1 Peter Cross References - YLT

¹ Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, ² according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!
³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead, ⁴ to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you, ⁵ who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,
⁶ in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials, ⁷ that the proof of your faith—much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved—may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ, ⁸ whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified, ⁹ receiving the end of your faith—salvation of souls;
¹⁰ concerning which salvation seek out and search out did prophets who concerning the grace toward you did prophecy, ¹¹ searching in regard to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ that was in them was manifesting, testifying beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory after these, ¹² to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.
¹³ Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance, ¹⁵ but according as He who did call you is holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour, ¹⁶ because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;' ¹⁷ and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye, ¹⁸ having known that, not with corruptible things—silver or gold—were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers, ¹⁹ but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted—Christ's— ²⁰ foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you, ²¹ who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God. ²² Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly, ²³ being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God—living and remaining—to the age;
²⁴ because all flesh is as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away, ²⁵ and the saying of the Lord doth remain—to the age; and this is the saying that was proclaimed good news to you.

³³ And you I scatter among nations, and have drawn out after you a sword, and your land hath been a desolation, and your cities are a waste.

²⁷ and Jehovah hath scattered you among the peoples, and ye have been left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah leadeth you,

⁶⁴ and Jehovah hath scattered thee among all the peoples, from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth; and thou hast served there other gods which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers—wood and stone.

²⁶ I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;

⁸ And Haman saith to the king Ahasuerus, `There is one people scattered and separated among the peoples, in all provinces of thy kingdom, and their laws are diverse from all people, and the laws of the king they are not doing, and for the king it is not profitable to suffer them;

¹¹ Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.

⁸ And I have caused some to remain, In their being to you the escaped of the sword among nations, In your being scattered through lands.

¹⁸ And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon named Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a drag into the sea—for they were fishers—

² And of the twelve apostles the names are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James of Zebedee, and John his brother;

²² And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.

⁴¹ this one doth first find his own brother Simon, and saith to him, `We have found the Messiah,' (which is, being interpreted, The Anointed,) <sup>42</sup> and he brought him unto Jesus: and having looked upon him, Jesus saith, `Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas, thou shalt be called Cephas,' (which is interpreted, A rock.)

³⁵ The Jews, therefore, said among themselves, `Whither is this one about to go that we shall not find him? —to the dispersion of the Greeks is he about to go? and to teach the Greeks;

⁵² and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.

¹⁵ When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, `Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Feed my lambs.' <sup>16</sup> He saith to him again, a second time, `Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Tend my sheep.' ¹⁷ He saith to him the third time, `Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, `Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, `Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, `Feed my sheep;

⁵ And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation of those under the heaven, ⁶ and the rumour of this having come, the multitude came together, and was confounded, because they were each one hearing them speaking in his proper dialect, ⁷ and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, `Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? ⁸ and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born? ⁹ Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, in Judea also, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia, ¹⁰ Phrygia also, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya, that are along Cyrene, and the strangers of Rome, both Jews and proselytes, ¹¹ Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.'

⁹ and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, called of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia, disputing with Stephen,

⁴ they then indeed, having been scattered, went abroad proclaiming good news—the word.

⁶ and having gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia, ⁷ having gone toward Mysia, they were trying to go on toward Bithynia, and the Spirit did not suffer them,

² and having found a certain Jew, by name Aquilas, of Pontus by birth, lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife—because of Claudius having directed all the Jews to depart out of Rome—he came to them,

²³ And having made some stay he went forth, going through in order the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

¹⁰ And this happened for two years so that all those dwelling in Asia did hear the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks,

¹⁶ for Paul decided to sail past Ephesus, that there may not be to him a loss of time in Asia, for he hasted, if it were possible for him, on the day of the Pentecost to be at Jerusalem.
¹⁷ And from Miletus, having sent to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the assembly, ¹⁸ and when they were come unto him, he said to them, `Ye—ye know from the first day in which I came to Asia, how, with you at all times I was;

¹⁹ Salute you do the assemblies of Asia; salute you much in the Lord do Aquilas and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house;

⁸ For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above our power, so that we despaired even of life;

² and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

¹² that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

¹⁹ Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

¹⁵ thou hast known this, that they did turn from me—all those in Asia, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes;

¹³ In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

¹ James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail!

¹¹ Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

¹ Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who did obtain a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

¹¹ `I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;' and, `What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that are in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'

⁶ for a holy people art thou to Jehovah thy God; on thee hath Jehovah thy God fixed, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ground.

⁷ Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.

⁹ And I have brought out from Jacob a seed, And from Judah a possessor of My mount, And possess it do My chosen ones, And My servants do dwell there.

²² They do not build, and another inhabit, They do not plant, and another eat, For as the days of a tree are the days of My people, And the work of their hands wear out do My chosen ones.

¹ `Nebuchadnezzar the king to all peoples, nations, and languages, who are dwelling in all the earth: Your peace be great!

²⁵ Then Darius the king hath written to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who are dwelling in all the land: `Your peace be great!

²⁴ for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen.

³¹ and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.

²⁰ and if the Lord did not shorten the days, no flesh had been saved; but because of the chosen, whom He did choose to Himself, He did shorten the days.

²² for there shall rise false Christs and false prophets, and they shall give signs and wonders, to seduce, if possible, also the chosen;

²⁷ and then he shall send his messengers, and gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the end of the earth unto the end of heaven.

⁷ and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night—bearing long in regard to them?

¹⁶ `Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you. <sup>17</sup> `These things I command you, that ye love one another;
¹⁸ if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; ¹⁹ if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not—but I chose out of the world—because of this the world hateth you.

²³ this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified—ye did slay;

¹⁸ `Known from the ages to God are all His works;

³² and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.

⁵ through whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;

⁷ to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints; Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ!

¹³ for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

²⁹ because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren; ³⁰ and whom He did fore-appoint, these also He did call; and whom He did call, these also He declared righteous; and whom He declared righteous, these also He did glorify.

³³ Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God is He that is declaring righteous,

²³ and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call—us— ²⁴ not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,

² God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known—in Elijah—what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

⁵ So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been; ⁶ and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work. ⁷ What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

²⁸ As regards, indeed, the good tidings, they are enemies on your account; and as regards the choice—beloved on account of the fathers;

¹⁶ for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁹ for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;

²⁶ and now having been made manifest, also, through prophetic writings, according to a command of the age-during God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith—

³⁰ and of Him ye—ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,

¹¹ And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

⁵ reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

¹⁴ the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, is with you all! Amen.

⁴ according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love, ⁵ having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

¹² Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

¹³ And we—we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,

¹⁰ because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that is in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.

¹ Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that is according to piety,

⁹ and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

¹⁹ for every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he both the book itself and all the people did sprinkle, ²⁰ saying, `This is the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,' ²¹ and both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service with blood in like manner he did sprinkle, ²² and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

²² may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;

²⁸ by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them.

²⁴ and to a mediator of a new covenant—Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!

²² Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

⁹ and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

² Grace to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgement of God and of Jesus our Lord!

¹ The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,

¹³ salute thee do the children of thy choice sister. Amen.

² kindness to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied!

⁶ and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,

¹⁵ And he saith, `Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, who spake by His mouth with David my father, and by His hand hath fulfilled it, saying,

¹⁰ And David blesseth Jehovah before the eyes of all the assembly, and David saith, `Blessed art Thou, Jehovah, God of Israel our father, from age even unto age. <sup>11</sup> To Thee, O Jehovah, is the greatness, and the might, and the beauty, and the victory, and the honour, because of all in the heavens and in the earth; to Thee, O Jehovah, is the kingdom, and he who is lifting up himself over all for head; <sup>12</sup> and the riches, and the honour are from before Thee, and Thou art ruling over all, and in Thy hand is power and might, and in Thy hand, to make great, and to give strength to all. <sup>13</sup> `And now, our God, we are giving thanks to Thee, and giving praise to Thy beauteous name;

²⁰ And David saith to all the assembly, `Bless, I pray you, Jehovah your God;' and all the assembly bless Jehovah, God of their fathers, and bow and do obeisance to Jehovah, and to the king.

¹³ Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age—and unto the age. Amen and Amen.

¹⁸ Blessed is Jehovah God, God of Israel, He alone is doing wonders, ¹⁹ And blessed is the Name of His honour to the age, And the whole earth is filled with His honour. Amen, and amen!

⁵ For Thou, Lord, art good and forgiving. And abundant in kindness to all calling Thee.

¹⁵ And Thou, O Lord, art God, merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth.

¹⁹ `Thy dead live—My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs is thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.

² and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land—therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish—that I have known that Thou art a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?

¹³ who—not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but—of God were begotten.

³ Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;' <sup>4</sup> Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?' ⁵ Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God; <sup>6</sup> that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit. <sup>7</sup> `Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above; ⁸ the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.'

²⁵ who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.

⁴ and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope; ⁵ and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

¹⁰ for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.

¹⁵ But, not as the offence so also is the free gift; for if by the offence of the one the many did die, much more did the grace of God, and the free gift in grace of the one man Jesus Christ, abound to the many; ¹⁶ and not as through one who did sin is the free gift, for the judgment indeed is of one to condemnation, but the gift is of many offences to a declaration of `Righteous,' <sup>17</sup> for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one—Jesus Christ. <sup>18</sup> So, then, as through one offence to all men it is to condemnation, so also through one declaration of `Righteous' it is to all men to justification of life; ¹⁹ for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous. ²⁰ And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound, ²¹ that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹¹ and if the Spirit of Him who did raise up Jesus out of the dead doth dwell in you, He who did raise up the Christ out of the dead shall quicken also your dying bodies, through His Spirit dwelling in you.

²⁴ for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for it ?

¹² in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

¹³ and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

¹³ and now there doth remain faith, hope, love—these three; and the greatest of these is love.

²⁰ And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead—the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

³ Blessed is God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

⁷ in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,

⁴ and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

⁶ and did raise us up together, and did seat us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ⁷ that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus, ⁸ for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you—of God the gift, ⁹ not of works, that no one may boast; ¹⁰ for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

²⁰ and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

²³ if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that is under the heaven, of which I became—I Paul—a ministrant.

²⁷ to whom God did will to make known what is the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations—which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,

³ unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,

¹³ And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

¹⁴ and exceedingly abound did the grace of our Lord, with faith and love that is in Christ Jesus:

¹³ waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

⁴ and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear ⁵ (not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour,

⁶ and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.

¹⁸ that through two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us, ¹⁹ which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail,

¹⁸ having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

²³ being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God—living and remaining—to the age;

² as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

²¹ also to which an antitype doth now save us—baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,

²⁹ if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.

³ and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

⁹ every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.

⁷ Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

¹ Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:

⁴ because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world—our faith;

¹⁸ We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;

¹⁹ How abundant is Thy goodness, That Thou hast laid up for those fearing Thee,

⁷ Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people is grass; ⁸ Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our God riseth for ever.

¹² And by the stream there cometh up on its edge, on this side and on that side, every kind of fruit-tree whose leaf fadeth not, and not consumed is its fruit, according to its months it yieldeth first-fruits, because its waters from the sanctuary are coming forth; and its fruits hath been for food, and its leaf for medicine.

³⁴ `Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.

¹⁷ and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ—if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

²⁵ and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we—we shall be changed: ⁵³ for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality; ⁵⁴ and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up—to victory;

¹⁸ for if by law be the inheritance, it is no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant it .

¹¹ in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

¹⁴ which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.

¹⁸ the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

⁵ because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,

¹² Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,

³ for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God; ⁴ when the Christ—our life—may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.

⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord—the Righteous Judge—shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

¹⁵ And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,

¹¹ for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!

⁹ not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

⁴ and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.

²⁷ and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but—those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.

⁹ The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

²⁵ That—I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.

²³ From Jehovah are the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth. ²⁴ When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand.

²⁸ For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.

¹⁷ And the kindness of Jehovah Is from age even unto age on those fearing Him, And His righteousness to sons' sons, ¹⁸ To those keeping His covenant, And to those remembering His precepts to do them.

¹ A Song of the Ascents. Those trusting in Jehovah are as Mount Zion, It is not moved—to the age it abideth. ² Jerusalem! mountains are round about her, And Jehovah is round about His people, From henceforth even unto the age.

⁸ To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.

¹⁷ Israel hath been saved in Jehovah, A salvation age-during! Ye are not ashamed nor confounded Unto the ages of eternity!

⁶ Lift ye up to the heavens your eyes, And look attentively unto the earth beneath, For the heavens as smoke have vanished, And the earth as a garment weareth out, And its inhabitants as gnats do die, And My salvation is to the age, And My righteousness is not broken.

¹⁷ No weapon formed against thee prospereth, And every tongue rising against thee, In judgment thou condemnest. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, And their righteousness from me, an affirmation of Jehovah!

⁴⁰ and I have made for them a covenant age-during, in that I turn not back from after them for My doing them good, and My fear I put in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me;

¹⁴ but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst—to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'

²⁴ `Verily, verily, I say to you—He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

²⁸ and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish—to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand; ²⁹ my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father; ³⁰ I and the Father are one.'

⁴⁸ `He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,

¹¹ and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we; ¹² when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.

¹⁵ I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.

³¹ What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us? ³³ Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God is He that is declaring righteous, ³⁴ who is he that is condemning? Christ is He that died, yea, rather also, was raised up; who is also on the right hand of God—who also doth intercede for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ (according as it hath been written—`For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,') ³⁷ but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us; ³⁸ for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, ³⁹ nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁰ by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;

²⁴ not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

²⁰ with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh—in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

⁸ for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you—of God the gift,

¹⁷ that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

⁶ having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform it till a day of Jesus Christ,

³ unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father, ⁴ having known, brethren beloved, by God, your election,

¹³ And we—we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth, ¹⁴ to which He did call you through our good news, to the acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹⁴ that thou keep the command unspotted, unblameable, till the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ which in His own times He shall shew—the blessed and only potentate, the King of the kings and Lord of the lords,

¹⁵ and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise—to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus;

¹² that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

²⁸ so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him—to salvation!

¹³ Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

² beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

¹ Judas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept—called,

²⁴ And to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set you in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness,

¹ And Hannah prayeth, and saith: `My heart hath exulted in Jehovah, My horn hath been high in Jehovah, My mouth hath been large over mine enemies, For I have rejoiced in Thy salvation.

²⁷ Though I say, `I forget my talking, I forsake my corner, and I brighten up!' ²⁸ I have been afraid of all my griefs, I have known that Thou dost not acquit me.

¹⁴ So that I recount all Thy praise, In the gates of the daughter of Zion. I rejoice on Thy salvation.

¹⁹ Many are the evils of the righteous, Out of them all doth Jehovah deliver him.

¹⁰ All my bones say, `Jehovah, who is like Thee, Delivering the poor from the stronger than he, And the poor and needy from his plunderer.'

²⁰ Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am sick, And I look for a bemoaner, and there is none, And for comforters, and I have found none.

¹ Come, we sing to Jehovah, We shout to the rock of our salvation.

²⁸ My soul hath dropped from affliction, Establish me according to Thy word.

⁷⁵ I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous are Thy judgments, And in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.

² Lo, God is my salvation, I trust, and fear not, For my strength and song is Jah Jehovah, And He is to me for salvation. ³ And ye have drawn waters with joy Out of the fountains of salvation,

³ To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, `Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah—to be beautified.'

¹⁰ I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.

³² For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness. ³³ For He hath not afflicted with His heart, Nor doth He grieve the sons of men.

¹² rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

²⁸ `Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

³⁷ And having taken Peter, and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful, and to be very heavy;

⁴⁷ And my spirit was glad on God my Saviour,

¹⁰ And the messenger said to them, `Fear not, for lo, I bring you good news of great joy, that shall be to all the people—

²⁰ but, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice rather that your names were written in the heavens.'

²² `And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,

³³ these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage—I have overcome the world.'

²² confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,

² through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.

¹¹ And not only so, but we are also boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we did receive the reconciliation;

² that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart—

⁹ for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last—as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men; ¹⁰ we are fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we are ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured; ¹¹ unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about, ¹² and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer; ¹³ being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become—of all things an offscouring—till now.

⁷ And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;
⁸ on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰ at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested, ¹¹ for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,

¹⁷ for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us—

¹⁰ as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

²³ ministrants of Christ are they? —as beside myself I speak—I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times; ²⁴ from Jews five times forty stripes save one I did receive; ²⁵ thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed; ²⁶ journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren; ²⁷ in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

⁹ and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me: ¹⁰ wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses—for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

²² And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

²⁶ seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,

³ for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice;

⁶ and ye—ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

³⁵ Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive, ³⁶ and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment; ³⁷ they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins—being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated, ³⁸ of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and in mountains, and in caves, and in the holes of the earth;

⁷ if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten? ⁸ and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons. ⁹ Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live? ¹⁰ for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation; ¹¹ and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it—it doth yield.

² All joy count it, my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;

⁹ And let the brother who is low rejoice in his exaltation,

⁹ be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

⁷ that the proof of your faith—much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved—may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ, ⁸ whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,

⁷ And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

¹² Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you, ¹³ but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice—exulting;

¹⁰ And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you;

³⁰ `Therefore—the affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel—I certainly said, Thy house and the house of thy father, do walk up and down before Me to the age; and now—the affirmation of Jehovah—Far be it from Me! for he who is honouring Me, I honour, and those despising Me, are lightly esteemed.

¹⁰ For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me—as gold I go forth.

¹⁰ For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver. ¹¹ Thou hast brought us into a net, Thou hast placed pressure on our loins. ¹² Thou hast caused man to ride at our head. We have entered into fire and into water, And Thou bringest us out to a watered place.

¹³ O the happiness of a man who hath found wisdom, And of a man who bringeth forth understanding. ¹⁴ For better is her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold—her increase. ¹⁵ Precious she is above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her.

¹⁹ Better is my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver.

¹⁶ To get wisdom—how much better than gold, And to get understanding to be chosen than silver!

³ A refining pot is for silver, and a furnace for gold, And the trier of hearts is Jehovah.

¹⁴ And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!

¹⁰ Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction.

⁷ Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do because of the daughter of My people?

³⁶ Therefore my heart for Moab as pipes doth sound, And my heart for men of Kir-Heres As pipes doth sound, Therefore the abundance he made did perish.

⁹ And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, `My people it is,' And it saith, `Jehovah is my God!'

³ And he hath sat, a refiner and purifier of silver, And he hath purified the sons of Levi, And hath refined them as gold and as silver, And they have been to Jehovah bringing nigh a present in righteousness.

²⁸ And Jesus said to them, `Verily I say to you, that ye who did follow me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man may sit upon a throne of his glory, shall sit—ye also—upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel;

²¹ `And his lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

²³ `His lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

²⁰ `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare—to whom shall they be? ²¹ so is he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

³³ sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

⁴⁴ how are ye able—ye—to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that is from God alone ye seek not?

²⁶ if any one may minister to me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my ministrant shall be; and if any one may minister to me—honour him will the Father.

²⁰ And Peter said unto him, `Thy silver with thee—may it be to destruction! because the gift of God thou didst think to possess through money;

⁷ to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility—life age-during;

²⁹ but a Jew is he who is so inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.

³ And not only so, but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance; ⁴ and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

¹³ of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare it, because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove;

⁵ so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

⁷ and to you who are troubled—rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power, ⁸ in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁹ who shall suffer justice—destruction age-during—from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength, ¹⁰ when He may come to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all those believing—because our testimony was believed among you—in that day;
¹¹ for which also we do pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfil all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of the faith in power, ¹² that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.

³ knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance, ⁴ and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire—in nothing lacking;

¹² Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

² your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten; ³ your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!

⁵ who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,

⁴ to whom coming—a living stone—by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,

⁷ to you, then, who are believing is the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner,

¹² Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

⁴ through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.

¹⁰ and it will come—the day of the Lord—as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
¹¹ All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts? ¹² waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt;

⁷ Lo, he doth come with the clouds, and see him shall every eye, even those who did pierce him, and wail because of him shall all the tribes of the land. Yes! Amen!

¹⁰ `Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

¹⁰ `Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.

¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

¹⁶ and saying, Woe, woe, the great city, that was arrayed with fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and gilded in gold, and precious stone, and pearls—because in one hour so much riches were made waste! ¹⁷ `And every shipmaster, and all the company upon the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, far off stood,

⁷ Declare to me, thou whom my soul hath loved, Where thou delightest, Where thou liest down at noon, For why am I as one veiled, By the ranks of thy companions?

⁹ What is thy beloved above any beloved, O fair among women? What is thy beloved above any beloved, That thus thou hast adjured us?

¹⁶ His mouth is sweetness—and all of him desirable, This is my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem!

¹⁷ Though the fig-tree doth not flourish, And there is no produce among vines, Failed hath the work of the olive, And fields have not yielded food, Cut off from the fold hath been the flock, And there is no herd in the stalls. ¹⁸ Yet I, in Jehovah I exult, I do joy in the God of my salvation.

³⁷ `He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

³⁵ for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me; ³⁶ naked, and ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye came unto me. ³⁷ `Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, and we nourished? or thirsting, and we gave to drink? <sup>38</sup> and when did we see thee a stranger, and we received? or naked, and we put around? <sup>39</sup> and when did we see thee infirm, or in prison, and we came unto thee? <sup>40</sup> `And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brethren—the least—to me ye did it .

⁴² Jesus then said to them, `If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;

¹⁵ `If ye love me, my commands keep,

²¹ he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

²⁴ he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

²⁹ Jesus saith to him, `Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed; happy those not having seen, and having believed.'

³⁴ having brought them also into his house, he set food before them, and was glad with all the household, he having believed in God.

¹⁷ for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;

²² if any one doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ—let him be anathema! The Lord hath come!

²² who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

¹⁸ we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen are temporary, but the things not seen are age-during.

⁷ for through faith we walk, not through sight—

¹⁴ for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, ¹⁵ and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

¹⁵ thanks also to God for His unspeakable gift!

⁴ that he was caught away to the paradise, and heard unutterable sayings, that it is not possible for man to speak.

⁶ for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.

¹³ in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth—the good news of your salvation—in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise, ¹⁴ which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.

²⁴ The grace with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ—undecayingly! Amen.

²⁵ and of this being persuaded, I have known that I shall remain and continue with you all, to your advancement and joy of the faith,

¹ And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

²⁷ by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One—he endured;

⁶ in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

¹⁹ we—we love him, because He—He first loved us; ²⁰ if any one may say—`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God—whom he hath not seen—how is he able to love?

²² And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit—to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

²¹ wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;

¹⁰ The sceptre turneth not aside from Judah, And a lawgiver from between his feet, Till his Seed come; And his is the obedience of peoples.

⁴ If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,

⁴⁴ `And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed—to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age.

³ and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

⁷ And I have shaken all the nations, And they have come to the desire of all the nations, And I have filled this house with honour, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹² and hast spoken unto him, saying: Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: Lo, a man! A Shoot—is his name, And from his place he doth shoot up, And he hath built the temple of Jehovah.

¹⁷ for verily I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men did desire to see that which ye look on, and they did not see, and to hear that which ye hear, and they did not hear.

²⁴ the Son of Man doth indeed go, as it hath been written concerning him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is delivered up! good it were for him if that man had not been born.'

²⁴ for I say to you, that many prophets and kings did wish to see what ye perceive, and did not see, and to hear what ye hear, and did not hear.'

²⁵ And he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake! ²⁶ Was it not behoving the Christ these things to suffer, and to enter into his glory?' ²⁷ and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.

⁴⁴ and he said to them, `These are the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'

³⁹ `Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

⁵² They answered and said to him, `Art thou also out of Galilee? search and see, that a prophet out of Galilee hath not risen;'

²² `For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said—A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you; ²³ and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people; ²⁴ and also all the prophets from Samuel and those following in order, as many as spake, did also foretell of these days.

⁵² which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,

⁴³ to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him doth receive remission of sins.'

²⁷ for those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their chiefs, this one not having known, also the voices of the prophets, which every sabbath are being read—having judged him —did fulfil, ²⁸ and no cause of death having found, they did ask of Pilate that he should be slain, ²⁹ and when they did complete all the things written about him, having taken him down from the tree, they laid him in a tomb;

¹¹ and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

²³ and having appointed him a day, they came, more of them unto him, to the lodging, to whom he was expounding, testifying fully the reign of God, persuading them also of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morning till evening,

⁴⁰ God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.

¹¹ searching in regard to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ that was in them was manifesting, testifying beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory after these,

¹⁹ And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise—in your hearts; ²⁰ this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition, ²¹ for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

¹⁵ and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee—the head, and thou dost bruise him—the heel.'

¹ To the Overseer, on `The Hind of the Morning.' —A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring? <sup>2</sup> My God, I call by day, and Thou answerest not, And by night, and there is no silence to me. <sup>3</sup> And Thou art holy, Sitting—the Praise of Israel. <sup>4</sup> In Thee did our fathers trust—they trusted, And Thou dost deliver them. <sup>5</sup> Unto Thee they cried, and were delivered, In Thee they trusted, and were not ashamed. <sup>6</sup> And I am a worm, and no man, A reproach of man, and despised of the people. <sup>7</sup> All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip—shake the head, <sup>8</sup> `Roll unto Jehovah, He doth deliver him, He doth deliver him, for he delighted in him.' ⁹ For thou art He bringing me forth from the womb, Causing me to trust, On the breasts of my mother. ¹⁰ On Thee I have been cast from the womb, From the belly of my mother Thou art my God.
¹¹ Be not far from me, For adversity is near, for there is no helper. ¹² Many bulls have surrounded me, Mighty ones of Bashan have compassed me, ¹³ They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring. ¹⁴ As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels. ¹⁵ Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws. ¹⁶ And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet. ¹⁷ I count all my bones—they look expectingly, They look upon me, ¹⁸ They apportion my garments to themselves, And for my clothing they cause a lot to fall. ¹⁹ And Thou, O Jehovah, be not far off, O my strength, to help me haste. ²⁰ Deliver from the sword my soul, From the paw of a dog mine only one. ²¹ Save me from the mouth of a lion: —And—from the horns of the high places Thou hast answered me!
²² I declare Thy name to my brethren, In the midst of the assembly I praise Thee. ²³ Ye who fear Jehovah, praise ye Him, All the seed of Jacob, honour ye Him, And be afraid of Him, all ye seed of Israel. ²⁴ For He hath not despised, nor abominated, The affliction of the afflicted, Nor hath He hidden His face from him, And in his crying unto Him He heareth. ²⁵ Of Thee my praise is in the great assembly. My vows I complete before His fearers. ²⁶ The humble do eat and are satisfied, Praise Jehovah do those seeking Him, Your heart doth live for ever. ²⁷ Remember and return unto Jehovah, Do all ends of the earth, And before Thee bow themselves, Do all families of the nations, ²⁸ For to Jehovah is the kingdom, And He is ruling among nations. ²⁹ And the fat ones of earth have eaten, And they bow themselves, Before Him bow do all going down to dust, And he who hath not revived his soul. ³⁰ A seed doth serve Him, It is declared of the Lord to the generation. ³¹ They come and declare His righteousness, To a people that is borne, that He hath made!

¹ To the Overseer. —`On the Lilies,' by David. Save me, O God, for come have waters unto the soul. ² I have sunk in deep mire, And there is no standing, I have come into the depths of the waters, And a flood hath overflown me. ³ I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God. ⁴ Those hating me without cause Have been more than the hairs of my head, Mighty have been my destroyers, My lying enemies, That which I took not away—I bring back. ⁵ O God, Thou—Thou hast known Concerning my overturn, And my desolations from Thee have not been hid. ⁶ Let not those waiting on Thee be ashamed because of me, O Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Let not those seeking Thee Blush because of me, O God of Israel. ⁷ For because of Thee I have borne reproach, Shame hath covered my face. ⁸ A stranger I have been to my brother, And a foreigner to sons of my mother. ⁹ For zeal for Thy house hath consumed me, And the reproaches of Thy reproachers Have fallen upon me. ¹⁰ And I weep in the fasting of my soul, And it is for a reproach to me. ¹¹ And I make my clothing sackcloth, And I am to them for a simile. ¹² Those sitting at the gate meditate concerning me, And those drinking strong drink, Play on instruments.
¹³ And I—my prayer is to Thee, O Jehovah, A time of good pleasure, O God, In the abundance of Thy kindness, Answer me in the truth of Thy salvation. ¹⁴ Deliver me from the mire, and let me not sink, Let me be delivered from those hating me, And from deep places of waters. ¹⁵ Let not a flood of waters overflow me, Nor let the deep swallow me up, Nor let the pit shut her mouth upon me. ¹⁶ Answer me, O Jehovah, for good is Thy kindness, According to the abundance Of Thy mercies turn Thou unto me, ¹⁷ And hide not Thy face from Thy servant, For I am in distress—haste, answer me. ¹⁸ Be near unto my soul—redeem it, Because of mine enemies ransom me. ¹⁹ Thou—Thou hast known my reproach, And my shame, and my blushing, Before Thee are all mine adversaries. ²⁰ Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am sick, And I look for a bemoaner, and there is none, And for comforters, and I have found none. ²¹ And they give for my food gall, And for my thirst cause me to drink vinegar.

³⁰ I praise the name of God with a song, And I magnify Him with thanksgiving, ³¹ And it is better to Jehovah than an ox, A bullock—horned—hoofed. ³² The humble have seen—they rejoice, Ye who seek God—and your heart liveth. ³³ For Jehovah hearkeneth unto the needy, And His bound ones He hath not despised. ³⁴ The heavens and earth do praise Him, Seas, and every moving thing in them. ³⁵ For God doth save Zion, And doth build the cities of Judah, And they have dwelt there, and possess it. ³⁶ And the seed of His servants inherit it, And those loving His name dwell in it!

¹ A Song, a Psalm, by sons of Korah, to the Overseer, `Concerning the Sickness of Afflictions.' —An instruction, by Heman the Ezrahite. O Jehovah, God of my salvation, Daily I have cried, nightly before Thee, ² My prayer cometh in before Thee, Incline Thine ear to my loud cry, ³ For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol. ⁴ I have been reckoned with those going down to the pit, I have been as a man without strength. ⁵ Among the dead—free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off. ⁶ Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths. ⁷ Upon me hath Thy fury lain, And with all Thy breakers Thou hast afflicted. Selah. ⁸ Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up—I go not forth. ⁹ Mine eye hath grieved because of affliction, I called Thee, O Jehovah, all the day, I have spread out unto Thee my hands.
¹⁰ To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah. ¹¹ Is Thy kindness recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness in destruction? ¹² Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? ¹³ And I, unto Thee, O Jehovah, I have cried, And in the morning doth my prayer come before Thee. ¹⁴ Why, O Jehovah, castest Thou off my soul? Thou hidest Thy face from me. ¹⁵ I am afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors—I pine away. ¹⁶ Over me hath Thy wrath passed, Thy terrors have cut me off, ¹⁷ They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together, ¹⁸ Thou hast put far from me lover and friend, Mine acquaintance is the place of darkness!

¹ A Psalm of David. The affirmation of Jehovah to my Lord: `Sit at My right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.' <sup>2</sup> The rod of thy strength doth Jehovah send from Zion, Rule in the midst of thine enemies. <sup>3</sup> Thy people are free-will gifts in the day of Thy strength, in the honours of holiness, From the womb, from the morning, Thou hast the dew of thy youth. <sup>4</sup> Jehovah hath sworn, and doth not repent, `Thou art a priest to the age, According to the order of Melchizedek.'
⁵ The Lord on thy right hand smote kings In the day of His anger. ⁶ He doth judge among the nations, He hath completed the carcases, Hath smitten the head over the mighty earth.

⁶ For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. ⁷ To the increase of the princely power, And of peace, there is no end, On the throne of David, and on his kingdom, To establish it, and to support it, In judgment and in righteousness, Henceforth, even unto the age, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.

⁶ And He saith, `It hath been a light thing That thou art to Me for a servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And the preserved of Israel to bring back, And I have given thee for a light of nations, To be My salvation unto the end of the earth.'

¹³ Lo, My servant doth act wisely, He is high, and hath been lifted up, And hath been very high. ¹⁴ As astonished at thee have been many, (So marred by man his appearance, And his form by sons of men.)

¹ Who hath given credence to that which we heard? And the arm of Jehovah, On whom hath it been revealed? ² Yea, he cometh up as a tender plant before Him, And as a root out of a dry land, He hath no form, nor honour, when we observe him, Nor appearance, when we desire him. ³ He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.
⁴ Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains—he hath carried them, And we—we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted. ⁵ And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace is on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us. ⁶ All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all. ⁷ It hath been exacted, and he hath answered, And he openeth not his mouth, As a lamb to the slaughter he is brought, And as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, And he openeth not his mouth. ⁸ By restraint and by judgment he hath been taken, And of his generation who doth meditate, That he hath been cut off from the land of the living? By the transgression of My people he is plagued, ⁹ And it appointeth with the wicked his grave, And with the rich are his high places, Because he hath done no violence, Nor is deceit in his mouth.
¹⁰ And Jehovah hath delighted to bruise him, He hath made him sick, If his soul doth make an offering for guilt, He seeth seed—he prolongeth days, And the pleasure of Jehovah in his hand doth prosper. ¹¹ Of the labour of his soul he seeth—he is satisfied, Through his knowledge give righteousness Doth the righteous one, My servant, to many, And their iniquities he doth bear. ¹² Therefore I give a portion to him among the many, And with the mighty he apportioneth spoil, Because that he exposed to death his soul, And with transgressors he was numbered, And he the sin of many hath borne, And for transgressors he intercedeth.

³⁴ Thou wast looking till that a stone hath been cut out without hands, and it hath smitten the image on its feet, that are of iron and of clay, and it hath broken them small; ³⁵ then broken small together have been the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, and they have been as chaff from the summer threshing-floor, and carried them away hath the wind, and no place hath been found for them: and the stone that smote the image hath become a great mountain, and hath filled all the land.

¹³ `I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as a son of man was one coming, and unto the Ancient of Days he hath come, and before Him they have brought him near. ¹⁴ And to him is given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, and all peoples, nations, and languages do serve him, his dominion is a dominion age-during, that passeth not away, and his kingdom that which is not destroyed.

²⁴ `Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies. ²⁵ And thou dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem till Messiah the Leader is seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the broad place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in the distress of the times. ²⁶ And after the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and the city and the holy place are not his, the Leader who hath come doth destroy the people; and its end is with a flood, and till the end is war, determined are desolations.

¹⁸ And there is a word of Jehovah of Hosts unto me, saying: ¹⁹ `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth months, are to the house of Judah for joy and for rejoicing, and for pleasant appointed seasons, and the truth and the peace they have loved. ²⁰ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Yet come do peoples, and inhabitants of many cities, ²¹ Yea, gone have inhabitants of one To another, saying: We go diligently, To appease the face of Jehovah, To seek Jehovah of Hosts—I go, even I.

⁷ Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero—My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones.

⁹ And Jehovah hath become king over all the land, In that day there is one Jehovah, and His name one.

⁴¹ these things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

²² `Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come, ²³ that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.'

⁹ And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ—this one is not His;

⁶ and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'

¹⁸ because also Christ once for sin did suffer—righteous for unrighteous—that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit, ¹⁹ in which also to the spirits in prison having gone he did preach,

²¹ for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

¹⁰ and I fell before his feet, to bow before him, and he saith to me, `See—not! fellow servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren, those having the testimony of Jesus; bow before God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.'

²⁰ `And the cherubs have been spreading out wings on high, covering the mercy-seat over with their wings, and their faces are one towards another—towards the mercy-seat are the faces of the cherubs.

²³ Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.

² Rested on him hath the Spirit of Jehovah, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and fear of Jehovah. ³ To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the sight of his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of his ears decideth. ⁴ And he hath judged in righteousness the poor, And decided in uprightness for the humble of earth, And hath smitten earth with the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips he putteth the wicked to death. ⁵ And righteousness hath been the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness—the girdle of his reins. ⁶ And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a leopard with a kid doth lie down, And calf, and young lion, and fatling are together, And a little youth is leader over them.

¹⁵ Till emptied out on us is the Spirit from on high, And a wilderness hath become a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned.

³ For I pour waters on a thirsty one, And floods on a dry land, I pour My Spirit on thy seed, And My blessing on thine offspring. ⁴ And they have sprung up as among grass, As willows by streams of water. ⁵ This one saith, For Jehovah I am, And this calleth himself by the name of Jacob, And this one writeth with his hand, `For Jehovah,' and by the name of Israel surnameth himself.

¹ Who hath given credence to that which we heard? And the arm of Jehovah, On whom hath it been revealed?

¹⁹ Then to Daniel, in a vision of the night, the secret hath been revealed. Then hath Daniel blessed the God of the heavens.

²² He is revealing deep and hidden things; He hath known what is in darkness, and light with Him hath dwelt.

²⁸ but there is a God in the heavens, a revealer of secrets, and He hath made known to king Nebuchadnezzar that which is to be in the latter end of the days. `Thy dream and the visions of thy head on thy bed are these: ²⁹ Thou, O king, thy thoughts on thy bed have come up concerning that which is to be after this, and the Revealer of secrets hath caused thee to know that which is to be.

⁴⁷ The king hath answered Daniel and said, `Of a truth it is that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since thou hast been able to reveal this secret.'

¹³ `And I hear a certain holy one speaking, and a certain holy one saith to the wonderful numberer who is speaking: Till when is the vision of the continual sacrifice, and of the transgression, an astonishment, to make both sanctuary and host a treading down?

²⁴ `Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.

¹ In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a thing is revealed to Daniel, whose name is called Belteshazzar, and the thing is true, and the warfare is great: and he hath understood the thing, and hath understanding about the appearance.

⁵ And I have looked—I, Daniel—and lo, two others are standing, one here at the edge of the flood, and one there at the edge of the flood, ⁶ and he saith to the one clothed in linen, who is upon the waters of the flood, `Till when is the end of these wonders?'

⁹ And he saith, `Go, Daniel; for hidden and sealed are the things till the time of the end;

¹³ And thou, go on to the end, then thou dost rest, and dost stand in thy lot at the end of the days.'

²⁸ And it hath come to pass afterwards, I do pour out My Spirit on all flesh, And prophesied have your sons and your daughters, Your old men do dream dreams, Your young men do see visions.

⁷ For the Lord Jehovah doth nothing, Except He hath revealed His counsel unto His servants the prophets.

¹⁰ And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born.

²⁵ At that time Jesus answering said, `I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.

²⁷ `All things were delivered to me by my Father, and none doth know the Son, except the Father, nor doth any know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him .

¹⁷ And Jesus answering said to him, `Happy art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood did not reveal it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

¹⁵ and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

²⁶ and it hath been divinely told him by the Holy Spirit—not to see death before he may see the Christ of the Lord.

⁶ And going forth they were going through the several villages, proclaiming good news, and healing everywhere.

¹⁰ `So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'

²⁶ `And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;

⁷ `But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you; <sup>8</sup> and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment; <sup>9</sup> concerning sin indeed, because they do not believe in me; <sup>10</sup> and concerning righteousness, because unto my Father I go away, and no more do ye behold me; <sup>11</sup> and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged. <sup>12</sup> `I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear them now; ¹³ and when He may come—the Spirit of truth—He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you; ¹⁴ He will glorify me, because of mine He will take, and will tell to you. ¹⁵ `All things, as many as the Father hath, are mine; because of this I said, That of mine He will take, and will tell to you;

² and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting, ³ and there appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it sat also upon each one of them, ⁴ and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

¹⁷ And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; ¹⁸ and also upon My men-servants, and upon My maid-servants, in those days, I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy;

³³ at the right hand then of God having been exalted—also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father—he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear;

⁸ Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: `Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

³¹ And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,

²⁵ They indeed, therefore, having testified fully, and spoken the word of the Lord, did turn back to Jerusalem; in many villages also of the Samaritans they did proclaim good news.

⁴⁴ While Peter is yet speaking these sayings, the Holy spirit fell upon all those hearing the word,

¹⁰ and when he saw the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go forth to Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord hath called us to preach good news to them,

¹⁵ so, as much as in me is, I am ready also to you who are in Rome to proclaim good news,

¹⁷ For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it hath been written, `And the righteous one by faith shall live,'

¹⁵ and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, `How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!'

¹⁹ in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ;

¹⁰ but to us did God reveal them through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God,

⁶ in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

¹² for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught it, but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,

¹⁶ to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

¹⁰ that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

⁵ because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,
⁶ and ye—ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

⁹ for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

⁴ God also bearing joint-witness both with signs and wonders, and manifold powers, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to His will.

² for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

³⁹ and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise, ⁴⁰ God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.

²⁵ and the saying of the Lord doth remain—to the age; and this is the saying that was proclaimed good news to you.

¹¹ And I saw, and I heard the voice of many messengers round the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders—and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands—

¹¹ `And thus ye do eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and ye have eaten it in haste; it is Jehovah's passover,

⁴⁶ and the hand of Jehovah hath been on Elijah, and he girdeth up his loins, and runneth before Ahab, till thine entering Jezreel.

²⁹ And he saith to Gehazi, `Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go; when thou dost meet a man, thou dost not salute him; and when a man doth salute thee, thou dost not answer him; and thou hast laid my staff on the face of the youth.'

³ Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

⁷ Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

⁵ And righteousness hath been the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness—the girdle of his reins.

¹⁷ `And thou, thou dost gird up thy loins, and hast arisen, and spoken unto them all that I command thee: be not affrighted because of them, lest I affright thee before them.

³⁵ `Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning,

⁸ but will not rather say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and having girded thyself about, minister to me, till I eat and drink, and after these things thou shalt eat and drink?

³⁰ `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;

³⁴ `And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you, ³⁵ for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,

¹³ as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

⁴ for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.
⁵ And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus; ⁶ that with one accord—with one mouth—ye may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ;
⁷ wherefore receive ye one another, according as also the Christ did receive us, to the glory of God. ⁸ And I say Jesus Christ to have become a ministrant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises to the fathers, ⁹ and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, `Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,' <sup>10</sup> and again it saith, `Rejoice ye nations, with His people;' ¹¹ and again, `Praise the Lord, all ye nations; and laud Him, all ye peoples;' <sup>12</sup> and again, Isaiah saith, `There shall be the root of Jesse, and he who is rising to rule nations—upon him shall nations hope;'
¹³ and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

⁷ so that ye are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁴ Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,

⁶ so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober, ⁷ for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken, ⁸ and we, being of the day—let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet—a hope of salvation,

⁷ and to you who are troubled—rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power,

⁵ And thou—watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

¹¹ For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, ¹² teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age, ¹³ waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

¹⁹ which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail,

³⁵ Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead, ⁴ to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you, ⁵ who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,
⁶ in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials, ⁷ that the proof of your faith—much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved—may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ, ⁸ whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified, ⁹ receiving the end of your faith—salvation of souls;

¹⁵ and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And be ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

⁸ Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

³⁰ the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

⁴ we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

² and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what is the will of God—the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

² in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

¹⁸ being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart, ¹⁹ who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness; ²⁰ and ye did not so learn the Christ, ²¹ if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus; ²² ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

⁵ Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth—whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry— ⁶ because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience, ⁷ in which also ye—ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;

⁵ not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

³ for we were once—also we—thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious—hating one another; ⁴ and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear ⁵ (not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

² no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh; ³ for sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

³ And this one hath called unto that, and hath said: `Holy, Holy, Holy, is Jehovah of Hosts, The fulness of all the earth is His glory.'

⁴⁸ ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who is in the heavens is perfect.

⁷⁴ To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered, ⁷⁵ To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life.

²⁸ And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

²⁴ not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,

¹ Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

¹ Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, ² and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

²⁷ Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

¹⁵ that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world, ¹⁶ the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

¹⁴ to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

²⁰ For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await—the Lord Jesus Christ—

¹² for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.

³ for this is the will of God—your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, ⁴ that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour, ⁵ not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God, ⁶ that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger is the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified, ⁷ for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

¹² let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

⁹ who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

¹¹ For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, ¹² teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age, ¹³ waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

⁸ Stedfast is the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works—who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,

¹⁴ and let them learn—ours also—to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

¹⁴ peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

⁵ Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

¹³ Who is wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

¹² having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

¹⁶ having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;

³ As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness, ⁴ through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.
⁵ And this same also—all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, ⁶ and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety, ⁷ and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love; ⁸ for these things being to you and abounding, do make you neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁹ for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins; ¹⁰ wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

¹¹ All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts? ¹² waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt; ¹³ and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell; ¹⁴ wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,

⁷ `And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!

⁸ And the four living creatures, each by itself severally, had six wings, around and within are full of eyes, and rest they have not day and night, saying, `Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is coming;'

¹⁰ and they were crying with a great voice, saying, `Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?'

⁴⁴ `For I am Jehovah your God, and ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I am holy; and ye do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth;

² `Speak unto all the company of the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Ye are holy, for holy am I, Jehovah, your God.

⁷ `And ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I am Jehovah your God;

³ Do two walk together if they have not met?

⁹ And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, `The days of the years of my sojournings are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

¹⁷ for Jehovah your God—He is God of the gods, and Lord of the lords; God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful; who accepteth not persons, nor taketh a bribe;

¹⁵ for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

⁷ and now, let fear of Jehovah be upon you, observe and do, for there is not with Jehovah our God perverseness, and acceptance of faces, and taking of a bribe.'

¹⁹ That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them.

¹² Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And to my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I am with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.

¹⁶ The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.

¹⁴ O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.

¹⁹ And I have said, How do I put thee among the sons, And give to thee a desirable land, A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, My father—ye do call to Me, And from after Me ye do not turn back.

⁹ For then do I turn unto peoples a pure lip, To call all of them by the name of Jehovah, To serve Him with one shoulder.

⁹ thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who art in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.

⁷ `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; <sup>8</sup> for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened. <sup>9</sup> `Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf—a stone will he present to him? ¹⁰ and if a fish he may ask—a serpent will he present to him? ¹¹ if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

¹⁶ and they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and the way of God in truth thou dost teach, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men;

³⁴ And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, ³⁵ but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;

¹⁰ and glory, and honour, and peace, to every one who is working the good, both to Jew first, and to Greek. ¹¹ For there is no acceptance of faces with God,

² Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

⁶ having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, —

¹¹ for, lo, this same thing—your being made sorry toward God—how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter.

⁶ And from those who were esteemed to be something—whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me—the face of man God accepteth not, for—to me those esteemed did add nothing,

¹⁴ For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁹ And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

¹² So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,

²⁵ and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.

¹ We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

¹³ In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth, ¹⁴ for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country; ¹⁵ and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return, ¹⁶ but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

²⁸ wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

⁶ Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

⁷ A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement. ⁸ And precious is the redemption of their soul, And it hath ceased—to the age.

¹⁰ Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth—when it increaseth—set not the heart.

¹¹ At that time it is said of this people, And of Jerusalem: `A dry wind of high places in the wilderness,' The way of the daughter of My people, (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing,)

¹⁴ And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, And after the Baalim, that their fathers taught them,

¹⁹ O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.

¹⁷ for we certainly do everything that hath gone out of our mouth, to make perfume to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out to her libations, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our heads, in cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, and—we are satisfied with bread, and we are well, and evil we have not seen.

¹⁸ And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled.

⁴ Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, And for four, I do not reserve it, Because of their loathing the law of Jehovah, And His statutes they have not kept, And their lies do cause them to err, After which their fathers did walk,

⁴ Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me—an affirmation of Jehovah. ⁵ Your fathers—where are they? And the prophets—to the age do they live? ⁶ Only, My words, and My statutes, That I commanded My servants the prophets, Have they not overtaken your fathers, And they turn back and say: As Jehovah of Hosts designed to do to us, According to our ways, and according to our doings, So He hath done to us?'

² `Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they may eat bread.' <sup>3</sup> And he answering said to them, `Wherefore also do ye transgress the command of God because of your tradition?

⁵¹ `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers—also ye; ⁵² which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,

³⁴ and having known that he is a Jew, one voice came out of all, for about two hours, crying, `Great is the Artemis of the Ephesians!' <sup>35</sup> And the public clerk having quieted the multitude, saith, `Men, Ephesians, why, who is the man that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is a devotee of the great goddess Artemis, and of that which fell down from Zeus?

²¹ because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

²⁰ and again, `The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'

²⁰ for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

²³ with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;

⁴ who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

¹⁷ This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

¹⁴ who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

⁷ that the proof of your faith—much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved—may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

³ for sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

⁵ a lamb, a perfect one, a male, a son of a year, let be to you; from the sheep or from the goats ye do take it .

⁷ It hath been exacted, and he hath answered, And he openeth not his mouth, As a lamb to the slaughter he is brought, And as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, And he openeth not his mouth.

²⁸ even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

²⁸ for this is my blood of the new covenant, that for many is being poured out—to remission of sins;

²⁹ on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

³⁶ and having looked on Jesus walking, he saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God;'

³² And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: `As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth; <sup>33</sup> in his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and his generation—who shall declare? because taken from the earth is his life.' <sup>34</sup> And the eunuch answering Philip said, `I pray thee, about whom doth the prophet say this? about himself, or about some other one?' ³⁵ and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him—Jesus.

²⁸ `Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

⁷ cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed—Christ, ⁸ so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.

¹⁴ in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,

¹² neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained; ¹³ for if the blood of bulls, and goats, and ashes of an heifer, sprinkling those defiled, doth sanctify to the purifying of the flesh, ¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

²² who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth, ²³ who being reviled—was not reviling again, suffering—was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously, ²⁴ who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

¹⁸ because also Christ once for sin did suffer—righteous for unrighteous—that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

⁷ and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light—we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

² and he—he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

⁶ and I saw, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb hath stood as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the Seven Spirits of God, which are sent to all the earth,

⁹ and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

¹⁴ and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;

¹ And I saw, and lo, a Lamb having stood upon the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousands, having the name of his Father written upon their foreheads;

²³ From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.

² And thou, Beth-Lehem Ephratah, Little to be among the chiefs of Judah! From thee to Me he cometh forth—to be ruler in Israel, And his comings forth are of old, From the days of antiquity.

²⁵ `Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made unto our fathers, saying unto Abraham: And in thy seed shall be blessed all the families of the earth; ²⁶ to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.'

²⁵ whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God—

²⁵ And to Him who is able to establish you, according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the secret, in the times of the ages having been kept silent, ²⁶ and now having been made manifest, also, through prophetic writings, according to a command of the age-during God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith—

⁴ and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

⁴ according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

¹⁰ in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth—in him;

⁹ and to cause all to see what is the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,

¹¹ according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

²⁶ the secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was manifested to his saints,

⁹ who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages, ¹⁰ and was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,

² upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages, ³ (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

² in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;

²⁶ since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;

² and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you the Life, the age-during, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us—

⁵ and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;

⁸ he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;

⁹ In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son—the only begotten—hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him; ¹⁰ in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

⁸ And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;

⁵ What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? Yea, art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him: The salvation of my countenance—My God!

³ Trust not in princes—in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance. ⁴ His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.
⁵ O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope is on Jehovah his God,

⁷ Blessed is the man who trusteth in Jehovah, And whose confidence hath been Jehovah.

¹⁸ And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;

³⁴ for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit;

²² for neither doth the Father judge any one, but all the judgment He hath given to the Son, ²³ that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him. ²⁴ `Verily, verily, I say to you—He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

⁴⁴ And Jesus cried and said, `He who is believing in me, doth not believe in me, but in Him who sent me;

³¹ When, therefore, he went forth, Jesus saith, `Now was the Son of Man glorified, and God was glorified in him; ³² if God was glorified in him, God also will glorify him in Himself; yea, immediately He will glorify him.

¹ `Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

⁶ Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

¹ These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to the heaven, and said—`Father, the hour hath come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee,

²⁴ whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,

³² `This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses; ³³ at the right hand then of God having been exalted—also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father—he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear;

¹³ `The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release him,

¹⁵ and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;

¹⁰ be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole.

²⁴ but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned—to us believing on Him who did raise up Jesus our Lord out of the dead,

⁹ that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

¹² for our being to the praise of His glory, even those who did first hope in the Christ, ¹³ in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth—the good news of your salvation—in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

¹⁵ Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love to all the saints,

²⁰ which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set him at His right hand in the heavenly places, ²¹ far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one; ²² and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him—head over all things to the assembly, ²³ which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,

⁹ wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that is above every name, ¹⁰ that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow—of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth— ¹¹ and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

⁹ and him who was made some little less than messengers we see—Jesus—because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.

¹ Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

²⁵ whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God—ever living to make intercession for them.

²² who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven—messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him.

³⁴ `A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; ³⁵ in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

³ already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;

¹⁷ `These things I command you, that ye love one another;

¹⁷ sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

¹⁹ and for them do I sanctify myself, that they also themselves may be sanctified in truth.

⁷ And the word of God did increase, and the number of the disciples did multiply in Jerusalem exceedingly; a great multitude also of the priests were obedient to the faith.

⁹ and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts;

⁸ and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,

¹⁶ have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? ¹⁷ and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and—were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

⁹ The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good; ¹⁰ in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

¹ O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth—before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?

⁵ for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,

⁷ Ye were running well; who did hinder you—not to obey the truth?

³ being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;

⁹ and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,

¹² and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

⁸ he, therefore, who is despising—doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.
⁹ And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of my writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

³ We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;

³ according as I did exhort thee to remain in Ephesus—I going on to Macedonia—that thou mightest charge certain not to teach any other thing,

⁵ And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,

² aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters—in all purity;

¹⁴ the good thing committed guard thou through the Holy Spirit that is dwelling in us;

¹⁰ for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

⁸ By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go;

¹ Let brotherly love remain;

¹⁵ and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food, ¹⁶ and any one of you may say to them, `Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what is the profit?

⁸ draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

¹⁷ to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

¹ In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

⁸ And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

⁸ and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

¹⁷ because it is the time of the beginning of the judgment from the house of God, and if first from us, what the end of those disobedient to the good news of God?

⁷ and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

¹¹ because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

¹⁴ we—we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death. ¹⁵ Every one who is hating his brother—a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining, ¹⁶ in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; ¹⁷ and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him—how doth the love of God remain in him? ¹⁸ My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth! ¹⁹ and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,

²³ and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,

¹² God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

²⁰ if any one may say—`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God—whom he hath not seen—how is he able to love?

⁴ `But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!

²⁸ The prophet with whom is a dream, Let him recount the dream, And he with whom is My word, Let him truly speak My word. What—to the straw with the corn? An affirmation of Jehovah.

³ Lo, I am pushing away before you the seed, And have scattered dung before your faces, Dung of your festivals, And it hath taken you away with it.

³⁵ The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

³ all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

³ Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

⁵ Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;

⁶³ the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

¹² for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

²⁶ And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up, They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn—before it hath risen up!

² For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade.

⁵ Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

⁷ When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity—For their being destroyed for ever and ever!

⁴ Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

¹⁵ Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;

⁶ They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,

⁶ A voice is saying, `Call,' And he said, `What do I call?' All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is As a flower of the field:

¹⁰ and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away; ¹¹ for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!

¹⁴ who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

¹⁷ and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain—to the age.

¹² And Thou, O Jehovah, to the age abidest, And Thy memorial to all generations.

²⁶ They—They perish, and Thou remainest, And all of them as a garment become old, As clothing Thou changest them, And they are changed.

⁸⁹ Lamed. To the age, O Jehovah, Thy word is set up in the heavens.

⁸ Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our God riseth for ever.

¹⁸ for, verily I say to you, till that the heaven and the earth may pass away, one iota or one tittle may not pass away from the law, till that all may come to pass.

¹⁷ and it is easier to the heaven and the earth to pass away, than of the law one tittle to fall.

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

²¹ for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing. ²² Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom, ²³ also we—we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness, ²⁴ and to those called—both Jews and Greeks—Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God,

² for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;

¹ And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood, ² through which also ye are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if ye hold fast, except ye did believe in vain, ³ for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings, ⁴ and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings,

¹⁷ and having come, he did proclaim good news—peace to you—the far-off and the nigh,

⁸ to me—the less than the least of all the saints—was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news—the untraceable riches of the Christ,

³ (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

¹² to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.

¹⁹ And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise—in your hearts;

¹ That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life—

³ that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;