2 Peter Cross References - Anderson

¹ SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained faith, equally as precious as our own, in the plan of justification revealed by our God and Savior Jesus Christ: ² grace be to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgment of God, and Jesus our Lord. ³ As his divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the acknowledgment of him who has called us by his glorious power, ⁴ through which things very great and precious favors that were promised have been given us, that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through desire: ⁵ so, even for this very purpose, uniting to these things all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; ⁶ and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; ⁷ and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. ⁸ For if these things be in you, and abound, they cause you to be neither idle, nor unfruitful as it respects the acknowledgment of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ But he who is wanting in these things is blind, and closes his eyes, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. ¹⁰ Wherefore, brethren, give the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you will never fall. ¹¹ For thus will an entrance be given you abundantly into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. ¹² Wherefore, I will not neglect to remind you always of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth. ¹³ Indeed, I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to arouse you by putting you in remembrance. ¹⁴ For I know that the putting off of this my tabernacle is near at hand, even as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. ¹⁵ But I will earnestly endeavor that you may be able, even after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance. ¹⁶ For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; but we were eye-witnesses of his majesty. ¹⁷ For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came to him from the magnificent glory a voice, such as this: This is my beloved Son, in whom I delight. ¹⁸ And this voice, which came from heaven, we heard when we were with him in the holy mount; ¹⁹ and we have the prophetic word better established. You do well to attend to this, as to a lamp that shines in a dark place, till the day dawn, and the morning star arise in your hearts; ²⁰ knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture came from private interpretation: ²¹ for the prophecy came not at any time by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷ And lo, a voice from heaven, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I delight.

¹⁶ the people that sat in darkness saw great light; and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has risen.

¹⁸ And as he was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, throwing a net into the sea, for they were fishers.

²⁴ Therefore, whoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on the rock: ²⁵ and the rain descended, and the torrents came, and the winds blew, and they beat against that house, and it fell not: for it was founded on the rock.

² Now these are the names of the twelve apostles: the first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

²⁵ At that time Jesus answered and said: I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes. ²⁶ Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. 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.

¹⁸ Be hold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul delights. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall declare law to the Gentiles.

²² He that received seed among the thorns, is he that hears the word; and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

²⁸ Verily I say to you, There are some standing here that shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

³ And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him.

⁵ While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and lo, a voice from the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I delight; hear him. ⁶ And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and were greatly afraid.

³ And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the market, idle;

⁶ And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why do you stand here all the day idle?

³ And as he was sitting upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, and said: Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the age?

²⁷ For as the lightning comes out from the east, and shines even to the west, so also shall the coming of the Son of man be.

²⁶ His lord answered and said to him: Wicked and slothful servant; did you know that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter?

³⁴ Then the King will say to those on his right hand: Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

¹⁸ And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying: All authority in heaven and on earth is given to me. ¹⁹ Go, therefore, make disciples of all nations, immersing them (the disciples) into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;

¹¹ And there was a voice from the heavens: Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I delight.

¹ And he said to them: Verily I say to you, There are some of these standing here who shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God come in power. ² And after six days, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up alone into a high mountain apart; and he was transfigured before them;

⁷ And there was a cloud that overshadowed them; and a voice came from the cloud, This is my beloved Son; hear him.

²¹ And Jesus, looking on him, loved him, and said to him: One thing you lack; go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and fol low me.

³⁶ For David himself said by the Holy Spirit: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I make thy enemies thy footstool.

⁴⁷ and my spirit rejoices in God, my Savior;

⁷⁰ (as he spoke by the mouth of all his holy prophets of ancient times,)

⁷⁸ through the tender mercies of our God; by which the dawn from on high has visited us, ⁷⁹ to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, by guiding our feet in the way of peace.

²² and the Holy Spirit descended upon him, in a bodily form, like a dove; and there came a voice from heaven, which said: Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I delight.

⁴⁷ Every one that comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you to whom he is like. ⁴⁸ He is like a man that, when building a house, digged deep, and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the torrent dashed against that house, and it was not able to shake it, for it was founded on the rock. ⁴⁹ But he that hears, and does not, is like a man that built a house upon the earth, without a foundation, against which the torrent dashed with violence, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.

