Hebrews 12 Cross References - WPNT

¹ So then, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we too must run with endurance the race that is set before us, laying aside every impediment and the sin that so easily ensnares, ² looking unto Jesus, the Founder and Perfecter of the Faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured a cross, scorning its ignominy, and took His seat at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Do consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so as not to grow weary, losing courage in your souls. ⁴ In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed. ⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation that instructs you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the LORD’s discipline, nor lose heart when you are reproved by Him; ⁶ because whom the LORD loves He chastens, yes scourges every son whom He accepts.” ⁷ If you are enduring discipline, God is dealing with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not discipline? ⁸ But if you are without discipline (something everyone undergoes), then you are illegitimate and not sons. ⁹ Furthermore, we have had our human fathers as correctors and respected them. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? ¹⁰ Now they indeed disciplined us during a short period as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, so that we may partake of His holiness. ¹¹ Now no discipline seems to be pleasant at the time, but painful; yet afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised by it. ¹² Therefore strengthen the listless hands and weakened knees, ¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame not be turned aside but rather be healed. ¹⁴ Pursue peace with all, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord; 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, ¹⁶ that no one be a fornicator, or worldly like Esau, who in exchange for one meal gave up his birthright. ¹⁷ Because you do indeed know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing he was rejected; he found no place for a change of mind, though he sought it diligently with tears. ¹⁸ Now you have not come to a touchable mountain burning with fire, to blackness and darkness, to tempest; ¹⁹ to a trumpet blast and spoken words such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them ²⁰ (because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain it must be stoned!” ²¹ and the sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling!”); ²² but you have come to Mount Zion, even to the City of the Living God, Heavenly Jerusalem; to myriads of angels in festal gathering, ²³ to an assembly of firstborn ones who have been enrolled in heaven; to God, Judge of all; to the spirits of the perfected righteous; ²⁴ to Jesus, Mediator of a new covenant, and to a blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. ²⁵ See to it that you not refuse Him who speaks. Because if they did not escape who refused Him who gave divine warning on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from Him who warns from Heaven! ²⁶ Then His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth but also the heaven.” ²⁷ Now the ‘yet once more’ clearly indicates the removal of the things being shaken (created things), so that the unshakables may remain. ²⁸ Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us hold on to the grace by which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear; ²⁹ because our God is indeed a consuming fire.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. ⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

³⁵ nor by the earth, because it is a stool for His feet; nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.

¹⁶ You will know them by their fruits. Do people gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ Just so, every good tree produces good fruits, but the rotten tree produces evil fruits. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot produce evil fruits, nor can a rotten tree produce good fruits.

²³ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me you practitioners of lawlessness!’

⁴ And Jesus says to him, “See that you tell no one; but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a proof to them.”

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

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!

³⁷ “The one who is more devoted to father or mother than to me is not worthy of me, and the one who is more devoted to son or daughter than to me is not worthy of me; ³⁸ and he who does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

¹⁹ the Son of the Man came eating and drinking and they say, ‘Just look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Indeed, wisdom is vindicated by her children.”

²⁴ But upon hearing it the Pharisees said, “This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, ruler of the demons.”

² “Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread.”

⁹ Do you not yet perceive nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? ¹⁰ Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many hampers you took up?

¹⁶ So in answer Simon Peter said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!”

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.

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!”

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!” ²⁰ Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons approached Him, with her sons, and kneeling down she asked something from 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.”

¹⁵ But seeing the wonders that He did, and the children calling out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” the chief priests and the scribes became indignant ¹⁶ and said to Him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” So Jesus says to them: “Yes. Have you never read that ‘Out of the mouth of babies and nursing infants You have prepared praise for Yourself ’?”

²³ So He came into the temple, and as He was teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people approached Him saying, “By what kind of authority are you doing these things ?” and “Who gave you this authority?”

⁴⁶ And although they wanted to seize Him, they were afraid of the crowds, because they considered Him as a prophet.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might trap Him in some word.

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.

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

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

¹¹ Later the other virgins arrive too saying, ‘Lord, lord, open for us!’ ¹² But in answer he said, ‘Assuredly I say to you, I do not know you’.

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.

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.

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

⁶⁷ Then they spat in His face and punched Him, while others slapped Him ⁶⁸ saying, “Messiah, prophesy to us! Who is the one who hit you?”

