Jude Cross References - ABU

¹ JUDE, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called, beloved in God the Father, and kept by Jesus Christ: ² Mercy, and peace, and love, be multiplied to you. ³ Beloved, while giving all diligence to write to you concerning the common salvation, I found it needful for me to write to you exhorting to contend earnestly for the faith, delivered once for all to the saints. ⁴ For there crept in stealthily certain men, who of old were appointed beforehand to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into wantonness, and denying the only Master, and our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵ But I wish to remind you, as once knowing all, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who believed not. ⁶ And angels who kept not their principality, but left their own habitation, he has kept in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day. ⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, in like manner with them giving themselves over to fornication, and going away after other flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. ⁸ Yet, in like manner, these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, despise dominion, and rail at dignities. ⁹ But Michael the archangel, when, contending with the Devil, he disputed concerning the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a railing judgment, but said: The Lord rebuke thee. ¹⁰ But these rail at the things which they know not; but what things naturally, as the brute beasts, they understand, in these they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and rushed on in the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. ¹² These are rocks in your feasts of love, feasting with you fearlessly, feeding their own selves; clouds without water, carried away by winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; ¹³ raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever. ¹⁴ Yea, and of these Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord came, with his holy myriads. ¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly among them of all their acts of ungodliness which they committed, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners spoke against him. ¹⁶ These are murmurers, complaining of their lot, walking according to their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words; having respect to persons, for the sake of profit. ¹⁷ But ye, beloved, remember the words which were before spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; ¹⁸ that they told you, that at the last of the time there will be scoffers, walking after their own lusts of ungodliness. ¹⁹ These are they who separate; sensual, having not the Spirit. ²⁰ But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto eternal life. ²² And some refute when they are contending; but others save, snatching them out of the fire; ²³ and others compassionate with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. ²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy; ²⁵ to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and power, before all time, and now, and forever. Amen.

³ Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alpheus, and Lebbeus surnamed Thaddeus;

¹⁸ and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Cananite,

¹⁶ and Judas brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a betrayer;

³⁹ And this is the will of him who sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.

²⁸ and I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one pluck them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.

²⁶ If any one serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be. If any one serve me, him will the Father honor.

²² Judas says to him (not Iscariot): Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us, and not to the world?

¹⁶ Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you that ye may go and bear fruit, and that your fruit may remain; that whatever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

¹¹ And I am no longer in the world; and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep those in thy name whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are, ¹² While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou hast given me I watched over and none of them perished, except the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

¹⁵ I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

¹⁷ Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth.

¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in the truth.

¹³ And when they came in, they went up into the upper room, where were abiding both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.

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

²³ For there stood by me this night an angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,

¹ PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, set apart unto the gospel of God,

²² But now, being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end everlasting life.

³⁰ And whom he predestined, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

²⁴ whom he also called, even us, not from among the Jews only, but also from among the Gentiles?

¹⁸ For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

² to the church of God which is at Corinth, those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

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

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bathing of water in the word,

¹² that ye should walk worthy of God, who is calling you into his kingdom and glory.

²³ And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved whole without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth; ¹⁴ whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose, and the grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before eternal ages,

¹⁸ The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom; to whom be the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

¹ WHEREFORE, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Jesus,

¹ JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. ² chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you.

⁵ who by the power of God are kept through faith, unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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 But the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered a little while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.

¹ SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

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

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

⁴ John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you, and peace, from him who is, and who was, and who is to come; and from the seven spirits that are before his throne; ⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, ⁶ and made us a kingdom, priests to God and his Father, to him be the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever. Amen.

¹² And there is salvation in no other; for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, in which we must be saved.

⁸ And Stephen, full of grace and of power, did great wonders and signs among the people. ⁹ And there arose certain ones of the synagogue so called of the Freedmen, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen. ¹⁰ And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he spoke.

²² But Saul was more strengthened, and confounded the Jews who dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly, and said: It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you; but since ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves not worthy of the eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷ For so has the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, That thou shouldst be for salvation to the end of the earth.

³ opening them, and setting forth that the Christ must suffer, and rise again from the dead; and that this is the Christ, Jesus whom I preach to you.

⁴ And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks. ⁵ And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed with the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ. ⁶ But they opposing themselves and blaspheming, he shook out his garments and said to them: Your blood be upon your own head; I am clean; from henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

²⁸ For he powerfully confuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

²⁷ for I shunned not to declare to you the whole counsel of God.

