Luke 10 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Now after these things, the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place where He Himself was about to go. ² Then He said to them: “The harvest is indeed great, but the workers are few; therefore pray to the Lord of the harvest that He may send out workers into His harvest. ³ “Go! Yes, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. ⁴ Do not carry a purse, nor a knapsack, nor sandals; and greet no one along the road. ⁵ Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this house’. ⁶ If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him; if not, it will return to you. ⁷ Remain in that same house, eating and drinking what they offer, because the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house. ⁸ “And into whatever town you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you. ⁹ Heal the sick therein and say to them, ‘The Kingdom of God has come near to you’. ¹⁰ But into whatever town you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say: ¹¹ ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to us we wipe off against you. Nonetheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near to you.’ ¹² I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that Day for Sodom than for that town. ¹³ “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, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ Nevertheless it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the Judgment than for you. ¹⁵ And you, Capernaum, who are ‘exalted to heaven’, will be brought down to Hades. ¹⁶ “He who listens to you listens to me, and he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects Him who sent me!” ¹⁷ Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” ¹⁸ So He said to them: “I watched Satan fall like lightning out of heaven. ¹⁹ Take note, I am giving you the authority to trample on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing at all may harm you. ²⁰ However, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you; rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.” ²¹ In that same hour Jesus exulted in His spirit and said: “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to ‘infants’. Yes, Father, because it pleased you to do so.” ²² And turning to the disciples He said: “All things have been entrusted to me by my Father; also, no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and to whomever the Son may choose to reveal Him.” ²³ Then turning to His disciples privately He said: “Blessed are the eyes that are seeing the things that you see; ²⁴ for I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you are seeing but did not, and to hear what you are hearing but did not.” ²⁵ And then, a certain lawyer stood up to test Him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” ²⁶ So He said to him: “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” ²⁷ In answer he said: “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and, your neighbor as yourself.” ²⁸ So He said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live!” ²⁹ But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” ³⁰ By way of reply Jesus said: “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and as it chanced he ran into robbers, who after having stripped and wounded him, departed, leaving him half dead. ³¹ Now by coincidence a certain priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. ³² So too, a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side. ³³ But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came by there, and upon seeing him was moved with compassion; ³⁴ and going to him he bound up his wounds, applying oil and wine. Then he placed him on his own mount, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. ³⁵ On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, ‘Take care of him; and should you spend more, I will repay you when I return’. ³⁶ So which of these three would you say was ‘neighbor’ to him who ran into the robbers?” ³⁷ He said, “The one who showed mercy on him”. So Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise!” ³⁸ Now it happened as they traveled that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. ³⁹ And she had a sister called Mary, who actually sat at Jesus’ feet listening to His words. ⁴⁰ Well Martha was distracted with much serving; so coming up she said: “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Do please tell her to help me!” ⁴¹ But in answer Jesus said to her: “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and agitated about many things, ⁴² but only one is needed. However, Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

² and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has come near!”

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’.”

¹³ And leaving Natsareth behind He went and took up residence in Capernaum by the sea, in the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali;

¹⁷ From then on Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has come near.”

⁴³ “You have heard that it was said: ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy’.

⁴³ “You have heard that it was said: ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy’. ⁴⁴ But I say to you: love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

⁴⁴ But I say to you: love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, ⁴⁵ that you may prove to be sons of your Father in the heavens; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and He sends rain on the just and the unjust.

²⁵ Therefore, I say to you not to worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air, that they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not superior to them? ²⁷ And which of you can add one cubit to his stature by worrying? ²⁸ And why do you worry about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither labor nor spin, ²⁹ and yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was arrayed like one of these. ³⁰ Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which exists today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, you little-faiths? ³¹ Therefore do not worry saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need each of these things. ³³ Rather, seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own affairs. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

¹⁵ “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

²² Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and cast out demons in Your name, and perform many mighty works in Your name?’ ²³ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me you practitioners of lawlessness!’

³⁶ Seeing the crowds He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and prostrated, like sheep without a shepherd. ³⁷ Then He says to His disciples: “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the workers are few. ³⁸ Therefore pray to the Lord of the harvest that He may send out workers into His harvest.”

¹ So summoning His twelve disciples He gave them authority over unclean spirits so as to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every illness.

¹ So summoning His twelve disciples He gave them authority over unclean spirits so as to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every illness. ² Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first Simon (the one called Peter) and Andrew his brother, James (the son of Zebedee) and John his brother, ³ Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew (the tax collector), James (the son of Alphaeus) and Lebbaeus (who was surnamed Thaddeus), ⁴ Simon (the Canaanite) and Judas Iscariot (who also betrayed Him). ⁵ These twelve Jesus sent out, and commanded them saying: “Do not go off into the road of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans.

⁷ And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of the heavens has come near’. ⁸ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. You have received free of charge, give free of charge. ⁹ Do not provide gold nor silver nor copper in your money belts, ¹⁰ nor a knapsack for the road, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; because the worker is worthy of his food.

¹⁰ nor a knapsack for the road, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; because the worker is worthy of his food. ¹¹ “In whatever city or village you may enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and stay there until you go out.

¹¹ “In whatever city or village you may enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and stay there until you go out. ¹² Upon entering the house, greet it;

¹² Upon entering the house, greet it; ¹³ and should the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; but should it not be worthy, let your peace return to you.

¹³ and should the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; but should it not be worthy, let your peace return to you. ¹⁴ And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, as you go out from that house or city shake off the dust from your feet.

