Ephesians 5 Cross References - Haweis

¹ BE ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; ² and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an oblation and sacrifice to God, for an odour of a sweet smell. ³ But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints; ⁴ or obscenity, or foolish talk, or loose witticisms; things which become not [a Christian], but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ For this ye know, that no whoremonger, or impure person, or avaricious, who is an idolater, hath an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ⁶ Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things, the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience. ⁷ Be not ye therefore partakers with them. ⁸ For ye were formerly darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light; ⁹ (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) ¹⁰ proving what is acceptable to the Lord. ¹¹ And have no society with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather rebuke them. ¹² For it is scandalous but to mention the things done of them in secret. ¹³ But all things which are rebukeable are made manifest by the light; for it is the light, by which every thing is made manifest. ¹⁴ Wherefore he saith, "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." ¹⁵ Take heed, then, that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, ¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil. ¹⁷ Therefore be not unwise, but intelligent concerning what is the will of the Lord. ¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, in which there is sottishness, but be filled with the Spirit; ¹⁹ speaking one to another in psalms and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody in the heart to the Lord; ²⁰ giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God even the Father; ²¹ being subject one to another in the fear of God. ²² Wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; and is himself the saviour of the body. ²⁴ As then the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. ²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; ²⁶ that he might sanctify it, purifying it in the laver of water by the word, ²⁷ that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having blemish, nor wrinkle, nor any such things; but that it may be holy and unblameable. ²⁸ So ought husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself. ²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: ³⁰ for we are the members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. ³¹ For this reason shall a man forsake his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be as one flesh. ³² This mystery is great: but I am speaking with regard to Christ, and with regard to the church. ³³ Nevertheless let every one of you individually see that each love his own wife even as himself; but the wife that she stand in awe of the husband.

⁴⁵ that ye may be the children of your Father who is in heaven: for he causeth his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and tendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

⁴⁸ Be ye therefore perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good and lend, hoping for nothing in return: and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Most High; for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the wicked. ³⁶ Be ye therefore compassionate, as also your Father is compassionate.

¹² But as many as did receive him, on them he bestowed authority to become children of God, even on those who believe on his name:

³² but be ye kind one to another, full of sensibility, forgiving mutually, even as God in Christ hath forgiven you.

¹² Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

¹⁵ but as he who hath called you is holy, be ye holy also in all your conduct: ¹⁶ because it is written, "Be ye holy; for I am holy."

¹ BEHOLD, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God! therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. ² Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet evident what we shall be: but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

²⁸ Even as the Son of man came not to be waited upon, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

⁵¹ I am the bread that giveth life, which came down from heaven: if any person eat of this bread, he shall live to eternity; and the bread indeed which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

³⁴ A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

¹² This is my commandment, That ye love one another, just as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

²⁵ who was delivered up for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

³ For that which was impossible by the law, inasmuch as it was impotent through the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in that flesh:

³⁷ But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

¹⁵ But if by meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no more according to love. Do not by thy meat destroy him for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Let not therefore food, which is good for you, give occasion of reproach.

⁷ Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened. For our passover hath been sacrificed for us, even Christ.

¹⁴ Let all your concerns be transacted in love.

¹⁵ For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God in those who are saved, and in those who perish.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we judge thus, that if one died for all, then were all dead: ¹⁵ and he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them, and rose again.

⁹ For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor though he was rich, that ye by his poverty should be made rich.

⁴ who gave himself for our sins, that he might pluck us out of this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:

²⁰ I am crucified with Christ, yet I live; though no more I, but Christ liveth in me: and my present life in the flesh, is a life by faith in the Son of God, who hath loved me, and delivered up himself for me.

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that rooted and grounded in love,

¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ, transcendently surpassing knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fulness of God.

² with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love;

¹⁵ but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ:

²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

¹⁴ But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

⁹ Now concerning brotherly love, I have no need to write unto you: for ye yourselves are divinely taught to love one another.

⁶ who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony to be born in his appointed times;

¹² Let no man despise thy youth; but be a pattern of the faithful, in discourse; in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

²⁵ Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost those who come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. ²⁶ For such an high-priest was suitable to us, holy, inoffensive, spotless, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens: ²⁷ who hath not daily need, as the high-priests, first, to offer sacrifice for their own sins, afterwards, for those of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, by the eternal Spirit, offered up himself in sacrifice without blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, that we may perform divine service to the living God?

²³ There was a necessity therefore that the representations of the things in heaven should be purified by these; but the celestial things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

²⁶ (for in that case he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world:) but now once for all at the consummation of the ages hath he been manifested for the abolishing sin by the sacrifice of himself.

¹⁰ By the which will we are sanctified through the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all. ¹¹ And every priest standeth indeed daily performing the divine service, and frequently offering the same sacrifices, which cannot possibly take away sins: ¹² but this person, having offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever hath seated himself at the right hand of God;

²¹ For hereunto have ye been called, because Christ also hath suffered for you, leaving you a pattern, that ye should follow his steps; ²² who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: ²³ who, when reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he used no menaces; but referred himself to him who judgeth righteously: ²⁴ who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead unto sins, might live unto righteousness; "by whose stripes, [even] his, ye were healed."

⁸ But above all things have fervent love towards each other: for love will conceal a multitude of faults.

¹¹ For this is the commandment which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. ¹² Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and slew his brother: and wherefore did he slay him? Because his own works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.

¹⁶ By this we have known the love [of Christ], because for us he laid down his own life: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

²³ And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

²⁰ If any person say, I love God, yet hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love the God whom he hath not seen? ²¹ So this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love also his brother.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, and first-born from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth: to him who loved us, and washed us from our sins by his blood,

⁹ And they sung a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereon; because thou hast been slaughtered, and hast redeemed us for God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation;

¹⁹ for out of the heart proceed wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies:

²¹ For from within out of the heart of men proceed wicked reasonings, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, ²² thefts, inordinate cravings, mischievous actions, knavery, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, folly:

¹⁵ Then said he to them, Beware, and be on your guard against covetousness; for a man's life doth not depend on the abundance of his possessions.

¹⁴ Then the Pharisees also, who were dear lovers of money, heard all these things, and they sneered at him.

²⁰ but that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idol [sacrifices], and from whoredom, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

³³ The silver, or gold, or apparel of no man have I coveted:

²⁹ replete with all injustice, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, villany; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, evil habits; whisperers,

¹³ Neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness for sin: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness for God.

² that ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that you assist her in every matter wherein she may have need of you: for she hath also been a succourer of many, and of me myself.

¹ IT is generally reported that there is whoredom among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

¹⁰ Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters: for then must ye indeed go out of the world. ¹¹ But now I have written unto you not to associate with him, if any man, professing to be a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one not even to eat.

⁹ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

¹³ Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

¹⁸ Flee whoredom. Every other sin which a man may commit is without the body; but he who committeth whoredom sinneth against his own body.

⁸ Neither let us commit whoredom, as some of them also committed, and in one day fell twenty-three thousand.

²¹ and lest when I come to you again, my God should bow me down, and I should lament over many who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurities, and whoredom, and lasciviousness which they have committed.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, whoredom, impurity, lasciviousness, ²⁰ idolatry, magical charms, enmities, strifes, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, divisions, heresies, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revels, and the like of these, concerning which I tell you now, as I have told you already, that they who live in such practices shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

¹⁹ who insensible to remorse, have delivered themselves over in lasciviousness, to the practice of all impurity, with insatiable avidity. ²⁰ But ye have not so learned Christ;

⁵ For this ye know, that no whoremonger, or impure person, or avaricious, who is an idolater, hath an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

¹² For it is scandalous but to mention the things done of them in secret.

²⁷ Only conduct yourselves worthily as becometh the gospel of Christ; that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul wrestling together in the faith of the gospel;

⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, the vile passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is idolatry:

³ For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom;

⁷ For God hath not called us unto impurity, but unto holiness.

¹⁰ but as becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

³ not addicted to wine, not using hard words or blows, not greedy of base gain; but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;

¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evils, which some coveting, have wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

² For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

⁷ For a bishop ought to be irreproachable, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not irritable, not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy of filthy lucre;

¹¹ whose mouths ought to be muzzled, who pervert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.

³ That the elder women also be sacredly becoming in their behaviour, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of propriety;

¹⁶ lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of bread parted with his birthrights.

⁴ Marriage is honourable for all persons, and the marriage bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. ⁵ Let the tenor of your life be divested of the love of money; content with your present possessions: for he hath said, "I will in no wise leave thee, neither will I in any case forsake thee."

² feed the flock of God which is among you, exercising your pastoral office not of necessity, but of choice, not for base gain, but with alacrity of mind;

³ And with plausible speeches will they avariciously make gain of you whose condemnation from of old lingereth not, and their perdition doth not slumber.

¹⁰ especially such as walk after the flesh in the eager pursuit of defilement, and despise government. Daring, self-sufficient, they tremble not at dignities, railing against them.

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and insatiable of sin; ensnaring souls of no stability; having a heart practised in all the wiles of covetousness; children for a curse:

¹⁴ Yet I have a few things against thee, that thou hast there some who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to lay a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices, and to commit whoredom.

²¹ And I gave her a space that she should repent of her whoredom, and she hath not repented.

²¹ and they repented not of their murders, nor of their magical arts, nor of their whoredom, nor of their thefts.

⁸ But to those who shrink back through fear, and to the infidels, and to the abominable, and to murderers, and to whoremongers, and to those who use magical incantations, and to idolaters, and to all liars, is their portion [appointed] in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

¹⁵ But without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one who loveth and maketh a lie.

³⁴ Ye broods of vipers, how can ye speak good things, yourselves being wicked? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ³⁵ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things: and a wicked man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth evil things. ³⁶ But I tell you, That every idle word which men speak, for it shall they give an account in the day of judgment. ³⁷ For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

²² thefts, inordinate cravings, mischievous actions, knavery, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, folly:

²³ (but now little vessels had come from Tiberias near to the spot where they had eaten bread, after the Lord had given thanks:)

²⁸ And since they thought not fit to hold the Deity in acknowledgment, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to practise deeds unbecoming;

¹¹ ye also labouring together for us in prayer, that from many persons thanks may be given on our behalf for the gifts bestowed on us by many.

¹⁵ Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift.

¹⁶ have not ceased offering up my praises for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

²⁹ Let no loose discourse proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for useful edification, that it may communicate grace to the hearers.

¹⁹ speaking one to another in psalms and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody in the heart to the Lord; ²⁰ giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God even the Father;

⁶ Be not anxious about any thing, but in every case by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known unto God.

⁸ but now ye have put away all these things, anger, asperity, malice, scandal, obscenity, out of your mouth.

¹⁵ And let the peace of God set up its throne in your hearts, whereunto also ye have been called in one body; and be ye thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing with grace in your heart unto the Lord. ¹⁷ And everything that ye do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

⁹ For what sufficient thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice on your account before our God,

¹⁸ In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-wards.

⁸ Wherefore, though I have in Christ great liberty to enjoin thee what is becoming,

¹⁵ By him therefore let us offer a sacrifice of praise perpetually to God, that is the fruit of our lips confessing his name.

⁴ Behold also the ships, though so great, and driven by tempestuous winds, are turned about by the smallest rudder, whithersoever the inclination of the pilot pleaseth. ⁵ So also the tongue is a little member, and proudly vaunts. Behold how great a pile of wood, a little fire kindleth! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: in such manner is the tongue placed among our members, that it defileth all the body, and setteth on fire the circle of nature; and is set on fire of hell. ⁷ For every species of wild beasts, and also of birds, of reptiles, and even of fishes, is tamed, and hath also been tamed by human ingenuity: ⁸ but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

⁷ but righteous Lot, afflicted grievously with the infamously impure conduct of those lawless men, he plucked out:

¹⁸ Uttering pompous discourses of inanity, ensnaring by the lusts of the flesh, by lascivious impurities, those who had truly escaped from such as live in a course of delusion.

¹⁰ But these men speak evil even of the things of which they have no knowledge: but such things as they know naturally, as the brute beasts, in these they corrupt themselves.

¹³ raging billows of the sea foaming out their own infamies; stars wandering from their courses, for whom the blackness of darkness for ever is reserved.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, whoredom, impurity, lasciviousness,

²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revels, and the like of these, concerning which I tell you now, as I have told you already, that they who live in such practices shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

³ But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints;

¹⁷ Charge the rich in this world not to be lifted up with pride, nor to trust on the stability of wealth, but on the living God, who giveth us richly all things for our enjoyment;

⁴ Marriage is honourable for all persons, and the marriage bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

⁴ And Jesus answering said unto them, Beware that no man deceive you.

²⁴ for false Messiahs and false prophets shall arise, and give out great signs and wonders; so as to deceive, if it were possible, even the elect.

⁵ Then Jesus answering them, began to say, Beware that no man deceive you:

²² For many false Messiahs and false prophets shall arise, and shall propose signs and wonders to deceive, if it were possible, even the elect.

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding back the truth in unrighteousness.

⁷ Be not deceived; God is not to be trifled with: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. ⁸ For he that soweth unto his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption, and he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

² wherein in times past ye walked after the fashion of this world, after the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now worketh with energy in the children of disobedience: ³ among whom also we all have had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, as well as the rest. ⁴ Now this I say, lest any man pervert you with specious discourse.

⁸ Beware that no man make a prey of you by means of philosophy and vain delusion, after the tradition of men, after the principles of the world, and not after Christ:

¹⁸ Let no man juggle you out of your prize, voluntary in [his] humility and the worship of angels, intruding into things which he never saw, vainly puffed up by his carnal imagination;

⁶ for which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience;

³ Let no man deceive you in any way: because that cannot be till the apostasy come first, and the man of sin appear, the son of perdition,

¹⁰ and in every unrighteous delusion among those who perish: in consequence of which things they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And for this cause God shall send unto them the energy of delusion, that they should believe a lie: ¹² that they all might be damned who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in unrighteousness.

¹⁹ So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

⁸ and a stone of stumbling, and rock of offence," to those who stumble at the word, disobedient; whereunto also they were appointed.

¹ BELOVED, believe not every pretender to inspiration, but bring these spirits to the trial whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone forth into the world.

⁶ that the Gentiles should be co-heirs, and of the same body, and sharers with them of his promise in Christ by the Gospel:

¹¹ And have no society with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather rebuke them.

²² Lay hands hastily on no man, nor share another's sins: keep thyself pure;

⁴ And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth out of her, my people, that ye have no share in her sins, and that so ye may not receive of her plagues.

¹⁶ the people who sat in darkness saw a great light; and on those who sat in the region and shadow of death, even on them hath the light arisen."

⁷⁹ to illumine those who sat in darkness, and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace.

⁸ And the master praised the unjust steward, because he had acted providently: for the children of this world are more provident among their own generation of men, than the children of light.

⁴ In him was life; and the life was the light of men. ⁵ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness did not comprehend it.

⁹ He was that true Light, which illumines every man by his coming into the world.

¹² Then spake Jesus again to them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

³⁶ While ye have the light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of the light. These things spake Jesus, and going away, concealed himself from them.

⁴⁶ I am come a light into the world, that every one who believeth on me should not abide in darkness.

³⁰ These times indeed of ignorance God then overlooked; but he now commands all men in every place to repent:

¹⁸ to open their eyes, to convert them from darkness to light, and from the dominion of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance with those who are sanctified by faith which is in me.

²¹ because though they knew [there was] a God, they glorified him not as God, nor gave him thanks, but became triflers in their disputations, and their stupid heart was darkened.

¹⁹ and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,

³⁰ But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who hath been made to us of God wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

¹⁸ And we all with face unveiled, beholding the glory of the Lord [reflected] as in a mirror, according to the same image, receive a transformation from glory into glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.

⁶ For the God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, he hath shined into our hearts, to give illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ Be not unequally yoked with infidels; for what participation hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what fellowship [is there] between light and darkness?

²⁵ If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

² wherein in times past ye walked after the fashion of this world, after the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now worketh with energy in the children of disobedience:

¹¹ Wherefore remember that ye in time past were Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that called circumcision made by hands in the flesh; ¹² that ye were at that time without Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and atheists in the world:

¹⁸ darkened in understanding; alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them; through the blindness of their hearts:

² and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an oblation and sacrifice to God, for an odour of a sweet smell.

¹² For our conflict is not merely against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against wicked spirits in the aerial regions.

