2 Corinthians Cross References - YLT

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia: ² Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!
³ Blessed is God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort, ⁴ who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God; ⁵ because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort; ⁶ and whether we be in tribulation, it is for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort and salvation;
⁷ and our hope is stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings—so also of the comfort. 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; ⁹ but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead, ¹⁰ who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver; ¹¹ ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.
¹² For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you; ¹³ for no other things do we write to you, but what ye either do read or also acknowledge, and I hope that also unto the end ye shall acknowledge, ¹⁴ according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;
¹⁵ and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have, ¹⁶ and through you to pass to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea. ¹⁷ This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no? ¹⁸ and God is faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No, ¹⁹ for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached—through me and Silvanus and Timotheus—did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes; ²⁰ for as many as are promises of God, in him are the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us; ²¹ and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, is God, ²² who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. ²³ And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth; ²⁴ not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

¹ And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek,

¹ And after these things, Paul having departed out of Athens, came to Corinth, 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, ³ and because of being of the same craft, he did remain with them, and was working, for they were tent-makers as to craft; ⁴ and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks. ⁵ And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ; ⁶ and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken his garments, he said unto them, `Your blood is upon your head—I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.'
<sup>7</sup> And having departed thence, he went to the house of a certain one, by name Justus, a worshipper of God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue, <sup>8</sup> and Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue did believe in the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing, and they were being baptized. <sup>9</sup> And the Lord said through a vision in the night to Paul, `Be not afraid, but be speaking and thou mayest be not silent; ¹⁰ because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;' ¹¹ and he continued a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.
¹² And Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a rush with one accord upon Paul, and brought him unto the tribunal,

¹ Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God— ² which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings— ³ concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh, ⁴ who is marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the rising again from the dead,) Jesus Christ our Lord; ⁵ through whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;

²⁶ for it pleased Macedonia and Achaia well to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem;

⁵ and the assembly at their house; salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is first-fruit of Achaia to Christ.

²¹ Salute you do Timotheus, my fellow-workman, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kindred;

¹ Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother, ² to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place—both theirs and ours:

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.

³² become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

¹⁰ And if Timotheus may come, see that he may become without fear with you, for the work of the Lord he doth work, even as I,

¹⁵ And I entreat you, brethren, ye have known the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and to the ministration to the saints they did set themselves—

² for I have known your readiness of mind, which in your behalf I boast of to Macedonians, that Achaia hath been prepared a year ago, and the zeal of you did stir up the more part,

¹⁰ The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;

¹ Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead—

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

¹ Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and ministrants;

¹⁹ And I hope, in the Lord Jesus, Timotheus to send quickly to you, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you, ²⁰ for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care, ²¹ for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus, ²² and the proof of him ye know, that as a child serveth a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, ² to the saints in Colossae, and to the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

¹ Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

⁷ so that ye became patterns to all those believing in Macedonia and Achaia, ⁸ for from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God did go forth, so that we have no need to say anything,

¹ Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:

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

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according to a promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,

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,

²³ Know ye that the brother Timotheus is released, with whom, if he may come more shortly, I will see you.

²⁰ Yesterday is thy coming in, and to-day I move thee to go with us, and I am going on that which I am going! —turn back, and take back thy brethren with thee, —kindness and truth.'

¹⁸ And the Spirit hath clothed Amasai, head of the captains: `To thee, O David, and with thee, O son of Jesse—peace! peace to thee, and peace to thy helper, for thy God hath helped thee;' and David receiveth them, and putteth them among the heads of the troop.

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

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!

³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

¹⁶ and as many as by this rule do walk—peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God!

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

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

² to the saints in Colossae, and to the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

² Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ! ³ Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

²⁰ and blessed is God Most High, who hath delivered thine adversaries into thy hand;' and he giveth to him a tenth of all.

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.

⁵ And the Levites say, even Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, `Rise, bless Jehovah your God, from the age unto the age, and they bless the name of Thine honour that is exalted above all blessing and praise.

²¹ and he saith, `Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'

⁴⁶ Jehovah liveth—and blessed is my rock, And exalted is the God of my salvation.

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.

³⁴ `And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, mine eyes to the heavens have lifted up, and mine understanding unto me returneth, and the Most High I have blessed, and the Age-during Living One I have praised and honoured, whose dominion is a dominion age-during, and His kingdom with generation and generation;

⁹ `To the Lord our God are the mercies and the forgivenesses, for we have rebelled against Him,

¹⁸ Who is a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He—He delighteth in kindness.

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.

³⁰ I and the Father are one.'

¹⁷ Jesus saith to her, `Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'

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;

³¹ the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ—who is blessed to the ages—hath known that I do not lie! —

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,

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,

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

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 I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father;

⁹ every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son;

⁵ My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, `I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,' And Thou—Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.

⁷ Thou art a hiding-place for me, From distress Thou dost keep me, With songs of deliverance dost compass me. Selah.

² In Jehovah doth my soul boast herself, Hear do the humble and rejoice. ³ Ascribe ye greatness to Jehovah with me, And we exalt His name together. ⁴ I sought Jehovah, and He answered me, And from all my fears did deliver me. ⁵ They looked expectingly unto Him, And they became bright, And their faces are not ashamed. ⁶ This poor one called, and Jehovah heard, And from all his distresses saved him.

¹⁶ Come, hear, all ye who fear God, And I recount what he did for my soul.

¹⁷ Do with me a sign for good, And those hating me see and are ashamed, For Thou, O Jehovah, hast helped me, Yea, Thou hast comforted me!

¹ And thou hast said in that day: `I thank thee, O Jehovah, Though Thou hast been angry with me, Turn back doth Thine anger, And Thou dost comfort me.

¹ Comfort ye, comfort ye, My people, saith your God.

¹⁰ They do not hunger, nor thirst, Nor smite them doth mirage and sun, For He who is pitying them doth lead them, And by fountains of waters doth tend them.

³ For Jehovah hath comforted Zion, He hath comforted all her wastes, And He setteth her wilderness as Eden, And her desert as a garden of Jehovah, Joy, yea, gladness is found in her, Confession, and the voice of song.

¹² I—I am He—your comforter, Who art thou—and thou art afraid of man? he dieth! And of the son of man—grass he is made!

⁹ Break forth, sing together, O wastes of Jerusalem, For Jehovah hath comforted His people, He hath redeemed Jerusalem.

¹² For thus said Jehovah: `Lo, I am stretching out to her peace as a river, And as an overflowing stream the honour of nations, And ye have sucked, on the side ye are carried, And on the knees ye are dandled. ¹³ As one whom his mother comforteth, so do I comfort you, Yea, in Jerusalem ye are comforted. ¹⁴ And ye have seen, and rejoiced hath your heart, And your bones as tender grass do flourish, And the hand of Jehovah hath been known unto His servants, And He hath been indignant with His enemies.

¹⁶ and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you—to the age;

¹⁸ `I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;

²⁶ and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I said to you.

⁵ because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort; ⁶ and whether we be in tribulation, it is for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort and salvation;

⁶ but He who is comforting the cast-down—God—He did comfort us in the presence of Titus; ⁷ and not only in his presence, but also in the comfort with which he was comforted over you, declaring to us your longing desire, your lamentation, your zeal for me, so that the more I did rejoice,

¹³ because of this we have been comforted in your comfort, and more abundantly the more did we rejoice in the joy of Titus, that his spirit hath been refreshed from you all;

¹⁴ and the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence by my bonds, are more abundantly bold—fearlessly to speak the word.

¹⁸ so, then, comfort ye one another in these words.

¹¹ wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

¹⁶ and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace, ¹⁷ comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

¹² Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

²⁵ And lo, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name is Simeon, and this man is righteous and devout, looking for the comforting of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him,

⁴ and having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, `Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?'

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.

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,

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; ²⁸ apart from the things without—the crowding upon me that is daily—the care of all the assemblies. ²⁹ Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired; ³⁰ if to boast it behoveth me, of the things of my infirmity I will boast;

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,

¹ If, then, any exhortation is in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

¹⁰ to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

²⁴ I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

⁵ but when it came that we completed the days, having gone forth, we went on, all bringing us on the way, with women and children, unto the outside of the city, and having bowed the knees upon the shore, we prayed,

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; 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.

