Jude 1 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Jude, slave of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called, those who have been sanctified by God the Father and preserved through Jesus Christ: ² May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you. ³ Dear ones, while I was really intent on writing to you about the salvation we share, I had a compulsion to write exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once for all committed to the saints. ⁴ Because certain men, who were marked out for this condemnation long ago, have sneaked in; they are godless, perverting the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying the only Sovereign God, even our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵ So I want to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord delivered a people out of the land of Egypt yet later destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ And the angels who did not keep their proper domain but deserted their own dwelling He has kept bound in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day. ⁷ So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns—who gave themselves up to fornication and went after a different kind of flesh in a manner similar to those angels—stand as an example, undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. ⁸ Likewise these dreamers in their turn both defile flesh and reject authority and slander celestial beings. ⁹ Yet even Michael the archangel, when taking issue with the devil—he was arguing about Moses’ corpse —did not dare to pronounce a reviling judgment, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!” ¹⁰ But these speak abusively against whatever they do not understand, while whatever they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals—by these things they are ruined. ¹¹ Woe to them, because they have taken the way of Cain, have rushed into Balaam’s error for profit, and have destroyed themselves in Korah’s rebellion! ¹² These men are hidden reefs at your love feasts, joining the feast without fear, caring only for themselves; they are clouds without rain, carried along by winds; they are late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead (having been uprooted); ¹³ they are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shameful acts; they are wandering stars, for whom the black of the darkness has been reserved forever. 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 ¹⁵ to execute judgment on everyone and to convict all the godless among them of all their godless deeds that they have godlessly perpetrated, also of all the harsh things they have spoken against Him—the godless sinners!” 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. ¹⁹ These are the ones who cause division; they are ‘soulish’, not having a spirit. 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. 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. ²⁴ Now to Him who is able to keep them from stumbling and to present them before His glorious presence without fault and with exultation— ²⁵ to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, power and authority, both now and throughout all the ages! Amen.

¹² Rejoice and exult, because your reward in the heavens is great, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

¹³ And do not bring us into testing, but rescue us from the evil one; because Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’

²⁹ And then—they cried out saying: “What do you have to do with us, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

³ Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew (the tax collector), James (the son of Alphaeus) and Lebbaeus (who was surnamed Thaddeus),

²¹ “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

²⁴ So I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the Day of judgment than for you.”

³¹ Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven people. ³² And whoever speaks a word against the Son of the Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in the present age nor in the next. 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. ³⁴ Brood of vipers! How can you, being malignant, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ³⁵ The good man out of the good reservoir brings forth good things, and the malignant man out of the malignant reservoir brings forth malignant things. ³⁶ Furthermore I say to you that for every useless word whatever that people may speak, they will give account of it in the Day of judgment. ³⁷ For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

⁶ But when the sun came up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.

²⁵ but while the people were sleeping his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went away.

¹³ But in answer He said: “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

²⁷ For the Son of the Man will certainly come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will recompense each according to his performance.

²⁸ So Jesus said to them: “Assuredly I say to you that in the Regeneration, when the Son of the Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹⁹ And seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He went up to it and found nothing on it, just leaves. And He says to it, “May you never again produce fruit!” And forthwith the fig tree became withered. ²⁰ And seeing it the disciples marveled saying, “How quickly the fig tree became withered!”

¹³ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you devour the houses of the widows, while making long prayers as a pretense. Therefore you will receive a greater condemnation. ¹⁴ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!! Because you bar the entrance to the kingdom of the heavens in the face of the people; for you neither go in yourselves nor do you allow those who are trying to enter to go in. ¹⁵ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!!! Because you travel all over, land and sea, to make one convert, and when he joins up you make him twice as much a son of Hell as yourselves. ¹⁶ “Woe to you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is obligated’.

³⁰ And then the sign of the Son of the Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn —they will see the Son of the Man coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and great glory. ³¹ And He will send out His angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they will collect His elect from the four winds, from one extreme of the heavens to the other.