²⁷ Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around Him. ²⁸ They stripped Him and put a scarlet cloak on Him. ²⁹ They plaited a crown out of thorns and put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and kneeling before Him they would mock Him saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” ³⁰ Spitting on Him they took the reed and hit Him repeatedly on the head. ³¹ After they had mocked Him they took the cloak off Him and put His own clothes back on; and they led Him away to be crucified. ³² Now as they went out they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon; they compelled him to carry His cross. ³³ Upon arriving at a place called Golgotha, which means ‘place of a skull’, ³⁴ they gave Him sour wine mixed with gall to drink; but having tasted it He would not drink. ³⁵ Having crucified Him they divided up His clothes by casting lots. ³⁶ And sitting down there they guarded Him. ³⁷ And they put the charge against Him over His head in writing: THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. ³⁸ Then they crucify two bandits with Him, one on His right and one on His left. ³⁹ And the passers-by kept blaspheming Him, wagging their heads ⁴⁰ and saying: “You who destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself!” “If you are ‘Son of God’, come down from the cross!” ⁴¹ Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the scribes and elders and Pharisees, said: ⁴² “He saved others; himself he cannot save!” “If he is ‘King of Israel’ let him come down from the cross now and we will believe him!” ⁴³ “He trusted in God; let Him rescue him now, if He wants him; for he said that he was the Son of God.” ⁴⁴ Even the bandits who were crucified with Him were reviling Him in the same way. ⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour a darkness came over all the land. ⁴⁶ And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachtani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have You abandoned me?” ⁴⁷ So upon hearing it some of the bystanders said, “This man is calling Elijah”. ⁴⁸ Right then one of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a reed and started to give Him a drink; ⁴⁹ but the rest said: “Don’t! Let’s see if Elijah comes to save Him.” ⁵⁰ Then Jesus called out again with a great shout and dismissed His spirit.

²¹ Because from within, out of men’s hearts, the evil designs proceed—adulteries, fornications, murders,

¹² So in answer He said to them: “Elijah indeed does come first, and restores all things; also how it is written concerning the Son of Man that He must suffer many things and be treated with contempt.

²⁴ Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”

⁵⁰ Salt is good, but if the salt loses its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

²⁴ And He said to them: “This is my blood, that of the new covenant, that is being shed for many.

³⁶ And He said: “Abba (Father), all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me; yet not what I will, but what you will.”

³³ and He will reign over the house of Jacob into the ages; indeed, of His kingdom there will be no end!”

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

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

⁵ Every ravine will be filled up, and every mountain and hill will be leveled; the crooked parts of the roads will be straightened out, and the rough parts will be smoothed out;

²⁸ Well, upon hearing these things everyone in the synagogue was filled with fury, ²⁹ and rising up they drove Him out of the town and took Him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him off the cliff.

²¹ So the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying: “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

¹⁴ Now that which fell into the thorns: these are the ones who heard, yet as they go they are choked by cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. ¹⁵ But that on the good ground: these are the ones who having heard the word with a noble and good heart, hold on to it and produce fruit with perseverance.”

⁵⁹ Then He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father”. ⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the Kingdom of God”. ⁶¹ And another also said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those who are at my house”. ⁶² But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to ‘the plow’ and looks back is suitable for the Kingdom of God”.

²⁰ However, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you; rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”

¹⁵ But some of them said, “It’s by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons, that he casts out demons”. ¹⁶ While others kept asking Him for a sign from heaven, testing.

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!

⁵³ Well when He had said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge Him on vehemently and to cross-examine Him about many things, ⁵⁴ lying in wait for Him, trying to catch Him in something He might say, so that they might accuse Him.

¹⁵ Then He said to all, “Keep alert and guard against covetousness, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

¹³ He placed His hands on her and immediately she was made straight and started glorifying God. ¹⁴ But the ruler of the synagogue reacted with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, and he said to the crowd, “There are six days in which one should work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath”.

²⁴ “Exert yourselves to enter through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will try to enter and not manage it. ²⁵ When once the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ and in answer he will say to you, ‘I don’t know you; where are you from?’ ²⁶ then you will begin by saying, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets’. ²⁷ But he will say: ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you are from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

¹ Then it happened, when He entered the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they were watching Him closely.

²⁶ “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁷ And whoever does not carry his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. ²⁸ “Further, which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and calculate the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? ²⁹ This so he does not lay a foundation without being able to finish, and all who see it begin to ridicule him, ³⁰ saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish!’ ³¹ “Or what king, going to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet the one coming against him with twenty thousand? ³² And if not, while the other is still far away he sends a delegation and asks for terms for peace. ³³ “So likewise, any of you who does not renounce all his own possessions cannot be my disciple.

² Well the Pharisees and the scribes started complaining, saying, “This man welcomes ‘sinners’ and eats with them”.

¹⁴ Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were also listening to all these things, and they were ridiculing Him.

²⁸ because I have five brothers, so that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment’.

⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith”.

²⁰ Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said: “The Kingdom of God does not come with observation; ²¹ nor will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ because indeed the Kingdom of God is within you.”

²² Well upon hearing these things Jesus said to him, “You still lack one thing: sell all you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” ²³ But when he heard this he became very sad, because he was extremely rich. ²⁴ When Jesus saw that he became sad, He said: “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter the Kingdom of God! ²⁵ It is actually easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God!”

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

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.

²⁰ He also took the cup, saying: “This cup is the new covenant in my blood which is shed for you.

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

¹¹ Then Herod and his soldiers, after ridiculing and mocking Him, arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe and sent Him back to Pilate.

