2 Thessalonians 1 Cross References - Anderson

¹ PAUL and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: ² grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 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; ⁵ which endurance, of yours is a proof of the righteous judgment of God, in order that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you suffer: ⁶ since, indeed, it is a righteous thing with God, to repay affliction to those who afflict you, ⁷ and to you that are afflicted, rest with us, at the revelation of our Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels, ⁸ in flaming fire, to take vengeance on those who know not God, and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁹ these shall suffer punishment in that day, even eternal destruction, far from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power, ¹⁰ when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all those who believe, and in you also, because our testimony among you was believed. ¹¹ In order to which, we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of this calling, and may fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power, ¹² that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ Blessed are they that are persecuted on account of righteousness; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ Blessed are you, when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say every evil thing against you, falsely, on my account. ¹² Rejoice, and leap for joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

²² Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out demons, and in thy name done many mighty works? ²³ And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.

³⁹ the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels. ⁴⁰ As, therefore, the tares are collected and burned in fire, so shall it be in the end of this age. ⁴¹ The Son of man will send forth his angels, and collect out of his kingdom all things that offend, and those who work iniquity, ⁴² and cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that has ears to hear,- let him hear.

²⁷ For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father, with his angels; and then he will reward every one according to his deeds.

¹³ Then the king said to his servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and throw him into the darkness without: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

³⁰ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the land mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

³⁶ But of that day and hour no one knows, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

³¹ When the Son of man shall come in his own glory, and all the holy angels with him, then will he sit on the throne of his own glory;

⁴¹ Then will he say to those on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

⁴⁶ And these shall go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

²⁴ The Son of man goes, as it is written of him; but alas for that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up! It would have been good for that man, if he had not been born.

⁶⁴ Jesus said to him: You have said. Moreover, I say to you, Hereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the Almighty, and coming upon the clouds of heaven.

²⁸ For the earth, of its own accord, produces fruit, first the blade; then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

³⁸ For whoever will be ashamed of me, and my words, in this sinful and adulterous generation, of him the Son of man also will be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels.

⁴³ And if your hand ensnare you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter maimed into life, than having two hands to go away into hell, into the fire that is not quenched, ⁴⁴ where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁵ And if your foot en snare you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life lame, than having two feet to Be thrown into hell, into the fire that is not quenched, ⁴⁶ where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁷ And if your eye ensnare you, pull it out: it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be thrown into hell-fire, ⁴⁸ where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁹ For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be seasoned with salt.

⁶² Jesus replied: I am. And you shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the Almighty, and coming with the clouds of heaven.

¹² I say to you, It shall be more tolerable, in that day, for Sodom, than for that city.

³² Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

²⁷ And he shall say, I tell you, I know you not, whence you are; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.

³² But it became us to make merry and rejoice; for this your brother was dead, and is alive again: was lost, and is found.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Son, remember that, in your lifetime, you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus his evil things. But now he is comforted, and you are tormented.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Son, remember that, in your lifetime, you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus his evil things. But now he is comforted, and you are tormented. 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.

⁵ And the apostles said to the Lord: Increase our faith.

³⁰ Even thus shall it be in the day in which the Son of man is revealed.

³⁵ But those who shall be accounted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

³⁶ Watch, therefore, and pray at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

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

⁵¹ Jesus answered and said to him: Do you believe, be cause I said to you, I saw you under the fig-tree? You shall see greater things than these. And he said to him: Verily, verily I say to you, From this time you shall see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

¹⁴ After this Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him: Behold, you have been restored to health; sin no more, lest some worse thing befall 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. ²⁸ Then they said to him: What shall we do, that we may work the works of God? ²⁹ Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.

¹⁹ Then they said to him: Where is your Father? Jesus answered: You know neither me, nor my Father. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.

⁴ But when Jesus heard it, he said: This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that by it the Son of God may be glorified.

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.

¹⁰ And all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them.

²¹ that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. ²² And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them, that they may be one, as we are one; ²³ I in them, and thou ID me, that they may be made perfect in one, that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. ²⁴ Father, I wish that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me; for thou didst love me before the foundation of the world. ²⁵ Righteous Father, though the world has not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. ²⁶ And I have made known to them thy name, and will continue to make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

¹¹ who also said: Men of Galilee, why stand you gazing up into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, shall come in the same manner in which you saw him go into heaven.

⁷ And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was greatly multiplied; and a great multitude of the priests became obedient to the faith.

⁴⁶ But Paul and Barnabas, speaking boldly, said: It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first: but since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo! we turn to tho Gentiles.

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, that through many afflictions we mast enter the kingdom of God.

¹ And he came to Derbe and Lystra; and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess, who was a believer; but his father was a Greek.

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,

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. ⁸ First, I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, on account of you all, because your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. ⁹ For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that, without ceasing, I make mention of you,

²⁸ And as they refused to acknowledge God, God delivered them up to an undiscerning mind, to do detestable things;

⁵ But, according to your hard and impenitent heart, you treasure up to yourself wrath for a day of wrath, and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

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

⁷ to those who, by patient continuance in good works, seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life: ⁸ but to those who are contentious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, anger and wrath,

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; ⁵ and this hope disappoints us not; because the love of God is poured abundantly into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that is given to us.

¹⁶ Know you not, that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin that leads to death, or of obedience that leads to righteousness?

¹⁷ and, if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together.

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

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.

²³ and, that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he before prepared for glory, showed mercy to us, ²⁴ whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

¹⁶ But they have not all obeyed the gospel; for Isaiah says: Lord, who has believed our report?

¹² in hope, be joyful; in affliction, be patient; in prayer, be per severing;

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,

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,

³ grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴ I thank my God always on your account, for the grace of God which is given to you in Christ Jesus;

⁶ even as the testimony concerning the Christ was con firmed among you,

⁸ He also will establish you even to the end, and make you blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ each man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall make it manifest, for it is revealed with fire: and the fire shall try each man's work, what sort it is.

¹⁷ But as God has assigned a place to every one, as the Lord has called every one, so let him continue to live: and so do I command in all the churches.

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

¹⁹ for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me and Sylvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but in him was yes.

¹⁷ For our present light affliction works out for us an eternal fullness of glory, excelling all excellence, ls while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen: for the things seen are temporal; but the things not seen are eternal.

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:

⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet, for your sakes, he became poor, that you, through his poverty, might become rich.

² For I know your readiness of mind, on account of which I boasted of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago: and your zeal has incited very many.

⁴ lest, possibly, should the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say you) might be made ashamed by this same confident boasting.

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,

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.

²⁴ And they glorified God in me.

¹ Thoughtless Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been plainly set forth crucified?

⁸ But, then, because you knew not God, you were enslaved to those who, by nature, are not gods:

² grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ having predestinated us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, ⁶ for the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he has shown us favor in the Beloved,

⁹ by making known to us the mystery of his will according to his good purpose which he had before established in himself,

¹² that we should be for the praise of his glory; even we, who before had hope in the Christ:

¹⁴ which is the earnest of our inheritance, given for the redemption of his possession to the praise of his glory.

¹⁶ do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

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,

⁷ that he might show, in the ages to come, the exceeding riches of his grace by his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

¹⁰ to the end that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known, through the church, to the principalities and authorities in the heavenly regions,

¹⁴ For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ from whom the whole family in heaven and on earth is named, ¹⁶ that he may grant to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be mightily strengthened by his Spirit in the inner man,

¹⁶ that he may grant to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be mightily strengthened by his Spirit in the inner man, ¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts through the faith; ¹⁸ that, being rooted and founded in love, you may be fully able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and hight, ¹⁹ and to know the love of the Christ that passes our knowledge, that you may be filled with aft the fullness of God. 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, ²¹ to him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus, through out all the generations of the age of ages. Amen.

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;

²⁰ giving thanks to our God and Father always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁶ being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you, will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ; ⁷ as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; both in my bonds and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel, I say I have you all in my heart as being joint par takers of my grace.

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

⁹ I also pray for this, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all understanding, ¹⁰ in order that you may distinguish things that differ, to the end that you may be pure and blameless till the day of Christ, ¹¹ being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which fruit is by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

²⁸ and in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

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

¹³ for it is God, who, of his good pleasure, works in you both the will and the power to perform.

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,

¹⁴ but one thing I do; forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly 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, ¹⁰ so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, in order to please him in all things, by means of every good work bringing forth fruit, and increasing in the knowledge, of God, ¹¹ strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, in order to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness, ¹² giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for a portion of the inheritance of the saints in light:

¹² giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for a portion of the inheritance of the saints in light: ¹³ who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

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:

⁹ for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhood bodily. ¹⁰ And you are complete in him who is the head of all principality and authority:

²⁵ But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done; and there is no respect of persons.

¹ PAUL and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians, which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. ² We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,

² We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, 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:

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. ⁵ For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in full assurance, as you know what sort of persons we were among you for your sakes.

⁵ For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in full assurance, as you know what sort of persons we were among you for your sakes. ⁶ And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Spirit, ⁷ so that you were examples to all that believe, in Macedonia and Achaia. ⁸ For from you, the word of the Lord sounded out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also your faith in God has gone abroad in every place, so that we have no need to speak any thing. ⁹ For they themselves declare concerning us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God, ¹⁰ and to wait for his Son from heaven, even Jesus, whom he raised from the dead, and who delivers us from the coming wrath.

¹ For you yourselves know, brethren, our entrance among you, that it was not in vain.

¹² that you should walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you to his own kingdom and glory. ¹³ For this reason, also, we thank God without ceasing; be cause, when you received the word of God, as preached by us, you embraced it, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.

¹³ For this reason, also, we thank God without ceasing; be cause, when you received the word of God, as preached by us, you embraced it, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe. ¹⁴ For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea which are in Christ Jesus; for you, also, have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, that they have suffered from the Jews,

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

² and we sent Timothy our brother and minister of God in the gospel of the Christ, in order that he might strengthen and comfort you with respect to your faith, ³ that no one be moved by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this: ⁴ for even when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were about to be afflicted, as it also came to pass, and as you know. ⁵ For this reason, when I could no longer contain my self, I sent to know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain. ⁶ But now, since Timothy has come to us from you, and has told us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us at all times, greatly desiring to see us, as indeed we desire to see you,

⁶ But now, since Timothy has come to us from you, and has told us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us at all times, greatly desiring to see us, as indeed we desire to see you, ⁷ for this reason we are comforted concerning you, brethren, in all our distress and affliction, by your faith: ⁸ for now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord. ⁹ For what thanks can we render to God for you, for the great joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,

⁹ For what thanks can we render to God for you, for the great joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God, ¹⁰ night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and perfect that which is lacking in your faith? ¹¹ Now, may God himself, even our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you. ¹² And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love to one another and to all, even as we toward you,

¹² And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love to one another and to all, even as we toward you, ¹³ in order that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness, in the presence of our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

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.

⁵ not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God;

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,

¹⁶ for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall arise first; ¹⁷ then we, the living who remain, shall, together with them, be caught up in clouds into the air to meet the Lord, and so shall we be ever with the Lord.

³ for when they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as the pains of birth upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

⁵ which endurance, of yours is a proof of the righteous judgment of God, in order that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you suffer: ⁶ since, indeed, it is a righteous thing with God, to repay affliction to those who afflict you, ⁷ and to you that are afflicted, rest with us, at the revelation of our Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels,

¹⁰ when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all those who believe, and in you also, because our testimony among you was believed. ¹¹ In order to which, we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of this calling, and may fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power, ¹² that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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:

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.

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

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.

¹⁸ The Lord grant to him, that he may find mercy from the Lord in that day. And in how many things he ministered to me in Ephesus, you know very well.

¹² if we are patient, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he will also deny us;

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.

¹¹ For the grace of God, which brings salvation to all men, has appeared,

¹³ looking for the blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

⁴ But when the kindness and philanthropy of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, ⁵ not by works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; ⁷ that, being justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

³ how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation? which at first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard him;

¹ Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,

¹ Let us fear, therefore, lest, as a promise of entering into his rest still remains, any of you should seem to come short of it.

⁹ There remains, therefore, a sabbath state for the people of God.

¹¹ Let us earnestly strive, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any one fall after the same example of unbelief.

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

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

²⁸ so the Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to those who look for him he will appear the second time, without a sin-offering, in order to salvation.

²⁷ but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and a fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

²⁹ of how much severer punishment do you think he shall be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified, a common thing, and has done despite to the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know him who has said, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge his people.

³² But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings; ³³ partly, while you became a public spectacle, by reproaches and afflictions: partly, while you became partakers with those who were so treated.

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

⁸ By faith Abraham, when called to go out into a place that he should afterward receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

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, ² looking to Jesus the author and finisher of the faith, who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

² looking to Jesus the author and finisher of the faith, who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ For consider him that endured such opposition of sinners against himself, lest you become weary and despondent in your minds.

²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.

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.

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.

¹¹ Behold, we count those happy who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the final dealing of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

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

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,

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:

⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: and you are her children, if you do good, and fear no dismay.

²² who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having become subject to him.

¹⁴ If you are reproached on account of Christ, happy are you: for the glorious Spirit of God rests upon you. On their part he is reviled, but on your part he is glorified:

¹⁴ If you are reproached on account of Christ, happy are you: for the glorious Spirit of God rests upon you. On their part he is reviled, but on your part he is glorified: ¹⁵ for no one of you should suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. ¹⁶ But if any one suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this account. ¹⁷ For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God; and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of those who obey not the gospel of God?

¹⁷ For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God; and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of those who obey not the gospel of God? ¹⁸ And if the righteous man is hardly saved, where shall the ungodly man and the sinner appear?

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.

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;

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.

¹³ Indeed, I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to arouse you by putting you in remembrance.

¹⁷ These men are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, for whom the gloom of darkness is reserved forever.

⁷ But the heavens and the earth that now are, by the same word are kept in store, reserved for fire against the day of judgment, and perdition of ungodly men.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth, and the works that are on it, shall be burned up. ¹¹ Seeing, then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in all holy behavior, and godliness, ¹² looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, because of which coming the heavens shall dis solve in fire, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.

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.

¹³ raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame: wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever. ¹⁴ And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied with reference to these men, saying: Behold, the Lord comes with his holy myriads, ¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly works, which they have impiously committed, and of all the hard words which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

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.

⁴ Yet you have a few names in Sardis that have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

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

¹⁰ and they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, Sovereign, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

¹⁶ and said to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: ¹⁷ for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?

¹¹ And all the angels stood round about the throne and the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne, and worshiped God, ¹² saying, Amen: blessing and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God from acre to acre. Amen.

¹⁴ And I said to him: Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who have come out of great affliction, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Therefore, they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he that sits on the throne shall dwell among them. ¹⁶ They shall hunger no more, nor shall they thirst any more, nor shall the sun fall upon them, nor any heat. ¹⁷ For the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and will lead them to living fountains of water: and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

¹⁸ And the nations were angry, and thy wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldst give reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to those who fear thy name, both small and great, and that thou shouldst destroy those who corrupt the earth.

¹⁰ and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: ¹¹ and the smoke of their torment ascends from age to age: and they who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name, have no rest day or night. ¹² Here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. ¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven, saying: Write, Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from this time. Yes, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.

⁴ Who will not fear thee, Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou alone art holy; for all nations shall come and worship before thee: because thy judgments are made manifest.

⁵ And I heard the angel of the waters, saying: Just art thou, who art and who wast, the Holy One, because thou hast thus judged. ⁶ For they have shed the blood of saints and of prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink, and they are worthy. ⁷ And I heard a voice from the altar saying: Even so; Lord God Al mighty, true and just are thy judgments.

²⁰ Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets: for God has avenged you on her.

²⁴ And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

² for true and righteous are his judgments, for he has judged the great harlot that corrupted the earth with her lewdness; and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

¹⁰ And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are: and they shall be tormented day and night from age to age. ¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and no place was found for them.

¹⁴ And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire: this is the second death.

¹⁴ And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire: this is the second death. ¹⁵ And if any one was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

⁴ And he will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death; neither shall there be any more sorrow, nor crying, nor pain; for the former things have passed away.

⁸ But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the detestable, and murderers and lewd persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

⁶ And he said to me: These words are faithful and true; and the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets has sent his angel to show his servants the things that must shortly take place.

⁹ And he said to me: See that you do it not; I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book: worship God.

¹⁵ With out are dogs and sorcerers and lewd persons and murderers and idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie. 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.