1 Thessalonians 4 Cross References - Wesley

¹ It remaineth then, brethren, that we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye abound therein more and more. ² For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; ⁴ That every one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; ⁵ Not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles who know not God. ⁶ That none circumvent or defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these things, as we have also told you before and testified. ⁷ For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness. ⁸ He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man but God; who hath also given you his Holy Spirit. ⁹ Touching brotherly love, we need not write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. ¹⁰ And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, that ye increase more and more, ¹¹ And that ye study to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you; ¹² That ye may walk decently toward them that are without, and may want nothing. ¹³ Now we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope. ¹⁴ For if we believe, that Jesus died and rose again, so will God bring with him those also that sleep in Christ. ¹⁵ For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them that are asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. ¹⁷ Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord. ¹⁸ Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

³² (For after all these things do the heathens seek) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye need all these things,

²¹ Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

⁵⁰ For whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother and sister and mother.

¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings.

²⁷ For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father, with his angels; and then shall he render to every man according to his work.

²⁵ He saith, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? Of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute?

³⁹ On these two commandments

³⁰ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. ³¹ And he shall send forth his angels, with a loud-sounding trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

³¹ And he shall send forth his angels, with a loud-sounding trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

³¹ When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory.

⁶⁴ Jesus saith to him, Thou hast said. Moreover I say to you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right-hand of power, and coming upon the clouds of heaven.

⁵² and many bodies of holy men that slept were raised.

²⁰ Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and lo I am with you always, even to the end of the world.

³⁵ For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother and sister and mother.

¹¹ And he said to them, To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all things are in parables:

¹⁹ Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

³⁴ For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the porter to watch.

⁶² And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man, sitting on the right-hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.

²⁷ For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

³² And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among them that are sanctified.

³⁵ I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring ye ought to help the infirm, and to remember the word of the Lord Jesus, which he himself said, It is happier to give than to receive.

¹ I exhort you therefore, brethren, by the tender mercies of God, to present your bodies unto God, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, which is your reasonable service.

¹ I exhort you therefore, brethren, by the tender mercies of God, to present your bodies unto God, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, which is your reasonable service. ² And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.

² And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.

⁴ For as in one body we are many members, and all members have not the same office, ⁵ So we being many are one body in Christ, and every one members of each other. ⁶ Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given us, whether it be prophesy, let us prophesy according to the analogy of faith: ⁷ Or ministry, let us wait on our ministring; or he that teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation. ⁸ He that imparteth, let him do it with simplicity; he that presideth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with chearfulness.

¹⁰ In brotherly love be full of tender affection toward each other, in honour preferring one another: ¹¹ Not slothful in business, servent in spirit, serving the Lord:

¹⁷ Mind not high, but condescend to low things. Be not wise in your own conceit. Render to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

¹⁹ Dearly beloved, revenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

⁴ But if thou dost that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain; for he is the servant of God, an avenger for wrath against him that doth evil.

¹³ Let us walk decently, as in the day; not in banqueting and drunken entertainments, not in uncleannesses and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

¹³ Brethren, I do not account myself to have apprehended. ¹⁴ But one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and reaching forth unto the things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ But one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and reaching forth unto the things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded; and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

²⁰ who mind earthly things) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ Who will transform our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, acccording to the mighty working, whereby he is able even to subject all things to himself.

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things:

⁴ Hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of

⁹ For this cause from the day we heard it, we do not cease to pray also for you, and to desire that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; ¹⁰ That ye may walk worthy of the Lord, unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

⁶ As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him;

⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

¹⁰ For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. ¹¹ And they shall not teach every one his neighbour, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least to the greatest.

⁵² And all wept and bewailed her. But he said, Weep not; she is not dead; but sleepeth. ⁵³ And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

¹⁶ He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that rejecteth you, rejecteth me; and he that rejecteth me, rejecteth him that sent me.

⁵ But I will shew you whom ye shall fear: fear him, who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell: yea, I say to you, fear him.

³⁰ For the nations of the world seek all these things; and your Father knoweth that ye need these things.

⁴² And the Lord said, Who is that faithful and wise steward, whom his Lord shall make ruler over his housoold, to give the allowance of food in due season? ⁴³ Happy is that servant, whom his Lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing.

²⁸ Now when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

³⁴ My meat is, to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

⁴⁴ No man can come to me, unless the Father who hath sent me, draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard and learned of the Father, cometh to me.

¹⁷ If any man be willing to do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

¹¹ Thus he spake, and after that he saith to them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go to awake him. ¹² Then the disciples said, Lord, if he sleep, he will recover. ¹³ Jesus spake of his death, but they thought he had spoken of the natural rest in sleep.

²⁴ I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

²⁶ If any man serve me, let him follow me, and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will the Father honour.

⁴⁸ He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him; the word which I have spoken, that shall judge him at the last day.

³⁴ A new commandment I give you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. ³⁵ By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

³ I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am, ye may be also.

²⁶ the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you.

² and every one that beareth fruit, he purifieth it, that it may bear more fruit.

¹² This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. ¹³ No one hath greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. I no longer call you servants, ¹⁵ for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you. ¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you that ye may go and bear fruit, and your fruit may remain; that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. ¹⁷ This I command you, that ye love one another.

¹⁷ Sanctify them thro' the truth: thy word is truth. ¹⁸ As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified thro' the truth.

²⁴ Father, I will that these also whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me; for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

⁹ And having spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up, and a cloud received him from their sight.

¹¹ behold two men, in white apparel, stood by them, Who also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing into heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, as ye have seen him going into heaven.

³² And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart, and of one soul: and not so much as one said that ought of the things which he had, was his own, but they had all things common.

³ But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart, to lie to the Holy Ghost? ⁴ And to keep back part of the price of the land? While it remained, did it not remain thine? And when it was sold, was it not in thy power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thy heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to God.

⁶⁰ And kneeling down, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And having said this, he fell asleep: And Saul was consenting to his death.

² And devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.

³⁹ And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing.

¹⁵ But the Lord said unto him, Go: for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

³⁶ Now David, having served the will of God in his generation, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers, and saw corruption.

⁴¹ Behold ye despisers, and wonder and perish. For I work a work in your days, a work which ye will in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

²⁰ But that we write to them, to abstain from things offered to idols and fornication, and things strangled and blood.

²⁹ and things strangled and fornication; from which keeping yourselves ye will do well. Fare ye well.

²³ For as I passed along and beheld the objects of your worship, I found an altar, on which was inscribed, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD: him therefore whom ye worship without knowing him, I proclaim unto you.

³⁰ The times of ignorance indeed God overlooked; but he now commandeth all men every where to repent. ³¹ Because he hath appointed a day, in which he will judge the world righteously, by the man whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given assurance to all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

³ And as he was of the same trade, he abode with them and wrought, for they were tent-makers by trade.

¹⁸ and the Gentiles, to whom I now send thee, To open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; that they may receive through faith which is in me, forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among them that are sanctified.

⁷ who are beloved of God, called and holy, Grace to you, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come to you, (though I have been hindred hitherto) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the other Gentiles.

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven, against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who detain the truth in unrighteousness.

²⁴ Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness in the desires of their hearts, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

²⁶ Amen. Therefore God gave them up to vile affections; for even their women changed the natural use to that which is against nature: And likewise also the men,

²⁸ And as they were not careful to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind, to do things not expedient, Filled with all injustice, maliciousness, covetousness, wickedness: ²⁹ full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity:

⁵ And hope shameth us not, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

¹⁹ I speak as a man, because of the weakness of your flesh. As ye have presented your members servants to uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity, so now present your members servants of righteousness, unto holiness.

²² But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

⁸ So then they who are in the flesh cannot please God.

¹¹ And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead, will also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

²⁹ For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated, conformable to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren. ³⁰ And whom he predestinated, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

²¹ Hath not the potter power over the clay, out of the same mass to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour? ²² What if God, being willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, yet endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction? ²³ And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, whom he had before prepared for glory?

