Colossians 3 Cross References - ACV

¹ If therefore ye were raised with the Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. ² Think on the things above, not the things on the earth. ³ For ye died, and your life has been hidden with the Christ in God. ⁴ When the Christ, our life, is made known, then ye also will be made known with him in glory. ⁵ Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. ⁶ Because of which the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience, ⁷ in which ye also once walked when ye lived in them. ⁸ But now ye also, put off all these things: anger, wrath, wickedness, reviling, filthy speaking out of your mouth. ⁹ Do not lie to each other, having stripped off the old man with his practices, ¹⁰ and having put on the new man, being renewed in knowledge according to an image of him who created him, ¹¹ where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman, but the all and in all, Christ. ¹² Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering, 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, ¹⁴ and above all these things, love, which is the bond of perfection. ¹⁵ And let the peace of God umpire in your hearts, for which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful. 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. 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. ¹⁸ Wives, be ye submissive to your own husbands as is proper in the Lord. ¹⁹ Husbands, love the wives and do not be made bitter against them. ²⁰ Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord. ²¹ Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged. ²² Bondmen, obey in all things those masters according to flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God. ²³ And all things, anything whatever ye may do, work from soul as to the Lord and not to men, ²⁴ knowing that from the Lord ye will receive the reward of the inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ. ²⁵ And he who does wrong will be recompensed what he did wrong, and there is no partiality.

¹¹ Thou made known to me the path of life. Thou will fill me of joy with thy countenance.

¹⁴ from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in this life, and whose belly thou fill with thy treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes. ¹⁵ As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy form.

²⁵ Whom have I in heaven? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. ²⁶ My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

¹ LORD says to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

²⁴ To the wise man the way of life is upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

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 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

⁴⁴ The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I place thine enemies a footstool of thy feet?

⁶⁴ Jesus says to him, Thou have said. Nevertheless I say to you, Henceforth ye will see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming in the clouds of the sky.

³⁶ For David himself said by the Holy Spirit, The Lord says to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I may place thine enemies a footstool of thy feet.

⁶² And Jesus said, I am. And ye will see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky.

¹⁹ Therefore indeed, the Lord, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

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.

⁴² Even David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand,

⁶⁹ From henceforth the Son of man will be sitting at the right hand of the power of God.

³⁴ For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand

⁵⁵ But being full of the Holy Spirit, having gazed into heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

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. ⁵ For if we have become co-planted in the likeness of his death, then we will also be of the resurrection.

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

⁶ For the mentality of the flesh is death, but the mentality of the Spirit is life and peace.

³⁴ Who is he who will condemn? It is Christ who died, but more, who also was raised up, who also is at the right hand of God, who also appeals for us.

¹⁸ while we look not at things seen, but at things not seen. For things seen are temporal, but things not seen are eternal.

¹⁹ For I, through law, died to law, so that I might live to God. 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 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,

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.

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

²⁰ For our citizenship exists in the heavens, from which also we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ who will transform the body of our lowliness, in order for it to become similar in form to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power even to subject all things to himself.

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,

²⁰ If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do ye submit to rules, as though living in the world?

² Think on the things above, not the things on the earth.

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.

¹³ But to which of the agents has he ever said, Sit thou by my right hand until I place thine enemies a footstool of thy feet?

¹ Now a summation about the things being spoken is, we have such a high priest who was seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

¹² But this man, having offered one sacrifice on behalf of sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,

¹³ All these died in faith, not having taken the promises, but who saw and greeted them from afar, and who confessed that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth. ¹⁴ For those who say such things show that they are seeking a fatherland. ¹⁵ And if indeed they remembered that from which they came out, they would have had time to return. ¹⁶ But now they aspire for a superior one, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

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.

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.

¹⁹ Now set your heart and your soul to seek after LORD your God. Arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of LORD.

³ Moreover also, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

¹¹ Their inward thought is that their houses are forever, their dwelling-places to all generations. They call their lands after their own names. ¹² Even a man in splendor does not abide. He is like the beasts that perish. ¹³ This their way is their folly. Yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah. ¹⁴ They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for it. ¹⁵ But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah. ¹⁶ Be not thou afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased. ¹⁷ For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

¹⁰ Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery. If riches increase, set not your heart on it.

¹⁴ Because he has set his love upon me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high because he has known my name.

³⁶ Incline my heart to thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. ³⁷ Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity, and enliven me in thy ways.

⁵ Will thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For it certainly makes itself wings, like an eagle that flies toward heaven.

¹⁴ In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider. Yea, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,

²³ But having turned around, he said to Peter, Go thee behind me, Satan. Thou are my stumbling-block, because thou regard not the things of God, but the things of men.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Watch, and keep away from greed, because to any man, life to him is not in the abundance of things possessed by him.

⁸ And his lord commended the unrighteous manager because he did shrewdly. Because the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the light. ⁹ And I say to you, make friends for yourselves from the mammon of unrighteousness, so that, when ye cease, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.

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

¹⁹ Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously daily. ²⁰ But there was a certain poor man named Lazarus, who had been placed near his gate, covered with sores, ²¹ and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. But even the dogs that came licked his sores. ²² And it came to pass for the poor man to die and be carried by the agents to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And having lifted up his eyes in Hades, being in torments, he sees Abraham from afar and Lazarus by his bosom. ²⁴ And having cried out, he said, Father Abraham, be merciful to me, and send Lazarus, so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame. ²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou in thy lifetime received thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now here he is comforted and thou are in agony.

⁴ so that the justice of the law might be fulfilled in us, those who walk not according to flesh, but according to Spirit. ⁵ For those who are according to flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those according to Spirit the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For the mentality of the flesh is death, but the mentality of the Spirit is life and peace.

²³ And I am constrained by the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, being far better.

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory in their shame, who mind earthly things. ²⁰ For our citizenship exists in the heavens, from which also we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

¹ If therefore ye were raised with the Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.

