Luke 17 Cross References - BBE

¹ And he said to his disciples, It is necessary for causes of trouble to come about, but unhappy is he by whom they come. ² It would be well for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea, before he made trouble for any of these little ones. ³ Give attention to yourselves: if your brother does wrong, say a sharp word to him; and if he has sorrow for his sin, let him have forgiveness. ⁴ And if he does you wrong seven times in a day, and seven times comes to you and says, I have regret for what I have done; let him have forgiveness. ⁵ And the twelve said to the Lord, Make our faith greater. ⁶ And the Lord said, If your faith was only as great as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this tree, Be rooted up and planted in the sea; and it would be done. ⁷ But which of you, having a servant who is ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he comes in from the field, Come now and be seated and have a meal, ⁸ Will he not say, Get a meal for me, and make yourself ready and see to my needs till I have had my food and drink; and after that you may have yours? ⁹ Does he give praise to the servant because he did what was ordered? ¹⁰ In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do. ¹¹ And it came about that when they were on the way to Jerusalem he went through Samaria and Galilee. ¹² And when he went into a certain small town he came across ten men who were lepers, and they, keeping themselves at a distance, ¹³ Said, in loud voices, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. ¹⁴ And when he saw them he said, Go, and let the priests see you. And, while they were going, they were made clean. ¹⁵ And one of them, when he saw that he was clean, turning back, gave praise to God in a loud voice; ¹⁶ And, falling down on his face at the feet of Jesus, he gave the credit to him; and he was a man of Samaria. ¹⁷ And Jesus said, Were there not ten men who were made clean? where are the nine? ¹⁸ Have not any of them come back to give glory to God, but only this one from a strange land? ¹⁹ And he said to him, Get up, and go on your way; your faith has made you well. ²⁰ And when the Pharisees put questions to him about when the kingdom of God would come, he gave them an answer and said, The kingdom of God will not come through observation: ²¹ And men will not say, See, it is here! or, There! for the kingdom of God is among you. ²² And he said to his disciples, The time will come when you will have a great desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, but you will not see it. ²³ And if they say to you, See, it is there! or, It is here! do not go away, or go after them. ²⁴ For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes. ²⁵ But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side by this generation. ²⁶ And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the day of the Son of man. ²⁷ They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction. ²⁸ In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building; ²⁹ But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all. ³⁰ So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man. ³¹ On that day, if anyone is on the roof of the house, and his goods are in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let him who is in the field not go back to his house. ³² Keep in mind Lot's wife. ³³ If anyone makes an attempt to keep his life, it will be taken from him, but if anyone gives up his life, he will keep it. ³⁴ I say to you, In that night there will be two men sleeping in one bed, and one will be taken away and the other let go. ³⁵ Two women will be crushing grain together; one will be taken away and the other let go. ³⁶ (OMITTED TEXT) ³⁷ And they, answering him, said, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there will the eagles come together.

²³ But he, turning to Peter, said, Get out of my way, Satan: you are a danger to me because your mind is not on the things of God, but on the things of men.

⁷ A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.

¹³ Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.

²⁰ Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another. ²¹ It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

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

¹³ For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.

³² Give no cause of trouble to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God.

¹⁹ For divisions are necessary among you, in order that those who have God's approval may be clearly seen among you.

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

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

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

¹⁴ And those who are on the earth are turned from the true way by him through the signs which he was given power to do before the beast; giving orders to those who are on the earth to make an image to the beast, who was wounded by the sword, and came to life. ¹⁵ And he had power to give breath to the image of the beast, so that words might come from the image of the beast, and that he might have all those who did not give worship to the image of the beast put to death. ¹⁶ And he gives to all, small and great, the poor and those who have wealth, the free and those who are not free, a mark on their right hand or on their brows; ¹⁷ So that no man might be able to do trade but he who has the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name. ¹⁸ Here is wisdom. He who has knowledge let him get the number of the beast; because it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty-six.

¹¹ He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.

⁷ Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.

³ And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven. ⁴ Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. ⁵ And whoever gives honour to one such little child in my name, gives honour to me: ⁶ But whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a great stone fixed to his neck, and to come to his end in the deep sea.

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.

¹⁴ Even so it is not the pleasure of your Father in heaven for one of these little ones to come to destruction.

²⁴ The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but a curse is on that man through whom the Son of man is given up; it would have been well for that man if he had never come into the world.

⁴² And whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea.

¹⁵ Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.

¹¹ And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death. ¹² And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.

¹⁵ But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

²² To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.

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

¹² But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

¹⁷ Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.

⁹ Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;

¹⁵ So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:

²³ Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

⁶ And said to the judges, Take care what you do, for you are judging not for man but for the Lord, and he is with you in the decisions you give. ⁷ So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.

⁵ Let the upright give me punishment; and let the god-fearing man put me in the right way; but I will not let the oil of sinners come on my head: when they do evil I will give myself to prayer.

⁸ Do not say sharp words to a man of pride, or he will have hate for you; make them clear to a wise man, and you will be dear to him.

¹⁰ A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.

⁵ Better is open protest than love kept secret.

¹⁵ And if your brother does wrong to you, go, make clear to him his error between you and him in private: if he gives ear to you, you have got your brother back again. ¹⁶ But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain. ¹⁷ And if he will not give ear to them, let it come to the hearing of the church: and if he will not give ear to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-farmer.

²¹ Then Peter came and said to him, Lord, what number of times may my brother do wrong against me, and I give him forgiveness? till seven times?

