Daniel 6 Cross References - BBE

¹ Darius was pleased to put over the kingdom a hundred and twenty captains, who were to be all through the kingdom; ² And over them were three chief rulers, of whom Daniel was one; and the captains were to be responsible to the chief rulers, so that the king might undergo no loss. ³ Then this Daniel did his work better than the chief rulers and the captains, because there was a special spirit in him; and it was the king's purpose to put him over all the kingdom. ⁴ Then the chief rulers and the captains were looking for some cause for putting Daniel in the wrong in connection with the kingdom, but they were unable to put forward any wrongdoing or error against him; because he was true, and no error or wrong was to be seen in him. ⁵ Then these men said, We will only get a reason for attacking Daniel in connection with the law of his God. ⁶ Then these chief rulers and the captains came to the king and said to him, O King Darius, have life for ever. ⁷ All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole. ⁸ Now, O King, put the order in force, signing the writing so that it may not be changed, like the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end. ⁹ For this reason King Darius put his name on the writing and the order. ¹⁰ And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem; and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before. ¹¹ Then these men were watching and saw Daniel making prayers and requesting grace before his God. ¹² Then they came near before the king and said, O King, have you not put your name to an order that any man who makes a request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole? The king made answer and said, The thing is fixed by the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end. ¹³ Then they made answer and said before the king, Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah, has no respect for you, O King, or for the order signed by you, but three times a day he makes his prayer to God. ¹⁴ When this thing came to the king's ears, it was very evil to him, and his heart was fixed on keeping Daniel safe, and till the going down of the sun he was doing everything in his power to get him free. ¹⁵ Then these men said to the king, Be certain, O King, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no order or law which the king has put into force may be changed. ¹⁶ Then the king gave the order, and they took Daniel and put him into the lions' hole. The king made answer and said to Daniel, Your God, whose servant you are at all times, will keep you safe. ¹⁷ Then they got a stone and put it over the mouth of the hole, and it was stamped with the king's stamp and with the stamp of the lords, so that the decision about Daniel might not be changed. ¹⁸ Then the king went to his great house, and took no food that night, and no (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) were placed before him, and his sleep went from him. ¹⁹ Then very early in the morning the king got up and went quickly to the lions' hole. ²⁰ And when he came near the hole where Daniel was, he gave a loud cry of grief; the king made answer and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whose servant you are at all times, able to keep you safe from the lions? ²¹ Then Daniel said to the king, O King, have life for ever. ²² My God has sent his angel to keep the lions' mouths shut, and they have done me no damage: because I was seen to be without sin before him; and further, before you, O King, I have done no wrong. ²³ Then the king was very glad, and gave orders for them to take Daniel up out of the hole. So Daniel was taken up out of the hole and he was seen to be untouched, because he had faith in his God. ²⁴ And at the king's order, they took those men who had said evil against Daniel, and put them in the lions' hole, with their wives and their children; and they had not got to the floor of the hole before the lions overcame them and all their bones were broken. ²⁵ Then King Darius sent a letter to all the peoples, nations, and languages, living in all the earth: May your peace be increased. ²⁶ It is my order that in all the kingdom of which I am ruler, men are to be shaking with fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, unchanging for ever, and his kingdom is one which will never come to destruction, his rule will go on to the end. ²⁷ He gives salvation and makes men free from danger, and does signs and wonders in heaven and earth, who has kept Daniel safe from the power of the lions. ²⁸ So this Daniel did well in the kingdom of Darius and in the kingdom of Cyrus the Persian.

²¹ But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens; ²² And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you.

¹ Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus, that Ahasuerus who was ruler of a hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom, from India as far as Ethiopia:

³¹ And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being then about sixty-two years old.

¹⁴ And those of the rulers who are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of those who do well.

³⁰ For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.

²² Be certain to do this with all care: do not let trouble be increased to the king's damage.

⁴ For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.

¹⁶ Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

⁶ He who sends news by the hand of a foolish man is cutting off his feet and drinking in damage.

⁴⁸ Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him offerings in great number, and made him ruler over all the land of Babylon, and chief over all the wise men of Babylon. ⁴⁹ And at Daniel's request, the king gave Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego authority over the business of the land of Babylon: but Daniel was kept near the king's person.

¹⁶ And I have had news of you, that you have the power of making things clear, and of answering hard questions: now if you are able to make out the writing and give me the sense of it, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain round your neck and be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.

²⁹ Then, by the order of Belshazzar, they put a purple robe on Daniel, and a gold chain round his neck, and a public statement was made that he was to be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.

²³ For this reason the kingdom of heaven is like a king, who went over his accounts with his servants.

² And he sent for him and said, What is this which is said about you? give me an account of all you have done, for you will no longer be the manager of my property.

¹³ And he sent for ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds and said to them, Do business with this till I come. ¹⁴ But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler. ¹⁵ And when he came back again, having got his kingdom, he gave orders for those servants to whom he had given the money to come to him, so that he might have an account of what business they had done. ¹⁶ And the first came before him, saying, Lord, your pound has made ten pounds. ¹⁷ And he said to him, You have done well, O good servant: because you have done well in a small thing you will have authority over ten towns. ¹⁸ And another came, saying, Your pound has made five pounds. ¹⁹ And he said, You will be ruler over five towns. ²⁰ And another came, saying, Lord, here is your pound, which I put away in a cloth; ²¹ Because I was in fear of you, for you are a hard man: you take up what you have not put down, and get in grain where you have not put seed. ²² He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed; ²³ Why then did you not put my money in a bank, so that when I came I would get it back with interest? ²⁴ And he said to the others who were near, Take the pound away from him, and give it to the man who has ten. ²⁵ And they say to him, Lord, he has ten pounds. ²⁶ And I say to you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. ²⁷ And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me.

² And it is right for such servants to be safe persons.

³⁸ Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God? ³⁹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you: ⁴⁰ You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you. ⁴¹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt.

² I made my brother Hanani, and Hananiah, the ruler of the tower, responsible for the government of Jerusalem: for he was a man of good faith, fearing God more than most.

³ For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and respected by the body of his countrymen; working for the good of his people, and saying words of peace to all his seed.

³ Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart; ⁴ So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men.

²⁷ He who has knowledge says little: and he who has a calm spirit is a man of good sense.

²⁹ Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.

¹³ Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.

¹² Because a most special spirit, and knowledge and reason and the power of reading dreams and unfolding dark sayings and answering hard questions, were seen to be in him, even in Daniel named Belteshazzar by the king: now let Daniel be sent for, and he will make clear the sense of the writing.

¹⁴ And I have had news of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and reason and special wisdom have been seen in you.

²³ At the first word of your prayer a word went out, and I have come to give you knowledge; for you are a man dearly loved: so give thought to the word and let the vision be clear to you.

¹⁸ Now the men were full of fear because they had been taken into Joseph's house and they said, It is because of the money which was put back in our bags the first time; he is looking for something against us, so that he may come down on us and take us and our asses for his use.

⁴ Now his father and mother had no knowledge that this was the purpose of the Lord, who had the destruction of the Philistines in mind. Now the Philistines at that time were ruling over Israel.

¹⁴ And in all his undertakings David did wisely; and the Lord was with him.

⁴ And Jonathan gave his father Saul a good account of David, and said to him, Let not the king do wrong against his servant, against David; because he has done you no wrong, and all his acts have had a good outcome for you: ⁵ For he put his life in danger and overcame the Philistine, and the Lord gave all Israel salvation: you saw it and were glad: why then are you sinning against him who has done no wrong, desiring the death of David without cause?

¹⁴ Then Ahimelech answering said to the king, Who among all your servants is so true to you as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is a captain of your armed men, and has a place of honour in your house?

¹² The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him. ¹³ He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.

³² The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death. ³³ The Lord will not give him into their hands, or be against him when he is judged.

²⁷ An evil man is disgusting to the upright, and he who is upright is disgusting to evil-doers.

⁴ And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

¹⁸ Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.

²³ But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

¹⁰ For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing there is fear on every side: they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

⁸ At that time certain Chaldaeans came near and made a statement against the Jews.

⁴ And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death.

¹⁸ For he saw that for envy they had given him up.

²⁰ And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler.

² And the chief priests and the scribes were looking for a chance to put him to death, but they went in fear of the people.

¹⁴ You say that this man has been teaching the people evil things: now I, after going into the question before you, see nothing wrong in this man in connection with the things which you have said against him: ¹⁵ And Herod is of the same opinion, for he has sent him back to us; for, you see, he has done nothing for which I might put him to death.

⁴ And Pilate went out again and said to them, See, I let him come out to you to make it clear to you that I see no wrong in him.

¹² But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.

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,

¹⁴ So it is my desire that the younger widows may be married and have children, controlling their families, and giving the Evil One no chance to say anything against them,

⁸ Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us.

¹² Being of good behaviour among the Gentiles; so that though they say now that you are evil-doers, they may see your good works and give glory to God when he comes to be their judge.

¹⁶ Being conscious that you have done no wrong; so that those who say evil things about your good way of life as Christians may be put to shame.

¹⁴ If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you. ¹⁵ Let no one among you undergo punishment as a taker of life, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as one who is over-interested in other men's business; ¹⁶ But if he undergoes punishment as a Christian, that is no shame to him; let him give glory to God in this name.

¹⁷ And he said to David, You are right and I am wrong: for you have given me back good, but I have given you evil.

⁸ And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they do not keep the king's laws: for this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.

⁶ So when the chief priests and the police saw him they gave a loud cry, To the cross! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and put him on the cross: I see no crime in him. ⁷ And the Jews made answer, We have a law, and by that law it is right for him to be put to death because he said he was the Son of God.

¹³ And they are not able to give facts in support of the things which they say against me now. ¹⁴ But this I will say openly to you, that I do give worship to the God of our fathers after that Way, which to them is not the true religion: but I have belief in all the things which are in the law and in the books of the prophets: ¹⁵ Hoping in God for that which they themselves are looking for, that there will be a coming back from the dead for upright men and wrongdoers. ¹⁶ And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.

²⁰ Or let these men here present say what wrongdoing was seen in me when I was before the Sanhedrin, ²¹ But only this one thing which I said among them in a loud voice, I am this day being judged on the question of the coming back from the dead.

³ And said to the king, May the king be living for ever: is it not natural for my face to be sad, when the town, the place where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, has been made waste and its doorways burned with fire?

⁶ They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

³ How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

² Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil; ³ Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words; ⁴ So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen. ⁵ They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it, ⁶ Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.

⁴ Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in the Aramaean language, O King, have life for ever: give your servants an account of your dream, and we will make clear to you the sense of it.

⁹ They made answer and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, O King, have life for ever.

¹⁰ The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the house of the feast: the queen made answer and said, O King, have life for ever; do not be troubled by your thoughts or let the colour go from your face:

¹¹ Then these men were watching and saw Daniel making prayers and requesting grace before his God.

²¹ Then Daniel said to the king, O King, have life for ever.

²³ And he said, Why, what evil has he done? But they gave loud cries, saying, To the cross with him! ²⁴ So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible. ²⁵ And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.

