Philippians 3 Cross References - ACV

¹ Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is really not irksome to me, but safe for you. ² Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workmen, beware of the excision. ³ For we are the circumcision, men who worship in spirit to God, and who boast in Christ Jesus, and not being confident in flesh. ⁴ Although (I having confidence also in flesh) if any other man seems to be confident in the flesh, I more: ⁵ in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; regarding law, a Pharisee; ⁶ regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless. ⁷ But whatever was gain to me, these things I regarded loss because of the Christ. ⁸ But indeed therefore I even consider all things to be loss because of things surpassing, of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I suffered the loss of all things, and consider them to be rubbish, so that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and be found in him, not having my righteousness, that from law, but that through Christ's faith-the righteousness from God based on faith- ¹⁰ to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, ¹¹ if somehow I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. ¹² Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brothers, I reckon myself not to have seized, but one thing, indeed forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead, ¹⁴ I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ As many therefore as are perfect should think this way. And if ye think anything differently, this also God will reveal to you. ¹⁶ However in what we have attained, to march by the same standard, to think the same way. ¹⁷ Brothers, become fellow-imitators of me, and watch those who so walk, just as ye have us for an example. ¹⁸ For many walk, who (I told you often, and now also say while weeping) are enemies of the cross of Christ, 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.

¹⁸ But thou shall eat them before LORD thy God in the place which LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite who is within thy gates. And thou shall rejoice before LORD thy God in all that thou put thy hand to.

¹¹ And thou shall rejoice before LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite who is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of thee, in the place which LORD thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there,

¹ And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart exults in LORD. My horn is exalted in LORD. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies because I rejoice in thy salvation.

²⁸ Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with psalteries and harps.

¹⁰ Glory ye in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek LORD rejoice.

³¹ Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. And let them say among the nations, LORD reigns. ³² Let the sea roar, and the fullness of it. Let the field exult, and all that is therein. ³³ Then shall the trees of the wood sing for joy before LORD, for he comes to judge the earth.

²² and ate and drank before LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him to LORD to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.

²⁶ So there was great joy in Jerusalem. For since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem. ²⁷ Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people. And their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

¹⁰ Then he said to them, Go your way, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord; neither be ye grieved, for the joy of LORD is your strength.

²⁶ For then shall thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shall lift up thy face to God.

¹¹ But let all those who take refuge in thee rejoice. Let them ever shout for joy, because thou defend them. Let those also who love thy name be joyful in thee.

¹¹ Be glad in LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous. And shout for joy, all ye who are upright in heart.

⁴ Delight thyself also in LORD, and he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

⁴ These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.

¹ LORD reigns! Let the earth rejoice. Let the multitude of isles be glad.

¹ Make a joyful noise to LORD, all ye lands. ² Serve LORD with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

² Let Israel rejoice in him who made him. Let the sons of Zion be joyful in their King.

² Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid, for LORD, even LORD, is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation. ³ Therefore with joy ye shall draw water out of the wells of salvation.

¹⁶ Thou shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them. And thou shall rejoice in LORD. Thou shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁰ I will greatly rejoice in LORD. My soul shall be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

¹⁴ Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit.

¹¹ that ye may nurse and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations, that ye may get milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. ¹² For thus says LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream. And ye shall nurse thereof. Ye shall be borne upon the side, and shall be dandled upon the knees.

²³ Be glad then, ye sons of Zion, and rejoice in LORD your God, for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first month.

¹⁷ For though the fig tree shall not flourish, nor shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls; ¹⁸ yet I will rejoice in LORD. I will joy in the God of my salvation.

¹⁴ Sing, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O Israel. Be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.

¹⁷ LORD thy God is in the midst of thee, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over thee with joy. He will rest in his love. He will joy over thee with singing.

⁷ And Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine. Yea, their sons shall see it, and rejoice. Their heart shall be glad in LORD.

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

⁴⁷ and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,

² through whom also we have access by faith for this grace in which we stand, and we take pride in hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only so, but we also take pride in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance,

¹¹ And not only so, but also taking pride in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

¹¹ Finally brothers, farewell. Be thoroughly prepared, be encouraged, think the same way, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

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

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

³ For we are the circumcision, men who worship in spirit to God, and who boast in Christ Jesus, and not being confident in flesh.

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice.

⁸ Finally brothers, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are commendable, if anything is a virtue, and if anything is praiseworthy, think on these things.

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

¹⁶ Rejoice always.

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

⁶ In which ye greatly rejoice, although made sorrowful in various trials. Since it is now necessary for a little while, ⁷ so that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold that perishes, and though proven by fire, may be found for praise and esteem and for glory at the revealing of Jesus Christ. ⁸ Whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, not now seeing but believing, ye exult in inexpressible and glorified joy,

⁸ And finally, all be like-minded, sympathetic, brother-loving, compassionate, friendly,

¹³ But rejoice in so far as ye are partakers in the sufferings of the Christ, so that also at the revealing of his glory ye may rejoice, having exceeding joy.

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

¹ I write to you now this second letter, beloved, in which I arouse your sincere mind by a reminder,

¹⁶ For dogs have encompassed me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet.

²⁰ Deliver my soul from the sword, the only one of me from the power of the dog.

¹¹⁵ Depart from me, ye evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

¹¹ As a dog who returns to his vomit, is a fool who repeats his folly.

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. ¹¹ Yea, the dogs are greedy; they can never have enough. And these are shepherds who cannot understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

⁶ Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them by their feet, and having turn back may lacerate you.

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

²² Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works? ²³ And then I will profess to them, I never acknowledged you. Depart from me, ye who work lawlessness.

¹⁰ And then many will be caused to stumble, and they will betray each other and will hate each other.

²⁸ For he is not a Jew in what is visible, nor is circumcision in what is visible, in flesh,

¹³ For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves into apostles of Christ.

³ But not even Titus with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. ⁴ But that issue was because of those false brothers smuggled in, who sneaked in to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us,

¹ Stand firm therefore in the liberty in which Christ freed us, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage. ² Behold, I Paul say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ will benefit you nothing. ³ And I solemnly declare again to every man who is circumcised, that he is obligated to do the whole law.

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

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.

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

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

¹⁹ Holding faith and a good conscience, which some, having put away, made shipwreck about the faith,

¹ But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come. ² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, impious, ³ devoid of natural affection, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, no lovers of good, ⁴ traitors, reckless, beclouded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of piety, but repudiating the power of it. Now turn away from these men, ⁶ for from these are those who creep into houses, and take captive petty women laden with sins, being led away by various impulses,

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.

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith did many evil things to me. May the Lord repay him according to his works, ¹⁵ of whom thou also beware, for he extremely opposed our words.

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but in their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and worthless for every good work.

¹⁸ For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error, ¹⁹ promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved. ²⁰ For if, having escaped the defilements of the world by knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and, having been again entangled in these, they are overcome, the last things have become worse for them than the first.

²² But that of the true proverb has happened to them, The dog returning to his own vomit, and the sow that washed to wallowing in mire.

⁴ For certain men have sneaked in, those written about formerly for this condemnation, irreverent men, perverting the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying our only Master God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ But these men indeed revile whatever they have not seen. But whatever they understand naturally, as the irrational beasts, in these things they are corrupted. ¹¹ Woe to them! Because they went in the way of Cain, and rushed to the error of Balaam's reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. ¹² These are reefs in your love-feasts, feasting together, fearlessly tending to themselves, waterless clouds carried along by winds, autumn trees without fruit, who died twice having being uprooted, ¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.

⁹ I know thy works and tribulation and poverty (but thou are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say themselves to be Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

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.

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.

⁵ Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham, for I have made thee the father of a multitude of nations. ⁶ And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful. And I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. ⁷ And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee. ⁸ And I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God. ⁹ And God said to Abraham, And as for thee, thou shall keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their generations. ¹⁰ This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised. ¹¹ And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a sign of a covenant between me and you.

¹⁶ Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

⁶ And LORD thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou may live.

³ Glory ye in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek LORD rejoice.

²⁵ In LORD all the seed of Israel shall be justified, and shall glory.

⁴ Circumcise yourselves to LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

²³ Thus says LORD: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man glory in his might. Let not the rich man glory in his riches, ²⁴ but let him who boasts boast in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth. For in these things I delight, says LORD.

²⁶ Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the sons of Ammon, and Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness. For all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

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

²³ But an hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for also the Father seeks such kind who worship him. ²⁴ God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

⁹ For God is my witness whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

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. 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.

¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the righteousness of his faith during uncircumcision, for him to be father of all those who believe during uncircumcision (for righteousness to also be imputed to them), 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.

⁶ But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document.

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.

²⁶ And likewise also the Spirit helps our weaknesses, for we know not what we would pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings. ²⁷ And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mentality of the Spirit, because he appeals to God for the sanctified.

¹⁷ I have therefore a boast in Christ Jesus in things toward God.

²⁹ so that no flesh may boast before God. ³⁰ But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, ³¹ so that, just as it is written, He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.

²⁵ If we live in Spirit, we should also march in Spirit.

¹³ For not even those who have been circumcised themselves keep law, but they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast in thy flesh. ¹⁴ But may it not be from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. ¹⁵ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

¹⁸ praying through every prayer and entreaty at every time in spirit, and being alert in this same thing in all perseverance and entreaty for all the sanctified,

⁴ Although (I having confidence also in flesh) if any other man seems to be confident in the flesh, I more: ⁵ in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; regarding law, a Pharisee; ⁶ regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless. ⁷ But whatever was gain to me, these things I regarded loss because of the Christ. ⁸ But indeed therefore I even consider all things to be loss because of things surpassing, of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I suffered the loss of all things, and consider them to be rubbish, so that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and be found in him, not having my righteousness, that from law, but that through Christ's faith-the righteousness from God based on faith-

¹¹ In whom also ye were circumcised a circumcision not made with hands, in the removal of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ.

²³ begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God that lives and remains into the age. ²⁴ Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls away, ²⁵ but the word of the Lord endures into the age. And this is the word, the good news that was preached to you.

²⁰ But ye beloved, building up yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

¹⁸ Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast. ¹⁹ For being wise, ye gladly tolerate the foolish. ²⁰ For ye tolerate it if some man enslaves you, if some man devours you, if some man seizes you, if some man lifts himself up, if some man strikes you on the face. ²¹ I speak as from shame, that we were so weak. Yet in whatever any man may be bold in foolishness, I say I too am bold. ²² Are they Hebrews? I too. Are they Israelites? I too. Are they a seed of Abraham? I too.

¹³ And some man came who had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner. And these were allies with Abram.

¹² And he who is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations: he who is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner that is not of thy seed.

¹⁵ For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

¹² And there was a young man with us there, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him. And he interpreted to us our dreams. He interpreted to each man according to his dream.

⁶ And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What is the meaning of the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of LORD came into the camp.

⁹ And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, and I fear LORD, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.

⁵⁹ And it came to pass on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child, and they were calling it by the name of his father Zacharias.

²¹ And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise him, that his name was called JESUS, the one called by the agent before he was conceived in the belly.

²¹ Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work, and ye all marvel because of this. ²² Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on a sabbath. ²³ If a man receives circumcision on a sabbath, so that the law of Moses may not be loosed, are ye angry with me because I made a man entirely well on a sabbath? ²⁴ Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

¹ Now in those days, the disciples being multiplied, there developed a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily assistance.

³ I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but reared in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, reared accurately in the paternal law, being a zealot of God, as ye all are today.

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

⁴ Indeed therefore, my manner of life from youth, having developed from the beginning among my nation at Jerusalem, all the Jews know, ⁵ having known me previously from the beginning, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

¹ I say therefore, did God thrust away his people? May it not happen! For I also am an Israelite from the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

²² Are they Hebrews? I too. Are they Israelites? I too. Are they a seed of Abraham? I too.

² And the king called the Gibeonites, and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the sons of Israel had sworn to them, and yet Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah),

¹⁶ And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.

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.

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.

²⁰ And having answered, he said to him, Teacher, all these things I have observed from my youth. ²¹ And having looked at him, Jesus loved him, and said to him, One thing thou lack. Go thou, sell as many things as thou have, and give to the poor, and thou will have treasure in heaven. And after taking up the cross, come, follow me.

⁶ And they were both righteous before God, going in all the commandments and righteous things of the Lord blameless.

³ But Saul was ravaging the church, entering from house to house. Dragging both men and women, he gave them over to prison.

¹ But Saul, still breathing threat and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, after going to the high priest, ² he requested letters from him for Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. ³ And on going, it came to pass for him to approach Damascus. And suddenly there shone around him a light out of heaven. ⁴ And after falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do thou persecute me? ⁵ And he said, Who are thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecute. ⁶ But arise, and enter into the city, and it will be told thee what thou must do. ⁷ And the men who traveled with him had stopped, speechless, indeed hearing the voice, but seeing no man. ⁸ And Saul arose from the ground. And when his eyes were opened, he saw no man. But they brought him into Damascus, leading him by the hand. ⁹ And he was three days not seeing, and did not eat or drink. ¹⁰ Now there was a certain disciple in Damascus, named Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold me, Lord. ¹¹ And the Lord said to him, After rising, go into the street called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas, a man named Saul of Tarsus, for behold, he is praying. ¹² And he saw in a vision a man named Ananias who came in and laid a hand on him, so that he might receive sight. ¹³ But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many evil things he did to thy sanctified at Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call upon thy name. ¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, Go, because this man is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before Gentiles and kings, and sons of Israel. ¹⁶ For I will give him a glimpse of how many things it is necessary for him to suffer for my name. ¹⁷ And Ananias departed and entered into the house. And having laid hands on him he said, Brother Saul, the Lord, he who appeared to thee on the road on which thou came, has sent me so that thou may receive sight, and be filled of the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ And straightaway there fell from his eyes, like scales, and he looked up. And immediately after rising up, he was immersed. ¹⁹ And having received nourishment, he was strengthened. And Saul became with the disciples in Damascus some days.

²⁰ And when the men heard, they glorified God, having said to him, Thou see, brother, how many thousands there are of the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealots of the law.

³ I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but reared in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, reared accurately in the paternal law, being a zealot of God, as ye all are today. ⁴ And I persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

⁵ having known me previously from the beginning, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

⁹ Indeed therefore I thought it necessary for myself to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene, ¹⁰ which also I did at Jerusalem. And I locked up many of the sanctified in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests. And when they were killed, I gave a vote against them.

⁹ And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

³¹ But Israel who pursued a law of righteousness, did not arrive to a law of righteousness. ³² Why? Because it was not from faith but as from works of law. For they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

² For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. ³ For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God. ⁴ For Christ is the end of law for righteousness, to every man who believes. ⁵ For Moses writes in the righteousness from the law, that the man that does them will live in them.

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

¹³ For ye heard of my former behavior in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God to extraordinariness, and ravaged it. ¹⁴ And I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my race, being a more extreme zealot of my paternal traditions.

⁹ and be found in him, not having my righteousness, that from law, but that through Christ's faith-the righteousness from God based on faith-

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

¹⁷ And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life, do not look behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain. Escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

²⁶ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

⁴ And Satan answered LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life.

⁸ The ransom of a man's life is his riches, but the poor hears no threatening.

²³ Buy the truth, and do not sell it, yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

⁴⁴ Again the kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man having found, he hid. And from the joy of it, he goes and sells all, as many things as he has, and buys that field. ⁴⁵ Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a merchant, seeking fine pearls. ⁴⁶ Who, having found one very valuable pearl, after departing, sold all, as many things as he had, and bought it.

²⁶ For what does it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

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

³³ So therefore every man of you who does not renounce all things being possessed by him, cannot be my disciple.

⁸ And his lord commended the unrighteous manager because he did shrewdly. Because the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the light.

³¹ In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his vessels in the house, let him not go down to take them up. And let him who is in the field likewise not return for the things behind. ³² Remember Lot's wife. ³³ Whoever will seek to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose it will keep it alive.

¹⁸ And since we were exceedingly storm-tossed, on the next day they jettisoned. ¹⁹ And the third day we cast out by hands the tackling of the ship.

³⁸ And after being filled of food, they unloaded the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

¹⁵ We are Jews by nature and not sinful men of the Gentiles, ¹⁶ knowing that a man is not made righteous from works of law, instead through faith of Jesus Christ. And we believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made righteous from faith of Christ, and not from works of law, because no flesh will be made righteous from works of law.

² Behold, I Paul say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ will benefit you nothing. ³ And I solemnly declare again to every man who is circumcised, that he is obligated to do the whole law. ⁴ Ye were discharged from the Christ, ye who are made righteous by law. Ye have fallen from grace. ⁵ For we through Spirit, from faith, wait for a hope of righteousness.

⁴ Although (I having confidence also in flesh) if any other man seems to be confident in the flesh, I more: ⁵ in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; regarding law, a Pharisee; ⁶ regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless.

⁸ But indeed therefore I even consider all things to be loss because of things surpassing, of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I suffered the loss of all things, and consider them to be rubbish, so that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and be found in him, not having my righteousness, that from law, but that through Christ's faith-the righteousness from God based on faith- ¹⁰ to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

³⁰ surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell in it, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

¹⁰ therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every man-child, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam as a man sweeps away dung, till it be all gone.

³⁷ and the body of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.

⁷ yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

⁶ He who goes forth and weeps, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves.

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

³ Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your feasts, and ye shall be taken away with it.

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

¹⁶ And Simon Peter having answered, said, Thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God. ¹⁷ And having answered, Jesus said to him, Blessed are thou, Simon Bar-jonah, because flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, but my Father in the heavens.

²⁷ Then having answered, Peter said to him, Lo, we have forsaken all, and followed thee. What then will be for us? ²⁸ And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that ye who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man will sit on the throne of his glory, ye also will sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. ²⁹ And every man who has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, because of my name, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit eternal life.

⁴³ And why is this to me, that the mother of my Lord would come to me?

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.

²⁰ But if by a finger of God I cast out the demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

⁴² Even David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, ⁴³ until I will place thine enemies a footstool of thy feet. ⁴⁴ David therefore calls him Lord, and how is he his son?

⁷ If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also. And from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

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

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.

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.

¹³ And those men say to her, Woman, why weep thou? She says to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.

²⁸ Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God.

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

¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not comparable to the glory that is going to be revealed for us.

² For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, even this crucified man.

⁹ For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to agents and to men. ¹⁰ We are foolish for the sake of Christ, but ye are wise in Christ. We are weak, but ye are strong. Ye are esteemed, but we are disreputable. ¹¹ As far as the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are ill clothed, and are treated roughly, and are homeless. ¹² And we toil, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; ¹³ being slandered, we entreat. We became as trash of the world, an offscouring of all things, until now.

¹⁰ or does he speak altogether for our sake? For our sake, for it was written, He who plows ought to plow with hope, and he who threshes with his hope, with hope to share.

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.

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.

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

¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not straightaway confer with flesh and blood, ¹⁷ So that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in knowledge of him, ¹⁸ having the eyes of your heart enlightened. For you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the sanctified,

⁸ To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ, ⁹ and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things through Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ having been rooted and grounded in love, so that ye may be able to grasp with all the sanctified what is the breadth and length and depth and height, ¹⁹ and to become aware of the love of the Christ, which transcends knowledge, so that ye may be filled in all the fullness of God.

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

⁷ But whatever was gain to me, these things I regarded loss because of the Christ.

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

² So that their hearts may be encouraged, having been united together in love, and for all wealth of the full assurance of understanding, to knowledge of the mystery of the God and Father of the Christ. ³ In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

⁶ For I am already poured out a libation, and the time of my dissolution is imminent.

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

⁷ To you therefore who believe is the preciousness, but for men who disobey, A stone that the builders rejected, this became the head of the corner,

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

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.

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

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.

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.

²³ And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, from man, to cattle, to creeping things, and birds of the heavens, and they were destroyed from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

³ Thou shall prepare for thee the way, and divide the borders of thy land, which LORD thy God causes thee to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there. ⁴ And this is the case of the manslayer, who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and did not hate him in time past,

²⁶ Cursed is every man who does not continue in all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Truly.

⁴⁶ If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sins not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, afar off or near,

²⁵ But Hezekiah did not render again according to the benefit done to him. For his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

³¹ However in the business of the ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

²⁸ I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that thou will not hold me innocent. ²⁹ I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain? ³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean, ³¹ yet thou will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

¹⁴ If I sin, then thou mark me. And thou will not acquit me from my iniquity. ¹⁵ If I be wicked, woe to me. And if I be righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking upon my affliction.

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? ¹⁵ Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. ¹⁶ How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

⁵ I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee. ⁶ Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

³ They are all gone aside. They are together become filthy. There is none who does good, no, not one.

¹² Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.

¹⁵ My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, of thy salvation all the day, for I know not the numbers. ¹⁶ I will come with the mighty acts of the lord LORD. I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

³ If thou, LORD, should note iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? ⁴ But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou may be feared.

² And enter not into judgment with thy servant. For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

²⁰ Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth that does good, and sins not.

⁵ Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of hosts.

²⁴ Only in LORD, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength. Even to him men shall come, and all those who were incensed against him shall be put to shame. ²⁵ In LORD all the seed of Israel shall be justified, and shall glory.

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

⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way, and LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

⁵ Thou meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou were angry, and we sinned. Therefore we have erred. ⁶ For we have all become as unclean, and all our righteous acts are as a polluted garment. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

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.

¹⁶ In those days Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely. And this is the name whereby she shall be called: LORD our righteousness.

²⁴ Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

¹³ But after going, learn what this means, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners for repentance.

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 he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?

⁸ And having come, that will convict the world about sin, and about justice, and about judgment. ⁹ About sin because they truly did not believe in me, ¹⁰ and about justice because I go to the Father, and ye see me no more, ¹¹ and about judgment because the ruler of this world has been judged.

¹⁷ For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith for faith, just as it is written, And the righteous man will live from faith.

¹⁹ Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God. ²⁰ Because from works of law no flesh will be made right before him, for through law is knowledge of sin. ²¹ But now a righteousness of God has been manifested independent of law, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. ²² And the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ is for all and upon all those who believe, for there is no distinction.

⁵ But to the man not being employed, but who believes in him who makes the impious man righteous, his faith is reckoned for righteousness. ⁶ Just as David also tells the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness independent of works,

¹³ For the promise to Abraham or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, was not through law, but through a righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if those from law are heirs, faith has been made void, and the promise has been made useless. ¹⁵ For the law works wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

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

⁵ For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death. ⁶ But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document. ⁷ What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet. ⁸ But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead. ⁹ And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. ¹⁰ And I found to me, the commandment being for life, this is for death. ¹¹ For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. ¹² So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. ¹³ Has therefore what is good become death to me? May it not happen! Instead, it is sin, so that it might be revealed, sin working death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful to extreme.

¹ Consequently nothing is condemnation now to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to flesh but according to Spirit.

³ For the impotence of the law, in that it was weak because of the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in a form of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,

³⁰ What will we say then? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness from faith.

¹ Brothers, truly my heart's desire and my supplication to God for Israel is for salvation. ² For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. ³ For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God. ⁴ For Christ is the end of law for righteousness, to every man who believes. ⁵ For Moses writes in the righteousness from the law, that the man that does them will live in them. ⁶ But the righteousness from faith says thus: Thou should not say in thy heart, Who will ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down)

¹⁰ For a man believes in the heart for righteousness, and he confesses with the mouth for salvation.

⁷ Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners who are notable men among the apostles, who also became in Christ before me.

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

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

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.

¹⁶ knowing that a man is not made righteous from works of law, instead through faith of Jesus Christ. And we believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made righteous from faith of Christ, and not from works of law, because no flesh will be made righteous from works of law.

¹⁰ For as many as are from works of law are under a curse, for it is written, Cursed is every man who does not continue in all things written in the book of the law, to do them. ¹¹ But that no man is made righteous by law before God, is evident, because, The righteous man will live from faith. ¹² And the law is not from faith, but the man who does them will live in them. ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is every man who hangs on a tree.

²¹ Is the law therefore against the promises of God? May it not happen! For if a law was given that could make alive, truly righteousness would be from law. ²² But scripture confined all things under sin, so that the promise from faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

⁶ regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless.

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

⁵ he saved us, not of works in righteousness that we did, but according to his mercy through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

¹⁸ So that by two immutable events, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, having fled for refuge to seize the hope being openly displayed.

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.

² For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

¹⁹ in which also, having gone, he preached to the spirits in prison ²⁰ who were disobedient formerly, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah who prepared an ark in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.

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

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous so that he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from every unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

⁴ Every man doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

²³ And he says to them, Ye will indeed drink my cup, and ye will be immersed the immersion that I am immersed. But to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but to whom it has been prepared by my Father.

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.

¹⁸ No man takes it from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.

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?

³¹ Having foreseen this, he spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul was not left behind in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay. ³² This Jesus, God raised up, of which we are all witnesses. ³³ Therefore, exalted by the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he poured out this that ye now see and hear. ³⁴ For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand ³⁵ until I place thine enemies a footstool of thy feet. ³⁶ Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made him, this Jesus whom ye crucified, both Lord and Christ. ³⁷ Now having heard this, they were pierced in the heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles, Men, brothers, what will we do? ³⁸ And Peter said to them, Repent ye, and be immersed each of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

³ Or are ye ignorant that as many as were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into his death? ⁴ We were buried therefore with him through the immersion into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if we have become co-planted in the likeness of his death, then we will also be of the resurrection. 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. ⁷ For he who has died has been made righteous away from sin. ⁸ And if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, ⁹ knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him. ¹⁰ For that he died, he died to sin once, but that he lives, he lives to God. ¹¹ So also ye, reckon yourselves to be indeed dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

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.

²¹ For since death is because of a man, the resurrection of the dead is also because of a man. ²² For as by Adam all die, so also by Christ all will be made alive. ²³ But each in his own order. Christ the first fruit, then those of Christ at his coming.

⁵ Because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so also our encouragement abounds through the Christ.

¹⁰ Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue.

¹⁰ Always carrying around in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our body. ¹¹ For we who live are always given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh. ¹² So death indeed works in us, but life in you. ¹³ And having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed, therefore I spoke, we also believe, and therefore we speak,

⁴ For even if he was crucified from weakness, yet he lives from the power of God. For we in him are also weak, but we will live with him from the power of God toward you.

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

¹⁹ and what is the transcending greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his might, ²⁰ which he wrought in the Christ, having raised him from the dead and seated at his right hand in the heavenly things, 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.

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

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

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

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

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and arose, so also those who became asleep through Jesus, God will bring with him. ¹⁵ For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain for the coming of the Lord, will no, not precede those who became asleep.

¹¹ Faithful is the saying, For if we die together, we will also live together. ¹² If we endure, we will also reign together. If we renounce him, that man will also renounce us.

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,

¹ Therefore of Christ having suffered in flesh for us, arm ye yourselves also with the same mentality, because he who has suffered in flesh has ceased from sin, ² in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.

¹³ But rejoice in so far as ye are partakers in the sufferings of the Christ, so that also at the revealing of his glory ye may rejoice, having exceeding joy. ¹⁴ Blessed are ye if ye are reviled for the name of Christ, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. From them he is indeed blasphemed, but from you he is glorified.

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

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

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.

⁷ none can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him

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

³⁵ but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. ³⁶ For neither can they die any more, for they are like the agents, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

²⁴ Martha says to him, I know that he will rise in the resurrection at the last day.

⁷ to which our twelve tribes, serving in earnestness night and day, hope to attain, about which hope, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews!

¹² And since the haven was inconvenient to winter in, the majority gave counsel to launch from there also, if somehow they might be able, after arriving at Phoenix, to winter in a haven of Crete, looking toward southwest and northwest.

¹⁴ if somehow I may provoke my flesh to jealousy and may save some of them.

²² To the weak I became as weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that by all means I might save some.

²⁷ But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.

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.

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

³ Let not any man deceive you in any way, because if not, the defection may come first, and he may be revealed-the man of sin, the son of destruction,

³⁵ Women took hold of their dead from a resurrection, but others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, so that they might experience a superior resurrection.

⁵ The rest of the dead did not live until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.

⁹ Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

¹ As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after thee, O God.

¹ O God, thou are my God. I will earnestly seek thee. My soul thirsts for thee, my flesh longs for thee, in a dry and weary land, where is no water. ² So I have looked upon thee in the sanctuary to see thy power and thy glory. ³ Because thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

⁸ My soul follows close after thee. Thy right hand upholds me.

² My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God.

¹⁵ For judgment shall return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

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.

⁵ O that my ways were established to observe thy statutes!

¹⁷³ Let thy hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen thy precepts. ¹⁷⁴ I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD, and thy law is my delight. ¹⁷⁵ Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee. And let thine ordinances help me. ¹⁷⁶ I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.

⁸ LORD will perfect that which concerns me. Thy loving kindness, O LORD, is forever. Forsake not the works of thine own hands.

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

¹ Hearken to me, ye who follow after righteousness, ye who seek LORD. Look to the rock from where ye were hewn, and to the hold of the pit from where ye were dug.

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.

³ And on going, it came to pass for him to approach Damascus. And suddenly there shone around him a light out of heaven. ⁴ And after falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do thou persecute me? ⁵ And he said, Who are thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecute. ⁶ But arise, and enter into the city, and it will be told thee what thou must do.

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, Go, because this man is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before Gentiles and kings, and sons of Israel.

¹⁹ For I do not do good that I want, instead, wrong that I do not want, this I do. ²⁰ But if I do this that I do not want, I no longer perform it, but sin dwelling in me. ²¹ Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me. ²² For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man, ²³ but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts. ²⁴ I am a wretched man. Who will rescue me out of the body of this death?

¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, then what is in part will be abolished.

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

⁹ For we are glad when we are weak and ye are strong. And this also we pray for, your full qualification.

¹⁷ For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit is against the flesh. For these are hostile to each other, so that whatever these things are ye may want, ye may not do.

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

¹² for the perfecting of the sanctified, for the work of ministry, for edification of the body of the Christ.

¹³ Brothers, I reckon myself not to have seized, but one thing, indeed forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead, ¹⁴ I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ However in what we have attained, to march by the same standard, to think the same way.

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

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

¹⁰ being testified in good works: if she has reared children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the sanctified, if she has relieved those who are afflicted, if she has followed every good work.

¹¹ But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, meekness. ¹² Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life for which thou are called, and confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

¹⁹ storing up for themselves a good foundation for that which is coming, so that they may take hold of the eternal life.

¹⁴ Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord.

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

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

¹¹ Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it. ¹² Because the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and his ears to their supplication, but the face of the Lord is against men who do evil things. ¹³ And who is he who will harm you, if ye become imitators of the good?

¹⁰ And may the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus (after suffering a little while) himself thoroughly prepare you. He will establish, strengthen, and provide a foundation.

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

⁴ One thing I have asked of LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

¹⁰ Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear. Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house.

⁶² But Jesus said to him, No man, having put his hand to a plow, and looking to things behind, is fit for the kingdom of God.

⁴² but one thing is necessary, and Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.

²³ But now, having no more place in these regions, and having a great desire from many years to come to you, ²⁴ whenever I go to Spain I will come to you. For I hope to see you while passing through, and there to be helped on the way by you, if first I may be partly satisfied from you. ²⁵ But now I am going to Jerusalem serving the sanctified. ²⁶ For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a certain participation for the poor of the sanctified at Jerusalem. ²⁷ For they were pleased. And they are debtors of them, for if the Gentiles were partakers in their spiritual things, they are obligated also to serve them in the carnal things. ²⁸ Having therefore completed this, and having sealed this fruit for them, I will depart by you to Spain. ²⁹ And I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the good news of the Christ.

²⁴ Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it. ²⁵ And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable. ²⁶ I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air. ²⁷ But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.

¹⁶ So that henceforth we know no man according to flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him no longer.

¹⁸ What then? Except in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice, but also I will rejoice. ¹⁹ For I know that this will turn out to me for salvation (through your entreaty, and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ) ²⁰ according to my eager expectation and hope that I will be shamed in nothing. But with all boldness, now as always, Christ will also be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. ²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

¹² Therefore my beloved, just as ye have always obeyed, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

¹² Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus.

¹¹ Not that I speak regarding need, for I have learned in what things I am to be content. ¹² I know both how to be abased and how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be lacking. ¹³ I can do all things in the Christ who strengthens me.

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

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

⁸ But beloved, let not this one thing be ignored by you, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

¹⁶ The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the kingdom of God is proclaimed good news, and every man in it is treated aggressively.

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, who are the called according to purpose. ²⁹ Because whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be of similar nature of the form of his Son, in order for him to be the firstborn son among many brothers. ³⁰ And whom he predestined, these he also called, and whom he called, these he also made righteous, and whom he made righteous, these he also glorified.

²³ even that he might make known the wealth of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he previously prepared for glory, ²⁴ namely us whom he called, not only from Jews but also from Gentiles.

²⁴ Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

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

¹² and solemnly declaring for you to walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory. ¹³ But we are indebted to express thanks to God always about you, brothers, beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation, in sanctification of spirit and belief of truth, ¹⁴ for which he called you, through our good news, for an acquired possession of glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith. ⁸ Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me in that day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

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

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,

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

²¹ He who overcomes, I will give him to sit with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.

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.

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.

⁵ Trust in LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding. ⁶ In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.

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.

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

¹³ If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more the Father from heaven will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

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.

¹ Now we the strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the frail, and not to please ourselves.

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

²⁰ Brothers, become not children in your thoughts. Instead be childlike in wickedness, but in your thoughts become mature.

¹⁰ I have confidence toward you in the Lord, that ye will think no other thing. But the man who troubles you will bear the verdict, whoever he may be.

¹² Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus.

²⁸ Whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

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

¹⁷ so that the man of God may be qualified, having been completed for every good work.

¹⁴ But solid food is for mature men, those having their sensibilities trained through practice for the discernment of both good and evil.

⁴ And let perseverance have a perfect work, so that ye may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing. ⁵ And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God who gives to all generously and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.

¹⁶ thinking the same way toward each other, not thinking on lofty things, but accommodating to the lowly. Become not wise according to yourselves,

⁵ Now may the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to think the same way among each other, in accord with Christ Jesus,

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

¹⁶ And as many as will march by this standard, peace upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

² And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma. ³ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified, ⁴ also indecency, and foolish talking or jesting, things not befitting, but thankfulness instead. ⁵ For ye are men who know this, that no fornicator, or unclean man, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. ⁶ Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Do not become ye therefore partakers with them. ⁸ For ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

²⁷ Only be citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that, whether having come and having seen you or being absent, I may hear things about you that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the good news.

² fulfill my joy, that ye may think the same way, having the same love, being knit in soul, thinking in oneness,

² I exhort Euodias, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

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

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.

¹⁰ And especially those going rear of flesh in a degenerate lust, and who despise lordship. Reckless, self-willed men, they do not tremble when speaking evil of dignities. ¹¹ Whereas agents, being greater in might and power, do not bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord. ¹² But these men, like irrational beasts of nature, having been born for capture and destruction, speaking evil at which things they do not understand, will be destroyed in their corruption, ¹³ getting back a wage of unrighteousness. Men who consider soft living in the daytime to be pleasure, spots and blemishes reveling in their deceitfulness, feasting together with you, ¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse, ¹⁵ having forsaken a straight path, they were led astray, men who followed the way of Balaam, son of Beor, who loved the wage of unrighteousness. ¹⁶ But he had a rebuke of his own lawbreaking. A mute donkey, uttering in a man's voice, restrained the madness of the prophet. 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.

⁴ Nevertheless, I have against thee because thou left thy first love. ⁵ Remember therefore from where thou have fallen, and repent and do the first works. And if not, I come to thee quickly, and will move thy lampstand out of its place, if thou do not repent.

³ Remember therefore how thou have received and heard, and be on guard, and repent. If therefore thou will not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou will, no, not know what hour I will come upon thee.

³⁷ Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for there is a happy end to the man of peace.

¹⁷ Now I beseech you, brothers, watch out for those who make the divisions and the stumbling blocks, contrary to the doctrine that ye learned, and turn away from them.

¹⁶ I beseech you therefore, become followers of me.

³² Become ye inoffensive both to Jews and to Greeks, and to the church of God,

⁹ And what ye learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.

⁶ And ye became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and justly and blamelessly we became to you who believe, ¹¹ just as ye know, as each one of you as a father of his own children, imploring you, and comforting, ¹² and solemnly declaring for you to walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory. ¹³ And because of this we thank God without ceasing, because, having received the word of God heard from us, ye received not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe. ¹⁴ For ye, brothers, became imitators of the congregations of God, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because ye also suffered the same things by your own countrymen, just as also they by the Jews.

⁷ For ye yourselves know how it is necessary to imitate us. Because we did not act disorderly among you,

⁹ Not because we have no right, but that we might give ourselves an example to you, in order to imitate us.

¹⁴ And if any man does not obey our word by this letter, note that man, and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

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

⁷ Remember those who lead you, men who spoke the word of God to you, of whom, carefully observing the outcome of their conduct, imitate the faith-

³ nor as domineering over the lots, but becoming examples of the flock.

¹³⁶ Streams of water run down my eyes, because they do not observe thy law.

¹¹ For LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

¹ Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

¹⁷ But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride. And my eye shall weep greatly, and run down with tears, because LORD's flock is taken captive.

³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways justice. And he is able to abase those who walk in pride.

⁴¹ And when he came near, having seen the city, he wept over it,

¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears and trials that befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews.

³⁰ And from you yourselves men will rise up, speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after them. ³¹ Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.

² that great distress is in me, and unceasing sorrow in my heart.

¹⁸ For the message of the cross is of course foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is a power of God.

⁹ Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

⁴ For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I am not made fiery?

⁷ which is not another, except there are some who confuse you, and who want to pervert the good news of the Christ.

¹⁴ But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly toward the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, If thou being a Jew, live as a Gentile and not as a Jew, why do thou compel the Gentiles to live as Jews?

²¹ I do not disregard the grace of God, for if righteousness is through law, then Christ died in vain.

²¹ envyings, murders, intoxications, revelings, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, as I also did forewarn, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

¹² As many as desire to make a good impression in flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of the Christ.

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and solemnly declare in the Lord, for you to walk no longer as also the other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

⁵ For ye are men who know this, that no fornicator, or unclean man, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. ⁶ Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

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

¹⁵ Actually some even preach the Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good-will. ¹⁶ Some indeed proclaim the Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to bring affliction to my bonds.

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

¹¹ For we hear of some who walk among you disorderly, not working at all, but being busybodies.

¹⁰ And especially those going rear of flesh in a degenerate lust, and who despise lordship. Reckless, self-willed men, they do not tremble when speaking evil of dignities.

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.

¹¹ And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house, and the child ministered to LORD before Eli the priest. ¹² Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not LORD. ¹³ And the custom of the priests with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his hand, ¹⁴ and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot. All that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took with it. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. ¹⁵ And before they burned the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest, for he will not have boiled flesh from thee, but raw. ¹⁶ And if the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as thy soul desires, then he would say, No, but thou shall give it to me now, and if not, I will take it by force.

²⁹ Why do ye kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chief of all the offerings of Israel my people?

⁶ Many there are who say, Who will show us good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. ⁷ Thou have put gladness in my heart more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

¹⁴ from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in this life, and whose belly thou fill with thy treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

¹ Why boast thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God is continual.

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. ¹¹ Yea, the dogs are greedy; they can never have enough. And these are shepherds who cannot understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. ¹² Come ye, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as this day, great beyond measure.

¹⁹ And ye have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.

³ Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe yourselves with the wool. Ye kill the fatlings, but ye do not feed the sheep.

⁷ As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

⁵ Thus says LORD concerning the prophets who make my people to err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace. And he who does not put into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

¹¹ The heads of it judge for a bribe, and the priests of it teach for a wage, and the prophets of it divine for money. Yet they lean upon LORD, and say, Is not LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.

¹⁵ Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who adds thy venom, and also makes him drunken, that thou may look on their nakedness! ¹⁶ Thou are filled with shame, and not glory. Drink thou also, and be as one uncircumcised. The cup of LORD's right hand shall come around to thee, and foul shame shall be upon thy glory.

¹² But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of LORD is polluted. And the fruit of it, even its food, is contemptible.

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

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.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou have many goods laid up for many years. Take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

⁴⁵ But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord is late to come, and should begin to beat the servant boys and the servant girls, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, ⁴⁶ the lord of that bondman will arrive in a day that he does not expect, and in an hour that he is not aware, and will cut him in two, and will place his portion with the unbelieving.

¹⁹ Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously daily.

⁴ And for a time he would not, but after these things he said within himself, Although I fear not God, and regard not man,

²¹ What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

⁵ For those who are according to flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those according to Spirit the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For the mentality of the flesh is death, but the mentality of the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷ Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able.

¹⁸ For such kind serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their smooth words and elegant speech they deceive the hearts of the naive.

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

² And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you.

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

¹² But what I do, I also will do, so that I may cut off the opportunity of those who desire an opportunity, that in what they boast, they might appear just as we also.

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.

¹³ For not even those who have been circumcised themselves keep law, but they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast in thy flesh.

²¹ For they all seek the things of themselves, not the things of Christ Jesus.

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

⁸ And then the lawless will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the spirit of his mouth, and will neutralize at the appearance of his coming.

¹² so that they might be condemned-all those who did not believe the truth, but who delighted in unrighteousness.

⁵ constant frictions of men corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing piety to be a means of gain. Withdraw from such.

⁴ traitors, reckless, beclouded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

¹¹ who must be muzzled, men who subvert whole houses, teaching things that they ought not, for sake of ugly profit. ¹² A certain man of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies.

⁶ and who fell away, to restore again to repentance, crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and disgracing him publicly. ⁷ For the soil that has drunk the rain often coming upon it, and bringing forth vegetation useful for those by whom also it is cultivated, partakes of a blessing from God. ⁸ But producing thorns and thistles it is unfit and near a curse, the end of which is for burning.

¹⁶ But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

¹ But false prophets also developed among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will sneak in pernicious denominations, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

³ And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.

¹³ getting back a wage of unrighteousness. Men who consider soft living in the daytime to be pleasure, spots and blemishes reveling in their deceitfulness, feasting together with you,

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. ¹⁸ For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error, ¹⁹ promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved.

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

⁷ In an amount she glorified herself and lived wantonly, give her so much torment and grief, because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will, no, not see grief.

²⁰ And the beast was taken, and the false prophet with it who did the signs in its sight by which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast and those who worship its image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone.

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.

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

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

²⁴ Thou will guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. ²⁵ Whom have I in heaven? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. ²⁶ My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

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

¹ In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city. He will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks. ² Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal, ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust deteriorates, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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.

²¹ So is he who stores up for himself, and is not being rich toward God.

³² Fear not, little flock, because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom. ³³ Sell things possessed by you, and give charity. Make for yourselves purses not becoming old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where no thief approaches, nor moth corrupts. ³⁴ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

¹¹ who also said, Men, Galileans, why stand ye gazing into the sky? This Jesus who was taken up from you into the sky will so come, in that same way as ye saw him going into the sky.

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

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

⁸ And we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be at home near the Lord.

²⁶ But the Jerusalem above is free, which is mother of us all.

⁶ and raised us up together, and seated us together in the heavenly things in Christ Jesus.

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

¹⁰ for you to examine the things that are significant. So that ye may be tested by sunlight and not stumbling toward the day of Christ,

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

¹ If therefore ye were raised with the Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. ² Think on the things above, not the things on the earth. ³ For ye died, and your life has been hidden with the Christ in God.

¹⁰ and to await his Son from the heavens whom he raised from the dead-Jesus-who rescues us from the coming wrath.

¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of the arch-agent, and with a trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first,

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

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

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

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

³⁴ For ye were both compassionate about my bonds, and ye accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing yourselves to have a superior and an enduring existence in the heavens. ³⁵ Therefore do not throw off your boldness, which has great recompense of reward.

²² But ye have come to mount Zion, and to the city of a living God, a heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of agents,

¹² anticipating and hastening the coming of the day of God, by which the heavens, being made fiery hot, will be disintegrated, and the elements dissolve, being intensely hot? ¹³ But we anticipate a new heavens and a new earth according to his promise, in which righteousness dwells. ¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, anticipating these things, be diligent to be found by him in peace, without spot and blameless.

⁷ Behold, he comes with the clouds and every eye will see him, even the men who pierced him. And all the tribes of the earth will wail against him. Yea, Truly.

¹⁰ And he carried me away in spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹ having the glory of God, the light of it similar to a most precious stone, like a jasper stone being crystal clear, ¹² which has a great and high wall having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve agents, and names inscribed, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel: ¹³ from the east, three gates, and from the north, three gates, and from the south, three gates, and from the west, three gates. ¹⁴ And the wall of the city having twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ And he who spoke with me had a measure, a golden reed, so that he might measure the city, and the gates of it, and the walls of it. ¹⁶ And the city lies foursquare, and the length of it is as great as the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs, the length and the breadth and the height of it being equal. ¹⁷ And he measured the wall of it, a hundred and forty-four forearms, a measure of a man, that is, of an agent. ¹⁸ And the structure of its wall was jasper. And the city was pure gold, similar to clear glass. ¹⁹ And the foundations of the wall of the city adorned with every precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second, sapphire, the third, chalcedony, the fourth, emerald, ²⁰ the fifth, sardonyx, the sixth, sardius, the seventh, chrysolite, the eighth, beryl, the ninth, topaz, the tenth, chrysoprase, the eleventh, jacinth, the twelfth, amethyst. ²¹ And the twelve gates were twelve pearls apiece, each one of the gates was of one pearl. And the thoroughfare of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. ²² And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty is the temple of it, and the Lamb. ²³ And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, so that they might shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and the light of it is the Lamb. ²⁴ And the nations will walk by the light of it. And the kings of the earth bring to them the splendor and worth of the nations into it. ²⁵ And the gates of it will, no, not be locked by day, for there will be no night there. ²⁶ And they will bring the splendor and the worth of the nations into it. ²⁷ And there will, no, not enter into it anything profane, and doing an abomination and a lie, since they are not written in the Lamb's book of life.

⁸ He will swallow up death in victory, and the lord LORD will wipe away tears from off all faces. And he will take away the reproach of his people from off all the earth. For LORD has spoken it.

¹⁹ Thy dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye who dwell in the dust, for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

¹⁴ I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death. O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy sting? Repentance shall be hid from my eyes.

² And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his garments became white as the light.

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

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

²⁴ Martha says to him, I know that he will rise in the resurrection at the last day.

²⁵ For he must reign until he will put all his enemies under his feet. ²⁶ The last enemy abolished is death. ²⁷ For he subordinated all things under his feet. But when he says that all things have been subordinated, it is clear that he who subordinated all things under him, is excepted. ²⁸ And when all things are made subordinate to him, then the Son himself will also be made subordinate to him who subordinated all things to him, so that God may be all in all.

⁴² So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in the perishable, it is raised in imperishability. ⁴³ It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. ⁴⁴ It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ And so it is written, The first man Adam developed into a living soul. The last Adam a life giving spirit. ⁴⁶ Nevertheless the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man was of the earth, earthly. The second man is the Lord from heaven. ⁴⁸ As is the earthly, such also are the earthly. And as is the heavenly, such also are the heavenly. ⁴⁹ And just as we have worn the form of the earthly, we will also wear the form of the heavenly. ⁵⁰ Now this I affirm, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit imperishability. ⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will actually not all sleep, but we will all be transformed, ⁵² in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For it will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be transformed. ⁵³ For this perishable must put on imperishability, and this mortal put on immortality. ⁵⁴ But when this perishable will have put on imperishability, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come to pass the saying that is written, Death was swallowed up in victory. ⁵⁵ O death, where is thy sting? O Hades, where is thy victory? ⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

¹⁹ and what is the transcending greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his might, ²⁰ which he wrought in the Christ, having raised him from the dead and seated at his right hand in the heavenly things,

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

² Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet made known what we will be. But we know that whenever he is made known we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.

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

¹³ And in the midst of the seven lampstands, resembling a son of man, he who was clothed down to the foot, and girded about with a golden belt at the breasts. ¹⁴ And his head and hair were white as wool, white as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire, ¹⁵ and his feet resembling highly refined metal, as in a furnace having been fiery hot, and his voice as the sound of many waters, 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. 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. ¹⁹ Therefore write the things that thou saw, and things that are, and things that are going to happen after these things. ²⁰ The mystery of the seven stars that thou saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are agents of the seven congregations, and the seven lampstands that thou saw are the seven congregations.

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and him who sits upon it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away, and no place was found for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the one of life. And the dead were judged from the things that were written in the books, according to their works. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead in them. And they were judged, each according to their works. ¹⁴ And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵ And if any man was found not written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.