²⁸ Be it known to you, therefore, that to the Gentiles the salvation of God was sent; they, moreover, will hear.

¹⁵ But I wrote the more boldly to you, brethren, in part as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me by God; ¹⁶ that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest in the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles may be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

³ For I delivered to you first of all what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures;

⁵ to whom not even for an hour did we yield by the [required] submission, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

¹¹ See with what large letters I wrote to you with my own hand.

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and believers in Christ Jesus:

¹ PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:

²⁷ Only let your deportment be as becomes the gospel of Christ; that whether I come and see you, or remain absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

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

² But having before suffered, and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict.

¹⁸ This charge I commit to thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before concerning thee, that thou mayest wage in them the good warfare;

¹² Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the eternal life, unto which thou wast called, and didst make the good profession before many witnesses.

¹³ Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou heardest from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; ⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me in that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

⁴ to Titus, a true child according to the common faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

²² But I beseech you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation; for I wrote to you in few words.

¹² By Silvanus, the faithful brother, as I consider, I wrote to you in few words, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God, wherein ye stand.

¹² Wherefore, I will not neglect to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth that is with you. ¹³ But I think it right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; ¹⁴ knowing that I must soon put off my tabernacle, as also our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. ¹⁵ Moreover I will endeavor that at all times ye may be able after my departure to call these things to mind.

¹ THIS second letter, beloved, I now write to you; in both which I stir up your pure mind by putting you in remembrance; ² that ye may be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Savior by your apostles;

¹⁷ But ye, beloved, remember the words which were before spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

²⁰ But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

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.

¹¹ And they overcame him, because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life, unto the death.

²⁵ But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel among the wheat, and went away.

³ And this is the eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou didst send.

²³ Who having come, and seen the grace of God, rejoiced; and he exhorted all, that with purpose of heart they should cleave to the Lord.

²⁴ Forasmuch as we heard, that some who went out from us troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying that ye must be circumcised and keep the law, to whom we gave no commandment;

¹ WHAT then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? ² Far be it! How shall we who died to sin, live any longer therein?

²¹ Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? ²² And what if God, willing to show forth his wrath, and to make known his power, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;

⁴ and that because of the false brethren stealthily brought in, who crept in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

¹³ For ye were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

¹⁴ that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, by cunning craftiness after the wily manner of error;

¹⁵ which in his own times he will show, who is the blissful and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; ¹⁶ who only has immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable; whom no man has seen, or can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

⁶ For of these are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

¹⁵ To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and conscience are defiled. ¹⁶ They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and for every good work reprobate.

¹¹ For the saving grace of God appeared to all men, ¹² teaching us that, having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

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; ¹⁶ lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

⁸ and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, who stumble, being disobedient to the word; to which they were also appointed.

¹⁶ as free, and as not having your freedom for a vail of wickedness, but as God's servants.

¹⁸ And if the righteous is with difficulty saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

¹ BUT there were false prophets also among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who stealthily will bring in destructive factions, even denying as Master him who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow their dissolute ways; by reason of whom the way of truth will be evil spoken of. ³ And in covetousness will they with feigned words make merchandise of you; for whom the judgment from of old lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

⁵ and spared not the old world, but kept Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing the flood on the world of ungodly men, ⁶ and turning to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah condemned them to overthrow, having made them an example of those who should afterward live ungodly;

¹⁰ but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. Presumptuous, self-willed, they are not afraid to rail at dignities;

¹⁸ For, speaking swelling words of vanity, in lusts of the flesh they allure, by wanton ways, such as partly escape those who live in error; ¹⁹ promising them liberty, while they themselves are servants of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by the same he is also brought into bondage. ²⁰ For if, having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christy but having again become entangled therein they are overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first. ²¹ For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog, returned to his own vomit; and, A sow that was washed, to the wallowing in the mire.

⁷ but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by his word are kept in store, being reserved for fire unto the day of judgment and of perdition of ungodly men.

²² Who is the liar, but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.

¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly among them of all their acts of ungodliness which they committed, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners spoke against him.

⁴ Who shall not fear, O Lord, and glorify thy name? Because thou alone art holy; because all the nations shall come and worship before thee; because thy judgments are made manifest.

¹⁵ But I wrote the more boldly to you, brethren, in part as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me by God;

¹ FOR I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; ² and were all immersed unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; ³ and all ate the same spiritual food, ⁴ and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. ⁵ But in the most of them God had no pleasure; for they were overthrown in the wilderness. ⁶ Now these things were examples to us, in order that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. ⁷ Nor be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. ⁸ Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them did, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. ⁹ Nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents. ¹⁰ Nor murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer. ¹¹ Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. ¹² Wherefore let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall.

¹⁶ who then, when they had heard, provoked? Nay, was it not all who came forth out of Egypt by Moses?

¹² Wherefore, I will not neglect to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth that is with you. ¹³ But I think it right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

¹ THIS second letter, beloved, I now write to you; in both which I stir up your pure mind by putting you in remembrance;

²⁹ And, behold, they cried out, saying: What have we to do with thee, Son of God? Camest thou hither to torment us before the time?

⁴¹ Then will he say also to those on the left hand: Depart from me, accursed, into the everlasting fire; prepared for the Devil and his angels.

⁴⁴ Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abides not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own; because he is a liar, and the father of it.

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.

²⁷ but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and a fiery indignation, which will devour the adversaries.

⁴ For if God spared not angels, having sinned, but casting them down to hell delivered them over to chains of darkness, reserved unto judgment;

⁹ the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust under punishment to the day of judgment;

¹⁰ And the Devil who misleads them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are also the beast and the false prophet; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

²⁴ But I say to you, that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.

⁴³ And if thy hand cause thee to offend, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having the two hands to go into hell, into the fire that is unquenchable; ⁴⁴ where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁵ And if thy foot cause thee to offend, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter into life lame, than having the two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that is unquenchable; ⁴⁶ where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁷ And if thine eye cause thee to offend, pluck it out. It is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell-fire; ⁴⁸ where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁹ For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

²⁹ but the same day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

²⁶ For this cause God gave them up to vile passions; for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature; ²⁷ and in like manner the men also, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was meet.

⁹ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

⁶ and turning to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah condemned them to overthrow, having made them an example of those who should afterward live ungodly;

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying: We will not have this man to reign over us.

²⁷ But he who was wronging his neighbor thrust him away, saying: Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

³⁹ to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

⁵ And Paul said: I knew not, brethren, that he is high priest; for it is written: Thou shalt not speak evil of a ruler of thy people.

¹⁷ If any one defiles the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, the which are ye.

⁸ Therefore he that rejects, rejects not man, but God, who also gave to you his Holy Spirit.

¹⁰ for fornicators, for those who defile themselves with mankind, for enslavers of men, for liars, for false swearers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teachings;

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.

¹⁷ Honor all men; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king;

¹⁰ but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. Presumptuous, self-willed, they are not afraid to rail at dignities; ¹¹ whereas angels, being greater in strength and power, bring not a railing judgment against them before the Lord. ¹² But these, as natural brute beasts born to be taken and destroyed, railing at things that they understand not, shall utterly perish in their own corruption,

⁹ But Michael the archangel, when, contending with the Devil, he disputed concerning the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a railing judgment, but said: The Lord rebuke thee. ¹⁰ But these rail at the things which they know not; but what things naturally, as the brute beasts, they understand, in these they corrupt themselves.

²⁹ And they that passed by railed at him, wagging their heads, and saying: Aha, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days;

³⁹ And one of the malefactors who were hanged railed at him, saying: If thou art the Christ, save thyself and us. ⁴⁰ But the other answering rebuked him, saying: Dost thou not even fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?

¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ will first rise.

⁹ not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary blessing, because to this end ye were called, that ye might inherit blessing.

¹¹ whereas angels, being greater in strength and power, bring not a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

⁷ And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting with the dragon. And the dragon fought, and his angels,

²¹ Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, nor gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened. ²² Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools;

¹² But these, as natural brute beasts born to be taken and destroyed, railing at things that they understand not, shall utterly perish in their own corruption,

²¹ Woe to thee, Chorazin! Woe to thee, Bethsaida! For if the miracles, that were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

¹³ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for ye go not in, nor suffer those who are entering to go in: ¹⁴ [V. 14 is wanting in the oldest and best copies.] ¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye traverse sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more a child of hell than yourselves. ¹⁶ Woe to you, blind guides, who say: Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is bound.