²³ But they went on crying out loudly, Let him be put to death on the cross. And they had their way. ²⁴ And Pilate gave his decision for their desire to be put into effect. ²⁵ And in answer to their request, he let that man go free who had been in prison for acting against the government and causing death, and Jesus he gave up to their pleasure.

²² And they gave him a hearing as far as this word; then with loud voices they said, Away with this man from the earth; it is not right for him to be living. ²³ And while they were crying out, and pulling off their clothing, and sending dust into the air,

² And when he had been sent for, Tertullus, starting his statement, said, Because by you we are living in peace, and through your wisdom wrongs are put right for this nation,

² The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying,

⁹ He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

³ For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

⁴ Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. Selah.

¹ A Song. A Psalm. Of Asaph. O God, do not keep quiet: let your lips be open and take no rest, O God. ² For see! those who make war on you are out of control; your haters are lifting up their heads. ³ They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.

²⁰ What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?

² And Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to get together all the captains, the chiefs, the rulers, the wise men, the keepers of public money, the judges, the overseers, and all the rulers of the divisions of the country, to come to see the unveiling of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up.

⁶ And anyone not falling down and worshipping will that same hour be put into a burning and flaming fire.

¹¹ And anyone not falling down and worshipping is to be put into a burning and flaming fire.

²⁷ And the captains, the chiefs, and the rulers, and the king's wise men who had come together, saw these men, over whose bodies the fire had no power, and not a hair of their heads was burned, and their coats were not changed, and there was no smell of fire about them.

² And over them were three chief rulers, of whom Daniel was one; and the captains were to be responsible to the chief rulers, so that the king might undergo no loss. ³ Then this Daniel did his work better than the chief rulers and the captains, because there was a special spirit in him; and it was the king's purpose to put him over all the kingdom.

⁵ O my people, keep in mind now what was designed by Balak, king of Moab, and the answer which Balaam, son of Beor, gave him; the events, from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may be certain of the upright acts of the Lord.

¹² Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.

¹⁴ But the Pharisees went out and made designs against him, how they might put him to death.

¹ And the first thing in the morning the chief priests, with those in authority and the scribes and all the Sanhedrin, had a meeting, and put cords round Jesus, and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate.

¹⁰ Now there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death;

⁵ And on the day after, the rulers and those in authority and the scribes came together in Jerusalem; ⁶ And Annas, the high priest, was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all the relations of the high priest. ⁷ Then sending for Peter and John, they said, By what power and in whose name have you done this?

²⁶ The kings of the earth were lifted up, the rulers came together, against the Lord, and against his Christ: ²⁷ For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together, ²⁸ To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.

¹⁹ If it is pleasing to the king, let an order go out from him, and let it be recorded among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it may never be changed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her place to another who is better than she.

¹² Then on the thirteenth day of the first month, the king's scribes were sent for, and they put in writing Haman's orders to all the king's captains and the rulers of every division of his kingdom and the chiefs of every people: for every division of the kingdom in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs; it was signed in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with the king's ring.

³ Then Esther again came before the king, falling down at his feet, and made request to him with weeping, that he would put a stop to the evil purposes of Haman the Agagite and the designs which he had made against the Jews.

⁸ So now send a letter about the Jews, writing whatever seems good to you, in the king's name, and stamping it with the king's ring: for a writing signed in the king's name and stamped with the king's ring may not be changed.

¹⁰ The letters were sent in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with his ring, and they were taken by men on horseback, going on the quick-running horses used for the king's business, the offspring of his best horses:

¹ Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:

¹² Then they came near before the king and said, O King, have you not put your name to an order that any man who makes a request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole? The king made answer and said, The thing is fixed by the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.

¹⁵ Then these men said to the king, Be certain, O King, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no order or law which the king has put into force may be changed.

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

⁹ Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath. ¹⁰ Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

⁹ It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in rulers.

³ Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

² You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.

²² Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

³⁰ Give ear to the prayers of your servant, and the prayers of your people Israel, when they make their prayers, turning to this place; give ear in heaven your living-place, and hearing, have mercy.

³⁸ Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:

⁴⁴ If your people go out to war against their attackers, by whatever way you may send them, if they make their prayer to the Lord, turning their faces to this town of yours and to this house which I have made for your name:

⁴⁸ And with all their heart and soul are turned again to you, in the land of those who took them prisoners, and make their prayer to you, turning their eyes to this land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I made for your name: ⁴⁹ Then give ear to their prayer and to their cry in heaven your living-place, and see right done to them; ⁵⁰ Answering with forgiveness the people who have done wrong against you, and overlooking the evil which they have done against you; let those who made them prisoners be moved with pity for them, and have pity on them;

⁵⁴ Then Solomon, after making all these prayers and requests for grace to the Lord, got up from his knees before the altar of the Lord, where his hands had been stretched out in prayer to heaven;

¹³ For Solomon had made a brass stage, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the middle of the open space; on this he took his place and went down on his knees before all the meeting of Israel, stretching out his hands to heaven.

³⁸ If with all their heart and soul they are turned again to you, in the land where they are prisoners, the land where they have been taken, and make their prayers, turning their eyes to their land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I have made for your name:

⁵ And at the evening offering, having made myself low before God, I got up, and with signs of grief, falling down on my knees, with my hands stretched out to the Lord my God,

¹¹ And I said, Am I the sort of man to go in flight? what man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep himself safe? I will not go in.

⁷ But as for me, I will come into your house, in the full measure of your mercy; and in your fear I will give worship, turning my eyes to your holy Temple.

¹ For the chief music-maker. Of David. In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain? ² See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.

¹ Of David. When he made a change in his behaviour before Abimelech, who sent him away, and he went. I will be blessing the Lord at all times; his praise will be ever in my mouth.

¹⁷ In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.

³ Have mercy on me, O Lord; for my cry goes up to you all the day.

⁶ O come, let us give worship, falling down on our knees before the Lord our Maker.

¹³ Then they made answer and said before the king, Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah, has no respect for you, O King, or for the order signed by you, but three times a day he makes his prayer to God.

⁴ And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

²⁸ And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell. ²⁹ Are not sparrows two a farthing? and not one of them comes to an end without your Father: ³⁰ But the hairs of your head are all numbered. ³¹ Then have no fear; you are of more value than a flock of sparrows. ³² To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven. ³³ But if anyone says before men that he has no knowledge of me, I will say that I have no knowledge of him before my Father in heaven.

⁴ And I say to you, my friends, Have no fear of those who may put the body to death, and are able to do no more than that. ⁵ But I will make clear to you of whom you are to be in fear: of him who after death has power to send you to hell; yes, truly I say, Have fear of him. ⁶ Are not five sparrows given in exchange for two farthings? and God has every one of them in mind. ⁷ But even the hairs of your head are numbered. Have no fear: you are of more value than a flock of sparrows. ⁸ And I say to you that to everyone who gives witness to me before men, the Son of man will give witness before the angels of God. ⁹ But if anyone says before men that he has no knowledge of me, I will say that I have no knowledge of him before the angels of God.

²⁶ And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.

⁴¹ And he went a little distance away from them and, falling on his knees in prayer, he said,

¹ And when the day of Pentecost was come, they were all together in one place. ² And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like the rushing of a violent wind, and all the house where they were was full of it.

¹⁵ For these men are not overcome with wine, as it seems to you, for it is only the third hour of the day;

¹ Now Peter and John were going up to the Temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer;

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:

²⁹ And now, Lord, take note of their cruel words, and give your servants power to be preachers of your word without fear,

²⁰ Go, take your place in the Temple and give the people all the teaching about this Life.

²⁹ But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.

⁴⁰ And he seemed to them to be right: and they sent for the Apostles, and, after having them whipped and giving them orders to give no teaching in the name of Jesus, they let them go. ⁴¹ So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name. ⁴² And every day, in the Temple and privately, they went on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

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.

⁴⁰ But Peter made them all go outside, and went down on his knees in prayer; and turning to the body, he said, Tabitha, get up. And, opening her eyes, she saw Peter and got up.

⁹ Now the day after, when they were on their journey and were near the town, Peter went up to the top of the house for prayer, about the sixth hour:

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.

³⁶ And having said these words, he went down on his knees in prayer with them all.

⁵ And when these days came to an end, we went on our journey; and they all, with their wives and children, came with us on our way till we were out of the town: and after going on our knees in prayer by the sea,

¹⁴ For this cause I go down on my knees before the Father,

¹⁴ And most of the brothers in the Lord, taking heart because of my chains, are all the stronger to give the word of God without fear.

²⁰ In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death.

⁶ Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.

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.

¹⁷ Keep on with your prayers. ¹⁸ In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.

¹⁶ Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

¹⁵ Let us then make offerings of praise to God at all times through him, that is to say, the fruit of lips giving witness to his name.

¹⁰ Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

¹³ I have knowledge that your living-place is where Satan has his seat: and you are true to my name, and were not turned away from your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my true witness, who was put to death among you, where Satan has his place.

⁶ Then these chief rulers and the captains came to the king and said to him, O King Darius, have life for ever.

⁸ At that time certain Chaldaeans came near and made a statement against the Jews. ⁹ They made answer and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, O King, have life for ever. ¹⁰ You, O King, have given an order that every man, when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, comes to his ears, is to go down on his face in worship before the image of gold: ¹¹ And anyone not falling down and worshipping is to be put into a burning and flaming fire. ¹² There are certain Jews whom you have put over the business of the land of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men have not given attention to you, O King: they are not servants of your gods or worshippers of the gold image which you have put up.

⁸ Now, O King, put the order in force, signing the writing so that it may not be changed, like the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.

¹⁹ But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, pulling them into the market-place before the rulers;

²⁴ And he, having such orders, put them into the inner prison with chains on their feet.

² And when he had been sent for, Tertullus, starting his statement, said, Because by you we are living in peace, and through your wisdom wrongs are put right for this nation, ³ In all things and in all places we are conscious of our great debt to you, most noble Felix. ⁴ But, so that I may not make you tired, I make a request to you of your mercy, to give hearing to a short statement. ⁵ For this man, in our opinion, is a cause of trouble, a maker of attacks on the government among Jews through all the empire, and a chief mover in the society of the Nazarenes: ⁶ Who, in addition, was attempting to make the Temple unclean: whom we took, ⁷ (OMITTED TEXT) ⁸ And from whom you will be able, by questioning him yourself, to get knowledge of all the things which we say against him. ⁹ And the Jews were in agreement with his statement, saying that these things were so.

⁶ And among these there were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

²⁵ Then Arioch quickly took Daniel in before the king, and said to him, Here is a man from among the prisoners of Judah, who will make clear to the king the sense of the dream.

¹² There are certain Jews whom you have put over the business of the land of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men have not given attention to you, O King: they are not servants of your gods or worshippers of the gold image which you have put up.

¹³ Then they took Daniel in before the king; the king made answer and said to Daniel, So you are that Daniel, of the prisoners of Judah, whom my father took out of Judah.

⁷ Whom Jason has taken into his house: and they are acting against the orders of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.

