Luke 8 Cross References - Williams

¹ Soon afterwards He chanced to be making a tour of Galilee from town to town and from village to village preaching and telling the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve went with Him, ² and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had gone, ³ and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many other women, who continued to contribute to their needs out of their personal means. ⁴ Now as a great crowd was coming together and people were coming to Him from one town after another, He said by way of a story: ⁵ "A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and were trodden down, and the wild birds ate them up. ⁶ Another portion of them fell upon the rock, and as soon as they sprang up, they withered, because they had no moisture. ⁷ Still another portion fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up with them and choked them out. ⁸ And another portion fell in rich soil and grew and yielded a crop of a hundredfold." As He said this, He exclaimed, "Let him who has ears to hear with, listen!" ⁹ His disciples were asking Him what this story meant. ¹⁰ So He said, "You are granted the privilege of knowing the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others they are told in stories, so that they may look and not see, may hear and not understand. ¹¹ This is what the story means: The seed is God's message. ¹² Those along the path illustrate those who hear it, but then the devil comes and carries off the message from their hearts, so that they may not believe it and be saved. ¹³ The portion of them on the rock illustrates those who accept the message, bubbling over with joy when they first hear it, but it takes no real root. They believe for awhile, but in the time of testing they fall away. ¹⁴ And the portion of them falling among the thorns illustrates those who hear it, but as soon as they pass on they are choked out by the worries and wealth and pleasures of life, and thus yield no mature fruit. ¹⁵ But the portion in rich soil illustrates those who listen to the message, keep it in good and honest hearts, and in patience yield fruit. ¹⁶ "Nobody lights a lamp and then covers it with a pot or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light. ¹⁷ For there is nothing hidden which shall not come out into the open, and nothing kept secret which shall not be known and come to light. ¹⁸ So take care how you listen, for whoever gets more will have more given to him, and whoever does not get more will have even what he thinks he has taken away from him." ¹⁹ His mother and His brothers came to see Him, but they could not get in touch with Him, on account of the crowd. ²⁰ So it was reported to Him, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside; they want to see you." ²¹ Then He answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and practice it." ²² One day He got into a boat with His disciples, and He said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail. ²³ Now as they were sailing along, He fell off to sleep. But a furious squall of wind rushed down upon the lake, and they were filling up and were in impending peril. ²⁴ So they came to Him and woke Him up, and said, "Master, Master, we are perishing? Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind and the surge of the water, and they stopped at once and instantly there came a calm. ²⁵ Then He said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were frightened and astounded, and continued to say to one another, "Who can He be? For He gives orders even to the winds and the water, and they obey Him." ²⁶ They landed in the neighborhood of Gerasa, which is just across the lake from Galilee. ²⁷ As soon as He stepped out upon the shore, there met Him a man from town, who was under the power of demons; and for a long time he had worn no clothes, and did not stay in a house but in tombs. ²⁸ When he saw Jesus, he screamed and flung himself down before Him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!" ²⁹ For He was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For on many occasions it had seized him, and repeatedly he had been fastened with chains and fetters under constant guard, and yet he would snap his bonds, and the demon would drive him into desert places. ³⁰ So Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he answered, "Legion!" For many demons had gone into him. ³¹ Then they continued to beg Him not to order them to go off to the bottomless pit. ³² Now there was a large drove of hogs feeding there on the hillside. So they begged Him to let them go into those hogs. And He let them do so. ³³ Then the demons came out of the man and went into the hogs, and the drove rushed over the cliff into the lake and were drowned. ³⁴ When the men who fed them saw what had taken place, they fled and spread the news in the town and in the country around. ³⁵ So the people went out to see what had taken place, and they went to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, with his clothes on and in his right mind; and they were frightened. ³⁶ Then they who had seen it told them how the man who had been under the power of demons was cured. ³⁷ Then all the inhabitants of the country around Gerasa asked Him to go away from them, because they were terribly frightened. So He got into a boat and went back. ³⁸ The man out of whom the demons had gone begged Him to let him go with Him, but Jesus sent him away and said, ³⁹ "Go back to your home, and continue to tell what great things God has done for you." But he went off and told all over the town what great things Jesus had done for him. ⁴⁰ Now as Jesus was returning, the crowd welcomed Him, for they were all expecting Him. ⁴¹ Just then a man named Jairus came up, who had long been leader of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus' feet and persisted in begging Him to come to his house, ⁴² because his only daughter, about twelve years old, was dying. While He was going, the crowds of people continued to press upon Him. ⁴³ Then a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, who could not be cured by anybody, ⁴⁴ came up behind Him and touched the tassel on His coat, and the hemorrhage stopped at once. ⁴⁵ Then Jesus said, "Who was it that touched me?" But as all were denying that they had done so, Peter said, "Master, the crowds are jamming you and jostling you." ⁴⁶ Still Jesus said, "Somebody touched me, for I felt it when the power passed from me." ⁴⁷ When the woman saw that she had not escaped His notice, she came forward trembling, and falling down before Him she told in the presence of all the people why she had touched Him and how she had been cured at once. ⁴⁸ So He said to her, "My daughter, it is your faith that has cured you; go on in peace." ⁴⁹ While He was still speaking, someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead; stop troubling the Teacher anymore." ⁵⁰ But Jesus heard it and said to him, "Do not be afraid; just have faith, and she will get well." ⁵¹ When He reached the house, He let no one go in with Him but Peter, James, and John, and the child's father and mother. ⁵² Now they were all weeping and wailing over her. But He said, "Stop weeping! For she is not dead but asleep." ⁵³ Then they began to laugh in His face, for they knew that she was dead. ⁵⁴ But He grasped her hand and called out, "My child, get up!" ⁵⁵ So her spirit returned and she got up at once, and He directed that something be given her to eat. ⁵⁶ And her parents were astounded, but He ordered them not to tell anyone what had taken place.

¹¹ and went into the house and saw the child with His mother, Mary; and they fell at His feet and worshiped Him. They opened up their treasure sacks and presented Him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

²³ Then He went all over Galilee, as He continued teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or malady among the people. ²⁴ So the news about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were sick with various diseases, especially those who were suffering with torturing diseases; and he cured them.

¹³ "You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its strength, what can make it salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden under foot.

¹⁵ People do not light a lamp and put it under a peck-measure but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all that are in the house. ¹⁶ Let your light shine before people in such a way that they may see your good deeds, and praise your Father in heaven.

⁵ "Also, whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners, to attract the attention of people. I solemnly say to you, they already have their reward. ⁶ But whenever you, follower of mine, pray, you must go to your most private place, shut the door, and pray to your Father in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

²⁴ No one can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and money. ²⁵ So I tell you, stop worrying about your life, as to what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, as to what you will have to wear. Is not life worth more than food and the body worth more than clothes?

³⁰ Now if God so gorgeously dresses the wild grass which today is green but tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you with little faith?

²¹ Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom of heaven, but only those who practice doing the will of my Father in heaven. ²² Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, was it not in your name that we prophesied, and in your name that we drove out demons, and in your name that we did many wonder-works?'

²² Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, was it not in your name that we prophesied, and in your name that we drove out demons, and in your name that we did many wonder-works?' ²³ And then I will say to them openly, 'I never knew you at all. Go away from me, you who practiced doing wrong.'

²³ And then I will say to them openly, 'I never knew you at all. Go away from me, you who practiced doing wrong.' ²⁴ "So everyone who listens to my words and practices their teaching, will be like a prudent man who built his house on a rocky foundation. ²⁵ And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it did not fall, for its pillars had been laid on a rocky foundation. ²⁶ And anyone who listens to my words and does not practice their teaching, will be like an imprudent man who built his house on sand.

³ Then He put out His hand and touched him, and said, "I do choose to; be cured." And at once his leprosy was cured. ⁴ Then Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and, to testify to the people, make the offering that Moses prescribed."

⁷ He said to him, "I will come and cure him." ⁸ But the captain answered, "I am not fit for you to come under my roof, but simply speak the word, and my servant-boy will be cured.

¹³ Then Jesus said to the captain, "Go; it must be done for you as you have believed." And his servant-boy was cured that very hour.

¹⁸ Now Jesus, because He saw a crowd about Him, gave orders to cross to the other side.

²³ And He got into a boat, and His disciples went with Him. ²⁴ And suddenly a furious storm came up, so that the boat was being covered over by the bursting billows, but He kept on sleeping. ²⁵ So they went to Him and woke Him up, and said, "Lord, save us; we are going down!" ²⁶ And He said to them, "Why are you afraid, O you with little faith?" Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

²⁶ And He said to them, "Why are you afraid, O you with little faith?" Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. ²⁷ And the men were dumbfounded, and said, "What sort of man is this, for even the winds and the sea obey Him!" ²⁸ When He reached the other side, in the district of Gadara, there faced Him two men, who were under the power of demons, who were just coming out from the tombs. They were such terrors that nobody could pass that way. ²⁹ And they suddenly screamed, "What do you want of us, you Son of God? Have you come here before the appointed time to torture us?"

²⁹ And they suddenly screamed, "What do you want of us, you Son of God? Have you come here before the appointed time to torture us?" ³⁰ Now there was not far from there a large drove of hogs feeding.

³⁰ Now there was not far from there a large drove of hogs feeding. ³¹ And the demons kept begging Him and saying, "If you are going to drive us out, send us into the drove of hogs."

³¹ And the demons kept begging Him and saying, "If you are going to drive us out, send us into the drove of hogs." ³² And He said to them, "Be gone!" And they went out of the men and got into the hogs, and suddenly the whole drove, in a stampede, rushed over the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.

³² And He said to them, "Be gone!" And they went out of the men and got into the hogs, and suddenly the whole drove, in a stampede, rushed over the cliff into the sea, and died in the water. ³³ And the men who fed them fled, and went off to the town, and told it all, and what occurred to the two men who were under the power of demons.

³³ And the men who fed them fled, and went off to the town, and told it all, and what occurred to the two men who were under the power of demons.

³³ And the men who fed them fled, and went off to the town, and told it all, and what occurred to the two men who were under the power of demons. ³⁴ And suddenly all the town turned out to meet Jesus, and as soon as they saw Him, they begged Him to move on and leave their neighborhood.

