Revelation 3 Cross References - BBE

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. ² Be on the watch, and make strong the rest of the things which are near to death; because as judged by me your works have not come up to God's measure. ³ Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you. ⁴ But you have some names in Sardis who have kept clean their robes; and as a reward they will go in white with me. ⁵ He who overcomes will be dressed in white, and I will not take his name from the book of life, and I will give witness to his name before my Father, and before his angels. ⁶ He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. ⁷ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one. ⁸ I have knowledge of your works see, I have put before you an open door which may be shut by no one, and that you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have been true to my name. ⁹ See, I will make those of the Synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but say what is false; I will make them come and give worship before your feet, and see my love for you. ¹⁰ Because you have kept my word in quiet strength, I will keep you from the hour of testing which is coming on all the world, to put to the test those who are on earth. ¹¹ I come quickly: keep that which you have, so that no one may take your crown. ¹² Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the house of my God, and he will go out no more: and I will put on him the name of my God, and the name of the town of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name. ¹³ He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. ¹⁴ And to the angel of the church in Laodicea say: These things says the true and certain witness, the head of God's new order: 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. 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. ¹⁹ To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways. ²⁰ See, I am waiting at the door and giving the sign; if my voice comes to any man's ears and he makes the door open, I will come in to him, and will take food with him and he with me. ²¹ To him who overcomes I will give a place with me on my high seat, even as I overcame, and am seated with my Father on his high seat. ²² He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.

²⁴ For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.

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

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

³³ I had no knowledge who he was, but he who sent me to give baptism with water said to me, The one on whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting, it is he who gives baptism with the Holy Spirit.

³⁴ For he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit by measure.

³⁷ On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him. ³⁸ He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water. ³⁹ This he said of the Spirit which would be given to those who had faith in him: the Spirit had not been given then, because the glory of Jesus was still to come.

²⁶ When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father even the Spirit of true knowledge who comes from the Father--he will give witness about me; ²⁷ And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.

²² And when he had said this, breathing on them, he said to them, Let the Holy Spirit come on you:

³³ And so, being lifted up to the right hand of God, and having the Father's word that the Holy Spirit would come, he has sent this thing, which now you see and have knowledge of.

¹ And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

⁵ Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ by grace you have salvation,

¹³ And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;

⁶ But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.

²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead even so faith without works is dead.

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 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,

⁴ John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and was and is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his high seat;

¹¹ Saying, What you see, put in a book, and send it to the seven churches; to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

¹⁶ And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword: and his face was like the sun shining in its strength.

²⁰ The secret of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold vessels with burning lights. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven lights are the seven churches.

⁹ I have knowledge of your troubles and how poor you are but you have true wealth, and the evil words of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a Synagogue of Satan.

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.

¹⁹ I have knowledge of your works, and your love and faith and help and strength in trouble, and that your last works are more than the first.

⁵ And out of the high seat came flames and voices and thunders. And seven lights of fire were burning before the high seat, which are the seven Spirits of God;

⁶ And I saw in the middle of the high seat and of the four beasts, and in the middle of the rulers, a Lamb in his place, which seemed as if it had been put to death, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

²⁸ But give my orders to Joshua, comforting him and making him strong; for he is to go over Jordan at the head of this people, and he will give them this land which you will see for their heritage.

⁴ For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

³ And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

² He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.

⁴ He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees. ⁵ But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.

⁵ I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.

³ Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.

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.

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

⁶ I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest, ⁷ And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.

⁸ By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have been taken away, and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no keeper, and my keepers did not go in search of the sheep, but the keepers took food for themselves and gave my sheep no food; ⁹ For this reason, O you keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord; ¹⁰ This is what the Lord has said: See I am against the keepers of the flock, and I will make search and see what they have done with my sheep, and will let them be keepers of my sheep no longer; and the keepers will no longer get food for themselves; I will take my sheep out of their mouths so that they may not be food for them.

¹⁶ I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.

²⁷ Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.

¹⁶ For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.

² When then you give money to the poor, do not make a noise about it, as the false-hearted men do in the Synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, They have their reward. ³ But when you give money, let not your left hand see what your right hand does: ⁴ So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.

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

²⁸ Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing. ²⁹ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say, ³⁰ If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death. ³² Make full, then, the measure of your fathers. ³³ You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell? 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; ³⁵ So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar. ³⁶ Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation. ³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not! ³⁸ See, your house is made waste.

⁴² Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come. ⁴³ But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴ Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come. ⁴⁵ Who is the true and wise servant, whom his lord has put over those in his house, to give them their food at the right time? ⁴⁶ A blessing on that servant, who will be doing so when his lord comes. ⁴⁷ Truly, I say to you, he will put him over all he has. ⁴⁸ But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming; ⁴⁹ And is cruel to the other servants, taking his pleasure with those who are overcome with wine; 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.

¹³ Keep watch, then, because you are not certain of the day or of the hour.

³³ Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be. ³⁴ It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch. ³⁵ So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning; ³⁶ For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping. ³⁷ And what I say to you, I say to all, Keep watch.

³¹ Simon, Simon, Satan has made a request to have you, so that he may put you to the test as grain is tested: ³² But I have made prayer for you, that your faith may not go from you: and when you are turned again, make your brothers strong.

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

²⁸ Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood. ²⁹ I am conscious that after I am gone, evil wolves will come in among you, doing damage to the flock; 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.

¹ I give you orders, before God and Christ Jesus, who will be the judge of the living and the dead, and by his revelation and his kingdom; ² Be preaching the word at all times, in every place; make protests, say sharp words, give comfort, with long waiting and teaching; 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.

⁷ But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;

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;

⁴ But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.

¹⁵ See, I come as a thief. Happy is he who is watching and keeps his robes, so that he may not go unclothed, and his shame be seen.

⁶¹ Then at the memory of your ways you will be overcome with shame, when I take your sisters, the older and the younger, and give them to you for daughters, but not by your agreement. ⁶² And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be certain that I am the Lord: ⁶³ So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.

⁴³ And there, at the memory of your ways and of all the things you did to make yourselves unclean, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of all the evil things you have done.

³¹ And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.

⁴² Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come. ⁴³ But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.

³³ Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be.

³⁶ For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.

³⁹ But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁰ So be ready: for the Son of man is coming at a time when you are not looking for him.

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

⁴ But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief: ⁵ For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark. ⁶ So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

²⁰ O Timothy, take good care of that which is given to you, turning away from the wrong and foolish talk and arguments of that knowledge which is falsely so named;

¹³ Keep the form of those true words which you had from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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 And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory;

¹ My loved ones, this is now my second letter to you, and in this as in the first, I am attempting to keep your true minds awake;

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

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.

²¹ And I gave her time for a change of heart, but she has no mind to give up her unclean ways. ²² See, I will put her into a bed, and those who make themselves unclean with her, into great trouble, if they go on with her works.

²⁵ But what you have, keep safe till I come.

¹¹ I come quickly: keep that which you have, so that no one may take your crown.

¹⁹ To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.

¹⁸ But I will keep safe seven thousand in Israel, all those whose knees have not been bent to Baal, and whose mouths have given him no kisses.

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

¹⁴ When the Most High put the kings to flight, it was as white as snow in Salmon.

⁸ Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.

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

¹ Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.

⁶ Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

³ To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.

¹⁰ I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.

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

³ Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the angel. ⁴ And he made answer and said to those who were there before him, Take the unclean robes off him, and let him be clothed in clean robes; ⁵ And let them put a clean head-dress on his head. So they put a clean head-dress on his head, clothing him with clean robes: and to him he said, See, I have taken your sin away from you. ⁶ And the angel of the Lord made a statement to Joshua, and said,

¹¹ And into whatever town or small place you go, make search there for someone who is respected, and make his house your resting-place till you go away.

⁵ And when they went in, they saw a young man seated on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were full of wonder.

³⁵ But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;

³⁶ But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.

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

⁴ But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal. ⁵ In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace. ⁶ But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

⁵ Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain;

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.

⁵ He who overcomes will be dressed in white, and I will not take his name from the book of life, and I will give witness to his name before my Father, and before his angels.

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.

⁴ And round about the high seat were four and twenty seats: and on them I saw four and twenty rulers seated, clothed in white robes; and on their heads crowns of gold.