⁴² But woe to you, Pharisees! because ye pay tithe of mint and rue and every herb, and pass by judgment and the love of God. These ought ye to have done, and not leave those undone. ⁴³ Woe to you, Pharisees! because ye love the first seat in the synagogues, and the greetings in the markets. ⁴⁴ Woe to you! because ye are as tombs that appear not, and men walking over them know it not. ⁴⁵ And a certain one of the lawyers answering says to him: Teacher, in saying these things thou reproachest us also. ⁴⁶ And he said: Woe to you lawyers also! because ye load men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ Woe to you! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he received testimony that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it, being dead, he yet speaks.

¹⁵ forsaking the right way, they went astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

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.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against thee. Thou hast there men holding the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things offered to idols, and to commit fornication.

⁶ And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had not root, they withered away.

¹³ And he answering said: Every plant, which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up.

¹⁹ And seeing a fig-tree by the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon but leaves only. And he says to it: Let there be no fruit from thee henceforward, forever. And immediately the fig-tree withered away. ²⁰ And the disciples seeing it wondered, saying: How did the fig-tree immediately wither away?

⁶ But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had not root, it withered away.

²⁰ And passing by in the morning, they saw the fig-tree dried up from the roots. ²¹ And Peter, calling to remembrance, says to him: Master, behold, the fig-tree which thou didst curse is withered away.

⁶ And another fell upon the rock; and springing up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him: Fool! this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall those things be, which thou didst provide?

⁴⁵ But if that servant say in his heart: My lord delays his coming; and shall begin to beat the men-servants and maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

¹⁹ There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day.

³⁴ And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come upon you unawares.

⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch can not bear fruit of itself, if it abide not in the vine, so neither can ye, if ye abide not in me. ⁵ I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, the same bears much fruit; because without me ye can do nothing. ⁶ If any one abide not in me, he is cast forth as the branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

²⁰ When therefore ye come together into one place, there is no eating of a supper of the Lord. ²¹ For in eating, each takes without waiting his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken. ²² What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God, and shame those who have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

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.

⁶ But she that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.

⁴ For it is impossible that they who have once been enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, ⁶ and have fallen away, should again be renewed to repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to open shame. ⁷ For the earth which has drunk in the rain oft coming upon it, and brings forth herbs fit for those for whose sake it is tilled, receives blessing from God; ⁸ but if it bears thorns and briers it is rejected, and is near to cursing; whose end is to be burned.

⁵ Ye have been luxurious on the earth, and lived in pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.

¹³ receiving the wages of unrighteousness, as they who account reveling for a day pleasure; spots, and blemishes, reveling in their own deceits while feasting with you; ¹⁴ having eyes full of the adulteress, and that cease not from sin; alluring unstable souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of a curse;

¹⁷ These are wells without water, mists driven by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever. ¹⁸ For, speaking swelling words of vanity, in lusts of the flesh they allure, by wanton ways, such as partly escape those who live in error; ¹⁹ promising them liberty, while they themselves are servants of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by the same he is also brought into bondage. ²⁰ For if, having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christy but having again become entangled therein they are overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

¹³ But evil men and seducers will grow worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

¹⁷ These are wells without water, mists driven by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

¹⁰ And the third angel sounded; and there fell out of heaven a great star, burning as a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the waters. ¹¹ And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

¹⁰ he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his wrath, and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. ¹¹ And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; and they have no rest day and night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.

⁸ But the fearful, and unbelieving, and defiled with abominations, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

²⁷ For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father, with his angels; and then he will reward each one according to his works.

³⁰ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. ³¹ And he will send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

³¹ And when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he sit on his throne of glory.

¹³ to the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

⁷ and to you who are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power, ⁸ in flaming fire, taking vengeance on those who know not God, and those who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁵ By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him; for before his translation, he has had the testimony that he pleased God. ⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder to those who seek after him.

⁷ Behold, he comes amidst the clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they who pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

³¹ Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven to men; but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. ³² And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come. ³³ Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for from the fruit the tree is known. ³⁴ Brood of vipers! How can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure sends forth good things; and the evil man out of the evil treasure sends forth evil things. ³⁶ But I say to you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. ³⁷ For from thy words thou shalt be justified, and from thy words thou shalt be condemned.

²² For neither does the Father judge any one; but all judgment he has given to the Son; ²³ that all may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father who sent him.

²⁷ And he gave him authority to execute judgment also, because he is a son of man.

³¹ Because he fixed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness, by the man whom he appointed, having given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.

⁵ and after thy hardness and impenitent heart, art treasuring up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

¹⁶ in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. ²⁰ Because by works of law no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by law is the knowledge of sin.

¹⁰ But why dost thou judge thy brother? Or why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.

⁵ So then judge not anything before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each one have his praise of God.

¹³ But those who are without God judges. Therefore put away that wicked man from among yourselves.

⁹ knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers; for man-slayers,

⁶ and turning to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah condemned them to overthrow, having made them an example of those who should afterward live ungodly; ⁷ and delivered righteous Lot, wearied out with the lewd conduct of the lawless; ⁸ (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, with seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) ⁹ the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust under punishment to the day of judgment;

¹⁶ These are murmurers, complaining of their lot, walking according to their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words; having respect to persons, for the sake of profit.

⁵ And there was given to him a mouth speaking great and blasphemous things; and power was given him to work forty-two months. ⁶ And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, those who tabernacle in heaven.

¹¹ And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.

¹² Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give to each one according as his work is. ¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. ¹⁴ Happy are they who wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city. ¹⁵ without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie.

²⁰ He who testifies these things, says: Yea, I come quickly. Amen; come, Lord Jesus.

³⁰ And the Pharisees, and their scribes, murmured against his disciples, saying: Why do ye eat and drink with the publicans and sinners?

² And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man receives sinners, and eats with them.

⁷ And seeing it, they all murmured, saying that he went in to be a guest with a sinner.

⁴¹ The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he said: I am the bread that came down out of heaven.

⁶¹ But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Does this offend you?

¹⁰ Nor murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

¹⁶ But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye will not fulfill the desire of the flesh.

²⁴ And they that are Christ's crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

¹⁴ Do all without murmurings and disputings;

⁵ not in lustful passion, as also the Gentiles who know not God.

⁵ vain disputings of men corrupted in mind, and robbed of the truth, supposing that godliness is a means of gain.

³ For the time will come when they will not endure the sound teaching, but according to their own desires will to themselves heap up teachers, having itching ears;

¹⁴ But each one is tempted, when by his own lust he is drawn away and enticed. ¹⁵ Then lust, having conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when completed, brings forth death.

¹ MY brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons. ² For if there have come into your assembly a man with a gold ring, in gay clothing, and there have come in also a poor man in mean clothing; ³ and ye have respect to him that wears the gay clothing, and say: Sit thou here in a good place, and say to the poor man: Stand thou there, or, Sit under my footstool; ⁴ were ye not partial in yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? 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 But ye dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and do not they drag you before the judgment-seats? ⁷ Do not they blaspheme the worthy name by which ye are called? ⁸ If indeed ye fulfill the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well. ⁹ But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

¹⁴ as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance;

¹¹ Beloved, I exhort you as sojourners and strangers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

² that ye no longer may live the remaining time in the flesh by the lusts of men, but by the will of God.

¹⁸ For, speaking swelling words of vanity, in lusts of the flesh they allure, by wanton ways, such as partly escape those who live in error;

³ knowing this first, that there shall come in the last of the days scoffers, in their scoffings, walking after their own lusts,

¹⁸ that they told you, that at the last of the time there will be scoffers, walking after their own lusts of ungodliness.

³⁵ In all ways I showed you that, so laboring, ye ought to assist the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said: It is more blessed to give than to receive.

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

¹¹ And he gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and teachers;

² that ye may be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Savior by your apostles;

⁶ We are of God; he that knows God, hears us; he that is not of God, hears us not. From this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

²⁹ For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

¹ NOW the Spirit says expressly, that in after-times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and teachings of demons; ² of those who speak lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

¹ BUT know this, that in the last days perilous times will come. ² For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, without love to the good, ⁴ betrayers, headlong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; ⁵ having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; and from these turn away.

¹ BUT there were false prophets also among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who stealthily will bring in destructive factions, even denying as Master him who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

⁵ Jesus answered: Verily, verily, I say to thee, except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom of God. ⁶ That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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.

¹⁴ But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he can not know them, because they are spiritually judged.

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?

²⁵ not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.

¹⁵ This wisdom is not one that comes down from above, but earthly, sensual, devilish.

³¹ The church therefore, throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the consolation of the Holy Spirit, was multiplied.

