2 Peter 2 Cross References - ACV

¹ But false prophets also developed among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will sneak in pernicious denominations, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow their wantonness, because of whom the way of the truth will be blasphemed. ³ And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber. ⁴ For if God did not spare agents who sinned, but delivered them up to chains of darkness, having been cast into hell being reserved for judgment, ⁵ and he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, the eighth, a herald of righteousness, when he brought on a flood upon the world of the irreverent, ⁶ and he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, being reduced to ashes, having made an example of men who were going to be irreverent, ⁷ and he rescued righteous Lot, being distressed by the conduct of the lawless in their licentiousness ⁸ (for that righteous man dwelling among them day after day, in the sight and hearing of their lawless deeds, it anguished his righteous soul), ⁹ the Lord knows how to rescue the pious out of temptation, and to hold in reserve unrighteous men being cut off for a day of judgment. ¹⁰ And especially those going rear of flesh in a degenerate lust, and who despise lordship. Reckless, self-willed men, they do not tremble when speaking evil of dignities. ¹¹ Whereas agents, being greater in might and power, do not bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord. ¹² But these men, like irrational beasts of nature, having been born for capture and destruction, speaking evil at which things they do not understand, will be destroyed in their corruption, ¹³ getting back a wage of unrighteousness. Men who consider soft living in the daytime to be pleasure, spots and blemishes reveling in their deceitfulness, feasting together with you, ¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse, ¹⁵ having forsaken a straight path, they were led astray, men who followed the way of Balaam, son of Beor, who loved the wage of unrighteousness. ¹⁶ But he had a rebuke of his own lawbreaking. A mute donkey, uttering in a man's voice, restrained the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷ These men are waterless wells, and clouds driven by a fierce wind, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age. ¹⁸ For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error, ¹⁹ promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved. ²⁰ For if, having escaped the defilements of the world by knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and, having been again entangled in these, they are overcome, the last things have become worse for 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 that of the true proverb has happened to them, The dog returning to his own vomit, and the sow that washed to wallowing in mire.

¹ If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives thee a sign or a wonder, ² and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou have not known, and let us serve them, ³ thou shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams, for LORD your God proves you, to know whether ye love LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

⁶ Do ye thus requite LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father who has bought thee? He has made thee, and established thee.

¹⁹ Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table. ²⁰ So Ahab sent to all the sons of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to mount Carmel. ²¹ And Elijah came near to all the people, and said, How long do ye go limping between the two sides? If LORD be God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. ²² Then Elijah said to the people, I, even I only, am left a prophet of LORD, but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

⁶ Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.

¹² And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him, but he pronounced this prophecy against me, and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. ¹³ For this cause he was hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me. ¹⁴ Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, who would have put me in fear.

¹⁵ The elder and the honorable man, he is the head. And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. ¹¹ Yea, the dogs are greedy; they can never have enough. And these are shepherds who cannot understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

¹³ Then I said, Ah, lord LORD! Behold, the prophets say to them, Ye shall not see the sword, nor shall ye have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place. ¹⁴ Then LORD said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I did not send them, nor have I commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of naught, and the deceit of their own heart. ¹⁵ Therefore thus says LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I did not send them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.

¹⁶ Thus says LORD of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of LORD. ¹⁷ They say continually to those who despise me, LORD has said, Ye shall have peace. And to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you.

²⁵ I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. ²⁶ How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart? ²⁷ Who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal. ²⁸ The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says LORD. ²⁹ Is not my word like fire? says LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? ³⁰ Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says LORD, who steal my words each one from his neighbor. ³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets, says LORD, who use their tongues, and say, He says. ³² Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says LORD, and tell them. And cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting. Yet I sent them not, nor commanded them, neither do they profit this people at all, says LORD.

¹⁴ And hearken not to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon, for they prophesy a lie to you. ¹⁵ For I have not sent them, says LORD, but they prophesy falsely in my name, that I may drive you out, and that ye may perish, ye, and the prophets who prophesy to you.

¹⁵ Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah. LORD has not sent thee, but thou make this people to trust in a lie. ¹⁶ Therefore thus says LORD, Behold, I will send thee away from off the face of the earth. This year thou shall die because thou have spoken rebellion against LORD. ¹⁷ So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

⁸ For thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you, nor hearken ye to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. ⁹ For they prophesy falsely to you in my name. I have not sent them, says LORD.

³¹ Send to all those of the captivity, saying, Thus says LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I did not send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie, ³² therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed. He shall not have a man to dwell among this people, nor shall he behold the good that I will do to my people, says LORD, because he has spoken rebellion against LORD.

¹⁹ Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

¹⁴ Thy prophets have seen false and foolish visions for thee. And they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity, but have seen for thee false oracles and causes of banishment.

³ Thus says the lord LORD: Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! ⁴ O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. ⁵ Ye have not gone up into the gaps, nor built up the wall for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of LORD. ⁶ They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, LORD says, but LORD has not sent them. And they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed. ⁷ Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, in that ye say, LORD says, albeit I have not spoken? ⁸ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Because ye have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the lord LORD. ⁹ And my hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions, and who divine lies. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the lord LORD. ¹⁰ Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace, and there is no peace, and when a man builds up a wall, behold, they daub it with untempered mortar, ¹¹ say to those who daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall. There shall be an overflowing shower, and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall, and a stormy wind shall rend it. ¹² Lo, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the daubing with which ye have daubed it? ¹³ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my wrath, and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it. ¹⁴ So I will break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be uncovered. And it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst of it. And ye shall know that I am LORD. ¹⁵ Thus I will accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon those who have daubed it with untempered mortar. And I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who daubed it, ¹⁶ namely, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the lord LORD. ¹⁷ And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, who prophesy out of their own heart, and prophesy thou against them. ¹⁸ And say, Thus says the lord LORD: Woe to the women who sew pillows upon all elbows, and make headdresses for the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?

⁸ Ephraim was a watchman with my God. As for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, and enmity in the house of his God.

¹¹ If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies, saying, I will prophesy to thee of wine and of strong drink, he shall even be the prophet of this people.

⁵ Thus says LORD concerning the prophets who make my people to err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace. And he who does not put into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

¹¹ The heads of it judge for a bribe, and the priests of it teach for a wage, and the prophets of it divine for money. Yet they lean upon LORD, and say, Is not LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.

³ And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother who begot him shall say to him, Thou shall not live, for thou speak lies in the name of LORD. And his father and his mother who begot him shall thrust him through when he prophesies. ⁴ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed each one of his vision, when he prophesies, nor shall they wear a hairy mantle to deceive.

⁵ And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says LORD of hosts.

¹⁵ But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are predatory wolves.

³³ But whoever would deny me before men, I also will deny him before my Father in the heavens.

⁵ For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and will lead many astray.

¹¹ And many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.

²⁴ For there will arise false Christs and false prophets, and they will give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen.

²² For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will give signs and wonders, in order to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen.

²⁶ Woe when men will speak well of you, for their fathers did in the same way to the false prophets.

⁹ but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the agents of God.

⁸ And he said, Watch that ye may not be led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, I am, and, The time has come near. Go ye not therefore after them.

¹³ The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Boy Jesus, whom ye actually delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate who preferred to release that man. ¹⁴ But ye denied the Holy and Righteous, and asked for a man, a murderer to be granted to you.

²⁸ Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit placed you guardians, to tend the church of the Lord and God, which he purchased by his own blood. ²⁹ For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. ³⁰ And from you yourselves men will rise up, speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

¹⁸ For such kind serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their smooth words and elegant speech they deceive the hearts of the naive.

²⁰ for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.

²³ Ye were bought with a price, become not bondmen of men.

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

¹³ For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no marvel, for even Satan disguises himself into an agent of light. ¹⁵ Therefore, it is no great thing if his helpers also disguise themselves as helpers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

⁴ But that issue was because of those false brothers smuggled in, who sneaked in to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us,

¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is every man who hangs on a tree.

¹⁷ They are zealous for you but not honorably. They want to exclude you, so that ye may be zealous for them.

²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, wraths, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,

⁷ In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, according to the wealth of his grace,

¹⁴ So that we may no longer be childish, tossed about and carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in craftiness with the methodology of error.

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

⁸ Take heed lest there will be any man taking you captive through the love of wisdom and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ.

¹⁸ Let no man umpire against you insisting on self-mortification, and worship of the agents, intruding in things that he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

³ Let not any man deceive you in any way, because if not, the defection may come first, and he may be revealed-the man of sin, the son of destruction, ⁴ who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or an object of worship, so as for him to sit in the temple of God, as God, displaying himself that he is God. ⁵ Do ye not remember that when I was yet with you I told you these things? ⁶ And now ye know that which restrains, for him to be revealed in his own time. ⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only he who restrains it until now will develop from the midst. ⁸ And then the lawless will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the spirit of his mouth, and will neutralize at the appearance of his coming. ⁹ Whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and marvels of deceit, ¹⁰ and in all deception of unrighteousness in those who are perishing, in return for which, they did not accept the love of the truth in order for them to be saved. ¹¹ And because of this God will send them the force of a delusion, for them to believe a lie, ¹² so that they might be condemned-all those who did not believe the truth, but who delighted in unrighteousness.

¹ But the Spirit says expressly that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, ² speaking lies in hypocrisy, their own conscience having been seared with a hot iron, ³ forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth.

¹² If we endure, we will also reign together. If we renounce him, that man will also renounce us. ¹³ If we are unfaithful, that man remains faithful. He cannot renounce himself.

¹ But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come. ² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, impious, ³ devoid of natural affection, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, no lovers of good, ⁴ traitors, reckless, beclouded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of piety, but repudiating the power of it. Now turn away from these men, ⁶ for from these are those who creep into houses, and take captive petty women laden with sins, being led away by various impulses, ⁷ ever learning and never able to come to knowledge of truth. 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. ⁹ But they will not advance in much more, for their folly will be evident to all men, as also that of those men came to be.

³ For there will be time when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but they will accumulate teachers to themselves according to their own desires, who tickle the ear,

¹¹ who must be muzzled, men who subvert whole houses, teaching things that they ought not, for sake of ugly profit.

¹⁰ Shun a factious man after a first and second admonition,

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?

⁸ Whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, not now seeing but believing, ye exult in inexpressible and glorified joy,

³ And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.

¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour. And as ye heard that the antichrist comes, and now many antichrists have developed, from which we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have continued with us, but-so that they might be made known, that they are not all of us.

²⁶ I wrote these things to you concerning those who lead you astray.

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but examine the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

⁴ For certain men have sneaked in, those written about formerly for this condemnation, irreverent men, perverting the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying our only Master God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ that they told you that there will be scoffers during the last time, going according to their own desires of irreverences.

⁹ I know thy works and tribulation and poverty (but thou are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say themselves to be Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

¹³ I know thy works, and where thou dwell, where Satan's throne is. And thou hold firm my name, and did not deny my faith in the days in which Antipas was my faithful witness, who was killed among you where Satan dwells.

⁸ I know thy works. Behold, I have given before thee an opened door that none is able to shut it, because thou have little power, and thou keep my word, and did not deny my name.

⁹ And they sing a new song, saying, Thou are worthy to take the book and to open the seals of it, because thou were killed and purchased us from God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.

¹⁴ And it leads my kind astray (those dwelling on the earth) because of the signs that were given it to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast that had the sword-wound and lived.

²¹ For I have kept the ways of LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

⁸ And a highway shall be there, and a way. And it shall be called The way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for the redeemed, the wayfaring men. Yea fools shall not err in it.

¹⁶ Thus says LORD, Stand ye in the ways and see. And ask for the old paths where is the good way. And walk in it, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk.

¹⁴ How narrow is the gate, and restricted the way, that leads to life, and few are those who find it.

¹⁶ And they send out their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou are true, and teach the way of God in truth, and it is not a concern to thee about a man, for thou look not to the personage of men.

¹⁰ And then many will be caused to stumble, and they will betray each other and will hate each other. ¹¹ And many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray. ¹² And because of the increased lawlessness, the love of the many will become cold. ¹³ But he who endures to the end, this man will be saved.

¹⁴ And when they came, they say to him, Teacher, we have seen that thou are true, and it is not a care to thee about any man, for thou look not to a personage of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it permitted to give tribute to Caesar or not?

⁶ Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father, except by me.

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?

² But the disobedient Jews aroused the souls of the Gentiles, and made them evil against the brothers.

¹⁷ This woman having followed Paul and us was crying out, saying, These men are bondmen of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.

²⁶ And this man began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside, and expounded to him the way of God more accurately.

⁹ But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, having withdrawn from them, he separated the disciples, discoursing daily in the school of a certain Tyrannus.

¹⁴ But this I confess to thee, that according to the Way that they call a sect, so serve I the paternal God, believing all things written according to the law and the prophets,

²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, just as it is written.

¹⁴ I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.

⁵ to be serious-minded, pure, homemakers, good, submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

⁸ sound speech, irreproachable, so that the man of opposition may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

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.

¹² But these men, like irrational beasts of nature, having been born for capture and destruction, speaking evil at which things they do not understand, will be destroyed in their corruption,

¹⁵ having forsaken a straight path, they were led astray, men who followed the way of Balaam, son of Beor, who loved the wage of unrighteousness.

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.

¹⁰ But these men indeed revile whatever they have not seen. But whatever they understand naturally, as the irrational beasts, in these things they are corrupted.

¹⁵ to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the irreverent of them about all the works of their own irreverence that they have done irreverently, and about all the harsh things that irreverent sinners spoke against him.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, called the Devil and Satan, he who leads the whole world astray. He was cast out to the earth, and his agents were cast out with him.

⁸ And all who dwell upon the earth will worship it, whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb who was killed from the foundation of the world.

¹⁷ Thou shall not distort the justice due to the sojourner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge,

³⁵ Vengeance is for me, and recompense at the time when their foot shall slide. For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.

⁴⁴ As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

³ Say to God, How awesome are thy works! Through the greatness of thy power thine enemies shall submit themselves to thee.

¹⁵ (The haters of LORD feign obedience to him, but their time is forever.)

¹⁹ who say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it. And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!

¹³ therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant. ¹⁴ And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a shard with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.

¹¹ Yea, the dogs are greedy; they can never have enough. And these are shepherds who cannot understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

²² The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, LORD, will hasten it in its time.

¹³ For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness. And from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

¹⁰ Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

¹⁹ And ye have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.

³ God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

¹⁰ Oh that there was among you who would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says LORD of hosts, nor will I accept an offering at your hand.

⁸ I say to you, that he will do their vengeance speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he then find faith on the earth?

²⁰ And having watched him, they sent forth insidious men pretending themselves to be righteous, so that they might take hold of his word, in order to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor.

⁴⁷ While he yet spoke, behold, a multitude, and the man called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them. And he came near to Jesus to kiss him.

¹⁶ And he said to those who sell the doves, Take these things from here. Make not my Father's house a house of merchandise. ¹⁷ For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.

¹⁷ Any man of whom I have sent to you, did I exploit you through him? ¹⁸ I encouraged Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus exploit you in anything? Did we not walk in the same spirit, not in the same steps?

⁵ For we came neither in word of flattery (at any time as ye know) nor a pretense of greed (God is witness)

³ For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.

³ no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but gentle, noncontentious, no lover of money,

⁸ Helpers likewise, be honorable, not double-tongued, not attending to much wine, not greedy of base gain,

⁵ constant frictions of men corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing piety to be a means of gain. Withdraw from such.

⁷ For the overseer must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to anger, not a drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain,

⁸ and, A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, men who stumble at the word, being disobedient, for which also they were set.

² Tend ye the flock of God among you, watching over, not by obligation, but willingly, nor greedily, but readily,

¹⁶ For we revealed to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, not men who followed in cunningly devised myths, but men who became eyewitnesses of the majesty of that man.

¹ But false prophets also developed among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will sneak in pernicious denominations, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

⁹ the Lord knows how to rescue the pious out of temptation, and to hold in reserve unrighteous men being cut off for a day of judgment.

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse, ¹⁵ having forsaken a straight path, they were led astray, men who followed the way of Balaam, son of Beor, who loved the wage of unrighteousness.

⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, the same kind of way with these who indulged in fornication, and who went rear of queer flesh, are set forth an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

¹¹ Woe to them! Because they went in the way of Cain, and rushed to the error of Balaam's reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

¹¹ And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her, because no man buys their merchandise any more, ¹² merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, ¹³ and cinnamon, and incense, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and olive oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and sheep, and cattle, and horses, and chariots, and bodies and souls of men.

²⁰ LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.

¹⁸ Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his agents with folly.

³⁰ that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

⁵⁰ He made a path for his anger. He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

¹² How thou are fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! How thou are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

¹¹ Therefore, as I live, says the lord LORD, surely, because thou have defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore I also will diminish thee, nor shall my eye spare. And I also will have no pity.

⁴ And my eye shall not spare thee, nor will I have pity. But I will bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee. And ye shall know that I am LORD.

⁹ And my eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. I will bring upon thee according to thy ways. And thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee. And ye shall know that I, LORD, do smite.

²⁹ And behold, they cried out, saying, What is with us and thee, Jesus, Son of God? Did thou come here before the time to torment us?

⁴¹ Then he will also say to those at the left hand, Depart from me, ye accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his agents.

⁷ And having cried out in a great voice, he said, What is with me and with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, do not torment me.

³¹ And they entreated him that he would not command them to go out into the abyss.

¹⁸ And he said to them, I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from the sky.

⁴⁴ Ye are from the father, the devil, and ye want to do the desires of your father. He was a man-killer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own, because he is a liar, and the father of it.

³² He who did not even spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?

²¹ for if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps neither will he spare thee.

⁵ and he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, the eighth, a herald of righteousness, when he brought on a flood upon the world of the irreverent,

¹¹ Whereas agents, being greater in might and power, do not bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

⁸ He who is doing sin is of the devil, because the devil sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was made known for this, so that he might destroy the works of the devil.

⁶ And the agents who did not keep their own principality, but left their own habitation, he has kept reserved in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.

⁷ And war developed in heaven: Michael and his agents to fight with the dragon. And the dragon and his agents fought. ⁸ And he did not prevail, nor was a place found for him any more in heaven. ⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, called the Devil and Satan, he who leads the whole world astray. He was cast out to the earth, and his agents were cast out with him.

¹ And I saw an agent coming down out of heaven having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. ² And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, who leads the whole world astray, and bound him a thousand years. ³ And he cast him into the abyss, and locked and sealed over him, so that he would no longer lead the nations astray until the thousand years were ended. After these things he must be loosed for a little time.

¹⁰ And the devil who leads them astray was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where also were the beast and the false prophet. And they will be tormented day and night into the ages of the ages.

¹ And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, ² that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair. And they took to them wives of all that they chose. ³ And LORD said, My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he also is flesh. Yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years. ⁴ The giants were on the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came to the daughters of men, and they bore sons to them, the same were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. ⁵ And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ⁶ And LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. ⁷ And LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground, from man, to beast, to creeping things, and birds of the heavens, for I regret that I have made them. ⁸ But Noah found favor in the eyes of LORD.

¹ And LORD said to Noah, Come, thou and all thy house into the ark, for I have seen thee righteous before me in this generation. ² Of every clean beast thou shall take to thee by sevens, the male and his female. And of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female. ³ Also of the birds of the heavens by sevens, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. ⁴ For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the ground. ⁵ And Noah did according to all that LORD commanded him. ⁶ And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. ⁷ And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. ⁸ Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps upon the ground, ⁹ there went in two by two to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah. ¹⁰ And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. ¹² And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. ¹³ In the selfsame day Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark, ¹⁴ they, and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle according to their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort. ¹⁵ And they went in to Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the breath of life. ¹⁶ And those that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him. And LORD shut him in. ¹⁷ And the flood was forty days upon the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. ¹⁸ And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters. ¹⁹ And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered, ²⁰ fifteen cubits upward. The waters prevailed, and the mountains were covered. ²¹ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, from birds, to cattle, to beasts, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, and every man. ²² All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died. ²³ And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, from man, to cattle, to creeping things, and birds of the heavens, and they were destroyed from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. ²⁴ And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

¹⁵ Will thou keep the old way which wicked men have trodden? ¹⁶ Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

³⁷ And as the days of Noah, so also will be the coming of the Son of man. ³⁸ For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until that day Noah entered into the ark. ³⁹ And they knew not until the flood came, and took them all away. So also will be the coming of the Son of man.

²⁶ And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of man. ²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

⁷ By faith Noah, being divinely warned about things not yet seen, moved with awe, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became an heir of righteousness according to faith.

¹⁹ in which also, having gone, he preached to the spirits in prison ²⁰ who were disobedient formerly, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah who prepared an ark in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.

⁶ by which the world then perished, having been overflowed with water.

¹⁴ And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men, saying, Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads, ¹⁵ to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the irreverent of them about all the works of their own irreverence that they have done irreverently, and about all the harsh things that irreverent sinners spoke against him.

²⁴ Then LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from LORD out of heaven. ²⁵ And he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

²⁸ And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

¹⁰ and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died, that time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became an example.

²³ The whole land of it is brimstone, and salt, a burning. It is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath,

¹⁹ And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

⁴⁰ As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, says LORD, so shall no man dwell there, nor shall any son of man sojourn in it.

⁴⁹ Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters, and she did not strengthen the hand of a poor and needy man. ⁵⁰ And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away as I saw fit. ⁵¹ Neither has Samaria committed half of thy sins, but thou have multiplied thine abominations more than they, and have justified thy sisters by all thine abominations which thou have done. ⁵² Thou also, bear thou thine own shame, in that thou have given judgment for thy sisters, through thy sins that thou have committed more abominable than they. They are more righteous than thou. Yea, be thou also confounded, and bear thy shame, in that thou have justified thy sisters. ⁵³ And I will turn back again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them, ⁵⁴ that thou may bear thine own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that thou have done, in that thou are a comfort to them. ⁵⁵ And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, and thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate. ⁵⁶ For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,

⁸ How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? How shall I cast thee off, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me. My compassions are kindled together.

¹¹ I have overthrown cities among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning. Yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD.

⁹ Therefore as I live, says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The residue of my people shall make a prey of them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.

²⁸ And likewise as it happened in the days of Lot. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built. ²⁹ But in that day Lot went out from Sodom he rained fire and brimstone from the sky, and destroyed them all. ³⁰ It will be according to these things in that day the Son of man is revealed.

¹¹ Now all these things happened to those men for examples, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages came.

¹³ Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against LORD.

⁷ And he said, I pray you, my brothers, do not so wickedly. ⁸ Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man. Let me, I pray you, bring them out to you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes. Only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shadow of my roof.

¹⁶ But he lingered. And the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters, LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him forth, and set him outside the city.

²² Hasten thee, escape there, for I cannot do anything till thou have come there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

²⁹ And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

⁵ Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

¹ Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! ² Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. ³ And they bend their tongue-their bow-for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD. ⁴ Take ye heed each one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. ⁵ And they will deceive each one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves to commit iniquity. ⁶ Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit. Through deceit they refuse to know me, says LORD.

⁹ Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of LORD, and because of his holy words.

¹³ No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure.

¹⁷ Ye therefore, beloved, knowing in advance, keep watch, lest, having accommodated to the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own steadfastness.

¹³⁶ Streams of water run down my eyes, because they do not observe thy law.

¹³⁹ My zeal has consumed me, because my adversaries have forgotten thy words.

¹⁵⁸ I beheld the treacherous, and was grieved because they do not observe thy word.

²⁶ A troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

¹² When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

⁴ And LORD said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and who cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it.

⁶ Kill utterly the old man, the young man, and the virgin, and little sons, and women, but come not near any man upon whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men who were before the house.

¹⁵ And now we call the proud happy. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they challenge God, and escape. ¹⁶ Then those who feared LORD spoke one with another, and LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared LORD, and who thought upon his name. ¹⁷ And they shall be mine, says LORD of hosts, my own possession, in the day that I make. And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

⁹ knowing this, that law is not laid down for righteous men, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the irreverent and sinful, for the impious and profane, for father killers and mother killers, for man killers,

¹⁶ Confess ye the trespasses to each other, and pray for each other so that ye may be healed. A working supplication of a righteous man is very powerful.

¹⁹ He will deliver thee in six troubles. Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

³ But know that LORD has set apart for himself him who is holy. LORD will hear when I call to him.

¹ Help, LORD, for the holy man ceases, for the faithful fail from among the sons of men.

⁶ For this let everyone who is devout pray to thee in a time when thou may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach to him.

¹⁵ The eyes of LORD are toward the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. ¹⁶ (The face of LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.) ¹⁷ They cried, and LORD heard, and delivered them out of all their troubles. ¹⁸ LORD is near to those who are of a broken heart, and saves such as are of a contrite spirit. ¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but LORD delivers him out of them all.

⁴ LORD has made everything for its own end, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

⁵ But according to thy hardness, and thy impenitent heart, thou store up wrath to thyself in the day of wrath, and revelation, and righteous judgment of God,

¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of the Christ, so that each man may receive back about the things that he did through the body, whether good or bad. ¹¹ Having seen therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. But we have been manifested to God, and I hope also to have been manifested in your consciences.

¹² And also all those who want to live devoutly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a special people, a zealot of good works.

⁴ For if God did not spare agents who sinned, but delivered them up to chains of darkness, having been cast into hell being reserved for judgment,

⁷ But now the heavens and the earth, which have been stored up by the same word, are being preserved for fire in a day of judgment and destruction of irreverent men.

¹⁰ Because thou keep the word of my perseverance, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole inhabited world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.

⁶ O my soul, come not thou into their council, to their assembly, my glory, be not thou united, for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they hocked an ox.

²⁸ Thou shall not revile God, nor speak ill of a ruler of thy people.

