1 John 3 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Consider how great a love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God! The world does not acknowledge us for this reason: it did not acknowledge Him. ² Dear ones, right now we are children of God and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is ³ —everyone who has this hope upon him purifies himself, even as He is pure. ⁴ Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness as well; yes, sin is lawlessness. ⁵ And you know that He was revealed in order to remove our sins—in Him there is no sin. ⁶ Whoever is abiding in Him does not sin; indeed, whoever is sinning has neither seen Him nor known Him. ⁷ Dear children, let no one mislead you; he who keeps doing righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. ⁸ He who keeps doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose: to undo the devil’s works. ⁹ Whoever has been begotten by God does not commit sin, because His seed remains in him; actually, he is not able to sin, because he has been begotten by God. ¹⁰ In this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: whoever isn’t doing righteousness is not of God, also whoever isn’t loving his brother. ¹¹ Because this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another ¹² —not like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own works were evil, while those of his brother were righteous. ¹³ My brothers, don’t be surprised if the world hates you. ¹⁴ We know that we have transferred out of the death into the life because we love our brothers; he who doesn’t love his brother remains in the death. ¹⁵ Whoever is hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding within himself. ¹⁶ We know the Love by this: He laid down His life in our behalf; we also are obligated to lay down our lives in behalf of our brothers. ¹⁷ Now whoever has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart toward him—how does the love of God abide in him? ¹⁸ My dear children, let us not love in word or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth ¹⁹ —yes, by this we know that we are of the Truth and may put our hearts at ease in His presence, ²⁰ and that, if our heart should condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all. ²¹ Dear ones, if our heart doesn’t condemn us, we have confidence toward God, ²² and whatever we may ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. ²³ Now this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded. ²⁴ He who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. This is how we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit whom He gave us.

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

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

²⁰ For I say to you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees you will absolutely not enter the kingdom of the heavens! ²¹ “You have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘You shall not murder, so whoever murders will be liable to the judgment’. ²² But I say to you that whoever gets angry with his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Numbskull!’ will be liable to the council. But whoever says, ‘You absolute idiot!’ will be liable to hell fire.

²⁸ But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

⁴⁸ Therefore, you be perfect just as your Father in the heavens is perfect.

⁷ “Keep asking, and it will be given to you; keep seeking, and you will find; keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. ⁸ For each one asking, receives; and the one seeking, finds; and to the one knocking it will be opened.

¹⁸ A good tree cannot produce evil fruits, nor can a rotten tree produce good fruits.

²⁴ “Therefore whoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will compare him to a prudent man who built his house on the bedrock; ²⁵ and the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew and attacked that house; and it did not fall, because it was founded on the bedrock.

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

¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the malignant one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart—this is the seed sown alongside the road.

³⁸ The field is the world; as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, while the tares are the sons of the malignant one.

⁵ While he was still speaking a brilliant cloud overshadowed them and, double wow, a Voice came out of the cloud saying: “This is my beloved Son in whom I am always well pleased. Hear Him!”

²⁸ just like the Son of the Man—He did not come to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

²² And anything whatever you may ask in the believing prayer, you will receive.”

³⁹ And the second is like it, ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’

³⁵ —so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel up to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

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.

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.’ ⁴¹ “Then He will also say to those on His left: ‘Go away from me, you accursed ones, into the eternal fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels. ⁴² For I was hungry and you did not give me food; I was thirsty and you did not give me drink; ⁴³ I was a stranger and you did not take me in; I was naked and you did not clothe me; I was sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ ⁴⁴ Then they also will answer saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister to you?’ ⁴⁵ Then He will answer them saying, ‘Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, neither did you do it to me’.

²³ So the governor said, “But, what evil did He do?” But they kept yelling all the more saying, “Let Him be crucified!!”

²⁴ saying: “Hey, what do you want with us, Jesus Natsarene?! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”

¹⁹ So Herodias nursed a grudge against him and wanted to kill him; but she couldn’t,

⁷ With that a cloud was covering them and a VOICE came out of the cloud: “This is my Son, the beloved. Listen to Him!”

²⁴ That is why I say to you, whatever things you ask for in prayer, believe that you receive, and you will have them.

¹³ And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake, yet he who endures to the end, he will be saved.