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

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. ¹⁷ And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.

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.

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.

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

²¹ For as the Father raises up the dead and makes alive, so also the Son makes alive whom he will.

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.

⁴⁰ And ye will not come to me, so that ye may have life.

³⁹ And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that of all that he has given me I would not lose from it, but I will raise it up at the last day. ⁴⁰ And this is the will of him who sent me, that every man who sees the Son, and believes in him, may have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they will, no, not perish into the age, and not any will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father who has given to me, is greater than all, and not one is able to snatch out of my Father's hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.

¹⁹ Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more, but ye see me. Because I live, ye will also live.

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.

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

² May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it?

² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and of death.

³⁴ Who is he who will condemn? It is Christ who died, but more, who also was raised up, who also is at the right hand of God, who also appeals for us. ³⁵ Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or restriction, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ Just as it is written, For thy sake we are killed the whole day long. We are considered as sheep of slaughter. ³⁷ But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor agents, nor principal positions, nor powers, nor things that have come, nor things that are coming, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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.

⁴⁵ And so it is written, The first man Adam developed into a living soul. The last Adam a life giving spirit.

⁷ for we walk by faith, not by sight.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ holds us together, having judge this, that if one died for all, then all died.

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.

⁷ And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds 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

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

⁴ When the Christ, our life, is made known, then ye also will be made known with him in glory.

²⁵ Whereupon he is able also to save to the uttermost those who come to God through him, being always alive in order to intercede on their behalf.

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.

⁴ but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible, of the meek and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

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.

¹⁷ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations. To him who overcomes, I will give him to eat of the hidden manna. And I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which none knows except he who receives it.

¹⁵ As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy form.

²⁴ Thou will guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

⁸ He will swallow up death in victory, and the lord LORD will wipe away tears from off all faces. And he will take away the reproach of his people from off all the earth. For LORD has spoken it. ⁹ And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God. We have waited for him, and he will save us. This is LORD. We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

⁴³ Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even though he died, he will live.

³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will take you along to myself, so that where I am, ye may be also.

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

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.

³¹ But these are written, so that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.

¹⁵ And ye killed the Pathfinder of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

⁷ so that ye come behind in not one gift, waiting for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

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

²¹ who will transform the body of our lowliness, in order for it to become similar in form to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power even to subject all things to himself.

¹⁷ then we who are alive, who remain, will be caught up simultaneously with them in clouds to the Lord's gathering in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his sanctified, and to be marveled in that day by all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed). 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. ¹² So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ that thou keep the commandment, without spot, blameless, until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life in Christ Jesus,

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.

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

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

¹³ Therefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope entirely for the grace brought to you at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

⁴ And when the chief Shepherd is made known, ye will receive the unfading crown of glory.

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 ² (and the life was made known, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father, and was made known to us),

²⁸ And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he is made known, we may have confidence, and not be shamed by him at his coming.

¹² He who has the Son has the life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

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

⁷ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations. To him who overcomes, I will give him to eat from the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of my God.

¹ And he showed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, coming out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

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.

¹⁹ For from the heart comes forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, revilings.

²¹ For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, ²² covetings, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, reviling, pride, foolishness.

²⁶ Because of this God gave them up to shameful passions, for even their females changed the natural use into what is against nature.

²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;

⁶ Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be inactivated, no longer to enslave us to sin.

¹³ And do not present your body-parts as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God, as living out of the dead, and your body-parts as instruments of righteousness to God,

⁵ For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death.

⁷ What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet. ⁸ But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead.

²³ but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts.

¹³ For if ye live according to flesh, ye are going to die, but if in spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye will live.

¹ Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.

¹⁰ and not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with greedy men, or with predators, or with idolaters, since then ye would need to go out of the world. ¹¹ But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind.

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.

¹³ The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

⁶ But these things became our examples, for us not to be men who lust for evil things as those also lusted. ⁷ Neither become ye idolaters as some of them, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel. ⁸ Nor should we fornicate as some of them fornicated, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

²¹ lest having come again my God will make me low toward you, and I will bewail many of those who have sinned previously, and who did not repent from the trash and fornication and licentiousness that they committed.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are apparent, which are, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, wraths, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, ²¹ envyings, murders, intoxications, revelings, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, as I also did forewarn, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

²⁴ And those of the Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and the lusts.

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

³ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified, ⁴ also indecency, and foolish talking or jesting, things not befitting, but thankfulness instead. ⁵ For ye are men who know this, that no fornicator, or unclean man, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. ⁶ Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

⁵ not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,

¹⁶ lest a fornicator or profane man like Esau, who, in place of one meal sold his birthright.

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

¹ From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts?

¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

⁸ But for the cowards, and unbelieving, and sinful, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

¹⁵ Outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every man who loves and makes a lie.

⁴ Against whom do ye sport yourselves, against whom ye make a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

⁴⁵ Thou are the daughter of thy mother, who loathes her husband and her sons. And thou are the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. ⁴⁶ And thine elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at thy left hand, she and her daughters. And thy younger sister, who dwells at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all irreverence and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

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.

⁶ Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

¹⁴ As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

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

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

³ For enough time of life has past for you to accomplish the will of the Gentiles, having gone in debaucheries, lusts, excesses of wine, revelings, drinking parties, and lawless idolatries. ⁴ During which they think it strange of you not running together into the same pouring out of debauchery, while they slander.

¹¹ and the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. And his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. ¹² And they put him in ward, that it might be declared to them at the mouth of LORD. ¹³ And LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁴ Bring forth him who has cursed outside the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. ¹⁵ And thou shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. ¹⁶ And he who blasphemes the name of LORD, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. As well the sojourner, as the home-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

⁸ Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Fret not thyself, it tends only to evil-doing.

¹⁴ The beginning of strife is like letting out water. Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.

¹⁹ A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty, for if thou deliver him, thou must do it yet again.

²² An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in transgression.

²² But I say to you, that every man who is angry at his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment, and whoever speaks an insult to his brother will be liable to the council, and whoever says, Foolish man, will be liable to the hell of fire.

²² covetings, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, reviling, pride, foolishness.

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

³ for ye are still carnal. For whereas among you is envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?

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

¹⁵ But if ye bite and devour each other, watch out that ye be not consumed by each other.

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

²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking each other, envying each other.

²² for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness,

²⁶ Be ye angry, and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

²⁹ Let no corrupt speech go out of your mouth, rather if there is any good word for edification of a need, so that it may give grace to those who hear.

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil. ³² And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.

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

⁹ Do not lie to each other, having stripped off the old man with his practices,

¹³ the man who was formerly blasphemous, and a persecutor, and an aggressor. But I obtained mercy because I did it being ignorant in unbelief.

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

²³ But shun foolish and uneducated questions, knowing that they breed quarrels. ²⁴ And a bondman of the Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,

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.

²⁰ For the wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God. ²¹ Therefore having put off all filthiness and profusion of evil, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

⁷ Do they not blaspheme the good name that was called upon you?

⁴ Behold also the ships, being so great and driven by fierce winds, are guided about by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the man who steers determines. ⁵ So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles. ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

¹⁴ But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom is not descending from above, but is earthly, world-soul, demonic. ¹⁶ For where envy and selfish ambition are, there is instability and every evil deed.

¹ Therefore, having put off all evil and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking,

⁷ and he rescued righteous Lot, being distressed by the conduct of the lawless in their licentiousness

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,

⁸ Nevertheless in the same way also these men who dream, indeed defile flesh, and reject lordship, and speak evil of dignities.

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

⁹ And the men were scorched with great heat. And the men blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues, and they did not repent to give him glory.

¹¹ Ye shall not steal, nor shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another.

⁸ For he said, Surely, they are my people, sons that will not deal falsely. So he was their Savior.

³ And they bend their tongue-their bow-for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD. ⁴ Take ye heed each one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. ⁵ And they will deceive each one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves to commit iniquity.

¹³ The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. For they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

¹⁶ These are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates.

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

²⁵ Therefore having put off falsehood, let each man speak truth with his neighbor, because we are body-parts of each other.

⁸ But now ye also, put off all these things: anger, wrath, wickedness, reviling, filthy speaking out of your mouth.

¹⁰ for fornicators, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine

¹² A certain man of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies. ¹³ This testimony is true, because of which reason, reprove them harshly, so that they may be sound in the faith,

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

²⁶ And God said, Let us make mankind in our image-after our likeness-and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. ²⁷ And God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.

¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

¹ Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion. Put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city. For henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

¹⁷ And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head. And he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

¹⁹ And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh,

³¹ Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit. For why will ye die, O house of Israel?

²⁶ I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

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

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.

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.

¹² The night has advanced and the day has approached. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the weapons of light.

¹⁴ But clothe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no forethought for lusts of the flesh.

⁵³ For this perishable must put on imperishability, and this mortal put on immortality. ⁵⁴ But when this perishable will have put on imperishability, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come to pass the saying that is written, Death was swallowed up in victory.

¹⁸ But we all, with unveiled face seeing by reflection the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same likeness from glory to glory, just as from the Spirit of the Lord.

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

¹⁷ So then if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.

²⁷ For as many as were immersed into Christ have put on Christ.

¹⁵ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

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

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,

²³ and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and to put on the new man according to God, the man who was created in righteousness and piety of the truth.

¹² Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering,

¹⁴ and above all these things, love, which is the bond of perfection.

⁶ and who fell away, to restore again to repentance, crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and disgracing him publicly.

¹⁴ As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance, ¹⁵ but according to the Holy Man, he who called you, ye yourselves also become holy in all conduct,

³ And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

⁵ But whoever keeps his word, truly in this man the love of God is fully perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

⁵ And he who sits upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he says to me, Write, because these words are true and faithful.

² For his loving kindness is great toward us, and the truth of LORD is forever. Praise ye LORD.

²³ In that day there shall be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria. And the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians. ²⁴ In that day Israel shall be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, ²⁵ in that LORD of hosts has blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.

⁶ yea, he says, It is too light a thing that thou should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou may be my salvation to the end of the earth.

¹⁰ LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

¹⁸ For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes, that I will gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come, and shall see my glory. ¹⁹ And I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory, and they shall declare my glory among the nations. ²⁰ And they shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an oblation to LORD, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says LORD, as the sons of Israel bring their oblation in a clean vessel into the house of LORD. ²¹ And of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says LORD. ²² For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.

¹⁹ O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to thee the nations shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there is no profit.

²³ And I will sow her to me in the earth. And I will have mercy upon her who had not obtained mercy. And I will say to those who were not my people, Thou are my people, and they shall say, My God.

¹² that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations that are called by my name, says LORD who does this.

² And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of LORD from Jerusalem.

¹¹ And many nations shall join themselves to LORD in that day, and shall be my people, and I will dwell in the midst of thee. And thou shall know that LORD of hosts has sent me to thee.

²⁰ Thus says LORD of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, and the inhabitants of many cities. ²¹ And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of LORD, and to seek LORD of hosts. I will go also. ²² Yea, many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of LORD. ²³ Thus says LORD of hosts: In those days, ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they shall take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.

¹¹ For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles. And in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name is great among the Gentiles, says LORD of hosts.

¹⁸ Behold, my Boy whom I chose, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will declare justice to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ He will not quarrel, nor will he shout, nor will any man hear his voice in the thoroughfares. ²⁰ A bruised reed he will not break, and smoldering flax he will not quench, until he sends forth justice for victory. ²¹ And in his name Gentiles will hope.

⁵⁶ He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, also he who eats me, that man will also live because of me.

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.

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.

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.

³⁴ And having opened his mouth, Peter said, In truth, I am overwhelmed that God is not partial, ³⁵ but in every nation, he who fears him, and works righteousness, is acceptable to him.

⁴⁶ But having spoken boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken first to you, but since ye thrust it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷ For so the Lord has commanded us: I have placed thee for a light of Gentiles, for thee to be for salvation as far as the extremity of the earth. ⁴⁸ And hearing this, the Gentiles were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as were appointed for eternal life believed.

¹⁷ so that the rest of men might seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called upon them, says the Lord, who does these things.

¹⁷ delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send thee, 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.

² And the foreigners presented uncommon kindness to us, for, having kindled a fire, they received us all because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

⁴ And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, though saved from the sea, Justice did not allow to live.

¹⁴ I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

²⁹ Or is God of Jews only and not also of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles also,

¹⁰ How then was it reckoned? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. ¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the righteousness of his faith during uncircumcision, for him to be father of all those who believe during uncircumcision (for righteousness to also be imputed to them),

¹⁰ And if Christ is in you, the body is indeed dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up the Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you.

²⁴ namely us whom he called, not only from Jews but also from Gentiles. ²⁵ As also he says in Hosea, I will call those not my people, my people, and her who was not beloved, beloved. ²⁶ And it will be in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there they will be called, sons of the living God.

³⁰ What will we say then? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness from faith. ³¹ But Israel who pursued a law of righteousness, did not arrive to a law of righteousness.

¹² For there is no distinction of a Jew and also of a Greek, for the same Lord is of all men, being rich toward all those who call upon him.

⁹ and the Gentiles, for the sake of mercy, to glorify God, as it is written, Because of this I will give thanks to thee among Gentiles, and will sing to thy name. ¹⁰ And again he says, Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people. ¹¹ And again, Praise ye the Lord all nations, and let all the peoples praise him. ¹² And again, Isaiah says, There will be the root of Jesse, and he who arises to reign over Gentiles. In him Gentiles will hope. ¹³ Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for ye to abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

²⁹ so that no flesh may boast before God. ³⁰ But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

²¹ Therefore let not one man boast in men. For all things are yours, ²² whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things coming, all are yours, ²³ and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, instead, the keeping of God's commandments.

²¹ Were thou called being a bondman? It should not concern thee. However if also thou are able to become free, take advantage of it instead. ²² For he who was called in the Lord a bondman is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise also he who was called a free man is a bondman of Christ.

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

¹¹ If therefore I know not the force of the voice, I will be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks will be a foreigner to me.

²⁸ There is no Jew nor Greek, there is no bondman nor freeman, there is no male and female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ And if ye are Christ's, then ye are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

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

¹⁴ But may it not be from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. ¹⁵ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

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

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.

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

⁸ Knowing that whatever good thing each may do, he will receive this from the Lord, whether bondman or freeman.

⁷ But whatever was gain to me, these things I regarded loss because of the Christ. ⁸ But indeed therefore I even consider all things to be loss because of things surpassing, of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I suffered the loss of all things, and consider them to be rubbish, so that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and be found in him, not having my righteousness, that from law, but that through Christ's faith-the righteousness from God based on faith-

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 And this is the testimony, that God gave eternal life to us, and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who has the Son has the life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

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.

⁹ Every man transgressing, and not abiding in the doctrine of the Christ, does not have God. The man abiding in the doctrine of the Christ, this man has both the Father and the Son.

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.

⁴ For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called thee by thy name. I have surnamed thee, though thou have not known me.

¹⁵ Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory. Where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? The yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me.

⁹ And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains. And my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

²² They shall not build, and another inhabit. They shall not plant, and another eat. For as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

³ LORD appeared of old to me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Therefore with loving kindness I have drawn thee.

²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says LORD.

⁸ Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness. Yea, I swore to thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, says the lord LORD, and thou became mine.

²² And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would be saved. But because of the chosen those days will be shortened.

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

³¹ And he will send forth his agents with a great trumpet sound, and they will gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the boundaries of the heavens-as far as their boundaries.

²⁰ And unless the Lord cut short the days, no flesh would have been saved, but because of the chosen, whom he chose, he cut short the days.

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

²⁷ And then he will send forth his agents, and will gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the outermost part of the earth as far as the outermost part of heaven.

⁷⁸ because of the bowels of mercy of our God, by which the dayspring from on high came to help us,

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

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.

²⁹ Because whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be of similar nature of the form of his Son, in order for him to be the firstborn son among many brothers. ³⁰ And whom he predestined, these he also called, and whom he called, these he also made righteous, and whom he made righteous, these he also glorified. ³¹ What then will we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who did not even spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him? ³³ Who will accuse against the chosen of God? God is he who makes righteous.

¹¹ (for not yet having been born, nor having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to selection might remain, not from works, but from him who calls),

⁵ So then also at this present time there has become a remnant according to the selection of grace. ⁶ And if it is by grace, it is no longer from works, otherwise grace becomes no longer grace. But if it is from works it is no longer grace, otherwise work is no longer work. ⁷ What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain. But the chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened,

⁹ Love without hypocrisy, abhorring what is evil, clinging to what is good, ¹⁰ with brotherly love toward each other, affectionate, leading each other in recognition,

⁶ in purity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in non-hypocritical love,

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.

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.

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),

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

²⁴ and to put on the new man according to God, the man who was created in righteousness and piety of the truth.

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

⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for you all in bowels of Jesus Christ.

¹ If therefore any exhortation is in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, ² fulfill my joy, that ye may think the same way, having the same love, being knit in soul, thinking in oneness, ³ in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves. ⁴ Look ye out each man not to things of yourselves, but each man also to the things of others.

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

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. ⁴ Knowing, beloved brothers, your selection by 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. ⁶ And ye became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

¹⁵ See that not any man repays evil for evil to any man, but always pursue the good, both for each other and for all.

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, ¹⁴ for which he called you, through our good news, for an acquired possession of glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

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.

¹ Paul, a bondman of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the chosen of God, and the knowledge of truth according to piety,

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.

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

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.

⁸ And finally, all be like-minded, sympathetic, brother-loving, compassionate, friendly, ⁹ not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but instead giving praise, knowing that ye were called for this, so that ye might inherit a blessing. ¹⁰ For he who wants to love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips not to speak deceit. ¹¹ Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.

⁵ Now this same thing also, having applied all eagerness, furnish in your faith, virtue, and in virtue, knowledge, ⁶ and in knowledge, self-control, and in self-control, perseverance, and in perseverance, piety, ⁷ and in piety, brotherly affection, and in brotherly affection, love. ⁸ For these things existing in you and abounding, it leads to not being idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, instead be diligent to make your calling and selection sure, for doing these things, ye would, no, not ever stumble.

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. ¹⁵ Every man hating his brother is a man-killer. And ye know that no man-killer has eternal life abiding in him. ¹⁶ By this we know love, because that man laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. ¹⁷ But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him? ¹⁸ My little children, we should not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and in truth. ¹⁹ And by this we know that we are of the truth, and will assure our hearts before him. ²⁰ Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

¹⁹ We love him, because he first loved us.

¹³ The children of thy chosen sister salute thee. Truly.

¹⁴ These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings. And those with him are the called and chosen and faithful.

⁴⁴ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

¹² And forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors.

¹⁴ For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. ¹⁵ But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

¹⁵ But if thy brother should sin against thee, go and reprove him between thee and him alone. If he should hear thee, thou have gained thy brother. ¹⁶ But if he should not hear, take with thee one or two besides, so that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. ¹⁷ And if he is heedless of them, speak to the church. But if he is also heedless of the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the tax collector.

²¹ Then Peter having come to him, he said, Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times? ²² Jesus says to him, I say to thee, not until seven times, but until seventy times seven. ²³ Because of this the kingdom of the heavens is compared to a man, a king, who wanted to settle account with his bondmen. ²⁴ And when he began to settle, one debtor of ten thousand talents was brought to him. ²⁵ But of him not having to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all things, as many as he had, and payment to be made. ²⁶ The bondman therefore having fallen down, worshiped him, saying, Lord, be patient toward me and I will pay thee all. ²⁷ And having felt compassion, the lord of that bondman released him, and forgave him the debt. ²⁸ But after going out, that bondman found one of his fellow bondmen who owed him a hundred denarii. And having grabbed him, he choked him, saying, Pay me if thou owe anything. ²⁹ So his fellow bondman having fallen down at his feet, besought him, saying, Be patience toward me, and I will pay thee. ³⁰ But he would not, instead, having left him, he cast him into prison until he would pay that which was owed. ³¹ And when his fellow bondmen saw the things that happened, they were extremely sorry. And after coming, they reported to their lord all the things that happened. ³² Then his lord having summoned him, he says to him, Thou evil bondman, I forgave thee all that debt because thou besought me. ³³ Was it not necessary for thee also to be merciful to thy fellow bondman, as I also was merciful to thee? ³⁴ And having become angry, his lord delivered him to the tormentors until he would pay all that was due to him. ³⁵ So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if ye do not forgive each man his brother, from your hearts, their trespasses.

²⁵ And whenever ye may stand praying, forgive, if ye have anything against any man, so that also your Father in the heavens will forgive you your trespasses.

²⁰ And having seen their faith, he said to him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. ²¹ And the scholars and the Pharisees began to deliberate, saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, except God alone? ²² But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, having responded, he said to them, Why do ye deliberate in your hearts? ²³ Which is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee, or to say, Arise and walk? ²⁴ But that ye may know that the Son of man has authority upon earth to forgive sins (he said to the paralyzed man), I say to thee, Arise, and after taking up thy small bed, go to thy house.

³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad. ³⁶ Become ye therefore merciful, even as your Father is merciful. ³⁷ And do not criticize, and ye will, no, not be criticized. And do not condemn, and ye will, no, not be condemned. Forgive, and ye will be forgiven.

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.

⁴ And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive every man who is indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

³ Take heed to yourselves. And if thy brother should sin against thee, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. ⁴ And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times in the day turn back, saying, I repent, thou will forgive him.

³⁴ And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing. And dividing his garments, they cast a lot.

¹ Now we the strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the frail, and not to please ourselves. ² Let each of us please his neighbor for what is good toward edification.

⁷ Therefore receive ye each other, just as Christ also received you for the glory of God.

⁷ Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? ⁸ Instead ye do wrong, and defraud, and these things to brothers.

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

² Bear the burdens of each other, and so fulfill the law 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.

¹³ For the judgment is merciless to him who did no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

²¹ For ye were called for this. Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that ye should follow his footsteps.

³⁴ A new commandment I give to you, that ye should love each other, just as I loved you, so that ye also should love each other.

¹² This is my commandment, that ye love each other, just as I have loved you.

⁸ Owe no man anything except to love each other, for he who loves the other has fulfilled law.

¹ If I speak with the tongues of men and of agents, but have not love, I have become sounding brass, or a clashing cymbal. ² And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. ³ And if I dole out all things possessed by me, and if I deliver my body so that I may be burned, and have not love, I benefit nothing. ⁴ Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up. ⁵ It does not behave improperly, does not seek the things of itself, is not made sharp, does not contemplate evil, ⁶ does not rejoice in wrong but rejoices in the truth, ⁷ covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails. But whether prophecies, they will be abolished, whether tongues, they will cease, whether knowledge, it will be abolished. ⁹ But we know in part, and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, then what is in part will be abolished. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I abolished the childish things. ¹² For now we see by polished metal, in dimness, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know just as also I was known. ¹³ And now remain faith, hope, love, these three, but the greater of these is love.

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

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.

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.

⁵ But the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and non-hypocritical faith.

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

⁸ And above all having fervent love for yourselves, because love will cover a multitude of sins,

⁷ and in piety, brotherly affection, and in brotherly affection, love.

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.

⁷ Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God. ⁸ He who does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ By this the love of God was made known in us, because God sent his Son, the only begotten, into the world so that we might live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other. ¹² No man has ever seen God. If we love each other, God abides in us, and his love is in us, having been fully perfected.

²¹ And we have this commandment from him, so that he who loves God will also love his brother.

¹¹ LORD will give strength to his people. LORD will bless his people with peace.

⁴ Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

²² And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with singing.

¹⁷ I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of LORD.

³ Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusts in thee.

⁵ Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Yea, let him make peace with me.

¹⁵ For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

¹⁹ I create the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near, says LORD, and I will heal him.

⁹ But I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of LORD.

¹⁶ And he fell upon his face beside his feet giving him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ And having answered, Jesus said, Were not the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? ¹⁸ Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?

²⁷ Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you, not as the world gives, do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be cowardly.

³³ These things I have spoken to you, so that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation. But cheer up, I have overcome the world.

²¹ Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

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

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

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

¹⁵ But if the unbeliever separates, he shall separate. The brother or the sister has not been bound in such things. And God has called us to peace.

¹⁵ For all things are for your sakes, so that the grace, which has multiplied because of the thankfulness of the many, may abound for the glory of God.

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.

¹¹ being enriched in everything for every generosity, which works gratitude to God through us.

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

⁴ one body, and one Spirit. Just as also ye were called in one hope of your calling,

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.

¹ Become ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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

⁶ Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thankfulness make your requests known to God. ⁷ And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

¹² Giving thanks to the Father who made us qualified for the share of the portion of the sanctified in light.

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

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.

¹⁸ In everything express thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

¹ I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men,

¹⁵ Through him therefore, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, fruit of lips acknowledging his name.

¹² saying, Truly! Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and strength, is for our God into the ages of the ages. Truly!

⁶ And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart. ⁷ And thou shall teach them diligently to thy sons, and shall talk of them when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lie down, and when thou rise up. ⁸ And thou shall bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. ⁹ And thou shall write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.

¹⁸ Therefore ye shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. And ye shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. ¹⁹ And ye shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lie down, and when thou rise up. ²⁰ And thou shall write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates,

⁹ Give thy servant therefore an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to judge this thy great people? ¹⁰ And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. ¹¹ And God said to him, Because thou have asked this thing, and have not asked for thyself long life, neither have asked riches for thyself, nor have asked the life of thine enemies, but have asked for thyself understanding to discern justice, ¹² behold, I have done according to thy word. Lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart, so that there has been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like thee.

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

⁷ And the number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to LORD, even all who were skilful, was two hundred eighty-eight.

⁴⁶ For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

¹² I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips, I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

⁷ LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise him.

¹¹ Thou have turned for me my mourning into dancing. Thou have loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness, ¹² to the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to thee forever.

⁷ Thou are my hiding-place. Thou will preserve me from trouble. Thou will encompass me around with songs of deliverance. Selah.

⁶ Sing praise to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King, sing praises. ⁷ For God is the King of all the earth. Sing ye praises with understanding.

⁴ So I will bless thee while I live. I will lift up my hands in thy name. ⁵ My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness. And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips ⁶ when I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night-watches.

²³ My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises to thee, and my soul, which thou have redeemed.

¹ Bless LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. ² Bless LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

¹¹ I have laid thy word up in my heart that I might not sin against thee.

⁵⁴ Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

¹ I will give thee thanks with my whole heart. I will sing praises to thee before the gods.

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

⁸ The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

¹ He who desires to separate himself seeks excuses, and rages against all sound wisdom.

¹ The Song of songs, which is Solomon's.

¹ Let me sing for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.

² to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

¹ In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city. He will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks.

²⁹ Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as he who goes with a pipe to come to the mountain of LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

¹⁶ Thy words were found, and I ate them. And thy words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart. For I am called by thy name, O LORD, God of hosts.

³⁰ And having sung a hymn, they went out to the mount of Olives.

⁵¹ And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was being subordinate to them. And his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

³⁹ Ye search the scriptures, because ye think to have eternal life in them, and those are testifying about me. ⁴⁰ And ye will not come to me, so that ye may have life.

⁷ If ye dwell in me, and my sayings dwell in you, ye will ask whatever ye may want, and it will be done to you.

¹⁷ So faith is from hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

¹⁴ And I also myself am persuaded about you, my brothers, that ye yourselves are also full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

¹⁵ What is it therefore? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the intellect also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the intellect also.

²⁶ What is it therefore, brothers? When ye come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

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,

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

¹⁹ speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and striking strings in your heart to the Lord,

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.

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.

⁶ your speech always with grace, seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer each one.

¹⁸ Therefore encourage each other with these words.

¹¹ Therefore encourage each other, and build ye up one by one, just as ye also are doing. ¹² And we ask you, brothers, to acknowledge those who labor among you, and who lead you in the Lord, and who admonish you,

¹⁵ And yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

¹⁷ Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment,

¹⁵ And that from a babe thou have known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

⁶ which he poured out upon us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Savior.

¹² For the word of God is living, and potent, and sharper, above every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division both of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and discernible of the thoughts and intentions of the heart. ¹³ And there is no creature concealed from his presence, but all things are naked and vulnerable to his eyes, before whom is the word to us.

¹² Therefore lift up the drooping hands, and the feeble knees, ¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be turned away, but may be healed instead. ¹⁴ Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord. ¹⁵ Looking carefully lest any man fall short, away from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness sprouting up would cause trouble, and by this many may be defiled,

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.

¹³ Is any man among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise.

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

¹⁴ I wrote to you, fathers, because ye have know him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome evil.

²⁴ Therefore ye, let what ye heard from the beginning abide in you. If what ye heard from the beginning abides in you, ye also will abide in the Son and in the Father.

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.

² because of the truth that abides in us, and will be with us into the age.

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.

³ And they sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. And none could learn the song except the hundred and forty-four thousand, those who have been redeemed from the earth.

³ And they sing the song of Moses the bondman of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty, righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the nations.

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

²⁰ And thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah. And he wrought that which was good and right and faithful before LORD his God. ²¹ And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

⁶ In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.

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.

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,

³⁰ by thy stretching forth thy hand for healing, and signs and wonders to happen through the name of thy holy Boy Jesus.

¹⁷ And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, to those who dwell at Ephesus. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

⁸ First, I indeed express thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.

⁶ He who regards the day, regards it for the Lord. And he who does not regard the day, for the Lord he does not regard it. And he who eats, eats for the Lord, for he expresses thanks to God. And he who does not eat, for the Lord he does not eat, and expresses thanks to God. ⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself. ⁸ For both if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Both if we live and if we die, therefore, we are the Lord's.

³¹ Therefore whether ye eat, or drink, or anything ye do, do all to the glory of God.

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

¹¹ and that every tongue should acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

²³ And all things, anything whatever ye may do, work from soul as to the Lord and not to men,

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.

¹ Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you, and summon in the Lord Jesus, that just as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye may abound more. ² For ye know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

¹⁷ encourage your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

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?

⁵ ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁹ 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 If any man speaks, as oracles of God. If any man serves, as of ability as God supplies. So that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

²³ Every man who denies the Son, also does not have the Father.

¹⁸ My little children, we should not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.

¹⁶ To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy childbearing, in pain thou shall bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

²⁰ And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.

²⁹ And Peter and the apostles having answered, they said, We must obey God rather than men.

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.

³⁴ As in all the churches of the sanctified, let the women keep silent in the churches. For it is not permitted for them to speak, but to be subordinate, as the law also says.

³ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified,

²² Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

¹² But I do not allow a woman to teach, nor to have authority of a man, but to be in quietness.

⁴ so that they may admonish the young women to be sensible, to love their husbands, to love their children, ⁵ to be serious-minded, pure, homemakers, good, submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

¹ Likewise the wives, being subordinate to their own husbands, so that even if any are disobedient to the word, they will be gained without a word by the behavior of the wives, ² observing, in fear, your pure behavior. ³ Of which let it not be the outward world of braiding of hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on apparel, ⁴ but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible, of the meek and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. ⁵ For this way formerly also, the holy women, trusting in God, adorned themselves, being subordinate to their own husbands, ⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children ye became, doing good, and not being afraid of anything fearful.

²³ And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. ²⁴ Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

⁶⁷ And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth: ¹⁹ a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love.

⁹ Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of thy life of vanity, which he has given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity. For that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor in which thou labor under the sun.

¹⁴ Yet ye say, Why? Because LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou have dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. ¹⁵ And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. ¹⁶ For I hate putting away, says LORD, the God of Israel, and him who covers his garment with violence, says LORD of hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

²⁶ If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

¹⁴ whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil.

²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,

²⁸ So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ the church,

³³ Nevertheless ye also, each one in particular, shall so love his own wife as himself, and the wife that she fear her husband.

²¹ Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged.

¹⁴ But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.

⁷ Likewise the husbands living together knowledgeably, as with a weaker vessel, apportioning worth to the female as also joint-heirs of the grace of life, for your prayers not to be hindered.

⁷ and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram.

¹² Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

³ Every man shall fear his mother and his father. And ye shall keep my sabbaths. I am LORD your God.

¹⁸ If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken to them, ¹⁹ then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place. ²⁰ And they shall say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice. He is a glutton, and a drunkard. ²¹ And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

¹⁶ Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Truly.

²⁰ My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and do not forsake the law of thy mother.

²⁰ He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

¹¹ There is a generation who curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

¹⁷ The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

⁷ In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

⁶ A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And ye say, How have we despised thy name?

⁴ For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death. ⁵ But ye say, Whoever may say to the father or the mother, Whatever thou might have benefited from me is an offering. ⁶ And he will, no, not honor his father or mother. And ye have annulled the command of God because of your tradition.

¹⁹ Honor the father and mother, and, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.

²⁴ But as the church is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ² Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, ³ so that it may become well with thee, and thou will be long lasting on the earth.

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.

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,

²² Bondmen, obey in all things those masters according to flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

⁹ Bondmen are to be obedient to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things, not speaking contrary,

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.

¹³ Like as a father pities his sons, So LORD pities those who fear him.

¹² For whom LORD loves he reproves, and he whips every son whom he receives.

¹ Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. ² For I give you good doctrine. Forsake ye not my law. ³ For I was a son to my father, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. ⁴ And he taught me, and said to me, Let thy heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

⁴ And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of the Lord.

¹¹ just as ye know, as each one of you as a father of his own children, imploring you, and comforting,

⁵ And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of the Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him? ⁶ For whom the Lord loves he chastens. And he whips every son whom he receives. ⁷ Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? ⁸ And if ye are without chastening, of which all have become participants, then ye are bastards, and not sons. ⁹ Besides, we indeed have had chastisers-the fathers of our flesh-and we were turned around. Shall we not much more be subordinate to the Father of the spirits, and we will live? ¹⁰ For those men indeed for a few days chastened us according to that which seemed good to them, but he for that which is advantageous, in order to be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

¹⁸ And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live, for I fear God:

⁹ Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

¹⁵ But the former governors who were before me charged the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.

² Behold, as the eyes of servants to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are to LORD our God, until he has mercy upon us.

⁷ For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words. But fear thou God.

¹² Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and prolongs his days, yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before him.

¹³ This is the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole of man.

²² The light of the body is the eye. If therefore thine eye is sound, thy whole body will be bright.

⁹ For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under myself. And I say to this man, Go, and he goes, and to another, Come, and he comes, and to my bondman, Do this, and he does it.

⁴⁶ And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and not do the things that I say?

⁸ For I also am a man set under authority, having soldiers under myself. And I say to this man, Go, and he goes, and to another, Come, and he comes, and to my bondman, Do this, and he does.

⁴⁶ And continuing steadfastly, daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they partook of nourishment in gladness and evenness of heart,

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

¹⁰ For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

⁵ Bondmen, be obedient to the masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ. ⁶ Not according to eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul, ⁷ bond-serving with goodwill, as to the Lord and not to men.

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

⁴ but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, thus we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts.

¹ Let bondmen, as many as are under a yoke, regard their own masters worthy of all respect, so that the name of God and the doctrine may not be blasphemed. ² And those who have believing masters, let them not disparage them because they are brothers, instead let them serve more because they are believers and beloved-those who are recipients of the benefit. Teach and exhort these things.

⁹ Bondmen are to be obedient to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things, not speaking contrary, ¹⁰ not pilfering, but demonstrating all good fidelity, so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

¹⁶ no longer as a bondman, but above a bondman, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to thee, both in flesh and in the Lord.

¹⁸ Household servants, submitting to the masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wayward. ¹⁹ For this is graciousness, if, because of consciousness of God, any man endures sorrows, suffering wrongfully.

²¹ And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

¹ Bless LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

¹⁰ With my whole heart I have sought thee. O let me not wander from thy commandments.

³⁴ Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law, yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

¹⁴⁵ I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, O LORD. I will keep thy statutes.

¹⁰ Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go.

¹⁰ And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says LORD.

⁵ Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast to me, even to me? ⁶ And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do ye not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? ⁷ Should ye not hear the words which LORD cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?

¹⁶ And when ye fast, become not like the gloomy looking hypocrites, for they make their faces unsightly, so that they may appear fasting to men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

⁶ He who regards the day, regards it for the Lord. And he who does not regard the day, for the Lord he does not regard it. And he who eats, eats for the Lord, for he expresses thanks to God. And he who does not eat, for the Lord he does not eat, and expresses thanks to God.

⁸ For both if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Both if we live and if we die, therefore, we are the Lord's.

²² Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

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,

¹³ Therefore because of the Lord, ye should submit to every human establishment, whether to a king as being supreme,

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

¹ After these things the word of LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram. I am thy shield, thy exceedingly great reward.

¹² LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings thou have come to take refuge.

¹⁸ A wicked man earns deceitful wages, but he who sows righteousness has a sure reward.

¹² Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for so they persecuted the prophets before you.

⁴⁶ For if ye love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the tax collectors the same?

¹ Be careful not to do your charity before men in order to be seen by them, otherwise ye have no reward from your Father in the heavens. ² When therefore thou do charity, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

⁵ And when thou pray, thou shall not be as the hypocrites, because they love to pray having stood in the synagogues and in the corners of the thoroughfares, so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

⁴¹ He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward.

³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad.

¹⁴ and thou will be blessed, because they do not have to recompense thee, for it will be recompensed to thee at the resurrection of the righteous.

²⁶ If any man serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there my helper will also be. And if any man serves me, the Father will honor him.

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.

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

⁶ who will render to each man according to his works, ⁷ to those who indeed seek by perseverance of good work, glory and esteem and immortality-eternal life-

⁴ Now to the man being employed, the wage is not reckoned according to grace, but according to obligation. ⁵ But to the man not being employed, but who believes in him who makes the impious man righteous, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

¹⁸ For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God, and approved by men.

⁸ Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each man will receive his own payment according to his own labor.

²² For he who was called in the Lord a bondman is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise also he who was called a free man is a bondman of Christ.

¹⁷ For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if involuntarily, I have been entrusted with a commission. ¹⁸ What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good news, I may make the good news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good news.

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

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

¹⁵ And because of this he is mediator of a new covenant, so that a death having occurred for the redemption of the transgressions against the first covenant, those who are called might take the promise of the eternal inheritance.

³⁵ Therefore do not throw off your boldness, which has great recompense of reward.

⁶ And apart from faith it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is, and becomes a rewarder of those who search for him.

¹ Simon Peter, a bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

¹ Jude, a bondman of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called, sanctified in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

¹⁵ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. Thou shall not respect the person of the poor man, nor honor the person of the mighty man, but thou shall judge thy neighbor in righteousness.

¹⁷ Ye shall not respect persons in judgment. Ye shall hear the small and the great alike. Ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you ye shall bring to me, and I will hear it.

¹⁷ For LORD your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who regards not persons, nor takes reward.

¹⁴ For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, neither does God take away life, but devises means that he who is banished be not an outcast from him.

⁷ Now therefore let the fear of LORD be upon you. Take heed and do it. For there is no iniquity with LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.

¹⁹ who does not respect the persons of rulers, nor regards the rich more than the poor. For they all are the work of his hands.

²⁴ Men therefore fear him. He does not regard any who are wise of heart.

²¹ And they questioned him, saying, Teacher, we know that thou speak and teach rightly, and thou do not accept a personage, but teach the way of God in truth,

³⁴ And having opened his mouth, Peter said, In truth, I am overwhelmed that God is not partial,

¹¹ For there is no partiality with God.

¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of the Christ, so that each man may receive back about the things that he did through the body, whether good or bad.

⁹ And ye masters, do the same things to them, easing up the threats, knowing also that the master of you yourselves is in the heavens, and there is no partiality from him.

¹ Masters, present to the bondmen what is right and equitable, knowing that ye also have a Master in heavens.

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.

¹⁸ But if he has wronged thee, or owes anything, charge this to me.

² For if the word spoken through agents became certain, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,

¹⁷ And if ye call on a Father, him who judges impartially according to each man's work, live the time of your sojourn in fear.

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