³⁴ But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

¹¹ But when Cephas came to Antioch, I made a protest against him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong. ¹² For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision. ¹³ And the rest of the Jews went after him, so that even Barnabas was overcome by their false ways. ¹⁴ But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?

¹⁵ Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;

¹⁵ Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

¹⁹ My brothers, if one of you has gone out of the way of the true faith and another has made him see his error,

⁸ Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

⁴⁴ But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;

¹² And make us free of our debts, as we have made those free who are in debt to us.

¹⁴ For if you let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will have forgiveness from your Father in heaven. ¹⁵ But if you do not let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will not have forgiveness from your Father for your sins.

¹⁶ But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.

²¹ Then Peter came and said to him, Lord, what number of times may my brother do wrong against me, and I give him forgiveness? till seven times? ²² Jesus says to him, I say not to you, Till seven times; but, Till seventy times seven.

³⁵ So will my Father in heaven do to you, if you do not everyone, from your hearts, give forgiveness to his brother.

²⁰ But if one who has hate for you is in need of food or of drink, give it to him, for in so doing you will put coals of fire on his head.

⁴ Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; ⁵ Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil; ⁶ It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true; ⁷ Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.

³¹ Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts; ³² And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

¹² As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things; ¹³ Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:

¹³ And you, my brothers, do not get tired of well-doing. ¹⁴ And if any man does not give attention to what we have said in this letter, take note of that man, and keep away from him, so that he may be shamed.

³⁰ And the twelve came together to Jesus; and they gave him an account of all the things they had done, and all they had been teaching.

²⁴ Straight away the father of the child gave a cry, saying, I have faith; make my feeble faith stronger.

¹³ And when the Lord saw her, he had pity on her and said to her, Be not sad.

⁸ And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me. ⁹ And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me. ¹⁰ So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.

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

³ It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another;

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.

²² And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart: ²³ Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

³¹ He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field: ³² Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.

²⁰ And he says to them, Because of your little faith: for truly I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Be moved from this place to that; and it will be moved; and nothing will be impossible to you.

²¹ And Jesus in answer said to them, Truly I say to you, If you have faith, without doubting, not only may you do what has been done to the fig-tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be taken up and put into the sea, it will be done.

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

²² And Jesus, answering, said to them, Have God's faith. ²³ Truly I say to you, Whoever says to this mountain, Be taken up and be put into the sea; and has no doubt in his heart, but has faith that what he says will come about, he will have his desire.

¹⁹ It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his garden, and it became a tree, and the birds of heaven made their resting-places in its branches.

⁴ And he went quickly in front of them and got up into a tree to see him, for he was going that way.

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

¹¹ And he said to them, Which of you, having a sheep, if it gets into a hole on the Sabbath day, will not put out a helping hand and get it back?

¹⁵ But the Lord gave him an answer and said, O you false men! do you not, every one of you, on the Sabbath, let loose his ox and his ass and take it to the water?

⁵ And he said to them, Which of you, whose ox or ass has got into a water-hole, will not straight away get him out on the Sabbath?

¹⁶ And when Joseph saw Benjamin, he said to his chief servant, Take these men into my house, and make ready a meal, for they will take food with me in the middle of the day.

²⁰ Then David got up from the earth, and after washing and rubbing himself with oil and changing his clothing, he went into the house of the Lord and gave worship: then he went back to his house, and at his order they put food before him and he had a meal.

³⁷ Happy are those servants who are watching when the lord comes; truly I say to you, he will make himself their servant and, placing them at the table, he will come out and give them food.

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.

² Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself. ³ Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?

⁶ If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him? ⁷ If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?

² O my soul, you have said to the Lord, You are my Lord: I have no good but you. ³ As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.

⁶ Let their way be dark and full of danger; let them be troubled by the angel of the Lord. ⁷ For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

² All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales. ³ Put your works into the hands of the Lord, and your purposes will be made certain.

⁵ Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.

⁶ For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.

³⁰ And put out the servant who is of no profit into the outer dark: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

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.

¹² They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

³⁵ Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?

¹⁶ For if I am a preacher of the good news, I have no cause for pride in this; because I am forced to do so, for a curse is on me if I do not. ¹⁷ But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it.

⁹ For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

⁸ Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward, ⁹ And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

¹¹ Who in the past was of no profit to you, but now is of profit to you and to me:

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. ⁶ For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;

⁵¹ And it came about that when the days were near for him to be taken up, his face was turned to go to Jerusalem, ⁵² And he sent men before: and they came to a small town of Samaria to make ready for him.

³ He went out of Judaea into Galilee again. ⁴ And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

⁴⁵ And the leper who has the disease on him is to go about with signs of grief, with his hair loose and his mouth covered, crying, Unclean, unclean. ⁴⁶ While the disease is on him, he will be unclean. He is unclean: let him keep by himself, living outside the tent-circle.

² Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead; ³ Male or female they are to be put outside the tent-circle, so that they may not make unclean my resting-place among them.

¹⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and after that she may come in again.

²⁷ Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.

³ Now there were four lepers seated at the doorway into the town: and they said to one another, Why are we waiting here for death?

²⁰ And Azariah, the chief priest, and all the priests, looking at him, saw the mark of the leper on his brow, and they sent him out quickly and he himself went out straight away, for the Lord's punishment had come on him. ²¹ So King Uzziah was a leper till the day of his death, living separately in his private house; for he was cut off from the house of God; and Jotham his son was ruling over his house, judging the people of the land.

¹² And it came about that while he was in one of the towns, there was a leper there: and when he saw Jesus he went down on his face in prayer to him, saying, Lord, if it is your pleasure, you have power to make me clean.

