Colossians 1 Cross References - ACV

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, ² to the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying about you, ⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love toward all the sanctified, ⁵ because of the hope being reserved for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news ⁶ being present for you, just as also in all the world. And it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day that ye heard and recognized the grace of God in truth. ⁷ Just as also ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow bondman, who is a faithful helper of the Christ for you, ⁸ the man who also made clear to us your love in spirit. ⁹ Because of this we also, from the day that we heard, cease not praying for you and making request that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. 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, ¹¹ being strengthened in every ability, according to the dominion of his glory, for all perseverance and longsuffering with joy. ¹² Giving thanks to the Father who made us qualified for the share of the portion of the sanctified in light. ¹³ Who rescued us out of the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, ¹⁵ who is an image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. ¹⁶ Because in him all things were created, things in the heavens and things upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or lordships or principal offices or positions of authority, all things have been created through him, and for him. ¹⁷ And he is before all, and in him all things hold together. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might become preeminent in all things. ¹⁹ Because in him it was considered good for all the fullness to dwell, ²⁰ and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross, through him whether things upon the earth or things in the heavens. ²¹ And you, being formerly alienated and hostile in mind, in works, in things evil. But now he has reconciled ²² in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblemished and unblameable before him. ²³ If ye truly continue in the faith, founded, and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good news that ye heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I Paul became a helper. ²⁴ I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and make complete in my flesh things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ for his body, which is the church. ²⁵ Of which I became a helper according to the administration of God, which was given to me for you to fulfill the word of God, ²⁶ the mystery that was hidden from the ages and from the generations, but has now been made known to his sanctified. ²⁷ To whom God wanted to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. ²⁸ Whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ For which also I labor, striving according to his working, which works in me with power.

¹ Paul, a bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle having been separated for the good news of God

¹ Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, with all the sanctified who are in the whole of Achaia.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the sanctified who are at Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus:

¹ Paul and Timothy, bondmen of Jesus Christ, to all the sanctified in Jesus Christ who are at Philippi, with the guardians and helpers:

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

² And we sent Timothy, our brother, and a helper of God, and our fellow workman in the good news of the Christ, in order to establish you and to encourage you about your faith,

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

¹ Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy the brother, to Philemon our beloved and co-workman,

³ As for the sanctified who are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight.

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

² to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, to called men, to holy men who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus with all in every place who call upon the name of our the Lord Jesus Christ-both ours and theirs.

¹⁷ Because of this I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every congregation.

³ Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ

⁹ So then those from faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

²¹ But that ye also may know the things concerning me, what I do, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful helper in the Lord, will make known all things to you.

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.

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

² Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.

⁴ John, to the seven congregations in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne,

⁸ First, I indeed express thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world. ⁹ For God is my witness whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

⁴ I thank my God always about you, for the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,

¹⁵ Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love for all the sanctified,

¹⁴ For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ from whom every patriarchy in heavens and on earth is named. ¹⁶ So that he would grant you, according to the wealth of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit for the inner man, ¹⁷ for the Christ to dwell in your hearts through faith, ¹⁸ having been rooted and grounded in love, so that ye may be able to grasp with all the sanctified what is the breadth and length and depth and height, ¹⁹ and to become aware of the love of the Christ, which transcends knowledge, so that ye may be filled in all the fullness of God.

³ I thank my God upon every memory of you, ⁴ always in my every entreaty for all of you, making the entreaty with joy ⁵ for your participation in the good news from the first day until now.

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

⁶ Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thankfulness make your requests known to God.

⁹ Because of this we also, from the day that we heard, cease not praying for you and making request that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

¹³ Who rescued us out of the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

² We thank God always about all of you, making recollection of you in our prayers,

¹⁰ praying night and day above extraordinary in order to see your face and to mend the deficiencies of your faith? ¹¹ Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you. ¹² And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward each other, and toward all men, just as also we toward you, 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.

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father who loved us and gave eternal encouragement and good hope through grace, ¹⁷ encourage your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

³ I have gratitude to God whom I serve from the forefathers in a pure conscience, as I have unceasing remembrance about thee in my supplications, night and day

⁷ And not only by his presence, but also by the encouragement with which he was encouraged by you, reporting to us your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

³ remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

⁶ But now of Timothy, having come to us from you, and having proclaimed good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye always have a good recollection of us, longing to see us, just as we also you,

⁹ But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other. ¹⁰ For ye are also doing it toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to abound more,

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.

⁵ hearing of thy love and faith, which thou have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the sanctified,

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of love that ye showed toward his name, having served the sanctified, and who are serving.

²¹ men who, because of him, believe in God who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, in order for your faith and hope to be in God; 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, ²³ begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God that lives and remains into the age.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who is not loving the brother abides in death.

²³ And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love each other, just as he gave command.

¹⁶ And we know, and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

³ For I rejoiced exceedingly of brothers coming and testifying to the truth of thee, just as thou walk in truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy than these things that I hear my children walking in truth.

¹⁹ O how great is thy goodness, which thou have laid up for those who fear thee, which thou have wrought for those who take refuge in thee before the sons of men!

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal, ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust deteriorates, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.

³³ Sell things possessed by you, and give charity. Make for yourselves purses not becoming old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where no thief approaches, nor moth corrupts.

³⁶ The word that he sent forth to the sons of Israel, preaching good news, peace by Jesus Christ (this man is Lord of all),

²⁶ Men, brothers, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the word of this salvation was sent.

⁶ But when Paul ascertained that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men, brothers, I am a Pharisee, son of a Pharisee. About the hope and resurrection of the dead I am judged.

¹⁵ having hope toward God, which they themselves also await, to come to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

⁶ And now for the hope of the promise made by God to the fathers, I stand being judged, ⁷ to which our twelve tribes, serving in earnestness night and day, hope to attain, about which hope, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews!

⁸ But what does it say? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that is, the word of faith that we preach:

¹³ And now remain faith, hope, love, these three, but the greater of these is love.

¹⁹ If we are men who have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men more miserable.

¹⁹ How that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

⁷ in word of truth, in power of God, through the weapons of righteousness of the right hand and of the left,

⁵ For we through Spirit, from faith, wait for a hope of righteousness.

¹³ In whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the good news of your salvation, in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

¹⁸ having the eyes of your heart enlightened. For you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the sanctified, ¹⁹ and what is the transcending greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his might,

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

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

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing by grace in your hearts to God.

¹³ And because of this we thank God without ceasing, because, having received the word of God heard from us, ye received not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

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

¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinful men, of whom I am foremost.

