Romans 8 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Now then, there is no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit, ² because the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of the sin and the death. ³ Further, what the law could not do, in that it was weak due to the flesh, God has done by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned the sin in the flesh, ⁴ so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 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. ⁹ You, however, are not ‘in flesh’ but ‘in Spirit’, if indeed God’s Spirit dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, the body is dead through sin, but the Spirit is life through righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then He who raised the Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who dwells in you. ¹² So then, brothers, we have no obligation to the flesh, to live according to it; ¹³ because if you live according to the flesh, you are about to die; but if you put to death the practices of the body, by the Spirit, you will live. ¹⁴ Because as many as are led by God’s Spirit, these are God’s sons ¹⁵ —you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fear all over again, but you did receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!” ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children ¹⁷ —if children, also heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ (if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him). ¹⁸ I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is going to be revealed in us. ¹⁹ You see, the creation waits with eager anticipation for the revelation of God’s sons; ²⁰ because without choice the creation was subjected to futility, due to the One who did the subjecting, based on the hope ²¹ that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage to decay into the freedom of the glory of God’s children. ²² Yes, we know that the whole creation has been groaning and in labor pains until now. ²³ Not only that, we ourselves also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we groan within ourselves, eagerly awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body. 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. ²⁸ Further, we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to purpose. ²⁹ Because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰ Further, whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. ³¹ What then shall we say to these things? Since God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up on behalf of us all, how shall He not with Him also graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? God is He who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he who condemns? Christ is He who died, but even more, was indeed raised, who indeed is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes on our behalf. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Will it be affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? ³⁶ (As it is written: “For your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.”) ³⁷ No, in all these things we prevail completely through Him who loved us. ³⁸ Because I am persuaded that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present nor things to come, ³⁹ neither height nor depth nor any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁷ And wow, a Voice from the heavens saying, “This is my Son, the beloved, in whom I am always well pleased!”

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. ¹² Rejoice and exult, because your reward in the heavens is great, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

¹⁹ Therefore, whoever annuls one of the least of these commandments and teaches that to the people will be called least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he will be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.

⁸ So do not be like them, because your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.

²³ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me you practitioners of lawlessness!’

²⁰ for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

²⁸ And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear the One who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell. ²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father’s will . ³⁰ Why even the hairs of your head are all numbered! ³¹ Therefore do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

³⁴ Brood of vipers! How can you, being malignant, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

⁵⁰ For whoever does the will of my Father in the heavens, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

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.

²² But in answer Jesus said: “You (pl.) do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup which I am about to drink, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am being baptized with?” They say to Him, “We are able”.

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.”

²⁴ Because false christs and false prophets will be raised up, and they will give great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

²¹ His lord said to him: ‘Super, you good and faithful servant! You were faithful over a few things, I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

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. ³² And all the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. ³³ And the sheep He will place on His right, but the goats on His left. ³⁴ Then the King will say to those on His right: ‘Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom that was prepared for you at the foundation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; ³⁶ I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me.’ ³⁷ Then the righteous will answer Him saying: ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? ³⁸ When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? ³⁹ Or when did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?’ ⁴⁰ And in answer the King will say to them, ‘Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

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.’ ⁴¹ “Then He will also say to those on His left: ‘Go away from me, you accursed ones, into the eternal fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels. ⁴² For I was hungry and you did not give me food; I was thirsty and you did not give me drink; ⁴³ I was a stranger and you did not take me in; I was naked and you did not clothe me; I was sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ ⁴⁴ Then they also will answer saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister to you?’ ⁴⁵ Then He will answer them saying, ‘Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, neither did you do it to me’. ⁴⁶ And they will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

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.”

³⁰ and you (sg) shall love the LORD your (sg) God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

³⁶ And He said: “Abba (Father), all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me; yet not what I will, but what you will.”

²⁷ With Him they also crucified two bandits, one on His right and one on His left.

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

¹⁹ So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at God’s right.

¹⁵ But that on the good ground: these are the ones who having heard the word with a noble and good heart, hold on to it and produce fruit with perseverance.”

²⁸ When he saw Jesus he gave a yell, fell down before Him, and with a loud voice he said: “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”

³⁷ Then the whole multitude from the surrounding region of the Gadarenes asked Him to depart from them, because they were overcome by fear. So He got into the boat and returned.

¹ Then it happened, when He finished praying in a certain place, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples”. ² So He said to them: “Whenever you pray, say: Our Father who is in the heavens, your name must be reverenced. Your Kingdom must come. Your will must be done on earth as it is in heaven.

² So He said to them: “Whenever you pray, say: Our Father who is in the heavens, your name must be reverenced. Your Kingdom must come. Your will must be done on earth as it is in heaven. ³ Give us day by day our daily bread. ⁴ Also, forgive us our sins, because we also forgive everyone indebted to us. And, do not lead us into testing, but deliver us from the evil one.” ⁵ Then He said to them: “Who among you will have a friend and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, ⁶ because a friend has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; ⁷ and he will answer from within and say, ‘Don’t bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give to you’? ⁸ I say to you, even if he will not get up and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will get up and give him as many as he needs. ⁹ “So I say to you: ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. ¹⁰ Because everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. ¹¹ And which father among you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if a fish, will he give him a snake instead of a fish? ¹² Or if he asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion? ¹³ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

¹³ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

³² “Do not fear, little flock, because it pleased the Father to give you the Kingdom.

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

⁷ And will not God get justice for His elect who are crying out to Him day and night, indeed being patient with them?

³⁶ Because they cannot die anymore, being like angels—they are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

¹² But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors on account of my name. ¹³ But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony. ¹⁴ So settle it in your hearts not to practice giving a defense beforehand; ¹⁵ because I will give you a mouth and wisdom such that all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or withstand. ¹⁶ You will be betrayed even by parents and relatives, friends and ‘brothers’; and they will put some of you to death. ¹⁷ And you will be hated by all because of my name. ¹⁸ (Not even one hair of your head will be wasted ¹⁹ —you must secure your souls by your endurance.)

²⁸ Now when these things begin to happen, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

²⁹ And I bestow on you a kingdom, just as my Father bestowed one on me, ³⁰ so that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom; also you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel!”

⁴² saying, “Father, if you would just remove this cup from me—nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done!”

⁴⁴ And being in anguish He prayed with total concentration; then His sweat became like clots of blood, falling to the ground.

²⁶ Was it really not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into His glory?”

¹² But, as many as did receive Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe into His name:

¹⁴ So the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we observed His glory, glory of an Only-begotten, from the Father, full of grace and truth.

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

⁵ Jesus answered: “Most assuredly I say to you, unless someone is begotten by water and Spirit he is not able to enter the kingdom of God. ⁶ That which has been begotten by the flesh is flesh, and that which has been begotten by the Spirit is spirit.

⁶ That which has been begotten by the flesh is flesh, and that which has been begotten by the Spirit is spirit.

¹⁴ Also, just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, just so the Son of Man must be lifted up, ¹⁵ so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted but should have eternal life. ¹⁶ Because God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted but should have eternal life.

