Luke 13 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Now at that time there were some present who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Herod had mixed with their sacrifices. ² So in answer Jesus said to them: “Do you suppose that those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things? ³ Not at all, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all likewise perish! ⁴ Or those eighteen on whom the tower of Siloam fell and killed them; do you suppose they were worse offenders than all others living in Jerusalem? ⁵ Not at all, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all likewise perish!” ⁶ Then He told this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. ⁷ So he said to the gardener: ‘Look, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down; just why must it waste the soil?’ ⁸ But in answer he said to him, ‘Sir, let it be this year also, until I dig around it and apply fertilizer, ⁹ in case it produces fruit—but if not, then cut it down’.” ¹⁰ Now as Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath, ¹¹ He saw a woman there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years—she was bent over and could not straighten up. ¹² So He called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity!” ¹³ He placed His hands on her and immediately she was made straight and started glorifying God. ¹⁴ But the ruler of the synagogue reacted with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, and he said to the crowd, “There are six days in which one should work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath”. ¹⁵ So the Lord answered him and said: “Hypocrites! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it away to water? ¹⁶ So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan kept bound during eighteen long years, be freed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” ¹⁷ When He said these things all His adversaries were put to shame, while all the crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things that were being done by Him. ¹⁸ Then He said: “What is the Kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it? ¹⁹ It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden; and it grew and became a sizable tree, and the birds of the air perched on its branches.” ²⁰ Again He said: “To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? ²¹ It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.” ²² He was traveling through various towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem. ²³ Then someone said to Him, “Lord, are the ones being saved few?” So He said to them: ²⁴ “Exert yourselves to enter through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will try to enter and not manage it. ²⁵ When once the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ and in answer he will say to you, ‘I don’t know you; where are you from?’ ²⁶ then you will begin by saying, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets’. ²⁷ But he will say: ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you are from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’ ²⁸ “There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, but you yourselves being thrown out. ²⁹ They will even come from the east, the west, the north and the south, and recline in the Kingdom of God. ³⁰ Yes indeed, there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.” ³¹ On that same day some Pharisees approached saying to Him, “Get out of here and go away, because Herod wants to kill you”. ³² He said to them: “Go tell that ‘fox’, ‘Take note, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third I will be perfected’. ³³ Nevertheless I must keep going today and tomorrow and the day following, because it is not credible that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem! ³⁴ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, she who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing! ³⁵ So then, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you that you will definitely not see me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

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

⁹ and don’t even think to say within yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as father’, for I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. ¹⁰ Indeed, already the ax is being laid to the root of the trees. So every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

¹⁰ Indeed, already the ax is being laid to the root of the trees. So every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ¹¹ “I baptize you with water unto repentance, but the One coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with Holy Spirit. ¹² His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

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’.”

²³ Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the Gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every illness among the people.

¹² and forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

⁵ Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

¹³ “Go in through the narrow gate; because wide is the gate and broad is the way which leads away into perdition, and those who are going in through it are many. ¹⁴ How narrow is the gate and confined the way which leads away into life, and those who are finding it are few!

¹⁴ How narrow is the gate and confined the way which leads away into life, and those who are finding it are few!

¹⁹ So every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

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!’

¹¹ And I say to you that many will come from east and west and sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens;

¹¹ And I say to you that many will come from east and west and sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens; ¹² but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the darkness farthest away. There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

¹⁶ And when evening came they brought to Him many who were demonized. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick,

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!”

³⁵ Then Jesus went around to all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every illness among the people.

¹² But from the days of John the Baptizer until now the kingdom of the heavens is being aggressive and aggressive people are seizing upon it.

² And upon seeing it the Pharisees said to Him, “Hey, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath!”

¹⁰ And there was a man with a withered hand! And they asked Him saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might accuse Him. ¹¹ So He said to them: “What man will there be among you who has one sheep, and should this one fall into a ditch on the Sabbath, will he not lay hold of it and lift it out? ¹² Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

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.”

²⁴ He put another parable to them, saying: “The kingdom of the heavens is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;

³¹ He put another parable to them, saying: “The kingdom of the heavens is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field; ³² which indeed is smaller than all the seeds, but when it is grown it is greater than all the vegetables and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and rest in its branches.” ³³ He spoke another parable to them: “The kingdom of the heavens is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it was all leavened.”

⁴² and they will throw them into the furnace of fire. There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

⁵⁰ and they will throw them into the furnace of fire. There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

¹ At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus

⁷ Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you saying:

¹⁴ Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind; and if the blind guides the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”

²⁰ So Jesus said to them: “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly I say to you, if you have faith like a mustard seed has, you (ye) will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

²⁴ And as he began to settle up, one debtor of ten thousand talents was brought to him.

²⁵ Upon hearing it His disciples were really flabbergasted saying, “Who then can be saved?”

³⁰ But many ‘first’ will be last, and ‘last’ first.

¹⁶ Just so the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

¹⁸ “Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem and the Son of the Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and scribes; and they will condemn Him to death,

⁹ Then the crowds who went in front and those who followed kept crying out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD! Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

¹¹ And the crowds kept saying, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Natsareth of Galilee.”

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

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

³⁴ When vintage-time drew near he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruits. ³⁵ But the farmers took his servants—one they beat, one they killed, one they stoned.

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.

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.’ ³⁹ And taking him they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. ⁴⁰ Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”

³ And he sent out his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, but they did not want to come.

⁶ But the rest, seizing his servants mistreated and killed them! ⁷ So when that king heard about it he was furious; and sending his troops he destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.

¹³ Then the king said to the servants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot, take him away and throw him out into the darkness farthest away’. There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ¹⁴ For many are called, but few chosen.”

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.

²⁸ Just so you also outwardly appear to be righteous to the people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

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. ³⁷ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, she who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children, just like a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you did not want to.

³⁷ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, she who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children, just like a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you did not want to. ³⁸ Look, your house is left to you abandoned!

³⁸ Look, your house is left to you abandoned! ³⁹ For I say to you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD’!”

³ Now as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives the disciples came to Him privately saying: “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming and of the completion of the age?” ⁴ So in answer Jesus said to them: “Watch out, so that no one deceives you. ⁵ Because many will come in my name saying, ‘I am the Christ’, and they will deceive many.

²¹ Because then there will be a great tribulation, such as has never been since the beginning of the world until now, and never again will be. ²² And unless those days were cut short no flesh would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. ²³ Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, the Messiah is here!’ or ‘there!’ don’t believe him. ²⁴ Because false christs and false prophets will be raised up, and they will give great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect. ²⁵ See, I have told you beforehand. ²⁶ So if they should say to you, ‘Look, He is in the wilderness!’ don’t go out; ‘Look, in the secret rooms!’ don’t believe it. ²⁷ Because just as the lightning comes from east and shines to west, so also will be the coming of the Son of the Man; ²⁸ for wherever the carcass may be there will be a gathering of vultures. ²⁹ “Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

⁵¹ and will cut him in two and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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

¹² But in answer he said, ‘Assuredly I say to you, I do not know you’.

³⁰ And throw out the useless servant, into the darkness farthest out!’ There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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

² And having bound Him they went and handed Him over to Pontius Pilate the governor.

²⁷ Then He said to them: “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

² So they watched Him closely, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. ³ Well He says to the man with the withered hand, “Come out in the middle”. ⁴ Then He said to them: “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they remained silent. ⁵ After looking around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardness of their hearts, He says to the man, “Stretch out your hand!” So he stretched, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other! ⁶ Then the Pharisees went straight out, and with the Herodians started hatching a plot against Him, how they might destroy Him.

²⁶ He also said: “The Kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter the seed on the ground

³⁰ Again He said: “To what shall we compare the Kingdom of God, or with what sort of parable should we illustrate it? ³¹ It is like a mustard seed, that when it is sown on the ground is the smallest of all such seeds,

³¹ It is like a mustard seed, that when it is sown on the ground is the smallest of all such seeds, ³² yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden herbs and produces big branches, so that the birds of the air are able to rest in its shade.”

³² yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden herbs and produces big branches, so that the birds of the air are able to rest in its shade.” ³³ It was with many such parables that He was speaking the word to them, as they were able to hear it. ³⁴ But apart from a parable He did not speak to them; privately, however, He would explain everything to His disciples.

²² And then, one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, comes, and upon finding Him he falls at His feet ²³ and pleads earnestly with Him, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death; do come and lay your hands on her so that she may be saved, and she will live”.

⁵ He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. ⁶ And He marveled at their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.

¹⁴ Now King Herod heard of Him, because His name had become well known, and he said, “John the Baptizer has been raised from the dead, and that is why the powers are at work in him”.

¹⁸ —John had kept saying to Herod, “It isn’t lawful for you to have your brother’s wife”. ¹⁹ So Herodias nursed a grudge against him and wanted to kill him; but she couldn’t, ²⁰ because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing him to be a just and holy man. And consulting him he would do many things; indeed, he would hear him with pleasure.

²⁶ Though the king became very sorry, because of his oaths, and of his guests, he did not want to refuse her. ²⁷ Immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded the head to be brought. So he went and beheaded him in the prison, ²⁸ brought the head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.

²⁵ Then He put His hands on his eyes again, and made him look up; and he was restored and saw everyone clearly.

²¹ Then He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said: “From childhood.

³¹ But many first will be last, and last first.” ³² Now they were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going ahead of them; this surprised them, and as they followed they started to be afraid. Then He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them the things that were about to happen to Him: ³³ “Take note, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and deliver Him over to the Gentiles; ³⁴ and they will mock Him, and scourge Him, and spit on Him, and kill Him. And on the third day He will rise again.”

⁹ Both those who went in front and those who followed started calling out, saying: “Hosanna!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” ¹⁰ “Blessed is the Kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest!”

¹² Now the next day, as they were leaving Bethany, He was hungry. ¹³ And seeing from a distance a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it He found nothing but leaves, because it was not fig season. ¹⁴ So Jesus reacted by saying to it, “Let no one ever eat fruit from you again!” And His disciples were listening.

⁴ “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign whenever all these things are about to be fulfilled?” ⁵ So by way of an answer to them Jesus began by saying: “Take care that no one deceives you.

²⁷ And then He will send His angels and gather together His elect from the four winds, from earth’s extreme point to heaven’s extreme point.

¹⁸ they will remove ‘snakes’; and if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them at all; they will lay hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

¹ Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, while his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

⁸ Well then, produce fruits befitting repentance, and don’t even begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as father’, because I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones! ⁹ But even now the axe is being laid to the root of the trees; so then, every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

¹⁹ but Herod the tetrarch—being reproved by him concerning Herodias, his brother’s wife, as also about all the wicked things that Herod perpetrated — ²⁰ added this also to them all: he actually locked John up in his prison.)

¹⁵ yes, He started teaching in their synagogues, being glorified by all. ¹⁶ So He came to Natsareth, where He had been brought up; as was His custom He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

⁴⁰ Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and He laid His hands on each one of them and healed them.

⁴³ But He said to them, “I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other towns also, because for this purpose I have been sent”. ⁴⁴ So He went preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

⁴⁴ So He went preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

⁷ so the scribes and the Pharisees started watching, to see if He would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might find an accusation against Him. ⁸ But He knew their thoughts and said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Get up and stand in the center”. So he got up and stood. ⁹ Then Jesus said to them: “I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” ¹⁰ And when He had looked around at them all, He said to him, “Stretch out your hand!” So he did that, and his hand was restored, as sound as the other. ¹¹ But they were filled with rage, and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.

⁴² Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck that is in your eye’, when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

⁴⁶ “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord’, and not do what I say?

³¹ “To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and to what are they similar?

⁴¹ “A certain creditor had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. ⁴² And when they had no way to repay, he freely forgave them both. Now tell me, which of them will love him more?”

² also certain women who had been healed of malignant spirits and infirmities: Mary (the one called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had gone out;

²⁷ Well when He stepped out on the land, a certain man of that town met Him, who had had a demon for a long time—he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house, but among the tombs.

⁴¹ And then, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue; he fell down at Jesus’ feet and started begging Him to come to his house,

⁴³ And a woman—suffering with a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent her whole livelihood on physicians, but could not be healed by any—

⁷ Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things being done by Him; and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, ⁸ and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the ancient prophets had arisen. ⁹ But Herod said, “John I beheaded; so who is this about whom I hear such things?” And he started trying to see Him.

⁵¹ Now it happened, as the days for His Ascension approached, that He set His face to go to Jerusalem,

⁵³ But they did not receive Him, because He was heading for Jerusalem.

¹⁵ And you, Capernaum, who are ‘exalted to heaven’, will be brought down to Hades.

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.”

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.

¹³ Then someone from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me”. ¹⁴ But He said to him, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter over you?” ¹⁵ Then He said to all, “Keep alert and guard against covetousness, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

³ Not at all, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all likewise perish! ⁴ Or those eighteen on whom the tower of Siloam fell and killed them; do you suppose they were worse offenders than all others living in Jerusalem? ⁵ Not at all, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all likewise perish!”

¹¹ He saw a woman there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years—she was bent over and could not straighten up. ¹² So He called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity!”

¹⁶ So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan kept bound during eighteen long years, be freed from this bond on the Sabbath day?”

²⁰ Again He said: “To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God?

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?’

²⁷ But he will say: ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you are from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

³ And Jesus reacted by saying to the lawyers and Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” ⁴ But they kept silent. So He took hold of him, healed him, and let him go. ⁵ Then He addressed them saying, “Which of you, if a son or an ox falls into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”

⁵ Then He addressed them saying, “Which of you, if a son or an ox falls into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?” ⁶ And they could not answer Him regarding these things.

⁶ And they could not answer Him regarding these things.

¹⁵ Well when one of the fellow-recliners heard these things, he said to Him, “Blessed is he who will eat dinner in the Kingdom of God!”

²⁸ So he became angry and refused to go in. Then his father came out and began to plead with him.

²³ And in Hades he looked up and saw Abraham at a distance, and Lazarus very close to him. And being in torment, ²⁴ he called out, saying, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; because I am tormented by this flame!’

⁶ So the Lord said: “If you had faith like a mustard seed has, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea’, and it would obey you.

¹⁴ And paying attention He said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests”. It happened that as they went they were cleansed! ¹⁵ Well one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, glorifying God with a loud voice; ¹⁶ then he fell on his face at His feet, thanking Him—and he was a Samaritan! ¹⁷ So Jesus reacted by saying: “Were not all ten cleansed? So where are the nine?

²¹ nor will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ because indeed the Kingdom of God is within you.”

⁴³ And immediately he did! and he followed Him, glorifying God. And all who witnessed it gave praise to God.

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

³⁷ Then, as He was approaching the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen, ³⁸ saying: “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” 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!” ⁴¹ Now as He approached, observing the city He wept over it, ⁴² saying: “If you, yes you, especially in this your day, had known the things pertaining to your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

⁴² saying: “If you, yes you, especially in this your day, had known the things pertaining to your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. ⁴³ Yes, the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you; indeed they will surround you and hem you in on every side. ⁴⁴ And they will raze you, and your children within you, to the ground—they will not leave in you one stone upon another—all because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

⁴⁴ And they will raze you, and your children within you, to the ground—they will not leave in you one stone upon another—all because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

⁴⁸ but could not figure out how to do it, because all the people were hanging on His words.

