Hosea 14 Cross References - BBE

¹ O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall. ² Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips. ³ Assyria will not be our salvation; we will not go on horses; we will not again say to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you there is mercy for the child who has no father. ⁴ I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him. ⁵ I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon. ⁶ His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon. ⁷ They will come back and have rest in his shade; their life will be made new like the grain, and they will put out flowers like the vine; his name will be like the wine of Lebanon. ⁸ As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit. ⁹ He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.

²⁵ Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

²⁷ And he came near and gave him a kiss; and smelling the smell of his clothing, he gave him a blessing, and said, See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field on which the blessing of the Lord has come:

²⁶ And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.

²² Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead. ²³ If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear; ²⁴ And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel.

¹¹ Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my wrath.

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.

¹⁶ And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way.

² My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:

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

³ Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines. ⁴ So the children of Israel gave up the worship of Baal and Astarte, and became worshippers of the Lord only.

¹³ And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.

⁴ It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.

¹⁰ And after the people had been numbered, David's heart was troubled. And David said to the Lord, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, O Lord, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly

³⁰ And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth and give fruit.

⁷ At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa, king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have put your faith in the king of Aram and not in the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has got away out of your hands.

⁶ So runners went with letters from the king and his chiefs through all Israel and Judah, by the order of the king, saying, O children of Israel, come back again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may come again to that small band of you which has been kept safe out of the hands of the kings of Assyria. ⁷ Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see. ⁸ Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you. ⁹ For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.

²¹ And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

⁹ Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.

¹⁹ My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

²⁷ He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

¹⁰ Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong. ¹¹ For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways. ¹² Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.

¹⁸ He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners; ¹⁹ Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

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¹⁴ You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

⁷ The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish. ⁸ The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.

⁷ Some put their faith in carriages and some in horses; but we will be strong in the name of the Lord our God. ⁸ They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.

¹⁷ A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.

² Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil. ³ For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me. ⁴ Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging. ⁵ Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth. ⁶ Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom. ⁷ Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow. ⁸ Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad. ⁹ Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins. ¹⁰ Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

⁸ But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.

⁵ A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

³⁰ I will give praise to the name of God with a song; I will give glory to him for what he has done. ³¹ This will be more pleasing to the Lord than an ox, or a young ox of full growth.

⁶ May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

¹⁶ May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.

³⁸ But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.

⁹ You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land. ¹⁰ The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches. ¹¹ It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.

⁵ Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

⁷ They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.

⁶ Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you?

¹ Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

⁴³ Let the wise give thought to these things, and see the mercies of the Lord.

⁷ The works of his hands are faith and righteousness; all his laws are unchanging. ⁸ They are fixed for ever and ever, they are done in faith and righteousness.

⁷⁵ I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.

¹²⁸ Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.

³ Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

⁷ Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation.

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

⁹ The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

⁵ The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided: ⁶ To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

¹⁸ But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

²⁹ The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

¹² The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.

¹⁰ Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father; ¹¹ For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.

¹ I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys. ² As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters. ³ As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

¹⁶ My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.

⁵ Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.

¹¹ Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon. ¹² A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped. ¹³ The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard, ¹⁴ Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices. ¹⁵ You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

¹¹ I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.

²⁸ But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off. ²⁹ For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

²⁰ In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;

⁷ And after touching my mouth with it, he said, See, your lips have been touched with this; and your evil is taken away, and you are made clean from sin.

¹³ But let the Lord of armies be holy to you, and go in fear of him, giving honour to him. ¹⁴ And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken. ¹⁵ And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.

¹ And in that day you will say I will give praise to you, O Lord; for though you were angry with me, your wrath is turned away, and I am comforted.

⁴ For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.

⁷ The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.

¹⁹ Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.

⁶ In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

⁹ So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.

² Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.

¹⁶ Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those who go after you will be quick-footed.

¹ Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;

³ For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.

¹ See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions. ² And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

² It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.

⁸ And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.

¹⁹ I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together:

³ For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring.

⁶ Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near: ⁷ Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

¹³ In place of the thorn will come up the fir-tree, and in place of the blackberry the myrtle: and it will be to the Lord for a name, for an eternal sign which will not be cut off.

¹⁸ I have seen his ways, and I will make him well: I will give him rest, comforting him and his people who are sad.

¹³ The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the sherbin-tree together, to make my holy place beautiful; and the resting-place of my feet will be full of glory.

¹¹ For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.

¹⁹ The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

¹² Go, and give out these words to the north, and say, Come back, O Israel, though you have been turned away from me, says the Lord; my face will not be against you in wrath: for I am full of mercy, says the Lord, I will not be angry for ever. ¹³ Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord. ¹⁴ Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion;

²² Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

¹ If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.

⁶ And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.

²² Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?

¹² Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?

¹⁶ You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

⁷ Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.

¹⁴ Make me well, O Lord, and I will be well; be my saviour, and I will be safe: for you are my hope.

¹⁸ Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.

¹⁸ Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God. ¹⁹ Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.

¹⁹ Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years. ²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.

²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord. ²¹ Put up guiding pillars, make road signs for yourself: give attention to the highway, even the way in which you went: be turned again, O virgin of Israel, be turned to these your towns. ²² How long will you go on turning this way and that, O wandering daughter? for the Lord has made a new thing on the earth, a woman changed into a man.

⁶ See, I will make it healthy and well again, I will even make them well; I will let them see peace and good faith in full measure.

¹⁶ The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

⁵ And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree. ⁶ And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves. ⁷ And there was another eagle with great wings and thick feathers: and now this vine, pushing out its roots to him, sent out its branches in his direction from the bed where it was planted, so that he might give it water. ⁸ He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.

²² This is what the Lord has said: Further, I will take the highest top of the cedar and put it in the earth; cutting off from the highest of his young branches a soft one, I will have it planted on a high and great mountain; ²³ It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches.

²³ It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches. ²⁴ And it will be clear to all the trees of the field that I the Lord have made low the high tree and made high the low tree, drying up the green tree and making the dry tree full of growth; I the Lord have said it and have done it.

²⁵ But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?

¹⁴ I gave you your place with the winged one; I put you on the mountain of God; you went up and down among the stones of fire. ¹⁵ There has been no evil in your ways from the day when you were made, till sin was seen in you. ¹⁶ Through all your trading you have become full of violent ways, and have done evil: so I sent you out shamed from the mountain of God; the winged one put an end to you from among the stones of fire.

³ See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds. ⁴ It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field. ⁵ In this way it became taller than all the trees of the field; and its branches were increased and its arms became long because of the great waters. ⁶ In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade. ⁷ So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters. ⁸ No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful. ⁹ I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it. ¹⁰ For this cause the Lord has said: Because he is tall, and has put his top among the clouds, and his heart is full of pride because he is so high,

¹⁷ But the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: when it is they whose way is not equal. ¹⁸ When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it. ¹⁹ And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing, does what is ordered and right, he will get life by it. ²⁰ And still you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, I will be your judge, giving to everyone the reward of his ways.

²⁵ And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

²⁵ And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean. ²⁶ And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.

²³ And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

⁷ And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place where the seat of my power is and the resting-place of my feet, where I will be among the children of Israel for ever: and no longer will the people of Israel make my holy name unclean, they or their kings, by their loose ways and by the dead bodies of their kings; ⁸ By putting their doorstep by my doorstep, and the pillar of their door by the pillar of my door, with only a wall between me and them; and they have made my holy name unclean by the disgusting things which they have done: so in my wrath I sent destruction on them. ⁹ Now let them put their loose ways and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will be among them for ever.

¹⁰ On my bed I saw a vision: there was a tree in the middle of the earth, and it was very high. ¹¹ And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth: ¹² Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things. ¹³ In the visions of my head on my bed I saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven, ¹⁴ Crying out with a loud voice; and this is what he said: Let the tree be cut down and its branches broken off; let its leaves be taken off and its fruit sent in every direction: let the beasts get away from under it and the birds from its branches: ¹⁵ But keep its broken end and its roots still in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass; let him have the young grass of the field for food, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his part be with the beasts.

¹⁰ Till a number are tested and make themselves clean; and the evil-doers will do evil; for not one of the evil-doers will have knowledge; but all will be made clear to those who are wise.

¹⁷ For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.

²² And the earth will give its answer to the grain and the wine and the oil, and they will give an answer to Jezreel;

⁵ And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.

¹³ When Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king; but he is not able to make you well or give you help for your wound.

¹ Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help. ² After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him.

¹¹ And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

⁶ The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.

⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.

⁷ My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.

¹ Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.

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

⁹ I have sent destruction on you, O Israel; who will be your helper?

² Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips. ³ Assyria will not be our salvation; we will not go on horses; we will not again say to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you there is mercy for the child who has no father.

⁵ I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

⁸ As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

¹² But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow: ¹³ Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.

¹⁷ Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

⁷ And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.

¹⁰ And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that I will take away your horses from you, and will give your war-carriages to destruction: ¹¹ I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down: ¹² I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs: ¹³ And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands. ¹⁴ I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy. ¹⁹ He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.

⁵ The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.

¹⁷ The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.

³ And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you. ⁴ Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.

⁴ And he made answer and said to those who were there before him, Take the unclean robes off him, and let him be clothed in clean robes;

¹² For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.

² And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land.

⁹ Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. ¹⁰ Let your kingdom come. Let your pleasure be done, as in heaven, so on earth. ¹¹ Give us this day bread for our needs. ¹² And make us free of our debts, as we have made those free who are in debt to us. ¹³ And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.

²⁸ And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread:

¹¹ If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?

¹² But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill. ¹³ But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.

¹⁹ The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.

¹¹ And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. ¹² Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

³¹ He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field:

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

²⁸ And all who were in the Synagogue were very angry when these things were said to them. ²⁹ And they got up and took him out of the town to the edge of the mountain on which their town was, so that they might send him down to his death.

²³ And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.

² And he said to them, When you say your prayers, say, Father, may your name be kept holy and your kingdom come. ³ Give us every day bread for our needs. ⁴ May we have forgiveness for our sins, as we make free all those who are in debt to us. And let us not be put to the test.

¹³ If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?

²⁷ Give thought to the flowers: they do no work, they make no thread; and still I say to you, Even Solomon, in all his glory, was not clothed like one of these.

²⁰ And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss. ²¹ And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son. ²² But the father said to his servants, Get out the first robe quickly, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet: ²³ And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad. ²⁴ For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.

¹³ The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

¹⁶ From his full measure we have all been given grace on grace.

²⁹ The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false. ⁴⁸ Nathanael said to him, Where did you get knowledge of me? In answer Jesus said, Before Philip was talking with you, while you were still under the fig-tree, I saw you.

¹⁹ And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil. ²⁰ The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

⁴⁷ He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.

³⁹ And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;

²⁴ Truly I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an end, it is still a seed and no more; but through its death it gives much fruit.

¹⁸ I will not let you be without a friend: I am coming to you.

¹ I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.

¹ I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener. ² He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit. ³ You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you. ⁴ Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing. ⁶ If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned. ⁷ If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you. ⁸ Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.

²⁴ If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.

³⁷ Then Pilate said to him, Are you then a king? Jesus made answer, You say that I am a king. For this purpose was I given birth, and for this purpose I came into the world, that I might give witness to what is true. Every lover of what is true gives ear to my voice.

¹⁸ And a number of those who had faith came and made a public statement of their sins and all their acts. ¹⁹ And a great number of those who were experts in strange arts took their books and put them on the fire in front of everyone: and when the books were valued they came to fifty thousand bits of silver. ²⁰ So the word of the Lord was increased very greatly and was full of power.

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.

²⁴ And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:

¹² But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.

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

¹⁶ And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches. ¹⁷ But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile, ¹⁸ Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported. ¹⁹ You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in. ²⁰ Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear; ²¹ For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you. ²² See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were. ²³ And they, if they do not go on without faith, will be united to the tree again, because God is able to put them in again. ²⁴ For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?

²⁷ And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.

³⁶ Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again: ³⁷ And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant; ³⁸ But God gives it a body, as it is pleasing to him, and to every seed its special body.

¹⁴ But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him. ¹⁵ For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction;

¹⁵ For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction; ¹⁶ To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?

¹⁹ That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace. ²⁰ So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God. ²¹ For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith, ²³ Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.

⁶ To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

⁶ To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One: ⁷ In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

⁴ But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us, ⁵ Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ by grace you have salvation, ⁶ So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus; ⁷ That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:

⁷ That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus: ⁸ Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

⁸ Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God: ⁹ Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.

¹⁷ So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,

⁹ Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true,

¹¹ Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

¹³ For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

¹³ I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

¹⁸ I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to 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,

⁹ Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, ¹⁰ And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation. ¹¹ And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false: ¹² So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.

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,

¹⁴ Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

⁴ But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen,

⁴ Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

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.

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.

¹⁴ Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge: ¹⁵ But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy; ¹⁶ Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.

⁵ You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

⁷ And the value is for you who have faith; but it is said for those without faith, The very stone which the builders put on one side, was made the chief stone of the building; ⁸ And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God. ⁹ But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

³ Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images; ⁴ And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

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

⁵ And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.