Galatians 5 Cross References - YLT

¹ In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free—stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude; ² lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing; ³ and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law; ⁴ ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away; ⁵ for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for, ⁶ for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working. ⁷ Ye were running well; who did hinder you—not to obey the truth? ⁸ the obedience is not of him who is calling you! ⁹ a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven; ¹⁰ I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be. ¹¹ And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away; ¹² O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!
¹³ For ye—to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another, ¹⁴ for all the law in one word is fulfilled—in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;' ¹⁵ and if one another ye do bite and devour, see—that ye may not by one another be consumed. ¹⁶ And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; ¹⁷ for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will—these ye may not do; ¹⁸ and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law. ¹⁹ And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit. ²² And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ meekness, temperance: against such there is no law; ²⁴ and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires; ²⁵ if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk; ²⁶ let us not become vain-glorious—one another provoking, one another envying!

¹² Restore to me the joy of Thy salvation, And a willing spirit doth sustain me.

²³ Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,

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.

²⁸ `Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, ²⁹ take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls, ³⁰ for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.'

⁴ for they bind together burdens heavy and grievous to be borne, and lay upon the shoulders of men, but with their finger they will not move them.

³² and the truth shall make you free.' ³³ They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say—Ye shall become free?' <sup>34</sup> Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you—Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin, ³⁵ and the servant doth not remain in the house—to the age, the son doth remain—to the age; ³⁶ if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

¹⁰ now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

¹⁴ for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.

¹⁸ and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.

³ so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

⁶ and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

² for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

²² for he who is in the Lord—having been called a servant—is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:

⁵⁸ so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

¹³ Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;

¹⁷ And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty;

⁴ and that because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,

²⁵ and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,

⁹ and now, having known God—and rather being known by God—how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

²⁶ and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,

³¹ then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

¹³ For ye—to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

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

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,

¹⁶ Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths, ¹⁷ which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body is of the Christ; ¹⁸ let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and in worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, ¹⁹ and not holding the head, from which all the body—through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together—may increase with the increase of God. ²⁰ If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances? ²¹ —thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle— ²² which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men,

⁸ because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;

¹⁵ so, then, brethren, stand ye fast, and hold the deliverances that ye were taught, whether through word, whether through our letter;

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.

¹⁴ for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

¹⁴ Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—may we hold fast the profession,

⁸ the Holy Spirit this evidencing that not yet hath been manifested the way of the holy places, the first tabernacle having yet a standing; ⁹ which is a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving, 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—

²³ may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful is He who did promise),

³⁵ Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward, ³⁶ for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise, ³⁷ for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry; ³⁸ and `the righteous by faith shall live,' and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,' ³⁹ and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.

¹⁶ as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

¹⁹ liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,

³ Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,

²⁰ And ye, beloved, on your most holy faith building yourselves up, in the Holy Spirit praying, ²¹ yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ—to life age-during;

²⁵ but that which ye have—hold ye, till I may come;

³ `Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.

¹ And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren—`If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;'

²⁴ seeing we have heard that certain having gone forth from us did trouble you with words, subverting your souls, saying to be circumcised and to keep the law, to whom we did give no charge,

³ this one did Paul wish to go forth with him, and having taken him, he circumcised him, because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all knew his father—that he was a Greek. ⁴ And as they were going on through the cities, they were delivering to them the decrees to keep, that have been judged by the apostles and the elders who are in Jerusalem,

³¹ and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive; ³² wherefore? because—not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,

² for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge, ³ for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.

²¹ The salutation of me Paul with my hand;

¹ And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you—through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ—who in presence, indeed am humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you,

³ but not even Titus, who is with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised— ⁴ and that because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage, ⁵ to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.

³ and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law; ⁴ ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

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

¹¹ And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;

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

⁹ because of the love I rather entreat, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;

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,

¹⁹ `And it hath been—if thou really forget Jehovah thy God, and hast gone after other gods, and served them, and bowed thyself to them, I have testified against you to-day that ye do utterly perish;

²⁶ `Cursed is he who doth not establish the words of this law, to do them, —and all the people have said, Amen.

²¹ `And it hath been, when many evils and distresses do meet it, that this song hath testified to its face for a witness; for it is not forgotten out of the mouth of its seed, for I have known its imagining which it is doing to-day, before I bring them in unto the land of which I have sworn.'

