1 Corinthians 8 Cross References - Anderson

¹ Now, with respect to meats offered to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up with pride, but love edifies. ² If any one thinks that he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet, as he ought to know it: ³ but if any one loves God, he is taught by him). ⁴ With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. ⁵ For though there are those which are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are many gods, and many lords,) ⁶ yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. ⁷ But all have not this knowledge; for some, under the persuasion that an idol is a reality, even yet eat meat, as if it were offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak, is defiled. ⁸ But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse. ⁹ But take heed, lest, by any means, this right of yours become a stumbling-block to those who are weak. ¹⁰ For, if any one see you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened, so that he will eat meats offered to idols? ¹¹ and will not the weak brother, for whom Christ died, perish through your knowledge? ¹² But if you sin in this way against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. ¹³ For which reason, if meat cause my brother to fall, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother to fall.

²³ And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.

²⁷ All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son, but the Father; nor does any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

⁴⁹ And he stretched out his hand toward his disciples, and said: Behold my mother and my brothers. ⁵⁰ For whoever will do the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

⁶ but whoever ensnares one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

⁶ but whoever ensnares one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. ⁷ Alas for the world because of snares! for it is necessary that snares come: but alas for that man by whom the snare comes!

¹⁰ Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, That their angels in heaven do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.

²¹ Then Peter came to him, and said: Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till seven times?

⁴⁰ And the King will answer and say to them: Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.

⁴⁵ Then will he answer them, saying: Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.

¹⁸ And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying: All authority in heaven and on earth is given to me.

²⁹ And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.

¹ Then he said to his disciples: It is impossible that causes of offense should not come; but alas for him by whom they come! ² It would be better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.

³ All things were made by him, and without him not one thing was made that now exists.

²⁰ For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does; and he will show him greater works than these, that you may be astonished. ²¹ For as the Father raises the dead, and makes them alive, so also the Son makes alive whom he will. ²² For the Father judges no one, but has given all judicial authority to the Son; ²³ that all may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father who sent him. ²⁴ Verily, verily I say to you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has eternal life, and comes not into condemnation, but has passed from death into life. ²⁵ Verily, verily I say to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear, shall live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so has he given to the Son also to have life in himself; ²⁷ and he has given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. ²⁸ Be not astonished at this; for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, ²⁹ and shall come forth; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

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

³⁰ I and my Father are one.

³⁴ Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law, I said, you are gods? ³⁵ If he called them gods, to whom the word of God was committed, (and the scripture can not be made void,)

¹³ You call me Teacher and Lord; and you say well, for so I am.

⁹ Jesus said to him: Have I been so long with you, and have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen me, has seen the Father; and how say you, Show us the Father? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. The Father who dwells in me, he does the works.

²⁰ In that clay you shall know that I am in my Father, arid you in me, and I in you.

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

²¹ that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. ²² And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them, that they may be one, as we are one; ²³ I in them, and thou ID me, that they may be made perfect in one, that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

¹⁷ Jesus said to her: Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.

¹⁷ He said to him a third time: Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do you love me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus said to him: Feed my sheep.

³⁶ Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made this same Jesus whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.

³¹ Him has God exalted to his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, in order to give to Israel repentance and remission of sins:

⁴ And when he had fallen to the earth, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? ⁵ He answered: "Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said: I am Jesus, whom you persecute.

¹⁵ and saying: Men, why are you doing these things? We also are human beings, with passions like your own, and we preach the gospel to you, that you may turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them;

¹⁰ Now, therefore, why do you put God to the proof, by placing a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers, nor we ourselves, were able to bear?

¹⁹ For these reasons, my judgment is, that we give no trouble to those who, from among the Gentiles, have turned to God; ²⁰ but that we write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

²⁹ That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness; from which if you keep yourselves carefully, you will do well. Farewell.

²⁸ For in him we live, and move, and have our being: as also some of your own poets have said: For we his offspring are.