²⁸ And when David had word of it he said, May I and my kingdom be clear for ever in the eyes of the Lord from the blood of Abner, the son of Ner: ²⁹ May it come on the head of Joab and all his father's family: among the men of Joab's family may there ever be some who are diseased or lepers, or who do the work of women, or are put to the sword, or are wasted from need of food!

¹³ Then Nebuchadnezzar in his wrath and passion gave orders for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego to be sent for. Then they made these men come in before the king.

¹⁷ So when they came together, Pilate said to them, Whom will you have? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is named Christ? ¹⁸ For he saw that for envy they had given him up. ¹⁹ And while he was on the judge's seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing to do with that upright man, for I have had much trouble this day in a dream because of him. ²⁰ Now the chief priests and those in authority got the people to make request for Barabbas, and for Jesus to be put to death. ²¹ But the ruler made answer and said to them, Which of the two is it your pleasure that I let go free? And they said, Barabbas. ²² Pilate says to them, What, then, am I to do with Jesus, who is named Christ? They all say, Let him be put to death on the cross. ²³ And he said, Why, what evil has he done? But they gave loud cries, saying, To the cross with him! ²⁴ So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible.

²⁶ And the king was very sad; but because of his oaths, and those who were with him at table, he would not say 'No' to her.

¹³ And Pilate sent for the chief priests and the rulers and the people, and said to them, ¹⁴ You say that this man has been teaching the people evil things: now I, after going into the question before you, see nothing wrong in this man in connection with the things which you have said against him: ¹⁵ And Herod is of the same opinion, for he has sent him back to us; for, you see, he has done nothing for which I might put him to death. ¹⁶ And so I will give him punishment and let him go. ¹⁷ (OMITTED TEXT) ¹⁸ But with loud voices they said all together, Put this man to death, and make Barabbas free. ¹⁹ Now this man was in prison because of an attack against the government in the town, in which there had been loss of life. ²⁰ And Pilate again said to them that it was his desire to let Jesus go free. ²¹ But crying out they said, To the cross with him!

⁷ And the Jews made answer, We have a law, and by that law it is right for him to be put to death because he said he was the Son of God. ⁸ When this saying came to Pilate's ears his fear became greater; ⁹ And he went again into the Praetorium and said to Jesus, Where do you come from? But Jesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰ Then Pilate said to him, You say nothing to me? is it not clear to you that I have power to let you go free and power to put you to death on the cross? ¹¹ Jesus gave this answer: You would have no power at all over me if it was not given to you by God; so that he who gave me up to you has the greater sin. ¹² Hearing this, Pilate had a desire to let him go free, but the Jews said in a loud voice, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: everyone who makes himself a king goes against Caesar.

²⁰ What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law? ²¹ They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

³⁹ While I, though I am crowned king, have little strength, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are out of my control: may the Lord give to the evil-doer the reward of his evil-doing!

¹⁹ He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.

³⁹ But the Lord is the saviour of the upright: he is their strength in the time of trouble. ⁴⁰ And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.

¹⁴ Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart. ¹⁵ When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour. ¹⁶ With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.

⁸ It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in man. ⁹ It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in rulers.

²⁵ The fear of man is a cause of danger: but whoever puts his faith in the Lord will have a safe place on high.

² When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.

¹⁴ As for me, here I am in your hands: do with me whatever seems good and right in your opinion.

⁵ Then Zedekiah the king said, See, he is in your hands: for the king was not able to do anything against them.

¹⁵ Now if you are ready, on hearing the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, to go down on your faces in worship before the image which I have made, it is well: but if you will not give worship, that same hour you will be put into a burning and flaming fire; and what god is there who will be able to take you out of my hands?

¹⁷ If our God, whose servants we are, is able to keep us safe from the burning and flaming fire, and from your hands, O King, he will keep us safe.

²⁸ Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said, Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent his angel and kept his servants safe who had faith in him, and who put the king's word on one side and gave up their bodies to the fire, so that they might not be servants or worshippers of any other god but their God.

⁷ All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole.

²⁰ And when he came near the hole where Daniel was, he gave a loud cry of grief; the king made answer and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whose servant you are at all times, able to keep you safe from the lions?

⁸ And she, at her mother's suggestion, said, Give me here on a plate the head of John the Baptist. ⁹ And the king was sad; but because of his oaths and because of his guests, he gave the order for it to be given to her; ¹⁰ And he sent and had John's head cut off in the prison.

²³ And he said, Why, what evil has he done? But they gave loud cries, saying, To the cross with him! ²⁴ So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible. ²⁵ And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children. ²⁶ Then he let Barabbas go free: but after having Jesus whipped, he gave him up to be put to death on the cross.

²⁵ And she came in quickly to the king, and said, My desire is that you give me straight away on a plate the head of John the Baptist. ²⁶ And the king was very sad; but because of his oaths, and those who were with him at table, he would not say 'No' to her. ²⁷ And straight away the king sent out one of his armed men, and gave him an order to come back with the head: and he went and took off John's head in prison, ²⁸ And came back with the head on a plate, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.

¹⁴ And Pilate said to them, Why, what evil has he done? But their cry was the louder, To the cross! ¹⁵ And Pilate, desiring to do what was pleasing to the people, let Barabbas go free, and gave up Jesus, when he had been whipped, to be put to death on the cross.

¹² Hearing this, Pilate had a desire to let him go free, but the Jews said in a loud voice, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: everyone who makes himself a king goes against Caesar. ¹³ So when these words came to Pilate's ear, he took Jesus out, seating himself in the judge's seat in a place named in Hebrew, Gabbatha, or the Stone Floor. ¹⁴ It was the day when they made ready for the Passover; and it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, There is your King! ¹⁵ Then they gave a loud cry, Away with him! away with him! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Am I to put your King to death on the cross? The chief priests said in answer, We have no king but Caesar. ¹⁶ So then he gave him up to them to be put to death on the cross. And they took Jesus away;

²⁷ But after two years Porcius Festus took the place of Felix, who, desiring to have the approval of the Jews, kept Paul in chains.

⁹ But Festus, desiring to get the approval of the Jews, said to Paul, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and be judged before me there in connection with these things?

¹¹ If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar.

²³ For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am, ²⁴ Saying, Have no fear, Paul, for you will come before Caesar, and God has given to you all those who are sailing with you.

³ For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise;

⁵³ They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.

⁶⁰ And put it in the resting-place which had been cut out of the rock for himself; and after rolling a great stone to the door of it he went away. ⁶¹ And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, seated by the place of the dead. ⁶² Now on the day after the getting ready of the Passover, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate, ⁶³ Saying, Sir, we have in mind how that false man said, while he was still living, After three days I will come again from the dead. ⁶⁴ Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first. ⁶⁵ Pilate said to them, You have watchmen; go and make it as safe as you are able. ⁶⁶ So they went, and made safe the place where his body was, putting a stamp on the stone, and the watchmen were with them.

⁴ And having taken him, he put him in prison, with four bands of armed men to keep watch over him; his purpose being to take him out to the people after the Passover.

²³ And when they had given them a great number of blows, they put them in prison, giving orders to the keeper of the prison to keep them safely: ²⁴ And he, having such orders, put them into the inner prison with chains on their feet.

¹⁶ So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night. ¹⁷ And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.

²⁴ And Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son, came down for the purpose of meeting the king; his feet had not been cared for or his hair cut or his clothing washed from the day when the king went away till the day when he came back in peace.

²⁷ Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.

¹ That night the king was unable to get any sleep; and he sent for the books of the records; and while some one was reading them to the king,

¹² They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe.

⁴ You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come.

² Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.

⁸ I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.

⁸ The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad. ⁹ There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

¹ In the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him.

⁴ Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house; ⁵ Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David; ⁶ Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.

³ So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end. ⁴ And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh. ⁵ And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least. ⁶ And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust. ⁷ And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water: ⁸ And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands. ⁹ Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?

²² And the voice of players and makers of music will never again be sounding in you: and no worker, expert in art, will ever again be living in you; and there will be no sound of the crushing of grain any more at all in you;

¹ Now late on the Sabbath, when the dawn of the first day of the week was near, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the place where his body was.

² And very early after dawn on the first day of the week, they came at the time of the coming up of the sun to the place where the body had been put.

¹³ I had no rest in my spirit because Titus my brother was not there: so I went away from them, and came into Macedonia.

⁵ For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing.

¹⁴ Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.

²³ And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become short? Now you will see if my word comes true for you or not.

¹⁵ Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say, ¹⁶ Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.

¹¹ Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.

¹⁴ But I will go on ever hoping, and increasing in all your praise. 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. ¹⁷ O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now. ¹⁸ Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

²³ But still I am ever with you; you have taken me by my right hand.

¹¹² My heart is ever ready to keep your rules, even to the end.

² While I have breath I will give praise to the Lord: I will make melody to my God while I have my being.

¹⁷ Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day; ¹⁸ For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

¹⁷ Ah Lord God! see, you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm, and there is nothing you are not able to do:

²⁸ Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said, Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent his angel and kept his servants safe who had faith in him, and who put the king's word on one side and gave up their bodies to the fire, so that they might not be servants or worshippers of any other god but their God. ²⁹ And it is my decision that any people, nation, or language saying evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, will be cut to bits and their houses made waste: because there is no other god who is able to give salvation such as this.

¹⁶ Then the king gave the order, and they took Daniel and put him into the lions' hole. The king made answer and said to Daniel, Your God, whose servant you are at all times, will keep you safe.

²⁷ He gives salvation and makes men free from danger, and does signs and wonders in heaven and earth, who has kept Daniel safe from the power of the lions.

⁶ So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.

³⁷ For there is nothing which God is not able to do.

¹ And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

⁴ Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.

⁷ To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

¹⁰ Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;

² Give yourselves to prayer at all times, keeping watch with praise;

¹² And for which I undergo these things: but I have no feeling of shame. For I have knowledge of him in whom I have faith, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have given into his care till that day.

¹⁶ At my first meeting with my judges, no one took my part, but all went away from me. May it not be put to their account. ¹⁷ But the Lord was by my side and gave me strength; so that through me the news might be given out in full measure, and all the Gentiles might give ear: and I was taken out of the mouth of the lion. ¹⁸ The Lord will keep me safe from every evil work and will give me salvation in his kingdom in heaven: to whom be glory for ever and ever. So be it.

²⁵ So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.

²⁵ But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.

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,

¹⁵ For truly I was taken by force from the land of the Hebrews; and I have done nothing for which I might be put in prison.

¹⁶ And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land;

³⁷ And David said, The Lord, who kept me safe from the grip of the lion and the bear, will be my saviour from the hands of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go! and may the Lord be with you.

⁹ And David said to Saul, Why do you give any attention to those who say that it is my desire to do you wrong? ¹⁰ Look! you have seen today how the Lord gave you up into my hands even now in the hollow of the rocks: and some would have had me put you to death, but I had pity on you: for I said, Never will my hand be lifted up against my lord, who has been marked with the holy oil. ¹¹ And see, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: for the fact that I took off the skirt of your robe and did not put you to death is witness that I have no evil purpose, and I have done you no wrong, though you are waiting for my life to take it.

¹⁸ And he said, Why does my lord go armed against his servant? what have I done? or what evil is there in me?

⁷ In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came to his ears.

