoer, nor for that of the victim, but, before God, so that your real commitment to us might be made clear to you. ¹³ We have been encouraged by all this. Because of your encouragement, we rejoiced all the more over the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. ¹⁴ Because wherein I boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame, but just as everything we spoke to you was true, so also our boasting to Titus proved to be true. ¹⁵ Also, his affection for you is all the greater, as he remembers your collective obedience as you received him with fear and trembling. ¹⁶ I am so glad that I have complete confidence in you.

⁸ I ‘robbed’ other congregations, receiving support from them so as to serve you, ⁹ and when I was with you and in need, I did not burden anyone; because the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. Yes, I kept myself from being a burden to you in anything, and will keep on. ¹⁰ The truth of Christ is in me: this boasting will not be silenced in me in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹ Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows! ¹² Further, I will keep on doing what I do in order to cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things of which they boast.

⁴ how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that a man is not permitted to tell.

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.

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—

¹ To proceed, as long as the heir is a child he is no different from a slave, though he is owner of all,

⁶ Because in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.

¹³ Now you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not use that freedom as an opening for the flesh, but slave for one another through love.

¹³ Now you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not use that freedom as an opening for the flesh, but slave for one another through love. ¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, namely: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”. ¹⁵ But if you bite and tear at each other, beware lest you be consumed by one another! ¹⁶ I say then: walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

¹⁶ I say then: walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷ Because the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh; they oppose each other; it follows that you may not do the things that you wish. ¹⁸ However, if you are led by the Spirit you are not under a law. ¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are obvious, namely: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, fits of anger, selfish ambition, dissentions, factions, ²¹ envyings, murders, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like; about which I am warning you beforehand, as, in fact, I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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

¹ Brothers, if a man is actually caught in some wrongdoing, you, the spiritual ones, should restore him in a spirit of gentleness, watching out for yourself lest you also be tempted. ² Bear one another’s heavy burdens, and so fulfill the law of the Christ.

² Bear one another’s heavy burdens, and so fulfill the law of the Christ. ³ For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

⁴ with reference to which, when you read, you can understand my insight into Christ’s secret),

⁸ To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

¹⁸ so that you may be fully able to grasp (with all saints) what is the breadth and length and depth and height; ¹⁹ and \up6 3)\up0 to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge—so that you may be fulfilled into all the fullness of God.

² with all humility and courtesy, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

³² Rather, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as in Christ God forgave you.

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,

⁴ in all my prayers for all of you I always pray with joy,

⁹ This is what I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more in real knowledge and full discernment,

¹⁵ To be sure, some are even preaching Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of good will;

¹⁵ To be sure, some are even preaching Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of good will; ¹⁶ the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, thinking to add to my affliction while in chains, ¹⁷ but the latter out of love, knowing that I am set here for the defense of the Gospel. ¹⁸ No problem: in every way, be it in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice—yes, and will rejoice.

¹⁸ No problem: in every way, be it in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice—yes, and will rejoice.

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope that I will not be put to shame in anything but be truly bold, so that now as always Christ will be glorified in my person, whether by life or by death ²¹ —to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

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.

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. ⁵ In fact, let this mindset be in you that was also in Christ Jesus,

¹⁷ Yes, even if I am a libation being poured on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. ¹⁸ For the same reason you also be glad and rejoice with me.

²¹ (for all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus).

¹² —not that I have already obtained it or have already been perfected; but I press on to actually claim that for which Christ Jesus claimed me.

¹⁸ Because many are walking as enemies of the cross of Christ—of whom I told you often, and now tell you even with tears—

⁸ Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are commendable—whatever is of excellent character and whatever is praiseworthy—ponder these things.

⁵ because of the hope that is being reserved for you in the heavens, of which you have already heard through the Word of the Truth

¹¹ being enabled with all capability according to the strength that resides in His glory, for all endurance and steadfastness.

²⁶ the mystery that has been hidden from past ages and generations, but now has been revealed to His saints; ²⁷ to whom God resolved to make known who is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the nations, namely Christ in you, the hope of glory;

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.

¹⁸ Nor let anyone disqualify you, taking pleasure in a subservience and devotion to the angels, ‘taking possession’ of things that he has not seen, being puffed up by his carnal mind to no useful purpose,

¹² Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, put on hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience;

¹⁴ And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

⁶ But now that Timothy has come to us from you and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, just as we also long to see you ⁷ —because of this, brothers, in all our affliction and distress we were encouraged about you by your faith; ⁸ for now we live, if you are standing firm in the Lord. ⁹ With what thankfulness can we repay God for you, for all the joy with which we are rejoicing in the presence of our God because of you; ¹⁰ praying most earnestly night and day, that we may see your face and complete the things lacking in your faith?

⁸ but we being of day, let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet of hope of salvation.

¹⁴ Now we exhort you, brothers: admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, be supportive of the weak, be patient toward all.

⁴ so that we ourselves boast about you among God’s congregations, referring to your steadfastness and faith in the midst of all your persecutions, and the tribulations that you are enduring

¹² and so that all may be condemned who have not believed the truth but have taken pleasure in wickedness.

⁷ For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we did not behave irresponsibly among you;

⁵ Now the goal of that command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith;

¹⁶ Yes, the mystery of our religion is confessedly great: God was manifested in flesh, was vindicated in spirit, was revealed to angels, was proclaimed among nations, was believed in the world, was received up in glory!

⁸ Now physical exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, holding promises for both this present life and the one to come.

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,

⁷ Because God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of self-control.

³ You therefore are to endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. ⁴ No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the affairs of civilian life; he wants to please the one who enlisted him. ⁵ Further, if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules ⁶ —the hardworking farmer should be the first to receive of the fruits. ⁷ Ponder what I am saying; may the Lord indeed give you understanding in it all. ⁸ Keep thinking of Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, of David’s seed; this is my gospel, ⁹ for which I am suffering to the point of being in chains like a criminal, but the Word of God is not chained. ¹⁰ This is why I endure it all: for the sake of the chosen ones, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

¹⁰ This is why I endure it all: for the sake of the chosen ones, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

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

¹⁰ You, however, have carefully followed my doctrine, my lifestyle, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance; ¹¹ the persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured; yet the Lord delivered me out of them all.

² Proclaim the Word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and exhort, with lots of patience and teaching.

⁵ But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

³ Because we ourselves were also foolish at one time, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, hating one another.

¹¹ You see, we really do want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so as to fulfill the hope;

¹⁹ which hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both certain and secure, actually entering the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,

¹³ By saying ‘new’ He has made the first one ‘old’; and what is obsolete and aging is near the end.

³⁵ So do not throw away your confidence, which has a great recompense.

³⁹ But we are not of those who back away into ruin, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

⁹ Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, because it is good that the heart be established by grace, not foods, by which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

¹³ So then, let us go out to Him, outside the camp, bearing His disgrace;

¹² A man who endures testing is blessed, because upon becoming approved he will receive the crown of the life that the Lord has promised to those loving Him.

¹⁹ So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

²³ Because if anyone is a law hearer and not a doer, the same is like a man observing his physical face in a mirror;

¹⁴ What is the advantage, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? That faith can’t save him, can it? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister is actually naked, and is destitute of the daily food, ¹⁶ and someone among you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you (pl) do not give them the things needed for the body, what is the benefit? ¹⁷ Thus also that faith, if it does not have works, is dead, being by itself.

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. 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.

⁵ Or do you suppose that the Scripture says in vain that the Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously?

¹⁰ Concerning this salvation the prophets, who prophesied about the grace that would come to you, searched and inquired diligently, ¹¹ investigating into whom, or what sort of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating as He testified beforehand the sufferings that would be inflicted on Christ and the glories that would follow them. ¹² It was revealed to them that they were not ministering these things to themselves, but to you; which things have now been announced to you by those who proclaimed the gospel to you, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things that angels really desire to look into.

²¹ who through Him are believing into God, who raised Him out from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are into God.

¹ So then, laying aside all malignity —even all deceit and play-actings and envies, yes all malicious speaking—

²⁴ who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, so that we, having died to those sins, might live for the righteousness; by whose wound you were healed.

⁸ Finally, all of you be likeminded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

⁸ Above all things your love for one another should be constant, because love covers a multitude of sins.

⁷ and to the godliness brotherly affection, and to the brotherly affection love.

¹⁸ Because speaking pompous words of emptiness they entice through fleshly lusts, through licentiousness, those who have actually escaped from those who are living in error,

¹⁰ He who keeps loving his brother is staying in the Light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

¹⁴ fathers, I have written to you because you have come to know Him who is from the beginning; young men, I have written to you because you are strong, and the Word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

²⁴ So you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you; if what you have heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Father and in the Son.

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 ³ —everyone who has this hope upon him purifies himself, even as He is pure.

⁹ Whoever has been begotten by God does not commit sin, because His seed remains in him; actually, he is not able to sin, because he has been begotten by God.

¹⁶ We know the Love by this: He laid down His life in our behalf; we also are obligated to lay down our lives in behalf of our brothers.

¹⁶ We know the Love by this: He laid down His life in our behalf; we also are obligated to lay down our lives in behalf of our brothers. ¹⁷ Now whoever has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart toward him—how does the love of God abide in him?

¹⁷ Now whoever has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart toward him—how does the love of God abide in him? ¹⁸ My dear children, let us not love in word or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth

⁷ Dear ones, we must love one another, because the love is of God and everyone who loves has been begotten by God and knows God. ⁸ He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, because God is love.

⁸ He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, because God is love. ⁹ God’s love was made real within us by this: God sent His only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through Him. ¹⁰ In this is the love, not that we loved God but that He loved us—He even sent His Son as the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Dear ones, since God loved us in this way we are obligated to love one another, really.

¹¹ Dear ones, since God loved us in this way we are obligated to love one another, really. ¹² No one has ever looked at God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is being perfected in us. ¹³ By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. ¹⁴ Yes, we have observed and do testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God. ¹⁶ Yes, we have come to know and believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in the love abides in God, and God in him. ¹⁷ The love is perfected with us for this: that we may have confidence in the Day of judgment, since just as He is so are we in this world. ¹⁸ There is no fear in love; rather perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment; so he who fears has not been perfected in love.

²⁰ If anyone says, “I love God”, while hating his brother, he is a liar. Well, how can he love God whom he hasn’t seen, while not loving his brother whom he has seen? ²¹ Indeed, this commandment we have from Him: he who loves God must love his brother also.

¹ Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten by God; also, whoever loves the Begetter should love the one begotten by Him as well. ² In this we know that we love the children of God, whenever we love God and keep His commandments. ³ For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; His commandments are not burdensome, ⁴ in that whatever has been begotten by God overcomes the world; this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith. ⁵ Who is he who overcomes the world if not he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁴ It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we received commandment from the Father.

⁴ It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we received commandment from the Father. ⁵ And now I put a request to you, lady (not as though writing a new commandment to you, but one that we have from the beginning): that we love one another. ⁶ And this is the love, that we live according to His commandments—this is the commandment, just as you heard from the beginning, that you should live according to it.

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.

²² I saw no sanctuary in her, because the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb are her sanctuary. ²³ And the city has no need of the sun or the moon, that they should shine on her, because the very glory of God illumines her, and the Lamb is her light.

⁴ They will see His face and His name is on their foreheads.

⁴ They will see His face and His name is on their foreheads. ⁵ Night will not exist there and they will need neither lamp nor sunlight, because the Lord God illuminates them. And they will reign forever and ever.