²⁹ and dost testify against them, to bring them back unto Thy law; and they—they have acted proudly, and have not hearkened to Thy commands, and against Thy judgments have sinned, —which man doth and hath lived in them—and they give a refractory shoulder, and their neck have hardened, and have not hearkened. ³⁰ `And Thou drawest over them many years, and testifiest against them by Thy Spirit, by the hand of Thy prophets, and they have not given ear, and Thou dost give them into the hand of peoples of the lands,

³⁴ and our kings, our heads, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Thy law, nor attended unto Thy commands, and to Thy testimonies, that Thou hast testified against them;

¹⁶ `Woe to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary—is debtor!

¹⁸ `And, whoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever may swear by the gift that is upon it—is debtor!

²⁸ for I have five brothers, so that he may thoroughly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

⁴⁰ Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, `Be saved from this perverse generation;'

²¹ testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁵ For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.

¹⁰ for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law—to do them,'

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,

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,

¹⁰ for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one point, he hath become guilty of all; ¹¹ for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law;

¹⁴ And we—we have seen and do testify, that the Father hath sent the Son—Saviour of the world;

²⁰ wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

⁴ and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt; ⁵ and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned—to righteousness:

³ for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit. ⁴ For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing, ⁵ for Moses doth describe the righteousness that is of the law, that, `The man who did them shall live in them,'

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.

⁶ I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news; ⁷ that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ; ⁸ but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you—anathema let him be! ⁹ as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive—anathema let him be!

²¹ I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness be through law—then Christ died in vain.

² lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;

⁴ for it is impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age, ⁶ and having fallen away, again to renew them to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame.

¹⁵ looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

²⁰ for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first, ²¹ for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them, ²² and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, `A sow having bathed herself—to rolling in mire.'

¹⁷ Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness, ¹⁸ and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him is the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.

⁵ remember, then, whence thou hast fallen, and reform, and the first works do; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will remove thy lamp-stand from its place—if thou mayest not reform;

¹⁸ For Thy salvation I have waited, Jehovah!

³ Also let none waiting on Thee be ashamed, Let the treacherous dealers without cause be ashamed.

⁵ Cause me to tread in Thy truth, and teach me, For Thou art the God of my salvation, Near Thee I have waited all the day.

⁵ Only—for God, be silent, O my soul, For from Him is my hope.

⁵ I hoped for Jehovah—hoped hath my soul, And for His word I have waited.

²⁵ Good is Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul that seeketh Him. ²⁶ Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.

⁶ And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.

⁸ and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment; ⁹ concerning sin indeed, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰ and concerning righteousness, because unto my Father I go away, and no more do ye behold me; ¹¹ and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged. ¹² `I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear them now; <sup>13</sup> 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; <sup>14</sup> He will glorify me, because of mine He will take, and will tell to you. <sup>15</sup> `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;

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.

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; 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 ? ²⁵ and if what we do not behold we hope for, through continuance we expect it .

¹⁸ because through him we have the access—we both—in one Spirit unto the Father.

⁹ not having my righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith of Christ—the righteousness that is of God by the faith,

¹⁰ and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He did raise out of the dead—Jesus, who is rescuing us from the anger that is coming.

⁵ and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.

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.

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

³¹ `And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory; <sup>32</sup> and gathered together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats, <sup>33</sup> and he shall set the sheep indeed on his right hand, and the goats on the left. <sup>34</sup> `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; 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 .

²⁵ For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision. ²⁶ If, therefore the uncircumcision the righteousness of the law may keep, shall not his uncircumcision for circumcision be reckoned? ²⁷ and the uncircumcision, by nature, fulfilling the law, shall judge thee who, through letter and circumcision, art a transgressor of law. ²⁸ For he is not a Jew who is so outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is outward in flesh; 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.

²⁹ The God of Jews only is He, and not also of nations? ³⁰ yes, also of nations; since one is God who shall declare righteous the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith. ³¹ Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.

¹⁹ the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing—but a keeping of the commands of God.

¹⁴ for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

²⁸ there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

² lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing; ³ and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law;

¹⁵ for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;

¹¹ where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman—but the all and in all—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,

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;

¹⁷ By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises, ¹⁸ of whom it was said—`In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;' ¹⁹ reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive him .

¹⁴ What is the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? 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? <sup>17</sup> so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself. <sup>18</sup> But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith: <sup>19</sup> thou—thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder! <sup>20</sup> And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith apart from the works is dead? <sup>21</sup> Abraham our father—was not he declared righteous out of works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar? <sup>22</sup> dost thou see that the faith was working with his works, and out of the works the faith was perfected? <sup>23</sup> and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him—to righteousness;' and, `Friend of God' he was called. ²⁴ Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only; ²⁵ and in like manner also Rahab the harlot—was she not out of works declared righteous, having received the messengers, and by another way having sent forth? ²⁶ for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

⁸ whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,

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,
²⁰ because if our heart may condemn—because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.

¹⁸ fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love; 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? ²¹ and this is the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

²¹ and he hath not root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.

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.

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

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;

¹⁶ But they were not all obedient to the good tidings, for Isaiah saith, `Lord, who did give credence to our report?'

¹⁸ for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,

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—

²⁴ have ye not known that those running in a race—all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

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,

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

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

¹ Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

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,

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;

⁶ I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;

⁶ and Jesus said to them, `Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;' <sup>7</sup> and they were reasoning in themselves, saying, `Because we took no loaves.' ⁸ And Jesus having known, said to them, `Why reason ye in yourselves, ye of little faith, because ye took no loaves? ⁹ do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up? ¹⁰ nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? ¹¹ how do ye not understand that I did not speak to you of bread—to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?' ¹² Then they understood that he did not say to take heed of the leaven of the bread, but of the teaching, of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

³³ `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

¹⁵ and he was charging them, saying, `Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod,'

¹ At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, `Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;

²¹ It is like leaven, which a woman, having taken, did hide in three measures of meal, till that all was leavened.'

⁶ Not good is your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?
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,

³³ Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

¹⁷ and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

¹ And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren—`If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;' ² there having been, therefore, not a little dissension and disputation to Paul and Barnabas with them, they arranged for Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, to go up unto the apostles and elders to Jerusalem about this question,

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.

¹⁵ and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,

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,

⁶ sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that is by the more part,

¹⁶ So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

¹⁶ I rejoice, therefore, that in everything I have courage in you.

²² and we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things many times being diligent, and now much more diligent, by the great confidence that is toward you,

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.

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.

⁷ that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;

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,

¹¹ I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

¹⁷ they are zealous for you—yet not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

²⁰ and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.

¹² O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!

¹² as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised—only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted, ¹³ for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.

¹⁷ Henceforth, let no one give me trouble, for I the scars of the Lord Jesus in my body do bear.

¹⁵ As many, therefore, as are perfect—let us think this, and if in anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,

⁴ and we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that the things that we command you ye both do and will do;

²⁰ of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I did deliver to the Adversary, that they might be instructed not to speak evil.
²¹ having been confident in thy obedience I did write to thee, having known that also above what I may say thou wilt do;

¹⁸ Little youths, it is the last hour; and even as ye heard that the antichrist doth come, even now antichrists have become many—whence we know that it is the last hour; ¹⁹ out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but—that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.
²⁰ And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and have known all things; ²¹ I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth. ²² Who is the liar, except he who is denying that Jesus is the Christ? this one is the antichrist who is denying the Father and the Son; ²³ every one who is denying the Son, neither hath he the Father, he who is confessing the Son hath the Father also. 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. ²⁶ These things I did write to you concerning those leading you astray;

¹⁴ And He hath been for a sanctuary, And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, To the two houses of Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

³ this one did Paul wish to go forth with him, and having taken him, he circumcised him, because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all knew his father—that he was a Greek.

²¹ and they are instructed concerning thee, that apostasy from Moses thou dost teach to all Jews among the nations, saying—Not to circumcise the children, nor after the customs to walk;

²⁸ crying out, `Men, Israelites, help! this is the man who, against the people, and the law, and this place, all everywhere is teaching; and further, also, Greeks he brought into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place;'

²¹ and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.'
²² And they were hearing him unto this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, `Away from the earth with such an one; for it is not fit for him to live.'

