James 4 Cross References - WPNT

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. ³ You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may lavish it on your pleasures. 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. ⁵ Or do you suppose that the Scripture says in vain that the Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously? ⁶ But He gives greater grace; therefore He says: “God resists proud ones, but gives grace to humble ones.” ⁷ Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Sinners, cleanse your hands! Double-minded, purify your hearts! ⁹ Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into dejection. ¹⁰ Humble yourself before the Lord and He will exalt you. ¹¹ Brothers, do not speak evil of one another. Because the one speaking against a brother and judging his brother speaks against a law and judges a law. So if you judge a law you are not a law-doer but a judge. ¹² The Lawgiver and Judge is One, the one who is able to save and to destroy. So who are you (sg) to be judging someone who is different? ¹³ Come now, you who say, “Today and tomorrow let us travel to that certain city, spend a year there, do business and make a profit;” ¹⁴ whereas you don’t know anything about the morrow. For what is our life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time but then vanishes away. ¹⁵ Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶ But now you boast in your arrogant pretensions. All such boasting is malignant. ¹⁷ Therefore, to the one knowing to do good and not doing it, to him it is sin.

³ And coming to Him the tempter said, “Since you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread”. ⁴ But in answer He said, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but by every word coming out of God’s mouth’.” ⁵ Then the devil takes Him into the holy city and sets Him upon the pinnacle of the temple, ⁶ and says to Him, “Since you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written: ‘He will give orders to His angels about you, and they will lift you up on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone’.” ⁷ Jesus said to him, “It is also written: ‘You shall not test the LORD your God!’” ⁸ Again the devil takes Him to a very high mountain and shows Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. ⁹ And he says to Him, “All these things I will give to you, if You will fall down and worship me.” ¹⁰ Then Jesus says to him: “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written: ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only shall you serve’.” ¹¹ Then the devil leaves Him, and then, angels came and began ministering to Him.

⁴ Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

²⁴ “No one is able to serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

¹ “Do not judge, so that you be not judged. ² Because with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

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.

²⁸ And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear the One who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell.

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, because I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls;

³³ “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by the fruit.

³⁹ But in answer He said to them: “A malignant and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

¹² For whoever has, to him more will be given and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

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

¹⁹ Because out of the heart proceed malignant thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

⁴ A malignant and adulterous generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” And leaving them behind He went away.

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

¹² And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

²⁵ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!! Because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of plunder and injustice. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the inside of the cup and the dish, so that their outside may also be clean.

²⁴ When Pilate saw that nothing was being gained but rather a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd saying: “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man. It’s your problem!”

²¹ Because from within, out of men’s hearts, the evil designs proceed—adulteries, fornications, murders, ²² thefts, covetings, malignancies; deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness— ²³ all these malignant things proceed from within and defile the man.”

³⁸ But Jesus said to them: “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

⁵² He has dethroned rulers and exalted the lowly.

² where He was tested for forty days by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, so after they were completed He was hungry . ³ So the devil said to Him, “Since you are Son of God, tell this stone to become bread!” ⁴ Jesus answered him saying, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God’.” ⁵ Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. ⁶ The devil said to Him: “To you I will give all this authority, and their glory, because it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I want to. ⁷ So you, if you would worship before me, all will be yours.” ⁸ In answer Jesus said to him: “Get behind me, Satan! It is written, ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only shall you serve!’” ⁹ He also took Him to Jerusalem and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him: “Since you are Son of God, throw yourself down from here; ¹⁰ because it is written, ‘He will give His angels orders concerning you, to protect you’, ¹¹ and, ‘They will carry you along on their hands, so you do not stub your foot on a stone’.” ¹² In answer Jesus said to him: “The statement stands, ‘You shall not test the LORD your God’!” ¹³ Having finished every test, the devil departed from Him until an opportune time.

²¹ Blessed are you who hunger now, because you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, because you will laugh.

²⁵ Woe to you who are full! because you will go hungry. Woe to you who are presently laughing! because you will mourn and weep.

³⁷ “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

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!”

³⁹ So the Lord said to him: “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but your inside is full of greed and malignancy. ⁴⁰ Fools! Did not He who made the outside also make the inside?

⁵ Rather, I will advise you whom you should fear—fear Him who after He kills has authority to cast into Gehenna; yes indeed, fear Him!

¹⁷ And he reasoned within himself saying, ‘What shall I do, because I have no place to store my crops?’ ¹⁸ Then he said: ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my produce and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and enjoy yourself!’ ²⁰ But God said to him: ‘Stupid! This very night your life is being taken back from you; then who will get the things you have prepared?’