³⁴ And suddenly all the town turned out to meet Jesus, and as soon as they saw Him, they begged Him to move on and leave their neighborhood.

¹ And He got into a boat and crossed to the other side, and went into His home town. ² And all at once some men were bringing to Him a paralyzed man, lying on a couch. And because He saw their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, "Cheer up, my child, your sins are forgiven."

¹⁸ And just as He was saying these things to them, an official came up and fell on his knees before Him, and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand upon her and she will come to life." ¹⁹ And Jesus got up and followed him; and His disciples, too. ²⁰ And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years came up and touched the tassel on His coat.

²⁰ And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years came up and touched the tassel on His coat. ²¹ For she kept saying to herself, "If I can only touch His coat, I will get well."

²¹ For she kept saying to herself, "If I can only touch His coat, I will get well." ²² And Jesus, on turning and seeing her, said, "Cheer up, my daughter! Your faith has cured you." And from that moment the woman was well.

²² And Jesus, on turning and seeing her, said, "Cheer up, my daughter! Your faith has cured you." And from that moment the woman was well.

²² And Jesus, on turning and seeing her, said, "Cheer up, my daughter! Your faith has cured you." And from that moment the woman was well. ²³ And Jesus, on coming to the house of the official, and on seeing the flute-players and the wailing crowd, ²⁴ said, "Go away, for the girl is not dead, but is sleeping." And they began to laugh in His face. ²⁵ But when the crowd had been driven out, He went in and took hold of her hand, and the girl got up.

²⁵ But when the crowd had been driven out, He went in and took hold of her hand, and the girl got up. ²⁶ And the news about her spread all over that country.

³⁰ And their eyes received strength to see. Then Jesus sternly charged them, "See that nobody knows it."

³⁵ Jesus kept visiting all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and curing every sort of sickness and ailment.

² Here are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, who was named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James the son of Zebedee and his brother John, ³ Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax-collector, James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, ⁴ Simon the zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who afterward betrayed Him.

²⁶ So you must never be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be uncovered, nor a secret that will not be known.

¹ When Jesus had closed this charge to His disciples, He left there to teach and preach in their towns.

¹⁵ Let him who has ears listen!

¹⁷ "'We played the wedding march for you, but you did not dance. We sang the funeral dirge, but you did not beat your breasts.'

²⁵ At that time Jesus said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing these matters from wise and learned men, and for revealing them to little children.

²⁰ A broken reed He will not break off; a flickering wick He will not put out, until He brings His judgment to victory.

⁴⁶ While He was still speaking to the crowds, His mother and His brothers had taken their stand outside, trying hard to get to speak to Him. ⁴⁷ Omitted Text. ⁴⁸ But He answered the man who told Him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" ⁴⁹ And with a gesture toward His disciples He said, "Here are my mother and my brothers. ⁵⁰ For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my mother and sister and brother."

² And the crowds that gathered about Him were so great that He got into a boat and remained sitting in it, while all the crowd stood on the seashore. ³ And in stories, by way of comparison, He told them many things, as He continued to speak: "A sower went out to sow,

³ And in stories, by way of comparison, He told them many things, as He continued to speak: "A sower went out to sow, ⁴ and as he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them up,

⁴ and as he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them up, ⁵ and some fell upon rocky ground where they did not have much soil, and at once they sprang up, because there was no depth of soil,

⁵ and some fell upon rocky ground where they did not have much soil, and at once they sprang up, because there was no depth of soil, ⁶ and when the sun was up they were scorched and dried up, because they had no root.

⁶ and when the sun was up they were scorched and dried up, because they had no root. ⁷ And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them out.

⁷ And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them out. ⁸ And some fell in rich soil, and yielded a crop, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty-fold. ⁹ Let him who has ears listen." ¹⁰ Then His disciples came up to Him and asked, "Why do you speak to them in stories?" ¹¹ He answered: "It is you and not they who are granted the privilege of knowing the secrets of the kingdom of heaven. ¹² For to anyone who has, more will be given, and his supply will overflow, but from anyone who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

¹² For to anyone who has, more will be given, and his supply will overflow, but from anyone who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. ¹³ This is why I am speaking to them in stories, because they look but do not see, they listen but do not really hear or understand. ¹⁴ So in them the prophecy of the prophet Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: "'You will listen and listen and not understand, and you will look and look and never see at all, ¹⁵ For this people's soul has grown dull, and with their ears they can scarcely hear, and they have shut tight their eyes, so that they will never see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn to me, so that I may cure them!' ¹⁶ "But blessed are your eyes, for they are beginning to see, and your ears, for they are beginning to hear. ¹⁷ For I solemnly say to you, many prophets and upright men yearned to see what you are seeing, and did not see it, and to hear what you are hearing, and did not hear it. ¹⁸ "Now listen closely to the story of the sower.

¹⁸ "Now listen closely to the story of the sower. ¹⁹ When anyone hears the message of the kingdom and does not understand it, the wicked one comes and carries off the seed that was sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.

¹⁹ When anyone hears the message of the kingdom and does not understand it, the wicked one comes and carries off the seed that was sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path. ²⁰ And what was sown upon the thin rocky soil illustrates the man who hears the message and bubbling over with joy at once accepts it, ²¹ but it takes no real root in him, and he lasts only a little while, and just as soon as suffering and persecution come for the truth's sake, he at once yields and falls. ²² And what was sown among the thorns illustrates the man who hears the message, and the worries of the times and the pleasures of being rich choke the truth out, and he yields no fruit. ²³ And what was sown in rich soil illustrates the man who hears the message and understands it, and yields fruit, one a hundred, one sixty, another thirty-fold." ²⁴ He told them another story, as follows: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed seed in his field. ²⁵ But while the world was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed wild wheat seed in the midst of the good seed, and went away. ²⁶ And when the wheat plants grew up and yielded their ripened grain, the wild wheat plants appeared too.

³⁶ Then He left the crowds and went into His house. And His disciples came up to Him and said, "Explain to us the story of the wild wheat in the field." ³⁷ And He answered: "The sower of the good seed is the Son of Man;

⁵⁵ Is He not the carpenter's son? Is not His mother's name Mary, are not His brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? ⁵⁶ And are not His sisters all living here with us? Where then did He get all these things?"

¹ At that time Herod the governor heard the reports about Jesus,

²² And He at once had the disciples get into the boat and cross to the other side ahead of Him, while He dismissed the crowds.

³⁰ But when he felt the wind, he was frightened, and as he began to go down, he cried out, "Lord, save me!" ³¹ Jesus at once put out His hand and caught hold of him, and said to him, "O you of little faith! Why did you waver so?"

¹⁵ Then Peter said to Him, "Explain the maxim for us."

¹⁷ Then Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for it is not man that made this known to you, but my Father in heaven.

⁵ While he was still speaking, a bright cloud cast its shadow over them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I am delighted. Keep on listening to Him!"

²⁰ He answered them, "Because you have so little faith! For I solemnly say to you, if you have the faith that is living like a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move over from here to yonder,' and it will move over, and nothing will be impossible for you to do."

³⁴ Then Jesus' heart was moved with pity, and He touched their blinded eyes, and at once they could see again, and followed Him.

¹³ But whoever bears up to the end will be saved.

²⁹ For the man who has will have more given to him, even till it overflows, but from the man who has nothing even what he has will be taken away.

⁴⁰ And the King will answer them, 'I solemnly say to you, every time you did a good deed to one of these most insignificant brothers of mine, you did a good deed to me.' ⁴¹ "Then He will say to those at His left, 'Be gone from me, you who are now cursed, to the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

⁴⁵ Then He will answer, 'I solemnly say to you, every time you failed to do a good deed to one of these most insignificant people, you failed to do a good deed to me.'

¹¹ for you always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.

⁵³ Do you suppose that I am unable to appeal to my Father and have Him furnish me on the spot one hundred thousand angels?

⁵⁵ Now several women were there looking on from a distance, who accompanied Jesus from Galilee to care for Him, ⁵⁶ among them Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.

⁸ So off they hurried from the tomb, frightened and yet in ecstasy, and ran to break the news to His disciples.

¹⁰ Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go, tell my brothers to go back to Galilee, and there they will see me." ¹¹ While they were on their way, some members of the guard went into the city and told the high priests everything that had taken place.

²⁴ "What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, God's Holy One!" ²⁵ Jesus reproved him, saying, "Hush up, get out of him!" ²⁶ Then the foul spirit convulsed him and with a deafening shriek got out of him. ²⁷ They were all so dumbfounded that they kept discussing it among themselves, and asking, "What does this mean? It is a new teaching. He gives orders with authority even to foul spirits, and they obey Him."

³¹ Then He went up to her, grasped her hand, and had her get up. The fever left her, and she began to wait upon them.

³⁹ So He went all over Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons.

⁴⁵ But he went out and began to publish it so much and to spread the story so far, that Jesus could not any more go into any town openly, but had to stay out in thinly settled places. But the people kept coming to Him from every quarter.

¹⁶ The Twelve whom He appointed were: Peter, the name which He gave to Simon, ¹⁷ James the son of Zebedee, and John, James's brother (He named them Boanerges, which means Sons of Thunder), ¹⁸ Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, Thaddeus, Simon the Zealot, ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him. Then He went home.

²¹ His kinsmen heard of it and came over to get hold of Him, for they kept saying, "He has gone crazy."

³¹ Then His mother and His brothers came. They were standing outside and sent word to call Him. ³² And a crowd was sitting around Him when they told Him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside asking for you." ³³ He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" ³⁴ Then looking around at the people sitting about Him, He said, "Here are my mother and my brothers. ³⁵ Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."

¹ Then He began again to teach by the seashore. And a crowd gathered around Him so great that He got into a boat and was sitting in it, just off the shore, while all the people were on the land close to the sea. ² He continued teaching them by many stories. In His teaching He spoke to them as follows:

² He continued teaching them by many stories. In His teaching He spoke to them as follows: ³ "Listen! A sower went out to sow.

³ "Listen! A sower went out to sow. ⁴ As he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them up.

⁴ As he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them up. ⁵ Some fell upon rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up at once, because the soil was not deep;

⁵ Some fell upon rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up at once, because the soil was not deep; ⁶ but when the sun came up, they were scorched and withered away, because they had not taken root.

⁶ but when the sun came up, they were scorched and withered away, because they had not taken root. ⁷ Some fell among the thorn seed, and the thorns grew up and choked them out and they yielded no grain.

⁷ Some fell among the thorn seed, and the thorns grew up and choked them out and they yielded no grain. ⁸ Some fell in rich soil, and came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold."

⁸ Some fell in rich soil, and came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold." ⁹ And He said, "Let him who has ears listen!" ¹⁰ When He was by Himself, those who stayed about Him with the Twelve began to ask Him about the stories. ¹¹ Then He said to them, "To you the secret of the kingdom of God has been entrusted, but to those who are on the outside everything is presented in stories, so that

¹⁴ The message is what the sower sows. ¹⁵ The ones along the path are those who have the message sown in their hearts, but as soon as it is sown there, Satan comes and carries off the message that has been sown in their hearts.

¹⁵ The ones along the path are those who have the message sown in their hearts, but as soon as it is sown there, Satan comes and carries off the message that has been sown in their hearts. ¹⁶ In like manner these are the ones sown on rocky ground; as soon as they hear the truth, they accept it with ecstasy,

¹⁶ In like manner these are the ones sown on rocky ground; as soon as they hear the truth, they accept it with ecstasy, ¹⁷ but it does not take real root in them, and so they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes on account of the truth, they at once fall by the way.

¹⁷ but it does not take real root in them, and so they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes on account of the truth, they at once fall by the way. ¹⁸ A different class are those people sown among the thorns. They are people who listen to the message,

¹⁸ A different class are those people sown among the thorns. They are people who listen to the message, ¹⁹ but the worries of the times, the deceiving pleasures of being rich, and evil desires for other things, creep in and choke the truth out, and it yields nothing.

¹⁹ but the worries of the times, the deceiving pleasures of being rich, and evil desires for other things, creep in and choke the truth out, and it yields nothing.

¹⁹ but the worries of the times, the deceiving pleasures of being rich, and evil desires for other things, creep in and choke the truth out, and it yields nothing. ²⁰ And the people sown in rich soil are the people who listen to the message and welcome it and yield thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold."

²⁰ And the people sown in rich soil are the people who listen to the message and welcome it and yield thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold." ²¹ Then He put a question to them: "A lamp is not brought to be put under a peck-measure or under a bed, is it? Is it not rather to be put on the lamp-stand? ²² For nothing is ever hidden by people except for the purpose of having it known, and people do not keep secrets except to tell them.

²² For nothing is ever hidden by people except for the purpose of having it known, and people do not keep secrets except to tell them. ²³ If anyone has ears let him listen!" ²⁴ And He was saying to them: "Take care what you hear. The measure you give will come back to you, and more besides. ²⁵ For whoever has will have more given to him, but whoever has nothing, even what he has will be taken away." ²⁶ He also was saying: "The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground, ²⁷ then continues sleeping by night and getting up by day, while the seed sprouts and comes up without his knowing how. ²⁸ The ground of itself produces, first the stalk, then the head; at last there is the matured grain of wheat in the head. ²⁹ But as soon as the crop Will permit it, he puts in the sickle, for the reaping time has come."

³⁴ He did not tell them anything except by stories, but to His own disciples He kept on privately explaining everything. ³⁵ That same day when it was evening, He said to them, "Let us go over to the other Side." ³⁶ So they left the crowd and took Him in the boat in which he was sitting. And there were other boats with Him. ³⁷ But a furious squall of wind came up, and the waves were dashing over into the boat, so that it was fast filling. ³⁸ He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, "Teacher, is it no concern to you that we are going down?" ³⁹ Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind, and said to the sea, "Hush! Be still." And the wind lulled, and there was a great calm. ⁴⁰ Then He asked them, "Why are you afraid? Have you no faith yet?" ⁴¹ They were very much frightened, and said to one another, "Who can He be that even the wind and the sea obey Him?"

¹ So they landed on the other side of the sea in the region of Gerasa. ² As soon as He got out of the boat, a man under the power of a foul spirit and from the tombs met Him.

² As soon as He got out of the boat, a man under the power of a foul spirit and from the tombs met Him. ³ This man lived among the tombs, and no one could any longer subdue him even with a chain,

³ This man lived among the tombs, and no one could any longer subdue him even with a chain, ⁴ for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains but had snapped the chains and broken the fetters, and no one was strong enough to overpower him.

⁴ for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains but had snapped the chains and broken the fetters, and no one was strong enough to overpower him. ⁵ All night and all day he kept screaming among the tombs and on the hills, and kept gashing himself with stones.

⁵ All night and all day he kept screaming among the tombs and on the hills, and kept gashing himself with stones. ⁶ On catching a glimpse of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and fell down on his knees before Him,

⁶ On catching a glimpse of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and fell down on his knees before Him, ⁷ and screamed aloud, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name, I beg you, do not torture me."

⁷ and screamed aloud, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name, I beg you, do not torture me." ⁸ For Jesus was saying to him, "You foul spirit, come out of him."

⁸ For Jesus was saying to him, "You foul spirit, come out of him."

⁸ For Jesus was saying to him, "You foul spirit, come out of him." ⁹ He asked him, "What is your name?" He answered, "My name is Legion, for we are many."

⁹ He asked him, "What is your name?" He answered, "My name is Legion, for we are many." ¹⁰ And they kept on earnestly begging Him not to send them out of that country. ¹¹ Now there was a large drove of hogs grazing on the hillside.

¹¹ Now there was a large drove of hogs grazing on the hillside. ¹² And they begged Him, "Send us among the hogs, so that we can get into them."

¹² And they begged Him, "Send us among the hogs, so that we can get into them." ¹³ So He let them do so. And the foul spirits came out of the man and got into the hogs, and the drove of about two thousand rushed over the cliff and into the sea and were drowned.

¹³ So He let them do so. And the foul spirits came out of the man and got into the hogs, and the drove of about two thousand rushed over the cliff and into the sea and were drowned. ¹⁴ Then the hog-feeders fled and spread the news in the town and in the country around; and the people came to see what had taken place.

¹⁴ Then the hog-feeders fled and spread the news in the town and in the country around; and the people came to see what had taken place. ¹⁵ When they came to Jesus and saw the man who had once been insane under the power of many demons, sitting, with his clothes on, and in his right mind, they were frightened.

¹⁵ When they came to Jesus and saw the man who had once been insane under the power of many demons, sitting, with his clothes on, and in his right mind, they were frightened. ¹⁶ And those who had seen it told them how it occurred to the man who had been under the power of the demons, and about the hogs. ¹⁷ Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood.

¹⁷ Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood. ¹⁸ And as He was getting into the boat, the once insane man kept begging Him to let him go with Him. ¹⁹ However, He did not let him, but said to him, "Go home to your folks, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and has taken pity on you." ²⁰ And so he went away and began to tell everybody in the Ten Cities how much Jesus had done for him; and everybody was dumbfounded. ²¹ When Jesus again had crossed in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about Him, as He was standing on the seashore. ²² And a man named Jairus, a leader of a synagogue, came up, and when he saw Jesus he flung himself at His feet ²³ and kept earnestly begging Him, saying, "My dear little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live." ²⁴ So He went off with him, and a great crowd kept following Him, and jostling Him.

²⁴ So He went off with him, and a great crowd kept following Him, and jostling Him. ²⁵ Then a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years,

²⁵ Then a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, ²⁶ and had suffered much at the hands of many doctors, and had spent all she had, and yet was not a whit benefited but rather grew worse,

²⁶ and had suffered much at the hands of many doctors, and had spent all she had, and yet was not a whit benefited but rather grew worse, ²⁷ heard the reports about Jesus. So she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His coat,

²⁷ heard the reports about Jesus. So she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His coat, ²⁸ for she kept saying, "If I can only touch His clothes, I shall get well."

²⁸ for she kept saying, "If I can only touch His clothes, I shall get well." ²⁹ Her hemorrhage stopped at once, and she felt in her body that she was cured. ³⁰ Jesus at once perceived that power had gone out of Him, and so He turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

³⁰ Jesus at once perceived that power had gone out of Him, and so He turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" ³¹ But the disciples kept saying to Him, "You see the crowd jostling you, and yet you ask, 'Who touched me?'"

³¹ But the disciples kept saying to Him, "You see the crowd jostling you, and yet you ask, 'Who touched me?'" ³² Still He kept looking around to see her who had done it.

³² Still He kept looking around to see her who had done it. ³³ So the woman, as she knew what had taken place for her, though frightened and trembling, came forward and fell on her knees before His feet, and told Him the whole truth.

³³ So the woman, as she knew what had taken place for her, though frightened and trembling, came forward and fell on her knees before His feet, and told Him the whole truth. ³⁴ And He said to her, "My daughter, your faith has cured you. Go in peace and be free from your disease."

³⁴ And He said to her, "My daughter, your faith has cured you. Go in peace and be free from your disease." ³⁵ Even while He was saying this, people came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead; why trouble the Teacher any longer?" ³⁶ But Jesus paid no attention to what was said, but said to the leader of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid; only keep up your faith."

³⁶ But Jesus paid no attention to what was said, but said to the leader of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid; only keep up your faith." ³⁷ He let no one go with Him but Peter, James, and James's brother John.

³⁷ He let no one go with Him but Peter, James, and James's brother John. ³⁸ They came to the home of the leader of the synagogue, and there He saw confusion, and people weeping and wailing without restraint.

³⁸ They came to the home of the leader of the synagogue, and there He saw confusion, and people weeping and wailing without restraint.

³⁸ They came to the home of the leader of the synagogue, and there He saw confusion, and people weeping and wailing without restraint. ³⁹ And He went into the house and said to them, "Why do you continue all this confusion and crying? The little girl is not dead but is sleeping."

³⁹ And He went into the house and said to them, "Why do you continue all this confusion and crying? The little girl is not dead but is sleeping."

³⁹ And He went into the house and said to them, "Why do you continue all this confusion and crying? The little girl is not dead but is sleeping." ⁴⁰ Then they began to laugh in His face. But He drove them all out, and took the little girl's father and mother and the men with Him, and went into the room where the little girl was.

⁴⁰ Then they began to laugh in His face. But He drove them all out, and took the little girl's father and mother and the men with Him, and went into the room where the little girl was.

⁴⁰ Then they began to laugh in His face. But He drove them all out, and took the little girl's father and mother and the men with Him, and went into the room where the little girl was. ⁴¹ Then He grasped her hand and said to her, "Talitha koum," which means, "Little girl, I tell you, get up!"

⁴¹ Then He grasped her hand and said to her, "Talitha koum," which means, "Little girl, I tell you, get up!" ⁴² And the little girl at once got up and started walking around, for she was twelve years old. And instantly they were completely dumbfounded. ⁴³ But He strictly charged them to let nobody know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.

⁴³ But He strictly charged them to let nobody know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.

³ Is He not the carpenter, Mary's son, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And do not His sisters live here among us?" And so they found a cause for stumbling over him.

²⁰ for Herod stood in awe of John, because he knew that he was an upright and holy man, and so he protected him. When he heard him speak, he was very much disturbed, and yet he liked to hear him.

⁴⁵ Then He insisted that the disciples at once get into their boat and cross ahead of Him toward Bethsaida, while He was sending the crowd away.

⁵⁶ And whatever villages or towns or country places He came to, they would lay the sick in the market-places and beg Him to let them touch just the tassel of His coat, and everybody that touched it was cured.

¹⁷ Now when He had left the crowd and gone home, His disciples were asking Him the meaning of this story. ¹⁸ And He answered them, "Are you too without understanding yet? Do you not know that nothing from the outside that goes into a man can make him foul,

¹³ And He left them and again got into the boat and crossed to the other side.

²³ He took him by the hand and led him outside the village, then spit in his eyes, laid His hands upon him, and asked him, "Do you see anything?"

¹⁸ Wherever it seizes him, it convulses him, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth; and he is wasting away. So I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they could not do it."

²⁰ And they brought the boy to Him. As soon as the spirit saw Him, it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and kept rolling over and foaming at the mouth. ²¹ Then He asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" He answered, "From his childhood;

²¹ Then He asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" He answered, "From his childhood; ²² and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to destroy him. But if there is anything you can do for him, do pity us and help us!"

²² and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to destroy him. But if there is anything you can do for him, do pity us and help us!" ²³ Jesus said to him, "If there is anything I can do! Everything is possible for him who has faith!"

²³ Jesus said to him, "If there is anything I can do! Everything is possible for him who has faith!" ²⁴ The boy's father at once cried out and said, "I do have faith; help my lack of faith!" ²⁵ Then Jesus, because He saw that a crowd was rushing up to Him, reproved the foul spirit and said to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit, get out of him, I charge you, and never get into him again." ²⁶ Then it gave a shriek and violently convulsed the boy, and got out of him. And the boy looked like a corpse, so much so that the people said that he was dead. ²⁷ But Jesus grasped his hand and raised him, and he got up.

²² Then Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God! ²³ I solemnly say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Get up and throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt at all in his heart, but has faith that what he says will take place, shall have it. ²⁴ So then I tell you, whenever you pray and ask for anything, have faith that it has been granted you, and you will get it.

³⁷ David himself called him Lord, so how can He be his son?" Most of the people liked to hear Him.

¹⁴ "So when you see the destructive desecration standing where he has no right to stand" -- let the reader take notice -- "then let those who remain in Judea fly to the hills;

³³ And he took Peter, James, and John along with Him, and He began to feel completely dazed and to realize His anguish of heart,

⁴⁰ Now several women were there looking on from a distance, among them Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of the younger James and of Joses, and Salome, ⁴¹ who used to accompany Him when He was in Galilee, besides several other women who had come up to Jerusalem with Him.

⁴⁴ Pilate wondered whether He was dead yet, and calling the captain to him asked whether He was already dead; ⁴⁵ but when he found out from the captain that He was, he gave him permission to take His body.

¹ When the Sabbath had ended, Mary of Magdala, Mary, James's mother, and Salome bought spices to go and anoint Him.

⁹ Now after He had risen, early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary of Magdala, out of whom He had driven seven demons.

¹⁰ But the angel said to them: "Stop being afraid, for now I bring you good tidings of great joy which is to be for all the people; ¹¹ for today, in the town of David, a Saviour for you has been born, who is to be your Messiah and Lord.

⁴⁶ And after three days they finally found Him in the temple sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

¹⁸ "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor; He has sent me to announce release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to send the downtrodden away in liberty and

³³ Now there was a man in the synagogue who was under the power of the spirit of a foul demon, and he screamed with a loud voice, ³⁴ "Ha! What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. You are God's Holy One." ³⁵ But Jesus reproved him, saying "Be quiet! Get out of him at once!" So the demon threw the man down in the midst of them and came out of him without doing him any harm. ³⁶ Amazement then seized them all and they continued to talk it over among themselves, and to say, "What does this message mean? For with authority and power He gives orders to foul spirits, and they come out."

³⁹ Then He took His stand by her and reproved the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.

⁴³ But He said to them, "To other towns also I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God, for that is what I was sent to do." ⁴⁴ So He continued to preach in the synagogues of Judea.

¹ Once as the crowd was pressing against Him to hear the message of God, He found Himself standing on the shore of Lake Gennesaret.

⁵ Simon answered, "We have toiled all night and caught nothing, but since you tell me to do so, I will set the nets again."

⁸ When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' feet and said, "Leave me, Lord, because I am a sinful man."

¹⁴ Then He warned him not to tell anybody, but rather He said, "Go, show yourself to the priest, and, to prove it to the people, make the offering for your purification, just as Moses prescribed."

¹⁷ One day as He was teaching, there were some Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Him to cure people.

¹⁴ Simon whom he named Peter, his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,

¹⁴ Simon whom he named Peter, his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, ¹⁵ Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, Simon who was called the Zealot, ¹⁶ Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who afterward turned traitor.

¹⁹ So all the people were trying to touch Him, because power continued to go forth from Him and to cure them all.

⁴⁵ The good man, out of his good inner storehouse, brings forth what is good, the bad man, out of his bad one, what is bad. For a man's mouth usually speaks the things that fill his heart.

⁶ Then Jesus started to go with them. But when He was not far from the house, the captain sent friends to say to Him, "My Lord, stop troubling yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.

¹² As He approached the gate of the town, look, there was being carried out a dead man, his mother's only son, and she was a widow! A considerable crowd of townspeople were with her.

¹⁴ Then He went up and touched the hearse and the bearers stopped; and He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise." ¹⁵ Then the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

³⁸ and took her stand behind Him at His feet, continually weeping. Then she began to wet His feet with her tears, but she continued to wipe them off with the hair of her head, and she kept right on kissing His feet with affection and anointing them with the perfume.

⁵⁰ But He said to the woman, "It is your faith that has saved you; go on in peace."

² and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had gone,

⁵ "A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and were trodden down, and the wild birds ate them up.

⁷ Still another portion fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up with them and choked them out.

¹¹ This is what the story means: The seed is God's message. ¹² Those along the path illustrate those who hear it, but then the devil comes and carries off the message from their hearts, so that they may not believe it and be saved. ¹³ The portion of them on the rock illustrates those who accept the message, bubbling over with joy when they first hear it, but it takes no real root. They believe for awhile, but in the time of testing they fall away. ¹⁴ And the portion of them falling among the thorns illustrates those who hear it, but as soon as they pass on they are choked out by the worries and wealth and pleasures of life, and thus yield no mature fruit. ¹⁵ But the portion in rich soil illustrates those who listen to the message, keep it in good and honest hearts, and in patience yield fruit.

²² One day He got into a boat with His disciples, and He said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail.

²² One day He got into a boat with His disciples, and He said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail. ²³ Now as they were sailing along, He fell off to sleep. But a furious squall of wind rushed down upon the lake, and they were filling up and were in impending peril.

²³ Now as they were sailing along, He fell off to sleep. But a furious squall of wind rushed down upon the lake, and they were filling up and were in impending peril.

²⁷ As soon as He stepped out upon the shore, there met Him a man from town, who was under the power of demons; and for a long time he had worn no clothes, and did not stay in a house but in tombs. ²⁸ When he saw Jesus, he screamed and flung himself down before Him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"

³⁰ So Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he answered, "Legion!" For many demons had gone into him.

³⁷ Then all the inhabitants of the country around Gerasa asked Him to go away from them, because they were terribly frightened. So He got into a boat and went back.

³⁷ Then all the inhabitants of the country around Gerasa asked Him to go away from them, because they were terribly frightened. So He got into a boat and went back. ³⁸ The man out of whom the demons had gone begged Him to let him go with Him, but Jesus sent him away and said,

⁴¹ Just then a man named Jairus came up, who had long been leader of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus' feet and persisted in begging Him to come to his house, ⁴² because his only daughter, about twelve years old, was dying. While He was going, the crowds of people continued to press upon Him. ⁴³ Then a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, who could not be cured by anybody,

⁴⁵ Then Jesus said, "Who was it that touched me?" But as all were denying that they had done so, Peter said, "Master, the crowds are jamming you and jostling you."

⁴⁸ So He said to her, "My daughter, it is your faith that has cured you; go on in peace." ⁴⁹ While He was still speaking, someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead; stop troubling the Teacher anymore."

⁵¹ When He reached the house, He let no one go in with Him but Peter, James, and John, and the child's father and mother.

⁵ And when you leave that city, shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against all the people who do not welcome you."

⁷ Now Herod the governor heard of all that was taking place, and he continued to be puzzled over the reports -- by some that John had risen from the dead, ⁸ by others that Elijah had appeared, and by still others that one of the ancient prophets had come back to life. ⁹ So Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who can this be about whom I hear such reports?" So he was trying to see Him.

¹³ But He said to them, "Give them something to eat yourselves." Then they said, "We have only five loaves and two fish, unless we go ourselves and buy food for all these people."

²⁸ Now about eight days after Jesus said this, He took Peter, John, and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.

³⁹ all at once a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly screams, and it convulses him until he foams at the mouth, and in a struggle it bruises him and then leaves him.

