2 Corinthians 10 Cross References - Anderson

¹ Now I, the same Paul, who, when present among you, am timid, but when absent, am bold toward you, entreat you, by the mildness and gentleness of Christ; ² I, indeed, beseech you, that I may not, when present, be bold with that confidence with which I think I shall be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. ³ For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, ⁴ (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty, through God, for the overthrowing of strongholds,) ⁵ overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought to the obedience of the Christ, ⁶ and being ready to take vengeance on all disobedience, when your obedience shall have been fully established. ⁷ Do you look on things according to the outward appearance? If any one trusts in himself, that he is Christ s, let him again reason thus of himself: that as he is Christ s, so also are we. ⁸ For though I should boast even, somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I would not be ashamed: ⁹ that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. ¹⁰ For his letters, says one, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his style of speech contemptible. ¹¹ Let such a one conclude thus that such as we are in word, by letters, while absent, such also will we be in deed, when present. ¹² For we do not presume to rank or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves: but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with them selves, have no understanding. ¹³ But we will not boast ourselves with respect to regions not measured to us; but according to the measure of the line which God, who measures, has appointed for us to reach even to you. ¹⁴ For we do not stretch ourselves too far, as if we did not come to you: for even as far as to you, have we already come in the gospel of the Christ, ¹⁵ not boasting ourselves in the labors of others in regions not measured off to us, but having hope that, when your faith is increased, we shall be magnified among you abundantly, according to our line, ¹⁶ so as to preach the gospel in regions beyond you, and not to boast in regions made ready under another man's line. ¹⁷ But let him that boasts, boast in the Lord: ¹⁸ for he that commends himself is not approved; but he whom the Lord commends.

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

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy, and my bur den is light.

¹⁹ He shall not contend, nor cry out; nor shall any one hear his voice in the streets. ²⁰ A bruised reed he shall not break, and a smoking wick he shall not extinguish, till he shall send forth his law for conquest.

¹⁹ For from the heart come evil reasonings, murders, adulteries, lewd actions, thefts, false testimonies, impious words.

⁵ Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your king comes to you, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

⁵ And they do all their works for the purpose of being seen by men. They make their amulets broad, and enlarge the fringes of their mantles.

¹⁵ To one he gave five talents; to another, two; and to another, one; to each one, according to his own ability, and immediately left his country.

²⁰ And he that had received the five talents came and brought other five talents, and said: Lord, you delivered to me five talents: see, I have gained other five talents in addition to them. ²¹ His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many. Enter into the joy of your lord. ²² And he also that had received the two talents came, and said: Lord, you delivered to me two talents; see, I have gained other two talents in addition to them. ²³ His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many. Enter into the joy of your lord.

¹ THE beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;

⁵¹ He has done mighty deeds with his arm; he has scattered those who are proud in the understanding of their hearts.

¹⁵ And he said to them: You set yourselves forth as righteous before men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men, is detestable in the sight of God.

¹⁰ Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. ¹² I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I possess. ¹³ And the publican, standing afar off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner. ¹⁴ I say to you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For every one that exalts himself, shall be humbled; but he that humbles himself, shall be exalted.

⁴² But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. ⁴³ I have come in my Father's name, and you receive me not; if another should come in his own name, him you would receive. ⁴⁴ How can you believe who receive honor one from another, and seek not the honor that comes from God alone?

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

⁴³ for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

²² Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene, clearly pointed out to you as a man from God, by mighty deeds and wonders and signs, which God did by him in your midst, as you yourselves also know,

²⁵ Why did the heathen rage, and the people devise vain things? ²⁶ The kings of the land stood up, and the rulers met together against the Lord and against his anointed.

³ But Peter said: Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart, that you should at tempt to deceive the Holy Spirit, and keep back part of the price of the land? ⁴ While it remained unsold, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your own disposal? Why have you purposed this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God. ⁵ And when Ananias heard these words, he fell down, and expired. And great fear came on all that heard these things. ⁶ And the young men arose and wound him in his mantle, and carried him out, and buried him. ⁷ And after an interval of about three hours, his wife, not knowing what had been done, came in. ⁸ And Peter answered her: Tell me, did you sell the land for so much? She replied: Yes; for so much. ⁹ But Peter said to her: Why is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they shall carry you out. ¹⁰ And she immediately fell down at his feet, and expired. And the young men came in and found her dead; and they carried her out, and buried her by the side of her husband. ¹¹ And great fear came on all the church, and on all that heard these things.