¹³ and they were more than forty who made this conspiracy by oath, ¹⁴ who having come near to the chief priests and to the elders said, `With an anathema we did anathematize ourselves—to taste nothing till we have killed Paul;

³² wherefore? because—not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling, ³³ according as it hath been written, `Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'

¹⁸ for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us—those being saved—it is the power of God,

²³ also we—we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,

³⁰ why also do we stand in peril every hour?

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;

³ but not even Titus, who is with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised—

²⁹ but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;

¹² as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised—only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,

⁸ and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence—who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, —to which also they were set; 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;

¹⁴ and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, even that person hath been cut off from his people; My covenant he hath broken.'

¹⁵ Seven days ye eat unleavened things; only—in the first day ye cause leaven to cease out of your houses; for any one eating anything fermented from the first day till the seventh day, even that person hath been cut off from Israel.

³³ a man who compoundeth any like it, or who putteth of it on a stranger—hath even been cut off from his people.'

³ `Say unto them, To your generations, any man who draweth near, out of all your seed, unto the holy things which the sons of Israel do sanctify to Jehovah, and his uncleanness on him—even that person hath been cut off from before Me; I am Jehovah.

¹² and the sons of Israel have not been able to stand before their enemies; the neck they turn before their enemies, for they have become a devoted thing; I add not to be with you—if ye destroy not the devoted thing out of your midst.

²⁵ And Joshua saith, `What! thou hast troubled us! —Jehovah doth trouble thee this day;' and all Israel cast stones at him, and they burn them with fire, and they stone them with stones,

³⁴ They answered and said to him, `In sins thou wast born altogether, and thou dost teach us!' and they cast him forth without.

⁵ and Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, did expire, and great fear came upon all who heard these things,

⁹ And Peter said unto her, `How was it agreed by you, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? lo, the feet of those who did bury thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee forth;'

¹³ and those without God doth judge; and put ye away the evil from among yourselves.

¹⁰ I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

¹⁰ A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,

⁴³ but not so shall it be among you; but whoever may will to become great among you, he shall be your minister, ⁴⁴ and whoever of you may will to become first, he shall be servant of all; ⁴⁵ for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

¹⁸ `The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

¹⁴ if then I did wash your feet—the Lord and the Teacher—ye also ought to wash one another's feet. ¹⁵ `For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;

³⁵ all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth us to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

¹⁸ and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness. ¹⁹ In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness—to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness—to sanctification, ²⁰ for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness, ²¹ what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death. 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;

¹ And we ought—we who are strong—to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves; ² for let each one of us please the neighbour for good, unto edification,

⁹ but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

¹⁹ for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;

⁴ The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, ⁵ doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil, ⁶ rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth; ⁷ all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

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

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

⁵ that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive; ⁶ and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!' ⁷ so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

²² for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,

¹⁴ for all the law in one word is fulfilled—in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

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

² of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

²¹ subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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? ¹⁷ so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.

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,

⁴ for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord—Jesus Christ—denying,

¹⁰ and these, as many things indeed as they have not known, they speak evil of; and as many things as naturally (as the irrational beasts) they understand, in these they are corrupted; ¹¹ woe to them! because in the way of Cain they did go on, and to the deceit of Balaam for reward they did rush, and in the gainsaying of Korah they did perish. ¹² These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

¹⁸ `Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I am Jehovah.

³⁴ as a native among you is the sojourner to you who is sojourning with you, and thou hast had love to him as to thyself, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.

¹² `All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

¹⁸ He saith to him, `What kind?' And Jesus said, `Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, ¹⁹ honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

³⁹ and the second is like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; ⁴⁰ on these—the two commands—all the law and the prophets do hang.'

³¹ and the second is like it, this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; —greater than these there is no other command.'

³³ and to love Him out of all the heart, and out of all the understanding, and out of all the soul, and out of all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the whole burnt-offerings and the sacrifices.'

