Romans 15 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Now we who are strong ought to bear with the limitations of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² Let each of us please the neighbor with a view to what is good for edifying. ³ Because even the Christ did not please Himself; rather, as it is written: “The revilings of those reviling you fell on me.” ⁴ Whatever things were written before were so written for our instruction, so that through the fortitude and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. ⁵ Now may the God of that fortitude and that encouragement grant you to be of the same mind among yourselves according to Christ Jesus, ⁶ so that you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one heart and voice. ⁷ Therefore accept one another, just as the Christ also accepted us, to the glory of God. ⁸ Now I say that Christ Jesus has become a minister to the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers; ⁹ and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written: “For this reason I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, O LORD, and will sing psalms to your name.” ¹⁰ And again He says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people!” ¹¹ And again: “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and laud Him, all you peoples!” ¹² And again, Isaiah says: “The Root of Jesse will appear, even He who rises up to rule over the nations; the Gentiles will place their hope on Him.” ¹³ Now may the God of the hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in that hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. ¹⁴ Now I myself am really confident about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others. ¹⁵ Nevertheless I have written to you quite boldly on some points, brothers, as a reminder to you, because of the grace given to me by God, ¹⁶ that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, serving the Gospel of God as a priest so that the Gentiles might become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ So in Christ Jesus I do have a boast in things pertaining to God; ¹⁸ because I do not presume to speak of anything except those things that Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient —by word and deed, 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. ²⁰ It has always been my aim to evangelize where Christ has not been named, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation; ²¹ rather, as it is written: “Those to whom He was not announced will see, and those who have not heard will understand.” ²² That is why I have been hindered these many times from coming to you. ²³ But now, no longer having a place in these parts, and having a longing these many years to come to you, ²⁴ whenever I travel to Spain I will come to you. Because I hope to see you while passing through, and to be sent on my way there by you, if I may first enjoy your company for a while. ²⁵ Now, however, I am traveling to Jerusalem, serving the saints. ²⁶ Because Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. ²⁷ Yes, they were pleased, and they are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are also obligated to minister to them in physical things. ²⁸ So when I have finished this and have sealed to them this ‘fruit’, I will go by way of you to Spain. ²⁹ And I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of the Christ. ³⁰ Now I implore you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in prayers to God on my behalf, ³¹ that I may be delivered from those in Judea who do not believe, and that my service to Jerusalem may be well received by the saints; ³² so that I may come to you with joy by the will of God and be refreshed together with you. ³³ Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

²³ “Behold, the virgin will become pregnant and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel”, which being translated is, ‘God with us’.

⁸ And seeing it the crowds marveled and glorified God, the one giving such authority to the people.

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

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

²⁸ Come to me all you who are laboring and are loaded down, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, because I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls; ³⁰ for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

²¹ And in His name Gentiles will trust.”

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

²⁴ But in answer He said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel”.

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.”

⁴⁰ And in answer the King will say to them, ‘Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

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

³⁹ And going a little farther He fell on His face and prayed saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me by; nevertheless not as I wish, but as you do”.

⁴² And going away a second time He prayed saying, “My Father, if this cup cannot pass from me unless I drink it, let your will be done”.

¹⁸ And approaching Jesus asserted to them saying: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ As you go make disciples in all ethnic nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; ²⁰ teaching them to obey everything that I commanded you; and take note, I am with you every day, until the end of the age!” Amen.

²⁰ teaching them to obey everything that I commanded you; and take note, I am with you every day, until the end of the age!” Amen.

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

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

⁵⁴ He has taken the part of His servant Israel, in remembrance of mercy, ⁵⁵ just as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed while there is an age.” ⁵⁶ So Mary stayed with her about three months, and returned to her house.

⁷⁰ — just as He spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets from antiquity— ⁷¹ deliverance from our enemies and out of the hand of all who hate us; ⁷² to use mercy with our fathers, even to remember His Holy covenant, ⁷³ the oath that He swore to our father Abraham;

²⁰ Then He raised His eyes toward His disciples and said: “Blessed are you poor, because the Kingdom of God is yours.

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

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

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

¹¹ He came to His own things, yet His own people did not receive Him.

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

⁴⁸ So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders you won’t believe!”

³⁰ I am not able to do anything from myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judging is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the Father who sent me.

³⁷ All that the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will not throw out; ³⁸ because it is not to do my own will that I have come down out of Heaven, but the will of the One who sent me.

²⁹ And the One who sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, because I always do the things that please Him.”

¹⁶ I also have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; and there will be one flock, one shepherd.

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 “Now my soul is distressed, and what should I say—‘Father, rescue me from this hour’? But this is why I came to this hour— ²⁸ ‘Father, glorify your name!’” Then a Voice came out of Heaven, “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again!”

³⁴ “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you —that you also love one another.

¹ “Do not let your (pl) heart be distressed; you believe into God and you believe into me.

²⁷ “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you; it’s not like the world gives that I give to you. Do not let your heart be distressed or intimidated.

³⁰ “I will no longer talk much with you, because the ruler of the world is approaching; actually, he has nothing in me. ³¹ Rather, I habitually do just as the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. “Get up, let’s leave here.

¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

²⁴ If I hadn’t done among them the works that no one else has done, they would not be having sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

¹⁷ Jesus says to her: “Stop clinging to me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father—my God and your God.’”

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.”

²⁵ You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘Yes, in your seed all the families of the earth will be blessed’. ²⁶ God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to you first, to bless you by turning each of you away from your iniquities.”