¹⁶ Because God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted but should have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world in order to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. ¹⁸ The one believing into Him is not condemned, but the one not believing has already been condemned, because he has not believed into the name of the only begotten Son of God. ¹⁹ “Now this is the basis for the condemning, that the Light has come into the world, but the people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were malignant.

³⁴ For He whom God sent speaks God’s words, because God does not give the Spirit by measure.

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

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

²¹ Now just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, just so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.

²⁴ “Most assuredly I say to you that the one listening to my word and believing on Him who sent me has eternal life; he will not go into judging but has moved out of the death into the life.

²⁸ Do not marvel at this, because a time is coming in which all those in the graves will hear His voice ²⁹ and will come out—those who did good things into the resurrection of life, but those who practiced evil things into the resurrection of condemnation.

³⁹ Now this is the will of the Father who sent me, that I should lose nothing out of all that He has given me, but should raise it up at the last day. ⁴⁰ Again this is the will of Him who sent me, that everyone who ‘sees’ the Son and believes into Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

⁵⁴ Whoever chews my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁵⁶ Whoever chews my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him.

⁶³ The Spirit is the One who makes alive; the flesh does not benefit anything. The words that I speak to you are spirit, are life.

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

³⁸ The one believing into me, just as the Scripture has said, out from his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.” ³⁹ (Now He said this about the Spirit, whom those believing into Him were going to receive, in that the Holy Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)

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.”

³² and you will know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free.”

³⁶ Therefore, if the Son should make you free, you really will be free.

²⁴ So they summoned the man who had been blind a second time and said to him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”

²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they will never ever be wasted; and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

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.”

²⁵ Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes into me, though he may die, will live; ²⁶ and everyone who both lives and believes into me will never ever die. Do you believe this?”

²⁵ The one ‘loving’ his life will waste it, and the one ‘hating’ his life, in this world, will preserve it into eternal life. ²⁶ If anyone would serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, my servant will be too. Further, if anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

¹ Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world He loved them to the end.

⁶ Jesus says to him: “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one goes to the Father except through me.

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

¹⁶ Also, I will ask the Father and He will give you another Helper, so that He may stay with you throughout the age ¹⁷ —the Spirit of the Truth, whom the world is unable to receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you do know Him, because He is staying with you and will be in you.

¹⁹ In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live you also will live.

¹⁹ In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live you also will live. ²⁰ In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

²⁰ In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

²³ Jesus answered and said to him: “If anyone loves me he will keep my word. So my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

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.

⁴ Abide in me and I in you. Just as a branch is incapable of producing fruit by itself, except it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me. ⁵ “I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who abides in me and I in him, he is the one who produces much fruit, because apart from me you are incapable of doing anything.

²³ The one who hates me hates my Father too. ²⁴ If I hadn’t done among them the works that no one else has done, they would not be having sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

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

⁸ “Now when He comes he will convict the world about sin and about righteousness and about judgment:

²¹ When a woman gives birth she has pain, because her time has come; but when the child is born she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

²³ In that day you will not question me about anything.” Most assuredly I say to you that whatever you ask the Father in my name He will give you.

²⁶ In that day you will ask in my name; I do not say to you that I will request the Father on your behalf, ²⁷ because the Father Himself is fond of you, in that you have become fond of me and have believed that I came forth from God.

²⁷ because the Father Himself is fond of you, in that you have become fond of me and have believed that I came forth from God.

³³ I have spoken these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but take heart, I have conquered the world!”

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

⁹ I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom You have given me, because they are yours. ¹⁰ Actually, all my things are Yours and Yours are mine, and I have been glorified in them.

¹⁶ They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth. ²⁰ “I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe into me through their word; ²¹ that they all may be one, just as You, Father, are in me and I in You; that in Us they also may be one, so that the world may believe that You sent me. ²² In fact, the glory that You gave to me I have given to them, so that they may be one just as We are one:

²² In fact, the glory that You gave to me I have given to them, so that they may be one just as We are one:

²² In fact, the glory that You gave to me I have given to them, so that they may be one just as We are one: ²³ I in them and You in me, so that they may be perfected into one; also so that the world may know that You sent me and have loved them just as You have loved me.

²³ I in them and You in me, so that they may be perfected into one; also so that the world may know that You sent me and have loved them just as You have loved me.

²³ I in them and You in me, so that they may be perfected into one; also so that the world may know that You sent me and have loved them just as You have loved me. ²⁴ “Father, those whom You have given to me, I desire that they also may be with me where I am, so that they may observe my glory, which You have given me, because You loved me before the founding of the world.

²⁴ “Father, those whom You have given to me, I desire that they also may be with me where I am, so that they may observe my glory, which You have given me, because You loved me before the founding of the world.

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

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.’”

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.

²⁴ And praying they said: “You, Lord, Knower of all hearts, show which one of these two You have chosen

²⁴ whom God raised up, ending the labor pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

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.

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?!”

²¹ whom Heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, of which times God spoke long ago by the mouth of all His holy prophets.

⁵⁶ and said, “Wow! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at God’s right!” ⁵⁷ Yelling at the top of their voice they covered their ears and rushed at him all at once, ⁵⁸ and throwing him out of the city they stoned him. (The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.) ⁵⁹ Yes, they stoned Stephen as he called out and said, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit”. ⁶⁰ Then kneeling down he called out at the top of his voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” And upon saying this he fell asleep. (Saul was in full agreement with his murder.)

³² Now the portion of the Scripture that he was reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so He does not open His mouth.

³⁹ and by Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the Law of Moses.

⁴⁸ Now upon hearing this, the Gentiles rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal live believed.

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”.

⁸ And the heart-knowing God acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us;

²⁹ So calling for a light he ran in and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.

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.

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.

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.’

⁶ (among these you also are called by Jesus Christ);

⁶ (among these you also are called by Jesus Christ); ⁷ to all the called saints who are in Rome, beloved of God: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁸ So precisely because they determined not to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a debased mind, to do wrong things:

³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, braggarts, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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

²⁶ So if the uncircumcised keeps the righteous requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

²⁰ It follows that no flesh will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

²² namely, a righteousness from God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and upon all those who believe. There is no difference: ²³ all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; ²⁵ whom God has openly made available as a propitiation through the faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness because of the passing over, in God’s forbearance, of the previously committed sins; 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.

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. ²⁷ Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law, that of works? No, but by a law of faith.

³¹ Do we then nullify law through the Faith? Of course not! Rather, we uphold law.

¹ What then shall we say that our father Abraham discovered, as a man?

⁷ “Blessed are they whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered up. ⁸ Blessed is the man to whom the LORD will not impute sin!”

²¹ being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform

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, ²⁵ who was delivered up because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

²⁵ who was delivered up because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

¹ Therefore, having been justified by faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 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. ⁶ Now then, when we were incapacitated, even so Christ died for the ungodly, at the right moment. ⁷ Now scarcely even for a righteous person will someone offer to die (although on behalf of a good man someone might dare even to die), ⁸ but God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us!