¹⁴ And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, as you go out from that house or city shake off the dust from your feet. ¹⁵ Assuredly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of judgment than for that city! ¹⁶ “Now then, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be prudent like snakes and innocent like doves.

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

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.

⁴⁰ “The one receiving you receives me, and the one receiving me receives the One who sent me.

²⁰ Then He began to reproach the cities in which most of His mighty works had been done, because they did not repent. 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. ²² So I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the Day of judgment than for you. ²³ And you, Capernaum, ‘the one having been exalted to heaven’, you will be brought down to Hades! Because if the mighty works that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

²³ And you, Capernaum, ‘the one having been exalted to heaven’, you will be brought down to Hades! Because if the mighty works that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 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.” ²⁵ At that time Jesus reacted and said: “‘I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes. ²⁶ Yes, Father, because thus it was good to You.’ ²⁷ “All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one really knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone really know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son may will to reveal Him .

²⁷ “All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one really knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone really know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son may will to reveal Him .

¹¹ So in answer He said to them: “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it has not been given. 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. ¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, that seeing they not see and hearing they not hear nor understand. ¹⁴ And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘By hearing you (ye) will hear and not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive. ¹⁵ Because the \up6 a\up0 hearts of this people have grown dull, and their \up6 b\up0 ears hard of hearing, and their \up6 c\up0 eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their \up6 c\up0 eyes and hear with their \up6 b\up0 ears and understand with their \up6 a\up0 hearts, and turn around; and I would heal them.’ ¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear;

¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear; ¹⁷ for assuredly I say to you that many prophets and righteous ones desired to see what you see and did not see it, and to hear what you hear and did not hear it.

¹⁵ Now with evening coming on His disciples approached Him saying: “The place is uninhabited and the hour is already late. Dismiss the crowds, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food.”

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

²² So taking Him aside Peter began to rebuke Him saying: “Grace to you, Lord! This shall not happen to you!”

²⁵ He says, “Yes”. So when they entered the house Jesus anticipated him saying: “Simon, what do you think? From whom do the kings of the earth take customs or poll tax, from their sons or from strangers?”

⁵ “Whoever receives one little child like this in my name, receives me;

³³ Were you also not obligated to have mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you?’

¹⁶ And then, a certain one came and said to Him, “Good teacher, what good thing must I do so that I may have eternal life?” ¹⁷ But He said to him: “Why do you call me good? No one is good except One, God. But if you want to enter into the life, keep the commandments.”

¹⁷ But He said to him: “Why do you call me good? No one is good except One, God. But if you want to enter into the life, keep the commandments.” ¹⁸ He says to Him, “Which ones?” So Jesus said: “‘You shall not murder’, ‘You shall not commit adultery’, ‘You shall not steal’, ‘You shall not give false witness’, ¹⁹ ‘Honor your father and your mother’, and ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’.”

¹⁹ ‘Honor your father and your mother’, and ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’.”

¹ “For the kingdom of the heavens is like a certain landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. ² And agreeing with the workers for a denarius a day he sent them into his vineyard.

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

¹⁶ and said to Him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” So Jesus says to them: “Yes. Have you never read that ‘Out of the mouth of babies and nursing infants You have prepared praise for Yourself ’?”

²⁸ “But what do you think? A certain man had two sons, and going to the first he said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard’. ²⁹ But in answer he said, ‘I don’t want to’ (but later he changed his mind and went). ³⁰ And going to the other he said likewise. And in answer he said, ‘I go, Sir’; yet he did not go. ³¹ Which of the two did the will of the father?” They say to Him, “The first”. Jesus says to them: “Assuredly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes will go into the kingdom of God before you do.

³⁴ Now when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they got together. ³⁵ And one of them, a lawyer, testing Him, questioned and said, ³⁶ “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” ³⁷ So Jesus said to him: ‘”You must love the LORD your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole mind.’

³⁷ So Jesus said to him: ‘”You must love the LORD your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole mind.’ ³⁸ This is the first and great commandment.

³⁸ This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it, ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’

³⁹ And the second is like it, ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets.”

⁴² saying, “What do you think about the Christ; whose Son is He?” They say to Him, “David’s”.

²³ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you pay a tithe of mint and dill and cummin, but have neglected the weightier items of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These it was obligatory to do, while not neglecting those.

²⁴ The Son of the Man is really going just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of the Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man not to have been born.”

⁵ So throwing the silver down in the sanctuary he left, and went and hanged himself!

¹⁸ And approaching Jesus asserted to them saying: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

²¹ Well upon hearing this His family came to apprehend Him, because they were saying, “He is out of his mind!”

¹⁹ but the worries of this age, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the undue desires for other things come in and smother the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.

³⁰ Again He said: “To what shall we compare the Kingdom of God, or with what sort of parable should we illustrate it?

⁷ Then He summoned the twelve and began to send them out, two by two, giving them authority over the unclean spirits as He did so. ⁸ And He commanded them to take nothing for the road, except just a staff—no knapsack, no bread, no coin in the belt—

⁸ And He commanded them to take nothing for the road, except just a staff—no knapsack, no bread, no coin in the belt— ⁹ but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.

⁹ but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics. ¹⁰ And He said to them: “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from that place.

¹⁰ And He said to them: “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from that place.

¹⁰ And He said to them: “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from that place. ¹¹ And whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet as a testimony against them. Assuredly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah on Judgment Day than for that city.”

