Matthew 13 Cross References - BBE

¹ On that day Jesus went out of the house and was seated by the seaside. ² And great numbers of people came together to him, so that he got into a boat; and the people took up their position by the sea. ³ And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth; ⁴ And while he did so, some seeds were dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took them for food: ⁵ And some of the seed went among the stones, where it had not much earth, and straight away it came up because the earth was not deep: ⁶ And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root it became dry and dead. ⁷ And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth: ⁸ And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much. ⁹ He who has ears, let him give ear. ¹⁰ And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories? ¹¹ And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. ¹² Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. ¹³ For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them. ¹⁴ And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you: ¹⁵ For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well. ¹⁶ But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open. ¹⁷ For truly, I say to you that prophets and upright men had a desire to see the things which you see, and saw them not; and to have knowledge of the words which have come to your ears, and they had it not. ¹⁸ Give ear, then, to the story of the man who put the seed in the earth. ¹⁹ When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside. ²⁰ And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy; ²¹ But having no root in himself, he goes on for a time; and when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, he quickly becomes full of doubts. ²² And that which was dropped among the thorns, this is he who has the word; and the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, put a stop to the growth of the word and it gives no fruit. ²³ And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much. ²⁴ And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field: ²⁵ But while men were sleeping, one who had hate for him came and put evil seeds among the grain, and went away. ²⁶ But when the green stem came up and gave fruit, the evil plants were seen at the same time. ²⁷ And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not put good seed in your field? how then has it evil plants? ²⁸ And he said, Someone has done this in hate. And the servants say to him, Is it your pleasure that we go and take them up? ²⁹ But he says, No, for fear that by chance while you take up the evil plants, you may be rooting up the grain with them. ³⁰ Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house. 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. ³³ Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened. ³⁴ All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them: ³⁵ That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time. ³⁶ Then he went away from the people, and went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Make clear to us the story of the evil plants in the field. ³⁷ And he made answer and said, He who puts the good seed in the earth is the Son of man; ³⁸ And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One; ³⁹ And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels. ⁴⁰ As then the evil plants are got together and burned with fire, so will it be in the end of the world. ⁴¹ The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong, ⁴² And will put them into the fire; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow. ⁴³ Then will the upright be shining as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him give ear. ⁴⁴ The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field. ⁴⁵ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a trader searching for beautiful jewels. ⁴⁶ And having come across one jewel of great price, he went and gave all he had in exchange for it. ⁴⁷ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net, which was put into the sea and took in every sort of fish: ⁴⁸ When it was full, they took it up on the sands; and seated there they put the good into vessels, but the bad they put away. ⁴⁹ So will it be in the end of the world: the angels will come and take out the bad from the good, ⁵⁰ And will put them into the fire: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow. ⁵¹ Are all these things now clear to you? They say to him, Yes. ⁵² And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old. ⁵³ And when Jesus had come to the end of these stories he went away from there. ⁵⁴ And coming into his country, he gave them teaching in their Synagogue, so that they were greatly surprised and said, Where did this man get this wisdom and these works of power? ⁵⁵ Is not this the woodworker's son? is not his mother named Mary? and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? ⁵⁶ And his sisters, are they not all with us? from where, then, has he all these things? ⁵⁷ And they were bitter against him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour but in his country and among his family. ⁵⁸ And the works of power which he did there were small in number because they had no faith.

²⁸ And when he had come into the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, Have you faith that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yes, Lord.

¹ On that day Jesus went out of the house and was seated by the seaside. ² And great numbers of people came together to him, so that he got into a boat; and the people took up their position by the sea. ³ And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth; ⁴ And while he did so, some seeds were dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took them for food: ⁵ And some of the seed went among the stones, where it had not much earth, and straight away it came up because the earth was not deep: ⁶ And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root it became dry and dead. ⁷ And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth: ⁸ And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much. ⁹ He who has ears, let him give ear. ¹⁰ And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories? ¹¹ And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. ¹² Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. ¹³ For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them. ¹⁴ And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you: ¹⁵ For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

³⁶ Then he went away from the people, and went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Make clear to us the story of the evil plants in the field.

¹³ And he went out again by the seaside; and all the people came to him, and he gave them teaching.

¹ And again he was teaching by the seaside. And a very great number of people had come to him, so that he got into a boat on the sea and took his seat; and all the people were on the land by the seaside. ² And he gave them teaching about a number of things in the form of stories, and said to them in his teaching, Give ear: ³ A man went out to put seed in the earth: ⁴ And while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took it for food. ⁵ And some went on the stones, where it had not much earth; and it came up straight away, because the earth was not deep: ⁶ And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root, it became dry and dead. ⁷ And some went among the thorns, and the thorns came up, and it had no room for growth and gave no fruit. ⁸ And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, coming up and increasing, and giving thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much. ⁹ And he said to them, Whoever has ears, let him give ear. ¹⁰ And when he was by himself, those who were round him with the twelve put questions to him about the purpose of the stories. ¹¹ And he said to them, To you is given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are given in the form of stories; ¹² So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.

⁴ And when a great number of people came together, and men from every town went out to him, he gave them teaching in the form of a story: ⁵ A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven. ⁶ And some went on the rock, and when it came up it became dry and dead because it had no water. ⁷ And some went among thorns, and the thorns came up with it and it had no room for growth. ⁸ And some falling on good earth, came up and gave fruit a hundred times as much. And with these words he said in a loud voice, He who has ears, let him give ear. ⁹ And his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story. ¹⁰ And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.

¹⁰ The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule.

²⁵ And there went after him great numbers from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from the other side of Jordan.

³⁰ And there came to him great numbers of people having with them those who were broken in body, or blind, or without voice, or wounded, or ill in any way, and a number of others; they put them down at his feet and he made them well:

¹ And again he was teaching by the seaside. And a very great number of people had come to him, so that he got into a boat on the sea and took his seat; and all the people were on the land by the seaside.

³ And he got into one of the boats, the property of Simon, and made a request to him to go a little way out from the land. And being seated he gave the people teaching from the boat.

⁴ And when a great number of people came together, and men from every town went out to him, he gave them teaching in the form of a story: ⁵ A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven. ⁶ And some went on the rock, and when it came up it became dry and dead because it had no water. ⁷ And some went among thorns, and the thorns came up with it and it had no room for growth. ⁸ And some falling on good earth, came up and gave fruit a hundred times as much. And with these words he said in a loud voice, He who has ears, let him give ear.

⁸ One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us. ⁹ But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees? ¹⁰ Then the trees said to the fig-tree, You come and be king over us. ¹¹ But the fig-tree said to them, Am I to give up my sweet taste and my good fruit and go waving over the trees? ¹² Then the trees said to the vine, You come and be king over us. ¹³ But the vine said to them, Am I to give up my wine, which makes glad God and men, to go waving over the trees? ¹⁴ Then all the trees said to the thorn, You come and be king over us. ¹⁵ And the thorn said to the trees, If it is truly your desire to make me your king, then come and put your faith in my shade; and if not, may fire come out of the thorn, burning up the cedars of Lebanon. ¹⁶ So now, if you have done truly and uprightly in making Abimelech king, and if you have done well to Jerubbaal and his house in reward for the work of his hands; ¹⁷ {\I For my father made war for you, and put his life in danger, and made you free from the hands of Midian; ¹⁸ And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;} ¹⁹ If then you have done what is true and upright to Jerubbaal and his family this day, may you have joy in Abimelech, and may he have joy in you; ²⁰ But if not, may fire come out from Abimelech, burning up the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo; and may fire come out from the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo, for the destruction of Abimelech.

¹ And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were two men in the same town: one a man of great wealth, and the other a poor man. ² The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds; ³ But the poor man had only one little she-lamb, which he had got and taken care of: from its birth it had been with him like one of his children; his meat was its food, and from his cup it took its drink, resting in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him. ⁴ Now a traveller came to the house of the man of wealth, but he would not take anything from his flock or his herd to make a meal for the traveller who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and made it ready for the man who had come. ⁵ And David was full of wrath against that man; and he said to Nathan, By the living Lord, death is the right punishment for the man who has done this: ⁶ And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity. ⁷ And Nathan said to David, You are that man. The Lord God of Israel says, I made you king over Israel, putting holy oil on you, and I kept you safe from the hands of Saul;

⁴ I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.

² Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times;

¹ Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill: ² And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes. ³ And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden. ⁴ Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes? ⁵ And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it; ⁶ And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it. ⁷ For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

² Son of man, give out a dark saying, and make a comparison for the children of Israel,

⁴⁹ Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?

³ And make a comparison for this uncontrolled people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Put on the cooking-pot, put it on the fire and put water in it: ⁴ And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones. ⁵ Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it. ⁶ For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it. ⁷ For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust; ⁸ In order that it might make wrath come up to give punishment, she has put her blood on the open rock, so that it may not be covered. ⁹ For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood! and I will make great the burning mass. ¹⁰ Put on much wood, heating up the fire, boiling the flesh well, and making the soup thick, and let the bones be burned. ¹¹ And I will put her on the coals so that she may be heated and her brass burned, so that what is unclean in her may become soft and her waste be completely taken away. ¹² I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the waste which is in her has not come out, it has an evil smell. ¹³ As for your unclean purpose: because I have been attempting to make you clean, but you have not been made clean from it, you will not be made clean till I have let loose my passion on you in full measure. ¹⁴ I the Lord have said the word and I will do it; I will not go back or have mercy, and my purpose will not be changed; in the measure of your ways and of your evil doings you will be judged, says the Lord.