²⁶ and you see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but throughout almost the whole of Asia, this Paul, by his persuasions, has drawn away a great multitude, saying, that they which are made with hands are not gods.

²⁵ But with respect to the Gentiles that believe, we have written; having decided that they should observe no such thing; but that they keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness.

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good, to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For those whom he foreknew, he predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren:

² God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture says, in regard to Elijah? how he intercedes with God against Israel, saying:

²⁵ For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery lest you be wise in your own conceit that blindness has happened to Israel in part, till the full number of the Gen tiles shall have come in.

³⁶ For from him, and by him, and for him, are all things. To him be glory through the ages! Amen.

¹⁶ cultivate the same disposition, one to ward another: mind not high things, but conform yourselves to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits;

¹ Him that is weak in the faith, receive kindly, but not to judge his reasonings. ² One believes that he may eat all things; another, who is weak, eats herbs. ³ Let not him that eats, despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not, judge him that eats: for God has received him.

¹⁰ But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we all shall stand before the judgment-seat of the Christ.

¹³ Let us, therefore, no longer judge one another: but rather decide to put no stumbling-block or snare in your brother's way. ¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; but if any one thinks that any thing is unclean, to him it is unclean.

¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; but if any one thinks that any thing is unclean, to him it is unclean. ¹⁵ But if your brother is grieved on account of your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not, with your food, destroy him, for whom Christ died.

¹⁵ But if your brother is grieved on account of your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not, with your food, destroy him, for whom Christ died.

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

²⁰ Destroy not the work of God on account of food. All meats, indeed, are clean; but meat is an evil to that man who, by eating, causes another to stumble. ²¹ It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing by which your brother stumbles, or is ensnared, or is made weak.

²¹ It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing by which your brother stumbles, or is ensnared, or is made weak. ²² Have you faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who condemns not himself in that which he approves.

²² Have you faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who condemns not himself in that which he approves. ²³ But he that doubts is condemned, if he eat, because he eats not with faith. Every thing that is not of faith, is sin.

²³ But he that doubts is condemned, if he eat, because he eats not with faith. Every thing that is not of faith, is sin.

¹ But we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of those who are not strong, and not to please ourselves.

¹ But we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of those who are not strong, and not to please ourselves. ² Let each one of us please his neighbor in that which is good for his edification. ³ For the Christ did not please himself; but as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee, fell on me.

¹⁴ And I myself am persuaded concerning you, my brethren, that you yourselves are full of all goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also to instruct one another.

² to the church of God which is in Corinth, to the sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

⁵ that you are enriched by him in every thing, in all speech, and in all knowledge,

¹⁰ Now, I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you, but that you be perfectly united in the same mind, and in the same judgment. ¹¹ For it has been made known to me concerning you, my brethren, by the family of Cloe, that there are contentions among you.

⁹ But, as it is written: Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and into the heart of man have not entered the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself: if any one among you is considered as wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised.

¹⁸ Now, some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you;

² And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken from among you.

⁶ Your boasting is not good; know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?

¹² All meats are lawful for me: but all are not profitable. All are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under subjection by any. ¹³ Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

¹ Now, with respect to meats offered to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up with pride, but love edifies.

¹ Now, with respect to meats offered to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up with pride, but love edifies. ² If any one thinks that he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet, as he ought to know it:

² If any one thinks that he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet, as he ought to know it:

⁴ With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

⁶ yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. ⁷ But all have not this knowledge; for some, under the persuasion that an idol is a reality, even yet eat meat, as if it were offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak, is defiled.

⁷ But all have not this knowledge; for some, under the persuasion that an idol is a reality, even yet eat meat, as if it were offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak, is defiled.

⁹ But take heed, lest, by any means, this right of yours become a stumbling-block to those who are weak. ¹⁰ For, if any one see you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened, so that he will eat meats offered to idols?

¹⁰ For, if any one see you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened, so that he will eat meats offered to idols?

