Malachi 4 Cross References - ACV

¹ For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace, and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, shall be stubble. And the day that comes shall burn them up, says LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 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. ³ And ye shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, says LORD of hosts. ⁴ Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances. ⁵ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and fearful day of LORD comes. ⁶ And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

⁷ And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrow those who rise up against thee. Thou send forth thy wrath, it consumes them as stubble.

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

⁹ Thou will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger. LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. ¹⁰ Thou will destroy their fruit from the earth, and their seed from among the sons of men.

¹¹⁹ Thou put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love thy testimonies.

¹² For there shall be a day of LORD of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low, ¹³ and upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, ¹⁴ and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, ¹⁵ and upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall, ¹⁶ and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant imagery. ¹⁷ And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

²⁴ Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

²⁴ Yea, they have not been planted. Yea, they have not been sown. Yea, their stock has not taken root in the earth. Moreover he blows upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

² Who raised up the righteous man from the east, calls him to his foot, gives nations before him, and makes him rule over kings? He gives them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow.

¹⁴ Behold, they shall be as stubble. The fire shall burn them. They shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

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

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

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

⁹ Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks, yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

¹⁸ And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. And they shall burn among them, and devour them, and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau, for LORD has spoken it.

⁵ The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is up heaved at his presence. Yea, the world, and all who dwell therein. ⁶ Who can stand before his indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

¹⁰ For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

¹⁴ The great day of LORD is near. It is near and hastens greatly, the voice of the day of LORD. The mighty man cries there bitterly.

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of LORD's wrath, but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. For he will make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

¹ Behold, a day of LORD comes when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

² But who can abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.

¹⁵ And now we call the proud happy. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they challenge God, and escape.

¹⁸ Then ye shall return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between him who serves God and him who does not serve him.

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

¹² Whose winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. And he will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

⁴³ Because the days will come upon thee, and thine enemies will build a barricade around thee, and will surround thee, and enclose thee on every side.

²⁰ But when ye see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that the desolation of it has come near.

⁸ in a fire of flame rendering vengeance to those who have not known God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

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

⁴ he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.

¹ God be merciful to us, and bless us, and cause his face to shine upon us (Selah),

¹¹ For LORD God is a sun and a shield. LORD will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.

⁹ Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

¹² A righteous man shall flourish like the palm tree. He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. ¹³ Men who are planted in the house of LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. ¹⁴ They shall still bring forth fruit in old age. They shall be full of sap and green

³ who forgives all thine iniquities, who heals all thy diseases,

³ He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

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

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.

²⁶ Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that LORD binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.

⁶ Then the lame man shall leap as a hart, and the tongue of the mute shall sing. For waters in the wilderness shall break out, and streams in the desert.

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.

⁹ saying to those who are bound, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pasture shall be on all bare heights. ¹⁰ They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun smite them. For he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them even by springs of water.

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.

⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.

¹² For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands. ¹³ Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree. And it shall be to LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

¹⁸ I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners. ¹⁹ I create the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near, says LORD, and I will heal him.

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.

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

¹ Thus says LORD, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What manner of house will ye build to me, and what place shall be my rest? ² For all these things my hand has made, and all these things came to be, says LORD. But to this man I will look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

¹⁴ Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed. Save me, and I shall be saved, for thou are my praise.

⁹ They shall come with weeping. And I will lead them with supplications. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble. For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. ¹⁰ Hear the word of LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock. ¹¹ For LORD has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. ¹² And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of LORD, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. And their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall not sorrow any more at all. ¹³ Then the virgin shall rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together, for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. ¹⁴ And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says LORD.

⁶ Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them. And I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

¹² And by the river upon the bank of it, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, nor shall the fruit of it fail. It shall bring forth new fruit every month, because the waters of it issue out of the sanctuary. And the fruit of it shall be for food, and the leaf of it for healing.

¹ Come, and let us return to LORD, for he has torn, and he will heal us. He has smitten, and he will bind us up.