¹¹ And whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet as a testimony against them. Assuredly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah on Judgment Day than for that city.”

¹¹ And whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet as a testimony against them. Assuredly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah on Judgment Day than for that city.” ¹² So they went out and started preaching that people should repent, ¹³ and they were casting out many demons, and anointing with oil and healing many who were sick.

¹³ and they were casting out many demons, and anointing with oil and healing many who were sick.

²² Then He came to Bethsaida; and they brought a blind man to Him and begged Him to touch him. ²³ So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village; then spitting into his eyes and laying hands on him, He asked him if he saw anything. ²⁴ And looking up he said, “I do see men, only they look like walking trees”. ²⁵ Then He put His hands on his eyes again, and made him look up; and he was restored and saw everyone clearly. ²⁶ Then He sent him away to his house, saying, “Neither go into the village nor tell anyone in the village”.

³⁶ Well, what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?

³⁷ “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives not only me, but the One who sent me”.

¹⁵ I tell you assuredly, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child does will certainly not enter it.”

³⁰ and you (sg) shall love the LORD your (sg) God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. ³¹ And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’. There is no other commandment greater than these.”

³³ And to love Him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the soul and with all the strength, and to love the neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” ³⁴ Now when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, He said to him, “You are not far from the Kingdom of God”. And after that no one dared ask Him any question.

³⁴ Now when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, He said to him, “You are not far from the Kingdom of God”. And after that no one dared ask Him any question.

³⁴ It is like a man off on a journey, having left his house and given the authority to his slaves, and to each his work; and he commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

⁸ She did what she could. She has perfumed my body for the burying before the fact.

¹⁵ Then He said to them: “Go to the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to all creation.

¹⁷ And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages; ¹⁸ they will remove ‘snakes’; and if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them at all; they will lay hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

²⁰ And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the message by the accompanying signs. Amen.

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

⁷⁶ “And you, child, will be called Prophet of the Most High, because you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

⁷ and she gave birth to her firstborn Son, wrapped Him in pieces of cloth and laid Him in the manger, because there was no room for them in the lodging place.

⁴⁶ So it happened that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

⁴ as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying: “A voice calling out: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness, make His paths straight. ⁵ Every ravine will be filled up, and every mountain and hill will be leveled; the crooked parts of the roads will be straightened out, and the rough parts will be smoothed out; ⁶ and all flesh will see the salvation of God.’”

³² Also, if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even ‘sinners’ love those who love them. ³³ And if you do good to those doing good to you, what credit is that to you? Even ‘sinners’ do the same. ³⁴ And if you lend to those from whom you expect to get it back, what credit is that to you? Even ‘sinners’ lend to ‘sinners’, to receive an equal value back. ³⁵ “So, love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; because He is kind toward the ungrateful and wicked. ³⁶ So be compassionate, even as your Father is compassionate.

¹ Now when He concluded all His sayings in the hearing of the people, He entered Capernaum. ² Well a certain centurion’s slave, who was valuable to him, was sick and about to die.

¹³ When the Lord saw her He had compassion on her and said to her, “Don’t cry!”

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)

⁴² And when they had no way to repay, he freely forgave them both. Now tell me, which of them will love him more?” ⁴³ So Simon answered and said, “I suppose the one to whom he forgave more”. And He said to him, “You have judged correctly”.

² also certain women who had been healed of malignant spirits and infirmities: Mary (the one called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had gone out; ³ and Joanna the wife of Chuza, an official of Herod; and Susanna, and many others—these were providing for Him from their substance.

¹⁴ Now that which fell into the thorns: these are the ones who heard, yet as they go they are choked by cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

¹⁸ So be careful how you hear: Because whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

³⁵ So they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus; they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

¹ Then He called the Twelve together and gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure diseases;

¹ Then He called the Twelve together and gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure diseases; ² and He sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

² and He sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick. ³ And He said to them: “Take nothing for the journey—neither staffs nor knapsack nor bread nor money, neither have two tunics apiece. ⁴ Whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there.

⁴ Whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there. ⁵ But as many as do not receive you, when you depart from that town, shake off even the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”

⁵ But as many as do not receive you, when you depart from that town, shake off even the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.” ⁶ So they set out and went around, village by village, evangelizing and healing everywhere.

¹⁰ When the Apostles returned they reported to Him all that they had done. Then He took them and withdrew privately to a deserted place belonging to a town called Bethsaida. ¹¹ But the crowds, being aware, followed Him. So He received them and started speaking to them about the Kingdom of God, and He cured those who needed healing. ¹² Now when the day began to decline, the Twelve approached and said to Him, “Dismiss the crowd, so that they may go to the surrounding villages and their farms, lodge and find food; because we are in a deserted place here”. ¹³ But He said to them, “You feed them!” So they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we go and buy food for all this crowd” ¹⁴ (there were about five thousand men). But He said to His disciples, “Make them recline in groups of fifty!” ¹⁵ They did so, making them all recline. ¹⁶ Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. ¹⁷ So they all ate and were filled, and twelve baskets of the pieces they left were taken up.

⁴⁸ and said to them: “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me receives Him who sent me. Further, he who is least among all of you, he will be great.”

⁵² and He sent messengers ahead of Him. And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for Him.

⁵² and He sent messengers ahead of Him. And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for Him. ⁵³ But they did not receive Him, because He was heading for Jerusalem.

⁵⁵ But He turned and rebuked them saying: “You do not know of what sort of spirit you are.

