Romans 10 Cross References - BBE

¹ Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is, that they may get salvation. ² For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge. ³ Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God. ⁴ For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who has faith. ⁵ For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it. ⁶ But the righteousness which is of faith says these words, Say not in your heart, Who will go up to heaven? that is, to make Christ come down: ⁷ Or, Who will go down into the deep? that is, to make Christ come again from the dead: ⁸ But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart: that is, the word of faith of which we are the preachers: ⁹ Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation: ¹⁰ For with the heart man has faith to get righteousness, and with the mouth he says that Jesus is Lord to get salvation. ¹¹ Because it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has faith in him will not be shamed. ¹² And the Jew is not different from the Greek: for there is the same Lord of all, who is good to all who have hope in his name: ¹³ Because, Whoever will give worship to the name of the Lord will get salvation. ¹⁴ But how will they give worship to him in whom they have no faith? and how will they have faith in him of whom they have not had news? and how will they have news without a preacher? ¹⁵ And how will there be preachers if they are not sent? As it is said, How beautiful are the feet of those who give the glad news of good things. ¹⁶ But they have not all given ear to the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our word? ¹⁷ So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. 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. ¹⁹ But I say, Had Israel no knowledge? First Moses says, You will be moved to envy by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish people I will make you angry. ²⁰ And Isaiah says without fear, Those who were not searching for me made discovery of me; and I was seen by those whose hearts were turned away from me. ²¹ But about Israel he says; All the day my hands have been stretched out to a people whose hearts were turned away, and who put themselves against my word.

¹⁰ Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.

¹³ Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.

⁵ So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.

⁴¹ So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins,

¹³ And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:

¹¹ For these orders which I have given you today are not strange and secret, and are not far away. ¹² They are not in heaven, for you to say, Who will go up to heaven for us and give us knowledge of them so that we may do them? ¹³ And they are not across the sea, for you to say, Who will go over the sea for us and give us news of them so that we may do them? ¹⁴ But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may do it.

¹⁴ But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may do it.

²⁷ For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?

²¹ They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,

⁷ And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them. ⁸ As they have done from the first, from the day when I took them out of Egypt till this day, turning away from me and worshipping other gods, so now they are acting in the same way to you.

²³ And as for me, never will I go against the orders of the Lord by giving up my prayers for you: but I will go on teaching you the good and right way.

¹¹ It is no longer my pleasure for Saul to be king; for he is turned back from going in my ways, and has not done my orders. And Samuel was very sad, crying to the Lord in prayer all night.

³⁵ And Samuel never saw Saul again till the day of his death; but Samuel was sorrowing for Saul: and it was no longer the Lord's pleasure for Saul to be king over Israel.

⁴¹ And as for the man from a strange land, who is not of your people Israel; when he comes from a far country because of the glory of your name: ⁴² For they will have news of your great name and your strong hand and your out-stretched arm; when he comes to make his prayer, turning to this house: ⁴³ Give ear in heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and that they may see that this house which I have put up is truly named by your name.

¹⁰ By the life of the Lord your God, there is not a nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent in search of you; and when they said, He is not here; he made them take an oath that they had not seen you.

¹⁶ And he said, Come with me and see how I am on fire for the Lord's cause. So he made him go with him in his carriage.

²⁶ But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

²⁹ And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hearts were lifted up, and they gave no attention to your orders and went against your decisions which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him, and turning their backs on you, made their necks stiff and did not give ear.

³³ But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:

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

⁴ Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

⁴ Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,

²⁷ All the ends of the earth will keep it in mind and be turned to the Lord: all the families of the nations will give him worship.

¹⁵ My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured. ¹⁶ I will give news of the great acts of the Lord God; my words will be of your righteousness, and of yours only.

¹⁹ Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

⁵ You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you.

³ He has kept in mind his mercy and his unchanging faith to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

⁵ They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not; ⁶ They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell; ⁷ They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat. ⁸ Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

¹⁸ The Lord is near all those who give honour to his name; even to all who give honour to him with true hearts.

²⁴ Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;

² Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

¹ The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.

⁴ Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

¹⁶ From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.

¹ In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.

¹⁶ For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.

⁹ You who give good news to Zion, get up into the high mountain; you who give good news to Jerusalem, let your voice be strong; let it be sounding without fear; say to the towns of Judah, See, your God!

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. ¹⁹ And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood? 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.

⁶ It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.

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.

¹⁰ Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.

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

⁸ For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.

⁷ How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!

¹⁰ The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

¹⁵ So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.

¹ Who would have had faith in the word which has come to our ears, and to whom had the arm of the Lord been unveiled?

¹¹ (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) made clear his righteousness before men (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) had taken their sins on himself.

⁴ See, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a ruler and a guide to the nations. 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. ⁶ Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

¹ The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.

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

¹⁹ I will give the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is near and to him who is far off, says the Lord; and I will make him well.

¹ Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.

¹ 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 the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;

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.

¹ I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name. ² All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;

² All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts; ³ A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks. ⁴ Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by night are in the secret places; who take pig's flesh for food, and have the liquid of disgusting things in their vessels. ⁵ Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all day.

⁸ But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

¹⁴ Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

¹⁹ O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.

⁷ A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

¹⁶ As for me, I have not said; Let the day of trouble come to them quickly; and I have not been hoping for the death-giving day; you have knowledge of what came from my lips; it was open before you.

²⁰ Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.

⁵ See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land. ⁶ In his days Judah will have salvation and Israel will be living without fear: and this is the name by which he will be named, The Lord is our righteousness.

²⁸ If a prophet has a dream, let him give out his dream; and he who has my word, let him give out my word in good faith. What has the dry stem to do with the grain? says the Lord. ²⁹ Is not my word like fire? says the Lord; and like a hammer, smashing the rock to bits?

³² See, I am against the prophets of false dreams, says the Lord, who give them out and make my people go out of the way by their deceit and their uncontrolled words: but I did not send them or give them orders; and they will be of no profit to this people, says the Lord.

⁴ And the Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you have not given attention and your ear has not been open to give hearing;

¹⁵ And I have sent you all my servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them, saying, Come back, now, every man from his evil way, and do better, and go not after other gods to become their servants, and you will go on living in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but your ears have not been open, and you have not given attention to me.

⁴ And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me. ⁵ But they gave no attention, and their ears were not open so that they might be turned from their evil-doing and from burning perfume to other gods. ⁶ Because of this, my passion and my wrath were let loose, burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are waste and unpeopled as at this day.

²² It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.

¹¹ And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.

¹³ But the children of Israel would not be controlled by me in the waste land: they were not guided by my rules, and they were turned away from my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said that I would let loose my passion on them in the waste land, and put an end to them.

²¹ But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.

⁶ We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land. ⁷ O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you. ⁸ O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you. ⁹ With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;

²⁴ Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.

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.

³² And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

⁵ Then the sailors were full of fear, every man crying to his god; and the goods in the ship were dropped out into the sea to make the weight less. But Jonah had gone down into the inmost part of the ship where he was stretched out in a deep sleep.

⁹ And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, a worshipper of the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land. ¹⁰ And the men were in great fear, and they said to him, What is this you have done? For the men had knowledge of his flight from the Lord because he had not kept it from them. ¹¹ And they said to him, What are we to do to you so that the sea may become calm for us? For the sea was getting rougher and rougher.

¹⁶ Then great was the men's fear of the Lord; and they made an offering to the Lord and took oaths to him.

⁵ And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least. ⁶ And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust. ⁷ And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water: ⁸ And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands. ⁹ Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?

¹⁵ See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

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

⁸ Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;

¹⁷ Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete. ¹⁸ Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.

³⁸ Make prayer, then, to the Lord of the grain-fields, that he may send out workers to get in his grain.

³² To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven. ³³ But if anyone says before men that he has no knowledge of me, I will say that I have no knowledge of him before my Father in heaven.