⁷⁵ in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

¹¹ In answer he said to them, “He who has two coats, let him share with him who has none; and he who has food should do likewise”.

²² Blessed are you whenever men hate you, and whenever they exclude you and heap insults on you and trash your name as ‘malignant’, for the Son of Man’s sake.

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

¹⁸ So He said to them: “I watched Satan fall like lightning out of heaven.

⁹ “So I say to you: ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. ¹⁰ Because everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. ¹¹ And which father among you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if a fish, will he give him a snake instead of a fish? ¹² Or if he asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion? ¹³ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation!

²⁴ because this son of mine was dead and came to life; he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

³² But it was right that we celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and came to life; he was lost and is found.’”

¹⁷ And you will be hated by all because of my name.

⁴¹ And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward for our deeds; but this man did nothing wrong.”

⁴⁷ Well upon seeing what had happened, the centurion glorified God, saying, “Certainly this man was righteous!”

¹² But, as many as did receive Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe into His name: ¹³ who were begotten, not by blood, nor by the desire of the flesh, nor by the will of a man, but by God .

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!

³¹ I did not know Him; but so that He should be revealed to Israel, that is why I came baptizing with water.”

²⁴ But as for Jesus Himself, He did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew all men ²⁵ and that He had no need that anyone should testify about man, because He Himself knew what was in man.

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.”

⁷ Don’t be perplexed that I said to you, ‘You (pl) need to be begotten from above.’

¹⁶ Because God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted but should have eternal life.

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.”

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.

²⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe into the One whom He sent.”

⁵⁴ Whoever chews my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁵⁵ Really, my flesh is genuine food and my blood is genuine drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever chews my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him.

⁷ The world can’t hate you, but does hate me, because I testify about it that its works are malignant.

⁹ Now upon hearing this, and being convicted by their conscience, they began to go out one by one, starting with the older ones down to the least. So only Jesus was left, with the woman in the center.

²⁹ And the One who sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, because I always do the things that please Him.”

⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and it is the desires of your father that you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks the lie he speaks from his own things, because he is a liar and the father of lying .

⁴⁶ Which of you convicts me of sin? So if I speak the truth, why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷ The one who is of God hears God’s words; that’s why you do not hear, because you are not of God.”

³¹ Now we know that God doesn’t listen to sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, to him He listens.

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

²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch out of my Father’s hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.”

³² Jesus answered them: “Many good works I have shown you from my father. For which one of them are you stoning me?”

³¹ Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.

³⁴ “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you —that you also love one another.

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

³⁵ By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

¹ “Do not let your (pl) heart be distressed; you believe into God and you believe into me.

¹³ Further, whatever you (pl) may ask in my name, that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

²¹ The one who has my commandments and keeps them, he is the one who loves me. Now the one who loves me will be loved by my Father; and I will love him, and reveal myself to him. ²² Judas (not the Iscariot) says to Him, “Lord, just how is it that You are going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?” ²³ Jesus answered and said to him: “If anyone loves me he will keep my word. So my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

³⁰ “I will no longer talk much with you, because the ruler of the world is approaching; actually, he has nothing in me.

⁴ Abide in me and I in you. Just as a branch is incapable of producing fruit by itself, except it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me. ⁵ “I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who abides in me and I in him, he is the one who produces much fruit, because apart from me you are incapable of doing anything. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown out, like a branch, and dries up; well they gather such and throw them into the fire, and he is burned up. ⁷ If you abide in me and my sayings abide in you, you will ask whatever you desire and it will happen for you.

⁷ If you abide in me and my sayings abide in you, you will ask whatever you desire and it will happen for you.

⁷ If you abide in me and my sayings abide in you, you will ask whatever you desire and it will happen for you. ⁸ My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit; and you will become disciples to me . ⁹ “Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹² This is my commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you.

¹² This is my commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you. ¹³ No one has greater love than this, that someone should lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁷ These things I command you so that you love one another. ¹⁸ “When the world hates you, you can be sure that it has hated me first. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would be fond of its own. So because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, that’s why the world hates you.

¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would be fond of its own. So because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, that’s why the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his owner.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹ Now they will do all of these things to you because of my name, in that they do not know the One who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be having sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ The one who hates me hates my Father too. ²⁴ If I hadn’t done among them the works that no one else has done, they would not be having sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ However, this was so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’

² —they will excommunicate you; indeed, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering God service! ³ And they will do these things because they haven’t known either the Father or me.

¹¹ then about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

²³ In that day you will not question me about anything.” Most assuredly I say to you that whatever you ask the Father in my name He will give you. ²⁴ Until now you have not asked anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.

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!”

³ Now eternal life is this: that they may know You, the only true God, and the One whom You sent—Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ “I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

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

²⁴ “Father, those whom You have given to me, I desire that they also may be with me where I am, so that they may observe my glory, which You have given me, because You loved me before the founding of the world. ²⁵ Righteous Father! Indeed the world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent me.

³⁷ So Pilate said to Him, “You are a king then?” Jesus answered: “As you say, I am a king; for this I was born. And for this I came into the world, to testify to the Truth. Everyone who is of the Truth hears my voice.” ³⁸ Pilate says to Him, “What is truth?” Upon saying this he went out to the Jews again and says to them: “I find no crime in him at all.” ³⁹ “Now we have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover; so do you want me to release the King of the Jews to you?” ⁴⁰ Then they all cried out saying, “Not this fellow, but Barabbas!” Well, Barabbas was a bandit!

¹⁷ The third time He says to him, “Simon, son of Jonah, are you fond of me?” Peter was grieved in that the third time He said to him, “Are you fond of me?” and said to Him: “Lord, you know all things. You know that I’m fond of you!” Jesus says to him: “Feed my sheep.

¹² So upon observing this Peter responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why are you marveling at this, or why are you staring at us as if we have made him walk by our own power or godliness?

²⁰ because we cannot help but speak the things we have seen and heard.”

³³ Well upon hearing it they became infuriated and started plotting to kill them.

⁵² Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers;

³⁵ but in every ethnic nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is acceptable to Him.

¹⁰ said: “O full of all deceit and all trickery, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

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

³¹ So they said, “Believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your household”.

³⁰ Such times of ignorance God did indeed overlook, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent,

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

²⁸ So take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers, to shepherd the congregation of the Lord and God which He purchased with His own blood.

¹² And when it was day, some of the Jews formed a conspiracy by binding themselves with a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they had destroyed Paul.

¹⁴ They came to the chief priests and the elders and said: “We have bound ourselves with a terrible curse not to taste anything until we have killed Paul.

⁶ who will repay each one according to his works: ⁷ to those who seek for glory, honor and incorruption, by persevering in doing good—eternal life; ⁸ but to those who, due to self-seeking, are disobeying the truth (while obeying the unrighteousness)—fury and wrath,

¹³ For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified ¹⁴ (indeed, whenever the ethnic nations that don’t have law do by nature the things of the law, these, although not having law, are a law to themselves; ¹⁵ who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their reasonings among themselves accusing or even excusing)

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.

²⁴ being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; 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; ²⁶ to demonstrate His righteousness at this present time, so as to be just, Himself, and the justifier of him who is of the Faith of Jesus.

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

²¹ being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform

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

⁸ but God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us!

² Of course not! How can we who died to sin keep on living in it?

¹⁶ Do you not know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey them as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether of sin into death, or of obedience into righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be to God that although you used to be the slaves of the sin you wholeheartedly obeyed that pattern of doctrine into which you were delivered. ¹⁸ So having been emancipated from the sin, you became enslaved to the righteousness.

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.

⁷ because the mind-set of the flesh represents enmity against God, since it does not submit to God’s law, nor indeed can it.

⁹ You, however, are not ‘in flesh’ but ‘in Spirit’, if indeed God’s Spirit dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 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. ¹² So then, brothers, we have no obligation to the flesh, to live according to it; ¹³ because if you live according to the flesh, you are about to die; but if you put to death the practices of the body, by the Spirit, you will live. ¹⁴ Because as many as are led by God’s Spirit, these are God’s sons

¹⁴ Because as many as are led by God’s Spirit, these are God’s sons ¹⁵ —you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fear all over again, but you did receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

¹⁵ —you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fear all over again, but you did receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!” ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children ¹⁷ —if children, also heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ (if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him). ¹⁸ I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is going to be revealed in us.