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

²⁷ And when Jesus went on from there, two blind men came after him, crying out, Have mercy on us, you Son of David.

²² And a woman of Canaan came out from those parts, crying and saying, Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is greatly troubled with an unclean spirit.

³⁰ And two blind men seated by the wayside, when they had the news that Jesus was going by, gave a loud cry, saying, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us. ³¹ And the people gave them orders to be quiet; but they went on crying even louder, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us.

²² And frequently it has sent him into the fire and into the water, for his destruction; but if you are able to do anything, have pity on us, and give us help.

⁵ And Simon, answering, said, Master, we were working all night and we took nothing: but at your word I will let down the nets.

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.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ² If a man has on his skin a growth or a mark or a white place, and it becomes the disease of a leper, let him be taken to Aaron the priest, or to one of the priests, his sons; ³ And if, when the priest sees the mark on his skin, the hair on the place is turned white and the mark seems to go deeper than the skin, it is the mark of a leper: and the priest, after looking at him, will say that he is unclean. ⁴ But if the mark on his skin is white, and does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and the hair on it is not turned white, then the priest will keep him shut up for seven days; ⁵ And the priest is to see him on the seventh day; and if, in his opinion, the place on his skin has not become worse and is not increased in size, then the priest will keep him shut up for seven days more: ⁶ And the priest is to see him again on the seventh day; and if the mark is less bright and is not increased on his skin, then let the priest say that he is clean: it is only a skin-mark, and after his clothing has been washed he will be clean. ⁷ But if the size of the mark on his skin is increased after he has been seen by the priest, let him go to the priest again: ⁸ And if, after looking at him, he sees that the mark is increased in his skin, let the priest say that he is unclean; he is a leper. ⁹ When the disease of a leper is seen on a man, let him be taken to the priest; ¹⁰ And if the priest sees that there is a white growth on the skin, and the hair is turned white, and there is diseased flesh in the growth, ¹¹ It is an old disease in the skin of his flesh, and the priest will say that he is unclean; he will not have to be shut up, for he is clearly unclean. ¹² And if the disease comes out all over his skin, from his head to his feet, as far as the priest is able to see, ¹³ And if the priest sees that all his flesh is covered with the leper's disease, the priest will say that he is clean: it is all turned white, he is clean. ¹⁴ But whenever diseased flesh is seen on him, he will be unclean. ¹⁵ And when the priest sees the diseased flesh he will say that he is unclean; the diseased flesh is unclean, he is a leper. ¹⁶ Or if the diseased flesh is turned again and changed to white then he is to come to the priest, ¹⁷ And the priest will see him: and if the place is turned white, then the priest will say that he is free from the disease. ¹⁸ And if a bad place has come out on the skin and is well again, ¹⁹ And on the same place there is a white growth of a bright mark, red and white, then let the priest see it; ²⁰ And after looking at it, if it seems to go deeper than the skin, and the hair on it is turned white, then the priest will say that the man is unclean: it is the leper's disease, it has come out in the bad place. ²¹ But if, after looking at it, he sees that there are no white hairs on it, and it is not deeper than the skin, and it is not very bright, then let the priest keep him shut up for seven days: ²² And if it is increasing on the skin, the priest will say that he is unclean: it is a disease. ²³ But if the bright mark keeps in the same place and gets no greater, it is the mark of the old wound, and the priest will say that he is clean. ²⁴ Or if there is a burn on the skin of the flesh, and if the diseased flesh in the burn becomes a bright place, red and white or white, ²⁵ The priest is to see it: and if the hair on the bright place is turned white and it seems to go deeper than the skin, he is a leper: it has come out in the burn, and the priest will say that he is unclean: it is the leper's disease. ²⁶ But if, after looking at it, the priest sees that there is no white hair on the bright place, and it is not deeper than the skin, and is not very bright, then let the priest keep him shut up for seven days: ²⁷ And the priest is to see him again on the seventh day; if it is increased in the skin, then the priest will say that he is unclean: it is the leper's disease. ²⁸ And if the bright place keeps the same size and gets no greater on the skin, but is less bright, it is the effect of the burn, and the priest will say that he is clean: it is the mark of the burn. ²⁹ And when a man or a woman has a disease on the head, or in the hair of the chin, ³⁰ Then the priest is to see the diseased place: and if it seems to go deeper than the skin, and if there is thin yellow hair in it, then the priest will say that he is unclean: he has the mark of the leper's disease on his head or in the hair of his chin. ³¹ And after looking at the diseased place, if it does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest will have him shut up for seven days: ³² And on the seventh day the priest will see the place: and if it is not increased, and there is no yellow hair in it, and it does not seem to go deeper than the skin, ³³ Then his hair is to be cut off, but not on the diseased place, and he is to be shut up for seven days more: ³⁴ And on the seventh day the priest will see the place: and if it is not increased, and does not seem to go deeper than the skin, the priest will say that he is clean: and after his clothing has been washed he will be clean. ³⁵ But if the disease in his skin becomes worse after he has been made clean, ³⁶ Then the priest is to see him: and if the mark is increased, the priest, without looking for the yellow hair, will say that he is unclean. ³⁷ But if, in his opinion, the growth is stopped, and black hair has come up on it, the disease has gone; he is clean and the priest will say that he is clean. ³⁸ And if a man or a woman has bright marks on the skin of their flesh, that is, bright white marks, ³⁹ Then the priest is to see them: and if the white marks on their skin are not very bright, it is a skin disease which has come out on the skin; he is clean. ⁴⁰ And if a man's hair has come out and he has no hair, still he is clean. ⁴¹ And if the hair has gone from the front part of his head, so that he has no hair there, still he is clean. ⁴² But if, on his head or on his brow, where he has no hair, there is a red and white place, it is the disease of the leper coming out on his head or on his brow. ⁴³ Then if the priest sees that the growth of the disease has become red and white on his head or on his brow where there is no hair, like the mark in the skin of a leper; ⁴⁴ He is a leper and unclean; the priest is to say that he is most certainly unclean: the disease is in his head.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ² This is the law of the leper on the day when he is made clean: he is to be taken to the priest; ³ And the priest is to go outside the tent-circle; and if, after looking, the priest sees that the mark of the disease has gone from him, ⁴ Then the priest is to give orders to take, for him who is to be made clean, two living clean birds and some cedar wood and red thread and hyssop. ⁵ And the priest will give orders for one of the birds to be put to death in a vessel made of earth, over flowing water. ⁶ And he will take the living bird and the wood and the red thread and the hyssop and put them in the blood of the bird which was put to death over flowing water. ⁷ And shaking it seven times over the man who is to be made clean, he will say that he is clean and will let the living bird go free into the open country. ⁸ And he who is to be made clean will have his clothing washed and his hair cut and have a bath, and he will be clean. And after that he will come back to the tent-circle; but he is to keep outside his tent for seven days. ⁹ And on the seventh day he is to have all the hair cut off his head and his chin and over his eyes--all his hair is to be cut off--and he will have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and he will be clean. ¹⁰ And on the eighth day let him take two male lambs, without any marks on them, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, and three tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with oil, and one log of oil. ¹¹ And the priest who is making him clean will put the man who is being made clean, together with these things, before the door of the Tent of meeting. ¹² And the priest is to take one of the male lambs and give it as an offering for wrongdoing, and the log of oil, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; ¹³ And he is to put the male lamb to death in the place where they put to death the sin-offering and the burned offering, in the holy place; for as the sin-offering is the property of the priest, so is the offering for wrongdoing: it is most holy. ¹⁴ And let the priest take some of the blood of the offering for wrongdoing and put it on the point of the right ear of him who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot; ¹⁵ And take some of the oil and put it in the hollow of his left hand; ¹⁶ And let the priest put his right finger in the oil which is in his left hand, shaking it out with his finger seven times before the Lord; ¹⁷ And of the rest of the oil which is in his hand, the priest will put some on the point of the right ear of the man who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot, over the blood of the offering for wrongdoing; ¹⁸ And the rest of the oil in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be made clean; and so the priest will make him free from sin before the Lord. ¹⁹ And the priest will give the sin-offering, and take away the sin of him who is to be made clean from his unclean condition; and after that he will put the burned offering to death. ²⁰ And the priest is to have the burned offering and the meal offering burned on the altar; and the priest will take away his sin and he will be clean. ²¹ And if he is poor and not able to get so much, then he may take one male lamb as an offering for wrongdoing, to be waved to take away his sin, and one tenth part of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil; ²² And two doves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and one will be for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering. ²³ And on the eighth day he will take them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, so that he may be made clean. ²⁴ And the priest will take the lamb of the offering for wrongdoing and the oil, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; ²⁵ And he will put to death the lamb of the offering for wrongdoing and the priest will take some of the blood of the offering for wrongdoing and put it on the point of the right ear of him who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot; ²⁶ And the priest will put out some of the oil in the hollow of his left hand, ²⁷ Shaking out drops of oil with his right finger before the Lord seven times: ²⁸ And the priest will put some of the oil which is in his hand on the point of the ear of the man who is to be made clean and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot, on the place where the blood of the offering for wrongdoing was put; ²⁹ And the rest of the oil which is in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be made clean, to take away his sin before the Lord. ³⁰ And he will make an offering of one of the doves or the young pigeons, such as he is able to get; ³¹ And of these, he will give one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering, with the meal offering; and the priest will take away the sin of him who is to be made clean before the Lord. ³² This is the law for the man who has the disease of the leper on him, and who is not able to get that which is necessary for making himself clean.