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;

²¹ So then, let no one glory in men, for all things are yours, ²² whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things about to be—all are yours, ²³ and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

⁴ who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

¹⁵ for the all things are because of you, that the grace having been multiplied, because of the thanksgiving of the more, may abound to the glory of God; ¹⁶ wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day; ¹⁷ for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us— 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.

⁵ And He who did work us to this self-same thing is God, who also did give to us the earnest of the Spirit;

¹⁵ and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

¹³ wherefore, I ask you not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

¹⁹ For I have known that this shall fall out to me for salvation, through your supplication, and the supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus,

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.

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.

¹¹ `Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake— 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 `And ye—ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations, ²⁹ and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom, ³⁰ that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'

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. ¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory about to be revealed in us;

¹³ No temptation hath taken you—except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear it .

¹⁴ according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;

⁹ I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;

²⁰ for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I—I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

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,
⁷ according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.

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,

⁴ so that we ourselves do glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye bear;
⁵ a token of the righteous judgment of God, for your being counted worthy of the reign of God, for which also ye suffer, ⁶ since it is a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you—trouble, ⁷ and to you who are troubled—rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power,

¹² if we do endure together—we shall also reign together; if we deny him, he also shall deny us;

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

³ And David sweareth again, and saith, `Thy father hath certainly known that I have found grace in thine eyes, and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved; and yet, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, but—as a step between me and death.'

¹ And David saith unto his heart, `Now am I consumed one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing for me better than that I diligently escape unto the land of the Philistines, and Saul hath been despairing of me—of seeking me any more in all the border of Israel, and I have escaped out of his hand.'

²³ And there came, at that time, not a little stir about the way, ²⁴ for a certain one, Demetrius by name, a worker in silver, making silver sanctuaries of Artemis, was bringing to the artificers gain not a little, ²⁵ whom, having brought in a crowd together, and those who did work about such things, he said, `Men, ye know that by this work we have our wealth; <sup>26</sup> and ye see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this Paul, having persuaded, did turn away a great multitude, saying, that they are not gods who are made by hands; <sup>27</sup> and not only is this department in danger for us of coming into disregard, but also, that of the great goddess Artemis the temple is to be reckoned for nothing, and also her greatness is about to be brought down, whom all Asia and the world doth worship.' <sup>28</sup> And they having heard, and having become full of wrath, were crying out, saying, `Great is the Artemis of the Ephesians!' ²⁹ and the whole city was filled with confusion, they rushed also with one accord into the theatre, having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's fellow-travellers. ³⁰ And on Paul's purposing to enter in unto the populace, the disciples were not suffering him, ³¹ and certain also of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, having sent unto him, were entreating him not to venture himself into the theatre. ³² Some indeed, therefore, were calling out one thing, and some another, for the assembly was confused, and the greater part did not know for what they were come together; ³³ and out of the multitude they put forward Alexander—the Jews thrusting him forward—and Alexander having beckoned with the hand, wished to make defence to the populace, 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?

⁸ Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,

³² if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!

⁹ for a door to me hath been opened—great and effectual—and withstanders are many.

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, ¹² so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.

¹⁴ And even I—I do praise thee, For thy right hand giveth salvation to thee.

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.

⁵ By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders, ⁶ For, not in my bow do I trust, And my sword doth not save me. ⁷ For Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And those hating us Thou hast put to shame.

²⁶ Whoso is trusting in his heart is a fool, And whoso is walking in wisdom is delivered.

²³ Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches, ²⁴ But—in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I am Jehovah, doing kindness, Judgment, and righteousness, in the earth, For in these I have delighted, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁵ Thus said Jehovah: Cursed is the man who doth trust in man, And hath made flesh his arm, And from Jehovah whose heart turneth. ⁶ And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited. ⁷ Blessed is the man who trusteth in Jehovah, And whose confidence hath been Jehovah.

