2 Corinthians 6 Cross References - ABU

¹ AND, as workers together with him, we also beseech you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain; ² (for he says: In an accepted time I heard thee, And in the day of salvation I helped thee; behold, now is the well accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation;) ³ giving no cause of offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed; ⁴ but as God's ministers, commending ourselves in everything, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, ⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings; ⁶ in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned, ⁷ in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, ⁸ through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and true; ⁹ as unknown, and well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; ¹⁰ as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things. ¹¹ O Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged. ¹² Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. ¹³ Now as a recompense in the same kind (I speak as to my children), be ye also enlarged. ¹⁴ Be not yoked unequally with unbelievers; for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? ¹⁵ And what concord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God; as God said: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people. ¹⁷ Wherefore, come out from among them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not anything unclean; and I will receive you, ¹⁸ and will be to you a Father, and ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

³⁷ Jerusalem! Jerusalem! that killest the prophets, and stonest those sent to her; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

³ They spent a long time, therefore, speaking boldly in the Lord, who gave testimony to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

¹ I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your rational service.

⁹ For we are God's fellow-laborers; ye are God's field, God's building.

¹⁸ And all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; ¹⁹ as that God was in Christ reconciling a world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are then ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were beseeching by us; on behalf of Christ we pray: Be reconciled to God!

¹ AND we made known to you, brethren, the grace of God which has been bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; ² that in much trial of affliction was the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

¹ NOW I, Paul, myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you;

²¹ I do not set aside the grace of God; for if there be righteousness through law, then Christ died without cause.

⁴ Did ye suffer so many things in vain? If indeed it be in vain.

¹¹ I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain. ¹² Become as I am, for I also became as ye are, brethren, I beseech you. Ye injured me in nothing.

¹¹ For the saving grace of God appeared to all men,

¹⁵ looking diligently, lest any one come short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and the many be thereby defiled;

²⁵ See that ye refuse not him who speaks; for if they did not escape, refusing him who declared the divine will on earth, much more shall not we, who turn away from him who speaks from heaven;

¹⁰ according as each received a gift, ministering the same to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

¹⁹ To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

⁴² saying: If even thou hadst known, at least in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace! But now they are hidden from thine eyes. ⁴³ For days will come upon thee, that thine enemies will cast up a mound about thee, and compass thee round, and shut thee in on every side, ⁴⁴ and will level thee with the ground, and thy children within thee, and will not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

⁷ Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit says: To-day, if ye will hear his voice,

¹³ But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called To-day, that no one of you may be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

⁷ he limits a certain day, To-day, (saying in David, after so long a time, as has before been said,) To-day, if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts.

²⁷ But that we may not offend them, go to the sea and cast a hook, and take the fish that first comes up; and opening its mouth thou wilt find a shekel; that take, and give to them for me and thee.

⁶ But whoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to offend, it were better for him that an upper millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were plunged in the depth of the sea.

¹³ Let us therefore no longer judge one another; but judge this rather, not to put a stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall, in a brother's way.

⁹ But take heed, lest haply this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if any one sees thee, who hast knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat the things offered to idols? ¹¹ And through thy knowledge he that is weak perishes, the brother for whom Christ died! ¹² But when ye so sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. ¹³ Wherefore, if food cause my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh for ever more, that I may not cause my brother to offend.

¹² If others partake of this power over you, do not we still more? But we used not this power; but we bear all things, that we may not cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

²² To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all, that I may by all means save some.

²³ All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient; all things are lawful, but not all things edify. ²⁴ Let no one seek his own, but his neighbor's good.

³² Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews or Greeks, or to the church of God; ³³ as I also please all in all things, not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

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

²⁰ being careful of this, that no one should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us;

¹⁹ In your patience possess your souls.

²² Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you from God by miracles, and wonders, and signs, which God wrought by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves know;

¹⁶ for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

²³ save that the Holy Spirit witnesses to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me. ²⁴ But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.

³⁴ Ye yourselves know, that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.

³ And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also; knowing that affliction works patience; ⁴ and patience approval; and approval hope;

⁸ But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written: For, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for slaughter.

¹⁸ For he that in these things serves Christ, is well pleasing to God, and approved by men.

¹⁰ Salute Apelles, the approved in Christ. Salute those of the household of Aristobulus.

⁵ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each one?

¹ So let a man account us, as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

¹¹ Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; ¹² and labor, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

¹¹ If we sowed for you, the things that are spiritual, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

¹⁷ For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

⁶ who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

² But we renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor falsifying the word of God; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

⁸ being pressed in every way, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not despairing;

¹⁷ For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works out for us a far more exceeding, an eternal weight of glory;

¹¹ For behold this very thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly manner, what earnestness it wrought in you; yea, what clearing of yourselves; yea, what indignation; yea, what fear; yea, what longing desire; yea, what zeal; yea, what avenging! In every thing ye commended yourselves as pure in the matter.

⁹ And when I was present with you, and in want, I was a charge to no one; for what was lacking to me the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied; and in every thing I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will keep myself.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more abundantly, in deaths often;

²⁷ by weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

¹⁰ Wherefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

¹² Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, by signs, and wonders, and miracles.

¹¹ Not that I speak in respect of want; for I learned, in whatever state I am, to be content. ¹² I both know how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in every thing, and in all things, I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.

¹¹ being strengthened with all strength, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;

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

³ For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile; ⁴ but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts. ⁵ For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness; ⁶ nor of men sought we glory, neither from you, nor from others, though able to use authority, as Christ's apostles. ⁷ But we were gentle among you, as a nurse cherishes her children; ⁸ so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to impart to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because ye were dear to us. ⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; night and day working, in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God. ¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God, how holily and justly and unblamably we behaved ourselves to you that believe; ¹¹ as ye know how we exhorted, and encouraged, and charged every one of you, as a father his children,

² and sent Timothy, our brother, and a fellow-worker with God in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to exhort you concerning your faith; ³ that no one should be shaken by these afflictions, for yourselves know that unto this we are appointed.

⁷ for this cause we were consoled, brethren, over you in all our affliction and distress, through your faith;

¹⁴ Now we exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be long-suffering toward all.

¹⁵ But she shall be saved through child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and love, and holiness, with sobriety.

⁶ If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nurtured in the words of the faith and of the good teaching, which thou hast strictly followed.

¹¹ But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness of spirit.

⁸ Be not then ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship with me for the gospel, according to the power of God;

²⁴ And a servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle toward all, apt in teaching, patient of evil;

¹⁰ But thou didst strictly follow my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience, ¹¹ persecutions, afflictions; what things came upon me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of all the Lord delivered me. ¹² Yea, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

⁵ But be thou watchful in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fully accomplish thy ministry.

¹ THEREFORE, let us also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding, us, lay aside every weight, and the easily besetting sin, and with patience run the race that is set before us,

⁷ Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, till it shall have received the early and latter rain. ⁸ Be ye also patient; establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord draws nigh. ⁹ Murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door. ¹⁰ Take, my brethren, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, for an example of affliction, and of patience.

⁹ I, John, your brother, and partner with you in the affliction, and kingdom, and patient endurance in Jesus, was in the island called Patmos, on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

¹⁰ Because thou didst keep my word of patient endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which is about to come upon the whole world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.

¹⁵ And Jesus said to them: Can the sons of the bridechamber mourn, so long as the bridegroom is with them? But days will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.

³ For Herod laid hold of John, and bound him and put him in prison, for the sake of Herodias, the wife of Philip, his brother.

¹⁰ And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.

³⁴ As a man who is abroad, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, also commanded the porter that he should watch; ³⁵ watch therefore, for ye know not when the master of the house comes, at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning; ³⁶ lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. ³⁷ And what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.

¹⁸ and laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the public prison.

⁴ whom he also seized and put in prison, delivering him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people. ⁵ Peter therefore was kept guarded in the prison; but earnest prayer was made by the church to God on his behalf.

³ Then, having fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

¹⁹ But there came thither Jews from Antioch and Iconium; and having persuaded the people, and stoned Paul, they drew him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

²³ And having appointed for them elders in every church, they commended them, with prayer and fasting, to the Lord, on whom they believed.

²³ And having laid many stripes on them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely; ²⁴ who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

⁵ But the Jews, moved with envy, having taken to them, of the idlers in the market-place, certain vicious men, and having gathered a crowd, set the city in an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them unto the people.

¹² And when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one accord against Paul, and brought him before the judgment-seat, ¹³ saying: This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law. ¹⁴ And as Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews: If it were some injustice, or wicked misdeed, O Jews, with reason I would have borne with you. ¹⁵ But if it is a question about a word, and names, and your own law look to it yourselves; I will not be a judge of these things ¹⁶ And he drove them away from the judgment-seat. ¹⁷ But having all seized upon Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, they beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio cared for none of these things.

²³ And about that time, there arose no small tumult concerning the Way. ²⁴ For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Diana, brought no small gain to the craftsmen; ²⁵ whom he called together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said: Sirs, ye well know that by this craft we have our wealth. ²⁶ Moreover ye see and hear, that this Paul has persuaded and turned aside much people, not only of Ephesus, but of almost all Asia, saying that they are not gods, which are made with hands. ²⁷ And there is danger to us, not only that this branch of business will come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana will be accounted nothing, and her magnificence will be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worship. ²⁸ And hearing it, they became full of wrath, and continued crying out, saying: Great is Diana of the Ephesians. ²⁹ And the whole city was filled with confusion; and they rushed with one accord into the theatre, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel. ³⁰ And Paul wishing to enter in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. ³¹ And some also of the chiefs of Asia, being his friends, sent to him, entreating him not to adventure himself into the theatre. ³² Some therefore were crying one thing, and some another; for the assembly was confused, and the greater part knew not wherefore they had come together. ³³ And they brought forward Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews thrusting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, desiring to make his defense to the people. ³⁴ But when they knew that he was a Jew, one voice arose from all, crying about two hours: Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

³¹ Therefore watch, remembering that for the space of three years, night and day, I ceased not to warn every one with tears.

²⁷ And as the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews from Asia, having observed him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, ²⁸ crying out: Men of Israel, help. This is the man who teaches all, everywhere, against the people, and the law, and this place; and further also, he brought Greeks into the temple, and has polluted this holy place. ²⁹ For they had before seen with him in the city Trophimus the Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul brought into the temple. ³⁰ And all the city was moved, and the people ran together; and laying hold of Paul, they dragged him out of the temple; and forthwith the doors were shut. ³¹ And while they were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar; ³² who immediately took with him soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them; and they, seeing the chief captain and the soldiers, left off beating Paul. ³³ Then the chief captain came near, and took hold of him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and inquired who he was, and what he had done. ³⁴ And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude; and not being able to know the certainty on account of the tumult, he commanded him to be led into the castle. ³⁵ And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne by the soldiers on account of the violence of the people.

²³ And as they were crying out, and throwing up their garments, and casting dust into the air, ²⁴ the chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know for what charge they were thus crying out against him.

¹⁰ And a great dissension arising, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should be pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiery to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.

³⁵ he said: I will hear thee fully, when thy accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in the praetorium of Herod.

²⁷ But after two years, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and Felix, wishing to gain favor with the Jews, left Paul bound.

¹⁰ Which I also did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints did I myself shut up in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.

²⁹ And Paul said: I could pray God, that with little or much, not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, may become such as I am, except these bonds.

