1 Corinthians 15 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Now, brothers, I want to add information to the Gospel that I proclaimed to you, that you also received, and in which you stand; ² through which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word that I proclaimed to you—unless you believed in vain. ³ Because I transmitted to you at first that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, ⁵ and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the Twelve. ⁶ After that He was seen by over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, while some have fallen asleep. ⁷ After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. ⁸ And last of all He was seen by me also, like one born out of season. 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. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me has not been in vain; in fact, I have worked harder than all of them—well, not I, but the grace of God that was with me. ¹¹ So whether it was I or they, thus we preached and thus you believed. ¹² Now if Christ is being proclaimed as having been raised from among the dead, how can some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ If there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised. ¹⁴ And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is empty, and so is your faith! ¹⁵ Further, we are even discovered to be false witnesses of God, because we have testified about God that He raised the Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. ¹⁶ For if no dead are raised, neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. ¹⁹ If it is only for this life that we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable. ²⁰ But indeed, Christ has been raised from the dead; He became the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. ²¹ For since death came through a man, resurrection of the dead also came through a man. ²² For as all in Adam are dying, so also all in the Christ will be made alive. ²³ But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then those who belong to Christ at His coming; ²⁴ then the end, when He hands over the Kingdom to the God and Father, whenever He puts an end to every ruler and all authority and power. ²⁵ Because it is necessary that He reign until He has put all the enemies under His feet. ²⁶ The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. ²⁷ For “He has put all things under His feet.” But when it says that all things have been subordinated, it is obvious that He who put all things under Him is excepted. ²⁸ Now whenever all things have been subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subjected to Him who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all. ²⁹ Otherwise, what will they do who are being baptized in place of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, just why are they being baptized in the place of the dead? ³⁰ And why do we face danger every hour? ³¹ I die every day —so I affirm by the boasting about you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. ³² If I fought human ‘animals’ in Ephesus, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” ³³ Stop kidding yourselves: evil associations corrupt good habits. ³⁴ Sober up righteously, and stop sinning, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame. ³⁵ But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” ³⁶ Ignorant, what you plant is not brought to life unless it dies. ³⁷ And what you plant is a bare seed (perhaps of wheat or some one of the others); you do not plant the body that it will become. ³⁸ But God gives it a body just as He determined, to each of the seeds its own body. ³⁹ All flesh is not the same flesh: that of humans is one kind, and the flesh of animals is another, that of fish is another, that of birds is yet another. ⁴⁰ There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the heavenly is one, while that of the earthly is another. ⁴¹ There is one splendor of the sun, another splendor of the moon, and another splendor of the stars; and star differs from star in brightness. ⁴² The resurrection of the dead is like that: the body is ‘planted’ in deterioration and it is raised in incorruptibility; ⁴³ it is ‘planted’ in dishonor and it is raised in glory; it is ‘planted’ in weakness and it is raised in power; ⁴⁴ it is ‘planted’ a natural body and it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ So also it is written: “The first man, Adam, became a living being;” the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. ⁴⁶ However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man was of the earth, of soil; the second man was the Lord from heaven. ⁴⁸ As was the earth-man, just so are the earth-people; and as was the heaven-man, just so are the heaven-people. ⁴⁹ And just as we have borne the image of the earth-man, we should also bear the image of the heaven-man. ⁵⁰ Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither will deterioration inherit incorruptibility. ⁵¹ And now, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed ⁵² —in a split second, in an eye twinkle, at the last trumpet—the trumpet will blast and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. ⁵³ Because this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality. 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! ⁵⁸ So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

²³ “Behold, the virgin will become pregnant and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel”, which being translated is, ‘God with us’.

²⁰ for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. ²¹ “Furthermore, brother will hand over brother to death, and a father a child, and children will rise up against parents and put them to death. ²² And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake; but the one enduring to the end, he will be delivered.

²² And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake; but the one enduring to the end, he will be delivered. ²³ But whenever they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly I say to you, you will certainly not go through all the cities of Israel before the Son of the Man comes. ²⁴ A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his master. ²⁵ It is enough for a disciple that he become like his teacher, and a slave like his master. Since they have stigmatized the master of the house as Beelzebub, how much more those of his household!

⁴⁰ “The one receiving you receives me, and the one receiving me receives the One who sent me. ⁴¹ The one receiving a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and the one receiving a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. ⁴² And whoever should give so much as a cup of cold water to one of these little ones, in the name of a disciple, assuredly I say to you, he will certainly not lose his reward.”

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 .

⁴⁰ For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the sea monster, so will the Son of the Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

³⁹ The enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. ⁴⁰ Therefore just as the tares are gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of this age. ⁴¹ The Son of the Man will send out His angels, and they will collect out of His kingdom everything that is offensive, and those who perpetrate lawlessness; ⁴² and they will throw them into the furnace of fire. There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

⁴³ Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

⁹ But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men’.”

¹⁷ And in answer Jesus said to him: “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in the heavens.

²¹ From then on Jesus began to show to His disciples that He had to go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised on the third day.

¹⁸ “Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem and the Son of the Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and scribes; and they will condemn Him to death, ¹⁹ and they will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge and to crucify. And on the third day He will rise!”

¹⁹ and they will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge and to crucify. And on the third day He will rise!”

²² But in answer Jesus said: “You (pl.) do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup which I am about to drink, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am being baptized with?” They say to Him, “We are able”.

²⁹ So in answer Jesus said to them: “You are self-deceived, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God! ³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.

⁴⁴ ‘The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at my right until I place your enemies as a footstool for your feet”’?

⁴ So in answer Jesus said to them: “Watch out, so that no one deceives you.

⁹ “Then they will hand you over to oppression and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.

¹¹ And many false prophets will be raised up and they will deceive many.

¹³ So the one who perseveres to the end, he will be saved.

²⁴ Because false christs and false prophets will be raised up, and they will give great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

³¹ And He will send out His angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they will collect His elect from the four winds, from one extreme of the heavens to the other.

³¹ “When the Son of the Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on His throne of glory. ³² And all the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. ³³ And the sheep He will place on His right, but the goats on His left. ³⁴ Then the King will say to those on His right: ‘Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom that was prepared for you at the foundation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; ³⁶ I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me.’ ³⁷ Then the righteous will answer Him saying: ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? ³⁸ When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? ³⁹ Or when did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?’ ⁴⁰ And in answer the King will say to them, ‘Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

²⁸ for this is my blood, that of the new covenant, that which is being shed on behalf of many for forgiveness of sins.

⁵⁷ Now at evening there appeared a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. ⁵⁸ This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered that the body be given. ⁵⁹ So taking the body Joseph wrapped it in clean linen cloth ⁶⁰ and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb and left.

⁶³ saying: “Sir, we remember that that deceiver, while still alive, said, ‘After three days I am going to rise’. ⁶⁴ Therefore command that the grave be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him and say to the people, ‘He was raised from the dead’, and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

¹ Now after the Sabbath, at the dawning of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, came to see the tomb. ² Now then, a big earthquake had occurred, because an angel of the Lord, descending out of heaven, had come and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it! ³ And his appearance was like lightning and his clothing as white as snow. ⁴ So the guards were shaken for fear of him, and became like dead men. ⁵ Now the angel spoke up and said to the women: “Do not be afraid! I know that you are looking for the Jesus who was crucified. ⁶ He is not here, because He is risen, just like He said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying.

¹⁰ Then Jesus says to them: “Do not be afraid! Go report to my brothers that they must go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”

¹⁶ The eleven disciples went into Galilee to the mountain that Jesus had indicated to them. ¹⁷ When they saw Him they worshipped Him; but some doubted. ¹⁸ And approaching Jesus asserted to them saying: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

¹⁶ Similarly, these are the ones sown on the rocky area: as soon as they hear the Word they receive it with joy, ¹⁷ but since they have no root in themselves they are temporary—when oppression or persecution comes because of the Word, they quickly fall away. ¹⁸ And these are the ones sown among the thorns: they hear the Word, ¹⁹ but the worries of this age, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the undue desires for other things come in and smother the Word, and it becomes unfruitful. ²⁰ And these are the ones sown on the good ground: such people hear the Word, welcome it and produce fruit—thirty times as much, sixty times as much, even a hundred times as much.”

²⁶ He also said: “The Kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter the seed on the ground ²⁷ and should sleep and get up night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. ²⁸ All by itself the earth produces fruit: first a shoot, then a head of grain, then full grain in the head. ²⁹ But as soon as the grain is ready, he sends in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

³¹ because He was teaching His disciples and saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and once killed he will rise on the third day”.

³³ “Take note, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and deliver Him over to the Gentiles; ³⁴ and they will mock Him, and scourge Him, and spit on Him, and kill Him. And on the third day He will rise again.”

²⁴ Then in answer Jesus said to them: “You do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God —is this not the reason that you err? ²⁵ Whenever people rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in the heavens.

³⁶ Because David himself said by the Holy Spirit: ‘The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet”.’

⁴³ Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent council member who also himself was waiting for the Kingdom of God, came and boldly went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. ⁴⁴ Well Pilate was surprised that He was already dead; and summoning the centurion he asked him when He had died. ⁴⁵ Upon the centurion’s confirmation he granted the body to Joseph. ⁴⁶ Having bought linen, he took Him down, wrapped Him in the linen and laid Him in a tomb that had been cut out of rock; then he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

² Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen. ³ And they were saying among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?” ⁴ (because it was very large) but when they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away! ⁵ Upon entering the tomb they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. ⁶ But he said to them: “Don’t be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Natsarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He isn’t here! See, the place where they laid Him. ⁷ But go, tell His disciples, also Peter: ‘He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him, as He said to you’.”

⁷ But go, tell His disciples, also Peter: ‘He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him, as He said to you’.”

¹⁴ Later He appeared to the eleven as they were reclining at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. ¹⁵ Then He said to them: “Go to the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to all creation. ¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.

¹⁶ And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God; ¹⁷ in fact he himself will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of fathers to children’ and the disobedient to the mind-set of the righteous, to prepare a people made ready for the Lord.”

¹¹ You see, today, in David’s city, a Savior was born to you, who is Lord Christ!

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.

²² saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

²⁵ Further, what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, yet wastes or forfeits his very self?

²² And turning to the disciples He said: “All things have been entrusted to me by my Father; also, no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and to whomever the Son may choose to reveal Him.”

⁴⁰ Fools! Did not He who made the outside also make the inside?

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and enjoy yourself!’ ²⁰ But God said to him: ‘Stupid! This very night your life is being taken back from you; then who will get the things you have prepared?’

²³ And in Hades he looked up and saw Abraham at a distance, and Lazarus very close to him. And being in torment,

³² He will be betrayed to the Gentiles, and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon, ³³ and they will scourge and kill Him. And on the third day He will rise again.”

³⁵ but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age, to the resurrection from among the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage. ³⁶ Because they cannot die anymore, being like angels—they are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

³⁶ Because they cannot die anymore, being like angels—they are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

⁴² Why David himself affirms in the book of Psalms, ‘The LORD said to my Lord: sit at my right hand ⁴³ until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.’

³⁴ “But keep a watch on yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness, and cares of life, and that Day come upon you suddenly.

⁵⁰ Now then, there was a man named Joseph, a good and righteous man, a Council member ⁵¹ (but he had not agreed with their counsel and action), from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who himself was waiting for the Kingdom of God: ⁵² this man went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. ⁵³ Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock, where no one had ever been laid.

⁵ Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them: “Why do you seek the living One among the dead? ⁶ He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He told you while still in Galilee, ⁷ saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again’.”

²⁵ Then He said to them: “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the Prophets have spoken! ²⁶ Was it really not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into His glory?”

²⁶ Was it really not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into His glory?” ²⁷ And beginning from Moses, and then all the Prophets, He explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

³¹ Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him; and He became invisible to them.

³³ So they got up forthwith and returned to Jerusalem, where they found the Eleven gathered together; also those with them, ³⁴ who said, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” ³⁵ Then they described what happened on the road, and how He was known to them in the breaking of the bread. ³⁶ As they were saying these things, indeed, Jesus Himself stood in their midst, and He said to them, “Peace to you”.

³⁶ As they were saying these things, indeed, Jesus Himself stood in their midst, and He said to them, “Peace to you”. ³⁷ But they, terrified, supposed they were seeing a ghost, and were becoming fearful. ³⁸ And He said to them: “Why are you troubled?” and “Why do doubts arise in your hearts? ³⁹ Look at my hands and feet; it is I myself! Feel me and see; a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” ⁴⁰ And saying this He showed them His hands and His feet. ⁴¹ But as they were still disbelieving and marveling, because of the joy, He said to them, “Do you have any food here?” ⁴² So they gave Him a piece of broiled fish and some honeycomb. ⁴³ And taking it He ate in their presence. ⁴⁴ Then He said to them, “These are the words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything that is written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.” ⁴⁵ Then He opened their understanding so as to comprehend the Scriptures. 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,

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,

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.

⁴⁷ and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ You are witnesses of these things. ⁴⁹ Take note, I am sending the Promise of my Father upon you; but you must stay in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.” ⁵⁰ He led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up His hands He blessed them.

⁴ In Him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.

²⁹ The next day John sees Jesus coming toward him and says, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

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’).

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it.” ²⁰ So the Jews said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and you will raise it in three days?!” ²¹ But He was speaking about the temple of His body. ²² Therefore, when He was raised from among the dead His disciples remembered that He had said this; so they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

³ Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly I say to you, unless someone is begotten from above he is not able to see the kingdom of God.” ⁴ Nicodemus says to Him, “How can a man be begotten, being old? He can’t enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?”

⁴ Nicodemus says to Him, “How can a man be begotten, being old? He can’t enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?” ⁵ Jesus answered: “Most assuredly I say to you, unless someone is begotten by water and Spirit he is not able to enter the kingdom of God. ⁶ That which has been begotten by the flesh is flesh, and that which has been begotten by the Spirit is spirit.

⁶ That which has been begotten by the flesh is flesh, and that which has been begotten by the Spirit is spirit.

⁹ Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”

¹² If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I should tell you the heavenly? ¹³ No one has gone up into Heaven except the One who came down out of Heaven—the Son of Man, who is in Heaven.

³¹ “He who comes from above is above all; he who is from the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all.

³⁵ The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is the One saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water.”

¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never ever thirst; rather, the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up into eternal life.”

¹⁴ After these things Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well. Don’t sin any more, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

²¹ Now just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, just so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.

²¹ Now just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, just so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes. ²² In fact the Father does not judge anyone but has committed all the judging to the Son, ²³ so that all will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. ²⁴ “Most assuredly I say to you that the one listening to my word and believing on Him who sent me has eternal life; he will not go into judging but has moved out of the death into the life. ²⁵ “Most assuredly I say to you that a time is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live.

²⁵ “Most assuredly I say to you that a time is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live. ²⁶ Because just as the Father has life in Himself just so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself; ²⁷ furthermore He gave Him the authority to pass judgment, because He is Son of Man . ²⁸ Do not marvel at this, because a time is coming in which all those in the graves will hear His voice

²⁸ Do not marvel at this, because a time is coming in which all those in the graves will hear His voice ²⁹ and will come out—those who did good things into the resurrection of life, but those who practiced evil things into the resurrection of condemnation.

²⁸ So they said to Him, “What should we do so that we may work the works of God?” ²⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe into the One whom He sent.”

³³ For the bread of God is the One coming down out of Heaven and giving life to the world.”