⁵⁹ Then He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father”. ⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the Kingdom of God”.

¹ Now after these things, the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place where He Himself was about to go.

⁴ Do not carry a purse, nor a knapsack, nor sandals; and greet no one along the road. ⁵ Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this house’. ⁶ If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him; if not, it will return to you. ⁷ Remain in that same house, eating and drinking what they offer, because the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house. ⁸ “And into whatever town you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you. ⁹ Heal the sick therein and say to them, ‘The Kingdom of God has come near to you’.

⁹ Heal the sick therein and say to them, ‘The Kingdom of God has come near to you’. ¹⁰ But into whatever town you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say:

¹⁰ But into whatever town you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say: ¹¹ ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to us we wipe off against you. Nonetheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near to you.’

¹¹ ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to us we wipe off against you. Nonetheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near to you.’ ¹² I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that Day for Sodom than for that town.

³⁶ So which of these three would you say was ‘neighbor’ to him who ran into the robbers?”

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.

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?’

²² Then He said to His disciples: “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will wear.

²⁹ Do not concentrate on what you may eat or what you may drink; do not be anxious.

³³ Sell your possessions and give to charity. Make for yourselves ‘purses’ that will not wear out, an unfailing treasure in the heavens, where a thief cannot approach, nor a moth destroy.

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.

²⁸ “There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, but you yourselves being thrown out.

¹³ But whenever you make a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;

⁵ And upon finding it he joyfully puts it on his shoulders.

⁹ And when she finds it, she calls together her friends and neighbors saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I lost!’

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.’

¹⁵ So He said to them: “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. That which is exalted among men is an abomination before God.

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

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.

¹⁶ then he fell on his face at His feet, thanking Him—and he was a Samaritan! ¹⁷ So Jesus reacted by saying: “Were not all ten cleansed? So where are the nine? ¹⁸ None were found to return and give glory to God except this foreigner!”

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

⁹ Then He told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the rest: ¹⁰ “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood and started praying to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like all the rest—robbers, unjust, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

¹⁸ A certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

²² Well upon hearing these things Jesus said to him, “You still lack one thing: sell all you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

³¹ Then He took the Twelve aside and said to them: “Take note, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be fulfilled:

⁹ So Jesus said about him, “Today salvation has happened in this house, in that he also is a son of Abraham;

²⁸ Having said these things, He went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

¹⁷ And you will be hated by all because of my name. ¹⁸ (Not even one hair of your head will be wasted

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.

³⁵ Then He said to them, “When I sent you without money bag, knapsack or sandals, did you lack anything?” And they said, “Nothing”.

¹⁸ No one has ever seen God. The Only-begotten Son, who exists in the bosom of the Father, He has interpreted Him .

³ Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly I say to you, unless someone is begotten from above he is not able to see the kingdom of God.”

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.

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.

¹⁹ “Now this is the basis for the condemning, that the Light has come into the world, but the people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were malignant.

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

⁹ So the Samaritan woman says to Him, “How can you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” (for Jews do not associate with Samaritans).

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

³⁵ Don’t you say, ‘There are four months before the harvest comes’? Well I say, Look! Lift your eyes and observe the fields; they are white for harvest already! ³⁶ Now he who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit into eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷ Now the saying, ‘One is the sower and another the reaper,’ is true in this: ³⁸ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labors.”

²² In fact the Father does not judge anyone but has committed all the judging to the Son,

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.

²³ so that all will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. ²⁴ “Most assuredly I say to you that the one listening to my word and believing on Him who sent me has eternal life; he will not go into judging but has moved out of the death into the life.

²⁴ “Most assuredly I say to you that the one listening to my word and believing on Him who sent me has eternal life; he will not go into judging but has moved out of the death into the life. ²⁵ “Most assuredly I say to you that a time is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live. ²⁶ Because just as the Father has life in Himself just so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself; ²⁷ furthermore He gave Him the authority to pass judgment, because He is Son of Man .

²⁷ Do not work for the food that wastes away but for the food that endures into life eternal, which the Son of Man will give you; because on Him God the Father has set His seal.”

⁴⁴ No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who listens and learns from the Father comes to me. ⁴⁶ (Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God—He has seen the Father.)

⁴⁸ So the Jews answered and said to Him, “We say that you are a Samaritan and have a demon —are we wrong?”

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

¹² But the hired man, not being the shepherd and not owning the sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep, and runs away; and the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.

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

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they will never ever be wasted; and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

¹ Now a certain man, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha, was sick.

¹ Now a certain man, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha, was sick. ² (It was the Mary who [later] anointed the Lord with myrrh and wiped His feet with her hair whose brother Lazarus was sick.) ³ So the sisters sent to Him saying, “Lord, please, the one you love is sick!” ⁴ Upon hearing it Jesus said, “This sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” ⁵ (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

¹⁹ and many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.) ²⁰ Then Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him; but Mary remained sitting at home.

⁴¹ Then they took away the stone from where the deceased was lying. Jesus raised His eyes and said: “Father, I thank You that You heard me.

¹ Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was (the deceased whom He raised from the dead). ² So they gave a dinner for Him there—Martha was serving, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him. ³ Then Mary, bringing a pound of pure oil of nard, very costly, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped His feet with her hair! And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

³ Then Mary, bringing a pound of pure oil of nard, very costly, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped His feet with her hair! And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

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

⁴⁴ Jesus called out and said: “The one believing into me believes not into me but into Him who sent me.

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

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

¹⁵ Because I have given you an example, so that you also should do just as I did to you. ¹⁶ Most assuredly I say to you, a slave is not greater than his owner, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. ¹⁷ If you understand these things, you are blessed if you do them.

²⁰ Most assuredly I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives me, and he who receives me receives Him who sent me.”

²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his owner.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be having sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ The one who hates me hates my Father too. ²⁴ If I hadn’t done among them the works that no one else has done, they would not be having sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ However, this was so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’

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

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

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

⁵ So now, Father, You glorify me by Your side with the glory that I had along with You before the world existed!

¹⁰ Actually, all my things are Yours and Yours are mine, and I have been glorified in them.

²⁴ “Father, those whom You have given to me, I desire that they also may be with me where I am, so that they may observe my glory, which You have given me, because You loved me before the founding of the world. ²⁵ Righteous Father! Indeed the world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent me. ²⁶ Yes, I have made Your name known to them and will make it known, so that the love with which You have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

²⁶ Yes, I have made Your name known to them and will make it known, so that the love with which You have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

⁴ While it remained unsold was it not yours, and once sold was it not in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You did not lie to men but to God.”

⁴ So on their part those who were scattered abroad went about preaching the Word.

² and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he should find any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

¹⁶ for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

³⁶ The word that He sent to the sons of Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all—

¹⁹ Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that came about in connection with Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews only.

² As they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart to me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them!”

² As they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart to me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them!” ³ Then, having fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them off. ⁴ So, having been sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia; and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

⁴ So, having been sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia; and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

²⁶ “Men, brothers, sons of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God: to you the word of this salvation has been sent.

⁴⁰ So take care, lest there come upon you that which has been spoken in the prophets:

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.

⁵¹ So they shook off the dust from their feet against them, and went to Iconium.

⁹ A vision appeared to Paul during the night: a man of Macedonia was standing, appealing to him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us”. ¹⁰ So when he saw the vision, we immediately prepared to go over to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to evangelize them.

¹⁵ When she and her household were baptized, she appealed saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay”. So she persuaded us.

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”.

³⁴ Then he brought them into his house and set a meal before them, and he was really rejoicing, having believed in God with his whole family.

⁴⁰ So exiting the prison they entered Lydia’s place, and upon seeing the brothers they encouraged them and departed.

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.”

¹⁷ Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judgment seat. But none of this was a delay to Gallio.

²⁸ So take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers, to shepherd the congregation of the Lord and God which He purchased with His own blood. ²⁹ Because I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

³ “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, just as you all are today.

²¹ And He said to me, ‘Get going, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles’.”

¹⁵ So I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And He said: ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. ¹⁶ Now get up and stand on your feet; because I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness both of the things you have seen and of the things I will reveal to you, ¹⁷ delivering you from ‘the people’ and the ethnic nations, to which I am sending you: 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.’

⁵ But he just shook the beast off into the fire and suffered no harm.

⁷ Now in that region there were properties belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and in a friendly manner took care of us for three days. ⁸ Well it happened that the father of Publius was sick in bed with fever and dysentery; Paul went in to him, prayed, and laying his hands on him, healed him. ⁹ So, when this had happened, the rest of those on the island who had diseases started coming and being healed; ¹⁰ who also honored us in many ways, and when we put to sea they provided the necessary things.

²⁵ So being in disagreement among themselves they started to leave, after Paul had said this one word: “The Holy Spirit spoke correctly to our fathers through Isaiah the prophet, ²⁶ saying: ‘Go to this people and say, “You will keep on hearing, but never understand; you will keep on seeing, but never perceive”; ²⁷ because the heart of this people has become sluggish, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; in order that they not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their heart, nor turn back, so I could heal them.’ ²⁸ Therefore let it be known to you that the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”

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

³¹ proclaiming the Kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all boldness, without hindrance.

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

²⁷ And will not the physically uncircumcised who fulfills the law judge you, complete with written code and circumcision, who are a transgressor of the Law?

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.

² If Abraham was really justified by works, he has a boast—but not before God.

¹⁴ For if those who are of law are heirs, the faith is made empty and the promise has been invalidated; ¹⁵ because the law produces wrath, since where there is no law neither is there transgression. ¹⁶ For this reason it is of faith so that it may be according to grace, in order that the promise be guaranteed to all the seed—not only to those of law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all;

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? Since God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up on behalf of us all, how shall He not with Him also graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? God is He who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he who condemns? Christ is He who died, but even more, was indeed raised, who indeed is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes on our behalf. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Will it be affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? ³⁶ (As it is written: “For your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.”) ³⁷ No, in all these things we prevail completely through Him who loved us. ³⁸ Because I am persuaded that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present nor things to come, ³⁹ neither height nor depth nor any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁹ And as Isaiah had said previously: “Unless the LORD of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah.” ³⁰ So what shall we say? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained to righteousness, namely the righteousness that comes from faith; ³¹ while Israel, pursuing a standard of righteousness, did not attain to that standard. ³² Why not? Because it was not from faith, but as from works of the law. They stumbled over the ‘stumbling stone’; ³³ as it is written: “Look! I am placing in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense, and no one who believes on Him will be put to shame.”