²¹ And the Lord sent an angel who put to death all the men of war and the chiefs and the captains in the army of the king of Assyria. So he went back to his country in shame. And when he came into the house of his god, his sons, the offspring of his body, put him to death there with the sword.

¹ Shiggaion of David; a song which he made to the Lord, about the words of Cush the Benjamite. O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free; ² So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour. ³ O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong; ⁴ If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

¹⁹ He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me. ²⁰ The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him. ²¹ For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God. ²² For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me. ²³ And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin. ²⁴ Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.

⁶ I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

¹⁴ But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

⁷ The angel of the Lord is ever watching over those who have fear of him, to keep them safe.

²¹ Do not give me up, O Lord; O my God, be near to me.

¹¹ The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

¹¹ For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go. ¹² In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone. ¹³ You will put your foot on the lion and the snake; the young lion and the great snake will be crushed under your feet.

²⁸ You are my God, and I will give you praise; my God, and I will give honour to your name.

¹⁰ Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.

⁹ It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.

²³ Then the king was very glad, and gave orders for them to take Daniel up out of the hole. So Daniel was taken up out of the hole and he was seen to be untouched, because he had faith in his God.

⁷ But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.

⁴⁶ And about the ninth hour Jesus gave a loud cry, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why are you turned away from me?

¹⁷ Jesus said to her, Do not put your hand on me, for I have not gone up to the Father: but go to my brothers and say to them, I go up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. ¹⁸ Mary Magdalene went with the news to the disciples, and said she had seen the Lord and that he had said these things to her.

¹¹ And when Peter came to his senses he said, Now, truly, I am certain that the Lord has sent his angel and taken me out of the hands of Herod, against all the hopes of the Jews.

¹⁶ And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.

⁸ Then Paul, in his answer to them, said, I have done no wrong against the law of the Jews, or against the Temple, or against Caesar. ⁹ But Festus, desiring to get the approval of the Jews, said to Paul, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and be judged before me there in connection with these things? ¹⁰ And Paul said, I am before the seat of Caesar's authority where it is right for me to be judged: I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you are well able to see. ¹¹ If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar.

²³ For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am,

¹² For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

¹⁷ But the Lord was by my side and gave me strength; so that through me the news might be given out in full measure, and all the Gentiles might give ear: and I was taken out of the mouth of the lion.

³³ Who through faith overcame kingdoms, did righteousness, got their reward, kept the mouths of lions shut,

¹⁹ In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him, ²⁰ When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things. ²¹ My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;

⁹ And Jethro was glad because the Lord had been good to Israel, freeing them from the power of the Egyptians.

⁷ And these words of Solomon made Hiram glad, and he said, Now may the Lord be praised who has given to David a wise son to be king over this great people.

²⁰ And they were helped against them, so that the Hagarites, and those with them, were given into their power. For they sent up prayers to God in the fight, and he gave ear to them, because they put their faith in him.

¹¹ Then Huram, king of Tyre, sent Solomon an answer in writing, saying, Because of his love for his people the Lord has made you king over them. ¹² And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.

²⁰ And early in the morning they got up and went out to the waste land of Tekoa: and when they were going out, Jehoshaphat took his station and said to them, Give ear to me, O Judah and you people of Jerusalem: have faith in the Lord your God and you will be safe; have faith in his prophets and all will go well for you.

⁴⁰ And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.

³ Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation. ⁴ Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end. ⁵ Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God: ⁶ Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:

¹⁰ The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the upright man running into it is safe.

³ The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you.

²⁵ He made answer and said, Look! I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are not damaged; and the form of the fourth is like a son of the gods.

²⁷ And the captains, the chiefs, and the rulers, and the king's wise men who had come together, saw these men, over whose bodies the fire had no power, and not a hair of their heads was burned, and their coats were not changed, and there was no smell of fire about them. ²⁸ Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said, Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent his angel and kept his servants safe who had faith in him, and who put the king's word on one side and gave up their bodies to the fire, so that they might not be servants or worshippers of any other god but their God.

¹⁴ When this thing came to the king's ears, it was very evil to him, and his heart was fixed on keeping Daniel safe, and till the going down of the sun he was doing everything in his power to get him free.

¹⁸ Then the king went to his great house, and took no food that night, and no (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) were placed before him, and his sleep went from him.

²³ And Jesus said to him, If you are able! All things are possible to him who has faith.

¹⁸ And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother, ¹⁹ Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you. ²⁰ And the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and never again do such evil among you.

¹⁶ Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers: every man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.

²⁴ Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor. ²⁵ And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.

⁶ But he did not put their children to death; for the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses say, The fathers are not to be put to death for the children, or the children for their fathers; but a man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.

¹⁰ So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.

¹⁰ The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the hater of the Jews; but they put not a hand on any of their goods.

²⁵ But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.

⁵ Let the evil works of my haters come back on them again; let them be cut off by your good faith.

⁸ The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.

¹³ I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.

²² And because the king's order was not to be put on one side, and the heat of the fire was so great, the men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego were burned to death by the flame of the fire.

¹ Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the word of the Lord given by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, so that he made a public statement through all his kingdom, and put it in writing, saying, ² These are the words of Cyrus, king of Persia: The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

¹⁷ Then the king sent an answer to Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe, and their friends living in Samaria, and to the rest of those across the river, saying, Peace to you:

⁹ Then at that time, on the twenty-third day of the third month, which is the month Sivan, the king's scribes were sent for; and everything ordered by Mordecai was put in writing and sent to the Jews and the captains and the rulers and the chiefs of all the divisions of the kingdom from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven divisions, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing and their language.

¹ Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages living in all the earth: May your peace be increased.

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.

² May grace and peace ever be increasing in you, in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

² May mercy and peace and love be increased in you.

²⁶ For what man is there in all the earth, who, hearing the voice of the living God as we have, out of the heart of the fire, has been kept from death?

²⁶ And David said to the men near him, What will be done to the man who overcomes this Philistine and takes away the shame from Israel? for who is this Philistine, a man without circumcision, that he has put shame on the armies of the living God?

³⁶ Your servant has overcome lion and bear: and the fate of this Philistine, who is without circumcision, will be like theirs, seeing that he has put shame on the armies of the living God.

⁸ Further, I give orders as to what you are to do for the responsible men of the Jews in connection with the building of this house of God: that from the king's wealth, that is, from the taxes got together in the land over the river, the money needed is to be given to these men readily, so that their work may not be stopped. ⁹ And whatever they have need of, young oxen and sheep and lambs, for burned offerings to the God of heaven, grain, salt, wine, and oil, whatever the priests in Jerusalem say is necessary, is to be given to them day by day regularly: ¹⁰ So that they may make offerings of a sweet smell to the God of heaven, with prayers for the life of the king and of his sons. ¹¹ And I have given orders that if anyone makes any change in this word, one of the supports is to be pulled out of his house, and he is to be lifted up and fixed to it; and his house is to be made waste for this; ¹² And may the God who has made it a resting-place for his name send destruction on all kings and peoples whose hands are outstretched to make any change in this or to do damage to this house of God at Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given this order, let it be done with all care.

¹² Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, scribe of the law of the God of heaven, all peace; ¹³ And now it is my order that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and Levites in my kingdom, who are ready and have a desire to go to Jerusalem, are to go with you.

¹¹ Give worship to the Lord with fear, kissing his feet and giving him honour,

¹⁰ The Lord had his seat as king when the waters came on the earth; the Lord is seated as king for ever.

¹ The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory; the Lord is clothed with strength; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved. ² The seat of your power has been from the past; you are eternal.

¹ The Lord is King; let the peoples be in fear: his seat is on the winged ones; let the earth be moved. ² The Lord is great in Zion; he is high over all the nations. ³ Let them give praise to your name, for it is great and to be feared; holy is he.

¹²⁰ My flesh is moved for fear of you; I give honour to your decisions.

¹² So that the sons of men may have knowledge of his acts of power, and of the great glory of his kingdom. ¹³ Your kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and your rule is through all generations.

¹⁰ The Lord will be King for ever; your God, O Zion, will be King through all generations. Praise be to the Lord.

⁷ Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.

² For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.

¹⁰ But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.

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.

²⁹ And it is my decision that any people, nation, or language saying evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, will be cut to bits and their houses made waste: because there is no other god who is able to give salvation such as this.

³ How great are his signs! and how full of power are his wonders! his kingdom is an eternal kingdom and his rule goes on from generation to generation.

³⁴ And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifting up my eyes to heaven, got back my reason, and, blessing the Most High, I gave praise and honour to him who is living for ever, whose rule is an eternal rule and whose kingdom goes on from generation to generation.

¹⁴ And to him was given authority and glory and a kingdom; and all peoples, nations, and languages were his servants: his authority is an eternal authority which will not come to an end, and his kingdom is one which will not come to destruction.

²⁷ And the kingdom and the authority and the power of the kingdoms under all the heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and all powers will be his servants and do his pleasure.

¹⁰ But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God

⁶ For I am the Lord, I am unchanged; and so you, O sons of Jacob, have not been cut off.

¹³ And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.

³³ He will have rule over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.

⁵ But I will make clear to you of whom you are to be in fear: of him who after death has power to send you to hell; yes, truly I say, Have fear of him.

²⁵ And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;

²⁶ And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.

⁹ For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

¹⁷ So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath; 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;

²⁹ For our God is an all-burning fire.

¹⁷ Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

¹⁰ The four and twenty rulers go down on their faces before him who is seated on the high seat, and give worship to him who is living for ever and ever, and take off their crowns before the high seat, saying,

¹⁴ And the four beasts said, So be it. And the rulers went down on their faces and gave worship.

¹⁵ And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.

¹⁵ He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.

⁴⁸ He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

⁵⁰ Great salvation does he give to his king; he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.

⁷ You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. Selah.

¹⁷ Lord, how long will you be looking on? take my soul from their destruction, my life from the lions.

¹⁰ You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.

¹⁹ Great in wisdom and strong in act: whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone the reward of his ways and the fruit of his doings: ²⁰ You have done signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day, in Israel and among other men; and have made a name for yourself as at this day;

² It has seemed good to me to make clear the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done with me. ³ How great are his signs! and how full of power are his wonders! his kingdom is an eternal kingdom and his rule goes on from generation to generation.

¹⁷ And these signs will be with those who have faith: in my name they will send out evil spirits; and they will make use of new languages; ¹⁸ They will take up snakes, and if there is poison in their drink, it will do them no evil; they will put their hands on those who are ill, and they will get well.

⁷⁴ That we, being made free from the fear of those who are against us, might give him worship, ⁷⁵ In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.

³⁰ While your hand is stretched out to do works of mercy; so that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus.

⁸ For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life: ⁹ Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead: ¹⁰ Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;

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.

²² Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the words which the Lord had said by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, and he made a public statement and had it given out through all his kingdom and put in writing, saying,

²⁸ Who says of Cyrus, He will take care of my sheep, and will do all my pleasure: who says of Jerusalem, I will give the word for your building; and of the Temple, Your bases will be put in place.

²¹ And Daniel went on till the first year of King Cyrus.

¹ In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a secret was unfolded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a hard work: and he had knowledge of it, and the vision was clear to him.