2 Corinthians 13 Cross References - ACV

¹ This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two witnesses or three every saying will be confirmed. ² I have told you before, and I say in advance, as present the second time, and now absent, I write to those who have previously sinned, and to all the others, that if I come to it again, I will not spare, ³ since ye seek proof of the Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but is mighty in you. ⁴ For even if he was crucified from weakness, yet he lives from the power of God. For we in him are also weak, but we will live with him from the power of God toward you. ⁵ Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye are test-failing something. ⁶ But I hope that ye will know that we are not test-failing. ⁷ Now I pray to God, to do you nothing harmful, not that we would appear test-passing, but that ye would do right, even like we might be test-failing. ⁸ For we do not have any power against the truth, but for the truth. ⁹ For we are glad when we are weak and ye are strong. And this also we pray for, your full qualification. ¹⁰ Because of this I write these things while absent, so that I may not act harshly when present, according to the authority that the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down. ¹¹ Finally brothers, farewell. Be thoroughly prepared, be encouraged, think the same way, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. ¹² Salute each other by a holy kiss. ¹³ All the sanctified salute you. ¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, is with all of you. Truly.

³⁰ Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses, but one witness shall not testify against any person so that he dies.

⁶ At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death. He shall not be put to death at the mouth of one witness.

¹⁵ One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

¹⁰ And set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them bear witness against him, saying, Thou cursed God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him to death.

¹³ And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. And the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth cursed God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.

¹⁶ But if he should not hear, take with thee one or two besides, so that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

⁶⁰ and they did not find it. And although many false witnesses came, they did not find it. ⁶¹ But finally two false witnesses having come, they said, This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it by three days.

¹⁷ And also it is written in your law that the testimony of two men is valid. ¹⁸ I am he who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.

¹⁴ Behold, a third time I fare readily to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not the things of you, but you. For the children ought not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

²⁸ Any man who has disregarded the law of Moses dies without mercies from two or three witnesses. ²⁹ By how much worse punishment do ye think he will deserve who has trampled the Son of God, and who considered profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who treated the Spirit of grace contemptuously?

¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord should will, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. ²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. ²¹ What do ye want? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?

⁵ to deliver such a man to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

²³ But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that I did not yet come to Corinth, sparing you.

¹ Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who indeed am lowly in presence among you, but am bold toward you when absent. ² But I pray not to be bold when present with the confidence by which I consider to be valiant toward some who consider us as walking according to flesh.

⁸ For even if I also should boast somewhat more abundantly about our authority (which the Lord gave us for building up and not for tearing you down), I will not be shamed, ⁹ so that I would not seem as if to terrify you by the letters. ¹⁰ Because, The letters, he says, are indeed weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is disdained. ¹¹ Let such a man think this, that such kind we are in word by letters when absent, we are also such kind when present in the work.

²⁰ For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, turmoils, ²¹ lest having come again my God will make me low toward you, and I will bewail many of those who have sinned previously, and who did not repent from the trash and fornication and licentiousness that they committed.

¹⁰ Because of this I write these things while absent, so that I may not act harshly when present, according to the authority that the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.

²⁰ For ye are not who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking in you.

¹⁸ Truly I say to you, however many things ye may bind on the earth will be things that are bound in heaven, and however many things ye may loose on the earth will be things that that are loosed in heaven. ¹⁹ Again I say to you truly, that if two of you should agree on the earth concerning every matter, whatever they might ask, it will happen for them from my Father in the heavens. ²⁰ For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom that all those who oppose you will not be able to contradict or to resist.

⁴ In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ to deliver such a man to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

¹ Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are ye not my work in the Lord? ² If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you, for ye are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. ³ My defense to those who examine me is this.

⁶ Sufficient to such a man is this punishment by the many,

¹⁰ But to whom ye forgive anything, I too. For I also, whom I have forgiven (if anything), I have forgiven because of you in the presence of Christ,

¹ Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Unless we need, as some men, commendatory letters to you or commendatory from you? ² Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men, ³ being seen that ye are a letter of Christ, administered by us, written not in ink, but in the Spirit of the living God, not in stony tablets, but in fleshly tablets, in hearts.

⁴ For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for the demolition of strongholds,

⁸ For even if I also should boast somewhat more abundantly about our authority (which the Lord gave us for building up and not for tearing you down), I will not be shamed, ⁹ so that I would not seem as if to terrify you by the letters. ¹⁰ Because, The letters, he says, are indeed weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is disdained.

¹² Indeed the signs of the apostle were performed among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

⁴³ And an agent from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him. ⁴⁴ And having become in agony he prayed more intensely, and his sweat became like drops of blood falling down to the ground.

¹⁸ No man takes it from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.

³⁶ Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made him, this Jesus whom ye crucified, both Lord and Christ.

¹⁶ And by faith in his name, this man whom ye see and know, his name has made strong. And faith through him has given him this complete soundness in the presence of you all.

¹⁰ be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by this, this man stands here before you healthy. ¹¹ This is the stone that was rejected by you who build, which became into the head of the corner. ¹² And salvation is not in any other man, for there is no other name under the heaven, that has been given among men, by which we must be saved.

⁴ He who was designated Son of God in power, according to a spirit of holiness, from a resurrection of the dead-Jesus Christ our Lord-

⁴ We were buried therefore with him through the immersion into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may walk in newness of life.

⁸ And if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, ⁹ knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him. ¹⁰ For that he died, he died to sin once, but that he lives, he lives to God. ¹¹ So also ye, reckon yourselves to be indeed dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁹ For because of this Christ both died and arose, and he became alive so that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.

³ And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

⁴³ It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not from us, ⁸ restricted in everything, yet not confined, perplexed but not despairing, ⁹ persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not destroyed. ¹⁰ Always carrying around in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our body. ¹¹ For we who live are always given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh. ¹² So death indeed works in us, but life in you.

³ For though walking in flesh, we do not war according to flesh. ⁴ For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for the demolition of strongholds,

¹⁰ Because, The letters, he says, are indeed weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is disdained.

¹⁹ and what is the transcending greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his might, ²⁰ which he wrought in the Christ, having raised him from the dead and seated at his right hand in the heavenly things, ²¹ far above every principle office, and position of authority, and power, and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is coming. ²² And he subordinated all things under his feet, and appointed him head over all things for the church, ²³ which is his body, the fulfillment of him who fills all in all.

⁷ But he emptied himself, having taken a form of a bondman, having become in a likeness of men. ⁸ And having been found in a form like a man, he lowered himself, having become obedient until death, even of death from a cross. ⁹ Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the heavenly, and the earthly, and the sub-earthly, ¹¹ and that every tongue should acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹⁰ to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

¹¹ Faithful is the saying, For if we die together, we will also live together. ¹² If we endure, we will also reign together. If we renounce him, that man will also renounce us.

⁷ Who, in the days of his flesh, having offered up both prayers and supplications with strong shouting and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and who was heard because of his reverence,

¹⁸ Because Christ also once suffered for sins, a righteous man for unrighteous men, so that he might bring you to God. Having indeed been killed in flesh, but made alive in spirit,

²² who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, agents, and positions of authority, and powers having been subordinated to him.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not, I am the first and the last, ¹⁸ and he who lives. And I became dead, and behold, I am living into the ages of the ages. Truly. And I have the keys of death and of Hades.

³ Thou have proved my heart. Thou have visited me in the night. Thou have tried me, and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

² Examine me, O LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

⁵⁹ I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies.

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts, ²⁴ and see if there is any wicked way in me. And lead me in the way everlasting.

³⁰ Waste silver, men shall call them, because LORD has rejected them.

⁴⁰ Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to LORD.

²⁸ Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

⁵ Now therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

⁷ Thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

⁶ But he said this testing him, for he himself knew what he was going to do.

⁵⁶ He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me, and I in him.

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, If any man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make a dwelling with him.

⁴ Dwell in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it dwells in the grapevine, so neither ye, if ye do not dwell in me.

²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may be fully perfected in one, and so that the world may know that thou sent me, and loved them, just as thou loved me.

²⁶ And I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, so that the love that thou loved me may be in them, and I in them.

²⁸ And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

¹⁰ And if Christ is in you, the body is indeed dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.

¹⁶ Know ye not that ye are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

² Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes?

¹⁵ Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen!

¹⁹ Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own,

²⁴ Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

²⁷ But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.

²⁸ But let a man examine himself, and let him so eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

³¹ But if we were discerning ourselves we would not be judged.

¹⁶ And what mutual agreement has a temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God, just as God said, I will dwell in them, and will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they will be a people to me.

⁶ But I hope that ye will know that we are not test-failing. ⁷ Now I pray to God, to do you nothing harmful, not that we would appear test-passing, but that ye would do right, even like we might be test-failing.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And what I now live in flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

¹⁹ My little children, of whom I suffer birth pains again until Christ is formed in you.

⁴ But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have the boast in himself alone and not in the other man.

²⁰ Which was built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner, ²¹ in whom the whole building joined together grows into a holy temple in the Lord, ²² in whom ye also are built together in Spirit into a habitation of God.

¹⁷ for the Christ to dwell in your hearts through faith,

²³ If ye truly continue in the faith, founded, and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good news that ye heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I Paul became a helper.

²⁷ To whom God wanted to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

⁷ rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as ye were taught, abounding in it with thankfulness.

¹⁹ and not holding to the head, from whom all the body, being supplied and held together through the connections and bonds, develops its growth from God.

¹⁵ But she will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

⁸ And by which way Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also do these oppose the truth. Men corrupted in mind, worthless about the faith.

¹³ This testimony is true, because of which reason, reprove them harshly, so that they may be sound in the faith,

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but in their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and worthless for every good work.

² Aged men are to be sober, noble, serious minded, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance.

¹ Let us be afraid therefore, lest, a promise being left behind to enter into his rest, any of you should seem to have come short.

⁸ But producing thorns and thistles it is unfit and near a curse, the end of which is for burning.

¹⁵ Looking carefully lest any man fall short, away from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness sprouting up would cause trouble, and by this many may be defiled,

⁴ Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

⁴ Coming to whom, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but with God chosen, precious, ⁵ ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁹ Whom resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing the same sufferings are to be accomplished in the world by your brotherhood.

²⁰ Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart should not condemn us, we have confidence toward God,

⁵ Remember therefore from where thou have fallen, and repent and do the first works. And if not, I come to thee quickly, and will move thy lampstand out of its place, if thou do not repent.

² Become thou watchful, and strengthen the remaining things that thou were going to throw away, for I have not found thy works made complete before my God. ³ Remember therefore how thou have received and heard, and be on guard, and repent. If therefore thou will not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou will, no, not know what hour I will come upon thee.

²⁰ For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, turmoils,

³ since ye seek proof of the Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but is mighty in you. ⁴ For even if he was crucified from weakness, yet he lives from the power of God. For we in him are also weak, but we will live with him from the power of God toward you.

¹⁰ And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow! And God granted him that which he requested.

¹³ And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, because from thee is the kingdom and the power and the glory into the ages. Truly.

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

¹⁷ rendering to no man evil for evil, premeditating things right in the sight of all men.

¹³ Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

¹⁰ Salute Apelles, a man reliable in Christ. Salute the men from those of Aristobulus.

⁹ For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to agents and to men. ¹⁰ We are foolish for the sake of Christ, but ye are wise in Christ. We are weak, but ye are strong. Ye are esteemed, but we are disreputable. ¹¹ As far as the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are ill clothed, and are treated roughly, and are homeless. ¹² And we toil, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; ¹³ being slandered, we entreat. We became as trash of the world, an offscouring of all things, until now.

¹⁹ For there must also be factions among you, so that the genuine may become apparent among you.

⁴ but in everything commending ourselves as helpers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in necessities, in restrictions,

⁸ through glory and disrepute, through slander and commendation; as deceitful, and yet true; ⁹ as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not put to death;

²¹ providing things right, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

¹⁸ For he who commends himself, that man is not approved, but whom the Lord commends.

⁹ For we are glad when we are weak and ye are strong. And this also we pray for, your full qualification.

⁹ And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment ¹⁰ for you to examine the things that are significant. So that ye may be tested by sunlight and not stumbling toward the day of Christ, ¹¹ having been filled with fruits of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, for glory and praise of God.

⁸ Finally brothers, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are commendable, if anything is a virtue, and if anything is praiseworthy, think on these things.

²³ And may the God of peace himself sanctify you thoroughly. And may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

² for kings and all those who are in prominence, so that we may live a quiet and peaceful life in all piety and propriety.

¹⁵ Be diligent to present thyself approved to God, an irreproachable workman, correctly traversing the word of truth.

¹⁸ And the Lord will rescue me from every evil work, and will save me for his heavenly kingdom, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

¹² Blessed is a man who endures temptation, because, having become approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

¹² Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.

²⁸ And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that LORD has sent me to do all these works, for it is not of my own mind. ²⁹ If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then LORD has not sent me. ³⁰ But if LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that pertains to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall understand that these men have despised LORD. ³¹ And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split asunder that was under them, ³² and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that pertained to Korah, and all their goods. ³³ So they, and all that pertained to them, went down alive into Sheol. And the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly. ³⁴ And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up. ³⁵ And fire came forth from LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men who offered the incense.

²⁸ And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, LORD has not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of you.

⁹ Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him, and, behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he spoke to him, O man of God, the king has said, Come down. ¹⁰ And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. ¹¹ And again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. And he answered and said to him, O man of God, thus has the king said, Come down quickly. ¹² And Elijah answered and said to them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. ¹³ And again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said to him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.

²³ And he went up from there to Bethel. And as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead. ²⁴ And he looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of LORD. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore forty-two lads of them. ²⁵ And he went from there to mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

³⁰ There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against LORD.

² As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, so the curse that is causeless does not alight.

³⁹ But Jesus said, Forbid him not, for there is no man who will do a mighty work in my name, and will be able quickly to speak evil of me.

¹⁷ And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will cast out demons. They will speak in new tongues. ¹⁸ They will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly, it will, no, not harm them. They will lay hands on the feeble, and they will fare well. ¹⁹ Therefore indeed, the Lord, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

⁴⁹ And having answered, John said, Master, we saw a certain man casting out demons in thy name, and we forbade him, because he does not follow with us. ⁵⁰ But Jesus said to him, Do not forbid, for he who is not against us is for us. ⁵¹ And it came to pass, while fulfilling the days for his ascension, that he also set his face to go to Jerusalem. ⁵² And he sent agents before his face, and they went. And having gone, they entered into a village of Samaritans, so as to make ready for him. ⁵³ And they did not receive him, because his face was going to Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ And his disciples James and John having seen, they said, Lord, do thou want that we should call fire to come down from the sky, and consume them, as also Elijah did? ⁵⁵ But having turned around, he rebuked them, and said, Ye do not know what kind of spirit ye are. ⁵⁶ For the Son of man came not to destroy the lives of men, but to save. And they went to another village.

²⁸ to do as many things as thy hand and thy purpose predetermined to happen. ²⁹ And now, Lord, look upon their threats, and grant to thy bondmen with all boldness to speak thy word, ³⁰ by thy stretching forth thy hand for healing, and signs and wonders to happen through the name of thy holy Boy Jesus.

¹ But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold property, ² and kept back from the price, his wife also having joint awareness. And having brought a certain part, he placed it at the apostles' feet. ³ But Peter said, Ananias, why did Satan fill thy heart for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back from the price of the land? ⁴ While it remained, did it not remain to thee? And after it was sold, it was in thine authority. Why is it that thou have placed this matter in thy heart? Thou have not lied to men, but to God. ⁵ And Ananias hearing these words, after falling down he expired. And great fear developed in all who heard these things. ⁶ And after rising the young men wrapped him, and having carried him out they buried him. ⁷ And it came to pass after an interval of three hours, his wife also came in, not knowing that which happened. ⁸ And Peter responded to her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much. And she said, Yes, for so much. ⁹ But Peter said to her, How is it that it was agreed by you to challenge the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who buried thy husband are at the door, and they will carry thee out. ¹⁰ And immediately she fell down at his feet and expired. And after coming in the young men found her dead, and having carried her out, they buried her by her husband. ¹¹ And great fear developed in the whole church, and in all who heard these things.

³ Then, having fasted and prayed and laid hands on them, they sent them away. ⁴ Indeed therefore these men, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed for Cyprus. ⁵ And after becoming in Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they also had John for a helper. ⁶ And after going through the island as far as Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a Jewish false prophet, whose name was Bar-jesus, ⁷ who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man, having summoned Barnabas and Saul, sought to hear the word of God. ⁸ But Elymas the sorcerer (for so his name is translated) opposed them, seeking to deviate the proconsul from the faith. ⁹ But Saul (the man is also Paul) having been filled with the Holy Spirit, and having gazed on him, ¹⁰ said, O man full of all deceit and all recklessness, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, will thou not cease distorting the straight ways of the Lord? ¹¹ And now, behold, a hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou will be blind, not seeing the sun until a time. And immediately there fell on him gloom and darkness, and going around he sought hand-guides. ¹² Then the proconsul, who saw that which happened, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.

¹¹ And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, ¹² so as to even bring handkerchiefs or aprons from his skin to those who were incapacitated and to free their infirmities from them, and the evil spirits to go out from them. ¹³ But some of the wandering Jewish exorcists, attempted to name the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had the evil spirits, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul proclaims. ¹⁴ And there were some sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, seven doing this. ¹⁵ And having answered, the evil spirit said, I know Jesus and I recognize Paul, but who are ye? ¹⁶ And the man in whom was the evil spirit, leaping on them, and having overpowered them, he prevailed against them, so as for them to flee out of that house naked and wounded. ¹⁷ And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, to those who dwell at Ephesus. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

⁸ For even if I also should boast somewhat more abundantly about our authority (which the Lord gave us for building up and not for tearing you down), I will not be shamed,

²⁰ of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, so that they may be disciplined not to blaspheme.

³ how will we escape, having neglected so great a salvation? Which first, having taken to be spoken by the Lord, was verified for us by those who heard; ⁴ God also testifying simultaneously by signs and wonders, and by various powers and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to his will.

¹⁰ We are foolish for the sake of Christ, but ye are wise in Christ. We are weak, but ye are strong. Ye are esteemed, but we are disreputable.

¹ Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God.

³⁰ If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of the things of my weakness.

⁵ For such a man I will boast, but for myself I will not boast, except in my weaknesses. ⁶ For if I should want to boast, I will not be foolish, for I will speak the truth. But I refrain lest any man should reckon to me above what he sees of me or hears anything from me. ⁷ And so that I might not be over exalted by the extraordinariness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, an agent of Satan so that he would buffet me, so that I would not be over exalted. ⁸ I besought the Lord thrice about this, that it might depart from me. ⁹ And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me. ¹⁰ Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in restrictions, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

⁷ Now I pray to God, to do you nothing harmful, not that we would appear test-passing, but that ye would do right, even like we might be test-failing. ⁸ For we do not have any power against the truth, but for the truth.

¹¹ Finally brothers, farewell. Be thoroughly prepared, be encouraged, think the same way, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

¹² for the perfecting of the sanctified, for the work of ministry, for edification of the body of the Christ. ¹³ Until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a standard of stature of the fullness of the Christ.

¹² Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brothers, I reckon myself not to have seized, but one thing, indeed forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead, ¹⁴ I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ As many therefore as are perfect should think this way. And if ye think anything differently, this also God will reveal to you.

²⁸ Whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

¹² Epaphras, the bondman of Christ from you, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers, so that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God.

¹⁰ praying night and day above extraordinary in order to see your face and to mend the deficiencies of your faith?

¹⁷ so that the man of God may be qualified, having been completed for every good work.

¹ Therefore having left the word of the primacy of Christ, let us be brought forward to perfection, not again laying a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

²³ to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect,

²¹ may he make you fully qualified in every good work in order to do his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

¹⁰ And may the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus (after suffering a little while) himself thoroughly prepare you. He will establish, strengthen, and provide a foundation.

²¹ What do ye want? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?

³ And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, having been confident toward you all, because my joy is of all of you.

² But I pray not to be bold when present with the confidence by which I consider to be valiant toward some who consider us as walking according to flesh.

² I have told you before, and I say in advance, as present the second time, and now absent, I write to those who have previously sinned, and to all the others, that if I come to it again, I will not spare,

⁸ For we do not have any power against the truth, but for the truth.

⁴ And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers. And they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

²⁴ So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. And he said to them, See that ye not fall out by the way.

²³ Behold, the virgin will have in her womb, and will bring forth a son. And they will call his name Immanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us.

⁴⁸ Ye therefore shall be perfect, even as your Father in the heavens is perfect.

⁵⁰ The salt material is good, but if the salt material becomes saltless, by what will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace among each other.

⁴⁹ And having stood still, Jesus said for him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying to him, Cheer up. Arise, he calls thee.

⁶¹ And also another said, I will follow thee, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those in my house.

²⁹ to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, keeping yourselves from which, ye will do well. Be strong.

²¹ but separated from them, having said, I must definitely keep the coming feast at Jerusalem, but I will return again to you, God willing. And he launched from Ephesus.

³⁰ And when it was reported to me of a plot going to be against the man by the Jews, I immediately sent him to thee, also having commanded the accusers to speak before thee the things against him. Be strong.

¹⁶ thinking the same way toward each other, not thinking on lofty things, but accommodating to the lowly. Become not wise according to yourselves,

¹⁸ If possible from you, keeping peace with all men,

¹⁹ So then we should pursue the things of peace, and the things of constructiveness for each other.

⁵ Now may the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to think the same way among each other, in accord with Christ Jesus, ⁶ so that unanimously, with one mouth, ye may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for ye to abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

³³ And the God of peace is with you all. Truly.

²⁰ And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with you.

¹⁰ Now I beseech you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and there be no divisions among you, but ye may be thoroughly prepared in the same mind and in the same understanding.

⁴ who encourages us in all our affliction, in order for us to be able to encourage those in every affliction, through the encouragement of which we ourselves are encouraged by God.

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

³ Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace,

²³ Peace to the brothers, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁷ Only be citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that, whether having come and having seen you or being absent, I may hear things about you that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the good news.

¹ If therefore any exhortation is in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, ² fulfill my joy, that ye may think the same way, having the same love, being knit in soul, thinking in oneness, ³ in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves.

¹⁶ However in what we have attained, to march by the same standard, to think the same way.

² I exhort Euodias, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

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

⁹ And what ye learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.

¹ Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you, and summon in the Lord Jesus, that just as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye may abound more.

¹⁸ Therefore encourage each other with these words.

¹³ and to esteem them with exceptional love because of their work. Live peaceably among yourselves.

¹⁶ Rejoice always.

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father who loved us and gave eternal encouragement and good hope through grace,

¹⁶ Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace through everything in every way. The Lord is with all of you.

²² And flee juvenile impulses, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

¹⁴ Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord.

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep by the blood of an eternal covenant-our Lord Jesus-

⁴ And let perseverance have a perfect work, so that ye may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing.

¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, gentle, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace.

⁸ And finally, all be like-minded, sympathetic, brother-loving, compassionate, friendly,

¹¹ Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.

⁸ He who does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ By this the love of God was made known in us, because God sent his Son, the only begotten, into the world so that we might live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other. ¹² No man has ever seen God. If we love each other, God abides in us, and his love is in us, having been fully perfected. ¹³ In this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us from his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, a Savior of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. ¹⁶ And we know, and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus is with all the sanctified. Truly.

¹⁶ Salute each other by a holy kiss. The congregations of Christ salute you.

²⁰ All the brothers salute you. Salute each other by a holy kiss.

²⁶ Salute all the brothers by a holy kiss.

¹⁴ Salute each other by a kiss of love. Peace to you, to all those in Christ Jesus. Truly.

²¹ Timothy my co-workman, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. ²² I Tertius, the man who transcribed the letter, salute you in the Lord. ²³ Gaius my host, and of the whole congregation, salutes you. Erastus, the manager of the city, salutes you, and Quartus the brother.

²¹ Salute every sanctified man in Christ Jesus. The brothers with me salute you. ²² All the sanctified salute you, and especially those of the house of Caesar.

²³ Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, salutes thee, ²⁴ and Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my co-workmen.

²⁴ Salute all those who lead you, and all the sanctified. The men from Italy salute you.

¹³ She in Babylon, chosen together, salutes you, and my son Mark.

¹³ The children of thy chosen sister salute thee. Truly. ¹⁴ But I hope to see thee straightaway, and we will speak mouth to mouth. Peace to thee. The friends salute thee. Salute the friends by name.

²³ Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This way ye shall bless the sons of Israel: Ye shall say to them, ²⁴ LORD bless thee, and keep thee. ²⁵ LORD make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious to thee. ²⁶ LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. ²⁷ So shall they put my name upon the sons of Israel, and I will bless them.

¹⁹ After going, make ye disciples of all the nations, immersing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, as many as I commanded you. And lo, I am with you all the days, until the end of the age. Truly.

¹⁶ And from his fullness we all received, even grace for grace. ¹⁷ Because the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, If thou had known the gift of God, and who it is who says to thee, Give me to drink, thou would have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.

¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will, no, not thirst into the age. But the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.

³⁸ He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.

¹⁵ If ye love me, keep my commandments. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper, so that he may dwell with you into the age, ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot receive, because it does not see nor know it. But ye know it, because it dwells with you, and will be in you.

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

⁵ And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that was given to us.

⁹ But ye are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, this man is not of him.

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. ¹⁵ For ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit itself testifies with our spirit, that we are children of God. ¹⁷ And if children, also heirs, heirs indeed of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer jointly, so that we may also be glorified jointly.

³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²³ Gaius my host, and of the whole congregation, salutes you. Erastus, the manager of the city, salutes you, and Quartus the brother.

²⁷ to the only wise God through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory into the ages. Truly.

¹³ For also by one Spirit we are all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or freemen, and we were all made to drink into one Spirit.

¹⁶ Otherwise if thou would bless with the spirit, how will the man who fills the place of the unlearned, say the Truly at thy thanksgiving, since he knows not what thou say?

²³ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with you.

⁹ For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich he became poor for your sakes, so that by that man's poverty ye might become rich.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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

²² in whom ye also are built together in Spirit into a habitation of God.

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

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

³ what we have seen and heard we also declare to you, so that ye also may have fellowship with us. Even also our fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ By this we know love, because that man laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

²⁴ And he who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, from the Spirit that he gave us.

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

⁴ John, to the seven congregations in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and washed us from our sins by his blood