¹⁰ At the proper time he sent a slave to the farmers, that they might give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers flogged him and sent him away empty-handed. ¹¹ Again he sent a different slave; so they flogged him also, treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. ¹² And again he sent a third; but they wounded him also and threw him out. ¹³ Then the owner of the vineyard said: ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; hopefully they will respect him when they see him.’ ¹⁴ But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying: ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, so that the inheritance may become ours.’

⁴⁰ And they no longer dared to question Him further.

⁵ Then, as some were admiring the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and donations, He said, ⁶ “These things that you see—the days will come in which not one stone will be left upon another that will not be thrown down.” ⁷ So they asked Him, saying: “Teacher, so when will these things be?” and “What will be the sign when these things are about to happen?” ⁸ So He said: “Be careful, so as not to be deceived, because many will come in my name saying: ‘I am’ and ‘The time is at hand’. Therefore do not go after them.

²² Because these are days of vengeance, that all the written things may be fulfilled. ²³ But woe to those who are pregnant and to those nursing babies in those days! There will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people. ²⁴ Yes, they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

²⁴ Yes, they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

³⁶ So be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that are about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”

⁸ Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was really pleased, because for a long time he had been wanting to see Him, having heard so many things about Him; and he was hoping to see some miracle performed by Him. ⁹ He questioned Him with many words, but He gave him no answer. ¹⁰ On their part, the high priests and scribes stood by, vehemently accusing Him. ¹¹ Then Herod and his soldiers, after ridiculing and mocking Him, arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe and sent Him back to Pilate.

²⁸ So Jesus turned to them and said: “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; rather weep for yourselves and for your children.

²⁸ So Jesus turned to them and said: “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; rather weep for yourselves and for your children. 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!’ ³⁰ Then they will begin ‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’

⁴² Then he said to Jesus, “Please remember me, Lord, when you come in your kingdom”. ⁴³ Jesus said to him, “I tell you assuredly, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

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

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

³⁴ Jesus says to them: “My food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to complete His work.

⁵ Now there was a certain man there who had been sick for 38 years. ⁶ Seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been sick a long time, Jesus says to him, “Do you want to get well?”

¹⁵ The man went off and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. ¹⁶ So because of this the Jews began persecuting Jesus and trying to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

²⁷ 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.”

²¹ Jesus answered and said to them: “I did one work, and you all marvel. ²² Consider this: Moses gave you circumcision (not that it comes from Moses but from the patriarchs), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. ²³ If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses won’t be broken, are you angry at me because I made a whole man well on the Sabbath? ²⁴ Stop judging on the basis of appearances, but judge the righteous judgment.”

³⁴ You will look for me and not find me; also, where I am you cannot come.”

³⁴ You will look for me and not find me; also, where I am you cannot come.” ³⁵ So the Jews said among themselves: “Where does this fellow intend to go that we won’t find him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does he? ³⁶ What word is this that he spoke, ‘You will look for me and not find me; also, where I am you cannot come’?”

²¹ Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.” ²² So the Jews said, “He won’t kill himself, will he, since he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?” ²³ He said to them: “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. ²⁴ That’s why I told you that you will die in your sins, because if you do not believe that I am, you will die in your sins.”

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 .

² And His disciples asked Him saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, in that he was born blind?”

⁴ I must accomplish the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work.

⁷ And He said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, ‘Sent’). So he went and washed, and came away seeing.

¹¹ He answered and said: “A man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So when I went and washed, I saw!”

¹⁴ (Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.) ¹⁵ So once again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. So he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” ¹⁶ Then some of the Pharisees said, “This man can’t be from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others were saying, “How can a sinful man do such signs?” And there was a division among them.

¹⁹ And they asked them saying, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” ²⁰ So his parents answered them and said: “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; ²¹ but by what means he now sees we don’t know, or who opened his eyes we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”

³² Jesus answered them: “Many good works I have shown you from my father. For which one of them are you stoning me?”

⁸ The disciples say to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and you’re going back there?” 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.

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. ¹⁰ But if anyone walks in the night he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”

⁵⁴ Therefore Jesus no longer moved about openly among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim; and He stayed there with His disciples.

¹³ took branches from palm trees and went out to meet Him. And they started shouting: “Hosanna!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!” “King of Israel!”

¹⁷ So the crowd that had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify. ¹⁸ That is also why the crowd met Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.

³⁵ Then Jesus said to them: “The Light will be with you just a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness doesn’t overtake you; the one who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

³⁵ Then Jesus said to them: “The Light will be with you just a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness doesn’t overtake you; the one who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going. ³⁶ While you have the Light, believe into the Light, so that you may become sons of light.” Jesus said these things, and going away He was hidden from them.

³³ “Little children, I am with you just a little longer. You will look for me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I say to you.

¹⁹ In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live you also will live. ²⁰ In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. ²¹ The one who has my commandments and keeps them, he is the one who loves me. Now the one who loves me will be loved by my Father; and I will love him, and reveal myself to him. ²² Judas (not the Iscariot) says to Him, “Lord, just how is it that You are going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?” ²³ Jesus answered and said to him: “If anyone loves me he will keep my word. So my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

² Any branch in me which does not produce fruit He lifts up, and every one producing fruit He prunes, so that it may produce more fruit.

⁶ If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown out, like a branch, and dries up; well they gather such and throw them into the fire, and he is burned up.

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.

⁴ I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work that You have given me to do. ⁵ So now, Father, You glorify me by Your side with the glory that I had along with You before the world existed!

³⁰ Then, when He had received the sour wine, Jesus said, “Paid in full!!” And bowing His head He dismissed His spirit.

²¹ Seeing him Peter says to Jesus, “Lord, what about him ?” ²² Jesus says to him: “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

⁷ So He said to them: “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has placed within His own authority. 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. ³⁹ For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far away —as many, that is, as the Lord our God may call.” ⁴⁰ With many different words he both testified and kept exhorting, saying, “Escape from this perverse generation!” ⁴¹ Then those who gladly received his word were baptized, and that day about three thousand souls were added.

² And a certain man, who had actually been lame from his mother’s womb, was being carried (they would lay him daily at the temple gate, the one called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple),

⁹ Well all the people saw him walking and praising God; ¹⁰ and they recognized him—that he was the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, with a view to alms—and they were filled with wonder and amazement because of what had happened to him. ¹¹ Now as the lame man who had been healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico, the one called ‘Solomon’s’, really wondering.

¹⁴ Yes you repudiated the holy and righteous One, and you asked that a murderer be granted to you, ¹⁵ while you killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from among the dead, to which we are witnesses.

¹⁹ Repent therefore, and turn around, so that your sins may be erased, in order that times of refreshing may come from the Lord’s face

⁴ (However, many of those who heard the message believed; the number of the men came to be about five thousand.)

²¹ So threatening them some more they released them, not finding any way to punish them, because of the people, since they were all glorifying God over what had happened; ²² because the man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed was over forty years old.

³⁷ Later Judas the Galilean rose up, in the days of the census, and drew away many people after him. He also perished, and all who obeyed him were dispersed.

¹³ and they put forward false witnesses who said: “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against the holy place and the law; ¹⁴ for we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Natsorean will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses delivered to us.”

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;

⁵⁹ Yes, they stoned Stephen as he called out and said, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit”.

¹ At that time a major persecution arose against the church that was in Jerusalem, so all, except the Apostles, were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.

²⁰ But Peter said to him: “May your silver go with you into perdition, for thinking that the gift of God could be acquired with money! 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.”

¹⁷ So Ananias went and entered the house, and placing his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me so that you may recover your sight and be filled by Holy Spirit.”

³⁸ Jesus of Natsareth, how God anointed Him with Holy Spirit and power, who went about doing good and healing all those being oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him

⁹ Then Saul, also called Paul, filled with Holy Spirit and looking intently at him, ¹⁰ said: “O full of all deceit and all trickery, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

¹⁵ After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent to them, saying, “Men, brothers, if you have a word of encouragement for the people, do speak”.

²⁶ “Men, brothers, sons of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God: to you the word of this salvation has been sent. ²⁷ The Jerusalem dwellers and their rulers, understanding neither Him nor the voices of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning Him.

⁸ Well in Lystra a certain man with helpless feet was sitting (lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked). ⁹ This man was listening to Paul speaking; who looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be healed, ¹⁰ said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And the man jumped up and began to walk!

¹⁴ Simeon has described how God first intervened to extract from the Gentiles a people for His name. ¹⁵ And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written: ¹⁶ ‘After these things I will return, and I will rebuild David’s tent, the fallen one; yes, I will rebuild its ruins and restore it; ¹⁷ so that the remnant of mankind may seek the LORD, even all the Gentiles—the ones, that is, upon whom my name has been called—says the LORD who does all these things.’ ¹⁸ All His works are known to God from eternity.

⁸ Then Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his household; and as they were hearing, many of the Corinthians were believing and being baptized.

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

²⁰ But after listening they ‘glorified’ the Lord by saying to him: “You see, brother, how many tens of thousands are the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law;

⁴ So when the natives saw the beast hanging from his hand, they started saying to each other, “This man must be a murderer, whom Justice has not allowed to live, even though rescued from the sea”.

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

⁴ Or do you scorn the riches of His kindness, tolerance and longsuffering, not recognizing that the goodness of God is leading you toward repentance? ⁵ Rather, due to your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are treasuring up wrath for yourself in the day of God’s wrath and revelation and righteous judgment,

¹² and the father of the circumcised—not only those who are circumcised, but especially those who follow in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham while still uncircumcised. ¹³ Now the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham, or his seed, through law, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if those who are of law are heirs, the faith is made empty and the promise has been invalidated; ¹⁵ because the law produces wrath, since where there is no law neither is there transgression. ¹⁶ For this reason it is of faith so that it may be according to grace, in order that the promise be guaranteed to all the seed—not only to those of law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all;

³¹ while Israel, pursuing a standard of righteousness, did not attain to that standard. ³² Why not? Because it was not from faith, but as from works of the law. They stumbled over the ‘stumbling stone’; ³³ as it is written: “Look! I am placing in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense, and no one who believes on Him will be put to shame.”

¹ Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is for their salvation. ² For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to full knowledge. ³ For they, failing to understand God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to God’s righteousness.

⁹ That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord”, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ Because with the heart one believes into righteousness, and with the mouth one promises into salvation. ¹¹ Because the Scripture says: “Everyone who believes on Him will never be put to shame”; ¹² because there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call upon Him; ¹³ because: “Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.” ¹⁴ How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe on Him of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without someone proclaiming it? ¹⁵ And how will they proclaim unless they are sent? As it is written: “How timely is the arrival of those who bring good news of peace, of those who announce the good things.”

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

¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of God’s Spirit, so that I have fully proclaimed the Gospel of the Christ from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum.

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

³ But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.

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

¹⁵ Yes, even to this day, when Moses is read a veil lies on their heart. ¹⁶ However, whenever anyone turns to the Lord the veil is removed. ¹⁷ Now the Spirit is the Lord, and where the Lord’s Spirit is there is freedom. ¹⁸ So we all, contemplating as in a mirror the glory of the Lord with unveiled face, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, precisely from Lord Spirit.

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!

⁹ But now that you know God—better, are known by God—how can you turn back to those weak, yes decidedly inferior, basic principles, to which you wish to be enslaved all over again?

