Luke 11 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Then it happened, when He finished praying in a certain place, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples”. ² So He said to them: “Whenever you pray, say: Our Father who is in the heavens, your name must be reverenced. Your Kingdom must come. Your will must be done on earth as it is in heaven. ³ Give us day by day our daily bread. ⁴ Also, forgive us our sins, because we also forgive everyone indebted to us. And, do not lead us into testing, but deliver us from the evil one.” ⁵ Then He said to them: “Who among you will have a friend and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, ⁶ because a friend has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; ⁷ and he will answer from within and say, ‘Don’t bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give to you’? ⁸ I say to you, even if he will not get up and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will get up and give him as many as he needs. ⁹ “So I say to you: ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. ¹⁰ Because everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. ¹¹ And which father among you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if a fish, will he give him a snake instead of a fish? ¹² Or if he asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion? ¹³ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” ¹⁴ Then He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. As a result, when the demon had gone out the mute spoke! And the crowds marveled. ¹⁵ But some of them said, “It’s by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons, that he casts out demons”. ¹⁶ While others kept asking Him for a sign from heaven, testing. ¹⁷ But He, knowing their thoughts, said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against itself falls. ¹⁸ So if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?—since you say I cast out demons by Beelzebul! ¹⁹ Further, if I am casting out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. ²⁰ But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, surely the Kingdom of God has come upon you. ²¹ “When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his possessions are safe. ²² But when someone stronger than he attacks, he overcomes him, takes away all his armor in which he trusted, and distributes his spoils. ²³ “He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. ²⁴ “Whenever an unclean spirit goes out from a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest; and not finding any it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came out’. ²⁵ And coming it finds it swept and put in order. ²⁶ Then it goes and picks up seven other spirits, more malignant than itself, and they go in and live there; so the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.” ²⁷ And then, as He was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!” ²⁸ But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it!” ²⁹ Now as the crowds were increasing, He began to say: “This is a malignant generation. It keeps wanting a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. ³⁰ Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation. ³¹ The queen of the South will be raised up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and she will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and indeed a greater than Solomon is here. ³² The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and they will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. ³³ “No one, having lit a lamp, puts it in hiding or under a basket, but on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light. ³⁴ The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, whenever your ‘eye’ is good, your whole body is illuminated. But when it is malignant, your body also is darkened. ³⁵ So see to it that the ‘light’ in you not be darkness. ³⁶ If then your whole body is full of light, not having any part dark, the whole will be illuminated, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light.” ³⁷ Now as He spoke, a certain Pharisee invited Him to eat with him. So He went in and reclined. ³⁸ But the Pharisee, noticing that He did not first wash before the meal, was critical. ³⁹ So the Lord said to him: “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but your inside is full of greed and malignancy. ⁴⁰ Fools! Did not He who made the outside also make the inside? ⁴¹ Nevertheless, give what is possible as alms; then indeed all things are clean to you. 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. ⁴⁸ Thereby you witness to and approve of the deeds of your fathers; because they indeed killed them, while you build their tombs. ⁴⁹ Also, because of this ‘the wisdom of God’ said: ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute’, ⁵⁰ so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation! ⁵² Woe to you lawyers! You have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering!” ⁵³ Well when He had said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge Him on vehemently and to cross-examine Him about many things, ⁵⁴ lying in wait for Him, trying to catch Him in something He might say, so that they might accuse Him.

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

⁷ But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: “Brood of vipers! Who tipped you off to flee from the coming wrath?

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’.”

¹⁵ Nor do they light a lamp and place it under the hamper, but on the lampstand, and it shines on everything in the house. ¹⁶ So also let your light shine before the people so that they may see your good works and may glorify your Father in the heavens.

¹⁶ So also let your light shine before the people so that they may see your good works and may glorify your Father in the heavens.

⁴² Give to him who asks you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from 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.

¹ “Be careful not to do your charitable giving before the people so as to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father who is in the heavens. ² Therefore, whenever you do charitable giving do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by the people. Assuredly I say to you, they already have their reward. ³ But when you do charitable giving do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴ so that your charitable giving may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself repay you openly.

⁶ But you, whenever you pray, go into your room, and having shut the door pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you openly. ⁷ “But when you pray do not babble like the heathen; for they think that they will be heard for their many words. ⁸ So do not be like them, because your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. ⁹ Therefore, you pray like this: ‘Our Father who is in the heavens, let Your name be reverenced; ¹⁰ let Your kingdom come, let Your will be done, on the earth just as in heaven. ¹¹ Give us today our daily bread;

¹¹ Give us today our daily bread; ¹² and forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. 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.’ ¹⁴ For if you forgive people their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

¹⁴ For if you forgive people their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. ¹⁵ But if you do not forgive people their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

²² “The lamp of the body is the eye. So if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. ²³ But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

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?

³² For the pagans seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need each of these things.

³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own affairs. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

⁷ “Keep asking, and it will be given to you; keep seeking, and you will find; keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. ⁸ For each one asking, receives; and the one seeking, finds; and to the one knocking it will be opened. ⁹ Or which man is among you who, if his son asks for bread will give him a stone?