¹⁵ But that on the good ground are those who, in a good and honest heart, hear the word, and keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

²⁸ And it came to pass, about eight days after these words, that he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. ²⁹ And as he prayed, the appearance of his face was changed, and his raiment became white and glittering. ³⁰ And. behold, two men conversed with him, who were Moses and Elijah; ³¹ they appeared in glory, and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish in Jerusalem.

³¹ they appeared in glory, and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish in Jerusalem. ³² And Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep; but having fully awakened, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.

³⁴ While he was saying these things, there came a cloud, and it overshadowed them; and they were afraid as those men entered the cloud. ³⁵ And there came a voice from the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son; hear him.

²² All things are delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

⁴⁹ For this reason also the Wisdom of God said: I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill, and persecute,

²⁶ And beside all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that they that would pass hence to you, can not; nor can they that would, pass thence to us.

²⁹ Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. ³⁰ But he said, Not so, Father Abraham; but if one should go to them from the dead, they would repent. ³¹ But he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded, though one should rise from the dead.

²² When Jesus heard this, he said to him: One thing you yet lack; sell all that you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

¹⁹ By your patient endurance, preserve your lives.

³¹ And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded you apostles for himself, that he may sift you as wheat. ³² But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith fail not. And when you have turned to me again, strengthen your brethren. ³³ And he said to him: Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both to prison and to death. ³⁴ He replied: I tell you, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day before you have three times denied that you know me.

²¹ But we trusted that it was he that was about to redeem Israel. And besides all this, to-day is the third day since these things were done.

⁷ This man came as a witness, to testify of the Light, that all through him might believe. ⁸ He was not the Light; but he came to testify of the Light. ⁹ He was the true Light, which, coming into the world, gives light to every man.

¹² But as many as received him, to them he gave the privilege of be coming the children of God, even to those who believe on his name; ¹³ who were begotten, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ¹⁴ And the "WORD became flesh, and tabernacled among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and of truth.

⁴² He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him: We have found the Messiah; (which, when translated, is the Christ;)

³⁵ The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

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.

²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so has he given to the Son also to have life in himself;

³⁵ He was the burning and shining lamp; and you were willing, for a time, to rejoice in his light. ³⁶ But I have testimony greater than that of John; for the works which the Father has given me to finish, these very works which I do, testify concerning me, that the Father has sent me. ³⁷ And the Father, who sent me, has testified concerning me. You have, neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

³⁹ You search the scriptures, because in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify concerning me:

⁴² But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.

²⁷ Labor not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to life eternal, which the Son of man will give you; for him has God the Father at tested.

³⁷ All that the Father gives me, will come to me; and him that comes to me, I will by no means cast out.

³⁹ And this is the will of him who sent me, that of all that he gives me, I shall lose nothing, but shall raise it up at the last day.

¹² Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying: I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees who were with him, heard these things, and said to him: Are we also blind? ⁴¹ Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you would not have sin; but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.

¹⁰ The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in abundance.

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

³⁶ do you say of him, whom the Father has sanctified, and sent into the world, You speak impiously, because I said, I am the Son of God?

²⁶ If any one serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant also be. If any one serve me, him will my Father honor.

²⁸ Father, glorify thy name. Then there came a voice from heaven: I have glorified it, and will glorify it again. ²⁹ Then the multitude that stood by and heard it, said: It thundered. Others said: An angel spoke to him.

¹ Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come that he must go out of this world to his Father; and having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them to the end. ² And supper being over, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to deliver him up, ³ Jesus, knowing that the Father had delivered all things into his hands, and that he had come from God, and was going to God,

³⁴ A new commandment I give to you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ³⁵ By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

⁶ Jesus said to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through me.

⁸ Philip said to him: Lord, show us the Father, and we shall be content. 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?

¹¹ Believe me, that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me. If not, believe me on account of the works themselves.

² Every branch in me that bears no fruit, he takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

⁶ If any one abide not in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and withers; and such are gathered, and thrown into the fire, and burned. ⁷ If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done for you. ⁸ In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and in this you will be my disciples.

