Luke 16 Cross References - BBE

¹ And another time he said to the disciples, There was a certain man of great wealth who had a servant; and it was said to him that this servant was wasting his goods. ² And he sent for him and said, What is this which is said about you? give me an account of all you have done, for you will no longer be the manager of my property. ³ And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets. ⁴ I have come to a decision what to do, so that when I am put out of my position they will take me into their houses. ⁵ And sending for every one who was in debt to his lord he said to the first, What is the amount of your debt to my lord? ⁶ And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said, Take your account straight away and put down fifty. ⁷ Then he said to another, What is the amount of your debt? And he said, A hundred measures of grain. And he said to him, Take your account and put down eighty. ⁸ And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light. ⁹ And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places. ¹⁰ He who is true in a little, is true in much; he who is false in small things, is false in great. ¹¹ If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth? ¹² And if you have not been true in your care of the property of other people, who will give you that which is yours? ¹³ No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth. ¹⁴ And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him. ¹⁵ And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God. ¹⁶ The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force. ¹⁷ But heaven and earth will come to an end before the smallest letter of the law may be dropped out. ¹⁸ Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her. ¹⁹ Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day. ²⁰ And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds, ²¹ Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds. ²² And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth. ²³ And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast. ²⁴ And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame. ²⁵ But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain. ²⁶ And in addition, there is a deep division fixed between us and you, so that those who might go from here to you are not able to do so, and no one may come from you to us. ²⁷ And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house; ²⁸ For I have five brothers; and let him give them an account of these things, so that they may not come to this place of pain. ²⁹ But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say. ³⁰ And he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, their hearts would be changed. ³¹ And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.

² And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.

¹⁹ So they went up to Joseph's chief servant at the door of the house,

¹ And David got together at Jerusalem all the rulers of Israel, the chiefs of the tribes and the captains of the divisions waiting on the king in turn, and the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and the controllers of all the goods and property of the king and his sons, with the unsexed servants and the great men of war.

⁹ He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.

⁸ For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.

²³ For this reason the kingdom of heaven is like a king, who went over his accounts with his servants. ²⁴ And at the start, one came to him who was in his debt for ten thousand talents.

¹⁴ For it is as when a man, about to take a journey, got his servants together, and gave them his property. ¹⁵ And to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to everyone as he was able; and he went on his journey. ¹⁶ Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more. ¹⁷ In the same way he who had been given the two got two more. ¹⁸ But he who was given the one went away and put it in a hole in the earth, and kept his lord's money in a secret place. ¹⁹ Now after a long time the lord of those servants comes, and makes up his account with them. ²⁰ And he who had the five talents came with his other five talents, saying, Lord, you gave into my care five talents: see, I have got five more. ²¹ His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord. ²² And he who had the two talents came and said, Lord, you gave into my care two talents: see, I have got two more. ²³ His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord. ²⁴ And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work: ²⁵ And I was in fear, and went away, and put your talent in the earth: here is what is yours. ²⁶ But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work, ²⁷ Why, then, did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I would have got back what is mine with interest? ²⁸ Take away, then, his talent and give it to him who has the ten talents. ²⁹ For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have more: but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. ³⁰ And put out the servant who is of no profit into the outer dark: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

³ And Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's chief house-servant, and Susanna and a number of others, who gave him of their wealth for his needs.

⁴² And the Lord said, Who then is the wise and responsible servant whom his lord will put in control of his family, to give them their food at the right time?

¹³ And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.

³⁰ But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.

¹⁹ Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.

²⁰ And another came, saying, Lord, here is your pound, which I put away in a cloth;

¹ Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God. ² And it is right for such servants to be safe persons.

⁷ For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself;

³ You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.

¹⁰ Making distribution among one another of whatever has been given to you, like true servants of the unmeasured grace of God;

⁹ And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you? ¹⁰ And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes. ¹¹ And he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were without clothing? Have you taken of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take?

⁹ And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper? ¹⁰ And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.

²⁰ And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil, ²¹ I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.

²³ And he said to them, Why are you doing such things? for from all this people I get accounts of your evil ways. ²⁴ No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.

⁹ Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge. ¹⁰ So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

¹⁴ God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.

³⁶ And I say to you that in the day when they are judged, men will have to give an account of every foolish word they have said.

²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

²¹ Because I was in fear of you, for you are a hard man: you take up what you have not put down, and get in grain where you have not put seed. ²² He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed; ²³ Why then did you not put my money in a bank, so that when I came I would get it back with interest? ²⁴ And he said to the others who were near, Take the pound away from him, and give it to the man who has ten. ²⁵ And they say to him, Lord, he has ten pounds. ²⁶ And I say to you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

¹² So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.

¹¹ Because it has come to my knowledge, through those of the house of Chloe, that there are divisions among you, my brothers.

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

⁵ For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.

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.

¹⁴ Make use of that grace in you, which was given to you by the word of the prophets, when the rulers of the church put their hands on you.

²⁴ The sins of some men are clearly seen, going before them to be judged; but with others, their sins go after them.

⁵ But they will have to give an account of themselves to him who is ready to be the judge of the living and the dead.

¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, taking their places before the high seat; and the books were open, and another book was open, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by the things which were in the books, even by their works.

⁶ So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What is to be done to the man whom the king has delight in honouring? Then the thought came into Haman's mind, Whom, more than myself, would the king have pleasure in honouring?

⁴ The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

¹⁹ Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.

¹⁵ Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

⁴ The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

²⁵ The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work. ²⁶ All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.

³⁰ I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense; ³¹ And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down. ³² Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it. ³³ A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: ³⁴ So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

¹³ The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. ¹⁴ A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed. ¹⁵ The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him. ¹⁶ The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.

²³ Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds; ²⁴ For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations. ²⁵ The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in. ²⁶ The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field: ²⁷ There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.

²¹ If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.

³ And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?

³¹ The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

⁵ What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?

⁴⁶ And they came to Jericho: and when he was going out of Jericho, with his disciples and a great number of people, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind man, was seated by the wayside, with his hand out for money.

¹⁷ And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.

²⁰ And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,

²² And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.

⁴ And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man,

⁸ Then the neighbours and others who had seen him before in the street, with his hand out for money, said, Is not this the man who got money from people?

² And a certain man who from birth had had no power in his legs, was taken there every day, and put down at the door of the Temple which is named Beautiful, requesting money from those who went into the Temple;

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

¹¹ For it has come to our ears that there are some among you whose behaviour is uncontrolled, who do no work at all, but are over-interested in the business of others.

⁹ For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

²² For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

¹⁵ This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

²⁴ And at the start, one came to him who was in his debt for ten thousand talents.

⁴¹ And he said, Two men were in debt to a certain man of business: one had a debt of five hundred pence, and the other of fifty. ⁴² When they were unable to make payment, he made the two of them free of their debts. Which of them, now, will have the greater love for him?

⁹ And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.

¹² And if you have not been true in your care of the property of other people, who will give you that which is yours?

¹⁰ Not taking what is not theirs, but giving clear signs of their good faith, in all things doing credit to the teaching of God our Saviour.

¹¹ Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit. ¹² My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.

⁹ And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

¹² And he sent a third, and they gave him wounds and put him out.

¹ Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?

¹⁰ Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land.

³ But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother: and Jonadab was a very wise man.

¹⁹ Now send for all the prophets of Baal and all his servants and all his priests, to come to me; let no one keep away: for I have a great offering to make to Baal; anyone who is not present, will be put to death. This Jehu did with deceit, his purpose being the destruction of the servants of Baal.

¹⁴ With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.

¹⁰ For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others. ¹¹ The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands. ¹² But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts. ¹³ This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. Selah. ¹⁴ Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever. ¹⁵ But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. Selah. ¹⁶ Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased; ¹⁷ For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him. ¹⁸ Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself, ¹⁹ He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

⁶ Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise: ⁷ Having no chief, overseer, or ruler, ⁸ She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

²⁶ And when he said, From other people, Jesus said to him, Then are the sons free.

⁴ I have come to a decision what to do, so that when I am put out of my position they will take me into their houses.

¹⁰ He who is true in a little, is true in much; he who is false in small things, is false in great.

⁶ And the Lord said, Give ear to the words of the evil judge.

³⁴ And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world are married and have wives;

³⁶ In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.

¹⁸ Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

⁸ For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

¹⁹ Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

⁵ For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

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.

¹⁰ In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

²⁶ My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.

¹⁷ He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.

⁵ Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

¹ Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.

³ In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see; ⁴ When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low; ⁵ And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets; ⁶ Before ever the silver cord is cut, or the vessel of gold is broken, or the pot is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the water-hole; ⁷ And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

¹⁶ For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

⁷ Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh? ⁸ Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.

²⁷ For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.

¹⁹ Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

²⁴ No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

²¹ Jesus said to him, If you have a desire to be complete, go, get money for your property, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come after me.

³⁵ For I was in need of food, and you gave it to me: I was in need of drink, and you gave it to me: I was wandering, and you took me in; ³⁶ I had no clothing, and you gave it to me: when I was ill, or in prison, you came to me. ³⁷ Then will the upright make answer to him, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food, and give it to you? or in need of drink, and give it to you? ³⁸ And when did we see you wandering, and take you in? or without clothing, and give it to you? ³⁹ And when did we see you ill, or in prison, and come to you? ⁴⁰ And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.

⁴¹ But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.

³³ Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.

¹⁴ And you will have a blessing, because they will not be able to give you any payment, and you will get your reward when the upright come back from the dead.

¹¹ If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth?

¹³ No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

⁴ And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind.

³¹ Who said, Cornelius, your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your offerings are kept in his memory.

¹⁷ For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

¹² For this work of giving not only takes care of the needs of the saints, but is the cause of much praise to God; 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; ¹⁴ While their hearts go out to you in love and in prayer for you, because of the great grace of God which is in you. ¹⁵ Praise be to God for what he has given, which words have no power to say.

⁹ But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

¹⁷ Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use; ¹⁸ And to do good, having wealth in good works, being quick to give, taking part with one another; ¹⁹ Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.

¹⁶ May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus because he frequently gave me help, and had no feeling of shame because I was in chains; ¹⁷ But when he was in Rome, he went in search of me everywhere, and came to me ¹⁸ May he have the Lord's mercy in that day; and of all he did for me at Ephesus you have full knowledge.

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

²¹ His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

²³ His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

¹¹ If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth? ¹² And if you have not been true in your care of the property of other people, who will give you that which is yours?

¹⁷ And he said to him, You have done well, O good servant: because you have done well in a small thing you will have authority over ten towns.

⁶ He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.

² So while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to be false to him,

²⁷ And when Judas took the bread Satan went into him. Then Jesus said to him, Do quickly what you have to do.

² Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.

¹⁸ Wealth and honour are in my hands, even wealth without equal and righteousness. ¹⁹ My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver.

²² And Jesus, hearing it, said to him, One thing you still have need of; get money for your goods, and give it away to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; and come after me.

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:

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

¹⁸ If you are wise you will get from me gold tested by fire, so that you may have true wealth; and white robes to put on, so that your shame may not be seen; and oil for your eyes, so that you may see.

¹⁴ But who am I and what is my people, that we have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours. ¹⁵ For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on. ¹⁶ O Lord our God, all this store, which we have made ready for the building of a house for your holy name, comes from your hand and is yours.

²¹ With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

¹⁶ And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear. ¹⁷ And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them; ¹⁸ And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them. ¹⁹ And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil and honey which I gave you for your food, you put it before them for a sweet smell, says the Lord. ²⁰ And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing, ²¹ That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them?

¹⁴ For it is as when a man, about to take a journey, got his servants together, and gave them his property. ¹⁵ And to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to everyone as he was able; and he went on his journey. ¹⁶ Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more. ¹⁷ In the same way he who had been given the two got two more. ¹⁸ But he who was given the one went away and put it in a hole in the earth, and kept his lord's money in a secret place. ¹⁹ Now after a long time the lord of those servants comes, and makes up his account with them. ²⁰ And he who had the five talents came with his other five talents, saying, Lord, you gave into my care five talents: see, I have got five more. ²¹ His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord. ²² And he who had the two talents came and said, Lord, you gave into my care two talents: see, I have got two more. ²³ His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord. ²⁴ And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work: ²⁵ And I was in fear, and went away, and put your talent in the earth: here is what is yours. ²⁶ But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work, ²⁷ Why, then, did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I would have got back what is mine with interest? ²⁸ Take away, then, his talent and give it to him who has the ten talents. ²⁹ For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have more: but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

⁴² Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.

¹³ And he sent for ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds and said to them, Do business with this till I come. ¹⁴ But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler. ¹⁵ And when he came back again, having got his kingdom, he gave orders for those servants to whom he had given the money to come to him, so that he might have an account of what business they had done. ¹⁶ And the first came before him, saying, Lord, your pound has made ten pounds. ¹⁷ And he said to him, You have done well, O good servant: because you have done well in a small thing you will have authority over ten towns. ¹⁸ And another came, saying, Your pound has made five pounds. ¹⁹ And he said, You will be ruler over five towns. ²⁰ And another came, saying, Lord, here is your pound, which I put away in a cloth;

³ For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God. ⁴ At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.

⁴ And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you, ⁵ Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.

¹⁰ Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only.

⁵⁰ But Jesus said to him, Let him do it, for he who is not against you is for you.

²³ He who is not with me is against me, and he who will not give me help in getting people together is driving them away.

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

¹⁶ Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness. ¹⁷ But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed; ¹⁸ And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness. ¹⁹ I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy. ²⁰ When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness. ²¹ What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death. ²² But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

⁵ For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace: ⁷ Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be: ⁸ So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.

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.

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.

¹⁵ But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me. ¹⁶ Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

⁵¹ The men of pride have made great sport of me; but I have not been turned from your law.

³ Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

¹¹ Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.

¹³ For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.

¹⁰ So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.

⁷ O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me: I have become a thing to be laughed at all the day, everyone makes sport of me. ⁸ For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.

²⁵ Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her. ²⁶ Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them. ²⁷ Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit. ²⁸ And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing. ²⁹ The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

³¹ And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

¹³ But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

⁵³ And they were laughing at him, being certain that she was dead.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

⁴⁷ Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.

³⁵ And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.

² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,

³⁶ And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons:

² Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power. ³ Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.

⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.

¹⁷ And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you.

³⁰ Then give ear from heaven your living-place, answering with forgiveness, and give to every man, whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of the children of men;

⁹ O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.

³ For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

¹³ This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. Selah.

¹⁸ Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself,

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets. ² You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

⁵ Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.

⁶ Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?

² Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

¹⁰ Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. ¹¹ What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats. ¹² At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet? ¹³ Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings. ¹⁴ Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.

¹⁰ I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.

²¹ Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings. ²² Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

¹⁵ And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.

² When then you give money to the poor, do not make a noise about it, as the false-hearted men do in the Synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, They have their reward.

⁵ And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

¹⁶ And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

⁵ But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,

²⁵ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire. ²⁶ You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean. ²⁷ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.

²⁹ But he, desiring to put himself in the right, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

³⁹ And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil.

¹¹ The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.

²¹ And he said, All these things I have done from the time when I was a boy.

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

²⁵ He had no need for any witness about man; for he himself had knowledge of what was in man.

¹⁷ He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.

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.

⁸ And God, the searcher of hearts, was a witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as he did to us;

²⁰ Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

²¹ Was not the righteousness of Abraham our father judged by his works, when he made an offering of Isaac his son on the altar? ²² You see that his faith was helping his works and was made complete by them; ²³ And the holy Writings were put into effect which said, And Abraham had faith in God and it was put to his account as righteousness; and he was named the friend of God. ²⁴ You see that a man's righteousness is judged by his works and not by his faith only. ²⁵ And in the same way, was not the righteousness of Rahab, the loose woman, judged by her works, when she took into her house those who were sent and let them go out by another way?

⁴ But let them be those of the unseen man of the heart, the ever-shining ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the eyes of God.

⁵ And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.

²³ And I will put her children to death; and all the churches will see that I am he who makes search into the secret thoughts and hearts of men: and I will give to every one of you the reward of your works.

² Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near.

¹⁷ From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near.

²³ And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom, and making well those who were ill with any disease among the people.

⁷ And, on your way, say, The kingdom of heaven is near.

⁹ But why did you go out? to see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet. ¹⁰ This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you. ¹¹ Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. ¹² And from the days of John the Baptist till now, the kingdom of heaven is forcing its way in, and men of force take it. ¹³ For all the prophets and the law were in force till John. ¹⁴ And if you are able to see it, this is Elijah who was to come.

³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.

¹⁴ Now after John had been put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the good news of God,

⁴⁵ But he went out, and made it public, giving an account of it everywhere, so that Jesus was no longer able to go openly into a town, but was outside in the waste land; and they came to him from every part.

²⁶ But what did you go out to see? a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet. ²⁷ This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you. ²⁸ I say to you, Among all the sons of women, not one is greater than John: but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. ²⁹ {\I And all the people, and the tax-farmers, to whom John had given baptism, when they had knowledge of these things, gave glory to God.

² And he sent them out to be preachers of the kingdom of God, and to make well those who were ill.

⁹ And make well those in it who are ill and say to them, The kingdom of God is near to you.

¹¹ Even the dust of your town, which is on our feet, we put off as a witness against you; but be certain of this, that the kingdom of God is near.

²⁹ But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say.

³¹ And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.

⁴⁵ Philip came across Nathanael and said to him, We have made a discovery! It is he of whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets were writing, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

⁴⁸ If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.

¹⁹ Then the Pharisees said one to another, You see, you are unable to do anything: the world has gone after him.

¹⁸ But the things which God had made clear before, by the mouth of all the prophets, that the Christ would have to undergo, he has put into effect in this way.

²⁴ And all the prophets from Samuel and those who came after, every one of them, gave word of these days. ²⁵ You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

²⁵ In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands. ²⁶ They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed: ²⁷ But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.

⁸ The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.

⁶ Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.

¹⁸ Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.

³³ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

³¹ Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.

²⁵ But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.

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

¹¹ And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was no place for them.

¹ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone; and there was no more sea.

⁴ And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.

³¹ Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose: ³² But I say to you that everyone who puts away his wife for any other cause but the loss of her virtue, makes her false to her husband; and whoever takes her as his wife after she is put away, is no true husband to her.

⁹ And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.

¹¹ And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and takes another, is false to his wife; ¹² And if she herself puts away her husband and takes another, she is false to her husband.

⁴ The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

¹⁰ But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband ¹¹ Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again; and that the husband may not go away from his wife. ¹² But to the rest I say, and not the Lord; If a brother has a wife who is not a Christian, and it is her desire to go on living with him, let him not go away from her.

²⁶ The weight of the gold ear-rings which he got from them was one thousand, seven hundred shekels of gold; in addition to the moon-ornaments and jewels and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and the chains on their camels' necks.

¹⁵ And Mordecai went out from before the king, dressed in king-like robes of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold and clothing of purple and the best linen: and all the town of Shushan gave loud cries of joy.

¹¹ They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance, ¹² They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe. ¹³ Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld. ¹⁴ Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways. ¹⁵ What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

³ Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers. ⁴ For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong. ⁵ They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men. ⁶ For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe. ⁷ Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

¹³ So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk and needlework; your food was the best meal and honey and oil: and you were very beautiful.

⁴⁹ Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.

⁷ The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade.

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

¹⁷ And they put a purple robe on him, and twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on him;

²⁰ And when they had made sport of him, they took the purple robe off him and put his clothing on him. And they took him out to put him to death on the cross.

¹⁶ And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile: ¹⁷ And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit. ¹⁸ And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy. ²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together? ²¹ So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

¹ And another time he said to the disciples, There was a certain man of great wealth who had a servant; and it was said to him that this servant was wasting his goods.

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

¹ Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you. ² Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing. ³ Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days. ⁴ See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies. ⁵ You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.

⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and bright red, with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels; and in her hand was a gold cup full of evil things and her unclean desires;

⁷ As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see sorrow.

¹⁶ Saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, she who was clothed in delicate linen, and purple, and red; with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels!

⁸ Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.

⁷ And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

¹⁹ Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.

¹⁴ For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

⁶ The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.

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?

²¹ Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds.

³⁵ And it came about that when he got near Jericho, a certain blind man was seated by the side of the road, making requests for money from those who went by. ³⁶ And hearing the sound of a great number of people going by, he said, What is this? ³⁷ And they said to him, Jesus of Nazareth is going by. ³⁸ And he said in a loud voice, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me. ³⁹ And those who were in front made protests and said to him, Be quiet: but he said all the more, O Son of David, have mercy on me. ⁴⁰ And Jesus, stopping, gave orders that he was to come to him, and when he came near, he said to him, ⁴¹ What would you have me do for you? And he said, Lord, that I may be able to see again. ⁴² And Jesus said, See again: your faith has made you well. ⁴³ And straight away he was able to see, and he went after him, giving glory to God; and all the people when they saw it gave praise to God.

¹ Now a certain man named Lazarus was ill; he was of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

⁹ But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;

²⁷ But she said, Yes, Lord: but even the dogs take the bits from under their masters' table.

²⁸ But she said to him in answer, Yes, Lord: even the dogs under the table take the bits dropped by the children.

¹² And when they had had enough, Jesus said to his disciples, Take up the broken bits which are over, so that nothing may be wasted.

¹¹ Even to this hour we are without food, drink, and clothing, we are given blows and have no certain resting-place;

²⁷ In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.

³⁴ And he came in, and took food and drink; then he said, Now see to this cursed woman, and put her body into the earth, for she is a king's daughter. ³⁵ And they went out to put her body into the earth, but nothing of her was to be seen, only the bones of her head, and her feet, and parts of her hands.

¹³ For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace, ¹⁴ With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves; ¹⁵ Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver; ¹⁶ Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light. ¹⁷ There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest. ¹⁸ There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears. ¹⁹ The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.

¹³ Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

³⁰ How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath? ³¹ Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it? ³² He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

⁶ Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores. ⁷ Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself; ⁸ Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it. ⁹ So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld. ¹⁰ For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others. ¹¹ The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands. ¹² But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

¹⁸ You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction. ¹⁹ How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction. ²⁰ As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

¹¹ For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go. ¹² In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.

³² The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

¹⁰ And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

¹⁸ All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his house,

¹⁶ Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?

¹ The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace. ² They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.

¹¹ And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:

³⁸ And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One; ³⁹ And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels. ⁴⁰ As then the evil plants are got together and burned with fire, so will it be in the end of the world. ⁴¹ The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong, ⁴² And will put them into the fire; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow. ⁴³ Then will the upright be shining as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him give ear.

¹⁰ Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.

³¹ And he will send out his angels with a great sound of a horn, and they will get his saints together from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

³⁶ What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?

²³ There was at table one of his disciples, the one dear to Jesus, resting his head on Jesus' breast.

²⁰ Then Peter, turning round, saw the disciple who was dear to Jesus coming after them--the disciple who was resting on his breast at the last meal, and said, Lord, who is it who will be false to you?

¹⁴ Are they not all helping spirits, who are sent out as servants to those whose heritage will be salvation?

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;

¹¹ For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

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.

¹³ And a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Put in writing, There is a blessing on the dead who from now on come to their end in the Lord: yes, says the Spirit, that they may have rest from their troubles; for their works go with them.

¹⁷ The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

¹⁰ For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

¹⁵ But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. Selah.

¹³ For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.

⁵ Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

²⁷ Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

¹⁸ But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

²⁴ Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

⁹ The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

¹⁵ But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

²² But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.

²⁹ And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

¹¹ And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: ¹² But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

²⁹ And they gave a loud cry, saying, What have we to do with you, you Son of God? Have you come here to give us punishment before the time?

²³ And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day.

⁹ And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire.

³³ You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?

²⁸ And when he saw Jesus, he gave a loud cry and went down on the earth before him and in a loud voice said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Do not be cruel to me.

²⁸ There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside. ²⁹ And they will come from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, and take their places in the kingdom of God.

²⁸ For I have five brothers; and let him give them an account of these things, so that they may not come to this place of pain.

⁵⁵ O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?

⁴ For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;

¹⁰ To him will be given of the wine of God's wrath which is ready unmixed in the cup of his wrath and he will have cruel pain, burning with fire before the holy angels and before the Lamb: ¹¹ And the smoke of their pain goes up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day and night, who give worship to the beast and his image, and have on them the mark of his name.

¹⁰ And the Evil One who put them in error was sent down into the sea of ever-burning fire, where the beast and the false prophet are, and their punishment will go on day and night for ever and ever.

¹³ And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hell gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged every man by his works. ¹⁴ And death and Hell were put into the sea of fire. This is the second death, even the sea of fire.

¹⁶ And Samuel said, Why do you put your questions to me, seeing that God has gone away from you and is on the side of him who is against you?

¹¹ When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

¹⁷ The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up. ¹⁸ I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

¹³ For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed: ¹⁴ My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.

²⁴ And they will go out to see the dead bodies of the men who have done evil against me: for their worm will ever be living, and their fire will never be put out, and they will be a thing of fear to all flesh.

¹² And this will be the disease which the Lord will send on all the peoples which have been warring against Jerusalem: their flesh will be wasted away while they are on their feet, their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their tongues in their mouths.

⁹ And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.

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:

⁴³ And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire. ⁴⁴ (OMITTED TEXT) ⁴⁵ And if your foot is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off: it is better for you to go into life with one foot than to have two feet and go into hell. ⁴⁶ (OMITTED TEXT) ⁴⁷ And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell, ⁴⁸ Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out. ⁴⁹ Everyone will be salted with fire.

⁸ Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.

³⁰ And he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, their hearts would be changed.

¹⁰ In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.

¹⁴ But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.

³⁷ On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him.

³³ They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free? ³⁴ And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin. ³⁵ Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does. ³⁶ If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free. ³⁷ I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you. ³⁸ I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house. ³⁹ In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did.

⁵³ Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead: who do you say that you are? ⁵⁴ Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God. ⁵⁵ You have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full knowledge of him, and I keep his word. ⁵⁶ Your father Abraham was full of joy at the hope of seeing my day: he saw it and was glad.

¹² And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.

⁷ And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named. ⁸ That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.

⁸ To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:

¹³ For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.

¹⁶ They will never be in need of food or drink: and they will never again be troubled by the burning heat of the sun: ¹⁷ For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.

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.

¹⁵ And if anyone's name was not in the book of life, he went down into the sea of fire.

¹ And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb,

¹³ Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld. ¹⁴ Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.

¹⁸ Though he made their houses full of good things: but the purpose of the evil-doers is far from me!

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

¹¹ The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

⁷ Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

¹² Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased. ¹³ As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness; ¹⁴ For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment. ¹⁵ If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children. ¹⁶ When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes; ¹⁷ Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers. ¹⁸ You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction. ¹⁹ How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

⁷ Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.

²² And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this; ²³ But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;

³⁰ That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.

⁴⁵ And if your foot is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off: it is better for you to go into life with one foot than to have two feet and go into hell.

²⁴ But unhappy are you who have wealth: for you have been comforted now.

²³ And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.

³³ I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

²² Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

⁷ Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:

³ So that no man might be moved by these troubles; because you see that these things are part of God's purpose for us.

²⁵ Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;

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.

¹⁴ And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.

³⁶ And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.

¹⁴ Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

²² Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:

²⁴ And there will no longer be a plant with sharp points wounding the children of Israel, or a thorn troubling them among any who are round about them, who put shame on them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

¹⁸ Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.

⁴⁶ And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.

⁵⁹ I say to you, You will not come out of it till you have made payment to the very last farthing.

³⁶ He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.

⁴ So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through; ⁵ Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain; ⁶ For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you, ⁷ And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire, ⁸ To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus: ⁹ Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength, 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. ¹¹ For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways. ¹² There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

¹ Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you. ² Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing. ³ Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days. ⁴ See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies. ⁵ You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction. ⁶ You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you. ⁷ Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.

¹¹ Let the evil man go on in his evil: and let the unclean be still unclean: and let the upright go on in his righteousness: and let the holy be holy still.

¹² But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts. ¹³ This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. Selah.

⁴⁰ And with more such words he gave his witness, offering them salvation and saying, Come out from this evil generation.

²³ Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.

⁶ And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.

²⁰ Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .If they do not say such things (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .For him there is no dawn (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .

¹⁶ See what is recorded in the book of the Lord: all these will be there, not one without the other: the mouth of the Lord has given the order, and his spirit has made them come together.

² But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food. ³ And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies. ⁴ Keep in mind the law of Moses, my servant, which I gave him in Horeb for all Israel, even the rules and the decisions.

¹⁷ And the book of the prophet Isaiah was given to him and, opening the book, he came on the place where it is said,

¹⁶ The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.

²⁷ And he made clear to them all the things in the Writings, from Moses and from all the prophets, which had to do with himself.

³⁹ You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me. ⁴⁰ And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life. ⁴¹ I do not take honour from men; ⁴² But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts. ⁴³ I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval. ⁴⁴ How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God? ⁴⁵ Put out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your hopes. ⁴⁶ If you had belief in Moses you would have belief in me; for his writings are about me. ⁴⁷ If you have no belief in his writings, how will you have belief in my words?

²¹ For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath.

¹¹ Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so. ¹² And a number of them had faith, and no small number of the Greek women of high position and of the men.

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

¹⁹ And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts; ²⁰ Being conscious in the first place that no man by himself may give a special sense to the words of the prophets. ²¹ For these words did not ever come through the impulse of men: but the prophets had them from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

³ I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to the same end.

⁵ I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to an end in the same way.

²⁴ And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.

⁹ And men were burned with great heat: and they said evil things against the name of the God who has authority over these punishments; and they were not turned from their evil ways to give him glory. ¹⁰ And the fifth let what was in his vessel come out on the high seat of the beast; and his kingdom was made dark; and they were biting their tongues for pain. ¹¹ And they said evil things against the God of heaven because of their pain and their wounds; and they were not turned from their evil works.

²⁷ May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.

⁴³ Then he said in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out! ⁴⁴ And he who was dead came out, with linen bands folded tightly about his hands and feet, and a cloth about his face. Jesus said to them, Make him free and let him go. ⁴⁵ Then a number of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did had belief in him. ⁴⁶ But some of them went to the Pharisees with the news of what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷ Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs. ⁴⁸ If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation. ⁴⁹ But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You have no knowledge of anything; ⁵⁰ You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction. ⁵¹ He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation; ⁵² And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world. ⁵³ And from that day they took thought together how to put him to death.

¹⁰ Now there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death; ¹¹ For because of him a great number of the Jews went away and had belief in Jesus.

⁸ And he went into the Synagogue, and for three months he was preaching there without fear, reasoning and teaching about the kingdom of God.

²⁸ And Agrippa said to Paul, A little more and you will be making me a Christian.

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

³ But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:

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.