¹³ In My saying of the righteous: He surely liveth, And—he hath trusted on his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, All his righteous acts are not remembered, And for his perversity that he hath done, For it he doth die.

¹ There hath been upon me a hand of Jehovah, and He taketh me forth in the Spirit of Jehovah, and doth place me in the midst of the valley, and it is full of bones, ² and He causeth me to pass over by them, all round about, and lo, very many are on the face of the valley, and lo, very dry. ³ And He saith unto me, `Son of man, do these bones live?' And I say, `O Lord Jehovah, Thou—Thou hast known.' ⁴ And He saith unto me, `Prophesy concerning these bones, and thou hast said unto them: O dry bones, hear a word of Jehovah: <sup>5</sup> Thus said the Lord Jehovah to these bones: Lo, I am bringing into you a spirit, and ye have lived, <sup>6</sup> and I have given on you sinews, and cause flesh to come up upon you, and covered you over with skin, and given in you a spirit, and ye have lived, and ye have known that I am Jehovah.' <sup>7</sup> And I have prophesied as I have been commanded, and there is a noise, as I am prophesying, and lo, a rushing, and draw near do the bones, bone unto its bone. <sup>8</sup> And I beheld, and lo, on them are sinews, and flesh hath come up, and cover them doth skin over above—and spirit there is none in them. <sup>9</sup> And He saith unto me: `Prophesy unto the Spirit, prophesy, son of man, and thou hast said unto the Spirit: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: From the four winds come in, O Spirit, and breathe on these slain, and they do live.' ¹⁰ And I have prophesied as He commanded me, and the Spirit cometh into them, and they live, and stand on their feet—a very very great force. ¹¹ And He saith unto me, `Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; lo, they are saying: Dried up have our bones, And perished hath our hope, We have been cut off by ourselves. ¹² Therefore, prophesy, and thou hast said unto them, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am opening your graves, And have brought you up out of your graves, O My people, And brought you in unto the land of Israel. ¹³ And ye have known that I am Jehovah, In My opening your graves, And in My bringing you up out of your graves, O My people. ¹⁴ And I have given My Spirit in you, and ye have lived, And I have caused you to rest on your land, And ye have known that I Jehovah, I have spoken, and I have done it, An affirmation of Jehovah.'

⁹ And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

¹⁷ who is father of us all (according as it hath been written—`A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe—God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being. <sup>18</sup> Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: `So shall thy seed be;' ¹⁹ and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah's womb, ²⁰ and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God, ²¹ and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do: ²² wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.
²³ And it was not written on his account alone, that it was reckoned to him, 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, ²⁵ who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.

⁵ not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,

⁷ And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;

¹³ And having the same spirit of the faith, according to that which hath been written, `I believed, therefore I did speak;' we also do believe, therefore also do we speak; ¹⁴ knowing that He who did raise up the Lord Jesus, us also through Jesus shall raise up, and shall present with you,

⁷ and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch. ⁸ Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me, 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;

¹⁹ reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive him .

¹² And Samuel taketh a stone, and setteth it between Mizpeh and Shen, and calleth its name Eben-Ezer, saying, `Hitherto hath Jehovah helped us.'

³⁷ And David saith, `Jehovah, who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, He doth deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.' And Saul saith unto David, `Go, and Jehovah is with thee.'

¹⁷ Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not, ¹⁸ For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal. ¹⁹ In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee. ²⁰ In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword. ²¹ When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh. ²² At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.

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

³ Hearken unto Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of Israel, Who are borne from the belly, Who are carried from the womb,

²¹ because of these things the Jews—having caught me in the temple—were endeavouring to kill me .

³¹ that I may be delivered from those not believing in Judea, and that my ministration, that is for Jerusalem, may become acceptable to the saints;

¹⁰ for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men—especially of those believing.

¹⁷ and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion,

⁹ The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

⁴ `It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear the words of Rabshakeh with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.'

⁶ `On thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, All the day, and all the night, Continually, they are not silent.' O ye remembrancers of Jehovah, Keep not silence for yourselves, ⁷ And give not silence to Him, Till He establish, and till He make Jerusalem A praise in the earth.

⁵ Peter, therefore, indeed, was kept in the prison, and fervent prayer was being made by the assembly unto God for him,

³⁰ And I call upon you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me unto God, ³¹ that I may be delivered from those not believing in Judea, and that my ministration, that is for Jerusalem, may become acceptable to the saints; ³² that in joy I may come unto you, through the will of God, and may be refreshed with you,

¹⁵ for the all things are because of you, that the grace having been multiplied, because of the thanksgiving of the more, may abound to the glory of God;

¹¹ in every thing being enriched to all liberality, which doth work through us thanksgiving to God, ¹² because the ministration of this service not only is supplying the wants of the saints, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God,

¹⁴ and by their supplication in your behalf, longing after you because of the exceeding grace of God upon you;

¹⁸ through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—
¹⁹ and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news,

³ praying at the same time also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the secret of the Christ, because of which also I have been bound,

²⁵ Brethren, pray for us;

¹ As to the rest, pray ye, brethren, concerning us, that the word of the Lord may run and may be glorified, as also with you,

²² and at the same time also prepare for me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted to you.

¹⁸ Pray for us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, in all things willing to behave well,

¹⁶ Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man; ¹⁷ Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray—not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months; ¹⁸ and again he did pray, and the heaven did give rain, and the land did bring forth her fruit.

¹⁴ `And now, fear ye Jehovah, and serve Him, in perfection and in truth, and turn aside the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve ye Jehovah;

¹⁵ Lo, He doth slay me—I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.

¹⁰ For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me—as gold I go forth. ¹¹ On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside, ¹² The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

⁵ Pollution to me—if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me. ⁶ On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.

¹ A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what—do I attend to a virgin? ² And what is the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights? ³ Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity? ⁴ Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number? ⁵ If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit, ⁶ He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity. ⁷ If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish, ⁸ Let me sow—and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.
⁹ If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait, ¹⁰ Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend. ¹¹ For it is a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity; ¹² For a fire it is, to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root, ¹³ If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me, ¹⁴ Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him? ¹⁵ Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.
¹⁶ If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume, ¹⁷ And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it, ¹⁸ (But from my youth He grew up with me as with a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.) ¹⁹ If I see any perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy, ²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself, ²¹ If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court, ²² My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken. ²³ For a dread unto me is calamity from God, And because of His excellency I am not able.
²⁴ If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, `My trust,' <sup>25</sup> If I rejoice because great is my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found, <sup>26</sup> If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking, <sup>27</sup> And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth, <sup>28</sup> It also is a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above. <sup>29</sup> If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him, <sup>30</sup> Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life. <sup>31</sup> If not—say ye, O men of my tent, `O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.' ³² In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.
³³ If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity, ³⁴ Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening. ³⁵ Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written. ³⁶ If not—on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself. ³⁷ The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him. ³⁸ If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep, ³⁹ If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out, ⁴⁰ Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

³ O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands, ⁴ If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause, ⁵ An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. Selah.

¹⁷ All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant. ¹⁸ We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path. ¹⁹ But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade. ²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God, ²¹ Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.

³ and saith, `I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth—a great weeping.

¹ And Paul having earnestly beheld the sanhedrim, said, `Men, brethren, I in all good conscience have lived to God unto this day;'

¹⁶ and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

¹ Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

¹⁸ for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless, 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;

⁴ and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power— ⁵ that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

¹³ which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,

⁴ for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right—and he who is discerning me is the Lord:

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.

¹⁰ and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that is towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me;

¹⁷ This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?

¹⁷ for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity—but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

² but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

⁸ not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

² and I beseech you, that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh; ³ for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war, ⁴ for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,

³ and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Christ;

¹⁵ and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved. ¹⁶ And be it so, I—I did not burden you, but being crafty, with guile I did take you; ¹⁷ any one of those whom I have sent unto you—by him did I take advantage of you? ¹⁸ I entreated Titus, and did send with him the brother; did Titus take advantage of you? in the same spirit did we not walk? —did we not in the same steps? ¹⁹ Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, are for your up-building,

⁴ and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,

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

¹⁰ for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless—to a day of Christ,

¹⁰ ye are witnesses—God also—how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

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

¹⁹ having faith and a good conscience, which certain having thrust away, concerning the faith did make shipwreck, ²⁰ of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I did deliver to the Adversary, that they might be instructed not to speak evil.

⁷ concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

¹³ Who is wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom, ¹⁴ and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth; ¹⁵ this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like, ¹⁶ for where zeal and rivalry are, there is insurrection and every evil matter; ¹⁷ and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: — ¹⁸ and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

⁶ and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

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;

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,

¹⁹ and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,
²⁰ because if our heart may condemn—because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God, ²² and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

¹¹ having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;

⁶ and I hope that ye shall know that we—we are not disapproved of;

⁶ that the fellowship of thy faith may become working in the full knowledge of every good thing that is in you toward Christ Jesus;

²⁵ For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret—that ye may not be wise in your own conceits—that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;

⁸ who also shall confirm you unto the end—unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹⁸ for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe it,

³¹ Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:

⁵ And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;

¹² for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have something in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

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,

²⁶ that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence again to you.

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;

¹ So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved.

¹⁹ for what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence? ²⁰ for ye are our glory and joy.

¹³ to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

²³ and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹¹ for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that ye may be established;

²⁹ and I have known that coming unto you—in the fulness of the blessing of the good news of Christ I shall come.

¹⁹ but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power;

³⁴ and if any one is hungry, at home let him eat, that to judgment ye may not come together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.

¹ And working together also we call upon you that ye receive not in vain the grace of God—

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, ²⁶ that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence again to you.

²¹ And when these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in the Spirit, having gone through Macedonia and Achaia, to go on to Jerusalem, saying—`After my being there, it behoveth me also to see Rome;' ²² and having sent to Macedonia two of those ministering to him—Timotheus and Erastus—he himself stayed a time in Asia.

⁵ And I will come unto you, when I pass through Macedonia—for Macedonia I do pass through— ⁶ and with you, it may be, I will abide, or even winter, that ye may send me forward whithersoever I go, ⁷ for I do not wish to see you now in the passing, but I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord may permit;

⁴ and they give to him seventy silverings out of the house of Baal-Berith, and Abimelech hireth with them men, vain and unstable, and they go after him;

³² Lo, I am against the prophets of false dreams, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they recount them, and cause my people to err, By their falsehoods, and by their instability, And I—I have not sent them, Nor have I commanded them, And they are not at all profitable to this people, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁴ Her prophets unstable—men of treachery, Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have violated the law.

³⁷ but let your word be, Yes, Yes, No, No, and that which is more than these is of the evil.

¹⁵ `Ye according to the flesh do judge; I do not judge any one,

¹² For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

¹⁸ and God is faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No, ¹⁹ for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached—through me and Silvanus and Timotheus—did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes; ²⁰ for as many as are promises of God, in him are the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

² and I beseech you, that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh; ³ for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,

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,

² and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;

¹⁸ wherefore we wished to come unto you, (I indeed Paul,) both once and again, and the Adversary did hinder us;

¹² And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

²⁸ Jesus cried, therefore, in the temple, teaching and saying, `Ye have both known me, and ye have known whence I am; and I have not come of myself, but He who sent me is true, whom ye have not known;

²⁶ many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I—what things I heard from Him—these I say to the world.'

⁹ faithful is God, through whom ye were called to the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

²³ And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;

²⁰ and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!

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!

¹⁴ `And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness—the faithful and true—the chief of the creation of God;

¹⁴ And God saith unto Moses, `I AM THAT WHICH I AM;' He saith also, `Thus dost thou say to the sons of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.'

⁷ I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, `My Son Thou art, I to-day have brought thee forth.

¹⁷ and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, `This is My Son—the Beloved, in whom I did delight.'

¹⁶ and Simon Peter answering said, `Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.' <sup>17</sup> 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.

⁵ While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son, —the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.'

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

⁶³ and Jesus was silent. And the chief priest answering said to him, `I adjure thee, by the living God, that thou mayest say to us, if thou art the Christ—the Son of God.' <sup>64</sup> Jesus saith to him, `Thou hast said; nevertheless I say to you, hereafter ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power, and coming upon the clouds, of the heaven.'

⁴⁰ and saying, `Thou that art throwing down the sanctuary, and in three days building it, save thyself; if Son thou art of God, come down from the cross.'

⁵⁴ And the centurion, and those with him watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake, and the things that were done, were exceedingly afraid, saying, `Truly this was God's Son.'

¹ A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God.

³⁵ And the messenger answering said to her, `The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;

³⁴ and I have seen, and have testified, that this is the Son of God.'

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered and saith to him, `Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel.'

¹⁶ for God did so love the world, that His Son—the only begotten—He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

³⁵ the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand; ³⁶ he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'

⁶⁹ and we have believed, and we have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming—I am;'

⁷ the Jews answered him, `We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, for he made himself Son of God.'

²⁸ And Thomas answered and said to him, `My Lord and my God;'

³¹ and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'

³⁶ And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, `Lo, water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?'

²⁰ and immediately in the synagogues he was preaching the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

²² Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, chosen men out of themselves to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas—Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren—

⁵ And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ;

³ concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh, ⁴ who is marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the rising again from the dead,) Jesus Christ our Lord;

¹¹ these shall perish, and Thou dost remain, and all, as a garment, shall become old,

⁸ Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

¹⁷ for having received from God the Father honour and glory, such a voice being borne to him by the excellent glory: `This is My Son—the beloved, in whom I was well pleased;'

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;

⁹ If the testimony of men we receive, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that He hath testified concerning His Son.
¹⁰ He who is believing in the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he who is not believing God, a liar hath made Him, because he hath not believed in the testimony that God hath testified concerning His Son; ¹¹ and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this—the life—is in His Son; ¹² he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God—the life he hath not. ¹³ These things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

⁸ `I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming—the Almighty.'

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.'

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last,

¹⁸ `And to the messenger of the assembly of Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who is having his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like to fine brass;

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.'

¹⁸ and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth, because that thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

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.

¹⁷ His name is to the age, Before the sun is his name continued, And they bless themselves in him, All nations do pronounce him happy.

¹⁶ For Jehovah hath builded Zion, He hath been seen in His honour,

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called his name Immanuel,

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.

¹⁶ So that he who is blessing himself in the earth, Doth bless himself In the God of faithfulness, And he who is swearing in the earth, Doth swear by the God of faithfulness, Because the former distresses have been forgotten, And because they have been hid from Mine eyes.

¹³ `And mayest Thou not lead us to temptation, but deliver us from the evil, because Thine is the reign, and the power, and the glory—to the ages. Amen.

⁶⁸ `Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, Because He did look upon, And wrought redemption for His people, ⁶⁹ And did raise an horn of salvation to us, In the house of David His servant, ⁷⁰ As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, Which have been from the age; ⁷¹ Salvation from our enemies, And out of the hand of all hating us, ⁷² To do kindness with our fathers, And to be mindful of His holy covenant, ⁷³ An oath that He sware to Abraham our father, ⁷⁴ To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered,

¹⁴ `Glory in the highest to God, and upon earth peace, among men—good will.'

¹⁷ for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;

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;

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;

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.'

³² `And we to you do proclaim good news—that the promise made unto the fathers, <sup>33</sup> God hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art—I to-day have begotten thee. <sup>34</sup> `And that He did raise him up out of the dead, no more to return to corruption, he hath said thus—I will give to you the faithful kindnesses of David; ³⁵ wherefore also in another place he saith, Thou shalt not give Thy kind One to see corruption, ³⁶ for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption, ³⁷ but he whom God did raise up, did not see corruption. ³⁸ `Let it therefore be known to you, men, brethren, that through this one to you is the forgiveness of sins declared, ³⁹ and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous;

²³ for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

³⁶ because of Him, and through Him, and to Him are the all things; to Him is the glory—to the ages. Amen.

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,'

¹⁶ since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?

⁶ because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ; ¹⁷ and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise, ¹⁸ for if by law be the inheritance, it is no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant it .

²² but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.

⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,

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

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 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, 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, 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,

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,

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;

¹² that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises. ¹³ For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself, ¹⁴ saying, `Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;' ¹⁵ and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise; ¹⁶ for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation is the oath, ¹⁷ in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath, 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,

⁶ and he who was not reckoned by genealogy of them, received tithes from Abraham, and him having the promises he hath blessed,

¹⁰ only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances—till the time of reformation imposed upon them . ¹¹ And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands—that is, not of this creation— 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?
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,

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,

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.

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.

²⁴ Ye, then, that which ye heard from the beginning, in you let it remain; if in you may remain that which from the beginning ye did hear, ye also in the Son and in the Father shall remain, ²⁵ and this is the promise that He did promise us—the life the age-during.

¹¹ and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this—the life—is in His Son;

¹² saying, `Amen! the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honour, and the power, and the strength, are to our God—to the ages of the ages! Amen!'

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.

⁷ Thou hast loved righteousness and hatest wickedness, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee, Oil of joy above thy companions.

⁵ And of Zion it is said: Each one was born in her, And He, the Most High, doth establish her.

⁴ `Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.

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.

⁸ Thus said Jehovah: `In a time of good pleasure I answered thee, And in a day of salvation I helped thee, And I keep thee, and give thee, For a covenant of the people, To establish the earth, To cause to inherit desolate inheritances.

²¹ And I—this is My covenant with them, said Jehovah, My Spirit that is on thee, And My words that I have put in thy mouth, Depart not from thy mouth, And from the mouth of thy seed, And from the mouth of thy seed's seed, said Jehovah, From henceforth unto the age!

¹ The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.

⁷ And give not silence to Him, Till He establish, and till He make Jerusalem A praise in the earth.

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

³⁸ Jesus who is from Nazareth—how God did anoint him with the Holy Spirit and power; who went through, doing good, and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him;

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;

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,

⁷ being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught—abounding in it in thanksgiving. ⁸ and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence,

¹⁷ comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

³ and stedfast is the Lord, who shall establish you, and shall guard you from the evil;

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;

²⁰ And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and have known all things;

²⁷ and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.

⁶ and did make us kings and priests to his God and Father, to him is the glory and the power to the ages of the ages! Amen.

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.

²⁷ work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal—even God.'

¹¹ and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,

¹⁴ for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God; ¹⁵ for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba—Father.' ¹⁶ The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;

²³ And not only so, but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting—the redemption of our body;

³⁰ and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

¹⁹ sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness—every one who is naming the name of Christ.'

¹⁷ He who is having an ear—let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming, I will give to him to eat from the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, that no one knew except him who is receiving it .

³ `Do not injure the land, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we may seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads.'

⁴ and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but—the men only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads,

⁹ for God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,

²¹ what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?

⁵ to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁸ and God is faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,

¹ And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you, ² for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me? ³ and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,

² and I beseech you, that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;

⁶ and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.
⁷ The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's; ⁸ for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed; ⁹ that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters, ¹⁰ `because the letters indeed—saith one—are weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.' ¹¹ This one—let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, we are in deed.

¹¹ wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

² I have said before, and I say it before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,

¹⁰ because of this, these things—being absent—I write, that being present, I may not treat any sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

²⁰ And the things that I write to you, lo, before God—I lie not;

⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

⁵ for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God is witness!)

²⁰ of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I did deliver to the Adversary, that they might be instructed not to speak evil.

⁸ `And ye—ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director—the Christ, and all ye are brethren; ⁹ and ye may not call any your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens, ¹⁰ nor may ye be called directors, for one is your director—the Christ.

⁴⁹ and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken,

¹² and that is, that I may be comforted together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.

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.

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

⁵ Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?

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,

⁵ for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus—Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

⁷ for through faith we walk, not through sight—

¹⁴ Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness, ¹⁵ and having the feet shod in the preparation of the good-news of the peace; ¹⁶ above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench,

²⁴ and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil, ²⁵ in meekness instructing those opposing—if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth, ²⁶ and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.

³ neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

⁸ Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up, ⁹ whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.