⁸ but God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us! ⁹ So now that we have been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from the wrath through Him! ¹⁰ Because since we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, while we were enemies, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

¹⁰ Because since we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, while we were enemies, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

¹² Now then, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, just so death spread to all men, because all sinned

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

²¹ so that just as sin reigned in the death, so also the grace might reign through righteousness into eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

² Of course not! How can we who died to sin keep on living in it? ³ Or are you unaware that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? ⁴ Therefore, we were buried with Him by means of that baptism into that death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by means of the Father’s glory, we also should walk in newness of life.

⁴ Therefore, we were buried with Him by means of that baptism into that death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by means of the Father’s glory, we also should walk in newness of life. ⁵ Now if we have become united with Him in His death, we will certainly be in His resurrection as well;

⁵ Now if we have become united with Him in His death, we will certainly be in His resurrection as well; ⁶ knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of the sin might be set aside, so that we no longer be enslaved to that sin—

⁶ knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of the sin might be set aside, so that we no longer be enslaved to that sin— ⁷ because he who has died has been released from that sin. ⁸ Now since we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him, ⁹ knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, cannot die again; death can no longer master Him ¹⁰ —the death He died He died to sin once for all, while the life He lives He lives to God. ¹¹ Thus you also, consider yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. ¹² Therefore do not let the sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey it with the body’s evil desires

¹² Therefore do not let the sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey it with the body’s evil desires ¹³ —do not present any part of your body to sin as an implement for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your body parts to God as implements for righteousness. ¹⁴ Really, sin must not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

¹⁴ Really, sin must not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Of course not!

¹⁸ So having been emancipated from the sin, you became enslaved to the righteousness.

²¹ So what ‘fruit’ did you have at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? The end of those things is death! ²² But now, having been emancipated from the sin, and having become enslaved to God, you have your ‘fruit’ into sanctification—and the end is eternal life! ²³ Because the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁴ Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of the Christ so as to belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—so that we should produce fruit to God. ⁵ Because when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our body parts to produce fruit to death.

⁵ Because when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our body parts to produce fruit to death. ⁶ But now we have been released from the law, having died to what was gripping us, so as to slave in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter. ⁷ So what shall we say then? Is the law sin? Of course not! Indeed, I would not have come to know the sin except through the law: I would not have recognized covetousness if the law had not said, “You must not covet”.

⁷ So what shall we say then? Is the law sin? Of course not! Indeed, I would not have come to know the sin except through the law: I would not have recognized covetousness if the law had not said, “You must not covet”. ⁸ But the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. Now without the law sin is dead.

⁸ But the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. Now without the law sin is dead. ⁹ Once upon a time, without law, I was actually ‘alive’; but when the commandment came, the sin came to life and I died.

⁹ Once upon a time, without law, I was actually ‘alive’; but when the commandment came, the sin came to life and I died. ¹⁰ Yes, the commandment that was to bring me life turned out to bring death.

¹⁰ Yes, the commandment that was to bring me life turned out to bring death. ¹¹ Because the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, completely deceived me, and used it to ‘kill’ me.

¹¹ Because the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, completely deceived me, and used it to ‘kill’ me.

¹¹ Because the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, completely deceived me, and used it to ‘kill’ me. ¹² So then, the law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. ¹³ So has what is good become death to me? Of course not! Rather the sin, that it might be exposed as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment the sin might become extremely sinful. ¹⁴ We know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, having been ‘sold’ under sin

¹⁷ So now it is no longer I who am doing it, but the sin dwelling in me.

²⁰ Now if I do what I don’t want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin dwelling in me. ²¹ So I find this ‘law’, when I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ²² I joyfully agree with God’s law according to the inner man,

²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? ²⁵ I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

¹ Now then, there is no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit,

¹ Now then, there is no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit, ² because the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of the sin and the death.

² because the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of the sin and the death. ³ Further, what the law could not do, in that it was weak due to the flesh, God has done by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned the sin in the flesh, ⁴ so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

⁴ so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 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.

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;

⁶ Further, the mind-set of the flesh yields death, but the mind-set of the Spirit yields life and peace;

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.

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.

⁹ You, however, are not ‘in flesh’ but ‘in Spirit’, if indeed God’s Spirit dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, the body is dead through sin, but the Spirit is life through righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then He who raised the Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who dwells in you.

¹¹ And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then He who raised the Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who dwells in you. ¹² So then, brothers, we have no obligation to the flesh, to live according to it; ¹³ because if you live according to the flesh, you are about to die; but if you put to death the practices of the body, by the Spirit, you will live.

¹³ because if you live according to the flesh, you are about to die; but if you put to death the practices of the body, by the Spirit, you will live. ¹⁴ Because as many as are led by God’s Spirit, these are God’s sons

¹⁴ Because as many as are led by God’s Spirit, these are God’s sons ¹⁵ —you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fear all over again, but you did receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

¹⁵ —you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fear all over again, but you did receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!” ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children

¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children

¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children ¹⁷ —if children, also heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ (if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him).

¹⁷ —if children, also heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ (if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him).

¹⁷ —if children, also heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ (if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him). ¹⁸ I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is going to be revealed in us. ¹⁹ You see, the creation waits with eager anticipation for the revelation of God’s sons; ²⁰ because without choice the creation was subjected to futility, due to the One who did the subjecting, based on the hope

²² Yes, we know that the whole creation has been groaning and in labor pains until now. ²³ Not only that, we ourselves also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we groan within ourselves, eagerly awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body.

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,

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. ²⁸ Further, we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to purpose. ²⁹ Because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰ Further, whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

³⁰ Further, whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up on behalf of us all, how shall He not with Him also graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? God is He who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he who condemns? Christ is He who died, but even more, was indeed raised, who indeed is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes on our behalf.

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?

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?

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.

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.

³ For I keep wishing that I myself could be accursed away from the Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my physical relatives,

⁸ That is, it is not the physical children who are God’s ‘children’, but the children of the promise are regarded as ‘seed’.

¹¹ (though they had not yet been born, not having done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),

²³ just in order to make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,

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?

²⁶ “And it will be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people’, there they will be called sons of the living God.”

² God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel saying:

²¹ Because if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He won’t spare you either!

³³ Oh, the depth of the riches of God’s wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable His judgments and untraceable His ways!

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

¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, with a view to lusts.

⁸ Because if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. ⁹ For this very reason Christ both died and rose, and lived, so as to rule both dead and living.

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.

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

¹ Now we who are strong ought to bear with the limitations of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

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.

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.

³ Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

⁷ Greet Andronicus and Junias, my countrymen and my fellow prisoners, who are outstanding among the apostles, and who were in Christ before me.

² to the church of God in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, along with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—ours, theirs and yours:

⁹ God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

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

⁷ but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom that God ordained before the ages for our glory,

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.”

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.