²⁴ Well upon hearing it, with one mind they called out to God and said: “O Sovereign! You are God, the Maker of sky and earth and ocean, and all that is in them;

³² Now the multitude of those who believed was of one heart and soul; indeed not one was saying that any of his belongings was his own, but they had all things in common.

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him: “Get moving, because this man is a chosen vessel to me, to carry my name before nations and kings, also the children of Israel;

²⁸ So he was with them in Jerusalem, going in and out, and speaking fearlessly in the name of Jesus. ²⁹ He kept on speaking and debating with the Hellenists, so they started trying to kill him.

²⁷ Now in these days, prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch. ²⁸ One of them, named Agabus, stood up and indicated by the Spirit that a great famine was about to come upon the whole world (this indeed happened while Claudius was Caesar). ²⁹ Then the disciples, to the extent that any had plenty, each of them determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea; ³⁰ which they also did, sending it to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.

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

⁴ So, having been sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia; and from there they sailed to Cyprus. ⁵ And upon arriving in Salamis, they started proclaiming the Word of God in the synagogues of the Jews (also they had John as assistant).

¹⁴ Going on from Perga they arrived in Antioch of Pisidia; and entering the synagogue on the Sabbath day, they sat down.

⁴⁶ But Paul and Barnabas speaking boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. But since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, now we are being turned to the Gentiles.

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

⁶ they became aware of it and escaped to the cities of Lycaonia—Lystra, Derbe and the surrounding area—

¹⁰ said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And the man jumped up and began to walk!

²⁰ But as the disciples stood around him, he got up and entered the city. The next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

²⁵ When they had declared the Word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

²⁷ So upon arriving and gathering the congregation, they reported all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

³ So being sent on their way by the congregation, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the conversion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brothers. ⁴ Upon arriving in Jerusalem, they were received by the congregation and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.

¹² Then the whole assembly kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the ethnic nations through them.

⁶ Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia, ⁷ they approached Mysia and tried to go to Bythinia, but the Spirit did not permit them. ⁸ So they bypassed Mysia and went down to Troas. ⁹ A vision appeared to Paul during the night: a man of Macedonia was standing, appealing to him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us”.

⁹ A vision appeared to Paul during the night: a man of Macedonia was standing, appealing to him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us”. ¹⁰ So when he saw the vision, we immediately prepared to go over to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to evangelize them. ¹¹ So setting sail from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace, and the next day to Neapolis; ¹² and from there to Philippi, which is the foremost city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. We stayed some days in that city.

¹⁸ She kept this up for many days! So Paul, becoming increasingly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out that very hour.

¹⁰ Immediately, during the night, the brothers sent both Paul and Silas away to Berea; on arriving they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

¹⁵ But those who were conducting Paul actually took him all the way to Athens; and receiving a command to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him as quickly as possible, they started back.

¹ Now after these things Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

¹² Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,

¹⁹ He came to Ephesus and left them there (after having entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews).

²¹ rather he took leave of them saying, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem; but I will return again to you, God willing”. Then he set sail from Ephesus.

¹ And finding certain disciples

¹¹ Further, God kept working unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, ¹² so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that he touched were applied to the sick, and the diseases left them and the wicked spirits went out from them.

²¹ Now after these things were accomplished, Paul resolved in his spirit to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome”.

¹ Now after the uproar had ended, Paul summoned the disciples, took leave of them, and set out for Macedonia. ² When he had gone through those parts and encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

⁶ But it was after the Days of Unleavened Bread that we sailed from Philippi, and in five days we joined them at Troas, where we stayed seven days.

¹⁶ (Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, to avoid being detained in Asia, because he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost, if he possibly could.)

²⁰ how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

²² Now then, I am going to Jerusalem bound in my spirit, not knowing the things that will happen to me there,

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.

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

⁵ But when our time was up, as we left to go on our way, they all, including women and children, accompanied us out of the city, and kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.

¹⁷ And when we arrived in Jerusalem the brothers received us gladly. ¹⁸ The next day Paul, with us, went to see James, and all the elders were present. ¹⁹ After greeting them he reported one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

¹⁹ After greeting them he reported one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. 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; ²¹ but they have been informed about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to our customs. ²² What then? The assembly will certainly gather, since they will hear that you have come. ²³ So do this that we say to you: There are four men with us who have taken a vow. ²⁴ Take them and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads, and that all may know that there is nothing to the things that they have been informed about you; rather that you yourself are in line, keeping the law. ²⁵ But concerning the Gentiles who believe we have written, having judged that they need observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from that offered to idols, from the blood, from anything strangled, and from fornication.” ²⁶ Then Paul took the men and purified himself with them; the next day he entered the temple to give notice of the completion of the days of purification, when the offering would be made for each one of them. ²⁷ Now when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews from Asia, having seen him in the temple, mobilized a whole crowd and seized him, ²⁸ shouting: “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Not only that, he has even brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place!” ²⁹ (They had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.) ³⁰ The whole city was aroused and a mob of people formed. So having seized Paul they dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut. ³¹ As they were trying to kill him, news came to the commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

¹⁷ “Now it happened, when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I came to be in a trance ¹⁸ and saw Him saying to me, ‘Hurry up and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me’. ¹⁹ So I said: ‘Lord, they know that I used to imprison and beat those believing into you, from one synagogue to another; ²⁰ and when the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing there and agreeing to his murder, even guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.’ ²¹ And He said to me, ‘Get going, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles’.”

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

²⁴ the commander ordered him to be taken into the barracks, directing that he be interrogated with lashes, in order to learn for what crime they kept shouting against him like that.

¹² And when it was day, some of the Jews formed a conspiracy by binding themselves with a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they had destroyed Paul. ¹³ Now there were more than forty who formed this plot. ¹⁴ They came to the chief priests and the elders and said: “We have bound ourselves with a terrible curse not to taste anything until we have killed Paul. ¹⁵ Now you, therefore, together with the council, explain to the commander that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you are going to determine more accurately the facts in his case; but we are ready to destroy him before he comes near.” ¹⁶ But when Paul’s sister’s son heard about the ambush, he went and entered the barracks and told Paul. ¹⁷ So Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commander, because he has something to tell him”. ¹⁸ So he took him and brought him to the commander and said, “Paul the prisoner called me over and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you”. ¹⁹ So taking him by the hand, the commander went aside and asked privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?” ²⁰ So he said: “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him. ²¹ But you should not believe them, because more than forty of their men are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves with a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have destroyed him; even now they are ready, looking for your promise.” ²² Then the commander dismissed the young man commanding, “Don’t tell anyone that you have revealed these things to me!” ²³ Summoning two of the centurions he said: “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea at the third hour of the night; ²⁴ and provide mounts to set Paul on so as to deliver him safely to Felix, the governor.”

¹ Now after five days the high priest Ananias went down with the elders and a certain orator, Tertullus, and they informed the governor against Paul. ² So when he had been called in, Tertullus began his accusation, saying: “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and your foresight has brought prosperity to this nation, ³ we recognize this, most noble Felix, with full gratitude, always and everywhere. ⁴ But so as not to detain you unduly, I would request that you be kind enough to hear us briefly. ⁵ We have found this man to be a plague, a creator of discord among all the Jews throughout the world, a ringleader of the Natsorean sect, ⁶ and he even tried to profane the temple; so we arrested him. ⁷ - - -⁸ By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him.” ⁹ And the Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.

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

² Then the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul and started importuning him,

²⁴ And Festus said: “King Agrippa, and all you men who are here with us: consider this man, about whom the whole Jewish community petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, vociferating that it was not fitting for him to live any longer.

¹⁷ delivering you from ‘the people’ and the ethnic nations, to which I am sending you: ¹⁸ to open their eyes, so as to bring them back from darkness into light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified, by faith into me.’

²⁰ —first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to all the region of Judea and to the ethnic nations, I still preach: ‘repent and turn back to God, doing works worthy of repentance’.

¹ Now when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the imperial cohort.

⁴¹ But they fell into a place where two seas met and ran the vessel aground; the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern began to be broken up by the violence of the waves. ⁴² Now the plan of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim away and escape. ⁴³ But the centurion, wanting to save Paul, stopped them from doing it and ordered those who could swim to jump in first and go toward the land,

¹⁵ And the brothers there, when they heard about our circumstances, came out to meet us as far as Appii Forum and Three Inns. When Paul saw them he thanked God and took courage. ¹⁶ Now when we entered Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the commander; but Paul was allowed to live by himself, with the soldier who guarded him.

³⁰ Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who came to see him, ³¹ proclaiming the Kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all boldness, without hindrance.

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

⁵ through whom we have received grace and apostleship to promote obedience of faith among all ethnic nations concerning His name

¹⁰ begging that perhaps now, at last, I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

¹⁰ begging that perhaps now, at last, I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you. ¹¹ For I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established

¹¹ For I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established ¹² —that is, that I may be encouraged among you by our mutual faith, both yours and mine.

¹² —that is, that I may be encouraged among you by our mutual faith, both yours and mine.

¹² —that is, that I may be encouraged among you by our mutual faith, both yours and mine. ¹³ I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was hindered until now), in order that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the rest of the Gentiles.

¹³ I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was hindered until now), in order that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁴ I am a debtor both to Greeks and to non-Greeks, both to wise and to foolish. ¹⁵ So, for my part, I am eager to preach the Gospel to you who are in Rome as well. ¹⁶ I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, because it is the power of God for the salvation of each one who believes (for the Jew first, then the Greek);

³ So, what if some did not believe? Their unbelief will not nullify God’s faithfulness, will it?

²⁶ to demonstrate His righteousness at this present time, so as to be just, Himself, and the justifier of him who is of the Faith of Jesus.

²⁹ Or is God for Jews only? Is He not also for Gentiles? Yes, also for Gentiles,

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

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;

²⁰ He did not waver at God’s promise in unbelief; rather, he was strengthened by the faith, giving glory to God,

²³ Now it was not only for his sake that it was written that it was credited to him, ²⁴ but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, we who believe on Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

² through whom also we have had the access, by the Faith, into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. ³ Not only so, but we should also rejoice in the sufferings, knowing that the suffering produces perseverance; ⁴ and the perseverance, proven character; and the proven character, hope; ⁵ and the hope does not humiliate, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

⁵ and the hope does not humiliate, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

¹⁷ But thanks be to God that although you used to be the slaves of the sin you wholeheartedly obeyed that pattern of doctrine into which you were delivered.

²⁴ Yes, we were saved in the hope, but a hope that is seen is not hope—why would anyone hope for what he sees? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await it with endurance. ²⁶ Likewise also the Spirit comes to the aid of the hope in our weaknesses, since we do not know what we need to pray for. Indeed the Spirit Himself intercedes on our behalf with inexpressible groanings, ²⁷ while He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, since He prays for the saints in accordance with God.

⁴ the Israelites. To them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises. ⁵ The patriarchs are theirs, and from them came the Christ (the physical part), who is over all, God forever blessed. Amen.

²³ just in order to make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, ²⁴ even us whom He called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

¹³ So I am speaking to you Gentiles (inasmuch as I am ‘apostle to the Gentiles’, I magnify my ministry),

¹⁷ Now if some of the branches were broken off, while you, being a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them, and with them have become a partaker of the root and the rich sap of the cultivated olive,

²² So consider the kindness and severity of God: upon those who fell, severity; but toward you, kindness, if you continue in that kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.

³⁰ For just as you also were once disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy through their disobedience,

¹ Now then, brothers, I exhort you, in view of God’s compassions, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, satisfying to God—your intelligent duty. ² Yes, stop conforming to the pattern of this world; rather, be transformed by the renewing of your mind so as to be able to experience the good and satisfying and perfect will of God. ³ Based on the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to set your sights higher than you should, but set them sensibly, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each.

⁶ Since we have different spiritual gifts according to the grace that was given us, let us use them : if prophecy, according to the analogy of the Faith;

¹² rejoicing in the hope; enduring the affliction; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

¹⁶ Regard each other as being on the same level—do not distinguish the upper classes, but associate with the lower classes; do not exalt yourself.

¹ Receive someone who is weak in the faith, but not for disputes over arguables.

¹ Receive someone who is weak in the faith, but not for disputes over arguables. ² One man has faith to eat everything, while the weak one eats only vegetables. ³ One who eats must not look down on one who does not, and one who does not eat must not judge one who does, because God has accepted him.

¹⁷ because the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁹ So then, let us pursue the things that promote peace and the things by which one may edify another.

³ Because even the Christ did not please Himself; rather, as it is written: “The revilings of those reviling you fell on me.”

⁵ Now may the God of that fortitude and that encouragement grant you to be of the same mind among yourselves according to Christ Jesus,

⁹ and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written: “For this reason I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, O LORD, and will sing psalms to your name.”

⁹ and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written: “For this reason I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, O LORD, and will sing psalms to your name.” ¹⁰ And again He says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people!” ¹¹ And again: “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and laud Him, all you peoples!”

¹³ Now may the God of the hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in that hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁶ that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, serving the Gospel of God as a priest so that the Gentiles might become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ because I do not presume to speak of anything except those things that Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient —by word and deed,

²³ But now, no longer having a place in these parts, and having a longing these many years to come to you, ²⁴ whenever I travel to Spain I will come to you. Because I hope to see you while passing through, and to be sent on my way there by you, if I may first enjoy your company for a while.

²⁴ whenever I travel to Spain I will come to you. Because I hope to see you while passing through, and to be sent on my way there by you, if I may first enjoy your company for a while. ²⁵ Now, however, I am traveling to Jerusalem, serving the saints. ²⁶ Because Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. ²⁷ Yes, they were pleased, and they are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are also obligated to minister to them in physical things. ²⁸ So when I have finished this and have sealed to them this ‘fruit’, I will go by way of you to Spain.

²⁸ So when I have finished this and have sealed to them this ‘fruit’, I will go by way of you to Spain. ²⁹ And I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of the Christ.

²⁹ And I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of the Christ. ³⁰ Now I implore you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in prayers to God on my behalf, ³¹ that I may be delivered from those in Judea who do not believe, and that my service to Jerusalem may be well received by the saints; ³² so that I may come to you with joy by the will of God and be refreshed together with you.

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

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

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⁵ for in Him you were enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge,

¹⁰ Now I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be restored to the same mind and to the same purpose.

¹² What I mean is that you are individually saying: “I am of Paul”, or “I am of Apollos”, or “I am of Cephas”, or “I am of Christ”!

⁴ Yes, my message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

⁵ Who then is Paul, who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord has given to each one? ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God keeps making it grow. ⁷ So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who makes it grow. ⁸ Now he who plants and he who waters are at one, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ Yes, we are God’s coworkers; you are God’s ‘field’, God’s ‘building’.

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;

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. ¹² Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, ¹³ the work of each will become evident; because the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. Yes, the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. ¹⁴ If the work that anyone built endures, he will receive a reward. ¹⁵ If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, albeit so as through fire.

¹ Let a man consider us like this: as Christ’s subordinates and stewards of God’s mysteries.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ while you are wise! We are weak but you are strong! You are esteemed, we are despised!

¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the word of those who have been puffed up, but the power.

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

¹ Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

⁷ However, this knowledge is not in everyone; but some, with consciousness of the idol, still eat it as offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

¹⁰ For if someone who is weak sees you with your knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?

⁹ For it stands written in the Law of Moses: “You shall not muzzle an ox that is threshing.” Is it really about the oxen that God is concerned, ¹⁰ or does He surely say it for our sakes? Yes, it was written for us, that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope. ¹¹ Since we planted spiritual things in you, is it a big deal if we reap material things from you?

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

²² to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

¹¹ Now all these things happened to them as examples and were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

¹⁹ So what am I getting at? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?

²⁴ Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being .

²⁹ ‘Conscience’ I say, not your own but that of the other. Now just why should my freedom be judged by another’s conscience?

³³ —even as I try to please everyone in every way, not seeking my own profit but that of the many, that they may be saved.