⁹ and made no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

¹⁸ to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may obtain forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among the sanctified, by faith in me.

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.

²⁶ And in like manner does the Spirit also help our weakness; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought; but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which can not be uttered. ²⁷ And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

² Let each one of us please his neighbor, for his good, to edification.

⁸ who will also confirm you unto the end, unaccused in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²³ All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient; all things are lawful, but not all things edify.

⁴ He that speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies the church. ⁵ I would that ye should all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy; for greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edification.

¹⁵ What then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

²⁶ How is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each of you has a psalm, has an instruction, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to edification.

⁶ And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

¹² for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ;

¹⁶ from whom all the body, fitly framed together and compacted by means of every joint of the supply, according to the working in the measure of each single part, effects the increase of the body to the upbuilding of itself in love.

²⁹ Let no corrupt discourse proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.

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;

⁷ having been rooted and being built up in him, and being established in the faith as ye were taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

¹¹ Wherefore encourage each other, and edify one the other, as also ye do.

⁴ nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which further disputes rather than God's dispensation, which is in faith, [so do.] ⁵ calling to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that it dwells in thee also.

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

²² Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made complete.

⁴ because all that is begotten of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

³ Beloved, while giving all diligence to write to you concerning the common salvation, I found it needful for me to write to you exhorting to contend earnestly for the faith, delivered once for all to the saints.

¹⁰ If any one is for captivity, he goes into captivity; if any to be killed with the sword, he must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

⁴² Watch therefore; for ye know not in what day your Lord comes. ⁴³ But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through. ⁴⁴ Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man comes. ⁴⁵ Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord set over his household, to give them their food in due season? ⁴⁶ Happy that servant, whom his lord when he comes shall find so doing! ⁴⁷ Verily I say to you, that he will set him over all his goods. ⁴⁸ But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord delays his coming; ⁴⁹ and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken; ⁵⁰ the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looks not for it, and in an hour when he is not aware; ⁵¹ and will cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There will be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth!

³⁶ and ye like men waiting for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that, when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately. ³⁷ Happy those servants, whom their lord when he comes shall find watching! Verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and make them recline at table, and will come forth and serve them. ³⁸ And if he shall come in the second watch, or in the third watch, and find it so, happy are those servants. ³⁹ And this know, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief is coming, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. ⁴⁰ Be ye also ready; for at an hour when ye think not, the Son of man comes.

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

²¹ He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

⁹ As the Father loved me, I also loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

⁵ and hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God has been poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit which was given to us.

²¹ that as sin reigned in death, so also might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life, in Jesus Christ our Lord.

³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁵ And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

² to Timothy, a true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

² to Timothy, a beloved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁶ The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; because he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;

¹⁸ The Lord grant to him, that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day! And in how many things he ministered to me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.

⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me in that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

¹³ looking for the blissful hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ; ¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and cleanse for himself a people to be his own, zealous of good works.

²⁸ so also the Christ, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, will to those who look for him appear a second time without sin, unto salvation.

¹² looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with burning heat?

¹⁶ In this we know love, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 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?

¹⁶ And we have known, and have believed, the love that God has in respect to us. God is love; and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

¹⁰ He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that believes not God has made him a liar; because he has not believed in the witness which God has borne concerning his Son. ¹¹ And this is the witness, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

¹⁸ We know that every one who has been begotten of God sins not; but he that was begotten of God keeps himself; and the evil one touches him not.

²¹ Little children, keep yourselves from the idols.

²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy;

²⁰ And I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I am perplexed on account of you.

¹ BRETHREN, even if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

¹⁹ Brethren, if any one among you be led astray from the truth, and one convert him; ²⁰ let him know, that he who converts a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will hide a multitude of sins.

¹⁶ If any one see his brother sin a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he will give him life,—to those who sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death; for that I do not say that he shall pray. ¹⁷ All unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not unto death. ¹⁸ We know that every one who has been begotten of God sins not; but he that was begotten of God keeps himself; and the evil one touches him not.