³⁹ Now this is the will of the Father who sent me, that I should lose nothing out of all that He has given me, but should raise it up at the last day. ⁴⁰ Again this is the will of Him who sent me, that everyone who ‘sees’ the Son and believes into Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

⁵⁴ Whoever chews my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

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.

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.

⁶⁸ So Simon Peter answered Him: “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

¹¹ So she said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on don’t sin any more.”

²¹ Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”

²¹ Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.” ²² So the Jews said, “He won’t kill himself, will he, since he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?” ²³ He said to them: “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. ²⁴ That’s why I told you that you will die in your sins, because if you do not believe that I am, you will die in your sins.”

²⁴ That’s why I told you that you will die in your sins, because if you do not believe that I am, you will die in your sins.”

³¹ So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed Him: “If you abide in my word, you really are my disciples; ³² and you will know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free.”

¹⁰ So they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”

¹⁰ The thief comes only in order to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they will never ever be wasted; and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

²⁵ Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes into me, though he may die, will live;

²⁵ Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes into me, though he may die, will live; ²⁶ and everyone who both lives and believes into me will never ever die. Do you believe this?”

²⁴ Most assuredly I say to you, if a grain of wheat, having fallen into the ground, doesn’t die, it remains alone; but if it dies it bears a lot of fruit.

⁴⁸ The one who rejects me and does not receive my sayings has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken, that’s what will judge him on the last day;

³ Jesus, knowing that the Father had given everything into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,

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

¹⁹ In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live you also will live.

²⁸ “You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me you would have been glad that I said, ‘I am going to the Father’, because my Father is greater than I.

² —they will excommunicate you; indeed, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering God service!

³³ I have spoken these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but take heart, I have conquered the world!”

² just as You gave Him authority over all humanity, so that He will give eternal life to all those whom You have given Him. ³ Now eternal life is this: that they may know You, the only true God, and the One whom You sent—Jesus Christ.

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.

¹⁹ Then at evening on that first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and He says to them, “Peace to you!”

¹⁹ Then at evening on that first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and He says to them, “Peace to you!” ²⁰ And upon saying this He showed them His hands and His side. Well, the disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord! ²¹ So Jesus said to them again: “Peace to you! Just as the Father sent me, I also send you.” ²² Upon saying this He breathed on them and said: “Receive Holy Spirit! ²³ To whomever you forgive the sins, they are forgiven to them; to whomever you retain, they have been retained.” ²⁴ Now one of the twelve, Thomas (called Twin), wasn’t with them when Jesus came. ²⁵ So the other disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “If I don’t see the nail prints in His hands and put my finger into the nail prints, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe!” ²⁶ Well after eight days His disciples were inside again, and Thomas with them. The doors were locked [again]; Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace to you!”

²⁶ Well after eight days His disciples were inside again, and Thomas with them. The doors were locked [again]; Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace to 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;

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; ³ to whom He also showed Himself alive, after His suffering, by many convincing evidences, appearing to them during forty days and speaking of things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.

³ to whom He also showed Himself alive, after His suffering, by many convincing evidences, appearing to them during forty days and speaking of things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.

³ to whom He also showed Himself alive, after His suffering, by many convincing evidences, appearing to them during forty days and speaking of things pertaining to the Kingdom of God. ⁴ And being together He directed them not to go away from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, “which you heard from me;

⁴ And being together He directed them not to go away from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, “which you heard from me; ⁵ John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with Holy Spirit not many days from now”.

⁵ John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with Holy Spirit not many days from now”. ⁶ Well then, being together they asked Him saying, “Lord, are you going to restore the kingdom to Israel at this time?”

⁶ Well then, being together they asked Him saying, “Lord, are you going to restore the kingdom to Israel at this time?” ⁷ So He said to them: “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has placed within His own authority.

⁷ So He said to them: “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has placed within His own authority. ⁸ But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be witnesses to me —both in Jerusalem, and all Judea and Samaria, and even to the last part of the earth.”

⁸ But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be witnesses to me —both in Jerusalem, and all Judea and Samaria, and even to the last part of the earth.” ⁹ Upon saying these things, as they watched, He was lifted up, and a cloud took Him out of their sight.

⁹ Upon saying these things, as they watched, He was lifted up, and a cloud took Him out of their sight. ¹⁰ And as they were staring into the sky, while He was going, suddenly two men in white clothing stood beside them;

¹⁰ And as they were staring into the sky, while He was going, suddenly two men in white clothing stood beside them; ¹¹ and they said: “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into the sky? This very Jesus who is being taken up from you into the sky, He will come again in the precise manner that you observed Him going into the sky.”

¹¹ and they said: “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into the sky? This very Jesus who is being taken up from you into the sky, He will come again in the precise manner that you observed Him going into the sky.” ¹² They then returned to Jerusalem from the mount called ‘of Olives’, which is near Jerusalem (a Sabbath day’s journey).

¹² They then returned to Jerusalem from the mount called ‘of Olives’, which is near Jerusalem (a Sabbath day’s journey). ¹³ When they had entered [the city] they went up into the upper room where they were staying; namely Peter and James, John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas of James. ¹⁴ All these were continuing with one purpose in prayer and petition, along with the women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

²³ Him —being delivered up by the established purpose and foreknowledge of God—you murdered, having taken Him with lawless hands and crucified Him; ²⁴ whom God raised up, ending the labor pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

²⁴ whom God raised up, ending the labor pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. ²⁵ For David says concerning Him: ‘I always saw the LORD before my face, because He is at my right side so that I not be shaken. ²⁶ Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced. Furthermore, even my flesh will repose upon hope, ²⁷ because You will not abandon my soul in Hades, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see decay.

²⁷ because You will not abandon my soul in Hades, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see decay. ²⁸ You have made known to me roads of life; with Your presence You make me full of gladness.’ ²⁹ “Men, brothers, be it permitted to speak to you plainly about the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. ³⁰ So then, he being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath that of the fruit, according to flesh, of his loins He would raise up the Messiah to sit on his throne, ³¹ he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah, that His soul was not abandoned in Hades, nor did His flesh see decay.

³¹ he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah, that His soul was not abandoned in Hades, nor did His flesh see decay. ³² “This Jesus God raised, to which we all are witnesses.

³² “This Jesus God raised, to which we all are witnesses. ³³ Therefore, having been exalted to God’s right hand, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this that you now see and hear. ³⁴ Further, David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says: ‘The LORD said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand

⁴¹ Then those who gladly received his word were baptized, and that day about three thousand souls were added.

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.

¹⁵ while you killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from among the dead, to which we are witnesses.

¹⁸ But the things that God foretold through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Messiah would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

¹⁰ be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Natsorean, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.

³³ (Also the Apostles were giving witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power.) Yes, great grace was on them all,

³¹ Him God has exalted to His right hand as Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

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.)

³ As for Saul, he was trying to destroy the Church; invading house after house and dragging away both men and women, he was putting them in prison.

¹³ Even Simon himself believed, and having been baptized he stayed right with Philip; observing miracles and signs occurring, he was amazed.

¹ Meanwhile Saul, still exhaling murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest ² and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he should find any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. ³ So it happened, as he was going, that he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him;

³ So it happened, as he was going, that he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him; ⁴ and falling to the ground he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”

⁴ and falling to the ground he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” ⁵ So he said, “Who are you, Lord?” So the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting;

⁵ So he said, “Who are you, Lord?” So the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting;

⁵ So he said, “Who are you, Lord?” So the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting; ⁶ but get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

⁶ but get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” ⁷ The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the sound but seeing no one. ⁸ Then Saul got up from the ground, and upon opening his eyes he saw no one; so leading him by the hand they brought him into Damascus. ⁹ He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank. ¹⁰ Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!” So he said, “Here I am, Lord.” ¹¹ So the Lord said to him: “Get up and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas inquire by name for Saul of Tarsus; because, you see, he is praying, ¹² and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and placing a hand on him, so that he might recover his sight.” ¹³ But Ananias answered: “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many evil things he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ Moreover here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who are calling on Your name.” ¹⁵ But the Lord said to him: “Get moving, because this man is a chosen vessel to me, to carry my name before nations and kings, also the children of Israel; ¹⁶ for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.” ¹⁷ So Ananias went and entered the house, and placing his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me so that you may recover your sight and be filled by Holy Spirit.”