⁴ In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.

⁶ Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

¹⁰ And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories? ¹¹ And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. ¹² Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. ¹³ For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

³⁴ All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them: ³⁵ That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.

⁵³ And when Jesus had come to the end of these stories he went away from there.

¹ And Jesus, talking to them again in stories, said:

³² Now take an example from the fig-tree: when her branch has become soft and puts out its leaves, you are certain that the summer is near;

²³ And turning to them, he said to them in the form of a story, How is it possible for Satan to put out Satan?

² And he gave them teaching about a number of things in the form of stories, and said to them in his teaching, Give ear: ³ A man went out to put seed in the earth: ⁴ And while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took it for food. ⁵ And some went on the stones, where it had not much earth; and it came up straight away, because the earth was not deep: ⁶ And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root, it became dry and dead. ⁷ And some went among the thorns, and the thorns came up, and it had no room for growth and gave no fruit. ⁸ And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, coming up and increasing, and giving thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much. ⁹ And he said to them, Whoever has ears, let him give ear.

¹³ And he said to them, If you are not clear about this story, how will you be clear about the others?

³³ And with a number of such stories he gave them his teaching, as they were able to take it:

¹ And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

¹² And they made attempts to take him; but they were in fear of the people, because they saw that the story was against them; and they went away from him.

¹⁰ And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.

⁴¹ And Peter said to him, Lord, are these words said to us only, or to all men?

³ And he made a story for them, saying, ⁴ What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets loose and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is? ⁵ And when he has got it again, he takes it in his arms with joy. ⁶ And when he gets back to his house, he sends for his neighbours and friends, saying to them, Be glad with me, for I have got back my sheep which had gone away. ⁷ I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

²⁵ All this I have said to you in veiled language: but the time is coming when I will no longer say things in veiled language but will give you knowledge of the Father clearly.

¹⁸ Give ear, then, to the story of the man who put the seed in the earth. ¹⁹ When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.

¹⁹ And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh:

²⁶ And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.

¹² Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?

¹² And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.

²⁰ And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy;

¹⁰ They will not be in need of food or drink, or be troubled by the heat or the sun: for he who has mercy on them will be their guide, taking them by the springs of water.

²⁶ And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand; ²⁷ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

²¹ But having no root in himself, he goes on for a time; and when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, he quickly becomes full of doubts.

¹³ And those on the rock are those who with joy give hearing to the word; but having no root, they have faith for a time, and when the test comes they give up.

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

²³ If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

⁷ Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.

¹¹ For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways. ¹² There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

¹⁶ They will never be in need of food or drink: and they will never again be troubled by the burning heat of the sun:

¹⁸ Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

³ For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns. ⁴ Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

²² And that which was dropped among the thorns, this is he who has the word; and the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, put a stop to the growth of the word and it gives no fruit.

¹⁸ And others are those planted among the thorns; these are they who have given ear to the word, ¹⁹ And the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, and the desire for other things coming in, put a stop to the growth of the word, and it gives no fruit.

¹² Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.

²³ And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.

¹⁵ And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.

⁸ Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.

¹⁸ For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith, ²³ Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.

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

¹⁵ He who has ears, let him give ear.

¹⁶ But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.

⁹ And he said to them, Whoever has ears, let him give ear.

²³ If any man has ears, let him give ear.

¹⁴ And turning to the people again, he said to them, Give ear to me all of you, and let my words be clear to you: ¹⁵ There is nothing outside the man which, going into him, is able to make him unclean: but the things which come out of the man are those which make the man unclean.

⁷ He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the fruit of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.

¹¹ He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not come under the power of the second death.

¹⁷ He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the secret manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name, of which no one has knowledge but he to whom it is given.

²⁹ He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.

⁶ He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.

¹³ He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.

²² He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.

⁸ And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death. ⁹ If any man has ears, let him give ear.

¹⁰ And when he was by himself, those who were round him with the twelve put questions to him about the purpose of the stories.

³³ And with a number of such stories he gave them his teaching, as they were able to take it: ³⁴ And without a story he said nothing to them: but privately to his disciples he made all things clear.

⁸ Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way. ⁹ He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.

¹⁴ The secret of the Lord is with those in whose hearts is the fear of him; he will make his agreement clear to them.

¹⁰ For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.

⁸ And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.

²⁵ At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children. ²⁶ Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.

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

¹¹ But he said to them, Not all men are able to take in this saying, but only those to whom it is given.

¹¹ And he said to them, To you is given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are given in the form of stories;

³⁹ And she had a sister, by name Mary, who took her seat at the Lord's feet and gave attention to his words. ⁴⁰ But Martha had her hands full of the work of the house, and she came to him and said, Lord, is it nothing to you that my sister has let me do all the work? Say to her that she is to give me some help. ⁴¹ But the Lord, answering, said to her, Martha, Martha, you are full of care and troubled about such a number of things: ⁴² Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.

⁶⁵ And he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not given the power to do so by the Father.

¹⁷ If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.

¹⁴ And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.

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

²⁵ Now to him who is able to make you strong in agreement with the good news which I gave you and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in the light of the revelation of that secret which has been kept through times eternal,

⁷ But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;

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

¹⁴ For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

¹ Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God.

⁷ For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?

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.

⁵¹ See, I am giving you the revelation of a secret: we will not all come to the sleep of death, but we will all be changed.

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

¹⁸ And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,

³ How by revelation the secret was made clear to me, as I said before in a short letter, ⁴ By the reading of which you will be clear about my knowledge of the secret of Christ; ⁵ Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit; ⁶ Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news, ⁷ Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power. ⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ: ⁹ And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

³² This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

¹⁹ And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news,

²⁶ The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints, ²⁷ To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

² So that their hearts may be comforted, and that being joined together in love, they may come to the full wealth of the certain knowledge of the secret of God, even Christ,

⁹ Keeping the secret of the faith in a heart free from sin.

¹⁶ And without argument, great is the secret of religion: He who was seen in the flesh, who was given God's approval in the spirit, was seen by the angels, of whom the good news was given among the nations, in whom the world had faith, who was taken up in glory.

⁵ But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.

¹⁶ Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers. ¹⁷ Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning. ¹⁸ Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

²⁰ And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.

²⁷ As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.

⁴³ For this reason I say to you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

²⁹ For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have more: but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

²⁴ And he said to them, Take care what you give ear to: in the same measure as you give you will get, and more will be given to you. ²⁵ He who has, to him will be given: and he who has not, from him will be taken even that which he has.

⁹ What then will the master of the garden do? He will come and put the workmen to death, and will give the garden into the hands of others.

¹⁸ So take care how you give hearing, for to him who has will be given, and from him who has not will be taken even what he seems to have.

²⁶ For if any man has a feeling of shame because of me or of my words, the Son of man will have shame because of him when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

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

²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together? ²¹ So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

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

²⁵ But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.

²⁴ And he said to the others who were near, Take the pound away from him, and give it to the man who has ten. ²⁵ And they say to him, Lord, he has ten pounds. ²⁶ And I say to you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

² He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit. ³ You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you. ⁴ Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.

⁵ So keep in mind where you were at first, and be changed in heart and do the first works; or I will come to you, and will take away your light from its place, if your hearts are not changed.

¹⁵ I have knowledge of your works, that you are not cold or warm: it would be better if you were cold or warm. ¹⁶ So because you are not one thing or the other, I will have no more to do with you.

³ The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders: ⁴ But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.

¹⁸ Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see. ¹⁹ Who is blind, but my servant? who has his ears stopped, but he whom I send? who is blind as my true one, or who has his ears shut like the Lord's servant? ²⁰ Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.

¹⁸ They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

²¹ Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

² Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people.

¹⁷ And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Why are you reasoning among yourselves because you have no bread? do you still not see, and is it still not clear to you? are your hearts so hard? ¹⁸ Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?

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

³⁹ And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind. ⁴⁰ These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind? ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.

³ But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction: ⁴ Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.

⁹ And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser. ¹⁰ Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

¹² So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.

³⁹ For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again, ⁴⁰ He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

²⁵ And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the Holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers, ²⁶ Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you: ²⁷ For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

⁸ As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day. ⁹ And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment: ¹⁰ Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

¹⁴ But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.

⁷⁰ Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.

¹⁰ Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

¹⁰ For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered. ¹¹ And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut: ¹² And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing.

²⁰ As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

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

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

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

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

⁴ I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.

¹¹ But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

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.

⁴³ Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching. ⁴⁴ You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

¹⁹ So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;

⁵⁷ But with loud cries, and stopping their ears, they made an attack on him all together,

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:

²⁵ Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge, ²⁶ And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.

⁴ And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

¹¹ Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.

⁴ As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit, ⁵ With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time, ⁶ And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.

² In the middle of its street. And on this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, having twelve sorts of fruits, giving its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree give life to the nations.

³ Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. ⁴ Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted. ⁵ Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage. ⁶ Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire. ⁷ Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy. ⁸ Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God. ⁹ Happy are the peacemakers: for they will be named sons of God. ¹⁰ Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs. ¹¹ Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.

²⁹ Now you are letting your servant go in peace, O Lord, as you have said; ³⁰ For my eyes have seen your salvation,

²³ And, turning to the disciples, he said privately, Happy are the eyes which see the things you see: ²⁴ For I say to you that numbers of prophets and kings have had a desire to see the things which you see, and have not seen them, and to have knowledge of the things which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

²⁹ Jesus said to him, Because you have seen me you have belief: a blessing will be on those who have belief though they have not seen me!

¹⁸ To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

⁶ Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; ¹⁸ And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,

²⁴ For I say to you that numbers of prophets and kings have had a desire to see the things which you see, and have not seen them, and to have knowledge of the things which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

⁵⁶ Your father Abraham was full of joy at the hope of seeing my day: he saw it and was glad.

⁵ Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit; ⁶ Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news,

¹³ All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

³⁹ And not one of these got the good things of the agreement, though they all had a good record through faith, ⁴⁰ Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

¹⁰ For the prophets who gave the news of the grace which would come to you, made search with all care for knowledge of this salvation; ¹¹ Attempting to see what sort of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them was pointing to, when it gave witness to the pains which Christ would undergo and the glories which would come after them. ¹² And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.

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

¹³ And he said to them, If you are not clear about this story, how will you be clear about the others? ¹⁴ The seed is the word. ¹⁵ And these are they by the wayside, where the word is planted; and when they have given ear, the Evil One comes straight away and takes away the word which has been planted in them. ¹⁶ And in the same way, these are they who are planted on the stones, who, when the word has come to their ears, straight away take it with joy; ¹⁷ And they have no root in themselves, but go on for a time; then, when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, they quickly become full of doubts. ¹⁸ And others are those planted among the thorns; these are they who have given ear to the word, ¹⁹ And the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, and the desire for other things coming in, put a stop to the growth of the word, and it gives no fruit. ²⁰ And these are they who were planted on the good earth; such as give ear to the word, and take it into their hearts, and give fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundred times as much.

¹¹ Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God. ¹² Those by the side of the road are those who have given hearing; then the Evil One comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not have faith and get salvation. ¹³ And those on the rock are those who with joy give hearing to the word; but having no root, they have faith for a time, and when the test comes they give up. ¹⁴ And those which went among thorns are those who have given hearing, and go on their way, but they are overcome by cares and wealth and the pleasures of life, and they give no fruit. ¹⁵ And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

²⁰ Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places; ²¹ Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town: ²² How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

¹ My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind; ² So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge; ³ Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge; ⁴ If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth; ⁵ Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours. ⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:

¹⁶ How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

¹ He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense. ² A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

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

³⁷ But let your words be simply, Yes or No: and whatever is more than these is of the Evil One.

³⁸ And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;

¹⁵ And these are they by the wayside, where the word is planted; and when they have given ear, the Evil One comes straight away and takes away the word which has been planted in them.

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

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

⁴³ Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.

³⁸ Pilate said to him, True? what is true? Having said this he went out again to the Jews and said to them, I see no wrong in him.

³² Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.

¹⁵ But if it is a question of words or names or of your law, see to it yourselves; I will not be a judge of such things.

²⁵ And now I am conscious that you, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom, will not see my face again.

²⁵ And while he was talking about righteousness and self-control and the judging which was to come, Felix had great fear and said, Go away for the present, and when the right time comes I will send for you. ²⁶ For he was hoping that Paul would give him money: so he sent for him more frequently and had talk with him.

¹⁹ But had certain questions against him in connection with their religion, and about one Jesus, now dead, who, Paul said, was living. ²⁰ And as I had not enough knowledge for the discussion of these things, I made the suggestion to him to go to Jerusalem and be judged there.

³¹ And when they had gone away they said to one another, This man has done nothing which might give cause for death or prison. ³² And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been made free, if he had not put his cause before Caesar.

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

²⁸ And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

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

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

² And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong. ³ But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:

¹² So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.

¹ For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.

¹³ I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father. ¹⁴ I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One.

¹² Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.

¹⁸ We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

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

¹³ And Saul said, Not a man is to be put to death today: for today the Lord has made Israel safe. ¹⁴ Then Samuel said to the people, Come, let us go to Gilgal and there make the kingdom strong in the hands of Saul. ¹⁵ So all the people went to Gilgal; and there in Gilgal they made Saul king before the Lord; and peace-offerings were offered before the Lord; and there Saul and all the men of Israel were glad with great joy.

² And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was living.

⁶ Then the king sent for Jehoiada, the chief priest, and said to him, Why have you not given the Levites orders that the tax fixed by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and by the meeting of Israel, for the Tent of witness, is to be got in from Judah and Jerusalem and handed over?

¹⁴ And when the work was done, they took the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and it was used for making the vessels for the house of the Lord, all the vessels needed for the offerings, the spoons and the vessels of gold and silver. And as long as Jehoiada was living, the regular burned offerings were offered in the house of the Lord.

³⁴ When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care; ³⁵ In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour. ³⁶ But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him; ³⁷ And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.

¹² Then they had faith in his words; they gave him songs of praise. ¹³ But their memory of his works was short; not waiting to be guided by him,

² Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.

³¹ And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves. ³² And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.

⁵ And some of the seed went among the stones, where it had not much earth, and straight away it came up because the earth was not deep: ⁶ And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root it became dry and dead.

¹⁶ And in the same way, these are they who are planted on the stones, who, when the word has come to their ears, straight away take it with joy; ¹⁷ And they have no root in themselves, but go on for a time; then, when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, they quickly become full of doubts.

²⁰ For Herod was in fear of John, being conscious that he was an upright and holy man, and kept him safe. And hearing him, he was much troubled; and he gave ear to him gladly.

³⁵ He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light.

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 And you did not have a poor opinion of me because of the trouble in my flesh, or put shame on it; but you took me to your hearts as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.

²⁸ If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

⁸ For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul? ⁹ Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble? ¹⁰ Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?

³ In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

³ No man will make himself safe through evil-doing; but the root of upright men will never be moved.

¹² The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.

⁴ O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.

¹⁰ Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs. ¹¹ Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me. ¹² Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.

²² A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power? ²³ And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil.

²² And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.

³⁷ He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me. ³⁸ And he who does not take his cross and come after me is not good enough for me. 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.

⁶ And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.

⁶ And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root it became dry and dead.

⁵⁷ And they were bitter against him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour but in his country and among his family.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me. 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. 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?

⁹ Then they will be cruel to you, and will put you to death: and you will be hated by all nations because of my name. ¹⁰ And numbers of people will be turned from the right way, and will give one another up and have hate for one another.

¹³ But he who goes through to the end will get salvation.

³¹ Then said Jesus to them, All of you will be turned away from me this night: for it is said in the Writings, I will put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep of the flock will be put to flight.

³³ But Peter made answer and said to him, Though all may be turned away from you, I will never be turned away.

¹⁷ And they have no root in themselves, but go on for a time; then, when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, they quickly become full of doubts.

³⁴ And turning to the mass of people with his disciples, he said to them, If any man has the desire to come after me, let him give up all other desires, and take up his cross and come after me. 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?

¹² And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death. ¹³ And you will be hated by all men, because of my name; but he who goes through to the end will have salvation.

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

²⁶ And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple. ²⁷ Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple. ²⁸ For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete? ²⁹ For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him, ³⁰ And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete. ³¹ Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³² Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace. ³³ And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.

¹² But before all this, they will take you and be very cruel to you, giving you up to the Synagogues and to prisons, taking you before kings and rulers, because of my name. ¹³ And it will be turned to a witness for you. ¹⁴ So take care not to be troubled before the time comes, about what answers you will give: ¹⁵ For I will give you words and wisdom, so that not one of those who are against you will be able to get the better of you, or to put you in the wrong. ¹⁶ But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death. ¹⁷ And you will be hated by all men, because of me. ¹⁸ But not a hair of your head will come to destruction.

²⁶ Jesus, answering them, said, Truly I say to you, You come after me, not because you saw signs, but because you were given the bread and had enough.

⁶¹ When Jesus became conscious that his disciples were protesting about what he said, he said to them, Does this give you trouble? ⁶² What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before? ⁶³ The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life. ⁶⁴ But still some of you have no faith. For it was clear to Jesus from the first who they were who had no faith, and who it was who would be false to him. ⁶⁵ And he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not given the power to do so by the Father.

⁷⁰ Then Jesus said, Did I not make a selection of you, the twelve, and one of you is a son of the Evil One? ⁷¹ He was talking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. It was he who was to be false to Jesus--one of the twelve.

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. ²⁶ If any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.

⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing. ⁶ If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned. ⁷ If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.

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.

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

⁶ Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

¹² Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.

¹⁵ For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

⁶ For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

¹⁵ You have had news that all those in Asia went away from me; among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes:

¹⁰ For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

³⁵ So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded. ³⁶ For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you. ³⁷ In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow. 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.

⁵ Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

⁸ For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

¹⁹ They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us. ²⁰ And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.

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

¹⁰ And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar. ¹¹ So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another. ¹² Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom. ¹³ Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

²⁰ And Achan, answering, said to Joshua, Truly I have done wrong against the Lord, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done: ²¹ When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.

²⁰ But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him. ²¹ So Gehazi went after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he got down from his carriage and went back to him and said, Is all well? ²² And he said, All is well: but my master has sent me, saying, Even now, two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim; will you give me a talent of silver and two changes of clothing for them? ²³ And Naaman said, Be good enough to take two talents. And forcing him to take them, he put two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and gave them to his two servants to take before him. ²⁴ When he came to the hill, he took them from their hands, and put them away in the house; and he sent the men away, and they went. ²⁵ Then he came in and took his place before his master. And Elisha said to him, Where have you come from, Gehazi? And he said, Your servant went nowhere. ²⁶ And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants? 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.