⁹ Or which man is among you who, if his son asks for bread will give him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish will give him a snake? ¹¹ If you then, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in the heavens give good things to those who ask Him!

¹¹ If you then, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in the heavens give good things to those who ask Him!

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

²¹ “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, will go into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who does the will of my Father who is in the heavens. 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!’ ²⁴ “Therefore whoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will compare him to a prudent man who built his house on the bedrock; ²⁵ and the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew and attacked that house; and it did not fall, because it was founded on the bedrock.

⁴ So Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said: “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

³² As they were going out, well, they brought to Him a mute man, demonized. ³³ And when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke. And the crowds marveled saying, “Never was it seen like this in Israel!” ³⁴ But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the ruler of the demons.”

³⁴ But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the ruler of the demons.”

²⁵ It is enough for a disciple that he become like his teacher, and a slave like his master. Since they have stigmatized the master of the house as Beelzebub, how much more those of his household!

²⁷ “What I tell you in the dark, say in the light; and what you hear in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

³² “Now then, everyone who will confess me before the people, I will also confess him before my Father who is in the heavens.

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.’

²² Then a demonized man was brought to Him, blind and mute, and He healed him, so that the \up6 a\up0 blind and \up6 b\up0 mute both \up6 b\up0 spoke and \up6 a\up0 saw. [a chiasmus—ab,ba] ²³ And all the crowds were amazed and said, “Might this not be the Son of David?” ²⁴ But upon hearing it the Pharisees said, “This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, ruler of the demons.”

²⁴ But upon hearing it the Pharisees said, “This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, ruler of the demons.” ²⁵ But knowing their thoughts Jesus said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself becomes desolate, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

²⁵ But knowing their thoughts Jesus said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself becomes desolate, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. ²⁶ So if Satan casts out Satan he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

²⁶ So if Satan casts out Satan he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

²⁶ So if Satan casts out Satan he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? ²⁷ And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

²⁷ And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

²⁷ And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. ²⁸ But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.

²⁸ But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.

²⁸ But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.

²⁸ But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. ²⁹ Or how can anyone go into the house of the strong man and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man? Then he can plunder the house.

²⁹ Or how can anyone go into the house of the strong man and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man? Then he can plunder the house.

²⁹ Or how can anyone go into the house of the strong man and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man? Then he can plunder the house. ³⁰ “He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

³⁰ “He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. 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.

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.

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.

³⁸ Then some of the scribes and Pharisees reacted saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you”.

³⁸ Then some of the scribes and Pharisees reacted saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you”. ³⁹ But in answer He said to them: “A malignant and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

³⁹ But in answer He said to them: “A malignant and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. ⁴⁰ For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the sea monster, so will the Son of the Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. ⁴¹ Ninevite men will arise with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and really, a greater than Jonah is here. ⁴² The queen of the South will be raised with this generation at the judgment and she will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and really, a greater than Solomon is here.

⁴² The queen of the South will be raised with this generation at the judgment and she will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and really, a greater than Solomon is here. ⁴³ “Now when an unclean spirit [demon] goes out from a man, he goes through arid places looking for rest, but finds none. ⁴⁴ Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from where I came’. And coming he finds it unoccupied, swept and put in order. ⁴⁵ Then he goes and takes along with himself seven different spirits, more malignant than himself, and going in he dwells there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Just so it will be for this malignant generation also.”

⁴⁵ Then he goes and takes along with himself seven different spirits, more malignant than himself, and going in he dwells there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Just so it will be for this malignant generation also.”

⁴⁸ But in answer He said to the one who told Him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” ⁴⁹ And stretching out His hand toward His disciples He said: “Here are my mother and my brothers! ⁵⁰ For whoever does the will of my Father in the heavens, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

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.

⁵² So He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been discipled into the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a householder, who brings out of his reservoir things new and old.”

² “Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread.” ³ So in answer He said to them: “Why do you even transgress the commandment of God through your tradition?

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

²² And then, a Canaanite woman coming from those parts cried out to Him saying: “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demonized.” ²³ But He answered her not a word. So His disciples came and urged Him saying, “Send her away, because she is crying out after us”. ²⁴ But in answer He said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel”. ²⁵ So she came and worshipped Him saying, “Lord, help me!” ²⁶ But in answer He said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs”. ²⁷ So she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table”. ²⁸ Then Jesus answered and said to her: “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

¹ The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him they asked Him to show them a sign from heaven. ² But in answer He said to them: “When it is evening you say, ‘Fair weather, for the sky is red’; ³ and in the morning, ‘Today will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast’. Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky but cannot discern the signs of the times. ⁴ A malignant and adulterous generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” And leaving them behind He went away.

³⁵ “My heavenly Father will handle you just like that, if each of you does not forgive his brother his trespasses, from the heart.”

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

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.

³⁵ But the farmers took his servants—one they beat, one they killed, one they stoned. ³⁶ Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did to them likewise. ³⁷ So finally he sent his son to them saying, ‘They will respect my son’. ³⁸ But when the farmers saw the son they said among themselves: ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take possession of his inheritance.’