¹⁶ Do you (pl) not know that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

²¹ So then, let no one boast in men, for all things are yours: ²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, whether the world or life or death, whether things present or things to come—all are yours, ²³ and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

⁹ For I keep thinking that God has displayed us, the apostles, at the end of the line, like men sentenced to death; because we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

¹¹ To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty; we are poorly dressed, brutally treated, and wander homeless;

¹¹ And that is what some of you were; but you were bathed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

¹⁴ Further, God both raised up the Lord and will also raise up us by His 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?

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? ²⁰ Because you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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

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;

²⁷ Yes, I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

¹³ For now these three obtain: faith, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love.

¹⁶ For if no dead are raised, neither has Christ been raised.

²⁰ But indeed, Christ has been raised from the dead; He became the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. ²¹ For since death came through a man, resurrection of the dead also came through a man. ²² For as all in Adam are dying, so also all in the Christ will be made alive.

²² For as all in Adam are dying, so also all in the Christ will be made alive. ²³ But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then those who belong to Christ at His coming;

³⁰ And why do we face danger every hour?

⁴⁵ So also it is written: “The first man, Adam, became a living being;” the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

⁴⁸ As was the earth-man, just so are the earth-people; and as was the heaven-man, just so are the heaven-people. ⁴⁹ And just as we have borne the image of the earth-man, we should also bear the image of the heaven-man.

⁵¹ And now, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed ⁵² —in a split second, in an eye twinkle, at the last trumpet—the trumpet will blast and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. ⁵³ Because this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality. ⁵⁴ So whenever this corruptible puts on incorruption and this mortal puts on immortality, then this written word will happen: “Death has been swallowed down into victory.”

⁵⁴ So whenever this corruptible puts on incorruption and this mortal puts on immortality, then this written word will happen: “Death has been swallowed down into victory.”

⁵⁴ So whenever this corruptible puts on incorruption and this mortal puts on immortality, then this written word will happen: “Death has been swallowed down into victory.” ⁵⁵ “Where, O Death, is your sting? Where, O Hades, is your victory?”

⁵⁵ “Where, O Death, is your sting? Where, O Hades, is your victory?” ⁵⁶ The stinger of death is sin, and the adjunct of sin is the law.

⁵⁶ The stinger of death is sin, and the adjunct of sin is the law. ⁵⁷ Now thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

⁵⁷ Now thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

⁵⁷ Now thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! ⁵⁸ So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

⁷ (yes, our hope concerning you is steadfast); if we are encouraged, it also is for the sake of your encouragement and deliverance, since we know that you will share in the encouragement just as you do in the sufferings.

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

²² who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

¹¹ so that we not be exploited by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his intentions.

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.

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.

¹⁷ Now the Spirit is the Lord, and where the Lord’s Spirit is there is freedom. ¹⁸ So we all, contemplating as in a mirror the glory of the Lord with unveiled face, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, precisely from Lord Spirit.

⁸ —we are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, yet not abandoned; knocked down, but not out; ¹⁰ always carrying about in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

¹⁰ always carrying about in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our body. 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.

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.

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. ¹² So then, death is at work in us, but life in you. ¹³ Now since we have the same spirit of faith, just like it is written, “I believed; therefore I spoke”, we also believe and therefore speak, ¹⁴ knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us through Jesus and present us together with you. ¹⁵ So all this is for your benefit, so that the grace that has spread through the many may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

¹⁵ So all this is for your benefit, so that the grace that has spread through the many may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. ¹⁶ Therefore we do not lose heart—even though our outer man is wasting away, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day— ¹⁷ because our light, momentary affliction is working out for us an eternal and limitless measure of glory,

¹⁷ because our light, momentary affliction is working out for us an eternal and limitless measure of glory,

¹⁷ because our light, momentary affliction is working out for us an eternal and limitless measure of glory, ¹⁸ as we do not focus on the seen, but on the not seen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.

¹⁸ as we do not focus on the seen, but on the not seen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.

¹ Now then, we know that though our earthly, tent-like ‘house’ may be destroyed, we have a building from God (not a handmade house), eternal in the heavens.

¹ Now then, we know that though our earthly, tent-like ‘house’ may be destroyed, we have a building from God (not a handmade house), eternal in the heavens. ² Further, in this one we do groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly habitation;

² Further, in this one we do groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly habitation;

² Further, in this one we do groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly habitation; ³ since, obviously, once clothed we will not be found naked.

³ since, obviously, once clothed we will not be found naked. ⁴ Yes, being in this ‘tent’ is a burden, so we groan—not enough to want to strip, but to be really clothed; that what is mortal may be swallowed up by the Life.

⁴ Yes, being in this ‘tent’ is a burden, so we groan—not enough to want to strip, but to be really clothed; that what is mortal may be swallowed up by the Life.

⁴ Yes, being in this ‘tent’ is a burden, so we groan—not enough to want to strip, but to be really clothed; that what is mortal may be swallowed up by the Life.

⁴ Yes, being in this ‘tent’ is a burden, so we groan—not enough to want to strip, but to be really clothed; that what is mortal may be swallowed up by the Life. ⁵ Now it is God who has prepared us for this very purpose, who also has given us the down payment of the Spirit.

⁵ Now it is God who has prepared us for this very purpose, who also has given us the down payment of the Spirit.

⁵ Now it is God who has prepared us for this very purpose, who also has given us the down payment of the Spirit. ⁶ So we are always confident, even knowing that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord’s home ⁷ —we walk by faith, not by sight—

⁷ —we walk by faith, not by sight— ⁸ indeed, we are confident in preferring to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

¹⁷ so then, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old things have passed on; look, all has become new!

²¹ Because He made the One who did not know sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become God’s righteousness.

⁴ rather we commend ourselves as God’s servants in every way with great endurance—in afflictions, in hardships, in distress, ⁵ in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in hard work, in sleepless nights, in fastings; ⁶ by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, ⁷ by truthful speech, by God’s power, with the weapons of the righteousness in the right hand and in the left; ⁸ through glory and dishonor, through defamation and good repute; as ‘deceivers’ and true, ⁹ as unknown and well known, as dying and we live on, as chastened and not killed; ¹⁰ as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing everything!)

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.”

¹⁸ And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the LORD Almighty.”

⁵ Now indeed, when we came into Macedonia we had no physical rest, but were surrounded by affliction—conflicts on the outside, fears on the inside.

³ Well, we do walk about in flesh, but we do not wage war that way,

⁷ Do you only look at the ‘face’ of things? If anyone has persuaded himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that just as he is Christ’s, so also we are Christ’s.

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

¹⁴ And no wonder, because Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

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 —

² I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or outside of it, I don’t know, God knows.

⁵ I can boast about someone like that, but not about myself, unless it be my weakness. 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. ⁷ Because of the incredible importance of the revelations, to keep me from feeling too important, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to beat on me—to keep me from feeling too important. ⁸ Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. ⁹ But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more cheerfully about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may take up residence upon me.

⁹ But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more cheerfully about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may take up residence upon me. 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.

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.

⁵ Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you yourselves really not know that Jesus Christ is in you? —unless indeed you are disqualified.

