Genesis Cross References - Goodspeed

²⁵ At that same time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent and revealing it to children.

¹⁹ for there will be such misery in those days as there has never been since the beginning of God's creation until now, and never will be again.

¹ In the beginning the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was divine. ² It was he that was with God in the beginning. ³ Everything came into existence through him, and apart from him nothing came to be.

²⁴ When they heard it, with one impulse they all raised their voices to God and said, "Master, it was you who made heaven, earth, and sea, and everything that is in them,

¹⁵ and shouting, "Friends, why are you doing this? We are only human beings like you, and we bring you the good news that you should turn from these follies to a living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and all that they contain.

²⁴ God who created the world and all that is in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples built by human hands,

¹⁹ For all that can be known of God is clearly before them; God has shown it to them. ²⁰ Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature—his eternal power and divine character—have been clearly perceptible through what he has made. So they have no excuse,

³⁶ For from him everything comes; through him everything exists; and in him everything ends! Glory to him forever! Amen.

⁶ yet for us there is just one God, the Father, who is the source of all things, and for whom we live, and just one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything was made and through whom we live.

⁹ and making clear how the secret purpose is to be worked out which has been hidden away for ages in God the creator of all things,

¹⁶ for it was through him that everything was created in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, angelic thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities—all things were created through him and for him. ¹⁷ He existed before all things and he sustains and embraces them all.

² but in these latter days he has spoken to us in a Son, whom he had destined to possess everything, and through whom he had made the world.

¹⁰ And "You, Lord, in the beginning founded the earth, And the sky is the work of your hands!

⁴ For every house has a builder, and the builder of the universe is God.

³ It is faith that enables us to see that the universe was created at the command of God, so that the world we see did not simply arise out of matter.

⁵ For they wilfully ignore the fact that long ago there existed heavens and an earth which had been formed at God's command out of water and by water,

¹ It is what existed from the beginning, that we announce; what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, and touched with our hands; it is the very message of life—

¹⁴ "To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: " 'The Amen, the true and faithful witness, the origin of God's creation, speaks thus:

¹¹ "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory, honor, and power, for you created all things; by your will they existed and were created."

⁶ and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, that there should be no more delay,

⁷ He cried in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, for the hour for his judgment has come. Worship him who made heaven and earth and sea and the springs of water."

⁶ It is all over!" he told me, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end I will give anyone who is thirsty water without cost from the spring of the water of life.

¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

³ So he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I do choose! Be cured!" And his leprosy was immediately cured.

⁵ The light is still shining in the darkness, for the darkness has never put it out.

⁹ The real light, which sheds light upon everyone, was just coming into the world.

¹⁹ And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.

⁴³ After saying this he called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

⁶ For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in my heart, to give me the light of the knowledge of God's glory, that is on the face of Christ.

⁸ For once you were sheer darkness, but now, as Christians, you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

¹⁴ So it says, "Wake up, sleeper! Rise from the dead, And Christ will dawn upon you!"

¹⁶ who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

⁵ This is the message that we heard from him and announce to you: God is light; there is no darkness in him at all.

⁸ Yet it is a new command that I am writing you; it is newly realized in him and in yourselves, for the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.

¹³ the quality of everyone's work will appear, for the Day will show it. For the Day will break in fire, and the fire will test the quality of everyone's work.

¹³ yet when anything is exposed by the light, it is made visible, and anything that is made visible is light.

⁵ You all belong to the light and the day. We have nothing to do with night or with darkness.

²⁷ And the men were amazed and said, "What kind of man is this? For the very winds and sea obey him!"

¹⁰ But the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is going to be cut down and thrown into the fire.

³⁰ But if God so beautifully dresses the wild grass, which is alive today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more surely clothe you, you who have so little faith?

¹⁶ You can tell them by their fruit. Do people pick grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles? ¹⁷ Just so any sound tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ No sound tree can bear bad fruit, and no poor tree can bear good fruit. ¹⁹ Any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and burned. ²⁰ So you can tell them by their fruit.

²⁸ The ground of itself is productive, putting forth first a blade, then a head, then fully developed wheat in the head.

⁴³ For sound trees do not bear bad fruit, nor bad trees sound fruit. ⁴⁴ Every tree is known by its fruit. They do not pick figs off thorns, or gather grapes from brambles.

⁷ Ground that drinks in frequent showers and produces vegetation that is of use to those for whom it is cultivated receives God's blessing.

¹² Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers, or a grape vine figs? A salt spring cannot give fresh water.

²⁴ Another figure which he used in speaking to them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, ²⁵ but while people were asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. ²⁶ And when the wheat came up and ripened, the weeds appeared too.

⁴⁴ Every tree is known by its fruit. They do not pick figs off thorns, or gather grapes from brambles.

¹⁰ He who supplies the sower with seed and so with bread to eat will supply you with seed, and multiply it and enlarge the harvest of your uprightness.

⁷ Do not be deceived. God is not to be sneered at. A man will reap just what he sows.

² and asked, "Where is the newly born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star rise and we have come to do homage to him."

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²⁹ "But immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the forces of the sky will shake.

²⁴ But in those days, when that misery is over, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not shed its light

²⁵ There will be signs too in sun, moon, and stars, and on earth dismay among the heathen, bewildered at the roar of the sea and the waves. ²⁶ Men will swoon with fear and foreboding of what is to happen to the world, for the forces in the sky will shake.

⁴⁵ as the sun was in eclipse. And the curtain before the sanctuary was torn in two.

¹⁹ I will show wonders in the sky above, And signs on the earth below, Blood and fire and thick smoke. ²⁰ The sun will turn to darkness, And the moon to blood, Before the coming of the great, splendid Day of the Lord.

¹² When he broke the sixth seal I saw that there was a great earthquake. The sun turned black as sackcloth; the full moon became like blood;

¹² Then the fourth angel blew his trumpet, and one third of the sun was blasted, and one third of the moon and one third of the stars, so that one third of them were darkened, and there was no light for one third of the day and of the night.

² and he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke like the smoke of a great furnace poured up out of the pit, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

⁴⁵ Now from noon there was darkness over the whole country until three o'clock.

⁴¹ The sun has one kind of beauty, and the moon another, and the stars another; why, one star differs from another in beauty.

⁸ The fourth emptied his bowl upon the sun, and it was allowed to scorch mankind with its heat, ⁹ and they were dreadfully scorched, but they reviled the name of God who had control of these plagues, and would not repent and give him glory.

²³ The city does not need the sun nor the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God lighted it, and the Lamb is its lamp.

⁴⁷ For these are the orders the Lord has given us: " 'I have made you a light for the heathen, To be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth!' "

²⁵ nor is he waited on by human hands as though he were in need of anything, for he himself gives all men life and breath and everything.

⁴⁰ For just as Jonah was in the maw of the whale for three days and nights, the Son of Man will be three days and nights in the heart of the earth.

¹⁷ But he answered them, "My Father is still at work, and I work too."

²³ Jesus answered, "Anyone who loves me will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and live with him.

²⁰ Some of the things you tell us sound strange to us, and we want to know just what they mean."

²⁶ From one forefather he has created every nation of mankind, and made them live all over the face of the earth, fixing their appointed times and the limits of their lands,

²⁸ For it is through union with him that we live and move and exist, as some of your poets have said, " 'For we are also his offspring.' ²⁹ So if we are God's children we ought not to imagine that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, wrought by human art and thought.

⁷ For a man ought not to wear anything on his head, for he is the image of God and reflects his glory; while woman is the reflection of man's glory.

¹⁸ And all of us, reflecting the splendor of the Lord in our unveiled faces, are being changed into likeness to him, from one degree of splendor to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

⁴ In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep the light of the good news of the glorious Christ, the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.

²⁴ and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth.

¹⁵ He is a likeness of the unseen God, born before any creature,

¹⁰ and have put on that new self newly made in the likeness of its Creator, to know him fully.

⁶ For someone has somewhere solemnly declared, "What is man? for you think of him; Or any man? for you care for him. ⁷ You made him for a little while inferior to angels; Yet you have crowned him with glory and honor, And you have put him in charge of the works of your hands! ⁸ You have put everything under his feet!" In thus making everything subject to man, God left nothing that was not subjected to him. But we do not as yet see everything made subject to him, ⁹ but we do see Jesus, who was "made for a little while inferior to angels, crowned with glory and honor" because he suffered death, so that by the favor of God he might taste the bitterness of death on behalf of every human being.

⁷ For every kind of animal and bird, reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by man,

⁹ With it we bless the Lord our Father, and with it we curse men made in God's likeness.

⁷ For there are three that testify to it,

⁴ But he answered, "Did you never read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female,

⁶ But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and female.

⁷ For a man ought not to wear anything on his head, for he is the image of God and reflects his glory; while woman is the reflection of man's glory. ⁸ For man was not made from woman, but woman from man, ⁹ and man was not created for woman, but woman was for man.

¹⁰ For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.

²⁶ that secret, hidden from the ages and generations, but now disclosed to those who are consecrated to him,

³ who forbid people to marry and insist on abstinence from certain kinds of food that God created for men who believe and understand the truth to enjoy and give thanks for.

¹¹ Give us today bread for the day,

²⁵ Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the wild birds. They do not sow or reap, or store their food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more account than they?

¹⁷ though he did not fail to give some evidence about himself, through his kindnesses to you, in sending you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, giving you food and happiness to your heart's content."

²⁴ God who created the world and all that is in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples built by human hands, ²⁵ nor is he waited on by human hands as though he were in need of anything, for he himself gives all men life and breath and everything.

²⁸ For it is through union with him that we live and move and exist, as some of your poets have said, " 'For we are also his offspring.'

¹⁷ Charge the rich of this world not to be arrogant, nor to set their hopes on such an uncertain thing as riches, but on God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

⁴ For everything God has created is good, and nothing need be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving,