2 Corinthians 1 Cross References - Worsley

¹ Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, and all the saints that are in Achaia: ² grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and God of all consolation; who comforteth us in all our affliction, ⁴ that we may be able to comfort those, that are in any trouble, by the consolation wherewith we ourselves are comforted by God. ⁵ For as the sufferings for the sake of Christ abound on us, so our consolation by Christ doth also abound. ⁶ And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is wrought out by the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or if we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. ⁷ And our hope is firm concerning you, knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the consolation. ⁸ For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befel us in Asia, that we were exceedingly pressed above our strength, so that we despaired even of life: ⁹ but we had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead: ¹⁰ who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver, in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us: ¹¹ you also assisting by prayer for us, that the favor obtained for us by the prayers of many might be thankfully acknowledged by many on our account. ¹² For this is our rejoicing, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and pious sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and especially towards you. ¹³ For we write no other things to you, but what ye own and acknowledge, and I hope ye will always acknowledge. ¹⁴ As ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, as ye also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus. ¹⁵ And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you first, (that ye might have a second benefit,) and to pass by you into Macedonia; ¹⁶ and then to come to you again from Macedonia, and by you to be forwarded on my way to Judea. ¹⁷ Now when I intended this, was I chargeable with levity? or what I purpose, do I purpose from carnal motives, that with me there should be yea, yea, and then no, no? ¹⁸ But the faithful God, He knows, that our word to you was not yes and no. ¹⁹ For Jesus Christ the Son of God, who was preached among you by us, even by me, and Silvanus, and Timothy, was not yea and nay, ²⁰ but was yea in Him, (for all the promises of God are in Him yea, and in Him amen,) to the glory of God by us: ²¹ but He that establisheth us as well as you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; who hath also sealed us, ²² and given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. ²³ But I call God to witness on my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet to Corinth: ²⁴ not that we are lords over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

¹⁷ and lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

¹¹ Blessed are ye when men shall revile and persecute you, and utter all manner of reproach against you falsly, for my sake: ¹² rejoice and be exceeding glad; for great will be your reward in heaven: for so they persecuted the prophets, that were before you.

³⁷ but let your conversation be yea, yea; no, no; for whatever is more than these, cometh from the evil one.

¹³ and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory for ever. Amen."

¹⁶ And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God. ¹⁷ And Jesus replied and said unto him, Blessed art thou Simon son of Jonas, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven.

⁵ And as he was speaking, lo a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him.

⁸ But be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your instructor even Christ, and ye are all brethren. ⁹ Neither call any man upon earth Father; for one is your Father, who is in heaven: ¹⁰ neither be ye called masters; for one is your master, even Christ.

³⁵ Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

⁴⁹ and begin to beat his fellow-servants, and to revel with drunkards:

⁶³ Then the high priest said to Him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us, if thou be the Christ, the Son of God. ⁶⁴ Jesus saith unto him, It is as thou hast said: and I tell you, hereafter ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.

⁴⁰ and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it again in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross.

⁵⁴ And when the centurion, and they that were with him guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake, and what was done, they were sore afraid, and said, This was indeed the Son of God.

¹ The beginning of the gospel of JESUS CHRIST the Son of GOD.

³⁵ And the angel answered and said unto her, The holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee, and therefore thine holy offspring shall be called the Son of God: and lo,

⁶⁸ and prophesied, saying, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He hath visited and wrought redemption for his people, ⁶⁹ and hath raised up an horn of salvation for us, ⁷⁰ in the house of his servant David, as He spake by the mouth of his holy prophets from the beginning, ⁷¹ even salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us, ⁷² to display his mercy towards our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant, ⁷³ according to the oath which He sware to Abraham our father, ⁷⁴ to grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him,

¹⁴ praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will towards men.

²⁵ And there was a man at Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and he was a just and a religious man, who expected the consolation of Israel; and the holy Spirit was upon him.

⁹ And He spake also this parable to some that trusted in themselves as being righteous, and despised others.

²⁸ Ye have continued with me in my temptations; ²⁹ and I appoint you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me: ³⁰ that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit upon thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹⁷ For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ:

³⁴ And I saw it, and therefore testified that this is the Son of God.

⁴⁹ Nathaniel replied, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the king of Israel.

⁵ Jesus answered, I tell thee of a truth, Unless a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him might not perish, but have everlasting life:

³⁴ for He, whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God: for God giveth the Spirit to Him not by measure. ³⁵ The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all into his hand: ³⁶ wherefore he that believeth on the Son, hath eternal life; and he that obeyeth not the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.

²² For neither doth the Father judge any one, but hath committed all judgement to the Son; ²³ that all men may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father: he, that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father that sent Him.

²⁷ Labour not so much for the meat that perisheth, but rather for that food which endureth unto life eternal, which the Son of man will give you: for Him hath God the Father sealed.

⁶⁹ Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and know that thou art the Messiah, the Son of the living God.

²⁸ Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, ye say, and ye know whence I am: now I am not come of myself, but He that sent me is true, whom ye know not.

¹⁵ Ye judge according to the flesh, but I judge no man as yet:

²⁶ I have many things to say and to judge concerning you: but I only say, He that sent me is true, and I declare to the world those things, which I have heard from Him.

⁵⁸ Jesus said unto them, Before Abraham was, I am.

³⁰ I and the Father are one. Then the Jews again took up stones to stone Him.

⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.

¹⁶ and He will give you another comforter to abide with you for ever:

¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans: I will come to you.

²⁶ But the comforter, that is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said unto you.

⁷ The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law He ought to die, because He made himself the Son of God.

¹⁷ Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not now; for I am not yet ascended to my Father; but go directly to my brethren, and tell them, "I am to ascend to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God."

²⁸ And Thomas answered, and said, "My Lord and my God."

³¹ but these things are written, that ye may believe, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye may have life through his name.

²⁵ Now ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant, which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, "And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed:" ²⁶ and to you first God having raised up his son Jesus, sent Him to bless you; in your turning away every one of you from your iniquities.

³⁶ And as they went on their way, they came to a certain water: and the eunuch said, See here is water, what hindereth me from being baptized?

⁴ and he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

²⁰ And he immediately preached Christ in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God.

³⁸ how God anointed Him with the holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed by the devil: for God was with Him.

⁵ Peter was therefore kept in custody: but incessant prayer was made to God for him by the church.

³² And we bring you good tidings, ³³ that the promise made unto the fathers God hath fulfilled unto us their children, having raised up Jesus again: as it is also written in the second psalm, "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee." ³⁴ And that He raised Him from the dead, no more to return to the place of corruption, He hath said thus, "I will give you the sure mercies of David." ³⁵ Wherefore he saith also in another place, Thou wilt not suffer thine holy One to see corruption. ³⁶ Now David having served his own generation according to the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption: but He whom God raised, ³⁷ did not see corruption. ³⁸ Be it known therefore unto you, brethren, that through Him is preached unto you the remission of sins: ³⁹ and by Him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

²² Then it seemed good to the apostles, and elders, and the whole church, to send men chose from among themselves to Antioch along with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas sirnamed Barsabas, and Silas; leading men among the brethren:

¹ Then he came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold there was a certain disciple there, named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewess, but of a Grecian father.

¹ After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth. ² And finding there a certain Jew, named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who was lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, (because Claudius Cesar had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome,) he went to them; ³ and as he was of the same trade, he staid and worked with them: for they were tent-makers. ⁴ And he discoursed in the synagogue every sabbath-day, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks. ⁵ And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was very urgent in spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.

⁵ And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was very urgent in spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. ⁶ But as they opposed and blasphemed, he shook his garment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clear of it: from henceforth I will go to the Gentiles. ⁷ And departing thence, he went to the house of one named Justus, who worshipped God, whose house was contiguous to the synagogue. ⁸ But Crispus the ruler of the synagogue believed on the Lord with all his house: and many of the Corinthians hearing the word believed, and were baptized. ⁹ And the Lord said to Paul by a vision in the night, "Fear not, but speak: and be not silent: ¹⁰ for I am with thee, and no man shall lay hands on thee to hurt thee; for I have much people in this city." ¹¹ And he staid a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God. ¹² But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose against Paul, and brought him to the seat of justice,

²¹ After these things, Paul purposed in spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia, and go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. ²² So he sent into Macedonia two of those that ministred to him, Timothy and Erastus, but he himself stayed some time in Asia. ²³ Now there happened at that time no small disturbance about the way which he taught. ²⁴ For one Demetrius, a silver-smith, who made silver models of Diana's temple, brought no small gain to the artificers: whom he got together, ²⁵ and with them the workmen they employed about such things, and said, My friends, ye know that by this employment we get our wealth. ²⁶ And ye see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but in almost all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and perverted many people, saying, that they are no gods which are made by hands. ²⁷ So that we are not only in danger of this, that the business we follow will come to nothing; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana will be despised; and her magnificence destroyed, whom all Asia and the whole world worshippeth. ²⁸ Hearing this and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. ²⁹ And the whole city was filled with confusion: and they rushed with one accord into the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus two Macedonians, fellow-travellers with Paul. ³⁰ And when Paul would have gone in unto the people, the disciples would not let him. ³¹ And some also of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, sent to him and desired him not to venture himself into the theatre. ³² Some therefore cried one thing, and some another; for the assembly was confused, and the greater part did not know for what they were come together. ³³ And they brought Alexander forward out of the multitude, the Jews urging him on. And Alexander beckoning with the hand, would have made a defence to the people. ³⁴ But when they knew that he was a Jew, they all cried out with one voice, for near two hours, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. ³⁵ And when the Secretary had appeased the multitude, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there who doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is devoted to the service of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

⁵ But when we had completed these days, we departed and went our way, all of them attending us with their wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore and prayed.

¹ and Paul looking earnestly at the sanhedrim, said, "Brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God even to this day:"

¹⁶ And on this account do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence both towards God and towards men.

²¹ For these things the Jews seized me in the temple, and attempted to kill me.

¹ Paul a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, ² separated unto the gospel of God, (which He had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures) concerning his Son, ³ who was of the seed of David according to the flesh,

³ who was of the seed of David according to the flesh, ⁴ but powerfully declared to be the Son of God, according to the spirit of holiness, by his resurrection from the dead, even Jesus Christ our Lord;

⁴ but powerfully declared to be the Son of God, according to the spirit of holiness, by his resurrection from the dead, even Jesus Christ our Lord; ⁵ by whom we have received grace and apostleship to preach the obedience of faith for his name's sake, to all nations;

⁷ to all that are in Rome beloved of God, called and holy: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ for God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how incessantly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

¹¹ For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be established: ¹² that is to say, that being among you we may be comforted together by the faith of each, both yours and mine.

¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had in uncircumcision: that he might be the father of all that believe though not circumcised, that righteousness may be imputed to them also:

¹⁷ (as it is written, "I have made thee a father of many nations,") in the sight of Him whom he believed, even God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not as if they were: ¹⁸ who against hope believed, with hope, that he should be the father of many nations, according to that which was said unto him, "So shall thy seed be." ¹⁹ And not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, being about an hundred years old; nor the deadness of Sarah's womb. ²⁰ He hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief: but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, ²¹ and being fully persuaded, that what was promised He was able to perform: ²² and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. ²³ Now it was not written on his account only, that it was imputed to him: ²⁴ but for our sakes also, to him it will be imputed, as we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead: ²⁵ who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

² through whom also we have admission by faith into this grace in which we stand, and boast in hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only so, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, ⁴ and patience experience, ⁵ and experience hope, and this hope maketh us not ashamed; because the love of God is diffused in our hearts by the holy Spirit that is given to us.

²³ For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁹ But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if the Spirit of God dwelleth in you: but if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. ¹⁵ For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ So that the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. ¹⁷ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and co-heirs with Christ: if so be we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified with Him. ¹⁸ And I account the sufferings of this present time not worthy to be set against the glory that shall be revealed to us.

²³ And not only others, but those also who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit the redemption of our body.

²⁸ And we know that all things co-operate for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose;

¹ I say the truth in Christ, I lye not, (my conscience bearing me witness in the holy Ghost,)

²⁰ Well; they were broken off for their infidelity, and thou standest by faith: therefore be not high-minded but fear.

²⁵ For I would not have you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery, (least ye should be wise in your own eyes) that blindness in part is befallen Israel, till the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

³⁶ For of Him, and through Him, and for Him, are all things. To Him be glory for ever. Amen.

⁵ And may the God of patience and consolation grant you the like mutual affection to each other, according to the example of Christ Jesus: ⁶ that with one mind and one mouth ye may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁷ Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ hath received us, to the glory of God. ⁸ Now Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the manifestation of the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers: ⁹ and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy, as it is written, "For this cause will I celebrate Thee among the Gentiles, and sing praises unto thy name."

²⁶ For the Macedonians and Achaians have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor saints at Jerusalem.

²⁹ And I know that when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. ³⁰ Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye earnestly strive together with me in prayers to God for me; ³¹ that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea; and that this my service at Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints:

³¹ that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea; and that this my service at Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints: ³² that I may come to you with joy, by the will of God, and may be refreshed with you.

⁵ and the church in their house. Salute my beloved Epenetus, who is the first-fruits of Achaia unto Christ.

¹⁸ and avoid them; for such people serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by a soothing address and good words deceive the hearts of the innocent. ¹⁹ For your obedience is come to the knowledge of all: and therefore I rejoice on your account; but yet I would have you wise to that which is good, and simple as to that which is evil.

²¹ Timothy my fellow-laborer, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

²⁵ Now to Him that is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, (conformable to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret in former times,

¹ Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, ² even to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is both their Lord and ours; ³ grace and peace be to you from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ who will also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁹ for God is faithful by whom ye were called into the communion of his son Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁴ And my discourse, and my preaching was not with the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power; ⁵ that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

¹³ which we also speak of, not in words dictated by human wisdom, but in those which are dictated by the holy Spirit; explaining spiritual things by spiritual words.

⁵ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whose means ye embraced the faith, even as the Lord gave success to each of them?

²¹ Therefore let no one glory in men: for all things are yours; ²² whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or future, all are yours; ²³ and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

⁴ (for I am conscious to myself of nothing; though I am not hereby justified;) but He that judgeth me is the Lord.

⁸ Ye are now full, ye are now rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ: we are weak, but ye are strong: ye are honoured, but we are despised. ¹¹ Even to this present time we suffer both hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling: ¹² and we labour working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless: when persecuted, we bear it: when defamed, we intreat. ¹³ We are made as the filth of the world, and the refuse of all things to this day.

¹⁹ But I will come to you soon, if the Lord please, and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power:

²¹ What do ye chuse? that I should come to you with a rod? or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

⁵ of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good.

⁸ Wherefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavening of sincerity and truth.

¹¹ And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.

¹³ No temptation has yet taken you but what is common to man: and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to sustain; but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

³² Behave inoffensively both to the Jews, and to the Greeks, and to the church of God.

¹⁸ For first when ye come together in the church, I hear there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it.

³⁴ and if any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together to your condemnation. And as to other things, I will set them in order when I come.

¹⁶ For if thou bless in the spirit, how shall the unlearned say Amen to thy thanksgiving, when he knoweth not what thou sayst?

¹ Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached to you at first, which ye received, and wherein ye stand.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his favor to me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

³¹ I protest by your rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I am even dying daily. ³² If, to speak as a man, I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage have I, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. ---

⁵ I will come to you, when I have passed through Macedonia; for I am to pass through Macedonia. ⁶ And perhaps I shall stay a while, or even pass the winter with you; that ye may forward me on my journey, whithersoever I go. ⁷ For I do not intend to see you now in my way, as I hope to stay some time with you, if the Lord permit.

⁹ though there are many opposers. ¹⁰ If Timothy should come, see that he be with you without fear: for he is employed in the work of the Lord, as I also am.

¹⁵ I beseech you, brethren, (for ye know the family of Stephanas, that they are the first-fruits of Achaia, and

⁴ that we may be able to comfort those, that are in any trouble, by the consolation wherewith we ourselves are comforted by God. ⁵ For as the sufferings for the sake of Christ abound on us, so our consolation by Christ doth also abound. ⁶ And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is wrought out by the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or if we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

¹² For this is our rejoicing, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and pious sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and especially towards you.

¹⁴ As ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, as ye also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁷ Now when I intended this, was I chargeable with levity? or what I purpose, do I purpose from carnal motives, that with me there should be yea, yea, and then no, no? ¹⁸ But the faithful God, He knows, that our word to you was not yes and no.

¹⁸ But the faithful God, He knows, that our word to you was not yes and no. ¹⁹ For Jesus Christ the Son of God, who was preached among you by us, even by me, and Silvanus, and Timothy, was not yea and nay, ²⁰ but was yea in Him, (for all the promises of God are in Him yea, and in Him amen,) to the glory of God by us:

²³ But I call God to witness on my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet to Corinth:

¹ But I determined with myself, not to come to you again in grief: ² for if I grieve you, who is it that maketh me glad, but he that is grieved by me? ³ And I wrote this to you, that when I come I may not have grief from those of whom I ought to receive joy, being persuaded concerning all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all.

⁵ And if any one hath caused grief, it hath grieved me only as to part of you, (that I may not overcharge you

¹⁷ For we are not like many who adulterate the word of God: but as with sincerity, but as from God, and in the sight of God, we speak concerning Christ.

⁵ not that we can of ourselves reckon upon any thing as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God.

² but have rejected shameful disguises, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth, recommending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.

⁵ for we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for the sake of Jesus. ⁶ For God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness, hath shined into our hearts, to reflect the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. ⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power might be evidently of God, and not of us:

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power might be evidently of God, and not of us: ⁸ being afflicted on every side, but not oppressed; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken; ¹⁰ cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be manifested in our body.

¹⁰ cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be manifested in our body. ¹¹ For we, who are yet living, are always exposed to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

¹¹ For we, who are yet living, are always exposed to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹² So that death is wrought in us, but life in you. ¹³ But having the same Spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I believed, and therefore have I spoken," we also believe, and therefore speak: ¹⁴ knowing that He, who raised up the Lord Jesus, will raise up us also by Jesus, and present us with you. ¹⁵ For all these things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the gratitude of many redound to the glory of God.

¹⁵ For all these things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the gratitude of many redound to the glory of God. ¹⁶ For which cause we are not disheartened: but though our outward man decayeth, yet the inward man is renewed daily. ¹⁷ For our short and light affliction is working out for us an infinite and eternal weight of glory, as we aim not at the things which are visible, but invisible: ¹⁸ for those, which are visible, are temporary, but the invisible are eternal.

⁵ Now He, that hath wrought us hereunto, is God; who hath also given us the earnest of the Spirit.

⁷ (for we walk by faith, not by sight,) we are confident, I say,

¹¹ Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men: but if not, we are manifest unto God, and I hope we are also manifested to your consciences: ¹² for we are not again recommending ourselves to you, but giving you an occasion of glorying on our account; that ye may have somewhat to answer those who glory in appearance, and not in heart.

¹ And we co-operating with Him do also exhort you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

⁶ But God, who comforteth those that are brought low, comforted us by the coming of Titus: ⁷ and not only by his coming, but especially by the consolation wherewith he was comforted on your account, acquainting us with your earnest desire towards us, your grief, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced greatly.

⁹ However, now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance; for ye were grieved after a godly manner, so that ye received no damage from us.

¹³ We were therefore comforted by your consolation; and rejoiced the more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all;

⁸ I speak not by way of command, but to prove the sincerity of your love also, by means of the forwardness of others.

² for I know your readiness of mind, which I boast of concerning you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath excited many.

¹¹ being in every thing enriched to all liberality, which produceth through us thanksgiving to God. ¹² For the ministration of this service not only supplieth the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also, through many thanksgivings, to the glory of God.

¹⁴ And in their prayer for you, who long after you because of the transcendent grace of God towards you.

² but being absent am bold towards you, yea I intreat you, that I may not be bold, when I am present, with that confidence, wherewith I think to proceed against some, who censure us as walking after the flesh.

² but being absent am bold towards you, yea I intreat you, that I may not be bold, when I am present, with that confidence, wherewith I think to proceed against some, who censure us as walking after the flesh.

² but being absent am bold towards you, yea I intreat you, that I may not be bold, when I am present, with that confidence, wherewith I think to proceed against some, who censure us as walking after the flesh. ³ For though we are in the flesh, we do not carry on our war according to the flesh:

³ For though we are in the flesh, we do not carry on our war according to the flesh: ⁴ (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the demolishing of bulwarks:)

⁶ And being prepared to avenge all disobedience, since your obedience is fulfilled. ⁷ Do ye look at things according to the outward appearance? If any one is confident in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again of himself, that as he is Christ's, so we also are Christ's. ⁸ For though I should boast yet more of our authority, (which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction) I should not be ashamed: ⁹ that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters; ¹⁰ for his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. ¹¹ But let such a one know this, that as we are in word by letters, when absent, such also shall we be in fact when present.

³ But I fear least as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the purity that is in Christ.

¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, this boast shall not be taken from me in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹ Wherefore? because I love you not?

²³ so am I: are they ministers of Christ? (if I may speak as a fool) I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes far exceeding, in prisons more frequently, and often even in deaths. ²⁴ From the Jews I have five times received forty stripes save one. ²⁵ Thrice I have been beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I have been shipwrecked, and was a night and a day on the deep: ²⁶ in journies often, in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren: ²⁷ in labor and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: and beside these outward troubles, ²⁸ that which besets me daily, the care of all the churches. ²⁹ Who is infirm, and I am not infirm also? who is offended, and I am not inflamed? ³⁰ If I must boast, I will boast of the things which relate to my infirmity. ³¹ And the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lye not.

⁷ And least I should be too much lifted up with the abundance of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, least I should be too much elevated. ⁸ For this I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. ⁹ And He said unto me, "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is manifested in thy weakness." With the greatest pleasure therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. ¹⁰ And therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, and in straits for the sake of Christ: for when I am thus weak, then am I made strong.

¹⁵ And I will with the greatest pleasure spend and be spent for your souls; even though the more I love you, the less I should be loved.

¹⁵ And I will with the greatest pleasure spend and be spent for your souls; even though the more I love you, the less I should be loved. ¹⁶ Be it so, that I did not burden you myself, yet, may some say, being crafty I over-reached you by subtilty. ¹⁷ But did I make a gain of you by any of those whom I sent to you? ¹⁸ I desired Titus to come to you, and with him I sent a brother: did Titus make a gain of you? did we not walk in the same spirit? did we not tread in the same steps? ¹⁹ Do ye then think that we are making apologies to you? No, we speak before God in Christ: and all, my beloved, for your edification. ²⁰ For I am afraid least when I come, I should not find you such as I could wish, and I should be found to you such as ye would not: least there should be contentions, emulations, animosities, strifes, thwartings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: and least,

² I said before, and I again tell you beforehand, as if I were present the second time; and being absent I now write to those who have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare:

⁶ But I hope ye will soon know that we are not disapproved.

¹⁰ Therefore I write these things while absent, that when present I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.

¹ Paul an apostle (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach Him among the gentiles; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

²⁰ (Now in what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.)

² But I went up according to a divine revelation, and laid before them the gospel which I preach among the gentiles: though privately to those of note, least I should run, or had run in vain.

¹⁶ Now the promises were made to Abraham, and to his seed. He doth not say, "and to seeds," as of many; but as of one, "and to thy seed," which is Christ. ¹⁷ This then I say, that the law, which was given four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul the covenant, which was so long before confirmed by God unto Christ, to make void the promise. ¹⁸ For if the inheritance be from the law, it is no more from the promise: whereas God gave it to Abraham by promise.

²² But the scripture hath shut up all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

⁴ But let every one try his own work, and then he will have matter of glorying in himself alone, and not in another.

¹⁶ And as many as shall walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be on them, even upon all the Israel of God.

¹ Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to the saints, who are at Ephesus, even the faithful in Christ Jesus;

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things by Christ;

⁶ to the praise of his glorious grace, whereby He hath made us acceptable in the Beloved:

¹² that we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. ¹³ In whom ye also trusted, when ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also when ye believed, ye were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise, ¹⁴ who is the pledge of our inheritance, till the redemption of his purchased possession, to the praise of his glory.

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation to the knowledge of Him,

⁷ That in the ages to come He might shew the superabundant riches of his grace, in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus.

⁸ On me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace bestowed, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, ⁹ and make all men to see the communication of the mystery, which from the ages past hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ; ¹⁰ that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly regions;

¹³ Wherefore I desire that ye would not be discouraged at my afflictions on your account, which is your glory.

³⁰ And grieve not the holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed to the day of redemption.

¹⁴ Stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth, and putting on the breast-plate of righteousness:

¹⁴ Stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth, and putting on the breast-plate of righteousness: ¹⁵ and having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace: ¹⁶ over all taking the shield of faith, whereby ye will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one:

¹⁸ praying at all seasons with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance, and intercession for all the saints; ¹⁹ and for me particularly, that utterance may be given me, that I may open my mouth with freedom, to make known the mystery of the gospel:

²³ Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus, which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: ² grace be unto you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁶ being confident of this, that He who hath begun a good work in you will continue to perfect it till the day of Jesus Christ.

⁶ being confident of this, that He who hath begun a good work in you will continue to perfect it till the day of Jesus Christ. ⁷ As it is just for me to think this of you all, because ye have me in your heart, both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, being all of you partakers of the same grace with me. ⁸ For God is my witness, how much I long for you all, as with the bowels of Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ that ye may try things that differ, that ye may be sincere and without offence until the day of Christ;

¹⁴ and many of the brethren in the Lord, encouraged by my bonds, are much more bold to publish the word without fear.

¹⁹ for I know that this shall turn to my safety through your prayer, and the aid of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. ²⁰ According to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall be put to shame in nothing; but that with all freedom of speech, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

²⁵ And as I am confident of this, I know that I shall abide and shall continue with you all, for your improvement and the joy of your faith: ²⁶ that your rejoicing in Christ Jesus may abound through me, by my coming to you again.

²⁶ that your rejoicing in Christ Jesus may abound through me, by my coming to you again.

¹ If therefore there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any participation of the Spirit,

¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹⁶ exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

¹⁹ But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, by knowing the state of your affairs. ²⁰ For I have no one of a like spirit, who will with a kind of natural affection take care of your affairs. ²¹ For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus. ²² But ye know the proof I have had of him, that as son with a father he served with me in the gospel.

¹⁰ and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death;

¹ Wherefore, my brethren, beloved and much desired, my joy and crown, so stand ye fast in the Lord, my beloved.

¹ Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, ² and Timothy our brother, to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ at Colosse: grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

² and Timothy our brother, to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ at Colosse: grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for the sake of his body, which is the church.

²⁷ to whom God would make known the rich glory of this mystery, among the gentiles; which is this, that Christ is in you the hope of glory:

⁷ rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught it, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

³ Praying at the same time for us also, that God would open to us a door of utterance, to declare the mystery of Christ, for which also I am in bonds: that I may make it manifest, as I ought.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ Incessantly remembering your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father: ⁴ knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God.

⁷ So that ye became examples to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. ⁸ For the word of the Lord sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia; but also in every place your faith towards God is spread abroad, so that we have no need to say any thing of it.

⁵ For neither at any time used we flattering speech, as ye know, nor covetous pretence, God is witness:

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and unblameably we behaved towards you that believe:

¹⁸ Wherefore we would have come unto you (even I Paul) once and again; but Satan hindered us. ¹⁹ For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? are not ye also among others in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? ²⁰ for ye are our glory and our joy.

¹³ that your hearts may be established unblameable in holiness, before God even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints.

¹⁸ Therefore comfort one another with these words.

¹¹ Wherefore comfort one another, and edify each other, as indeed ye do.

²³ And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly: and grant that your whole frame, spirit, soul, and body may be kept blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁵ Brethren, pray for us.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ; ² grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God, for your patience and faith under all your persecutions and afflictions which ye endure. ⁵ Which are a demonstration of the just judgement of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: ⁶ seeing it is a righteous thing with God to render affliction to those that afflict you; ⁷ and to you, who are in trouble, rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven,

¹⁰ in that day, when He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe; because our testimony among you was believed.

⁸ And then the wicked one shall be detected, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth, and abolish by the brightness of his coming:

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, ¹⁷ and establish you in every good word and work.

¹⁷ and establish you in every good word and work.

¹ As for the rest, my brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run, and be glorified, as it is among you:

³ But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and preserve you from the evil one.

¹ Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the appointment of God our Saviour, and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

⁵ so do, and acquaint them that the end of that charge is charity, out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned:

¹⁹ having faith and a good conscience, which some putting away have made shipwreck concerning the faith: ²⁰ of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

²⁰ of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

¹⁰ For to this end we both labour and suffer reproach, because we have hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

¹ Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

¹⁰ Therefore I submit to every thing for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is by Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

¹² if we suffer, we shall also reign with Him: if we disown Him, He will also disown us.

¹⁹ However, the foundation of God standeth firm, having this inscription, The Lord knoweth them that are his; and, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

²⁴ but to be gentle towards all men, ready to teach, patient under injuries, ²⁵ with meekness instructing those of different sentiments, not knowing but God may give them repentance to the acknowledgement of the truth; ²⁶ and they may awake out of the snare of the devil, who have been captivated by him to his will.

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that by me the gospel might be fully spread, and that all the nations might hear: and so I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

¹ Paul a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for promoting the faith of God's chosen people, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness:

⁷ in all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works, with uncorruptness in teaching, gravity, sound doctrine that cannot be condemned;

³ grace and peace be to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁶ that the communication of thy faith may become effectual in the acknowledgement of all the good that is in you towards Christ Jesus:

²² But I must add, prepare me also a lodging; for I hope that through your prayers I shall be restored to you.

¹¹ they shall perish, but thou remainest; and they shall all grow old as a garment,

¹² that ye would not be sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises. ¹³ For when God made the promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself, saying, ¹⁴ "Verily blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee." ¹⁵ And thus waiting patiently he obtained the promise. ¹⁶ For men swear by a greater Being, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all controversy. ¹⁷ Wherefore God being willing more abundantly to manifest unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it with an oath: ¹⁸ that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to fail, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us; ¹⁹ which we have as an anchor of the soul safe and stedfast, and which entereth within the veil.

⁶ but he, whose pedigree is not reckoned among them, took tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

¹⁰ relating only to meats and drinks, and different washings, and such carnal ordinances as were required till the time of reformation. ¹¹ But Christ being come an high-priest of the good things to come, hath entered once for all into the holy places, through a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this building, ¹² nor by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption for us. ¹³ For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purification of the flesh; ¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works, that ye may serve the living God? ¹⁵ And on this account He is the mediator of a new covenant, that undergoing death for the redemption of transgressions against the first covenant, they that are called might receive the promise of an eternal inheritance.

¹³ These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but seen them from afar, and been persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

¹⁹ concluding that God was able to raise him even from the dead; from whence indeed he had in a manner received him.

³⁹ And these all, though they obtained an honorable testimony by faith, yet received not the promise; ⁴⁰ God having provided something better concerning us, that without us they might not be made perfect.

¹⁰ For they indeed corrected us for a while, as seemed good to them; but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ Now no chastening seems for the present to be matter of joy but of grief: and yet afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those that are exercised thereby. ¹² Lift up therefore the hands that hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees.

⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to day, and for ever:

¹⁸ Pray for us; for we are confident that we have a good conscience, desiring in all things to behave well.

²³ Know that our brother Timothy is set at liberty, with whom (if he come soon) I will see you.

² Account it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials: ³ knowing this, that the trial of your faith worketh patience; ⁴ but let patience have it's perfect work, that ye may be entirely perfect, failing in nothing.

¹² Happy is the man who sustaineth temptation; for being approved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.

¹³ Is there any wise and understanding man among you? let him shew his works by a good conversation in the meekness of wisdom: ¹⁴ but if ye have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth; ¹⁵ this is not the wisdom, that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and diabolical: ¹⁶ for where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. ¹⁷ But the wisdom that is from above first is pure, then peaceable, mild, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those that promote peace.

⁶ No, He giveth more grace: wherefore it is said, God resisteth the proud, but sheweth favor to the humble.

¹² But above all, my brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay nay; that ye may not fall under condemnation.

¹⁶ Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed: the fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. ¹⁷ Elias was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the land for three years and six months: ¹⁸ and he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth put forth its fruit.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath regenerated us to a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

¹² to whom it was revealed, that it was not to themselves, but to us they ministered these things, which are now declared unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you, through the holy Spirit sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

¹⁶ having a good conscience, that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ.

²¹ The resemblance of which, even baptism, doth also now save us, (not the outward cleansing of filth from the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

³ nor as lording it over the people, but being examples to the flock.

⁸ Be sober, be vigilant; for your adversary the devil, like a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: ⁹ whom resist, stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are endured by your brethren in the world. ¹⁰ But may the God of all grace, who hath called us to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered a little while, make you perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

¹⁷ For He received from God the Father honor and glory when a voice came to Him from the magnificent glory, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

⁹ iniquitous deeds) then the Lord knoweth how to deliver the pious from temptation, and to reserve the wicked to the day of judgement to be punished:

³ and was manifested unto us) what we have seen and heard we declare unto you, that ye also may have communion with us: and our communion is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

²⁰ And ye have an unction from the holy One, and know all.

²⁴ Let that therefore, which ye have heard from the beginning, abide in you: for if that, which ye heard from the beginning, remain in you, ye also will remain in the Son and in the Father. ²⁵ And this is the promise which He hath promised us, even eternal life.

²⁷ But the unction, which ye have received from Him, abideth in you; and therefore ye have no need that any should teach you: since this very unction teacheth you concerning all things, and is truth and not falshood; even as that hath taught you, abide in Him.

¹⁹ And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. ²⁰ For, if our heart condemn us, God is still greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence towards God: ²² and whatsoever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

⁹ Now if we admit the testimony of men, sure the testimony of God is greater: and this is the testimony of God, which He hath testified concerning his Son. ¹⁰ He, that believeth on the Son of God, hath the witness in himself: he, that believeth not God, hath in effect made Him a liar, because he believed not the testimony which God hath testified of his Son. ¹¹ And the testimony is this, that God hath given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son.

¹¹ And the testimony is this, that God hath given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son. ¹² He that hath the Son hath life: he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. ¹³ These things have I written to you, who believe on the name of the son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may the more firmly believe on the name of the Son of God.

²⁰ But we know that the son of God is come, and hath given us understanding, that we may know Him that is true, and we are in Him that is true, and in his son Jesus Christ: He is the true God, and eternal life.

⁴ I rejoiced greatly that I found among thy children such as walked in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.

⁹ Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God: but he, that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, hath both the Father and the Son.

⁶ and hath made us kings and priests to his God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

⁸ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.

¹¹ saying, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last; and, What thou seest write in a book, and send it to the seven churches in Asia, to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

¹⁷ And when I saw Him, I fell at his feet as dead; and He laid his right hand upon me, and said to me, "Fear not,

¹⁷ Let him, that hath an ear, hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna: and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth, but He that receiveth it. ¹⁸ And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, These things saith the Son of God, who hath eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet like fine brass; I know thy works,

⁷ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, These things saith the holy One, He that is true, He that hath the key of David, He that openeth and no one shutteth, and shutteth and no one openeth:

¹⁴ And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot:

¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayst be rich; and white raiment that thou mayst be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear: and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that thou mayst see.

³ saying, Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.

¹² Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and strength be ascribed to our God for ever and ever. Amen.

⁴ And order was given them, not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree; but only the men, who had not the seal of God on their foreheads.