Luke 12 Cross References - Godbey

¹ In the meantime, myriads of the multitude having gathered together, So that they trode on one another, He began to speak to His disciples first; Take heed unto yourselves from the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. ² But there is nothing hidden, which shall not be revealed: and concealed, that shall not be made known. ³ Therefore so many things as you spoke in the darkness shall be heard in the light; and whatsoever you spoke in the ear in the secret chambers shall be proclaimed upon the houses. ⁴ And I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these things, having nothing more to do. ⁵ But I will show you whom you must fear: Fear him, who after he kills has power to cast into hell. Yea, I say unto you, Fear him. ⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? and one of them is not forgotten before God. ⁷ But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are more important than many sparrows. ⁸ But I say unto you, that every one who may confess me before the people, the Son of man will also confess him before the angels of God. ⁹ But the one denying me before the people will be denied before the angels of God. ¹⁰ And every one who shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but to him having blasphemed against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven. ¹¹ But when they may carry you into the synagogues, and tribunals, and authorities; do not be solicitous as to what you may apologize, or what you may say: ¹² for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that hour the things which it behooveth you to speak. ¹³ And a certain one from the multitude said to Him, Teacher, speak to my brother, to divide the inheritance with me. ¹⁴ And He said to him; Man, who established me judge or a divider over you? ¹⁵ And He said to them, See, and beware of all covetousness: because his life is not in that which aboundeth to any one, from those things belonging to him. ¹⁶ He spake a parable to them, saying, The farm of a certain rich man was very productive: ¹⁷ and he was reasoning in himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no place where I shall store my fruits? ¹⁸ And he said, I will do this: I will take down my barns, and build greater, and there I will gather all my fruits and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him, Thou fool, this night they are demanding thy soul from thee; and to whom shall those things which thou hast prepared, belong? ²¹ So is every one laying up treasure for himself, and not rich toward God. ²² And He spoke to His disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Be not solicitous for your soul, what you may eat; nor for your body, what you may put on. ²³ The soul is more than food, and the body more than raiment. ²⁴ Observe the ravens, because they neither sow nor reap; to which there is no storehouse nor barn, and God feeds them; are you not much better than the fowls? ²⁵ And which one of you being solicitous is able to add one moment to his existence? ²⁶ If then you are powerless in the smallest matter, why are you solicitous about other things? ²⁷ Observe the lilies, how they toil not, neither do they spin: and I say unto you, That Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these. ²⁸ And if God so clothes the verdure flourishing in the fields to-day, and to-morrow cast into the oven; how much more are you, O ye of little faith? ²⁹ And do not seek what you may eat, and what you may drink, and with what you are clothed; ³⁰ for the heathens of the world are seeking after all these things: but your Father knows that you have need of these things. ³¹ Moreover seek His kingdom and these things shall be added unto you. ³² Fear not, little flock; because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom. ³³ Sell your possessions and give alms; make for yourselves purses that will not get old, and treasure in the heavens which can not be stolen, where the thief does not draw nigh, nor the moth corrupt. ³⁴ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be. ³⁵ Let your loins be girted, and your lamps burning; ³⁶ and be you like unto men waiting for their lord, when he may rise up from the marriage feast; in order that, coming and knocking, they may open unto him immediately. ³⁷ Blessed are those servants, whom the lord having come will find watching: truly I say unto you, that he will gird himself, and have them sit down, and having come will serve them. ³⁸ If at the second, and third, watch he may come, happy are ye. ³⁹ Know this, that if the landlord knew at what hour the thief cometh, he would not have permitted his house to be broken into. ⁴⁰ Be ye also ready: because at an hour you do not think the Son of man cometh. ⁴¹ And Peter said to Him, Lord, do you speak this parable to us, or to all? ⁴² The Lord said, Who then is the faithful, wise steward, whom the lord will establish over his house-hold, to give them their food in season? ⁴³ Happy is that servant, whom his lord having come shall thus find watching. ⁴⁴ Truly I say unto you, that he will establish him over all his possessions. ⁴⁵ But if that servant may say in his heart, my lord delayeth his coming, and may begin to smite the servants and handmaidens, and to eat and drink, and be drunken; ⁴⁶ the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he does not expect, and in an hour in which he does not know, and will cut him off, and will appoint his part with the unbelievers. ⁴⁷ But that servant knowing the will of his lord, and not preparing or doing according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. ⁴⁸ But the one not knowing, and doing things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. But to every one to whom much is given, much will be required of him: and to whom they commit much, of him they will ask the more. ⁴⁹ I have come to send fire on the earth; and what do I will, if it is already kindled? ⁵⁰ And I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it may be perfected! ⁵¹ Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? I say unto you, Nay, but division. ⁵² For from now, there shall be five in one house divided, three shall be divided against two, and two against three: ⁵³ the father against the son, and the son against the father; and the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against the daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law. ⁵⁴ And he also spoke to the multitudes, When you may see a cloud rising from the west, you immediately say, that the rain cometh; and it is so: ⁵⁵ and when the south wind is blowing, you say, that it will be hot; and it is so. ⁵⁶ You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the earth and the firmament; and how do you not discern this time? ⁵⁷ Why do you not judge righteous judgment, even with reference to yourselves? ⁵⁸ For as you go with your adversary to the ruler, give attention on the way that you be reconciled with him; lest he may deliver you to the judge, and the judge shall turn you over to the officer, and the officer will cast you into prison. ⁵⁹ I say unto you, You can by no means come out thence, till you have even paid the last mite.

⁶ And Jesus said to them; See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. ⁷ And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, That it is because we did not take bread. ⁸ And Jesus knowing said to them, Why do you reason among yourselves, O ye of little faith, because you did not take bread? ⁹ Do you not yet understand? do you not remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? ¹⁰ Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up? ¹¹ How do you not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread, to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. ¹² Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of the (bread) of the Pharisees and Sadducees, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

¹⁵ And He commanded them, saying, See, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. ¹⁶ And they were reasoning to one another, saying, It is because we have not bread. ¹⁷ And Jesus knowing says to them, Why do you reason because you have not bread? do you not yet know, nor understand? have you your heart still hardened? ¹⁸ Having eyes, do you not see? having ears, do you not hear? and do you not remember? ¹⁹ When I broke the five loaves to the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up? They say to Him, Twelve. ²⁰ And when the seven loaves to the four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up? And they said, Seven. ²¹ And He said to them, Do you not yet understand?

¹ And it came to pass, while the multitude is pressing on Him to hear the word of God, and He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret;

¹⁵ And the word concerning Him was going abroad: and many multitudes continued to come, and be healed of their diseases by Him.

¹⁷ And having come down with them, He stood upon a level place, and a great multitude of His disciples, and a great crowd of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and Tyre and Sidon by the sea, who came to hear Him, and to be healed of their diseases;

⁴⁴ Woe unto you! because you are like tombs unseen, and men walking over them do not know it.

⁵⁶ You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the earth and the firmament; and how do you not discern this time?

²⁰ And they hearing, continued to glorify God, and said to him, You see, brother, how many myriads there are of those who believe; and they are all zealots of the law:

⁷ Cleanse away the old leaven, in order that you may be a new lump, as you are free from leaven; for Christ has truly become our Passover. ⁸ So let us feast, not on the old leaven, nor on the leaven of sin and iniquity, but on the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

³ For I delivered unto you in the first place that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

¹⁷ But the wisdom which is from above is indeed first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily persuaded, full of mercy and of good works, free from partiality and hypocrisy.

¹ Therefore having laid aside all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all calumniations;

²⁶ Therefore fear them not; for there is nothing hidden, that shall not be revealed; nothing secret, that shall not be known. ²⁷ What I say unto you in the darkness, speak ye in the light: and whatsoever you hear in the ear, proclaim upon the housetops. ²⁸ Be not afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but fear ye, rather him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. ²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and one of them will not fall to the ground without your Father. ³⁰ But the hairs of your head are all numbered. ³¹ Then fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows. ³² Therefore every one who shall confess me before the people, I will also confess him before my Father, who is in the heavens. ³³ But whosoever may deny me before the people, I will also deny him before my Father who is in the heavens.

²² For there is nothing hidden which may not be made manifest; neither is there any thing concealed, but that it may come into the light.

¹⁷ For there is nothing hidden which shall not be made manifest; neither is there any thing concealed, which may not be made known and come into the light.

¹⁶ in the day when God will judge the secrets of men through my gospel according to Jesus Christ.

⁵ So judge nothing before the time, until the Lord may come, who will also bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then praise shall be to each one from God.

¹⁰ For it behooves us all to appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, in order that each one may receive according to those things which he has done through the body, whether good or evil.

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and him sitting on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne; and the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

²⁷ What I say unto you in the darkness, speak ye in the light: and whatsoever you hear in the ear, proclaim upon the housetops.

³⁶ And I say unto you, that every idle word whatsoever men shall speak, they shall give an account concerning the same in the day of judgment.

¹⁴ And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied against these, saying, Behold, the Lord came with his myriads of saints, ¹⁵ to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly of them for all the works of their ungodliness which they have impiously done, and for all their hard speeches which they have spoken against him, being ungodly sinners.

²⁸ Be not afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but fear ye, rather him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you may do those things which I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants; because the servant knows not what his lord is doing: but I have called you friends; because all things which I heard with my Father, I made known unto you.

¹³ And seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and apprehending that they are unlearned and ignorant men, they continued to be astonished, and recognized them, that they were with Jesus;

²⁴ But I consider my life worthy of no consideration to myself, so as to finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

²⁸ and not being intimidated in anything by the adversaries: which is to them the manifestation of destruction, but of your salvation, and this is from God;

²³ and the scripture was fulfilled, saying, And Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the friend of God.

¹⁴ But if indeed you suffer for righteousness' sake, you are happy. Fear not their fear, neither be troubled;

¹⁰ Fear not those things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you a crown of life.

²² but I say unto you that every one being angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever may say to his brother, Thou scoundrel, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever may say, Thou fool, shall be liable unto a hell of fire.

⁴¹ Then will He also say unto those on the left, Depart from me, ye cursed, into eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.

⁴⁶ And these shall go away into eternal punishment: and the righteous into eternal life.

²³ But you see: behold, I have foretold you all things.

⁶ that one should overreach and defraud his brother in a business transaction: because the Lord is the avenger concerning these things, as we indeed before told you and witnessed to you.

³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

⁴ For if God spared not the angels who sinned, but having sent them down to hell, committed them to chains of darkness to be kept unto judgment;

⁷ saying with a great voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; because the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains of the waters.

⁴ Who may not fear, O Lord, and will not glorify thy name? because thou alone art holy; because all the nations shall come and worship before thee; because thy righteous acts have been made manifest.

¹⁴ And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and one of them will not fall to the ground without your Father.

²⁴ Observe the ravens, because they neither sow nor reap; to which there is no storehouse nor barn, and God feeds them; are you not much better than the fowls?

²⁷ Observe the lilies, how they toil not, neither do they spin: and I say unto you, That Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these.

²⁶ Look unto the fowls of heaven, how they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are you not more excellent than they?

³⁰ But the hairs of your head are all numbered. ³¹ Then fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

¹² Therefore how much more valuable is a man than a sheep? So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.

¹⁸ and not a hair from your head shall perish.

³⁴ Therefore I exhort you to take food: for this is for your safety: for not a hair of your head shall perish.

³¹ But when the Son of min may come in His glory, and all His angels with Him, then will He sit upon the throne of His glory: ³² and all nations shall be gathered before Him: and He will separate them from one another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats: ³³ and He will place the sheep on His right, and the goats on His left. ³⁴ Then the King will say to those on His right, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom which has been prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

¹⁰ So, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

⁹ That if you may confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and may believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved: ¹⁰ for with the heart it is believed unto righteousness; and with the mouth it is confessed unto salvation.

¹² if we endure, we will truly reign with him: if we shall deny him, he will also deny us:

²³ No one denying the Son has the Father: the one confessing the Son has also the Father.

²⁴ But to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to establish you blameless in the presence of his glory with rejoicing. ²⁵ to God our only Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and power, before every age, both now, and unto all the ages. Amen.

¹³ I know where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is: and you are holding fast my name, and did not deny my faith, in the days when Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.

⁴ But you have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: because they are worthy. ⁵ The one conquering shall thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not blot out his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and in the presence of his angels.

²³ Then I will confess unto them that I never knew you: depart from me, ye who work iniquity.

³³ But whosoever may deny me before the people, I will also deny him before my Father who is in the heavens.

¹² And he responding, said; Truly I say unto you, I know you not.

³¹ But when the Son of min may come in His glory, and all His angels with Him, then will He sit upon the throne of His glory:

³⁸ For whosoever may be ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and wicked generation, the Son of man shall also be ashamed of him, when He may come in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.

²⁶ For whosoever may be ashamed of me and my words, the Son of man will be ashamed of him, when He may come in His glory, and that of the Father, and that of the holy angels.

²⁶ Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in thy presence, and thou didst preach in our streets. ²⁷ And he will say, I tell you, I know you not whence you are; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.

¹³ The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Child, Jesus, who you indeed delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate having decided to release Him. ¹⁴ And you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and ask that a man who was a murderer should be delivered unto you,

²⁸ And now, little children, abide in him; in order that, if he may appear, we may have boldness, and not shrink with embarrassment from him in his presence.

⁸ I know your works; behold, I have given before you an open door, which no one is able to shut: and you have a little power, and you have kept my word, and not denied my name.

³¹ Therefore I say unto you, every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be forgiven unto men. ³² And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven unto him: but whosoever may speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven unto him, either in this age, or that which is to come.

²⁸ Truly I say unto you, that all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies whatsoever they may blaspheme: ²⁹ but whosoever may blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is subject of eternal condemnation. ³⁰ Because they were saying, He has an unclean spirit.

³⁴ And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing. And dividing His garments, they were casting the lots.

¹³ being antecedently a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an insulter: but I obtained mercy, because I did it in unbelief being ignorant;

⁴ For it is impossible that those having been once enlightened, and tasted the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost, ⁵ and having tasted the beautiful word of God, and the dynamites of the coming age, ⁶ indeed having fallen away, to renew them again unto repentance; having crucified to themselves again the Son of God, and put him to an open shame. ⁷ For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon her, and bringing forth the herb nutritious to those by whom it is also cultivated, receives blessings from God: ⁸ but that which produces thorns and thistles, is reprobate, and nigh unto the curse; whose end is unto burning.

²⁶ For we sinning willingly after we have received the perfect knowledge of the truth, there is left no more sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain fearful anticipation of judgment and violence of fire, about to devour the adversaries. ²⁸ The one having rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy before two or three witnesses: ²⁹ of how much more terrible punishment, do you think, the one having trodden under foot the Son of God, and counted the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, common, and insulted the Spirit of grace; be counted worthy! ³⁰ For we know him who said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will repay; and again, The Lord will judge his people. ³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

¹⁶ If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he will give him life to those sinning not unto death. There is a sin unto death; concerning this I do not say that you may ask.

¹⁷ Beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the sanhedrins, and will beat you in their synagogues; ¹⁸ and they will lead you before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony unto them and the Gentiles. ¹⁹ And when they may deliver you, be not solicitous how or what you may speak: for it will be given unto you in that hour what you may say. ²⁰ For you are not those speaking, but the Spirit of your Father is speaking in you.

³⁴ Therefore I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: you will kill and crucify some of them; and will scourge some of them in your synagogues, and will persecute them from city to city;

⁹ These are the beginnings of travails. But you take heed to yourselves: for they will deliver you into councils; and will beat you in the synagogues: and you shall stand before governors and kings on account of me, for a testimony unto them. ¹⁰ And it behooves the gospel first to be preached to all the nations. ¹¹ And when they may lead you forth, delivering you up, do not be solicitous what you may speak, nor meditate: but whatsoever may be given to you in that hour, speak this: for you are not those speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

²² And He spoke to His disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Be not solicitous for your soul, what you may eat; nor for your body, what you may put on.

¹² And before all of these things, they will lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you into their synagogues and prisons, led before kings and governors on account of my name. ¹³ And it shall come to pass to you for a testimony. ¹⁴ Place it in your hearts, not to premeditate your defense:

⁵ And it came to pass on the morrow, the rulers and elders and scribes ⁶ assembled in Jerusalem, and Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and so many as were of the family of the high priest. ⁷ And having set them in the midst, asked them, By what power or in what name have you done this?

²⁷ And leading them, they placed them in the council, and the chief priests asked them, saying, ²⁸ With commandment we commanded you not to teach in this name; and behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching; and you are determined to bring upon us the blood of this man. ²⁹ But Peter and the apostles responding said, It behooves us to obey God rather than men. ³⁰ The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you have slain, hanging him on the wood; ³¹ Him hath God exalted at His own right hand, a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance and remission of sins to Israel. ³² And we are witnesses of these words, and the Holy Ghost, whom God has given to those who obey him.

⁹ And certain ones of the synagogues, called Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia, stood up disputing with Stephen, ¹⁰ and they were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit with which he was speaking. ¹¹ Then they bribed men, saying, that we have heard him speaking words blasphemous against Moses and God. ¹² And they excited the people and the elders and scribes, and coming upon him, seized him, and led him into the council, ¹³ and they raised up false witnesses, saying, This man does not cease speaking words against this holy place and the law; ¹⁴ for we have heard him saying, that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses delivered unto us. ¹⁵ And all sitting in the council, having fixed their eyes on him, saw his face as the face of an angel.

²⁰ For you are not those speaking, but the Spirit of your Father is speaking in you.

¹⁵ for I will give to you mouth and wisdom, which all who are opposed to you will not be able to gainsay nor resist.

⁸ Then Peter being full of the Holy Spirit said to them, Ye rulers of the people and elders,

¹⁰ and they were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit with which he was speaking.

² And he said, Men, brothers and fathers, hear ye; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, while he was in Mesopotamia, before he migrated into Haran, and He said to him; ³ Come out from thy country and from thy kindred, and come hither into the land which I will show unto thee. ⁴ And after his father died he migrated himself thence into this country in which you now dwell, ⁵ and God gave him no inheritance in it, not the step of his foot; and he promised to give it to him, and his seed after him, for an inheritance, there being no child to him. ⁶ And thus God spoke, that his seed shall sojourn in a strange land, and they will enslave it and oppress it four hundred years. ⁷ And the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, says God, and after these things they shall come out and serve me in this place. ⁸ And He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so he begat Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac, Jacob; and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs. ⁹ And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him into Egypt: ¹⁰ and God was with him, and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him grace and wisdom before Pharaoh the king of Egypt; and he placed him governor over Egypt and all his house. ¹¹ And the famine came into all the land and Canaan, and great distress: and our fathers found no sustenance. ¹² And Jacob hearing that there is food in Egypt, sent away our fathers first. ¹³ And the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren, and his race became manifest to Pharaoh. ¹⁴ And Joseph sending, called to him Jacob his father, and all the family, seventy-five souls. ¹⁵ And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he and our fathers died there. ¹⁶ And they were carried over into Shechem, and buried in a tomb which Abraham purchased from the sons of Emmor in Shechem with a sum of money. ¹⁷ When the time of the promise which God made with Abraham drew nigh, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt, ¹⁸ until another king arose over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. ¹⁹ He dealing fraudulently with our race, afflicted our fathers, that they should expose their infants, so that they should not live. ²⁰ During which time Moses was born, and was beautiful to God; who was kept three months in the house of his father. ²¹ And he being exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him, and adopted him for a son to herself. ²² And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and was mighty in his words and works. ²³ And when the time of the fortieth year was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. ²⁴ And seeing a certain one suffering affliction, he interposed, and executed vengeance in behalf of the oppressed one, slaying the Egyptian. ²⁵ And he supposed that his brethren would understand that God through his hand is giving them salvation: but they did not recognize it. ²⁶ On the following day, he appeared to them fighting, and undertook to reduce them to peace, saying, Men, you are brethren; therefore do not injure one another. ²⁷ And the one injuring his neighbor thrust him away, saying, Who appointeth you a leader and a judge over us? ²⁸ whether do you wish to kill me, in the manner in which you slew the Egyptian yesterday? ²⁹ And at this word Moses fled, and became a sojourner in the land of Midia, where he begat two sons. ³⁰ And forty years having passed away, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai in the flame of fire of the bramble bush. ³¹ And Moses, seeing the sight, was astonished: and he coming nigh to investigate, the voice of the Lord came: ³² I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembling, did not dare to investigate. ³³ And the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet: for the place on which thou standest is holy ground. ³⁴ Seeing, I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and heard their groaning, and have come down to deliver them. And come now, I will send thee into Egypt. ³⁵ And this Moses whom they denied, saying, Who hath established thee a ruler and a judge? him hath God sent a ruler and deliverer, with the hand of an angel having appeared unto him in a bush. ³⁶ He led them out, doing wonders and miracles in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years. ³⁷ This Moses is the one having said to the sons of Israel, A prophet will God raise up to you of your brethren, like unto me. ³⁸ And this is the one being in the church in the wilderness with the angel speaking to him in Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the living oracles to give unto us; ³⁹ to whom our fathers were not willing to be obedient, but thrust him away, and turned back in their hearts towards Egypt, ⁴⁰ saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us: for this Moses, who led us out from the land of Egypt, we know not what happened to him. ⁴¹ And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. ⁴² And God turned away, and gave them up to serve the host of the heaven; as has been written in the book of the prophets: Slain victims and sacrifices you have not brought unto me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel. ⁴³ And ye took up the shrine of Moloch, and the star of the god Remphan, images which you made to worship them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon. ⁴⁴ And the tabernacle of testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, as the one speaking to Moses commanded him to make it according to the example he had seen; ⁴⁵ which our fathers receiving, brought in along with Joshua in the dispossession of the nations, whom God drove out, from the face of our fathers, until the days of David, ⁴⁶ who found favor before God, and asked that he should build a tabernacle for the house of Jacob. ⁴⁷ But Solomon built a house for him. ⁴⁸ But the Most High dwelleth not in houses built with hands, as the prophet says, ⁴⁹ Heaven is my throne, and earth the footstool of my feet: What house will you build for me? says the Lord; Or what shall be the place of my rest? ⁵⁰ Hath not my hand made all of these things? ⁵¹ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye. ⁵² Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? and they slew those proclaiming concerning the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you became: ⁵³ who received the law in the administrations of angels, and did not keep it.

⁵⁵ But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, and looking up to heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

¹ And Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted to thee to speak for thyself. Then Paul reaching forth his hand, proceeded with his defence: ² O king Agrippa, I consider myself happy, being about this day to make my defence before thee concerning all those things of which I am accused by the Jews: ³ especially as thou art acquainted with all the customs and questions among the Jews: therefore I pray you to hear me patiently. ⁴ Moreover indeed all the Jews know my life from my youth; being from the beginning in my nation and in Jerusalem, ⁵ knowing me originally, if they may be willing to testify, that according to the most rigid sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. ⁶ And now for the hope of the promise which is from God to our fathers, I stand being judged: ⁷ unto which our twelve tribes constantly worshiping night and day, hope to attain: concerning which hope I am accused by the Jews, O king. ⁸ Why is it judged by you incredible, if God shall raise the dead? ⁹ Moreover indeed, I thought to myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene: ¹⁰ which I did also in Jerusalem, and shut up many of the saints in prison; and having received authority from the chief priests, and they being slain, I gave my vote against them; ¹¹ and throughout all the synagogues, frequently punishing them, I compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceeding mad against them, I was persecuting them even also unto foreign cities. ¹² Meanwhile journeying to Damascus with power and authority of the chief priests, I saw on the way, O king, ¹³ about midday, a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun, shining around me and those traveling with me; ¹⁴ and we all having fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against goads. ¹⁵ And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou art persecuting. ¹⁶ But rise up, and stand upon thy feet: for unto this have I appeared unto thee, to make thee a minister and a martyr both of those things which thou hast seen, and of which I will appear unto thee; ¹⁷ delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness unto light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me. ¹⁹ Therefore, O king, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision: ²⁰ but first to those in Damascus, and also in Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and to the Gentiles, I was preaching that they should repent and turn to God, doing things worthy of repentance. ²¹ On account of these things the Jews, taking me while in the temple, endeavored to kill me. ²² Then having received help from God, I have stood unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said were about to come to pass: ²³ how that Christ must suffer, how being the first from the resurrection of the dead, he is to proclaim light both to the people, and the Gentiles. ²⁴ And he making his defence to these things, Festus says with a loud voice, O Paul, thou art beside thyself; many writings turned thee into insanity. ²⁵ But Paul says, I am not a maniac, most noble Festus; but I speak forth the words of truth and soberness. ²⁶ For the king, to whom I also speak boldly, knows concerning these things: for I am persuaded that nothing of these things is hidden; for this has not been done in a corner. ²⁷ O king Agrippa, dost thou believe the prophets? I know that thou believest them. ²⁸ And Agrippa said to Paul, With little persuasion thou dost persuade thyself to make me a Christian. ²⁹ And Paul said, I would to God, that both in little and in much, not only you, but also all of those hearing me this day, were such as I am, except these bonds. ³⁰ And the king, and the governor, and Bernice, and those sitting with them, arose up: ³¹ and having gone away, they were talking to one another, saying, that This man is doing nothing worthy of death or of bonds. ³² But Agrippa said to Festus, This man was able to have been released, if he had not appealed to Caesar.

⁴⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth the good; and the wicked man out of the wicked treasure of his heart brings forth that which is wicked: for out of the abundance of his heart his mouth speaks.

¹⁸ But Simon seeing that by the laying on of the hands of the apostles the Spirit was given, offered them money, saying, ¹⁹ Give me this power, that on whomsoever I may lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.

⁵ wranglings of men having been corrupted as to their mind and turned away from the truth, considering that gain is godliness.

²⁰ And seeing their faith, He said to him; Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.

⁵⁸ And after a brief interval another seeing him, said, Truly, thou art one of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.

¹⁵ And Jesus knowing that they are about to come and take Him, that they may make Him king, departs again into the mountain Himself alone.

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³⁵ Pilate responded, Whether am I a Jew? thine own nation and the chief priests delivered thee to me: what hast thou done? ³⁶ Jesus responded, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight for me, in order that I might not be delivered to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from thence.

¹ Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one judging. For in whatsoever thou art judging another, thou art condemning thyself; for thou judging art doing the same things.

³ But do you consider this, O man, judging those doing such things, and doing the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?

²⁰ O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Whether shall the thing formed say to him that formed it. Why did you make me thus?

²⁵ Therefore I say unto you, Be not solicitous for your soul what you may eat, nor for your body what you may put on. Is not your soul more valuable than food, and your body than raiment? ²⁶ Look unto the fowls of heaven, how they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are you not more excellent than they?

²² thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, impurity, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, folly.

¹⁴ And that which falleth among thorns, there are those who hear, and going forward, by the cares and riches and pleasures are choked out, and bring forth no fruit to perfection.

¹⁴ And the Pharisees, being avaricious, were hearing all these things, and murmuring against Him.

³⁴ But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be burdened with luxury, and drunkenness, and worldly cares, and that day may come on you unanticipated.

¹⁰ not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and the extortioners, or with the idolators; since you ought therefore to come out of the world. ¹¹ For now I have written unto you not to keep company with him, if any one denominated a brother may be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a scold, or drunken, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor scolds, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

³ But all fornication, and uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be named among you, as it becomes saints; ⁴ and indecorum, or foolish talking, or indecent jesting, which is not becoming, but rather the giving of thanks: ⁵ for you are knowing this, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

⁵ Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

⁶ Godliness with contentment is great gain, ⁷ for because we have brought nothing into the world, we are not able to carry any thing out; ⁸ however having food and raiment we shall be contented with these. ⁹ But those wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown the people in destruction and perdition. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evils: which some seeking after have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

² For men will be lovers of themselves, moneylovers, arrogant, proud, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

⁵ Let your deportment be free from covetousness; being content with present things: for he said, I will not, I will not, leave you, neither do I ever forsake you;

³ and in their covetousness they will sell you with their soft speeches: unto whom judgment from olden time tarries not, and their destruction does not slumber.

¹⁴ having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin; beguiling unestablished souls: having a heart which has been made fat with covetousness; children of the curse:

⁴⁵ in order that you may be the sons of your Father who is in the heavens: because He raises up His sun on the wicked and on the good, and rains on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

¹⁷ indeed he did not leave himself without witnesses, doing good, giving to you the rains from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.

⁴² Give to the one asking thee, and do not turn away from the one wishing to borrow from thee.

¹¹ And responding he says to them, Let the one having two coats, give to him having none, and let the one having food do likewise.

²⁵ And behold, a certain lawyer stood up tempting Him, saying, Teacher, having done what shall I inherit eternal life?

⁴¹ Therefore give alms of your substance; and behold all things are pure unto you.

²⁹ And do not seek what you may eat, and what you may drink, and with what you are clothed;

³³ Sell your possessions and give alms; make for yourselves purses that will not get old, and treasure in the heavens which can not be stolen, where the thief does not draw nigh, nor the moth corrupt.

¹³ But when you may make a feast, invite the poor, maimed, lame, blind: ¹⁴ and thou shalt be happy; because they have nothing with which to recompense thee: and it shall be recompensed unto thee in the resurrection of the just.

³ And the steward said within himself, What shall I do, because my lord takes away my stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

⁹ And I say unto you, Make unto yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, in order that, when it may fail, they may receive you into eternal tabernacles.

²² And Jesus hearing these things, said to him, Still one thing is lacking to thee: Sell all things whatsoever you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

¹⁷ And he said to him, Well done, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in the least, have thou authority over ten cities.

³⁷ And hearing, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles, Men, brethren, what must we do?

³⁰ and leading them out said, Sirs, what does it behoove me to do in order that I may be saved?

¹³ communicating to necessities of the saints; pursuing hospitality.

⁶ But it is this, he that soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall also reap bountifully. ⁷ As each one has predetermined in his heart; not of reluctance, or of constraint: for God loves the hilarious giver. ⁸ But God is able to make all grace abound unto you; in order that, always having all sufficiency in every thing, you may abound unto every good work: as has been written, ⁹ He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor; his righteousness abides forever. ¹⁰ But he that gives seed to the sower, will also give bread to the eater, and multiply your sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness: ¹¹ in every thing being enriched in all purity, which works out through us thanksgiving to God. ¹² Because the ministry of this free-will offering is not only supplying the deficiencies of the saints, but also superabounding through much thanksgiving to God; ¹³ through the approval of this ministry, glorifying God in the submission of your testimony to the gospel of Christ, and the purity of your fellowship unto them and unto all; ¹⁴ and through their prayer in your behalf, earnestly longing to see you on account of the grace of God superabounding unto you. ¹⁵ Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift.

¹⁷ Charge the rich in this world not to think high things, nor to hope in uncertain riches, but in God, who richly supplies us all things for our enjoyment;

¹⁶ In this we know the divine love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

²¹ So is every one laying up treasure for himself, and not rich toward God.

⁴ And he was not willing for a time: but after these things he said in himself, Though I fear not God nor regard man,

⁶ But the Lord said, I fear what the unjust judge says.

¹⁵ This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but it is earthly, intellectual, and demoniacal.

¹⁵ on the contrary you should say, If the Lord will, and we live, we will indeed do this, or that.

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and thieves break through and steal: ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not corrupt, and thieves do not break through and steal: ²¹ for where your treasure is, there will be your heart also.

¹⁹ There was a certain rich man, and he was habitually clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day.

³² If after the manner of men I have fought with the wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

⁶ but she who is wanton is dead though living.

⁴ traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

¹³ Come now, ye who are saying, To-day or to-morrow we will go into that city, and abide there a year, and trade and accumulate: ¹⁴ whosoever do not know that which belongs to the morrow: for what is your life? For you are a vapor, appearing for a moment, and then vanishing away; ¹⁵ on the contrary you should say, If the Lord will, and we live, we will indeed do this, or that.

¹ Come now, ye rich, weep mourning over your calamities which are coming on you. ² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten: ³ your gold and your silver are cankered; and their rust shall be for a witness against you, and eat your flesh like fire. You laid up treasures in the last days.

⁵ Ye flourished upon the earth, and were wanton; you nourished your hearts in the day of slaughter.

³ For the past time is sufficient to have wrought the will of the heathens, walking in impurities, in lusts, in wine-drinkings, in revelries, in intemperance, and in unlawful idolatries:

⁷ as to so many things as she has glorified herself, and lived wantonly, give unto her so much torment and sorrow. Because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow; and I see no sorrow;

⁴⁸ But if the wicked servant may say in his heart, ⁴⁹ My lord delayeth; and may begin to smite his fellow-servants, and eat and drink with the drunken; ⁵⁰ the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he does not expect, and an hour in which he does not know, ⁵¹ and he will cut him off, and will appoint his part with hypocrites: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

⁴⁰ Ye fools, did not the One having made the outside also make the inside?

²² And it came to pass that the beggar died, and himself was carried by the angels into the bosom of Abraham: and the rich man also died, and was buried. ²³ And in Hades lifted up his eyes, being in torment, sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

³ When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman in gestation; and they can not escape.

⁷ for because we have brought nothing into the world, we are not able to carry any thing out;

¹⁴ whosoever do not know that which belongs to the morrow: for what is your life? For you are a vapor, appearing for a moment, and then vanishing away;

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and thieves break through and steal: ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not corrupt, and thieves do not break through and steal:

²⁴ Moreover woe unto you rich! because you exhaust your reward.

¹¹ If therefore you were not faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will intrust to you the true?

⁵ But according to thy hardness and thy impenitent heart, thou art treasuring up to thyself wrath against the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

¹⁰ as sorrowing, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

¹⁸ that they do good, be rich in good works, be cheerful givers, ready communicators; ¹⁹ laying up for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold on the life which is life indeed.

⁵ Hear, my beloved brethren. Has not God chosen the poor in the world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him with divine love?

⁹ I know your tribulations, and your poverty, but you are rich; and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

²⁵ Therefore I say unto you, Be not solicitous for your soul what you may eat, nor for your body what you may put on. Is not your soul more valuable than food, and your body than raiment? ²⁶ Look unto the fowls of heaven, how they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are you not more excellent than they? ²⁷ And which one of you being solicitous is able to add one moment to his existence? ²⁸ And why are you solicitous concerning raiment? Know the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. ²⁹ But I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these. ³⁰ But if God so clothed the verdure of the field, existing today and tomorrow cast into the oven, how much more you, O ye of little faith? ³¹ Therefore be not solicitous, saying, What can we eat? or what can we drink? or with what can we be clothed? ³² For after all these things the heathen were seeking; for your heavenly Father knoweth that you need all these things. ³³ But seek first the kingdom, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. ³⁴ Therefore be not solicitous unto the morrow: for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

³² I wish you to be free from solicitude. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, in order that he may please the Lord:

⁶ Be solicitous about nothing; but in all prayer and supplication, let your request be made known to God.

¹⁸ And we being tossed violently by the storm, they were successively making the casting out, ¹⁹ and on the third day with their own hands they threw overboard the tackling of the ship;

³⁸ And having been revived by the food, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat over into the sea.

³¹ Then fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

²⁶ And the king being grieved exceedingly; on account of his oaths, and those sitting with him, was not willing to reject her.

⁷ But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are more important than many sparrows.

³⁰ for the heathens of the world are seeking after all these things: but your Father knows that you have need of these things. ³¹ Moreover seek His kingdom and these things shall be added unto you. ³² Fear not, little flock; because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.

³⁶ Neither swear by thy head, because thou art unable to make one hair white or black.

²⁷ And which one of you being solicitous is able to add one moment to his existence?

³ And he was seeking to see Jesus, who He is; and was not able on account of the multitude, because he was small in stature.

⁷ having cast all your care upon him; because there is a care to him concerning you.

²⁸ And why are you solicitous concerning raiment? Know the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. ²⁹ But I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these. ³⁰ But if God so clothed the verdure of the field, existing today and tomorrow cast into the oven, how much more you, O ye of little faith?

¹⁰ and the rich man, in his humility: because as the flower of the grass he will pass away. ¹¹ For the sun with a scorching wind has risen, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its countenance perished: so indeed the rich man will pass away in his ways.

³⁰ But if God so clothed the verdure of the field, existing today and tomorrow cast into the oven, how much more you, O ye of little faith?

²⁶ And He says to them, Why are you afraid, O ye of little faith? Then having arisen, He rebuked the wind and the sea; and there was a great calm.

³¹ And Jesus immediately reaching out His hand, received him, and says to him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

⁸ And Jesus knowing said to them, Why do you reason among yourselves, O ye of little faith, because you did not take bread?

¹⁷ And Jesus responding said: O, faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? bring him hither to me.

²⁰ and Jesus says to them, On account of your unbelief. For truly I say unto you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you.

²⁵ And He said to them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid were astonished, saying to one another, Who then is this, because He commands the winds and the water, and they obey Him?

²⁴ Therefore all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass: the grass is withered, and the flower fell off;

³¹ Therefore be not solicitous, saying, What can we eat? or what can we drink? or with what can we be clothed?

⁷ Abide in the same house, eating and drinking those things which are with them: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. ⁸ Into whatsoever city you may enter and they may receive you, eat those things which are placed by you:

³⁵ Then He said to them, When I sent you without purse, and valise, and sandals, did you lack anything? And they said; Nothing.

⁴⁷ If you salute your brethren only, what do ye more abundantly? do not the heathens also the same thing?

¹ But take heed that you do not your righteousness before the people, in order to be seen by them: else you have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens:

⁸ Therefore be not like unto them: for your Father knows of what things you have need, before you ask him.

³² For after all these things the heathen were seeking; for your heavenly Father knoweth that you need all these things.

¹⁴ So it is not the will of your Father who is in the heavens, that one of these little ones may perish.

³² Fear not, little flock; because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.

¹⁷ Jesus says to her, Cling not to me; for I have not ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and tell them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.

¹⁷ Therefore I say this, and witness in the Lord, that you no longer walk about as the Gentiles also walk about in the vanity of their mind,

⁵ not in the passion of lust, as indeed the Gentiles who do not know God;

² that he may no longer live the remaining time in carnality according to the lusts of men, but in the will of God. ³ For the past time is sufficient to have wrought the will of the heathens, walking in impurities, in lusts, in wine-drinkings, in revelries, in intemperance, and in unlawful idolatries: ⁴ in which they are astonished you not running to the same excess of wrath, blaspheming;

³³ But seek first the kingdom, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

⁴² but there is need of one thing: for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken from her.

²⁷ Labor not for the food that perishes, but the food that abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man gives to you: for this God the Father hath sealed.

³¹ Then what shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

⁸ For bodily exercise is profitable unto little; but godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

¹⁵ But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are rapacious wolves.

²⁵ At that time Jesus responding said, I praise thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and the prudent, and reveal them unto babes. ²⁶ Yea, Father, because it was so well pleasing in thy sight. ²⁷ All things were delivered unto me by my Father: and no one perfectly knows the Son, except the Father; neither does any one perfectly know the Father, except the Son; and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him.

²⁷ And immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, Be of good cheer; I am here; fear not.

¹² What seems to you? if there may be a hundred sheep to one man, and one of them may go astray, does he not, leaving the ninety and nine, going to the mountains, seek that which has gone astray? ¹³ And if it maybe that he finds it, truly I say unto you, that he rejoiceth more over it than over the ninety and nine that went not astray. ¹⁴ So it is not the will of your Father who is in the heavens, that one of these little ones may perish.

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

³⁴ Then the King will say to those on His right, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom which has been prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

²¹ At the same hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, I praise thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them to babes: yea, Father, because it was thus pleasing in thy sight.

²⁶ But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep. ²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: ²⁸ and I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand. ²⁹ The Father, who has given them unto me, is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck them out of the hand of the Father. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.

³⁶ Jesus responded, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight for me, in order that I might not be delivered to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from thence.

¹⁵ Then when they took breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter; Simon, the son of Jonah, dost thou love me with divine love more than these? He says to Him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee as a friend. He says to him; Feed my lambs. ¹⁶ Again He says to him a second time, Simon, the son of Jonah, do you love me with divine love? He says to Him; Thou knowest that I love thee as a friend. He says to him; Shepherdize my sheeplings. ¹⁷ He says to him a third time; Simon, the son of Jonah, do you love me as a friend? Peter was grieved, because He said to him the third time, Do you love me as a friend? And he says to Him, Lord, thou knowest all things; and thou dost understand that I love thee as a friend. He says to Him, Feed my sheeplings.

²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord,

²⁸ But we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose. ²⁹ Because whom he did foreknow, he did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: ³⁰ and whom He did foreknow, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them He also glorified. ³¹ Then what shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² Indeed he who spared not his own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not with him, freely give us all things?

⁵ in love having predestinated us unto the adoption of sons unto himself through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, ⁶ unto the praise of the glory of his grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved: ⁷ in whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of transgressions, according to the riches of his grace, ⁸ which he has abounded unto us in all wisdom and understanding, ⁹ having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his own good pleasure, which he purposed in himself

¹³ for God is the one working in you both to will and to do, of his own good pleasure.

⁵ the manifestation of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you indeed suffer:

¹¹ Unto which indeed we are praying incessantly for you, in order that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness and work of faith, with power;

²⁸ Therefore receiving an unshaken kingdom, let us have grace, through which we may worship God acceptably with reverence and fear:

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one having according to his great mercy begotten us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and never fading, having been kept in the heavens unto you, ⁵ who are preserved by the power of God through faith unto the salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

¹¹ For in this way an entrance will be administered unto you abundantly into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

⁶ and He made us a kingdom, priests unto God even his Father; to him be glory and dominion unto the ages of the ages; amen.

⁵ And there shall be no more night; and they have no need of the light of a candle, nor the light of the sun; because the Lord God shines on them: and they shall reign until the ages of the ages.

²¹ Jesus said to him, If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

⁶ And He spoke this, not because there was a care to him for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the purse, and was carrying those things cast in.

⁴⁵ and they sold their possessions and personalities, and divided the same unto all, as each one had need.

³⁴ For no one among them was in need; for so many possessions of lands or houses as belonged to them, selling, they were bringing the prices of the things having been sold, ³⁵ and laying them at the feet of the apostles; and it was distributed to each as any one had need.

² because in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

¹⁷ Charge the rich in this world not to think high things, nor to hope in uncertain riches, but in God, who richly supplies us all things for our enjoyment;

²¹ for where your treasure is, there will be your heart also.

²⁰ For our citizenship is in the heavens; whence we are indeed looking for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

¹ If then ye are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting on the right hand of God; ² think about those things above, and not things upon the earth. ³ For ye are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God:

¹⁶ Let your light so shine before the people, in order that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.

¹ Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened unto ten virgins, who taking their lamps, went out to meet the bridegroom.

⁴ and the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. ⁵ But the bridegroom tarrying, they all nodded and slept. ⁶ And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom! go ye out to meet him. ⁷ Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. ⁸ And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are going out. ⁹ And the wise responded, saying, No, lest there may not be a sufficiency for us and you: go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. ¹⁰ And they going to buy, the bridegroom came; and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.

¹⁴ Stand therefore, being girded about as to your loins with truth, and being invested with the breastplate of righteousness,

¹⁵ in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

¹³ Therefore having girded up the loins of your minds, being perfectly sober, hope unto the grace which is conferred on you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹ And Jesus responding, again spoke to them in parables, saying, ² The kingdom of the heavens is like a king-man, who made a marriage for his son. ³ And he sent his servants to invite those who had been called to the marriage: and they were not willing to come. ⁴ And again he sent other servants, saying; Speak to those who have been called, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatling are slain, and all things are ready: come to the marriage. ⁵ And they being careless, went away, one to his farm, and another to his merchandise: ⁶ but the rest, taking his servants, insulted, and slew them. ⁷ And the king was angry; and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and burnt up their cities. ⁸ Then he says to his servants, The wedding is ready, but those having been invited were not worthy. ⁹ Go ye therefore to crossings of the roads, and so many as you may find, invite to the marriage. ¹⁰ And those servants having gone out into the ways, led in all whom they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was filled with guests. ¹¹ And the king having come in to look upon the guests, saw there a man not having on a wedding-garment. ¹² And he says to him, Comrade, how did you come in hither, not having the wedding-garment? And he was silent. ¹³ Then the king said to the servants, Having bound him feet and hands, cast him into the darkness which is without; and there shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth. ¹⁴ For many are called, but few elected.

⁴² Watch therefore: because you do not know on what day your Lord cometh. ⁴³ But know this, that if the landlord knew at what watch the thief cometh, he would have watched, and would not have permitted his house to be broken into. ⁴⁴ Therefore be ye also ready: because the Son of man cometh in an hour at which you do not think.

¹ Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened unto ten virgins, who taking their lamps, went out to meet the bridegroom. ² And five of them were foolish, and five were wise. ³ For the foolish, taking their lamps, took no oil with themselves: ⁴ and the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. ⁵ But the bridegroom tarrying, they all nodded and slept. ⁶ And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom! go ye out to meet him. ⁷ Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. ⁸ And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are going out. ⁹ And the wise responded, saying, No, lest there may not be a sufficiency for us and you: go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. ¹⁰ And they going to buy, the bridegroom came; and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut. ¹¹ And afterwards the other virgins come, saying; Lord, lord, open unto us. ¹² And he responding, said; Truly I say unto you, I know you not. ¹³ Watch therefore, because you know neither the day nor the hour.

³⁴ As a man, going away, leaving his own house, and giving authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and commanded the porter that he should watch. ³⁵ Watch therefore: for you know not when the Lord of the house cometh, late, or at midnight, or at the crowing of the cock, or in the morning; ³⁶ lest having come suddenly he may find you sleeping. ³⁷ And the things I say to you, I say to all, Watch.

²⁵ And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and the same man was righteous and godly, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him; ²⁶ and it was revealed unto him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death before he may see the Christ of the Lord. ²⁷ And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and while the parents are bringing in the little child Jesus, that they may do according to the provisions of law concerning Him, ²⁸ he received Him into his arms and blessed God and said; ²⁹ Now, O Lord, thou art letting thy servant depart, in peace according to thy word; ³⁰ because mine eyes saw thy salvation,

⁷ Therefore, O brethren, suffer long, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer receives the precious fruit of the earth, waiting for it, until he may receive the former and latter rain: ⁸ you also suffer long; establish your hearts; because the coming of the Lord is nigh.

¹³ But I consider it righteous, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by remembrance; ¹⁴ knowing that the laying aside of my tabernacle is swift, as our Lord Jesus Christ also showed to me. ¹⁵ And I will endeavor to have each one of you after my departure make mention of these things.

²⁰ But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, ²¹ keep yourselves in the divine love of God, receiving the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

²⁰ Behold, I stand at the door, and am knocking: if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

⁴² Watch therefore: because you do not know on what day your Lord cometh.

⁴⁵ Then who is the faithful and wise servant, whom the lord placed over his household to give them their food in season? ⁴⁶ Happy is that servant whom, his lord having come, will find so doing. ⁴⁷ Truly I say unto you, that he will appoint him over all his possessions.

²⁰ And the one having received the five talents coming to him brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou didst deliver unto me five talents: behold, I have gained other five talents. ²¹ His lord said to him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou wast faithful over few things, and I will make thee ruler over many things: come thou into the joy of thy lord. ²² And the one having received two talents, coming to him, said, Lord, thou didst deliver unto me two talents: behold, I have gained other two talents. ²³ And his lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou wast faithful over few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: come thou into the joy of thy lord.