⁴⁷ “That servant who knew his master’s will, but neither got ready nor did according to that will, will be beaten with many blows. ⁴⁸ But he who did not know, yet did things worthy of blows, will be beaten with few. Everyone to whom much has been given, from him much will be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him much more will be asked.

¹¹ Because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

¹³ Not many days later the younger son, having converted it all, journeyed to a distant country; and there he squandered his wealth living dissolutely.

³⁰ But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’

¹ Then He said further to His disciples: “There was a certain rich man who had a manager, who was accused to him of wasting his goods. ² So he called him in and said to him: ‘What is this I hear about you? Render an account of your stewardship, because you can no longer be manager.’

²⁵ But Abraham said: ‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus had bad things; but now he is being comforted, and you tormented.

¹⁴ I say to you that this one went back home justified rather than that one; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

²⁷ But as for those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’”

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

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

⁴² Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ comes out of the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?”

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 .

⁴¹ Jesus said to them, “If you were ‘blind’ you would not have sin. But now you say, ‘We see’, so your sin remains.”

³⁵ If He called them ‘gods’ to whom the Word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken —

¹⁷ If you understand these things, you are blessed if you do them.

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.

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.

²⁴ Until now you have not asked anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.

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.

³⁷ And again another Scripture says: “They will look on Him whom they pierced.”

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

⁶ but get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

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

²⁹ So calling for a light he ran in and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. ³⁰ He then brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” ³¹ So they said, “Believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your household”.

²¹ rather he took leave of them saying, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem; but I will return again to you, God willing”. Then he set sail from Ephesus.

¹⁹ Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision

¹⁰ begging that perhaps now, at last, I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

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

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

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

¹ Now then, you there, whoever you are who judges someone else for things you practice yourself—you condemn yourself and are inexcusable.

¹³ For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

¹⁷ Look, you declare yourself a Jew, and rest on the Law, and boast in God, ¹⁸ and know the Will, and approve the superior things, being instructed out of the Law. ¹⁹ Further, you are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and truth. ²¹ You, then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal? ²² You who say not to commit adultery, do you adulterate? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? ²³ You who boast in the Law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the Law?

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

⁵ Because when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our body parts to produce fruit to death.

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”.

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.

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.

²³ but I see a different ‘law’ in my body parts, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive to the law of the sin that is in my body parts.

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.

¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

²⁰ Really now, just who are you, O man, to talk back to God? What is formed will not say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?

³ For they, failing to understand God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to God’s righteousness.

³ One who eats must not look down on one who does not, and one who does not eat must not judge one who does, because God has accepted him. ⁴ Who are you to judge someone else’s household servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And stand he will, for God has the power to make him stand.

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

¹⁰ But you, why do you judge your brother? And you too, why do you look down on your brother? Because we will all stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ. ¹¹ For it is written: “‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall acknowledge God.’”

¹¹ For it is written: “‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall acknowledge God.’” ¹² So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. ¹³ Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another, but rather resolve this: not to put a stumbling block or pitfall in a brother’s way.

³² so that I may come to you with joy by the will of God and be refreshed together with you.

⁵ Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and expose the motives of the hearts. At that time the praise that comes to each will be from God.

⁷ Now who is distinguishing you? Or what do you have that you did not receive? So if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as though you did not? ⁸ You are already stuffed! You are already rich! You have become ‘kings’ without us! I could wish that you really did reign, so that we might be kings with you too!

¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the word of those who have been puffed up, but the power.

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

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?

³⁰ and those who weep as though not weeping, and those who rejoice as though not rejoicing, and those who buy as though not possessing,

⁷ I do not wish to see you now just in passing, since I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.

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.”

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

¹⁰ Now godly sorrow produces repentance into salvation without regret, but the world’s sorrow produces death. ¹¹ Just consider your own being caused to sorrow in a godly manner, how much diligence it produced in you—what self-defense, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have demonstrated yourselves to be clear in the matter.

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

¹⁰ Am I just now appealing to men, or to God? Or am I trying to please men? You see, if I were still pleasing men I would not be a slave of Christ.

⁸ Further, the Scripture, foreseeing that “God justifies the nations by faith”, proclaimed the Gospel in advance to Abraham: “All the nations will be blessed through you”.

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.

²⁷ nor give an opportunity to the devil.

³¹ Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and slander be removed from you, with all malice.

²¹ submitting to one another in the fear of God.

¹¹ Put on the full armor of God so as to be able to stand firm against the stratagems of the devil. ¹² Because, our wrestling match is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against the malignant spirits in the heavenly realms.

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

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

¹¹ Similarly, women must be respectable, not slanderers, temperate, trustworthy in everything.

