Galatians Cross References - BBE

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: ³ Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, 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: ⁵ To whom be the glory for ever and ever. So be it. ⁶ I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort; ⁷ Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ. ⁸ But even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to be a preacher to you of good news other than that which we have given you, let there be a curse on him. ⁹ As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man is a preacher to you of any good news other than that which has been given to you, let there be a curse on him. ¹⁰ Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ. ¹¹ Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's. ¹² For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹³ For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it: ¹⁴ And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers. 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, ¹⁷ And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus. ¹⁸ Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and was there with him fifteen days. ¹⁹ But of the other Apostles I saw only James, the Lord's brother. ²⁰ Now God is witness that the things which I am writing to you are true. ²¹ Then I came to the parts of Syria and Cilicia. ²² And the churches of Judaea which were in Christ still had no knowledge of my face or person: ²³ Only it came to their ears that he who at one time was cruel to us is now preaching the faith which before had been attacked by him; ²⁴ And they gave glory to God in me.

²⁵ Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.

²³ No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!

² Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you.

⁷ The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations: ⁸ But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

³² You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.

¹⁵ Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it. ¹⁶ Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it. ¹⁷ Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it. ¹⁸ Cursed is he by whom the blind are turned out of the way. And let all the people say, So be it. ¹⁹ Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it. ²⁰ Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it. ²¹ Cursed is he who has sex relations with any sort of beast. And let all the people say, So be it. ²² Cursed is he who has sex relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother. And let all the people say, So be it. ²³ Cursed is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people say, So be it. ²⁴ Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it. ²⁵ Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it. ²⁶ Cursed is he who does not take this law to heart to do it. And let all the people say, So be it.

⁹ Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children: for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement.

²³ Now because of this you are cursed, and you will for ever be our servants, cutting wood and getting water for the house of my God.

²² For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.

⁷ Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, kept back before the Lord; his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the strongest of Saul's runners.

¹⁹ Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.

⁴ Though the Lord, the God of Israel, took me out of all my father's family, to be king over Israel for ever, marking out Judah to be chief, and, of the people of Judah, my father's family; and among the sons of my father he was pleased to make me king over all Israel; ⁵ And of all my sons for the Lord has given me a great number of sons he has made selection of Solomon to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

¹³ So now, our God, we give you praise, honouring the glory of your name.

²⁵ And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

⁸ My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.

¹³ May the Lord God of Israel be praised, through eternal days and for ever. So be it. So be it.

¹⁹ Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.

¹³ But their memory of his works was short; not waiting to be guided by him,

⁶ Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.

¹⁵ Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.

¹³ And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

¹² Let them give glory to the Lord, sounding his praise in the sea-lands.

¹ Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:

⁵ And now, says the Lord, who made me his servant when I was still in my mother's body, so that I might make Jacob come back to him, and so that Israel might come together to him: and I was honoured in the eyes of the Lord, and my God became my strength.

¹² I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.

¹⁷ For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.

⁵ Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.

¹² Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord. ¹³ For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

¹⁴ But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.

² And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.

²⁶ Is my word in the hearts of the prophets who give out false words, even the prophets of the deceit of their hearts?

⁹ Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

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

⁸ But when the people saw it they were full of fear, and gave glory to God who had given such authority to men.

³ Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew, the tax-farmer; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;

²⁶ Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.

⁴⁶ While he was still talking to the people, his mother and his brothers came, desiring to have talk with him.

⁵⁵ Is not this the woodworker's son? is not his mother named Mary? and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?

² Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands. ³ And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?

⁶ There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

¹⁷ And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven.

²⁸ Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.

¹⁶ And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.

²⁴ For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.

⁴¹ Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:

²⁸ Take of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the testament, which is given for men for the forgiveness of sins.

⁴¹ Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble. ⁴² Again, a second time he went away, and said in prayer, O my Father, if this may not go from me without my taking it, let your pleasure be done.

¹⁴ And if this comes to the ruler's ears, we will see that he does not make you responsible.

¹⁸ And Jesus came to them and said, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. 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: ²⁰ Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.

²⁰ Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.

¹⁸ And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot;

³ Is not this the woodworker, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were bitter against him.

⁶ And he was greatly surprised because they had no faith. And he went about the country places teaching.

³ Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them: ⁴ And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels. ⁵ And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands? ⁶ And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me. ⁷ But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men. ⁸ For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men. ⁹ And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you. ¹⁰ For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death: ¹¹ But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God, ¹² You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother; ¹³ Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.

⁴⁵ For truly the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.

⁷¹ But, with curses and oaths, he said, I have no knowledge of the man about whom you are talking.

¹⁵ For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth. ¹⁶ And through him great numbers of the children of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God.

¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and on the earth peace among men with whom he is well pleased.

¹⁵ And Matthew and Thomas and James, the son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was named the Zealot,

¹⁶ And fear came on all, and they gave praise to God, saying, A great prophet is among us: and, God has given thought to his people.

²³ And he said to them all, If any man has a desire to come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross every day, and come after me. ²⁴ For whoever has a desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, but whoever gives up his life because of me, will keep it. ²⁵ For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?

⁵⁹ And he said to another, Come after me. But he said, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father. ⁶⁰ But he said to him, Let the dead take care of their dead; it is for you to go and give news of the kingdom of God. ⁶¹ And another man said, I will come with you, Lord, but first let me say a last good-day to those who are at my house. ⁶² But Jesus said, No man, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is good enough for the kingdom of God.

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.

¹⁰ Even so, I say to you, There is joy among the angels of God, when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing.

³² But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.

¹⁹ And he took bread and, having given praise, he gave it to them when it had been broken, saying, This is my body, which is given for you: do this in memory of me.

⁴² Father, if it is your pleasure, take this cup from me: but still, let your pleasure, not mine, be done.

¹⁹ So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.

³⁰ Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.

³⁸ For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.

³⁰ The man said in answer, Why, here is a strange thing! You have no knowledge where he comes from though he gave me the use of my eyes.

¹¹ I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.

¹⁷ For this reason am I loved by the Father, because I give up my life so that I may take it again. ¹⁸ No one takes it away from me; I give it up of myself. I have power to give it up, and I have power to take it again. These orders I have from my Father.

³⁰ I and my Father are one.

³¹ Now is this world to be judged: now will the ruler of this world be sent out.

³⁰ After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me; ³¹ But he comes so that the world may see that I have love for the Father, and that I am doing as I am ordered by the Father. Get up, and let us go.

¹⁸ If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.

¹⁴ I have given your word to them; and they are hated by the world, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ My prayer is not that you will take them out of the world, but that you will keep them from the Evil One.

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

¹³ And when they came in, they went up into the room where they were living; Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the son of James.

¹⁶ My brothers, the word of God had to be put into effect, which the Holy Spirit had said before, by the mouth of David, about Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus, ¹⁷ For he was numbered among us, and had his part in our work. ¹⁸ {\I Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there. ¹⁹ And this came to the knowledge of all those who were living in Jerusalem, so that the field was named in their language, Akel-dama, or, The field of blood.} ²⁰ For in the book of Psalms it says, Let his house be waste, and let no man be living in it: and, Let his position be taken by another. ²¹ For this reason, of the men who have been with us all the time, while the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, ²² Starting from the baptism of John till he went up from us, one will have to be a witness with us of his coming back from death. ²³ And they made selection of two, Joseph, named Barsabbas, whose other name was Justus, and Matthias. ²⁴ And they made prayers and said, Lord, having knowledge of the hearts of all men, make clear which of these two has been marked out by you, 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.

²⁴ But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it. ²⁵ For David said of him, I saw the Lord before my face at all times, for he is at my right hand, so that I may not be moved: ²⁶ And for this cause my heart was glad and my tongue full of joy, and my flesh will be resting in hope: ²⁷ For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction. ²⁸ You have made me see the ways of life; I will be full of joy when I see your face. ²⁹ My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today. ³⁰ But being a prophet, and having in mind the oath which God had given to him, that of the fruit of his body one would take his place as a king, ³¹ He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction. ³² This Jesus God has given back to life, of which we all are witnesses.

¹⁵ And put to death the Lord of life; whom God gave back from the dead; of which fact we are witnesses.

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.

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

⁷ And the word of God was increasing in power; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem became very great, and a great number of priests were in agreement with the faith.

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.

¹ And Saul gave approval to his death. Now at that time a violent attack was started against the church in Jerusalem; and all but the Apostles went away into all parts of Judaea and Samaria.

³ But Saul was burning with hate against the church, going into every house and taking men and women and putting them in prison.

¹ But Saul, still burning with desire to put to death the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, ² And made a request for letters from him to the Synagogues of Damascus, so that if there were any of the Way there, men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

⁶ But get up, and go into the town, and it will be made clear to you what you have to do.

¹³ But Ananias said, Lord, I have had accounts of this man from a number of people, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem:

¹³ But Ananias said, Lord, I have had accounts of this man from a number of people, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem: ¹⁴ And here he has authority from the chief priests to make prisoners all who give worship to your name. ¹⁵ But the Lord said, Go without fear: for he is a special vessel for me, to give to the Gentiles and kings and to the children of Israel the knowledge of my name:

¹⁵ But the Lord said, Go without fear: for he is a special vessel for me, to give to the Gentiles and kings and to the children of Israel the knowledge of my name: ¹⁶ For I will make clear to him what troubles he will have to undergo for me.

²⁰ And straight away, in the Synagogues, he was preaching Jesus as the Son of God.

²⁰ And straight away, in the Synagogues, he was preaching Jesus as the Son of God. 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.

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. ²² But Saul went on increasing in power, and the Jews in Damascus were not able to give answers to the arguments by which he made it clear that Jesus was the Christ.

²² But Saul went on increasing in power, and the Jews in Damascus were not able to give answers to the arguments by which he made it clear that Jesus was the Christ. ²³ Then, after some days, the Jews made an agreement together to put him to death:

²³ Then, after some days, the Jews made an agreement together to put him to death: ²⁴ But Saul got knowledge of their design. And they kept watch day and night on the roads out of the town, so that they might put him to death: ²⁵ But his disciples took him by night and let him down from the wall in a basket. ²⁶ And when he came to Jerusalem, he made an attempt to be joined to the disciples, but they were all in fear of him, not taking him for a disciple.

²⁶ And when he came to Jerusalem, he made an attempt to be joined to the disciples, but they were all in fear of him, not taking him for a disciple. ²⁷ But Barnabas took him to the Apostles and gave them an account of how he had seen the Lord on the road, and had given hearing to his words, and how at Damascus he had been preaching in the name of Jesus without fear. ²⁸ And he was with them, going in and out at Jerusalem, ²⁹ Preaching in the name of the Lord without fear; and he had discussions with the Greek Jews; but they were working for his death. ³⁰ And when the brothers had knowledge of it, they took him to Caesarea and sent him to Tarsus. ³¹ And so the church through all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was made strong; and, living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was increased greatly.

¹⁸ And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life.

²⁵ Then he went on to Tarsus, looking for Saul; ²⁶ And when he had come across him, he took him to Antioch. And they were with the church there for a year, teaching the people; and the disciples were first given the name of Christians in Antioch.

¹⁷ But he made a sign to them with his hand to be quiet, and gave them an account of how the Lord had taken him out of prison. And he said, Give the news to James and the brothers. And then he went away.

²⁰ Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon: and they came to him, all together, and having made friends with Blastus, the controller of the king's house, they made a request for peace, because their country was dependent on the king's country for its food.

¹ Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul. ² And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.

² And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me. ³ Then, after prayer and going without food they put their hands on them, and sent them away. ⁴ So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia; and from there they went by ship to Cyprus.

¹⁰ O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord?

¹ Now certain men came down from Judaea, teaching the brothers and saying that without circumcision, after the rule of Moses, there is no salvation. ² And after Paul and Barnabas had had no little argument and discussion with them, the brothers made a decision to send Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them to the Apostles and the rulers of the church at Jerusalem about this question. ³ So they, being sent on their way by the church, went through Phoenicia and Samaria, giving news of the salvation of the Gentiles, to the great joy of all the brothers. ⁴ And when they came to Jerusalem, they had a meeting with the church and the Apostles and the rulers, and they gave an account of all the things which God had done through them. ⁵ But some of the Pharisees, who were of the faith, got up and said, It is necessary for these to have circumcision and to keep the law of Moses.

¹¹ But we have faith that we will get salvation through the grace of the Lord Jesus in the same way as they.

²³ And they sent a letter by them, saying, The Apostles and the older brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, may joy be with you: ²⁴ Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;

⁴¹ And he went through Syria and Cilicia, making the churches stronger in the faith.

⁵ So the churches were made strong in the faith and were increased in number every day. ⁶ And after they had gone through the land of Phrygia and Galatia, the Holy Spirit did not let them take the word into Asia;

¹⁸ And Paul, after waiting some days, went away from the brothers and went by ship to Syria, Priscilla and Aquila being with him; and he had had his hair cut off in Cenchrea, for he had taken an oath.

²³ And having been there for some time, he went through the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, making the disciples strong in the faith.

³⁰ And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.

³ And when we had come in view of Cyprus, going past it on our left, we went on to Syria, and came to land at Tyre: for there the goods which were in the ship had to be taken out.

¹⁹ And when he had said how glad he was to see them, he gave them a detailed account of the things which God had done through his work among the Gentiles. 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:

³⁹ But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, which is not an unimportant town: I make a request to you to let me say a word to the people.

³ I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today.

³ I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today. ⁴ And I made attacks on this Way, even to death, taking men and women and putting them in prison. ⁵ Of which the high priest will be a witness, and all the rulers, from whom I had letters to the brothers; and I went into Damascus, to take those who were there as prisoners to Jerusalem for punishment.

¹⁰ And I said, What have I to do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Get up, and go into Damascus; and it will be made clear to you what you have to do.

¹⁴ And he said, You have been marked out by the God of our fathers to have knowledge of his purpose, and to see the Upright One and to give ear to the words of his mouth.

¹⁴ And he said, You have been marked out by the God of our fathers to have knowledge of his purpose, and to see the Upright One and to give ear to the words of his mouth. ¹⁵ For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and of what has come to your ears.

¹⁵ For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and of what has come to your ears. ¹⁶ And now, why are you waiting? get up, and have baptism, for the washing away of your sins, giving worship to his name. ¹⁷ And it came about that when I had come back to Jerusalem, while I was at prayer in the Temple, my senses became more than naturally clear,

¹⁷ And it came about that when I had come back to Jerusalem, while I was at prayer in the Temple, my senses became more than naturally clear, 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.

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. ¹⁹ And I said, Lord, they themselves have knowledge that I went through the Synagogues putting in prison and whipping all those who had faith in you: ²⁰ And when Stephen your witness was put to death, I was there, giving approval, and looking after the clothing of those who put him to death. ²¹ And he said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.

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

¹⁴ And they came to the chief priests and the rulers and said, We have taken a great oath to take no food till we have put Paul to death

³⁴ And after reading it, he said, What part of the country do you come from? And, hearing that he was from Cilicia,

⁴ All the Jews have knowledge of my way of life from my early years, as it was from the start among my nation, and at Jerusalem; ⁵ And they are able to say, if they would give witness, that I was living as a Pharisee, in that division of our religion which is most regular in the keeping of the law.

⁵ And they are able to say, if they would give witness, that I was living as a Pharisee, in that division of our religion which is most regular in the keeping of the law.

⁹ For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

⁹ For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth. ¹⁰ And this I did in Jerusalem: and numbers of the saints I put in prison, having had authority given to me from the chief priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my decision against them. ¹¹ And I gave them punishment frequently, in all the Synagogues, forcing them to say things against God; and burning with passion against them, I went after them even into far-away towns.

¹⁶ But get up on your feet: for I have come to you for this purpose, to make you a servant and a witness of the things in which you have seen me, and of those in which you will see me; ¹⁷ And I will keep you safe from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send 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. ¹⁹ So, then, King Agrippa, I did not go against the vision from heaven; ²⁰ But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.

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:

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.

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. ⁹ For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers, ¹⁰ And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you. ¹¹ For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong; ¹² That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me. ¹³ You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you but till now I was kept from it, so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

¹³ You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you but till now I was kept from it, so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations. ¹⁴ I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.

¹⁴ I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning. ¹⁵ For which reason I have the desire, as far as I am able, to give the knowledge of the good news to you who are in Rome.

⁸ But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

¹⁶ In the day when God will be a judge of the secrets of men, as it says in the good news of which I am a preacher, through Jesus Christ.

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

²⁴ But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead, ²⁵ Who was put to death for our evil-doing, and came to life again so that we might have righteousness.

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

² Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.

³ For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:

²⁷ And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God.

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.

³² He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?

¹ I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

³ For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:

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

³ Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.

⁹ Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation:

¹³ But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:

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

² And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

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.

¹ We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves. ² Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.

¹⁶ To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's. ¹⁸ And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act, 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;

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.

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.

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. ¹⁸ For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

²⁷ To the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory for ever. So be it.

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

³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

²⁴ But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of 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:

⁹ But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.

⁹ But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him. ¹⁰ But God has given us the revelation of these things through his Spirit, for the Spirit makes search into all things, even the deep things of God.

¹⁰ But God has given us the revelation of these things through his Spirit, for the Spirit makes search into all things, even the deep things of God.

¹⁰ But God has given us the revelation of these things through his Spirit, for the Spirit makes search into all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹ For who has knowledge of the things of a man but the spirit of the man which is in him? in the same way, no one has knowledge of the things of God but the Spirit of God. ¹² But we have not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes from God, so that we may have knowledge of the things which are freely given to us by God. 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.

¹⁵ For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.

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?

³³ Even as I give way to all men in all things, not looking for profit for myself, but for the good of others, that they may get salvation.

²³ For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread,

³ So it is my desire for you to be clear about this; that no one is able to say by the Spirit of God that Jesus is cursed; and no one is able to say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

¹ Now I am going to make clear to you, my brothers, what the good news was which I gave to you, and which you took, and on which your faith is based, 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. ³ For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings;

⁸ And last of all, as by one whose birth was out of the right time, he was seen by me. 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.

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. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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.

¹ Now about the giving of money for the saints, as I gave orders to the churches of Galatia, so do you.

²² If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha our Lord comes.

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.

¹⁷ If then I had such a purpose, did I seem to be changing suddenly? or am I guided in my purposes by the flesh, saying, Yes, today, and, No, tomorrow?

¹⁷ For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.

¹ Do we seem to be again attempting to put ourselves in the right? or have we need, as some have, of letters of approval to you or from you? ² You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge; ³ For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.

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.

⁴ Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.

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.

⁹ For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him. ¹⁰ For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad. ¹¹ Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.

¹⁶ For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.

¹³ For when, through this work of giving, they see what you are, they give glory to God for the way in which you have given yourselves to the good news of Christ, and for the wealth of your giving to them and to all;

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.

¹⁰ As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia. ¹¹ Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.

¹³ For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.

¹³ For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.

³¹ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be praise for ever, is witness that the things which I say are true. ³² In Damascus, the ruler under Aretas the king kept watch over the town of the people of Damascus, in order to take me: ³³ And being let down in a basket from the wall through a window, I got free from his hands.

¹ As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

¹⁹ It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.

¹ This is the third time that I am coming to you. From the mouth of two or three witnesses will every word be made certain. ² I said before, and still say it before I come, as being present for the second time, though I am still away from you, to those who have done wrong before, and to all the others, that if I come again I will not have pity;

¹⁴ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the harmony of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

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,

⁶ I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;

⁹ As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man is a preacher to you of any good news other than that which has been given to you, let there be a curse on him.

¹¹ Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's. ¹² For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

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, ¹⁷ And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus. ¹⁸ Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and was there with him fifteen days.

¹ Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me.

⁴ And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

⁶ But from those who seemed to be important whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account: those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me; 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? ² Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? ³ Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh? ⁴ Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose. 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?

¹⁰ For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.

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:

⁹ But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again? ¹⁰ You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years. ¹¹ I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose. 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; ¹³ But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time; ¹⁴ And you did not have a poor opinion of me because of the trouble in my flesh, or put shame on it; but you took me to your hearts as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.

¹⁷ Their interest in you is not good; but their desire is that you may be shut out, so that you may go after them.

⁴ You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

⁷ You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true? ⁸ This ready belief did not come from him who had made you his.

¹⁰ I am certain about you in the Lord, that you will be of no other mind; but he who is troubling you will have his punishment, whoever he is.

¹² My desire is that they who give you trouble might even be cut off themselves.

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.

¹⁷ From this time on let no man be a trouble to me; because my body is marked with the marks of Jesus.

² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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:

⁵ As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,

⁹ Having made clear to us the secret of his purpose, in agreement with the design which he had in mind, to put into his hands

¹¹ In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs; ¹² So that his glory might have praise through us who first had hope in Christ:

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, ¹⁹ And how unlimited is his power to us who have faith, as is seen in the working of the strength of his power, ²⁰ By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,

² In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

¹ For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,

³ How by revelation the secret was made clear to me, as I said before in a short letter, ⁴ By the reading of which you will be clear about my knowledge of the secret of Christ; ⁵ Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

⁵ Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets 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,

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, ⁷ Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.

⁷ Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power. 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:

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:

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, ¹¹ Which is seen in his eternal purpose in Christ Jesus our Lord:

² And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

⁶ Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;

¹² For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

¹ Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons of the church: ² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

²² But his quality is clear to you; how, as a child is to its father, so he was a help to me in the work of the good news.

¹ For the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.

⁴ Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more: ⁵ Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee: ⁶ In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

⁶ In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

⁴ Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad.

²⁰ Now to God our Father be glory for ever and ever. So be it. ²¹ Give words of love to every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me send you their love.

² To the saints and true brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. ³ We give praise to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, making prayer for you at all times, ⁴ After hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have for all the saints,

²⁵ Of which I became a servant by the purpose of God which was given to me for you, to give effect to the word of God, ²⁶ The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints, ²⁷ To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

⁸ Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

²² Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:

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.

⁴ But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.

¹⁴ For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;

¹⁶ Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.

¹¹ Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus make a way for us to come to you;

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 Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: ² Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

¹² So that glory may be given to the name of our Lord Jesus through you, and you may have glory in him, by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true: 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.

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,

³ It was my desire, when I went on into Macedonia, that you might make a stop at Ephesus, to give orders to certain men not to put forward a different teaching,

¹¹ Which may be seen in the good news of the glory of the great God, which was given into my care. 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, ¹³ Though I had said violent words against God, and done cruel acts, causing great trouble: but I was given mercy, because I did it without knowledge, not having faith;

¹³ Though I had said violent words against God, and done cruel acts, causing great trouble: but I was given mercy, because I did it without knowledge, not having faith;

¹³ Though I had said violent words against God, and done cruel acts, causing great trouble: but I was given mercy, because I did it without knowledge, not having faith; ¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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

¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief: ¹⁶ But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life. ¹⁷ Now to the King eternal, ever-living, unseen, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. So be it.

¹⁹ Keeping faith, and being conscious of well-doing; for some, by not doing these things, have gone wrong in relation to the faith: ²⁰ Such are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given up to Satan, so that they may say no more evil words against God.

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.

¹ But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits, ² Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron; ³ Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

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

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,

¹¹ Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher;

¹ So then, my child, be strong in the grace which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.

⁸ And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false. ⁹ But they will go no farther: for their foolish behaviour will be clear to all men, as theirs was in the end.

³ For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them; ⁴ And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

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.

³ Who, in his time, made clear his word in the good news, of which, by the order of God our Saviour, I became a preacher;

¹⁰ For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision, ¹¹ By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

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.

¹⁰ A man whose opinions are not those of the church, after a first and second protest, is to be kept out of your society;

⁵ For he did not make the angels rulers over the world to come, of which I am writing.

¹⁴ And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;

⁵ With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time,

¹⁴ How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?

⁴ Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins. ⁵ So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me; ⁶ You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin. ⁷ Then I said, See, I have come to do your pleasure, O God as it is said of me in the roll of the book. ⁸ After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin which are made by the law and you had no pleasure in them, ⁹ Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place. ¹⁰ By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.

²⁰ Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement, ²¹ Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.

¹ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.

⁴ O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

⁸ To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:

¹⁵ But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy;

²¹ Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

²⁴ He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.

¹⁸ Because Christ once went through pain for sins, the upright one taking the place of sinners, so that through him we might come back to God; being put to death in the flesh, but given life in the Spirit;

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; ¹¹ His is the power for ever. So be it.

³ Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;

¹ But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it. ² And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name. ³ And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

¹⁴ Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

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.

² He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.

¹⁵ Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world. ¹⁷ And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever. ¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour; and as you were given word that the Antichrist would come, so now a number of Antichrists have come to you; and by this we are certain that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

²⁶ I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.

⁹ Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

¹⁶ In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.

¹ My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.

⁴ Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith. ⁵ Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹⁹ We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One. ²⁰ And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

³ May grace, mercy, and peace be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in all true love.

⁷ Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and Antichrist.

¹⁰ If anyone comes to you not having this teaching, do not take him into your house or give him words of love:

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:

⁴ For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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.

⁵ And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;

¹⁸ And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.

² I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;

⁶ But at least you have the credit of hating the works of the Nicolaitans, as I do.

⁸ And to the angel of the church in Smyrna say: These things says the first and the last, who was dead and is living:

¹⁴ But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh. ¹⁵ And you have those who keep the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

²⁰ But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.

⁹ And when the beasts give glory and honour to him who is seated on the high seat, to him who is living for ever and ever, 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, ¹¹ It is right, our Lord and our God, for you to have glory and honour and power: because by you were all things made, and by your desire they came into being.

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,

¹² Saying with a great voice, It is right to give to the Lamb who was put to death, power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.

⁹ After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,

¹² So be it. Let blessing and glory and wisdom and praise and honour and power and strength be given to our God for ever and ever. So be it.

⁹ And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.

¹⁴ And those who are on the earth are turned from the true way by him through the signs which he was given power to do before the beast; giving orders to those who are on the earth to make an image to the beast, who was wounded by the sword, and came to life.

⁷ Saying with a loud voice, Have fear of God and give him glory; because the hour of his judging is come; and give worship to him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of water.

²⁰ And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.

³ And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time.

¹⁸ For I say to every man to whose ears have come the words of this prophet's book, If any man makes an addition to them, God will put on him the punishments which are in this book: ¹⁹ And if any man takes away from the words of this book, God will take away from him his part in the tree of life and the holy town, even the things which are in this book.

²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the saints. So be it.