³⁵ Meanwhile the people stood looking on. And especially the rulers among them were sneering, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if such is the Christ, the chosen of God!” ³⁶ Yes, even the soldiers mocked Him, approaching and offering Him sour wine, ³⁷ and saying, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!” ³⁸ In fact, above Him there was a written notice, in Greek, Latin and Hebrew letters: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. ³⁹ Then one of the hanged criminals started berating Him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”

⁶ He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He told you while still in Galilee,

⁸ And they remembered His words.

²⁶ Was it really not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into His glory?”

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!

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

³² And to what He has seen and heard He testifies, yet no one receives His testimony.

³⁹ Now many of the Samaritans from that city believed into Him because of the word of the woman, testifying that “He told me everything I ever did!”

⁴⁴ (For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet does not have honor in his own country.)

¹⁶ So because of this the Jews began persecuting Jesus and trying to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

²⁷ furthermore He gave Him the authority to pass judgment, because He is Son of Man .

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.”

¹² And there was a lot of murmuring about Him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He is good”; others were saying, “On the contrary, he’s deceiving the people.”

¹³ So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about yourself; your testimony is not valid.”

⁴⁸ So the Jews answered and said to Him, “We say that you are a Samaritan and have a demon —are we wrong?” ⁴⁹ Jesus answered: “I do not have a demon; rather, I honor my Father, while you dishonor me.

⁵² So the Jews said to Him: “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died and so did the prophets; yet you say, ‘If anyone should keep my word he will never ever taste death’!

⁵⁶ Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day; yes, he saw it and rejoiced.”

⁵⁹ Then they picked up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus was concealed and went out of the temple, going through the middle of them; yes, that’s how He got away!

⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words and said to Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?”

²⁰ Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is raving mad. Why do you listen to him?”

³¹ Therefore the Jews picked up stones again to stone Him. ³² Jesus answered them: “Many good works I have shown you from my father. For which one of them are you stoning me?” ³³ The Jews answered Him saying, “It’s not for a good work that we are stoning you, but for blasphemy; precisely because you, being a man, make yourself God!” ³⁴ Jesus answered them: “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? ³⁵ If He called them ‘gods’ to whom the Word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken — ³⁶ do you say ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father sanctified and sent into the world because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? ³⁷ If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me. ³⁸ But if I am doing them, even though you don’t believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in Him.” ³⁹ So they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped from their hand.

⁹ Then a large crowd of the Jews learned that He was there; and they came, not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead. ¹⁰ So the chief priests decided to kill Lazarus as well,

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.

²⁷ “Now my soul is distressed, and what should I say—‘Father, rescue me from this hour’? But this is why I came to this hour— ²⁸ ‘Father, glorify your name!’” Then a Voice came out of Heaven, “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again!”

³² While I, if I be lifted up from the earth I will draw all people to myself.”

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

³¹ When he had gone out Jesus says: “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in Him. ³² Since God has been glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him with Himself, and He will do so presently.

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. 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.

¹ “Father, the hour has come! Glorify Your Son, so that Your Son also may glorify You, 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. ⁴ I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work that You have given me to do.

²² But upon His saying these things one of the operatives standing by slapped Jesus saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”

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,

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,

³⁶ Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made Him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified!”

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

⁴¹ So they went out rejoicing from the presence of the council, in that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name of the Christ.

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

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”.

²⁰ but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from what is strangled, and from blood.

²⁹ to abstain from things offered to idols, from ‘blood’, from anything strangled and from fornication; it will be in your own best interest to keep away from these things. Farewell.”

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.

³⁰ Yes, men will rise up from among you yourselves, speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after them. ³¹ Therefore be alert, remembering that during three years, night and day, I never stopped admonishing each one, with tears.

³ concerning His Son, who became a physical descendant of David,

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

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.

³ Not only so, but we should also rejoice in the sufferings, knowing that the suffering produces perseverance; 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.

¹⁴ Really, sin must not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

²² But now, having been emancipated from the sin, and having become enslaved to God, you have your ‘fruit’ into sanctification—and the end is eternal life!

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!”

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

³ For I keep wishing that I myself could be accursed away from the Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my physical relatives,

⁵ The patriarchs are theirs, and from them came the Christ (the physical part), who is over all, God forever blessed. Amen.

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.”

²⁰ Granted. Because of unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear!

²⁶ And so all Israel will be saved, just as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn ungodliness away from Jacob;

¹ Now then, brothers, I exhort you, in view of God’s compassions, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, satisfying to God—your intelligent duty. ² Yes, stop conforming to the pattern of this world; rather, be transformed by the renewing of your mind so as to be able to experience the good and satisfying and perfect will of God.

¹² rejoicing in the hope; enduring the affliction; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

¹⁸ If possible, what depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

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 because the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁹ So then, let us pursue the things that promote peace and the things by which one may edify another.

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.

¹⁰ Now I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be restored to the same mind and to the same purpose.