¹³ And no one of the rest durst join himself to them; but the people magnified them.

²² And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

³² The passage of the scripture which he was reading, was this: As a sheep for the slaughter was he led; and as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, so opened he not his mouth

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. ⁶ But rise, and go into the city, and it shall be told you what you must do.

¹⁰ said: full of all deceit and all wickedness, child of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? ¹¹ And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness, and he went about and sought some to lead him by the hand.

²¹ When these things had been accomplished, Paul purposed in spirit to go to Jerusalem, after he should pass through Macedonia and Achaia, saying: After I have been there, I must see Rome also.

²⁴ But I esteem this a matter of no importance, nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry that I have received from the Lord Jesus, to bear full testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

⁵ through whom we have received grace and apostleship, in order to the obedience of faith among all nations, for the honor of his name,

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the Gospel: for it is the power of God in order to salvation, to every one that believes, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

²¹ because, when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful; but they became perverse in their reasonings, and their wicked heart was darkened;

¹⁶ who show that the work which the law requires, is written in their hearts, their conscience bearing testimony, and their reasonings with each other accusing, or making excuse.

²⁸ For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: ²⁹ but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.

²⁹ but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.

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

¹³ and present not your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead; and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.

²³ but I perceive another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind, and making me a captive to the law of sin, which is in my members.

¹ There is now, therefore, no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.

⁵ For those who are according to the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

¹³ for if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if, through the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.

¹⁸ But I say: Have they not heard? Yes, verily; their voice has gone forth into all the earth: and -their words to the ends of the world.

²⁰ But Isaiah is very bold, and says: I was found by them that sought me not: I was made manifest to them that asked not after me.

¹ I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

³ For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one that is among you, that he must not think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but that he be disposed to think modestly, as God has distributed to each a measure of faith.

⁶ Since, then, we have gifts which differ according to the grace that is given to us, whether we have the gift of prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

¹² the night is far advanced, the day draws near. Let us, therefore, put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

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

¹⁵ Yet I have written to you more boldly in part, my brethren, as if I would put you in remembrance, on account of the grace which is given to me by God,

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, by word and deed, in order to make the Gentiles obedient,

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, by word and deed, in order to make the Gentiles obedient, ¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders by the power of the Holy Spirit. So that from Jerusalem, and round about as far as Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of the Christ; ²⁰ so earnestly desirous have I been to preach the gospel, not where Christ had been named, lest I should build on another man's foundation;

²⁴ when I make my journey into Spain, I hope, in passing through, to see you, and to be conducted by you on my journey thither, after I am first partly satisfied with your company. ²⁵ But now I am going to Jerusalem, to minister to the saints. ²⁶ For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor saints who are in Jerusalem: ²⁷ they have been pleased to do so, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have become partakers of their spiritual things, they ought to minister to them in things pertaining to the flesh. ²⁸ When, therefore, I shall have performed this, and have delivered to them this fruit, I will go by you into Spain.

¹⁰ Salute Appelles, approved in Christ. Salute those who are of the household of Aristobulus.

²⁵ Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel, even the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was concealed during the times of the ages, ²⁶ but is now made manifest, and through the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, made known among all nations for the obedience of faith,

¹² I mean this: that each one of you says, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

¹⁷ For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of the Christ should be deprived of its power. ¹⁸ For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish, foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God. ¹⁹ For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; and I will set aside the understanding of the prudent.

¹⁹ For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; and I will set aside the understanding of the prudent. ²⁰ Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of- this world? ²¹ For, since in the wisdom of God, the world, by its wisdom, knew not God, it has pleased God, through the foolishness of what is preached, to save those who believe.

²¹ For, since in the wisdom of God, the world, by its wisdom, knew not God, it has pleased God, through the foolishness of what is preached, to save those who believe. ²² For the Jews ask for a sign, and the Greeks seek for wisdom; ²³ but we preach Christ crucified; to the Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks, foolishness: ²⁴ but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

²⁷ but God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may bring to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen, that he may put to shame the strong; ²⁸ and the ignoble things of the world, and the things that are despised, has God chosen, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are; ²⁹ that no flesh should glory in his presence.

²⁹ that no flesh should glory in his presence.