¹⁶ And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the commander of the camp; but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself, with the soldier who guarded him. ¹⁷ And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called together those who were the chief men of the Jews; and when they were come together, he said to them: Men, brethren, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;

³⁰ And Paul remained two whole years in his own hired house, and gladly received all that came in to him;

¹¹ Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

⁵ Defraud not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and come again together, that Satan may not tempt you on account of your incontinency.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

⁸ For we would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were exceedingly oppressed, above our strength, so that we despaired even of life. ⁹ Yea, we ourselves had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; ¹⁰ who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom is our hope that he will still deliver;

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more abundantly, in deaths often; ²⁴ of the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one; ²⁵ thrice I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and a day I have spent in the deep;

¹ FOR this cause I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,—

¹³ so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in all the Praetorium, and to all the rest;

⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; night and day working, in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

¹⁰ For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have hoped in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

⁹ in which I endure hardship, even unto bonds, as an evil-doer; but the word of God is not bound.

³⁶ And others had trial of mockings, and scourgings, and, moreover, of bonds and imprisonment.

¹⁷ Obey those who are your leaders, and submit; for they watch for your souls, as those who shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with sighing, for that is unprofitable for you.

²³ Know that the brother, Timothy, has been set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

¹⁰ Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer. Behold, the Devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye will have affliction ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

⁹ Let love be unfeigned. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. In brotherly love,

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

¹ I ALSO, when I came to you, brethren, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God. ² For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

⁴ And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of man's wisdom, but with demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

¹⁶ For who knew the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

⁴ Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye might have sorrow, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly toward you.

³ being made manifest that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in fleshly tablets of the heart.

⁶ Because it is God, who commands light to shine out of darkness; who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

² Receive us; we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we defrauded no one.

⁴ For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we preached not, or if ye receive a different spirit, which ye received not, or a different gospel, which ye accepted not, ye might well bear with it.

⁶ And though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in everything we have been made manifest among all, in respect to you.

¹¹ Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knows.

¹⁵ And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

² This only I desire to learn from you: Was it from works of law that ye received the Spirit, or from the hearing of faith?

⁵ Does he, therefore, who supplies to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, do it from works of law, or from the hearing of faith?

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

⁴ whereby, when ye read, ye can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

² with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

³² and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as also God in Christ forgave you.

⁹ For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; ¹⁰ that ye may walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, bringing forth fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; ¹¹ being strengthened with all strength, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;

²⁷ to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

³ in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

¹² Put on therefore, as God's chosen, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering,

⁵ because our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men were we among you, for your sake. ⁶ And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God, how holily and justly and unblamably we behaved ourselves to you that believe;

¹² Let no one despise thy youth; but become an example of the believers, in word, in deportment, in love, in faith, in purity.

² elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity.

¹⁰ But thou didst strictly follow my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience,

² preach the word; apply thyself in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching.

⁷ In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works; in teaching, showing uncorruptness, gravity,

¹² to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you they were ministering them, which now have been announced to you, through those who brought you the good news by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

²² Having purified your souls in obeying the truth unto unfeigned brotherly love, love one another from the heart fervently;

¹⁸ Little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

²⁰ and they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed.

²¹ And the hand of the Lord was with them; and a great number believed, and turned to the Lord.

¹² The night is far advanced, the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. ¹³ Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and envying;

²⁴ but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

⁴ And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of man's wisdom, but with demonstration of the Spirit and of power; ⁵ that your faith might not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

¹⁸ But God is faithful, our word to you is not yea and nay. ¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not made yea and nay, but has been made yea in him. ²⁰ For however many are the promises of God, in him is the yea, and in him the Amen, to the glory of God through us.

¹⁴ For if in any thing I have boasted to him of you, I was not made ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus was found to be truth.

⁴ (for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty before God to the pulling down of strongholds) ⁵ casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

⁴ For even if he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

¹³ in whom ye also, after having heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation, in whom [I say] having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise;

¹⁹ and what the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, ²⁰ which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

²¹ if indeed ye heard him, and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus;

¹¹ Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil. ¹² For to us, the contest is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenly places. ¹³ Therefore take on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having fully done all, to stand. ¹⁴ Stand therefore, having girded your loins about with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness; ¹⁵ and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ in addition to all, having taken on the shield of faith, in which ye will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. ¹⁷ And receive the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; ¹⁸ praying at every fitting season in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints; ¹⁹ and for me, that utterance may be given to me, in the opening of my mouth with boldness, to make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in bonds; that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

⁵ because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

⁸ But let us, being of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation;

¹⁵ Endeavor to present thyself approved to God, a workman not made ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith;

⁴ God also bearing witness, with signs and wonders, and divers miracles, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

¹⁸ Of his own will he begot us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.

¹¹ Happy are ye, when they shall revile and persecute you, and shall say all evil against you falsely, for my sake. ¹² Rejoice, and exult; because great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.

²⁵ It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord: If they called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

¹⁶ And they send out to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying: Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth; neither carest thou for any one, for thou regardest not the person of men.

⁶³ saying: Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive: After three days I will rise.

¹⁴ And they come and say to him: Teacher, we know that thou art true, and carest for no one; for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

¹² And there was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said: He is a good man; others said: Nay, but he misleads the multitude.

¹⁷ If any one desires to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself. ¹⁸ He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

²¹ And they, having further threatened them, let them go, finding no way to punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for that which was done;

¹³ But of the rest no one dared to join himself to them; but the people honored them;

⁴⁰ And to him they assented; and having called the apostles, they scourged them, and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. ⁴¹ They therefore went rejoicing from the presence of the council, because for that name they were counted worthy to suffer shame.

³ Therefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of good repute, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint over this business.

²² And they said: Cornelius, a centurion, a just man, and one that fears God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by a holy angel to send for thee to his house; and to hear words from thee.

¹¹ And the multitudes, seeing what Paul did, lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia: The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. ¹² And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, because he was the chief speaker. ¹³ And the priest of Jupiter, that was before the city, having brought oxen and garlands to the gates, would have offered sacrifice with the people. ¹⁴ But the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, hearing of it, rent their clothes, and rushed forth to the multitude; crying out, ¹⁵ and saying: Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like nature with you, bringing you glad tidings, that ye should turn from these vanities to the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein; ¹⁶ who, in the ages past, suffered all nations to walk in their own ways; ¹⁷ although he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, giving you rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness. ¹⁸ And with these sayings they hardly restrained the people from sacrificing to them. ¹⁹ But there came thither Jews from Antioch and Iconium; and having persuaded the people, and stoned Paul, they drew him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. ²⁰ But the disciples having gathered around him, he rose up, and came into the city; and on the morrow he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

²⁰ And having brought them to the magistrates, they said: These men, being Jews, greatly disturb our city; ²¹ and teach customs, which it is not lawful for us to receive, or to observe, being Romans. ²² And the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them with rods.

³⁹ And they came and besought them, and bringing them out, entreated them to depart out of the city.

¹² And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report from all the Jews who dwelt there,

⁵ For we have found this man to be a pest, and exciting disturbance among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes;

⁴ And when the barbarians saw the animal hanging from his hand, they said among themselves: No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though escaped from the sea, justice suffered not to live. ⁵ He, however, shaking off the animal into the fire, suffered no harm. ⁶ But they were expecting that he would become inflamed, or suddenly fall down dead; but after looking a great while, and seeing no harm befall him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. ⁷ In the region around that place, there were lands of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius, who received and entertained us kindly three days. ⁸ Now it happened, that the father of Publius was lying sick with a fever and a bloody flux; to whom Paul entered in, and having prayed, laid his hands on him and healed him. ⁹ And this having been done, the others also, who had diseases in the island, came and were healed; ¹⁰ who also honored us with many honors; and when we put to sea, they loaded us with such things as were necessary.