¹⁴ Then he went down seven times into the waters of Jordan, as the man of God had said; and his flesh became like the flesh of a little child again, and he was clean.

²⁴ And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.

¹⁵ But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.

³ And he put his hand on him, saying, It is my pleasure; be clean. And straight away he was made clean. ⁴ And Jesus said to him, See that you say nothing about this to anyone; but go and let the priest see you and make the offering which was ordered by Moses, for a witness to them.

¹⁴ And he gave him orders: Say nothing to any man, but let the priest see you and give an offering so that you may be made clean, as the law of Moses says, and for a witness to them.

⁵ His mother said to the servants, Whatever he says to you, do it.

⁵⁰ And Jesus said, Go in peace; your son is living. The man had faith in the word which Jesus said to him and went away. ⁵¹ And while he was going down, his servants came to him and said, Your boy is living. ⁵² So he put a question to them as to the hour when he became better; and they said to him, The disease went from him yesterday at the seventh hour. ⁵³ It was clear then to the father that this was the very time at which Jesus said to him, Your son is living. And he had faith in Jesus, he and all his family.

⁷ And said to him, Go and make yourself clean in the bath of Siloam the sense of the name is, Sent. So he went away and, after washing, came back able to see.

¹⁰ But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.

²⁴ In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death; and he made prayer to the Lord, and the Lord in answer gave him a sign. ²⁵ But Hezekiah did not do as had been done to him; for his heart was lifted up in pride; and so wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem. ²⁶ But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.

¹ A Psalm. A Song at the blessing of the House. Of David. I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me. ² O Lord my God, I sent up my cry to you, and you have made me well.

¹¹ By you my sorrow is turned into dancing; you have taken away my clothing of grief, and given me robes of joy; ¹² So that my glory may make songs of praise to you and not be quiet. O Lord my God, I will give you praise for ever.

¹ Of David. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let everything in me give praise to his holy name. ² Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let not all his blessings go from your memory. ³ He has forgiveness for all your sins; he takes away all your diseases; ⁴ He keeps back your life from destruction, crowning you with mercy and grace.

²⁰ He sent his word and made them well, and kept them safe from the underworld. ²¹ Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men! ²² Let them make offerings of praise, giving news of his works with cries of joy.

¹² What may I give to the Lord for all the good things which he has done for me? ¹³ I will take the cup of salvation, and give praise to the name of the Lord. ¹⁴ I will make the offering of my oath to the Lord, even before all his people. ¹⁵ Dear in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints.

¹⁸ The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death. ¹⁹ Let the doors of righteousness be open to me; I will go in and give praise to the Lord.

¹⁹ The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children. ²⁰ O Lord, quickly be my saviour; so we will make my songs to corded instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the Lord. ²¹ And Isaiah said, Let them take a cake of figs, and put it on the diseased place, and he will get well. ²² And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?

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

¹⁷ And Jesus said, Were there not ten men who were made clean? where are the nine? ¹⁸ Have not any of them come back to give glory to God, but only this one from a strange land?

¹⁴ After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.

³⁸ And he said, Lord, I have faith. And he gave him worship.

³ And Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said,

¹¹ And they came into the house, and saw the young child with Mary, his mother; and falling down on their faces they gave him worship; and from their store they gave him offerings of gold, perfume, and spices.

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent out and gave them orders, saying, Do not go among the Gentiles, or into any town of Samaria,

³³ The woman, shaking with fear, conscious of what had been done to her, came and, falling on her face before him, gave him a true account of everything.

⁸ But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner.

⁵² And he sent men before: and they came to a small town of Samaria to make ready for him. ⁵³ But they would not have him there, because he was clearly going to Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ And when his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, Lord, may we send fire from heaven and put an end to them? ⁵⁵ But turning round he said sharp words to them. ⁵⁶ And they went to another small town.

³² And in the same way, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, went by on the other side. ³³ But a certain man of Samaria, journeying that way, came where he was, and when he saw him, he was moved with pity for him, ³⁴ And came to him and put clean linen round his wounds, with oil and wine; and he put him on his beast and took him to a house and took care of him. ³⁵ And the day after he took two pennies and gave them to the owner of the house and said, Take care of him; and if this money is not enough, when I come again I will give you whatever more is needed.

⁹ The woman of Samaria said to him, Why do you, a Jew, make a request for water to me, a woman of Samaria? She said this because Jews have nothing to do with the people of Samaria.

²¹ Jesus said to her, Woman, take my word for this; the time is coming when you will not give worship to the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. ²² You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.

³⁹ Now a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did. ⁴⁰ So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days. ⁴¹ And a great number more of them came to have faith in him because of what he himself said. ⁴² And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.

²³ So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.

⁴⁸ The Jews said to him in answer, Are we not right in saying that you are of Samaria and have an evil spirit?

⁸ But you will have power, when the Holy Spirit has come on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

⁵ And Philip went down to Samaria and was teaching them about Christ. ⁶ And all the people gave attention to the words which Philip said, when they saw the signs which he did. ⁷ For unclean spirits came out from those who had them, crying with a loud voice; and a number of those who were ill and broken in body were made well. ⁸ And there was much joy in that town. ⁹ But there was a certain man named Simon, who in the past had been a wonder-worker and a cause of surprise to the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was a great man: ¹⁰ To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great. ¹¹ And they gave attention to him, because for a long time his wonder-working powers had kept them under his control. ¹² But when they had faith in the good news given by Philip about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, a number of men and women had baptism. ¹³ And Simon himself had faith and, having had baptism, he went with Philip and, seeing the signs and the great wonders which he did, he was full of surprise. ¹⁴ Now when the Apostles at Jerusalem had news that the people of Samaria had taken the word of God into their hearts, they sent to them Peter and John; ¹⁵ Who, when they came there, made prayer for them, that the Holy Spirit might be given to them: ¹⁶ For up to that time he had not come on any of them; only baptism had been given to them in the name of the Lord Jesus. ¹⁷ Then they put their hands on them, and the Holy Spirit came on them. ¹⁸ Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the touch of the Apostles' hands, he made them an offering of money, saying, ¹⁹ Give me this power, so that when I put my hands on anyone he may get the Holy Spirit. ²⁰ But Peter said, May your money come to destruction with you, because you had the idea that what is freely given by God may be got for a price. ²¹ You have no part in this business, because your heart is not right before God. ²² Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts. ²³ For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin. ²⁴ And Simon, answering, said, Make prayer for me to the Lord, so that these things which you have said may not come on me. ²⁵ So they, having given their witness and made clear the word of the Lord, went back to Jerusalem, giving the good news on their way in a number of the small towns of Samaria.

²⁵ And when Peter came in, Cornelius came to him and, falling down at his feet, gave him worship. ²⁶ But Peter, lifting him up, said, Get up, for I am a man as you are.

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

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

⁴ And the four and twenty rulers and the four beasts went down on their faces and gave worship to God who was seated on the high seat, saying, Even so, praise to the Lord. ⁵ And a voice came from the high seat, saying, Give praise to our God, all you his servants, small and great, in whom is the fear of him.

¹⁰ And I went on my face before his feet to give him worship. And he said to me, See you do it not: I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers who keep the witness of Jesus: give worship to God: for the witness of Jesus is the spirit of the prophet's word.

⁹ And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you?

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

⁷ But when they went on with their questions, he got up and said to them, Let him among you who is without sin be the first to send a stone at her. ⁸ And again, with bent head, he made letters on the floor. ⁹ And when his words came to their ears, they went out one by one, starting with the oldest even to the last, because they were conscious of what was in their hearts: and Jesus was there by himself with the woman before him. ¹⁰ Then Jesus got up, and seeing nobody but the woman, he said to her, Where are the men who said things against you? did no one give a decision against you?

²¹ Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

¹ A Psalm. Of David. Give to the Lord, you sons of the gods, give to the Lord glory and strength. ² Give to the Lord the full glory of his name; give him worship in holy robes.

²³ Whoever makes an offering of praise gives glory to me; and to him who is upright in his ways I will make clear the salvation of God.

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

¹⁰ And when these words came to the ears of Jesus he was surprised, and said to those who came after him, Truly I say to you, I have not seen such great faith, no, not in Israel.

¹² But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

²⁴ But he made answer and said, I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel. ²⁵ But she came and gave him worship, saying, Help, Lord. ²⁶ And he made answer and said, It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs. ²⁷ But she said, Yes, Lord: but even the dogs take the bits from under their masters' table. ²⁸ Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman, great is your faith: let your desire be done. And her daughter was made well from that hour.

³⁰ But a great number who are first will be last, and some who are last will be first.

¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last.

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

²² But Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, Daughter, take heart; your faith has made you well. And the woman was made well from that hour.

³⁴ And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be free from your disease.

⁵² And Jesus said to him, Go on your way; your faith has made you well. And straight away he was able to see, and went after him in the way.

⁵⁰ And he said to the woman, By your faith you have salvation; go in peace.

⁴⁸ And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.

⁴² And Jesus said, See again: your faith has made you well.

⁴⁴ And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will put up a kingdom which will never come to destruction, and its power will never be given into the hands of another people, and all these kingdoms will be broken and overcome by it, but it will keep its place for ever.

⁶ This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by force or by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies.

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.

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.

²³ And if they say to you, See, it is there! or, It is here! do not go away, or go after them. ²⁴ For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.

¹¹ And while they were giving ear to these words, he made another story for them, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they were of the opinion that the kingdom of God was coming straight away.

³⁶ Jesus said in answer, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom was of this world, my disciples would have made a good fight to keep me out of the hands of the Jews: but my kingdom is not here.

⁶ So, when they were together, they said to him, Lord, will you at this time give back the kingdom to Israel? ⁷ And he said to them, It is not for you to have knowledge of the time and the order of events which the Father has kept in his control.

²⁸ But if I by the Spirit of God send out evil spirits, then is the kingdom of God come on you.

²³ Then if any man says to you, See, here is the Christ, or, Here; do not put faith in him; ²⁴ For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked. ²⁵ See, I have made it clear to you before it comes about. ²⁶ If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it. ²⁷ Because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man. ²⁸ Wherever the dead body is, there will the eagles come together.

²¹ And then if any man says to you, See, here is Christ; or, See, there; have no faith in it:

⁹ And make well those in it who are ill and say to them, The kingdom of God is near to you. ¹⁰ But if you go into a town where they will not have you, go out into the streets of it and say, 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.

²³ And if they say to you, See, it is there! or, It is here! do not go away, or go after them.

⁸ And he said, Take care that you are not tricked: for a number of people will come in my name, saying, I am he; and, The time is near: do not go after them.

²⁶ John's answer was: I give baptism with water; but there is one among you of whom you have no knowledge;

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

²⁷ To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

¹⁵ And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.

²⁰ But the days will come when the husband will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.

³⁵ But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.

³⁵ Now see, your house is waste, and I say to you, You will not see me again till you say, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.

³³ Then Jesus said, I will be with you a little longer and then I go to him who sent me. ³⁴ You will be looking for me, and you will not see me: and where I am you may not come. ³⁵ So the Jews said among themselves, To what place is he going where we will not see him? will he go to the Jews living among the Greeks and become the teacher of the Greeks? ³⁶ What is this saying of his, You will be looking for me and will not see me, and where I am you may not come?

²¹ Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going. ²² So the Jews said, Will he take his life? Is that why he says, Where I go it is not possible for you to come? ²³ And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world. ²⁴ For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.

³⁵ Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.

³³ My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come.

⁵ But now I am going to him who sent me; and not one of you says to me, Where are you going? ⁶ But your hearts are full of sorrow because I have said these things. ⁷ But what I am saying is true: my going is for your good: for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

¹⁶ After a little time you will see me no longer; and then again, after a little time, you will see me. ¹⁷ So some of the disciples said one to another, What is this he is saying, After a little time, you will see me no longer; and then again, after a little time, you will see me? and, I am going to the Father? ¹⁸ So they said again and again, What is this he is saying, A little time? His words are not clear to us. ¹⁹ Jesus saw that they had a desire to put the question to him, so he said to them, Is this what you are questioning one with another, why I said, After a little time, you will see me no longer; and then again, after a little time, you will see me? ²⁰ Truly I say to you, You will be weeping and sorrowing, but the world will be glad: you will be sad, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. ²¹ When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world. ²² So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and no one will take away your joy.

¹¹ And now I will be no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given to me, so that they may be one even as we are one. ¹² While I was with them I kept them safe in your name which you have given to me: I took care of them and not one of them has come to destruction, but only the son of destruction, so that the Writings might come true. ¹³ And now I come to you; and these things I say in the world so that they may have my joy complete in them.

²³ Then if any man says to you, See, here is the Christ, or, Here; do not put faith in him; ²⁴ For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked. ²⁵ See, I have made it clear to you before it comes about. ²⁶ If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it.

²¹ And then if any man says to you, See, here is Christ; or, See, there; have no faith in it: ²² Because there will be false Christs and false prophets, and they will give signs and wonders in the hope of turning even the saints from the true way. ²³ But take care; see, I have made all things clear to you before the time.

²¹ And men will not say, See, it is here! or, There! for the kingdom of God is among you.

³ He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth. ⁴ After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding.

¹⁴ And the Lord will be seen over them, and his arrow will go out like the thunder-flame: and the Lord God, sounding the war-horn, will go in the storm-winds of the South.

¹ See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies. ² But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.

¹ For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch. 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.

²⁷ Because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

³⁰ And then the sign of the Son of man will be seen in heaven: and then all the nations of the earth will have sorrow, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

³¹ But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he be seated in his glory:

⁶⁴ Jesus says to him, You say so: but I say to you, From now you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.

² For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

² That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come;

⁸ And then will come the revelation of that evil one, whom the Lord Jesus will put to death with the breath of his mouth, and give to destruction by the revelation of his coming;

⁸ Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.

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.

⁷ And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them.

¹⁹ But today you are turned away from your God, who himself has been your saviour from all your troubles and sorrows; and you have said to him, Put a king over us. So now, take your places before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.

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.

²¹ From that time Jesus went on to make clear to his disciples how he would have to go up to Jerusalem, and undergo much at the hands of those in authority and the chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and the third day come again from the dead.

²² And while they were going about in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of man will be given up into the hands of men; ²³ And they will put him to death, and the third day he will come again from the dead. And they were very sad.

¹⁸ See, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be given into the hands of the chief priests and scribes; and they will give orders for him to be put to death, ¹⁹ And will give him up to the Gentiles to be made sport of and to be whipped and to be put to death on the cross: and the third day he will come back again from the dead.

⁴² Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?

³¹ And teaching them, he said that the Son of man would have to undergo much, and be hated by those in authority, and the chief priests, and the scribes, and be put to death, and after three days come back from the dead.

³¹ For he was giving his disciples teaching, and saying to them, The Son of man is given up into the hands of men, and they will put him to death; and when he is dead, after three days he will come back from the dead.

³³ Saying, See, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be given up to the chief priests and the scribes; and they will give an order for his death, and will give him up to the Gentiles:

¹⁰ Have you not seen this which is in the Writings: The stone which the builders put on one side, the same was made the chief stone of the building:

²² Saying, The Son of man will undergo much and be put on one side by the rulers and the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and be put to death, and on the third day he will come back to life.

³¹ And he took with him the twelve and said to them, Now we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things which were said by the prophets will be done to the Son of man.

³³ And he will be given cruel blows and put to death, and on the third day he will come back to life.

²⁵ And he said, O foolish men! how slow you are to give belief to what the prophets have said. ²⁶ Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory?

⁴⁶ And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;

¹¹ He came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their hearts.

³⁸ So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled?

⁵ And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

⁷ And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.

⁷ And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters. ⁸ Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth, ⁹ In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said. ¹⁰ And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth. ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open; ¹² And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights. ¹³ On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark; ¹⁴ And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird. ¹⁵ They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life. ¹⁶ Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord. ¹⁷ And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth. ¹⁸ And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters. ¹⁹ And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered. ²⁰ The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered. ²¹ And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man. ²² Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end. ²³ Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

¹⁵ Will you keep the old way by which evil men went? ¹⁶ Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters: ¹⁷ Who said to God, Go away from us; and, What is the Ruler of all able to do to us? ¹⁸ Though he made their houses full of good things: but the purpose of the evil-doers is far from me!

³⁷ And as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man. ³⁸ Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark, ³⁹ And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

²² And he said to his disciples, The time will come when you will have a great desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, but you will not see it.

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

⁸ I say to you that he will quickly do right in their cause. But when the Son of man comes, will there be any faith on earth?

⁷ By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.

¹⁹ By whom he went to the spirits in prison, preaching to those ²⁰ Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:

⁵ And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;

⁶ And that the world which then was came to an end through the overflowing of the waters.

¹⁰ And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building; ¹¹ And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full; ¹² Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

¹² And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them; ¹³ And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort; ¹⁴ Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;

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. ³⁷ And in the morning, when the effect of the wine was gone, Nabal's wife gave him an account of all these things, and all the heart went out of him, and he became like stone. ³⁸ And about ten days after, the Lord sent disease on Nabal and death came to him.

⁹ Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them. ¹⁰ Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young. 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.

⁴ My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.

¹² And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief: ¹³ But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes. ¹⁴ And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

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?

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.

¹ But about the times and their order, my brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you. ² For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. ³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

¹³ Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

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.