¹⁷ So Ananias went and entered the house, and placing his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me so that you may recover your sight and be filled by Holy Spirit.” ¹⁸ Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he recovered his sight forthwith; and getting up he was baptized, ¹⁹ and upon receiving food he was strengthened. So Saul was with the disciples in Damascus for a number of days.

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.

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.

¹ Now the Apostles and the brothers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

¹⁷ Motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he related to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. Then he said, “Tell these things to James and the brothers”. And going out he went off to a different place.

²⁹ When they had fulfilled all things that were written about Him, they took Him down from the cross and placed Him in a tomb. ³⁰ But God raised Him from the dead;

³⁰ But God raised Him from the dead; ³¹ and for many days He was seen by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to the people.

³¹ and for many days He was seen by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to the people. ³² “Yes we proclaim to you the good news: the promise that was made to the fathers,

³² “Yes we proclaim to you the good news: the promise that was made to the fathers, ³³ God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, when He raised up Jesus; as also it stands written in the second Psalm: ‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you’.

³³ God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, when He raised up Jesus; as also it stands written in the second Psalm: ‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you’. ³⁴ And that He raised Him from the dead, no longer to return to corruption, He has spoken thus, ‘I will give you the holy things guaranteed to David’. ³⁵ Further, it is stated elsewhere, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay’. ³⁶ Now David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and saw decay;

³⁶ Now David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and saw decay; ³⁷ but the One whom God raised up did not see decay. ³⁸ Therefore, let it be known to you, men, brothers, that through this One forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you; ³⁹ and by Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the Law of Moses.

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God”.

³¹ because He has appointed a day in which He will judge the inhabited world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained; He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” ³² Well when they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some started scoffing, while others said, “We will hear you again about this”.

⁴ Every Sabbath in the synagogue he would reason with both Jews and Greeks, trying to persuade them. 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.

⁹ Now the Lord said to Paul by a vision at night: “Do not be afraid; rather speak and do not keep silent,

¹⁹ He came to Ephesus and left them there (after having entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews).

¹ And finding certain disciples

²³ Now it was during that time that a serious disturbance concerning the Way occurred. ²⁴ A certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, habitually brought in plenty of business for the artisans; ²⁵ he called them together, along with the workmen in related trades, and said: “Men, you know that our prosperity depends on this trade. ²⁶ And you observe and hear that not only in Ephesus but throughout almost all Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that hand-made things are not gods. ²⁷ So not only is this trade of ours in danger of falling into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be discredited, and even her own majesty be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worship.” ²⁸ Now upon hearing this they were filled with anger and began shouting, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” ²⁹ So the whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed into the theater with one accord (they had seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul’s traveling companions). ³⁰ When Paul wanted to go in to the people, the disciples would not let him. ³¹ Even some of the officials of Asia, being his friends, sent word to him and urged him not to venture into the theater. ³² The assembly was in confusion: some were shouting one thing and some another; most of them did not know why they had come together. ³³ Then the Jews pushed Alexander forward, out from the crowd. So Alexander motioned with his hand and would have made a defense to the people. ³⁴ But when they realized he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison for about two hours, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” ³⁵ When the city clerk had quieted the crowd, he said: “Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple guardian of the great goddess Artemis and of what fell from Zeus? ³⁶ Therefore, since these things are undeniable, you ought to be quiet and not do anything rash. ³⁷ You have arrested these men who are neither temple thieves nor blasphemers of your goddess. ³⁸ Now if Demetrius and his fellow artisans have a complaint against anyone, courts are available, and there are proconsuls; let them bring charges against one another. ³⁹ But if you want to debate any other matter, it will be settled in the legal assembly. ⁴⁰ Indeed, we are in danger of being charged with a riot, because of today, there being no reason at all that we can give to account for this commotion.” ⁴¹ And having said these things he dismissed the assembly.

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

²³ except that the Holy Spirit keeps warning me in every city, saying that fetters and afflictions are just waiting for me.

⁴ I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women, ⁵ as also the high priest and all the council of elders can bear me witness. I even obtained letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, to bring those also who were there bound to Jerusalem to be punished.

¹⁴ Then he said: ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear words from His mouth.

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

⁸ (Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel or spirit, but Pharisees confess both.)

⁸ Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead? ⁹ “However, I myself thought that I had to perpetrate many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Natsorean; ¹⁰ I actually did this in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I cast my vote against them. ¹¹ Yes, I punished them often in every synagogue, trying to force them to blaspheme; I was so excessively enraged against them that I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

¹⁶ Now get up and stand on your feet; because I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness both of the things you have seen and of the things I will reveal to you,

²² So then, having experienced the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying to both small and great, saying nothing beyond what both the prophets and Moses said would happen ²³ —that the Messiah would suffer; that as the first to rise from the dead He would proclaim light to both ‘the people’ and the ethnic nations.”

²³ —that the Messiah would suffer; that as the first to rise from the dead He would proclaim light to both ‘the people’ and the ethnic nations.”

³⁵ Upon saying this he picked up some bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all; then he broke it and began to eat.

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);

²² Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and exchanged for themselves the glory of the incorruptible God for an image resembling a perishable man —even birds and quadrupeds and reptiles!

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:

⁷ to those who seek for glory, honor and incorruption, by persevering in doing good—eternal life;

¹⁶ in the day when God, according to my Gospel, will judge people’s secrets by Jesus Christ.

⁷ Still, if the truth of God abounded to His glory by my falsehood, just why am I still judged as a sinner? ⁸ However, we must not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come” (as some people slanderously claim that we do)—their condemnation is well deserved!

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. ²⁰ It follows that no flesh will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

²⁵ whom God has openly made available as a propitiation through the faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness because of the passing over, in God’s forbearance, of the previously committed sins;

¹⁵ because the law produces wrath, since where there is no law neither is there transgression.

²⁴ but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, we who believe on Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, ²⁵ who was delivered up because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

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

² through whom also we have had the access, by the Faith, into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

¹⁰ Because since we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, while we were enemies, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

¹² Now then, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, just so death spread to all men, because all sinned

¹² Now then, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, just so death spread to all men, because all sinned

¹² Now then, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, just so death spread to all men, because all sinned

¹² Now then, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, just so death spread to all men, because all sinned ¹³ —sin was in the world before the law, to be sure, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

¹³ —sin was in the world before the law, to be sure, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

¹³ —sin was in the world before the law, to be sure, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

¹³ —sin was in the world before the law, to be sure, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. ¹⁴ Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression (he is a type of the coming one).

¹⁴ Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression (he is a type of the coming one).

¹⁴ Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression (he is a type of the coming one).

¹⁴ Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression (he is a type of the coming one). ¹⁵ Now the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one, how much more did God’s grace and the bounty by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!

¹⁵ Now the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one, how much more did God’s grace and the bounty by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!

¹⁵ Now the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one, how much more did God’s grace and the bounty by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many! ¹⁶ Again, the gift is not like what came from one man’s having sinned: because the judgment into condemnation followed one offense, while the gracious gift into justification followed many offenses.

¹⁶ Again, the gift is not like what came from one man’s having sinned: because the judgment into condemnation followed one offense, while the gracious gift into justification followed many offenses. ¹⁷ Further, if by the offense of the one man death reigned through that man, much more will those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ Further, if by the offense of the one man death reigned through that man, much more will those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ Further, if by the offense of the one man death reigned through that man, much more will those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ So then, as through one offense there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is life-giving justification for everyone. 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. ²⁰ However, law came on the scene so that the offense might abound; but where the sin abounded, the grace superabounded,

²⁰ However, law came on the scene so that the offense might abound; but where the sin abounded, the grace superabounded, 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.

