James 4 Cross References - Worrell

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?" ⁶ But He giveth more grace Wherefore, the Scripture says, "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble." ⁷ Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw nigh to God, and He wild draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded. ⁹ Be wretched, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness! ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will exalt you. ¹¹ Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law; but, if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. ¹² One is Law-giver and Judge—He Who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, that judge your neighbor? ¹³ Come now, ye who say, "To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend one year there, and trade, and get gain," ¹⁴ (ye who, indeed, know nothing of to-morrow! what is your life? for ye are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away); ¹⁵ instead of your saying, "If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that." ¹⁶ But now ye are glorying in your boastings! all such glorying is evil. ¹⁷ To him, therefore, who knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

³ And the Tempter, having come near, said to Him, "If Thou art God's Son, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread." ⁴ But He, answering, said, "It has been written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" ⁵ Then the Devil takes Him into the holy city, and placed Him on the pinnacle of the temple, ⁶ and says to Him, "If Thou art a Son of God, cast Thyself down; for it has been written, 'He shall give His angels charge concerning Thee; and on their hands they shall bear Thee up; lest at any time Thou shouldest dash Thy foot against a stone.'" ⁷ Jesus said to him, "Again it has been written, 'You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'" ⁸ Again the Devil takes Him into an exceedingly high mountain, and shows Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; ⁹ and he said to Him, "All these things will I give Thee, if, falling down, Thou wilt worship me." ¹⁰ Then Jesus saith to him, "Depart, Satan; for it has been written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.'" ¹¹ Then the Devil leaves Him; and, behold, angels came and were ministering to Him.

⁴ "Happy are those who mourn: because they shall be comforted,

²⁴ "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.

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.

⁷ "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; ⁸ for every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened.

²⁸ And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him Who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell.

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;

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.

³⁹ And He, answering, said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation is seeking after a sign; and no sign shall be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet.

¹² For whosoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall be made to abound; but whosoever has not, even what he has shall be taken away from him.

² "Why do Thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands, when they eat bread!"

¹⁹ For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, blasphemies:

⁴ An evil and adulterous generation is seeking after a sign; and no sign will be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet." And, leaving them, He departed.

²² But Jesus, answering, said, "Ye know not what ye are asking. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They say to Him, "We are able."

¹² And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

²⁵ "Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish; but within they are full from extortion and excess! ²⁶ Blind Pharisees! cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that its outside also may become clean.

²⁴ And Pilate, seeing that it availed nothing, but rather a tumult was being made, taking water, washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this Man. Ye shall see to it."

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: ²³ all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man."

³⁸ But Jesus said to them, "Ye know not what ye are asking. Are ye able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be immersed with the immersion that I am immersed with?"

⁵² He deposed potentates from thrones, and exalted the lowly.

² forty days, being tempted by the Devil. And He ate nothing in those days; and, when they were completed, He hungered. ³ And the Devil said to Him, "If Thou art God's Son, command this stone, that it become bread." ⁴ And Jesus made answer to him, "It has been written, 'Not on bread alone shall man live.'" ⁵ And, leading Him up, he showed Him all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth in a moment of time. ⁶ And the Devil said to Him, "To Thee will I give all this authority, and the glory of them; because to me it has been delivered, and to whomsoever I will I give it. ⁷ If Thou, therefore, wilt worship before me, it shall all be Thine." ⁸ And Jesus, answering, said to him, "It has been written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.'" ⁹ And he led Him to Jerusalem, and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If Thou art God's Son, cast Thyself down hence; ¹⁰ for it has been written, 'He will command His angels concerning you, to keep watch over you; ¹¹ and on their hands they shall bear you up, lest haply you dash your foot against a stone.'" ¹² And Jesus, answering, said to him, "It has been said, You shall not tempt the Lord your God." ¹³ And, having completed every temptation, the Devil departed from Him until a fitting season.

²¹ "Happy, ye who are hungering now; because ye will be filled. "Happy, ye who are weeping now; because ye shall laugh.

²⁵ "Woe to you who are filled now; because ye shall hunger! "Woe to you who are laughing now; because ye shall mourn and weep!

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.

⁹ And I say to you, ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: ¹⁰ for every one who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened. ¹¹ And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask bread, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he, instead of a fish, give him a serpent? ¹² or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion? ¹³ If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?"

³⁹ But the Lord said to him, "Now ye, the Pharisees, cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Senseless ones! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

⁵ but I will show you Whom ye should fear; fear Him Who, after killing, has authority to cast into Hell; yea, I say to you, fear Him.

¹⁷ and he reasoned within himself, saying, 'What shall I do, because I have not where to store my fruits?' ¹⁸ And he said, 'This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there will I store all my grain and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.' ²⁰ But God said to him, 'Senseless one! this night they require your soul of you; and the things you prepared, whose shall they be?'

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.

¹¹ because every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted."

¹³ And, not many days after, gathering all things together, the younger son went abroad into a far country, and there wasted his estate, living riotously.

³⁰ But, when your son—this one who devoured your living with harlots—came, you killed for him the fatted calf!'

¹ And He said also to His disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and the same was accused to him as squandering his goods. 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.'

²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that, in your lifetime, you received in full your good things, and Lazarus, likewise, evil things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish.

¹⁴ I say to you, this man went down justified to his house, rather than the other; because every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, but he who humbles himself shall be exalted."

²⁷ But, these my enemies, who did not wish me to be king over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.'"

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the Gift of God, and Who it is, That saith to you 'Give Me to drink,' you would have asked of Him, and He would have given you living water."

⁷ The world cannot hate you; but Me it hates, because I testify concerning it, that its works are evil.

⁴² Did not the Scriptures say, that the Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

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.

⁴¹ Jesus said to them, "If ye were blind, ye would have no sin; but now ye say, 'We see,' your sin abides."

³⁵ If He called them gods to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

¹⁷ If ye know these things, happy are ye, if ye do them.

¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.

²² "Had I not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ He who hates Me hates My Father also. ²⁴ Had I not done among them the works which no other did, they would not have had sin; but now have they both seen and hated both Me and My Father;

²⁴ Hitherto ye asked nothing in My name; ask, and ye will receive, that your joy may be made full.

¹⁴ I have given them Thy word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

³⁷ And again another Scripture says, "They shall look on Him Whom they pierced."

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

⁶ But arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told you what you must do."

⁹ and He made no distinction between us and them, having purified their hearts by faith.

²⁹ And, calling for a light, he sprang in, and, being in fear, he fell down before Paul and Silas; ³⁰ and, having brought them out, he said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" ³¹ And they said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, and your house."

²¹ but, taking leave of them, and saying, "I will return to you again, God willing," he sailed from Ephesus;

¹⁹ Wherefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision;

¹⁰ making request, if by any means now at length, I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

²⁰ For His invisible things, since the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being perceived by the things that are made, even His everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: ²¹ because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor did they give thanks; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

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

³² who, indeed, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with those who practice them.

¹ Wherefore, you are without excuse, O man, every one who judges; for wherein you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

¹³ for not the hearers of law are righteous before God, but the doers shall be justified;

¹⁷ But, if you are called a Jew, and are resting upon the law, and are boasting in God, ¹⁸ and understand His will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, ¹⁹ and have become confident that you are a guide of the blind, a light to those in darkness, 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? ²² You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? ²³ You who boast in law, do you dishonor God through your transgression of the law?

¹⁰ For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son; much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by His life;

⁵ For, when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were through the law, were working in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

⁷ What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It could not be! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I would not know even coveting, if the law did not say, "You shall not covet;"

¹² So that the law is holy, and the command is holy and righteous and good. ¹³ Did, then, that which is good become death to me? It could not be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that sin, through the commandment, might become exceedingly sinful.

¹³ Did, then, that which is good become death to me? It could not be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that sin, through the commandment, might become exceedingly sinful.

²³ but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

⁷ because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither, indeed, can it be;

¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose did I raise you up, that I might show forth My power in you, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth."

²⁰ Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God ? Shall the thing formed say to Him Who formed it, "Why didst Thou make me thus?"

³ for, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God;

³ Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him that does not eat despise him that eats; for God received him. ⁴ Who are you that judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. But he shall be made to stand; for the Lord is able to make him stand.

⁴ Who are you that judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. But he shall be made to stand; for the Lord is able to make him stand.

¹⁰ But you—why do you judge your brother? or you also—why do you despise your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God. ¹¹ For it has been written, "As I live, saith the Lord, to Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God."

¹¹ For it has been written, "As I live, saith the Lord, to Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God." ¹² So, then, each one of us shall give account concerning himself to God. ¹³ Let us not, therefore, judge one another any more; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block, or an occasion of falling, in a brother's way.

³² that, coming to you in joy through the will of God, I may with you be refreshed.

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.

¹⁹ but I will come to you shortly if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power;

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

¹⁹ Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, Who is in you, Whom ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?

³⁰ and those who weep, as though they wept not; and those who rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those who buy, as though they possessed not;

⁷ For I do not wish to see you now in passing; for I hope to remain sometime with you, if the Lord permit.

¹⁶ And what agreement has a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God, as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

¹ Having, therefore, these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

¹⁰ For godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world works death. ¹¹ For, behold this very thing—that ye were made sorry after a godly manner—what diligence it wrought in you; yea, what defense of yourselves; yea, what indignation; yea, what fear; yea what earnest desire; yea, what zeal; yea, what avenging! In everything ye proved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

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;

¹⁰ For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please men? If still I were pleasing men, I should not be Christ's servant.

⁸ And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the gentiles through faith, proclaimed beforehand the Gospel to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."

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.

²⁷ neither give place to the Devil.

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling, be put away from you, with all wickedness;

²¹ submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ;

¹¹ Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil; ¹² because to us the struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

⁵ Make dead, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which, indeed, is idolatry;

⁸ I desire, therefore, that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing;

¹¹ It is needful that their wives, in like manner, be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

⁴ he has become puffed up, knowing nothing, but morbid about questions and word-battles, out of which come envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, ⁵ wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing godliness to be a source of gain. ⁶ But godliness with contentment is a great source of gain; ⁷ for nothing have we brought into the world, neither can we carry anything out; ⁸ but, having food and raiment, with these we shall be content. ⁹ But those, purposing to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful desires, which, indeed, sink men into destruction and perdition. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all the evils; which some reaching after wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

³ without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, fierce, no lovers of good,

³ that aged women, in like manner, be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

³ For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving manifold desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

⁹ But shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strife, and contentions about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

³ And this will we do, if, indeed, God permit.

¹⁹ (for the law perfected nothing), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

²⁵ Whence also He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, since He is ever living to intercede in their behalf.

²² let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having had our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed with pure water,

⁹ Furthermore, we used to have the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?

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; ⁶ but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting; for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, wind-driven and tossed. ⁷ For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; ⁸ a double-souled man, unstable in all his ways.

¹⁰ and the rich, in his humiliation; because, as a flower of grass, he shall pass away.

¹⁴ But each one is tempted, when by his own desire he is drawn away and enticed.

²² And become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding yourselves. ²³ Because, if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror;

²⁵ But he who looks carefully into a perfect law—that of liberty—and remains by it, becoming not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work—this man shall be happy in his doing.

²⁷ A religion, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulation, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

¹⁴ But, if ye have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.

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.

¹ Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it on your pleasures.

⁶ But He giveth more grace Wherefore, the Scripture says, "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble." ⁷ Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

¹ Come now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you!

¹ Come now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you!

¹ Come now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you! ² Your wealth has become corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten.

² Your wealth has become corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver are covered with rust, and their rust will be for a witness against you, and will eat your flesh, as fire. Ye laid up treasures in the last days! ⁴ Behold, the hire of the workmen who mowed down your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, is crying out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. ⁵ Ye lived luxuriously on the earth, and rioted in pleasure; ye nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

⁹ Murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye be not judged: behold, The Judge has taken His stand before the doors!

¹⁴ as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance;

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

²⁴ Because "All flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass: the grass withered, and the flower fell off; but the word of the Lord abides forever."

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

¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly desires, which, indeed, war against the soul;

¹³ Submit yourself to every human ordinance, for the Lord's sake; whether to a king as supreme;

²¹ which, in its anti-type, immersion, now saves you also (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the requirement of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

² that ye no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh to the desires of men, but to the will of God. ³ For the time past is sufficient to have wrought the will of the gentiles, having walked in wantonness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revelings, carousings, and impious idolatries;

⁷ But the end of all things has drawn near; be ye, therefore, of sound mind, and be sober unto prayers;

⁵ Likewise, ye younger, be subject to the elder; yea, all of you gird on the lowly mind to serve one another; because "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the lowly." ⁶ Be humbled, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due season;

⁸ Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, is going about, seeking whom he may devour; ⁹ whom resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same kinds of sufferings are being accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.

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;

²¹ For it were better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

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

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; ¹⁶ because all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the vain-glory of life—is not of the Father, but is of the world.

¹⁶ because all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the vain-glory of life—is not of the Father, but is of the world. ¹⁷ And the world is passing away, and the desire thereof; but be that does the will of God abides forever.

¹⁷ And the world is passing away, and the desire thereof; but be that does the will of God abides forever.

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

²² and whatsoever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments, and do the things that are pleasing before Him.

¹⁴ And this is the confidence which we have toward Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us;

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."

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. ¹⁰ And I heard a great voice in Heaven, saying, "Now came the salvation, and the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ; because the accuser of our brethren was cast down, he who accused them before our God day and night; ¹¹ and they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they loved not their soul, even to death.

⁷ As much as she glorified herself, and lived luxuriously, so much torment and mourning give her; because she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am not a widow, and shall in nowise see mourning.'

⁷ As much as she glorified herself, and lived luxuriously, so much torment and mourning give her; because she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am not a widow, and shall in nowise see mourning.' ⁸ Therefore, in one day shall come her plagues, death and mourning and famine; and she shall be burned up with fire; because strong is the Lord God who judged her.