1 Corinthians Cross References - BBE

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Sosthenes the brother, ² To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been made holy in Christ Jesus, saints by the selection of God, with all those who in every place give honour to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours: ³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴ I give praise to my God for you at all times, because of the grace of God which has been given to you in Christ Jesus; ⁵ So that in him you have wealth in all things, in word and in knowledge of every sort; ⁶ Even as the witness of the Christ has been made certain among you: ⁷ So that having every grace you are living in the hope of the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁸ Who will give you strength to the end, to be free from all sin in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ God is true, through whom you have been given a part with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. ¹⁰ Now I make request to you, my brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you will all say the same thing, and that there may be no divisions among you, so that you may be in complete agreement, in the same mind and in the same opinion. ¹¹ Because it has come to my knowledge, through those of the house of Chloe, that there are divisions among you, my brothers. ¹² That is, that some of you say, I am of Paul; some say, I am of Apollos; some say, I am of Cephas; and some say, I am Christ's. ¹³ Is there a division in Christ? was Paul nailed to the cross for you? or were you given baptism in the name of Paul? ¹⁴ I give praise to God that not one of you had baptism from me, but Crispus and Gaius; ¹⁵ So that no one may be able to say that you had baptism in my name. ¹⁶ And I gave baptism to the house of Stephanas; but I am not certain that any others had baptism from me. ¹⁷ For Christ sent me, not to give baptism, but to be a preacher of the good news: not with wise words, for fear that the cross of Christ might be made of no value. ¹⁸ For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God. ¹⁹ As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge. ²⁰ Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him. ²² Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge: ²³ But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles; ²⁴ But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men. ²⁶ For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble: ²⁷ But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong; ²⁸ And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are: ²⁹ So that no flesh might have glory before God. ³⁰ But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy: ³¹ So that, as it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.

²⁶ And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship.

⁸ And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

⁴ To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord. ⁵ And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents; ⁶ So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together. ⁷ And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land. ⁸ Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers. ⁹ Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left. ¹⁰ And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar. ¹¹ So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another. ¹² Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom. ¹³ Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

⁴² Then Rebekah, hearing what Esau had said, sent for Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, It seems that your brother Esau is purposing to put you to death.

² These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.

¹⁸ I have been waiting for your salvation, O Lord.

¹⁷ Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take them through the land of the Philistines, though that was near: for God said, If the people see war, they may have a change of heart and go back to Egypt.

² Give orders to the children of Israel to go back and put up their tents before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon, opposite to which you are to put up your tents by the sea. ³ And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land. ⁴ And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and he will come after them and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and all his army, so that the Egyptians may see that I am the Lord. And they did so.

¹⁹ God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?

⁹ Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;

⁶³ And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage.

⁴ He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.

² And the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have given into your hands Jericho with its king and all its men of war. ³ Now let all your fighting-men make a circle round the town, going all round it once. Do this for six days. ⁴ And let seven priests go before the ark with seven loud-sounding horns in their hands: on the seventh day you are to go round the town seven times, the priests blowing their horns. ⁵ And at the sound of a long note on the horns, let all the people give a loud cry; and the wall of the town will come down flat, and all the people are to go straight forward.

² And the Lord said to Gideon, So great is the number of your people, that if I give the Midianites into their hands they will be uplifted in pride over me and will say, I myself have been my saviour. ³ So now, let it be given out to the people that anyone who is shaking with fear is to go back from Mount Galud. So twenty-two thousand of the people went back, but there were still ten thousand. ⁴ Then the Lord said to Gideon, There are still more people than is necessary; take them down to the water so that I may put them to the test for you there; then whoever I say is to go with you will go, and whoever I say is not to go will not go. ⁵ So he took the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, Put on one side by themselves all those drinking up the water with their tongues like a dog; and in the same way, all those who go down on their knees to the water while drinking. ⁶ Now the number of those who took up the water with their tongues was three hundred; all the rest of the people went down on their knees to the water. ⁷ And the Lord said to Gideon, By those three hundred who were drinking with their tongues I will give you salvation and give the Midianites into your hands; let the rest of the people go away, every man to his place. ⁸ So they took the vessels of the people, and their horns from their hands, and he sent them away, every man to his tent, keeping only the three hundred; and the tents of Midian were lower down in the valley.

¹⁵ And taking up the mouth-bone of an ass newly dead, which he saw by chance on the earth, he put to death a thousand men with it. ¹⁶ And Samson said, With a red ass's mouth-bone I have made them red with blood, with a red ass's mouth-bone I have sent destruction on a thousand men.

⁴⁰ Then he took his stick in his hand, and got five smooth stones from the bed of the stream and put them in a bag such as is used by sheep-keepers; and in his hand was a leather band used for sending stones: and so he went in the direction of the Philistine. ⁴¹ And the Philistine came nearer to David; and the man who had his body-cover went before him. ⁴² And when the Philistine, taking note, saw David, he had a poor opinion of him: for he was only a boy, red-haired and good-looking. ⁴³ And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come out to me with sticks? And the Philistine put curses on David by all his gods. ⁴⁴ And the Philistine said to David, Come here to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field. ⁴⁵ Then David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword and a spear and a javelin: but I come to you in the name of the Lord of armies, the God of the armies of Israel on which you have put shame. ⁴⁶ This day the Lord will give you up into my hands, and I will overcome you, and take your head off you; and I will give the bodies of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth today, so that all the earth may see that Israel has a God; ⁴⁷ And all these people who are here today may see that the Lord does not give salvation by sword and spear: for the fight is the Lord's, and he will give you up into our hands. ⁴⁸ Now when the Philistine made a move and came near to David, David quickly went at a run in the direction of the army, meeting the Philistine face to face. ⁴⁹ And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and sent it from his leather band straight at the Philistine, and the stone went deep into his brow, and he went down to the earth, falling on his face. ⁵⁰ So David overcame the Philistine with his leather band and a stone, wounding the Philistine and causing his death: but David had no sword in his hand. ⁵¹ So running up to the Philistine and putting his foot on him, David took his sword out of its cover, and put him to death, cutting off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their fighter was dead, they went in flight.