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.

³ Or are you unaware that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? ⁴ Therefore, we were buried with Him by means of that baptism into that death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by means of the Father’s glory, we also should walk in newness of life.

⁴ Therefore, we were buried with Him by means of that baptism into that death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by means of the Father’s glory, we also should walk in newness of life.

⁶ knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of the sin might be set aside, so that we no longer be enslaved to that sin—

¹² Therefore do not let the sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey it with the body’s evil desires

¹⁹ I continue to speak on a human level because of the weakness of your flesh. Now just as you used to present your body parts as slaves to uncleanness and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now present your body parts as slaves to righteousness with a view to sanctification.

²³ Because the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁵ Because when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our body parts to produce fruit to death. ⁶ But now we have been released from the law, having died to what was gripping us, so as to slave in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter. ⁷ So what shall we say then? Is the law sin? Of course not! Indeed, I would not have come to know the sin except through the law: I would not have recognized covetousness if the law had not said, “You must not covet”. ⁸ But the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. Now without the law sin is dead. ⁹ Once upon a time, without law, I was actually ‘alive’; but when the commandment came, the sin came to life and I died. ¹⁰ Yes, the commandment that was to bring me life turned out to bring death. ¹¹ Because the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, completely deceived me, and used it to ‘kill’ me. ¹² So then, the law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. ¹³ So has what is good become death to me? Of course not! Rather the sin, that it might be exposed as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment the sin might become extremely sinful.

²⁵ I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

² because the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of the sin and the death.

¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, the body is dead through sin, but the Spirit is life through righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then He who raised the Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who dwells in you.

¹¹ And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then He who raised the Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who dwells in you.

²¹ that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage to decay into the freedom of the glory of God’s children.

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.

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.

³³ Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? God is He who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he who condemns? Christ is He who died, but even more, was indeed raised, who indeed is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes on our behalf.

³⁶ (As it is written: “For your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.”)

³⁶ (As it is written: “For your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.”) ³⁷ No, in all these things we prevail completely through Him who loved us.

³⁷ No, in all these things we prevail completely through Him who loved us. ³⁸ Because I am persuaded that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present nor things to come,

³⁸ Because I am persuaded that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present nor things to come, ³⁹ neither height nor depth nor any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁹ You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has ever resisted His will?”

¹ So now I say, God did not reject His people, did He? Of course not! Why I myself am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin!

⁵ Even so then at this present time, there is a remnant according to an election by grace. ⁶ Now if by grace, it is no longer from works; otherwise the grace is no longer grace. But if from works, it is no longer grace; otherwise the work is no longer work.

²² So consider the kindness and severity of God: upon those who fell, severity; but toward you, kindness, if you continue in that kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.

³ Based on the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to set your sights higher than you should, but set them sensibly, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each.

¹¹ Besides this, knowing the time, it is high time for us to be awakened from sleep, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. ¹² The night is nearly over, and the day is near; so let us get rid of the works of the darkness, and let us put on the weapons of the light. 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. ¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, with a view to lusts.

¹⁷ So in Christ Jesus I do have a boast in things pertaining to God; ¹⁸ because I do not presume to speak of anything except those things that Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient —by word and deed, 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. ²⁰ It has always been my aim to evangelize where Christ has not been named, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation;

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.

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”!

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.

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,

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, 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; ⁷ but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom that God ordained before the ages for our glory,

⁷ but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom that God ordained before the ages for our glory,

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God keeps making it grow. ⁷ So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who makes it grow. ⁸ Now he who plants and he who waters are at one, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

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.

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

¹ Let a man consider us like this: as Christ’s subordinates and stewards of God’s mysteries. ² Moreover, what is required of stewards is that each be found faithful.

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?

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! ¹¹ To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty; we are poorly dressed, brutally treated, and wander homeless; ¹² yes, we labor, working with our own hands. Upon being reviled, we bless; upon being persecuted, we endure it; ¹³ upon being slandered, we exhort. We have been made as the refuse of the world, the off-scouring of whatever, to this moment.

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?

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?

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,

¹³ Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. ¹⁴ Further, God both raised up the Lord and will also raise up us by His power.

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,

⁷ However, this knowledge is not in everyone; but some, with consciousness of the idol, still eat it as offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

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?

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 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things and hold the traditions just as I delivered them to you. ³ But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, while a wife’s head is the man and Christ’s head is God.

²³ For I received from the Lord that which I also transmitted to you: The Lord Jesus, during the night in which He was betrayed, took bread;

⁶ And there are allotments of activities, but the same God is He who works them all, in all.

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 through which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word that I proclaimed to you—unless you believed in vain. ³ Because I transmitted to you at first that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

³ Because I transmitted to you at first that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

⁴ and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, ⁵ and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the Twelve. ⁶ After that He was seen by over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, while some have fallen asleep.

⁶ After that He was seen by over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, while some have fallen asleep. ⁷ After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. ⁸ And last of all He was seen by me also, like one born out of season. 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. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me has not been in vain; in fact, I have worked harder than all of them—well, not I, but the grace of God that was with me. ¹¹ So whether it was I or they, thus we preached and thus you believed.

¹¹ So whether it was I or they, thus we preached and thus you believed. ¹² Now if Christ is being proclaimed as having been raised from among the dead, how can some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ If there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised.

¹³ If there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised. ¹⁴ And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is empty, and so is your faith!

¹⁴ And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is empty, and so is your faith! ¹⁵ Further, we are even discovered to be false witnesses of God, because we have testified about God that He raised the Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. ¹⁶ For if no dead are raised, neither has Christ been raised.

¹⁶ For if no dead are raised, neither has Christ been raised.

¹⁶ For if no dead are raised, neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.

¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.

¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.

¹⁸ Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.

¹⁸ Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. ¹⁹ If it is only for this life that we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable.

¹⁹ If it is only for this life that we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable. ²⁰ But indeed, Christ has been raised from the dead; He became the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

²⁰ But indeed, Christ has been raised from the dead; He became the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. ²¹ For since death came through a man, resurrection of the dead also came through a man.

²¹ For since death came through a man, resurrection of the dead also came through a man. ²² For as all in Adam are dying, so also all in the Christ will be made alive.

²² For as all in Adam are dying, so also all in the Christ will be made alive. ²³ But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then those who belong to Christ at His coming;

³¹ I die every day —so I affirm by the boasting about you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. ³² If I fought human ‘animals’ in Ephesus, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

³⁸ But God gives it a body just as He determined, to each of the seeds its own body. ³⁹ All flesh is not the same flesh: that of humans is one kind, and the flesh of animals is another, that of fish is another, that of birds is yet another. ⁴⁰ There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the heavenly is one, while that of the earthly is another. ⁴¹ There is one splendor of the sun, another splendor of the moon, and another splendor of the stars; and star differs from star in brightness. ⁴² The resurrection of the dead is like that: the body is ‘planted’ in deterioration and it is raised in incorruptibility;

⁴² The resurrection of the dead is like that: the body is ‘planted’ in deterioration and it is raised in incorruptibility; ⁴³ it is ‘planted’ in dishonor and it is raised in glory; it is ‘planted’ in weakness and it is raised in power; ⁴⁴ it is ‘planted’ a natural body and it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ So also it is written: “The first man, Adam, became a living being;” the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

⁴⁵ So also it is written: “The first man, Adam, became a living being;” the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

⁴⁵ So also it is written: “The first man, Adam, became a living being;” the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. ⁴⁶ However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

⁴⁶ However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man was of the earth, of soil; the second man was the Lord from heaven.

⁴⁷ The first man was of the earth, of soil; the second man was the Lord from heaven. ⁴⁸ As was the earth-man, just so are the earth-people; and as was the heaven-man, just so are the heaven-people.

⁴⁸ As was the earth-man, just so are the earth-people; and as was the heaven-man, just so are the heaven-people. ⁴⁹ And just as we have borne the image of the earth-man, we should also bear the image of the heaven-man.

⁴⁹ And just as we have borne the image of the earth-man, we should also bear the image of the heaven-man. ⁵⁰ Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither will deterioration inherit incorruptibility.

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

⁵⁰ Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither will deterioration inherit incorruptibility. ⁵¹ And now, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed

⁵¹ And now, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed

⁵¹ And now, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed ⁵² —in a split second, in an eye twinkle, at the last trumpet—the trumpet will blast and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

⁵² —in a split second, in an eye twinkle, at the last trumpet—the trumpet will blast and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

⁵² —in a split second, in an eye twinkle, at the last trumpet—the trumpet will blast and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. ⁵³ Because this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality.

⁵³ Because this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality. 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?”

¹⁰ Now if Timothy should come, see to it that he may be with you without fear, because he does the Lord’s work just as I do.

⁸ And so, brothers, we don’t want you to be in ignorance concerning the affliction that came upon us in Asia: we were under extreme pressure, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life. ⁹ Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, so that we not place confidence in ourselves, but in the God who raises the dead; ¹⁰ He did deliver us from that deadly peril, and still delivers; in whom we trust that He will keep on delivering, ¹¹ you also adding your cooperation in prayer, on our behalf; that thanks may be given by many persons for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, on your behalf. ¹² Now this is our boast: the testimony of our conscience that we have conducted ourselves in the world with openness and godly sincerity, not by fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.

²⁴ (Not that we have control over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for it is by faith that you stand firm.)

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 —

⁵ not that we are competent of ourselves to reckon anything as being from ourselves, but our competence is from God —

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 Further, we have this treasure in jars of clay, so that this all-surpassing power may be of God and not from ourselves ⁸ —we are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, yet not abandoned; knocked down, but not out; ¹⁰ always carrying about in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

¹⁰ always carrying about in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

¹⁰ always carrying about in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our body. ¹¹ For we, the living, are always being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

¹¹ For we, the living, are always being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

¹¹ For we, the living, are always being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

¹¹ For we, the living, are always being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹² So then, death is at work in us, but life in you.

¹² So then, death is at work in us, but life in you. ¹³ Now since we have the same spirit of faith, just like it is written, “I believed; therefore I spoke”, we also believe and therefore speak, ¹⁴ knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us through Jesus and present us together with you.

¹ Now then, we know that though our earthly, tent-like ‘house’ may be destroyed, we have a building from God (not a handmade house), eternal in the heavens. ² Further, in this one we do groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly habitation; ³ since, obviously, once clothed we will not be found naked. ⁴ Yes, being in this ‘tent’ is a burden, so we groan—not enough to want to strip, but to be really clothed; that what is mortal may be swallowed up by the Life.

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,

⁹ as unknown and well known, as dying and we live on, as chastened and not killed;

¹ Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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

¹⁵ Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

⁷ Do you only look at the ‘face’ of things? If anyone has persuaded himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that just as he is Christ’s, so also we are Christ’s.

¹² Now we do not dare to class or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but they, measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding. ¹³ We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will stay within the boundaries that God assigned to us, a field that includes you. ¹⁴ For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we had not reached you, because we did indeed get to you with the Gospel of Christ; ¹⁵ nor do we boast ‘off limits’ in the labors of others, but we have hope that as your faith grows our boundaries will be greatly expanded through you, ¹⁶ so as to evangelize the regions beyond you (not to boast in work already done in someone else’s field).

⁵ Now I consider that I am not at all inferior to the very best apostles.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I’m being irrational) I am more: in labors more abundantly, in beatings beyond count, in prison more frequently, in ‘deaths’ often —

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I’m being irrational) I am more: in labors more abundantly, in beatings beyond count, in prison more frequently, in ‘deaths’ often —

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I’m being irrational) I am more: in labors more abundantly, in beatings beyond count, in prison more frequently, in ‘deaths’ often — ²⁴ five times from the Jews I received the ‘forty lashes minus one’;

²⁴ five times from the Jews I received the ‘forty lashes minus one’; ²⁵ three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked (I spent twenty-four hours in the open sea)—

²⁵ three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked (I spent twenty-four hours in the open sea)— ²⁶ in frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, in danger from robbers, in danger from my countrymen, in danger from Gentiles, in danger in cities, in danger in wildernesses, in danger in the sea, in danger among false brothers;

²⁶ in frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, in danger from robbers, in danger from my countrymen, in danger from Gentiles, in danger in cities, in danger in wildernesses, in danger in the sea, in danger among false brothers; ²⁷ in toil and hardship, in many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold and nakedness —

²⁷ in toil and hardship, in many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold and nakedness — ²⁸ quite apart from the other things, my daily disturbances, my concern for all the congregations. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I do not feel it? Who is caused to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation ? ³⁰ Well, if I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

¹ It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast; still, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 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. ³ Yes, I know such a man—whether in the body or outside of it, I don’t know, God knows— ⁴ how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that a man is not permitted to tell. ⁵ I can boast about someone like that, but not about myself, unless it be my weakness. ⁶ Now even if I wanted to go on boasting, I would not be stupid but speak the truth; but I refrain, so that no one will think more of me than what he sees in me and hears from me.

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.

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.

¹⁴ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

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,

⁶ I am sadly surprised that you are turning away so quickly from the one who called you by the grace of Christ, to a different gospel ⁷ —it is not a mere variation, but certain people are unsettling you and wanting to distort the Gospel of the Christ. ⁸ Now even if we, or an angel out of heaven, should preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed! ⁹ As we have just said, I here emphatically repeat: If anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed!! ¹⁰ Am I just now appealing to men, or to God? Or am I trying to please men? You see, if I were still pleasing men I would not be a slave of Christ. ¹¹ Now I want you to know, brothers, that the Gospel preached by me is not according to man; ¹² because I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather it came through a revelation from Christ.

¹² because I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather it came through a revelation from Christ. ¹³ You have heard of my former conduct while in Judaism, how I was rabid in my persecution of God’s Church and tried to annihilate it;

²³ —they just kept hearing that “He who once persecuted us now proclaims the faith he formerly tried to destroy.”

² I went on the basis of a revelation and set before them [the main apostles] the Gospel that I proclaim among the nations/Gentiles.—Now I did this privately to those with influence, lest somehow I might run, or had run, in vain.

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),

⁴ Have you suffered so much for nothing—if it really was for nothing?

¹⁰ Now as many as are ‘by the works of the law’ are under a curse; because it stands written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things written in the Book of the Law, to do them”. ¹¹ Further, it is evident that no one is justified by the law before God, because “the righteous will live by faith”. ¹² While the law is not of faith but, “the man who does them will live by them”. 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” —

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” —

¹⁵ Brothers: as a man I speak a covenant; though only of a man, once it has been ratified no one annuls or adds to it.

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.

²⁷ As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ

²⁹ so if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.

¹¹ I fear for you, lest somehow I have labored over you in vain.

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.

¹⁶ I say then: walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

²⁴ Further, those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

⁷ Do not be deceived, God does not allow Himself to be treated with contempt; because whatever a man sows, that he will also reap

⁹ Let us not lose heart while doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we do not give up.

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⁹ having made known to us the ‘secret’ of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him\up6 [S]\up0

¹² so that we should be to the praise of His glory, we who first trusted in the Christ; ¹³ about whom, to be sure, we had heard the true Word —the Gospel of your salvation; by whom, since you also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

²⁰ which He exercised in the Christ when He raised Him\up6 [S]\up0 from among the dead and seated Him at His\up6 [F]\up0 right, in the heavenly realms,

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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. ⁸ For by grace you have been saved, through the faith —and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God—

⁸ For by grace you have been saved, through the faith —and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God—

³ how that by revelation He made known to me the ‘secret’ (as I have written briefly already,

⁷ of which I became a servant according to the gift of God’s grace, the gift given to me according to the outworking of His power. ⁸ To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

⁹ (What does ‘He ascended’ imply if not that He also first descended into the interior regions of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended is the very one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) ¹¹ Yes, He Himself gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,

¹⁷ So then, I affirm and insist on this in the Lord: you must no longer carry on as the rest of the Gentiles do, in the futility of their mind,

²² that you put away, concerning your former way of life, the old man (that keeps on being corrupted by the deceitful desires), ²³ and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and put on the new man, created in the likeness of God, in true righteousness and holiness.

²⁴ and put on the new man, created in the likeness of God, in true righteousness and holiness.

² and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of the disobedience.

¹⁴ Therefore He says: “Wake up, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine on you.” ¹⁵ See then that you walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,

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

³² This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.

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

¹¹ having been filled with the fruits of righteousness that are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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.

¹³ because God Himself is the One at work in you, both to will and to produce, for His good pleasure.

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.

³⁰ because for the work of Christ he came close to death, not regarding his life, to complete what was lacking in your service toward me.

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

⁶ with respect to zeal, persecuting the Church; with respect to the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.

¹⁰ so that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death,

²⁰ But our citizenship is in Heaven, and it is from there that we eagerly await our Deliverer, the Lord Jesus Christ; ²¹ who will transform the body of our humiliation so that it will be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working by which He is indeed able to subject all things to Himself.

²¹ who will transform the body of our humiliation so that it will be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working by which He is indeed able to subject all things to Himself.

¹³ I can handle anything through Christ who strengthens me.

¹⁷ Not that I want the gift, but I want the fruit that is being added to your account.

¹⁸ Also, He is the Head of the body, the Church. He is Beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that He may be preeminent in everything,

²³ if, that is, you continue in the faith established and firm, not drifting away from the hope of the Gospel, that you heard and that was proclaimed in all the creation under the heaven, of which I, Paul, became a servant.

²⁸ whom we proclaim, warning every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ. ²⁹ It is to this end that I labor, striving according to His working that works through me with power.

⁴ Now I say this so that no one may deceive you with specious arguments. ⁵ For although in fact I am physically absent, yet my spirit is with you, rejoicing as I observe your orderliness and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

⁷ having been rooted and being built up in Him and being established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

¹² having been buried with Him in the baptism. In Him you were also raised together through your faith in the productive power of the God who raised Him from among the dead.

¹ Furthermore, since you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, sitting at God’s right; ² set your mind on the things above, not on those upon the earth, ³ because you died and your life has been hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ Whenever Christ, our life, is revealed then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

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

⁹ Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old man with his practices ¹⁰ and have put on the new one, who is being renewed into real knowledge according to the image of his creator, ¹¹ where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all and in all.

³ continually remembering before our God and Father your work for the Faith and your labor coming from the Love and your perseverance based on the Hope, our Lord Jesus Christ being their source,

⁶ Yes you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the Word with the Holy Spirit’s joy, in spite of severe affliction,

¹³ Another reason we give thanks to God continually is that when you received from us the spoken word of God, you welcomed it not as the word of men but, as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed operative in you who believe.

¹⁹ For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Is it not precisely you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?

³ that no one be unsettled by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.

⁵ Yes, that’s why, no longer standing it, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had successfully tempted you and our labor come to be for nothing.

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;

¹² And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love toward each other and toward all, just as we also do toward you,

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

⁵ not in lustful passion (like the heathen who don’t know God);

¹³ Now then, brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who have ‘fallen asleep’, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

¹³ Now then, brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who have ‘fallen asleep’, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. ¹⁴ Because since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, just so will God bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.

¹⁴ Because since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, just so will God bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.

¹⁴ Because since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, just so will God bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him. ¹⁵ For this we say to you by a word of the Lord, that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will absolutely not precede those who have fallen asleep;

¹⁵ For this we say to you by a word of the Lord, that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will absolutely not precede those who have fallen asleep; ¹⁶ because the Lord Himself—with a commanding shout, with the archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet—will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first;

¹⁶ because the Lord Himself—with a commanding shout, with the archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet—will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first; ¹⁷ then we who are still alive, who are left, will be snatched up together with them in clouds to meet the Lord in the air. In precisely this way we will always be with the Lord.

³ We are obligated to always give thanks to God about you, brothers, and properly so, because your faith is really growing, and the love of each and every one of you towards each other keeps increasing;

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.

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.

¹⁵ So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.

¹⁷ encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and work.

⁶ Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who behaves irresponsibly and not according to the tradition that they received from us.

¹³ I, who was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and arrogant; but I was shown mercy, because being ignorant I did it in unbelief; ¹⁴ the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Here is a trustworthy word, worthy of total acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am chief;

¹⁵ Here is a trustworthy word, worthy of total acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am chief; ¹⁶ precisely for this reason I was shown mercy, that in me, the ‘chief’, Jesus Christ might display all his forbearance, as an example for those who are going to rely on Him into eternal life.

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!

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;

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, ¹⁰ but has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who by means of the Gospel destroyed the death and brought life and immortality to light;

¹² That is why I am suffering these things, yet I am not ashamed because I know in whom I have believed and am certain that He is able to guard my deposit until that Day.

⁴ No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the affairs of civilian life; he wants to please the one who enlisted him.

¹⁶ But shun godless, empty chatter, because those who do it will become increasingly godless, ¹⁷ and their word will spread like gangrene—among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, ¹⁸ who have wandered away from the Truth, saying that the resurrection has already occurred; and they overturn the faith of some.

¹⁸ who have wandered away from the Truth, saying that the resurrection has already occurred; and they overturn the faith of some.

¹² In fact, any one who desires to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted;

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.

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.

¹³ On the other hand, to which of the angels did He ever say, “Sit on my right until I place your enemies as a stool under your feet”?

¹ So then, we really must pay the utmost attention to the things we have heard, so that we not drift away.

⁸ You subjected all things under his feet.” It follows that in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not so subjected. However, we do not yet see everything subjected to him, at present.

¹⁴ Since, then, the children have flesh and blood as their share, He\up6 [S]\up0 Himself likewise partook of the same, in order that through His death He might abolish the one who had the power of death—that is, the devil—

¹⁴ Since, then, the children have flesh and blood as their share, He\up6 [S]\up0 Himself likewise partook of the same, in order that through His death He might abolish the one who had the power of death—that is, the devil— ¹⁵ and set free these [the children] who during their whole lifetime were subject to slavery through fear of death.

⁶ but Christ is faithful as a Son over His house, whose house are we, if, that is, we hold fast the confidence, even the boast, of the Hope firm to the end.

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

¹⁴ Therefore, since we have a Great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the Confession.

¹ Now every high priest taken from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,

³ Because of this he must offer sacrifices for his own sins as well, just as he does for the people’s.

¹¹ concerning whom we have much to say, but it is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing. ¹² Really, because although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary principles of God’s oracles all over again; you have come to the point of needing milk, not solid food!

¹⁰ Because God is not unjust so as to ignore your work, even the labor of love you have invested in His name, in that you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.

²³ Also, there have been many priests because death prevented them from continuing in office; ²⁴ while He\up6 [S]\up0, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. ²⁵ Therefore He is able to save absolutely those who come to God through Him, since He always lives and can intercede on their behalf. ²⁶ Now such a High Priest was fitting for us—holy, innocent, undefiled, having been set apart from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens— ²⁷ who, unlike those high priests, does not need to offer up daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; because He did this once for all when He offered up Himself. ²⁸ The Law appoints as high priest men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, that came after the Law, appointed Son, forever perfect.