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

² in hope of eternal life, which the non-lying God promised before times eternal,

¹⁹ (for the law made nothing fully perfect), and an introduction of a better hope, through which we approach God.

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who begot us again according to his abundant mercy for a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ for an inheritance imperishable, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heavens for you,

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

¹⁵ but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. And always be ready for a defense to every man who asks you a word about the hope in you, with meekness and fear.

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

³ He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

³ Thy people offer themselves willingly in the day of thy power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning thou have the dew of thy youth.

¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

¹⁹ After going, make ye disciples of all the nations, immersing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

⁸ And others fell into the good ground and gave fruit, coming up and increasing, and brought forth, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.

²⁶ And he said, Thus is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground, ²⁷ and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and lengthen, he knows not how. ²⁸ For the earth bears fruit spontaneously, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. ²⁹ But when the fruit yields, straightaway he sends forth the sickle, because the harvest has come.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Having gone into all the world, preach ye the good news to the whole creation.

²³ But an hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for also the Father seeks such kind who worship him.

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

¹⁸ And when they heard these things, they relaxed and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.

²⁴ But the word of God grew and multiplied.

¹⁴ And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, a woman who worshiped God, was listening, whose heart the Lord opened to heed the things being spoken by Paul.

¹⁸ to open their eyes to turn about from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, for them to receive remission of sins and a lot among those who have been sanctified by faith in me.

¹³ But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit also among you, even as among the other Gentiles.

¹⁷ So faith is from hearing, and hearing by the word of God. ¹⁸ But I say, did they, no, not hear? Rather, Their voice went forth into all the earth, and their sayings to the limits of the inhabited world.

¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of a Spirit of God, so that for me, from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum, to fully preach the good news of Christ.

²⁸ Having therefore completed this, and having sealed this fruit for them, I will depart by you to Spain.

²⁶ but that was now revealed, and by prophetic scriptures, according to a commandment of the eternal God that was made known to all the nations for obedience of faith,

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.

¹ And working jointly, we urge you also not to receive the grace of God in vain

¹⁴ For it is not as not reaching for you. We overextend ourselves. For we even reached as far as you in the good news of the Christ,

² since indeed ye heard of the administration of the grace of God, which was given to me for you,

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

²³ and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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

¹¹ having been filled with fruits of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, for glory and praise of God.

¹⁷ Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.

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,

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.

¹³ But we are indebted to express thanks to God always about you, brothers, beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation, in sanctification of spirit and belief of truth,

¹¹ For the saving grace of God has appeared to all men, ¹² disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.

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. ³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who begot us again according to his abundant mercy for a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

¹² By Silvanus, the faithful brother to you, as I reckon, I wrote because of a few things, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye stand.

⁷ My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.

⁴⁵ Who then is the faithful and wise bondman, whom his lord appointed over his service, to give them the provision on time?

²¹ And his lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman. Thou were faithful over a few things, I will appoint thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

² And beyond that, it is sought in managers that any man should be found faithful.

²⁵ Now concerning the virgins I have no commandment of the Lord, but I give an opinion, as having obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

²³ Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.

²¹ submitting yourselves to each other in the fear of Christ.

¹⁹ But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I also may be cheerful when I know the things about you. ²⁰ For I have no man like-minded who will genuinely care for the things about you. ²¹ For they all seek the things of themselves, not the things of Christ Jesus. ²² But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child to a father, he served with me for the good news.

²⁵ But I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and co-workman and fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,

⁷ Tychicus will make known to you all things about me, the beloved brother and faithful helper and fellow bondman in the Lord.

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

⁶ Laying these things down to the brothers, thou will be a good helper of Jesus Christ, reared up in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine that thou have followed.

² And what thou have heard from me through many witnesses, these things commit thou to faithful men who will be competent to teach others also.

²³ Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, salutes thee,

¹⁷ Therefore he was obligated to be made like his brothers in accordance with all things, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things toward God, in order to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

² who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

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

³⁰ Now I beseech you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive with me in prayers to God for me.

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

⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love toward all the sanctified,

⁷ For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of soberness.

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,

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.

⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation.

¹⁰ Teach me to do thy will, for thou are my God. Thy Spirit is good, lead me in the land of uprightness.

¹⁷ If any man wants to do his will, he will know about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or I speak from myself.

⁵ Indeed therefore Peter was kept in the prison, but fervent prayer was being made by the church to God for him.

⁸ First, I indeed express thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world. ⁹ For God is my witness whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers, ¹⁰ pleading, if somehow now at last I will have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

² And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind, for ye to approve what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

⁵ that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all speech and in all knowledge.

⁸ which he abounded for us in all wisdom and intelligence.

¹⁵ Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love for all the sanctified, ¹⁶ I cease not expressing thanks for you, making remembrance of you in my prayers. 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, ¹⁸ having the eyes of your heart enlightened. For you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the sanctified, ¹⁹ and what is the transcending greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his might, ²⁰ which he wrought in the Christ, having raised him from the dead and seated at his right hand in the heavenly things,

¹⁰ proving what is acceptable to the Lord.

¹⁷ Because of this do not become foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord.

⁶ Not according to eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

⁴ always in my every entreaty for all of you, making the entreaty with joy

³ We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying about you, ⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love toward all the sanctified,

⁶ being present for you, just as also in all the world. And it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day that ye heard and recognized the grace of God in truth.

⁵ Walk in wisdom toward those outside, redeeming the time,

¹⁷ Pray without ceasing.

¹¹ For which also we pray always about you, so that our God will make you worthy of the calling, and will fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power.

³ I have gratitude to God whom I serve from the forefathers in a pure conscience, as I have unceasing remembrance about thee in my supplications, night and day ⁴ longing to see thee, having remembered thy tears, so that I may be filled with joy,

⁴ I thank my God, making recollection of thee always in my prayers,

³⁶ For ye have need of perseverance, so that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

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

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.

¹⁵ Because this way is the will of God, doing good to muzzle the ignorance of the foolish men.

² in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.

¹⁷ And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God comes, and has given us understanding, so that we may know the true. And we are in the true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and the eternal life.

⁷ When a man's ways please LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

¹¹ He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. By the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities.

⁴ But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

⁵ For all the peoples walk each one in the name of his god. And we will walk in the name of LORD our God forever and ever.

¹⁴ For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

⁸ By this my Father is glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye will become my disciples.

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

¹² and father of those of circumcision, to those not only of circumcision, but also to those who march in the steps of faith-of that during the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

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

¹⁴ And thanks is to God who always causes us to triumph in the Christ, and who makes manifest the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place, through us.

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.

⁸ And God is able to abound all grace for you, so that always in everything having all sufficiency, ye may abound for every good work,

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ meekness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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,

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God preordained that we should walk in them.

¹ I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, call on you to walk worthily of the calling in which ye were called,

¹³ Until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a standard of stature of the fullness of the Christ.

² And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

¹⁵ Therefore watch carefully how ye walk, not as unwise but as wise,

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.

¹⁸ But I receive all things, and I abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an aroma of fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice well-pleasing to God.

⁶ As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

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

²⁰ Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

¹² and solemnly declaring for you to walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

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.

⁴ No man who serves in the military entangles himself in the affairs of life, so that he may please the man who enlisted the army.

¹ Remind them to be submissive to principle offices and positions of authority, to be obedient, to be prepared for every good work,

¹⁴ And also let our men learn to be in the lead of good works for the essential needs, so that they may not be unfruitful.

⁵ By faith Enoch was transferred to not see death, and he was not found, because God transferred him. For before his removal he was reported to be pleasing to God.

¹⁶ But do not forget benevolence and fellowship, for God is well pleased with such sacrifices.

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

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.

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.

²² and whatever we may ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do things pleasing in his sight.

⁶ Thy right hand, O LORD, is glorious in power. Thy right hand, O LORD, dashes the enemy in pieces.

² So I have looked upon thee in the sanctuary to see thy power and thy glory.

¹⁰ If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

²⁴ Only in LORD, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength. Even to him men shall come, and all those who were incensed against him shall be put to shame.

⁸ But ye will receive the power of the Holy Spirit that comes upon you. And ye will be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and as far as of the extremity of the earth.

⁴¹ Indeed therefore they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were considered worthy to be treated shamefully for the name of Jesus.

⁷ to those who indeed seek by perseverance of good work, glory and esteem and immortality-eternal life-

³ And not only so, but we also take pride in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance, ⁴ and perseverance, character, and character, hope. ⁵ And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that was given to us.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not from us,

⁴ but in everything commending ourselves as helpers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in necessities, in restrictions, ⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hungerings, ⁶ in purity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in non-hypocritical love,

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me. ¹⁰ Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in restrictions, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

¹⁶ So that he would grant you, according to the wealth of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit for the inner man,

² with all humility and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing each other in love.

¹⁰ Finally my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

¹³ I can do all things in the Christ who strengthens me.

³ for no man to be disturbed by these afflictions. For ye yourselves know that we are set for this. ⁴ For also when we were with you we foretold you that we were going to be oppressed, just as it also happened, and ye know.

¹ Thou therefore, my child, be strong in the grace in Christ Jesus. ² And what thou have heard from me through many witnesses, these things commit thou to faithful men who will be competent to teach others also. ³ Thou therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

³⁴ For ye were both compassionate about my bonds, and ye accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing yourselves to have a superior and an enduring existence in the heavens. ³⁵ Therefore do not throw off your boldness, which has great recompense of reward. ³⁶ For ye have need of perseverance, so that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. ³⁷ For yet a very little while, he who is coming will come, and will not delay. ³⁸ But the righteous man will live from faith, and if he should withdraw, my soul is not pleased with him.

³⁴ quenched the force of fire, escaped the jaw of the sword. Out of weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, bowed down armies of aliens. ³⁵ Women took hold of their dead from a resurrection, but others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, so that they might experience a superior resurrection. ³⁶ And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawed apart, they were tempted, they died in murder by sword. They wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, restricted, tormented ³⁸ (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

¹ Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us. ² Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

² Consider it all joy, my brothers, when ye encounter various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. ⁴ And let perseverance have a perfect work, so that ye may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing.

⁷ Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, until it receives the early and latter rain. ⁸ Be ye also patient. Establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has approached.

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

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

¹² Here is the perseverance of the sanctified. Here are those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

⁷ And the house, when it was being built, was built of stone made ready at the quarry. And there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was being built.

²⁰ And David said to all the assembly, Now praise LORD your God. And all the assembly praised LORD, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and did obeisance to LORD, and the king.

⁹ For with thee is the fountain of life. In thy light we shall see light.

¹³ so we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks forever. We will show forth thy praise to all generations.

¹¹ Light is sown for the righteous man, and gladness for the upright in heart.

²¹ O that men would praise LORD for his loving kindness, and for his wonderful works to the sons of men! ²² And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with singing.

⁷ Return to thy rest, O my soul, for LORD has dealt bountifully with thee.

¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.

¹ The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from LORD.

¹⁹ The sun shall no more be thy light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to thee, but LORD will be to thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. ²⁰ Thy sun shall no more go down, nor shall thy moon withdraw itself, for LORD will be thine everlasting light. And the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

²³ I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who has given me wisdom and might, and has now made known to me what we desired of thee, for thou have made known to us the king's matter.

³⁴ Then the King will say to those at his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

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

¹⁷ Jesus says to her, Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brothers, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.

³² And now brothers, I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.

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.

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.

²³ even that he might make known the wealth of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he previously prepared for glory,

¹⁷ And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a joint partaker of the root of the fatness of the olive tree,

²⁷ For they were pleased. And they are debtors of them, for if the Gentiles were partakers in their spiritual things, they are obligated also to serve them in the carnal things.

⁶ yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.

²³ And I do this for sake of the good news, so that I might become a fellow participant of it.

⁵ Now he who wrought us for this same thing is God, who also gave us the pledge of the Spirit.

¹¹ in him in whom also we obtained an inheritance. Having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the deliberation of his will,

¹⁸ having the eyes of your heart enlightened. For you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the sanctified,

⁶ For Gentiles to be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and fellow partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good news.

⁶ one God and Father of all. He is over all, and through all, and in us all.

⁴ also indecency, and foolish talking or jesting, things not befitting, but thankfulness instead.

²⁰ expressing thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father,

² So that their hearts may be encouraged, having been united together in love, and for all wealth of the full assurance of understanding, to knowledge of the mystery of the God and Father of the Christ.

¹⁵ And let the peace of God umpire in your hearts, for which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.

¹⁷ And all things, anything whatever ye may do in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, expressing thanks to the God and Father through him.

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.

¹ Because of which, holy brothers, companions of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our affirmation, Jesus Christ,

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

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

⁹ By it we bless the God and Father, and by it we curse men, who were made according to a likeness of God.

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. ³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who begot us again according to his abundant mercy for a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ for an inheritance imperishable, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heavens for you, ⁵ men being kept by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

¹ I, a fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a partaker of the glory going be revealed, exhort the elders among you:

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

¹ Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him. ² Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet made known what we will be. But we know that whenever he is made known we will be like him, because we will see him as he is. ³ And every man who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that man is pure.

²³ And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, so that they might shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and the light of it is the Lamb.

⁵ And there will be no night there, and they have no need of a lamp and the light of sun, because the Lord God will illuminate them. And they will reign into the ages of the ages.

¹⁴ Blessed are those doing his commandments, so that their right will be to the tree of life, and they may enter in the gates into the city.

⁶ Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. ⁷ I will tell of the decree. LORD said to me, Thou are my Son, this day I have begotten thee.

⁶ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given. And the government shall be upon his shoulder. And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. ⁷ Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of LORD of hosts will perform this.

¹ Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights. I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

²⁴ Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? ²⁵ But thus says LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered. For I will contend with him who contends with thee, and I will save thy sons.

¹² Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors. Yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

¹³ I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of heaven someone like a son of man. And he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. ¹⁴ And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, thy king comes to thee. He is just, and having salvation, lowly, and riding upon a donkey, even upon a colt the foal of a donkey.

¹⁷ And lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

²⁹ Or how can any man enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house. ³⁰ He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

⁵ While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.

²⁴ Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

⁵³ When I was with you daily in the temple, ye did not stretch forth hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

³⁵ The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, that he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life. And he does not come into condemnation, but has passed from death into life.

³¹ Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out. ³² And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself.

²⁴ Father, whom thou gave to me, I desire that where I am, they also may be with me, so that they may see my glory that thou have given me, because thou loved me before the foundation of the world.

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.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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, ¹⁰ nor greedy men, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the slanderous, nor the predatory will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And some of you were these things, but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were made righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

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.

⁴ in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them.

¹⁷ Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says the Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you ¹⁸ and will be for a Father to you, and ye will be for sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.

⁶ for appreciation of the glory of his grace, by which he blessed us in him who is beloved.

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. ⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, through his great love that he loved us, ⁵ even us being dead in the transgressions, he made alive together with the Christ (ye are saved by grace), ⁶ and raised us up together, and seated us together in the heavenly things in Christ Jesus. ⁷ So that in the coming ages he might show the transcending wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For ye are saved by grace through faith, and this a gift of God, not from you, ⁹ not from works, so that not any man may boast. ¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God preordained that we should walk in them.

¹⁸ darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart.

⁸ For ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

¹² Because our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principal offices, against the positions of authority, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual things of wickedness in the heavenly things.

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. ⁴ But when the kindness and philanthropy of God our Savior appeared, ⁵ he saved us, not of works in righteousness that we did, but according to his mercy through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which he poured out upon us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Savior.

¹⁴ Since therefore the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might make him who has the power of death impotent, that is, the devil.

⁹ But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

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

⁸ Again, a new commandment I write to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light now shines.

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.

¹ Blessed are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. ² Blessed is the man to whom LORD does not impute sin, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

⁴ But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou may be feared.

²⁸ Just as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

²⁰ And having seen their faith, he said to him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.

⁴⁷ For this reason I say to thee, her many sins are forgiven, because she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, loves little. ⁴⁸ And he said to her, Thy sins are forgiven. ⁴⁹ And those who sat together began to say within themselves, Who is this who even forgives sins? ⁵⁰ And he said to the woman, Thy faith has saved thee. Go in peace.

³⁸ And Peter said to them, Repent ye, and be immersed each of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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

³⁸ Be it known to you therefore, men, brothers, that through this man remission of sins is proclaimed to you. ³⁹ And from all things of which ye could not be make righteous by the law of Moses, in this man every man who believes is made righteous.

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.

²⁴ being made righteous freely by his grace, through the redemption in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God set forth an expiatory sacrifice through faith in his blood, for proof of his justice, because of the passing over of the sins that have formerly occurred

⁶ Just as David also tells the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness independent of works, ⁷ saying, Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. ⁸ Blessed is a man to whom the Lord does, no, not impute sin.

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.

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

³² And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.

¹³ And you, being dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you he made alive together with him, having forgiven us all the transgressions,

¹³ forbearing each other, and forgiving yourselves, if any man has a complaint against any, just as also the Christ forgave you, so also ye,

⁶ who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony for their own times.

¹² and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, he entered in once into the Holy things, having found eternal redemption.

²² And almost all things, according to the law, are cleansed with blood, and remission does not occur without bloodshed.

¹² But this man, having offered one sacrifice on behalf of sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, ¹³ waiting henceforth until his enemies are placed a footstool of his feet. ¹⁴ For by one offering he has fully perfected forever those being sanctified.

¹⁹ but by precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted-of Christ, ²⁰ who was indeed foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was manifested in the last times because of you:

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

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous so that he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from every unrighteousness.

² And he is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

¹² I write to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you through his name.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and washed us from our sins by his blood

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.

⁴ These are men who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were purchased by Jesus, out of men, a first fruit to God and to the Lamb.

¹⁰ And they saw the God of Israel. And there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness.

⁸ With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches, and he has beheld the form of LORD. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

²⁷ I also will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

²⁹ when he gave to the sea its bound that the waters should not transgress his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, ³⁰ then I was by him, a master workman. And I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, ³¹ rejoicing in his habitable earth. And my delight was with the sons of men.

²⁶ And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. And upon the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man upon it above. ²⁷ And I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance of his loins and upward. And from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire. And there was brightness round about him. ²⁸ As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice speaking.

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

¹⁸ No man has ever seen God. The only begotten Son, being in the bosom of the Father, that man reported him.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but have eternal life.

⁹ Jesus says to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and thou do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. And how can thou say, Show us the Father?

²⁴ If I had not done among them the works that no other man has done, they would not have had sin, but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

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.

⁶ who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold.

¹⁶ Because in him all things were created, things in the heavens and things upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or lordships or principal offices or positions of authority, all things have been created through him, and for him. ¹⁷ And he is before all, and in him all things hold together.

¹⁷ Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, alone wise, to God is honor and glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

¹⁶ who alone has immortality, dwelling in irreproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see, to whom is honor and eternal dominion. Truly.

³ Who, being the radiance of his glory, and the exact image of his essence, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made purification of our sins through himself, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in the heights.

⁶ And again when he brings the firstborn into the world he says, And let all the agents of God worship him.

²⁷ By faith he forsook Egypt, not having feared the wrath of the king, for he persevered as seeing the invisible.

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:

³⁹ Know therefore this day, and lay it to thy heart, that LORD he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath. There is none else.

¹¹ Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is thine. Thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou are exalted as head above all.

²⁵ Of old thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands. 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, ²⁷ but thou are the same, and thy years shall have no end.

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

⁹ O thou who tell good news to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain. O thou who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength. Lift it up, be not afraid, say to the cities of Judah, Behold, your God! ¹⁰ Behold, the lord LORD will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. ¹¹ He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those who have their young. ¹² Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

²¹ the people whom I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.

²⁴ Thus says LORD, thy Redeemer, and he who formed thee from the womb: I am LORD, who makes all things, who stretches forth the heavens alone, who spreads abroad the earth (who is with me?),

³ All things came to be through him, and apart from him not even one thing came to be that has come to be.

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,

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

¹⁰ for an administration of the fullness of the times. To gather together all things in the Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth,

²⁰ which he wrought in the Christ, having raised him from the dead and seated at his right hand in the heavenly things, ²¹ far above every principle office, and position of authority, and power, and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is coming.

⁹ and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things through Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ So that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principal offices and the positions of authority in the heavenly things, through the church,

¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the heavenly, and the earthly, and the sub-earthly,

¹⁵ who is an image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

²⁰ and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross, through him whether things upon the earth or things in the heavens.

¹⁰ And ye are men who have been made full in him, who is the head of every principal office and position of authority.

¹⁵ Having stripped the principal offices and the positions of authority, he exposed them openly, having triumphed over them by it.

² whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the ages.

¹⁰ And thou, Lord, at the beginnings founded the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands. 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.

¹⁰ For it was fitting for him, through whom are all things, and because of whom are all things, having brought many sons to glory, to make the pathfinder of their salvation fully perfect through sufferings.

³ For this man was considered worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he who built it has more esteem than the house. ⁴ For every house is built by some man, but he who built all things is God.

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

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.

⁸ He raises up the poor out of the dust, he lifts up the needy from the dunghill, to make them sit with rulers, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.

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

²² LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. ²³ I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was,

¹¹ I, even I, am LORD, and besides me there is no savior. ¹² I have declared, and I have saved, and I have shown, and there was no strange god among you. Therefore ye are my witnesses, says LORD, and I am God. ¹³ Yea, since the day was I am he, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?

⁶ Thus says LORD, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, LORD of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.

² But thou, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee he shall come forth to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² This man was in the beginning with God. ³ All things came to be through him, and apart from him not even one thing came to be that has come to be.

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now and I work. ¹⁸ Because of this therefore the Jews sought even more to kill him, because not only did he relax the sabbath, but also he called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I am.

⁵ And now, Father, glorify thou me with thyself with the glory that I had with thee before the world was.

²⁸ For in him we live, and move, and exist, as also some of the performers from you have said, For of him we are also offspring.

⁸ Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today, and into the ages.

⁸ I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord, the God who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.

¹¹ saying, What thou see, write in a book and send to the seven congregations: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not, I am the first and the last,

⁸ And to the agent of the congregation in Smyrna write, These things says the first and the last, who became dead, and lived:

² Thou are fairer than the sons of men. Grace is poured into thy lips. Therefore God has blessed thee forever. ³ Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one, thy glory and thy majesty. ⁴ And in thy majesty ride on prosperously because of truth and gentleness and righteousness. And thy right hand shall teach thee awesome things. ⁵ Thine arrows are sharp. The peoples fall under thee. They are in the heart of the king's enemies.

¹⁰ My beloved is white and ruddy, the chief among ten thousand.

¹³ Behold, my servant shall deal wisely. He shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.

⁸ But be ye not designated Rabbi, for one is your leader, the Christ, and ye are all brothers.

¹⁸ And Jesus having come, he spoke to them, saying, All authority in heaven and on earth was given to me.

¹⁶ And from his fullness we all received, even grace for grace.

²⁷ He is the man who comes after me, who has become before me, of whom I am not worthy that I might loosen the strap of his shoe.

²⁹ He who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This therefore my joy is fulfilled. ³⁰ It is necessary for that man to increase, but me to decrease. ³¹ He who comes from above is above all things. He who is of the earth is of the earth, and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all things.

³⁴ For he whom God sent speaks the sayings of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure. ³⁵ The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even though he died, he will live. ²⁶ And every man who lives and believes in me will, no, not die, into the age. Do thou believe this?

²³ that the suffering Christ, since first from a resurrection of the dead, is going to proclaim light to our people and to the nations.

³ But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

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.

²⁵ For he must reign until he will put all his enemies under his feet.

²² And he subordinated all things under his feet, and appointed him head over all things for the church, ²³ which is his body, the fulfillment of him who fills all in all.

¹⁵ But being truthful in love, we may cause all things to grow for him who is the head-the Christ- ¹⁶ from whom the whole body, joined together and united together through every connection of the supply, according to the working of each one part within a standard, makes the growth of the body for the construction of itself by love.

²³ Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body.

²⁴ I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and make complete in my flesh things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ for his body, which is the church.

¹⁰ And ye are men who have been made full in him, who is the head of every principal office and position of authority. ¹¹ In whom also ye were circumcised a circumcision not made with hands, in the removal of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ. ¹² Having been buried with him in immersion, in which also ye were raised together through faith of the working of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³ And you, being dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you he made alive together with him, having forgiven us all the transgressions, ¹⁴ having erased the handwriting against us in the regulations that were hostile to us, and he has taken it up from the midst, having nailed it to the cross.

⁵ For to which of the agents did he ever say, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee? And again, I will be to him for a Father, and he will be to me for a Son? ⁶ And again when he brings the firstborn into the world he says, And let all the agents of God worship him.

¹ What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

¹⁸ and he who lives. And I became dead, and behold, I am living into the ages of the ages. Truly. And I have the keys of death and of Hades.

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!

¹⁵ And the seventh agent sounded, and great voices occurred in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will reign into the ages of the ages.

⁶ And he said to me, I have become, I, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him who is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely.

²³ And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, so that they might shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and the light of it is the Lamb. ²⁴ And the nations will walk by the light of it. And the kings of the earth bring to them the splendor and worth of the nations into it.

¹³ -I, the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

²⁵ Jesus having responded at that time, said, I extol thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, because thou hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to the childlike. ²⁶ Yea, Father, because this way it was done pleasing in thy sight. ²⁷ All things were delivered to me by my Father. And no man knows the Son, except the Father, nor does any man know the Father, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son wants to reveal him.

²¹ In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit, and said, I thank thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, that thou hid these things from the wise and astute, and revealed them to the childlike. Yea, Father, because it became pleasing this way in thy sight.

³⁴ For he whom God sent speaks the sayings of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly things in Christ.

⁵ Who predestined us for sonship through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the desire of his will,

²³ which is his body, the fulfillment of him who fills all in all.

¹⁰ He who descended is also the same man who ascended high above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things.

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

⁹ Because in him all the fullness of the divinity dwells bodily.

¹¹ where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman, but the all and in all, Christ.

³⁰ And no sin offering, from which any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire.

¹⁰ Mercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. ¹¹ Truth springs out of the earth, and righteousness has looked down from heaven.

¹⁷ And it shall be the ruler's part to give the burnt offerings, and the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel. ¹⁸ Thus says the lord LORD: In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shall take a young bullock without blemish, and thou shall cleanse the sanctuary. ¹⁹ And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the door-posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court. ²⁰ And so thou shall do on the seventh day of the month for each one who errs, and for him who is simple. So shall ye make atonement for the house.

²⁴ Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. ²⁵ Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the anointed one, the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troublesome times. ²⁶ And after the sixty-two weeks the anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end of it shall be with a flood. And even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.

⁵ And this man shall be our peace. When the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces, then we shall raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, thy king comes to thee. He is just, and having salvation, lowly, and riding upon a donkey, even upon a colt the foal of a donkey. ¹⁰ And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off. And he shall speak peace to the nations. And his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill among men.

³⁰ And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour, and the ninth hour praying in my house. And behold, a man stood before me in bright apparel.

¹ Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁸ And all things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and who gave to us the ministry of reconciliation. ¹⁹ How that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are therefore, ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were calling through us. We plead on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God. ²¹ For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus ye, being formerly far off, became near in the blood of the Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the dividing wall of partition, ¹⁵ having abolished in his flesh the enmity-the law of the commandments in ordinances-so that he might create in himself the two into one new man, making peace, ¹⁶ and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity by it. ¹⁷ And after coming he preached good news, peace to you, to those far off and to those near,

²¹ And you, being formerly alienated and hostile in mind, in works, in things evil. But now he has reconciled ²² in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblemished and unblameable before him.

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep by the blood of an eternal covenant-our Lord Jesus- ²¹ may he make you fully qualified in every good work in order to do his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

⁹ By this the love of God was made known in us, because God sent his Son, the only begotten, into the world so that we might live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins.

³⁰ being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents;

⁹ Much more then, now having been made righteous by his blood, we will be saved from the wrath through him. ¹⁰ For if, while being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having been reconciled we will be saved by his life.

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.

¹ Even you, who were dead in trespasses and sins ² in which ye once walked according to the era of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience. 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.

¹² that ye were at that time independent of Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and alien of the covenants of the promise, having no hope and godless in the world.

¹⁹ So then ye are no more alien and foreign, but fellow citizens of the sanctified, and belonging to the household of God.

¹⁵ Truly to the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but in their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and worthless for every good work.

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. ⁴ But when the kindness and philanthropy of God our Savior appeared, ⁵ he saved us, not of works in righteousness that we did, but according to his mercy through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which he poured out upon us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Savior. ⁷ So that, having been made righteous by the grace of that man, we may become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

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

¹⁵ Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

⁵ Behold, even the moon has no brightness. And the stars are not pure in his sight.

⁷ Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

⁷⁵ in piety and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

⁴ Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God.

² For I am jealous for you with a jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, a pure virgin to present to the Christ.

⁴ Just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and unblemished before him in love.

¹⁵ having abolished in his flesh the enmity-the law of the commandments in ordinances-so that he might create in himself the two into one new man, making peace, ¹⁶ and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity by it.

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

¹⁰ By which will we are sanctified through the one time offering of the body of Jesus Christ.

²⁰ which he inaugurated for us, a new and living way through the curtain, that is, his flesh,

¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, anticipating these things, be diligent to be found by him in peace, without spot and blameless.

²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep them non-stumbling, and to present before his glory, unblemished in gladness,

²⁵ This day I will begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

¹⁹ And lest thou lift up thine eyes to heaven, and when thou see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which LORD thy God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

¹³ Men who are planted in the house of LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. ¹⁴ They shall still bring forth fruit in old age. They shall be full of sap and green

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.

⁶⁶ Thou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of LORD.

²⁶ When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in it, in his iniquity that he has done, he shall die.

³ And let us know, let us follow on to know LORD. His going forth is sure as the morning, and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth. 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.

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

²⁴ Therefore every man, whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will compare him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock. ²⁵ And the rain descended, and the torrents came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded upon the rock.

¹³ But he who endures to the end, this man will be saved. ¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

⁴⁸ He is like a man who builds a house, who dug and excavated, and laid a foundation upon the rock. And when a flood developed, the stream beat upon that house, and could not shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock.

¹³ And those on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy. And these have no root, who believe for a time, and withdraw in time of trial. ¹⁴ And that which fell in the thorns, these are those who heard, and as they go they are choked by cares and wealth and pleasures of life, and do not bring to maturity. ¹⁵ But those in the good ground, these are those who in an good and right heart, having heard the word, hold it firm, and bring forth fruit in perseverance.

³² but I prayed for thee, so that thy faith may not fail. And thou, when thou have returned, strengthen thy brothers.

³⁰ As he spoke these things of him, many believed in him. ³¹ Jesus therefore said to those Jews who believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples, ³² and ye will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.

⁶ If any man does not dwell in me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered. And they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and are burned.

⁹ As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Dwell ye in my love. ¹⁰ If ye keep my commandments, ye will dwell in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments, and dwell in his love.

¹⁷ because he was numbered with us, and received a share of this ministry.

²⁵ to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas transgressed to go to his own place.

⁵ Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.

¹² And salvation is not in any other man, for there is no other name under the heaven, that has been given among men, by which we must be saved.

²³ who, having arrived, and having seen the grace of God, rejoiced. And he encouraged all, with purpose of heart, to remain in the Lord.

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that it was necessary for us to enter into the kingdom of God through many tribulations.

²⁴ But I make nothing of the matter, nor do I hold my life precious to myself, so as to fully complete my course with joy, and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly testify the good news of the grace of God.

¹⁶ But arise, and stand upon thy feet, for I appeared to thee for this, to appoint thee an assistant and a witness both of things that thou saw, and of the things that I will make visible to thee,

¹⁸ But I say, did they, no, not hear? Rather, Their voice went forth into all the earth, and their sayings to the limits of the inhabited world.

¹⁶ for me to be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, serving the good news of God like a priest, so that the offering up of the Gentiles might become acceptable, being sanctified in the Holy Spirit.

⁵ Who therefore is Paul and who is Apollos? But rather helpers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each man.

¹ Thus let a man regard us as of helpers of Christ, and managers of mysteries of God. ² And beyond that, it is sought in managers that any man should be found faithful. ³ But it is a very small thing to me that I might be appraised by you or by a day of mankind. Yet neither do I appraise myself,

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.

⁶ who also made us qualified helpers of a new covenant, not of a document, but of a Spirit, for the document kills but the Spirit makes alive.

¹ Because of this (having this ministry), in as much as we received mercy, we do not become discouraged.

¹⁸ And all things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and who gave to us the ministry of reconciliation. ¹⁹ How that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are therefore, ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were calling through us. We plead on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

¹¹ I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have labored toward you in vain.

⁷ Ye were running well. Who hindered you, not to obey the truth?

⁹ And let us not be weary doing good, for in our own time we will reap, not desponding.

²¹ in whom the whole building joined together grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

⁷ Of which I became a helper according to the gift of that grace of God, which was given to me according to the working of his power. ⁸ To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ,

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

¹⁶ from whom the whole body, joined together and united together through every connection of the supply, according to the working of each one part within a standard, makes the growth of the body for the construction of itself by love.

⁵ because of the hope being reserved for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news ⁶ being present for you, just as also in all the world. And it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day that ye heard and recognized the grace of God in truth.

²⁵ Of which I became a helper according to the administration of God, which was given to me for you to fulfill the word of God,

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

³ for no man to be disturbed by these afflictions. For ye yourselves know that we are set for this.

⁵ Because of this, I too, no longer covering over it, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow he who tempts was tempting you, and our labor became in vain.

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.

¹² And I have gratitude to the Christ-Jesus our Lord-who empowered me, because he considered me faithful, having placed in service

⁷ For which I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie), a teacher of Gentiles in faith and truth.

¹¹ for which I was appointed a herald, and an apostle, and a teacher of Gentiles. ¹² Because of which reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to preserve my consignment for that day.

⁵ But be thou sober in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, bring thy ministry to fullness. ⁶ For I am already poured out a libation, and the time of my dissolution is imminent.

⁷ So that, having been made righteous by the grace of that man, we may become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

⁶ but Christ as a Son over his house, whose house we are, if only we keep in possession our confidence and pride of hope, firm until the end.

¹⁴ Having therefore a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us take hold of the affirmation.

¹⁹ Which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and that enters into the interior of the veil,

³⁸ But the righteous man will live from faith, and if he should withdraw, my soul is not pleased with him.

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who begot us again according to his abundant mercy for a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

⁵ men being kept by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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.

²⁷ And for you, the anointing that ye received from him abides in you, and ye have no need that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is no lie, and just as it taught you, ye will abide in him.

¹⁰ Fear none of the things that thou are going to suffer. Behold, the devil is indeed going to cast some of you into prison, so that ye may be tried, and ye will have tribulation ten days. Become thou faithful until death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

¹¹ Blessed are ye when they revile you, and persecute you, and say every evil word, being deceitful against you because of me. ¹² Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for so they persecuted the prophets before you.

³ And not only so, but we also take pride in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance,

⁵ Because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so also our encouragement abounds through the Christ. ⁶ But whether we are oppressed, it is for your encouragement and salvation, which works by endurance from the same sufferings that we also experience (and our hope for you is steadfast), or we are encouraged, it is for your encouragement and salvation, ⁷ knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement. ⁸ For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about our affliction that happened to us in Asia, because we were extraordinarily weighed down, above strength, so as for us to despair even to be alive.

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

⁴ Great is my boldness toward you, great is my pride for you. I have been filled with encouragement. I over-abound with joy in all our affliction.

²³ Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often. ²⁴ From the Jews five times I received forty save one. ²⁵ Thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I was shipwrecked, I have done a night and a day in the depth, ²⁶ in frequent journeys, in perils of flowing waters, in perils of bandits, in perils from my race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils at sea, in perils among false brothers, ²⁷ in toil and hardship, in frequent sleeplessness, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fasts, in cold and nakedness.

¹ For this reason I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

¹³ Therefore I ask that ye not become discouraged at my tribulations on your behalf, which is your glory.

¹⁷ Yet even if I am poured out a libation upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. ¹⁸ And in the same way, ye also be glad and rejoice with me.

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

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might become preeminent in all things.

⁸ Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner, but suffer together with the good news according to the power of God.

⁹ within which I suffer evil to the point of bonds as an evildoer, but the word of God is not bound. ¹⁰ Because of this I endure all things because of the chosen, so that they also may experience salvation in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

² Consider it all joy, my brothers, when ye encounter various trials,

¹⁵ But I wrote more boldly to you, brothers, in part, as reminding you because of the grace that was given to me by God, ¹⁶ for me to be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, serving the good news of God like a priest, so that the offering up of the Gentiles might become acceptable, being sanctified in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ I have therefore a boast in Christ Jesus in things toward God. ¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak anything of which Christ did not accomplish through me for the obedience of Gentiles, by word and work, ¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of a Spirit of God, so that for me, from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum, to fully preach the good news of Christ.

¹⁷ For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if involuntarily, I have been entrusted with a commission.

⁷ but to the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the good news for men of uncircumcision, as Peter for men of circumcision ⁸ (for he who was working in Peter for the apostleship for men of circumcision was also working in me for the Gentiles),

² preach the word, stand ready in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 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, ⁴ and will indeed turn the ear away from the truth, and will be turned aside to myths. ⁵ But be thou sober in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, bring thy ministry to fullness.

¹⁴ The friendship of LORD is with those who fear him, and he will show them his covenant.

¹¹ And having answered, he said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to those men it has not been given.

¹¹ And he said to them, To you is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but to those outside, all things occur in parables.

¹⁰ And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the others in parables, so that seeing they would not see, and hearing they would not understand.

²⁵ Now to him who is able to establish you according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to a revelation of the mystery that has been kept secret for eternal times, ²⁶ but that was now revealed, and by prophetic scriptures, according to a commandment of the eternal God that was made known to all the nations for obedience of faith,

⁷ But we speak a wisdom of God in a hidden mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory,

³ that according to revelation he made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief. ⁴ With which reading ye can recognize my understanding in the mystery of the Christ, ⁵ which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets. ⁶ For Gentiles to be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and fellow partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good news. ⁷ Of which I became a helper according to the gift of that grace of God, which was given to me according to the working of his power. ⁸ To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ,

¹⁰ But which has now been manifested by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who indeed abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the good news,

⁹ Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices. My flesh also shall dwell in hope. ¹⁰ For thou will not leave my soul to Sheol, nor will thou allow thy holy man to see corruption. ¹¹ Thou made known to me the path of life. Thou will fill me of joy with thy countenance.

²¹ nor will they say, Lo, here! or, Lo, there! For behold, the kingdom of God is inside of you.

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

¹⁷ the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot receive, because it does not see nor know it. But ye know it, because it dwells with you, and will be in you.

²⁰ In that day ye will know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

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

² Every branch in me not bearing fruit, he removes it. And every branch that bears fruit, he prunes it, so that it may bear more fruit. ³ Now ye are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴ Dwell in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it dwells in the grapevine, so neither ye, if ye do not dwell in me. ⁵ I am the grapevine, ye are the branches. He who dwells in me, and I in him, this man bears much fruit, because without me ye can do nothing.

²² And I, the glory that thou have given me, I have given to them, so that they may be one, just as we are one, ²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may be fully perfected in one, and so that the world may know that thou sent me, and loved them, just as thou loved me.

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

² through whom also we have access by faith for this grace in which we stand, and we take pride in hope of the glory of God.

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

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.

³³ O the depth of wealth, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond finding out!

¹² But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God. 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. ¹⁴ Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.

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

¹⁷ For our slight momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory from extraordinariness to extraordinariness,

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

¹⁵ But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's belly, and called me through his grace, ¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not straightaway confer with flesh and blood,

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

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

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, ¹⁸ having the eyes of your heart enlightened. For you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the sanctified,

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

¹⁶ So that he would grant you, according to the wealth of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit for the inner man, ¹⁷ for the Christ to dwell in your hearts through faith,

¹⁹ And my God will fill your every need according to his wealth in glory in Christ Jesus.

⁵ because of the hope being reserved for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to a commandment of God our Savior, and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

⁴ Ye are of God, little children, and ye have overcome them, because greater is he in you than he in the world.

²⁰ Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

⁵ Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land where ye go in to possess it.

⁵ O ye simple, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.

⁹ And further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yea, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

¹⁵ And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

¹⁰ To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken. Behold, the word of LORD has become to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

¹⁷ Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. ¹⁸ When I say to a wicked man, Thou shall surely die, and thou give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked man from his wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. ¹⁹ Yet if thou warn the wicked man, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou have delivered thy soul. 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. ²¹ Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous man not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning, and thou have delivered thy soul.

¹⁰ Behold, the day, behold, it comes. Thy doom has gone forth. The rod has blossomed; pride has budded.

⁴ then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and takes no warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. ⁵ He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no warning; his blood shall be upon him. Whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul. ⁶ But if the watchman sees the sword come, and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at the watchman's hand. ⁷ So thou, son of man, I have set thee a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. ⁸ When I say to the wicked man, O wicked man, thou shall surely die, and thou do not speak to warn the wicked man from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. ⁹ Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked man of his way to turn from it, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou have delivered thy soul.

⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, Ye offspring of vipers, who showed you to flee from the coming wrath?

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

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.

³⁴ And Jesus having come out, he saw a great multitude. And he felt compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.

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.

²⁰ And he may send Christ Jesus who has been pre-ordained for you,

⁴² And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they ceased not teaching and preaching good news, Jesus, the Christ.

⁵ And Philip, who went down to a city of Samaria, proclaimed the Christ to them.

³⁵ And Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this scripture, he preached the good news to him-the man Jesus.

²⁰ And straightaway he proclaimed the Christ in the synagogues, that this man is the Son of God.

²⁰ And some of them were men, Cyprians and Cyrenians, who, having come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching good news, the Lord Jesus.

³⁸ Be it known to you therefore, men, brothers, that through this man remission of sins is proclaimed to you.

³ explaining and pointing out that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead, and, This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.

¹⁸ And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, Whatever does this babbler want to say? But others, He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities, because he brought the good news-Jesus and the resurrection.

²⁷ For I did not withdraw from declaring to you the whole plan of God. 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.

³¹ Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.

²⁵ Now to him who is able to establish you according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to a revelation of the mystery that has been kept secret for eternal times,

²³ but we proclaim Christ crucified, it is truly to Jews a stumbling-block and to Gentiles foolishness.

³⁰ But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

⁶ But we speak wisdom among the fully developed, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who come to nothing.

¹⁵ But truly the spiritual man evaluates all things, but he himself is evaluated by none.

¹⁴ I do not write these things shaming you, but I warn you as my beloved children.

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,

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?

⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves are your bondmen through Jesus.

⁸ To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ,

¹¹ And indeed he gave the apostles, and the prophets, and the evangelists, and the shepherds and teachers ¹² for the perfecting of the sanctified, for the work of ministry, for edification of the body of the Christ. ¹³ Until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a standard of stature of the fullness of the Christ.

¹⁵ Actually some even preach the Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good-will. ¹⁶ Some indeed proclaim the Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to bring affliction to my bonds. ¹⁷ But some from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the good news. ¹⁸ What then? Except in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice, but also I will rejoice.

²² in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblemished and unblameable before him.

⁶ not to transgress and to cheat his brother in the affair, because the Lord is vengeful about all these things, as also we forewarned you and solemnly testified.

¹² And we ask you, brothers, to acknowledge those who labor among you, and who lead you in the Lord, and who admonish you, ¹³ and to esteem them with exceptional love because of their work. Live peaceably among yourselves. ¹⁴ And we encourage you, brothers, admonish the unruly, strengthen the weak-spirited, help the infirmed, be patient toward all.

² The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach,

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.

²⁴ And a bondman of the Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, ²⁵ in meekness correcting those who oppose. Perhaps God may grant them repentance for recognition of the truth,

¹⁴ For by one offering he has fully perfected forever those being sanctified.

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,

²⁰ And thus having aspired to proclaim the good news not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build upon a foundation belonging to another man,

²⁵ And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable. ²⁶ I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air. ²⁷ But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.

⁶ And there are varieties of functions, but it is the same God who works all in all.

¹¹ But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each man individually as it wills.

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.

⁹ Therefore also we aspire, whether at home or away from home, to be well-pleasing to him.

⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hungerings,

³ since ye seek proof of the Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but is mighty in you.

¹⁹ and what is the transcending greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his might,

⁷ Of which I became a helper according to the gift of that grace of God, which was given to me according to the working of his power.

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

³⁰ having the same conflict such as ye saw in me, and now hear is in me.

¹³ For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for approval.

¹⁶ Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

¹ For I want you to know how great a struggle I have about you, and those at Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh.

⁹ For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good news of God.

⁸ nor did we eat bread gratis from any man, but in labor and toil, working night and day in order not to burden any of you.

¹⁰ Because of this I endure all things because of the chosen, so that they also may experience salvation in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

⁴ Ye have not yet resisted as far as blood, struggling against sin.

³ And thou have perseverance. And thou endured because of my name, and did not become weary.