³⁰ But the soul that does anything with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, the same blasphemes LORD, and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

¹² And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab. And they said, We will not come up. ¹³ Is it a small thing that thou have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must make thyself also a ruler over us? ¹⁴ Moreover thou have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will thou put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up. ¹⁵ And Moses was very angry, and said to LORD, Do not respect thou their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.

¹² And the man who does presumptuously, in not hearkening to the priest who stands to minister there before LORD thy God, or to the judge, even that man shall die, and thou shall put away the evil from Israel. ¹³ And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

²⁰ And they shall say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice. He is a glutton, and a drunkard. ²¹ And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

²⁷ But certain worthless fellows said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

¹ And there happened to be there a base fellow whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. And he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, O Israel.

¹⁶ And when all Israel saw that the king did not hearken to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel. Now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.

¹ Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate vain things? ² The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against LORD, and against his anointed, saying, ³ Let us break their bonds apart, and cast away their cords from us. ⁴ He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision. ⁵ Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and vex them in his great displeasure.

⁴ who have said, With our tongue will we prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?

⁶ Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place. ⁷ I have seen servants upon horses, and rulers walking like servants upon the earth.

²⁰ Revile not the king, no, not in thy thought, and revile not the rich in thy bedchamber. For a bird of the heavens shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.

³¹ O generation, see ye the word of LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, We have broken loose. We will come no more to thee?

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy behind him, saying, We do not want this man to reign over us.

⁵ And Paul said, I had not known, brothers, that he is a high priest, for it is written, Thou shall not speak ill of a ruler of thy people.

²⁴ And for this reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to degrade their bodies among themselves, ²⁵ who changed the truth of God into the lie, and worshiped and served the creation against him who created it, who is blessed into the ages. Truly. ²⁶ Because of this God gave them up to shameful passions, for even their females changed the natural use into what is against nature. ²⁷ And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward each other, males with males producing shamelessness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their deviancy that was fitting.

¹ Consequently nothing is condemnation now to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to flesh but according to Spirit.

⁴ so that the justice of the law might be fulfilled in us, those who walk not according to flesh, but according to Spirit. ⁵ For those who are according to flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those according to Spirit the things of the Spirit.

¹² So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to flesh. ¹³ For if ye live according to flesh, ye are going to die, but if in spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye will live.

¹ Let every soul be subject to offices of authority that rank higher. For there is no office of authority if not by God, and the offices of authority that are by God are those that have been instituted. ² So that he who resists the office of authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and those who have opposed will receive condemnation to themselves. ³ For rulers are not a source of fear to the good works, but to the evil. And do thou desire not to fear the office of authority? Do what is good, and thou will have praise from it. ⁴ For he is a helper of God to thee for what is good. But if thou do what is evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is a helper of God, vengeful for wrath to the man who commits evil. ⁵ Therefore there is a need to be subordinate, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience.

⁹ Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

³ For though walking in flesh, we do not war according to flesh.

¹⁹ Who, having become callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness for the work of all uncleanness in greed.

⁵ For ye are men who know this, that no fornicator, or unclean man, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

⁵ Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

⁷ For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

⁴ Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

¹³ Therefore because of the Lord, ye should submit to every human establishment, whether to a king as being supreme, ¹⁴ or to governors as being sent by him for vengeance of evildoers and praise of well-doers.

³ Knowing this first, that there will come at the end of the days, scoffers, proceeding according to their own desires,

⁶ And the agents who did not keep their own principality, but left their own habitation, he has kept reserved in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day. ⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, the same kind of way with these who indulged in fornication, and who went rear of queer flesh, are set forth an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. ⁸ Nevertheless in the same way also these men who dream, indeed defile flesh, and reject lordship, and speak evil of dignities.

¹⁶ These are grumblers, fault-finders, going according to their lusts, and their mouth speaks overblown things, marveling personages for the sake of advantage.

²⁰ Bless LORD, ye his agents, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, hearkening to the voice of his word.

⁴ who makes his agents spirits, his ministers a flame of fire,

²² My God has sent his agent, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me, inasmuch as before him innocence was found in me. And also before thee, O king, I have done no harm.

⁷ and relief with us, to you who are restricted, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his agents of power

⁹ But Michael the arch-agent, when he disputed with the devil, contending about the body of Moses, dared not bring a railing judgment, but said, May the Lord rebuke thee.

¹⁰ For he shall see it. Wise men die. The fool and the brutish alike perish, and leave their wealth to others.

⁶ A brutish man knows not, nor does a fool understand this.

⁸ Consider, ye brutish among the people, and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

³² An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.

²² For my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are sottish sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

⁴ Then I said, Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of LORD, nor the law of their God.

⁸ But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.

²¹ For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

³ But thou, O LORD, know me. Thou see me, and try my heart toward thee. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

³¹ And I will pour out my indignation upon thee. I will blow upon thee with the fire of my wrath, and I will deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, skilful to destroy.

²¹ Jesus therefore again said to them, I go, and ye will seek me, and ye will die in your sin. Where I go, ye cannot come.

⁸ Because he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

⁴ Because of which, the precious and greatest promises have been given to us, so that through these ye might become companions of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in lust.

¹⁹ promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved.

⁷ Thou are all fair, my love, and there is no spot in thee.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked! It is ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

⁸ but to those of self-interest, and who indeed disobey the truth but have confidence in unrighteousness-anger and wrath, ⁹ pressure and restriction, upon every soul of man who produces evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek,

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

²⁰ When therefore ye come together in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper. ²¹ For each man proceeds to eat his own meal, and one is hungry and another is drunken. ²² For have ye no houses to eat and to drink in? Or do ye disparage the church of God, and humiliate those not having? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

²⁷ so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished.

⁷ For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are intoxicated get drunk at night. ⁸ But we, being of the day, should be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet, the hope of salvation.

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith did many evil things to me. May the Lord repay him according to his works,

² For if the word spoken through agents became certain, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward, 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 During which they think it strange of you not running together into the same pouring out of debauchery, while they slander.

¹² These are reefs in your love-feasts, feasting together, fearlessly tending to themselves, waterless clouds carried along by winds, autumn trees without fruit, who died twice having being uprooted, ¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age. ¹⁴ And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men, saying, Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads, ¹⁵ to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the irreverent of them about all the works of their own irreverence that they have done irreverently, and about all the harsh things that irreverent sinners spoke against him. ¹⁶ These are grumblers, fault-finders, going according to their lusts, and their mouth speaks overblown things, marveling personages for the sake of advantage.

⁶ Render to her as she also rendered to you, and double to her two-fold according to her works. In the cup that she mixed, mix two-fold for her.

² And it came to pass at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. ³ And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? ⁴ And David sent messengers, and took her. And she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness), and she returned to her house.

⁷ if my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,

⁹ If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

²⁵ Do not lust after her beauty in thy heart, nor let her take thee with her eyelids.

¹⁶ Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

⁵ For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven. Behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

²⁰ There shall be no more from there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days. For the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

²³ Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then ye also may do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

²⁸ But I say to you, that every man who looks on a woman to crave her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

³⁴ Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

⁴⁴ How can ye believe, who receive glory from each other, and seek not the glory from the only God?

³ Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.

⁸ a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

¹⁸ For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error,

¹⁶ as also in all his letters, speaking in them about these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

¹⁶ Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

⁵ And he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, a people came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide opposite me. ⁶ Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse for me this people, for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land. For I know that he whom thou bless is blessed, and he whom thou curse is cursed. ⁷ And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand, and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.

¹⁸ And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of LORD my God, to do less or more. ¹⁹ Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what LORD will speak to me more. ²⁰ And God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, go with them, but only the word which I speak to thee, that shall thou do. ²¹ And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the rulers of Moab.

²³ And the donkey saw the agent of LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand, and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field. And Balaam smote the donkey, to turn her into the way.

²⁸ And LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to thee, that thou have smitten me these three times?

¹⁶ Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against LORD in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of LORD.

⁴ because they met you not with bread and with water on the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. ⁵ Nevertheless LORD thy God would not hearken to Balaam, but LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing to thee, because LORD thy God loved thee.

²³ Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against LORD in ceasing to pray for you. But I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

¹⁸ And he answered, I have not troubled Israel, but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of LORD, and thou have followed the Baalim.

¹⁰ And he said, I have been very jealous for LORD, the God of hosts. For the sons of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword. And I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.

² because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them. However our God turned the curse into a blessing.

⁴ Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but such as keep the law contend with them.

¹⁰ And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.

⁸ Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him. I am like a green fir tree. From me thy fruit is found.

⁵ O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him. Remember from Shittim to Gilgal, that ye may know the righteous acts of LORD.

¹⁸ (Indeed therefore this man obtained a field from the reward of his unrighteousness, and having become headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out.

¹³ getting back a wage of unrighteousness. Men who consider soft living in the daytime to be pleasure, spots and blemishes reveling in their deceitfulness, feasting together with you, ¹⁴ But I have a few things against thee, because thou have there men who adhere to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the sons of Israel, even to eat idol sacrifices, and to fornicate.

²¹ And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the rulers of Moab. ²² And God's anger was kindled because he went, and the agent of LORD placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his donkey, and his two servants were with him. ²³ And the donkey saw the agent of LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand, and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field. And Balaam smote the donkey, to turn her into the way. ²⁴ Then the agent of LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side. ²⁵ And the donkey saw the agent of LORD, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. And he smote her again. ²⁶ And the agent of LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. ²⁷ And the donkey saw the agent of LORD, and she lay down under Balaam. And Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the donkey with his staff. ²⁸ And LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to thee, that thou have smitten me these three times? ²⁹ And Balaam said to the donkey, Because thou have mocked me. I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed thee. ³⁰ And the donkey said to Balaam, Am not I thy donkey, upon which thou have ridden all thy life long to this day? Was I ever accustomed to do so to thee? And he said, No. ³¹ Then LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the agent of LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand. And he bowed his head, and fell on his face. ³² And the agent of LORD said to him, Why have thou smitten thy donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because thy way is perverse before me. ³³ And the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would have even slain thee, and saved her alive.

²⁵ I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

³ This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

⁷ The days of visitation have come. The days of recompense have come. Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great.

¹¹ If therefore ye did not become faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you what is true?

¹¹ And punishing them often at all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being extraordinarily furious toward them, I persecuted them even as far as to outside cities.

²⁴ And while he made a defense by these things, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, thou are mad. Much scholarship is driving thee into madness. ²⁵ But Paul says, I am not mad, eminent Festus, but I speak forth sayings of truth and soberness.

¹⁴ To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be from his friend, even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. ¹⁵ My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away, ¹⁶ which are black because of the ice, in which the snow hides itself. ¹⁷ What time they grow warm, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

³ And their ranking men send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads,

⁴ O Ephraim, what shall I do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do to thee? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goes away early.

¹² but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

¹³ Then the king said to the helpers, After binding him hands and feet, take him away and cast him out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

³⁰ And cast ye the unprofitable bondman into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

¹² These are reefs in your love-feasts, feasting together, fearlessly tending to themselves, waterless clouds carried along by winds, autumn trees without fruit, who died twice having being uprooted, ¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.

¹ Why boast thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God is continual. ² Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. ³ Thou love evil more than good, and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

⁸ They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression. They speak loftily. ⁹ They have set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

³⁰ The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

³⁶ And the king shall do according to his will. And he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods. And he shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished, for that which is determined shall be done.

⁴⁰ And with many more other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this crooked generation.

⁹ But a certain man in the city, Simon by name, was formerly practicing sorcery, and fascinating the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be some great man,

⁴ who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or an object of worship, so as for him to sit in the temple of God, as God, displaying himself that he is God.

⁵ Ye have lived in luxury on the earth, and were self-indulgent. Ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

²⁰ For if, having escaped the defilements of the world by knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and, having been again entangled in these, they are overcome, the last things have become worse for them than the first.

⁵ And a mouth was given to it speaking great things and blasphemy. And authority was given it to make war forty-two months. ⁶ And it opened its mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, those who dwell in heaven.

¹¹ And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and it had two horns similar to a lamb, and it spoke like a dragon.

¹ Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome with wine!

³⁴ Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, that every man who does the sin is a bondman of the sin.

¹² Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body in order to obey it, in its lusts. ¹³ And do not present your body-parts as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God, as living out of the dead, and your body-parts as instruments of righteousness to God, ¹⁴ for sin will not have dominion over you. For ye are not under law, but under grace.

¹⁶ Know ye not, that to what ye present yourselves as bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to what ye obey, whether of sin for death, or of obedience for righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but ye obeyed from the heart a model of doctrine for which ye were delivered. ¹⁸ And having been set free from sin, ye were made servile to righteousness ¹⁹ (I speak man-like because of the weakness of your flesh). For as ye presented your body-parts servile to uncleanness, and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present your body-parts servile to righteousness for sanctification. ²⁰ For when ye were bondmen of sin, ye were uninhibited by righteousness. ²¹ What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. ²² But now having been made free from sin, and having become servile to God, ye have your fruit for sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

¹ Stand firm therefore in the liberty in which Christ freed us, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

¹³ For ye, brothers, were called to liberty, only not liberty for an opportunity to the flesh, but be servants to each other through love.

²⁶ and they may sober up out of the snare of the devil, having been captured by him for his will.

³ For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.

¹⁶ As free, and not having your freedom as a cover-up of evil, but as bondmen of God.

²⁰ And he looked on Amalek, and took up his oracle, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall come to destruction.

²⁹ Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

⁴³ But when the unclean spirit goes forth out of the man, it passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and finds it not. ⁴⁴ Then it says, I will return into my house from where I came out. And when it comes, it finds it empty, swept, and put in order. ⁴⁵ Then it goes, and takes with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having enter in, they dwell there. And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So it will also be to this evil generation.

²⁴ When the unclean spirit departs out of the man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest. And not finding, it says, I will return to my house from where I came out. ²⁵ And when it comes, it finds it swept and put in order. ²⁶ Then it goes, and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having enter in, it dwells there. And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.

⁴ For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and who tasted of the heavenly gift, and who became partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and who tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age, ⁶ and who fell away, to restore again to repentance, crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and disgracing him publicly. ⁷ For the soil that has drunk the rain often coming upon it, and bringing forth vegetation useful for those by whom also it is cultivated, partakes of a blessing from God. ⁸ But producing thorns and thistles it is unfit and near a curse, the end of which is for burning.

²⁶ For when we sin willfully after taking the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and of fire, a fervor that is going to devour the opposition.

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

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good. ⁴ He devises iniquity upon his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He does not abhor evil.

⁵ But as for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, LORD will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.

²⁸ Life is in the way of righteousness, and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

³¹ The hoary head is a crown of glory. It shall be found in the way of righteousness.

²⁰ Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because thou have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered, but I will require his blood at thy hand.

²⁴ But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

¹³ And I saw that she was defiled. They both took one way.

⁶ and those who are turned back from following LORD, and those who have not sought LORD, nor inquired after him.

²³ And thou, Capernaum, which was exalted as far as the sky. Thou will be brought down as far as Hades, because if the mighty works had occurred in Sodom that occurred in thee, it would have remained until this day. ²⁴ Nevertheless I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.

³² For John came to you in a way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him. And having seen it, ye did not repent afterward to believe him.

⁴⁷ And that bondman who knew his lord's will, and who did not prepare, nor do according to his will, will be beaten much,

⁴¹ Jesus said to them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin, but now ye say, We see, therefore your sin remains.

²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

¹² So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

² For ye know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

⁴ For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and who tasted of the heavenly gift, and who became partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and who tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age, ⁶ and who fell away, to restore again to repentance, crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and disgracing him publicly.

¹⁷ He therefore who knows to do good, and is not doing it, to him it is sin.

¹¹ As a dog who returns to his vomit, is a fool who repeats his folly.