²⁰ But I have striven, so to preach the gospel, not where Christ had been named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation.

² and Sosthenes a brother, To the church of God, which is in Corinth, to them that are sanctified through Christ Jesus, called and holy, with all that in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both theirs and ours:

²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

³⁰ and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

¹⁰ But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.

¹² being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

⁹ I wrote to you in an epistle, Not to converse with lewd persons. ¹⁰ But not altogether with the lewd persons of this world, or the covetous, or the rapacious, or idolaters, for then ye must go out of the world. ¹¹ But I have now written unto you, if any who is named a brother, be a lewd person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to converse with such an one, no, not to eat with him. ¹² For what have I to do, to judge them also that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within? ¹³ (But them that are without God will judge:) And ye will take away from among yourselves that wicked person.

⁷ Indeed even this is altogether a fault among you, that ye have contests with each other. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? ⁸ Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, even your brethren. ⁹ Know ye not, that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate,

⁹ Know ye not, that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, ¹⁰ nor sodomites, Nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor revilers, nor the rapacious shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

¹³ Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; yet God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. ¹⁴ And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power. ¹⁵ Know ye not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot?

¹⁵ Know ye not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? ¹⁶ God forbid. Know ye not, that he who is joined to an harlot is one body? For they two, saith he, shall be one flesh. ¹⁷ But he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit. ¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body. ¹⁹ Know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God? ²⁰ And ye are not your own: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are God's.

² Yet, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife; and let every woman have her own husband.

⁹ But if they have not power over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

⁴⁰ But she is happier, if she continue as she is, in my judgment; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

²¹ To them that are without the law, as without the law, (being not without the law to God, but under the law to Christ) that I might gain them that are without the law.

¹ Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud,

²³ I praise you not. For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus the night in which he was betrayed,

¹ Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

¹ Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also ye received, and wherein ye stand:

⁶ of whom the greater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep.

¹² But if Christ is preached, that he rose from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ For if there be no resurrection of the dead, neither is Christ raised. ¹⁴ And if Christ be not raised, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. ¹⁵ Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified from God, that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise, if the dead rise not. ¹⁶ For if the dead rise not, neither is Christ raised: ¹⁷ And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Then also they who sleep in Christ are perished.

¹⁸ Then also they who sleep in Christ are perished. ¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are more miserable than all men.

¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are more miserable than all men. ²⁰ But now is Christ risen from the dead, the first-fruit of them that slept. ²¹ For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. ²² For as through Adam all die, even so through Christ shall all be made alive. ²³ But every one in his own order: Christ the first-fruit, afterward they who are Christ's, at his coming.

²³ But every one in his own order: Christ the first-fruit, afterward they who are Christ's, at his coming.

³⁴ Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.

⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. ⁵² In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

⁵² In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

⁵² In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality.

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

⁸ For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of the trouble which befell us in Asia, that we were exceedingly pressed, above our strength, so that we despaired even of life.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us.

¹³ according to what is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken, we also believe, and therefore speak: ¹⁴ Knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus, will also raise us up by Jesus, and present us with you.

¹⁴ Knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus, will also raise us up by Jesus, and present us with you.

⁸ We behave undauntedly, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord. ⁹ Therefore we are ambitious, whether present, or absent, to be well-pleasing to him.

¹ We then, as fellow-labourers, do also exhort you, not to receive the grace of God in vain.

¹ Moreover, brethren, we declare to you the grace of God, bestowed on the churches in Macedonia, ² That in a great trial of affliction, their overflowing joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality:

⁸ I speak not by way of command, but that by the diligence of others, I may prove the sincerity of your love. ⁹ For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. ¹⁰ And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun a year ago, not only to do, but also to do it willingly.

²⁰ and for the declaration of our ready mind) Avoiding this, lest any one should blame us in this abundance, which is administred by us. ²¹ For we provide things honest, not only before the Lord, but also before men.

¹ Now I Paul myself, who when present am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you, intreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ,

⁷ Have I committed an offence in humbling myself, that ye might be exalted, because I have preached the gospel of God to you at free cost? ⁸ I spoiled other churches, taking wages of them, to serve you: and when I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to no man. ⁹ For the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my want; and I have in all things kept myself from being burdensom, and will keep myself.

² I knew a man in Christ, above fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body I know not; God knoweth) such an one caught up to the third heaven. ³ Yea, I knew such a man (whether in the body or out of the body, I know not, God knoweth) That he was caught up into paradise, ⁴ and heard unspeakable things, which it is not possible for man to utter.

²¹ and I should mourn over many of them who had sinned before, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

¹¹ Finally, brethren, farewel: be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

⁶ And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying Abba, Father.

⁸ Indeed then, when ye knew not God, ye served them that by nature are not gods.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication,

²¹ emulations, wraths, strifes, divisions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of which I tell you before (as I have also told you in time past) that they who practise such things, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

⁴ As he hath chosen us through him, before the foundation of the world, that we might be holy and blameless before him in love,

¹⁵ Wherefore I also, since I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love to all saints,

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created through Christ Jesus unto good works, which God had before prepared, that we might walk in them.

¹² being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise; having no hope, and without God in the world.

¹ I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you, to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye are called,

¹⁷ This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles, in the vanity of your mind:

¹⁷ This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles, in the vanity of your mind: ¹⁸ Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, by the ignorance that is in them, through the hardness of their hearts: ¹⁹ Who being past feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

¹⁹ Who being past feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. ²⁰ But ye have not so learned Christ; Since ye have heard him,

²⁸ Let him that stole, steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

¹ Be ye therefore followers of God, as beloved children: And walk in love, ² as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God of a sweet-smelling savour. ³ But let not fornication, or any uncleanness, or covetousness be even named among you, as becometh saints: ⁴ Neither obscenity, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient, but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ For this ye know, that no whoremonger, or unclean person, or covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things the wrath of God cometh upon the sons of disobedience.

¹⁷ Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what is the will of the Lord.

²⁶ That he might sanctify it (having cleansed it by the washing of water) through the word: ²⁷ That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, that it may be holy and unblamable.

⁶ Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

⁹ And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more, in all knowledge and in all spiritual sense,

²³ For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, for it is far better.

²⁷ Only let your behaviour be worthy the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear concerning you, that ye stand fast, in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

²² Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. ²³ And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men: Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance; ²⁴ for ye serve the Lord Christ.

⁵ Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

¹² Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayer, that ye may stand, perfect and filled, with all the will of God.

⁷ So that ye became examples to all that believed in Macedonia and Achaia.

³ For our exhortation is not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile.

¹¹ As ye know how we exhorted and comforted every one of you, ¹² as a father his own children, And charged you to walk worthy of God, who hath called you to his kingdom and glory.

¹⁹ For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not ye also before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

¹² And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love towards one another and towards all men, as we also do towards you, ¹³ That he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness (before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ) with all his saints.

¹ It remaineth then, brethren, that we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye abound therein more and more. ² For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

⁴ That every one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

¹⁰ And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, that ye increase more and more, ¹¹ And that ye study to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you; ¹² That ye may walk decently toward them that are without, and may want nothing. ¹³ Now we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.

¹⁵ For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them that are asleep.

¹⁷ Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord.

¹ But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write to you.

¹⁰ but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him. ¹¹ Wherefore comfort one another and edify one another, as also ye do.

¹⁴ Now we exhort you, brethren, warn the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be long suffering toward all men.

¹⁸ for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

²² Abstain from all appearance of evil. ²³ And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly: and may the whole of you, the spirit and the soul and the body, be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

³ We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth.

⁷ And to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels, ⁸ In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them who know not God, and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Now I beseech you, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to Salvation, thro' sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to Salvation, thro' sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. ¹⁴ To which he hath called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as among you:

⁶ Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received of us. ⁷ For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you, ⁸ Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing, but wrought with labour and toil, night and day, that we might not burden any of you. ⁹ Not because we have not power; but that we might make ourselves an example to you, that ye might imitate us. ¹⁰ For when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

¹⁰ For when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat. ¹¹ For we hear there are some among you who walk disorderly, doing nothing, but being busy-bodies. ¹² Now such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, to work quietly and eat their own bread.

² For kings and all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

⁷ He ought also to have a good report from them that are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

¹³ And withal they learn to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers and busy bodies, speaking what they ought not.

²¹ I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

¹³ I charge thee, before God, who quickneth all things, and Jesus Christ, who witnessed a good confession before Pontius Pilate, ¹⁴ That thou keep the commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, Which in his times the blessed and only Potentate will shew,

⁹ not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus, before the world began;

²⁰ But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and of stone; and some to honour, some to dishonour. ²¹ If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, consecrated and fit for the master's use, prepared for every good work.

¹ I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the quick and dead at his appearing and his kingdom, Preach the word;

⁴ That they instruct the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, ⁵ to love their chidren, Discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. ⁶ The young men likewise exhort to be discreet, In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works, ⁷ in doctrine, uncorruptness, seriousness, Sound speech that cannot be reproved; ⁸ that he who is on the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us. ⁹ Exhort servants to be obedient to their own masters, to please them in all things, ¹⁰ not answering again, Not stealing, but shewing all good fidelity, that they may in all things adorn the gospel of God our Saviour.

¹⁴ Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

¹⁴ And let ours also learn to excell in good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

⁵ and love ⁶ toward all saints) That the communication of thy faith may become effectual, by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you through Christ Jesus. ⁷ For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

⁹ Yet out of love I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also the prisoner of Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ I beseech thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus, Who was formerly unprofitable to thee,

¹⁶ for after he had said before, This is the covenant which I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws into their hearts, and write them in their minds,

²⁴ to provoke one another to love and to good works: ²⁵ Not forsaking the assembling ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another, and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

³⁶ For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that cometh to God, must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

¹² Wherefore Lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees:

¹⁴ Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

¹⁶ as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright:

¹ Let brotherly love continue.

⁴ Marriage is honourable in all men, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

¹⁶ But to do good, and to distribute, forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

²¹ Make you perfect in every good work, to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight thro' Christ Jesus; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. ²² I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation; for I have written a letter to you in few words.

⁶ But ye have disgraced the poor.

⁴ Behold the hire of your labourers who have reaped your fields, which is kept back by you, crieth: and the cries of them who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabbaoth.

² Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect (according to the fore-knowledge of God the Father) thro' sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to you.

¹² To whom it was revealed, that not for themselves, but for us they ministered the things which have been now declared to you by them that have preached the gospel to you, with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven: which things angels desire to look into.

¹⁴ As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to your former desires, in your ignorance; ¹⁵ But as he who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation: ¹⁶ For it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

⁹ But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a purchased people, that ye may shew forth the virtues of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Who in time past were not a people, but now are the people of God; ¹⁰ who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. ¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly desires, ¹² which war against the soul, Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

¹² which war against the soul, Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

²¹ For even hereunto are ye called; for Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye might follow his steps: ²² Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

¹ In like manner, ye wives, be subject to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, they also may, without the word, be won by the conversation of the wives,

⁴ in the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price.

⁷ In like manner, ye husbands, dwell according to knowledge with the woman, as the weaker vessel; giving them honour, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered. ⁸ Finally, Be ye all of one mind, sympathizing with each other, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

¹⁶ Having a good conscience, that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. ¹⁷ For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.

² (for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin) That ye may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh, to the desire of men, but to the will of God. ³ For the time past of your life sufficeth to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when ye walked in lasciviousness, evil desires, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries.

⁸ And above all things, have fervent love to each other; for love will cover a multitude of sins.

¹⁰ As every one hath received a gift, so minister it one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. ¹¹ If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God: if any man minister, let him minister as of the ability which God giveth, that God in all things may be glorified thro' Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the might for ever and ever. Amen.

¹⁵ But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other mens matters,

⁵ For this very reason giving all diligence, add to your faith courage, ⁶ and to courage knowledge, And to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, ⁷ and to patience godliness, And to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

⁷ and to patience godliness, And to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. ⁸ For these being in you and abounding, make you neither slothful nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ But he that wanteth these is blind, not able to see afar off, having forgotten the purification from his old sins. ¹⁰ Wherefore the rather, brethren, be diligent to make your calling and election firm; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.

²¹ For prophecy never came by the will of man, but the holy men of God spake being moved by the Holy Ghost.

¹⁰ But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government: presumptuous, self-willed; they are not afraid to rail at dignities:

⁴ walking after their own desires, Saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

⁸ But, beloved, be not ye ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up.

¹³ Nevertheless we look for new heavens and a new earth, according to his promise, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

¹⁸ But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity! Amen.

¹⁰ He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.

¹⁷ And the world passeth away, and the desire thereof; but he that doth the will of God abideth for ever.

²⁰ But ye have an anointing from the Holy one, and know all things. ²¹ I have not written to you, because ye know not the truth; but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. ²² Who is that liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is Antichrist who denieth the Father and the Son. ²³ Whosoever denieth the Son, he hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son, hath the Father also. ²⁴ Therefore let that abide in you which ye heard from the beginning: if that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son and in the Father. ²⁵ And this is the promise which he hath promised us, eternal life. ²⁶ These things have I written to you, concerning them that seduce you. ²⁷ But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any should teach you, save as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie; and as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in them.

¹¹ For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we love one another.

¹⁴ We know, that we are passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he that loveth not his brother abideth in death. ¹⁵ Whosoever hateth his brother is a murtherer, and ye know that no murtherer hath eternal life abiding in him. ¹⁶ Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷ But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? ¹⁸ My beloved children, let us love not in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. ¹⁹ And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

²² And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. ²³ And this is his commandment, that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. ²⁴ And he that keepeth his commandments, abideth in him, and he in him: and hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. ⁸ He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love. ⁹ Hereby was manifested the love of God toward us, because God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. ¹⁰ Herein is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, a propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. ¹² No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us. ¹³ Hereby we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and testify, that the Father sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world. ¹⁵ Whosoever shall confess, that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God. ¹⁶ And we know and believe the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.

²¹ And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God, love his brother also.

⁸ In like manner these dreamers also defile the flesh, despise authority, rail at dignities. ⁹ Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed concerning the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

¹⁴ And of these also, Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his holy ones, ¹⁵ To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have impiously committed, and of all the grievous things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

⁷ Behold he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they who have pierced him: and all the tribes of the earth shall wail because of him.

¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day,

¹⁸ And he that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore, and have the keys of death and of Hades.

¹⁴ And he said to me, These are they who come out of great affliction, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sitteth upon the throne shall have his tent over them. ¹⁶ They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. ¹⁷ For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will feed them, and will lead them to living fountains of water: and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.

¹³ and the night likewise, And I saw and heard an angel flying in the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Wo, wo, wo to the inhabitants of the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels who are yet to sound.

¹² And I heard a great voice saying from heaven to them, Come up hither. And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies beheld them.

⁵ And she brought forth a man child, who shall rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to his throne.

¹³ And I heard a voice out of heaven, saying to me, Write: From henceforth happy are the dead who die in the Lord: Yea (saith the Spirit) that they may rest from their labours. Their works follow them.

⁵ The rest of the dead lived not again till the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ⁶ Happy and holy is he that hath a part in the first resurrection: over these the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

³ And I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God with men, and he will dwell with them; and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. ⁴ And he shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall sorrow, or crying, or pain, be any more; because the former things are gone away. ⁵ And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold I make all things new. And he saith to me, Write: these sayings are faithful and true. ⁶ And he said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that thirsteth of the fountain of the water of life freely. ⁷ He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be to him a God, and he shall be to me a son. ⁸ But the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

²² And I saw no temple therein; for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. ²³ And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine on it; for the glory of God hath inlightened it, and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.

³ And there shall be no more curse; but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall worship him, ⁴ And shall see his face, and his name shall be on their foreheads. ⁵ And there shall be no night there, neither is there need of a lamp, or of the light of the sun; for the Lord God will give them light, and they shall reign for ever.

¹⁵ Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.