¹ It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as not even pagans talk about —that someone has his father’s wife! ² And you are puffed up and not even grieved, so as to exclude the one who has done this deed from your fellowship. ³ For I indeed, as present in spirit though absent in body, have already judged the one who created this situation, as though I were present: ⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you and my spirit being together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ we must hand such a one over to Satan for a destruction of the ‘flesh’, that the spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?

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

⁹ I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with fornicators— ¹⁰ not of course the fornicators of this world, or the greedy, or the swindlers, or the idolaters; since then you would have to exit the world! ¹¹ But now I write you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a brother who is a fornicator, or greedy, or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such.

¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Not ever! ¹⁶ Can you not know that the one who joins himself with a prostitute is one body with her ? For “the two”, He says, “will become one flesh.” ¹⁷ But he who is joined with the Lord is one spirit with Him . ¹⁸ Flee from fornication! Every sin that a man may commit is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? ²⁰ Because you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

³¹ and those who use this world as though not abusing it; because this world’s mode is passing away.

²⁴ Do you not know that in a stadium race all the runners run, but one gets the prize? Run like that, that you may win. ²⁵ All athletic competitors exercise general self-control—they do it in order to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one. ²⁶ So that is how I ‘run’, with a definite goal; that is how I fight, with well-aimed blows. ²⁷ Yes, I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

⁸ And let us not fornicate, just as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand died!

¹² So then, let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall! ¹³ No testing has overtaken you except what is common to man, and God is competent, who will not allow you to be tested beyond what you can stand, but with the testing will also provide the way out, that you may be able to endure it.

³² But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned with the world.

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

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.

³³ Stop kidding yourselves: evil associations corrupt good habits.

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

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.

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.”

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.

⁹ For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!

¹ Therefore, since we have received mercy along with this ministry, we do not lose heart.

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;

¹⁶ Therefore we do not lose heart—even though our outer man is wasting away, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day— ¹⁷ because our light, momentary affliction is working out for us an eternal and limitless measure of glory,

⁸ indeed, we are confident in preferring to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

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

¹⁷ Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate,” says the Lord, “Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

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 But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more cheerfully about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may take up residence upon me. ¹⁰ So then, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

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.

⁵ Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you yourselves really not know that Jesus Christ is in you? —unless indeed you are disqualified.

¹³ And the rest of the Jews played the hypocrite with him as well, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

¹⁹ For through the law I died to the law in order to live to God.

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”.

²¹ Is the law then against the promises of God? Of course not! Rather, if a law had been given that was capable of imparting life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

²⁶ while the ‘Jerusalem’ that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

⁴ You who are ‘being justified’ by law have been alienated from the Christ; you have fallen away from the grace.

⁷ You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are obvious, namely: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, fits of anger, selfish ambition, dissentions, factions, ²¹ envyings, murders, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like; about which I am warning you beforehand, as, in fact, I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control—against such things there is no law.

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.

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

⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He graced us in the Beloved;

²² In short, He\up6 [F]\up0 placed everything under His\up6 [S]\up0 feet and appointed Him to be Head over everything in the Church,

¹⁶ and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross (by which He killed the enmity).

¹ So then, as the prisoner in the Lord I urge you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, ² with all humility and courtesy, with patience, bearing with one another in love, ³ taking pains to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace. ⁴ There is one body and one Spirit (just as you also were called in one hope of your calling), ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in us all. ⁷ Now to each one of us the grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift was given. ⁸ That is why He says, “When He ascended into the heights He captured the concentration camp, and distributed gifts to men.”

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. ³ But, you should not even talk about fornication or any form of moral corruption or insatiableness (as is fitting for saints);

⁵ Because you can know this for sure: no fornicator, nor anyone who is morally corrupt or insatiable (actually an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of the Christ and God.

¹⁰ approving what is pleasing to the Lord.

²⁴ Yes, just as the Church is subject to Christ, so also the wives should be to their own husbands in everything. 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.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ² “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— ³ “that it may go well with you and you may live long on the earth.” ⁴ And fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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

²¹ —to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. ²² Now if I am to live on in the flesh it will mean fruitful labor for me, so I don’t know what to choose. ²³ I am torn between the two: I have the desire to depart and be with Christ (far better),

⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient to the point of death —even death on a cross! 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.

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.

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, ¹¹ and so, somehow, that I may arrive into the resurrection from among the dead ¹² —not that I have already obtained it or have already been perfected; but I press on to actually claim that for which Christ Jesus claimed me.

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

¹² —not that I have already obtained it or have already been perfected; but I press on to actually claim that for which Christ Jesus claimed me. ¹³ Brothers, I do not consider that I have already claimed it, but this: forgetting the things behind and straining toward those ahead,

¹³ Brothers, I do not consider that I have already claimed it, but this: forgetting the things behind and straining toward those ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal for the prize, the upward call from God because of Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ I press on toward the goal for the prize, the upward call from God because of Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ So then, those of us who are mature should have this mentality, but if on some point you think differently, God will reveal that to you as well. ¹⁶ Only, in what we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind. ¹⁷ Brothers, join together in imitating me, and having us as a pattern take note of those who walk in the same way. ¹⁸ Because many are walking as enemies of the cross of Christ—of whom I told you often, and now tell you even with tears— ¹⁹ whose end is ruin, whose god is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame; their mind is only on earthly things. ²⁰ But our citizenship is in Heaven, and it is from there that we eagerly await our Deliverer, the Lord Jesus Christ;

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.