¹¹ And there was given to every one a white robe, and they were ordered to take their rest for a little time, till the number was complete of the other servants, their brothers, who would be put to death, even as they had been.

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

¹³ And one of the rulers made answer, saying to me, These who have on white robes, who are they, and where did they come from? ¹⁴ And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹³ And in that hour there was a great earth-shock and a tenth part of the town came to destruction; and in the earth-shock seven thousand persons came to their end: and the rest were in fear, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

⁸ And to her it was given to be clothed in delicate linen, clean and shining: for the clean linen is the righteousness of the saints.

¹⁴ And the armies which are in heaven went after him on white horses, clothed in delicate linen, white and clean.

³² But now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if not, let my name be taken out of your book. ³³ And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has done evil against me will be taken out of my book.

¹⁴ Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.

²⁵ And the men of Israel said, Have you seen this man? Clearly he has come out to put shame on Israel: and it is certain that if any man overcomes him, the king will give that man great wealth, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's family free in Israel.

²⁸ Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.

¹³ Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.

¹⁷ And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.

³² To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven.

⁸ And I say to you that to everyone who gives witness to me before men, the Son of man will give witness before the angels of God.

³ And I make request to you, true helper in my work, to see to the needs of those women who took part with me in the good news, with Clement and the rest of my brother-workers whose names are in the book of life.

²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to give you a place in his glory, free from all evil, with great joy,

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.

⁴ But you have some names in Sardis who have kept clean their robes; and as a reward they will go in white with me.

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.

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.

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

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.

¹⁹ And if any man takes away from the words of this book, God will take away from him his part in the tree of life and the holy town, even the things which are in this book.

¹⁰ If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?

¹⁴ Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

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

¹⁸ For our breastplate is the Lord; and our king is the Holy One of Israel's.

¹⁷ The Lord is upright in all his ways, and kind in all his works.

³ And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory.

²² And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what he keeps shut no one will make open.

¹¹ Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.

¹⁴ Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁶ You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

²⁰ So that they may see and be wise and give their mind to it, and that it may be clear to them all that the hand of the Lord has done this, and that the Holy One of Israel has made it.

⁴ Says the Lord who takes up our cause; the Lord of armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁷ The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.

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.

⁵ For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is he who takes up your cause; he will be named the God of all the earth.

⁵ See, you will send for a nation of which you had no knowledge, and those who had no knowledge of you will come running to you, because of the Lord your God, and because of the Holy One of Israel, for he has given you glory.

¹⁹ I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever is fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

²⁴ Saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I see well who you are, the Holy One of God.

³² He will be great, and will be named the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God will give him the kingdom of David, his father:

³⁴ Let us be! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I have knowledge who you are, the Holy One of God.

⁶ Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.

¹⁴ But you would have nothing to do with the Holy and Upright One, and made request for a man of blood to be given to you,

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.

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

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

¹ To the angel of the church in Ephesus say: These things says he who has the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the middle of the seven gold lights:

¹⁴ And to the angel of the church in Laodicea say: These things says the true and certain witness, the head of God's new order:

⁸ And the four beasts, having every one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and inside: and without resting day and night, they say, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, Ruler of all, who was and is and is to come.

³ And no one in heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to get the book open, or to see what was in it. ⁴ And I was very sad, because there was no one able to get the book open or to see what was in it. ⁵ And one of the rulers said to me, Do not be sad: see, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome, and has power to undo the book and its seven stamps.

⁹ And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,

¹⁰ And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?

³ And they give the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and full of wonder are your works, O Lord God, Ruler of all; true and full of righteousness are your ways, eternal King.

⁷ And a voice came from the altar, saying, Even so, O Lord God, Ruler of all, true and full of righteousness is your judging.

² For true and upright are his decisions; for by him has the evil woman been judged, who made the earth unclean with the sins of her body; and he has given her punishment for the blood of his servants.

¹¹ And the heaven was open; and I saw a white horse, and he who was seated on it was named Certain and True; and he is judging and making war in righteousness.

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.

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

³⁴ Now at the time of their downfall they will have a little help, but numbers will be joined to them in the town, and in their separate heritages.

⁷⁰ But he said before them all that it was false, saying, I have no knowledge of what you say. ⁷¹ And when he had gone out into the doorway, another saw him and says to those who were there, This man was with Jesus the Nazarene. ⁷² And again he said with an oath, I have no knowledge of the man.

⁹ But if anyone says before men that he has no knowledge of me, I will say that I have no knowledge of him before the angels of God.

²¹ He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him. ²² Judas not Iscariot said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world? ²³ Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him. ²⁴ He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.

²⁰ Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.

⁶ I have given knowledge of your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your words.

¹³ The God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has given glory to his servant Jesus; whom you gave up, turning your backs on him, when Pilate had made the decision to let him go free. ¹⁴ But you would have nothing to do with the Holy and Upright One, and made request for a man of blood to be given to you,

²⁷ And when they came there, and had got the church together, they gave them an account of all the things which God had done through them, and how he had made open a door of faith to the Gentiles.

⁹ For a great and important door there is open to me, and there are a number of people against me.

¹² Now when I came to Troas for the good news of Christ, and there was an open door for me in the Lord,

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

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

³ And making prayer for us, that God may give us an open door for the preaching of the word, the secret of Christ, for which I am now in chains;

⁸ If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.

⁷ I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:

²² Who is false but he who says that Jesus is not the Christ? He is the Antichrist who has no belief in the Father or the Son. ²³ He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father.

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.

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

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.

⁷ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one.

¹⁰ Because you have kept my word in quiet strength, I will keep you from the hour of testing which is coming on all the world, to put to the test those who are on earth.

¹⁵ I have knowledge of your works, that you are not cold or warm: it would be better if you were cold or warm.

⁷ See, I come quickly. A blessing on him who keeps the words of this book of the prophet.

⁸ And all these your servants will come to me, going down on their faces before me and saying, Go out, and all your people with you: and after that I will go out. And he went away from Pharaoh burning with wrath.

³⁰ Then Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and a great cry went up from Egypt; for there was not a house where someone was not dead. ³¹ And he sent for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Get up and go out from among my people, you and the children of Israel; go and give worship to the Lord as you have said. ³² And take your flocks and your herds as you have said, and be gone; and give me your blessing.

³⁶ Then it will be that the rest of your family, anyone who has not been cut off, will go down on his knees to him for a bit of silver or a bit of bread, and say, Be pleased to put me into one of the priest's places so that I may have a little food.

¹⁷ And in every part of the kingdom and in every town, wherever the king's letter and his order came, the Jews were glad with great joy, and had a feast and a good day. And a great number of the people of the land became Jews: for the fear of the Jews had come on them.

⁸ And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has. ⁹ And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job. ¹⁰ And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.

⁴ Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.

¹⁴ The Lord says, The workmen of Egypt, and the traders of Ethiopia, and the tall Sabaeans, will come over the sea to you, and they will be yours; they will go after you; in chains they will come over: and they will go down on their faces before you, and will make prayer to you, saying, Truly, God is among you; and there is no other God.

²³ And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.

¹⁴ And the sons of those who were cruel to you will come before you with bent heads; and those who made sport of you will go down on their faces at your feet; and you will be named, The Town of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

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.

³⁷ But Paul said to them, They have given us who are Romans a public whipping without judging us, and have put us in prison. Will they now send us out secretly? no, truly, let them come themselves and take us out. ³⁸ And the police gave an account of these words to the authorities, and they were full of fear on hearing that they were Romans; ³⁹ Then they came and made prayers to them, requesting them, when they had taken them out, to go away from the town.

¹⁷ Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.

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

⁹ And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

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

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.

⁴¹ Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.

⁹ And truly I say to you, Wherever the good news goes out through all the earth, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.

¹ Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.

⁸ First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.

¹³ You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

¹³ For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place.

¹² Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?

¹² Dear brothers, do not be surprised, as if it was something strange, if your faith is tested as by fire:

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

⁹ I, John, your brother, who have a part with you in the trouble and the kingdom and the quiet strength of Jesus, was in the island which is named Patmos, for the word of God and the witness of Jesus.

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

¹³ And there came to my ears the cry of an eagle in flight in the middle of heaven, saying with a great voice, Trouble, trouble, trouble, to all on the earth, because of the other voices of the horns of the three angels, whose sounding is still to come.

¹⁰ And those who are on the earth will have pleasure and delight over them; and they will send offerings one to another because these two prophets gave great trouble to all on the earth.

¹⁰ If any man sends others into prison, into prison he will go: if any man puts to death with the sword, with the sword will he be put to death. Here is the quiet strength and the faith of the saints.

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.

¹² Here is the quiet strength of the saints, who keep the orders of God, and the faith of Jesus.

¹⁴ The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.

²⁵ And every man who takes part in the sports has self-control in all things. Now they do it to get a crown which is of this world, but we for an eternal crown.

⁵ Let your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near.

⁵ And if a man takes part in a competition he does not get the crown if he has not kept the rules.

⁸ From now on, the crown of righteousness is made ready for me, which the Lord, the upright judge, Will give to me at that day: and not only to me, but to all those who have had love for his revelation.

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.

⁹ Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.

³ Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock. ⁴ And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.

³ A blessing be on the reader, and on those who give ear to the prophet's words, and keep the things which he has put in the book: for the time is near.

³ Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.

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

¹² See, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give to every man the outcome of his works.

²⁰ He who gives witness to these things says, Truly, I come quickly. Even so come, Lord Jesus.

²¹ He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on the left Boaz.

⁸ As it came to our ears so have we seen it, in the town of the Lord of armies, in the town of our God; God will keep it fixed for ever. Selah.

³ Noble things are said of you, O town of God. Selah.

¹⁵ And your name will become a curse to my people, and the Lord God will put you to death, and give his servants another name:

¹⁸ For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

³⁵ It is to be eighteen thousand all round: and the name of the town from that day will be, The Lord is there.

⁹ When they saw the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who had the name of being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas their right hands as friends so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;

²⁶ But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother. ²⁷ For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

¹⁵ From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

²² But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered,

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.

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.

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.

¹ And I saw the Lamb on the mountain of Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand, marked on their brows with his name and the name of his Father.

¹⁴ These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is the Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are named, marked out, and true.

² And I saw the holy town, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband.

¹⁰ And he took me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and let me see the holy town Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹ Having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone of great price, a jasper stone, clear as glass: ¹² She had a wall great and high, with twelve doors, and at the doors twelve angels; and names on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. ¹³ And on the east were three doors; and on the north three doors; and on the south three doors; and on the west three doors. ¹⁴ And the wall of the town had twelve bases, and on them the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ And he who was talking with me had a gold measuring-rod to take the measure of the town, and of its doors, and its wall. ¹⁶ And the town is square, as wide as it is long; and he took the measure of the town with the rod, one thousand and five hundred miles: it is equally long and wide and high. ¹⁷ And he took the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, after the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. ¹⁸ And the building of its wall was of jasper, and the town was clear gold, clear as glass. ¹⁹ The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; ²⁰ The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. 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. 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. ²⁴ And the nations will go in its light: and the kings of the earth will take their glory into it. ²⁵ And the doors of it will never be shut by day for there is no night there: ²⁶ And the glory and honour of the nations will come into it: 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.

⁴ And they will see his face; and his name will be on their brows.

²² The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.

⁴ See, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a ruler and a guide to the nations.

¹⁶ So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.

⁵ Then they said to Jeremiah, May the Lord be a true witness against us in good faith, if we do not do everything which the Lord your God sends you to say to us.

²⁰ For he is the Yes to all the undertakings of God: and by him all the words of God are made certain and put into effect, to the glory of God through us.

¹⁵ Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.

¹ For it is my desire to give you news of the great fight I am making for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not seen my face in the flesh;

¹⁶ And when this letter has been made public among you, let the same be done in the church of Laodicea; and see that you have the letter from Laodicea.

⁶ And he said to me, It is done. I am the First and the Last, the start and the end. I will freely give of the fountain of the water of life to him who is in need.

⁶ And he said to me, These words are certain and true: and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to make clear to his servants the things which are now to come about.

¹³ I am the First and the Last, the start and the end.

²⁹ If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord. ¹⁶ Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods; ¹⁷ For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went: ¹⁸ And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God. ¹⁹ And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins. ²⁰ If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good. ²¹ And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord. ²² And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses. ²³ Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel. ²⁴ And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.

²¹ And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer.

¹¹ But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me. ¹² So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes. ¹³ If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!

²⁶ My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

⁸ Ephraim is mixed with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

² Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.

⁵ And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom, ⁶ And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

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.

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.

¹² And because wrongdoing will be increased, the love of most people will become cold.

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?

¹¹ Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;

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

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;

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

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

⁸ For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.

²² And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

¹⁹ Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

¹ Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go. ² And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away. ³ And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them. ⁴ And I will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem.

⁸ And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me. ⁹ And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.

⁷ And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.

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

³⁵ And the Lord sent punishment on the people because they gave worship to the ox which Aaron made.

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

⁷ A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.

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?

³¹ O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

⁸ And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.

⁵ Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.

³ Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

¹² But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.

⁵³ Those who had no food he made full of good things; the men of wealth he sent away with nothing in their hands;

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

¹¹ The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer. ¹² Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.

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.

¹⁷ But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God, ¹⁸ And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law, ¹⁹ In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark, ²⁰ A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true; ²¹ You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours? ²² You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God? ²³ You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

²⁴ How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this 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;

²⁵ For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;

³ But I say to every one of you, through the grace given to me, not to have an over-high opinion of himself, but to have wise thoughts, as God has given to every one a measure of faith.

⁸ For even now you are full, even now you have wealth, you have been made kings without us: truly, I would be glad if you were kings, so that we might be kings with you. ⁹ For it seems to me that God has put us the Apostles last of all, as men whose fate is death: for we are put on view to the world, and to angels, and to men. ¹⁰ We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.

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.

⁷ I will give praise to the Lord who has been my guide; knowledge comes to me from my thoughts in the night.

⁸ I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

²⁴ Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour.

¹¹ Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High:

²⁵ You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:

³⁰ They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.

²⁰ Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

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

² I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.

³ The shame of your unclothed condition will be seen by all: I will give punishment without mercy,

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.

²⁶ So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.

² And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.

¹¹ Be uncovered and go away, you who are living in Shaphir: the one living in Zaanan has not come out of her town; Beth-ezel is taken away from its base, even from its resting-place.

⁵ See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your skirts pulled over your face, and let the nations see you unclothed, and the kingdoms your shame.

³ He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.

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.

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.

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

⁶ Having said these words, he put earth, mixed with water from his mouth, on the man's eyes, ⁷ And said to him, Go and make yourself clean in the bath of Siloam the sense of the name is, Sent. So he went away and, after washing, came back able to see. ⁸ Then the neighbours and others who had seen him before in the street, with his hand out for money, said, Is not this the man who got money from people? ⁹ Some said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am he. ¹⁰ So they said to him, How then were your eyes made open? ¹¹ His answer was: The man who is named Jesus put earth mixed with water on my eyes, and said to me, Go and make yourself clean in Siloam: so I went away and, after washing, am now able to see.

¹² But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems; ¹³ Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.

³ So that our spirits may not be unclothed.

⁹ For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.

¹⁸ And to do good, having wealth in good works, being quick to give, taking part with one another;

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?

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

²⁰ And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge. ²¹ I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true. ²² Who is false but he who says that Jesus is not the Christ? He is the Antichrist who has no belief in the Father or the Son. ²³ He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father. ²⁴ But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son. ²⁵ And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life. ²⁶ I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way. 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.

⁴ But you have some names in Sardis who have kept clean their robes; and as a reward they will go in white with me. ⁵ He who overcomes will be dressed in white, and I will not take his name from the book of life, and I will give witness to his name before my Father, and before his angels.

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.

¹³ And one of the rulers made answer, saying to me, These who have on white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?

¹¹ Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my wrath. ¹² So say to them that I will make with him an agreement of peace: ¹³ And by this agreement, he and his sons after him have the right to be priests for ever; because, by his care for the honour of his God, he took away the sin of the children of Israel.

⁵ Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God.

¹⁴ I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;

¹⁷ Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

¹ To the chief music-maker on corded instruments, on the Sheminith. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, do not be bitter with me in your wrath; do not send punishment on me in the heat of your passion.

¹¹ By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. Selah.

⁹ I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

¹⁰ He who is the judge of the nations, will he not give men the reward of their acts, even he who gives knowledge to man?

¹¹ My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training: ¹² For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.

¹⁰ There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.

³² He who will not be controlled by training has no respect for his soul, but he who gives ear to teaching will get wisdom.

¹⁵ Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

¹⁶ Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.

³⁰ I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

²⁸ And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.

²⁴ O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.

¹¹ For I am with you, says the Lord, to be your saviour: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you wandering, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.

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

² She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.

¹⁷ And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.

³² But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.

⁹ Unnoted, but still kept fully in mind; as near to death, but still living; as undergoing punishment, but not put to death;

¹¹ For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business.

¹⁸ But it is good to have an interest in a good cause at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

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

⁵ And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him; ⁶ For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod. ⁷ It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father? ⁸ But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame. ⁹ And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life? ¹⁰ For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is. ¹¹ At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

² I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night. ³ I have put off my coat; how may I put it on? My feet are washed; how may I make them unclean? ⁴ My loved one put his hand on the door, and my heart was moved for him.

³³ Even so, when you see all these things, you may be certain that he is near, even at the doors.

³⁶ And be like men who are looking for their lord, when he comes back from the bride-feast; so that when he comes to the door, it will be open to him quickly. ³⁷ Happy are those servants who are watching when the lord comes; truly I say to you, he will make himself their servant and, placing them at the table, he will come out and give them food.

⁸ Will he not say, Get a meal for me, and make yourself ready and see to my needs till I have had my food and drink; and after that you may have yours?

²¹ He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him. ²² Judas not Iscariot said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world? ²³ Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.

⁹ And he said to me, Put in the book, Happy are the guests at the bride-feast of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true words of God.

¹³ I saw in visions of the night, and there was coming with the clouds of heaven one like a man, and he came to the one who was very old, and they took him near before him. ¹⁴ And to him was given authority and glory and a kingdom; and all peoples, nations, and languages were his servants: his authority is an eternal authority which will not come to an end, and his kingdom is one which will not come to destruction.

²⁸ And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that in the time when all things are made new, and the Son of man is seated in his glory, you who have come after me will be seated on twelve seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹⁸ And Jesus came to them and said, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

³⁰ So that you may take food and drink at my table in my kingdom, and be seated like kings, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

²² The Father is not the judge of men, but he has given all decisions into the hands of the Son; ²³ So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.

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

² Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things? ³ Is it not certain that we are to be the judges of angels? how much more then of the things of this life?

²⁰ By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven, ²¹ Far over all rule and authority and power and every name which is named, not only in the present order, but in that which is to come: ²² And he has put all things under his feet, and has made him to be head over all things to the church, ²³ Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.

⁹ For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name; ¹⁰ So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld, ¹¹ And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. ¹² So then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to working out your salvation with fear in your hearts; 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, ¹⁶ Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect. ¹⁷ And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all: ¹⁸ And in the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy. ¹⁹ But I am hoping in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be comforted when I have news of you. ²⁰ For I have no man of like mind who will truly have care for you. ²¹ For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ.

¹² If we go on to the end, then we will be ruling with him: if we say we have no knowledge of him, then he will say he has no knowledge of us:

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

⁶ And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father; to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.

²⁶ He who overcomes, and keeps my works to the end, to him I will give rule over the nations, ²⁷ And he will be ruling them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of the potter they will be broken, even as I have power from my Father:

⁵ And one of the rulers said to me, Do not be sad: see, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome, and has power to undo the book and its seven stamps. ⁶ And I saw in the middle of the high seat and of the four beasts, and in the middle of the rulers, a Lamb in his place, which seemed as if it had been put to death, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. ⁷ And he came and took it out of the right hand of him who was seated on the high seat. ⁸ And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and the four and twenty rulers went down on their faces before the Lamb, having every one an instrument of music, and gold vessels full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints.

² And I saw a white horse, and he who was seated on it had a bow; and there was given to him a crown: and he went out with power to overcome.

¹⁷ For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.

¹¹ And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.

⁴ And I saw high seats, and they were seated on them, and the right of judging was given to them: and I saw the souls of those who were put to death for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and those who did not give worship to the beast, or to his image, and had not his mark on their brows or on their hands; and they were living and ruling with Christ a thousand years.

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.

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.