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

¹⁹ For through the law I died to the law in order to live to God. ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me; what I now live in this body I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself in my place.

⁸ Further, the Scripture, foreseeing that “God justifies the nations by faith”, proclaimed the Gospel in advance to Abraham: “All the nations will be blessed through you”.

¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse in our place—because it stands written, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree” —

¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse in our place—because it stands written, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree” — ¹⁴ so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.

²¹ Is the law then against the promises of God? Of course not! Rather, if a law had been given that was capable of imparting life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

²⁶ So all of you are sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus.

²⁸ —there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; all of you are one in Christ Jesus — ²⁹ so if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.

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.

⁵ so that He might redeem those under law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. ⁶ And because you are sons, God sent out the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, calling, “Abba, Father”.

⁶ And because you are sons, God sent out the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, calling, “Abba, Father”. ⁷ Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

⁷ Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

¹ Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not be burdened again with a yoke of slavery.

⁵ For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

⁸ This persuasion is not from Him who calls you.

¹⁶ I say then: walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

¹⁸ However, if you are led by the Spirit you are not under a law. ¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are obvious, namely: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are obvious, namely: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, fits of anger, selfish ambition, dissentions, factions,

²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, fits of anger, selfish ambition, dissentions, factions, ²¹ envyings, murders, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like; about which I am warning you beforehand, as, in fact, I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

²¹ envyings, murders, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like; about which I am warning you beforehand, as, in fact, I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control—against such things there is no law.

²³ gentleness, self-control—against such things there is no law. ²⁴ Further, those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

²⁴ Further, those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ Since we live by the Spirit, let us also conform to the Spirit.

²⁵ Since we live by the Spirit, let us also conform to the Spirit.

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.

⁴ just as He\up6 [F]\up0 chose us in Him\up6 [S]\up0 before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him\up6 [F]\up0, in love,

⁴ just as He\up6 [F]\up0 chose us in Him\up6 [S]\up0 before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him\up6 [F]\up0, in love, ⁵ having predestined us into an adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, into Him\up6 [S]\up0, according to the good pleasure of His\up6 [F]\up0 will,

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

⁹ having made known to us the ‘secret’ of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him\up6 [S]\up0 ¹⁰ with a view to administering the fullness of the times so as to bring all things together under one head in Christ—those on the heavens and those on the earth—in Him\up6 [S]\up0, ¹¹ in whom we were also assigned an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him\up6 [F]\up0 who works all things according to the decision of His will,

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

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

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, ¹⁴ who is the down payment on our inheritance until the release of the possession, to the praise of His glory.

¹⁴ who is the down payment on our inheritance until the release of the possession, to the praise of His glory.

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, ¹⁹ and \up6 3)\up0 what the exceeding greatness of His power into us who are believing, according to the demonstration of the extent of His might ²⁰ which He exercised in the Christ when He raised Him\up6 [S]\up0 from among the dead and seated Him at His\up6 [F]\up0 right, in the heavenly realms, ²¹ far above every ruler and authority and power and dominion —even every name that can be named, not only in this age but also in the next.

⁴ But God—being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in our transgressions—made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)

⁵ even when we were dead in our transgressions—made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved) ⁶ and raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

⁶ and raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, ⁷ in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, through His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

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

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

⁶ that the Gentiles are joint-heirs, of the same body, and fellow partakers of His promise in the Christ through the Gospel,

¹¹ according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished by Christ Jesus our Lord,

¹⁷ \up6 2)\up0 Christ to dwell in your hearts through the faith, having been rooted and established in love 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.

⁴ There is one body and one Spirit (just as you also were called in one hope of your calling),

¹⁸ having been darkened in their understanding, being alienated [as a continuing condition] from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts, ¹⁹ who, having become dead to hope, have abandoned themselves to depravity, greedily indulging in every kind of vileness.

²² that you put away, concerning your former way of life, the old man (that keeps on being corrupted by the deceitful desires),

²⁴ and put on the new man, created in the likeness of God, in true righteousness and holiness.

³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

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. ³ But, you should not even talk about fornication or any form of moral corruption or insatiableness (as is fitting for saints); ⁴ nor any obscenity, nor foolish talk or coarse joking (that do not belong), but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ Because you can know this for sure: no fornicator, nor anyone who is morally corrupt or insatiable (actually an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of the Christ and God.

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,

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.

¹¹ Put on the full armor of God so as to be able to stand firm against the stratagems of the devil. 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.

¹⁸ praying at all times in the Spirit, using every prayer and petition, yes being watchful to this end with all perseverance and petition for all the saints

¹⁹ You see, I know that this will turn out for my deliverance (through your supplication and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ)

¹⁹ You see, I know that this will turn out for my deliverance (through your supplication and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ) ²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope that I will not be put to shame in anything but be truly bold, so that now as always Christ will be glorified in my person, whether by life or by death

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope that I will not be put to shame in anything but be truly bold, so that now as always Christ will be glorified in my person, whether by life or by death ²¹ —to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. ²² Now if I am to live on in the flesh it will mean fruitful labor for me, so I don’t know what to choose. ²³ I am torn between the two: I have the desire to depart and be with Christ (far better),

²³ I am torn between the two: I have the desire to depart and be with Christ (far better),

²⁹ For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe into Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

⁷ but divested Himself, taking a slave’s form, coming to be in the likeness of men.

⁹ and be found in Him, not having as my righteousness that of the Law but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness of God based on faith;

¹⁸ Because many are walking as enemies of the cross of Christ—of whom I told you often, and now tell you even with tears— ¹⁹ whose end is ruin, whose god is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame; their mind is only on earthly things. ²⁰ But our citizenship is in Heaven, and it is from there that we eagerly await our Deliverer, the Lord Jesus Christ; ²¹ who will transform the body of our humiliation so that it will be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working by which He is indeed able to subject all things to Himself.

²¹ who will transform the body of our humiliation so that it will be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working by which He is indeed able to subject all things to Himself.

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.

⁵ because of the hope that is being reserved for you in the heavens, of which you have already heard through the Word of the Truth

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; ¹¹ being enabled with all capability according to the strength that resides in His glory, for all endurance and steadfastness.

¹⁵ He is the visible representation of the invisible God, ‘Firstborn’ over all creation, ¹⁶ because by Him all things were created —those in the heavens and those on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.

¹⁶ because by Him all things were created —those in the heavens and those on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. ¹⁷ Yes, He is before all, and in Him all things subsist. ¹⁸ Also, He is the Head of the body, the Church. He is Beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that He may be preeminent in everything,

²¹ So now He has reconciled you as well (you who once were alienated and hostile in your mind because of your wicked works), ²² by His physical body through His death, so as to present you before Him holy and blameless and above reproach — ²³ if, that is, you continue in the faith established and firm, not drifting away from the hope of the Gospel, that you heard and that was proclaimed in all the creation under the heaven, of which I, Paul, became a servant.

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;

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

¹ Furthermore, since you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, sitting at God’s right;

¹ Furthermore, since you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, sitting at God’s right; ² set your mind on the things above, not on those upon the earth, ³ because you died and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.

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

⁴ Whenever Christ, our life, is revealed then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. ⁵ Therefore put to death your members that are on the earth: fornication, filthiness, passion, evil desire, and the greediness that is idolatry. ⁶ Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, ⁷ in which things you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. ⁸ But now you must also rid yourselves of all these—anger, rage, malice, slander, obscene speech—out of your mouth.

²⁰ Children, obey your parents in everything, because this is well pleasing in the Lord.

³ continually remembering before our God and Father your work for the Faith and your labor coming from the Love and your perseverance based on the Hope, our Lord Jesus Christ being their source, ⁴ knowing as we do, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen.

⁴ but we speak precisely as those who have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, not so as to please men, but to please the God who evaluates our hearts.

¹² insisting that you conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

¹ Finally then, brothers, we urge and exhort you in the Lord Jesus: as you received from us how you ought to behave and please God, do so even more

¹⁴ Because since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, just so will God bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him. ¹⁵ For this we say to you by a word of the Lord, that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will absolutely not precede those who have fallen asleep; 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;

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; ¹⁷ then we who are still alive, who are left, will be snatched up together with them in clouds to meet the Lord in the air. In precisely this way we will always be with the Lord.

⁸ but we being of day, let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet of hope of salvation. ⁹ For God did not appoint us to undergo wrath but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁵ —the above is evidence that God’s judgment is right, to the end that you be considered worthy of the Kingdom of God, on behalf of which you are actually suffering; ⁶ since to God it is right to pay back affliction to those who are afflicting you 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,

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. 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.

⁴ who opposes and exalts himself over everything that is called a god or an object of worship, to the point of taking his seat as God in God’s sanctuary, proclaiming himself to be God.

⁹ that one’s coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and with all wicked deception among those who are wasting themselves, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved. ¹¹ Yes, because of this God will send them an active delusion so that they will believe the lie ¹² and so that all may be condemned who have not believed the truth but have taken pleasure in wickedness. ¹³ Now we are obligated to always give thanks to God about you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you into salvation, through sanctification of spirit and belief in truth, ¹⁴ to which He called you through our gospel, so as to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ to which He called you through our gospel, so as to obtain the glory of our 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,

⁵ Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the perseverance of Christ.

⁷ Because God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of self-control.

⁹ —the One who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not because of our works but because of His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

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.

¹⁴ Guard the good deposit by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

¹⁰ This is why I endure it all: for the sake of the chosen ones, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. ¹¹ This is a trustworthy word: If, indeed, we died together, we will also live together;

¹¹ This is a trustworthy word: If, indeed, we died together, we will also live together; ¹² if we endure, we will also reign together; if we deny, He will also deny us; ¹³ if we are faithless, He remains faithful—He is incapable of denying Himself. ¹⁴ Keep reiterating these things, exhorting them before the Lord not to argue about words to no useful purpose —it just ruins the hearers.

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

⁴ betrayers, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

⁸ Now the crown of the righteousness is reserved for me, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that Day; and not only to me, but also to all those who have longed for His appearing.

¹⁶ At my first defense no one came to help me, but all deserted me. May it not be held against them. 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; ¹⁸ and the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and save me into His heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

¹ Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God’s elect and a real knowledge of the truth that accords with godliness,

¹¹ For the saving grace of God has appeared for all men,

¹¹ For the saving grace of God has appeared for all men, ¹² teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live prudently, righteously and godly in this present age,

¹² teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live prudently, righteously and godly in this present age,

¹² teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live prudently, righteously and godly in this present age, ¹³ looking for the blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

¹³ looking for the blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

¹³ looking for the blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who gave Himself for us, so that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for Himself a special people, zealous for good works.

⁴ But when the kindness of our Savior God and His love toward mankind manifested itself, ⁵ He saved us—not because of righteous deeds that we ourselves had done but according to His mercy, by means of the bath of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit, ⁶ whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ so that having been justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

⁷ so that having been justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

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,

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”? ⁶ Again, when He introduces the Firstborn into the inhabited earth He says, “Let all God’s angels worship Him\up6 [S]\up0 ”.

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits being sent to serve those who are going to inherit salvation?

¹¹ For both He\up6 [S]\up0 who is sanctifying and those who are being sanctified are all from One, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them ‘brothers’, ¹² saying, “I will declare Your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing praise to You.” ¹³ And again, “I will put my trust in Him\up6 [F]\up0 ”; and again, “Here am I and the children whom God has given me.” ¹⁴ Since, then, the children have flesh and blood as their share, He\up6 [S]\up0 Himself likewise partook of the same, in order that through His death He might abolish the one who had the power of death—that is, the devil—

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

¹⁵ and set free these [the children] who during their whole lifetime were subject to slavery through fear of death.

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.

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. ¹⁴ Therefore, since we have a Great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the Confession. ¹⁵ For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but He was tested in all points, in similar ways, without sin.

¹⁵ For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but He was tested in all points, in similar ways, without sin.

² being able to deal gently with those who sin in ignorance and go astray, since he himself is also subject to weakness.

¹² so that you not become lazy, but rather imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

¹⁵ And so, after he had been patient, he obtained the promise.

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,

¹⁸ You see, there is an annulling of the former rule because of its weakness and uselessness ¹⁹ (for the Law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

²⁵ Therefore He is able to save absolutely those who come to God through Him, since He always lives and can intercede on their behalf.

¹ Now the main point of the things we are saying is this: We do have such a High Priest, who sat down at the right of the Majesty’s throne in the heavens, ² Minister of the Holy Places, that is, of the true Tabernacle which the Lord set up, not man.

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

¹⁰ they were only about foods and drinks and various ceremonial washings and physical regulations, things imposed until the time of restructuring. ¹¹ But Christ entered once for all into the real Holy Places, having obtained eternal redemption—He had come as High Priest of the good things that are about to be, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, ¹² and with His own blood, not that of goats and calves. ¹³ For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who had been ceremonially defiled, restored ceremonial purity to the body, ¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the Holy Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? ¹⁵ For this reason He is mediator of a new covenant, so that those who have been called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant.

²⁴ For Christ did not enter into Holy Places made by hands, mere copies of the true ones, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in God’s presence on our behalf;

²⁷ Also, inasmuch as men are destined to die but once, after which the judgment, ²⁸ so the Christ also, having been offered once for all to bear the sins of many—He will appear a second time to those who are eagerly waiting for Him, apart from sin, into salvation.

¹ You see, the Law is but a shadow of the good things to come, not their actual matter, so it can never perfect those who approach with the same sacrifices that they offer endlessly, year after year. ² Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshippers would have had no more consciousness of sins, having been cleansed once for all? ³ However, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, ⁴ because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. ⁵ Therefore, upon coming into the world He says: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You prepared a body for me; ⁶ with burnt offerings and sin offerings You were not pleased. ⁷ Then I said, ‘Yes indeed, I have come to do Your will, O God—thus it is written about me in the scroll of the book.’” ⁸ First He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor were You pleased with them” (which are offered according to the Law), ⁹ then He says, “Yes indeed, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He removes the first in order to establish the second. ¹⁰ By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹⁰ By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. ¹¹ Now every priest has stood ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices that can never take away sins; ¹² but He Himself, having offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, sat down at God’s right.

¹² but He Himself, having offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, sat down at God’s right. ¹³ Since that time He is waiting until His enemies are placed as a footstool for His feet, ¹⁴ because by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

¹⁴ because by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

¹⁹ Therefore, brothers, having courage to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by a new and living way that He inaugurated for us, through the curtain, that is to say, His flesh, ²¹ and having a Great Priest over the house of God, ²² let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled from an evil conscience and our body having been washed with clean water.

³⁶ You need perseverance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

¹ Now faith is a realization of things being hoped for, an evidence of things not seen.

⁵ By faith Enoch was transferred so as not to see death, and could not be found because God had translated him; before his translation he had obtained witness that he was pleasing to God. ⁶ Now without faith it is impossible to please Him, because the one approaching God must believe that He exists and that He becomes a rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him.

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

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.

³⁵ Women received their dead back by resurrection; while others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, so that they might obtain a better resurrection.

¹ So then, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we too must run with endurance the race that is set before us, laying aside every impediment and the sin that so easily ensnares,

¹ So then, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we too must run with endurance the race that is set before us, laying aside every impediment and the sin that so easily ensnares, ² looking unto Jesus, the Founder and Perfecter of the Faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured a cross, scorning its ignominy, and took His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

² looking unto Jesus, the Founder and Perfecter of the Faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured a cross, scorning its ignominy, and took His seat at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Do consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so as not to grow weary, losing courage in your souls.

³ Do consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so as not to grow weary, losing courage in your souls. ⁴ In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed. ⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation that instructs you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the LORD’s discipline, nor lose heart when you are reproved by Him; ⁶ because whom the LORD loves He chastens, yes scourges every son whom He accepts.”

⁶ because whom the LORD loves He chastens, yes scourges every son whom He accepts.” ⁷ If you are enduring discipline, God is dealing with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not discipline?

⁷ If you are enduring discipline, God is dealing with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not discipline? ⁸ But if you are without discipline (something everyone undergoes), then you are illegitimate and not sons.

⁸ But if you are without discipline (something everyone undergoes), then you are illegitimate and not sons. ⁹ Furthermore, we have had our human fathers as correctors and respected them. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

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

¹⁰ Now they indeed disciplined us during a short period as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, so that we may partake of His holiness. ¹¹ Now no discipline seems to be pleasant at the time, but painful; yet afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised by it.

¹¹ Now no discipline seems to be pleasant at the time, but painful; yet afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised by it. ¹² Therefore strengthen the listless hands and weakened knees,

¹⁸ Now you have not come to a touchable mountain burning with fire, to blackness and darkness, to tempest; ¹⁹ to a trumpet blast and spoken words such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them ²⁰ (because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain it must be stoned!” ²¹ and the sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling!”); 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, ²³ to an assembly of firstborn ones who have been enrolled in heaven; to God, Judge of all; to the spirits of the perfected righteous;

²³ to an assembly of firstborn ones who have been enrolled in heaven; to God, Judge of all; to the spirits of the perfected righteous; ²⁴ to Jesus, Mediator of a new covenant, and to a blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

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

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— ²¹ equip you for every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

² Count it all joy, my brothers, whenever you fall into various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance; ⁴ but let that endurance have a complete work, so that you may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing. ⁵ But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from the giving God, who gives to all liberally and does not reproach, and it will be given to him. ⁶ However, let him ask in faith, with no doubting, because he who doubts is like a sea wave driven and tossed by the wind—

¹² A man who endures testing is blessed, because upon becoming approved he will receive the crown of the life that the Lord has promised to those loving Him.

¹⁴ But each one is tempted by his own craving, being taken in tow and enticed. ¹⁵ Then the craving, upon conceiving, gives birth to sin, and the sin, upon completion, delivers death.

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?

¹⁹ You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder!)

³ You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may lavish it on your pleasures. ⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? So whoever may want to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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.

¹⁶ Confess your transgressions to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous one, being operative, is very powerful.

² elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the setting apart of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. 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. ⁶ You should be overjoyed about this, even if just now, briefly, of necessity, you have been distressed by a variety of trials, ⁷ so that the demonstrated genuineness of your faith (much more precious than gold that perishes, albeit tested through fire) may translate into praise, glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ

⁷ so that the demonstrated genuineness of your faith (much more precious than gold that perishes, albeit tested through fire) may translate into praise, glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ

⁷ so that the demonstrated genuineness of your faith (much more precious than gold that perishes, albeit tested through fire) may translate into praise, glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ ⁸ —whom not having understood you love, into whom believing (not yet seeing) you exult with joy inexpressible, already glorified,

¹⁰ Concerning this salvation the prophets, who prophesied about the grace that would come to you, searched and inquired diligently, ¹¹ investigating into whom, or what sort of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating as He testified beforehand the sufferings that would be inflicted on Christ and the glories that would follow them.

¹¹ investigating into whom, or what sort of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating as He testified beforehand the sufferings that would be inflicted on Christ and the glories that would follow them.

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 —

²⁰ who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake, 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. ²² Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth through the Spirit, resulting in sincere brotherly love, you must love one another fervently from a pure heart,

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;

¹¹ Dear ones, I urge you to abstain from the lusts of the flesh, that war against the soul,

²⁴ who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, so that we, having died to those sins, might live for the righteousness; by whose wound you were healed.

⁹ not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this so that you may inherit a blessing.

¹⁸ Because Christ also suffered on account of sins, once for all, the righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God; having been put to death, to be sure, in flesh but having been made alive in spirit;

²² who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

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.

² so as not to live your remaining time in flesh for human lusts any longer, but for the will of God. ³ Because the time that has passed is plenty for you to have performed the will of the pagans—having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, carousings and disgusting idolatries—

¹² Dear ones, don’t be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you as a test, as though something strange was happening to you, ¹³ but to the extent that you share in Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that at the revelation of His glory you also may rejoice a great deal more.

¹³ but to the extent that you share in Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that at the revelation of His glory you also may rejoice a great deal more. ¹⁴ If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of the glory and of God has come to rest upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.

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:

⁸ Be sober, stay alert! Because your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is circling you, looking for someone to devour; ⁹ withstand him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. ¹⁰ Now may the God of all grace, who called you into His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, Himself perfect, establish, strengthen and ground you—after you have suffered a while.

¹⁰ Now may the God of all grace, who called you into His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, Himself perfect, establish, strengthen and ground you—after you have suffered a while.

¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, you should be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble.

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.

⁴ Because if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but delivered them into chains of darkness, confining them in Tartarus to be reserved for judgment, ⁵ and did not spare the ancient world but preserved Noah, with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,

¹⁰ and especially those who go after the flesh in the lust for defilement, and despise authority. They are audacious, self-willed; they are not afraid to revile majestic beings,

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls; having a heart trained in greediness they are children of a curse;

¹¹ Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness, ¹² expecting and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? ¹³ Nevertheless, we look for new heavens and a new earth in which dwells righteousness, according to His promise.

¹³ Nevertheless, we look for new heavens and a new earth in which dwells righteousness, according to His promise.

¹ My dear children, I am writing these things to you so that you not sin; if someone does sin, we have an Advocate in the Father’s presence, righteous Jesus Christ— ² also, He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; not concerning ours only but also concerning those of the whole world.

¹⁵ Do not love the world, neither the things in the world; if anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world—the craving of the flesh and the craving of the eyes and the pretension of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

¹ Consider how great a love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God! The world does not acknowledge us for this reason: it did not acknowledge Him. ² Dear ones, right now we are children of God and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is ³ —everyone who has this hope upon him purifies himself, even as He is pure.

¹⁹ —yes, by this we know that we are of the Truth and may put our hearts at ease in His presence, ²⁰ and that, if our heart should condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all. ²¹ Dear ones, if our heart doesn’t condemn us, we have confidence toward God, ²² and whatever we may ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

²² and whatever we may ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

²⁴ He who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. This is how we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit whom He gave us.

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

⁹ God’s love was made real within us by this: God sent His only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through Him. ¹⁰ In this is the love, not that we loved God but that He loved us—He even sent His Son as the propitiation for our sins.

¹⁰ In this is the love, not that we loved God but that He loved us—He even sent His Son as the propitiation for our sins.

¹⁰ In this is the love, not that we loved God but that He loved us—He even sent His Son as the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Dear ones, since God loved us in this way we are obligated to love one another, really. ¹² No one has ever looked at God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is being perfected in us. ¹³ By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

¹³ By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. ¹⁴ Yes, we have observed and do testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.

¹⁶ Yes, we have come to know and believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in the love abides in God, and God in him.

¹⁸ There is no fear in love; rather perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment; so he who fears has not been perfected in love. ¹⁹ We love Him because He first loved us.

² In this we know that we love the children of God, whenever we love God and keep His commandments. ³ For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; His commandments are not burdensome, ⁴ in that whatever has been begotten by God overcomes the world; this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith. ⁵ Who is he who overcomes the world if not he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹⁰ He who believes into the Son of God has the witness within himself; he who doesn’t believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning His Son.

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

¹⁹ These are the ones who cause division; they are ‘soulish’, not having a spirit. 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.

²⁴ Now to Him who is able to keep them from stumbling and to present them before His glorious presence without fault and with exultation—

⁵ and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins with His own blood

⁵ and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins with His own blood 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.

⁹ I, John, your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and endurance in Christ Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the Word of God and on account of the testimony of Jesus Christ.

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. ²⁴ ‘Now to the rest of you who are in Thyatira I say—to as many as do not hold this teaching, those who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say—I am not putting any other burden on you;

⁹ See, I am determining that some of the synagogue of Satan, those who claim to be Jews and are not, but are lying—yes, I will cause them to come and do obeisance at your feet, and they will know that I have loved you.

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

²¹ To the one who overcomes I will grant to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on His throne.

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

¹⁴ So I said to him, “My lord, you know.” So he said to me: “These are those who come out of the Great Tribulation—they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His sanctuary. And He who sits on the throne will shelter them. ¹⁶ They shall not hunger anymore, nor thirst anymore; the sun will absolutely not strike them, nor any heat; ¹⁷ because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

⁷ When they finish their witness, the Beast of prey that comes up out of the Abyss will make war with them, overcome them and kill them ⁸ —and leave their corpses in the street of the great city! (which is called Sodom and Egypt, spiritually speaking), even where their Lord was crucified. ⁹ And those from the peoples, tribes, languages and ethnic nations look at their corpses three-and-a-half days, and will not allow their corpses to be buried. ¹⁰ And those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will enjoy themselves and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. ¹¹ And after three-and-a-half days the breath from God entered them and they stood on their feet, and a great fear fell on those who were watching them.

¹¹ And after three-and-a-half days the breath from God entered them and they stood on their feet, and a great fear fell on those who were watching them. ¹² And I heard a loud voice from the heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them.

² And being pregnant she was crying out in labor, being in great pain to give birth.

⁹ So the great dragon was expelled, that ancient serpent, who is called Slanderer and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited world; he was thrown into the earth, and his angels were expelled with him. ¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice in the heaven saying: “Now the salvation and the power have come, even the Kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accused them before our God day and night. 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.

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 Now I was standing on the seashore, and I saw a Beast of prey coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten diadems and on his heads blasphemous names. ² The beast that I saw was similar to a leopard, his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority. ³ And one of his heads was as if it had been mortally wounded, but his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth marveled after the Beast. ⁴ And they did obeisance to the dragon who had given the authority to the Beast, and they did obeisance to the Beast saying, “Who is like the Beast, and who is able to make war with him?” ⁵ And he was given a mouth speaking great things, that is, blasphemy; and he was given authority to make war forty-two months. ⁶ So he opened that mouth of his in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, those who dwell in Heaven. ⁷ And it was given to him to make war with the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given him over every tribe and language and ethnic nation. ⁸ All who dwell on the earth will do obeisance to him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slaughtered from the foundation of the world.

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

¹⁰ If anyone has captivity, he goes away. If anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

¹⁴ And he deceives my own people, those dwelling on the earth, by the signs that it was given to him to perform before the Beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the Beast who had the sword wound and lived.

⁵ no lie was found in their mouth, for they are blameless.

¹² Here is the endurance of the saints, here those who keep the commands of God and the faith of Jesus. ¹³ I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on’ (“Yes” says the Spirit) ‘so that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow along with them’.”

¹⁴ They will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called and chosen and faithful.”

⁹ And he says to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding banquet of the Lamb’.” And he says to me, “These are the true words of God.”

²⁰ So the Beast was captured, and with him the False prophet, the one who performed signs in his presence (by which he had deceived those who had received the mark of the Beast and those who worshipped his image). The two were thrown alive into the Lake of Fire that burns with brimstone.

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.

⁷ Now when the thousand years are finished Satan will be released from his prison,

¹¹ Then I saw a tremendous white throne and the One who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away; and no place was found for them. 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. ¹³ The ocean gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them; and they were judged each one according to their works.

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

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.

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.” ⁵ Then He who sat on the throne said, “Take note, I make everything new!” And He says to me, “Write, because these words are true and faithful!”

⁷ He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be God to him and he will be a son to me.

¹ And he showed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

³ There will be no accursed thing there, but the throne of God and of the Lamb are in her, and His slaves will minister to Him. ⁴ They will see His face and His name is on their foreheads. ⁵ Night will not exist there and they will need neither lamp nor sunlight, because the Lord God illuminates them. And they will reign forever and ever.