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.

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.

³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up on behalf of us all, how shall He not with Him also graciously give us all things?

³⁸ Because I am persuaded that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present nor things to come,

²⁵ As He also says in Hosea: “I will call the ‘not my people’, ‘my people’, and the ‘not loved’ (f), ‘loved’.” ²⁶ “And it will be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people’, there they will be called sons of the living God.”

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

¹² And again, Isaiah says: “The Root of Jesse will appear, even He who rises up to rule over the nations; the Gentiles will place their hope on Him.”

⁴ who risked their own necks for my life; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the congregations of the Gentiles.

²⁰ The God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet! The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

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

¹⁶ Do you (pl) not know that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

⁴ For I am conscious of nothing against myself, although I am not justified by this; it is the Lord who judges me.

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,

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

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

¹² Because now we see blurred images as in a metal mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also am fully known.

²⁴ But if everyone is prophesying, and an unbeliever or outsider comes in, he is reproved by all, he is examined by all. ²⁵ And thus the secrets of his heart are exposed, and so, falling on his face he will worship God, affirming, “Truly God is among you.”

⁴⁹ And just as we have borne the image of the earth-man, we should also bear the image of the heaven-man.

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.

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.

⁶ because the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness is He who shined in our hearts to give the light that comes from the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ because our light, momentary affliction is working out for us an eternal and limitless measure of glory,

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.

⁶ So we are always confident, even knowing that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord’s home ⁷ —we walk by faith, not by sight— ⁸ indeed, we are confident in preferring to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

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.

¹⁶ Further, what agreement can a temple of God have with idols? Because you are a temple of the living God, just as God said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them; I will be their God and they will by my people.”

¹⁸ And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the LORD Almighty.”

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

⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

¹⁴ but by way of balance—at this juncture your surplus alleviates their lack, so that later their surplus may alleviate your lack—yes, that there be balance; ¹⁵ as it is written: “He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little.”

⁵ So I considered it necessary to urge the brothers to go to you in advance and finish preparing the ‘blessing’ you had promised, that it be ready, representing generosity and not stinginess. ⁶ Now then, whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. ⁷ Each one should give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a glad giver. ⁸ Further, God is able to make all ‘grace’ abound toward you, that always having all sufficiency in everything you may abound to every good work; ⁹ as it is written: “He has distributed around, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.”

²¹ that when I come again my God may not humble me before you, and I will mourn for many who have previously sinned and not repented of the impurity and fornication and licentiousness which they practiced.

²⁶ So all of you are sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus.

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

⁵ so that He might redeem those under law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. ⁶ And because you are sons, God sent out the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, calling, “Abba, Father”.

⁶ And because you are sons, God sent out the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, calling, “Abba, Father”.

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

¹⁷ Because the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh; they oppose each other; it follows that you may not do the things that you wish.

²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, fits of anger, selfish ambition, dissentions, factions, ²¹ envyings, murders, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like; about which I am warning you beforehand, as, in fact, I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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

² Bear one another’s heavy burdens, and so fulfill the law of the Christ.

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 ⁸ —he who sows to his own flesh will reap deterioration from that flesh; he who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from that Spirit.

¹⁵ Because of this, having heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,

¹ He\up6 [F]\up0 raised you up as well, when you were dead in your transgressions and sins, ² in which you once walked, according to the Aeon of this world, the ruler of the domain of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of the disobedience;

⁴ But God—being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in our transgressions—made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)

⁵ even when we were dead in our transgressions—made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)

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

¹ So then, as the prisoner in the Lord I urge you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, ² with all humility and courtesy, with patience, bearing with one another in love, ³ taking pains to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace.

¹⁵ rather, speaking the truth in love, let us in all things grow up into Him who is the Head, Christ;

¹ Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children, 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.

⁹ (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives just as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up on her behalf,

²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives just as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up on her behalf, ²⁶ in order that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of the water: in a word, ²⁷ that He might present her—the splendid Church—to Himself, not having a blemish or a wrinkle or any such thing, but that she be holy and blameless.

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

¹⁷ Yes, even if I am a libation being poured on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

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.

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.

¹⁸ I have received everything and have plenty; I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

⁴ (having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love toward all the saints), ⁵ because of the hope that is being reserved for you in the heavens, of which you have already heard through the Word of the Truth

¹⁰ in order for you to walk worthily of the Lord, pleasing Him in every way, being fruitful in every good work and growing into the real knowledge of God;

¹⁵ having stripped the principalities and the authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, having triumphed over them by it [the cross].

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.

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,

¹⁴ For you, brothers, became imitators of God’s congregations in Christ Jesus, the ones in Judea, in that you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen that they did from the Jews

⁹ Now about brotherly love you do not need to be written to, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope, by grace,

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

¹⁵ Here is a trustworthy word, worthy of total acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am chief;

⁸ So I desire that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument.

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!

¹⁷ Command those who are rich in this present world not to be haughty, nor to rely upon the uncertainty of riches but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; ¹⁸ they are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous sharers

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.

¹⁴ Guard the good deposit by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

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

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

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

⁷ so that having been justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

¹¹ knowing that such a person has been perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned.

³ who being the projection of His glory and the very image of His essence, and sustaining all things by the expression of His\up6 [S]\up0 own power, when He had by Himself provided purification for our sins He sat down on the highest Majesty’s right,

⁸ while to the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; ‘Scepter of Uprightness’ is the scepter of Your kingdom.

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—

¹³ Nothing in all creation is hidden from His sight; rather all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

¹⁵ For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but He was tested in all points, in similar ways, without sin. ¹⁶ So let us approach the throne of grace with confidence, that we may receive mercy and find grace, for timely help.

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

¹³ Now when God made a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself

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

² to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all (first, his name means ‘king of righteousness’, and then again ‘king of Salem’, which means ‘king of peace’),

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—

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.

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.

²² let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled from an evil conscience and our body having been washed with clean water.

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than did Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying concerning his gifts; and by means of it he still speaks, even though being dead.

¹³ These all died believing—not having received the promises, but having seen and welcomed them from a distance, thus confessing that they were aliens and sojourners on the earth.

¹⁴ Pursue peace with all, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord;

²⁴ to Jesus, Mediator of a new covenant, and to a blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

¹ Let brotherly love continue.

¹⁶ (But don’t forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.)

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.

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

¹⁵ Then the craving, upon conceiving, gives birth to sin, and the sin, upon completion, delivers death.

²² Further, become word doers and not just hearers, deceiving yourselves.

⁹ but if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. ¹⁰ For whoever will keep the whole law, yet stumble in one point, has become guilty of all. ¹¹ Because He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

¹⁵ If a brother or sister is actually naked, and is destitute of the daily food,

¹⁵ If a brother or sister is actually naked, and is destitute of the daily food, ¹⁶ and someone among you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you (pl) do not give them the things needed for the body, what is the benefit?

¹⁹ You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder!)

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

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? So whoever may want to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

¹ Come now, you rich, howl as you weep over your distresses that are coming upon you! ² Your wealth has decayed and your clothes have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire—you stored it up for the last days.

¹⁵ And the prayer of faith will deliver the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sin, it will be forgiven him. ¹⁶ Confess your transgressions to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous one, being operative, is very powerful.

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

¹⁸ knowing that it was not with perishable things (silver or gold) that you were redeemed from the futile way of life handed down by your forefathers,

²⁰ who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake,

²² Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth through the Spirit, resulting in sincere brotherly love, you must love one another fervently from a pure heart, ²³ having been begotten again, not from a corruptible seed but an incorruptible, through the living Word of God that remains valid forever.

²² who did not commit sin, neither was deceit found in His mouth;

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

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

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;

⁴ in regard to which they are disagreeably surprised at your not running with them into the same flood of debauchery, reviling you;

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

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.

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

⁴ Because if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but delivered them into chains of darkness, confining them in Tartarus to be reserved for judgment,

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

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—

⁵ Now this is the message that we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and there is no darkness at all in Him.

⁷ But if we walk in the light just as He is in the light we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. ⁸ If we claim that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the Truth is not in us.

¹ My dear children, I am writing these things to you so that you not sin; if someone does sin, we have an Advocate in the Father’s presence, righteous Jesus Christ—

³ Now by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. ⁴ He who says, “I have come to know Him”, yet doesn’t keep His commandments, is a liar and the Truth is not in him.

⁶ He who claims to be abiding in Him really needs to act just like He acted. ⁷ Brothers, I am not writing a new commandment to you but an old one that you have had from the beginning; this old commandment is the word that you have heard from the beginning. ⁸ Again, I am writing a new commandment to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining.

⁸ Again, I am writing a new commandment to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining. ⁹ He who claims to be in the Light while hating his brother is in the darkness until now.

⁹ He who claims to be in the Light while hating his brother is in the darkness until now. ¹⁰ He who keeps loving his brother is staying in the Light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

¹⁰ He who keeps loving his brother is staying in the Light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him. ¹¹ But he who keeps hating his brother is in the darkness and keeps walking in the darkness; he doesn’t know where he’s going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

¹³ —fathers, I am writing to you because you have come to know Him who is from the beginning; young men, I am writing to you because you have overcome the evil one; children, I am writing to you because you have come to know the Father— ¹⁴ fathers, I have written to you because you have come to know Him who is from the beginning; young men, I have written to you because you are strong, and the Word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

²⁶ I have written these things to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you;

²⁸ And now, dear children, do abide in Him, so that whenever He appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. ²⁹ If you have understood that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been begotten by Him.

¹ Consider how great a love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God! The world does not acknowledge us for this reason: it did not acknowledge Him. ² Dear ones, right now we are children of God and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is ³ —everyone who has this hope upon him purifies himself, even as He is pure.

⁵ And you know that He was revealed in order to remove our sins—in Him there is no sin.

⁷ Dear children, let no one mislead you; he who keeps doing righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. ⁸ He who keeps doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose: to undo the devil’s works.

⁸ He who keeps doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose: to undo the devil’s works.

⁸ He who keeps doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose: to undo the devil’s works. ⁹ Whoever has been begotten by God does not commit sin, because His seed remains in him; actually, he is not able to sin, because he has been begotten by God.

⁹ Whoever has been begotten by God does not commit sin, because His seed remains in him; actually, he is not able to sin, because he has been begotten by God. ¹⁰ In this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: whoever isn’t doing righteousness is not of God, also whoever isn’t loving his brother. ¹¹ Because this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another

¹⁴ We know that we have transferred out of the death into the life because we love our brothers; he who doesn’t love his brother remains in the death.

¹⁴ We know that we have transferred out of the death into the life because we love our brothers; he who doesn’t love his brother remains in the death. ¹⁵ Whoever is hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding within himself.

²¹ Dear ones, if our heart doesn’t condemn us, we have confidence toward God, ²² and whatever we may ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. ²³ Now this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded.

²³ Now this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded. ²⁴ He who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. This is how we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit whom He gave us.

³ and every spirit that doesn’t acknowledge Jesus Christ as having come in flesh is not of God; indeed, this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming—actually, it is already in the world right now. ⁴ Dear children, you are of God and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than the one in the world.

⁴ Dear children, you are of God and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than the one in the world.

⁶ We are of God: he who knows God listens to us; he who is not of God doesn’t listen to us—by this we know the Spirit of the Truth and the spirit of the deception. ⁷ Dear ones, we must love one another, because the love is of God and everyone who loves has been begotten by God and knows God.

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

⁸ He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, because God is love. ⁹ God’s love was made real within us by this: God sent His only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through Him.

⁹ God’s love was made real within us by this: God sent His only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through Him.

⁹ God’s love was made real within us by this: God sent His only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through Him. ¹⁰ In this is the love, not that we loved God but that He loved us—He even sent His Son as the propitiation for our sins.

¹⁰ In this is the love, not that we loved God but that He loved us—He even sent His Son as the propitiation for our sins.

¹⁰ In this is the love, not that we loved God but that He loved us—He even sent His Son as the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Dear ones, since God loved us in this way we are obligated to love one another, really.

¹¹ Dear ones, since God loved us in this way we are obligated to love one another, really. ¹² No one has ever looked at God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is being perfected in us.

¹² No one has ever looked at God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is being perfected in us.

¹² No one has ever looked at God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is being perfected in us. ¹³ By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

¹³ By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. ¹⁴ Yes, we have observed and do testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God. ¹⁶ Yes, we have come to know and believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in the love abides in God, and God in him. ¹⁷ The love is perfected with us for this: that we may have confidence in the Day of judgment, since just as He is so are we in this world.

²⁰ If anyone says, “I love God”, while hating his brother, he is a liar. Well, how can he love God whom he hasn’t seen, while not loving his brother whom he has seen?

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

²¹ Indeed, this commandment we have from Him: he who loves God must love his brother also.

¹ Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten by God; also, whoever loves the Begetter should love the one begotten by Him as well. ² In this we know that we love the children of God, whenever we love God and keep His commandments.

⁴ in that whatever has been begotten by God overcomes the world; this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

¹³ I have written these things to you who believe into the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life, really believing into the name of God’s Son. ¹⁴ Now this is the confidence that we have toward Him: if we should ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

¹⁷ All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death. ¹⁸ We know that whoever has been begotten by God does not sin; rather the one who was begotten by God preserves himself, and the evil one does not touch him. ¹⁹ We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

¹⁹ We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. ²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the genuine God, and the Life eternal.

¹ The elder, to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth—and not I only, but also all who have known the truth— ² because of the Truth, who abides in us and will be with us into the age: ³ Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, will be with you in truth and love. ⁴ It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we received commandment from the Father. ⁵ And now I put a request to you, lady (not as though writing a new commandment to you, but one that we have from the beginning): that we love one another.

⁵ And now I put a request to you, lady (not as though writing a new commandment to you, but one that we have from the beginning): that we love one another. ⁶ And this is the love, that we live according to His commandments—this is the commandment, just as you heard from the beginning, that you should live according to it. ⁷ Now many deceivers have come into the world, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in flesh —this is the deceiver, even the Antichrist! ⁸ Look to yourselves, so that we not lose the things for which we worked but may receive a full reward. ⁹ Anyone who turns aside and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; but whoever continues in Christ’s teaching does have both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house; do not even tell him, “I wish you well,” ¹¹ because whoever tells him, “I wish you well,” participates in his malignant works. ¹² Although I had many things to write to you, I did not wish to do so with paper and ink; instead I hope to come to you and speak face to face, so that our joy may be complete. ¹³ The children of your elect sister greet you. Amen.

¹ The elder, to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth. ² Dear one, I pray for you to prosper in every way and to be healthy, just as your soul prospers. ³ Because it gave me great joy when some brothers came and testified to the truth about you, how you are walking in Truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in Truth. ⁵ Dear one, you are faithful in whatever you do for the brothers, and for the strangers ⁶ who testified to your love before the church—you will do well by sending them on their way in a manner worthy of God, ⁷ because it was for the sake of the Name that they went out, accepting nothing from pagans. ⁸ We therefore ought to welcome such, so that we may work together for the Truth. ⁹ I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who wants to dominate the others, does not acknowledge us. ¹⁰ So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, slandering us with malignant words. And not satisfied with that, not only does he himself not receive the brothers, but he forbids those who want to do so, kicking them out of the church. ¹¹ Dear one, do not imitate what is bad, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.

¹¹ Dear one, do not imitate what is bad, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God. ¹² Demetrius is well spoken of by everyone—even by the truth itself. Yes, we also speak well of him, and we know that our testimony is true. ¹³ I had many things to write, but I do not wish to write to you with pen and ink; ¹⁴ rather I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face. Peace to you. The friends here greet you. Greet the friends there by name.

⁶ And the angels who did not keep their proper domain but deserted their own dwelling He has kept bound in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

¹¹ Woe to them, because they have taken the way of Cain, have rushed into Balaam’s error for profit, and have destroyed themselves in Korah’s rebellion!

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

²³ And I will execute her children; and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will give to each one of you according to your works.

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

⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, even with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And upon seeing her I was tremendously impressed. ⁷ So the angel said to me: “Why are you impressed? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast, having the seven heads and the ten horns, that carries her.

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.

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.

¹⁵ And if anyone was not found written in the Book of Life he was thrown into the Lake of Fire.

⁷ He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be God to him and he will be a son to me. ⁸ But as for the cowardly and unbelieving and sinners and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters, and all who are false, their portion is in the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

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