¹³ who hath plucked us out from the dominion of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

⁴ But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief. ⁵ Ye are all the children of light, and the children of day: we are not the children of night, nor of darkness. ⁶ Let us not then sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For they who sleep, sleep in the night, and they who are drunken, are drunken in the night; ⁸ but let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

³ For we ourselves also in time past were thoughtless, disobedient, erroneous, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

⁹ But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired by purchase; that ye should publish abroad the excellencies of him, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: ¹⁰ who in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God; who had not obtained mercy, but are now the objects of mercy. ¹¹ Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, Abstain from carnal lusts, which war against the soul;

⁷ but if we walk in the light, as he is himself in the light, we have communion with each other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

⁸ Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which is a true thing in him, and in you, because the darkness is past, and the true light is now shining. ⁹ He who saith, that he is in the light, yet hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. ¹⁰ He that loveth his brother is in the light, and occasion of stumbling in him there is none. ¹¹ But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he is departing, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite in reality, in whom there is no guile!

⁴ Or despisest thou the riches of his kindness and patience and long-suffering, ignorant that this goodness of God is leading thee to repentance?

¹⁴ And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to admonish one another.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, ²³ meekness, temperance; against such there is no law.

²⁵ Wherefore putting away lying, speak truth, every one with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

¹⁴ Stand therefore, girded about your loins with truth, and putting on the breastplate of righteousness;

¹¹ filled with fruits of righteousness, which by Jesus Christ are to the glory and praise of God.

¹¹ But thou, O man of God, flee from these things; but pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

⁸ But to the Son, "Thy throne, O God, is unto eternity; a sceptre of rectitude is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

³³ who by faith vanquished kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

²⁴ who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead unto sins, might live unto righteousness; "by whose stripes, [even] his, ye were healed." ²⁵ For ye were as sheep wandering astray; but are now returned unto the pastor and bishop of your souls.

²⁹ If ye know that he is righteous, know that every one who practises righteousness is born of him.

⁹ Every one who is born of God, doth not practise sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. ¹⁰ By this the children of God are manifestly seen, and the children of the devil. Every one that doth not practise righteousness, is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother.

¹¹ Beloved, be not an imitator of what is evil, but of that which is good. He that doeth good is of God, but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

¹ I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ² And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, that you may prove by experience what is the will of God, that is good, acceptable, and perfect.

¹⁸ For he who in these things is the servant of Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men.

¹⁰ that ye may prove the things that are excellent, in order that ye may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ;

¹⁸ But I have now all things, and abound: I am full, having received from Epaphroditus your bounty, an odour of sweet smell, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

²¹ Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

³ For this is becoming, and acceptable before God our Saviour;

⁴ But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn as their first duty to shew their piety towards their own family, and make a grateful return to their progenitors: for this is becoming and acceptable before God.

²⁸ Wherefore receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we hold fast the grace, by which we can offer to God acceptably divine service, with reverence and pious awe:

⁵ ye also, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices, well pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

²⁰ For what glory would there be, if committing faults, and being buffeted, ye suffered patiently? but if, when ye behave well, yet suffer, ye bear it patiently, this is graciously accepted of God.

¹⁵ Now if thy brother sin against thee, go and reprove him between thyself and him alone; if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

¹⁹ Now Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him, on account of Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the other wicked actions which he had done,

¹⁹ Now this is the condemnation, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For every one whose practices are foul hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his actions may not be brought to conviction. ²¹ But he who practices the truth, cometh to the light, that his actions may be evident, as being done for God.

²² Affecting to be sophists, they turned idiots, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles. ²⁴ Wherefore God abandoned them, through the lusts of their own hearts, unto impurity, to dishonour their own bodies by themselves: ²⁵ who perverted the truth of God by falsehood, and worshipped and paid divine honours to the thing created instead of the Creator, who is blessed for evermore. Amen. ²⁶ For this cause God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For even their women did change the natural use into that which was contrary to nature; ²⁷ and likewise the men also, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lewdness one towards another; men with men committing indecency, and receiving in themselves the recompence of their delusion, which was meet. ²⁸ And since they thought not fit to hold the Deity in acknowledgment, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to practise deeds unbecoming; ²⁹ replete with all injustice, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, villany; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, evil habits; whisperers, ³⁰ backbiters, God-haters, contumelious, insolent, boasters, inventors of wicked practices, disobedient to parents, ³¹ unintelligent, unfaithful to engagements, unnatural, implacable, unmerciful: ³² who, though they know the righteous judgment of God, that they who live in such practices are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also find pleasure in the company of those who live in these practices.

²¹ What fruit therefore had ye then in those things at which ye are now confounded? for the end of those things is death.

¹² The night is far advanced, the day approaches: let us therefore put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

¹⁷ Now I beseech you, brethren, keep a sharp eye over those who cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine ye have learned, and turn away from them.

⁹ I have written unto you in an epistle that you should not associate with fornicators.

²⁰ But that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to daemons, and not to God: and I would not have you in communion with daemons. ²¹ Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of daemons: ye cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and the table of daemons.

¹⁴ Be not unequally yoked with infidels; for what participation hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what fellowship [is there] between light and darkness? ¹⁵ and what concord of Christ with Belial? or what share hath he that believeth with an infidel? ¹⁶ or what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, "I will inhabit in them, and walk about in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be for me a people." ¹⁷ "Wherefore go forth from the midst of them, and be ye separated, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you, ¹⁸ and I will be as a father unto you, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

⁸ For he that soweth unto his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption, and he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

²² that ye put off respecting your former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful passions;

⁷ Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

⁷ For they who sleep, sleep in the night, and they who are drunken, are drunken in the night;

⁶ Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother who walketh disorderly, and not according to the injunction which he hath received from us.

¹⁴ And if any man obey not our word by letter, mark that man, and maintain no society with him, that he may be ashamed.

²⁰ Those who sin rebuke before all, that the rest also may tremble.

⁵ perverse wranglings of men corrupt in mind, and destitute of truth, who think to make gain of godliness; depart from such men.

⁵ holding the form of godliness, but denying the power of it: from these men turn with aversion.

² preach the word, be urgent, in season, out of season; reprove, enjoin, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

¹⁵ These things speak and enjoin, and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

¹⁰ If any person come unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into the house, nor say to him, Welcome. ¹¹ He that biddeth him welcome, takes part in his wicked works.

¹ MEANTIME myriads of people collecting, so that they trod on one another, he began to speak to his disciples, Take heed principally of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. ² For there is nothing concealed, that shall not be laid open; nor hid, which shall not be known.

²⁴ Wherefore God abandoned them, through the lusts of their own hearts, unto impurity, to dishonour their own bodies by themselves: ²⁵ who perverted the truth of God by falsehood, and worshipped and paid divine honours to the thing created instead of the Creator, who is blessed for evermore. Amen. ²⁶ For this cause God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For even their women did change the natural use into that which was contrary to nature; ²⁷ and likewise the men also, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lewdness one towards another; men with men committing indecency, and receiving in themselves the recompence of their delusion, which was meet.

¹⁶ in the day when God shall judge the hidden things of men, according to my gospel by Jesus Christ.

³ For the time past of life is enough for us to have wrought the will of the heathen, when we walked in all impurities, lewd appetites, excess of wine, revels, drinking-bouts, and abominable idolatries;

¹² And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, 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 written in the books according to their works.

⁵ Wherefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who also will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will manifest the counsels of men's hearts; and then shall praise be given to each from God.

¹³ Unto which indeed of the angels said he ever, "Sit at my right hand until I put thine enemies for a footstool of thy feet?"

⁷⁸ through the bowels of mercy of our God; with which he hath visited us, as the dawn of the morning from on high,

²⁵ Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, yea, it is now, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. ²⁶ For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son also to have life in himself; ²⁷ and hath given him authority also to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man. ²⁸ Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all who are in the graves shall hear his voice, ²⁹ and they shall come forth; they who have done good actions to the resurrection of life; and they who have been guilty of foul practices, to the resurrection of damnation.

⁵ As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

⁴³ And when he had thus spoken, with a loud voice he cried, Lazarus, come forth! ⁴⁴ And the deceased came forth, his feet and his hands wrapped with the linen swathes; and his face bound round with a napkin. Jesus saith to them, Loose him, and let him go!

⁴⁷ For so hath the Lord enjoined us, "I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou mightest be for salvation unto the extremity of the earth."

⁴ We have been buried therefore with him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if we have been planted with him in the likeness of his death, so shall we be also of his resurrection:

¹¹ And thus do, knowing the time; for the hour is come that we should awake from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. ¹² The night is far advanced, the day approaches: let us therefore put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

³⁴ Awake as the righteous, and sin not; for some have an ignorance of God: I speak this to your shame.

⁵ though we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved,)

¹ IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

⁶ Let us not then sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

¹⁰ but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and brought to light life and immortality by the gospel:

²⁶ and that they may escape out of the snare of the devil, who have been captured by him for his will.

⁴ And Jesus said to him, See thou tell no man; but go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded for a testimony unto them.

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore prudent as serpents, and harmless as doves.

² But five of them were provident, and five foolish.

⁴ saying, I have sinned, in betraying innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

²⁴ When Pilate saw that it was of no use to contend, but that rather a tumult was rising, he took water, and washed his hands before the people, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man: ye must answer for it.

²⁵ And he said unto them, O ye void of understanding, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

²⁰ Brethren, be not children in your minds: though in naughtiness be ye children, but in your minds be men complete.

¹ O INFATUATED Galatians, who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth? To whom Jesus Christ has been described, as before your eyes, crucified among you.

³ Are ye so senseless? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect in the flesh?

³³ Nevertheless let every one of you individually see that each love his own wife even as himself; but the wife that she stand in awe of the husband.

⁹ For this cause we also from the day we heard it have not ceased praying for you, and beseeching God that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

⁵ Walk wisely with regard to those without, redeeming the time.

¹⁵ See that no man return evil for evil to any man; but always pursue that which is good, both towards one another, and towards all men.

⁹ For they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful passions, which sink men in the abyss of destruction and perdition.

²⁵ Beware that ye reject not him that speaketh: for if they escaped not, who rejected him, that upon earth spake by divine influence, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven:

¹³ Who is a wise man and intelligent among you, let him shew in a becoming conduct his works with the meekness of wisdom.

²² Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto fraternal affection undissembled, love each other intensely out of a pure heart:

¹⁰ And I fell down before his feet to worship him: and he said unto me, See thou dost not so: I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.

³⁵ Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest the darkness overtake you: he that walketh in darkness, knoweth not even whither he is going.

²⁸ And one of them named Agabus, rising up, signified by the spirit that a great famine was coming upon the whole habitable globe: which also came in the reign of Claudius Caesar. ²⁹ Then the disciples, as everyman had ability, determined every individual of them to send a sum to be distributed among the brethren who dwelt in Judea:

¹¹ And thus do, knowing the time; for the hour is come that we should awake from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

²⁶ I think then that this is becoming, considering our present straits, that it is proper for a man to be thus.

²⁹ Now this I say, brethren, that the time is short. The conclusion is, that even they who have wives, should be as though they had not; ³⁰ and they who weep as though they wept not; and they who rejoice as though they rejoiced not; and they that purchase as though they possessed not; ³¹ and they who use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

¹⁰ Well then, whilst we have opportunity, let us do good unto all men, but especially unto those who are of the household of faith.

¹³ Therefore take the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all things to stand.

¹⁵ and underneath your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

¹⁷ If any man will do his will, he shall know respecting the doctrine, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself.

² And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, that you may prove by experience what is the will of God, that is good, acceptable, and perfect.

¹⁵ Take heed, then, that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

¹ FINALLY, brethren, we beseech you therefore, and conjure you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk, and please God, so ye would abound more and more. ² For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom;

² that he might not spend the remaining space of life in the flesh after human passions, but the divine will.

²⁵ Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup, and of the dish, but within they are full of rapacity and intemperance.

⁴⁹ and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

¹⁵ for he shall be great in the sight of the Lord; and he shall never drink wine, nor any intoxicating liquor; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

¹³ If ye then, evil as ye are, know how to give good gifts to your children; how much more shall your Father, who is in heaven, give his Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

⁴⁵ But if that servant say in his heart, My master will be a long while ere he comes; and shall begin to beat the men and maid-servants, and to eat and to drink, and to get drunk;

³⁴ But take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts should be overloaded with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the anxious cares of life, and that day should come upon you unawares.

¹³ But others scoffing said, These men are brimful of sweet wine. ¹⁴ But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice, and addressed them; Men of Judea, and all ye who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words: ¹⁵ for these men are not, as ye suppose, drunk, for it is only the third hour of the day. ¹⁶ But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel; ¹⁷ "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour our of my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: ¹⁸ and upon my servants and my handmaidens in those days will I pour out of my spirit; and they shall prophesy:

²⁴ For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and a great multitude was added to the Lord.

¹³ Let us walk becomingly as in the face of day, not in revels and drunkenness, not in impurities and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

¹¹ But now I have written unto you not to associate with him, if any man, professing to be a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one not even to eat.

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

²¹ For one in the eating it taketh before another his own supper: and one is hungry, and another drinks to excess.

²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revels, and the like of these, concerning which I tell you now, as I have told you already, that they who live in such practices shall not inherit the kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, ²³ meekness, temperance; against such there is no law. ²⁴ But they who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and irregular appetites. ²⁵ If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

⁶ if there be a man blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not under an accusation or debauchery, or disorderly conduct.

³ For the time past of life is enough for us to have wrought the will of the heathen, when we walked in all impurities, lewd appetites, excess of wine, revels, drinking-bouts, and abominable idolatries; ⁴ wherein they think it a strange thing, that you are not running with them into the same gulph of profligacy, spreading every scandalous report of you:

⁸ This people draweth nigh to me with their mouths, and honoureth me with the lips, but their heart is far distant from me.

³⁰ And when they had sung an hymn, they went out to the mount of Olives.

²³ But the hour is coming, yea, is now come, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such worshippers of him. ²⁴ God is a Spirit: and they who worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth.

²⁵ But about midnight Paul and Silas, after joining in prayer, sang hymns to God: and the prisoners heard them.

²⁶ How comes it then, brethren, that when ye assemble together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? Let all things be done to edification.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing with grace in your heart unto the Lord.

¹³ Is any man among you under afflictions? let him pray. Is any man happy in mind? let him sing psalms.

¹³ And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If ye ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you that ye should go forth and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be permanent: that so whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he may give it you.

²³ And in that hour ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, That whatsoever things ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give you. ²⁴ Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be complete. ²⁵ These things have I spoken to you in parables: but the hour is coming when I will no more speak to you in parables, but will plainly inform you respecting the Father. ²⁶ In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I do not say to you, I will entreat the Father for you:

⁴¹ Then they went rejoicing from the presence of the sanhedrim, that for his name's sake, they had been counted worthy to suffer this injurious treatment.

⁴ I give thanks to my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which hath been given you in Christ Jesus;

⁴ or obscenity, or foolish talk, or loose witticisms; things which become not [a Christian], but rather thanksgiving.

³ I give thanks to my God on every remembrance of you,

¹¹ strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy; ¹² giving thanks to God, even the Father, who hath made us meet for a portion in the inheritance of the saints in light;

¹⁷ And everything that ye do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

³ We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is fit, because your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all towards each other aboundeth:

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath elected you from the beginning unto salvation, by sanctification of the Spirit, and faith in the truth:

¹¹ If any man speak, let it be agreeably to the oracles of God; if any man act as a deacon, let it be from the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory and might for ever and ever. Amen.

¹ LET every soul be subject to the superior powers: for there is no power but from God; the existing powers are appointed by God. ² Wherefore he that sets himself against authority, resists the ordinance of God: and they who resist shall receive to themselves condemnation. ³ For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from it: ⁴ for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou doest that which is evil, tremble! for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, an avenger to inflict wrath on him that practises what is evil. ⁵ Wherefore there is a necessity for being in subjection, not only for fear of wrath, but also for conscience sake.

¹⁶ wherefore submit yourselves to such, and to every one that worketh with us and laboureth.

¹ HAVING therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

¹³ For ye have been called unto liberty, brethren; only use not that liberty as a pretext for carnality, but in love be subject one to another.

²² Wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

²⁴ As then the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

³ Let nothing be done contentiously or vain-gloriously; but in humility reckoning others superior to yourselves.

¹¹ Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection:

⁴ presiding over his own family with propriety, having his children under subjection with all gravity of behaviour:

¹⁷ Obey your presidents, and be subject to them: for they are vigilant for your souls, as being to render an account, that they may do it with joy, and not groaning: for that would be disadvantageous for you.

¹³ Be subject therefore to every human constitution for the Lord's sake; whether to a king as the supreme magistrate;

¹⁷ Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

⁵ In like manner, ye who are younger persons, be in subjection to your elders: but all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed from head to foot with humility: for God sets himself in opposition to the proud, but he giveth grace to the lowly.

³⁴ Let your women be silent in the churches: for it is not permitted to them to speak: but to be in subjection, as also the law saith.

²² Wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

¹⁸ Wives be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord.

¹¹ Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection: ¹² for I permit not a woman to teach in public, or to assume authority over the man, but to abide in silence.

⁵ to be sober, domestic, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not ill reported of.

¹ LIKEWISE, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if some obey not the word, by their wives' conduct without the word, they may be won over; ² being eye-witnesses of your chaste behaviour with timidity. ³ Whose adorning let it not be that exterior one of braided locks, and golden trimmings, and dresses put on with nicety; ⁴ but let it be the hidden man of the heart, with that incorruptible ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God highly valuable. ⁵ For so in times of old the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands; ⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye are, if ye do well, and are not affrighted with any terror.

²⁸ Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops, to feed as shepherds the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.

³ But I desire you to take notice that the head of every man is Christ; but the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. ⁴ Every man praying or prophesying, holding [a veil] over his head, dishonoureth his head; ⁵ but every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled, dishonoureth her head; for it is one and the same thing, as if she were shaven. ⁶ For if the woman be not veiled, let her hair be clipped: but if it would be scandalous for a woman to appear clipped or shaved, let her be veiled. ⁷ For a man indeed ought not to veil his head, being the image and the glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man. ⁸ For the man is not from the woman, but the woman from the man. ⁹ Also the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man. ¹⁰ Therefore ought the woman to retain upon her head [this badge of authority], because of the angels [of the churches].

²² and hath put all things under his feet, and hath appointed him head over all to the church, ²³ which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; ²⁶ that he might sanctify it, purifying it in the laver of water by the word,

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first begotten from the dead, that he might be in all things pre-eminent.

¹⁰ and to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivereth us from the wrath to come.

²⁰ Children, be obedient to your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

²² Servants, obey in all things your masters after the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but, in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

⁷ In all things approving thyself as a pattern of good works: in thy teaching, shewing integrity, gravity, incorruptibility,

⁹ Let servants be subject to their own masters, in all things to be agreeable to them; not contradicting;

¹⁹ And taking a loaf, he gave thanks, and brake, and gave it to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: do this in remembrance of me. ²⁰ And the cup in like manner, after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

²⁸ So ought husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself.

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and use no asperity against them.

¹⁸ knowing that ye have not been redeemed out of your vain manner of life, derived traditionally from your fathers, by the corruptible things, silver and gold, ¹⁹ but by the precious blood of Christ, as the unblemished and spotless lamb: ²⁰ who was indeed predestined before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times for us, ²¹ who by him believe in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

⁷ Ye husbands, in like manner dwell with them discreetly, putting respect on the dear woman as being the weaker vessel, and as co-heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers may meet no interruption.

⁵ Jesus replied, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

³ Ye are already clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

⁸ Herein is my Father glorified, that ye should bring forth much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

⁷ Now have they known, that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee.

¹⁷ Sanctify them by thy truth: thy word is truth. ¹⁸ As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And for them I devote myself, that they also might be sanctified by the truth.

¹⁶ And now why delay? arise, to be baptised, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

¹¹ Yet such were some of you: but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.

¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

⁵ not for works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the laver of regeneration, and by renovation of the Holy Spirit; ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; ⁷ that justified by his grace, we might become heirs in hope of eternal life.

¹⁰ By the which will we are sanctified through the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.

²² let us come to him with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and the body washed with pure water:

¹⁸ Of his own choice he produced us by the word of truth, that we might be a sort of first fruit of his creatures.—

² elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by sanctification of the Spirit, that they might be brought to the obedience, and sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ: grace unto you and peace be multiplied.

²² Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto fraternal affection undissembled, love each other intensely out of a pure heart: ²³ born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the quickening word of God, and which abideth for ever.

²¹ The antitype to which baptism now saveth us (not the mere removal of filth from the flesh, but the engagement of a good conscience to God), by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

⁶ This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus the Messiah; not by the water only, but by the water and the blood: and the Spirit is the witnessing person, because the Spirit is the truth.

¹ JUDE a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are sanctified in God the Father, and preserved by Jesus Christ, the called:

¹⁴ knowing that he who raised up our Lord Jesus Christ, will raise up us also through Jesus, and present us together with you.

² For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy; for I have espoused you to one husband, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ.

⁴ as he hath elected us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love:

²² by the body of his flesh, through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreprehensible in his presence:

²⁸ whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

²³ Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved faultless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²² but ye are come unto mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, ²³ and to the general assembly and church of the first-born registered in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men perfected, ²⁴ and to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel.

¹⁹ but by the precious blood of Christ, as the unblemished and spotless lamb:

¹⁴ Wherefore, beloved, seeing ye are expecting these things, be diligent to be found of him in peace, spotless and blameless.

²¹ preserve yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

²⁴ Now to him who is able to guard you from stumbling, and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with exultation,

⁹ After these things I looked, and beheld a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation, and tribe, and people, and tongue, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches in their hands ¹⁰ and crying with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God that sitteth on the throne, and to the Lamb. ¹¹ And all the angels stood in a circle about the throne, and the presbyters and the four living beings, and fell on their faces before the throne, and worshipped God, ¹² saying, Amen: blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might be to our God for ever and ever. Amen. ¹³ And one of the presbyters addressed me, saying, Who are these persons who are clothed in white robes? and from whence came they? ¹⁴ And I said to him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are persons who are come out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. ¹⁶ They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun scorch them, nor any burning heat. ¹⁷ Because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will feed them, as a shepherd, and lead them unto living fountains of waters; and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.

¹⁰ And he bore me away in spirit unto a great and exceeding high mountain, and shewed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹ having the glory of God: and her brilliance was like the most precious gem, as a jasper stone, transparent as crystal; ¹² and she had a great wall and lofty, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed on them, which are those of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. ¹³ From the east three gates; from the north three gates; from the south three gates; from the west three gates. ¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ And he that talked with me held a golden cane to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. ¹⁶ And the city is a quadrangle, and the breadth of it is just as much as the length of it; and he measured the city with the cane, twelve thousand furlongs: the breadth, and the length, and the height of it, are exactly proportioned. ¹⁷ He measured also the wall of it a hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, for such is that of an angel. ¹⁸ The structure of the wall of it was jasper, and the city pure gold, like clear glass. ¹⁹ And the foundations of the walls of the city were adorned with every precious stone: the first foundation a jasper; the second a sapphire; the third a chalcedony; the fourth an emerald; ²⁰ the fifth a sardonyx; the sixth a sardius; the seventh a chrysolite; the eighth a beryl; the ninth a topaz; the tenth a chrysoprasus; the eleventh a jacinth; the twelfth an amethyst. ²¹ And the twelve gates were twelve several pearls; every one of the gates was of one pearl; and the street of the city was pure gold, as transparent glass. ²² And I saw no temple therein; for the Lord God Almighty is the temple thereof, even the Lamb. ²³ And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine upon it: for the glory of God illuminates it, and the Lamb is the lamp thereof. ²⁴ And the nations of those that are saved shall walk about in the light thereof; and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and their honour into it; ²⁵ and her gates shall be never shut by day (for there is no night there); ²⁶ and they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations into it. ²⁷ And there shall no more enter into it any thing unclean, or that practises abomination and lying; but only those who are written in the book of life of the Lamb.

⁵ And he said, for this reason shall a man forsake father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

³¹ For this reason shall a man forsake his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be as one flesh.

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest those who were sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children to me, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not?

⁵⁰ This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that any person may eat of it, and never die. ⁵¹ I am the bread that giveth life, which came down from heaven: if any person eat of this bread, he shall live to eternity; and the bread indeed which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. ⁵² Then the Jews contended with each other, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? ⁵³ Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves. ⁵⁴ He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath life eternal: and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh truly is meat, and my blood truly is drink. ⁵⁶ He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ As the life-giving Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, the same shall live by me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread which came down from heaven, not as the manna your fathers did eat, and died: he that eateth this bread shall live to eternity.

³¹ unintelligent, unfaithful to engagements, unnatural, implacable, unmerciful:

⁵ so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one reciprocally members of each other.

¹⁵ Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Taking then the members of Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? God forbid.

¹² For as the body is one, and hath many members, but all the members of that one body, though many, are one body: so also is Christ. ¹³ For by one Spirit we all have been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free men; and we have all been made to drink into one Spirit. ¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many. ¹⁵ If the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it, on this account, not of the body? ¹⁶ And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it not therefore of the body? ¹⁷ If the whole body were eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? ¹⁸ But now hath God placed the members, every one of them in the body, as he hath chosen. ¹⁹ But if the whole were one member, where were the body? ²⁰ But now the members indeed are many, but the body one. ²¹ Nor can the eye say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. ²² Yea, much more the members of the body, which appear to be more feeble, are necessary: ²³ and those parts which we esteem as the more dishonourable of the body, on them we bestow more abundant honour, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. ²⁴ For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered together the body, giving more abundant honour to that part which lacked: ²⁵ that there might be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. ²⁶ And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; and if one member be exalted, all the members rejoice with it. ²⁷ Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

²³ which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

¹⁹ and not firmly attached to the head, from which the whole body, by joints and ligaments, harmoniously adjusted and closely compacted, increaseth with increase from God.

⁷ and said, For this cause shall a man forsake father and mother, and shall adhere to his wife; ⁸ and they two shall be one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

¹⁶ Do you not know that he that is joined to an harlot is one body with her? For they two, saith he, shall be "one flesh."

²⁹ It is the bridegroom, who possesses the bride: and the friend of the bridegroom, standing by and hearing him, rejoiceth exceedingly at the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

¹⁹ and for me that there may be given unto me utterance to open my mouth with boldness, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

² that their hearts may be comforted, firmly united together in love, and unto all riches of full assurance of understanding, in the knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

⁸ The deacons also in like manner must be grave, not doubletongued, not addicting themselves to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

¹⁶ And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified by the Spirit, seen of angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

⁷ Let us rejoice and exult, and give him glory: because the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his bride hath made herself ready. ⁸ And it was granted her to be clothed in fine linen, clean and splendid: for the fine linen is [the emblem of] the righteousness of the saints.

² And I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

²⁸ So ought husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself. ²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

⁹ If then we have had the fathers of our flesh for correctors, and reverenced them; shall we not much more be under subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

² being eye-witnesses of your chaste behaviour with timidity. ³ Whose adorning let it not be that exterior one of braided locks, and golden trimmings, and dresses put on with nicety; ⁴ but let it be the hidden man of the heart, with that incorruptible ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God highly valuable. ⁵ For so in times of old the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands; ⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye are, if ye do well, and are not affrighted with any terror. ⁷ Ye husbands, in like manner dwell with them discreetly, putting respect on the dear woman as being the weaker vessel, and as co-heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers may meet no interruption.