⁶ But the rest, seizing his servants mistreated and killed them!

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

¹⁸ But perceiving their malignancy Jesus said: “Hypocrites! Why do you test me?

³⁵ And one of them, a lawyer, testing Him, questioned and said,

² saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees are seated upon Moses’ chair; ³ so whatever they may tell you to observe, you should observe and do; but do not do according to their deeds, for they say and do not do. ⁴ For they package loads that are heavy and hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of the people; but they themselves do not want to move them with one of their fingers.

⁶ they love the place of honor at dinners and the first seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and the greetings in the marketplaces, namely to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by the people.

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.

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.

¹⁷ Stupid and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

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.

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

²⁶ Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the inside of the cup and the dish, so that their outside may also be clean. ²⁷ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!!! Because you resemble whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly but inside are full of dead bones and of all uncleanness.

²⁷ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!!! Because you resemble whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly but inside are full of dead bones and of all uncleanness. ²⁸ Just so you also outwardly appear to be righteous to the people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. ²⁹ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!!!! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous; ³⁰ yet you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets’. ³¹ Therefore you testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

³¹ Therefore you testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³² So fill up the measure of your fathers’ guilt! ³³ “Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape from the condemnation of Hell? ³⁴ So take note: I will send you prophets and wise men and Biblical scholars; some of them you will kill, even crucify; some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from city to city ³⁵ —so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel up to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

³⁵ —so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel up to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Assuredly I say to you that all these things will come upon this generation.

¹⁰ But while they went to buy, the bridegroom arrived, and the ones who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast—and the door was shut!

³⁴ Then the King will say to those on His right: ‘Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom that was prepared for you at the foundation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; ³⁶ I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me.’ ³⁷ Then the righteous will answer Him saying: ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? ³⁸ When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? ³⁹ Or when did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?’ ⁴⁰ And in answer the King will say to them, ‘Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

¹¹ You will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me .

⁴¹ Watch and pray, so that you do not enter into temptation. The spirit on its part is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

² So they watched Him closely, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him.

²² Then some scribes who had come down from Jerusalem started saying, “He has Beelzebub”, and “It is by the ruler of the demons that he casts out demons”. ²³ So summoning them He started saying to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan?

²³ So summoning them He started saying to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan? ²⁴ If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

²⁴ If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. ²⁵ And if a household is divided against itself, that household cannot stand.

²⁵ And if a household is divided against itself, that household cannot stand. ²⁶ And if Satan has risen up against himself and become divided, he cannot stand, but is finished.

²⁶ And if Satan has risen up against himself and become divided, he cannot stand, but is finished. ²⁷ No one can plunder the strong man’s goods, invading his house, unless he first binds the strong man—then he may plunder the house.

²⁷ No one can plunder the strong man’s goods, invading his house, unless he first binds the strong man—then he may plunder the house.

²⁷ No one can plunder the strong man’s goods, invading his house, unless he first binds the strong man—then he may plunder the house. ²⁸ “Assuredly I say to you: all the sins of the sons of men can be forgiven, including whatever blasphemies they may utter; ²⁹ but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation” ³⁰ —because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit”.

¹² so that: ‘Seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; so that they should not return and their sins be forgiven them’.”

²¹ Also He said to them: “The lamp is not brought to be put under a box or under a bed, is it? Is it not to be placed on its stand? ²² For there is no ‘hidden’ that may not be exposed, nor has anything been concealed but that it should come to light.

²⁴ Then He said to them: “Pay attention to what you hear. With the same measure you use it will be measured to you in return; and to you who hear, more will be added. ²⁵ Because whoever has, to him more will be given; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”

¹⁰ He started begging Him repeatedly that He would not send them out of that region.

² And upon seeing some of His disciples eating bread with ‘unclean’—that is, ceremonially unwashed—hands, they found fault. ³ (Because the Pharisees, indeed all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands in a special way, holding to the tradition of the elders. ⁴ When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other things they have received and hold—washings of cups, pitchers, copper vessels and couches.) ⁵ Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

²² thefts, covetings, malignancies; deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness—

³² Then they brought to Him a deaf man with thick speech and begged Him to place His hand on him. ³³ After taking him aside, away from the crowd, He put His fingers in his ears; He also spat and touched his tongue. ³⁴ Then looking up to heaven He sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!” ³⁵ Immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he began to speak clearly. ³⁶ Then He commanded them that they should tell no one; but the more He would command them, so much the more they would proclaim it. ³⁷ People were astonished beyond measure, saying: “He has done everything well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”

¹¹ The Pharisees came out and began to argue with Him, requesting of Him a sign from heaven, by way of testing Him. ¹² But He sighed deeply in His spirit and said: “Why does this generation seek a sign? I tell you emphatically, no sign shall be given to this generation!”

¹⁸ Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear, and do you not remember?

³⁸ Yes, whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of Him whenever He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy Angels.”

²⁵ When Jesus saw that the crowd was running up, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I am commanding you, get out of him and never enter him again”.

⁴⁰ For he who is not against you is for you.

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

¹³ Then they sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to Him, in order to trap Him with a question.

