James 3 Cross References - Worrell

¹ My brethren, become not many of you teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment. ² For in many things we all stumble. If anyone stumbles not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to restrain also the whole body. ³ Now, if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also. ⁴ Behold also the ships, large as they are, and driven along by fierce winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, wheresoever the impulse of the steersman wills. ⁵ So also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how small a fire kindles how great a forest! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity! the tongue is placed among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of life, and is set on fire by Hell. ⁷ For every nature, both of wild beasts and birds, both of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed, by mankind; ⁸ but the tongue no man can tame; a restless evil, full of deadly poison! ⁹ Therewith we bless the Lord and Father; and therewith we curse men, who have been made after the likeness of God. ¹⁰ Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing! My brethren, these things ought not so to be. ¹¹ Does the fountain send forth, from the same opening, the sweet water and the bitter, ¹² My brethren, can a fig tree produce olives; or a vine, figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet. ¹³ Who is wise and intelligent among you? Let him show, by his good conduct, his works in meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ But, if ye have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom is not the wisdom that comes down from above; but is earthly, soulish, demoniacal! ¹⁶ For where there are jealousy and contention, there is confusion and every vile deed. ¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, mild, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those making peace.

⁵ "Happy are the meek: because they shall inherit the earth.

⁸ "Happy are the pure in heart; because they shall see God. ⁹ "Happy are the peacemakers; because they shall be called sons of God.

²² But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever says to his brother Raca shall be in danger of the high-council; and whosoever shall say, O foolish one! shall be in danger of the Hell of fire.

⁴⁴ but I say to you, Love your enemies; and pray for those who persecute you;

¹ "Judge not, that ye be not judged; ² for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you.

¹⁶ From their fruits ye shall recognize them. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ So every good tree bears good fruit, but the worthless tree bears evil fruit. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a worthless tree bear good fruit. ¹⁹ Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire. ²⁰ So then, from their fruits ye shall know them.

²⁴ "Every one, therefore, who hears these words of Mine, and does them, shall be likened to a prudent man, who, indeed, built his house upon the rock;

²⁴ And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves; but He was sleeping.

¹¹ And the Pharisees, seeing it, said to His disciples, Why is your Teacher eating with the tax-collectors and sinners?"

²⁴ "A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

²⁹ Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; because I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest for your souls;

²⁴ But the Pharisees, hearing it, said, "This Man doth not cast out the demons, except by Beelzebub, prince of the demons."

³² And whosoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven, neither in this age nor in that which is to come. ³³ Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree worthless and its fruit worthless; for from the fruit the tree is known.

³³ Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree worthless and its fruit worthless; for from the fruit the tree is known. ³⁴ "Broods of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being yourselves evil? For, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. ³⁵ The good man, out of his good treasure, puts forth good things; and the evil man, out of his evil treasure, puts forth evil things. ³⁶ And I say to you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account concerning it in the day of judgment; ³⁷ for by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned."

¹¹ Not that which enters into the mouth defiles the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth—this defiles the man." ¹² Then, His disciples, coming near, say to Him, "Knowest Thou that the Pharisees, having heard the saying, were made to stumble?" ¹³ But He, answering, said, "Every plant which My Heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up. ¹⁴ Let them alone; they are blind guides; and if a blind man be guiding a blind man, both will fall into a pit." ¹⁵ And Peter, answering, said to Him, "Explain to us the parable." ¹⁶ And He said, "Are ye also even yet without understanding? ¹⁷ Do ye not perceive that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and is cast forth into the drain? ¹⁸ But the things that proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and these defile the man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, blasphemies: ²⁰ these are the things which defile the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."

⁵ "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your King is coming to you, meek and mounted upon an ass, and on a colt, a foal of a beast of burden.'"

⁸ But be not ye called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and all ye are brethren. ⁹ And call no one your father on the earth; for One is your Father, the Heavenly. ¹⁰ Neither be ye called leaders; because One is your Leader, the Christ.

¹³ "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for ye do not enter, neither do ye suffer those who are entering in to enter.

²⁸ So ye also outwardly, indeed, appear righteous to men; but within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

⁷⁴ Then began he to curse and swear, "I do not know the Man." And straight-way a cock crowed.

¹⁸ For he knew that because of envy they delivered Him up.

⁴ because he had often been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces, and no one had strength to tame him.

¹⁵ there is nothing from without the man, that, entering into him, can defile him; but the things proceeding out of the man are those that defile the man."

²⁰ And He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. ²¹ For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, ²² covetings, wickednesses, deceit, wantonness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

⁵⁵ And the high priests and all the Sanhedrin were seeking for testimony against Jesus, in order to put Him to death; and they were not finding it. ⁵⁶ For many were bearing false testimony against Him, and their testimonies were not agreed. ⁵⁷ And certain ones, standing up, were bearing false testimony against Him, saying,

³⁶ "Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful. ³⁷ "And judge not, and ye shall not be judged; and condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned. "Release, and ye shall be released.

⁴³ "For there is no good tree that bears corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree that bears good fruit; ⁴⁴ for each tree is known by its own fruit; for they do not gather figs of thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

¹ In the meantime, the vast multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread one upon another, He began to say to His disciples, first, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. ² But nothing has been covered up, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

⁴⁷ And that servant who knew his lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes; ⁴⁸ but he who knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. And to whomsoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whomsoever they committed much, of him they will ask the more.

² And, calling him, he said to him, 'What is this I hear of you? Render the account of your stewardship; for you can be no longer steward.'

⁸ And the lord praised the steward of unrighteousness, because he acted prudently; because the sons of this age are more prudent toward their own generation, than the sons of light.

²⁴ And, crying, he said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; because I am in anguish in this flame!'

¹⁵ for I will give you a mouth, and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to withstand or gainsay.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us, (and we beheld His glory—glory as of the Only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and He saith to him, "Behold, an Israelite, indeed, in whom there is no guile!"

¹⁰ Jesus answered, and said to him, "Are you a teacher of Israel, and understand not these things?

¹⁷ for God sent not His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world may be saved through Him.

³⁶ He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal; that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.

⁴⁴ Ye are of your father the Devil; and the desires of your father ye wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own; because he is a liar, and the father of it.

² They will put you out of the synagogues; yea, an hour is coming, that every one who kills you will think that he is offering service to God.

²⁶ Therefore, my heart was glad, and my tongue greatly rejoiced; moreover my flesh also shall abide in hope:

³ But Peter said, "Ananias, why did Satan fill your heart, that you should lie to the Holy Spirit, and keep back part of the price of the land?

¹⁷ And the high priest, rising up, and all those with him, being the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy,

¹³ and set up false witnesses, who said, "This man does not cease speaking words against this holy place, and the law;

⁹ And the patriarchs, moved with jealousy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him,

³⁶ Now there was in Joppa a certain disciple, Tabitha by name, (which being translated means Dorcas): this woman was full of good works and alms which she was accustomed to do.

²⁴ because he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith; and a great multitude was added to the Lord.

¹ Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas and Symeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenean, and Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

¹⁰ said, "O full of all guile, and all villainy, son of the Devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?

⁴⁵ But the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things spoken by Paul, blaspheming.

²⁹ And the city was filled with the confusion; and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus—Macedonians—fellow-travelers of Paul.