¹ And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth. ² And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street. ³ But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they took. ⁴ But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town; ⁵ And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them. ⁶ And Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting the door after him. ⁷ And he said, My brothers, do not this evil. ⁸ See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof. ⁹ And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in. ¹⁰ But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again. ¹¹ But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door. ¹² Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place; ¹³ For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town. ¹⁴ And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously. ¹⁵ And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town. ¹⁶ But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town. ¹⁷ And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction. ¹⁸ And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord; ¹⁹ See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death; ²⁰ This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there is it not a little one? so that my life may be safe. ²¹ And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town. ²² Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar. ²³ The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar. ²⁴ Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah. ²⁵ And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land. ²⁶ But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt. ²⁷ And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord: ²⁸ And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.

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. ⁵⁰ They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.

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.

¹⁶ But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town. ¹⁷ And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction. ¹⁸ And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord; ¹⁹ See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death; ²⁰ This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there is it not a little one? so that my life may be safe. ²¹ And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town. ²² Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar. ²³ The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar. ²⁴ Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah. ²⁵ And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.

²³ And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath: ²⁴ Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath? ²⁵ Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt:

⁹ If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.

¹⁹ And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

⁴⁰ As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.

⁸ How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.

¹¹ And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

⁹ For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.

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. ²⁴ But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you.

⁶ And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;

⁷ Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

⁸ And their dead bodies will be in the open street of the great town, which in the spirit is named Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was put to death on the cross.

²⁷ For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he will give to every man the reward of his works.

³ And while he was seated on the Mountain of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Make clear to us, when will these things be? and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the world?

²⁷ Because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man. ²⁸ Wherever the dead body is, there will the eagles come together. ²⁹ But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved: ³⁰ And then the sign of the Son of man will be seen in heaven: and then all the nations of the earth will have sorrow, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 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.

³⁷ And as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man.

³⁹ And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

²⁶ And then they will see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

²² For these are the days of punishment, in which all the things in the Writings will be put into effect.

²⁷ And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory.

³⁴ But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net: ³⁵ For so it will come on all those who are living on the face of all the earth. ³⁶ But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.

⁷ So that having every grace you are living in the hope of the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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

⁷ So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire, may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

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

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

⁷ See, he comes with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those by whom he was wounded; and all the tribes of the earth will be sorrowing because of him. Yes, so be it.

⁴ And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.

⁵ And as for you, are you looking for great things for yourself? Have no desire for them: for truly I will send evil on all flesh, says the Lord: but your life I will keep safe from attack wherever you go.

²⁵ So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?

²⁶ For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

¹⁷ Let not him who is on the house-top go down to take anything out of his house: ¹⁸ And let not him who is in the field go back to get his coat. ¹⁹ But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days. ²⁰ And say a prayer that your flight may not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath. ²¹ Because in those days there will be great sorrow, such as there has not been from the start of the world till now, or ever will be.

¹⁴ But when you see the unclean thing which makes destruction, in the place where it has no right to be let this be clear to the reader, then let those who are in Judaea go quickly to the mountains: ¹⁵ And let him who is on the house-top not go down, or go in, to take anything out of his house: ¹⁶ And let not him who is in the field go back to take his coat.

²¹ Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains; and those who are in the middle of the town go out; and let not those who are in the country come in.

⁷ But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ. ⁸ Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,

¹⁷ And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.

²⁶ But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt.

⁶ Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did. ⁷ Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure. ⁸ Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day. ⁹ And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes. ¹⁰ And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them. ¹¹ Now these things were done as an example; and were put down in writing for our teaching, on whom the last days have come. ¹² So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.

³⁸ But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him. ³⁹ But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.

¹⁸ For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error; ¹⁹ Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him. ²⁰ For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first. ²¹ For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it. ²² They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.

³⁹ He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.

²⁵ Because whoever has a desire to keep his life safe will have it taken from him; but whoever gives up his life because of me, will have it given back to him.

³⁵ Whoever has a desire to keep his life, will have it taken from him; and whoever gives up his life because of me and the good news, will keep it. ³⁶ What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? ³⁷ And what would a man give in exchange for his life?

²⁴ For whoever has a desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, but whoever gives up his life because of me, will keep it. ²⁵ For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?

²⁵ He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever.

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

⁹ Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;

³ Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

⁹ See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.

⁴ The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it. ⁵ And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity: ⁶ Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.

¹⁶ Then those in whom was the fear of the Lord had talk together: and the Lord gave ear, and it was recorded in a book to be kept in mind before him, for those who had the fear of the Lord and gave thought to his name. ¹⁷ And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant. 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.

²⁵ See, I have made it clear to you before it comes about.

⁴⁰ Then two men will be in the field; one is taken, and one let go; ⁴¹ Two women will be crushing grain; one is taken, and one let go.

²³ But take care; see, I have made all things clear to you before the time.

²⁹ But Peter said to him, Though the others may be turned away from you, I will not.

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 Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.

⁴ But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal. ⁵ In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace. ⁶ But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace. ⁷ What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.

¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first; ¹⁷ Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord.

⁹ The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;

⁵ And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle.

²¹ So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.

⁴¹ Two women will be crushing grain; one is taken, and one let go.

²⁹ From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off. ³⁰ His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

²⁶ And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no (UNTRANSLATED TEXT);and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed. ²⁷ And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.

¹ I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe. ² Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down: ³ Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite: ⁴ And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.

⁸ And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there. ⁹ And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

² For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.

²⁸ Wherever the dead body is, there will the eagles come together.

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

¹⁷ And I saw an angel taking his place in the sun; and he was crying with a loud voice, saying to all the birds in flight in the heavens, Come together to the great feast of God; ¹⁸ So that you may take for your food the flesh of kings, and of captains, and of strong men, and of horses and of those who are seated on them, and the flesh of all men, free and unfree, small and great.