⁴ Now there are allotments of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit. ⁵ And there are allotments of ministries, and the same Lord. ⁶ And there are allotments of activities, but the same God is He who works them all, in all. ⁷ But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the common good. ⁸ So to one a word of wisdom is given, by the Spirit; to another a word of knowledge, by the same Spirit;

⁸ So to one a word of wisdom is given, by the Spirit; to another a word of knowledge, by the same Spirit; ⁹ to a different one faith, by the same Spirit; to another presents of healings, by the same Spirit; ¹⁰ to another workings of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discernings of spirits; to a different one kinds of languages, to another interpretation of languages. ¹¹ However, the one and the same Spirit produces all of these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

²² Much to the contrary, those members of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary. ²³ And the parts of the body that we consider to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentables have special modesty, ²⁴ while our presentables don’t need it. Yes, God has blended the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacks it,

² And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

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

³³ Further, God is not a God of disorder but of peace. As in all the congregations of the saints,

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

¹⁹ If it is only for this life that we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable.

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

¹ Now concerning the collection for the saints, you must do just as I instructed the congregations in Galatia. ² On the first day of the week, each of you should set something aside, saving up as he is being prospered, that there be no collections when I come. ³ And when I arrive, I will send whomever you approve by letters to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

⁵ Now I will come to you when I pass through Macedonia (for I am coming through Macedonia). ⁶ And perhaps I will stay with you awhile, or even winter, that you may send me on my way, wherever I go. ⁷ I do not wish to see you now just in passing, since I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.

¹⁵ Now brothers, you know that the household of Stephanas is the firstfruits of Achaia and that they have really devoted themselves to ministering to the saints,

¹⁸ for they refreshed my spirit and yours; so give recognition to such men.

³ All praise to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and God of all encouragement,

³ All praise to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and God of all encouragement, ⁴ who encourages us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in whatever affliction, by means of the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God.

¹¹ you also adding your cooperation in prayer, on our behalf; that thanks may be given by many persons for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, on your behalf.

¹⁶ and by you to proceed into Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia (that you might benefit twice), and then to be sent by you on my way to Judea.

²⁰ because all the promises of God in Him are with the “Yes”; indeed, in Him they are with the “Amen”, that there be glory to God through us.

¹⁴ Now thanks be to the God who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Him in every place. ¹⁵ Because we are the aroma of Christ for God, among those who are being saved and those who are being wasted — ¹⁶ to these a smell of death into death, while to those a fragrance of life into life—and who is adequate for such things?

¹ (Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or commendation from you? ² You are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by all men; 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.) ⁴ Now we have such confidence before God because of the Christ; ⁵ not that we are competent of ourselves to reckon anything as being from ourselves, but our competence is from God — ⁶ indeed, He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant; not of letter but of Spirit, because the letter kills, while the Spirit gives life.

⁵ Now we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake;

¹¹ For we, the living, are always being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

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

²⁰ So then, we are Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God!

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

⁴ I have great confidence in you; I do a lot of boasting about you. I am filled with encouragement, overflowing with joy in spite of all our affliction.

⁶ But the God who encourages the lowly encouraged us by the coming of Titus;

¹³ We have been encouraged by all this. Because of your encouragement, we rejoiced all the more over the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

¹ And now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace of God that has been bestowed upon the congregations of Macedonia, ² that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their extreme poverty produced their extravagant, sincere generosity. ³ Because according to their ability, I bear witness, even beyond that ability, of their own accord, ⁴ they begged us with much entreaty to receive the gift, the sharing in the ministry to the saints

⁴ they begged us with much entreaty to receive the gift, the sharing in the ministry to the saints ⁵ —and more than we had hoped, they first gave themselves to the Lord (and due to God’s will, to us).

⁵ —and more than we had hoped, they first gave themselves to the Lord (and due to God’s will, to us). ⁶ So we urged Titus that as he had made a beginning so he should also bring to completion in you this grace as well; ⁷ that as you excel in everything—in faith, in word, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us—that you excel in this grace too. ⁸ I am not giving a command, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others. ⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

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

¹ Now concerning the ministry to the saints, it is unnecessary for me to write to you; ² for I know your readiness, about which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been ready since last year, and your zeal has stirred up the majority.

⁸ Further, God is able to make all ‘grace’ abound toward you, that always having all sufficiency in everything you may abound to every good work;

¹² Because the administration of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints, but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God

⁴ because the weapons of our warfare are not physical, but are powerful in God for demolishing strongholds: ⁵ demolishing sophistries and every arrogance that sets itself up against the knowledge of God; taking captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ;

¹³ We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will stay within the boundaries that God assigned to us, a field that includes you.

¹³ We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will stay within the boundaries that God assigned to us, a field that includes you. ¹⁴ For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we had not reached you, because we did indeed get to you with the Gospel of Christ;

¹⁴ For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we had not reached you, because we did indeed get to you with the Gospel of Christ; ¹⁵ nor do we boast ‘off limits’ in the labors of others, but we have hope that as your faith grows our boundaries will be greatly expanded through you,

¹⁵ nor do we boast ‘off limits’ in the labors of others, but we have hope that as your faith grows our boundaries will be greatly expanded through you, ¹⁶ so as to evangelize the regions beyond you (not to boast in work already done in someone else’s field).

¹⁶ so as to evangelize the regions beyond you (not to boast in work already done in someone else’s field). ¹⁷ “He who boasts, let him boast in the LORD.” ¹⁸ Because it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

¹⁶ Again I say, let no one think me a fool. But should anyone do so, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little bit. ¹⁷ What I am going to say I do not say according to the Lord, but as though foolishly, in this confident boasting. ¹⁸ Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I will too ¹⁹ (for you put up with fools gladly, being so wise yourselves!). ²⁰ In fact, you even put up with someone who enslaves you, who ‘devours’ you, who takes advantage, who exalts himself, who beats on your face! ²¹ Is it disrespectful to say that we were ‘weak’? In whatever anyone is bold (I speak foolishly) I am bold also. ²² Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. ²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I’m being irrational) I am more: in labors more abundantly, in beatings beyond count, in prison more frequently, in ‘deaths’ often —

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I’m being irrational) I am more: in labors more abundantly, in beatings beyond count, in prison more frequently, in ‘deaths’ often — ²⁴ five times from the Jews I received the ‘forty lashes minus one’; ²⁵ three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked (I spent twenty-four hours in the open sea)— ²⁶ in frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, in danger from robbers, in danger from my countrymen, in danger from Gentiles, in danger in cities, in danger in wildernesses, in danger in the sea, in danger among false brothers; ²⁷ in toil and hardship, in many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold and nakedness — ²⁸ quite apart from the other things, my daily disturbances, my concern for all the congregations. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I do not feel it? Who is caused to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation ? ³⁰ Well, if I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness. ³¹ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

¹ It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast; still, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

⁶ Now even if I wanted to go on boasting, I would not be stupid but speak the truth; but I refrain, so that no one will think more of me than what he sees in me and hears from me.

¹⁰ So then, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. ¹¹ I have been boasting foolishly, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, because in nothing have I been inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing. ¹² Truly the apostolic signs were produced among you with all perseverance, by signs and wonders and miracles.

¹² Truly the apostolic signs were produced among you with all perseverance, by signs and wonders and miracles. ¹³ Now in just what were you inferiorized, compared to the other congregations, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong. ¹⁴ Well now, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will still not burden you, because I want you, not your things—children should not have to save up for parents, but parents for children. ¹⁵ So I will gladly spend and be spent for the sake of your souls, even if the more I love you the less I am loved. ¹⁶ ‘Ok, ok, I didn’t burden you, but being crafty I took you by deception.’ ¹⁷ Come now, did I actually take advantage of you by any of those whom I sent to you? ¹⁸ I urged Titus and sent the brother along—did Titus take any advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit, in the same footprints? ¹⁹ Do you still think that we are defending ourselves to you? It is before God we speak, in Christ; but all of it, dear ones, is with a view to your edification. ²⁰ Yes, I am afraid that when I come I may not find you such as I wish, and you not find me such as you wish—may there be no strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, factions, slanders, gossipings, conceits, disorders— ²¹ that when I come again my God may not humble me before you, and I will mourn for many who have previously sinned and not repented of the impurity and fornication and licentiousness which they practiced.

¹¹ Finally, brothers, rejoice; restore each other; encourage one another; be of one mind; live in peace; and the God of the love and the peace will be with you.

¹⁴ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

¹⁵ But when God—who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace—resolved 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,

⁷ but on the contrary, upon seeing that I had been entrusted with the Gospel for the uncircumcised, just as was Peter for the circumcised ⁸ (for He who was at work with Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised was also at work with me for that to the uncircumcised),

⁸ (for He who was at work with Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised was also at work with me for that to the uncircumcised), 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. ¹⁰ They did ask us to keep remembering the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.

⁵ Furthermore, He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, is He activated by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? —

⁴ But at just the right time God sent out His Son, born of a woman, born under law, ⁵ so that He might redeem those under law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

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

¹ Brothers, if a man is actually caught in some wrongdoing, you, the spiritual ones, should restore him in a spirit of gentleness, watching out for yourself lest you also be tempted. ² Bear one another’s heavy burdens, and so fulfill the law of the Christ.

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

⁶ Let him who is taught the Word share all good things with him who teaches. ⁷ Do not be deceived, God does not allow Himself to be treated with contempt; because whatever a man sows, that he will also reap ⁸ —he who sows to his own flesh will reap deterioration from that flesh; he who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from that Spirit. ⁹ Let us not lose heart while doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we do not give up. ¹⁰ So then, as we have opportunity, let us do what is good toward everyone, but especially toward those who are of the household of faith.

² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ;

⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He graced us in the Beloved; ⁷ in whom we have the redemption through His\up6 [S]\up0 blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His\up6 [F]\up0 grace, ⁸ that He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and intelligent design,

¹² so that we should be to the praise of His glory, we who first trusted in the Christ;

¹² so that we should be to the praise of His glory, we who first trusted in the Christ; ¹³ about whom, to be sure, we had heard the true Word —the Gospel of your salvation; by whom, since you also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

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,

¹² that at that time you were apart from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

¹⁸ because through Him we both have access to the Father, by one Spirit.

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.

²² in whom you also are being built together to become a habitation of God by the Spirit.

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,

⁸ To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

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.

¹³ until we all attain into the unity of the faith and of the real knowledge of the Son of God, into a complete man, into the resulting full stature of Christ;

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

⁹ (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

¹⁸ And don’t get drunk on wine, which can be harmful and wasteful; rather be filled with the Spirit, ¹⁹ speaking to one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord;

¹⁰ Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.

¹⁹ —on my behalf too, that when I open my mouth utterance may be given to me with boldness, to make known the mystery of the Gospel,

⁷ just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel you all are partakers with me of grace.

¹¹ having been filled with the fruits of righteousness that are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. ¹² Now I want you to know, brothers, that the events against me have actually turned out for the advancement of the Gospel: ¹³ as a result, it has become evident to the whole imperial guard, and to everyone else, that I am in chains for Christ; ¹⁴ also, most of the brothers in the Lord have been influenced by my chains to be much bolder, to speak the Word fearlessly.

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

¹ Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship from the Spirit, if any tenderness and acts of compassion, ² make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.

⁴ Let each of you look out not only for his own concerns, but also for what concerns others. ⁵ In fact, let this mindset be in you that was also in Christ Jesus,

⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient to the point of death —even death on a cross!

¹⁷ Yes, even if I am a libation being poured on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

³ For it is we who are the circumcision, the ones who worship by God’s Spirit and glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in flesh

¹⁶ Only, in what we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.

² I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to come to agreement in the Lord.

⁹ Put into practice the things that you learned, received, heard and saw in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

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

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),

⁸ who also reported to us your love in the Spirit.

⁸ who also reported to us your love in the Spirit. ⁹ For this very reason, since the day we heard of it, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the real knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, ¹⁰ in order for you to walk worthily of the Lord, pleasing Him in every way, being fruitful in every good work and growing into the real knowledge of God;

²⁵ of which I became a servant according to the stewardship from God that was given to me towards you, to complete the Word of God,

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

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing with grace in your heart to the Lord, with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. ¹⁷ Whatever you may do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

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

⁵ You see, our Gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with complete certainty (of course you know what sort of men we proved to be among you for your sake).

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

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

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,

¹⁷ Now we, brothers, having been bereaved of you for a short season (in presence, not in heart), made every effort to see your face, from intense longing. ¹⁸ (We actually tried to come to you—I, Paul, time and again—but Satan thwarted us.)

⁶ But now that Timothy has come to us from you and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, just as we also long to see you ⁷ —because of this, brothers, in all our affliction and distress we were encouraged about you by your faith; ⁸ for now we live, if you are standing firm in the Lord. ⁹ With what thankfulness can we repay God for you, for all the joy with which we are rejoicing in the presence of our God because of you; ¹⁰ praying most earnestly night and day, that we may see your face and complete the things lacking in your faith?

¹⁰ praying most earnestly night and day, that we may see your face and complete the things lacking in your faith?

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

¹⁴ Now we exhort you, brothers: admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, be supportive of the weak, be patient toward all.

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.

²⁵ Brothers, pray for us.

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. ¹¹ To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power, ¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope, by grace, ¹⁷ encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and work.

¹⁷ encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and work.

¹ Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, as also with you, ² and that we may be delivered from evil and malignant men; for not all have faith.

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

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the command of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

¹¹ as defined by the Gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted.

¹¹ as defined by the Gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted. ¹² I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who enables me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into a ministry; ¹³ I, who was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and arrogant; but I was shown mercy, because being ignorant I did it in unbelief; ¹⁴ the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

⁷ to which ransom I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying—a teacher of nations in faith and truth.

⁶ If you instruct the brothers in these things you will be a good servant of Jesus Christ, brought up in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have faithfully followed.

¹³ In the presence of the God who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you ¹⁴ to keep this commandment without spot, blameless until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁴ longing to see you (recalling your tears), that I may be filled with joy; ⁵ while I call to mind the unfeigned faith that is in you—it resided first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also. ⁶ For this reason I am reminding you to rekindle the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

¹¹ to this Gospel I was appointed as a proclaimer, an apostle and a teacher of nations. ¹² That is why I am suffering these things, yet I am not ashamed because I know in whom I have believed and am certain that He is able to guard my deposit until that Day.

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

¹ So you, my son, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ Keep reiterating these things, exhorting them before the Lord not to argue about words to no useful purpose —it just ruins the hearers.

¹¹ the persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured; yet the Lord delivered me out of them all.

¹⁶ All Scripture is God-breathed and is valuable for teaching, for reproving, for correcting, for training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may be fully competent, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

¹ Now then, in the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge both living and dead with a view to His appearing and His Kingdom, I give you this charge:

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the nations might hear. Also, I was delivered out of a lion’s mouth;

²² The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. The Grace be with you. Amen.

³ similarly older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good ⁴ —so that they may instruct the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

⁹ Exhort slaves to subordinate themselves to their own owners, to be well pleasing in all things, not talking back, ¹⁰ not pilfering but showing total trustworthiness, so as to adorn the doctrine of our Savior God in everything.

¹ Remind them to subordinate themselves to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

⁵ hearing of your love and faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus, and for all the saints,

⁷ yes, we have much thanksgiving and encouragement because of your (sg) love, in that the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

¹⁹ I, Paul, am writing with my own hand, “I will repay” (rather than say to you that you actually owe me your very self!). ²⁰ Yes brother, let me have this benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in the Lord. ²¹ Being confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you (sg) will do even more than I say.

⁴ God adding His\up6 [F]\up0 attestation by signs, wonders, various miracles, and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.

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.

¹ Now every high priest taken from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,

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

¹² Really, because although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary principles of God’s oracles all over again; you have come to the point of needing milk, not solid food!

⁹ For all that, dear ones, we are confident of the better things concerning you—things that accompany salvation—even though we speak like this. ¹⁰ Because God is not unjust so as to ignore your work, even the labor of love you have invested in His name, in that you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so. ¹¹ You see, we really do want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so as to fulfill the hope;

¹¹ You see, we really do want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so as to fulfill the hope; ¹² so that you not become lazy, but rather imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. ¹³ Now when God made a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself ¹⁴ saying, “Indeed, blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.” ¹⁵ And so, after he had been patient, he obtained the promise. ¹⁶ Because since men swear by the greater, and for them the confirming oath puts an end to every dispute, ¹⁷ similarly God, being determined to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchanging nature of His purpose, guaranteed it by an oath, ¹⁸ so that by two unalterable things in which it is impossible for God to lie we should have a strong encouragement, we who have taken refuge by grasping the hope set before us; ¹⁹ which hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both certain and secure, actually entering the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,

²⁴ And let us contemplate one another, for the stirring up of love and good works, ²⁵ not forsaking the assembling of ourselves (like some are doing), but exhorting one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

³⁵ So do not throw away your confidence, which has a great recompense. ³⁶ You need perseverance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

⁸ By faith Abraham, upon being called to go forth to the place that he would receive as an inheritance, obeyed and went, though not being acquainted with where he was going.

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

²⁰ Now may the God of peace—who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep—

²² Now I appeal to you, brothers, bear with this word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.

²² Further, become word doers and not just hearers, deceiving yourselves.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those loving Him? ⁶ But you dishonored the poor one. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into courts?

¹³ Come now, you who say, “Today and tomorrow let us travel to that certain city, spend a year there, do business and make a profit;” ¹⁴ whereas you don’t know anything about the morrow. For what is our life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time but then vanishes away. ¹⁵ Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

¹⁵ Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

⁷ Therefore, brothers, be patient until the coming of the Lord. Consider, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receives the early and late rain. ⁸ You also be patient. Keep your hearts firm, because the coming of the Lord has approached. ⁹ Do not groan against one another, brothers, lest you be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at your doors! ¹⁰ Brothers, take as an example the patient bearing of hardship and the steadfastness of the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Indeed we count as blessed those who endure—you have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the final outcome given by the Lord, that He is very compassionate and merciful.

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,

⁸ —whom not having understood you love, into whom believing (not yet seeing) you exult with joy inexpressible, already glorified,

¹² It was revealed to them that they were not ministering these things to themselves, but to you; which things have now been announced to you by those who proclaimed the gospel to you, with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things that angels really desire to look into. ¹³ Therefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, staying sober, rest your hope fully upon the grace being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ —

²¹ who through Him are believing into God, who raised Him out from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are into God.

⁵ you also, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁹ But you are a chosen family, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a private-property people, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; ¹⁰ who formerly were not a people but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.

⁸ Finally, all of you be likeminded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

²⁰ who formerly were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, while the Ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is eight, souls were brought safely through water.

¹⁰ As each has received a gift, minister it to one another as good administrators of God’s varied grace. ¹¹ If anyone speaks, let it be as utterances of God. If anyone serves, let it be as from strength as God supplies, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion throughout the ages. Amen.

¹² I have written to you briefly by our faithful brother Silvanus, as I consider him, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

⁵ So for this very reason, making every effort, to your faith add excellence, and to the excellence knowledge, ⁶ and to the knowledge self-control, and to the self-control perseverance, and to the perseverance godliness, ⁷ and to the godliness brotherly affection, and to the brotherly affection love. ⁸ Because with these things existing and increasing in you, it makes you to be neither useless nor unfruitful in the real knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

¹² So then, I will not neglect to keep reminding you about these things, though you know and are established in the present truth. ¹³ Yes, I think it right to stir you up by a reminder, as long as I am in this ‘tent’, ¹⁴ knowing that the shedding of my ‘tent’ is imminent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. ¹⁵ Moreover I will take pains to provide a reminder of these things for you to have, as needed, after my exit.

²⁰ knowing this first, that no Prophecy of Scripture comes to be from private release; ²¹ for no Prophecy ever came by the will of man, rather holy men of God spoke as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

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

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.

¹⁵ and consider the longsuffering of our Lord to be salvation —just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,

¹² Dear children, I am writing to you because your sins have been forgiven for His name’s sake ¹³ —fathers, I am writing to you because you have come to know Him who is from the beginning; young men, I am writing to you because you have overcome the evil one; children, I am writing to you because you have come to know the Father— ¹⁴ fathers, I have written to you because you have come to know Him who is from the beginning; young men, I have written to you because you are strong, and the Word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

¹⁴ fathers, I have written to you because you have come to know Him who is from the beginning; young men, I have written to you because you are strong, and the Word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

²¹ I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the Truth.

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

¹³ I have written these things to you who believe into the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life, really believing into the name of God’s Son.

⁶ who testified to your love before the church—you will do well by sending them on their way in a manner worthy of God,

³ Dear ones, while I was really intent on writing to you about the salvation we share, I had a compulsion to write exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once for all committed to the saints. ⁴ Because certain men, who were marked out for this condemnation long ago, have sneaked in; they are godless, perverting the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying the only Sovereign God, even our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵ So I want to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord delivered a people out of the land of Egypt yet later destroyed those who did not believe.

⁹ Yet even Michael the archangel, when taking issue with the devil—he was arguing about Moses’ corpse —did not dare to pronounce a reviling judgment, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

²⁰ But you, dear ones, building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in God’s love, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ into eternal life. ²² Now be merciful to some, making a distinction; ²³ but others save with fear, snatching them out of the fire, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.

⁶ —indeed, He made us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

⁵ So one of the elders says to me, “Stop weeping! Look! The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

¹⁶ “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you, in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning Star.