² as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all that thou hast given him.

² as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all that thou hast given him. ³ And this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent.

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.

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.

²¹ Then Jesus said to them again: Peace be to you. As my Father has sent me, so I send you.

¹⁵ When, therefore, they had taken breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of Jonah, Do you love me more than these? He said to him: Yes, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my lambs. ¹⁶ He said to him again a second time: Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? He said to him: Yes, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Be a shepherd to my sheep. 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. ¹⁸ Verily, verily I say to you, when you were young, you girded yourself, and walked whither you chose; but when you have become old, you shall stretch forth your hands, and another shall gird you, and lead you whither you would not. ¹⁹ But this he said, signifying by what death he would glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he said to him: Follow me.

¹⁶ Brethren, it was necessary for this scripture to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit had before spoken by the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who was a guide to those who took Jesus:

¹⁸ But the things which God fore told by the mouth of all his prophets, that the Christ should suffer, he has thus fulfilled.

⁸ And God, who knows the heart, became a witness for them, by giving them the Holy Spirit, as he gave it also to us; ⁹ and he made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

¹⁴ Simeon has declared how God, at the first, did visit the Gentiles, in order to take out from among them a people for his name.

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.

⁵ Therefore, the churches were established in the faith, and they increased in number daily.

¹¹ These were of a better disposition than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

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. ²⁵ And now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more.

²⁵ And now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more.

²⁵ And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and the judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered: For the present withdraw; when I have a convenient season, I will call for you.

²⁵ And not agreeing among themselves, they departed, after Paul had spoken one word: Well did the Holy Spirit speak to our fathers by Isaiah the prophet,

¹ PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

⁴ but declared to be the Son of God with power, according to his holy spiritual nature, by his resurrection from the dead,

⁷ to all that are in Rome, be loved of God, called saints: Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² that is, that I may both give and receive com fort, while I am among you, through our common faith.

¹⁷ For in it God's plan of justifying men by faith is revealed, in order to faith: as it is written, He that is justified by faith, shall live.

⁷ to those who, by patient continuance in good works, seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life:

²¹ But now, God's plan of justifying men without law is revealed, being attested by the law and the prophets; ²² I repeat it, God's plan of justifying men through faith in Jesus Christ, which is for all, and on all that believe; for there is no difference; ²³ for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, ²⁴ yet may be justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; ²⁵ whom God has set forth as a propitiatory sacrifice, through faith in his blood, in order to manifest his righteousness, in passing by the sins that were formerly committed through the forbearance of God; ²⁶ in order to manifest his righteousness at the present time, that he might be just, while he justifies him who believes in Jesus.

³ And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also; because we know that affliction produces patience, ⁴ and patience, an approved character, and an approved character, hope;

¹ What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? ² It can not be. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer in it? ³ Know you not that as many of us as were immersed into Christ Jesus, were immersed into his death? ⁴ Therefore, we are buried with him, by immersion, into death, that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in a new life.

⁶ knowing this, that our former man has been crucified with him, in order that the sinful body may be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer serve sin:

¹¹ So also do you count yourselves as dead indeed to sin, but as living to God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁵ But if we hope for that which we see not we wait for it with patience.

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.

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:

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: ³⁰ and those whom he predestinated he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

³⁰ and those whom he predestinated he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. ³¹ What, then, shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? ³² He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not with him also freely give us all things?

⁴ who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises;

²⁴ whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

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;

¹⁰ in love to the brotherhood, be kindly affectionate one to another; in showing honor, be examples one to another; ¹¹ in what requires diligence, be not slothful; in spirit, be fervent; in service, be devoted to the Lord;

¹¹ And do this, because you know the time, that the hour has already come when we should awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed:

⁴ For the things which were formerly written, were written for our instruction, that we, through the patience and the comfort which the scriptures give, might have hope.

⁶ that with one mind and with one voice you may glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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. 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,

⁷ so that you are deficient in no gift, while waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ God is faithful, by whom you have been called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

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.