³ For they, failing to understand God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to God’s righteousness. ⁴ Now for everyone who believes into righteousness, Christ is the end of the law ⁵ —Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”

⁸ So what does it say? “The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the message of faith that we proclaim):

²¹ But concerning Israel he says: “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

⁸ Just as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that were not to see and ears that were not to hear, to this very day.” ⁹ And David says: “Let their table be made into a snare and into a trap, into a stumbling block and into a retribution to them. ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened so as not to see, and their back always be bowed down.” ¹¹ So now I say, surely they have not stumbled so as to fall [and stay fallen]? Of course not! Rather, through their transgression the salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

²⁰ Therefore, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head.”

⁹ Because—“You shall not commit adultery”, “You shall not murder”, “You shall not steal”, “You shall not bear false witness”, “You shall not covet”, and whatever further commandment—everything is summed up in this word, namely: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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

²³ Gaius, host to me and the whole congregation, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, greets you, as does brother Quartus.

⁹ God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. ¹⁰ Now I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be restored to the same mind and to the same purpose. ¹¹ You see, my brothers, it has been reported to me concerning you, by some from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you. ¹² What I mean is that you are individually saying: “I am of Paul”, or “I am of Apollos”, or “I am of Cephas”, or “I am of Christ”! ¹³ Has Christ been divided? It wasn’t Paul who was crucified for you, was it? You weren’t baptized into the name of Paul, were you? ¹⁴ I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, ¹⁵ lest anyone should say that I had baptized into my own name. ¹⁶ O yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanus; besides them I don’t remember if I baptized anyone else. ¹⁷ Because Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the Gospel —not with eloquent ‘wisdom’, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of power. ¹⁸ The message of the cross, you see, is foolishness to those who are being wasted, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹ For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and confound the shrewdness of the intelligent.” ²⁰ Where is the wise one? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its ‘wisdom’ did not get to know God, it pleased God to save the believing ones through the ‘foolishness’ of what was preached— ²² since Jews request a sign while Greeks seek after wisdom, ²³ but we proclaim a crucified Christ: an offense to Jews, foolishness to Greeks. ²⁴ Now to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, ²⁵ because the ‘foolishness’ of God is wiser than men, and the ‘weakness’ of God is stronger than men. ²⁶ Just look at your calling, brothers: not many are wise, not many are powerful, not many are of noble birth, by human standards; ²⁷ but God has chosen the foolish things of the world that He might put the wise to shame, and God has chosen the weak things of the world that He might put the strong things to shame; ²⁸ and God has chosen the lowly things of the world and the despised things—even the ‘nothings’—that He might nullify the ‘somethings’; ²⁹ so that no flesh should boast in God’s presence.

⁶ However, we do speak wisdom among the mature, albeit not the wisdom of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are being set aside; ⁷ but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom that God ordained before the ages for our glory, ⁸ that none of the rulers of this age have understood (because if they had understood, they would not have crucified the Lord of the glory).

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God keeps making it grow. ⁷ So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who makes it grow. ⁸ Now he who plants and he who waters are at one, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ Yes, we are God’s coworkers; you are God’s ‘field’, God’s ‘building’.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become ‘foolish’ so that he may become wise. ¹⁹ Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness;” ²⁰ and again, “The LORD knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are futile.”

³² Now I want you to be without anxiety. He who is unmarried cares about the things of the Lord: how he will please the Lord.

³² Now I want you to be without anxiety. He who is unmarried cares about the things of the Lord: how he will please the Lord. ³³ While he who is married cares about the things of the world: how he will please his wife.

³³ While he who is married cares about the things of the world: how he will please his wife. ³⁴ The wife and the virgin are also different. She who is unmarried cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; while she who is married cares about the things of the world: how she will please her husband.

³⁴ The wife and the virgin are also different. She who is unmarried cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; while she who is married cares about the things of the world: how she will please her husband. ³⁵ I am saying this for your own profit, not to put a leash on you, but for what is appropriate, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.

³⁵ I am saying this for your own profit, not to put a leash on you, but for what is appropriate, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction. ³⁶ Now if anyone thinks he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past her prime and thus it should be, let him do what he desires; he does not sin; let them marry. ³⁷ But he who stands steadfast in his heart, not having necessity, but has control over his own will, and has determined in his heart to preserve his own virginity, does well. ³⁸ So then, he who gives in marriage does well, but he who does not give in marriage does better. ³⁹ A woman is bound by law for as long as her husband lives, but if the man should die, she is free to be married to whom she wishes—only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is more blessed if she remains as she is, according to my judgment—and I think I also have God’s Spirit.

⁴ Do we have no right to eat and drink? ⁵ Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, just as the rest of the apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas? ⁶ Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to forego working? ⁷ Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk? ⁸ I am not saying these things as a mere man, am I? Does not the Law also say the same? ⁹ For it stands written in the Law of Moses: “You shall not muzzle an ox that is threshing.” Is it really about the oxen that God is concerned, ¹⁰ or does He surely say it for our sakes? Yes, it was written for us, that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope. ¹¹ Since we planted spiritual things in you, is it a big deal if we reap material things from you? ¹² If others have a share in this right from you, do not we even more? Nevertheless we have not used this right, but we put up with everything so as not to cause any hindrance to the Gospel of Christ. ¹³ Don’t you know that those who minister the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar have a share in the altar? ¹⁴ So also the Lord has instructed those who proclaim the Gospel to live from the Gospel. ¹⁵ Now I have not used any of these rights, nor have I written these things that it should be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void

²⁷ If some unbeliever invites you and you decide to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

²⁸ And those whom God has appointed in the Church are: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; after that miracles, then presents of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of languages.

² And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ Even if I give away all my possessions and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

³ Even if I give away all my possessions and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me has not been in vain; in fact, I have worked harder than all of them—well, not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

²⁴ then the end, when He hands over the Kingdom to the God and Father, whenever He puts an end to every ruler and all authority and power.

¹⁵ Because we are the aroma of Christ for God, among those who are being saved and those who are being wasted — ¹⁶ to these a smell of death into death, while to those a fragrance of life into life—and who is adequate for such things?

³ So where our Gospel has actually been concealed, it has been hidden from those who are being wasted,

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

¹⁸ And that ‘all’ is from the God who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and given us the ministry of the reconciliation, ¹⁹ namely that in Christ God was reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, including committing to us the message of this reconciliation. ²⁰ So then, we are Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God!

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

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

¹¹ Further, it is evident that no one is justified by the law before God, because “the righteous will live by faith”. ¹² While the law is not of faith but, “the man who does them will live by them”.

¹² While the law is not of faith but, “the man who does them will live by them”. ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse in our place—because it stands written, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree” —

¹⁸ For if the inheritance were of the law, it would no longer be of promise, but God granted it to Abraham by promise.

²¹ Is the law then against the promises of God? Of course not! Rather, if a law had been given that was capable of imparting life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. ²² But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

⁶ Because in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.

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.

⁶ Let him who is taught the Word share all good things with him who teaches.

⁵ having predestined us into an adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, into Him\up6 [S]\up0, according to the good pleasure of His\up6 [F]\up0 will,

¹¹ in whom we were also assigned an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him\up6 [F]\up0 who works all things according to the decision of His will,

²¹ far above every ruler and authority and power and dominion —even every name that can be named, not only in this age but also in the next.

² in which you once walked, according to the Aeon of this world, the ruler of the domain of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of the disobedience; ³ among whom all of us also used to conduct ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, just like the rest.

¹⁷ He came and proclaimed peace to us, being both far and near,

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

⁷ Now to each one of us the grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift was given. ⁸ That is why He says, “When He ascended into the heights He captured the concentration camp, and distributed gifts to men.” ⁹ (What does ‘He ascended’ imply if not that He also first descended into the interior regions of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended is the very one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) ¹¹ Yes, He Himself gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, ¹² for the equipping of the saints into the work of the ministry, so as to build up the body of Christ,

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

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

⁹ Indeed, that is why God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow—of those in heaven, those on earth and those under the earth— ¹¹ and every tongue will acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father.

²¹ (for all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus).

²⁵ However, I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker and fellow soldier; also your messenger and minister to my need;

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

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

⁶ Don’t be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition along with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

¹⁷ Not that I want the gift, but I want the fruit that is being added to your account. ¹⁸ I have received everything and have plenty; I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

²⁹ It is to this end that I labor, striving according to His working that works through me with power.

² that their hearts may be encouraged, being united in love and into a great wealth of confident understanding, into a real knowledge of the mystery of the God and Father and of the Christ, ³ in whom all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge are hidden.

¹⁰ and you are complete in Him who is the head over all rule and authority. ¹¹ In Him you were also circumcised by the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, not with a circumcision done by hands but with the circumcision of the Christ, ¹² having been buried with Him in the baptism. In Him you were also raised together through your faith in the productive power of the God who raised Him from among the dead. ¹³ Yes you, though being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh—He has made you alive together with Him; having forgiven us all our trespasses; ¹⁴ having wiped out the written record about us that was against us (based on the ordinances), indeed He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross; ¹⁵ having stripped the principalities and the authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, having triumphed over them by it [the cross]. ¹⁶ So don’t let anyone judge you about food or drink, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or Sabbaths, ¹⁷ which things are but a shadow of those to come, while the body is Christ’s. ¹⁸ Nor let anyone disqualify you, taking pleasure in a subservience and devotion to the angels, ‘taking possession’ of things that he has not seen, being puffed up by his carnal mind to no useful purpose, ¹⁹ and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, supported and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.

³ because you died and your life has been hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ Whenever Christ, our life, is revealed then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

¹² Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ, greets you; he is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

⁹ Surely you remember, brothers, our toil and exertion, because working night and day, so as not to burden any of you, we proclaimed the Gospel of God to you.

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

¹² Now we urge you, brothers, to recognize those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,

¹⁵ See that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both for one another and for all.

¹ Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, as also with you,

¹⁶ Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you the peace during every situation, in every way. The Lord be with you all.

¹² I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who enables me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into a ministry; ¹³ I, who was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and arrogant; but I was shown mercy, because being ignorant I did it in unbelief; ¹⁴ the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

² —through hypocritical liars whose own consciences have been cauterized,

¹⁰ (which is also why we labor and suffer reproach): We have set our hope on the living God, who is ‘Savior of all men’, especially of those who believe.

¹⁵ Cultivate these things; give yourself wholly to them, so that your progress may be evident to all. 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.

¹³ Not only that, they learn to be idle, going around from house to house; and not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they ought not to.

¹⁷ Let the elders who lead well be counted worthy of a double honorarium, especially those who labor in word and teaching. ¹⁸ For the Scripture says: “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain,” and “The worker is worthy of his wages.”

³ You therefore are to endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. ⁴ No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the affairs of civilian life; he wants to please the one who enlisted him. ⁵ Further, if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules ⁶ —the hardworking farmer should be the first to receive of the fruits.

⁶ —the hardworking farmer should be the first to receive of the fruits.