⁴ For there crept in stealthily certain men, who of old were appointed beforehand to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into wantonness, and denying the only Master, and our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵ But I wish to remind you, as once knowing all, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who believed not. ⁶ And angels who kept not their principality, but left their own habitation, he has kept in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day. ⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, in like manner with them giving themselves over to fornication, and going away after other flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. ⁸ Yet, in like manner, these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, despise dominion, and rail at dignities. ⁹ But Michael the archangel, when, contending with the Devil, he disputed concerning the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a railing judgment, but said: The Lord rebuke thee. ¹⁰ But these rail at the things which they know not; but what things naturally, as the brute beasts, they understand, in these they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and rushed on in the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. ¹² These are rocks in your feasts of love, feasting with you fearlessly, feeding their own selves; clouds without water, carried away by winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; ¹³ raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

¹⁴ if by any means I may provoke to emulation those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

¹⁵ If any one's work shall be burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved; yet so as through fire.

³ For I verily, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, concerning him who has so done this; ⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

⁹ I wrote to you, in my letter, not to keep company with fornicators; ¹⁰ yet not, altogether, with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters; for then ye must needs go out of the world. ¹¹ But as it is, I wrote to you not to keep company, if any one called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one not even to eat.

³³ Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good manners.

¹⁰ For godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world works out death. 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. ¹² So then, though I wrote to you, it was not on account of him who did the wrong, nor of him who suffered wrong, but that your care for us might be made manifest to you in the sight of God.

¹⁴ And if any one obeys not our word by this letter, mark that man, and keep not company with him, that he may be shamed.

¹⁶ Give heed to thyself, and to the teaching; continue in them; for in doing this thou wilt save both thyself, and those who hear thee.

⁴ But thou hast a few names in Sardis, which did not defile their garments; and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

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

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

²⁸ And Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you, that ye who followed me, in the renovation, when the Son of man shall sit on his throne of glory, shall also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

²⁶ For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his glory, and in that of the Father and of the holy angels.

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who shall be against us?

⁴ Who art thou that judgest another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. But he shall be made to stand; for God is able to make him stand.

²⁵ Now to him who is able to establish you, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept in silence during eternal ages ²⁶ but now made manifest, and through the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, made known to all nations for obedience to the faith, ²⁷ to God only wise, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.

¹⁴ knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise up us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

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

² For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy; for I espoused you to one husband, that I may present a chaste virgin to Christ.

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,

²⁷ that he might himself present to himself the church, glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it may be holy and blameless.

²² in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and blameless and unaccused before him;

²⁸ whom we announce, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

⁴ When Christ, our life, shall be manifested, then will ye also with him be manifested in glory.

¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ will first rise. ¹⁷ Then we the living, who remain, will be caught up together with them in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep in virtue of the blood of an eternal covenant, ²¹ make you perfect in every good work to do his will, doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

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.

²¹ keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto eternal life.

⁵ And in their mouth was found no falsehood; for they are blameless.

¹³ And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

²² Ye worship that which ye know not; we worship that which we know; because salvation is of the Jews.

⁴⁴ How can ye believe, receiving honor from one another, and the honor that is from God alone ye seek not?

³³ Oh, the depth of the riches, and wisdom, and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

³⁶ For of him, and through him, and unto him, are all things; to him be the glory forever. Amen.

²⁷ to God only wise, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.

⁸ which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and understanding;

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

²¹ to him be the glory in the church, in Christ Jesus, throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

¹⁷ Now to the King eternal, the imperishable, invisible, only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

³ For this is good and acceptable in the sight of our Savior God;

³ but in its own times manifested his word in the preaching, with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of our Savior God; ⁴ to Titus, a true child according to the common faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

¹⁰ not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the teaching of our Savior God in all things,

¹³ looking for the blissful hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;

⁴ But when the kindness and the love toward man of our Savior God appeared,

⁸ Jesus Christ is yesterday and to-day the same, and forever.

¹¹ if any one speaks, as [uttering] God's oracles; if any one ministers, as of the ability which God bestows; that God in all things may be glorified, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the dominion, forever and ever. Amen.

¹⁰ But the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered a little while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you. ¹¹ To him be the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever. Amen.

¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory, both now and forever. Amen.

⁶ and made us a kingdom, priests to God and his Father, to him be the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever. Amen.

⁹ And when the animals shall give glory, and honor, and thanksgiving, to him who sits upon the throne, to him who lives forever and ever, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders will fall down before him who sits upon the throne, and will worship him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying: ¹¹ Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory, and the honor, and the power; because thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created.

¹³ And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: To him who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb, be the blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever. ¹⁴ And the four animals said: Amen. And the elders fell down and worshiped.