Matthew 16 Cross References - WPNT

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. ⁵ Upon arriving at the other side His disciples had forgotten to take bread. ⁶ Then Jesus said to them, “Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees”. ⁷ So they reasoned among themselves saying, “It’s because we didn’t bring any bread”. ⁸ But Jesus, being aware, said to them: “You little-faiths! Why are you reasoning among yourselves because you didn’t bring any bread? ⁹ Do you not yet perceive nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? ¹⁰ Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many hampers you took up? ¹¹ How come you don’t perceive that it wasn’t about bread that I told you to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?” ¹² Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees. ¹³ When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi He questioned His disciples saying, “Who do people say that I, the Son of the Man, am?” ¹⁴ So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets”. ¹⁵ He says to them, “But you, who do you say that I am?” ¹⁶ So in answer Simon Peter said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!” ¹⁷ And in answer Jesus said to him: “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in the heavens. ¹⁸ And I further say to you that you are a stone, but on this bedrock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not withstand her. ¹⁹ And I will give you (sg) the keys of the kingdom of the heavens, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in the heavens, and whatever you loose on earth will have been loosed in the heavens.” ²⁰ Then He ordered His disciples not to tell anyone that He was the Messiah. ²¹ From then on Jesus began to show to His disciples that He had to go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised on the third day. ²² So taking Him aside Peter began to rebuke Him saying: “Grace to you, Lord! This shall not happen to you!” ²³ But turning He said to Peter: “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you are not mindful of God’s values, but of men’s values.” ²⁴ Then Jesus said to His disciples: “If anyone desires to come after me, let him really deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ²⁵ For whoever desires to save his life will waste it, but whoever ‘wastes’ his life on my account will find it. ²⁶ For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life? ²⁷ For the Son of the Man will certainly come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will recompense each according to his performance. ²⁸ Assuredly I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of the Man coming in His kingdom.”

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? ⁸ Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance,

³ And coming to Him the tempter said, “Since you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread”.

⁸ Again the devil takes Him to a very high mountain and shows Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. ⁹ And he says to Him, “All these things I will give to you, if You will fall down and worship me.” ¹⁰ Then Jesus says to him: “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written: ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only shall you serve’.”

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.

³ “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens. ⁴ Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. ⁵ Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. ⁶ Blessed are those hungering and thirsting for righteousness, for they will be filled. ⁷ Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. ⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. ⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. ¹⁰ Blessed are those who have been persecuted on account of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens. ¹¹ “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and speak all kinds of evil against you, lying, because of Me.

²⁰ For I say to you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees you will absolutely not enter the kingdom of the heavens!

²⁹ So if your right eye is causing you to fall, tear it out and throw it away; because it is better for you that one of your members perish than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

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?

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.

⁴ And Jesus says to him, “See that you tell no one; but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a proof to them.”

²⁰ So Jesus says to him, “The foxes have dens and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of the Man does not have where He may lay His head”.

²⁶ And He says to them, “Why are you cowardly, you little-faiths?” Then rising He rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

⁶ But so that you may know that the Son of the Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins”—then He says to the paralytic, “On your feet, pick up your pallet and go to your house”.

¹¹ Upon seeing this the Pharisees said to His disciples, “Why does your teacher eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

² Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first Simon (the one called Peter) and Andrew his brother, James (the son of Zebedee) and John his brother,

²³ But whenever they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly I say to you, you will certainly not go through all the cities of Israel before the Son of the Man comes.

³⁸ and he who does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. ³⁹ The one ‘finding’ his life will lose it, and the one ‘losing’ his life for my sake will find it.

⁴¹ The one receiving a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and the one receiving a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. ⁴² And whoever should give so much as a cup of cold water to one of these little ones, in the name of a disciple, assuredly I say to you, he will certainly not lose his reward.”

⁵ blind regain sight and lame walk, lepers are cleansed and deaf hear, dead are raised and the poor are evangelized.

²³ And you, Capernaum, ‘the one having been exalted to heaven’, you will be brought down to Hades! Because if the mighty works that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

²⁵ At that time Jesus reacted and said: “‘I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes. ²⁶ Yes, Father, because thus it was good to You.’ ²⁷ “All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one really knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone really know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son may will to reveal Him .

⁸ Furthermore, the Son of the Man is Lord of the Sabbath!”

¹⁴ But going out the Pharisees plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

³⁷ So He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of the Man.

⁴¹ The Son of the Man will send out His angels, and they will collect out of His kingdom everything that is offensive, and those who perpetrate lawlessness;

⁴⁹ So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come forth and will separate the malignant out from among the righteous,

² and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist; he has been raised from the dead, and therefore the powers are at work in him”.

¹⁷ But they say to Him, “We have nothing here except five loaves and two fish”. ¹⁸ So He said, “Bring them here to me”. ¹⁹ Then He commanded the crowds to recline on the grass. And taking the five loaves and two fish and looking up to heaven, He blessed; and breaking the loaves He gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds. ²⁰ So they all ate and were filled; and they took up the fragments that remained, twelve baskets full. ²¹ Now those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

³¹ And immediately Jesus reached out His hand and caught him and says to him: “You little-faith! Why did you doubt?”

³³ Then those who were in the boat came and worshipped Him saying, “Truly you are the Son of God!”

¹ Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem approached Jesus saying:

⁴ For God commanded saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’, and ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death’. ⁵ But you say: ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever you might be profited by me is a gift to God ”— ⁶ then he must not honor his father or mother.’ Thus you have nullified the commandment of God through your tradition. ⁷ Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you saying:

⁷ Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you saying: ⁸ ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me. ⁹ But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men’.”

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

¹⁶ So Jesus said: “Are you also still without understanding?

¹⁶ So Jesus said: “Are you also still without understanding? ¹⁷ Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is expelled into the sewer?

¹⁷ Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is expelled into the sewer? ¹⁸ But the things coming out of the mouth actually come from the heart; those are the things that defile the man.

²¹ Going out from there Jesus withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.

³⁴ Jesus says to them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven, and a few small fish”. ³⁵ So He commanded the crowds to recline on the ground. ³⁶ And taking the seven loaves and the fish, He gave thanks, broke and gave to His disciples, and the disciples to the crowd. ³⁷ So they all ate and were filled; and they took up seven hampers full of the fragments that remained. ³⁸ Now those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children. ³⁹ And having dismissed the crowds He got into the boat and went to the region of Magdala.

⁶ Then Jesus said to them, “Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees”.

¹¹ How come you don’t perceive that it wasn’t about bread that I told you to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?” ¹² Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

¹² Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

¹⁶ So in answer Simon Peter said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!” ¹⁷ And in answer Jesus said to him: “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in the heavens.

²⁸ Assuredly I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of the Man coming in His kingdom.”

⁹ As they were coming down from the mountain Jesus commanded them saying, “Tell no one the vision until the Son of the Man is risen from the dead”. ¹⁰ So His disciples questioned Him saying, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

¹² But I say to you that ‘Elijah’ has come already, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wished. Thus also the Son of the Man is about to suffer at their hands.”

²² While they were staying in Galilee Jesus said to them, “The Son of the Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men, ²³ and they will kill Him, and on the third day He will be raised”. And they were seriously grieved.

⁷ Woe to the world because of offenses! Now it is necessary that offenses come, but woe to that person by whom the offense comes!

¹⁷ And should he refuse to hear them, tell it to the congregation. But should he refuse to hear even the congregation, let him be to you just like the heathen and the tax collector. ¹⁸ “Assuredly I say to you, whatever (pl.) you (pl.) may bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you may loose on earth will have been loosed in heaven.

³ The Pharisees also came to Him to test Him saying to Him, “Is it permissible for a man to divorce his wife for just any cause?”

¹⁷ As Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem He took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them privately: 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, ¹⁹ and they will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge and to crucify. And on the third day He will rise!”

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

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?

²³ The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him

³⁴ Now when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they got together. ³⁵ And one of them, a lawyer, testing Him, questioned and said,

² saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees are seated upon Moses’ chair;

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.

¹³ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you devour the houses of the widows, while making long prayers as a pretense. Therefore you will receive a greater condemnation. ¹⁴ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!! Because you bar the entrance to the kingdom of the heavens in the face of the people; for you neither go in yourselves nor do you allow those who are trying to enter to go in. ¹⁵ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!!! Because you travel all over, land and sea, to make one convert, and when he joins up you make him twice as much a son of Hell as yourselves. ¹⁶ “Woe to you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is obligated’. ¹⁷ Stupid and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? ¹⁸ And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it is obligated’. ¹⁹ Stupid and blind!! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? ²⁰ Therefore he who swears by the altar swears by it and by all the things on it. ²¹ And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by Him who used to dwell in it. ²² And he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it. ²³ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you pay a tithe of mint and dill and cummin, but have neglected the weightier items of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These it was obligatory to do, while not neglecting those. ²⁴ Blind guides, who strain out a gnat but gulp down a camel! 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. 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.

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?”

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. ³⁰ And then the sign of the Son of the Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn —they will see the Son of the Man coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and great glory.

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

⁴² So be watchful, because you (pl) do not know in what hour your Lord is coming.

³¹ “When the Son of the Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on His throne of glory.

² “You know that after two days the Passover takes place, and the Son of the Man will be handed over to be crucified.”

⁴⁷ And while He was still speaking, there was Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a large crowd with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and elders of the people.

⁵¹ And then, one of those with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and striking the servant of the high priest he cut off his ear! ⁵² But Jesus says to him: “Put your sword back into its place, for all who take the sword will die by the sword. ⁵³ Do you actually suppose that I cannot call upon my Father right now and He will place beside me more than twelve legions of angels?

⁶³ But Jesus kept silent. So reacting the high priest said to Him, “I put you under oath by the Living God so that you tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God!” ⁶⁴ Jesus says to him: “You said it. Furthermore, I tell you, hereafter you will see the Son of the Man sitting at the Power’s right, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

¹² But although the chief priests and elders kept accusing Him, He answered nothing.

³² Now as they went out they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon; they compelled him to carry His cross.

⁵⁴ Now when the centurion and those with him guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that happened they were scared stiff and said, “This Man really was the Son of God!”

⁶² The next day, which is after the Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees went together to Pilate ⁶³ saying: “Sir, we remember that that deceiver, while still alive, said, ‘After three days I am going to rise’.

⁴⁰ And He said to them: “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”

¹⁷ Then they began to implore Him to depart from their borders. ¹⁸ Well upon His getting into the boat, the man who had been demonized started begging Him that he might be with Him.

¹⁵ Others said, “He is Elijah”. Still others said, “He is a prophet like one of the prophets”.

³⁸ So He says to them: “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” When they knew they said, “Five, and two fish”. ³⁹ Then He directed them all to recline in groups on the green grass. ⁴⁰ So they reclined in ‘plots’ of hundreds and of fifties. ⁴¹ And taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to His disciples to serve the people; He also divided the two fish among them all. ⁴² Well they all ate and were filled. ⁴³ And they picked up twelve full baskets of broken pieces; also of the fish. ⁴⁴ There were five thousand men who ate the loaves.

¹⁸ So He said to them: “Can you really be without understanding? Don’t you perceive that nothing that enters a man from outside can defile him,

⁵ He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven”. ⁶ So He told the crowd to sit down on the ground; then taking the seven loaves and giving thanks, He broke them and gave them to His disciples to set before the crowd, and they did. ⁷ They also had a few small fish; so blessing them He said to distribute them as well. ⁸ Well they ate and were filled; they even took up seven hampers of broken pieces that were left over. ⁹ Now those who had eaten were about four thousand; and He sent them away.

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!”

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!” ¹³ Turning His back on them, He got back into the boat and went off to the other side.

¹³ Turning His back on them, He got back into the boat and went off to the other side. ¹⁴ (His disciples had forgotten to take bread; they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat.)

¹⁴ (His disciples had forgotten to take bread; they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat.) ¹⁵ And He charged them, saying, “Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod”.

¹⁵ And He charged them, saying, “Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod”. ¹⁶ So they started reasoning among themselves, saying, “It’s because we have no bread”.

¹⁶ So they started reasoning among themselves, saying, “It’s because we have no bread”. ¹⁷ Being aware of it Jesus said to them: “Why are you reasoning because you have no bread? Do you still neither perceive nor understand? Do you still have hearts that have been hardened?

¹⁷ Being aware of it Jesus said to them: “Why are you reasoning because you have no bread? Do you still neither perceive nor understand? Do you still have hearts that have been hardened? ¹⁸ Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear, and do you not remember?

¹⁸ Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear, and do you not remember? ¹⁹ When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you take up?” They say to Him, “Twelve”. ²⁰ “And when I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many hampers full of pieces did you take up?” And they said, “Seven”. ²¹ So He said to them, “How is it that you still don’t understand?”

²¹ So He said to them, “How is it that you still don’t understand?”

²⁷ Then Jesus and His disciples set out for the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way He questioned His disciples, saying to them, “Who are people saying that I am?” ²⁸ So they answered, “John the Baptist; others Elijah; still others one of the prophets”.

²⁸ So they answered, “John the Baptist; others Elijah; still others one of the prophets”. ²⁹ He said to them, “And who do you say that I am?” So Peter answered and said to Him, “You are the Christ!”

²⁹ He said to them, “And who do you say that I am?” So Peter answered and said to Him, “You are the Christ!” ³⁰ Then He charged them that they should tell no one about Him. ³¹ He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. ³² He said these things quite plainly. Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. ³³ But He turned, looked at His disciples, and rebuked Peter, saying: “Get behind me, Satan! You have in mind men’s values, not God’s values.” ³⁴ He summoned the crowd, along with His disciples, and said to them: “Whoever wants to follow along behind me must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. ³⁵ Because whoever may resolve to ‘save’ his life will waste it; but whoever may ‘waste’ his life for my sake and the Gospel’s, he will save it. ³⁶ Well, what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? ³⁷ Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? 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.”

¹ And He said to them, “I tell you assuredly: there are some standing here who will certainly not taste death until they see the Kingdom of God present with power.”

⁹ Now as they were coming down from the mountain, He ordered them not to recount to any one the things they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. ¹⁰ So they kept this word to themselves, questioning what the ‘rising from the dead’ meant.

³¹ because He was teaching His disciples and saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and once killed he will rise on the third day”. ³² But they were not understanding this information, yet were afraid to ask Him.

² Then some Pharisees approached to test Him and asked Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce a wife?”

²¹ Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him: “One thing you lack; go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, take up the cross, and follow me.”

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.”

⁴⁵ For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

¹⁵ Should we pay, or should we not?” But knowing their hypocrisy, He said to them: “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius to look at.”

¹⁸ Then some Sadducees came to Him—they say there is no resurrection—and asked Him, saying:

²⁶ And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

⁶¹ But He remained silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest questioned Him and said to Him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?” ⁶² So Jesus said: “I am, and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of the heaven.”

²¹ A certain passer-by, Simon a Cyrenian (the father of Alexander and Rufus), coming in from the countryside, was compelled to carry His cross.

¹⁴ Later He appeared to the eleven as they were reclining at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.

²⁶ (It had been revealed to him repeatedly by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death until he saw the Lord’s Messiah.)

⁸ In answer Jesus said to him: “Get behind me, Satan! It is written, ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only shall you serve!’”

⁸ and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the ancient prophets had arisen.

¹³ But He said to them, “You feed them!” So they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we go and buy food for all this crowd” ¹⁴ (there were about five thousand men). But He said to His disciples, “Make them recline in groups of fifty!” ¹⁵ They did so, making them all recline. ¹⁶ Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. ¹⁷ So they all ate and were filled, and twelve baskets of the pieces they left were taken up. 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?”

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?” ¹⁹ In answer they said, “John the Baptizer, but others say ‘Elijah’, while others that one of the ancient prophets has arisen”.

¹⁹ In answer they said, “John the Baptizer, but others say ‘Elijah’, while others that one of the ancient prophets has arisen”. ²⁰ Then He said to them, “But you, who do you say that I am?” In answer Peter said, “The Christ of God!”

²⁰ Then He said to them, “But you, who do you say that I am?” In answer Peter said, “The Christ of God!” ²¹ But He strictly warned and commanded them to tell this to no one, ²² saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.” ²³ Then He said to everyone: “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, and follow me. ²⁴ Because whoever desires to ‘save’ his life will lose it, but whoever ‘loses’ his life for my sake, he will save it. ²⁵ Further, what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, yet wastes or forfeits his very self?

²⁵ Further, what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, yet wastes or forfeits his very self? ²⁶ Yes, whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of Him, whenever He comes in the glory—His, and the Father’s, and of the holy angels.

²⁶ Yes, whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of Him, whenever He comes in the glory—His, and the Father’s, and of the holy angels. ²⁷ However, I tell you truly: there are some standing here who will certainly not taste death until they see the Kingdom of God!”

²⁷ However, I tell you truly: there are some standing here who will certainly not taste death until they see the Kingdom of God!”

³¹ they appeared in glory and were explaining His ‘departure’, that He was about to bring to fruition in Jerusalem.

³⁶ When the Voice had ceased, Jesus was found alone. (They kept quiet and told no one in those days any of the things they had seen.)

⁴⁴ “Let these words sink into your ears, because the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men”. ⁴⁵ But they did not understand this saying; indeed it was concealed from them, in order that they should not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask Him about it. ⁴⁶ Then an argument started among them as to which of them would be the greatest.

²¹ In that same hour Jesus exulted in His spirit and said: “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to ‘infants’. Yes, Father, because it pleased you to do so.” ²² And turning to the disciples He said: “All things have been entrusted to me by my Father; also, no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and to whomever the Son may choose to reveal Him.” ²³ Then turning to His disciples privately He said: “Blessed are the eyes that are seeing the things that you see; ²⁴ for I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you are seeing but did not, and to hear what you are hearing but did not.” ²⁵ And then, a certain lawyer stood up to test Him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

¹⁶ While others kept asking Him for a sign from heaven, testing.

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.

⁴⁴ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like unperceived graves, that people walk on without knowing it.”

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.

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.

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.”

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?’

⁵⁴ Then He also said to the crowds: “Whenever you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A rainstorm is coming’, and so it does. ⁵⁵ And whenever a south wind blows, you say, ‘It will be hot’, and it happens. ⁵⁶ Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky and of the earth, so how can you not discern this time?

⁵⁶ Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky and of the earth, so how can you not discern this time?

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?

²⁷ And whoever does not carry his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

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

²⁵ But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

³³ Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever ‘wastes’ it will preserve it.

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?”

³¹ Then He took the Twelve aside and said to them: “Take note, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be fulfilled: ³² He will be betrayed to the Gentiles, and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon, ³³ and they will scourge and kill Him. And on the third day He will rise again.” ³⁴ But they understood none of these things; this saying was hidden from them, and they did not know what was being said.

²³ But He perceived their craftiness and said to them: “Why are you testing me?

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

²⁷ Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

²⁷ Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. ²⁸ Now when these things begin to happen, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

³² But I have prayed for you (sg) so that your faith not fail completely; so you, when you have recovered, strengthen your brothers.”

⁶⁹ Hereafter the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

²⁶ Now as they led Him away, they conscripted a certain Simon of Cyrene (coming in from a field), and put the cross on him to carry it behind Jesus.

⁶ He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He told you while still in Galilee, ⁷ saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again’.”

²⁵ Then He said to them: “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the Prophets have spoken! ²⁶ Was it really not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into His glory?” ²⁷ And beginning from Moses, and then all the Prophets, He explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

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,

²¹ So they asked him, “What then, are you Elijah?” And he says, “I am not.” “Are you ‘the Prophet’?” “No,” he answered.

⁴¹ He first finds his own brother Simon and says to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated ‘Christ’). ⁴² And he led him to Jesus. Looking at him Jesus said, “You are Simon, the son of Jonah; you will be called Cephas” (which is translated ‘Stone’).

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.”

⁴⁹ In answer Nathanael says to Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”

⁵¹ And He says to him, “I tell you (pl) most assuredly, later on you will see the heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it.” ²⁰ So the Jews said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and you will raise it in three days?!” ²¹ But He was speaking about the temple of His body.

²⁴ But as for Jesus Himself, He did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew all men ²⁵ and that He had no need that anyone should testify about man, because He Himself knew what was in man.

¹⁴ Also, just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, just so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

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

⁹ “There’s a little boy here who has five loaves of barley bread and two small fish, but what are they for so many?” ¹⁰ Then Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” Now there was plenty of grass in the place; so the men sat down, about five thousand in number. ¹¹ Then Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were reclining; so too with the fish, as much as they wanted. ¹² So when they were full He says to His disciples, “Collect the leftover fragments so that nothing be wasted.” ¹³ So they collected and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that were left over from those who had eaten.

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’.”

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who listens and learns from the Father comes to me.

⁶⁹ Further, we have come to believe and to know that you are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!” ⁷⁰ He said to them, “Did I myself not choose you twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.”

¹² And there was a lot of murmuring about Him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He is good”; others were saying, “On the contrary, he’s deceiving the people.”

⁴⁰ So upon hearing this word many from the crowd began to say, “This One really is the Prophet!” ⁴¹ Others were saying, “This One is the Christ!” Others were saying, “Surely the Christ isn’t coming out of Galilee, is He?

⁶ They said this to test Him, so that they might have an accusation against Him. But stooping down Jesus began to write on the ground with His finger, taking no notice.

⁴³ Why don’t you understand what I say?—because you are not able to really hear my word.

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’!

¹⁷ So they address the blind man again, “What do you say about him, in that he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they will never ever be wasted; and no one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch out of my Father’s hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.”

²⁷ She says to Him, “Yes, Lord, I have come to believe that You are the Messiah, the Son of God, the One coming into the world.”

²⁵ The one ‘loving’ his life will waste it, and the one ‘hating’ his life, in this world, will preserve it into eternal life.

³⁴ The people answered Him, “We have heard from the Law that the Messiah remains forever; and so how can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

⁶ So He comes to Simon Peter, and he says to Him, “Lord, you wash my feet?!” ⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you don’t understand now, but you will know [by experience] after this.” ⁸ Peter says to Him, “You will never ever wash my feet!!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with me.”

³⁰ Now we know that you know everything and don’t need anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came forth from God.”

⁶ “I have revealed Your name to the men whom You have given me out of the world. They were Yours and You gave them to me, and they have kept Your word. ⁷ They now know that everything You have given to me is from You; ⁸ because I have given them the sayings which You have given to me; and they have received and known for sure that I came forth from You, and they have believed that You sent me.

¹⁷ And carrying His cross He went out to the place called ‘Skull’, which in Hebrew is called ‘Golgotha’;

²³ To whomever you forgive the sins, they are forgiven to them; to whomever you retain, they have been retained.”

³¹ but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life through His Name.

¹⁵ So, when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He says to Him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I’m fond of you.” He says to him, “Feed my lambs.” ¹⁶ He says to him again, a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He says to Him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I’m fond of you.” He says to him, “Shepherd my sheep.” ¹⁷ The third time He says to him, “Simon, son of Jonah, are you fond of me?” Peter was grieved in that the third time He said to him, “Are you fond of me?” and said to Him: “Lord, you know all things. You know that I’m fond of you!” Jesus says to him: “Feed my sheep.

¹¹ and they said: “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into the sky? This very Jesus who is being taken up from you into the sky, He will come again in the precise manner that you observed Him going into the sky.”

¹⁴ So Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and proclaimed to them: “Men—Jews and all who are dwelling in Jerusalem—let this be known to you; indeed, listen to my speech! ¹⁵ Because these are not drunk, as you suppose (since it’s only the third hour of the day), ¹⁶ but this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: ¹⁷ ‘It will be in the last days, says God: I will pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh; your sons and your daughters will prophesy; your young men will see visions; your old men will dream a dream. ¹⁸ In those days I will indeed pour out from my Spirit upon my male slaves and upon my female slaves, and they will prophesy. ¹⁹ I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below: blood and fire and smoke vapor. ²⁰ The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into ‘blood’ before the great and glorious day of the LORD will come. ²¹ And it will be: whoever calls on the name of the LORD will be saved!’ ²² “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Natsorean, a man from God attested to you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in your midst, as you yourselves well know, ²³ Him —being delivered up by the established purpose and foreknowledge of God—you murdered, having taken Him with lawless hands and crucified Him;

²³ Him —being delivered up by the established purpose and foreknowledge of God—you murdered, having taken Him with lawless hands and crucified Him; ²⁴ whom God raised up, ending the labor pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

²⁴ whom God raised up, ending the labor pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. ²⁵ For David says concerning Him: ‘I always saw the LORD before my face, because He is at my right side so that I not be shaken.

²⁵ For David says concerning Him: ‘I always saw the LORD before my face, because He is at my right side so that I not be shaken. ²⁶ Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced. Furthermore, even my flesh will repose upon hope,

²⁶ Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced. Furthermore, even my flesh will repose upon hope, ²⁷ because You will not abandon my soul in Hades, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see decay.

²⁷ because You will not abandon my soul in Hades, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see decay. ²⁸ You have made known to me roads of life; with Your presence You make me full of gladness.’

²⁸ You have made known to me roads of life; with Your presence You make me full of gladness.’ ²⁹ “Men, brothers, be it permitted to speak to you plainly about the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

²⁹ “Men, brothers, be it permitted to speak to you plainly about the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. ³⁰ So then, he being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath that of the fruit, according to flesh, of his loins He would raise up the Messiah to sit on his throne,

³⁰ So then, he being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath that of the fruit, according to flesh, of his loins He would raise up the Messiah to sit on his throne, ³¹ he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah, that His soul was not abandoned in Hades, nor did His flesh see decay.

³¹ he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah, that His soul was not abandoned in Hades, nor did His flesh see decay. ³² “This Jesus God raised, to which we all are witnesses.

³² “This Jesus God raised, to which we all are witnesses. ³³ Therefore, having been exalted to God’s right hand, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this that you now see and hear. ³⁴ Further, David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says: ‘The LORD said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand ³⁵ until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.’ ³⁶ Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made Him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified!”

³⁶ Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made Him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified!” ³⁷ Now upon hearing this they were cut to the heart and said to Peter, and the rest of the Apostles, “Men, brothers, what shall we do?!” 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!”

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. ⁴² And they continued steadfastly in the Apostles’ teaching and in the fellowship, both in the breaking of the bread and in the prayers.

⁴⁷ praising God and having favor with all the people. And day by day the Lord added to the Church those who were being saved.

¹ Now as they were speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came at them,

¹⁷ Then the high priest rose up, and all those with him (being the sect of the Sadducees); they were filled with jealousy

⁵⁶ and said, “Wow! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at God’s right!”

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.

³⁶ Now as they were going down the road they came upon some water, and the eunuch said: “Look, water! What is keeping me from being baptized?”

²⁰ Immediately he started proclaiming Jesus in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God.

¹⁴ But Peter said, “No way, Lord! Never have I eaten anything ‘common’ or unclean!”

³⁴ So opening his mouth Peter said: “Really, I comprehend that God is not One to show partiality, ³⁵ but in every ethnic nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is acceptable to Him. ³⁶ The word that He sent to the sons of Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all— ³⁷ that spoken word you know, that was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism that John preached: 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

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 ³⁹ —yes, we are witnesses of all that He did, both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem—whom they also killed, hanging Him on a tree. ⁴⁰ Him God raised on the third day, and gave Him to become visible, ⁴¹ not to all the people but to witnesses who had been chosen beforehand by God, to us, who ate and drank with Him after He arose out of the dead. ⁴² And He ordered us to proclaim to the people, that is to testify that He is the One who has been ordained by God as Judge of living and dead. ⁴³ To Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes into Him will receive forgiveness of sins.”

¹⁵ and saying: “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, giving you good news, telling you to turn from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them;

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God”.

⁷ When there had been plenty of discussion, Peter got up and said to them: “Men, brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the message of the Gospel and believe.

⁶ But since they kept contradicting and blaspheming, he shook his clothes and said to them: “Your blood be upon your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

²³ except that the Holy Spirit keeps warning me in every city, saying that fetters and afflictions are just waiting for me. ²⁴ However none of this moves me, nor do I regard my life as valuable to myself, just so that I may complete my course with joy, even the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly proclaim the Good News of the grace of God.

¹¹ Joining us he took Paul’s belt, bound his feet and hands, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit: ‘In this way, in Jerusalem, the Jews will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles’.” ¹² Well, when we heard these things, both we and the local residents, we pleaded with him not to go up to Jerusalem. ¹³ But Paul answered: “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

⁶ Now when Paul perceived that one part were Pharisees and the other Sadducees, he called out in the council, “Men, brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of a Pharisee; I am being judged concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead!” ⁷ When he had said this, an argument started between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. ⁸ (Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel or spirit, but Pharisees confess both.)

⁸ (Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel or spirit, but Pharisees confess both.)

⁴ who was established to be God’s powerful Son (according to His spirit of holiness) by resurrection from the dead —Jesus Christ our Lord—

⁶ who will repay each one according to his works:

⁵ Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. ⁶ Further, the mind-set of the flesh yields death, but the mind-set of the Spirit yields life and peace; ⁷ because the mind-set of the flesh represents enmity against God, since it does not submit to God’s law, nor indeed can it. ⁸ So, those who are ‘in flesh’ cannot please God.

³³ Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? God is He who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he who condemns? Christ is He who died, but even more, was indeed raised, who indeed is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes on our behalf. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Will it be affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? ³⁶ (As it is written: “For your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.”) ³⁷ No, in all these things we prevail completely through Him who loved us. ³⁸ Because I am persuaded that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present nor things to come, ³⁹ neither height nor depth nor any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹² So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. ¹³ Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another, but rather resolve this: not to put a stumbling block or pitfall in a brother’s way.

²¹ It is good not to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weakened.

²² since Jews request a sign while Greeks seek after wisdom,

⁹ However, as it is written: “Things no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and no heart of man has imagined, such things has God prepared for those who love Him.” ¹⁰ But to us God has revealed them by His Spirit; because the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. ¹¹ Now who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, so that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God;

¹⁴ Now a soulish man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; indeed, he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ But he who is spiritual evaluates everything, while not being himself subject to anyone’s judgment.

⁹ Yes, we are God’s coworkers; you are God’s ‘field’, God’s ‘building’. ¹⁰ According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid a foundation, while another builds on it. But let each one be careful how he builds; ¹¹ for no one can lay any foundation other than what is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you and my spirit being together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ we must hand such a one over to Satan for a destruction of the ‘flesh’, that the spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? ⁷ Therefore purge out the old leaven, so that you can be a new batch, like you are, without yeast. Especially since Christ our Passover has been sacrificed in our place. ⁸ So then let us observe the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened loaves of sincerity and truth.

⁸ But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better off, nor if we do not eat are we worse off.

³ Because I transmitted to you at first that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

⁵⁰ Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither will deterioration inherit incorruptibility.

⁵⁵ “Where, O Death, is your sting? Where, O Hades, is your victory?”

¹⁰ If you forgive anyone, I do too; further, if indeed I have forgiven anything to someone, I have done so for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

³ you are manifestly a letter of Christ, mediated by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on ‘tablets’ that are hearts of flesh.)

¹⁰ Because we must all be exposed before Christ’s Judgment Seat, that each one may receive his due for the things he did while in the body, whether good or bad.

¹⁶ Further, what agreement can a temple of God have with idols? Because you are a temple of the living God, just as God said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them; I will be their God and they will by my people.”

¹⁴ And no wonder, because Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. ¹⁵ So it is no great thing if his servants also masquerade as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

¹¹ Now I want you to know, brothers, that the Gospel preached by me is not according to man; ¹² because I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather it came through a revelation from Christ.

¹⁶ to reveal His Son in me so that I might proclaim Him among the nations/Gentiles, I did not start by consulting with flesh and blood,

⁹ and upon perceiving the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, while they to the Jews.

⁹ A little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough.

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, ¹⁸ the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know \up6 1)\up0 what is the hope of His\up6 [F]\up0 calling, and \up6 2)\up0 what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

⁸ For by grace you have been saved, through the faith —and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God—

¹⁹ So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household, ²⁰ built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone; ²¹ in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; ²² in whom you also are being built together to become a habitation of God by the Spirit.

⁵ which in different generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:

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

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

²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives just as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up on her behalf, ²⁶ in order that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of the water: in a word, ²⁷ that He might present her—the splendid Church—to Himself, not having a blemish or a wrinkle or any such thing, but that she be holy and blameless.

³² This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.

⁸ knowing that whatever good each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is slave or free.

¹² Because, our wrestling match is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against the malignant spirits in the heavenly realms.

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

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,

²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf and supplement in my flesh the things lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the Church,

²⁶ the mystery that has been hidden from past ages and generations, but now has been revealed to His saints; ²⁷ to whom God resolved to make known who is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the nations, namely Christ in you, the hope of glory;

² set your mind on the things above, not on those upon the earth,

⁹ They themselves report about you what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to be slaves to the living and true God, ¹⁰ and to wait for His Son coming out of the heavens (whom He raised from among the dead) —Jesus, who preserves us from the coming wrath.

³ that no one be unsettled by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.

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

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

⁷ and rest (along with us) to you who are being afflicted, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His powerful angels in blazing fire, ⁸ inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁹ who will pay a penalty: everlasting ruin, away from the face of the Lord and from the glory of His might, ¹⁰ whenever He comes to be glorified by His saints, yes to be marveled at by all who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed); in that Day.

⁵ (for if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how can he take care of God’s congregation?);

¹⁵ in case I am delayed, so that you may know how it is necessary to conduct oneself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, pillar and foundation of the truth.

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

¹⁶ But shun godless, empty chatter, because those who do it will become increasingly godless, ¹⁷ and their word will spread like gangrene—among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

¹² In fact, any one who desires to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted;

² has at the end of these days spoken to us by Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the ages; ³ who being the projection of His glory and the very image of His essence, and sustaining all things by the expression of His\up6 [S]\up0 own power, when He had by Himself provided purification for our sins He sat down on the highest Majesty’s right, ⁴ having become so much superior to the angels as He has inherited a more excellent name than they have. ⁵ For to which of the angels did He\up6 [F]\up0 ever say, “You are my Son, today I begot you”, and again, “I will be ‘Father’ to Him, and He will be ‘Son’ to me”?

⁹ But we do see Jesus, who ‘was made lower than the angels, for a little while’ (in order to suffer death), ‘crowned with glory and honor’—this, by the grace of God, so that He\up6 [S]\up0 might taste death on behalf of everyone.

¹⁴ Since, then, the children have flesh and blood as their share, He\up6 [S]\up0 Himself likewise partook of the same, in order that through His death He might abolish the one who had the power of death—that is, the devil—

¹⁴ Since, then, the children have flesh and blood as their share, He\up6 [S]\up0 Himself likewise partook of the same, in order that through His death He might abolish the one who had the power of death—that is, the devil— ¹⁵ and set free these [the children] who during their whole lifetime were subject to slavery through fear of death. ¹⁶ (Now surely He does not assist angels, but He does assist Abraham’s seed.) ¹⁷ That is why He was obliged to become like those ‘brothers’ in all respects, so that He could be a merciful and faithful high priest, in what concerns God, with a view to making propitiation for the sins of the people. ¹⁸ For in that in which He Himself endured suffering, having been tested, He is able to assist those who are being tested.

³ For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than was Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself ⁴ —every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God—

¹³ Nothing in all creation is hidden from His sight; rather all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

³¹ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God!

²⁴ By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, ²⁵ choosing rather to be maltreated along with God’s people than to have the temporary pleasure of sin, ²⁶ considering the reproach of Christ to be greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; because he was looking ahead to the reward.

²² but you have come to Mount Zion, even to the City of the Living God, Heavenly Jerusalem; to myriads of angels in festal gathering,

²⁸ Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us hold on to the grace by which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear;

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has given us another birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead, ⁴ into an imperishable and undefiled and unfading inheritance, already reserved in the heavens for you, ⁵ who are being guarded by the power of God through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

¹⁷ Also, since you invoke as Father the One who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves during the time of your sojourn here in fear,

¹ Therefore, since Christ suffered on our behalf in flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mentality (for the one who has ‘suffered in flesh’ has been made to cease from sin) ² so as not to live your remaining time in flesh for human lusts any longer, but for the will of God.

¹ The elders who are among you I exhort, I, the fellow elder and witness of Christ’s sufferings; also the partaker of the glory that is to be revealed:

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

¹⁵ Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God.

¹ Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten by God; also, whoever loves the Begetter should love the one begotten by Him as well.

⁵ Who is he who overcomes the world if not he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

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

¹⁴ Now even Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men saying: “Look, the Lord is coming with ten thousands of His holy ones

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

¹⁸ even the Living One—I became dead, to be sure, and now I am living for ever and ever! Oh yes!! And I have the keys of Death and of Hades!

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.

⁷ “And to the messenger of the church in Philadelphia write: These things says the Holy, the True, He who has the key of David, who opens and no one can shut it, except He who opens, and no one can open:

¹⁹ As many as I love I rebuke and discipline; so be zealous and repent!

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

⁶ They have authority to shut up the sky so that no rain falls during the days of their prophecy; and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they wish.

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.”

¹¹ And they conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not cherish their lives, even up to death.

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.

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

¹ Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; also, the ocean was no more. ² And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Take note, the tabernacle of God is with men and He will dwell with them, and they will be His people. Yes, God Himself will be with them. ⁴ And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there will be no more death nor sorrow nor crying nor pain —they will exist no more because the first things have gone.”

¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names, of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹² “Take note, I am coming swiftly, and my reward is with me to give to each one according to his work. ¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, the First and the Last.” ¹⁴ (Blessed are those who do His commands, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, even to enter through the gates into the city. ¹⁵ Outside are the ‘dogs’ and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices a lie.)