² because people will be self-lovers, money lovers, boasters, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

⁵ But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

¹ Paul, a prisoner for Jesus Christ, and brother Timothy, to the beloved Philemon, our fellow worker,

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

⁸ You subjected all things under his feet.” It follows that in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not so subjected. However, we do not yet see everything subjected to him, at present. ⁹ But we do see Jesus, who ‘was made lower than the angels, for a little while’ (in order to suffer death), ‘crowned with glory and honor’—this, by the grace of God, so that He\up6 [S]\up0 might taste death on behalf of everyone. ¹⁰ Because it was appropriate to Him\up6 [F]\up0, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons into glory, to perfect the Author of their salvation through sufferings. ¹¹ For both He\up6 [S]\up0 who is sanctifying and those who are being sanctified are all from One, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them ‘brothers’, ¹² saying, “I will declare Your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing praise to You.” ¹³ And again, “I will put my trust in Him\up6 [F]\up0 ”; and again, “Here am I and the children whom God has given me.” ¹⁴ Since, then, the children have flesh and blood as their share, He\up6 [S]\up0 Himself likewise partook of the same, in order that through His death He might abolish the one who had the power of death—that is, the devil—

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

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

¹⁰ “Now this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the LORD, “I will put my laws into their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God and they will be my people.

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

³⁹ Now all these did not receive the promise, though having been approved through faith,

²³ to an assembly of firstborn ones who have been enrolled in heaven; to God, Judge of all; to the spirits of the perfected righteous;

⁵ Your way of life should be free from the love of money, being content with what you have, because He Himself has said: “I absolutely will not desert you; I most certainly will not abandon you.” ⁶ So we can say with confidence: “The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

⁸ If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well;

¹³ (the judgment will be without mercy to the one not showing mercy). That law exalts mercy over judgment. ¹⁴ What is the advantage, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? That faith can’t save him, can it? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister is actually naked, and is destitute of the daily food, ¹⁶ and someone among you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you (pl) do not give them the things needed for the body, what is the benefit?

²⁴ You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

¹⁸ Now the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those making peace.

⁴ into an imperishable and undefiled and unfading inheritance, already reserved in the heavens for you, ⁵ who are being guarded by the power of God through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

¹⁰ Concerning this salvation the prophets, who prophesied about the grace that would come to you, searched and inquired diligently, ¹¹ investigating into whom, or what sort of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating as He testified beforehand the sufferings that would be inflicted on Christ and the glories that would follow them. ¹² It was revealed to them that they were not ministering these things to themselves, but to you; which things have now been announced to you by those who proclaimed the gospel to you, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things that angels really desire to look into.

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

¹ So then, laying aside all malignity —even all deceit and play-actings and envies, yes all malicious speaking— ² crave the pure spiritual ‘milk’, like newborn babies do, so that by it you may grow into salvation,

²¹ Now you have been called to this, really, because Christ also suffered in our behalf, leaving you an example that you should follow in His footsteps:

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,

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

¹⁶ We know the Love by this: He laid down His life in our behalf; we also are obligated to lay down our lives in behalf of our brothers. ¹⁷ Now whoever has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart toward him—how does the love of God abide in him? ¹⁸ My dear children, let us not love in word or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth

¹⁸ My dear children, let us not love in word or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth

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

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

¹¹ And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. ¹² He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

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

⁹ Anyone who turns aside and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; but whoever continues in Christ’s teaching does have both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house; do not even tell him, “I wish you well,”

⁵ Dear one, you are faithful in whatever you do for the brothers, and for the strangers ⁶ who testified to your love before the church—you will do well by sending them on their way in a manner worthy of God, ⁷ because it was for the sake of the Name that they went out, accepting nothing from pagans. ⁸ We therefore ought to welcome such, so that we may work together for the Truth.

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

¹ “To the messenger of the church in Ephesus write: These things says He who holds the seven stars on His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:

⁵ The one who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments, and I will not erase his name from the Book of Life, and I will confess his name before my Father and before His angels.

¹ So the fifth angel trumpeted, and I saw a ‘star’ that had fallen out of the sky to the earth. And to him was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.

² But leave out the outer court of the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations; and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. ³ And I will give authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

³ And I will give authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

³ And I will give authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.” ⁴ These are the two olive trees, even the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. ⁵ And if anyone wants to harm them fire comes out of their mouths and consumes their enemies. So if anyone wants to harm them he must be killed in this way.

⁵ And if anyone wants to harm them fire comes out of their mouths and consumes their enemies. So if anyone wants to harm them he must be killed in this way. ⁶ They have authority to shut up the sky so that no rain falls during the days of their prophecy; and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they wish. ⁷ When they finish their witness, the Beast of prey that comes up out of the Abyss will make war with them, overcome them and kill them ⁸ —and leave their corpses in the street of the great city! (which is called Sodom and Egypt, spiritually speaking), even where their Lord was crucified. ⁹ And those from the peoples, tribes, languages and ethnic nations look at their corpses three-and-a-half days, and will not allow their corpses to be buried. ¹⁰ And those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will enjoy themselves and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

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, ⁸ but he was not strong enough; neither was there any place found for him in heaven any more. 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.

⁸ All who dwell on the earth will do obeisance to him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slaughtered from the foundation of the world.

² And he seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is a slanderer, even Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years;

¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne; and books were opened. And another Book was opened, namely, of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things that were written in the books.

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

²⁷ But anything ‘common’ or anyone perpetrating an abomination or a lie will absolutely not enter her; only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.