³⁸ Then He said to them in His teaching: “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes and to get greetings in the market places, ³⁹ and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;

³⁷ The things I say to you, I say to all: Watch!”

²⁸ So upon entering where she was the angel said, “Rejoice, recipient of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!”

⁴² And she cried out with a great voice and said: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the Fruit of your womb!

⁴⁸ in that He paid attention to the humble station of His slave (f). Yes indeed, because from now on all generations will declare me to be highly favored,

²² and the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove and rested upon Him, and a Voice came out of heaven saying, “You are my beloved Son; in you I am always well pleased.”

¹² Now it happened in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and He continued all night in prayer to God.

⁴⁷ Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them—I will show you who he is like: ⁴⁸ he is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on the bedrock. When a flood occurred, the torrent burst upon that house but could not shake it, because it was founded on the bedrock.

⁶ So Jesus went with them. But when He was no longer far from the house, the centurion sent friends to Him, saying to Him: “Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy that you should come under my roof.

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

³⁶ Then one of the Pharisees invited Him to eat with Him, so He entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined.

¹³ Those on the rock ledge are the ones who, whenever they hear, receive the word with joy; yet these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of testing fall away.

¹⁶ Upon saying these things He called out: “He who has ears to hear, let him hear! No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but he sets it on a lamp stand, so that those who come in may see the light. ¹⁷ Further, there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, nor anything concealed that will not be made known and come into the open.

²¹ But in answer He said to them, “My mother and my brothers are these, the ones who hear the word of God and do it!”

¹⁸ Now it happened, as He was alone praying, that the disciples joined Him, and He questioned them, saying, “Who do the crowds say I am?”

²⁸ Now about eight days after these words, it happened that He took along Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray.

³⁵ And a Voice came out of the cloud, saying: “This is my beloved Son. Listen to Him!”

⁴¹ Then in answer Jesus said: “O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and put up with you (pl)? Bring your (sg) son here!”

⁴⁹ Then John reacted by saying, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow with us”. ⁵⁰ So Jesus said to him, “Do not forbid, because he who is not against us is for us.”

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: 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.’

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.

² So He said to them: “Whenever you pray, say: Our Father who is in the heavens, your name must be reverenced. Your Kingdom must come. Your will must be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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

¹⁸ So if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?—since you say I cast out demons by Beelzebul! ¹⁹ Further, if I am casting out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

³¹ The queen of the South will be raised up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and she will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and indeed a greater than Solomon is here.

³¹ The queen of the South will be raised up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and she will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and indeed a greater than Solomon is here. ³² The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and they will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.

⁴⁵ Then one of the lawyers reacted and said to him, “Teacher, by saying these things you insult us also!”

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.

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.

⁵⁰ so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

⁵² Woe to you lawyers! You have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering!”

¹ Meanwhile, when a crowd of thousands had converged, so that they were stepping on each other, He began to speak first to His disciples: “Guard yourselves from the ‘yeast’ of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

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?’

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.

²⁴ “Exert yourselves to enter through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will try to enter and not manage it. ²⁵ When once the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ and in answer he will say to you, ‘I don’t know you; where are you from?’

²⁵ When once the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ and in answer he will say to you, ‘I don’t know you; where are you from?’

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

⁷ Then He told a parable to those who were invited, having observed how they kept trying for the best places, saying to them: ⁸ “Whenever you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline in the place of honor, in case someone more honorable than you has been invited by him; ⁹ then he who invited you both will come and say, ‘You, give this man place!’ and then, with shame, you start to take the lowest place. ¹⁰ Rather, whenever you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’. Then you will have honor in the presence of your fellow guests. ¹¹ Because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” ¹² Then He said directly to His host: “Whenever you give a dinner or a supper, do not invite your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid. ¹³ But whenever you make a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; ¹⁴ and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you—you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

²⁵ Now large crowds were traveling with Him, and turning He said to them: ²⁶ “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

³⁰ But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’ ³¹ So he said to him: ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. ³² But it was right that we celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and came to life; he was lost and is found.’”

⁹ “I even say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that whenever you fail, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings!

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.

¹ And then He told them a parable, the point being that one needs to always pray and not lose heart,

¹ And then He told them a parable, the point being that one needs to always pray and not lose heart, ² saying: “There was a judge in a certain town who did not fear God nor regard man. ³ But there was a widow in that town, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary’. ⁴ And for a while he refused; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God nor regard man, ⁵ yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will defend her, so that her endless coming doesn’t wear me out!’” ⁶ Then the Lord said: “Hear what the unjust judge said. ⁷ And will not God get justice for His elect who are crying out to Him day and night, indeed being patient with them? ⁸ I tell you that He will get justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He actually find the faith on the earth?”

¹² I fast twice a week; I tithe all that I get.’

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.”

⁸ Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Indeed, Lord, I herewith give half of my goods to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone, I restore fourfold”.

²² So he said to him: ‘I will judge you out of your own mouth, you wicked slave! You knew that I am a hard man, removing what I didn’t place, and reaping what I didn’t sow.

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

²⁰ Keeping a close watch on Him, they sent spies, who pretended to be innocent, so that they might latch on to some thing He said, so as to hand Him over to the power and the authority of the governor.

²⁷ Then some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, approached and questioned Him,

⁴⁶ “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;

¹⁶ You will be betrayed even by parents and relatives, friends and ‘brothers’; and they will put some of you to death. ¹⁷ And you will be hated by all because of my name.

³⁹ Then going out He went to the Mount of Olives, as His custom was, and His disciples followed Him. ⁴⁰ When He came to the place, He said to them, “Pray, so as not to enter into temptation”. ⁴¹ Then He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down and prayed, ⁴² saying, “Father, if you would just remove this cup from me—nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done!” ⁴³ Then an angel from heaven appeared to Him, strengthening Him. ⁴⁴ And being in anguish He prayed with total concentration; then His sweat became like clots of blood, falling to the ground. ⁴⁵ When He rose up from prayer and came to the disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow. ⁴⁶ He said to them: “Why do you sleep? Get up and pray, that you may not enter into temptation.”

²⁹ Because indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, even the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’

²⁵ Then He said to them: “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the Prophets have spoken!

⁴⁶ And He said to them: “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, ⁴⁷ and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

⁴⁷ and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

⁴⁵ Philip finds Nathanael and says to him, “We have found the One of whom Moses in the Law—and also the prophets—wrote: Jesus the son of Joseph, from Natsareth.” ⁴⁶ So Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Natsareth ?” Philip says to him, “Come and see!” ⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and says about him, “There, a genuine Israelite in whom there is no deceit!” ⁴⁸ Nathanael says to Him, “From where do You know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” ⁴⁹ In answer Nathanael says to Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”

¹⁸ So the Jews answered and said to Him, “What sign do you show us, since you do these things.”

²⁵ and that He had no need that anyone should testify about man, because He Himself knew what was in man.

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.

²⁵ Then some of John’s disciples had an argument with a Judean about purification.

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

¹⁴ After these things Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well. Don’t sin any more, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

⁴² Rather I have come to know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.

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.” ²⁸ So they said to Him, “What should we do so that we may work the works of God?” ²⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe into the One whom He sent.” ³⁰ So they said to Him, “Well then, what sign are you going to do so we may see and believe you? What are you going to perform?

³⁰ So they said to Him, “Well then, what sign are you going to do so we may see and believe you? What are you going to perform? ³¹ Our fathers ate the manna in the desert, just as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from Heaven to eat’.” ³² Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from Heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from Heaven. ³³ For the bread of God is the One coming down out of Heaven and giving life to the world.”

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

²⁰ The crowd answered and said, “You must have a demon! Who wants to kill you?”

³⁷ Now on the last and most important day of the Feast, Jesus stood up and called out saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. ³⁸ The one believing into me, just as the Scripture has said, out from his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.” ³⁹ (Now He said this about the Spirit, whom those believing into Him were going to receive, in that the Holy Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)

⁴⁷ So the Pharisees answered: “You haven’t been fooled too, have you? ⁴⁸ None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed into him, have they?

⁴⁸ None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed into him, have they?

⁴⁸ None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed into him, have they? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that doesn’t know the law is accursed!”

⁴⁹ But this crowd that doesn’t know the law is accursed!” ⁵⁰ Nicodemus (the one who came to Him at night, being one of them) says to them, ⁵¹ “Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing, does it?” ⁵² They answered and said to him: “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Search and see that no prophet has ever arisen out of Galilee.”

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 .

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

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

²⁴ So they summoned the man who had been blind a second time and said to him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.” ²⁵ So he answered and said, “That He is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I do know, that having been blind I now see!” ²⁶ So they said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” ²⁷ He answered them: “I already told you and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become His disciples too, do you?” ²⁸ They reviled him and said: “You are that fellow’s disciple, but we are Moses’ disciples. ²⁹ We know that God spoke to Moses; but this fellow—we don’t know where he’s from.” ³⁰ The man answered and said to them: “Why, this is remarkable—you don’t know where He is from; yet He opened my eyes! ³¹ Now we know that God doesn’t listen to sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, to him He listens. ³² Since time began it was never heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. ³³ If this man were not from God He wouldn’t be able to do anything.” ³⁴ They answered and said to him, “You were totally born in sins, and you are teaching us ?” And they expelled him.

³⁹ And Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see may see, and those who ‘see’ may become blind.” ⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words and said to Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?”

⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words and said to Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?” ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, “If you were ‘blind’ you would not have sin. But now you say, ‘We see’, so your sin remains.”

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

⁹ Jesus answered: “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks during the day he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

⁶ (Now he didn’t say this because the poor mattered to him, but because he was a thief and had the money-box; and used to pilfer what was put in it.)

⁴⁶ I, Light, have come into the world so that everyone who believes into me will not remain in the darkness.

² And after supper (the devil already having put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him),

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

⁸ But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be witnesses to me —both in Jerusalem, and all Judea and Samaria, and even to the last part of the earth.”

³⁸ So Peter said to them: “Repent and be baptized, each one of you, upon the name of Jesus Christ, for forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

⁴⁶ So day by day they continued steadfastly with one purpose in the temple and broke bread from house to house; they received their share of food with gladness and singleness of heart,

¹⁷ But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them to no longer speak to anyone in this name.” ¹⁸ So summoning them they commanded them absolutely not to speak or teach in the name of ‘Jesus’.

³ So Peter said: “Ananias, on what basis has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the price of the land?

⁴⁰ Well they were persuaded by him, and summoned the Apostles; after beating them they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

⁵¹ “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always oppose the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so you do.

⁵¹ “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always oppose the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so you do. ⁵² Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers;

⁵⁷ Yelling at the top of their voice they covered their ears and rushed at him all at once,

³ As for Saul, he was trying to destroy the Church; invading house after house and dragging away both men and women, he was putting them in prison.

²¹ You have neither part nor portion in this matter, because your heart is not right before God. ²² Turn away therefore from this your wickedness and make petition to God, in case the intent of your heart may be forgiven you; ²³ for I see you being into a gall of bitterness and a fetter of unrighteousness.”

¹ Meanwhile Saul, still exhaling murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 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.

³⁶ Now there was a certain disciple in Joppa named Tabitha, which is translated Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and charitable deeds that she kept doing. ³⁷ But it happened in those days that she took sick and died; so when they had washed her they placed her in the upper room. ³⁸ Now Lydda was near Joppa; the disciples, having heard that Peter was there, sent to him imploring him not to delay in coming to them. ³⁹ So Peter got up and went with them; upon arriving they took him up to the upper room; all the widows stood around him weeping and showing the coats and garments that Dorcas was making while she was with them.

⁴ Well, staring at him and being frightened he said, “What is it, Lord?” So he said to him: “Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God. ⁵ Now send men to Joppa and summon Simon, who is surnamed Peter; ⁶ he is lodging with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.”

¹⁵ So the voice came to him a second time, “What (pl.) God has made clean you must not call ‘common’.”

³¹ and said: ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms are remembered before God. ³² Send therefore to Joppa and summon Simon, who is surnamed Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea; upon arriving he will speak to you.’

²⁹ Then the disciples, to the extent that any had plenty, each of them determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

¹ Now about that time, Herod the king laid hands on some from the church to mistreat them. ² James, the brother of John, he put to death by sword.

¹¹ Well now, the Lord’s hand is against you and you will be blind, not seeing the sun until next season!” Immediately mist and darkness engulfed him, and he started going around looking for someone to lead him by the hand.

²⁵ “Furthermore, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the Kingdom of God will ever see my face again.

⁴ I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women, ⁵ as also the high priest and all the council of elders can bear me witness. I even obtained letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, to bring those also who were there bound to Jerusalem to be punished.

²⁰ and when the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing there and agreeing to his murder, even guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.’

³ Then Paul said to him: “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit there to judge me according to the law, yet you command me to be struck contrary to the law!”

¹⁷ Now after many years I came to bring alms and offerings to my nation,

¹⁰ I actually did this in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I cast my vote against them. ¹¹ Yes, I punished them often in every synagogue, trying to force them to blaspheme; I was so excessively enraged against them that I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

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 So arranging a day with him, even more people came to him at his lodging, to whom he kept expounding from morning until evening: solemnly testifying about the Kingdom of God and trying to convince them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets. ²⁴ Well some were persuaded by what had been said, and some kept refusing to believe. 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!”

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.

²² Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

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

¹⁹ Further, you are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and truth. ²¹ You, then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal? ²² You who say not to commit adultery, do you adulterate? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? ²³ You who boast in the Law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the Law?

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.

⁹ So now that we have been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from the wrath through Him! ¹⁰ Because since we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, while we were enemies, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

¹⁷ Further, if by the offense of the one man death reigned through that man, much more will those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ Further, I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; because to will is present with me, but I don’t find how to perform the good.

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.

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?

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.”

¹⁰ showing family affection to one another in brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;

¹⁴ I know and have been convinced by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself (still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean), ¹⁵ but if your brother is offended because of food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not, with your food, ruin someone for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ So do not let your good be slandered; ¹⁷ because the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ For whoever serves the Christ in these things is satisfying to God and approved by men.

³⁰ Now I implore you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in prayers to God on my behalf,

³ Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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,

²⁴ Now to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God,

³⁰ It is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God—also righteousness and sanctification and redemption —

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.”

¹⁹ Though being free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, in order that I might win the more: ²⁰ To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those under law as under law, that I might win those under law; ²¹ to those without law as without law (not being without law toward God but under law toward Christ), that I might win those without law; ²² to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. ²³ Now I do this for the sake of the Gospel, so as to become its partner.

¹³ No testing has overtaken you except what is common to man, and God is competent, who will not allow you to be tested beyond what you can stand, but with the testing will also provide the way out, that you may be able to endure it.

⁵ is not indecent, is not self-seeking, is not ‘short-fused’, is not malicious;

³⁶ Ignorant, what you plant is not brought to life unless it dies.

² Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² Now this is our boast: the testimony of our conscience that we have conducted ourselves in the world with openness and godly sincerity, not by fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.

⁹ For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness! ¹⁰ Because what had glory could actually be said to be without glory, compared to the surpassing glory— ¹¹ if what is being set aside had glory, that which is continuing is much more glorious.

⁴ among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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.

² for He says: “At a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I aided you.” Well, right now is a really favorable time; indeed, the day of salvation is now!

⁷ that as you excel in everything—in faith, in word, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us—that you excel in this grace too. ⁸ I am not giving a command, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others. 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.

¹² (because when the intention is presented, it is acceptable according to what one may have, not what he doesn’t have).

⁶ Now then, whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. ⁷ Each one should give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a glad giver. ⁸ Further, God is able to make all ‘grace’ abound toward you, that always having all sufficiency in everything you may abound to every good work; ⁹ as it is written: “He has distributed around, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.” ¹⁰ Now may He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the yield of your righteousness; ¹¹ as you are being enriched in everything so as to always be generous, which passing through us produces thanksgiving to God. ¹² Because the administration of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints, but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God ¹³ —on the basis of the proof that this service gives, they are glorifying God for the obedience of your confession into the Gospel of Christ, and for the generosity of your sharing with them and everybody— ¹⁴ and in their prayer for you, longing for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you. ¹⁵ Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

³ But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve with his cunning, so your minds may be corrupted from the integrity that is in Christ.

²⁴ five times from the Jews I received the ‘forty lashes minus one’; ²⁵ three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked (I spent twenty-four hours in the open sea)—

⁷ Because of the incredible importance of the revelations, to keep me from feeling too important, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to beat on me—to keep me from feeling too important. ⁸ Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

⁸ Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

⁸ Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. ⁹ But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more cheerfully about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may take up residence upon me.

⁴ who gave Himself for our sins, so that He might deliver us out of this present malignant age, according to the will of our God and Father,

¹⁴ indeed I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age, being far more zealous for the traditions of my forefathers.

¹³ For not even those who are circumcised keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

¹⁷ Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the brand marks of the Lord Jesus.

² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the real knowledge of Himself,

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;

¹¹ Yes, He Himself gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,

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;

²⁸ The one who steals must steal no longer, but rather let him work, doing something good with his hands, that he may have something to share with someone in need.

³¹ Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and slander be removed from you, with all malice. ³² Rather, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as in Christ God forgave you.

⁵ Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ;

² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard one another as being better than yourselves.

¹⁵ so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and depraved generation, among whom you shine as light bearers in the world, ¹⁶ holding fast the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I did not run in vain nor labor for nothing.

²⁰ Now to our God and Father be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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.

¹⁵ He is the visible representation of the invisible God, ‘Firstborn’ over all creation, ¹⁶ because by Him all things were created —those in the heavens and those on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. ¹⁷ Yes, He is before all, and in Him all things subsist. ¹⁸ Also, He is the Head of the body, the Church. He is Beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that He may be preeminent in everything, ¹⁹ because in Him all the Fullness was pleased to dwell

¹ I want you to know how great is my concern for you and those in Laodicea, even all who have not met me personally,

³ in whom all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge are hidden.

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

¹³ bearing with one another and forgiving each other, if anyone should have a complaint against another—just as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing with grace in your heart to the Lord, with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.

²² Slaves, obey your masters (according to the flesh) in all things, not just when they are looking, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God.

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.

¹ Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ continually remembering before our God and Father your work for the Faith and your labor coming from the Love and your perseverance based on the Hope, our Lord Jesus Christ being their source,

¹⁵ (the ones who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, who have persecuted us, who do not please God and are hostile to everybody,

¹¹ Now may our God and Father Himself and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way to you. ¹² And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love toward each other and toward all, just as we also do toward you, 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.

¹ Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: ² Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ —the above is evidence that God’s judgment is right, to the end that you be considered worthy of the Kingdom of God, on behalf of which you are actually suffering;

⁹ that one’s coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and with all wicked deception among those who are wasting themselves, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved. ¹¹ Yes, because of this God will send them an active delusion so that they will believe the lie ¹² and so that all may be condemned who have not believed the truth but have taken pleasure in wickedness.

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

³ But the Lord is faithful, who will strengthen you and guard you from the wicked one.

⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, ⁵ because it is consecrated through the word of God and prayer.

⁵ wearing a form of godliness while having denied its power! You must avoid such people;

¹⁵ and that from infancy you have known the Sacred Scriptures which are able to make you wise into salvation through the faith that is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All Scripture is God-breathed and is valuable for teaching, for reproving, for correcting, for training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may be fully competent, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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.

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.

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,

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁰ Because God is not unjust so as to ignore your work, even the labor of love you have invested in His name, in that you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.

²⁶ Now such a High Priest was fitting for us—holy, innocent, undefiled, having been set apart from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens—

²⁶ Because, if we deliberately keep on sinning after having received the real knowledge of the Truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ just a certain fearful anticipation of judgment and fierce fire that is ready to consume the hostiles. ²⁸ Anyone who rejected Moses’ law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know Him who said, “‘Vengeance is up to me’, says the Lord, ‘I will repay’.” And again, “The LORD will judge His people.” ³¹ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God!

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.

⁶ Now without faith it is impossible to please Him, because the one approaching God must believe that He exists and that He becomes a rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him. ⁷ By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that is according to faith.

³⁵ Women received their dead back by resurrection; while others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, so that they might obtain a better resurrection. ³⁶ Still others were tried by mockings and scourgings, and even by chains and imprisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were tempted, they were murdered by sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, mistreated ³⁸ —of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

⁹ Furthermore, we have had our human fathers as correctors and respected them. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

⁹ Furthermore, we have had our human fathers as correctors and respected them. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? ¹⁰ Now they indeed disciplined us during a short period as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, so that we may partake of His holiness.

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

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

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

²¹ Therefore, laying aside all filthiness and overflow of evil, receive with meekness the implanted Word which is able to save your souls. ²² Further, become word doers and not just hearers, deceiving yourselves. ²³ Because if anyone is a law hearer and not a doer, the same is like a man observing his physical face in a mirror; ²⁴ for he observes himself, then goes away and promptly forgets what he’s like. ²⁵ But he who looks carefully into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, he—not being a forgetful hearer but a work doer—he will be blessed in what he does.

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

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

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?

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?

⁵ So also the tongue is a small member and boasts great things. Just look at how great a forest a little fire can kindle! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire! The organization of wickedness, that is how the tongue is placed among our members, defiling the whole body and setting on fire the course of life, itself being set on fire by hell. ⁷ Every kind of animal and bird, reptile and sea creature, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race, ⁸ but no one among men is able to tame the tongue—an uncontrollable evil, full of deadly poison.

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him exhibit his works in the meekness of wisdom, by his good way of life. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth— ¹⁵ such ‘wisdom’ is not coming down from Above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. ¹⁶ Because where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is unruliness and every foul practice. ¹⁷ In contrast, the wisdom from Above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

² You crave and do not have; you murder and covet and are not able to obtain; you fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask. ³ You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may lavish it on your pleasures.

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

⁸ Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Sinners, cleanse your hands! Double-minded, purify your hearts!

¹⁰ Brothers, take as an example the patient bearing of hardship and the steadfastness of the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Indeed we count as blessed those who endure—you have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the final outcome given by the Lord, that He is very compassionate and merciful.

¹⁵ And the prayer of faith will deliver the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sin, it will be forgiven him.

⁸ Be sober, stay alert! Because your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is circling you, looking for someone to devour;

⁹ For he who lacks these things is blind, being so myopic, having forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

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. 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; ¹⁶ but he got a rebuke for his wrongdoing—a mute donkey speaking with a human voice restrained the insanity of the prophet. 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, 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. 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.

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.

⁸ If we claim that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the Truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins He is faithful and righteous so as to forgive us those sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we claim that we have not sinned, we call Him a liar and His Word is not in us.

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.

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?

²¹ Dear ones, if our heart doesn’t condemn us, we have confidence toward God, ²² and whatever we may ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

²² and whatever we may ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. ²³ Now this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded. ²⁴ He who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. This is how we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit whom He gave us.

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

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

¹⁴ Now this is the confidence that we have toward Him: if we should ask anything according to His will, He hears us. ¹⁵ And if we know that He hears us, whatever we may ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of Him. 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.

⁹ I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who wants to dominate the others, does not acknowledge us.

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.

²⁰ But you, dear ones, building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

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.

²³ And I will execute her children; and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will give to each one of you according to your works. ²⁴ ‘Now to the rest of you who are in Thyatira I say—to as many as do not hold this teaching, those who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say—I am not putting any other burden on you;

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

¹⁵ ‘I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. ¹⁶ So then, since you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit you out of my mouth. ¹⁷ Because you say, “I am rich, even become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and do not realize that you are the most wretched—yes, the most pitiable and poor and blind and naked—

¹⁰ And, they have tails like scorpions and stingers precisely in those tails! They have the capability to hurt the populace five months,

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

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.”

²⁰ “Rejoice over her, O heaven, yes you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced your judgment against her!” ²¹ And a mighty angel took up a stone like a huge millstone and threw it into the ocean saying: “The great city Babylon will be thrown down violently, just like that, and will never be found again. ²² ‘The sound of harpists and musicians and flutists and trumpeters will never be heard in you again; no craftsman of whatever craft will ever be found in you again; the sound of a millstone will never be heard in you again; ²³ the light of a lamp will never shine in you again; the voice of bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again; because your merchants were the magnates of the earth, because by your sorcery all the nations were deceived.’ ²⁴ And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, even of all who had been butchered on the earth.”

⁶ And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty thunderings saying: “Hallelujah! Because the Lord our God reigns, the Almighty!

¹ And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the Abyss and a huge chain on his hand. ² And he seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is a slanderer, even Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years; ³ he threw him into the Abyss and locked and sealed it over him so that he should not deceive the nations any more until the thousand years were finished. And after these years he must be loosed for a short time. ⁴ And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them; also, I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus and on account of the Word of God, even those who had not worshipped the Beast or his image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

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.