¹⁴ But one of the young men said to Nabal's wife Abigail, David sent men from the waste land to say kind words to our master, and he gave them a rough answer. ¹⁵ But these men have been very good to us; they did us no wrong and nothing of ours was touched while we were with them in the fields: ¹⁶ But day and night they were like a wall round us while we were with them, looking after the sheep. ¹⁷ So now, give thought to what you are going to do; for evil is in store for our master and all his house: for he is such a good-for-nothing person that it is not possible to say anything to him.

³¹ And word came to David, saying, Ahithophel is among those who are joined to Absalom. And David said, O Lord, let the wisdom of Ahithophel be made foolish.

²³ In those days the opinions of Ahithophel were valued as highly as if through him a man might get direction from God; so were they valued by David as much as by Absalom.

¹⁴ Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.

²³ Now when Ahithophel saw that his suggestion was not acted on, he got his ass ready, and went back to his house, to the town where he came from, and having put his house in order, he put himself to death by hanging; so he came to his end and was put in the resting-place of his father.

¹⁴ And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, The Lord says, By the servants of the chiefs who are over the divisions of the land. Then he said, By whom is the fighting to be started? And he made answer, By you. ¹⁵ Then he got together the servants of all the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land, two hundred and thirty-two of them; and after them, he got together all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand. ¹⁶ And in the middle of the day they went out. But Ben-hadad was drinking in the tents with the thirty-two kings who were helping him. ¹⁷ And the servants of the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land went forward first; and when Ben-hadad sent out, they gave him the news, saying, Men have come out from Samaria. ¹⁸ And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living. ¹⁹ So the servants of the chiefs of the divisions of the land went out of the town, with the army coming after them. ²⁰ And every one of them put his man to death, and the Aramaeans went in flight with Israel after them; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got away safely on a horse with his horsemen. ²¹ And the king of Israel went out and took the horses and the war-carriages, and made great destruction among the Aramaeans. ²² Then the prophet came up to the king of Israel, and said to him, Now make yourself strong, and take care what you do, or a year from now the king of Aram will come up against you again.

¹⁰ Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.

³⁵ And say, Be our saviour, O God of our salvation, and let us come back, and give us salvation from the nations, so that we may give honour to your holy name and have glory in your praise.

¹² Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes. ¹³ He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.

¹⁷ He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish;

²⁰ He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

²⁴ He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.

¹⁹ Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands. ²⁰ Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.

²⁴ He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.

² You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you; so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man.

¹⁰ The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.

¹⁷ For the arms of the evil-doers will be broken: but the Lord is the support of the good.

²⁸ For the Lord is a lover of righteousness, and takes care of his saints; they will be kept safe for ever; but the seed of the evil-doers will be cut off.

³⁵ I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree. ³⁶ But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

¹¹ So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

⁶ Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.

¹⁵ My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured. ¹⁶ I will give news of the great acts of the Lord God; my words will be of your righteousness, and of yours only.

³³ But I will not take away my mercy from him, and will not be false to my faith. ³⁴ I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed. ³⁵ I have made an oath once by my holy name, that I will not be false to David.

⁵ For the Lord is good, and his mercy is never-ending; his faith is unchanging through all generations.

³ Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.

² The Lord will send out the rod of your strength from Zion; be king over your haters. ³ Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.

¹ A Song of the going up. Of David. See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!

²⁰ Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:

¹ Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?

⁵ Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.

²² The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past. ²³ From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was. ²⁴ When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water. ²⁵ Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth: ²⁶ When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world. ²⁷ When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep: ²⁸ When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed: ²⁹ When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth: ³⁰ Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times;

¹⁰ The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

⁶ A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.

¹¹ The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

¹⁷ And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

¹⁴ And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken. ¹⁵ And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.

¹⁵ Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

⁵ And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.

¹³ But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm. ¹⁴ In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

³ And the spirit of Egypt will be troubled in her, and I will make her decisions without effect: and they will be turning to the false gods, and to those who make hollow sounds, and to those who have control of spirits, and to those who are wise in secret arts.

¹¹ The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings?

¹¹ The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings? ¹² Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of armies for Egypt.

¹ O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of power; your purposes in the past have been made true and certain in effect.

⁵ For he has made low those who are lifted up, all the people of the town of pride: he makes it low, crushing it down to the earth; he makes it low in the dust. ⁶ It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.

¹⁴ For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.

¹⁹ And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁸ Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?

³⁶ And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.

¹² You will make search for your haters but they will not be there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and will come to destruction.

¹⁶ You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

²⁵ Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:

¹⁷ But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.

²⁴ Only in the Lord will Jacob overcome and be strong: together all those who were angry with him will be put to shame and come to destruction. ²⁵ In the Lord will all the seed of Israel get their rights, and they will give glory to him.

²⁵ In the Lord will all the seed of Israel get their rights, and they will give glory to him.

⁷ The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.

¹ Who would have had faith in the word which has come to our ears, and to whom had the arm of the Lord been unveiled?

¹⁷ No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.

² And you will take your oath, By the living Lord, in good faith and wisdom and righteousness; and the nations will make use of you as a blessing, and in you will they take a pride.

⁹ The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

²³ This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:

²³ This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth: ²⁴ But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.

⁵ See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land. ⁶ In his days Judah will have salvation and Israel will be living without fear: and this is the name by which he will be named, The Lord is our righteousness.

³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:

¹⁶ In those days, Judah will have salvation and Jerusalem will be safe: and this is the name which will be given to her: The Lord is our righteousness.

²² It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit. ²³ They are new every morning; great is your good faith.

²⁰ And Daniel said in answer, May the name of God be praised for ever and ever: for wisdom and strength are his:

³⁴ While you were looking at it, a stone was cut out, but not by hands, and it gave the image a blow on its feet, which were of iron and earth, and they were broken in bits. ³⁵ Then the iron and the earth, the brass and the silver and the gold, were smashed together, and became like the dust on the floors where grain is crushed in summer; and the wind took them away so that no sign of them was to be seen: and the stone which gave the image a blow became a great mountain, covering all the earth.

⁴⁴ And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will put up a kingdom which will never come to destruction, and its power will never be given into the hands of another people, and all these kingdoms will be broken and overcome by it, but it will keep its place for ever. ⁴⁵ Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that by it the iron and the brass and the earth and the silver and the gold were broken to bits, a great God has given the king knowledge of what is to take place in the future: the dream is fixed, and its sense is certain.

²⁴ Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.

¹⁴ I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.

¹² But I will still have among you a quiet and poor people, and they will put their faith in the name of the Lord.

⁶ This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by force or by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies. ⁷ Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you will become level: and he will let all see the headstone, with cries of Grace, grace, to it.

⁷ And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the family of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah. ⁸ In that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be as strong as David, and the family of David will be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.

²¹ And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.

¹⁸ And when he was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, whose other name was Peter, and Andrew, his brother, who were putting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. ¹⁹ And he said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men. ²⁰ And straight away they let go the nets and went after him. ²¹ And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, in the boat with their father, stitching up their nets; and he said, Come. ²² And they went straight from the boat and their father and came after him.

⁹ And when Jesus was going from there, he saw a man whose name was Matthew, seated at the place where taxes were taken; and he said to him, Come after me. And he got up and went after him.

¹⁶ And no man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat, for by pulling away from the old, it makes a worse hole.

⁶ And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.

²⁵ At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.

²⁵ At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children. ²⁶ Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.

³⁸ Then some of the scribes and Pharisees, hearing this, said to him, Master, we are looking for a sign from you. ³⁹ But he, answering, said to them, An evil and false generation is looking for a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah:

⁵⁷ And they were bitter against him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour but in his country and among his family.

¹ And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and, testing him, made a request to him to give them a sign from heaven. ² But in answer he said to them, At nightfall you say, The weather will be good, for the sky is red. ³ And in the morning, The weather will be bad today, for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the times. ⁴ An evil and false generation is searching after a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. And he went away from them.

¹⁶ Have you any idea what these are saying? And Jesus said to them, Yes: have you not seen in the Writings, From the lips of children and babies at the breast you have made your praise complete?

⁹ And give no man the name of father on earth: because one is your Father, who is in heaven. ¹⁰ And you may not be named guides: because one is your Guide, even Christ.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

¹ Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, the friends of the bride, who took their lights, and went out with the purpose of meeting the husband.

¹⁹ Go then, and make disciples of all the nations, giving them baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:

²¹ No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.

¹¹ And the Pharisees came out and put questions to him, requesting from him a sign from heaven, testing him.

²⁰ And they went out, preaching everywhere, the Lord working with them, and giving witness to the word by the signs which came after. So be it.

³ It seemed good to me, having made observation, with great care, of the direction of events in their order, to put the facts in writing for you, most noble Theophilus;

³⁴ And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said;

¹³ And the day came and, turning to his disciples, he made a selection from among them of twelve, to whom he gave the name of Apostles;

³⁵ But wisdom is judged to be right by all her children.

²¹ In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.

¹⁶ And others, testing him, were looking for a sign from heaven from him.

²⁰ But if I, by the finger of God, send out evil spirits, then the kingdom of God has overtaken you.

⁴⁹ For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;

³⁶ And be like men who are looking for their lord, when he comes back from the bride-feast; so that when he comes to the door, it will be open to him quickly.

²⁴ For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.

³⁰ So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man.

²⁴ And Jesus, looking at him, said, How hard it is for those who have wealth to get into the kingdom of God! ²⁵ It is simpler for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a man who has much money to come into the kingdom of God.

³⁹ And some of the Pharisees among the people said to him, Master, make your disciples be quiet. ⁴⁰ And he said in answer, I say to you, if these men keep quiet, the very stones will be crying out.

¹⁵ For I will give you words and wisdom, so that not one of those who are against you will be able to get the better of you, or to put you in the wrong.

⁴⁶ And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day; ⁴⁷ And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.

¹⁸ No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.

⁴² And he took him to Jesus. Looking at him fixedly Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; your name will be Cephas which is to say, Peter.

¹⁸ Then the Jews put this question to him: What sign of authority have you to give us, seeing that you do these things?

²⁸ You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ. ²⁹ He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete.

² Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself,

²⁸ Then the woman put down her water-pot and went into the town, and said to the people,

⁴⁶ So he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain man of high position whose son was ill at Capernaum. ⁴⁷ When it came to his ears that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, he went to him and made a request that he would come down to his son, who was near to death, and make him well. ⁴⁸ Then Jesus said to him, You will not have faith if you do not see signs and wonders. ⁴⁹ The man said, Sir, come down before my boy is dead. ⁵⁰ And Jesus said, Go in peace; your son is living. The man had faith in the word which Jesus said to him and went away. ⁵¹ And while he was going down, his servants came to him and said, Your boy is living. ⁵² So he put a question to them as to the hour when he became better; and they said to him, The disease went from him yesterday at the seventh hour. ⁵³ It was clear then to the father that this was the very time at which Jesus said to him, Your son is living. And he had faith in Jesus, he and all his family.

⁵³ Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you. ⁵⁴ He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day. ⁵⁵ My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him. ⁵⁷ As the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so he who takes me for his food will have life because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever. ⁵⁹ Jesus said these things in the Synagogue while he was teaching at Capernaum. ⁶⁰ Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching? ⁶¹ When Jesus became conscious that his disciples were protesting about what he said, he said to them, Does this give you trouble? ⁶² What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before? ⁶³ The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life. ⁶⁴ But still some of you have no faith. For it was clear to Jesus from the first who they were who had no faith, and who it was who would be false to him. ⁶⁵ And he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not given the power to do so by the Father. ⁶⁶ Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him.

¹⁸ The man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of him who sent him--that man is true and there is no evil in him.

⁴³ So there was a division among the people because of him.

⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees said to them, Have you, like the others, been given false ideas? ⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed.

¹² Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.

¹⁶ Then some of the Pharisees said, That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath. Others said, How is it possible for a sinner to do such signs? So there was a division among them.

¹⁹ There was a division again among the Jews because of these words.

³⁰ I and my Father are one.

³⁴ I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another. ³⁵ By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

⁶ Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.

¹⁴ If you make any request to me in my name, I will do it.

¹⁶ And I will make prayer to the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you for ever,

²⁶ But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will be your teacher in all things and will put you in mind of everything I have said to you.

¹ I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener. ² He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit. ³ You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you. ⁴ Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.

⁴ Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.

⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing. ⁶ If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

¹⁶ You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.

²⁶ When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father even the Spirit of true knowledge who comes from the Father--he will give witness about me;

⁸ Because I have given them the words which you gave to me; and they have taken them to heart, and have certain knowledge that I came from you, and they have faith that you sent me.

¹⁷ Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word. ¹⁸ Even as you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And for them I make myself holy, so that they may be made truly holy.

²¹ May they all be one! Even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so let them be in us, so that all men may come to have faith that you sent me.

²¹ May they all be one! Even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so let them be in us, so that all men may come to have faith that you sent me. ²² And the glory which you have given to me I have given to them, so that they may be one even as we are one; ²³ I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.

²³ I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.

²⁶ And I have given to them knowledge of your name, and will give it, so that the love which you have for me may be in them and I in them.

³⁸ After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, made a request to Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate said he might do so. So he went and took away his body. ³⁹ And Nicodemus came he who had first come to Jesus by night with a roll of myrrh and aloes mixed, about a hundred pounds.

²¹ And Jesus said to them again, May peace be with you! As the Father sent me, even so I now send you.

² Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection:

²⁵ To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place. ²⁶ And they put it to the decision of chance, and the decision was given for Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven Apostles.

⁴ And they were all full of the Holy Spirit, and were talking in different languages, as the Spirit gave them power.

³⁸ And Peter said, Let your hearts be changed, every one of you, and have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will have the Holy Spirit given to you.

⁴⁷ Giving praise to God, and having the approval of all the people; and every day the number of those who had salvation was increased by the Lord.

¹¹ He is the stone which you builders had no use for, but which has been made the chief stone of the building. ¹² And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation. ¹³ Now when they saw that Peter and John were without fear, though they were men of no education or learning, they were greatly surprised; and they took note of them that they had been with Jesus. ¹⁴ And, seeing that the man who had been made well was there with them, they were not able to say anything against it. ¹⁵ But when they had given them orders to go out of the Sanhedrin, they had a discussion among themselves, ¹⁶ Saying, What are we to do with these men? for certainly it is clear to all who are living in Jerusalem that a most important sign has been done by them, and it is not possible to say that it is not so. ¹⁷ But so that it may not go farther among the people, let us put them in fear of punishment if they say anything in future in this name. ¹⁸ And they sent for them, and gave them orders not to make statements or give teaching in the name of Jesus. ¹⁹ But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God: ²⁰ For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of. ²¹ And when they had said more sharp words to them, they let them go, not seeing what punishment they might give them, because of the people; for all men were giving praise to God for what had taken place.

³² And all those who were of the faith were one in heart and soul: and not one of them said that any of the things which he had was his property only; but they had all things in common.

⁹ But some of those who were of the Synagogue named that of the Libertines, and some of the men of Cyrene and of Alexandria and those from Cilicia and Asia, had arguments with Stephen. ¹⁰ But they were not able to get the better of him, for his words were full of wisdom and of the Spirit.

³² I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it. ³³ And the Lord said, Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy. ³⁴ Truly, I have seen the sorrows of my people in Egypt, and their cries have come to my ears, and I have come down to make them free: and now, come, I will send you to Egypt. ³⁵ This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.

³⁵ This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.

⁵⁴ Hearing these things, they were cut to the heart and moved with wrath against him.

⁵⁹ And Stephen, while he was being stoned, made prayer to God, saying, Lord Jesus, take my spirit. ⁶⁰ And going down on his knees, he said in a loud voice, Lord, do not make them responsible for this sin. And when he had said this, he went to his rest.

¹⁶ For up to that time he had not come on any of them; only baptism had been given to them in the name of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁴ And here he has authority from the chief priests to make prisoners all who give worship to your name.

²¹ And all those hearing him were full of wonder and said, Is not this the man who in Jerusalem was attacking all the worshippers of this name? and he had come here so that he might take them as prisoners before the chief priests.

³⁶ The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ who is Lord of all--

³⁹ And we are witnesses of all the things which he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they put to death, hanging him on a tree. ⁴⁰ On the third day God gave him back to life, and let him be seen, ⁴¹ Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead. ⁴² And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead. ⁴³ To him all the prophets give witness, that through his name everyone who has faith in him will have forgiveness of sins.

⁴⁸ And he gave orders for them to have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they kept him with them for some days.

¹⁷ If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?

²¹ And the power of the Lord was with them, and a great number had faith and were turned to the Lord.

²³ Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:

⁷ Who was with the ruler, Sergius Paulus, an able man. This man sent for Barnabas and Saul, desiring to have knowledge of the word of God.

¹² Then the ruler, when he saw what was done, had faith, being full of wonder at the teaching of the Lord.

⁴¹ See, you doubters, have wonder and come to your end; for I will do a thing in your days to which you will not give belief, even if it is made clear to you.

⁹ Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.

¹⁵ And when she and her family had had baptism, she made a request to us, saying, If it seems to you that I am true to the Lord, come into my house and be my guests. And she made us come.

³³ And that same hour of the night, he took them, and when he had given attention to their wounds, he and all his family had baptism straight away.

¹⁸ And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead.

¹⁸ And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead. ¹⁹ And they took him to Mars' Hill, saying, Will you make clear to us what is this new teaching of yours? ²⁰ For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them. ²¹ Now all the Athenians and the men from other lands who come there were giving all their time to talking or hearing of anything new.

³² Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.

³⁴ But some men gave him their support: among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

¹ After these things, he went away from Athens, and came to Corinth.

⁵ And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was completely given up to the word, preaching to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.

⁸ And Crispus, the ruler of the Synagogue, with all his family, had faith in the Lord; and a great number of the people of Corinth, hearing the word, had faith and were given baptism.

⁸ And Crispus, the ruler of the Synagogue, with all his family, had faith in the Lord; and a great number of the people of Corinth, hearing the word, had faith and were given baptism. ⁹ And the Lord said to Paul in the night, in a vision, Have no fear and go on preaching: ¹⁰ For I am with you, and no one will make an attack on you to do you damage: for I have a number of people in this town. ¹¹ And he was there for a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

¹⁷ And they all made an attack on Sosthenes, the ruler of the Synagogue, and gave him blows before the judge's seat; but Gallio gave no attention to these things.

²⁴ Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, and a man of learning, came to Ephesus; and he had great knowledge of the holy Writings.

⁵ And hearing this, they had baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus.

²¹ Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁴ But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.

²⁰ And hearing it, they gave praise to God; and they said to him, You see, brother, what thousands there are among the Jews, who have the faith; and they all have a great respect for the law:

¹⁶ And now, why are you waiting? get up, and have baptism, for the washing away of your sins, giving worship to his name.

¹⁸ And I saw him saying to me, Go out of Jerusalem straight away because they will not give hearing to your witness about me.

²¹ And he said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.

¹¹ And the night after, the Lord came to his side and said, Be of good heart, for as you have been witnessing for me in Jerusalem, so will you be my witness in Rome.

²⁴ But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla his wife, who was of the Jews by birth, and sent for Paul, and gave hearing to him about faith in Christ Jesus. ²⁵ And while he was talking about righteousness and self-control and the judging which was to come, Felix had great fear and said, Go away for the present, and when the right time comes I will send for you.

¹⁷ And I will keep you safe from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, ¹⁸ To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

¹⁸ To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

²³ And when a day had been fixed, they came to his house in great numbers; and he gave them teaching, giving witness to the kingdom of God, and having discussions with them about Jesus, from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.

¹ Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,

⁴ But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord, ⁵ Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:

⁷ To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁸ First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.

¹⁶ For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek. ¹⁷ For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.

²⁰ For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing: ²¹ Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark. ²² Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

²² Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

²⁸ And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

¹⁹ Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

²¹ But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets; ²² That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,

²² That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another, ²³ For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God; ²⁴ And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:

²⁷ What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.

² For if Abraham got righteousness by works, he has reason for pride; but not before God.

⁶ As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,

¹⁷ As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were.

²⁵ Who was put to death for our evil-doing, and came to life again so that we might have righteousness.

¹⁹ Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man.

²¹ That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁷ But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;

¹ For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.

⁹ You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

¹⁹ For the strong desire of every living thing is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.

²³ And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.

²⁸ And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.

²⁸ And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose. ²⁹ Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers: ³⁰ And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory.

³⁰ And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory.

²⁴ Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?

³² Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way; ³³ As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

¹² And the Jew is not different from the Greek: for there is the same Lord of all, who is good to all who have hope in his name:

¹² Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?

¹⁷ But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

³³ O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.

³³ O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out. ³⁴ Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes? ³⁵ Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again? ³⁶ For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.

³⁶ For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.

¹ For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.

⁵ So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;

¹⁶ Be in harmony with one another. Do not have a high opinion of yourselves, but be in agreement with common people. Do not give yourselves an air of wisdom.

⁴ Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.

⁸ As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's. ⁹ And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.

⁹ And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.

⁴ Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope. ⁵ Now may the God who gives comfort and strength in waiting make you of the same mind with one another in harmony with Christ Jesus: ⁶ So that with one mouth you may give glory to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ And I myself am certain of you, brothers, that you are full of what is good, complete in all knowledge, able to give direction to one another.

¹⁷ So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's.

¹⁹ By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;

³⁰ Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;

⁷ Give my love to Andronicus and Junia, my relations, who were in prison with me, who are noted among the Apostles, and who were in Christ before me.

¹¹ Give my love to Herodion, my relation. Say a kind word to those of the house of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

¹⁷ Now, it is my desire, brothers, that you will take note of those who are causing division and trouble among you, quite against the teaching which was given to you: and keep away from them.

²³ Gaius, with whom I am living, whose house is open to all the church, sends his love, so does Erastus, the manager of the accounts of the town, and Quartus, the brother.

²⁵ Now to him who is able to make you strong in agreement with the good news which I gave you and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in the light of the revelation of that secret which has been kept through times eternal,

² To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been made holy in Christ Jesus, saints by the selection of God, with all those who in every place give honour to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours: ³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴ I give praise to my God for you at all times, because of the grace of God which has been given to you in Christ Jesus;

⁹ God is true, through whom you have been given a part with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹⁵ So that no one may be able to say that you had baptism in my name.

¹⁸ For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God. ¹⁹ As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge. ²⁰ Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.

²³ But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles; ²⁴ But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.

²⁴ But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.

²⁷ But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong; ²⁸ And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

²⁸ And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are: ²⁹ So that no flesh might have glory before God. ³⁰ But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy: ³¹ So that, as it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.

¹ And when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come with wise words of knowledge, putting before you the secret of God.

¹ And when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come with wise words of knowledge, putting before you the secret of God. ² For I had made the decision to have knowledge of nothing among you but only of Jesus Christ on the cross.

² For I had made the decision to have knowledge of nothing among you but only of Jesus Christ on the cross. ³ And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt. ⁴ And in my preaching there were no honeyed words of wisdom, but I was dependent on the power of the Spirit to make it clear to you:

⁴ And in my preaching there were no honeyed words of wisdom, but I was dependent on the power of the Spirit to make it clear to you: ⁵ So that your faith might be based not on man's wisdom but on the power of God.

⁵ So that your faith might be based not on man's wisdom but on the power of God. ⁶ But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:

⁶ But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:

⁸ Of which not one of the rulers of this world had knowledge: for if they had, they would not have put the Lord of glory on the cross:

¹³ And these are the things which we say, not in the language of man's wisdom, but in words given to us by the Spirit, judging the things of the spirit by the help of the Spirit. ¹⁴ For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

³ Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men? ⁴ For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men? ⁵ What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them. ⁶ I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.

⁹ For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

¹⁸ Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs: ²⁰ And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing. ²¹ So let no one take pride in men. For all things are yours; ²² 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.

⁵ For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God. ⁶ My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother. ⁷ For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?

⁷ For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you? ⁸ For even now you are full, even now you have wealth, you have been made kings without us: truly, I would be glad if you were kings, so that we might be kings with you. ⁹ For it seems to me that God has put us the Apostles last of all, as men whose fate is death: for we are put on view to the world, and to angels, and to men. ¹⁰ We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.

¹⁶ So my desire is that you take me as your example.

⁵ That this man is to be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may have forgiveness in the day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

¹ How is it, that if any one of you has a cause at law against another, he takes it before a Gentile judge and not before the saints? ² Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things? ³ Is it not certain that we are to be the judges of angels? how much more then of the things of this life? ⁴ If then there are questions to be judged in connection with the things of this life, why do you put them in the hands of those who have no position in the church? ⁵ I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers? ⁶ But a brother who has a cause at law against another takes it before Gentile judges. ⁷ More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

⁹ Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men, ¹⁰ Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

¹¹ And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

¹⁶ Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh. ¹⁷ But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.

¹⁹ Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves; ²⁰ For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

²⁹ But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;

⁶ There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him.

¹¹ And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death.

¹ Am I not free? am I not an Apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are you not my work in the Lord? ² If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle.

⁵ Have we no right to take about with us a Christian wife, like the rest of the Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

² And they all had baptism from Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

¹³ You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

¹⁶ The cup of blessing which we take, does it not give us a part in the blood of Christ? and is not the broken bread a taking part in the body of Christ?

¹⁸ For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.

⁸ For to one are given words of wisdom through the Spirit; and to another words of knowledge through the same Spirit:

¹⁰ And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues:

¹⁸ But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.

²⁵ So that there might be no division in the body; but all the parts might have the same care for one another.

²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.

² And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.

⁸ Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.

⁵ Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church. ⁶ But, now, my brothers, if I come to you using tongues, what profit will it be to you, if I do not give you a revelation, or knowledge, or the word of the prophet, or teaching?

¹⁸ I give praise to God that I am able to make use of tongues more than you all:

²⁶ What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.

² By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.

⁵ And he was seen by Cephas; then by the twelve;

⁹ For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.

⁵⁰ Now I say this, my brothers, that it is not possible for flesh and blood to have a part in the kingdom of God; and death may not have a part in life.

⁵⁴ But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life. ⁵⁵ O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains? ⁵⁶ The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law: ⁵⁷ But praise be to God who gives us strength to overcome through our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² But as for Apollos, the brother, I had a great desire for him to come to you with the brothers, but it was not his pleasure to come now; but he will come when he has a chance.

¹⁵ Now I make my request to you, my brothers, for you have knowledge that the house of Stephanas is the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have made themselves the servants of the saints,

¹⁷ And I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for they have done what was needed to make your work complete.

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia: ² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ Even as you have been ready, in part, to say that we are your glory, in the same way that you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁸ As God is true, our word to you is not Yes and No.

²¹ Now he who makes our faith strong together with you, in Christ, and has given us of his grace, is God;

¹⁴ But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him. ¹⁵ For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction; ¹⁶ To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?

² And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong. ³ But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:

⁵ For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus. ⁶ Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. ⁷ But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;

¹⁴ For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death; ¹⁵ And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

¹⁷ So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new. ¹⁸ But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace; ¹⁹ That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace. ²⁰ So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.

²⁰ So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God. ²¹ For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

¹ We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

⁷ And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.

⁶ But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them.

¹¹ Your wealth being increased in everything, with a simple mind, causing praise to God through us.

¹ Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:

³ For though we may be living in the flesh, we are not fighting after the way of the flesh ⁴ For the arms with which we are fighting are not those of the flesh, but are strong before God for the destruction of high places;

⁴ For the arms with which we are fighting are not those of the flesh, but are strong before God for the destruction of high places;

⁴ For the arms with which we are fighting are not those of the flesh, but are strong before God for the destruction of high places; ⁵ Putting an end to reasonings, and every high thing which is lifted up against the knowledge of God, and causing every thought to come under the authority of Christ;

¹⁰ For his letters, they say, have weight and are strong; but in body he is feeble, and his way of talking has little force.

¹⁷ But whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.

² For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.

⁴ For if anyone comes preaching another Jesus from the one whose preachers we are, or if you have got a different spirit, or a different sort of good news from those which came to you, how well you put up with these things. ⁵ For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles. ⁶ But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.

² I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only, who was taken up to the third heaven.

¹¹ I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing. ¹² Truly the signs of an Apostle were done among you in quiet strength, with wonders and acts of power. ¹³ For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

²⁰ For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;

⁴ For he was feeble in that he was put to death on the cross, but he is living by the power of God. And we are feeble in him, but we will be living with him through the power of God in relation to you.

¹¹ Let this be my last word, brothers; be glad; be complete; be comforted; be of the same mind; be at peace with one another: and the God of love and peace will be with you.

¹ Paul, an Apostle not from men, and not through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who made him come back from the dead, ² And all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

⁴ Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:

⁷ Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.

¹⁵ But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,

¹⁵ But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace, ¹⁶ To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,

⁷ But, quite the opposite, when they saw that I had been made responsible for preaching the good news to those without circumcision, even as Peter had been for those of the circumcision ⁸ Because he who was working in Peter as the Apostle of the circumcision was working no less in me among the Gentiles; ⁹ When they saw the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who had the name of being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas their right hands as friends so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;

²⁰ I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

¹ O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross?

⁵ He who gives you the Spirit, and does works of power among you, is it by the works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

¹³ Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:

¹⁷ Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.

¹² My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong;

¹¹ But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.

¹⁵ But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.

²⁰ Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith, ²³ Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law. ²⁴ And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

²⁶ Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.

¹² Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ. ¹³ Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh. ¹⁴ But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

¹⁴ But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the purpose of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and those who have faith in Christ Jesus: ² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ: ⁴ Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

⁷ In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

¹⁰ The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say,

¹⁴ Which is the first-fruit of our heritage, till God gets back that which is his, to the praise of his glory.

¹⁷ That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

¹⁷ That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; ¹⁸ And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,

⁷ That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:

⁹ Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself. ¹⁰ For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

²⁰ Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone, ²¹ In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord; ²² In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.

⁶ Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news,

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ: ⁹ And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things; ¹⁰ So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,

¹⁰ So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,

¹ I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you, ² With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love; ³ Taking care to keep the harmony of the Spirit in the yoke of peace. ⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you; ⁵ One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

⁵ One Lord, one faith, one baptism, ⁶ One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all. ⁷ But to every one of us has grace been given in the measure of the giving of Christ.

¹¹ And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;

³⁰ And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation. ³¹ Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts; ³² And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

²⁰ Giving praise at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

²⁶ So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

¹⁹ And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news,

⁶ For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

⁹ And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience; ¹⁰ So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;

²⁷ Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;

¹ If then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity, ² Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in harmony and of one mind; ³ Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself; ⁴ Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.

⁹ For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name; ¹⁰ So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld, ¹¹ And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹⁴ Do all things without protests and arguments; ¹⁵ So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world, ¹⁶ Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.

³ For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

⁹ And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

¹⁶ Only, as far as we have got, let us be guided by the same rule.

²⁰ For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:

²² All the saints send their love to you, specially those who are of Caesar's house.

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the purpose of God, and Timothy our brother,

⁹ For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit, ¹⁰ Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

¹⁴ In whom we have our salvation, the forgiveness of sins:

²² In the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:

²⁴ Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;

² So that their hearts may be comforted, and that being joined together in love, they may come to the full wealth of the certain knowledge of the secret of God, even Christ, ³ In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.

³ In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.

⁴ At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.

¹⁰ And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

¹⁵ And let the peace of Christ be ruling in your hearts, as it was the purpose of God for you to be one body; and give praise to God at all times. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts. ¹⁷ And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.

³ And making prayer for us, that God may give us an open door for the preaching of the word, the secret of Christ, for which I am now in chains; ⁴ So that I may make it clear, as it is right for me to do.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

⁵ Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

¹⁰ Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come.

¹² So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.

¹³ So that your hearts may be strong and free from all sin before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

¹ And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more. ² Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

⁷ Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.

¹³ And have a high opinion of them in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

¹⁸ In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.

²³ And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ God, by whom you have been marked out in his purpose, is unchanging and will make it complete.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

⁷ And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire,

¹⁰ At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith because our witness among you had effect in that day.

¹ Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers,

¹⁰ And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.

¹⁴ And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, ¹⁷ Give you comfort and strength in every good work and word.

³ But the Lord is true, who will give you strength and keep you safe from evil.

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the order of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope;

¹² I give praise to him who gave me power, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he took me to be true, making me his servant,

¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

⁶ Who gave himself as an offering for all; witness of which was to be given at the right time; ⁷ And of this I became a preacher and an Apostle what I say is true, not false, and a teacher of the Gentiles in the true faith.

¹⁵ But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.

²¹ I give you orders before God and Christ Jesus and the angels of God's selection, to keep these orders without giving thought to one side more than another.

⁴ He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

¹⁴ To keep the word untouched by evil, clear from all shame, till the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ: ¹⁵ Which at the right time he will make clear, who is the eternal and only Ruler, King of kings, and Lord of lords;

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, in the hope of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

⁸ Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God; ⁹ Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

²² But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart. ²³ And put away foolish and uncontrolled questionings, seeing that they are a cause of trouble. ²⁴ For it is not right for the Lord's servant to make trouble, but he is to be gentle to all, ready in teaching, putting up with wrong, ²⁵ Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,

¹⁵ And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness: ¹⁷ So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.

¹ I give you orders, before God and Christ Jesus, who will be the judge of the living and the dead, and by his revelation and his kingdom;

⁸ From now on, the crown of righteousness is made ready for me, which the Lord, the upright judge, Will give to me at that day: and not only to me, but to all those who have had love for his revelation.

² In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;

¹³ Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ; ¹⁴ Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

⁴ I give praise to God at all times and make prayer for you,

⁹ Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus: ¹⁰ My request is for my child Onesimus, the child of my chains,

³ What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came; ⁴ And God was a witness with them, by signs and wonders, and by more than natural powers, and by his distribution of the Holy Spirit at his pleasure.

¹¹ For he who makes holy and those who are made holy are all of one family; and for this reason it is no shame for him to give them the name of brothers,

¹⁷ Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.

¹ For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;

¹⁴ For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;

¹² For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.

¹⁸ So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

¹² And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.

²⁸ So Christ, having at his first coming taken on himself the sins of men, will be seen a second time, without sin, by those who are waiting for him, for their salvation.

¹⁰ By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.

²³ Let us keep the witness of our hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word:

³⁶ For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you. ³⁷ In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.

¹¹ And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;

¹² For this reason Jesus was put to death outside the walls, so that he might make the people holy by his blood.

⁵ But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.

⁹ But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up; ¹⁰ But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end. ¹¹ For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

⁵ Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?

¹³ Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.

¹³ Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.

¹³ Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true. ¹⁵ This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

¹⁵ This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. ¹⁶ For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

¹⁶ For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing. ¹⁷ But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.

¹⁷ But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.

¹ What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies? ² You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.

⁷ Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come. ⁸ Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.

² Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.

¹³ So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

¹⁵ But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy; ¹⁶ Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.

¹⁸ Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction, ¹⁹ But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ:

⁸ And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God.

¹¹ My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

⁸ Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride: ⁹ Not giving back evil for evil, or curse for curse, but in place of cursing, blessing; because this is the purpose of God for you that you may have a heritage of blessing.

¹³ But be glad that you are given a part in the pains of Christ; so that at the revelation of his glory you may have great joy.

⁴ And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.

¹⁰ And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;

¹ Simon Peter, a servant and Apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who with us have a part in the same holy faith in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

¹⁶ For when we gave you news of the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our teaching was not based on stories put together by art, but we were eye-witnesses of his glory.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.

¹² Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?

¹⁴ For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.

¹⁸ But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.

³ We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:

⁷ But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

² My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

¹³ And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

⁶ This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.

¹¹ And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life. ¹³ I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.

¹ I, a ruler in the church, send word to the noble sister who is of God's selection, and to her children, for whom I have true love; and not only I, but all who have knowledge of what is true;

¹ I, a ruler in the church, send word to the well loved Gaius, for whom I have true love. ² My loved one, it is my prayer that you may do well in all things, and be healthy in body, even as your soul does well. ³ For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way. ⁴ I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.

¹ Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James, to those of God's selection who have been made holy by God the Father and are kept safe for Jesus Christ:

²¹ Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for life eternal through the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to give you a place in his glory, free from all evil, with great joy, ²⁵ To the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, let us give glory and honour and authority and power, before all time and now and for ever. So be it.

² Who gave witness of the word of God, and of the witness of Jesus Christ, even of all the things which he saw.

⁹ I, John, your brother, who have a part with you in the trouble and the kingdom and the quiet strength of Jesus, was in the island which is named Patmos, for the word of God and the witness of Jesus.

⁹ And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,

⁹ And when the fifth stamp was undone, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been put to death for the word of God, and for the witness which they kept.

¹¹ And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.

¹⁷ And the dragon was angry with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her seed, who keep the orders of God, and the witness of Jesus:

⁴ These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

¹⁷ For in one hour such great wealth has come to nothing. And every shipmaster, and all who are sailing on the sea, and sailors and all who get their living by the sea, were watching from far away,

¹⁰ And I went on my face before his feet to give him worship. And he said to me, See you do it not: I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers who keep the witness of Jesus: give worship to God: for the witness of Jesus is the spirit of the prophet's word. ¹¹ And the heaven was open; and I saw a white horse, and he who was seated on it was named Certain and True; and he is judging and making war in righteousness.

¹⁶ And on his robe and on his leg is a name, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.