⁴² Even while the boy was coming to Him, the demon dashed him down and convulsed him, but Jesus reproved the foul spirit and cured the boy and gave back to his father.

⁴⁴ "You must store away in your memories these words, for the Son of Man is going to be turned over to the hands of men!"

⁵⁶ Then they went on to a different village.

¹⁰ But if you go into any town and they do not welcome you, go out into the streets and say, ¹¹ 'We are wiping off against you the very dust from your town that has stuck to our feet. But understand this, the kingdom of God is close by.'

¹⁶ Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever pays no attention to you pays no attention to me, and whoever pays no attention to me pays no attention to Him who sent me."

²¹ At that very moment, by the power of the Holy Spirit, He exulted and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing these matters from wise and learned men, and for revealing them to little children. Yes, Father, I thank you that your good pleasure made it so. ²² All things have been entrusted to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to make Him known." ²³ Then He turned to His disciples when they were alone, and said, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you are seeing. ²⁴ For I tell you, many prophets and kings have wished to see what you are seeing, but they did not, and to hear what you are hearing, but they did not."

³⁹ She had a sister named Mary who took her seat at the Lord's feet, and remained listening to His message.

⁷ And suppose he answers from inside, 'Stop bothering me; the door is now locked, and my children are packed about me in bed; I cannot get up and give you any.'

²⁷ Just as He was saying this, a woman in the crowd lifted her voice and said, "Blessed is the mother who bore you and nursed you!" ²⁸ But He said, "Yes, but better still, blessed are those who listen to God's message and practice it!"

²⁸ But He said, "Yes, but better still, blessed are those who listen to God's message and practice it!"

³³ No one lights a lamp and puts it in a cellar or under a peck-measure, but he puts it on the lampstand, that the people who come in may enjoy the light.

² There is nothing covered up that will not be uncovered, nor secret that will not be made known; ³ because what you have spoken in darkness will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in people's ears, behind closed doors, will be proclaimed from the housetops.

²⁰ But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your soul is to be demanded of you. Then who will have all that you have prepared?' ²¹ So it is with the man who continues to pile up possessions for himself, and is not rich in God."

²⁸ Now if God so gorgeously dresses the wild grass which today is green but tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, how much more surely will He clothe you, O you with little faith?

⁶ Then He told them this story: "A man had a fig tree planted by his vineyard, and he kept going and looking for figs on it, but did not find any. ⁷ So he said to the vine-dresser, 'Look here! for three years I have been coming to look for figs on this fig tree, and have not found any. Cut it down. Why waste the ground with it?' ⁸ But he answered, 'Leave it, sir, just one more year, till I dig around it and manure it. ⁹ If it bears figs in the future, well; but if not, you will have to cut it down.'"

¹¹ and there was a woman there who for eighteen years had had a disease caused by a spirit. She was bent double and could not straighten herself up at all.

¹³ Then He laid His hands on her, and at once she straightened herself up and burst into praising God. ¹⁴ But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, answered the crowd, "There are six days on which people must work; so come on these and be cured, but not on the Sabbath."

¹⁶ And so was it not right for this woman, a descendant of Abraham, whom Satan has for eighteen years kept bound, to be freed from this bond on the Sabbath?"

¹⁷ Then he came to himself and said, 'How many of my father's hired men have more to eat than they need, and here I am dying of hunger!

² So he called the manager to him and said, 'What is this that I am hearing about you? Balance your accounts and show how you are conducting my affairs, for you cannot be manager any longer.' ³ Then the manager said to himself, What shall I do, because my master is going to take my position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg. ⁴ I know what I will do -- I will ask them to take me into their homes when I am removed from my position.

¹³ No house-servant can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. ¹⁴ Now the Pharisees who were lovers of money had been listening to all this, and they began to ridicule Him.

¹⁹ "Once there was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and live in dazzling luxury every day. ²⁰ And a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores, had been laid at his gate, ²¹ and he was always craving to get a square meal from the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, the very dogs used to come and lick his sores. ²² One day the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to be Abraham's bosom companion, and the rich man too died and was buried. ²³ And in Hades he looked up, in constant tortures as he was, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus his bosom companion. ²⁴ So he called and said, 'Father Abraham, take pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool off my tongue, because I am ceaselessly tortured in this flame.' ²⁵ But Abraham said, 'My child, remember that you received in full your blessings in your lifetime, and Lazarus his hardships in his, but now he is continuously comforted here, while you are continuously tortured there.

¹⁵ But one of them, when he saw that he was cured, came back, praising God with a loud voice,

¹⁵ But one of them, when he saw that he was cured, came back, praising God with a loud voice, ¹⁶ and fell on his face at Jesus' feet, and continued to thank Him. Now he was a Samaritan.

¹⁶ and fell on his face at Jesus' feet, and continued to thank Him. Now he was a Samaritan.

¹⁶ and fell on his face at Jesus' feet, and continued to thank Him. Now he was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ And Jesus said, "Were not ten cured? Where are the other nine? ¹⁸ Were none found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" ¹⁹ Then He said to him, "Get up and go on your way. Your faith has cured you."

²⁶ And just as it was in the time of Noah, so it will be in the time of the Son of Man. ²⁷ People continued to eat, drink, marry, and be married, right up to the day when Noah went into the ark, and the Flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ It was so in the time of Lot; people continued to eat, drink, buy, sell, plant, and build; ²⁹ and the very day Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ It will be so on the day when the Son of Man appears

²⁴ So when Jesus saw it, He said, "How hard it is for those who have money to get into the kingdom of God! ²⁵ For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the kingdom of God."

⁴² Then Jesus said to him, "See again! Your faith has cured you."

⁶ So in haste he came down, and with gladness welcomed Him.

²⁶ 'I tell you, the man who gets will have more given to him, but the man who does not get will have even what he has taken away from him!

³⁷ Just as He was approaching the city, going down the Mount of Olives, the whole throng of the disciples began to praise God exultantly and loudly for all the wonder-works that they had seen, ³⁸ and said: "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven and praise on high!"

⁴⁸ but they could not find, as hard as they tried, what to do with Him, for all the people continued to hang on His words.

³⁴ But ever be on your guard, so that your hearts may not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and worldly worries, and that day, like a trap, catch you unawares.

³¹ "Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked permission to sift all of you like wheat, ³² but I have prayed especially for you that your own faith may not utterly fail. And you yourself, after you have turned, must strengthen your brothers."

²⁷ There was following Him also a vast throng of the people and of women who were beating their breasts and lamenting Him.

⁴⁹ But all His acquaintances, and the women who used to follow Him from Galilee in a group, were standing at a distance looking on.

⁵⁵ So the women, who had come with Jesus from Galilee, followed closely after Joseph and saw the tomb and how His body was laid there.

¹⁰ They were Mary of Magdala and Joanna, and Mary, James's mother, who, with the other women, reported these things to the apostles.

⁴¹ So while they were still disbelieving for sheer joy and still wondering about it, He asked them, "Have you anything here to eat?" ⁴² Then they gave Him a piece of broiled fish, ⁴³ and He took it and ate it before their eyes.

¹² But to all who did accept Him, and trust in His name, He gave the right to become the children of God, ¹³ who were born of God and not of natural blood nor of physical or human impulse.

² Jesus and His disciples, too, were invited to the wedding. ³ When the wine was all gone, Jesus' mother said to Him, "They have no wine!" ⁴ Jesus said to her, "Woman, what have you to do with me? My time to act has not yet come." ⁵ His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever He tells you." ⁶ Now in accordance with the custom of purification practiced by the Jews, six stone water jars were standing there, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.

²³ Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people, because they saw the wonder-works which He was performing, trusted in Him as the Christ. ²⁴ But He would not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men ²⁵ and needed no testimony from anyone about them, for He well knew what was in human nature.

³ Jesus answered him, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever see the kingdom of God, unless he is born from above." ⁴ Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot again enter his mother's womb and be born, can he?" ⁵ Jesus answered, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever get into the kingdom of God, unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

²⁹ "Come, see a man who has told me everything I ever did. He is not the Christ, is He?"

⁴⁶ So He came back to Cana in Galilee where He had turned the water into wine. Now there was at Capernaum an officer of the king's court whose son was sick.

⁴⁶ So He came back to Cana in Galilee where He had turned the water into wine. Now there was at Capernaum an officer of the king's court whose son was sick. ⁴⁷ When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to Him and began to beg Him to come down and cure his son, for he was at the point of death.

⁴⁷ When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to Him and began to beg Him to come down and cure his son, for he was at the point of death. ⁴⁸ Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will never believe."

⁴⁸ Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will never believe." ⁴⁹ The king's officer pleaded with Him, "Sir, come down at once before my child is dead!"

⁴⁹ The king's officer pleaded with Him, "Sir, come down at once before my child is dead!" ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and started home. ⁵¹ While he was still coming down, his slaves met him and told him, "Your boy is going to live." ⁵² So he asked them at what hour he began to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him." ⁵³ Then the father knew that that was the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is going to live." So he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

⁵ And there was one man there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. ⁶ Jesus saw him lying there, and when He found out that he had been in that condition for a long time, He asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

¹³ The man who had been cured did not know who He was, for since there was a crowd at the place, Jesus had slipped away.

²¹ For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them live on, so the Son too makes alive any whom He chooses to.

²⁸ Stop being surprised at this, for the time is coming when all that are in the graves will listen to His voice, ²⁹ and those who have done good will come out for a resurrection to life, but those who have done evil for a resurrection to condemnation.

³⁵ John was the lamp that kept on burning and shining, and you decided for a time to delight yourselves in his light.

¹ After this Jesus went to the other side of the sea of Galilee, or Tiberias.

²⁸ Then they asked Him, "What must we do to perform the works that God demands?" ²⁹ Jesus answered them, "The work that God demands of you is this, to believe in the messenger whom He has sent."

³ So His brothers said to Him, "You must leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the works that you are doing; ⁴ for no one does anything in secret when he is trying to be known to the public. If you are going to do this, show yourself publicly to the world." ⁵ For even His brothers did not believe in Him. ⁶ Then Jesus said to them, "It is not yet time for me to do so, but anytime is suitable for you.

³⁰ Even while He was saying this, many believed in Him. ³¹ So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples, ³² and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."

⁴⁴ You sprang from the devil, your real father, and you want to practice your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the very start, and he does not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks out of his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

¹ As He passed along, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

²¹ But we do not know how it is that he now can see, or who it was that made his eyes to see. Ask him; he is of age; he can speak for himself."

⁴ When Jesus received the message, He said, "This sickness is not to end in death but is to honor God, that the Son of God through it may be honored."

¹¹ He said this, and after that He added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him." ¹² The disciples said to Him, "Lord, if he has merely fallen asleep, he will recover." ¹³ But Jesus had spoken about his death. However, they supposed that He was referring to falling into a natural sleep.

²¹ Then Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life myself. Whoever continues to believe in me will live right on even though he dies,

³⁹ Jesus said, "Slip the stone aside." The dead man's sister, Martha, said to Him, "Lord, by this time he is offensive, for he has been dead four days." ⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, "Did I not promise you that if you would believe in me, you should see the glory of God?"

⁴³ On saying this, He shouted aloud, "Lazarus, come out!" ⁴⁴ Then out came the dead man, his feet and hands tied with wrappings, and his face tied up with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, "Untie him and let him go."

⁴⁰ "He has blinded their eyes and benumbed their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and turn to me to cure them."

⁴² And yet in spite of all this, even among the leading men many came to believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not own it, for fear of being turned out of the synagogue, ⁴³ for they loved the praise of men instead of the praise of God.

¹⁷ If you know all this, happy are you if you practice it.

¹⁵ "If you really love me, you will keep my commands.

²¹ Whoever continues to hold and keep my commands is the one who really loves me, and whoever really loves me will be loved by my Father; yes, I will love him myself and will make myself real to him." ²² Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to Him, "Why is it, Lord, that you are going to make yourself real to us and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered him, "If anyone really loves me, he will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him, and both of us will come in face-to-face fellowship with him; yes, we will make our special dwelling place with him. ²⁴ Whoever does not really love me does not observe my teaching; and yet the teaching which you are listening to is not mine but comes from the Father who has sent me.

² He cuts away any branch on me that stops bearing fruit, and He repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more.

⁶ If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is thrown away as a mere branch and is dried up; then it is picked up and thrown into the fire and burned up.

¹⁰ If you continue to keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in His love.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you keep on doing what I command you to do. ¹⁵ I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing; I now call you friends, because I have told you everything that I have learned from my Father.

¹⁵ I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing; I now call you friends, because I have told you everything that I have learned from my Father.

¹¹ Jesus answered him, "You would have no power at all over me, if it had not been given to you from above. So the man who betrayed me to you is more guilty than you."

²⁵ Near Jesus' cross were standing His mother and her sister Mary, the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

³³ But when they came to Jesus, as they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs, ³⁴ but one of the soldiers thrust a lance into His side and blood and water at once flowed out. ³⁵ The man who saw it has testified to it -- and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth -- in order that you too may come to believe it.

¹⁷ Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to me so, for I have not yet gone up to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

¹⁴ With one mind they were all continuing to devote themselves to prayer, with the women and Mary and His brothers.

² when a man crippled from his birth was being carried by, who used to be laid every day at what was called The Beautiful Gate of the temple, to beg from people on their way into the temple.

²² for the man on whom the wonderful cure had been performed was more than forty years old.

¹⁵ so that they kept bringing out into the streets their sick ones and putting them on little couches or pallets, that at least the shadow of Peter, as he went by, might fall on some of them.

¹³ So Simon himself came to believe too, and after he was baptized he continued to be devoted to Philip, and he was always thrilled at seeing such great signs and wonder-works continuously performed. ¹⁴ When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted God's message, they sent Peter and John there. ¹⁵ They came and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, ¹⁶ for as yet He had not come upon any of them, but they had been baptized merely in the name of the Lord Jesus. ¹⁷ Then they laid their hands upon them, and one by one they received the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ So when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was conferred by the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money, ¹⁹ and said, "Give me this power too, that when I lay my hands on anyone he may receive the Holy Spirit." ²⁰ But Peter said to him, "Your money go to perdition with you for even dreaming you could buy the gift of God with money! ²¹ You have no share or part in this matter, for your heart is not sincere in the sight of God. ²² So repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord, to see if this thought of your heart may be forgiven you. ²³ For I see that you are a bitter weed and a bundle of crookedness!"

¹³ But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard many people tell of this man, especially the great sufferings he has brought on your people in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ Now he is here and has authority from the high priests to put in chains all who call upon your name." ¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name to the heathen and their kings, and to the descendants of Israel. ¹⁶ For I am going to show him how great are the sufferings he must endure for my name's sake."

³⁶ At Joppa there was a woman, a disciple, whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek means Dorcas, that is, Gazelle. She had filled her life with good deeds and works of charity, which she was always doing. ³⁷ Just at that time it happened that she had been taken ill and had died. They washed her body and laid her out in a room upstairs. ³⁸ As Joppa was near Lydda, the disciples heard that Peter was there, and sent two men to him, begging him to come to them without delay.

³⁸ As Joppa was near Lydda, the disciples heard that Peter was there, and sent two men to him, begging him to come to them without delay. ³⁹ So Peter at once got up and went with them. When he reached there, they took him to the room upstairs, and all the widows took their stand around him, crying and showing him the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made while she was still with them. ⁴⁰ Then Peter put them all out of the room, knelt down and prayed, and, turning to the body, said, "Tabitha, get up!" Then she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

³³ So at once I sent for you, and you have been kind enough to come. So now we are all here in God's presence to listen to anything that the Lord has commanded you to say."

³⁸ how God consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and then He went about doing good and curing all who were overpowered by the devil, because God was with Him.

¹ Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who is called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen who was an intimate friend of the governor, and Saul.

¹⁵ After the reading of the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue worship sent to them and said, "Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you may speak."

³² So now we are bringing you the good news about the promise that was made to our forefathers,

⁸ Now in the streets of Lystra a man used to sit who had no strength in his feet, who had been crippled from his birth, and had never walked. ⁹ He continued listening to Paul as he spoke, and as Paul by looking straight at him observed that he had faith that he would be cured,

⁹ He continued listening to Paul as he spoke, and as Paul by looking straight at him observed that he had faith that he would be cured, ¹⁰ he shouted aloud to him, "Get on your feet and stand erect!" Then up he leaped and began to walk.

¹⁶ Once as we were on our way to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had the gift of magical fortune-telling, and continued to make great profits for her owners by fortune-telling. ¹⁷ This girl kept following Paul and the rest of us, shrieking, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, and they are proclaiming to you a way of salvation." ¹⁸ She kept this up for a number of days. Because Paul was so much annoyed by her, he turned and said to the spirit in her, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you to come out of her." And that very moment it came out.

²⁹ Then the jailer called for lights and rushed in and fell trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas.

³⁹ and came and pleaded with them, and took them out and begged them to leave town.

¹¹ The Jews there were better disposed than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the message with all eagerness and carried on a daily study of the Scriptures to see if Paul's message was true.

⁸ But Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, became a believer in the Lord, and so did all his family, and from time to time many of the Corinthians heard, believed, and were baptized.

¹⁷ Then they all seized Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and kept beating him right in front of the court; but Gallio paid no attention to it.

¹² as an instrument that the people carried off to the sick, towels or aprons used by him, and at their touch they were cured of their diseases, and the evil spirits went out of them.

¹² as an instrument that the people carried off to the sick, towels or aprons used by him, and at their touch they were cured of their diseases, and the evil spirits went out of them. ¹³ But some wandering Jews who claimed to be driving out the evil spirits tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus on those who had evil spirits in them, saying, "I command you by that Jesus whom Paul preaches!" ¹⁴ Sceva, a Jewish high priest, had seven sons who were doing this. ¹⁵ But on one occasion the evil spirit answered, "Jesus I know and Paul I know about, but who are you?" ¹⁶ So the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped upon them and so violently overpowered two of them that they ran out of the house stripped of their clothes and wounded.

¹⁶ So the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped upon them and so violently overpowered two of them that they ran out of the house stripped of their clothes and wounded. ¹⁷ This at once became known to everybody living in Ephesus, Greeks as well as Jews, and awe fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus began to be held in high honor.

³ "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up here in this city, and carefully educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, as all of you are today.

¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's power to God, so as to have their sins forgiven and have a possession among those that are consecrated by faith in me.'

¹⁴ But it was not long before a violent wind, which is called a Northeaster, swept down from it. ¹⁵ The ship was snatched along by it and since she could not face the wind, we gave up and let her drive. ¹⁶ As we passed under the lee of a small island called Cauda, with great difficulty we were able to secure the ship's boat. ¹⁷ After hoisting it on board, they used ropes to brace the ship, and since they were afraid of being stranded on the Syrtis quicksands, they lowered the sail and let her drift. ¹⁸ The next day, because we were so violently beaten by the storm, they began to throw the cargo overboard, ¹⁹ and on the next day with their own hands they threw the ship's tackle overboard. ²⁰ For a number of days neither the sun nor the stars were to be seen, and the storm continued to rage, until at last all hope of being saved was now vanishing,

²⁶ 'Go to this people and say to them, "You will listen, and listen, and never understand, and you will look, and look, and never see! ²⁷ For this people's soul has grown dull, and they scarcely hear with their ears, and they have shut tight their eyes, so that they may never see with their eyes, and understand with their souls, and turn to me, that I may cure them."'

⁴ Do you think so little of the riches of God's kindness, forbearance, and patience, not conscious that His kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? ⁵ But in your stubbornness and impenitence of heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when the justice of God's judgments will be uncovered.

⁷ eternal life to those who patiently continue doing good and striving for glory, honor, and immortality,

¹⁷ as the Scripture says, "I have made you the father of many nations." That is, the promise is in force in the sight of God in whom he put his faith, the God who can bring the dead to life and can call to Himself the things that do not exist as though they did.

²⁰ and yet he never staggered in doubt at the promise of God but grew powerful in faith, because he gave the glory to God

¹² So here is the comparison: As through one man sin came into the world, and death as the consequence of sin, and death spread to all men; because all men sinned.

²² But now, since you have been freed from sin and have become the slaves of God, the immediate result is consecration, and the final destiny is eternal life.

⁴ So, my brothers, you too in the body of Christ have ended your relation to the law, so that you may be married to another husband, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

¹⁸ For I know that nothing good has its home in me; that is, in my lower self; I have the will but not the power to do what is right.

¹⁵ And how can men preach unless they are sent to do so? As the Scripture says, "How beautiful are the feet of men who bring the glad news of His good things!"

⁷ What are we then to conclude? Israel has failed to obtain what it is still in search for, but His chosen ones have obtained it. The rest have become insensible to it, ⁸ as the Scripture Says, "God has given them over to an attitude of insensibility, so that their eyes cannot see and their ears cannot hear, down to this very day." ⁹ And David said: "Let their food become a snare and a trap to them, their pitfall and retribution; ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened, so they cannot see, and forever bend their backs beneath the load."

³ Now through the unmerited favor God has shown me I would say to every one of you not to estimate himself above his real value, but to make a sober rating of himself, in accordance with the degree of faith which God has apportioned to him.

²⁵ To Him who can make you strong in accordance with the good news I bring and in accordance with the message preached about Jesus Christ, in accordance with the uncovering of the secret which for ages past had not been told,

³ Yes, as for myself, it was in weakness and fear and great trembling that I came to you,

⁷ rather, we are setting forth a wisdom that came from God, once a covered secret but now uncovered, which God marked off as His plan for bringing us to glory. ⁸ Not one of this world's leaders understands it, for if they had, they would never have crucified our glorious Lord. ⁹ But, as the Scripture says, they are: "Things which eye has never seen and ear has never heard, and never have occurred to human hearts, which God prepared for those who love Him." ¹⁰ For God unveiled them to us through His Spirit, for the Spirit by searching discovers everything, even the deepest truths about God. ¹¹ For what man can understand his own inner thoughts except by his own spirit within him? Just so no one but the Spirit of God can understand the thoughts of God.

⁶ I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but it was God who kept the plants growing. ⁷ So neither the planter nor the waterer counts for much, but God is everything in keeping the plants growing.

⁹ for we belong to God as His fellow-workers; you belong to God as His field to be tilled, as His building to be built. ¹⁰ As a skilled architect, in accordance with God's unmerited favor given to me, I laid a foundation, and now another is building upon it. But every builder must be careful how he builds upon it; ¹¹ for no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is laid, that is, Jesus Christ Himself. ¹² And whether one puts into the building on the foundation gold or silver or costly stones, or wood or hay or straw,

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in this world's wisdom, as compared with the rest of you, to become really wise he must become a fool.

⁵ So you must stop forming any premature judgments, but wait until the Lord shall come again, for He will bring to light the secrets hidden in the dark and will make known the motives of men's hearts, and the proper praise will be awarded each of us.

¹⁹ Being circumcised or not being circumcised has no value, but keeping God's commands is important.

² If a man supposes that he has already gotten some true knowledge, as yet he has not learned it as he ought to know it.

⁵ It cannot be that we have no right to take a Christian wife about with us, can it, as well as the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers, and Cephas?

¹¹ But the one and same Spirit accomplishes all these achievements, and apportions power to each of us as He chooses.

¹ If I could speak the languages of men, of angels too, and have no love, I am only a rattling pan or a clashing cymbal. ² If I should have the gift of prophecy, And know all secret truths, and knowledge in its every form, and have such perfect faith that I could move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.

² If I should have the gift of prophecy, And know all secret truths, and knowledge in its every form, and have such perfect faith that I could move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing. ³ If I should dole out everything I have for charity, and give my body up to torture in mere boasting pride, but have no love, I get from it no good at all.

³⁷ If anyone claims to have the prophetic spirit, or any other spiritual gift, let him recognize that what I now am writing is the Lord's command.

² and through which you are to be saved, unless your faith at first was spurious.

⁹ Yes, I felt within my very self the sentence of death, to keep me from depending on myself instead of God who raises the dead. ¹⁰ He saved me from a death so horrible, and He will save me again! He it is on whom I have set my hope that He will still save me,

¹⁶ So from this moment on, I do not estimate anybody by the standard of outward appearances. Although I once did estimate Christ by this standard, I do not do so any longer.

¹⁸ I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters of mine,' The Lord Almighty said."

¹⁵ Yes, his heart is running over toward you, as he continues recalling how you all obeyed him, with what reverence and trembling you welcomed him.

⁹ For by experience you know the unmerited favor shown by our Lord Jesus Christ; that although He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, in order that by His poverty you might become rich.

¹⁹ and not another single one of the apostles did I see, except James, the Lord's brother.

²³ only they kept hearing people say, "Our former persecutor is now preaching as good news the faith which once he tried to destroy," ²⁴ and they kept on praising God for me.

¹ O senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was pictured as the crucified One?

⁴ Have you suffered so much for nothing? If it really is for nothing.

¹⁵ Where is your self-congratulation? For I can testify that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and have given them to me. ¹⁶ Have I then turned into an enemy to you, because I tell you the truth? ¹⁷ These men are paying you special attention, but not sincerely. They want to shut you off from me, so that you may keep on paying them special attention. ¹⁸ Now it is a fine thing to have special attention paid you, if it is done sincerely and unceasingly, and not only when I am with you. ¹⁹ O my dear children, I am suffering a mother's birth pangs for you again, until Christ is formed in you. ²⁰ I wish I could be with you right now and change the tone of my speech, for I do not know which way to turn in your case.

²² But the product of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control. There is no law against such things. ²⁴ And those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the lower nature with its passions and evil cravings. ²⁵ If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk where the Spirit leads. ²⁶ Let us stop being ambitious for honors, so challenging one another, envying one another.

⁸ For it is by His unmerited favor through faith that you have been saved; it is not by anything that you have done, it is the gift of God.

¹⁰ For He has made us what we are, because He has created us through our union with Christ Jesus for doing good deeds which He beforehand planned for us to do.

³ and how by revelation the secret was made known to me, as I have briefly written before. ⁴ By reading this you will be able to understand my insight into the secret about the Christ -- ⁵ which in the earlier ages, so different from the present, was not made known to mankind as fully as now, but through the Spirit it has been revealed to His Holy apostles and prophets -- ⁶ that the heathen through union with Christ Jesus are fellow-heirs with the Jews, are members with them of the same body, and sharers with them of the promise through the good news, ⁷ for which I was called to serve in accordance with the gift of God's unmerited favor which was bestowed on me by the exercise of His power-- ⁸ yes, on me, the very least of all His people, this unmerited favor was bestowed -- that I might preach as good news to the heathen the boundless riches of Christ, ⁹ and to make clear how is to be carried out the trusteeship of this secret which has for ages been hidden away in God, the Creator of all things,

¹⁷ and that Christ in His love, through your faith, may make His permanent home in your hearts. You must be deeply rooted, your foundations must be strong,

¹¹ men that are abounding in the fruits of right-doing with the help of Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

²³ I am hesitating between two desires, for I long to depart and to be with Christ, for that is far, far better,

¹⁰ so that in the name of Jesus everyone should kneel, in heaven, on earth, and in the underworld, ¹¹ and everyone should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the praise of God the Father. ¹² So, my dearly loved friends, as you have always been obedient, so now with reverence and awe keep on working clear down to the finishing point of your salvation not only as though I were with you but much more because I am away;

¹⁵ so that you may prove to be blameless and spotless, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverted age, in which you shine as light-bearers in the world as you continue ¹⁶ to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.

⁴ though I too might rely on these. If anyone thinks that he can rely on outward privileges, far more might I do so:

¹³ Brothers, I do not think that I have captured it yet, but here is my one aspiration, so forgetting what is behind me and reaching out for what is ahead of me, ¹⁴ I am pressing onward toward the goal, to win the prize to which God through Jesus Christ is calling us upward. ¹⁵ So let us all who are mature have this attitude. If you have a different attitude, God will make it clear to you.

²² All God's people wish to be remembered to you, but more especially the members of the Emperor's household.

⁶ which reached you, and since it is bearing fruit and growing among you, just as it is all over the world, from the day you first heard of God's favor and in reality came to know it,

¹⁰ so that you may lead lives worthy of the Lord to His full satisfaction, by perennially bearing fruit in every good enterprise and by a steady growth in fuller knowledge of God;

²³ if indeed you continue well grounded and firm in faith and never shift from the hope inspired by the good news you heard, which has been preached all over the world, and of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

²⁶ the open secret, covered up from the people of former ages and generations, but now uncovered to God's people, ²⁷ to whom God has chosen to make known how glorious are the riches of this open secret among the heathen, namely, Christ in you the hope of your glorification. ²⁸ We are proclaiming Him, warning everyone and teaching everyone with ample wisdom, in order to present to God everyone mature through union with Christ.

² that their hearts may be encouraged, by having been knit together in love and by having atoned to the full assurance of understanding, so that they may finally reach the fullest knowledge of the open secret, Christ Himself,

⁷ with your roots deeply planted in Him, being continuously built up in Him, and growing stronger in faith, just as you were taught to do, overflowing through it in your gratitude.

⁵ That was why, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for I was afraid that the tempter had tempted you and our labor might be lost.

⁹ that is, the representative of lawlessness, whose coming is in accordance with the working of Satan, with his plenitude of power and pretended signs and wonders, ¹⁰ and with a completely wicked deception for men who are on the way to destruction, because they refused to love the truth so as to be saved. ¹¹ This is why God sends them a misleading influence till they actually believe what is false, ¹² so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have chosen unrighteousness instead might be condemned. ¹³ We ought always to be thanking God for you, brothers dearly loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through the Spirit's consecration of you and through your faith in the truth, ¹⁴ and to this end He called you by our preaching of the good news, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ though I once used to abuse, persecute, and insult Him. But mercy was shown me by Him, because I did it in ignorance and unbelief, ¹⁴ and the spiritual blessing of our Lord in increasing floods has come upon me, accompanied by faith and love inspired by union with Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ It is a saying to be trusted and deserves our fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; and I am the foremost of them. ¹⁶ Yet, mercy was shown me for the very purpose that in my case as the foremost of sinners Jesus might display His perfect patience, to make me an example to those who in the future might believe on Him to obtain eternal life.

¹⁹ by keeping your hold on faith and a good conscience; for some have thrust the latter aside and so have made shipwreck of their faith.

¹⁶ Undoubtedly the mystery of our religion is a great wonder: "He was made visible in human form; He was vindicated by the Spirit; He was seen by angels; He was proclaimed among the heathen; He was trusted in throughout the world; He was taken up to glory."

⁸ Whoever fails to provide for his own relatives, and especially for those of his immediate family, has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

¹⁰ must have a reputation for doing good deeds, as bringing up children, being hospitable to strangers, washing the feet of God's people, helping people in distress, or devoting herself to any sort of doing good.

⁹ But men who keep planning to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, hurtful desires which plunge people into destruction and ruin. ¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil, and some men in reaching after riches have wandered from the faith and pierced their hearts with many a pang.

¹⁷ Continue charging the rich of this world to stop being haughty and not to fix their hope on a thing so uncertain as riches, but on God who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment;

¹⁸ who have missed the truth by saying that the resurrection has already taken place, are undermining some people's faith. ¹⁹ But God's foundation stands unshaken, with these inscriptions: "The Lord knows the people who belong to Him" and "Everyone who bears the name of the Lord must abstain from evil."

²⁵ With gentleness he must correct his opponents, for God might grant them repentance that would lead them to a full knowledge of the truth, ²⁶ and they might recover their senses and escape from the devil's trap in which they have been caught by him to do his will.

¹⁰ for Demas has forsaken me because he loved the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;

¹ This is why we must pay much closer attention to the message once heard, to keep from drifting to one side.

¹¹ For both He who is purifying them and those who are being purified all spring from one Father; so He is not ashamed to call them brothers, ¹² when He says: "I will announce your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise"; ¹³ and again, "I too will put my trust in God"; and again, "Here I am and the children God has given me." ¹⁴ Since then the children mentioned share our mortal nature, He too took on Himself a full share of the same, in order that He by His death might put a stop to the power of him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, ¹⁵ and set at liberty those who all their lifetime had been subject to slavery because of their dread of death.

⁷ Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "If you but hear His voice today, ⁸ You must not harden your hearts as they did in provoking me, as on the day in the desert they tested me,

¹⁵ and yet the warning continues to be spoken: "If you but hear His voice, you must not harden your hearts as they did in provoking me."

² For we have had the good news told to us as well as they, but the message heard did them no good, because they were not by faith made one with those who heeded it.

¹⁵ For we do not have a High Priest who is incapable of sympathizing with us in our weaknesses, but we have One who was tempted in every respect as we are, and yet without committing any sin.

⁷ For a piece of ground that drinks in the rains so frequently falling on it, and continues yielding vegetation useful to those for whose sakes it is cultivated, receives from God His blessings. ⁸ But if it continues to yield thorns and thistles, it is considered worthless and in danger of being cursed, and its final fate is burning.

¹¹ And we desire each one of you to continue to show the same earnestness to the very end, that you may enjoy your hope to the fullest, ¹² so that you may not grow careless, but may follow the example of those who through their faith and patient endurance are now possessors of the blessings promised.

³⁶ Indeed, to carry out the will of God and to receive the blessing He has promised, you need endurance, for:

³⁹ But we are not of a disposition to draw back so as to perish, but we have faith that leads to the saving of the soul.

²⁸ Let us, therefore, be thankful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and in this way continue to serve God acceptably in reverence and fear;

⁴ but you must let your endurance come to its perfect product, so that you may be fully developed and perfectly equipped, without any defects.

¹⁶ You must avoid being misled, my dearly loved brothers. ¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, in whom there is no variation or changing shadow. ¹⁸ In accordance with His will He made us His children by the message of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits among His creatures. ¹⁹ You must understand this, my dearly loved brothers. Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to get angry;

¹⁹ You must understand this, my dearly loved brothers. Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to get angry; ²⁰ for a man's anger does not produce the uprightness that God requires. ²¹ So strip yourselves of everything impure and all the evils prevailing around you, and in humble spirit welcome the message which when rooted in your hearts is able to save your souls.

²¹ So strip yourselves of everything impure and all the evils prevailing around you, and in humble spirit welcome the message which when rooted in your hearts is able to save your souls. ²² Keep on obeying this message; do not merely listen to it, and so deceive yourselves.

²² Keep on obeying this message; do not merely listen to it, and so deceive yourselves.

²² Keep on obeying this message; do not merely listen to it, and so deceive yourselves. ²³ Because if anyone merely listens to the message without obeying it, he is like a man who looks in a mirror at his own face,

²³ Because if anyone merely listens to the message without obeying it, he is like a man who looks in a mirror at his own face,

²³ Because if anyone merely listens to the message without obeying it, he is like a man who looks in a mirror at his own face, ²⁴ for he looks and then goes off and at once forgets how he looked.

²⁴ for he looks and then goes off and at once forgets how he looked.

²⁴ for he looks and then goes off and at once forgets how he looked. ²⁵ But the man who looks at the flawless law that makes men free, and keeps on looking, proving himself to be, not a forgetful hearer but an actual doer of what it requires, will be blessed in what he does.

²⁵ But the man who looks at the flawless law that makes men free, and keeps on looking, proving himself to be, not a forgetful hearer but an actual doer of what it requires, will be blessed in what he does. ²⁶ If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious worship is worthless.

¹⁹ Do you believe in one God? Very well; the demons, too, believe that, and shudder.

²⁶ Just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without good deeds is dead.

⁷ So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer keeps on waiting and waiting for the precious crop from his land; how he keeps up his patience over it until he gets the early and late rains, ⁸ You must be patient, too; you must put iron into your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is close at hand.

¹⁰ Even the prophets, who prophesied about the spiritual blessing meant for you, made careful investigations and persistent research about this salvation, ¹¹ earnestly trying to find out the time, and the nature of the times, which the Spirit of the Christ within them pointed to, in foretelling the sufferings of the Christ and the glory that should follow them. ¹² It was made known to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in their searching for these things that have already been told to you by those who through the Holy Spirit sent from heaven brought you the good news. The angels long to take a peep into these things.

²³ because you have been born anew, not from a germ that perishes but from one that does not perish, by the word of the living and everlasting God. ²⁴ For "All human life is just like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass dries up; the flowers drop off. ²⁵ But the word of the Lord lives on forever"; that is, the message of the good news which has been brought to you.

¹ So once for all get rid of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all sorts of slander, ² and like new-born babies thirst for pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to final salvation,

⁹ But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.

⁸ Be calm and alert. Your opponent the devil is always prowling about like a roaring lion, trying to devour you.

⁴ For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but hurled them down to Tartarus and committed them to dark dungeons to await their doom,

²⁰ For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

²² In them is verified the truth of the proverb, "A dog turns back to what he has vomited"; and of that other proverb, "A sow that has washed herself goes back to wallow in the mire."

³ By this we can be sure that we know Him -- if we practice obedience to His commands.

¹⁵ Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart, ¹⁶ because everything that is in the world, the things that our lower nature and eyes are longing for, and the proud pretensions of life, do not come from the Father, but from the world; ¹⁷ and the world is passing away and with it the evil longings it incites, but whoever perseveres in doing God's will lives on forever.

¹⁹ They have gone out from our own number, but they did not really belong to us; for if they had, they would have stayed with us. It was to show that none of those who went out really belonged to us.

²⁹ If you know that He is upright, you must know that everyone who practices uprightness is born of Him.

⁸ Whoever practices sin belongs to the devil, because the devil has practiced sin from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared, to undo the devil's works.

²² and we obtain from Him whatever we ask for, because we practice obedience to His commands and do what pleases Him. ²³ His command is this, that we should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and practice loving one another, just as He commanded us to do.

⁴ You are children of God, dear children, and you have conquered these men, because He who is in our hearts is greater than he who is in the world.

¹¹ Dearly beloved, do not follow bad examples but good ones. Whoever practices doing right is God's child; whoever practices doing wrong has never seen God. ¹² They are blots on your love feasts while they feast with you, daringly caring for no one but themselves; rainless clouds swept along by winds; leafless trees that bear no fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

²⁰ The open secret of the seven stars that you have seen in my right hand, and of the seven golden lampstands, is this: The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

⁷ Let everyone who has ears listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give to him who conquers the privilege of eating the fruit of the tree of life that stands in the paradise of God."'"

¹¹ Let everyone who has ears listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. Whoever conquers will not be hurt at all by the second death."'"

⁸ When He took it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each with a harp, and golden bowls that were full of incense, which represent the prayers of God's people.

¹ Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky upon the earth. To this angel the key to the pit of the abyss was given, ² and he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke like the smoke of a huge furnace puffed up out of the pit, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

¹¹ They had over them as king the angel of the abyss; in Hebrew he is called Abaddon, in Greek, Apollyon.

⁴ They are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

⁷ Then, when they have finished testifying, the wild beast that is coming up out of the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,

⁹ So the huge dragon, the ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

⁸ The wild beast that you saw, once was but now is no more; he is going to come up out of the abyss, but he is going to be destroyed. The inhabitants of the earth, whose names from the foundation of the world have not been written in the book of life, will be astonished when they see that the wild beast once was but now is no more, and yet is to come.

²⁰ Then the wild beast was captured and with him the false prophet who performed wonders in his presence, by which he led astray those who let the mark of the wild beast be put on them and worshiped his statue. Both of them were hurled alive into the fiery lake that burns with brimstone.

¹ Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. ² He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. ³ Then he hurled him into the abyss, closed it, and sealed it over him, to keep him from leading the nations astray anymore, until the thousand years are at an end; after that he must be let loose a little while.

⁷ When the thousand years have ended, Satan will be let loose from his prison.

¹⁰ Then the devil who led them astray was hurled into the fiery lake of burning brimstone, where the wild beast and false prophet were, and there they are to be tortured day and night forever and ever.

¹⁴ Then death and the underworld were hurled into the fiery lake, This is the second death -- the fiery lake. ¹⁵ If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was hurled into the fiery lake.