⁴³ Happy is that servant, whom his lord having come shall thus find watching.

⁸ But will he not say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and girding thyself, minister unto me, until I may eat and drink; and after these things you eat and drink?

³⁶ Therefore watch, praying all the time, that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things which are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

²⁶ If any one may minister unto me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall my minister be: if any one may minister unto me, the Father will honor him.

⁴ He rises from the supper, and lays aside His garments, and taking a towel, girded Himself; ⁵ then He pours water into a bowl, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.

⁹ But, as has been written, the things which eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and has not entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.

²¹ For Christ is my life, and death is my gain.

²³ But I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ; for this is far better:

⁷ I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: ⁸ finally there is a crown of righteousness laid up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me in that day: not only to me, but to all those who with divine love, do love his appearing.

¹ Therefore I, being a fellow-elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, also a communicant of the glory which is about to be revealed, exhort the elders who are among you: ² shepherdize the flock of God which is among you, not coercively, but willingly, for the sake of God; not for filthy lucre, but cheerfully. ³ Not as domineering over the heritages, but having become examples of the flock: ⁴ and chief Shepherd having appeared, you shall receive a crown of glory which will never fade away.

¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent to be found spotless and blameless unto him in peace:

²¹ The one conquering, I will give unto him to sit with me on my throne, as I indeed have conquered, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

¹⁷ because the Lamb in the midst of the throne will shepherdize them, and guide them to the fountains of the waters of life; and God will wipe every tear out of their eyes.

³ and they are singing a new song before the throne, and in presence of the four living creatures, and the elders. And no one was able to learn the song except the hundred and forty-four thousand, who have been redeemed from the earth. ⁴ These are they who have not been defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he may go. They have been redeemed from men, the first fruit unto God and the Lamb.

¹³ And I heard a voice from the heaven saying, Write; Blessed are the dead immediately, who die in the Lord. Yea, says the Spirit, that they shall rest from their labors; for their works do follow along with them.

⁶ And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom! go ye out to meet him.

⁴ But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may overtake you like a thief: ⁵ for you are all the sons of light, and the sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness;

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and thieves break through and steal:

² for you yourselves know well, that the day of the Lord is so coming like a thief in the night. ³ When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman in gestation; and they can not escape.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements being scorched up will be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it will be burnt up.

³ Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If you do not watch, I will come as a thief, and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you.

¹⁵ Behold, I am coming as a thief; blessed is the one watching and keeping his garments, in order that he may not walk about naked, and they may see his shame.

⁴⁴ Therefore be ye also ready: because the Son of man cometh in an hour at which you do not think.

¹³ Watch therefore, because you know neither the day nor the hour.

³³ Beware, watch; for you know not when the time is. ³⁴ As a man, going away, leaving his own house, and giving authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and commanded the porter that he should watch. ³⁵ Watch therefore: for you know not when the Lord of the house cometh, late, or at midnight, or at the crowing of the cock, or in the morning; ³⁶ lest having come suddenly he may find you sleeping.

³⁴ But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be burdened with luxury, and drunkenness, and worldly cares, and that day may come on you unanticipated. ³⁵ For as a lasso it will come upon all the people who are sitting down upon the face of the whole earth. ³⁶ Therefore watch, praying all the time, that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things which are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

¹¹ And recognizing this time, that it is already the hour we should wake out of sleep: for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

¹⁴ but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the lust of the flesh.

⁶ then therefore let us not sleep like the rest, but watch and be sober.

¹² looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements being scorched up are melted? ¹³ But, according to his promises, we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, wherein righteousness dwells. ¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent to be found spotless and blameless unto him in peace:

⁷ Let us rejoice and be glad, and give glory to him! because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.

³⁷ And the things I say to you, I say to all, Watch.

³⁷ And He comes, and finds them sleeping, and He says to Peter, Simon, do you sleep? Were you not able to watch one hour?

⁷ But the end of all things is at hand. Therefore be prudent, and sober unto prayers:

⁸ Be sober, watch. The devil is walking round like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour:

⁵² And He said to them, Therefore every scribe having been discipled into the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a man who is a landlord, who bringeth out of his treasure things both new and old.

⁸ And it being evening, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last even unto the first.

⁴⁵ Then who is the faithful and wise servant, whom the lord placed over his household to give them their food in season? ⁴⁶ Happy is that servant whom, his lord having come, will find so doing.

¹³ And the Lord seeing her, was moved with compassion towards her, and said to her, Weep not.

¹ And He also spoke to His disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and he was slandered to him as wasting his goods. ² And having called him, he said to him, What is this which I hear concerning thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou art not able to be steward any longer. ³ And the steward said within himself, What shall I do, because my lord takes away my stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg. ⁴ I know what I shall do, in order that when I am deposed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. ⁵ And calling each one of the debtors of his lord, he said to the first, How much do you owe my lord? ⁶ And he said; A hundred measures of oil. And he said to him, Take your accounts, and sitting down quickly write fifty. ⁷ Then he said to another one, And how much do you owe? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. He says to him, Take your account, and write fourscore. ⁸ And the lord praised the steward of unrighteousness because he acted shrewdly: because the sons of this age are wiser in their generation than the sons of the light. ⁹ And I say unto you, Make unto yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, in order that, when it may fail, they may receive you into eternal tabernacles. ¹⁰ He that is faithful in the least is also faithful in much: and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous in much. ¹¹ If therefore you were not faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will intrust to you the true? ¹² If you were not faithful in the interest of another, who will give you your own? ¹³ No servant is able to serve two masters: for he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will cleave to the one, and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and mammon. ¹⁴ And the Pharisees, being avaricious, were hearing all these things, and murmuring against Him. ¹⁵ And He said to them, Ye are those who justify yourselves before the people; but God knows your hearts: because that which is exalted among the people is abomination in the sight of God. ¹⁶ The law and the prophets were until John: from that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every one presses into it. ¹⁷ And it is easier that heaven and earth pass away, than one tittle fall from the law. ¹⁸ Every one sending away his wife, and marrying another, commits adultery; and the one marrying her who has been sent away by her husband commits adultery. ¹⁹ There was a certain rich man, and he was habitually clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day. ²⁰ But a certain beggar, Lazarus by name, was laid at his gate, full of sores, ²¹ and desiring to be fed by the crumbs falling from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming continued to lick his sores. ²² And it came to pass that the beggar died, and himself was carried by the angels into the bosom of Abraham: and the rich man also died, and was buried. ²³ And in Hades lifted up his eyes, being in torment, sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴ And he calling said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, because I am tormented in this flame. ²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that you received your good things in your life, and Lazarus likewise evil things: but now he is comforted, and you are tormented. ²⁶ And in addition to all these things, there is a great gulf fixed between us and you, in order that those wishing to go hence to you may not be able, neither can they come thence to us. ²⁷ And he said, Moreover I intreat you, father, that you may send him to the house of my father: ²⁸ for I have five brothers; in order that he may testify to them, that they may not also come to this place of the torment. ²⁹ But Abraham says, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. ³⁰ But he said, No, father Abraham: but if one may go to them from the dead, they will repent. ³¹ But he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded if one may rise from the dead.

¹⁵ And it came to pass, when he returned, having received the kingdom, and he said, that those servants should be called, to whom he had given the money, in order that he might know what each one had gained by their merchandise. ¹⁶ And the first came, saying, Lord, thy pound has gained ten pounds. ¹⁷ And he said to him, Well done, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in the least, have thou authority over ten cities. ¹⁸ And the second one came, saying, Lord, thy pound has gained five pounds. ¹⁹ And he also said to him, Be thou over five cities.

²⁸ Take heed to yourselves, and all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost has placed you shepherds, to shepherdise the church of God, which He bought with His own blood.

¹ So let a man consider us, as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. ² Here, moreover, it is required among stewards, that every one must be found faithful.

¹⁵ but if I tarry, in order that you may know how it behooves you to deport yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

¹⁷ Let the elders who stand before the people beautifully, be considered worthy of double remuneration, especially those laboring in the word and teaching.

² preach the word: be instant in season and out of season; convict, exhort, rebuke, with all longsuffering and teaching.

⁷ For it behooves the bishop to be blameless, as the steward of God; not audacious, not irascible, not given to wine, not a controvertist, not fond of filthy lucre;

⁵ And Moses was indeed faithful in all his house as a servant, unto the testimony of those things which shall be spoken;

⁷ Remember your leaders, who spoke to you the word of God: the outgoing of whose deportment seeing, imitate their faith.

¹⁷ Obey your leaders, and be submissive: for they are watching for your souls, as they shall give an account that they may do this with joy and not with grief, for this is unprofitable to you.

¹⁰ as each one received the gift of grace, ministering the same to one another, as the good stewards of the manifold grace of God:

⁴⁷ Truly I say unto you, that he will appoint him over all his possessions.

²⁹ And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father appointed unto me, ³⁰ in order that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom; and you shall sit upon thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹⁸ I counsel you to buy from me gold which has been purified by the fire, in order that you may be rich; and white garments, in order that you may be clothed, and the shame of your nakedness may not be exposed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

⁶ but the rest, taking his servants, insulted, and slew them.

⁴⁸ But if the wicked servant may say in his heart, ⁴⁹ My lord delayeth; and may begin to smite his fellow-servants, and eat and drink with the drunken; ⁵⁰ the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he does not expect, and an hour in which he does not know,

¹⁸ For such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach; and through fair speeches and eulogies deceive the hearts of the innocent.

²⁰ for you bear with them, if any one enslaves you, if any one devours you, if any one captures you, if any one is exalted against you, if any one smites you in the face.

¹⁸ For many walk about, of whom I frequently spoke to you, and now I speak even weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ: ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

⁷ For those sleeping, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, get drunk in the night:

³ and in their covetousness they will sell you with their soft speeches: unto whom judgment from olden time tarries not, and their destruction does not slumber. ⁴ For if God spared not the angels who sinned, but having sent them down to hell, committed them to chains of darkness to be kept unto judgment;

¹³ receiving the reward of unrighteousness, esteeming pleasure which is in the daytime; luxury; spots and blemishes, swelling in their deceits, feasting along with you,

¹⁹ promising them liberty, they themselves being the slaves of corruption: for to whatsoever any one has been subordinated, to this he has become enslaved.

⁹ I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, loving the preeminence over them, does not receive us. ¹⁰ On account of this, if I may come, I will remember his works which he is doing, berating us with wicked speeches: and not content with these, he does not receive the brethren, and he prohibits them wishing to receive them, and casts them out of the church.

¹² These are rocks in your love-feasts, feasting along with you without fear shepherdizing themselves, clouds without water, driven away by the winds; withered trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; ¹³ wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own disgraces; wandering stars, for which the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

⁷ And it was given to him to make war with the saints and to conquer them: and authority was given unto him over every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation. ⁸ And all those who dwell upon the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world, will worship him. ⁹ if any one has ears, let him hear. ¹⁰ If any one leads into captivity he goes into captivity: if any one kills with a sword, it behooves him to be killed with a sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

¹⁵ And it was given unto him to give spirit to the image of the beast, in order that the image of the beast may indeed speak, and he may cause so many as will not worship the image of the beast that they should be killed. ¹⁶ And he causes all, small and great, both rich and poor, both free and bond, that they may give them a mark on their right hand, or on their forehead: ¹⁷ that no one may be able to buy or sell, except the one having the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

⁶ because they shed the blood of saints and of prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; they are worthy.

⁵ and upon her forehead her name was written; Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother of Harlots And The Abominations of The Earth. ⁶ And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and seeing her, I was astonished with great astonishment.

⁷ as to so many things as she has glorified herself, and lived wantonly, give unto her so much torment and sorrow. Because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow; and I see no sorrow; ⁸ therefore in one day shall her plagues come, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burnt up with fire: because God, the one judging her, is a mighty Lord.

²⁴ truly in her is found the blood of prophets, and saints, and all those who have been slain upon the earth.

²² Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out demons, and in thy name done many mighty works? ²³ Then I will confess unto them that I never knew you: depart from me, ye who work iniquity.

⁴¹ The Son of man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and those who do iniquity, ⁴² and will cast them into the furnace of the fire: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

⁴⁹ So it will be in the end of the age: the angels will go forth, and will separate the wicked from the midst of the righteous, ⁵⁰ and will cast them into the furnace of the fire: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

⁵¹ and he will cut him off, and will appoint his part with hypocrites: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him, Thou fool, this night they are demanding thy soul from thee; and to whom shall those things which thou hast prepared, belong?

⁴⁰ Be ye also ready: because at an hour you do not think the Son of man cometh.

²² Moreover I say unto you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. ²³ And thou, Capernaum, art thou not exalted up to heaven? thou shall be cast down to Hades: because if the mighty works which were wrought in thee had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. ²⁴ Moreover I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.

¹² For I say unto you, that it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city. ¹³ Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works which were wrought in you had been in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting down in sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ Moreover it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. ¹⁵ And thou, Capernaum, art thou not exalted up to heaven? thou shalt be cast down to Hades.

⁴¹ Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would not have sin: but now you say that, We see: your sin remaineth.

⁴⁸ He that rejects me, and receiving not my words, has one judging him: the word which I have spoken, it will judge him in the last day.

²² If I did not come and speak to them, they had not sin: now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ The one hating me hates my Father also. ²⁴ If I did not works among them which no other did: they had not sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

¹¹ Jesus responded, Thou hast no power against me, unless it was given to thee from above: on this account the one having betrayed me to thee has the greater sin.

³⁰ Then indeed God winking at the times of ignorance, now commands all men everywhere to repent:

¹⁵ because we are a sweet savour of Christ unto God, among those who are saved, and among those who perish; ¹⁶ unto the latter a savour from death unto death; but unto the former a savour from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

¹⁷ Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

¹² But whosoever has, it shall be given to him, and he shall have more abundantly: but whosoever has not, it shall be taken from him even what he has.

¹⁴ For as a man going away, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods, ¹⁵ to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each one according to his own ability; and departed. ¹⁶ The one having received the five talents going immediately, operated with the same, and made other five talents. ¹⁷ Likewise the one having received two gained two others. ¹⁸ And he having received one, having gone away, digged up the earth, and buried the money belonging to his lord. ¹⁹ And after a long time the lord of those servants comes, and makes a reckoning with them. ²⁰ And the one having received the five talents coming to him brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou didst deliver unto me five talents: behold, I have gained other five talents. ²¹ His lord said to him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou wast faithful over few things, and I will make thee ruler over many things: come thou into the joy of thy lord. ²² And the one having received two talents, coming to him, said, Lord, thou didst deliver unto me two talents: behold, I have gained other two talents. ²³ And his lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou wast faithful over few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: come thou into the joy of thy lord. ²⁴ And the one having received one talent also coming, said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strewn: ²⁵ and being afraid, having gone away, I hid thy talent in the earth: behold, thou hast thine own. ²⁶ And his Lord responding said to him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, didst thou know that I gather where I have not sown, and reap where I have not strewn? ²⁷ Therefore it behooved thee to put my money in the bank, and having come, I would receive my own with the product. ²⁸ Therefore take the talent from him, and give it to the one having ten talents. ²⁹ For to every one having it shall be given, and he shall superabound: but from the one not having shall be taken away even that which he has.

² And having called him, he said to him, What is this which I hear concerning thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou art not able to be steward any longer.

¹⁰ He that is faithful in the least is also faithful in much: and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous in much. ¹¹ If therefore you were not faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will intrust to you the true? ¹² If you were not faithful in the interest of another, who will give you your own?

²² If I did not come and speak to them, they had not sin: now they have no excuse for their sin.

¹² For so many as sinned without law will also perish without law; and so many as sinned under the law shall be judged by the law; ¹³ for the hearers of the law are not righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. ¹⁴ For when the Gentiles, not having the law, may by nature do the things of the law, they, not having the law, are a law unto themselves: ¹⁵ who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience witnessing, and their thoughts accusing or indeed excusing with one another, ¹⁶ in the day when God will judge the secrets of men through my gospel according to Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ For if I do this willingly, I have a reward: but if unwillingly, I have been intrusted with a dispensation. ¹⁸ Then what is my reward? that preaching the gospel, I may render the gospel free from charge, in order that I may not use my right in the gospel.

¹¹ according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I am intrusted.

²⁰ O Timothy, stand guard over that which has been committed to you, avoiding unsanctified, empty talks and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called,

³ and manifested in his own seasons his word by preaching, with which I am intrusted, according to the commandment of God our Saviour;

¹ Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.

¹⁰ But already the ax is laid to the root of the trees; therefore every tree not producing good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. ¹¹ I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but there is One coming after me more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry; He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire. ¹² Whose fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purify His threshing-floor, and gather His wheat into the garner, and will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

⁵³ And He having come out from thence, the scribes and Pharisees began vehemently to press on Him, and mouth after Him concerning many things; ⁵⁴ laying in wait, to catch something from His mouth.

⁵¹ Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? I say unto you, Nay, but division. ⁵² For from now, there shall be five in one house divided, three shall be divided against two, and two against three:

³¹ At that hour certain Pharisees came to Him, saying; Depart, and go hence: because Herod wishes to slay thee. ³² And He said to them, Having gone, tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and perfect healings to-day and to-morrow, and on the third day I am made perfect. ³³ Moreover it behooves Me to travel to-day and to-morrow and the day following: because it does not behoove a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.

³⁹ And certain ones of the Pharisees from the multitude said to Him, Teacher, rebuke thy disciples: ⁴⁰ and He responding said to them, I say unto you, that if these may keep silent, the rocks will cry out.

⁴ It behooveth us to work the works of Him that sent us, while it is day: the night comes, when no one is able to work.

⁸ The disciples said to Him, Master, the Jews were but now seeking to stone thee; dost thou go hither again? ⁹ Jesus responded, Are there not twelve hours of the day? If any one may walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world: ¹⁰ if any one may walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

¹⁷ Then the multitude being with Him witnessed that He called Lazarus out of the sepulcher, and raised him from the dead. ¹⁸ Therefore the multitude also went to meet Him, because they heard that He had wrought this miracle. ¹⁹ Then the Pharisees said to one another, You see, that you are prevailing as to nothing: behold, the world has gone away after Him.

¹⁷ And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples privately, on the way and said to them, ¹⁸ Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and scribes; and they will condemn Him to death, ¹⁹ and they will deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock, and scourge, and crucify Him: and on the third day He will rise. ²⁰ Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Him with her sons, worshiping and asking something from Him. ²¹ And He said to her, What do you wish? She says to Him, Tell me that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right, and one on thy left, in thy kingdom. ²² And Jesus responding said, You know not what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup which I am about to drink? They say to Him, We are able.

³² And they were in the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going before them: and they were amazed; and following they were afraid. And taking the twelve to Himself, again He began to tell them the things which were about to happen to Him; ³³ Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and scribes; and they will condemn Him to death, and they will deliver Him to the Gentiles: ³⁴ and they will mock Him, and will scourge Him, and will spit upon Him, and will kill Him; and He will rise the third day. ³⁵ James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to Him, saying, Teacher, we wish that you may do unto us whatsoever we may ask. ³⁶ And He said to them, What do you wish for me to do for you? ³⁷ And they said to Him, Grant unto us, that we may sit, one on thy right, and one on thy left, in thy glory. ³⁸ And Jesus said to them, You know not what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup which I drink? and to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?

³⁴ Jesus says to them, My food is that I may do the will of Him that sent me, and finish His work.

⁶ Jesus says to them, My time is not yet; but your time is always ready. ⁷ The world is not able to hate you; but it hates me, because I testify against it, that its works are evil. ⁸ You go up to the feast: I do not go to this feast; because my time is not yet fulfilled.

¹⁰ And when His brothers went up to the feast, then Himself also went up, not openly, but in secret.

³⁹ They sought again to take Him: and He passed out of their hand. ⁴⁰ And again He departed beyond the Jordan into the place where John was first baptizing; and remained there: ⁴¹ and many came to Hint, and said, that John indeed did no miracle; but all things so many as John spoke concerning this One are true.

²⁷ Now my soul is troubled; and what do I say? Father, save me from this hour. But on this account I came to this hour. ²⁸ Father, glorify thy name. Then a voice came from heaven, I have indeed glorified thee, and will glorify thee again.

¹¹ Then Jesus said to Peter, Put thy sword in the scabbard: the cup which the Father gave me, shall I not drink it?

³⁰ Then when Jesus received the vinegar, He said, It is finished: and bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

²² And now, behold, I go to Jerusalem bound in spirit, not knowing the things which shall come upon me in it:

³⁴ Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. ³⁵ For I came to divide a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: ³⁶ and the enemies of a man will be the inmates of his own house.

⁷ For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places. ⁸ And all these things are the beginning of travails. ⁹ Then they will deliver you into tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations on account of my name, ¹⁰ and then many will be offended; and they will betray one another, and hate one another.

⁴⁹ I have come to send fire on the earth; and what do I will, if it is already kindled?

⁴¹ others were saying, He is the Christ; others were saying, For whether does Christ come out of Galilee? ⁴² Did not the Scripture say, that Christ comes from the seed of David and from the village of Bethlehem, where David was? ⁴³ Then there was a schism in the crowd on account of Him:

¹⁶ Then certain ones of the Pharisees said, This man is not with God, because He does not keep the Sabbath. Others said, How is a wicked man able to do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

¹⁹ Again there was a schism among the Jews on account of these words. ²⁰ Then many of them were saying, He has a demon, and is gone mad; why do you hear Him? Others were saying, ²¹ These are not the words of a demonized man. Whether is a demon able to open the eyes of the blind?

¹⁸ If the world hates you, know that it first hated me. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word which I spoke to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹ But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know Him that sent me.

² They will put you out of the synagogues: but the hour is coming, that every one killing you may think he is offering service to God.

⁴³ And the synagogue having been adjourned, many of the Jews and pious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking with them, continued to persuade them to abide in the grace of God. ⁴⁴ And on the following Sabbath almost all the city came together to hear the word of the Lord. ⁴⁵ And the Jews seeing the multitudes, were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the word spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. ⁴⁶ And Paul and Barnabas speaking boldly, said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you: since you have rejected it, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life, behold we now turn to the Gentiles.

¹ And it came to pass in Iconium at this time, they came together into the synagogue of the Jews, and spoke in such a manner, that a great multitude both of the Jews and Greeks believed. ² But the unbelieving Jews stirred up and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against the brethren. ³ Then indeed preaching boldly in behalf of the Lord, witnessing to the word of His grace, giving signs and wonders to be wrought by their hands, they spent much time. ⁴ And the multitude of the city was divided: and some indeed were with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

²⁴ And some of them indeed believed the things spoken, but others continued to doubt;

²¹ And brother will deliver brother unto death, and the father the child: and children will rise up against parents, and put them to death. ²² And you will be hated by all on account of my name: but he that persevereth unto the end, the same shall be saved.

¹⁰ and then many will be offended; and they will betray one another, and hate one another.

² And He responding said to them, It being evening, you say, It will be fair weather: because the sky is red: ³ and in the morning, It will be stormy to-day: for the lowering sky is red: ye hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the sky: but are you not able to discern the signs of the times? ⁴ A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign. And no sign shall be given it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah. And leaving them, He departed.

¹² saying, These labored one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who bore the burden of the day and the heat.

²⁵ At that time Jesus responding said, I praise thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and the prudent, and reveal them unto babes.

³ and in the morning, It will be stormy to-day: for the lowering sky is red: ye hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the sky: but are you not able to discern the signs of the times?

³² But learn the parable from the fig-tree: when her branch may now be tender, and she may grow out leaves, know that the summer is nigh. ³³ So you also, when you may see all these things know that it is at the doors.

⁴² saying, If thou indeed hadst known, truly in this thy day, the things appertaining to thy peace! but now they are hidden from thy eyes. ⁴³ Because the days will come upon thee, and thine enemies will cast a fortification about thee, and surround thee, and press in on thee from all directions, ⁴⁴ and will slay thee, and thy children in thee; and will leave in thee not a stone upon a stone; because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.

²⁴ And indeed all the prophets from Samuel and consecutively, so many as spoke, also proclaimed these days. ²⁵ Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, In thy seed shall the families of the earth be truly blessed. ²⁶ To you God, having first raised up his Son, sent him blessing you, in turning each one from your sins.

⁴ but when the fulness of time came, God sent forth his own Son, having been born of a woman, having been born under law,

¹⁰ And calling the multitude to Him, He said to them, Hear and understand: ¹¹ That if which cometh into the mouth does not defile the man; but that which cometh out from the mouth, that defiles the man. ¹² Then His disciples having come to Him say, Do you not know that the Pharisees hearing your word, were offended? ¹³ And He responding said, Every plant which my heavenly Father did not plant, shall be rooted up. ¹⁴ Let them alone: the blind are leaders of the blind: if the blind may lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch.

²¹ And Jesus responding said to them, Truly I say unto you, if you may have faith, and doubt not, not only shall you do that of the fig-tree, but you shall say to this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea, and it will be done.

³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you believed him not: but the publicans and harlots believed him, and you, seeing, did not afterward regret it, in order that you might believe him.

³⁰ when they may already put forth, seeing, know for yourselves that summer is nigh.

²⁴ Judge not according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.

⁴⁰ And with many other words did he testify and exhort them, saying, Be saved from this wicked generation.

²⁶ Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, unto us the word of this salvation was sent. ²⁷ For those dwelling in Jerusalem, and the rulers, having rejected him, condemning him, have ²⁸ fulfilled the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath; and having found no cause of death, asked Pilate that he should be executed; ²⁹ and when they perfected all the things which had been written concerning him, taking him down from the cross, placed him in a sepulchre. ³⁰ And God raised him from the dead; ³¹ who appeared to those coming up with him to Jerusalem from Galilee many days, who are now his witnesses to the people. ³² And we preach unto you the promise, which was made to the fathers, ³³ that God has fulfilled this unto our children, raising up Jesus, as in the second Psalm it has been written, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. ³⁴ And because he raised him up from the dead, no longer about to return to corruption, He has thus said, I will give unto you the faithful mercies of David. ³⁵ Therefore He also says in another place, Thou wilt not suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. ³⁶ For David, indeed having served his own generation according to the will of God, went to sleep, and did see corruption: ³⁷ but he, whom God raised up, did not see corruption. ³⁸ Then let it be known unto you, men brethren, that through this one remission of sins is preached:

¹⁴ Does not nature itself teach you, that, if a man may indeed have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

²³ Therefore if you may bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, ²⁴ leave there your gift before the altar, and go, first be reconciled to your brother, then having come offer your gift. ²⁵ Be reconciled with your adversary quickly, while you are in the way with him; lest the adversary may deliver you to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you may be cast into prison. ²⁶ Truly I say unto you, You can not go out from thence until you have paid the last farthing.

³⁰ And he was not willing: but having gone away he cast him into prison, until he could pay that which was owing.

²⁴ Agonize to enter in through the narrow gate: because many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able. ²⁵ When the landlord may rise up, and close the door, and you may begin to stand without, and knock at the door, saying, Lord, open unto us; and responding he will say unto you, I know not whence you are. ²⁶ Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in thy presence, and thou didst preach in our streets. ²⁷ And he will say, I tell you, I know you not whence you are; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity. ²⁸ And there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you cast out.

³¹ Or what king, going forth to engage in war with another king, will not first sitting down counsel if he is able with ten thousand to meet him who is coming against him, with twenty thousand? ³² But if not, while he is yet a great way off, sending an embassy, he asks for those things which appertain to peace.

² (for he says, At a set time I heard you, and in the day of salvation I assisted you; behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation);

⁷ Therefore as the Holy Spirit says, This day if you hear his voice, ⁸ harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness, ⁹ whom our fathers tempted in proving me, and saw my works forty years. ¹⁰ Therefore I was provoked with this generation, and I said, They do always err in their heart: and they have not known my way, ¹¹ as I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest. ¹² See, brethren, lest at some time there shall be in some one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in turning away from the living God: ¹³ but exhort one another each day, while it is called to-day; in order that no one of you may be hardened with the deceitfulness of sin:

¹⁹ by which also having gone he proclaimed to the spirits in prison;

⁷ And when the thousand years may be fulfilled, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

³⁴ And his lord being angry delivered him to the tormenters, until he should pay all that was due him.

⁴² And one poor widow was casting in two mites, which is a farthing.

²⁶ And in addition to all these things, there is a great gulf fixed between us and you, in order that those wishing to go hence to you may not be able, neither can they come thence to us.

³ We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as it is worthy, because your faith increases, and the divine love of each one of you all towards one another abounds more and more;