³¹ that, as it is written: He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

¹ And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellence of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God. ² For I determined not to know any thing among you but Jesus Christ, and him crucified. ³ And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling:

³ And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling: ⁴ and my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵ that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

¹⁰ But God has revealed them to us through his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

⁵ Who, then, is Paul? and who is Apollos? Ministers by whom you have believed, even as the Lord gave to each one. ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered: but God made to grow.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on this. But let every one take heed how he builds on this.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written: He takes the wise in their own craftiness.

²³ and you are Christ's: and Christ is God s.

⁵ So, then, judge nothing be fore the time, till the Lord comes, who will bring to light the secret works of darkness, and will also make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall each have his praise from God.

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.

¹⁵ For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet you have not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

¹⁸ Now, some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you; ¹⁹ but I will come to you quickly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the speech of those who have become arrogant, but the power.

¹⁹ but I will come to you quickly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the speech of those who have become arrogant, but the power. ²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.

²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power. ²¹ What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of gentleness?

²¹ What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of gentleness?

³ For I, in deed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as if I were present, judged him that has so done this thing; ⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you and my spirit have come together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ that we deliver such a one over to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

¹ Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord-? Are you not my work in the Lord?

¹ Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord-? Are you not my work in the Lord? ² If I am not an apostle to others, yet certainly I am to you; for the seal of my apostleship are you in the Lord.

⁷ What man ever serves as a soldier, at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit? Or who tends a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

¹⁹ for there must be sects among you, that the approved may be made known among you.

¹¹ But all these, the one and the same Spirit makes effectual, distributing to each, respectively, as he wills.

³⁷ If any one has the reputation of being a prophet, or spiritual man, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

²³ but each in his own order; Christ the first-fruit, afterward, those who are Christ's at his coming.

²¹ The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand. ²² If any one loves not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. The Lord comes.

²⁴ not that we are lords over your faith, but fellow- workers for your joy: for by faith you stand.

⁹ For I wrote to you for this purpose also, that I might have a sure proof from you, whether you are obedient in all things.

¹² And when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of the Christ, and a door was opened to me in the Lord,

¹ Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some do, letters of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

¹ Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some do, letters of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? ² You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; ³ you are well known to be a letter of Christ, written by us as his ministers, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

⁵ not that we are able, of ourselves, to devise any thing, as from ourselves; but our ability is from God,

¹² Since then we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech,

⁴ whose unbelieving minds the god of this age has darkened, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine to them.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be God's and not our own.

¹² We do not again commend ourselves to you, but give you an occasion to boast of us, that you may be able to answer those who glory in appearance, and not in heart.

²⁰ Therefore, we act as ambassadors for Christ, as though God entreated through us; we beseech in Christ's stead, be reconciled to God:

¹ As co-workers with him, we beseech you, that you receive not the grace of God in vain:

⁴ but in all things we commend ourselves as the ministers of God, in much suffering, in afflictions, in distresses, in straits,

⁷ by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

⁴ Great is my plainness of speech to you, great is my boasting of you; I am filled with comfort, I am exceedingly joyful in all our affliction.

¹⁴ For if I boasted of you to him, in any respect, I am not made ashamed; but as I have spoken all things to you in truth, so also has our boasting to Titus been found to be truth: ¹⁵ and his affection for you is the more abundant, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.

¹³ (since through the proof which this service gives, they glorify God for your acknowledged subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution for them, and for all;)

¹ Now I, the same Paul, who, when present among you, am timid, but when absent, am bold toward you, entreat you, by the mildness and gentleness of Christ; ² I, indeed, beseech you, that I may not, when present, be bold with that confidence with which I think I shall be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

⁴ (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty, through God, for the overthrowing of strongholds,)

⁷ Do you look on things according to the outward appearance? If any one trusts in himself, that he is Christ s, let him again reason thus of himself: that as he is Christ s, so also are we.

¹⁰ For his letters, says one, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his style of speech contemptible.

¹² For we do not presume to rank or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves: but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with them selves, have no understanding. ¹³ But we will not boast ourselves with respect to regions not measured to us; but according to the measure of the line which God, who measures, has appointed for us to reach even to you. ¹⁴ For we do not stretch ourselves too far, as if we did not come to you: for even as far as to you, have we already come in the gospel of the Christ, ¹⁵ not boasting ourselves in the labors of others in regions not measured off to us, but having hope that, when your faith is increased, we shall be magnified among you abundantly, according to our line,

¹⁸ for he that commends himself is not approved; but he whom the Lord commends.

⁴ For if he that comes should preach another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or, if you receive another Spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, you would well bear with him.

⁶ But if I am unpolished in my style of speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. But we have been fully manifested among you in all things.

⁹ for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my wants; and in every thing I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and will continue to keep myself. ¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting shall not be silenced, in my case, in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹ Why? Because I do not love you? God knows. ¹² But what I am -doing I will also continue to do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in what they boast, they may be found even as we. ¹³ For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, trans forming themselves into the apostles of Christ;

¹⁸ Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.

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.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

³⁰ If I must boast, I will boast in my infirmities.

⁵ Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, unless in my infirmities.

⁵ Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, unless in my infirmities. ⁶ For though I should choose to boast, I would not be void of understanding: for I will speak the truth. But I forbear, lest any one should think of me more than what he sees me to be, or what he hears of me.

⁶ For though I should choose to boast, I would not be void of understanding: for I will speak the truth. But I forbear, lest any one should think of me more than what he sees me to be, or what he hears of me. ⁷ And, lest I should be too much exalted by the excellence of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I might not be too much exalted. ⁸ With regard to this, I three times entreated the Lord that it might leave me; ⁹ and he said to me: My grace is sufficient for you; for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may abide upon me.

¹¹ I have become of no understanding; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you: I am in no respect inferior to the very greatest of the apostles, although I am nothing.

¹³ For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, unless in this that I did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong. ¹⁴ Behold, I am ready the third time to come to you, and I will not burden you: for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children. ¹⁵ I, indeed, will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. ¹⁶ Be it so, indeed; I did not burden you; but being crafty, I caught you by deceit. ¹⁷ Did I overreach you by any of those whom I sent to you? ¹⁸ I exhorted Titus, and with him sent the brother. Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps? ¹⁹ Do you think again that we offer you a defense of ourselves? We speak all these things before God in Christ, beloved, for your edification. ²⁰ For I fear, lest when I come I shall find you not, such as I wish, and I shall be found by you not such as you wish: lest there shall be contentions, envies, excitements, strife, evil speaking, whisperings, party spirit, disorderly conduct:

²⁰ For I fear, lest when I come I shall find you not, such as I wish, and I shall be found by you not such as you wish: lest there shall be contentions, envies, excitements, strife, evil speaking, whisperings, party spirit, disorderly conduct:

² I have foretold, and now the second time, as if I was present, though being absent, I foretell to those who have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

² I have foretold, and now the second time, as if I was present, though being absent, I foretell to those who have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

² I have foretold, and now the second time, as if I was present, though being absent, I foretell to those who have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare; ³ since you seek a proof of Christ's speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but who is mighty in you:

³ since you seek a proof of Christ's speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but who is mighty in you:

³ since you seek a proof of Christ's speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but who is mighty in you: ⁴ for though he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

⁷ Yet I pray to God that you may do no evil; not that we may appear as having proof, but that you may do what is good, though we be as without proof. ⁸ For we can do nothing against the truth, but we can do something for the truth.

¹⁰ For this reason, I write these things, while absent, that I may not, when present, use severity, according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.

¹ PAUL, an apostle, (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead,)

⁶ I am astonished that you are so soon turning away from him that called you into the grace of Christ, to another gospel: ⁷ which is nothing else than that there are some who trouble you, and are determined to pervert the gospel of the Christ. ⁸ But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach to you any other gospel than that which we have preached, let him be ac cursed.

¹¹ But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which is preached by me, is not according to man: ¹² for neither did I receive it from man, nor was it taught me, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹³ For you have heard of my former mode of life in Judaism, that I greatly persecuted the church of God, and laid it waste;

⁵ to whom we yielded in submission, not even for an hour, in order that the truth of the gospel might remain with you. ⁶ But from those who were supposed to be something; (what they were is a matter of no importance to me: God does not accept the person of man;) they, indeed, who were supposed to be something, communicated no additional truth to me; ⁷ but; on the other hand, seeing that I was intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, as Peter was with that of the circumcision, ⁸ (for he who gave efficiency to Peter, for the apostleship of the circumcision, gave efficiency to me also, as an apostle for the Gentiles,) ⁹ and knowing the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, but they to the circumcision,

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

²⁹ And if you are Christ s, then you are Abraham's posterity, and heirs according to the promise.

¹³ You know that through weakness of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first:

¹³ You know that through weakness of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first: ¹⁴ and my trial, which was in my flesh, you did not despise or loathe; but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

² Behold, I Paul say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.

¹⁶ I say this: Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against flesh; and these are opposed, the one to the other, so that you can not do what you would. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law. ¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are well known, and they are these lewdness, uncleanness, wantonness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strifes, jealousies, anger, party-spirit, divisions, sects, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; with respect to which, I tell you now, as I also told you in times past, that those who practice such things shall riot inherit the kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law. ²⁴ Now those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

¹³ For not even do those very men, who are circumcised, keep the law: but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh. ¹⁴ But may I never boast save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

² in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is actively at work in the sons of disobedience: ³ among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the feelings, and were by nature children of wrath, even as others:

¹ I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called;

⁷ But grace has been given to each one of us, according to the measure of the gift of the Christ.

¹³ Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand them in the evil day, and having overcome them all, to stand firm. ¹⁴ Stand, therefore, having your loins girded about with truth, and wearing the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having your feet shod with that preparation for defense supplied by the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ taking up, over all, the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one: ¹⁷ and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: ¹⁸ praying with all prayer and supplication, at all times, in the Spirit; and to this end being watchful in all perseverance, and supplication for all the saints:

³ For we are the circumcision, who worship God in spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; ⁴ though, indeed, I have a ground of confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks he has a ground of confidence in the flesh, I more; ⁵ circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as it respects law, a Pharisee; ⁶ as it respects zeal, persecuting the church; as it respects righteousness which is by law, blameless. ⁷ But the things which were gain to me, these I counted loss for Christ. ⁸ Yes, verily, I also count all things to be loss, for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them to be refuse, that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and be found in him, not having my own righteousness which was by law, but the righteousness which is by faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith,

⁵ in consequence of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

⁸ But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation:

³ We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all toward each other abounds:

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.

⁸ and then shall that lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy by the spirit of his mouth, and will utterly over throw by the brightness of his coming:

¹⁷ The salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is the token in every letter: so I write.

¹¹ according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been intrusted to me.

¹⁸ This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, in accordance with the preceding prophecies concerning you, that by them you may war the good warfare,

²⁰ whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to revile.

¹² for which cause I also suffer these things; yet I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have intrusted to him till that day.

³ Do you, there fore, suffer evil, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

³ Do you, there fore, suffer evil, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. ⁴ Every one that serves as a soldier keeps himself free from the business of this life, that he may please him that has chosen him to be a soldier.

¹⁵ Strive to present yourself to God as approved, a workman that has no cause to be ashamed, rightly setting forth the word of truth.

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:

⁹ yet, on account of my love, I rather exhort you, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner on account of Jesus Christ.

¹² For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, and pierces even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

⁹ and, having been made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation to all that obey him,

³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after the people had gone around them for seven days.

³² And what further shall I say? For the time would fail me, were I to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah, of David also and Samuel, and of the prophets, ³³ who, through faith, subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, closed the mouths of lions,

¹ Wherefore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies before us,

⁹ Let the brother that is in a lowly condition, glory in his exaltation: ¹⁰ but he that is rich, in his humiliation; because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

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.

⁷ that your faith, when proved, being much more precious than gold, which perishes though it be tried by fire, may be found to be for praise and honor and glory, at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

¹⁴ as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires which you formerly had in your ignorance; ¹⁵ but as he who has called you is holy, so be you holy in all your behavior:

²² Having purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, to unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another with a pure heart fervently,

¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and sojourners, that you keep yourselves from fleshly desires, which war against the soul,

²² He did no sin, nor was guile found in his mouth. ²³ When he was reviled, he did not revile again; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but committed himself to him that judges righteously.

¹ Since, then, Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, do you also arm yourselves with the same determination; for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, ² so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh, according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.

¹⁰ As each has received a gift, minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

⁶ We are of God: he that knows God, hears us: he that is not of God, does not hear us: by this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

¹⁰ Therefore, if I come, I will remember his works which he does, prating against us with malicious words: and not content with these things, he does not himself receive the brethren, but both for bids those who are willing, and casts them out of the church.

⁹ I John, your brother and companion in the affliction, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the island called Patmos, on account of the word of God, and on account of the testimony of Jesus Christ.