²⁵ (for this ‘Hagar’ is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present day Jerusalem, and is in slavery with her children); ²⁶ while the ‘Jerusalem’ that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

⁶ that the Gentiles are joint-heirs, of the same body, and fellow partakers of His promise in the Christ through the Gospel, ⁷ of which I became a servant according to the gift of God’s grace, the gift given to me according to the outworking of His power. ⁸ To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

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

⁹ This is what I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more in real knowledge and full discernment, ¹⁰ for you to identify the things that really matter; that you may be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ, ¹¹ having been filled with the fruits of righteousness that are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

¹² So then, my dear ones, just as you have always obeyed (not only in my presence but now much more in my absence), keep working out your own salvation with fear and trembling, ¹³ because God Himself is the One at work in you, both to will and to produce, for His good pleasure.

¹⁷ Not that I want the gift, but I want the fruit that is being added to your account.

⁶ (the Gospel that has come to you just as also in all the world, where it is producing fruit and growing just as also among you, from the day in which you heard about and truly understood God’s grace),

²³ if, that is, you continue in the faith established and firm, not drifting away from the hope of the Gospel, that you heard and that was proclaimed in all the creation under the heaven, of which I, Paul, became a servant.

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

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,

²³ Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ He who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.

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;

¹⁹ Nevertheless, the solid foundation of God stands firm, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His” and “Let everyone who claims the name of the Lord keep away from unrighteousness.”

²⁶ and that they may retrieve their senses out of the devil’s snare (having been taken captive by him to do his will).

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

⁹ but they will not advance any further because, as in the case of the former, their folly will become evident to all.

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him, being detestable, disobedient and disqualified for any good work.

¹⁰ Because it was appropriate to Him\up6 [F]\up0, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons into glory, to perfect the Author of their salvation through sufferings.

⁷ Therefore—just as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you would hear His voice, ⁸ do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, during the time of the testing in the desert,

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

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

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

²⁸ The Law appoints as high priest men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, that came after the Law, appointed Son, forever perfect.

¹⁷ Because you do indeed know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing he was rejected; he found no place for a change of mind, though he sought it diligently with tears.

²¹ Therefore, laying aside all filthiness and overflow of evil, receive with meekness the implanted Word which is able to save your souls.

¹⁶ keeping a good conscience, so that wherein they speak against you as evildoers, those who revile your good way of life in Christ may be put to shame.

¹⁷ Because the time has come for judgment to begin at God’s house; now if it starts with us, what will be the end of those who keep disobeying the Gospel of God? ¹⁸ Also, ‘If the righteous one is saved with difficulty, where will the godless and sinful person appear?’

¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, you should be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble. ¹¹ Because in this way you will be granted the abundant entrance into the unending kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

⁹ The Lord is not delaying the promise, as some consider delay, but rather is patient toward us, not wishing anyone to perish but all to come into repentance.

²¹ I even gave her time so that she might repent, but she does not want to repent of her fornication. ²² So, I am throwing her into a sick bed and those adulterating with her into great affliction, unless they repent of her works.

⁹ After these things I looked, and wow, a great multitude that no one could number, from all ethnic nations and tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the Throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and palm branches in their hands. ¹⁰ And they shouted with a loud voice saying, “Saved by our God who sits on the throne, and by the Lamb!”

⁸ —and leave their corpses in the street of the great city! (which is called Sodom and Egypt, spiritually speaking), even where their Lord was crucified.

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.”

³ They sing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: “Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations! 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.”

⁵ And I heard the angel of the waters saying, “How just You are! The One who is and who was, the holy One, because You have judged these things. ⁶ Because they shed the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it!” ⁷ And I heard one from the altar saying, “Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty! Your judgings are true and just!”

⁸ But as for the cowardly and unbelieving and sinners and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters, and all who are false, their portion is in the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

¹⁵ Outside are the ‘dogs’ and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices a lie.)