³ Yes, I urge you too, loyal Syzygus, help these women who labored with me in the Gospel, and with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

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.

¹² Nor have we stopped giving thanks joyfully to the Father who has qualified us for the share in the inheritance of the saints in the Light;

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

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

⁵ Therefore put to death your members that are on the earth: fornication, filthiness, passion, evil desire, and the greediness that is idolatry.

⁵ Therefore put to death your members that are on the earth: fornication, filthiness, passion, evil desire, and the greediness that is idolatry. ⁶ Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, ⁷ in which things you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. ⁸ But now you must also rid yourselves of all these—anger, rage, malice, slander, obscene speech—out of your mouth.

⁹ They themselves report about you what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to be slaves to the living and true God,

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

³ Now this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you stay away from fornication; ⁴ that each of you know how to gain possession of his own ‘vessel’ in sanctification and honor, ⁵ not in lustful passion (like the heathen who don’t know God); ⁶ that no one trespass and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such behavior, as, indeed, we have already told you and warned you. ⁷ Because God did not call us for uncleanness, but by holiness.

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

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;

¹⁴ Now we exhort you, brothers: admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, be supportive of the weak, be patient toward all. ¹⁵ See that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both for one another and for all.

⁵ —the above is evidence that God’s judgment is right, to the end that you be considered worthy of the Kingdom of God, on behalf of which you are actually suffering; ⁶ since to God it is right to pay back affliction to those who are afflicting you ⁷ and rest (along with us) to you who are being afflicted, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His powerful angels in blazing fire, ⁸ inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹³ But as for you, brothers, do not lose heart in well doing.

⁵ For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men—a man! —Jesus Christ,

⁵ (for if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how can he take care of God’s congregation?);

⁷ But reject godless myths and old wive’s tales; rather, exercise yourself toward godliness. ⁸ Now physical exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, holding promises for both this present life and the one to come.

⁹ But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and harmful desires, that plunge people into ruin and loss; ¹⁰ because the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil; in their greediness some have been led away from the faith and have impaled themselves on many distresses. ¹¹ But you, O man of God, flee these things; rather pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.

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

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

⁷ Ponder what I am saying; may the Lord indeed give you understanding in it all. ⁸ Keep thinking of Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, of David’s seed; this is my gospel,

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,

²² Flee the lusts of youth; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

⁴ —yes, they will turn their ears away from the Truth and be turned aside to fables.

⁶ For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. ⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

¹ So then, we really must pay the utmost attention to the things we have heard, so that we not drift away. ² For if the word spoken through angels became binding, and every violation and disobedience received a deserved penalty,

² For if the word spoken through angels became binding, and every violation and disobedience received a deserved penalty, ³ how shall we escape if we are careless about that tremendous salvation?—it received its beginning through the Lord’s declaration and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him\up6 [S]\up0,

⁷ You made him lower than the angels, for a little while; You crowned him with glory and honor, 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. ⁹ But we do see Jesus, who ‘was made lower than the angels, for a little while’ (in order to suffer death), ‘crowned with glory and honor’—this, by the grace of God, so that He\up6 [S]\up0 might taste death on behalf of everyone. ¹⁰ Because it was appropriate to Him\up6 [F]\up0, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons into glory, to perfect the Author of their salvation through sufferings.

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

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.

¹² take care, brothers, that there not be a malignant heart of unbelief in any of you, so as to go away from the living God;

¹⁷ And with whom was He\up6 [F]\up0 angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?

¹ Therefore we should fear, since a promise of entering His rest still stands, lest any one of you should expect to have come short of it.

¹¹ Therefore, let us take pains to enter into that rest so that no one may fall through the same pattern of disobedience.

¹⁶ So let us approach the throne of grace with confidence, that we may receive mercy and find grace, for timely help.

⁷ He\up6 [S]\up0, in the days of His flesh, having offered up both prayers and supplications, with a loud cry and tears, to the One who was able to save Him from death, and having been answered because of His godly fear,

⁹ And having been completed He became the Source of eternal salvation for all those obeying Him,

¹⁴ On the other hand, solid food is for the mature, those who by habitual use have trained their senses to distinguish good from bad.

⁴ Because, it is impossible to bring back into repentance those who were once for all enlightened, who have partaken of the heavenly gift and were made sharers in the Holy Spirit, ⁵ who have experienced God’s good event and capabilities of the coming age, ⁶ and yet have fallen away—they would be crucifying the Son of God all over again, just for themselves, holding Him up to contempt.

⁸ but should it bear thorns and thistles, it is disqualified, almost a curse, whose destiny is a burning.

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;

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; ¹² so that you not become lazy, but rather imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

¹⁵ And so, after he had been patient, he obtained the promise.

¹⁹ (for the Law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

²² by so much Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

¹ Now the main point of the things we are saying is this: We do have such a High Priest, who sat down at the right of the Majesty’s throne in the heavens,

⁵ who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things (that is why Moses was warned by God when he was ready to assemble the Tabernacle: “See to it,” He says, “that you make everything according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain”)— ⁶ but now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, just as He is Mediator of a better covenant, which was enacted as law on the basis of better promises.

⁸ but finding fault with them He says: “Listen! Days are coming,” says the LORD, “when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah —

¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the Holy Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? ¹⁵ For this reason He is mediator of a new covenant, so that those who have been called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant.

²¹ Then he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the divine service with the blood in the same way.

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.

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.

¹⁴ because by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

¹⁹ Therefore, brothers, having courage to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

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.

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

²³ Let us hold fast the confession of the Hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. ²⁴ And let us contemplate one another, for the stirring up of love and good works, ²⁵ not forsaking the assembling of ourselves (like some are doing), but exhorting one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching. ²⁶ Because, if we deliberately keep on sinning after having received the real knowledge of the Truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

²⁶ Because, if we deliberately keep on sinning after having received the real knowledge of the Truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ just a certain fearful anticipation of judgment and fierce fire that is ready to consume the hostiles.

²⁷ just a certain fearful anticipation of judgment and fierce fire that is ready to consume the hostiles.

²⁷ just a certain fearful anticipation of judgment and fierce fire that is ready to consume the hostiles. ²⁸ Anyone who rejected Moses’ law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²⁸ Anyone who rejected Moses’ law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

²⁹ Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know Him who said, “‘Vengeance is up to me’, says the Lord, ‘I will repay’.” And again, “The LORD will judge His people.” ³¹ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God!

³¹ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God! ³² However, remember those earlier days in which, having been enlightened, you endured a great struggle of sufferings:

³² However, remember those earlier days in which, having been enlightened, you endured a great struggle of sufferings: ³³ partly being publicly exposed to both insults and oppression, and partly siding with those who were so treated.

³³ partly being publicly exposed to both insults and oppression, and partly siding with those who were so treated.

³³ partly being publicly exposed to both insults and oppression, and partly siding with those who were so treated. ³⁴ Indeed, you also shared in the suffering of my chains; you even accepted the plundering of your possessions with joy, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and enduring possession in the heavens.

³⁴ Indeed, you also shared in the suffering of my chains; you even accepted the plundering of your possessions with joy, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and enduring possession in the heavens. ³⁵ So do not throw away your confidence, which has a great recompense.

³⁵ So do not throw away your confidence, which has a great recompense. ³⁶ You need perseverance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. ³⁷ For in a very little while, “He who is coming will come and will not delay. ³⁸ Now the righteous one will live by faith, yet if he backs away, my soul has no pleasure in him.” ³⁹ But we are not of those who back away into ruin, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

² By it the ancients were approved. ³ By faith we understand that the ages were created by a word from God, so that the things that are seen were made out of things invisible. 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.

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. ⁵ By faith Enoch was transferred so as not to see death, and could not be found because God had translated him; before his translation he had obtained witness that he was pleasing to God. ⁶ Now without faith it is impossible to please Him, because the one approaching God must believe that He exists and that He becomes a rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him. ⁷ By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that is according to faith.

⁷ By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that is according to faith. ⁸ By faith Abraham, upon being called to go forth to the place that he would receive as an inheritance, obeyed and went, though not being acquainted with where he was going. ⁹ By faith he migrated into the land of promise as into a foreign country, dwelling in tents, along with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise; ¹⁰ for he was waiting expectantly for the city with the real foundations, whose designer and builder is God.

¹⁰ for he was waiting expectantly for the city with the real foundations, whose designer and builder is God. ¹¹ By faith Sarah herself also received power to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the normal age, since she judged Him faithful who had promised. ¹² And so, from one man, actually an impotent, were begotten descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and as countless as the sand on the seashore. 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 Now those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. ¹⁵ If they were actually remembering that land from which they had departed, they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ Instead they are aspiring to a better home—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; in fact He has prepared a city for them. ¹⁷ By faith Abraham, upon being tested, offered up Isaac; yes, he who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his only begotten, ¹⁸ of whom it had been said, “Through Isaac will your seed be reckoned,” ¹⁹ calculating that God was indeed able to raise him from the dead; from whence in fact he did receive him, figuratively speaking. ²⁰ By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. ²¹ By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons and worshipped, leaning on the top of his staff. ²² By faith Joseph, near the end, thought of the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave orders concerning his bones. ²³ By faith Moses was hidden for three months by his parents, after he was born, because they saw he was a fine child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. ²⁴ By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, ²⁵ choosing rather to be maltreated along with God’s people than to have the temporary pleasure of sin, ²⁶ considering the reproach of Christ to be greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; because he was looking ahead to the reward. ²⁷ By faith he left Egypt behind, not fearing the king’s rage, because he persevered as though seeing Him who is invisible. ²⁸ By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch them.