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

⁴ I will heal their backsliding. I will love them freely. For my anger is turned away from him. ⁵ I will be as the dew to Israel. He shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. ⁶ His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. ⁷ Those who dwell under his shadow shall return. They shall revive as the grain, and blossom as the vine. The scent of it shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

¹⁶ Then those who feared LORD spoke one with another, and LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared LORD, and who thought upon his name.

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.

⁵ the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor are proclaimed good news.

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not.

⁵⁰ And his mercy is for generations of generations to those who fear him.

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

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.

⁸ That man was not the light, but that he might testify about the light.

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.

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.

⁴ I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night comes when no man can work.

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. 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

⁸ For ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light ⁹ (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), ¹⁰ proving what is acceptable to the Lord. ¹¹ And do not associate with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even rebuke them. ¹² For it is disgusting even to speak of the things happening by them secretly. ¹³ But all things exposed are revealed by the light, for everything that is seen is light. ¹⁴ Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.

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

¹⁹ And we have the prophetic word sure, to which ye do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the daystar arises in your hearts.

¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him is the glory both now and into the day of the age. Truly.

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

²⁸ And I will give him the morning star.

¹⁸ And the nations were angry. And thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to thy bondmen the prophets, and to the sanctified, and to those who fear thy name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.

² in the middle of its thoroughfare. And on this side of the river and on that was a tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruit according to each month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

¹⁶ I, Jesus, have sent my agent to testify these things to you for the congregations. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, the morning star.

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.

²⁴ And it came to pass, when they brought forth those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them. ²⁵ And Joshua said to them, Fear not, nor be dismayed. Be strong and of good courage, for thus shall LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.

⁴³ Then I beat them small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.

¹² Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low, and tread down the wicked where they stand.

¹³ Thou shall tread upon the lion and adder. The young lion and the serpent thou shall trample under foot.

¹⁰ For the hand of LORD will rest on this mountain. And Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

⁶ The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

³ I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples there was no man with me. Yea, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath, and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment. ⁴ For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come. ⁵ And I looked, and there was none to help. And I wondered that there was none to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. And my wrath, it upheld me. ⁶ And I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.

¹⁸ By the multitude of thine iniquities, in the unrighteousness of thy commerce, thou have profaned thy sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought forth a fire from the midst of thee. It has devoured thee, and I have turned thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all those who behold thee.

¹⁸ But the sanctified of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.

²⁷ And the kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the sanctified of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

⁸ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.

¹⁰ Then my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is LORD thy God? My eyes shall see my desire upon her. Now she shall be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

⁵ And they shall be as mighty men, treading down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle. And they shall fight, because LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

¹⁷ And they shall be mine, says LORD of hosts, my own possession, in the day that I make. And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

²⁰ And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with you.

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

²⁰ And the winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came out from the winepress, up to the bridles of the horses, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

³ Thou shall have no other gods before me. ⁴ Thou shall not make to thee a graven image, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ⁵ Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me, ⁶ and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. ⁷ Thou shall not take the name of LORD thy God in vain, for LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. ⁸ Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. ⁹ Six days thou shall labor, and do all thy work, ¹⁰ but the seventh day is a sabbath to LORD thy God. Thou shall not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, ¹¹ for in six days LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. ¹² Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee. ¹³ Thou shall not murder. ¹⁴ Thou shall not commit adultery. ¹⁵ Thou shall not steal. ¹⁶ Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor. ¹⁷ Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is thy neighbor's. ¹⁸ And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off. ¹⁹ And they said to Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear, but let not God speak with us, lest we die. ²⁰ And Moses said to the people, Fear not, for God has come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye not sin. ²¹ And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

¹ Now these are the ordinances which thou shall set before them. ² If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ³ If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he be married, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴ If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her sons shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. ⁵ But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my sons, I will not go out free, ⁶ then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door, or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever. ⁷ And if a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do. ⁸ If she does not please her master, who has espoused her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no power to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. ⁹ And if he espouses her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the manner of daughters. ¹⁰ If he takes him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall not diminish. ¹¹ And if he does not do these three things to her, then she shall go out for nothing, without money. ¹² He who smites a man, so that he dies, shall surely be put to death. ¹³ And if a man does not lie in wait, but God delivers him into his hand, then I will appoint for thee a place where he shall flee. ¹⁴ And if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor, to kill him with guile, thou shall take him from my altar, that he may die. ¹⁵ And he who smites his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death. ¹⁶ And he who steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. ¹⁷ And he who curses his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸ And if men contend, and one smites the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he does not die, but keeps his bed, ¹⁹ if he rises again, and walks abroad upon his staff, then he who smote him shall be acquitted. Only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed. ²⁰ And if a man smites his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. ²¹ Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his money. ²² And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. ²³ But if any harm follows, then thou shall give life for life,

¹ And LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the tent of meeting, saying, ² Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When any man of you offers an oblation to LORD, ye shall offer your oblation of the cattle, even of the herd and of the flock. ³ If his oblation be a burnt offering of the herd, he shall offer it a male without blemish. He shall offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before LORD. ⁴ And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. ⁵ And he shall kill the bullock before LORD, and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall present the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is at the door of the tent of meeting. ⁶ And he shall skin the burnt offering, and cut it into its pieces. ⁷ And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay wood in order upon the fire.

⁵ Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land where ye go in to possess it. ⁶ Keep therefore and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

¹⁰ the day that thou stood before LORD thy God in Horeb, when LORD said to me, Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their sons.

¹⁹ He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. ²⁰ He has not dealt so with any nation. And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye LORD.

²⁰ Seek to the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

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

¹⁷ Think not that I came to abolish the law or the prophets. I came not to abolish, but to fulfill. 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. ¹⁹ Whoever therefore may relax one of these least commandments, and may teach men so, he will be called least in the kingdom of the heavens. But whoever may do and may teach them, this man will be called great in the kingdom of the heavens. ²⁰ For I say to you, that unless your righteousness abounds more than of the scholars and Pharisees, ye will, no, not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

¹⁶ And behold one man having come to him, said, Good teacher, what good thing should I do so that I may have eternal life? ¹⁷ And he said to him, Why do thou call me good? There is none good except one, God. But if thou want to enter into life, keep the commandments. ¹⁸ He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Thou shall not murder. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not testify falsely. ¹⁹ Honor the father and mother, and, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. ²⁰ The young man says to him, All these things I have kept from my youthfulness. What do I lack yet? ²¹ Jesus said to him, If thou want to be perfect, go, sell the things being possessed by thee, and give to the poor, and thou will have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me. ²² But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sorrowing, for he was having many possessions.

³⁶ Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? ³⁷ And Jesus said to him, Thou shall love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. ³⁸ This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. ⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

²⁸ And one of the scholars having come, having heard them disputing, knowing that he had answered them well, he questioned him, Which is the first commandment of all? ²⁹ And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, thou Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, ³⁰ and thou shall love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole mind, and from thy whole strength. This is the first commandment. ³¹ And this second is similar, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these. ³² And the scholar said to him, Well, teacher. Thou spoke in truth that he is one, and there is no other but he. ³³ And to love him from the whole heart, and from the whole understanding, and from the whole soul, and from the whole strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. ³⁴ And when Jesus saw him, that he answered wisely, he said to him, Thou are not far from the kingdom of God. And no man dared to question him any more.

²⁵ And behold, a certain lawyer stood up testing him, and saying, Teacher, having done what, would I inherit eternal life? ²⁶ And he said to him, What is written in the law? How read thou? ²⁷ And having answered, he said, Thou shall love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole strength, and from thy whole mind, and thy neighbor as thyself. ²⁸ And he said to him, Thou answered correctly. Do this and thou will live.

²⁹ But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them. ³⁰ And he said, No, father Abraham, but if some man would go to them from the dead they will repent. ³¹ And he said to him, If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if some man would rise from the dead.

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?

³¹ Do we then make law void through faith? May it not happen! Instead, we establish law.

¹ Let every soul be subject to offices of authority that rank higher. For there is no office of authority if not by God, and the offices of authority that are by God are those that have been instituted. ² So that he who resists the office of authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and those who have opposed will receive condemnation to themselves. ³ For rulers are not a source of fear to the good works, but to the evil. And do thou desire not to fear the office of authority? Do what is good, and thou will have praise from it. ⁴ For he is a helper of God to thee for what is good. But if thou do what is evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is a helper of God, vengeful for wrath to the man who commits evil. ⁵ Therefore there is a need to be subordinate, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience. ⁶ For because of this ye also fulfill taxes, for they are servants of God being devoted to this same thing. ⁷ Render therefore to all, the things due: tax to the man of tax, tribute to the man of tribute, fear to the man of fear, esteem to the man of esteem. ⁸ Owe no man anything except to love each other, for he who loves the other has fulfilled law. ⁹ For this, Thou shall not commit adultery, Thou shall not murder, Thou shall not steal, Thou shall not testify falsely, Thou shall not covet, and if there be any other commandment it is summarized in this saying, in, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. ¹⁰ Love works no evil to the neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of law.

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. ¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.

²⁴ And those of the Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and the lusts. ²⁵ If we live in Spirit, we should also march in Spirit.

⁹ But if ye respect personages, ye work sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. ¹⁰ For whoever keeps the whole law, and stumbles on one, he has become guilty of all. ¹¹ For he who said thou shall not commit adultery, also said thou shall not murder. Now if thou will not commit adultery, but murder, thou have become a transgressor of law. ¹² So speak ye, and so do ye, as men who are to be judged by a law of liberty. ¹³ For the judgment is merciless to him who did no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

³ The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

¹ Behold, I send my agent, and he shall prepare the way before me. And the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple. And the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire, behold, he comes, says LORD of hosts.

¹ For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace, and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, shall be stubble. And the day that comes shall burn them up, says LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

¹³ For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. ¹⁴ And if ye are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is going to come.

¹⁰ And his disciples questioned him, saying, Why then do the scholars say that Elijah must first come? ¹¹ And having answered, Jesus said to them, Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all. ¹² But I say to you, that Elijah already came, and they knew him not, but did to him how many things they wanted. Likewise also the Son of man is going to suffer by them. ¹³ Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them about John the immerser.

⁴⁷ And some of those who stood there, when they heard it, said, This man calls Elijah. ⁴⁸ And straightaway one of them, after running, and having taken a sponge, and having filled it with vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. ⁴⁹ But the others said, Leave thou be. We might see if Elijah comes he will save him.

¹¹ And they questioned him, saying, The scholars say that Elijah must first come. ¹² And having answered, he said to them, Elijah indeed comes first and restores all. And how it is written for the Son of man, that he would suffer many things and be rejected. ¹³ But I say to you, that Elijah has also come, and they did to him as much as they wanted, just as it is written for him.

¹⁷ And he will go ahead, in front of him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn back the hearts of fathers toward children, and the disobedient in a mentality of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.

²⁶ But what did ye go out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and much more than a prophet. ²⁷ This is he about whom it is written, Behold, I send my agent before thy face, who will prepare thy way before thee. ²⁸ For I say to you, among men born of women there is not one prophet greater than John the immerser, yet the smaller in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

³⁰ And behold, two men talked with him, who were Moses and Elijah,

²¹ And they asked him, What therefore, are thou Elijah? And he says, I am not. Are thou the prophet? And he answered, No.

²⁵ And they asked him, and said to him, Why therefore do thou immerse if thou are not the Christ nor Elijah nor the prophet?

¹⁹ And I will give wonders in the heaven above, and signs on the earth beneath, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. ²⁰ The sun will be changed into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and wonderful day of the Lord comes.

¹⁷ Because the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?

¹⁹ and it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry. ²⁰ LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and LORD will blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ And LORD will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law. ²² And the generation to come, your sons who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the calamities of that land, and the sicknesses with which LORD has made it sick. ²³ The whole land of it is brimstone, and salt, a burning. It is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath, ²⁴ even all the nations shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land? What is the meaning of the heat of this great anger? ²⁵ Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶ and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given to them. ²⁷ Therefore the anger of LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book. ²⁸ And LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day. ²⁹ The secret things belong to LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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.

⁶ Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

²⁸ Therefore I will profane the rulers of the sanctuary, and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.

² to proclaim the acceptable year of LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,

¹⁵ And ye shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen, and the lord LORD will kill thee. And he will call his servants by another name,

¹¹ Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside, that they should not obey thy voice. Therefore the curse has been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God. For we have sinned against him.

²⁶ And after the sixty-two weeks the anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end of it shall be with a flood. And even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined. ²⁷ And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week. And in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. And upon the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate. And even to the full end, and that determined, wrath shall be poured out upon the desolate.

³ Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cut off on the one side according to it, and everyone who swears shall be cut off on the other side according to it.

⁶ For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, says LORD. But, lo, I will deliver the men each one into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. And they shall smite the land, and I will not deliver them out of their hand.

⁸ And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die, but the third shall be left in it.

² For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle. And the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished, and half of the city shall go forth into captivity. And the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

¹² And this shall be the plague with which LORD will smite all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

⁷ But having heard that, the king was angry, and having sent forth his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

³⁵ so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ Truly I say to you, that all these things will come upon this generation. ³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not. ³⁸ Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

²⁷ For as the lightning comes out from the east, and shines as far as the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of man. ²⁸ For wherever the carcass may be, there the vultures will be gathered together. ²⁹ But straightaway after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light. And the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ³⁰ And then the sign of the Son of man will appear in the sky. And then all the tribes of the earth will beat the breast, and they will see the Son of man coming in the clouds of the sky with power and much glory.

²¹ And having remembered, Peter says to him, Rabbi, behold, the fig tree that thou cursed has been dried out.

¹⁴ But when ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let him who reads understand), then let those in Judea flee to the mountains, ¹⁵ and let the man on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter in to take anything out of his house, ¹⁶ and let the man who is in the field not turn back for the things behind, to take his cloak. ¹⁷ But woe to those who have in the womb, and to those who suckle in those days. ¹⁸ And pray ye that your flight may not be in winter. ¹⁹ For those days will be tribulation, such as has not happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and no, will not happen. ²⁰ And unless the Lord cut short the days, no flesh would have been saved, but because of the chosen, whom he chose, he cut short the days. ²¹ And then if any man should say to you, Lo, here is the Christ, or, Lo, there, do not believe. ²² For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will give signs and wonders, in order to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen. ²³ But watch ye. Behold, I have foretold all to you. ²⁴ But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, ²⁵ and the stars of the sky will be falling, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken. ²⁶ And then they will see the Son of man coming in clouds with much power and glory.

¹⁶ And he will turn back many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God. ¹⁷ And he will go ahead, in front of him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn back the hearts of fathers toward children, and the disobedient in a mentality of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.

⁷⁶ And thou, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High. For thou will go ahead, before the face of the Lord, to prepare his ways,

⁴¹ And when he came near, having seen the city, he wept over it, ⁴² saying, If thou knew, even thou, indeed even in this thy day, the things for thy peace. But now they are hidden from thine eyes. ⁴³ Because the days will come upon thee, and thine enemies will build a barricade around thee, and will surround thee, and enclose thee on every side. ⁴⁴ And they will raze thee and thy children within thee. And they will not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou knew not the time of thy visitation.

²² Because these are days of vengeance to fulfill all things that are written. ²³ But woe to those who have in the womb, and to those who suckle in those days. For there will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people. ²⁴ And they will fall by the jaw of the sword, and will be led away captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. ²⁵ And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, roaring of sea and of tossing, ²⁶ fainting of men from fear, and of anticipation of the things coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ²⁷ And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and much glory.

⁸ But producing thorns and thistles it is unfit and near a curse, the end of which is for burning.

²⁶ For when we sin willfully after taking the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and of fire, a fervor that is going to devour the opposition. 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? ³⁰ For we know him who said, Vengeance is for me, I will repay, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge his people. ³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

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.

³ And there will be no curse there. And the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his bondmen will serve him.

²⁰ He who testifies these things says, Yea, I come quickly. Truly. Yea, come, Lord Jesus! ²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus is with all the sanctified. Truly.