²² But we desire to hear from thee what thou thinkest; for concerning this sect, we know that everywhere it is spoken against.

⁸ And why not, as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say: Let us do evil, that good may come? Whose judgment is just.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised. ¹¹ Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; ¹² and labor, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; ¹³ being defamed, we entreat; we have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things unto this day.

⁷ But he must also have a good testimony from those without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.

¹³ So then, let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

¹⁴ If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; because the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you; [on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.]

¹² To Demetrius, testimony has been borne by all, and by the truth itself; yea, we also bear witness, and thou knowest that our witness is true.

⁹ Behold, I make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and they are not, but do lie, behold, I will make them to come and bow down before thy feet, and to know that I loved thee.

¹⁸ And certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, were disputing with him. And some said: What would this babbler say? and others: He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods; because he made known to them the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

²⁶ Moreover ye see and hear, that this Paul has persuaded and turned aside much people, not only of Ephesus, but of almost all Asia, saying that they are not gods, which are made with hands.

³⁷ And as he was about to be led into the castle, Paul says to the chief captain: May I speak to thee? And he said: Canst thou speak Greek? ³⁸ Art thou not then the Egyptian, who before these days made an uproar, and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the assassins?

¹⁴ And as they were spending some days there, Festus laid the case of Paul before the king, saying: There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix; ¹⁵ about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews made complaint, asking for judgment against him.

¹⁹ but had certain controversies with him concerning their own religion, and concerning a certain Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

²⁶ Of whom I have nothing certain to write to my lord. Wherefore I brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, in order that, the examination having been made, I may have something to write.

³⁶ As it is written: For, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for slaughter.

⁹ For I think that God set forth us the apostles last, as condemned to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

³² But being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

³¹ I protest by my glorying in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

¹⁰ always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that also the life of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. ¹¹ For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

¹¹ Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but to God we have been made manifest, and I hope that we have been made manifest also in your consciences.

²² and was unknown by face to the churches of Juda which were in Christ; ²³ but they were only hearing, that he who was once our persecutor now preaches the faith which once he was destroying; ²⁴ and they glorified God in me.

⁴ Happy they that mourn; for they shall be comforted.

¹² Rejoice, and exult; because great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal. ²⁰ But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. ²¹ Happy are ye that hunger now; for ye shall be filled. Happy are ye that weep now; for ye shall laugh.

¹¹ If therefore ye were not faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches? ¹² And if ye were not faithful in that which is another's, who will give to you your own?

²² And so ye now have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.

⁶ And Peter said: Silver and gold have I none; but what I have, that I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, rise up and walk.

⁴¹ They therefore went rejoicing from the presence of the council, because for that name they were counted worthy to suffer shame.

²⁵ And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises to God; and the prisoners listened to them.

² through whom also we obtained the access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also; knowing that affliction works patience;

³² He who spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?

² that I have great grief and continual anguish in my heart.

¹² But if their fall is the riches of the world, and their diminution the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness?

¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

¹³ And the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

⁵ that in everything ye were made rich in him, in all utterance and all knowledge;

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

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be God's, and not of us;

¹⁵ For all things are for your sakes; that the grace, abounding through the greater number, might make the thanksgiving more abundant, to the glory of God.

³ I say it not for condemnation; for I have before said, that ye are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. ⁴ Great is my confidence toward you, great is my glorying on account of you; I am filled with the consolation, I am made to abound with the joy, in all our affliction. ⁵ For indeed, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way; without were fightings, within were fears. ⁶ But God, who consoles those who are cast down, consoled us by the coming of Titus; ⁷ and not by his coming only, but also by the consolation with which he was consoled in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more. ⁸ Because, though I made you sorry with the letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it; for I perceive that that letter made you sorry, though but for a season. ⁹ Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might in nothing receive harm from us. ¹⁰ For godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world works out death.

⁹ For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

¹⁶ that he would grant to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might through his Spirit as to the inner man,

¹⁷ But even if I am poured out on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and I rejoice with you all.

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

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another, with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to God.

⁶ And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;

⁷ for this cause we were consoled, brethren, over you in all our affliction and distress, through your faith; ⁸ because now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. ⁹ For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice for your sakes before our God; ¹⁰ night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

¹⁶ Rejoice always.

⁸ For bodily exercise is profitable for little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

¹⁸ that they do good, be rich in good works, be free in imparting, willing to communicate;

³⁴ For ye sympathized with those in bonds, and ye took joyfully the plundering of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better and an enduring substance.

² Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations; ³ knowing that the proving of your faith works patience. ⁴ But let patience have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

⁵ Hearken, my beloved brethren. Did not God choose the poor as to this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

⁶ Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little time, if need be, made sorrowful by manifold trials; ⁷ that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold that perishes, but is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; ⁸ whom having not seen ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory;

¹³ but, in so far as ye share in Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that also, at the revelation of his glory, ye may rejoice with exceeding joy.

⁹ I know thy affliction, and poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

⁷ He that overcomes shall inherit these things; and I will be to him a God, and he shall be to me a son.

³ I say it not for condemnation; for I have before said, that ye are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. ⁴ Great is my confidence toward you, great is my glorying on account of you; I am filled with the consolation, I am made to abound with the joy, in all our affliction.

¹ O FOOLISH Galatians, who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was evidently set forth, crucified among you?

⁸ knowing that whatever good thing each may have done, that shall he receive from the Lord, whether bond or free.

⁸ For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all, with the tender affection of Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ And ye also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in an account of giving and receiving, but ye only;

¹² Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give to each one according as his work is.

¹⁷ But whoever has the world's sustenance, and sees his brother having need, and shuts up his pity from him, how abides the love of God in him?

²⁸ And when he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. And Jesus says to them: Believe ye that I am able to do this? They say to him: Yea, Lord. ²⁹ Then he touched their eyes, saying: According to your faith be it done to you.

¹⁹ Then the disciples, coming to Jesus apart, said: Why could not we cast him out? ²⁰ And he said to them: Because of your want of faith. For verily I say to you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mountain, remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you.

⁴ And Jesus said to them: A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own kindred, and in his own house. ⁵ And he was not able to do any miracle there, save that he laid his hands on a few sick, and healed them. ⁶ And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went about the surrounding villages, teaching.

²⁴ Therefore I say to you: All things whatever ye ask, when ye pray, believe that ye received, and ye shall have them.

¹⁴ I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I admonish you. ¹⁵ For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

¹² Become as I am, for I also became as ye are, brethren, I beseech you. Ye injured me in nothing.

¹⁹ My little children, of whom I travail again in birth, until Christ be formed in you!

¹¹ as ye know how we exhorted, and encouraged, and charged every one of you, as a father his children,

⁵ and ye have forgotten the exhortation, which discourses with you as with sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when reproved by him; ⁶ For whom the Lord loves he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives.

⁶ But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering; for he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. ⁷ For let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord;

¹ MY little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin. And if any one have sinned, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

¹² I write to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for his name's sake. ¹³ I write to you, fathers, because ye know him that was from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil one. I wrote to you, little children, because ye know the Father. ¹⁴ I wrote to you, fathers, because ye know him that was from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome the evil one.

⁷ Little children, let no one deceive you. He that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

¹⁴ And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. ¹⁵ And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

⁴ I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.

⁷ The world can not hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

¹⁸ If the world hates you, ye know that it has hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this the world hates you.

²³ And being dismissed, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders said to them.

¹² The night is far advanced, the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. ¹³ Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and envying; ¹⁴ but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

⁹ I wrote to you, in my letter, not to keep company with fornicators;

³⁹ A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

²¹ Ye can not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons; ye can not share in the table of the Lord, and the table of demons.

³³ Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good manners.

¹⁷ This therefore I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in then, because of the hardness of their heart; ¹⁹ who, as being past feeling, gave themselves up to wantonness, to work all uncleanness in greediness. ²⁰ But ye did not so learn Christ,

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Become not therefore partakers with them. ⁸ For ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,— ⁹ for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,— ¹⁰ proving what is acceptable to the Lord; ¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove them. ¹² For it is a shame even to speak of the things done by them in secret. ¹³ But all things, when reproved, are by the light made manifest; for whatever makes manifest is light. ¹⁴ Wherefore he says: Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light.

¹⁵ that ye may become blameless and simple, children of God, unreproachable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye appear as do the heavenly lights in the world;

⁴ But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief. ⁵ For all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness. ⁶ So then let us not sleep, as others; but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunken, are drunken in the night. ⁸ But let us, being of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation;

⁴ Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore desires to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

⁹ But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession; that ye should show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light; ¹⁰ who once were not a people, but are now the people of God; who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

² that ye no longer may live the remaining time in the flesh by the lusts of men, but by the will of God. ³ For the time past suffices us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in wantonness, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, carousings, and unhallowed idolatries; ⁴ at which thing they are astonished, as ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you;

⁵ And this is the message which we have heard from him, and announce to you, That God is light, and in him there is no darkness. ⁶ If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth; ⁷ but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.

¹² Not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. ¹³ Wonder not, brethren, if the world hates you. ¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loves not his brother abides in death.

¹⁶ He that believes and is immersed shall be saved; but he that believes not shall be condemned.

¹⁴ (and still more were believers added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women);

²⁰ But Peter said to him: Thy money perish with thee; because thou didst think to obtain the gift of God with money:

²⁰ Nay; but that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I would not that ye should be partakers of the demons. ²¹ Ye can not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons; ye can not share in the table of the Lord, and the table of demons.

⁸ But if any one provides not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

¹¹ And this is the witness, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son of God has not the life. ¹³ These things I wrote to you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, who believe on the name of the Son of God.

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

⁵⁶ He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, abides in me, and I in him.

⁹ But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

¹¹ And if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ from the dead will also quicken your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwells in you.

²⁶ And it shall be, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called, Sons of the living God.

¹⁶ Know ye not that ye are God's temple, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? ¹⁷ If any one defiles the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, the which are ye.

¹⁹ Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

²⁰ having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner-stone;

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; having been rooted and grounded in love,

¹⁴ The good thing committed to thee keep, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

⁶ but Christ as son over His house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the boldness and the joyousness of the hope firm unto the end.

¹⁰ For this is the covenant that I will establish for the house of Israel, After those days, saith the Lord, Putting my laws into their mind, And on their hearts I will write them; And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people;

⁵ ye yourselves also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

¹² No man has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us, and the love of him is perfected in us.

¹⁵ Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us understanding, that we may know the True one; and we are in the True One, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. ²¹ Little children, keep yourselves from the idols.

¹ TO the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things says he who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lamp-stands.

³ And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, saying: Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and GOD-WITH-THEM himself will he their God.

³⁷ All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him that comes to me I will not cast out. ³⁸ Because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

⁴⁰ And with many other words did he bear witness and exhort, saying: Save yourselves from this perverse generation.

⁷ Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.

¹ HAVING therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

⁴ And I heard another voice out of heaven, saying: Come out of her, my people, that ye partake not in her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

¹² But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe on his name;

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God. ¹⁵ For ye did not receive the spirit of bondage, again to fear; but ye received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God; ¹⁷ and if children, also heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

²⁹ Because whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

²⁶ For ye are all sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

⁵ that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. ⁶ And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father. ⁷ So that thou art no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, also an heir through God.

⁵ having predestined us unto the adoption of sons by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

¹ BEHOLD what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. For this cause the world knows not us, because it knew not him. ² Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it was never yet manifested what we shall be. We know that if it shall be manifested, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

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

²² And I saw in it no temple; for the Lord God the Almighty is its temple, and the Lamb.