²² In fact, according to the Law nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission. ²³ So then, it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with such, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than those. ²⁴ For Christ did not enter into Holy Places made by hands, mere copies of the true ones, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in God’s presence on our behalf; ²⁵ but not in order to offer Himself repeatedly, like the high priest who entered the Most Holy Place year by year with another’s blood ²⁶ —otherwise He would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world; but now, once for all at the end of the ages, He has been revealed to nullify sin by the sacrifice of Himself. ²⁷ Also, inasmuch as men are destined to die but once, after which the judgment,

²⁷ Also, inasmuch as men are destined to die but once, after which the judgment, 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.

⁴ because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. ⁵ Therefore, upon coming into the world He says: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You prepared a body for me; ⁶ with burnt offerings and sin offerings You were not pleased. ⁷ Then I said, ‘Yes indeed, I have come to do Your will, O God—thus it is written about me in the scroll of the book.’” ⁸ First He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor were You pleased with them” (which are offered according to the Law), ⁹ then He says, “Yes indeed, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He removes the first in order to establish the second. ¹⁰ By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. ¹¹ Now every priest has stood ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices that can never take away sins; ¹² but He Himself, having offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, sat down at God’s right.

¹² but He Himself, having offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, sat down at God’s right.

¹² but He Himself, having offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, sat down at God’s right. ¹³ Since that time He is waiting until His enemies are placed as a footstool for His feet,

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

¹⁵ taking care that no one come short of the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springing up cause trouble and thereby many be defiled,

¹⁵ Through Him therefore, at all times, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God —the fruit of lips that identify with His name. ¹⁶ (But don’t forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.)

²⁰ Now may the God of peace—who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep— ²¹ equip you for every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

²⁶ If anyone among you thinks he is religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, his religion is useless.

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?

¹⁷ Thus also that faith, if it does not have works, is dead, being by itself.

²⁰ But you need to know, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is dead!

²⁶ For just as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has given us another birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead, ⁴ into an imperishable and undefiled and unfading inheritance, already reserved in the heavens for you,

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.

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.

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.

¹⁸ Because Christ also suffered on account of sins, once for all, the righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God; having been put to death, to be sure, in flesh but having been made alive in spirit;

²² who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

⁷ The end of all things has approached; therefore be serious and self-controlled in your praying.

¹² I have written to you briefly by our faithful brother Silvanus, as I consider him, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

⁴ through which He has granted to us such precious and extraordinary promises, so that through these you may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped the depravity that is in the world because of lust. ⁵ So for this very reason, making every effort, to your faith add excellence, and to the excellence knowledge, ⁶ and to the knowledge self-control, and to the self-control perseverance, and to the perseverance godliness, ⁷ and to the godliness brotherly affection, and to the brotherly affection love. ⁸ Because with these things existing and increasing in you, it makes you to be neither useless nor unfruitful in the real knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For he who lacks these things is blind, being so myopic, having forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

² And many will follow their licentious ways, because of which the way of the Truth will be defamed.

¹² But these, as unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct made to be caught and destroyed, spouting off in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed by their own depravity,

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, ¹⁹ promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. ²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the real knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter circumstances have become worse for them than the first ones.

⁴ and saying: “Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”

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.

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

¹⁷ You therefore, dear ones, being forewarned, be on guard lest, being carried away by the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness. 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.

¹ That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have witnessed with our eyes, that which we contemplated and our hands handled with reference to the word of the Life ² —oh yes, the Life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and declare to you that eternal Life who was in the presence of the Father and was manifested to us— 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.

² also, He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; not concerning ours only but also concerning those of the whole world.

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

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?

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.

¹⁰ But these speak abusively against whatever they do not understand, while whatever they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals—by these things they are ruined.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins with His own blood

¹⁸ even the Living One—I became dead, to be sure, and now I am living for ever and ever! Oh yes!! And I have the keys of Death and of Hades!

² And I saw the seven angels who stood before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

¹³ And I saw and heard an eagle flying in midheaven saying with a loud voice, three times; “Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth because of the remaining trumpet blasts of the three angels who are about to trumpet!”

¹⁰ And, they have tails like scorpions and stingers precisely in those tails! They have the capability to hurt the populace five months,

¹³ So the sixth angel trumpeted, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God ¹⁴ saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

⁹ So the great dragon was expelled, that ancient serpent, who is called Slanderer and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited world; he was thrown into the earth, and his angels were expelled with him.

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.

⁸ All who dwell on the earth will do obeisance to him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slaughtered from the foundation of the world. ⁹ If anyone has an ear, let him hear. ¹⁰ If anyone has captivity, he goes away. If anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints. ¹¹ Now I saw another beast of prey coming up out of the land, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. ¹² And he exercises all the authority of the first Beast in his presence; and he started to cause the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first Beast, whose mortal wound was healed. ¹³ And he performs great signs, including that fire should come down from heaven upon the earth before the people. ¹⁴ And he deceives my own people, those dwelling on the earth, by the signs that it was given to him to perform before the Beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the Beast who had the sword wound and lived.

¹³ I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on’ (“Yes” says the Spirit) ‘so that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow along with them’.”

² And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who prevailed over the Beast and over his image and over the number of his name, standing on the glassy sea, having harps of God. ³ They sing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: “Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

³ Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood, like a dead person’s; so every living soul in the sea died.

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. ¹² Now His eyes were a flame of fire and on His head were many diadems, having names written, besides a written name that no one knows except Himself; ¹³ and He was clothed with a robe that had been dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. ¹⁴ And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white, clean, followed Him on white horses. ¹⁵ And out of His mouth goes a sharp, two-edged sword, so that with it He may strike the nations. And He Himself will shepherd them with a rod of iron. And He Himself treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God, the Almighty. ¹⁶ And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh, King of kings and Lord of lords! ¹⁷ And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, “Come, gather together to the great dinner of God, ¹⁸ so that you may eat flesh of kings and flesh of commanders and flesh of the mighty and flesh of horses along with their riders, even the flesh of all, both free and slave, both small and great.” ¹⁹ And I saw the Beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the One riding the horse and against His army. ²⁰ So the Beast was captured, and with him the False prophet, the one who performed signs in his presence (by which he had deceived those who had received the mark of the Beast and those who worshipped his image). The two were thrown alive into the Lake of Fire that burns with brimstone. ²¹ And the rest were killed by the sword that proceeds from the mouth of the One riding the horse. And all the birds were filled with their flesh.

² And he seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is a slanderer, even Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years; ³ he threw him into the Abyss and locked and sealed it over him so that he should not deceive the nations any more until the thousand years were finished. And after these years he must be loosed for a short time. ⁴ And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them; also, I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus and on account of the Word of God, even those who had not worshipped the Beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

¹⁰ And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the Lake of Fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the False prophet also are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. ¹¹ Then I saw a tremendous white throne and the One who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away; and no place was found for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne; and books were opened. And another Book was opened, namely, of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things that were written in the books. ¹³ The ocean gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them; and they were judged each one according to their works.

¹³ The ocean gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them; and they were judged each one according to their works. ¹⁴ And Death and Hades were thrown into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death, the Lake of Fire.

¹⁴ And Death and Hades were thrown into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death, the Lake of Fire.

¹⁴ And Death and Hades were thrown into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death, the Lake of Fire. ¹⁵ And if anyone was not found written in the Book of Life he was thrown into the Lake of Fire.

⁴ And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there will be no more death nor sorrow nor crying nor pain —they will exist no more because the first things have gone.”

⁶ Then He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the one who thirsts I will give of the spring of the water of Life freely.

¹ And he showed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

¹⁷ Both the Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’ And let whoever hears say, ‘Come!’ And let whoever thirsts come; whoever wants to, let him take the water of life free of charge.