²³ but we preach Christ crucified; to the Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks, foolishness:

³⁰ But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who has become to us, from God, wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

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.

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,

²¹ Therefore, let no one glory in men; for all things are yours, ²² whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours: ²³ and you are Christ's: and Christ is God s.

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,

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?

²⁵ Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown.

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, 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.

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

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

⁵⁸ Therefore, my be loved brethren, be firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort,

²⁰ For whatever promises of God there are, are in him yes, and in him amen, to the glory of God by us.

¹⁷ For we do not, as the many, adulterate the word of God; but, as from sincerity, but, as from God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

¹⁸ And we all, with unvailed face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Lord the Spirit.

² but we have renounced the secret works of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. ³ But if our gospel is vailed, it is vailed among the lost, 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.

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. ⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants, for Jesus sake. ⁶ Because God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the person of Jesus Christ.

⁶ Because God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the person of Jesus Christ.

¹³ But, having the same spirit of faith, according to that winch is written, I believed, and for this reason I have spoken; we also believe, and for this reason we speak,

¹ For we know that if our earthly house, which is but a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

¹ For we know that if our earthly house, which is but a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ² For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house that is from heaven, ³ since, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. ⁴ For we who are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, not because we wish to be unclothed, but clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

⁸ we are confident, indeed, and would be pleased rather to depart from the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

¹³ For if we be beside our selves, it is for God; or, if we be of sound mind, it is for you. ¹⁴ For the love of Christ constrains us, because we have this judgment that if one died for all, then have all died: ¹⁵ and he died for all, that those who live should no more live for them selves, but for him who died for them, and rose again. ¹⁶ So, then, we henceforth know no man according to the flesh; if, indeed, we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we no longer thus know him. ¹⁷ So, then, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

²¹ for he has made him, who knew no sin, a sin-offering for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

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

¹⁷ For this reason, come out from among them, and separate yourselves, says the Lord, and touch not an unclean person, and I will receive you;

² that under an afflicting trial, their overflowing joy, and their deep poverty, abounded to the riches of their liberality;

⁷ Now as you excel in every thing, in faith, and in speech, and in knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love for us, see that you excel in this gift also.

¹⁴ and in their prayer for you, since they have strong affection for you on account of the eminent grace of God that is in you.

³¹ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knows that I do not lie.

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.

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?

⁵ Make trial of yourselves, whether you are in the faith; put yourselves to the proof. Do you not know your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you? unless you be without proof.

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,)

¹⁶ Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring; he does not say: And to offsprings, as if he spoke of many; but as of one, And to your offspring, which is Christ.

⁶ For, in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith that works by love.

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.

²³ meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

⁸ For he that sows for his flesh shall from the flesh, reap corruption; but he that sows for his spirit shall from the Spirit reap life eternal.

¹⁰ Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to those who are the household of the faith.

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the acknowledgment of him, ¹⁸ that, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the glorious riches of his inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to ward us who believe in accordance with the energy of his mighty power, 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;

⁵ which, in other generations, was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

²⁰ Now to him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to his power which works in us,

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;

⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been called in one hope of your calling; ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one immersion;

¹¹ And he himself gave some to be apostles, and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

¹⁴ that we might no longer be children, tossed and carried about by every wind of teaching, through the artifice of men, through craftiness used by them for the deliberate planning of deceit;

²³ and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and put on the new man, which, according to the will of God, is created in righteousness and true holiness.

⁷ Therefore, be not partakers with them. ⁸ For you were formerly darkness; but now you are light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

¹⁷ Wherefore, be not ignorant, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of water through the word,

⁹ I also pray for this, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all understanding,

²⁹ For to you it is given in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but, also, to suffer for him,

⁵ Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,

¹² So, then, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

¹ Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is to me indeed not burdensome; but for you it is safe.

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,

²¹ who will transform our humbled body, and make it like his glorious body, according to that power by which he is able to subdue all things to himself.

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue, or any praise, think of these things.

⁹ For this reason, we also, from the day in which we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to request that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

¹¹ strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, in order to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness,

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:

³ in whom are stored up all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.

⁷ rooted, and built up in him, and strengthened in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

¹⁰ and have put on the new man, which is renewed for knowledge, ac cording to the image of him that created him;

¹⁴ and over all these put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

¹⁶ Let the word of the Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, by teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with gratitude in your hearts to the Lord.

³ remembering unceasingly your work, which is the result of faith, your labor, the cause of which is love, and your patience, which springs from your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father:

³ remembering unceasingly your work, which is the result of faith, your labor, the cause of which is love, and your patience, which springs from your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of our God and Father: ⁴ be cause we know, brethren beloved of God, your election.

¹² that you should walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you to his own kingdom and glory.

¹⁹ For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? -You indeed are our glory and

¹² And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love to one another and to all, even as we toward you,

¹ Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you, by our Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to walk and please God, you would abound more and more.

⁷ for God has not called us for uncleanness, but for holiness.

⁹ But with respect to brotherly love, you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another; ¹⁰ and indeed you do this to all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that you abound in love more and more,

¹⁵ See that no one render evil for evil to any, but always pursue that which is good toward one another and toward all.

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 so that we ourselves glory in you, among the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure;

⁹ he will destroy him, whose coming is, according to the energy of Satan, with all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God did, from the beginning, choose you to salvation, by sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth, ¹⁴ "to which he called you by our gospel, in order that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ "to which he called you by our gospel, in order that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ And the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the patience of the Christ.

⁴ nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which produce disputes rather than godly edification, which is in faith;

⁹ knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and for scorners, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man-slayers,

² for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and gravity.

¹⁰ but with good works; since this becomes women who profess godliness.

¹⁶ And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.

⁶ By recommending these things to the attention of the brethren, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, being nourished with the words of the faith, and of good teaching, which you have fully known. ⁷ But reject those profane and oldwomanish fables, and exercise yourself for godliness.

⁷ But reject those profane and oldwomanish fables, and exercise yourself for godliness. ⁸ For the exercise of the body is profitable for little; but godliness is profitable for all things, and has the promise of the life that now is, and also of that which is to come.

⁸ For the exercise of the body is profitable for little; but godliness is profitable for all things, and has the promise of the life that now is, and also of that which is to come.

¹³ At the same time, also, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which are not proper.

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,

⁶ But godliness, with a contented disposition, is great gain.

¹¹ But do you, man of God, shun these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, patience, meekness.

⁵ for I remember the unfeigned faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and in your mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that it dwells in you also. ⁶ Wherefore I exhort you to kindle up the gift of God that is in you by the laying on of my hands.

⁹ who has saved us, and 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 be fore the times of the ages,

² and the things which you have heard from me through many witnesses, these do you commit to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

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.

⁵ having a form of godliness, but denying its power: from these also turn away.

¹⁵ and that from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise in order to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished for every good work. ¹⁷ :

⁶ For I am now ready to be poured out, and the time of my departure is at hand.

⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me at that day; and not to me only, but to all those who love his appearing.

¹ PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledgement of the truth, which is according to godliness;

⁴ to Titus, my true son, according to the common faith: grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

⁸ but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sober-minded, just, holy, temperate,

¹⁴ and not give heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men that turn away from the truth.

² that the aged men be vigilant, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

¹³ looking for the blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

¹⁴ Let our people also learn to practice good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

⁶ that your participation in the faith may be active in the acknowledgment of every good thing that is in us, to the honor of Christ Jesus.

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,

⁷ Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit says: To-day, if you will hear his voice,

¹¹ But we desire every one of you to show the same diligence, in order to have your hope fully assured to the end: ¹² that you may not become slothful, but imitators of those who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises.

¹⁵ And so, when he had waited patiently, he received the promises.

¹⁷ Wherefore, God, being more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of his promise the immutability of his purpose, inter posed an oath,

¹⁹ which, hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters in beyond the vail,

⁶ But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established with reference to better promises. ⁷ For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second. ⁸ For, finding fault with them, he says: Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will ratify a new covenant for the house of Israel, and for the house of Judah: ⁹ not like the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. ¹⁰ For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord; putting my laws into their understanding, I will also write them upon their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people; ¹¹ and they shall not teach, every one his citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest; ¹² because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more.

⁸ the Holy Spirit signifying this, that the way into the most holy was not yet made manifest, while the first tabernacle was still standing,

¹⁴ how much more will the blood of the Christ, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works, in order that you may serve the living God? ¹⁵ And for this reason, he is the mediator of the new covenant: that, since his death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions that were under the former covenant, those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

¹⁵ And, indeed, the Holy Spirit is a witness for us. For after he had said before,

³² But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;

³⁶ For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God more sacrifice than Cain; on account of which he received testimony that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he, though dead, yet speaks.

⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

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,

¹⁰ For they, indeed, for a few days, chastened us as they thought it good; but he chastens us for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

¹⁵ taking care, lest any one slight the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness spring up and trouble you, and by this many be defiled;

¹ Let brotherly love continue.

³ Remember those who are in bonds, as if you yourselves had been bound, and those who suffer affliction, since you yourselves are in the body.

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.

³ knowing that the trial of your faith produces patience.

³ knowing that the trial of your faith produces patience. ⁴ But let patience have its work perfected, that you may be perfect and faultless, wanting in nothing.

⁸ If, however, you fulfill the law of highest excellence, according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.

¹⁴ What profit is there, my brethren, if any one say he has faith, and have not works? Can faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, ¹⁶ and any of you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, and yet give them not the things that are needful for the body, what does this profit them? ¹⁷ So, also, faith, if it has not works, is dead, being by itself. ¹⁸ But some one will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith by your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ¹⁹ You believe that there is one God; you do well: the demons also believe, and tremble. ²⁰ But will you know, vain man, that faith without works is dead? ²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? ²² Do you see that faith was the moving principle in his works, and by works his faith was made perfect? ²³ And the scripture was fulfilled, which says, Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness: and he was called the friend of God. ²⁴ Do you see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only? ²⁵ Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and sent them out another way? ²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

¹ Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members? ² You desire, and you have not; you kill, and are earnestly desirous of having, and yet you can not obtain; you fight and war, and yet you have not, because you ask not. ³ You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.

⁷ Be patient, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer looks for the precious fruit of the earth, and waits patiently for it, till he receives the early and the latter rain. ⁸ Be you also patient, establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws near. ⁹ Indulge not in complaints against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door. ¹⁰ Take, my brethren, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering evil, and of patience.

¹ Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the sojourners that are dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 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.

⁵ who are kept secure by the power of God through faith, to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time:

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;

¹⁰ Concerning which salvation the prophets that prophesied of the grace that should be for you, did inquire, and search diligently, ¹¹ inquiring what things, and what time, the Spirit of Christ that was in them did signify, when it testified, before hand, the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them;

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,

⁷ To you, then, who believe, is this preciousness: but the stone which the builders rejected, has become the head of the corner,

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you should show forth the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

¹⁷ Honor all men; love the brotherhood; reverence God; honor the king.

²¹ To this, indeed, you have been called; because even Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his footsteps.

⁷ Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, bestowing honor on the wife as the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered. ⁸ Finally, be all of the same mind, be sympathizing, lovers of the brethren, kind-hearted, humble-minded; ⁹ not repaying evil for evil, nor reviling for reviling, but, on the other hand, blessing, since you know that for this end you were called, that you might inherit blessing.

²¹ the likeness of which, even immersion, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the seeking of a good conscience toward God,) does now also save us, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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. ³ For the time past of our life should be enough for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, while we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinkings, and unlawful idolatries.

¹ The elders that are among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a sharer in the glory that is to be revealed.

¹⁰ But may the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, confirm you.

¹² By Sylvanus, a faithful brother to you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

¹ SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained faith, equally as precious as our own, in the plan of justification revealed by our God and Savior Jesus Christ: ² grace be to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgment of God, and Jesus our Lord.

² grace be to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgment of God, and Jesus our Lord. ³ As his divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the acknowledgment of him who has called us by his glorious power,

³ As his divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the acknowledgment of him who has called us by his glorious power, ⁴ through which things very great and precious favors that were promised have been given us, that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through desire:

⁴ through which things very great and precious favors that were promised have been given us, that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through desire: ⁵ so, even for this very purpose, uniting to these things all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;

⁵ so, even for this very purpose, uniting to these things all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; ⁶ and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; ⁷ and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. ⁸ For if these things be in you, and abound, they cause you to be neither idle, nor unfruitful as it respects the acknowledgment of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ Wherefore, brethren, give the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you will never fall.

¹² Wherefore, I will not neglect to remind you always of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth. ¹³ Indeed, I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to arouse you by putting you in remembrance. ¹⁴ For I know that the putting off of this my tabernacle is near at hand, even as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. ¹⁵ But I will earnestly endeavor that you may be able, even after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance.

¹⁸ For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really escaped from those who live in error. ¹⁹ While they promise them freedom, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whatever any man is overcome, he is also enslaved. ²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these, and overcome by them, the last state of such is worse than the first.

²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these, and overcome by them, the last state of such is worse than the first.

¹ This second letter I now write to you, beloved; in both of these I arouse your pure mind to remembrance,

³ knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

³ knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, ⁴ and saying: Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

¹¹ Seeing, then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in all holy behavior, and godliness,

¹⁴ Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you expect such things, earnestly strive, by being spotless and blameless, to be found by him in peace:

¹⁷ Do you, therefore, beloved, since you know these things be forehand, beware, lest, being led away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness. ¹⁸ But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

¹ THAT which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled concerning the Word of life; ² (the life also was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us;) ³ that which we have seen and heard, we declare it to you, that you also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.

⁹ He that says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness till now. ¹⁰ He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is in him no cause for offense. ¹¹ He that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness; and he knows not whither he goes, because darkness has blinded his eyes.

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

²¹ I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

²⁵ And this is the promise which he has promised us, even eternal life.

² Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he that loves not his brother, abides in death.

¹⁶ By this we know the love of Christ, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

¹⁹ And by this we know that we are of the truth; and we shall have our hearts at rest before him: ²⁰ for if our heart condemn us, we know that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence to ward God,

¹⁴ And we have seen, and we do testify, that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the. world.

²¹ And this commandment we have from him: That he that loves God, must love his brother also.

¹⁰ He that believes on the Son of God has the testimony in him self: he that believes not God, has made him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony which God has borne concerning his Son.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, that we may know him that is true: and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and life eternal. Little children, keep yourselves from idols. ²¹ :

² we all love you, on account of the truth that dwells in us, and which will be with us forever: ³ grace be with you, mercy and peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

⁶ who have testified to your love before the church: if you conduct these on their journey, in a manner worthy of God, you will do well:

¹ JUDE, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are sanctified in God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: ² mercy be to you, and peace and love be multiplied. ³ Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you, and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

⁵ But I wish to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people from the land of Egypt, then destroyed those who believed not.

¹⁴ And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied with reference to these men, saying: Behold, the Lord comes with his holy myriads,

¹⁷ But do you, beloved, remember the words that were formerly spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁴ John to the seven churches that are in Asia, grace be to you and peace from him who is, and who was, and who is to come; and from the seven spirits which are before his throne;

⁷ Behold, he comes with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and those also who pierced him: and all the tribes of the land shall lament because of him. Even so. Amen.

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.

² I know your works, and your labor, and your patience; and that you can not bear with those who are evil, and that you have tried those who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them liars;

²⁸ and I will give him the morning star.

¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of trial that is about to come on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth. ¹¹ I come quickly: hold fast that which you have, that no one take your crown.

¹⁷ Because you say I am rich, and abound in wealth, and have need of nothing, and know not that you are miserable and pitiable and poor and blind and naked,

²¹ To him that overcomes, I will give to sit with me in my throne, even as I also have overcome, and have taken my seat with my father in his throne.

¹⁰ and hast made us to our God kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth.

¹⁰ If any one leads into captivity, he shall go into captivity. If any kills with the sword, he must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and faithfulness of the saints.

¹² Here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

¹⁰ And I fell at his feet to worship him; and he said to me: See that you do it not; I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus; worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

¹⁴ Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and that they may go through the gates into the city.

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