⁷ See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.

¹⁰ Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

²⁸ He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.

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

⁸ It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

¹⁰ He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose. ¹¹ When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

¹³ There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall. ¹⁴ And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

³ For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.

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

⁷ And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:

¹⁶ And one came to him and said, Master, what good thing have I to do, so that I may have eternal life? ¹⁷ And he said to him, Why are you questioning me about what is good? One there is who is good: but if you have a desire to go into life, keep the rules of the law. ¹⁸ He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Do not put anyone to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, ¹⁹ Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. ²⁰ The young man says to him, All these things have I done: what more is there? ²¹ Jesus said to him, If you have a desire to be complete, go, get money for your property, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come after me. ²² But hearing these words the young man went away sorrowing: for he had much property. ²³ And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, It is hard for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of heaven. ²⁴ And again I say to you, It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of God.

²³ And Jesus, looking round about, said to his disciples, How hard it is for those who have wealth to come into the kingdom of God! ²⁴ And the disciples were full of wonder at his words. But Jesus said to them again, Children, how hard it is for those who put faith in wealth to come into the kingdom of God! ²⁵ It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man of wealth to come into the kingdom of God.

¹⁴ And those which went among thorns are those who have given hearing, and go on their way, but they are overcome by cares and wealth and the pleasures of life, and they give no fruit.

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

²¹ So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

²⁹ And do not give overmuch thought to your food and drink, and let not your mind be full of doubts. ³⁰ For the nations of the world go in search of all these things: but your Father has knowledge that you have need of them.

¹⁶ And he said to them, A certain man gave a great feast, and sent word of it to a number of people. ¹⁷ And when the time had come, he sent his servants to say to them, Come, for all things are now ready. ¹⁸ And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come. ¹⁹ And another said, I have got some cattle, and I am going to make a test of them: I am full of regret that I am unable to come. ²⁰ And another said, I have been married, and so I am not able to come. ²¹ And the servant came back and gave his master an account of these things. Then the master of the house was angry and said to the servant, Go out quickly into the streets of the town and get the poor, the blind, and those who are broken in body. ²² And the servant said, Lord, your orders have been done, and still there is room. ²³ And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the roads and the fields, and make them come in, so that my house may be full. ²⁴ For I say to you that not one of those who were requested to come will have a taste of my feast.

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

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:

¹ But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, got money for his property, ² And kept back part of the price, his wife having knowledge of it, and took the rest and put it at the feet of the Apostles. ³ But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land? ⁴ While you had it, was it not your property? and after you had given it in exchange, was it not still in your power? how has this purpose come into your mind? you have been false, not to men, but to God. ⁵ And at these words, Ananias went down on the earth, and his life went from him: and great fear came on all who were present. ⁶ And the young men went and made ready his body, and took it out, and put it in the earth. ⁷ And about three hours after, his wife, having no knowledge of what had taken place, came in. ⁸ And Peter said to her, Give me an answer: was this amount of money the price of the land? And she said, Yes, it was. ⁹ But Peter said to her, Why have you made an agreement together to be false to the Spirit of the Lord? See, the feet of the young men who have put the body of your husband in the earth, are at the door, and they will take you out. ¹⁰ And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband. ¹¹ Then great fear came on all the church and on all who had knowledge of these things.

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,

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

¹⁷ Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;

¹⁴ Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy; ¹⁵ Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

¹⁵ Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

¹¹ A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah. ¹² These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,

¹ Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord. ² But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night. ³ He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

¹³ Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens. ¹⁴ They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth; ¹⁵ For a sign that the Lord is upright; he is my Rock, there is no deceit in him.

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

³¹ Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?

⁸ Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

¹⁰ And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.

³³ Make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for by its fruit you will get knowledge of the tree.

⁸ And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.

²⁰ And these are they who were planted on the good earth; such as give ear to the word, and take it into their hearts, and give fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundred times as much.

¹⁵ Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

⁴³ For no good tree gives bad fruit, and no bad tree gives good fruit. ⁴⁴ For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.

⁹ And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.

¹¹ He came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their hearts. ¹² To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name: ¹³ Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

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

²⁶ But you have no belief because you are not of my sheep. ²⁷ My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me:

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

¹⁶ You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.

⁷ Now it is clear to them that whatever you have given to me comes from you: ⁸ Because I have given them the words which you gave to me; and they have taken them to heart, and have certain knowledge that I came from you, and they have faith that you sent me.

¹¹ Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.

¹ And now we give you news, brothers, about the grace of God which has been given to the churches of Macedonia; ² How while they were undergoing every sort of trouble, and were in the greatest need, they took all the greater joy in being able to give freely to the needs of others.

¹⁰ And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;

¹⁷ Not that I am looking for an offering, but for fruit which may be put to your credit.

⁶ Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;

¹⁰ Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

¹ And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.

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.

¹³ But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true: ¹⁴ And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

² And, truly, the good news came to us, even as it did to them; but the hearing of the word did them no good, because they were not united in faith with the true hearers.

⁷ For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

¹⁰ For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:

¹⁵ Let us then make offerings of praise to God at all times through him, that is to say, the fruit of lips giving witness to his name. ¹⁶ But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.

²¹ For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation. ²² But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

¹ So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk, ² Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

⁵ So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue, ⁶ And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind, ⁷ And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself. ⁸ For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.

¹² And Samson said, Now I have a hard question for you: if you are able to give me the answer before the seven days of the feast are over, I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty changes of clothing; ¹³ But if you are not able to give me the answer, then you will have to give me thirty linen robes and thirty changes of clothing. And they said to him, Put your hard question and let us see what it is.

¹⁰ For it is one rule after another; one line after another; here a little, there a little.

¹³ For this cause the word of the Lord will be to them rule after rule, line after line, here a little, there a little; so that they may go on their way, and falling back may be broken, and taken in the net.

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

¹⁹ When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.

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:

³³ Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

³⁷ And he made answer and said, He who puts the good seed in the earth is the Son of man;

⁴⁴ The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field. ⁴⁵ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a trader searching for beautiful jewels.

⁴⁷ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net, which was put into the sea and took in every sort of fish:

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

¹ For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to get workers into his vine-garden.

³³ Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

² The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who made a feast when his son was married,

¹ Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, the friends of the bride, who took their lights, and went out with the purpose of meeting the husband.

²⁶ And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth, ²⁷ And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how. ²⁸ The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain. ²⁹ But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come. ³⁰ And he said, What picture may we give of the kingdom of God, or with what story may we make it clear?

¹⁸ Then he said, What is the kingdom of God like? what comparison may I make of it?

²⁰ And again he said, What is the kingdom of God like?

⁵ Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news,

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.

⁹ All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood. ¹⁰ His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.

³⁹ And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels.

⁵ Now the husband was a long time in coming, and they all went to sleep.

³⁰ And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them. ³¹ So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.

¹³ For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light. ¹⁵ So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works.

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

³ For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them; ⁴ And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories. ⁵ But be self-controlled in all things, do without comfort, go on preaching the good news, completing the work which has been given you to do.

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;

⁸ Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

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.

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

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

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

²⁶ And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth, ²⁷ And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how. ²⁸ The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain. ²⁹ But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come.

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.

¹¹ Because it has come to my knowledge, through those of the house of Chloe, that there are divisions among you, my brothers. ¹² That is, that some of you say, I am of Paul; some say, I am of Apollos; some say, I am of Cephas; and some say, I am Christ's. ¹³ Is there a division in Christ? was Paul nailed to the cross for you? or were you given baptism in the name of Paul?

⁵ What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them. ⁶ I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase. ⁷ So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase. ⁸ Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work. ⁹ For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

²⁸ And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues. ²⁹ Are all Apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? have all the power of working wonders?

¹² Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead? ¹³ But if there is no coming back from the dead, then Christ has not come back from the dead: ¹⁴ And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect. ¹⁵ Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead. ¹⁶ For if it is not possible for the dead to come to life again, then Christ has not come to life again: ¹⁷ And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins. ¹⁸ And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction. ¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most unhappy. ²⁰ But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping. ²¹ For as by man came death, so by man there is a coming back from the dead. ²² For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life. ²³ But every man in his right order: Christ the first-fruits; then those who are Christ's at his coming. ²⁴ Then comes the end, when he will give up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have put an end to all rule and to all authority and power. ²⁵ For his rule will go on till he has put all those who are against him under his feet. ²⁶ The last power to come to an end is death. ²⁷ For, as it says, He has put all things under his feet. But when he says, All things are put under him, it is clear that it is not said about him who put all things under him. ²⁸ And when all things have been put under him, then will the Son himself be under him who put all things under him, so that God may be all in all. ²⁹ Again, what will they do who are given baptism for the dead? if the dead do not come back at all, why are people given baptism for them? ³⁰ And why are we in danger every hour? ³¹ Yes, truly, by your pride in me, my brothers in Christ Jesus our Lord, my life is one long death. ³² If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end. ³³ Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour. ³⁴ Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.

¹⁰ Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear; because he is doing the Lord's work, even as I am:

¹⁸ But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace; ¹⁹ That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace. ²⁰ So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.

¹ We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

⁴ But in everything making it clear that we are the servants of God, in quiet strength, in troubles, in need, in sorrow,

¹ O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross? ² Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? ³ Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh?

¹¹ And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching; ¹² For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:

¹⁵ This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. ¹⁶ For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

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

⁴⁹ And John, answering, said, Master, we saw a man driving out evil spirits in your name, and we did not let him do it, because he was not one of us. ⁵⁰ But Jesus said to him, Let him do it, for he who is not against you is for you. 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. 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?

³ For I myself, being present in spirit though not in body, have come to a decision about him who has done this thing; ⁴ In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you have come together with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵ That this man is to be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may have forgiveness in the day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass? ⁷ Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.

⁶ Let it be enough for such a man to have undergone the punishment which the church put on him; ⁷ So that now, on the other hand, it is right for him to have forgiveness and comfort from you, for fear that his sorrow may be over-great. ⁸ For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts. ⁹ And for the same reason I sent you a letter so that I might be certain of your desire to do my orders in all things. ¹⁰ But if you give forgiveness to anyone, I do the same: for if I have given forgiveness for anything, I have done it because of you, in the person of Christ; ¹¹ So that Satan may not get the better of us: for we are not without knowledge of his designs.

¹⁴ And our desire is that you will keep control over those whose lives are not well ordered, giving comfort to the feeble-hearted, supporting those with little strength, and putting up with much from all.

²² And have pity on those who are in doubt; ²³ And to some give salvation, pulling them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the clothing which is made unclean by the flesh.

²⁹ And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.

¹⁰ For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him. ¹¹ When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

⁴ See, it is put into the fire for burning: the fire has made a meal of its two ends and the middle part of it is burned; is it good for any work? ⁵ Truly, before it was cut down, it was not used for any purpose: how much less, when the fire has made a meal of it and it is burned, will it be made into anything? ⁶ For this cause the Lord has said: Like the vine-tree among the trees of the woods which I have given to the fire for burning, so will I give the people of Jerusalem. ⁷ And my face will be turned against them; and though they have come out of the fire they will be burned up by it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord when my face is turned against them.

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.

¹² In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.

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

¹⁰ And those servants went out into the streets, and got together all those whom they came across, bad and good: and the feast was full of guests. ¹¹ But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe; ¹² And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say. ¹³ Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow. ¹⁴ For out of all to whom the good news has come, only a small number will get salvation.

⁶ But in the middle of the night there is a cry, The husband comes! Go out to him. ⁷ Then all those virgins got up, and made ready their lights. ⁸ And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lights are going out. ⁹ But the wise made answer, saying, There may not be enough for us and you; it would be better for you to go to the traders and get oil for yourselves. ¹⁰ And while they went to get oil, the master came; and those who were ready went in with him to the feast: and the door was shut. ¹¹ After that the other virgins came, saying, Lord, Lord, let us in. ¹² But he made answer and said, Truly I say to you, I have no knowledge of you. ¹³ Keep watch, then, because you are not certain of the day or of the hour.

³² And before him all the nations will come together; and they will be parted one from another, as the sheep are parted from the goats by the keeper.

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

¹⁷ In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned in the fire which will never be put out.

⁶ If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

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

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

²⁴ And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:

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.

³⁰ And he said, What picture may we give of the kingdom of God, or with what story may we make it clear? ³¹ It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is put in the earth, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth, ³² But when it is planted, it comes up, and becomes taller than all the plants, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to take rest in its shade.

¹⁸ Then he said, What is the kingdom of God like? what comparison may I make of it? 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.

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.

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.

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

¹⁶ May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth. ¹⁷ May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name. ¹⁸ Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, the only doer of wonders. ¹⁹ Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.

¹² The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.

² And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it. ³ And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. ⁴ And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.

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

⁶ In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade.

¹ And he took me back to the door of the house; and I saw that waters were flowing out from under the doorstep of the house on the east, for the house was facing east: and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south side of the altar. ² And he took me out by the north doorway, and made me go round to the outside of the doorway looking to the east; and I saw waters running slowly out on the south side. ³ And the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, and after measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters, which came over my feet. ⁴ And again, measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters which came up to my knees. Again, measuring a thousand, he made me go through the waters up to the middle of my body. ⁵ Again, after his measuring a thousand, it became a river which it was not possible to go through: for the waters had become deep enough for swimming, a river it was not possible to go through.

³⁴ While you were looking at it, a stone was cut out, but not by hands, and it gave the image a blow on its feet, which were of iron and earth, and they were broken in bits. ³⁵ Then the iron and the earth, the brass and the silver and the gold, were smashed together, and became like the dust on the floors where grain is crushed in summer; and the wind took them away so that no sign of them was to be seen: and the stone which gave the image a blow became a great mountain, covering all the earth.

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. ⁴⁵ Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that by it the iron and the brass and the earth and the silver and the gold were broken to bits, a great God has given the king knowledge of what is to take place in the future: the dream is fixed, and its sense is certain.

¹² Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things.

¹ But in the last days it will come about that the mountain of the Lord's house will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and peoples will be flowing to it. ² And a number of nations will go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. ³ And he will be judge between great peoples, and strong nations far away will be ruled by his decisions; their swords will be hammered into plough-blades and their spears into vine-knives: nations will no longer be lifting up their swords against one another, and knowledge of war will have gone for ever.

¹⁰ For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.

²⁰ This is what the Lord of armies has said: It will again come about that when peoples and those living in great towns come, ²¹ And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you. ²² And great peoples and strong nations will come to give worship to the Lord of armies in Jerusalem and to make requests for grace from the Lord. ²³ This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.

⁷ And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light. ⁸ And on that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them flowing to the sea on the east and half to the sea on the west: in summer and in winter it will be so. ⁹ And the Lord will be King over all the earth: in that day there will be one Lord and his name one. ¹⁰ And all the land will become like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up and be living in her place; from the doorway of Benjamin to the place of the first doorway, to the doorway of the angle, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-crushing places, men will be living in her.

¹⁵ And in those days Peter got up among the brothers there were about one hundred and twenty of them, and said,

²⁰ And hearing it, they gave praise to God; and they said to him, You see, brother, what thousands there are among the Jews, who have the faith; and they all have a great respect for the law:

¹⁸ And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act, ¹⁹ By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;

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

⁶ Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

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

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

³ And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

²⁰ And if the Lord had not made the time short, no flesh would have been kept from destruction; but because of the saints he has made the time short. ²¹ It is like leaven, which a woman put into three measures of meal, and it was all leavened.

² He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.

¹² I have still much to say to you, but you are not strong enough for it now. ¹³ However, when he, the Spirit of true knowledge, has come, he will be your guide into all true knowledge: for his words will not come from himself, but whatever has come to his hearing, that he will say: and he will make clear to you the things to come.

⁹ A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.

⁹ And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;

¹³ For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure. ¹⁴ Do all things without protests and arguments; ¹⁵ So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

²³ And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ God, by whom you have been marked out in his purpose, is unchanging and will make it complete.

¹³ For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

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.

⁷ Certainly the Lord will do nothing without making clear his secret to his servants, the prophets.

¹⁴ And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

⁴ Now this took place so that these words of the prophet might come true, ⁵ Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your King comes to you, gentle and seated on an ass, and on a young ass.

³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was:

¹⁴ But it will be better for Tyre and Sidon, in the day of judging, than for you.

²⁴ Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

¹⁸ Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.

²⁵ Now to him who is able to make you strong in agreement with the good news which I gave you and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in the light of the revelation of that secret which has been kept through times eternal, ²⁶ But is now made clear; and by the writings of the prophets, by the order of the eternal God, the knowledge of it has been given to all the nations, so that they may come under the rule of the faith;

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

⁹ And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

²⁵ Of which I became a servant by the purpose of God which was given to me for you, to give effect to the word of God, ²⁶ The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints,

⁹ Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, ¹⁰ But has now been made clear by the revelation of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who put an end to death and made life unending come to light through the good news,

² In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true; ³ Who, in his time, made clear his word in the good news, of which, by the order of God our Saviour, I became a preacher;

¹ In times past the word of God came to our fathers through the prophets, in different parts and in different ways;

²⁰ Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you, ²¹ Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

⁸ And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death.

⁸ The beast which you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the great deep, and to go into destruction. And those who are on the earth, whose names have not been put in the book of life from the first, will be full of wonder when they see the beast, that he was, and is not, and still will be.

¹ On that day Jesus went out of the house and was seated by the seaside.

¹¹ And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

²² And straight away he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, till he had sent the people away.

¹⁵ Then Peter said to him, Make the story clear to us. ¹⁶ And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?

³⁹ And when he had sent the people away, he got into the boat, and came into the country of Magadan.

³⁴ And without a story he said nothing to them: but privately to his disciples he made all things clear.

⁴⁵ And straight away he made his disciples get into the boat, and go before him to the other side to Beth-saida, while he himself sent the people away.

¹⁷ And when he had gone into the house away from all the people, his disciples put questions to him about the saying.

⁹ And there were about four thousand people: and he sent them away.

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.

²⁰ And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.

⁴⁰ He who gives honour to you gives honour to me; and he who gives honour to me gives honour to him who sent me.

²⁷ And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not put good seed in your field? how then has it evil plants?

⁴¹ The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong,

¹³ Now when Jesus had come into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he said, questioning his disciples, Who do men say that the Son of man is? ¹⁴ And they said, Some say, John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. ¹⁵ He says to them, But who do you say that I am? ¹⁶ And Simon Peter made answer and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

¹⁶ Whoever gives ear to you, gives ear to me; and whoever is against you, is against me; and whoever is against me, is against him who sent me.

²⁰ Truly I say to you, He who takes to his heart anyone whom I send, takes me to his heart; and he who so takes me, takes him who sent me.

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

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.

¹⁸ And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

⁵ What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them. ⁶ I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase. ⁷ So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.

³ What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

¹⁵ And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

³⁰ A seed will be his servant; the doings of the Lord will be made clear to the generation which comes after.

¹⁰ And the Lord was pleased (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) see a seed, long life, (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) will do well in his hand (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .

²³ And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.

⁸ With the sound of the pipe I will get them together; for I have given the price to make them free: and they will be increased as they were increased. ⁹ Though I had them planted among the peoples, they will keep me in mind in far countries: and they will take care of their children and will come back.

¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom will be given through all the world for a witness to all nations; and then the end will come.

¹⁸ And Jesus came to them and said, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. ¹⁹ Go then, and make disciples of all the nations, giving them baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: ²⁰ Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone. ¹⁶ He who has faith and is given baptism will get salvation; but he who has not faith will be judged. ¹⁷ And these signs will be with those who have faith: in my name they will send out evil spirits; and they will make use of new languages; ¹⁸ They will take up snakes, and if there is poison in their drink, it will do them no evil; they will put their hands on those who are ill, and they will get well. ¹⁹ So then the Lord Jesus, after he had said these words to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God. ²⁰ And they went out, preaching everywhere, the Lord working with them, and giving witness to the word by the signs which came after. So be it.

⁴⁷ And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.

⁴⁴ You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

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

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

¹⁷ And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.

¹⁸ But I say, Did not the word come to their ears? Yes, certainly: Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

²⁶ But is now made clear; and by the writings of the prophets, by the order of the eternal God, the knowledge of it has been given to all the nations, so that they may come under the rule of the faith;

¹⁸ For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ; ¹⁹ Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

¹⁸ Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

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

² My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

⁸ The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One. ⁹ Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father. ¹⁰ In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

⁶ And I saw another angel in flight between heaven and earth, having eternal good news to give to those who are on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and language and people,

¹⁰ A stream of fire was flowing and coming out from before him: a thousand thousands were his servants, and ten thousand times ten thousand were in their places before him: the judge was seated and the books were open.

¹³ Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.

²⁵ But while men were sleeping, one who had hate for him came and put evil seeds among the grain, and went away.

²⁸ And he said, Someone has done this in hate. And the servants say to him, Is it your pleasure that we go and take them up?

⁴⁹ So will it be in the end of the world: the angels will come and take out the bad from the good,

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?

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:

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

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

³ But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.

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

¹¹ Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One. ¹² For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

⁷ And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire, ⁸ To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus: ⁹ Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength, ¹⁰ At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith because our witness among you had effect in that day.

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; ⁹ Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,

²⁶ For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

¹⁴ The prophet Enoch, who was the seventh after Adam, said of these men, The Lord came with tens of thousands of his saints,

¹⁵ And another angel came out from the house of God, crying with a loud voice to him who was seated on the cloud, Put in your blade, and let the grain be cut: because the hour for cutting it is come; for the grain of the earth is over-ready. ¹⁶ And he who was seated on the cloud sent in his blade on the earth; and the grain of the earth was cut. ¹⁷ And another angel came out from the house of God which is in heaven, having a sharp curved blade. ¹⁸ And another angel came out from the altar, who has power over fire; and he gave a loud cry to him who had the sharp curved blade, saying, Put in your sharp blade, and let the grapes of the vine of the earth be cut; for her grapes are fully ready. ¹⁹ And the angel sent his blade into the earth, and the vine of the earth was cut, and he put it into the great wine-crusher of the wrath of God.

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

² And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years, ³ And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time.

⁷ And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be let loose out of his prison, ⁸ And will go out to put in error the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to get them together to the war, the number of whom is like the sands of the sea. ⁹ And they went up over the face of the earth, and made a circle about the tents of the saints, and the well loved town: and fire came down out of heaven for their destruction. ¹⁰ And the Evil One who put them in error was sent down into the sea of ever-burning fire, where the beast and the false prophet are, and their punishment will go on day and night for ever and ever.

³ I will take away man and beast; I will take away the birds of the heaven and the fishes of the sea; causing the downfall of the evil-doers, and cutting man off from the face of the earth, says the Lord.

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.

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.

²⁷ And then he will send out the angels, and will get together his saints from the four winds, from the farthest part of the earth to the farthest part of heaven.

²⁶ Then you will say, We have taken food and drink with you, and you were teaching in our streets. ²⁷ But he will say, Truly, I have no knowledge of you or where you come from; go away from me, you workers of evil.

⁸ But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath, ⁹ Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;

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

¹⁷ Now, it is my desire, brothers, that you will take note of those who are causing division and trouble among you, quite against the teaching which was given to you: and keep away from them. ¹⁸ For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

⁶ And again, when he is sending his only Son into the world, he says, Let all the angels of God give him worship. ⁷ And of the angels he says, Who makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire:

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

¹¹ And I saw, and there came to my ears the sound of a great number of angels round about the high seat and the beasts and the rulers; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; ¹² Saying with a great voice, It is right to give to the Lamb who was put to death, power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.

²⁷ And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.

⁹ You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

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

¹⁵ Now if you are ready, on hearing the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, to go down on your faces in worship before the image which I have made, it is well: but if you will not give worship, that same hour you will be put into a burning and flaming fire; and what god is there who will be able to take you out of my hands? ¹⁶ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answering Nebuchadnezzar the king, said, There is no need for us to give you an answer to this question. ¹⁷ If our God, whose servants we are, is able to keep us safe from the burning and flaming fire, and from your hands, O King, he will keep us safe.

²¹ Then these men had cords put round them as they were, in their coats, their trousers, their hats, and their clothing, and were dropped into the burning and flaming fire. ²² And because the king's order was not to be put on one side, and the heat of the fire was so great, the men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego were burned to death by the flame of the fire.

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

⁵⁰ And will put them into the fire: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

¹³ Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

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

²⁸ There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside.

²³ And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast. ²⁴ And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.

² And he made the great deep open and a smoke went up from it, like the smoke of a great oven; and the sun and the air were made dark because of the smoke.

¹⁰ To him will be given of the wine of God's wrath which is ready unmixed in the cup of his wrath and he will have cruel pain, burning with fire before the holy angels and before the Lamb:

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

¹⁴ And death and Hell were put into the sea of fire. This is the second death, even the sea of fire. ¹⁵ And if anyone's name was not in the book of life, he went down into the sea of fire.

⁸ But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.

³ And those who are wise will be shining like the light of the outstretched sky; and those by whom numbers have been turned to righteousness will be like the stars for ever and ever.

³⁶ I had no clothing, and you gave it to me: when I was ill, or in prison, you came to me.

²⁹ But I say to you that from now I will not take of this fruit of the vine, till that day when I take it new with you in my Father's kingdom.

³² Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

²⁹ And I will give you a kingdom as my Father has given one to me,

⁴¹ There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for the glory of one star is different from that of another. ⁴² So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life: ⁴³ It is planted in shame; it comes again in glory: feeble when it is planted, it comes again in power: ⁴⁴ It is planted a natural body; it comes again as a body of the spirit. If there is a natural body, there is equally a body of the spirit. ⁴⁵ And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit. ⁴⁶ But that which is natural comes before that which is of the spirit. ⁴⁷ The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is from heaven. ⁴⁸ Those who are of the earth are like the man who was from the earth: and those who are of heaven are like the one from heaven. ⁴⁹ And in the same way as we have taken on us the image of the man from the earth, so we will take on us the image of the one from heaven. ⁵⁰ Now I say this, my brothers, that it is not possible for flesh and blood to have a part in the kingdom of God; and death may not have a part in life. ⁵¹ See, I am giving you the revelation of a secret: we will not all come to the sleep of death, but we will all be changed. ⁵² In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed. ⁵³ For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life. ⁵⁴ But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.

⁵⁸ For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

³ And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God. ⁴ And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end. ⁵ And he who is seated on the high seat said, See, I make all things new. And he said, Put it in the book; for these words are certain and true.

²² And I saw no Temple there; because the Lord God, the Ruler of all, and the Lamb are its Temple. ²³ And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.

² So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge; ³ Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge; ⁴ If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth; ⁵ Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

¹⁶ How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.

¹ He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.

²³ Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.

¹ Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.

²¹ For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.

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

²⁷ Then Peter said to him, See, we have given up everything and have come after you; what then will we have?

²⁹ And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

³³ And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.

²³ But at these words he became very sad, for he had great wealth. ²⁴ And Jesus, looking at him, said, How hard it is for those who have wealth to get into the kingdom of God!

⁶ And he came down quickly, and took him into his house with joy. ⁷ And when they saw it, they were all angry, saying, He has gone into the house of a sinner. ⁸ And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.

³⁵ And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.

⁴⁴ And all those who were of the faith kept together, and had all things in common; ⁴⁵ And exchanging their goods and property for money, they made division of it among them all, as they had need. ⁴⁶ And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts, ⁴⁷ Giving praise to God, and having the approval of all the people; and every day the number of those who had salvation was increased by the Lord.

³² And all those who were of the faith were one in heart and soul: and not one of them said that any of the things which he had was his property only; but they had all things in common. ³³ And with great power the Apostles gave witness of the coming back of the Lord Jesus from the dead; and grace was on them all. ³⁴ And no one among them was in need; for everyone who had land or houses, exchanging them for money, took the price of them, ³⁵ And put it at the feet of the Apostles for distribution to everyone as he had need.

⁴ Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.

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, 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:

³ In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.

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

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.

³⁴ For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.

²⁴ By faith Moses, when he became a man, had no desire to be named the son of Pharaoh's daughter; ²⁵ Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin; ²⁶ Judging a part in the shame of Christ to be better than all the wealth of Egypt; for he was looking forward to his reward.

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

¹⁸ There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.

⁶ There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us. ⁷ Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.

⁶ Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it. ⁷ And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

¹³ Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge. ¹⁴ For trading in it is better than trading in silver, and its profit greater than bright gold. ¹⁵ She is of more value than jewels, and nothing for which you may have a desire is fair in comparison with her. ¹⁶ Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour. ¹⁷ Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace. ¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

¹⁰ Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold. ¹¹ For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.

¹⁸ Wealth and honour are in my hands, even wealth without equal and righteousness. ¹⁹ My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver. ²⁰ I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:

² Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it? ³ I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life. ⁴ I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens. ⁵ I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts. ⁶ I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees. ⁷ I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me. ⁸ I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides. ⁹ And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me. ¹⁰ And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward. ¹¹ Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun. ¹² And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.

⁸ All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

¹³ This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.

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?

⁵ But they gave no attention, and went about their business, one to his farm, another to his trade:

⁴ If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

⁶ And she will have no more fear of change, being full of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is her wealth.

⁴⁴ The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field.

²⁸ Peter said to him, See, we have given up everything, and come after you. ²⁹ Jesus said, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, because of me and the good news, ³⁰ Who will not get a hundred times as much now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land--though with great troubles; and, in the world to come, eternal life. ³¹ But a great number who are first will be last: and those who are last will be first.

²⁸ And Peter said, See, we have given up what is ours to come after you. ²⁹ And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God, ³⁰ Who will not get much more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.

²⁴ But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.

²¹ So let no one take pride in men. For all things are yours; ²² Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; ²³ And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

¹⁴ But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

¹¹ And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

²¹ And the twelve doors were twelve pearls; every door was made of one pearl; and the street of the town was clear gold, as clear as glass.

¹⁹ And he said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.

²⁶ But when the green stem came up and gave fruit, the evil plants were seen at the same time. ²⁷ And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not put good seed in your field? how then has it evil plants? ²⁸ And he said, Someone has done this in hate. And the servants say to him, Is it your pleasure that we go and take them up? ²⁹ But he says, No, for fear that by chance while you take up the evil plants, you may be rooting up the grain with them. ³⁰ Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.

⁹ Go then to the cross-roads, and get all those whom you see to come to the bride-feast. ¹⁰ And those servants went out into the streets, and got together all those whom they came across, bad and good: and the feast was full of guests.

¹ Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, the friends of the bride, who took their lights, and went out with the purpose of meeting the husband. ² And five of them were foolish, and five were wise. ³ For the foolish, when they took their lights, took no oil with them. ⁴ But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lights.

¹⁷ And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.

¹⁰ And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were working with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Have no fear; from this time forward you will be a fisher of men.

²¹ And the servant came back and gave his master an account of these things. Then the master of the house was angry and said to the servant, Go out quickly into the streets of the town and get the poor, the blind, and those who are broken in body. ²² And the servant said, Lord, your orders have been done, and still there is room. ²³ And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the roads and the fields, and make them come in, so that my house may be full.

¹ But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, got money for his property, ² And kept back part of the price, his wife having knowledge of it, and took the rest and put it at the feet of the Apostles. ³ But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land? ⁴ While you had it, was it not your property? and after you had given it in exchange, was it not still in your power? how has this purpose come into your mind? you have been false, not to men, but to God. ⁵ And at these words, Ananias went down on the earth, and his life went from him: and great fear came on all who were present. ⁶ And the young men went and made ready his body, and took it out, and put it in the earth. ⁷ And about three hours after, his wife, having no knowledge of what had taken place, came in. ⁸ And Peter said to her, Give me an answer: was this amount of money the price of the land? And she said, Yes, it was. ⁹ But Peter said to her, Why have you made an agreement together to be false to the Spirit of the Lord? See, the feet of the young men who have put the body of your husband in the earth, are at the door, and they will take you out. ¹⁰ And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband.

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.

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

¹ It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife. ² And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you. ³ For I myself, being present in spirit though not in body, have come to a decision about him who has done this thing; ⁴ In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you have come together with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵ That this man is to be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may have forgiveness in the day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

¹ For it is my desire, my brothers, that you may keep in mind how all our fathers were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea; ² And they all had baptism from Moses in the cloud and in the sea; ³ And they all took the same holy food; ⁴ And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ. ⁵ But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land. 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.

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

²⁶ In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;

²⁰ For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority; ²¹ And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.

² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion, ³ Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good, ⁴ False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God; ⁵ Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

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

⁹ Keeping to the true word of the teaching, so that he may be able to give comfort by right teaching and overcome the arguments of the doubters. ¹⁰ For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision, ¹¹ By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

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.

¹³ For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy; ¹⁴ Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy; ¹⁵ Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing; ¹⁶ But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store. 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.

¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour; and as you were given word that the Antichrist would come, so now a number of Antichrists have come to you; and by this we are certain that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

¹ My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world. ² By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God: ³ And every spirit which does not say this is not from God: this is the spirit of Antichrist, of which you have had word; and it is in the world even now. ⁴ You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. ⁵ They are of the world, so their talk is the world's talk, and the world gives ear to them. ⁶ We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

⁴ For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. ⁵ Now it is my purpose to put you in mind, though you once had knowledge of all these things, of how the Lord, having taken a people safely out of Egypt, later sent destruction on those who had no faith;

¹ And to the angel of the church in Sardis say: These things says he who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I have knowledge of your works, that you seem to be living but are dead.

¹⁵ I have knowledge of your works, that you are not cold or warm: it would be better if you were cold or warm. ¹⁶ So because you are not one thing or the other, I will have no more to do with you. ¹⁷ For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.

³⁰ Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.

⁵ Now the husband was a long time in coming, and they all went to sleep. ⁶ But in the middle of the night there is a cry, The husband comes! Go out to him. ⁷ Then all those virgins got up, and made ready their lights. ⁸ And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lights are going out. ⁹ But the wise made answer, saying, There may not be enough for us and you; it would be better for you to go to the traders and get oil for yourselves. ¹⁰ And while they went to get oil, the master came; and those who were ready went in with him to the feast: and the door was shut. ¹¹ After that the other virgins came, saying, Lord, Lord, let us in. ¹² But he made answer and said, Truly I say to you, I have no knowledge of you.

¹⁹ Now after a long time the lord of those servants comes, and makes up his account with them. ²⁰ And he who had the five talents came with his other five talents, saying, Lord, you gave into my care five talents: see, I have got five more. ²¹ His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord. ²² And he who had the two talents came and said, Lord, you gave into my care two talents: see, I have got two more. ²³ His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord. ²⁴ And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work: ²⁵ And I was in fear, and went away, and put your talent in the earth: here is what is yours. ²⁶ But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work, ²⁷ Why, then, did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I would have got back what is mine with interest? ²⁸ Take away, then, his talent and give it to him who has the ten talents. ²⁹ For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have more: but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. ³⁰ And put out the servant who is of no profit into the outer dark: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow. 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: ³² And before him all the nations will come together; and they will be parted one from another, as the sheep are parted from the goats by the keeper. ³³ And he will put the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.

¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, taking their places before the high seat; and the books were open, and another book was open, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by the things which were in the books, even by their works. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hell gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged every man by his works.

⁴² And will put them into the fire; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

⁵⁰ The lord of that servant will come in a day when he is not looking for him, and in an hour of which he has no knowledge, ⁵¹ And will have him cut in two, and will give him a part in the fate of the false ones: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

²⁷ But he will say, Truly, I have no knowledge of you or where you come from; go away from me, you workers of evil. ²⁸ There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside.

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

¹⁰ And the fifth let what was in his vessel come out on the high seat of the beast; and his kingdom was made dark; and they were biting their tongues for pain. ¹¹ And they said evil things against the God of heaven because of their pain and their wounds; and they were not turned from their evil works.

¹⁷ Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?

¹¹ How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

¹⁵ When, then, you see in the holy place the unclean thing which makes destruction, of which word was given by Daniel the prophet let this be clear to the reader,

¹⁸ And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,

⁴⁴ Let these words go deep into your ears, for the Son of man will be given up into the hands of men. ⁴⁵ But this saying was not clear to them and its sense was kept secret from them so that they were not able to see it: and they had fear of questioning him about it.

³⁰ And Philip, running up to him, saw that he was reading Isaiah the prophet, and said to him, Is the sense of what you are reading clear to you? ³¹ And he said, How is that possible when I have no guide? And he made Philip get up by his side.

⁶ This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a scribe, expert in the law of Moses which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given: and the king, moved by the Lord his God, gave him whatever he made request for.

¹⁰ For Ezra had given his mind to learning the law of the Lord and doing it, and to teaching his rules and decisions in Israel.

²¹ And I, even I, Artaxerxes the king, now give orders to all keepers of the king's money across the river, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may have need of from you, is to be done with all care,

²⁰ The tongue of the upright man is like tested silver: the heart of the evil-doer is of little value. ²¹ The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.

³⁰ The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.

⁷ The lips of the wise keep knowledge, but the heart of the foolish man is not right.

²⁰ He who gives attention to the law of right will get good; and whoever puts his faith in the Lord is happy. ²¹ The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased. ²² Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it; but the punishment of the foolish is their foolish behaviour. ²³ The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips. ²⁴ Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

⁴ The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters: the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.

¹⁷ Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge. ¹⁸ For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.

⁹ And because the Preacher was wise he still gave the people knowledge; searching out, testing, and putting in order a great number of wise sayings. ¹⁰ The Preacher made search for words which were pleasing, but his writing was in words upright and true. ¹¹ The words of the wise are pointed, and sayings grouped together are like nails fixed with a hammer; they are given by one guide.

¹³ The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.

³⁵ The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.

³⁴ For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;

⁴⁹ For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;

³⁴ I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

⁴ And this is the certain faith which we have in God through Christ: ⁵ Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God; ⁶ Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.

⁵ For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus. ⁶ Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. ⁷ But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;

¹⁰ As full of sorrow, but ever glad; as poor, but giving wealth to others; as having nothing, but still having all things.

⁴ By the reading of which you will be clear about my knowledge of the secret of Christ;

⁷ As it was given to you by Epaphras, our well-loved helper, who is a true servant of Christ for us,

⁶ Not one newly taken into the church, for fear that, through his high opinion of himself, he may come into the same sin as the Evil One.

¹⁵ But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true. ¹⁶ And without argument, great is the secret of religion: He who was seen in the flesh, who was given God's approval in the spirit, was seen by the angels, of whom the good news was given among the nations, in whom the world had faith, who was taken up in glory.

¹⁶ Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness: ¹⁷ So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.

⁹ Keeping to the true word of the teaching, so that he may be able to give comfort by right teaching and overcome the arguments of the doubters.

⁶ To the young men give orders to be wise and serious-minded: ⁷ In all things see that you are an example of good works; holy in your teaching, serious in behaviour,

⁷ My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears. ⁸ Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

²⁸ And it came about, when Jesus had come to the end of these words, that the people were surprised at his teaching,

³³ And with a number of such stories he gave them his teaching, as they were able to take it: ³⁴ And without a story he said nothing to them: but privately to his disciples he made all things clear. ³⁵ And on that day, when the evening had come, he said to them, Let us go over to the other side.

²² I will give the knowledge of your name to my brothers: I will give you praise among the people.

⁹ I have given news of righteousness in the great meeting; O Lord, you have knowledge that I have not kept back my words. ¹⁰ Your righteousness has not been folded away in my heart; I have made clear your true word and your salvation; I have not kept secret your mercy or your faith from the great meeting.

²³ And he came and was living in a town named Nazareth: so that the word of the prophets might come true, He will be named a Nazarene.

¹ And he went away from there, and came into his country; and his disciples went with him. ² And when the Sabbath day had come, he was teaching in the Synagogue; and a number of people hearing him were surprised, saying, From where did this man get these things? and, What is the wisdom given to this man, and what are these works of power done by his hands? ³ Is not this the woodworker, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were bitter against him. ⁴ And Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour, but in his country, and among his relations, and in his family. ⁵ And he was unable to do any work of power there, but only to put his hands on one or two persons who were ill, and make them well. ⁶ And he was greatly surprised because they had no faith. And he went about the country places teaching.

¹⁶ And he came to Nazareth, where he had been as a child, and he went, as his way was, into the Synagogue on the Sabbath, and got up to give a reading. ¹⁷ And the book of the prophet Isaiah was given to him and, opening the book, he came on the place where it is said, ¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains, ¹⁹ To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure is come. ²⁰ And shutting the book he gave it back to the servant and took his seat: and the eyes of all in the Synagogue were fixed on him. ²¹ Then he said to them, Today this word has come true in your hearing. ²² And they were all giving witness, with wonder, to the words of grace which came from his mouth: and they said, Is not this the son of Joseph? ²³ And he said to them, Without doubt you will say to me, Let the medical man make himself well: the things which to our knowledge were done at Capernaum, do them here in your country. ²⁴ And he said to them, Truly I say to you, No prophet is honoured in his country. ²⁵ Truly I say to you, There were a number of widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months and there was no food in the land; ²⁶ But Elijah was not sent to one of them, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. ²⁷ And there were a number of lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and not one of them was made clean, but only Naaman the Syrian. ²⁸ And all who were in the Synagogue were very angry when these things were said to them. ²⁹ And they got up and took him out of the town to the edge of the mountain on which their town was, so that they might send him down to his death. ³⁰ But he came through them and went on his way.

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

¹⁵ Then the Jews were surprised and said, How has this man got knowledge of books? He has never been to school. ¹⁶ Jesus gave them this answer: It is not my teaching, but his who sent me.

¹³ Now when they saw that Peter and John were without fear, though they were men of no education or learning, they were greatly surprised; and they took note of them that they had been with Jesus.

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.

¹⁷ Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews: and when they had come together, he said to them, My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was given, a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans. ¹⁸ Who, when they had put questions to me, were ready to let me go free, because there was no cause of death in me. ¹⁹ But when the Jews made protest against it, I had to put my cause into Caesar's hands; not because I have anything to say against my nation. ²⁰ But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains. ²¹ And they said to him, We have not had letters from Judaea about you, and no one of the brothers has come to us here to give an account or say any evil about you. ²² But we have a desire to give hearing to your opinion: for as to this form of religion, we have knowledge that in all places it is attacked. ²³ And when a day had been fixed, they came to his house in great numbers; and he gave them teaching, giving witness to the kingdom of God, and having discussions with them about Jesus, from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening. ²⁴ And some were in agreement with what he said, but some had doubts. ²⁵ And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the Holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers, ²⁶ Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you: ²⁷ For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well. ²⁸ Be certain, then, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will give hearing.

⁶ But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

⁷ The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.

² For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure; 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.

¹⁸ Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this way: when his mother Mary was going to be married to Joseph, before they came together the discovery was made that she was with child by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁹ And Joseph, her husband, being an upright man, and not desiring to make her a public example, had a mind to put her away privately. ²⁰ But when he was giving thought to these things, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, have no fear of taking Mary as your wife; because that which is in her body is of the Holy Spirit.

⁴⁶ While he was still talking to the people, his mother and his brothers came, desiring to have talk with him. ⁴⁷ And one said to him, See, your mother and your brothers are outside, desiring to have talk with you. ⁴⁸ But he in answer said to him who gave the news, Who is my mother and who are my brothers?

⁵⁶ Among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

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

⁴⁰ And there were women watching from a distance: among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome,

⁴⁷ And Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was put.

²⁷ To a virgin who was to be married to a man named Joseph, of the family of David; and the name of the virgin was Mary.

⁵ To be put on the list with Mary, his future wife, who was about to become a mother. ⁶ And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. ⁷ And she had her first son; and folding him in linen, she put him to rest in the place where the cattle had their food, because there was no room for them in the house.

²³ And Jesus at this time was about thirty years old, being the son as it seemed of Joseph, the son of Heli,

²² And they were all giving witness, with wonder, to the words of grace which came from his mouth: and they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?

¹⁰ Now they were Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary, the mother of James: and the other women with them said these things to the Apostles.

⁴⁵ Philip came across Nathanael and said to him, We have made a discovery! It is he of whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets were writing, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. ⁴⁶ Nazareth! said Nathanael, Is it possible for any good to come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.

⁴² And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?

⁴¹ Others said, This is the Christ. But others said, Not so; will the Christ come from Galilee? ⁴² Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was?

²⁹ We are certain that God gave his word to Moses: but as for this man, we have no knowledge where he comes from.

²⁵ Now by the side of the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister Mary, the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene.

¹⁹ But of the other Apostles I saw only James, the Lord's brother.

¹⁴ And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.

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.

¹⁴ And king Herod had news of him, because his name was on the lips of all; and he said, John the Baptist has come back from the dead, and for this reason these powers are working in him.

³⁴ And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said; ³⁵ And a sword will go through your heart; so that the secret thoughts of men may come to light.

²⁴ And he said to them, Truly I say to you, No prophet is honoured in his country.

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

⁴⁴ For Jesus himself said that a prophet has no honour in the country of his birth.

⁶¹ When Jesus became conscious that his disciples were protesting about what he said, he said to them, Does this give you trouble?

²² For Moses said, The Lord will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to everything which he will say to you. ²³ And every soul who does not give attention to that prophet, will be cut off from among the people.

³⁷ This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me. ³⁸ This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you. ³⁹ By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

⁵¹ You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. ⁵² Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

²³ But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles; ²⁴ But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men. ²⁶ For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble: ²⁷ But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong; ²⁸ And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

²⁵ Truly I say to you, There were a number of widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months and there was no food in the land; ²⁶ But Elijah was not sent to one of them, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. ²⁷ And there were a number of lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and not one of them was made clean, but only Naaman the Syrian. ²⁸ And all who were in the Synagogue were very angry when these things were said to them. ²⁹ And they got up and took him out of the town to the edge of the mountain on which their town was, so that they might send him down to his death.

²⁰ Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;

¹² My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God: ¹³ But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin: ¹⁴ For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ; ¹⁵ As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry. ¹⁶ Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses? ¹⁷ And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land? ¹⁸ And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders? ¹⁹ So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.

⁶ So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders, ⁷ After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today as he had said before, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, ⁸ For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have said anything about another day. ⁹ So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God. ¹⁰ For the man who comes into his rest has had rest from his works, as God did from his. ¹¹ Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.