John 8 Cross References - ACV

¹ But Jesus went to the mount of Olives. ² And at early morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. And having sat down, he taught them. ³ And the scholars and the Pharisees bring to him a woman taken in adultery. And having stood her in the midst, ⁴ tempting, they say to him, Teacher, we found this woman committing adultery, in the act. ⁵ Now in the law, Moses commanded us such women are to be stoned. What therefore do thou say about her? ⁶ But they said this, trying him, so that they might have an accusation against him. But Jesus having stooped down, wrote on the ground with his finger, not pretending. ⁷ And when they continued asking him, after standing erect, he said to them, Let the innocent man of you first cast the stone at her. ⁸ And again having stooped down, he wrote on the ground. ⁹ And they, having heard and being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, having begun from the elder until the last. And Jesus was left behind alone, and the woman being in the midst. ¹⁰ And Jesus, after standing erect, and having seen no man but the woman, he said to her, Woman, where are those accusers of thee? Did no man condemn thee? ¹¹ And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn thee. Go, and henceforth sin no more. ¹² Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows me would, no, not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life. ¹³ The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou testify about thyself. Thy testimony is not valid. ¹⁴ Jesus answered and said to them, Even if I might testify about myself, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I go, but ye do not know where I come from and where I go. ¹⁵ Ye judge according to the flesh. I judge no man. ¹⁶ But even if I judge, my judgment is valid, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me. ¹⁷ And also it is written in your law that the testimony of two men is valid. ¹⁸ I am he who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me. ¹⁹ They said therefore to him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me, nor my Father. If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also. ²⁰ Jesus spoke these sayings in the treasury as he taught in the temple, and no man seized him, because his hour had not yet come. ²¹ Jesus therefore again said to them, I go, and ye will seek me, and ye will die in your sin. Where I go, ye cannot come. ²² The Jews therefore said, Will he kill himself, because he says, Where I go, ye cannot come? ²³ And he said to them, Ye are from below, I am from above. Ye are of this world, I am not of this world. ²⁴ I said therefore to you that ye will die in your sins. For unless ye believe that I am he, ye will die in your sins. ²⁵ They said therefore to him, Who are thou? And Jesus said to them, The beginning, something that I am even telling you. ²⁶ I have many things to say and to judge about you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world these things that I heard from him. ²⁷ They did not understand that he spoke the Father to them. ²⁸ Jesus therefore said to them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then ye will know that I am he, and I do nothing from myself, but I speak these things as my Father taught me. ²⁹ And he who sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, because I always do things pleasing to him. ³⁰ As he spoke these things of him, many believed in him. ³¹ Jesus therefore said to those Jews who believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples, ³² and ye will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. ³³ They answered to him, We are Abraham's seed, and have been in bondage to no man, ever. How can thou say, Ye will become free? ³⁴ Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, that every man who does the sin is a bondman of the sin. ³⁵ And the bondman does not remain in the house into the age. The Son remains into the age. ³⁶ If therefore the Son should make you free, ye will truly be free. ³⁷ I know that ye are Abraham's seed, yet ye seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you. ³⁸ I speak what I have seen from my Father, and ye therefore do what ye have seen from your father. ³⁹ They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. ⁴⁰ But now ye seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. ⁴¹ Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We were not begotten from fornication. We have one Father, God. ⁴² Therefore Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, ye would love me, for I came forth and have come from God. For, neither have I come for myself, but he sent me. ⁴³ Why do ye not understand my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word. 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. ⁴⁵ And I, because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which of you convicts me about sin? And if I speak truth, why do ye not believe me? ⁴⁷ He who is of God hears the sayings of God. Because of this ye do not hear, because ye are not of God. ⁴⁸ Therefore the Jews answered and said to him, Do we not say well that thou are a Samaritan, and have a demon? ⁴⁹ Jesus answered, I have no demon, but I honor my Father, and ye dishonor me. ⁵⁰ But I seek not my own glory. He is who seeks and judges. ⁵¹ Truly, truly, I say to you, if any man keeps my word, he will, no, not see death, into the age. ⁵² The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets, and thou say, If any man keeps my word, he will, no, not taste of death, into the age. ⁵³ Are thou greater than our father Abraham who died? And the prophets died. Who do thou make thyself? ⁵⁴ Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. My Father is he who glorifies me, of whom ye say, He is our God. ⁵⁵ And ye do not know him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word. ⁵⁶ Your father Abraham rejoiced that he could see my day, and he saw it, and was glad. ⁵⁷ The Jews therefore said to him, Thou have not yet fifty years, and thou have seen Abraham? ⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I am. ⁵⁹ Therefore they took up stones so that they might throw at him, but Jesus was hid, and went out of the temple, having passed through the midst of them, and thus passed on.

¹ And when they came near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

¹ And when they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sends forth two of his disciples,

³ And as he sat upon the mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew questioned him privately,

³⁷ And as he was now coming near, at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God in a great voice about all the mighty works that they had seen, saying,

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.

³ From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, the word of LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking. But ye have not hearkened.

⁴ However I sent all my servants the prophets to you, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.

¹ And having seen the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. And when he sat down, his disciples came to him. ² And having opened his mouth, he taught them, saying,

⁵⁵ In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, Did ye come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye did not seize me.

²⁰ And having closed the book, having given it back to the attendant, he sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were focused on him.

³ And having entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And having sat down, he taught the crowds from the boat.

³⁷ And during the days he was teaching in the temple, and going forth the nights, he lodged on the mount that is called Olives.

³⁴ Jesus says to them, My food is that I do the will of him who sent me, and may finish his work.

²⁰ Jesus spoke these sayings in the treasury as he taught in the temple, and no man seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

¹⁰ And the man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

²¹ then they shall bring the damsel out to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house. So shall thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. ²² If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. So shall thou put away the evil from Israel. ²³ If there be a damsel who is a virgin betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her, ²⁴ then ye shall bring them both out to the gate of that city. And ye shall stone them to death with stones, the damsel, because she did not cry out, being in the city, and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee.

³⁸ And I will judge thee, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged. And I will bring upon thee the blood of wrath and jealousy. ³⁹ I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thy vaulted place, and break down thy lofty places. And they shall strip thee of thy clothes, and take thy fair jewels, and they shall leave thee naked and bare. ⁴⁰ They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

⁴⁷ And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

¹⁷ Think not that I came to abolish the law or the prophets. I came not to abolish, but to fulfill.

⁶ So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, no man shall separate. ⁷ They say to him, Why then did Moses command to give a writing of divorcement, and to divorce her? ⁸ He says to them, For your hard heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it did not happen this way.

¹⁶ And they send out their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou are true, and teach the way of God in truth, and it is not a concern to thee about a man, for thou look not to the personage of men. ¹⁷ Tell us therefore, what does it seem to thee? Is it permitted to give tribute to Caesar or not? ¹⁸ But Jesus having known their wickedness, said, Why do ye tempt me, ye hypocrites?

⁹ Judah is a lion's whelp. From the prey, my son, thou have gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him up?

²² because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have challenged me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,

¹² Those also who seek after my life lay snares for me. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long. ¹³ But I, as a deaf man, hear not. And I am as a mute man who opens not his mouth. ¹⁴ Yea, I am as a man who hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

¹ I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked man is before me.

¹⁷ He who passes by, and meddles with strife not his, is like he who takes a dog by the ears.

⁷ a time to tear, and a time to sew, a time to keep silence, and a time to speak,

¹³ O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake thee shall be put to shame. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken LORD, the fountain of living waters.

⁵ In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand came forth, and wrote opposite the lampstand upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

¹⁰ They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.

¹³ Therefore he who is prudent shall keep silence in such a time, for it is an evil time.

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. Become ye therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doves.

²³ But he answered her not a word. And his disciples having approached, they besought him, saying, Send her away, because she cries out behind us.

¹ And the Pharisees and Sadducees who came, testing, demanded him to exhibit to them a sign from the sky.

³ And Pharisees came to him, trying him, and saying to him, Is it permitted for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?

¹⁸ But Jesus having known their wickedness, said, Why do ye tempt me, ye hypocrites?

³⁵ And one of them, a lawyer, questioned, trying him, and saying,

⁶³ But Jesus was silent. And having responded, the high priest said to him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou are the Christ, the Son of God.

¹¹ And the Pharisees came forth, and began to dispute with him, seeking from him a sign from the sky, testing him.

² And the Pharisees having approached, they demanded of him if it is permitted for a man to divorce a wife, testing him.

¹⁵ Should we give, or should we not give? But Jesus, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why do ye test me? Bring me a denarius, so that I may see it.

²⁵ And behold, a certain lawyer stood up testing him, and saying, Teacher, having done what, would I inherit eternal life?

¹⁶ And others, challenging, sought from him a sign from the sky.

⁵³ And after he said these things to them, the scholars and the Pharisees began to harass him extremely, and to provoke him to speak impulsively about more things, ⁵⁴ waiting to ambush him, seeking to catch something out of his mouth so that they might accuse him.

²⁰ And having watched him, they sent forth insidious men pretending themselves to be righteous, so that they might take hold of his word, in order to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor. 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, ²² Is it permitted for us to give tribute to Caesar or not? ²³ But having perceived their craftiness, he said to them, Why do ye try me?

² And at early morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. And having sat down, he taught them.

⁹ Nor should we challenge the Christ as some of them also challenged, and were destroyed by the serpents.

⁶ At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death. He shall not be put to death at the mouth of one witness. ⁷ The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee.

¹⁶ But to the wicked man God says, What have thou to do to declare my statutes, and that thou have taken my covenant in thy mouth, ¹⁷ since thou hate instruction, and cast my words behind thee? ¹⁸ When thou saw a thief, thou consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers. ¹⁹ Thou give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit. ²⁰ Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own mother's son.

¹⁸ There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.

⁴ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like to him. ⁵ Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

²⁹ Is not my word like fire? says LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

¹ Do not criticize, that ye may not be criticized. ² For by what criticism ye criticize, ye will be criticized, and by what measure ye measure, it will be measured to you. ³ And why do thou see the speck in thy brother's eye, but do not notice the beam in thine own eye? ⁴ Or how will thou say to thy brother, Let me take out the speck from thine eye, and behold, the beam in thine own eye? ⁵ Thou hypocrite, first take out the beam from thine own eye, and then thou will see clearly to take out the speck from thy brother's eye.

²⁵ Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but inside they are full of plunder and unrighteousness. ²⁶ Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, so that the outside of them may also become clean. ²⁷ Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. ²⁸ In this way also, ye indeed outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

⁴⁶ The subordinates answered, A man never so spoke like this man.

¹ Therefore, O man, thou are without excuse, every man who judges, for in what thou judge the other man, thou condemn thyself, for the man who judges is doing the same things. ² And we know that the judgment of God is in accordance with truth against those who commit such things. ³ And think thou this, O man who judge those who do such things and do the same, that thou will escape the judgment of God?

²¹ thou therefore who teach another, do thou not teach thyself? Thou who preach not to steal, do thou steal? ²² Thou who say not to commit adultery, do thou commit adultery? Thou who abhor idols, do thou rob temples? ²³ Thou who boast in law, dishonor God by thy transgression of the law. ²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, just as it is written. ²⁵ For circumcision is indeed beneficial if thou perform law, but if thou are a transgressor of law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision.

²⁴ But if all prophesy, and some unbelieving or unlearned man comes in, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all. ²⁵ And so the secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so having fallen down on his face he will worship God, declaring that God is really among you.

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

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.

¹⁶ and having in his right hand seven stars, and a sharp two-edged sword coming out of his mouth. And the sight of him was as the sun shines in its strength.

¹⁶ Repent therefore, and if not I come to thee quickly, and will war against them with the sword of my mouth.

¹⁵ And a sharp two-edged sword comes out of his mouth, so that he would smite the nations by it. And he will tend them with a rod of iron. And he treads the winepress of the wine of the wrath of the anger of the Almighty God.

²¹ And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul when he besought us, and we would not hear. Therefore this distress has come upon us. ²² And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Sin not against the child, and ye would not hear? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.

⁴⁴ The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou know all the iniquity which thy heart is privy to, what thou did to David my father. Therefore LORD shall return thy iniquity upon thine own head.

¹⁸ And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? Thou have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son!

¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. ¹³ He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

⁵ that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the profane but for a moment?

²⁷ The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

¹⁵ The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken. ¹⁶ LORD has made himself known. He has executed justice. The wicked man is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

¹⁴ Let them be put to shame and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

²¹ These things thou have done, and I kept silence. Thou thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself. But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

¹³ Let them be put to shame and consumed who are adversaries to my soul. Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor who seek my hurt.

²² For many times also thine own heart knows that thou thyself likewise have cursed others.

¹⁴ And king Herod heard, for his name had become well known. And he said, John, the man who immerses, was raised from the dead, and because of this the powers work in him. ¹⁵ Others said, He is Elijah, and others said, He is a prophet, like one of the prophets. ¹⁶ But Herod, when he heard, said, This is John whom I beheaded. He was raised from the dead.

¹ During which time the myriads of the multitude having gathered together so as to trample each other, he began first to say to his disciples, Take heed to yourselves from the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. ² But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known. ³ Therefore, as many things as ye have said in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed upon the housetops.

¹⁷ And as he said these things all those opposing him were shamed, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

¹⁰ And Jesus, after standing erect, and having seen no man but the woman, he said to her, Woman, where are those accusers of thee? Did no man condemn thee?

¹² Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows me would, no, not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.

¹⁵ Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, testifying of their conscience, and their thoughts amidst each other accusing or also defending them

²² Thou who say not to commit adultery, do thou commit adultery? Thou who abhor idols, do thou rob temples?

²⁰ Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

¹¹ Behold, all those who are incensed against thee shall be put to shame and confounded. Those who strive with thee shall be as nothing, and shall perish. ¹² Thou shall seek them, and shall not find them, even those who contend with thee. Those who war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught.

¹⁸ Thou shall make judges and officers for thee in all thy gates, which LORD thy God gives thee, according to thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

⁹ And thou shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and thou shall inquire. And they shall show thee the sentence of judgment.

³¹ For has any said to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more.

¹³ He who covers his transgressions shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy.

¹⁶ Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. ¹⁷ Learn to do good. Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. ¹⁸ Come now, and let us reason together, says LORD, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

⁶ Seek ye LORD while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near.

³⁰ Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one according to his ways, says the lord LORD. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 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? ³² For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the lord LORD, therefore turn yourselves back, and live.

²⁸ But what does it seem to you? A man had two children. And having come to the first, he said, Child, go work today in my vineyard. ²⁹ And having answered, he said, I do not want to, but having repented later, he went. ³⁰ And having come to the second, he said likewise. And having answered, he said, I, sir, and did not go. ³¹ Which of the two did the will of the father? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Truly I say to you, that the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

³² I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.

⁵⁶ For the Son of man came not to destroy the lives of men, but to save. And they went to another village.

¹³ And a certain man out of the crowd said to him, Teacher, speak to my brother to divide the inheritance with me. ¹⁴ But he said to him, Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbitrator over you?

³ I tell you, no, but if ye do not repent, ye will all perish similarly.

⁵ I tell you, no, but if ye do not repent, ye will all likewise perish.

⁷ I say to you, that thus there will be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous men who have no need of repentance.

¹⁰ Thus I say to you, there becomes joy in the presence of the agents of God over one sinner who repents.

³² But it was needful to make merry and be glad, because this thy brother was dead, and became alive again, and was lost, and was found.

¹⁷ For God sent the Son into the world not that he might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

¹⁴ After these things Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou have become well. Sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.

¹⁵ Ye judge according to the flesh. I judge no man.

³⁶ Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world my subordinates would have fought so that I would not be delivered to the Jews, but now my kingdom is not from here.

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

²⁰ And the law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant, ²¹ so that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign, through righteousness, for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

³ For rulers are not a source of fear to the good works, but to the evil. And do thou desire not to fear the office of authority? Do what is good, and thou will have praise from it. ⁴ For he is a helper of God to thee for what is good. But if thou do what is evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is a helper of God, vengeful for wrath to the man who commits evil.

¹² For what is in me to also judge those outside? Do ye not judge those inside?

¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinful men, of whom I am foremost. ¹⁶ But because of this I obtained mercy, so that in me, the foremost, Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

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

²¹ And I gave her time so that she would repent, and she did not want to repent of her fornication. ²² Behold, I throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, if they do not repent of her works.

²⁸ He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall behold the light.

²⁸ For thou will light my lamp. LORD my God will lighten my darkness.

¹⁹ he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

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

² The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them the light has shone.

⁶ I, LORD, have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles, ⁷ to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison-house.

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 Who is among you that fears LORD, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of LORD, and rely upon his God.

¹ Arise, shine, for thy light has come, and the glory of LORD has risen upon thee. ² For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples. But LORD will arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. ³ And nations shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

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

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

¹⁴ so that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which says, ¹⁵ The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, ¹⁶ the people who dwell in darkness saw a great light, and to those who dwell in the region and shadow of death, light sprang up to them.

¹⁴ Ye are the light of the world. A city setting on a hill cannot be hid,

⁷⁸ because of the bowels of mercy of our God, by which the dayspring from on high came to help us, ⁷⁹ to give light to those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into a way of peace.

³² a light for enlightenment of Gentiles, and glory of thy people Israel.

⁴ In him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵ And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. ⁶ A man came to be who was sent from God, his name was John. ⁷ This man came for testimony so that he might testify about the light, so that all might believe through him. ⁸ That man was not the light, but that he might testify about the light. ⁹ He was the true light coming into the world that enlightens every man.

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil.

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

⁵ When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

³⁵ Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little time the light is with you. Walk while ye have the light, so that darkness may not overcome you. And he who walks in the darkness knows not where he is going.

⁴⁶ I have come a light into the world, so that every man who believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

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

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.

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

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

¹⁷ These men are waterless wells, and clouds driven by a fierce wind, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.

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

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

²⁴ And the nations will walk by the light of it. And the kings of the earth bring to them the splendor and worth of the nations into it.

³¹ If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. ³² There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony that he testifies about me is valid. ³³ Ye have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. ³⁴ But I do not take the testimony from man. However, I say these things, so that ye may be saved. ³⁵ That man was the lamp that burns and shines, and ye were willing to rejoice for an hour in his light. ³⁶ But I have testimony greater than of John, for the works that the Father has given me so that I might complete them, the same works that I do, they testify about me that the Father has sent me. ³⁷ And the Father, he who sent me, has testified about me.Ye have neither heard his voice, nor have ever seen his appearance. ³⁸ And ye have not his word dwelling in you, because ye do not believe that man whom he sent for this. 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. ⁴¹ I do not receive glory from men. ⁴² But I know you, that ye have not the love of God within yourselves. ⁴³ I have come in my Father's name, and ye do not accept me. If another man should come in his own name, ye will accept that man. ⁴⁴ How can ye believe, who receive glory from each other, and seek not the glory from the only God? ⁴⁵ Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. The man who accuses you is Moses, in whom ye have hoped. ⁴⁶ For if ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for that man wrote about me. ⁴⁷ But if ye believe not the writings of that man, how will ye believe my sayings?

³ Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men who were upon the face of the earth.

¹⁴ Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor. 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. ¹⁶ Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither did we buy any land. And all my servants were gathered there to the work. ¹⁷ Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, a hundred and fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were round about us. ¹⁸ Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep, also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this I did not demand the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people. ¹⁹ Remember to me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

²⁷ However we know this man, where he is from, but when the Christ comes, no man knows where he is from. ²⁸ Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know where I am from? And I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom ye know not. ²⁹ I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.

⁴² Therefore Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, ye would love me, for I came forth and have come from God. For, neither have I come for myself, but he sent me.

²⁹ We know that God has spoken to Moses, but this man, we know not where he is from. ³⁰ The man answered and said to them, For in this it is amazing, that ye know not where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes.

¹⁵ Just as the Father knows me, I also know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

³⁶ whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, do ye say, Thou blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God?

³ Jesus, having seen that the Father has given all the things to him, into his hands, and that he came from God, and goes to God,

¹⁰ Do thou not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The sayings that I speak to you I speak not from myself, but the Father who dwells in me, he does the works.

²⁸ I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world. Again I leave the world, and go to the Father.

⁸ Because the sayings that thou gave to me, I gave to them. And they received them, and knew truly that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou sent me.

³¹ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed into the ages, knows that I do not lie.

¹¹ I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

¹⁹ Again, do ye think that we are making defense to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edification.

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

⁷ But LORD said to Samuel, Do not look on his countenance, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For LORD sees not as man sees, for man looks on the outward appearance, but LORD looks on the heart.

¹ Do ye indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? ² No! In heart ye work wickedness. Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

²⁰ Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, which frames mischief by statute? ²¹ They gather themselves together against the soul of a righteous man, and condemn innocent blood.

⁷ Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

¹² Shall horses run upon the rock? Will a man plow there with oxen? That ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

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

¹⁴ But he said to him, Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbitrator over you?

²⁴ Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

¹¹ And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn thee. Go, and henceforth sin no more.

⁴⁷ And if any man hears my sayings, and will not believe, I do not judge him, for I came not so that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.

¹ Therefore, O man, thou are without excuse, every man who judges, for in what thou judge the other man, thou condemn thyself, for the man who judges is doing the same things.

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

³ But it is a very small thing to me that I might be appraised by you or by a day of mankind. Yet neither do I appraise myself, ⁴ for I know nothing on myself. Yet I have not been made righteous in this, but he who appraises me is the Lord. ⁵ Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.

⁴ then are ye not partial among yourselves, and become judges from evil thoughts?

⁶ Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of straightness is the scepter of thy kingdom. ⁷ Thou have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

¹ Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness to the king's son. ² He will judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with justice.

⁹ before LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

⁴ The king's strength also loves justice. Thou establish equity. Thou execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

⁷ Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of LORD of hosts will perform this.

² And the Spirit of LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of LORD. ³ And his delight shall be in the fear of LORD. And he shall not judge according to the sight of his eyes, nor decide according to the hearing of his ears, ⁴ but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth. And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked. ⁵ And righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.

¹ Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and rulers shall rule in justice. ² And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

⁵ Behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. ⁶ In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is his name by which he shall be called: LORD our righteousness.

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

²² For neither does the Father judge any man, but he has given all judgment to the Son, ²³ so that all would honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. The man not honoring the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him. 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. ²⁵ Truly, truly, I say to you, that an hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he also gave him authority to execute judgment because he is a son of man. ²⁸ Marvel not at this, because an hour comes in which all those in the sepulchers will hear his voice, ²⁹ and will come forth, those who have done right to a resurrection of life, and those who have practiced wrong to a resurrection of judgment. ³⁰ I can from myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge. And my judgment is righteous because I seek not my will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

²⁹ And he who sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, because I always do things pleasing to him.

³² Behold, the hour comes, and now has come, that ye will be scattered, each man to his own things, and ye will leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

³¹ Because he appointed a day during which he is going to judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he appointed, having provided assurance to all men because he raised him from the dead.

¹¹ And I saw the heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and he who sits upon it called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.

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

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

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

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.

³⁴ Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods?

²⁵ But, that the word that is written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me without cause.

¹ This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two witnesses or three every saying will be confirmed.

²⁴ So that the law became our schoolmaster for Christ, so that we might be made righteous from faith.

²¹ Tell me those desiring to be under law, do ye not hear the law?

²⁸ Any man who has disregarded the law of Moses dies without mercies from two or three witnesses.

⁹ If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. Because this is the testimony of God that he has testified about his Son.

³ And I will give to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days clothed in sackcloth.

³¹ If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. ³² There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony that he testifies about me is valid. ³³ Ye have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. ³⁴ But I do not take the testimony from man. However, I say these things, so that ye may be saved. ³⁵ That man was the lamp that burns and shines, and ye were willing to rejoice for an hour in his light. ³⁶ But I have testimony greater than of John, for the works that the Father has given me so that I might complete them, the same works that I do, they testify about me that the Father has sent me. ³⁷ And the Father, he who sent me, has testified about me.Ye have neither heard his voice, nor have ever seen his appearance. ³⁸ And ye have not his word dwelling in you, because ye do not believe that man whom he sent for this. 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.

²⁵ They said therefore to him, Who are thou? And Jesus said to them, The beginning, something that I am even telling you.

³⁸ I speak what I have seen from my Father, and ye therefore do what ye have seen from your father.

⁵¹ Truly, truly, I say to you, if any man keeps my word, he will, no, not see death, into the age.

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

⁹ I am the door. If any man enters in by me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and will find pasture.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd, and I know mine, and I am known by mine.

³⁰ I and the Father are one.

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

⁴ God also testifying simultaneously by signs and wonders, and by various powers and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to his will.

⁶ This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And it is the Spirit that testifies, because the Spirit is truth. ⁷ Because those who testify are three: ⁸ the Spirit, and the water, and the blood. And the three are in one. ⁹ If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. Because this is the testimony of God that he has testified about his Son. ¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified about his Son. 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.

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

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy man, then it was well. Was not this to know me? says LORD.

⁷ And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am LORD. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

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.

²¹ In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit, and said, I thank thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, that thou hid these things from the wise and astute, and revealed them to the childlike. Yea, Father, because it became pleasing this way in thy sight. ²² And having turned to the disciples, he said, All things were delivered to me by my Father. And no man knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son wants to reveal him.

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, and the world knew him not.

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

²⁸ Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know where I am from? And I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom ye know not.

⁵⁴ Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. My Father is he who glorifies me, of whom ye say, He is our God. ⁵⁵ And ye do not know him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word.

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd, and I know mine, and I am known by mine. ¹⁵ Just as the Father knows me, I also know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

⁶ Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father, except by me. ⁷ If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also. And from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. ⁸ Philip says to him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us. ⁹ Jesus says to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and thou do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. And how can thou say, Show us the Father?

²¹ But all these things they will do to you because of my name, because they have not known him who sent me.

³ And they will do these things, because they have not known the Father nor me.

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

²⁵ And righteous Father, the world does not know thee, but I know thee, and these know that thou sent me. ²⁶ And I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, so that the love that thou loved me may be in them, and I in them.

³⁴ Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.

⁴ in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them. ⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves are your bondmen through Jesus. 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.

⁹ but now knowing God, but rather being known by God, how is it ye turn again to the weak and destitute elements to which ye desire again to be in bondage anew?

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

¹⁰ For 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,

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

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.

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.

²⁶ for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.

⁶ And after taking the silver pieces, the chief priests said, It is not permitted to put them into the treasury, since it is a price of blood.

⁴¹ And having sat down opposite the treasury, Jesus watched how the multitude cast money into the treasury, and many rich men cast in much.

⁴³ And having summoned his disciples, he says to them, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow cast in more than all those who are casting into the treasury.

³¹ In the same day some Pharisees came, saying to him, Get thee out and depart from here, because Herod wants to kill thee. ³² And he said to them, Having gone, say to this fox, Behold, I cast out demons and finish cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I am fully perfected. ³³ Nevertheless it is necessary for me to go today and tomorrow and the following, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.

¹⁹ And the chief priests and the scholars sought to throw hands on him in the same hour. And they were afraid, for they knew that he spoke this parable against them.

⁸ Go ye up to this feast. I am not yet going to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.

³⁰ They sought therefore to seize him, and yet no man laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

⁴⁴ And some of them wanted to take him, but no man laid hands on him.

⁵⁹ Therefore they took up stones so that they might throw at him, but Jesus was hid, and went out of the temple, having passed through the midst of them, and thus passed on.

³⁹ Therefore they sought again to take him, and he went forth out of their hand.

⁹ Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if any man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

¹⁰ As LORD thy God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek thee. And when they said, He is not here, he took an oath from the kingdom and nation that they did not find thee.

¹⁶ And they said to him, Behold now, there are fifty strong men with thy servants. Let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master, lest the Spirit of LORD has taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send. ¹⁷ And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. Therefore they sent fifty men. And they sought three days, but did not find him.

¹¹ His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

¹⁸ Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction. ¹⁹ How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. ²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, when thou waken, thou will despise their form.

⁷ When a wicked man dies, his expectation shall perish, and the hope of iniquity perishes.

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

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

¹⁸ When I say to a wicked man, Thou shall surely die, and thou give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked man from his wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. ¹⁹ Yet if thou warn the wicked man, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou have delivered thy soul.

³⁹ For I say to you, ye will, no, not see me henceforth, until ye say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

²³ Then if any man should say to you, Lo, here is the Christ, or, Here, believe ye not. 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.

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

⁴⁶ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

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. ²⁶ And besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those here who want to cross over to you are not able, nor may those go across from there to us.

³⁴ Ye will seek me, and will not find me, and where I am, ye cannot come.

²⁴ I said therefore to you that ye will die in your sins. For unless ye believe that I am he, ye will die in your sins.

³³ And he said this, signifying by what death he was going to die.

³³ Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, Where I go, ye cannot come, I also now say to you.

¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain. Ye are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Then also those who slept in Christ have perished.

¹ Even you, who were dead in trespasses and sins

⁶ But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

¹⁸ Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak against the righteous man insolently, with pride and contempt.

⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

²⁰ The multitude answered and said, Thou have a demon. Who seeks to kill thee?

³⁵ The Jews therefore said among themselves, Where is this man going to go that we will not find him? Is he going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

⁴⁸ Therefore the Jews answered and said to him, Do we not say well that thou are a Samaritan, and have a demon?

⁵² The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets, and thou say, If any man keeps my word, he will, no, not taste of death, into the age.

²⁰ And many of them said, He has a demon, and is mad. Why do ye listen to him?

³ For consider the man who endured such hostility against him by sinners, so that ye may not be weary in your souls, being disheartened.

¹³ Let us therefore go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

⁴ As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept from the ways of a violent man.

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

¹³ And no man has ascended into heaven, except he who came down out of heaven: the Son of man who is in heaven.

³¹ He who comes from above is above all things. He who is of the earth is of the earth, and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all things.

¹⁸ If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you. ¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love its own, but because ye are not of the world (instead I chose you out of the world), because of this the world hates you.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

¹⁶ They are not of the world just as I am not of the world.

⁷ Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able. ⁸ And those who are in flesh cannot please God.

⁴⁷ The first man was of the earth, earthly. The second man is the Lord from heaven. ⁴⁸ As is the earthly, such also are the earthly. And as is the heavenly, such also are the heavenly.

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, 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.

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. 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.

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

¹⁵ 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.

⁵ They are of the world. Because of this they speak of the world, and the world hears them. ⁶ We are of God. He who knows God hears us. He who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

¹⁹ We know that we are of God, and the whole world is set in the evil. 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.

³⁶ But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.

⁶ For many will come in my name, saying, I am, and they will lead many astray.

¹⁶ He who believes and is immersed will be saved, but he who does not believe will be damned.

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

¹⁸ He who believes in him is not condemned. He who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

³⁶ He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

²⁶ Jesus says to her, I who speak to thee am the man.

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

¹⁹ From henceforth I tell you before it happens, so that when it happens, ye may believe that I am.

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

³ how will we escape, having neglected so great a salvation? Which first, having taken to be spoken by the Lord, was verified for us by those who heard;

²⁶ For when we sin willfully after taking the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and of fire, a fervor that is going to devour the opposition. ²⁸ Any man who has disregarded the law of Moses dies without mercies from two or three witnesses. ²⁹ By how much worse punishment do ye think he will deserve who has trampled the Son of God, and who considered profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who treated the Spirit of grace contemptuously?

²⁵ Watch, that ye not refuse him who speaks. For if those men did not escape, having refused him who spoke a divine message on earth, much more we, those who turn away from him from the heavens,

⁶⁷ If thou are the Christ, tell us. And he said to them, If I tell you, ye will not believe,

¹⁹ And this is the testimony of John when the Jews sent forth priests and Levites from Jerusalem so that they might ask him, Who are thou?

²² They said therefore to him, Who are thou, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do thou say about thyself?

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now and I work. ¹⁸ Because of this therefore the Jews sought even more to kill him, because not only did he relax the sabbath, but also he called God his own Father, making himself equal to God. ¹⁹ Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever he may do, the Son also does these things in like manner. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. And he will show him works greater than these, so that ye may marvel. ²¹ For as the Father raises up the dead and makes alive, so also the Son makes alive whom he will. ²² For neither does the Father judge any man, but he has given all judgment to the Son, ²³ so that all would honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. The man not honoring the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him. 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. ²⁵ Truly, truly, I say to you, that an hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he also gave him authority to execute judgment because he is a son of man. ²⁸ Marvel not at this, because an hour comes in which all those in the sepulchers will hear his voice, ²⁹ and will come forth, those who have done right to a resurrection of life, and those who have practiced wrong to a resurrection of judgment.

²⁴ The Jews therefore surrounded him, and said to him, When do thou lift up our soul? If thou are the Christ, tell us plainly.

⁹ And he went into the Praetorium again, and says to Jesus, Where are thou from? But Jesus gave him no answer.

³² And what he has seen and heard, of this he testifies, and no man receives his testimony. ³³ He who has received his testimony has set a seal that God is true.

⁴² But I know you, that ye have not the love of God within yourselves. ⁴³ I have come in my Father's name, and ye do not accept me. If another man should come in his own name, ye will accept that man.

¹⁶ Jesus therefore answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his who sent me.

¹⁶ But even if I judge, my judgment is valid, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me. ¹⁷ And also it is written in your law that the testimony of two men is valid.

⁴⁰ But now ye seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

³⁹ And Jesus said, For judgment I came into this world, so that those not seeing might see, and those who see might become blind. ⁴⁰ And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, Are we also blind? ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin, but now ye say, We see, therefore your sin remains.

⁴⁷ And if any man hears my sayings, and will not believe, I do not judge him, for I came not so that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world. ⁴⁸ He who rejects me and does not receive my sayings, has that which judges him: the word that I spoke, that will judge him in the last day. ⁴⁹ Because I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. ⁵⁰ And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Therefore what things I speak, just as the Father has said to me, so I speak.

¹⁵ I no longer call you bondmen, because the bondman does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I made known to you.

¹² I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now.

¹⁸ But God is faithful, because our word toward you became not, yes and no.

¹¹ About whom, much subject matter from us is also difficult to explain, since ye have become sluggish in hearing. ¹² For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

⁹ And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but do not understand, and see ye indeed, but do not perceive.

¹⁸ Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may see. ¹⁹ Who is blind, but my servant, or deaf, as my messenger that I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace with me, and blind as LORD's servant? ²⁰ Thou see many things, but thou do not observe. His ears are open, but he does not hear.

¹⁰ We grope for the wall like the blind. Yea, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the twilight. We are as dead men in desolate places.

⁴³ Why do ye not understand my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.

⁴⁷ He who is of God hears the sayings of God. Because of this ye do not hear, because ye are not of God.

⁷ What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain. But the chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened, ⁸ just as it is written that God gave them a spirit of slumber: eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, until this very day. ⁹ And David says, Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling block, and for a retribution to them. ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened, not to see, and may thou bow down their back always.

³ But even if our good news is concealed, it is concealed in those who are perishing, ⁴ in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them.

²⁸ And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that LORD has sent me to do all these works, for it is not of my own mind. ²⁹ If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then LORD has not sent me. ³⁰ But if LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that pertains to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall understand that these men have despised LORD.

⁵⁰ And Jesus, having cried out again in a great voice, yielded up his spirit. ⁵¹ And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom, and the earth quaked, and the rocks split, ⁵² and the sepulchers were opened, and many bodies of the sanctified who have been asleep arose. ⁵³ And having come forth out of the sepulchers after his resurrection they entered into the holy city and appeared to many. ⁵⁴ Now the centurion, and those with him watching over Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that happened, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

¹¹ Truly, truly, I say to thee, we speak that which we know, and testify of what we have seen, and ye do not accept our testimony.

¹⁴ And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up,

¹⁹ Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever he may do, the Son also does these things in like manner.

³⁰ I can from myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge. And my judgment is righteous because I seek not my will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

³⁸ Because I have come down from heaven, not so that I might do my will, but the will of him who sent me.

⁴² And I had known that thou always hear me, but because of the multitude that stands by I spoke, so that they may believe that thou sent me.

³² And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself. ³³ And he said this, signifying by what death he was going to die. ³⁴ The multitude answered him, We have heard from the law that the Christ remains into the age. And how can thou say, The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?

¹⁰ and about justice because I go to the Father, and ye see me no more,

¹⁸ where they crucified him, and two others with him, on this side and that, and Jesus in the middle.

⁴¹ Indeed therefore those who received his word gladly, were immersed. And there were added in that day about three thousand souls.

⁴ But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men became about five thousand.

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

¹⁵ The men who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and who persecuted us, and are not pleasing to God, and are contrary to all men. ¹⁶ Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles so that they might be saved, in order to fill up their sins always. But wrath came upon them finally.

² For if the word spoken through agents became certain, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward, ³ how will we escape, having neglected so great a salvation? Which first, having taken to be spoken by the Lord, was verified for us by those who heard;

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.

⁶ I, LORD, have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles,

²¹ It pleased LORD, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

⁴ But I said, I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity. Yet surely the justice due to me is with LORD, and my recompense with my God. ⁵ And now says LORD who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of LORD, and my God has become my strength), 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. ⁷ Thus says LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers. Kings shall see and arise, rulers, and they shall worship, because of LORD who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen thee. ⁸ Thus says LORD, In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in a day of salvation I have helped thee. And I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages,

⁴ The lord LORD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning. He awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. ⁵ The lord LORD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, nor turned away backward. ⁶ I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I did not hide my face from shame and spitting. ⁷ For the lord LORD will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame. ⁸ He is near who justifies me. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. ⁹ Behold, the lord LORD will help me. Who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

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

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

¹⁶ But even if I judge, my judgment is valid, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me.

¹⁰ Do thou not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The sayings that I speak to you I speak not from myself, but the Father who dwells in me, he does the works. ¹¹ Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me. But if not, believe me because of the works themselves.

³¹ but that the world may know that I love the Father. And as the Father commanded me, thus I do. Arise, let us go from here.

¹⁰ If ye keep my commandments, ye will dwell in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments, and dwell in his love.

⁴ I glorified thee on the earth. I finished the work which thou have given me that I should do.

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the sacred message might be brought to fullness, and all the Gentiles might hear. And I was rescued out of the mouth of the lion.

²² The Lord Jesus Christ is with thy spirit. Grace is with you. Truly.

¹⁵ For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who was tempted in all things in the same way, without sin.

⁸ although being a Son, he learned obedience from the things that he suffered. ⁹ And having been fully perfected, he became the source of eternal salvation to all those who obey him,

²⁶ For such a high priest is fitting for us, devout, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having become higher than the heavens.

⁵ Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, but thou prepared for me a body. ⁶ In whole burnt offerings, and for sin thou were not pleased. ⁷ Then I said, Lo, I come (in the volume of a book it is written about me) to do thy will, O God, ⁸ saying above, Sacrifice and offering and whole burnt offerings and for sin thou did not desire, nor were thou pleased with things that are offered according to the law. ⁹ Then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the first, so that he may establish the second. ¹⁰ By which will we are sanctified through the one time offering of the body of Jesus Christ.

¹ My little children, I write these things to you so that ye may not sin. And if any man does sin, we have an advocate with the Father-righteous Jesus Christ.

²³ Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover during the feast, many believed in his name seeing his signs that he did.

¹⁴ When therefore the men saw what sign Jesus did, they said, This really is the prophet who comes into the world.

³¹ But many from the crowd believed in him, and they said, When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than these that this man did?

⁴² And many believed in him there.

⁴⁵ Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and who saw what Jesus did, believed in him.

¹⁴ If ye will fear LORD, and serve him, and hearken to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of LORD, then both ye and also the king who reigns over you shall be followers of LORD your God.

¹³ But he who endures to the end, this man will be saved.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says about him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit.

⁵⁵ For my flesh is truly food, and my blood is truly drink.

⁶⁶ From this, many of his disciples went back at these things, and walked no more with him. ⁶⁷ Jesus said therefore to the twelve, Do ye not also want to go? ⁶⁸ Simon Peter therefore answered him, Lord, to whom will we go? Thou have sayings of eternal life. ⁶⁹ And we have believed and know that thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God. ⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, Did I not choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil? ⁷¹ But he spoke of Judas Iscariot son of Simon. For this man, being one of the twelve, was going to betray him.

³⁶ If therefore the Son should make you free, ye will truly be free.

⁴ Dwell in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it dwells in the grapevine, so neither ye, if ye do not dwell in me. ⁵ I am the grapevine, ye are the branches. He who dwells in me, and I in him, this man bears much fruit, because without me ye can do nothing. ⁶ If any man does not dwell in me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered. And they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and are burned. 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. ⁸ By this my Father is glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye will become my disciples. ⁹ As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Dwell ye in my love.

⁴³ Now after the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, while conversing, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

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

²² Having therefore experienced the help from God, I stand to this day solemnly declaring both to small and great, saying nothing apart from what both the prophets and Moses said was going to happen,

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

²² Behold therefore the goodness and the severity of God. Indeed toward those who fell, severity, but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness, otherwise thou too will be cut off.

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

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

¹⁶ Hold firm to thyself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this thou will save both thyself and those who hear thee.

³ Support widows, the real widows. ⁴ But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be devoted to their own house, and to give back recompense to their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God. ⁵ But the real widow, and made alone, has hoped in God, and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.

¹⁴ But continue thou in what thou learned and were convinced of, knowing from whom thou learned them.

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

⁹ Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by my hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.

³⁸ But the righteous man will live from faith, and if he should withdraw, my soul is not pleased with him. ³⁹ But we are not of retreat for destruction, but of faith for the preservation of the soul.

²⁵ But he who stooped to look into the perfect law, the one of liberty, and who remained, this man, who did not become a forgetful hearer but a doer of work, this man will be blessed in his doing.

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have continued with us, but-so that they might be made known, that they are not all of us.

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.

⁵ Guide me in thy truth, and teach me. For thou are the God of my salvation. For thee do I wait all the day.

⁸ Good and upright is LORD. Therefore he will instruct sinners in the way. ⁹ The meek he will guide in justice, and the meek he will teach his way.

⁴⁵ And I shall walk at liberty, for I have sought thy precepts.

²³ Turn back at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you. I will make my words known to you.

²⁹ because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of LORD.

¹ My son, if thou will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee, ² so as to incline thine ear to wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding, ³ yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding, ⁴ if thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures, ⁵ then thou shall understand the fear of LORD, and find the knowledge of God. 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,

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

⁷ Tell me, O thou whom my soul loves, where thou feed thy flock, where thou make it to rest at noon. For why should I be as she who is veiled beside the flocks of thy companions? ⁸ If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.

³ And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of LORD from Jerusalem.

²¹ And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

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

¹³ And all thy sons shall be taught of LORD, and great shall be the peace of thy sons.

¹ The Spirit of the lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, and the opening of bonds to those who are bound,

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

³³ But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says LORD: I will give my laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ³⁴ And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know LORD, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye will find rest for your souls.

¹¹ And having answered, he said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to those men it has not been given. ¹² For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever has not, even what he has will be taken away from him.

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, And they will all be taught of God. Every man who hears from the Father, and having learned, comes to me.

¹³ However when that, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak from himself, but as many things as he may hear, he will speak. And he will report to you the things that are coming.

¹⁷ Sanctify them in thy truth. Thy word is truth.

¹⁴ for sin will not have dominion over you. For ye are not under law, but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? May we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? May it not happen! ¹⁶ Know ye not, that to what ye present yourselves as bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to what ye obey, whether of sin for death, or of obedience for righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but ye obeyed from the heart a model of doctrine for which ye were delivered. ¹⁸ And having been set free from sin, ye were made servile to righteousness

²² But now having been made free from sin, and having become servile to God, ye have your fruit for sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

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

¹⁵ For ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

¹⁷ Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 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.

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

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

²⁵ in meekness correcting those who oppose. Perhaps God may grant them repentance for recognition of the truth, ²⁶ and they may sober up out of the snare of the devil, having been captured by him for his will.

⁷ ever learning and never able to come to knowledge of truth.

¹² So speak ye, and so do ye, as men who are to be judged by a law of liberty.

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

¹³ And he said to Abram, Know of a certainty that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs. And shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.

¹³ And the Egyptians made the sons of Israel to serve with rigor. ¹⁴ And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, with which they made them serve with rigor.

⁴² For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as bondmen.

¹⁸ And when LORD raised up judges for them, then LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For LORD regretted because of their groaning because of those who oppressed them and vexed them.

⁸ Therefore the anger of LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia, And the sons of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

³ And the sons of Israel cried to LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel twenty years.

⁹ For we are bondmen, yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins of it, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

⁴ There were also who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and our vineyards. ⁵ Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons as their sons. And, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already. Neither is it in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards. ⁶ And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. ⁷ Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the ranking men and the rulers, and said to them, Ye exact usury, everyone of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them. ⁸ And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers the Jews, who were sold to the nations, and would ye even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and found not a word.

²⁷ Therefore thou delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. And in the time of their trouble, when they cried to thee, thou heard from heaven, and according to thy manifold mercies thou gave them saviors who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries. ²⁸ But after they had rest, they again did evil before thee. Therefore thou left them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them. Yet when they returned, and cried to thee, thou heard from heaven, and many times thou delivered them according to thy mercies,

³⁶ Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that thou gave to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good of it, behold, we are servants in it. ³⁷ And it yields much increase to the kings whom thou have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

⁹ And think not to say within yourselves, We have a father, Abraham. For I say to you, that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

³⁷ I know that ye are Abraham's seed, yet ye seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.

³⁹ They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

²⁵ And his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene had stood near the cross of Jesus.

²⁵ (But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

²² His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

¹⁸ For truly I say to you, until the heaven and the earth pass away, one iota or one tittle will, no, not pass away from the law, until all things come to pass.

³ Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to thee, If any man is not begotten from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

²³ For I perceive that thou are in the gall of bitterness and the bond of unrighteousness.

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.

¹² Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body in order to obey it, in its lusts.

¹⁶ Know ye not, that to what ye present yourselves as bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to what ye obey, whether of sin for death, or of obedience for righteousness?

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.

¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

²⁵ I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I of myself in the mind indeed serve a law of God, but in the flesh a law of sin.

²¹ Because the creation itself will also be freed from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

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

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

⁸ He who is doing sin is of the devil, because the devil sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was made known for this, so that he might destroy the works of the devil. ⁹ Every man who has been begotten of God is not doing sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God. ¹⁰ By this the children of God are visible, and the children of the devil. Every man not doing righteousness is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother.

¹⁰ Therefore she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son. For the son of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

¹⁷ But if he gives a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty, then it shall return to the ruler. But as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.

⁴¹ They say to him, Evil men, he will miserably destroy them, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will render him the fruits in their seasons. ⁴² Jesus says to them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone that those who build rejected, this came to be in the head of the corner. This happened from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes? ⁴³ Because of this I say to you, that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

³¹ And he said to him, Child, thou are always with me, and all my things are yours.

¹⁹ Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more, but ye see me. Because I live, ye will also live. ²⁰ In that day ye will know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

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

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.

⁴ But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born from a woman, born under law, ⁵ so that he might redeem those under law, so that we might receive the sonship. ⁶ And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. ⁷ So that thou are no longer a bondman but a son, and if a son, then an heir through Christ.

³⁰ Nevertheless, what does the scripture say? Send away the servant girl and her son, for the son of the servant girl will, no, not inherit with the son of the freewoman. ³¹ So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant girl, but of the freewoman.

³ For ye died, and your life has been hidden with the Christ in God.

⁵ And Moses was indeed faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of the things that were going to be spoken, ⁶ but Christ as a Son over his house, whose house we are, if only we keep in possession our confidence and pride of hope, firm until the end.

² chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace be multiplied. ³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who begot us again according to his abundant mercy for a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ for an inheritance imperishable, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heavens for you, ⁵ men being kept by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

¹³ Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be upright, and I shall be clear from great transgression.

³² I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shall enlarge my heart.

¹³³ Establish my footsteps in thy word, and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

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

¹¹ As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit in which is no water. ¹² Turn you back to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will render double to thee.

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to sent forth in deliverance those who have been broken,

³¹ Jesus therefore said to those Jews who believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples, ³² and ye will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.

¹⁷ Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

¹⁵ For this people's heart became fat, and their ears hear heavily, and their eyes are shut, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I will heal them.

¹⁹ Of every man who hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, evil comes, and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is that which was sown by the wayside. ²⁰ And that which was sown upon the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and straightaway receiving it with joy, ²¹ yet he has no root in himself, instead it is temporary. And when tribulation or persecution develops because of the word, straightaway he is caused to stumble. ²² And that which was sown in the thorns, this is he who hears the word, and the care of this age, and the deceitfulness of wealth, choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

¹⁶ And because of this the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on a sabbath. ¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now and I work. ¹⁸ Because of this therefore the Jews sought even more to kill him, because not only did he relax the sabbath, but also he called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

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

¹ And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

¹⁹ Did not Moses give you the law, and none of you does the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

²⁵ Therefore some of the Jerusalemites said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

⁶ But they said this, trying him, so that they might have an accusation against him. But Jesus having stooped down, wrote on the ground with his finger, not pretending.

³³ They answered to him, We are Abraham's seed, and have been in bondage to no man, ever. How can thou say, Ye will become free?

³⁹ They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. ⁴⁰ But now ye seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

⁴⁵ And I, because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which of you convicts me about sin? And if I speak truth, why do ye not believe me? ⁴⁷ He who is of God hears the sayings of God. Because of this ye do not hear, because ye are not of God.

³¹ Therefore again the Jews took up stones so that they might stone him.

⁵³ So from that day they consulted together so that they might kill him.

³⁹ Because of this they could not believe. Because Isaiah said again, ⁴⁰ He has blinded their eyes, and has hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and be turned, and I would heal them. ⁴¹ Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke about him. ⁴² Yet, nevertheless, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess, so that they would not become excommunicated from the synagogue, ⁴³ for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

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

⁷ nor, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children, rather, In Isaac a seed will be called for thee.

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.

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

³² And what he has seen and heard, of this he testifies, and no man receives his testimony.

²⁶ I have many things to say and to judge about you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world these things that I heard from him.

⁴¹ Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We were not begotten from fornication. We have one Father, God.

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.

²⁴ He who does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

⁴⁵ so that ye may become sons of your Father in the heavens, because he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and makes rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

²⁸ For he is not a Jew in what is visible, nor is circumcision in what is visible, in flesh, ²⁹ but he is a Jew in what is hidden, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit not a document, whose praise is not from men but from God.

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

¹⁶ Because of this it is from faith, so that it is according to grace, in order for the promise to be sure to all the seed, not only to the seed from the law, but also to the seed from the faith of Abraham, who is father of us all

⁷ Ye know therefore that those from faith, these are sons of Abraham.

²⁹ And if ye are Christ's, then ye are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

²² Thou see that faith was working with his works, and from the works, faith was fully perfected. ²³ And the scripture was fulfilled, which says, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness, and he was called a friend of God. ²⁴ Ye see therefore that from works a man is made righteous, and not from faith only.

¹² The wicked man plots against the righteous man, and gnashes upon him with his teeth.

³² A wicked man watches a righteous man, and seeks to kill him.

³⁷ I know that ye are Abraham's seed, yet ye seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you. ³⁸ I speak what I have seen from my Father, and ye therefore do what ye have seen from your father.

⁵⁶ Your father Abraham rejoiced that he could see my day, and he saw it, and was glad.

¹⁶ So then have I become your enemy telling you the truth?

²⁹ But just as then, the man who was born according to flesh persecuted the man according to Spirit, so also now.

¹² Not as Cain. He was of the wicked, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were wrong, and his brother's right. ¹³ Marvel not, my brothers, if the world hates you. 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.

⁴ And his tail drags the third part of the stars of the sky, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was going to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

¹² Rejoice because of this, O heavens, and ye who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has little time. ¹³ And when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male.

¹⁷ And the dragon was angry toward the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, those keeping the commandments of God, and having the testimony of Jesus.

²² And thou shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says LORD, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

¹ Ye are the sons of LORD your God. Ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

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

³ But draw near here, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot. 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, ⁵ ye who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree, who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? ⁶ Among the smooth stones of the valley is thy portion. They, they are thy lot, even to them thou have poured a drink offering; thou have offered an oblation. Shall I be appeased for these things? ⁷ Upon a high and lofty mountain thou have set thy bed. Thou also went up there to offer sacrifice.

¹⁶ For thou are our Father, though Abraham knows us not, and Israel does not acknowledge us, thou, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.

⁸ But now, O LORD, thou are our Father. We are the clay, and thou our potter, and we are all the work of thy hand.

¹⁹ But I said, How I will put thee among the sons, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! And I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.

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.

²⁰ Moreover thou have taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou have borne to me, and thou have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter, ²¹ that thou have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?

⁴⁵ And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands. ⁴⁶ For thus says the lord LORD: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed. ⁴⁷ And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

² When LORD spoke at the first by Hosea, LORD said to Hosea, Go, take to thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom, departing from LORD.

² Contend with your mother. Contend, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. And let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts, ³ lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst. ⁴ Yea, I will have no mercy upon her sons, for they are sons of whoredom, ⁵ for their mother has played the harlot. She who conceived them has done shamefully, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

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?

¹¹ Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holiness of LORD which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

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

⁴³ I have come in my Father's name, and ye do not accept me. If another man should come in his own name, ye will accept that man.

⁴⁹ Because I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

²³ He who hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works that no other man has done, they would not have had sin, but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

²⁷ for the Father himself loves you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God. ²⁸ I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world. Again I leave the world, and go to the Father.

²⁵ And righteous Father, the world does not know thee, but I know thee, and these know that thou sent me.

²² If any man does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Maranatha.

⁴ But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born from a woman, born under law,

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.

¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, a Savior of the world.

¹ Every man who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten from God, and every man who loves him who begot, also loves him who has been begotten from him. ² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

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,

⁵ Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek LORD understand all things.

¹⁸ They do not know, nor do they consider. For he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

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

⁹ Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.

¹² But they know not the thoughts of LORD, nor do they understand his counsel, for he has gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor.

⁶⁰ Therefore many of his disciples having heard, said, This is a hard saying. Who can listen to it?

²⁷ They did not understand that he spoke the Father to them.

³⁹ Because of this they could not believe. Because Isaiah said again, ⁴⁰ He has blinded their eyes, and has hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and be turned, and I would heal them.

⁵¹ Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also.

¹¹ There is no man who understands. There is no man who seeks God.

³ but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, nor shall ye touch it, lest ye die. ⁴ And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die. ⁵ For God knows that in the day ye eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. ⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. ⁷ And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. He shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.

⁸ And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him. ⁹ And LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not. Am I my brother's keeper?

²² And LORD said to him, With what? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shall entice him, and shall also prevail. Go forth, and do so.

¹ And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

²⁰ And there came forth a spirit, and stood before LORD, and said, I will entice him. And LORD said to him, With what? ²¹ And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shall entice him, and shall also prevail. Go forth, and do so. ²² Now therefore, behold, LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets. And LORD has spoken evil concerning thee.

¹¹ But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

⁴ And Satan answered LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life. ⁵ But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face. ⁶ And LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand, only spare his life.

³⁸ and the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of evil.

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, Did I not choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil?

³ But Peter said, Ananias, why did Satan fill thy heart for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back from the price of the land?

¹⁰ said, O man full of all deceit and all recklessness, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, will thou not cease distorting the straight ways of the Lord?

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

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

⁹ Whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and marvels of deceit, ¹⁰ and in all deception of unrighteousness in those who are perishing, in return for which, they did not accept the love of the truth in order for them to be saved. ¹¹ And because of this God will send them the force of a delusion, for them to believe a lie,

¹ From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts? ² Ye desire and do not have, so ye murder. And ye envy and cannot obtain, so ye fight and make war. Ye do not have, because ye do not ask. ³ Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures. ⁴ Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. ⁵ Or think ye that the scripture says vainly, The Spirit that he caused to dwell in us yearns with jealousy? ⁶ But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly. ⁷ Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you.

⁸ Be sober, be vigilant. Your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom to devour.

⁴ He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in this man.

¹² Not as Cain. He was of the wicked, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were wrong, and his brother's right.

¹⁵ Every man hating his brother is a man-killer. And ye know that no man-killer has eternal life abiding in him.

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

¹¹ Having a king over them, the agent of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in the Greek he has the name Apollyon.

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

⁶ And it opened its mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, those who dwell in heaven. ⁷ And it was given it to make war with the sanctified, and to overcome them. And authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation was given to it. ⁸ And all who dwell upon the earth will worship it, whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb who was killed from the foundation of the world.

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

² And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, who leads the whole world astray, and bound him a thousand years. ³ And he cast him into the abyss, and locked and sealed over him, so that he would no longer lead the nations astray until the thousand years were ended. After these things he must be loosed for a little time.

⁷ And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be loosed out of his prison. ⁸ And he will come forth to lead astray the nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the battle, of whom the number of them is as the sand of the sea. ⁹ And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the encampment of the sanctified and the beloved city. And fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them. ¹⁰ And the devil who leads them astray was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where also were the beast and the false prophet. And they will be tormented day and night into the ages of the ages.

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.

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

⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

³⁷ Pilate therefore said to him, Then thou are a king? Jesus answered, Thou say that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, that I would testify to the truth. Every man who is of the truth hears my voice.

¹⁰ and in all deception of unrighteousness in those who are perishing, in return for which, they did not accept the love of the truth in order for them to be saved.

³ For there will be time when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but they will accumulate teachers to themselves according to their own desires, who tickle the ear, ⁴ and will indeed turn the ear away from the truth, and will be turned aside to myths.

²⁵ The immersion of John, from where was it, from heaven or from men? And they deliberated with themselves, saying, If we should say, From heaven, he will say to us, Why then did ye not believe him?

³¹ And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we should say, From heaven, he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?

⁷ And when they continued asking him, after standing erect, he said to them, Let the innocent man of you first cast the stone at her.

³⁰ I will no longer speak many things with you, for the ruler of the world comes. And he has nothing on me,

⁸ And having come, that will convict the world about sin, and about justice, and about judgment.

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.

²² Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth.

¹² But as many as did accept him, to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, ¹³ who were begotten, not from blood, nor from a will of flesh, nor from a will of man, but from God.

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, And they will all be taught of God. Every man who hears from the Father, and having learned, comes to me. ⁴⁶ Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God. This man has seen the Father.

⁶⁵ And he said, Because of this I have said to you that no man is able to come to me, if it is not given to him from my Father.

⁴⁵ And I, because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me.

²⁶ But ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep, as I said to you. ²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

⁶ I manifested thy name to the men whom thou gave me out of the world. They were thine, and thou gave them to me, and they have kept thy word. ⁷ Now they know that all things, as many as thou gave me are from thee. ⁸ Because the sayings that thou gave to me, I gave to them. And they received them, and knew truly that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou sent me.

¹⁰ By this the children of God are visible, and the children of the devil. Every man not doing righteousness is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother.

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but examine the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. ² By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in flesh is of God, ³ and every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ has come in flesh is not of God. And this is that of the antichrist, which ye have heard that it comes, and is now in the world already. ⁴ Ye are of God, little children, and ye have overcome them, because greater is he in you than he in the world.

¹ Every man who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten from God, and every man who loves him who begot, also loves him who has been begotten from him.

¹¹ Beloved, do not imitate the evil, but the good. The man doing right is of God. The man doing wrong has not seen God.

⁷ Thus says LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers. Kings shall see and arise, rulers, and they shall worship, because of LORD who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen thee.

³ He was despised, and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. And as him from whom men hide their face he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent forth, having ordered them, saying, Go not into a way of the Gentiles, and enter not into a city of the Samaritans,

²⁵ It is enough for the pupil that he becomes like his teacher, and the bondman like his lord. If they have called the house-ruler Beelzebub, how much more those of his household.

²⁴ But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebub the ruler of the demons.

³¹ Because of this I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven to men, but the blasphemy of the Spirit will not be forgiven men.

⁷ Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying,

⁹ The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How do thou, being Jewish, ask to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman, for Jews do not associate with Samaritans?

¹³ Ye call me, Teacher, and, Lord. And ye say well, for I am.

³ For Christ also did not please himself, but as it is written, The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell upon me.

¹⁹ Thou believe that there is one God, thou do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

³ And he said to me, Thou are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

¹⁵ But having answered, Jesus said to him, Allow it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he allows him. ¹⁶ And when Jesus was immersed, he went up straightaway out of the water. And lo, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and coming upon him. ¹⁷ And lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

⁴ But when Jesus heard, he said, This sickness is not about death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.

²⁸ Father, glorify thy name. A voice therefore came out of heaven, saying, I both glorified it, and I will glorify again.

³¹ When he went out, Jesus says, Now the Son of man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. ³² If God is glorify in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him straightaway.

¹³ And anything whatever ye may ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

⁶ who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold. ⁷ But he emptied himself, having taken a form of a bondman, having become in a likeness of men. ⁸ And having been found in a form like a man, he lowered himself, having become obedient until death, even of death from a cross. ⁹ Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the heavenly, and the earthly, and the sub-earthly, ¹¹ and that every tongue should acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

²³ Who, being reviled, did not revile in return. Suffering, he did not threaten, but yielded to him who judges righteously.

²⁰ For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. And he will show him works greater than these, so that ye may marvel. ²¹ For as the Father raises up the dead and makes alive, so also the Son makes alive whom he will. ²² For neither does the Father judge any man, but he has given all judgment to the Son, ²³ so that all would honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. The man not honoring the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

⁴¹ I do not receive glory from men.

⁴⁵ Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. The man who accuses you is Moses, in whom ye have hoped.

¹⁸ He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, this man is true, and unrighteousness is not in him.

⁵⁴ Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. My Father is he who glorifies me, of whom ye say, He is our God.

⁴⁷ And if any man hears my sayings, and will not believe, I do not judge him, for I came not so that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world. ⁴⁸ He who rejects me and does not receive my sayings, has that which judges him: the word that I spoke, that will judge him in the last day.

⁴⁸ What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

²⁶ And it was divinely revealed to him by the Holy Spirit, that he would not see death before he would see the Christ of the Lord.

¹⁵ so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but may have eternal life. 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.

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.

⁵⁰ This is the bread that comes down out of heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die.

⁵⁵ And ye do not know him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word.

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

²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, A bondman is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

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

⁵ Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? ⁶ But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned and said, Like as LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so he has dealt with us.

²⁴ So they called the man who was blind, for a second time, and said to him, Give glory to God. We know that this man is sinful.

⁹ But we see Jesus who has been made a little something less than the agents, who, because of the suffering of death, has been crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God he would taste of death for every man.

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.

⁶ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given. And the government shall be upon his shoulder. And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.

⁶ But I say to you, that a greater than the temple is here.

⁴¹ The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, a greater than Jonah is here. ⁴² The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

¹² Are thou greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his livestock?

¹⁸ Because of this therefore the Jews sought even more to kill him, because not only did he relax the sabbath, but also he called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

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.

³³ The Jews answered him, saying, We stone thee not about a good work, but about blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, make thyself God.

³⁴ The multitude answered him, We have heard from the law that the Christ remains into the age. And how can thou say, The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?

⁷ The Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die because he made himself the Son of God.

⁵ of whom are the fathers, and from whom (according to flesh) is the Christ, God who is over all is blessed into the ages. Truly.

² who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house. ³ For this man was considered worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he who built it has more esteem than the house.

¹ For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, having met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, also blessed him. ² To whom also Abraham divided a tenth of all. Being actually translated, first, king of righteousness, and then also, king of Salem, which is king of peace, ³ without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually. ⁴ And notice how great this man was, to whom also the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth out of the best spoils. ⁵ Now indeed those of the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood have commandment to collect tithes from the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, although having come out of the loins of Abraham. ⁶ But the man who did not descend from them has received tithes from Abraham, and has blessed the man having the promises. ⁷ And without all contradiction the inferior is blessed by the superior.

⁶ Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. ⁷ I will tell of the decree. LORD said to me, Thou are my Son, this day I have begotten thee. ⁸ Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance, and the outermost parts of the earth for thy possession. ⁹ Thou shall break them with a rod of iron, thou shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. ¹⁰ Now therefore be wise, O ye kings. Be instructed, ye judges of the earth. ¹¹ Serve LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. ¹² Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

¹ LORD says to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. ² LORD will send forth the rod of thy strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. ³ Thy people offer themselves willingly in the day of thy power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning thou have the dew of thy youth. ⁴ LORD has sworn, and will not repent. Thou are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey, so for men to search out their own glory is grievous.

¹ Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness ² (for they call themselves of the holy city, and steady themselves upon the God of Israel, LORD of hosts is his name):

⁵ Hear the word of LORD, ye who tremble at his word: Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, have said, Let LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy. But it is those who shall be put to shame.

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

⁹ And LORD said, Call his name Lo-ammi, for ye are not my people, and I will not be yours.

¹¹ This is the beginning of the signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and he manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

³¹ If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. ³² There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony that he testifies about me is valid.

³⁹ But he spoke this about the Spirit that those who believe in him were going to receive, for the Holy Spirit was not yet, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

⁵⁰ But I seek not my own glory. He is who seeks and judges.

¹⁴ He will glorify me because he will receive from me, and will report to you. ¹⁵ All things, as many as the Father has are mine. Because of this I said that he takes from me, and will report to you.

¹ Jesus spoke these things, and he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify thy Son, that the Son may also glorify thee,

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

¹³ The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Boy Jesus, whom ye actually delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate who preferred to release that man.

¹⁷ Behold, thou are called a Jew, and rely upon the law, and boast in God, ¹⁸ and know his will, and approve the things that are significant, being instructed out of the law. ¹⁹ And thou have confidence in thyself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness, ²⁰ a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the childlike, having in the law the essence of knowledge and truth, ²¹ thou therefore who teach another, do thou not teach thyself? Thou who preach not to steal, do thou steal? ²² Thou who say not to commit adultery, do thou commit adultery? Thou who abhor idols, do thou rob temples? ²³ Thou who boast in law, dishonor God by thy transgression of the law. ²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, just as it is written. ²⁵ For circumcision is indeed beneficial if thou perform law, but if thou are a transgressor of law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶ If therefore a man of uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the law, will not his uncircumcision be considered circumcision? ²⁷ And the man of natural uncircumcision who fulfills the law, will judge thee, a transgressor of law through a document and circumcision.

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

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

⁴ And not any man takes the honor to himself, but being called by God, just as also Aaron. ⁵ So also Christ did not glorify himself to become a high priest, but it was he who said to him, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee.

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.

²¹ men who, because of him, believe in God who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, in order for your faith and hope to be in God;

¹⁷ For having received from God the Father honor and glory from a voice of such kind brought to him from the Majestic Glory, This is my Son, the beloved in whom I am well pleased.

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

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 Their doings will not allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they do not know LORD.

²⁷ All things were delivered to me by my Father. And no man knows the Son, except the Father, nor does any man know the Father, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son wants to reveal him.

²² And having turned to the disciples, he said, All things were delivered to me by my Father. And no man knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son wants to reveal him.

⁴⁶ Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God. This man has seen the Father.

¹⁹ They said therefore to him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me, nor my Father. If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also.

²³ For, passing through and examining your religious objects, I also found an altar on which had been engraved, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye worship unknowingly, him I proclaim to you.

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.

²² Who is the liar if not he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified about his Son.

⁹ Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, those who say themselves to be Jews, and are not, but lie, behold, I will make them so that they will come and bow down before thy feet, and may know that I have loved thee.

¹⁸ and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou have obeyed my voice.

¹⁷ For truly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men longed to see the things that ye see, and did not see them, and to hear the things that ye hear, and did not hear them.

²⁸ he also received it into his arms, and praised God, and said, ²⁹ Now dismiss thy bondman in peace, Master, according to thy word, ³⁰ because my eyes have seen thy salvation,

²⁴ For I say to you, that many prophets and kings desired to see what ye see, and did not see, and to hear what ye hear, and did not hear.

⁷ Ye know therefore that those from faith, these are sons of Abraham. ⁸ And the scripture having foreseen that God makes the Gentiles righteous from faith, proclaimed the good news in advance to Abraham: In thee all the nations will be blessed. ⁹ So then those from faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

³⁹ And all these, having been well reported through faith, did not receive the promise,

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

¹⁴ And God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM. And he said, Thus shall thou say to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.

²² LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. ²³ I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was, ²⁴ when there were no depths. I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water, ²⁵ before the mountains were settled, before the hills. I was brought forth ²⁶ while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. ²⁷ When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle upon the face of the deep, ²⁸ when he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong, ²⁹ when he gave to the sea its bound that the waters should not transgress his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, ³⁰ then I was by him, a master workman. And I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him,

¹³ Yea, since the day was I am he, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?

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

⁸ Fear ye not, nor be afraid. Have I not declared to thee of old, and shown it? And ye are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Yea, there is no Rock. I know not any.

⁹ Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is none else. I am God, and there is none like me,

¹² Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I also am the last.

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

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² This man was in the beginning with God.

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

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

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

¹⁰ And thou, Lord, at the beginnings founded the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands. ¹¹ They will perish, but thou are permanent. And they will all become old as a garment. ¹² And thou will roll them up as a mantle, and they will be changed. But thou are the same, and thy years will not cease.

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

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

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

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

¹¹ And they smote the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

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.

¹⁸ And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed to LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. ¹⁹ And Elisha said to them, This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. And he led them to Samaria. ²⁰ And it came to pass, when they came into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men that they may see. And LORD opened their eyes, and they saw. And, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.

²⁹ And having risen up, they thrust him outside of the city, and brought him as far as the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw him down headlong. ³⁰ But he, having passed through the midst of them, departed.

³¹ And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he became invisible from them.

¹³ But the man who was healed had not known who he is, for Jesus withdrew, a multitude being in the place.

⁵ Now in the law, Moses commanded us such women are to be stoned. What therefore do thou say about her? ⁶ But they said this, trying him, so that they might have an accusation against him. But Jesus having stooped down, wrote on the ground with his finger, not pretending.

³⁰ I and the Father are one. ³¹ Therefore again the Jews took up stones so that they might stone him. ³² Jesus answered them, I have shown you many good works from my Father. Because of them, which work do ye stone me? ³³ The Jews answered him, saying, We stone thee not about a good work, but about blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, make thyself God.

³⁹ Therefore they sought again to take him, and he went forth out of their hand. ⁴⁰ And he departed again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was first immersing, and he stayed there.

⁸ The disciples say to him, Rabbi, the Jews were now seeking to stone thee, and thou go there again.

⁵⁴ Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the region near the wilderness into a city called Ephraim, and he stayed there with his disciples.

³⁶ While ye have the light, believe in the light, so that ye may become sons of light. Jesus spoke these things, and after departing, he was hid from them.

³¹ Pilate therefore said to them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him, It is not permitted for us to kill any man,

⁵⁷ But they, having cried out in a great voice, held their ears shut, and rushed upon him with one accord.

³⁹ And when they came up out of the water, Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went on his way rejoicing. ⁴⁰ But Philip was found at Azotus. And passing through all the cities he preached the good news until he came to Caesarea.