¹⁰ For, if any one see you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened, so that he will eat meats offered to idols? ¹¹ and will not the weak brother, for whom Christ died, perish through your knowledge? ¹² But if you sin in this way against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. ¹³ For which reason, if meat cause my brother to fall, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother to fall.

¹² If others partake of this right over you, should not we rather? But we have not used this right: but we endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of the Christ.

¹⁹ For, though I am free from all men, yet have I made my self a servant to all, that I may gain the more. ²⁰ And to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to those who are under law, as under law, (not being myself under law,) that I might gain those who are under law; ²¹ to those who are without law, as without law, (not being myself without law to God, but under law to Christ,) that I might gain those who are without law: ²² to the weak I became like one who was weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some.

²² to the weak I became like one who was weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some. ²³ And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may share its benefits with you.

¹⁹ What, then, do I say? That an idol is any thing? or, that what is sacrificed to an idol is any thing?

¹⁹ What, then, do I say? That an idol is any thing? or, that what is sacrificed to an idol is any thing? ²⁰ But I say, that the things which the Gen tiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not wish you to be partakers with demons.

²⁰ But I say, that the things which the Gen tiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not wish you to be partakers with demons.

²⁰ But I say, that the things which the Gen tiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not wish you to be partakers with demons. ²¹ You can not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you can not be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

²¹ You can not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you can not be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons. ²² Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

²⁴ Let no one seek his own, but each the welfare of the other.

²⁸ But if any one say to you: This is sacrificed to idols; eat not, for the sake of him that pointed it out, and for conscience sake:

²⁸ But if any one say to you: This is sacrificed to idols; eat not, for the sake of him that pointed it out, and for conscience sake: ²⁹ conscience, I say, not your own, but that of the other. Why, then, is my liberty judged by the conscience of another?

²⁹ conscience, I say, not your own, but that of the other. Why, then, is my liberty judged by the conscience of another?

³² Give no occasion for stumbling, either to the Jews, or to the Greeks, or to the church of God; ³³ even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own good, but that of the many, in order that they may be saved.

³ For this reason, I make known to you, that no one, speaking by the Spirit of God, calls Jesus accursed: and no one can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

¹² For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

¹ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of an gels, but have not love, I have become as sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. ² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. ³ And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing. ⁴ Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love boasts not; is not vain, ⁵ does nothing unbecoming, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil,

⁵ does nothing unbecoming, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil, ⁶ rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails; but whether there be gifts of prophecy, they shall have an end; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall have an end.

⁸ Love never fails; but whether there be gifts of prophecy, they shall have an end; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall have an end. ⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; ¹⁰ but when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall have an end. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I had the mind of a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. ¹² Now we see through a mirror, obscurely; but then, face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know, even as I am known.

¹² Now we see through a mirror, obscurely; but then, face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know, even as I am known. ¹³ And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the great est of these is love.

²⁰ Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet, in malice, be childlike; but, in understanding, be full-grown men.

³⁴ Awake, as you should, to soberness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

³ for we put no stumbling-block in any man's way, in order that this ministry may not be blamed;

²¹ I speak of their reproaches, as if we were weak. In what ever matter any one is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I also am bold.

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I am not incensed?

⁸ But, then, because you knew not God, you were enslaved to those who, by nature, are not gods: ⁹ now, however, after having known God, rather indeed having been known by God, how is it that you are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments, to which you desire again to be in bondage, as at first?

¹³ For you have been called to freedom, brethren: only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but become servants to one another, through love.

³ For if any one think himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself:

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

²⁰ which he made active in the Christ when he raised him from the dead, and caused him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, ²¹ high above every principality and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come; ²² and subjected all things under his feet, and made him head over all things for the church, ²³ which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all his members with all things,

¹⁴ For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁵ one Lord, one faith, one immersion; ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in you all.

⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in you all.

¹⁶ from whom the whole body, compactly fitted together, and united by every helping joint, according to the energy in the measure of each part, makes increase of the body, for the building up of itself in love.

⁹ For which reason God has highly exalted him, and, also, bestowed on him a name that is above every name; ¹⁰ that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow of those who are in heaven, and those who are on earth, and those who are under the earth; ¹¹ and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

⁶ which is present among you, as it is also in all the world, and is producing fruit, even as it has been doing also among you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

¹⁶ for by him were all things created, things in heaven and things in earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities; all things were created by him, and for him: ¹⁷ and he is before all things, and by him all things consist:

¹⁸ Let no one gain his purpose in depriving you of the palm by an affected humility and worship of angels, prying into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

²⁰ If, then, you have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you submit to ordinances? ²¹ Touch not, taste not, handle not, ²² (all of which are for the destruction of those who use them,) according to the commandments and teachings of men; ²³ and these have a show of wisdom in will-worship and affected humility and neglect of the body, and in no regard for the gratification of the flesh.

⁴ who opposes and exalts himself above every one that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, openly showing him self that he is God.

⁵ (Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and out of a good conscience, and out of faith unfeigned: ⁶ which things some not having aimed at, have turned aside to idle disputation, ⁷ desiring to be teachers of law, though under standing neither what they say nor of what they boldly affirm.

¹⁷ Now to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, be honor and glory from age to age. Amen.)

⁵ For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

⁵ For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave himself a ransom for all, of which the testimony has been given in its proper times,

³ If any one teaches other things, and does not assent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teaching which is according to godliness, ⁴ he is mad with conceit, knowing nothing, but has a morbid fondness for questions and contentions about words, out of which come envy, strife, railing, evil suspicions,

¹⁹ But the foundation of God stands firm, having this inscription: The Lord knows those who are his; and, Let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

⁸ Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also will withstand the truth; men corrupt in mind, rejected as it respects the faith. ⁹ But they shall proceed no further; for their madness shall be manifest to all, as was the madness of those men.

² whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom, also, he made the ages; ³ who, being the effulgence of his glory and the exact representation of his essence, and upholding all things by his own powerful word, when he had by himself made expiation for our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

⁹ Be not carried away by various and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be strengthened with grace, not with meats, which have not profited those who were occupied with them.

¹² Blessed is the man that endures trial: for, being approved, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

⁵ Hear, my be loved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God has promised to those who love him?

² elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctification of the Spirit, in order to obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: grace be to you, and peace be multiplied. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his abundant mercy, has, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, regenerated us for a living hope

⁸ -whom, though you have not seen him, yet you love; on whom not now looking, but believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory,

²¹ who through him do believe in God who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

¹⁶ as being free, and yet not using your freedom as a cloak for malice, but as servants of God.

¹⁹ While they promise them freedom, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whatever any man is overcome, he is also enslaved.

¹⁹ We love him, because he first loved us.

² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. ³ For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not burdensome.

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¹⁸ and I am he that lives; and I was dead, and be hold, I am alive from age to age: and I have the keys of hades and of death.

⁹ I know your works, and your affliction, and your poverty, (but you are rich,) and the impious words of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

¹³ I know your works, and where you dwell, even where the throne of Satan is: and yet you hold fast my name, and have not denied my faith, even in those days in which Antipas was my faithful witness, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells. ¹⁴ Yet I have a few things against you, that you have there those who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to practice lewdness.

¹⁹ I know your works, and your love, and your faith, and your service, and your patience, and your works, the last greater than the first. ²⁰ But I have against you that you suffer that woman Jezebel, who calls her self a prophetess, and teaches and deceives my servants to practice lewdness, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

⁸ I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door that no one is able to shut, because you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name. ⁹ Behold, I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them come and worship before your feet, and know that I have loved you.

¹⁵ I know your works, that you are neither cold, nor hot: I wish that you were cold, or hot. ¹⁶ So, then, because you are luke-warm, and neither cold, nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth.