2 Peter 3 Cross References - ACV

¹ I write to you now this second letter, beloved, in which I arouse your sincere mind by a reminder, ² to remember the sayings that were earlier spoken by the holy prophets, and of the command of your apostles of the Lord and Savior. ³ Knowing this first, that there will come at the end of the days, scoffers, proceeding according to their own desires, ⁴ and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For, from since the fathers became asleep, all things continue this way from the beginning of creation. ⁵ For this is willfully ignored by them, that long ago there were heavens, and an earth that came together out of water and by water by the word of God, ⁶ by which the world then perished, having been overflowed with water. 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. ⁸ But beloved, let not this one thing be ignored by you, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ⁹ The Lord is not slack about his promise, as some regard slackness, but is patient toward us, not wanting any to perish, but all to go forward to repentance. ¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, during which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements, being intensely hot, will be disintegrated, and the earth and the works in it will be destroyed by fire. ¹¹ Therefore, all these things being disintegrated, what kind ought ye to be in holy actions and pieties, ¹² anticipating and hastening the coming of the day of God, by which the heavens, being made fiery hot, will be disintegrated, and the elements dissolve, being intensely hot? ¹³ But we anticipate a new heavens and a new earth according to his promise, in which righteousness dwells. ¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, anticipating these things, be diligent to be found by him in peace, without spot and blameless. ¹⁵ And consider the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation, just as also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given to him, 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. ¹⁷ Ye therefore, beloved, knowing in advance, keep watch, lest, having accommodated to the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own steadfastness. ¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him is the glory both now and into the day of the age. Truly.

⁴ He who has clean hands, and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

¹ Surely God is good to Israel, to such as are pure in heart.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God.

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,

²² Lay hands hastily on no man, nor contribute to other sins. Keep thyself pure.

⁶ Because of which reason I remind thee to rekindle the gift of God that is in thee through the laying on of my hands.

¹ Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen who are sojourners of the Dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, ² chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace be multiplied.

²² men who have purified your souls in obedience of the truth through the Spirit for non-hypocritical brotherly love. Ye should love each other fervently from a pure heart,

¹² Therefore I will not neglect to always remind you about these things, although having known them, and having been established in the present truth. ¹³ But I think it right, inasmuch as I am in this tent, to arouse you in memory. ¹⁴ Knowing that the putting off of my tent is imminent, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ indicated to me. ¹⁵ And also I will endeavor for you to always have, after my departure, the memory of these things to apply.

⁷⁰ just as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,

²⁷ And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things about himself.

⁴⁴ And he said to them, These are the words that I spoke to you while still being with you, that it is necessary for all things that are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms about me to be fulfilled.

¹⁸ But this way God fulfilled what things were foretold, through the mouth of all his prophets, the Christ was to endure.

²¹ whom heaven must indeed receive until the times of restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouth of all his holy prophets from the age.

²⁴ And also all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession, as many as spoke, also proclaimed these days. ²⁵ Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made for our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed all the patriarchies of the earth will be blessed. ²⁶ To you first, having raised up his Boy Jesus, God sent him blessing you, in turning away each man from your evils.

⁴³ To this man all the prophets testify, that every man who believes in him, to receive remission of sins through his name.

²³ And having appointed a day for him, more came to him into his lodging, to whom he expounded, solemnly testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them of the things about Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning until evening.

²⁰ Which was built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner,

¹⁰ About which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently. Men who prophesied about the grace for you, ¹¹ searching for what, or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ in them indicated, predicting the sufferings in Christ, and the glories after these things. ¹² To whom it was revealed, that they were serving not themselves, but you, those things that were now reported to you by those who preached good news to you in the Holy Spirit, which was sent forth from heaven, into which things agents longed to stoop to see.

¹⁹ And we have the prophetic word sure, to which ye do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the daystar arises in your hearts. ²⁰ Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture comes to pass of a personal interpretation. ²¹ For no prophecy was ever brought by a will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being led by the Holy Spirit.

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.

¹⁵ And consider the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation, just as also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given to him,

⁶ We are of God. He who knows God hears us. He who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

¹⁷ But ye, beloved, remember the sayings previously spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁰ And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he says to me, See thou not. I am a fellow bondman of thee and thy brothers, those who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

³⁴ Surely the Lord is opposed to the arrogant, but he gives grace to the lowly.

⁶ A scoffer seeks wisdom, and finds it not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding.

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!

¹⁴ Therefore hear the word of LORD, ye scoffers, who rule this people that is in Jerusalem.

²⁰ For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases. And all those who watch for iniquity are cut off,

⁵ On the day of our king the rulers made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He stretched out his hand with scoffers.

² But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

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,

¹ But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come.

²⁰ Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture comes to pass of a personal interpretation.

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.

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.

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

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

¹⁴ And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place, for LORD will destroy the city. But he seemed to his sons-in-law as a man jesting.

⁹ That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done. And there is no new thing under the sun.

¹¹ Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

¹⁸ Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope, 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!

¹² They have denied LORD, and said, It is not he. Neither shall evil come upon us, nor shall we see sword nor famine. ¹³ And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them.

¹⁵ Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of LORD? Let it come now.

³ who say, The time is not near to build houses. This city is the caldron, and we are the flesh.

²² Son of man, what is this proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails? ²³ Tell them therefore, Thus says the lord LORD: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel, but say to them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision. ²⁴ For there shall no more be any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. ²⁵ For I am LORD. I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed. It shall be no more deferred. For in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it, says the lord LORD. ²⁶ Again the word of LORD came to me, saying, ²⁷ Son of man, behold, those of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.

¹⁷ Ye have wearied LORD with your words. Yet ye say, How have we wearied him? In that ye say, Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of LORD, and he delights in them, or Where is the God of justice?

²⁸ For wherever the carcass may be, there the vultures will be gathered together.

⁴⁸ But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord is late coming,

⁶ But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.

¹⁹ For those days will be tribulation, such as has not happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and no, will not happen.

⁴⁵ But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord is late to come, and should begin to beat the servant boys and the servant girls, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown of boast? Or is it not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

¹⁴ And to the agent of the congregation in Laodicea write, These things says the Truly, the faithful and true witness, the primacy of the creation of God:

⁶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.

² For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

⁶ By the word of LORD were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

⁶ to him who spread forth the earth above the waters, for his loving kindness is forever,

¹⁶ Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For every man who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, so that his works may not be exposed.

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;

¹⁷ And he is before all, and in him all things hold together.

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.

³ By faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by the word of God. For the things that are seen do not come to be from that which is visible.

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.

¹⁵ And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

¹⁵ Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

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.

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.

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,

³ Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him.

²⁶ They shall perish, but thou shall endure. Yea, all of them shall grow old like a garment. As a vesture thou shall change them, and they shall be changed,

⁶ Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath. For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall grow old like a garment, and those who dwell in it shall die in like manner. But my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

⁸ Therefore wait ye for me, says LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey. For my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger. For all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

¹⁵ Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.

²² Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

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.

³⁶ But I say to you, that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they will render account about it in the day of judgment.

³⁵ The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away.

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.

¹¹ And as many as might not receive you nor hear you, as ye depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony to them. Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

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,

²⁸ And not being frightened in anything by those who oppose, which is indeed a sign of destruction to them, but to you of salvation, and this from God.

⁷ and relief with us, to you who are restricted, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his agents of power ⁸ in a fire of flame rendering vengeance to those who have not known God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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,

⁹ But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin.

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 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, during which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements, being intensely hot, will be disintegrated, and the earth and the works in it will be destroyed by fire.

¹² anticipating and hastening the coming of the day of God, by which the heavens, being made fiery hot, will be disintegrated, and the elements dissolve, being intensely hot?

¹⁷ By this love has been fully perfected with us, so that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because just as that man is, we also are in this world.

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 The beast that thou saw was, and is not, and is going to ascend out of the abyss and go into destruction. And those who dwell on the earth will wonder, whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and will come.

¹¹ And the beast that was, and is not, he also is an eighth, and is of the seven, and he goes into destruction.

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and him who sits upon it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away, and no place was found for them.

¹ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more.

⁴ For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

²⁵ For I do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise according to yourselves, that a callousness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in.

¹ But I want you not to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

¹ Now concerning the spiritual things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

²³ If thou shall do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shall be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.

³² Yet now, if thou will forgive their sin-, and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou have written.

¹¹ And LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend, and he turned again into the camp. But his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart out of the tent.

⁶ And LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, LORD, LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

¹⁵ But thou, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

¹⁸ And therefore LORD will wait, that he may be gracious to you. And therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you, for LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

¹³ I bring near my righteousness. It shall not be far off. And my salvation shall not tarry, and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

³ For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hastens toward the end, and shall not lie. Though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come. It will not delay.

⁷ And God, will he, no, not do the vengeance of his chosen who cry out to him day and night, and yet being patient toward them? 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?

⁴ Or do thou despise the wealth of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God guides thee to repentance?

²² And if God, wanting to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

¹⁶ But because of this I obtained mercy, so that in me, the foremost, Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

⁴ who wants all men to be saved and to come to knowledge of truth.

³⁷ For yet a very little while, he who is coming will come, and will not delay.

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.

²¹ And I gave her time so that she would repent, and she did not want to repent of her fornication.

⁶ The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved, he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

⁵ The mountains melted like wax at the presence of LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

¹² For there shall be a day of LORD of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low,

¹⁹ The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.

⁴ And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. And all their host shall fade away as the leaf fades from off the vine, and as a fading leaf from the fig tree.

¹⁵ Alas for the day! For the day of LORD is at hand, and it shall come as destruction from the Almighty.

¹ Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble. For the day of LORD comes, for it is near at hand,

³¹ The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and wonderful day of LORD comes.

¹⁴ Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of LORD is near in the valley of decision.

⁵ For the Lord, LORD of hosts, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell therein shall mourn. And it shall rise up wholly like the River, and shall sink again like the River of Egypt.

¹³ Behold, the days come, says LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows seed, and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

⁴ And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be split, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place. ⁵ The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is up heaved at his presence. Yea, the world, and all who dwell therein.

⁵ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and fearful day of LORD comes.

⁴² Watch therefore, because ye know not at what hour your Lord comes. ⁴³ But know this, that if the house-ruler had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

³¹ The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away.

³⁹ But know this, that if the house-ruler had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

²⁰ For the creation was made subject to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope.

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.

¹⁴ as also ye did acknowledge us in part, because we are your boast, just as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

² For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

¹¹ They will perish, but thou are permanent. And they will all become old as a garment. ¹² And thou will roll them up as a mantle, and they will be changed. But thou are the same, and thy years will not cease.

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.

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.

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.

¹⁵ (Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, so that he may not walk naked, and they see his shame.)

¹⁴ The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill such as are upright in the way.

²³ Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me. And to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God.

³ when the earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved. I have set up the pillars of it. Selah.

³¹ Howl, O gate, cry, O city. Thou are melted away, O Philistia, all of thee. For there comes a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

²⁷ But the men marveled, saying, What kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?

¹² For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

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.

²⁰ For our citizenship exists in the heavens, from which also we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

⁵ because the good news from us happened to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as ye know what kind of men we became among you, because of you.

¹⁶ And without controversy great is the mystery of piety. God was manifested in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by agents, proclaimed among nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory.

¹² Let no man disparage thy youth, but become an example of the faithful, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

³ If any man teaches something different, and does not associate with wholesome words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to piety,

⁶ But piety with contentment is great gain,

¹¹ But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, meekness.

⁵ The Way of life is to be without love of money, being content with the things that are present, for he has said, I will, no, not leave thee, and also, I will, no, not forsake thee.

²⁴ For he observes himself, and goes away, and straightaway forgets what kind of man he was.

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in meekness of wisdom.

¹⁵ but according to the Holy Man, he who called you, ye yourselves also become holy in all conduct,

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.

³ as all things of his divine power to us, things toward life and piety, which were granted through the knowledge of him who called us through glory and virtue.

⁶ and in knowledge, self-control, and in self-control, perseverance, and in perseverance, piety,

¹ The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. ² And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of LORD's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow to it. ³ And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of LORD from Jerusalem. ⁴ And he will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. ⁵ O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of LORD. ⁶ For thou have forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled with things from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines. And they strike hands with the children of foreigners. ⁷ And their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots. ⁸ Their land is also full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made, ⁹ and so the common man bows down, and the great man degrades himself. Therefore do not forgive them. ¹⁰ Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of LORD, and from the glory of his majesty. ¹¹ The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. ¹² For there shall be a day of LORD of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low, ¹³ and upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, ¹⁴ and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, ¹⁵ and upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall, ¹⁶ and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant imagery. ¹⁷ And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. ¹⁸ And the idols shall utterly pass away. ¹⁹ And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. ²⁰ In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats, ²¹ to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. ²² Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for how is he to be accounted of?

¹ Oh that thou would rend the heavens, that thou would come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence, ² as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! ³ When thou did fearful things which we did not look for, thou came down; the mountains quaked at thy presence. ⁴ For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, besides thee, what he has prepared for him who waits for him. ⁵ Thou meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou were angry, and we sinned. Therefore we have erred. ⁶ For we have all become as unclean, and all our righteous acts are as a polluted garment. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. ⁷ And there is none who calls upon thy name, who stirs himself up to take hold of thee. For thou have hid thy face from us, and have consumed us through our iniquities. ⁸ But now, O LORD, thou are our Father. We are the clay, and thou our potter, and we are all the work of thy hand. ⁹ Be not angry very severely, O LORD, nor remember iniquity forever. Behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. ¹⁰ Thy holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. ¹¹ Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire, and all our pleasant places are laid waste. ¹² Will thou restrain thyself for these things, O LORD? Will thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very severely?

⁷ so that ye come behind in not one gift, waiting for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁸ who will also confirm you until the end, irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁶ Being confident of this same thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

¹³ Awaiting the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

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

¹³ And the stars of the sky fell to the earth as a fig tree that casts its unripe figs being shaken by a great wind. ¹⁴ And the sky departed as a scroll being rolled up. And every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

²¹ Thy people also shall all be righteous. They shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

¹⁷ For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

²² For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.

²⁷ And there will, no, not enter into it anything profane, and doing an abomination and a lie, since they are not written in the Lamb's book of life.

²⁶ If therefore they should say to you, Behold, he is in the wilderness, do not go forth. Behold, he is in the inner chambers, do not believe.

²⁹ Now dismiss thy bondman in peace, Master, according to thy word,

⁴³ Blessed is that bondman whom his lord when he comes will find so doing.

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

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brothers, become ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not empty in the Lord.

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,

¹⁵ so that ye may become blameless and pure children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

¹³ in order to establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his sanctified.

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.

²⁸ so also the Christ, having been offered once in order to take up the sins of many, will appear a second time, independent of sin, to those waiting for him for salvation.

²⁷ Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

⁵ Now this same thing also, having applied all eagerness, furnish in your faith, virtue, and in virtue, knowledge, ⁶ and in knowledge, self-control, and in self-control, perseverance, and in perseverance, piety, ⁷ and in piety, brotherly affection, and in brotherly affection, love. ⁸ For these things existing in you and abounding, it leads to not being idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For he in whom these things are not present is blind, being near-sighted, having deliberately forgotten the purification of his former sins. ¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, instead be diligent to make your calling and selection sure, for doing these things, ye would, no, not ever stumble.

³ And every man who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that man is pure.

³ and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

⁶ And I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee:

³¹ And he has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

³⁵ He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver, and of the skilful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who devise skilful works.

¹² behold, I have done according to thy word. Lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart, so that there has been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like thee.

²⁸ And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged. And they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

²⁹ And God gave Solomon exceedingly much wisdom and understanding, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.

²⁵ And thou, Ezra, according to the wisdom of thy God, that is in thy hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of thy God, and teach ye him who does not know them.

⁶ For LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth is knowledge and understanding. ⁷ He lays up sound wisdom for the upright, a shield to those who walk in integrity,

²⁶ For to the man who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

²⁰ Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are his. ²¹ And he changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

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.

¹⁰ and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he appointed him governor over Egypt and his entire house.

²⁵ it was decided by us, having become unanimous, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

¹³ Which things also we speak, not in things learned from mankind, in words of wisdom, but in things learned from the Holy Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master builder, I laid a foundation and another man is building on it. But let each man take heed how he is building on it.

⁸ For to one, the word of wisdom is given through the Spirit, and to another, the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

³ that according to revelation he made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief.

⁵ And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God who gives to all generously and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.

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.

⁹ The Lord is not slack about his promise, as some regard slackness, but is patient toward us, not wanting any to perish, but all to go forward to repentance.

⁴ Boiling over as water, thou shall not have the pre-eminence, because thou went up to thy father's bed, then thou defiled it; he went up to my couch.

² Thou shall not follow a multitude to do evil, neither shall thou speak in a case to turn aside after a multitude to distort justice,

⁶ Thou shall not distort the justice due to thy poor in his case.

¹⁹ Thou shall not distort justice. Thou shall not respect persons, neither shall thou take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

¹ And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

¹ And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. ² And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick. And he sent messengers, and said to them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this sickness. ³ But the agent of LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? ⁴ Now therefore thus says LORD, Thou shall not come down from the bed where thou have gone up, but shall surely die. And Elijah departed. ⁵ And the messengers returned to him, and he said to them, Why is it that ye are returned? ⁶ And they said to him, There came up a man to meet us, and said to us, Go, turn again to the king that sent you, and say to him, Thus says LORD, Is it because there is no God in Israel that thou send to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore thou shall not come down from the bed where thou have gone up, but shall surely die. ⁷ And he said to them, What manner of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words? ⁸ And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a belt of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. 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. ¹⁴ Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties, but now let my life be precious in thy sight. ¹⁵ And the agent of LORD said to Elijah, Go down with him; do not be afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him to the king. ¹⁶ And he said to him, Thus says LORD, Inasmuch as thou have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? Therefore thou shall not come down from the bed where thou have gone up, but shall surely die. ¹⁷ So he died according to the word of LORD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram began to reign in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son. ¹⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

⁵ All the day long they wrest my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

³⁶ And the burden of LORD ye shall mention no more, for every man's own word shall be his burden. For ye have perverted the words of the living God, of LORD of hosts our God.

⁴ Therefore the law is slacked, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked man surrounds the righteous man, therefore justice goes forth perverted.

³ And having answered, he said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, because of your tradition?

⁶ And he will, no, not honor his father or mother. And ye have annulled the command of God because of your tradition.

²⁹ But having answered, Jesus said to them, Ye are led astray, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

¹ Consequently nothing is condemnation now to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to flesh but according to Spirit. ² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and of death. ³ For the impotence of the law, in that it was weak because of the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in a form of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh, 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. ⁶ For the mentality of the flesh is death, but the mentality of the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷ Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able. ⁸ And those who are in flesh cannot please God. 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. ¹⁰ And if Christ is in you, the body is indeed dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up the Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you. 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. 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. ¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not comparable to the glory that is going to be revealed for us. ¹⁹ For the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. ²⁰ For the creation was made subject to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope. ²¹ Because the creation itself will also be freed from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. ²² For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing together until now. ²³ And not only so, but also ourselves who have the first fruit of the Spirit. And we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body. ²⁴ For we were saved to hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what is seen, why also hope for that? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait through patience. ²⁶ And likewise also the Spirit helps our weaknesses, for we know not what we would pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings. ²⁷ And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mentality of the Spirit, because he appeals to God for the sanctified. ²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, who are the called according to purpose. ²⁹ Because whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be of similar nature of the form of his Son, in order for him to be the firstborn son among many brothers. ³⁰ And whom he predestined, these he also called, and whom he called, these he also made righteous, and whom he made righteous, these he also glorified. ³¹ What then will we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 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? ³³ Who will accuse against the chosen of God? God is he who makes righteous. ³⁴ Who is he who will condemn? It is Christ who died, but more, who also was raised up, who also is at the right hand of God, who also appeals for us. ³⁵ Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or restriction, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ Just as it is written, For thy sake we are killed the whole day long. We are considered as sheep of slaughter. ³⁷ But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor agents, nor principal positions, nor powers, nor things that have come, nor things that are coming, 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.

¹ And, brothers, I make known to you the good news that I preached to you, which also ye received, and in which ye stand, ² by which also ye are saved if ye hold firm that word I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain. ³ For I delivered to you at first what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, ⁴ and that he was buried, and that he arose on the third day according to the scriptures, ⁵ and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. ⁶ Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, but some also slept. ⁷ Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, ⁸ and last of all, as to the untimely birth, he also appeared to me. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace for me did not become empty, but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God with me. ¹¹ Therefore whether I or those men, so we proclaim, and so ye believed. ¹² Now if Christ is proclaimed that he has risen from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ risen. ¹⁴ And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is empty, and your faith is also empty. ¹⁵ And also we are found false witnesses of God, because we witnessed according to God that he raised up the Christ, whom he did not raise up, if therefore the dead are really not raised. ¹⁶ For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain. Ye are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Then also those who slept in Christ have perished. ¹⁹ If we are men who have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men more miserable. ²⁰ But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep. ²¹ For since death is because of a man, the resurrection of the dead is also because of a man. ²² For as by Adam all die, so also by Christ all will be made alive. ²³ But each in his own order. Christ the first fruit, then those of Christ at his coming. ²⁴ Afterwards the end, when he delivers up the kingdom to the God and Father, when he will abolish all rule, and all authority and power. ²⁵ For he must reign until he will put all his enemies under his feet. ²⁶ The last enemy abolished is death. ²⁷ For he subordinated all things under his feet. But when he says that all things have been subordinated, it is clear that he who subordinated all things under him, is excepted. ²⁸ And when all things are made subordinate to him, then the Son himself will also be made subordinate to him who subordinated all things to him, so that God may be all in all. ²⁹ Otherwise what will they do who are immersed for the dead? If the dead do not rise at all, why then are they immersed for the dead? ³⁰ And we, why are we in peril every hour? ³¹ By the pride that belongs to you, that I keep in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. ³² If in respect to men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what is the benefit to me if the dead are not raised? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. ³³ Be not led astray. Evil associations corrupt good habits. ³⁴ Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you. ³⁵ But some man will say, How are the dead raised, and with what kind of body do they come? ³⁶ Thou foolish man, what thou sow is not made alive unless it dies. ³⁷ And what thou sow, thou do not sow the body that it will become, but a bare grain, if it may happen of wheat, or of some other kind. ³⁸ But God gives it a body as he wills, and to each of the seeds its own body. ³⁹ All flesh is not the same flesh, but one of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds, ⁴⁰ and heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies (but the glory of the heavenly is different, and the glory of the earthly is different), ⁴¹ another glory is of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory. ⁴² So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in the perishable, it is raised in imperishability. ⁴³ It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. ⁴⁴ It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ And so it is written, The first man Adam developed into a living soul. The last Adam a life giving spirit. ⁴⁶ Nevertheless the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man was of the earth, earthly. The second man is the Lord from heaven. ⁴⁸ As is the earthly, such also are the earthly. And as is the heavenly, such also are the heavenly. ⁴⁹ And just as we have worn the form of the earthly, we will also wear the form of the heavenly. ⁵⁰ Now this I affirm, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit imperishability. ⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will actually not all sleep, but we will all be transformed, ⁵² in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For it will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be transformed. ⁵³ For this perishable must put on imperishability, and this mortal put on immortality. ⁵⁴ But when this perishable will have put on imperishability, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come to pass the saying that is written, Death was swallowed up in victory. ⁵⁵ O death, where is thy sting? O Hades, where is thy victory? ⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. ⁵⁷ But thanks is to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brothers, become ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not empty in the Lord.

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

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. ² For ye know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication, ⁴ for each of you to know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and reverence, ⁵ not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known 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.

¹¹ About whom, much subject matter from us is also difficult to explain, since ye have become sluggish in hearing.

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

¹ Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen who are sojourners of the Dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

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.

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.

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse,

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.

¹⁷ For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird,

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

⁶ And Jesus said to them, Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

¹¹ How do ye not understand that I spoke to you not about bread, to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

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. ²⁵ Behold, I have foretold it to you.

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. ²³ But watch ye. Behold, I have foretold all to you.

⁴ But I have told you these things, so that when the hour comes, ye may remember that I told you of them. But I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

⁴² And they were continuing steadfastly in the apostles doctrine, and in fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and the prayers.

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.

¹² Therefore let him who seems to stand take heed lest he fall.

³ But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent enticed Eve by his craftiness, so your thoughts might be corrupted from the simplicity in the Christ.

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.

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.

² Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workmen, beware of the excision.

⁵ For even though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your orderliness, and the steadfastness of your faith for Christ.

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.

¹⁵ of whom thou also beware, for he extremely opposed our words.

¹⁴ For we have become companions of the Christ, if only we keep in possession the primacy of the essence, steadfast until the end,

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

¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, instead be diligent to make your calling and selection sure, for doing these things, ye would, no, not ever stumble. ¹¹ For so the entrance will be furnished to you abundantly into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. ¹² Therefore I will not neglect to always remind you about these things, although having known them, and having been established in the present truth.

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.

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.

¹² A righteous man shall flourish like the palm tree. He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

⁵ I will be as the dew to Israel. He shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

² But to you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in its wings, and ye shall go forth, and frolic as calves of the stall.

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.

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.

²³ so that all would honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. The man not honoring the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

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

³⁶ Because from him, and through him, and for him, are all things. To him is the glory into the ages. Truly.

⁶ Because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who shone in our hearts for an enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the presence of Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ So that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in knowledge of him,

¹⁵ But being truthful in love, we may cause all things to grow for him who is the head-the Christ-

⁸ But indeed therefore I even consider all things to be loss because of things surpassing, of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I suffered the loss of all things, and consider them to be rubbish, so that I may gain Christ,

¹⁰ For you to walk worthily of the Lord for every desire to please, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God,

¹⁰ and having put on the new man, being renewed in knowledge according to an image of him who created him,

³ We are indebted to thank God always about you, brothers, as it is fitting, because your faith is increasing greatly, and the love of each one of you all toward each other abounds.

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.

² as newborn babes, long for the genuine intellectual milk, so that ye may grow by it,

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. ¹¹ To him is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

⁸ For these things existing in you and abounding, it leads to not being idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹¹ For so the entrance will be furnished to you abundantly into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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.

²⁵ to the only wise God our Savior, is glory, majesty, dominion and power, both now and into all the ages. Truly.

⁶ and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

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. ¹⁰ And thou made them kings and priests to our God, and they will reign over the earth. ¹¹ And I looked, and I heard as a voice of many agents all around the throne and the living creatures and the elders. And the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands, ¹² saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that has been killed to receive the power, and wealth, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing! ¹³ And every creature that is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and is in the sea, and things in them all, I heard saying, The blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the dominion is to him who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb, into the ages of the ages. Truly! ¹⁴ And the four living creatures were saying the Truly. And the elders fell down and worshiped.