²⁸ By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch them. ²⁹ By faith they passed through the Red Sea as on dry ground, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were swallowed up. ³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, having been encircled for seven days. ³¹ By faith the prostitute Rahab, having received the spies in peace, did not perish with the disobedient. ³² And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell about Gideon, about Barak and Samson and Jephtha, about David and Samuel and the prophets, ³³ who through faith subdued kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, closed lions’ mouths, ³⁴ quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became mighty in battle, put to flight foreign armies. ³⁵ Women received their dead back by resurrection; while others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, so that they might obtain a better resurrection. ³⁶ Still others were tried by mockings and scourgings, and even by chains and imprisonment.

³⁶ Still others were tried by mockings and scourgings, and even by chains and imprisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were tempted, they were murdered by sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, mistreated ³⁸ —of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

⁴⁰ God having planned something better for us, so that they should not be perfected without us.

² looking unto Jesus, the Founder and Perfecter of the Faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured a cross, scorning its ignominy, and took His seat at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Do consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so as not to grow weary, losing courage in your souls.

³ Do consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so as not to grow weary, losing courage in your souls. ⁴ In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed. ⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation that instructs you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the LORD’s discipline, nor lose heart when you are reproved by Him;

⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation that instructs you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the LORD’s discipline, nor lose heart when you are reproved by Him; ⁶ because whom the LORD loves He chastens, yes scourges every son whom He accepts.”

⁶ because whom the LORD loves He chastens, yes scourges every son whom He accepts.” ⁷ If you are enduring discipline, God is dealing with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not discipline?

⁷ If you are enduring discipline, God is dealing with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not discipline? ⁸ But if you are without discipline (something everyone undergoes), then you are illegitimate and not sons.

¹⁰ Now they indeed disciplined us during a short period as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, so that we may partake of His holiness.

²⁷ Now the ‘yet once more’ clearly indicates the removal of the things being shaken (created things), so that the unshakables may remain.

⁴ Marriage is honorable among all and the marriage bed undefiled, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

¹³ So then, let us go out to Him, outside the camp, bearing His disgrace; ¹⁴ because here we do not have a permanent city, but we seek the coming one. 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.

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—

³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance;

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

¹⁸ Having willed it, He brought us forth by a word of truth, so that we might be a sort of first fruits of His products.

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

⁷ Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

¹⁰ Humble yourself before the Lord and He will exalt you.

⁷ Therefore, brothers, be patient until the coming of the Lord. Consider, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receives the early and late rain. ⁸ You also be patient. Keep your hearts firm, because the coming of the Lord has approached. ⁹ Do not groan against one another, brothers, lest you be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at your doors! ¹⁰ Brothers, take as an example the patient bearing of hardship and the steadfastness of the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Indeed we count as blessed those who endure—you have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the final outcome given by the Lord, that He is very compassionate and merciful.

¹¹ Indeed we count as blessed those who endure—you have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the final outcome given by the Lord, that He is very compassionate and merciful.

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.

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

⁴ into an imperishable and undefiled and unfading inheritance, already reserved in the heavens for you, ⁵ who are being guarded by the power of God through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ⁶ You should be overjoyed about this, even if just now, briefly, of necessity, you have been distressed by a variety of trials,

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.

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.” ¹⁷ Also, since you invoke as Father the One who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves during the time of your sojourn here in fear,

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,

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

⁵ you also, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁹ But you are a chosen family, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a private-property people, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

²⁰ For what credit is it if upon sinning and being beaten you endure patiently? But if upon doing good and suffering you endure patiently, this is commendable before God.

²³ who being reviled did not revile in return, suffering did not threaten but committed it to Him who judges righteously;

²³ who being reviled did not revile in return, suffering did not threaten but committed it to Him who judges righteously; 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.

¹¹ he must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace, even pursue it.

¹³ Now who is he who will harm you if you become imitators of the good?

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.

² so as not to live your remaining time in flesh for human lusts any longer, but for the will of God.

¹⁴ If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of the glory and of God has come to rest upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. ¹⁵ Now don’t any of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a meddler in others’ affairs; ¹⁶ but if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter.

⁶ Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time;

⁹ withstand him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. ¹⁰ Now may the God of all grace, who called you into His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, Himself perfect, establish, strengthen and ground you—after you have suffered a while.

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.

⁶ and to the knowledge self-control, and to the self-control perseverance, and to the perseverance godliness,

¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, you should be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble.

¹ However, there were also false prophets among the people, just as, indeed, there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Owner who bought them (bringing on themselves swift destruction). ² And many will follow their licentious ways, because of which the way of the Truth will be defamed.

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls; having a heart trained in greediness they are children of a curse;

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

¹⁰ 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. ¹¹ Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

¹¹ Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

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

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

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.

¹⁵ Do not love the world, neither the things in the world; if anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world—the craving of the flesh and the craving of the eyes and the pretension of life—is not from the Father but is from the 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 ³ —everyone who has this hope upon him purifies himself, even as He is pure.

⁸ Look to yourselves, so that we not lose the things for which we worked but may receive a full reward.

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.

¹⁴ Now even Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men saying: “Look, the Lord is coming with ten thousands of His holy ones

²⁰ But you, dear ones, building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in God’s love, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ into eternal life.

²¹ keep yourselves in God’s love, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ into eternal life. ²² Now be merciful to some, making a distinction; ²³ but others save with fear, snatching them out of the fire, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.

⁶ —indeed, He made us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

⁸ “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “He who is and who was and who is coming, The Almighty.” ⁹ I, John, your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and endurance in Christ Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the Word of God and on account of the testimony of Jesus Christ.

¹¹ saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

¹⁷ And when I saw Him I fell at His feet as if dead. And He placed His right hand upon me saying, “Do not fear. I am the First and the Last,

³ and you have born up and endured on account of my name, and not grown weary.

⁸ “And to the messenger of the church in Smyrna write: These things says the First and the Last, who became dead and came to life:

¹³ ‘I know your works, and where you live, where Satan’s throne is. And you hold my name fast and did not deny my faith during the days in which Antipas was my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan lives.

²⁰ ‘Nevertheless I have against you that you tolerate your wife Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my slaves to fornicate and to eat things offered to idols. ²¹ I even gave her time so that she might repent, but she does not want to repent of her fornication. ²² So, I am throwing her into a sick bed and those adulterating with her into great affliction, unless they repent of her works. 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.

¹⁰ Because you have kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of the testing that is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to test those who dwell on the earth.

¹² The one who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never again go out. And I will write on him the name of my God, the name of my God’s city—the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God—and my new name.

¹⁹ As many as I love I rebuke and discipline; so be zealous and repent!

¹⁰ and You have made them kings and priests to our God, and they will reign on the earth.” ¹¹ And I looked, and I heard as it were the voice of many angels, around the throne and the living beings and the elders. And their number was ten thousand times ten thousand and a thousand thousands, ¹² saying with a great voice: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered to receive the power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!”

⁹ And when He opened the fifth seal I saw underneath the altar the souls of the people who had been slaughtered on account of the Word of God and on account of the testimony of the Lamb which they held. ¹⁰ And they cried out with a loud voice saying, “How long, O Sovereign, Holy and True, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” ¹¹ So a white robe was given to each of them, and they were told that they should rest a while longer, until both their fellow slaves and their brothers, who were about to be killed just like they were, should complete the number .

² And I saw another angel ascending from the sun’s rising, having the seal of the Living God. And he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it had been granted to harm the earth and the sea,

¹⁴ So I said to him, “My lord, you know.” So he said to me: “These are those who come out of the Great Tribulation—they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His sanctuary. And He who sits on the throne will shelter them. ¹⁶ They shall not hunger anymore, nor thirst anymore; the sun will absolutely not strike them, nor any heat; ¹⁷ because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

¹⁵ So the seventh angel trumpeted, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.”

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.

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.

¹ And wow, I saw a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.

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

⁴ Who could not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? Because You alone are holy, because all the nations will come and do obeisance before You, because Your righteous judgments have been manifested.”

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.

²⁴ And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, even of all who had been butchered on the earth.”

¹⁰ And I fell at his feet to worship him, but he says to me, “Don’t! I am your fellow slave and among your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

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

¹ Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; also, the ocean was no more. ² And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

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.”

¹⁰ So he transported me in spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

²⁴ And the nations will walk in her light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into her. ²⁵ Her gates will absolutely not be closed by day (and no night will exist there). ²⁶ And they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into her. ²⁷ But anything ‘common’ or anyone perpetrating an abomination or a lie will absolutely not enter her; only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

³ There will be no accursed thing there, but the throne of God and of the Lamb are in her, and His slaves will minister to Him. ⁴ They will see His face and His name is on their foreheads.

⁹ but he says to me, “Don’t! I am your fellow slave and of your brothers the prophets, those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”

¹¹ He who acts unjustly let him act unjustly still, and let the filthy one be filthy still, and let the righteous one still practice righteousness, and let the holy one still be sanctified.” ¹² “Take note, I am coming swiftly, and my reward is with me to give to each one according to his work. ¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, the First and the Last.” ¹⁴ (Blessed are those who do His commands, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, even to enter through the gates into the city. ¹⁵ Outside are the ‘dogs’ and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices a lie.)

¹⁵ Outside are the ‘dogs’ and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices a lie.) ¹⁶ “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you, in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning Star.

¹⁹ And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God remove his share from the tree of life and out of the Holy City, that stand written in this book!”