²⁷ And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.' <sup>28</sup> And he said to him, `Rightly thou didst answer; this do, and thou shalt live.' ²⁹ And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, `And who is my neighbour?' <sup>30</sup> and Jesus having taken up the word, said, `A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and having stripped him and inflicted blows, they went away, leaving him half dead. ³¹ `And by a coincidence a certain priest was going down in that way, and having seen him, he passed over on the opposite side; <sup>32</sup> and in like manner also, a Levite, having been about the place, having come and seen, passed over on the opposite side. <sup>33</sup> `But a certain Samaritan, journeying, came along him, and having seen him, he was moved with compassion, ³⁴ and having come near, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and having lifted him up on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and was careful of him; ³⁵ and on the morrow, going forth, taking out two denaries, he gave to the innkeeper, and said to him, Be careful of him, and whatever thou mayest spend more, I, in my coming again, will give back to thee. ³⁶ `Who, then, of these three, seemeth to thee to have become neighbour of him who fell among the robbers?' <sup>37</sup> and he said, `He who did the kindness with him,' then Jesus said to him, `Be going on, and thou be doing in like manner.'

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;

⁸ To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other—law he hath fulfilled, ⁹ for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;' ¹⁰ the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, is the fulness of law.

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

⁸ If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' —ye do well; ⁹ and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;

²⁶ and Abner calleth unto Joab, and saith, `For ever doth the sword consume? hast thou not known that it is bitterness in the latter end? and till when dost thou not say to the people to turn back from after their brethren?' <sup>27</sup> And Joab saith, `God liveth! for unless thou hadst spoken, surely then from the morning had the people gone up each from after his brother.'

²⁰ And cutteth down on the right, and hath been hungry, And he devoureth on the left, And they have not been satisfied, Each the flesh of his own arm they devour. ²¹ Manasseh—Ephraim, and Ephraim—Manasseh, Together they are against Judah, With all this not turned back hath His anger. And still His hand is stretched out!

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. ⁷ And cow and bear do feed, Together lie down their young ones, And a lion as an ox eateth straw. ⁸ And played hath a suckling by the hole of an asp, And on the den of a cockatrice Hath the weaned one put his hand. ⁹ Evil they do not, nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For full hath been the earth with the knowledge of Jehovah, As the waters are covering the sea.

¹³ And turned aside hath the envy of Ephraim, And the adversaries of Judah are cut off, Ephraim doth not envy Judah, And Judah doth not distress Ephraim.

³ for yet ye are fleshly, for where there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

⁶ but brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers! ⁷ Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded? ⁸ but ye—ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these—brethren!

²⁰ for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you;

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,

²⁶ let us not become vain-glorious—one another provoking, one another envying!

² look to the dogs, look to the evil-workers, look to the concision;

¹⁴ and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

¹² Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

¹ There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

⁴ that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. ⁵ For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;

¹² So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; 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; ¹⁴ for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;

¹³ as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation; ¹⁴ but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought—for desires.

²⁹ And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened—that both those having wives may be as not having;

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

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,

¹⁹ And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

²⁴ and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires; ²⁵ if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

⁸ because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

³ among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath—as also the others,

¹¹ in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,

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;
⁸ but now put off, even ye, the whole—anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking—out of your mouth. ⁹ Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices, ¹⁰ and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;

¹⁴ as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

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

¹ Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin, 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,
⁴ in which they think it strange—your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

⁶ for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.

¹⁵ Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, ¹⁶ because all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life—is not of the Father, but of the world,

¹⁹ these are those setting themselves apart, natural men, the Spirit not having.

¹² Errors! who doth understand? From hidden ones declare me innocent, ¹³ Also—from presumptuous ones keep back Thy servant, Let them not rule over me, Then am I perfect, And declared innocent of much transgression,

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions. ² Thoroughly wash me from mine iniquity, And from my sin cleanse me, ³ For my transgressions I do know, And my sin is before me continually. ⁴ Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done the evil thing in Thine eyes, So that Thou art righteous in Thy words, Thou art pure in Thy judging. ⁵ Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

¹⁰ A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me. ¹¹ Cast me not forth from Thy presence, And Thy Holy Spirit take not from me. ¹² Restore to me the joy of Thy salvation, And a willing spirit doth sustain me.

³ Matters of iniquities were mightier than I, Our transgressions—Thou dost cover them.

⁴ Thou hast commanded us Thy precepts to keep diligently, ⁵ O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes, ⁶ Then I am not ashamed In my looking unto all Thy commands.

²⁰ Broken hath my soul for desire Unto Thy judgments at all times.

²⁴ Thy testimonies also are my delight, The men of my counsel!
²⁵ Daleth. Cleaved to the dust hath my soul, Quicken me according to Thy word.

³² The way of Thy commands I run, For Thou dost enlarge my heart!

³⁵ Cause me to tread in the path of Thy commands, For in it I have delighted.

⁴⁰ Lo, I have longed for Thy precepts, In Thy righteousness quicken Thou me,

¹³³ My steps establish by Thy saying, And any iniquity doth not rule over me.

¹⁵⁹ See, for thy precepts I have loved, Jehovah, According to Thy kindness quicken me.

¹⁷⁶ I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

³ If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

²⁰ Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

⁵ And I say, `Woe to me, for I have been silent, For a man—unclean of lips am I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'

⁶ `Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness—because they shall be filled.

³⁰ `He who is not with me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me, doth scatter.

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.

²³ and he having turned, said to Peter, `Get thee behind me, adversary! thou art a stumbling-block to me, for thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'

⁴¹ watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

³³ And he said to him, `Sir, with thee I am ready both to prison and to death to go;'

⁴⁶ and he said to them, `Why do ye sleep? having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.'

⁵⁴ And having taken him, they led and brought him to the house of the chief priest. And Peter was following afar off, ⁵⁵ and they having kindled a fire in the midst of the court, and having sat down together, Peter was sitting in the midst of them, ⁵⁶ and a certain maid having seen him sitting at the light, and having earnestly looked at him, she said, `And this one was with him!' <sup>57</sup> and he disowned him, saying, `Woman, I have not known him.' ⁵⁸ And after a little, another having seen him, said, `And thou art of them!' and Peter said, `Man, I am not.' ⁵⁹ And one hour, as it were, having intervened, a certain other was confidently affirming, saying, `Of a truth this one also was with him, for he is also a Galilean;' <sup>60</sup> and Peter said, `Man, I have not known what thou sayest;' and presently, while he is speaking, a cock crew. ⁶¹ And the Lord having turned did look on Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him—`Before a cock shall crow, thou mayest disown me thrice;'

⁶ that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁷ What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said: ⁸ `Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness—for apart from law sin is dead.

¹⁰ and the command that is for life, this was found by me for death; ¹¹ for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay me; ¹² so that the law, indeed, is holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good. ¹³ That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,
¹⁴ for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin; ¹⁵ for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do. ¹⁶ And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that it is good, ¹⁷ and now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me, ¹⁸ for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find, ¹⁹ for the good that I will, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise. ²⁰ And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin that is dwelling in me. ²¹ I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present, ²² for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man, ²³ and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that is in my members. ²⁴ A wretched man I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death? ²⁵ I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.

⁵ For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit; ⁶ for the mind of the flesh is death, and the mind of the Spirit—life and peace; ⁷ because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself, ⁸ for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

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;

²¹ the law, then, is against the promises of God? —let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

¹² Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus; ¹³ brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing—the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth— ¹⁴ to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
¹⁵ As many, therefore, as are perfect—let us think this, and if in anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you, ¹⁶ but to what we have come—by the same rule walk, the same thing think;

² for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

⁵ Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,' <sup>6</sup> 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?'

⁸ if we may say—`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us; <sup>9</sup> if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness; <sup>10</sup> if we may say—`we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

⁴ Thy ways, O Jehovah, cause me to know, Thy paths teach Thou me. ⁵ Cause me to tread in Thy truth, and teach me, For Thou art the God of my salvation, Near Thee I have waited all the day.

⁸ Good and upright is Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way. ⁹ He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way.

⁸ Cause me to hear in the morning Thy kindness, For in Thee I have trusted, Cause me to know the way that I go, For unto Thee I have lifted up my soul. ⁹ Deliver me from mine enemies, O Jehovah, Near Thee I am covered. ¹⁰ Teach me to do Thy good pleasure, For Thou art my God—Thy Spirit is good, Lead me into a land of uprightness.

²⁰ In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment,

¹⁶ Come ye near unto me, hear this, Not from the beginning in secret spake I, From the time of its being, there am I, And now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and His Spirit. ¹⁷ Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, `I am Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest. ¹⁸ O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,

²⁷ And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them.

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 for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

⁴ So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

¹² So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

¹⁴ for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;

⁵ that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive; ⁶ and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'

¹⁶ And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

²⁵ if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

⁹ having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers,

⁷ for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

²⁰ And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and have known all things; ²¹ I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth. ²² Who is the liar, except he who is denying that Jesus is the Christ? this one is the antichrist who is denying the Father and the Son; ²³ every one who is denying the Son, neither hath he the Father, he who is confessing the Son hath the Father also. 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. ²⁶ These things I did write to you concerning those leading you astray; 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.

⁴ As to doings of man, Through a word of Thy lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;

⁶ Lo, princes of Israel—each according to his arm Have been in thee to shed blood. ⁷ Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee. ⁸ My holy things thou hast despised, And My sabbaths thou hast polluted. ⁹ Men of slander have been in thee to shed blood, And on the mountains they have eaten in thee, Wickedness they have done in thy midst. ¹⁰ The nakedness of a father hath one uncovered in thee, The defiled of impurity they humbled in thee. ¹¹ And each with the wife of his neighbour hath done abomination, And each his daughter-in-law hath defiled through wickedness, And each his sister, his father's daughter, hath humbled in thee. ¹² A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah! ¹³ And lo, I have smitten My hand, Because of thy dishonest gain that thou hast gained, And for thy blood that hath been in thy midst.

¹⁸ but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man; ¹⁹ for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

²¹ for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, ²² thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness; ²³ all these evils do come forth from within, and they defile the man.'

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, ²² professing to be wise, they were made fools, 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. ²⁴ Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves; ²⁵ who did change the truth of God into a falsehood, and did honour and serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed to the ages. Amen. ²⁶ Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; ²⁷ and in like manner also the males having left the natural use of the female, did burn in their longing toward one another; males with males working shame, and the recompense of their error that was fit, in themselves receiving. ²⁸ And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly; ²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, ³⁰ evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, ³¹ unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful; ³² who the righteous judgment of God having known—that those practising such things are worthy of death—not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.

⁵ for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that are through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

¹⁸ for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,

²⁵ I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.

³ for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

⁵ For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;

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;

⁹ have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

¹⁸ flee the whoredom; every sin—whatever a man may commit—is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

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, ²¹ lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

¹⁷ for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will—these ye may not do;

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, 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;

³ and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; ⁴ also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, —the things not fit—but rather thanksgiving; ⁵ for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God. 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;
⁸ but now put off, even ye, the whole—anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking—out of your mouth.

⁹ having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers, ¹⁰ whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

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;

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,

⁸ and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part is in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

¹⁵ and without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

¹⁰ there is not found in thee one causing his son and his daughter to pass over into fire, a user of divinations, an observer of clouds, and an enchanter, and a sorcerer,

²³ for a sin of divination is rebellion, and iniquity and teraphim is stubbornness; because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, He also doth reject thee from being king.'

¹³ And Saul dieth because of his trespass that he trespassed against Jehovah, against the word of Jehovah that he kept not, and also for asking at a familiar spirit—to inquire, — ¹⁴ and he inquired not at Jehovah, and He putteth him to death, and turneth round the kingdom to David son of Jesse.

⁶ And he hath caused his sons to pass over through fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and observed clouds and used enchantments and witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and a wizard; he hath multiplied to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

¹⁸ The house of Israel hath been to Me for dross, All of them are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, In the midst of a furnace—dross hath silver been,

⁹ And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one, ¹⁰ to whom they were all giving heed, from small unto great, saying, `This one is the great power of God;' ¹¹ and they were giving heed to him, because of his having for a long time amazed them with deeds of magic.

¹⁶ And it came to pass in our going on to prayer, a certain maid, having a spirit of Python, did meet us, who brought much employment to her masters by soothsaying, ¹⁷ she having followed Paul and us, was crying, saying, `These men are servants of the Most High God, who declare to us a way of salvation;' <sup>18</sup> and this she was doing for many days, but Paul having been grieved, and having turned, said to the spirit, `I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come forth from her;' and it came forth the same hour. ¹⁹ And her masters having seen that the hope of their employment was gone, having caught Paul and Silas, drew them to the market-place, unto the rulers,

¹⁹ for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;

¹⁹ for gladly do ye bear with the fools—being wise,

¹ And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,

²⁰ and have said unto the elders of his city, Our son—this one—is apostatizing and rebellious; he is not hearkening to our voice—a glutton and drunkard;

¹¹ Woe to the wicked—evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.