⁴² So be watchful, because you (pl) do not know in what hour your Lord is coming. ⁴³ But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁴ Therefore you also be ready, because the Son of the Man is coming at an hour that you do not suppose. ⁴⁵ “Who then is the faithful and prudent servant whom his lord placed over his corps of servants to give them food on schedule? ⁴⁶ Blessed be that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find doing so. ⁴⁷ Assuredly I say to you that he will place him over all his possessions. ⁴⁸ But if that bad servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his return’, ⁴⁹ and should begin to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, ⁵⁰ the lord of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour when he is not aware, ⁵¹ and will cut him in two and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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.

⁴¹ “Then He will also say to those on His left: ‘Go away from me, you accursed ones, into the eternal fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels.

¹⁸ Andrew, Phillip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Cananite;

⁶ But upon the sun’s rising it was scorched, and because it had no root it was withered up.

⁴³ Further, if your hand is causing you to fall, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into the Life maimed than having both hands to go away into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire— ⁴⁴ where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched’. ⁴⁵ And if your foot is causing you to fall, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into the Life lame than having both feet to be thrown into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire— ⁴⁶ where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched’. ⁴⁷ And if your eye is causing you to fall, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye than having both eyes to be thrown into the Gehenna of fire— ⁴⁸ where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched’. ⁴⁹ “Further, everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.

²⁰ Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. ²¹ And Peter, remembering, said to Him: “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has dried up!”

²⁹ Those who passed by kept ridiculing Him, wagging their heads and saying, “Hey! You who can destroy the temple and build it in three days,

³⁰ Well the scribes and Pharisees complained about them to His disciples, saying, “How can you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?!”

¹⁶ Judas of James and Judas Iscariot (who also became ‘traitor’).

⁶ And some fell on the rock ledge, and upon sprouting it withered, because it had no moisture.

²⁶ Yes, whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of Him, whenever He comes in the glory—His, and the Father’s, and of the holy angels.

⁴² “But woe to you Pharisees! You tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you ignore justice and the love of God. These it was necessary to do, without leaving those undone. ⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seat in the synagogues, and greetings in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like unperceived graves, that people walk on without knowing it.” ⁴⁵ Then one of the lawyers reacted and said to him, “Teacher, by saying these things you insult us also!” ⁴⁶ So He said: “Woe to you lawyers also! You load men down with burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets, it being your fathers who killed them.

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?’

³⁶ and you yourselves like men waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately. ³⁷ Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find watching when he comes. Assuredly I say to you that he will gird himself and have them recline, and will come and serve them. ³⁸ And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those slaves. ³⁹ But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and not allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁰ Therefore you also be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

⁴⁵ But if that servant should say in his heart, ‘My master won’t come for a while’, and should begin to hit the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

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

¹⁹ “Now there was a certain rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

²⁹ but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and brimstone rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

⁷ But when they saw it, they all started complaining, saying, “He has entered to lodge with a sinful man!”

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us’.

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.

³⁹ Then one of the hanged criminals started berating Him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!” ⁴⁰ But the other reacted and rebuked him, saying: “Don’t you even fear God, since you are under the same condemnation?

¹⁷ Because the Law was given through Moses; the grace and the truth came through Jesus Christ.

⁵ Jesus answered: “Most assuredly I say to you, unless someone is begotten by water and Spirit he is not able to enter the kingdom of God. ⁶ That which has been begotten by the flesh is flesh, and that which has been begotten by the Spirit is spirit.

²² You [Samaritans] worship what you do not know; we [Jews] worship what we do know, because the salvation is from the Jews.

²² In fact the Father does not judge anyone but has committed all the judging to the Son, ²³ so that all will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

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

⁴⁴ How can you believe, who receive glory from men and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

³⁹ Now this is the will of the Father who sent me, that I should lose nothing out of all that He has given me, but should raise it up at the last day.

⁴¹ Then the Jews started complaining about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that came down out of Heaven.”

⁶¹ So Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were complaining about this, said to them, “Does this offend you?

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 .

²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they will never ever be wasted; and no one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch out of my Father’s hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.”

²⁶ If anyone would serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, my servant will be too. Further, if anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

²¹ The one who has my commandments and keeps them, he is the one who loves me. Now the one who loves me will be loved by my Father; and I will love him, and reveal myself to him. ²² Judas (not the Iscariot) says to Him, “Lord, just how is it that You are going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

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

⁹ “Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹⁶ It wasn’t you who chose me but I who chose you, and I appointed you so that you should go and produce fruit, and that your fruit should endure, so that whatever you may ask the Father in my name He may give you.

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

¹¹ Now I am no longer in the world, yet these are in the world, and I am coming to You.” Holy Father, keep them in Your name which You have given to me, so that they may be one just as we are. ¹² While I was with them in the world I kept them in Your name. I protected those whom You gave me, and not one of them was lost except the son of perdition, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

¹⁵ I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.

¹⁷ Sanctify them by Your truth; Your word is truth.

¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

¹³ When they had entered [the city] they went up into the upper room where they were staying; namely Peter and James, John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas of James.

¹² Also, the salvation does not exist in anyone else, because there is no other name under heaven, given among men, by which we must be saved.”

⁸ While Stephen, full of faith and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. ⁹ Then there arose some from what is called the Synagogue of the Freedmen (Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia), disputing with Stephen. ¹⁰ And they weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

²⁷ But the one who was wronging his neighbor pushed Moses away, saying: ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

³⁹ to whom our fathers didn’t want to be obedient; rather they rejected him and turned back in their heart to Egypt,

²² But Saul kept growing stronger and kept on confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus, proving that ‘This One is the Christ’.

³¹ So then the congregations throughout all Judea and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace and were built up; and proceeding in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit they were being multiplied.

²³ Upon arriving and seeing the grace of God, he was glad, and he kept encouraging them all to remain true to the Lord with purpose of heart

⁴⁶ But Paul and Barnabas speaking boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. But since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, now we are being turned to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷ Because that is just how the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have set you to be a light for ethnic nations, that you should be for salvation up to the last place on earth’.”

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

²⁴ Since we have heard that some who went out from among us have disturbed you with words, unsettling your souls, saying that you must be circumcised and keep the law —to whom we gave no such authorization—

³ explaining and demonstrating that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and that “this Jesus whom I proclaim to you is the Messiah”.

³¹ because He has appointed a day in which He will judge the inhabited world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained; He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”

⁴ Every Sabbath in the synagogue he would reason with both Jews and Greeks, trying to persuade them. ⁵ But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the Spirit, solemnly insisting to the Jews: Jesus is the Christ. ⁶ But since they kept contradicting and blaspheming, he shook his clothes and said to them: “Your blood be upon your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

²⁸ because he kept refuting the Jews vigorously, publicly, demonstrating Jesus to be the Christ, from the Scriptures.

²⁷ because I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

²⁹ Because I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

³² “And so now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.

³⁵ In every way I showed you that working hard like this it is necessary to help the weak, and to remember the word of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive’.”

⁵ Then Paul said, “I did not know, brothers, that he is high priest; for it is written: ‘Do not speak evil of a ruler of your people’.”

¹⁸ to open their eyes, so as to bring them back from darkness into light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified, by faith into me.’

²³ This night an angel of the God whose I am and whom I serve stood by me

²⁸ Therefore let it be known to you that the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”

¹ Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been set apart to the Gospel of God,

⁷ to all the called saints who are in Rome, beloved of God: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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. ²² Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions; in fact even their females exchanged the natural sexual function for that against nature; ²⁷ likewise also the males, abandoning the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust toward one another, males committing the disgraceful act with males, and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

⁵ Rather, due to your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are treasuring up wrath for yourself in the day of God’s wrath and revelation and righteous judgment,

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

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.

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.

²¹ so that just as sin reigned in the death, so also the grace might reign through righteousness into eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹ So what shall we say? Shall we continue in the sin so that the grace may abound? ² Of course not! How can we who died to sin keep on living in it?

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

⁹ You, however, are not ‘in flesh’ but ‘in Spirit’, if indeed God’s Spirit dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

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!”

²⁶ Likewise also the Spirit comes to the aid of the hope in our weaknesses, since we do not know what we need to pray for. Indeed the Spirit Himself intercedes on our behalf with inexpressible groanings, ²⁷ while He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, since He prays for the saints in accordance with God.

³⁰ Further, whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. ³¹ What then shall we say to these things? Since God is for us, who is against us?

³⁹ neither height nor depth nor any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²¹ Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? ²² What if God, wishing to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

²⁴ even us whom He called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

¹⁴ if somehow I can provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.

³³ Oh, the depth of the riches of God’s wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable His judgments and untraceable His ways!

³⁶ Because from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.

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.

² Let each of us please the neighbor with a view to what is good for edifying.

¹⁵ Nevertheless I have written to you quite boldly on some points, brothers, as a reminder to you, because of the grace given to me by God,

¹⁵ Nevertheless I have written to you quite boldly on some points, brothers, as a reminder to you, because of the grace given to me by God, ¹⁶ that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, serving the Gospel of God as a priest so that the Gentiles might become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ Because such people do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

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² to the church of God in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, along with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—ours, theirs and yours:

⁸ who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ Now a soulish man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; indeed, he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁵ If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, albeit so as through fire.

¹⁷ If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; because God’s temple, which you are, is holy.

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.

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.

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.

¹³ Those who are outside God will judge, and you must exclude the wicked one from among you.

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,

¹¹ And that is what some of you were; but you were bathed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

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?

¹ Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea ² —all were baptized into Moses by the cloud and by the sea— ³ and all ate the same spiritual food ⁴ and drank the same spiritual drink; because they kept drinking from a spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that Rock was the Christ. ⁵ For all that, God was not pleased with most of them—their carcasses were scattered around the desert! ⁶ Now these things became examples for us, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. ⁷ And do not become idolaters, just like some of them; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to amuse themselves.” ⁸ And let us not fornicate, just as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand died! ⁹ Neither let us test the Christ, just as also some of them did—and were destroyed by the snakes! ¹⁰ And do not grumble, just as also some of them did—and were executed by the destroyer!

¹⁰ And do not grumble, just as also some of them did—and were executed by the destroyer! ¹¹ Now all these things happened to them as examples and were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. ¹² So then, let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall!

²³ All things are ‘permissible’ for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are ‘permissible’ for me, but not all things edify.

²⁰ So when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper. ²¹ Because in eating, each one tries to get his meal first, and one goes hungry while another gets drunk! ²² Now really, don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise God’s congregation and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? Indeed not!

⁴ The one speaking in a ‘language’ edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the congregation. ⁵ I could wish that you all spoke in ‘languages’, but even more that you might prophesy; because the one prophesying is greater than the one speaking in ‘languages’ (unless he interprets), so that the congregation may receive edification.

¹⁵ So what then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will also pray with the mind; I will sing with the spirit, but I will also sing with the mind.

²⁶ So what goes on, brothers? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a ‘language’, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

³ Because I transmitted to you at first that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

³³ Stop kidding yourselves: evil associations corrupt good habits.

¹⁴ knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us through Jesus and present us together with you.

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

¹⁰ Now godly sorrow produces repentance into salvation without regret, but the world’s sorrow produces death. ¹¹ Just consider your own being caused to sorrow in a godly manner, how much diligence it produced in you—what self-defense, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have demonstrated yourselves to be clear in the matter. ¹² So even though I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the wrongdoer, nor for that of the victim, but, before God, so that your real commitment to us might be made clear to you.

² For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, because I betrothed you to one man to present you to Christ as a pure virgin.

⁴ This came up because of the false brothers who were smuggled in (who stole in to spy out our freedom, that we have in Christ Jesus, so as to reduce us to slavery), ⁵ to whom we did not yield, even for a moment, so that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you.—

²⁸ —there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; all of you are one in Christ Jesus —

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

²⁰ —I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone; because I am perplexed about you!

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

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

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

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.

¹¹ See with what large letters I have written to you with my own hand.

¹ Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, that is, the faithful in Christ Jesus:

⁸ that He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and intelligent design,

²⁰ built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone;

¹⁰ to the intent that now, through the Church, the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms,

²⁰ Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to the power that is working in us, ²¹ to Him be the glory in the Church in Christ Jesus, to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

¹¹ Yes, He Himself gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, ¹² for the equipping of the saints into the work of the ministry, so as to build up the body of Christ,

¹⁴ so that we no longer be ‘infants’, tossed about as by waves and carried off by every doctrinal fad, through the underhanded dealings of the people who collect the fee for the error;

¹⁶ from whom the whole body, being fitted and knit together by what every joint supplies, as each individual part does its work, promotes its own growth, its own edification, in love.

²⁹ Let no evil word proceed from your mouth, but only what is good for edification, as needed, that it may impart grace to those who hear.

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.

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.

¹⁸ praying at all times in the Spirit, using every prayer and petition, yes being watchful to this end with all perseverance and petition for all the saints

¹ Paul and Timothy, slaves of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons:

²⁷ Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent I may hear about you that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together for the faith of the Gospel with one soul,

¹⁴ Do all things without grumbling or arguing,

¹⁹ whose end is ruin, whose god is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame; their mind is only on earthly things.

² to the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

²⁸ whom we proclaim, warning every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ.

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

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

² Rather, in spite of having already suffered and been insulted in Philippi, as you know, we made bold in our God to speak to you the Gospel of God, in the face of strong opposition.

¹² insisting that you conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

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.

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

⁸ So then, the rejecter is not rejecting man, but God, the very One who gave you His Holy Spirit.

¹⁶ because the Lord Himself—with a commanding shout, with the archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet—will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first;

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

⁶ So then, let us not sleep, like the rest, but let us stay alert and sober; ⁷ because those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night;

¹¹ Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, as in fact you do.

²³ Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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 Now we are obligated to always give thanks to God about you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you into salvation, through sanctification of spirit and belief in truth, ¹⁴ to which He called you through our gospel, so as to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the perseverance of Christ.

¹⁴ If anyone does not obey our word in this letter, take note of him and don’t associate with him, that he may be shamed;

² to Timothy, true son in faith: Grace, mercy, peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁴ and occupying themselves with myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than the godly edification which is by faith.

⁹ knowing that law is not made for a righteous person but for lawless and rebellious ones, for ungodly and sinners, for unholy and profane, for patricides and matricides, for murderers, ¹⁰ for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine

¹⁷ Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. ¹⁸ Son Timothy, I am giving you this charge in accordance with the prophecies about you that lead the way, that in them you may wage the good warfare,

³ Because this is good and pleasing to our Savior God,

¹ Now the Spirit says explicitly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceiving spirits and to things taught by demons ² —through hypocritical liars whose own consciences have been cauterized,

¹⁶ Take pains with yourself and the doctrine; persevere in those things, because by doing so you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

⁶ But she who indulges in pleasure is dead while she lives.

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.

¹² Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life into which you were called—indeed you confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

¹⁵ which He will manifest at the proper time—He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and the Lord of lords; ¹⁶ who alone has immortality, residing in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen or can see; to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

² to dear son Timothy: Grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁵ while I call to mind the unfeigned faith that is in you—it resided first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also.

⁹ —the One who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not because of our works but because of His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

¹³ Hold fast the standard of sound teaching that you heard from me, through the faith and love in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorous, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain;

¹⁸ (may the Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord in that Day); you also know very well in how many ways he served me in Ephesus.

¹ Now understand this: In the last days there will be grievous times; ² because people will be self-lovers, money lovers, boasters, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without family affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, ⁴ betrayers, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; ⁵ wearing a form of godliness while having denied its power! You must avoid such people; ⁶ because they are the sort that press into households and ‘capture’ gullible women loaded down with sins, who are led along by various lusts,

¹³ while malignant men and imposters will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

³ Because the time will come when they will not tolerate the sound doctrine; rather, they will accumulate for themselves a great many teachers who will tickle their ears according to their lusts

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.

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.

¹⁸ and the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and save me into His heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

¹ Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God’s elect and a real knowledge of the truth that accords with godliness,

³ but has manifested by a proclamation of His Word at chosen times, which word was entrusted to me by the command of our Savior God; ⁴ to Titus, a true son in a common faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from Father God and Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior.

⁴ to Titus, a true son in a common faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from Father God and Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior.

¹⁵ To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; in fact, both their minds and their consciences are defiled. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him, being detestable, disobedient and disqualified for any good work.

¹⁰ not pilfering but showing total trustworthiness, so as to adorn the doctrine of our Savior God in everything. ¹¹ For the saving grace of God has appeared for all men, ¹² teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live prudently, righteously and godly in this present age, ¹³ looking for the blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

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.

⁴ But when the kindness of our Savior God and His love toward mankind manifested itself,

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

¹⁶ So who were they who, upon hearing, rebelled? Really now, wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?

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. ⁷ Now the ground that drinks in the rain that frequently falls on it and produces a crop useful to those for whom it is really cultivated receives blessing from God; ⁸ but should it bear thorns and thistles, it is disqualified, almost a curse, whose destiny is a burning.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

⁸ Jesus Christ is Himself, yesterday and today and into the ages.

¹⁷ Obey your leaders and submit, for they keep watch over your souls, as those who must give account, so that they may do it with joy and not sighing (which would be unprofitable for you).

²⁰ Now may the God of peace—who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep— ²¹ equip you for every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. ²² Now I appeal to you, brothers, bear with this word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.

¹ James, a slave of God and of Sovereign Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

¹⁴ But each one is tempted by his own craving, being taken in tow and enticed. ¹⁵ Then the craving, upon conceiving, gives birth to sin, and the sin, upon completion, delivers death.

¹ My brothers, stop holding the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Glory, with partiality. ² For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothes, should enter your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy rags should also enter, ³ and you pay special attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, “You sit in this special seat,” but to the poor one you say, “You stand there,” or “Sit here at my footstool,” ⁴ have you not been separated among yourselves and become judges with malignant thoughts? ⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those loving Him? ⁶ But you dishonored the poor one. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into courts? ⁷ Do they not blaspheme the noble name that was called upon you? ⁸ If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well; ⁹ but if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

²² You can see that faith was acting together with his works, and the faith was made complete by the works.

¹⁵ such ‘wisdom’ is not coming down from Above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.

⁵ You have lived on the earth in self-indulgence and luxury, you fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

¹⁹ Brothers, if anyone among you should wander away from the truth, and someone should turn him back, ²⁰ let him know that the one who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will deliver a soul from death and will remove from sight a multitude of sins.

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.

⁵ who are being guarded by the power of God through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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

⁸ also “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense;” being disobedient to the Word, they stumble, to which, indeed, they were appointed. 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;

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

¹⁶ as free (not using the freedom as a cover for evil) yet as slaves of God. ¹⁷ Respect everyone; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king.

⁹ not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this so that you may inherit a blessing.

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

¹¹ If anyone speaks, let it be as utterances of God. If anyone serves, let it be as from strength as God supplies, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion throughout the ages. Amen.

¹³ but to the extent that you share in Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that at the revelation of His glory you also may rejoice a great deal more.

¹⁸ Also, ‘If the righteous one is saved with difficulty, where will the godless and sinful person appear?’

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.

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. ¹¹ To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. 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.

¹ Simon Peter, slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained with us the same kind of faith in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: ² may grace and peace be multiplied to you through a real knowledge of God and of our Lord Jesus,

¹² So then, I will not neglect to keep reminding you about these things, though you know and are established in the present truth.

¹² So then, I will not neglect to keep reminding you about these things, though you know and are established in the present truth. ¹³ Yes, I think it right to stir you up by a reminder, as long as I am in this ‘tent’,

¹³ Yes, I think it right to stir you up by a reminder, as long as I am in this ‘tent’, ¹⁴ knowing that the shedding of my ‘tent’ is imminent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. ¹⁵ Moreover I will take pains to provide a reminder of these things for you to have, as needed, after my exit.

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).

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. ³ And in covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; since way back the judgment for such people is not slack, and their destruction will not sleep. ⁴ Because if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but delivered them into chains of darkness, confining them in Tartarus to be reserved for judgment, ⁵ and did not spare the ancient world but preserved Noah, with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly, ⁶ and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes (providing a warning to those who are intent on being ungodly),

⁶ and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes (providing a warning to those who are intent on being ungodly),

⁶ and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes (providing a warning to those who are intent on being ungodly), ⁷ while He rescued upright Lot, who was distressed by the licentious lifestyle of the wicked ⁸ (for that upright man, dwelling among them, tormented an upright soul from day to day by seeing and hearing lawless deeds) ⁹ —then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,

⁹ —then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, ¹⁰ and especially those who go after the flesh in the lust for defilement, and despise authority. They are audacious, self-willed; they are not afraid to revile majestic beings,

¹⁰ and especially those who go after the flesh in the lust for defilement, and despise authority. They are audacious, self-willed; they are not afraid to revile majestic beings, ¹¹ whereas angels, though being greater in might and power, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.

¹¹ whereas angels, though being greater in might and power, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord. ¹² But these, as unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct made to be caught and destroyed, spouting off in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed by their own depravity,

¹² But these, as unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct made to be caught and destroyed, spouting off in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed by their own depravity, ¹³ receiving the wages of unrighteousness. Counting it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime, they are stains and blemishes, reveling in their own deceptions while they feast with you, 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; ¹⁵ having forsaken the right way they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

¹⁷ These are waterless springs, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackest of the darkness has been reserved forever.

¹⁷ These are waterless springs, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackest of the darkness has been reserved forever. 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,

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,

¹⁸ Because speaking pompous words of emptiness they entice through fleshly lusts, through licentiousness, those who have actually escaped from those who are living in error, ¹⁹ promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.

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

²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the real knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter circumstances have become worse for them than the first ones. 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. ²² But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: a dog returns to its own vomit and a bathed sow to wallowing in mud.

¹ Dear ones, this is now a second letter I am writing to you (in both of which I stir up your sincere mind by way of reminder),

¹ Dear ones, this is now a second letter I am writing to you (in both of which I stir up your sincere mind by way of reminder), ² so that you remember the words that were spoken before by the holy prophets and the command of the Lord and Savior, through your apostles.

² so that you remember the words that were spoken before by the holy prophets and the command of the Lord and Savior, through your apostles. ³ Knowing this first: in the last days mockers will come, living according to their own lusts

⁷ But the current heavens, and the earth, are being reserved by His word for fire, being preserved until the day of judgment and perdition of godless men.

¹² expecting and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

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.

²² Who is the liar but the one denying that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, the one denying the Father and the Son.

¹² —not like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own works were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.

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

⁶ We are of God: he who knows God listens to us; he who is not of God doesn’t listen to us—by this we know the Spirit of the Truth and the spirit of the deception.

¹⁶ Yes, we have come to know and believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in the love abides in God, and God in him.

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

¹⁰ He who believes into the Son of God has the witness within himself; he who doesn’t believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning His Son. ¹¹ And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

¹⁶ If anyone should see his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, let him ask, and He will give him life for those who do not sin unto death. There is sin leading to death; I am not saying that he should make request about that. ¹⁷ All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death. ¹⁸ We know that whoever has been begotten by God does not sin; rather the one who was begotten by God preserves himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

¹⁸ We know that whoever has been begotten by God does not sin; rather the one who was begotten by God preserves himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

²¹ Dear children, guard yourselves from idols. Amen.

³ Dear ones, while I was really intent on writing to you about the salvation we share, I had a compulsion to write exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once for all committed to the saints. ⁴ Because certain men, who were marked out for this condemnation long ago, have sneaked in; they are godless, perverting the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying the only Sovereign God, even our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵ So I want to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord delivered a people out of the land of Egypt yet later destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ And the angels who did not keep their proper domain but deserted their own dwelling He has kept bound in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day. ⁷ So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns—who gave themselves up to fornication and went after a different kind of flesh in a manner similar to those angels—stand as an example, undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. ⁸ Likewise these dreamers in their turn both defile flesh and reject authority and slander celestial beings. ⁹ Yet even Michael the archangel, when taking issue with the devil—he was arguing about Moses’ corpse —did not dare to pronounce a reviling judgment, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

⁹ Yet even Michael the archangel, when taking issue with the devil—he was arguing about Moses’ corpse —did not dare to pronounce a reviling judgment, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!” ¹⁰ But these speak abusively against whatever they do not understand, while whatever they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals—by these things they are ruined.

¹⁰ But these speak abusively against whatever they do not understand, while whatever they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals—by these things they are ruined. ¹¹ Woe to them, because they have taken the way of Cain, have rushed into Balaam’s error for profit, and have destroyed themselves in Korah’s rebellion! ¹² These men are hidden reefs at your love feasts, joining the feast without fear, caring only for themselves; they are clouds without rain, carried along by winds; they are late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead (having been uprooted); ¹³ they are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shameful acts; they are wandering stars, for whom the black of the darkness has been reserved forever.

¹⁵ to execute judgment on everyone and to convict all the godless among them of all their godless deeds that they have godlessly perpetrated, also of all the harsh things they have spoken against Him—the godless sinners!” 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.

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.

²⁴ Now to Him who is able to keep them from stumbling and to present them before His glorious presence without fault and with exultation—

⁴ John, to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven-fold Spirit who is before His throne, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins with His own blood 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.

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. ⁷ Take note, He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, including those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will beat their breasts [in dismay] because of Him. Yea, verily!

¹⁰ Do not fear any of the things that you are about to suffer: Take note, the devil is really about to throw some of you into prison, so that you may be tested, and you will have an affliction of ten days. Stay faithful until death and I will give you the crown of life.

¹⁴ ‘Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you have there adepts of the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things offered to idols and to fornicate.

⁴ ‘But you do have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

¹⁸ I counsel you to buy gold from me, refined by fire, so that you may become rich; and white garments, so that you may be clothed, and your nakedness not be shamefully exposed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.

⁹ And whenever the living beings ascribe glory and honor and thanksgiving to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and they cast their crowns before the throne saying: ¹¹ “You are worthy, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created!”

¹³ And every creature which is in the heaven and upon the earth and under the earth, and those upon the sea, and everything in them—I heard them all saying: “To Him who sits upon the throne and to the Lamb: the blessing and the honor and the glory and the power for ever and ever! Amen!!” ¹⁴ and the four living beings saying the “Amen”. And the elders fell and did obeisance.

¹⁰ So the third angel trumpeted, and a great star fell out of the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell upon a third of the rivers, and on the springs of waters. ¹¹ The name of the star is called Wormwood; so a third of the waters were turned into wormwood, and many people died from the waters because they were made bitter.

⁷ War was declared in heaven; Michael and his angels were to wage war with the dragon; so the dragon and his angels made war,

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.

⁵ And he was given a mouth speaking great things, that is, blasphemy; and he was given authority to make war forty-two months. ⁶ So he opened that mouth of his in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, those who dwell in Heaven.

¹⁰ If anyone has captivity, he goes away. If anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints. ¹¹ Now I saw another beast of prey coming up out of the land, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.

⁵ no lie was found in their mouth, for they are blameless.

¹⁰ really, he will drink of the wine of the fury of God, mixed at full strength in the cup of His wrath. In fact, he will be tormented with fire and sulfur before the holy angels and before the Lamb.” ¹¹ So the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest day or night, those who worship the Beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.

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.”

¹⁰ And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the Lake of Fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the False prophet also are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

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.”

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.)

²⁰ He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming swiftly!” Oh yes!! Come, Lord Jesus!