⁴ he is conceited and understands nothing. Rather he is obsessed with controversies and hair-splitting word battles, from which come envy, strife, slanderings, evil suspicions, ⁵ constant wranglings of men with corrupted minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means to financial gain. Keep away from such people. ⁶ Now godliness with contentment is great gain. ⁷ We brought nothing into the world and it is certain that neither can we take anything out. ⁸ So having food and clothing we will be content with that. 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.

³ without family affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,

³ similarly older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good

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

⁹ But avoid foolish arguments and genealogies and contentions and disputes about the law, because they are unprofitable and useless.

³ We will do this, that is, if indeed God should permit it.

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

²⁵ Therefore He is able to save absolutely those who come to God through Him, since He always lives and can intercede on their behalf.

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.

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?

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. ⁶ However, let him ask in faith, with no doubting, because he who doubts is like a sea wave driven and tossed by the wind— ⁷ such a man should not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord, ⁸ being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

¹⁰ but the rich brother in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a flower of wild grass.

¹⁴ But each one is tempted by his own craving, being taken in tow and enticed.

²² Further, become word doers and not just hearers, deceiving yourselves. ²³ Because if anyone is a law hearer and not a doer, the same is like a man observing his physical face in a mirror;

²⁵ But he who looks carefully into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, he—not being a forgetful hearer but a work doer—he will be blessed in what he does.

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity; to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth—

¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth— ¹⁵ such ‘wisdom’ is not coming down from Above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. ¹⁶ Because where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is unruliness and every foul practice. ¹⁷ In contrast, the wisdom from Above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ Now the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those making peace.

¹ Where do the wars and disputes among you come from? Is it not precisely from your pleasures, the ones at war in your members?

³ You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may lavish it on your pleasures.

⁶ But He gives greater grace; therefore He says: “God resists proud ones, but gives grace to humble ones.” ⁷ Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

¹ Come now, you rich, howl as you weep over your distresses that are coming upon you!

¹ Come now, you rich, howl as you weep over your distresses that are coming upon you!

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.

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. ⁴ Look, the wages of the workers who cut your fields, that were unjustly held back by you, cry out, and the loud cries of the reapers have entered the ears of the Lord of Hosts. ⁵ You have lived on the earth in self-indulgence and luxury, you fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

⁹ Do not groan against one another, brothers, lest you be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at your doors!

¹⁴ as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts as in your ignorance,

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,

²⁴ For: “All flesh is as grass, and all man’s glory as flower of grass. The grass withers and its flower falls off, but the Lord’s word endures forever.”

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

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

¹³ Therefore subordinate yourselves to every human institution because of the Lord, whether to a king, as being in authority,

²¹ This is an antitype of baptism, that now saves us also (not the removal of physical filth, but the appeal into God from a good conscience) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

² so as not to live your remaining time in flesh for human lusts any longer, but for the will of God. ³ Because the time that has passed is plenty for you to have performed the will of the pagans—having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, carousings and disgusting idolatries—

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

⁵ Similarly, you younger ones, submit to elders. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, submitting to one another, because ‘God resists proud ones, but gives grace to humble ones’. ⁶ Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time;

⁸ Be sober, stay alert! Because your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is circling you, looking for someone to devour; ⁹ withstand him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.

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,

²¹ For it would have been better for them not to have really known the way of the righteousness, than having really known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

³ Knowing this first: in the last days mockers will come, living according to their own lusts

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.

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.

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. ¹⁷ The world, with its craving, is passing away, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

¹⁷ The world, with its craving, is passing away, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

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

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.

¹⁴ Now this is the confidence that we have toward Him: if we should ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

¹⁶ These men are grumblers and complainers, living according to their own evil desires; they talk big, flattering people to gain advantage. ¹⁷ But you, dear ones, remember the words that were spoken before by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: ¹⁸ how they told you that in the last time there will be scoffers who live according to their own godless desires.

⁹ So the great dragon was expelled, that ancient serpent, who is called Slanderer and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited world; he was thrown into the earth, and his angels were expelled with him. ¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice in the heaven saying: “Now the salvation and the power have come, even the Kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accused them before our God day and night. 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.

⁷ To the extent that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, by so much give her torment and sorrow; because in her heart she says, ‘I sit a queen, and am not a widow; and I will certainly not see sorrow.’

⁷ To the extent that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, by so much give her torment and sorrow; because in her heart she says, ‘I sit a queen, and am not a widow; and I will certainly not see sorrow.’ ⁸ Therefore her plagues will come in one day —death and sorrow and famine—and she will be burned up with fire; because the Lord God who has judged her is strong .