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;

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,

⁸ and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

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

¹¹ and now, I did write to you not to keep company with him, if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—with such a one not even to eat together;

⁵⁰ And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;

¹⁸ and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

⁶ because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

⁷ for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

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,

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.

³ And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.

¹⁴ Still they bring forth in old age, Fat and flourishing are they,

⁸ O Ephraim, what to Me any more with idols? I—I afflicted, and I cause him to sing: `I am as a green fir-tree,' From Me is thy fruit found.

¹⁶ From their fruits ye shall know them; do men gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs? ¹⁷ so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits. ¹⁸ A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits. ¹⁹ Every tree not yielding good fruit is cut down and is cast to fire: ²⁰ therefore from their fruits ye shall know them.

³³ `Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known.

¹⁴ `And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion. <sup>15</sup> `And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain it, and bear fruit in continuance.

⁹ and if indeed it may bear fruit—;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'

² every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

⁵ `I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

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.

¹ Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 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. 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.

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;

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; ¹¹ in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving; ¹² in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering; ¹³ to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing. ¹⁴ Bless those persecuting you; bless, and curse not; ¹⁵ to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping, ¹⁶ of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit; ¹⁷ giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. ¹⁸ If possible—so far as in you—with all men being in peace;

³ for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, `The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;'

¹⁴ And I am persuaded, my brethren—I myself also—concerning you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also one another to admonish;

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

¹⁶ And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; ¹⁷ for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will—these ye may not do; ¹⁸ and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.

²³ and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

⁹ for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,

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

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice; ⁵ let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord is near; ⁶ for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God; ⁷ and the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. ⁸ As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as are grave, as many as are righteous, as many as are pure, as many as are lovely, as many as are of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon; ⁹ the things that also ye did learn, and receive, and hear, and saw in me, those do, and the God of the peace shall be with you.

¹⁰ to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

¹² Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering, ¹³ forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you—so also ye; ¹⁴ and above all these things, have love, which is a bond of the perfection, ¹⁵ and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord; ¹⁷ and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus—giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

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, 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, 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, ⁹ for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God, ¹⁰ and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He did raise out of the dead—Jesus, who is rescuing us from the anger that is coming.

¹⁰ who did die for us, that whether we wake—whether we sleep—together with him we may live;
¹¹ wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do. ¹² And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you, ¹³ and to esteem them very abundantly in love, because of their work; be at peace among yourselves; ¹⁴ and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all; ¹⁵ see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;
¹⁶ always rejoice ye; ¹⁷ continually pray ye; ¹⁸ in every thing give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus in regard to you. ¹⁹ The Spirit quench not; ²⁰ prophesyings despise not; ²¹ all things prove; that which is good hold fast; ²² from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

² and that we may be delivered from the unreasonable and evil men, for the faith is not of all;

¹¹ Women—in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

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;

² aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance; ³ aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, ⁴ that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children, ⁵ sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of. ⁶ The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded; ⁷ concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility, ⁸ discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you. ⁹ Servants—to their own masters are to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying, ¹⁰ not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.
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,

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.

¹² Through Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, through few words I did write, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye have stood.

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,

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; ⁸ he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love. 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. ¹¹ Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love; 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; ¹³ in this we know that in Him we do remain, and He in us, because of His Spirit He hath given us.
¹⁴ And we—we have seen and do testify, that the Father hath sent the Son—Saviour of the world; ¹⁵ whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God in him doth remain, and he in God; ¹⁶ and we—we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

²⁵ and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'

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;

⁸ but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

² aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

⁶ this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

¹⁴ but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought—for desires.

²³ and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

²³ and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence,

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;

²⁹ and if ye are of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise—heirs.

²⁰ idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,

¹⁴ And for me, let it not be—to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

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;

¹⁰ and if Christ is in you, the body, indeed, is dead because of sin, and the Spirit is life because of righteousness,

⁴⁵ so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit,

⁶ who also made us sufficient to be ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

¹¹ And after the three days and a half, a spirit of life from God did enter into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those beholding them,

¹⁰ `But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;

⁷ so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth—God;

¹⁵ and if one another ye do bite and devour, see—that ye may not by one another be consumed.

¹ If, then, any exhortation is in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, ² fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing—having the same love—of one soul—minding the one thing, ³ nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves—

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;

¹⁶ and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

⁵ In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;