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. ² And when he had made an agreement with the workmen for a penny a day, he sent them into his vine-garden. ³ And he went out about the third hour, and saw others in the market-place doing nothing; ⁴ And he said to them, Go into the vine-garden with the others, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went to work. ⁵ Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same. ⁶ And about the eleventh hour he went out and saw others doing nothing; and he says to them, Why are you here all the day doing nothing? ⁷ They say to him, Because no man has given us work. He says to them, Go in with the rest, into the vine-garden. ⁸ And when evening came, the lord of the vine-garden said to his manager, Let the workers come, and give them their payment, from the last to the first. ⁹ And when those men came who had gone to work at the eleventh hour, they were given every man a penny. ¹⁰ Then those who came first had the idea that they would get more; and they, like the rest, were given a penny. ¹¹ And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house, ¹² Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat. ¹³ But he in answer said to one of them, Friend, I do you no wrong: did you not make an agreement with me for a penny? ¹⁴ Take what is yours, and go away; it is my pleasure to give to this last, even as to you. ¹⁵ Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good? ¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last.

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. ³⁴ And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit. ³⁵ And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another. ³⁶ Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them. ³⁷ But after that he sent his son to them, saying, They will have respect for my son. ³⁸ But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage. ³⁹ And they took him and, driving him out of the vine-garden, put him to death. ⁴⁰ When, then, the lord of the vine-garden comes, what will he do to those workmen? ⁴¹ They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready. ⁴² Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes? 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.

³ And sent out his servants to get in the guests to the feast: and they would not come. ⁴ Again he sent out other servants, with orders to say to the guests, See, I have made ready my feast: my oxen and my fat beasts have been put to death, and all things are ready: come to the feast. ⁵ But they gave no attention, and went about their business, one to his farm, another to his trade: ⁶ And the rest put violent hands on his servants, and did evil to them, and put them to death. ⁷ But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.

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.

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!

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.

¹³ Truly I say to you, Wherever this good news goes out in all the world, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.

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:

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.

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.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone.

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.

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.

¹⁰ And the angel said, Have no fear; for truly, I give you good news of great joy which will be for all the people:

¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and on the earth peace among men with whom he is well pleased.

¹ And it came about, after a short time, that he went through town and country giving the good news of the kingdom of God, and with him were the twelve,

¹¹ Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.

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.

²¹ But he said to them in answer, My mother and my brothers are those who have knowledge of the word of God and do it.

¹ Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.

²⁷ And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself. ²⁸ And he said, You have given the right answer: do this and you will have life. ²⁹ But he, desiring to put himself in the right, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

²⁸ But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

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.

³⁴ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!

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.

¹⁷ But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food! ¹⁸ I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: ¹⁹ I am no longer good enough to be named your son: make me like one of your servants. ²⁰ And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss. ²¹ And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son.

¹⁵ And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

²⁹ But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say. ³⁰ And he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, their hearts would be changed. ³¹ And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.

⁹ And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others: ¹⁰ Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer. 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.

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

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.

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.

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

¹² If you have no belief when my words are about the things of earth, how will you have belief if my words are about the things of heaven? ¹³ And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.

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. ²¹ But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.

³⁴ But I have no need of a man's witness: I only say these things so that you may have salvation.

³³ The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

³⁸ For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.

⁵⁰ The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death. ⁵¹ I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.

⁵⁸ This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.

⁶⁹ And we have faith and are certain that you are the Holy One of God. 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.

²² They said this because of their fear of the Jews: for the Jews had come to an agreement that if any man said that Jesus was the Christ he would be put out of the Synagogue.

²⁶ But you have no belief because you are not of my sheep.

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

⁴² However, a number even of the rulers had belief in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not say so openly for fear that they might be shut out from the Synagogue: ⁴³ For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.

² They will put you out of the Synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever puts you to death will have the belief that he is doing God's pleasure.

⁹ Of sin, because they have not faith in me; ¹⁰ Of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you will see me no more;

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

²⁶ And after eight days, his disciples were again in the house and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were shut, Jesus came, and taking his place in the middle of them, he said, May peace be with you! ²⁷ Then he said to Thomas, Put out your finger, and see my hands; and put your hand here into my side: and be no longer in doubt but have belief. ²⁸ And Thomas said in answer, My Lord and my God! 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!

³¹ But these are recorded, so that you may have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, having this faith you may have life in his name.

⁵ Now there were living at Jerusalem, Jews, God-fearing men, from every nation under heaven. ⁶ And when this sound came to their ears, they all came together, and were greatly surprised because every man was hearing the words of the disciples in his special language. ⁷ And they were full of wonder and said, Are not all these men Galilaeans? ⁸ And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth? ⁹ Men of Parthia, Media, and Elam, and those living in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, ¹⁰ In Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and those who have come from Rome, Jews by birth and others who have become Jews, ¹¹ Men of Crete and Arabia, to all of us they are talking in our different languages, of the great works of God.

²¹ And whoever makes his prayer to the Lord will have salvation.

²⁴ But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.

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;

³¹ And he said, How is that possible when I have no guide? And he made Philip get up by his side.

³⁶ And while they were going on their way, they came to some water, and the Ethiopian said, See, here is water; why may I not have baptism?

¹⁴ And here he has authority from the chief priests to make prisoners all who give worship to your name. ¹⁵ But the Lord said, Go without fear: for he is a special vessel for me, to give to the Gentiles and kings and to the children of Israel the knowledge of my name:

³⁴ Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons: ³⁵ But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him. ³⁶ The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ who is Lord of all--

³⁶ The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ who is Lord of all--

⁴³ To him all the prophets give witness, that through his name everyone who has faith in him will have forgiveness of sins.

² And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me. ³ Then, after prayer and going without food they put their hands on them, and sent them away. ⁴ So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia; and from there they went by ship to Cyprus.

²⁶ My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those among you who have the fear of God, to us the word of this salvation is sent.

³⁸ And so, let it be clear to you, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is offered to you: ³⁹ And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.

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. ⁴⁷ For so the Lord has given us orders, saying, I have given you for a light to the Gentiles so that you may be for salvation to the ends of the earth.

⁸ And God, the searcher of hearts, was a witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as he did to us; ⁹ Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.

³¹ And they said, Have faith in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will have salvation.

² And he said to them, Did you get the Holy Spirit when you had faith? And they said to him, No, we have had no knowledge of the Holy Spirit.

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:

²⁸ Crying out, Men of Israel, come to our help: this is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place: and in addition, he has taken Greeks into the Temple, and made this holy place unclean.

³ I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today.

²¹ And he said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles. ²² And they gave him a hearing as far as this word; then with loud voices they said, Away with this man from the earth; it is not right for him to be living.

⁹ For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth. ¹⁰ And this I did in Jerusalem: and numbers of the saints I put in prison, having had authority given to me from the chief priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my decision against them.

¹⁷ And I will keep you safe from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 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.

²⁰ But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.

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.

⁵ Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:

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.

¹⁶ For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.

¹⁶ For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek. ¹⁷ For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.

¹⁷ For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.

²¹ Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark. ²² Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

⁴ Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

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

³ And if some have no faith, will that make the faith of God without effect?

²² That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,

²⁵ Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

²⁵ Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment; ²⁶ And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.

²⁶ And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus. ²⁷ What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith. ²⁸ For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law. ²⁹ Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:

²⁹ Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles: ³⁰ If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.

³⁰ If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision. ³¹ Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.

¹¹ And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account; ¹² And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision. ¹³ For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

²⁵ Who was put to death for our evil-doing, and came to life again so that we might have righteousness.

¹⁹ Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man.

¹⁷ But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;

¹ Is it not clear, my brothers I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law, that the law has power over a man as long as he is living? ² For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband. ³ So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man. ⁴ In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

¹⁰ And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:

³ For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh: ⁴ So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

³⁴ Who will give a decision against us? It is Christ Jesus who not only was put to death, but came again from the dead, who is now at the right hand of God, taking our part.

¹ I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit, ² That I am full of sorrow and pain without end. ³ For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:

²³ And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory, ²⁴ Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?

³⁰ What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

³⁰ What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

³⁰ What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith: ³¹ But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

³¹ But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it. ³² Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way; ³³ As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

³ Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.

⁹ Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation:

¹⁴ But how will they give worship to him in whom they have no faith? and how will they have faith in him of whom they have not had news? and how will they have news without a preacher?

¹⁷ So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. 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.

¹¹ So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.

¹⁴ If in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me.

¹⁷ But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

⁹ And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.

¹¹ For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God.

¹² And again Isaiah says, There will be the root of Jesse, and he who comes to be the ruler over the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles put their hope.

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;

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;

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;

² To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been made holy in Christ Jesus, saints by the selection of God, with all those who in every place give honour to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

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.

¹⁸ For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God. ¹⁹ As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge. ²⁰ Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him. ²² Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge: 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.

³⁰ But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

²⁹ But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;

²⁰ And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law. ²¹ To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law. ²² To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.

¹⁹ Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?

²² What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.

² You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power. ³ So it is my desire for you to be clear about this; that no one is able to say by the Spirit of God that Jesus is cursed; and no one is able to say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

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?

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.

⁴⁷ The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is 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.

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.

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.

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.

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. ²¹ For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

³ For I give them witness, that as they were able, and even more than they were able, they gave from the impulse of their hearts,

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.

¹⁴ And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

¹⁶ Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

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?

⁵ He who gives you the Spirit, and does works of power among you, is it by the works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

¹² And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.

²⁴ So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.

²⁸ There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

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.

¹⁷ Their interest in you is not good; but their desire is that you may be shut out, so that you may go after them. 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.

³ Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law. ⁴ You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

⁷ You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?

⁷ In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

⁴ But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

⁷ That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:

¹⁷ And he came preaching peace to you who were far off, and to those who were near; ¹⁸ Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹ So then you are no longer as those who have no part or place in the kingdom of God, but you are numbered among the saints, and of the family of God, ²⁰ Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone, ²¹ In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord; ²² In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God 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,

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:

¹⁶ That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;

⁸ For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men. ⁹ {\I Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete.} 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:

²¹ If in fact you gave ear to him, and were given teaching in him, even as what is true is made clear in Jesus:

¹⁵ Be ready with the good news of peace as shoes on your feet;

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, ²⁰ For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say.

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

¹¹ And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

⁶ In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

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:

¹⁹ And my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus.

⁴ After hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have for all the saints, 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, 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;

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;

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.

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

¹⁰ And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority:

¹⁷ For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

¹¹ Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.

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.

¹³ For I give witness of him that he has undergone much trouble for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hierapolis.

⁸ For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.

¹³ And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

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

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

¹³ 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.

⁵ For there is one God and one peacemaker between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

⁶ If you keep these things before the minds of the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the right teaching which has been your guide:

¹⁷ But the Lord was by my side and gave me strength; so that through me the news might be given out in full measure, and all the Gentiles might give ear: and I was taken out of the mouth of the lion.

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;

³ For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

³ Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;

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:

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.

¹² For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart. ¹³ And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

⁹ And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;

⁷ But only the high priest went into the second, once a year, not without making an offering of blood for himself and for the errors of the people: ⁸ The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being; ⁹ And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean, ¹⁰ Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right. ¹¹ But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world, ¹² And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean: ¹⁴ How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?

⁸ After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin which are made by the law and you had no pleasure in them, ⁹ Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place. ¹⁰ By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever. ¹¹ And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins. ¹² But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;

¹⁴ Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.

²² Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

⁶ And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him. ⁷ By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith. ⁸ By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

²⁰ Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,

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. ¹⁹ You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry; ²⁰ For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man. 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.

¹⁵ And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.

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.

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

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.

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

⁶ Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

⁸ And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God.

¹⁰ In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.

¹ Wives, be ruled by your husbands; so that even if some of them give no attention to the word, their hearts may be changed by the behaviour of their wives,

¹⁸ Because Christ once went through pain for sins, the upright one taking the place of sinners, so that through him we might come back to God; being put to death in the flesh, but given life in the Spirit;

²² Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.

¹ Simon Peter, a servant and Apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who with us have a part in the same holy faith in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

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.

¹⁵ Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.

¹⁹ We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

⁷ Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and Antichrist.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

¹⁶ And on his robe and on his leg is a name, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.