²⁶ Wherefore, I testify to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all men; ²⁷ for I shrank not from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

³⁰ and from among yourselves will men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

⁹ I, verily, therefore, imagined to myself that it was proper that I should do many things contrary to the name of Jesus, the Nazarene;

¹⁴ But, not long after, there beat down upon it a tempestuous wind, which is called Euroclydon. ¹⁵ And, the ship being caught, and unable to face the wind, yielding to it, we were borne along. ¹⁶ And, running under a certain small island, called Clauda, we were with difficulty able to secure the boat; ¹⁷ which having taken up, they were using helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, lowering the sail, so they were borne along. ¹⁸ And, we being violently tempest-tossed, the next day they were making an overthrow of the cargo; ¹⁹ and, on the third day, with their own hands, they cast out the rigging of the ship. ²⁰ And, when neither sun nor stars appeared to us for many days, and no small tempest was pressing upon us, henceforth all hope that we should be saved was being utterly taken away. ²¹ And, after long abstinence from food, then Paul, standing up in the midst of them, said, "Ye ought, indeed, O men, hearkening to me, not to have set sail from Crete, and to have incurred this violence and loss. ²² And, as to the present things, I exhort you to be of good cheer; for there will be no loss of soul among you, but only of the ship. ²³ For there stood by me this night an angel of the God Whose I am, and Whom I serve, ²⁴ saying, 'Fear not, Paul; it is necessary that you should stand before Caesar, and, behold, God has granted to you as a favor all those sailing with you.' ²⁵ Wherefore, men, be of good cheer; for I believe God, that it will be even so as it has been told me. ²⁶ But we must be cast out on a certain island." ²⁷ And, when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven along the Adria, about midnight the sailors were surmising that some country was approaching them; ²⁸ and, sounding, they found twenty fathoms; and, going a little further, and again sounding, they found fifteen fathoms. ²⁹ And, fearing lest perhaps we might wreck against rocky places, having cast four anchors out of the stern, they were praying that day would come. ³⁰ And, when the sailors were seeking to escape out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, by pretext, as though they were about to cast anchors out of the prow, ³¹ Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved." ³² Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and suffered it to fall off. ³³ And, when the day was about to dawn, Paul was beseeching them all to take food, saying, "To-day is the fourteenth day ye, waiting, continue fasting, having taken nothing; ³⁴ wherefore, I beseech you to partake of food; for this makes the beginning of your deliverance; for a hair from the head of no one of you shall perish." ³⁵ And, having said these things, and taken bread, he gave thanks to God in presence of them all; and, breaking it, he began to eat. ³⁶ And, all having become of good cheer, they themselves also partook of food. ³⁷ And we were in all in the ship two hundred and seventy-six souls. ³⁸ And, having been satisfied with food, they were lightening the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

²² Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

²⁹ having become filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

⁸ but to those who are contentious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there shall be wrath and indignation,

¹⁷ But, if you are called a Jew, and are resting upon the law, and are boasting in God,

²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth; ²¹ you, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that men should not steal, do you steal?

²³ You who boast in law, do you dishonor God through your transgression of the law? ²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed among the gentiles, because of you, as it has been written. ²⁵ For circumcision, indeed, profits, if you do the law; but, if you are transgressors of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶ If, therefore, the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision he reckoned for circumcision? ²⁷ And shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, with the letter and circumcision, to be a transgressor of the law? ²⁸ For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; nor is that circumcision, which is outward in flesh; ²⁹ but he is a Jew, who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.

¹⁰ as it has been written, "There is none righteous, no not one;

¹³ their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;

¹³ their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; ¹⁴ whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

¹⁴ whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

²¹ Consequently, I find the law, that, when I wish to do good, evil is present.

¹⁶ And, if the first-fruit is holy, so also is the lump; and, if the root is holy, so also are the branches. ¹⁷ And, if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became a joint-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the Olive tree; ¹⁸ boast not against the branches. But, if you boast, it is not you that bear the root; but the root, you.

⁹ Let love be without hypocrisy; abhorring that which is evil; cleaving to that which is good;

¹⁴ Bless those who persecute you; bless, and curse not.

¹⁸ if it be possible, so far as it depends on you, being at peace with all men;

¹³ As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy;

¹⁴ And I myself also have become persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

¹⁷ Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which ye learned; and turn away from them. ¹⁸ For those who are such are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and, through their kind words and flattering speeches, they beguile the hearts of the simple.

¹⁹ For it has been written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning will I set aside." ²⁰ Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

²⁷ but God chose the foolish things of the world, that He might put to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that He might put to shame the things that are strong;

⁶ But we speak wisdom among the perfect; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought; ⁷ but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery—the hidden wisdom—which God predestined before the ages for our glory;

¹⁴ But a natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

³ for ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it has been written, "He Who taketh the wise in their craftiness."

² Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that one be found faithful. ³ But, with me, it is a very small thing, that I should be judged by you, or by man's day; yea, I do not even judge myself. ⁴ For I am conscious to myself of nothing; yet have I not thereby been justified; but He Who judges me is the Lord. ⁵ Wherefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, Who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then will each one have his praise from God.

⁷ For who makes you to differ? And what do you have, that you did not receive? But, if you did receive it, why are you boasting, as if you did not receive it? ⁸ Have ye already become satisfied? Did ye already become rich? Did ye reign without us? I wish, at least, that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

² And ye have become puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this deed might be taken away from you.

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

⁵ I speak to your shame! Is it so, that there is not among you even one wise man, who will be able to judge between his brethren?

²⁷ But I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage; lest, by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

⁷ For a man, indeed, ought not to veil his head; being God's image and glory; but the woman is man's glory;

²⁹ for he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the body. ³⁰ For this cause, many among you are weak and sick, and not a few sleep. ³¹ But, if we discerned ourselves, we would not be judged; ³² but, being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

⁸ For to one, indeed, is given through the Spirit a word of wisdom; and to another, a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

²⁸ And God, indeed, set some in the assembly: first, apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; after that, miracles; then, gifts of healings, helps, governments, various kinds of tongues.

⁴ Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not herself, is not puffed up,

⁴ Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not herself, is not puffed up, ⁵ behaves not unseemly, seeks not her own, is not provoked, takes no account of evil, ⁶ rejoices not at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

³³ for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

¹² For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

¹⁰ For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to the things which he practiced, whether good or evil.

²⁴ Show ye, therefore, toward them, before the assemblies, the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.

¹⁰ And He Who supplieth seed to the sower, and bread for food, will supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

¹ Now I, Paul, myself entreat you, through the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in your presence, indeed, am lowly among you; but, being absent, am bold toward you;

³ but I fear lest, by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and purity which is toward Christ.

¹³ For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ; ¹⁴ and no wonder, for even Satan transforms himself into an angel of light! ¹⁵ It is no great thing, therefore, if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end will be according to their works.

²⁰ For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I desire, and that I, too, should be found by you such as ye do not desire; lest, by any means, there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

²² but the Scripture shuts up all things under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

¹⁵ But, if ye bite and devour one another, beware, lest ye be consumed by one another.

¹⁷ For the flesh covets against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to the other, that ye may not do the things which ye wish.

²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strifes, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, ²¹ envyings, drunkenness, revelings, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, as I also said before, that those practicing such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ meekness, continence; against such there is no law.

²³ meekness, continence; against such there is no law.

²⁶ Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

¹ Brethren, even if a man be caught in any trespass, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

⁴ But let each one prove his own work, and then will he have ground of glorying in respect to himself alone, and not to another.

⁸ because he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life eternal.

¹³ For neither do those themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

² with all humility and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

¹¹ And He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

³ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints; ⁴ nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not becoming, but rather thanks-giving.

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

¹¹ being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

¹⁵ Some, indeed, preach Christ even because of envy and strife; and some also of good-will;

²⁷ Only demean yourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Christ; that, whether coming and seeing you, or being absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye are standing fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the Gospel;

³ doing nothing through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind, each esteeming others better than himself;

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who are thinking of earthly things.

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are righteous, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

¹⁰ to walk worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God;

²⁸ Whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

⁸ But now do ye also put away all these; anger, wrath, malice, reviling, shameful talk out of your mouth. ⁹ Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

¹² Put on, therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, tender affections of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

¹² Epaphras, who is from among you, salutes you, a servant of Christ Jesus, always striving in your behalf in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

⁷ But we became gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children:

⁹ him whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and lying wonders,

⁹ him whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and in all deceit of unrighteousness to those who perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And, for this cause, God sendeth them a working of delusion, that they may believe the lie; ¹² that they all may be judged, who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

⁷ wishing to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

⁷ whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak truth, I lie not), a teacher of gentiles in faith and truth.

¹ But the Spirit expressly saith, that in later times, some will fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and to teachings of demons,

¹² Let no one despise your youth; but become a model for believers, in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

¹³ And, at the same time, they learn to be idle, going around from house to house, and not only idle, but tattlers also and busy-bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

²¹ I solemnly charge you before God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

⁴ he has become puffed up, knowing nothing, but morbid about questions and word-battles, out of which come envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

¹¹ But do you, O man of God, flee these things: but pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, mildness.

¹¹ for which I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher.

²⁴ now a servant of the Lord must not engage in strife, but should be gentle towards all, apt in teaching, patient of wrong, ²⁵ in meekness correcting those opposing themselves, if peradventure God should give them repentance to a full knowledge of the truth,

¹¹ whom it is needful to reduce to silence: who, indeed, are overthrowing whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of base gain.

¹⁵ To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience have become defiled.

² to speak evil of no one, to be averse to strife, to be mild, showing all meekness to all men. ³ For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving manifold desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

¹¹ All chastening, indeed, for the present seems not to be joyous, but grievous; but afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained thereby.

¹⁴ Pursue peace with all, and the holiness without which no one shall see the Lord;

⁵ Let your disposition be without fondness for money; content with the present things; for He Himself hath said, "I will in nowise leave you, neither will I in any wise forsake you."

¹⁷ Obey those who are your leaders, and submit to them; for they watch in behalf of your souls, as those who are to give an account; that they may do this with joy, and not with sighing; for this would be unprofitable for you.

²¹ make you perfect in every good thing to do His will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be the glory forever. Amen.

⁴ And let patience have a perfect work; that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing. ⁵ But, if any of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask from God, Who giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it will be given him;

¹⁷ Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with Whom there is no variableness or shadow cast by turning.

²⁰ for man's wrath works not God's righteousness. ²¹ Wherefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive in meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

²⁶ If anyone thinks that he is religious, while he bridles not his own tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

⁴ do ye not make a distinction among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

⁷ Do they not blaspheme the worthy name by which ye were called?

¹⁰ For whosoever keeps the whole law, but stumbles in one point, has become guilty of all.

¹⁸ But some one will say, "You have faith, and I have works": show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

¹ My brethren, become not many of you teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.

⁵ So also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how small a fire kindles how great a forest! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity! the tongue is placed among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of life, and is set on fire by Hell.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity! the tongue is placed among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of life, and is set on fire by Hell.

¹⁴ But, if ye have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom is not the wisdom that comes down from above; but is earthly, soulish, demoniacal! ¹⁶ For where there are jealousy and contention, there is confusion and every vile deed. ¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, mild, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.

¹ Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? ² Ye desire, and have not; ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight, and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. ³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it on your pleasures. ⁴ Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ⁵ Or do ye think that the Scripture says in vain, "The spirit that dwells in us has jealous longings?"

⁸ Draw nigh to God, and He wild draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.

¹⁹ My brethren, if anyone among you be led astray from the truth, and one convert him;

³ Blessed be the God and Father of out Lord Jesus Christ, Who, according to His abundant mercy, begat us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead,

²² Having purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned brotherly love, love one another from the heart earnestly;

¹ Having, therefore, put away all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and envies, and all evil speakings,

¹ Having, therefore, put away all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and envies, and all evil speakings, ² as new-born babes, long ye for the spiritual, unadulterated milk, that thereby ye may grow unto salvation,

⁹ But ye are "an elect race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation," a people for a possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

¹² having your conduct seemly among the gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may, from your good works which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

¹ In like manner, ye wives, be subject to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they may, without the word, be gained through the conduct of their wives, ² having beheld your chaste conduct mingled with fear:

⁴ but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price.

⁹ not returning evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but, on the contrary, blessing; because to this end ye were called, that ye might inherit a blessing. ¹⁰ For, "He who wishes to love life, and to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile;

¹⁵ but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts; ready always for an answer to every one who asks of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear; ¹⁶ having a good conscience; that, in whatever ye are spoken against, those who revile your good conduct may be put to shame.

³ neither as lording it over the allotted charges, but becoming examples to the flock;

¹⁰ And the God of all grace, Who called you into His everlasting glory in Christ, after ye have suffered a little while, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen, settle you.

¹ But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who, indeed, will stealthily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master Who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction: ² and many will follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth will be defamed;

¹⁸ For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice, in desires of the flesh, by their lasciviousness, those just escaping from those who live in error;

³ Knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers with scoffing, walking after their own desires,

⁸ If we say, "We have no sin," we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say, "We have not sinned," we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

³ And every one that has this hope on Him purifies himself, even as He is pure.

⁸ He that commits sin is of the Devil; because the Devil sins from the beginning. To this end was the Son of God manifested, that He might destroy the works of the Devil. ⁹ Whosoever has been begotten of God sins not; because His seed abides in him, and he cannot sin because he has been begotten of God. ¹⁰ In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the Devil: every one that does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that does not love his brother;

¹² not as Cain who was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

¹⁸ Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.

¹⁰ On this account, if I come, I will remember his works which he is doing, prating against us with evil words; and not content with these things, he neither himself receives the brethren, and those wishing to do so he forbids, and casts them out of the assembly.

⁸ Yet, in like manner, these also, indulging in dreams, defile, indeed, the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities. ⁹ But Michael, the arch-angel, when contending with the Devil he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring against him a railing judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you." ¹⁰ But these rail at such things as they know not; and what they understand naturally, as the irrational animals, in these things they are corrupted.

¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness, which in ungodliness they committed, and of all the hard things which, as ungodly sinners, they spake against Him." ¹⁶ These are murmurers, complainers, walking according to their own desires; and their mouth speaks great swelling words; admiring men's persons, for the sake of profit.

¹⁶ These are murmurers, complainers, walking according to their own desires; and their mouth speaks great swelling words; admiring men's persons, for the sake of profit. ¹⁷ But do ye, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; ¹⁸ that they were wont to say to you: "In the last time there will be mockers, walking according to their own ungodly desires." ¹⁹ These are those who make separations; sensual, having not the Spirit.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit fornication. ¹⁵ So you have also those holding the teaching of the Nicolaitans, in like manner.

²⁴ But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as have not this teaching, who knew not the deep things of Satan, as they say, I cast on you no other burden;

¹¹ They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon; and, in the Greek, he has a name Apollyon.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole habitable earth; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

^{1 (12:18)} and he stood upon the sand of the sea. ^(13:1) And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy. ² And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet as of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion; and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority; ³ and I saw one of his heads, as if smitten to death. And his death-stroke was healed; and all the earth wondered after the beast. ⁴ And they worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast, and who is able to make war with him?" ⁵ And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and authority was given him to work forty-two months.

⁵ And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and authority was given him to work forty-two months. ⁶ And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme His name, and His Tabernacle, even those dwelling in Heaven.

¹⁴ And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to those dwelling on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, who has the stroke of the sword, and lived.

²³ and the light of a lamp shall in nowise shine in you any more: and the voice of bridegroom and of bride shall be heard in you no more; because your merchants were the princes of the earth; because by your sorcery were all the nations deceived.

²⁰ And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his presence, with which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image. The two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone.