Jude 1 Cross References - Haweis

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: ² mercy unto you, and peace and love be multiplied. ³ Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you concerning the common salvation, I held it necessary to write unto you, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered unto the saints. ⁴ For certain men have craftily introduced themselves, who were from of old proscribed for this condemnation, ungodly men, changing the grace of God into impurity, and denying our only sovereign God and Lord, Jesus Christ. ⁵ But I would remind you, though ye once knew this, that the Lord, though he delivered the people out of the land of Egypt, afterwards destroyed those who believed not. ⁶ And the angels who preserved not their own primitive state, but deserted their proper abode, hath he reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day. ⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrha and the surrounding cities, in like manner with them abandoned to whoredom, and going after other flesh, are set forth an example, suffering the judicial punishment of eternal fire. ⁸ In like manner also do these men, even when they dream, defile indeed the flesh, despise sovereignty, and revile dignities. ⁹ Though Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not to produce a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 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. ¹¹ Wo unto them! for they have walked in the way of Cain, and have eagerly run in Balaam's erroneous path of hire, and have perished in opposition, like Corah. ¹² These are in your feasts of love, as sunken rocks; though joining in your banquet, they feed themselves fearlessly; clouds without water carried about by the winds; trees untimely withering, fruitless, twice dead, rooted up; 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. ¹⁴ Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied also of these men, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with myriads of his saints, ¹⁵ to execute judgment against all men, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have impiously committed, and of all the bitter words which impious offenders have spoken against him. ¹⁶ These men are murmurers, complainers at their lot in life, walking after their own corrupt passions; and their mouth utters hyperbolically pompous expressions, pretending high personal admiration, in order to make their advantage. ¹⁷ But ye, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁸ how they told you that in the last time there will be scoffers, walking after their own ungodly passions. ¹⁹ These are the men who separate themselves, sensual, destitute of the Spirit. ²⁰ But ye, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying by the Holy Ghost, ²¹ preserve yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. ²² And of some have compassion, distinguishing their case; ²³ and others save with trembling, snatching them out of the fire; though hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. 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, ²⁵ to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, might and dominion, both now and unto all eternity. Amen.

³ Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax-gatherer; James son of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, whose surname is Thaddeus;

¹⁸ and Andrew and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite,

¹⁶ Jude the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who also was the traitor.

³⁹ Now this is the will of the Father who sent me, That every thing which he hath given me I should not be deprived of it, but raise it up at the last day.

²⁸ and I give unto them everlasting life and they shall never perish to eternity, and no person shall pluck them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all and no one shall pluck them out of my Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one.

²⁶ If a man will be my servant, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall my servant be: and if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

²² Then Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us, and not unto the world?

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.

¹¹ And now no longer am I in this world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father! preserve them for thy name's sake whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. ¹² When I was with them in the world, I preserved them by thy name: those whom thou hast given me have I guarded, and not one of them is perished, except the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

¹⁵ I entreat not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest preserve them from the wicked one.

¹⁷ Sanctify them by thy truth: thy word is truth.

¹⁹ And for them I devote myself, that they also might be sanctified by the truth.

¹³ And when they had arrived, they went up to an upper room, where abode Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James son of Alpheus, and Simon the zealous, and Jude brother to James.

³² And now, brethren, I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to finish the superstructure, and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

²³ For there stood by me this night an angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,

¹ PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, set apart for the Gospel of God,

²² But now being set at liberty from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and at the end life eternal.

³⁰ But whom he predestinated, those also he called: and whom he called, those also he justified: but whom he justified, those also he glorified.

²⁴ even us, whom he hath called, not only out of the Jews, but out of the Gentiles?

¹⁸ For such are not servants to our Lord Jesus Christ, but to their own belly; and by smooth speeches and flattering commendations deceive the hearts of the guileless.

² to the church of God which is at Corinth, sanctified in Christ Jesus, to the called saints, with all those who invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both their's and our's:

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.

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, purifying it in the laver of water by the word,

¹² that ye should walk worthy of God, as calling you into his kingdom and glory.

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.

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: ¹⁴ whereunto also he called you by our gospel, in order to your acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before time had a beginning;

¹⁸ And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and preserve me for his celestial kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

¹ WHEREFORE, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, contemplate the apostle and high-priest whom ye confess, Jesus Christ;

¹ JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are dispersed, greeting. 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.

⁵ who are guarded by the omnipotence of God, through faith to obtain the salvation which is ready to appear at the last time.

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 But the God of all grace, who hath called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered a little while, himself perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

¹ SIMON Peter, the servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained with us the same precious faith by the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

⁷ To all that are at Rome, beloved of God, called saints, grace unto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

² grace unto you and peace be multiplied through the knowledge of God, even Jesus our Lord,

⁴ John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be with you, and peace from him, who is, and who was, and who is coming; and from the seven spirits which are before the throne of God, 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, ⁶ and made us kings and priests to his God and Father; to him be glory and might for ever and ever. Amen.

¹² And there is no salvation in any other person: for there is no other name under heaven given unto men, whereby we must be saved.

⁸ Now Stephen, full of faith and of power, wrought great miracles and signs among the people. ⁹ Then rose up certain men of the synagogue of the freed-men, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen. ¹⁰ And they could not resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he spoke.

²² But Saul was endued with still greater power, and confounded the Jews who dwelt at Damascus, conclusively evincing that this person is the Messiah.

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas speaking with undaunted boldness, said, It was necessary that the word of God should be first spoken unto you: but since ye have thrust it from you, and judged yourselves not worthy of eternal life, lo! we turn to the Gentiles. 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."

³ opening them clearly, and laying it evidently down that the Messiah must suffer, and rise again from the dead; and that this man is the Messiah, even Jesus, whom I preach unto you.

⁴ and he discoursed in the synagogue every sabbath-day, and persuaded both the Jews and the Greek proselytes. ⁵ And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul felt a strong impulse on his spirit, and forcibly testified to the Jews, that Jesus was the Messiah. ⁶ But as they continued opposing and blaspheming, he shook his garments, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am pure from it: from this moment will I go to the Gentiles.

²⁸ For he strenuously argued with the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah.

²⁷ For I have concealed nothing, so as not repeatedly to declare to you the whole counsel of God.

²⁸ Be it known therefore unto you, that to the Gentiles is the salvation of God sent, and they will hear.

¹⁵ But I have written to you, my brethren, in part, with greater freedom, as refreshing your memory through the grace which is given to me of God; ¹⁶ that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God; that the oblation of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

³ For I delivered to you among the first things that which I also had received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures;

⁵ to whom not even for an hour have we yielded subjection, that the truth of the gospel might abide with you.

²⁸ There is no more Jew or Gentile, there is no more slave or freeman, there is no more male or female: but ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

¹¹ Ye see in how many words I have written unto you with my own hand.

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

¹ PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

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;

² to the saints at Colosse, and to the faithful brethren in Christ: grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

² But though we had suffered before, and were infamously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to preach unto you the gospel of God amidst a great conflict.

¹⁸ This commandment, son Timothy, I give thee, according to the prophecies which were before delivered concerning thee, that by them thou mightest war a good warfare;

¹² Strain every nerve in the noble conflict of faith, lay fast hold on eternal life, unto which also thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

¹³ Model thy teaching according to the pattern of the sound discourses, which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

⁷ I have struggled hard in the honourable contest, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith: ⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: yet not to me only, but also to all who have loved his appearing.

⁴ to Titus, my genuine son after the common faith, be grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

²² But I entreat you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

¹² By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I think, I have written to you a few words, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye are standing fast.

¹² Wherefore I will not be negligent continually to remind you of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the present truth. ¹³ Indeed, I think it right, as long as I am in this frail tabernacle, to rouse up your attention by reminding you: ¹⁴ knowing that the deposition of this frail tabernacle of mine is hastily approaching, as our Lord Jesus Christ hath made evident to me. ¹⁵ I will endeavour then that even after my decease, ye may always have wherewith to preserve the remembrance of these things.

¹ THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I rouse up your sincere mind by awakening your recollection ² to remember the words, that have been spoken aforetime by the holy prophets, and the injunction of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

¹⁷ But ye, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

²⁰ But ye, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying by the Holy Ghost,

¹⁰ Fear nothing from the things which thou shalt suffer: lo! the devil will cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have a ten day's tribulation: be thou faithful until death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

¹¹ And they have vanquished him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto death.

²⁵ and while the men were asleep, his enemy came and sowed zizane among the wheat, and departed.

³ and this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus, the Messiah.

²³ Who, when he arrived there, and beheld the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted them all, with full purpose of heart to adhere to the Lord.

²⁴ Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain persons who went out from us have disturbed you with discourses, unsettling your minds, insisting, that you should be circumcised, and observe the law: to whom we gave no such charge:

¹ THAT then shall we say? Shall we abide in sin, that grace may abound? ² God forbid. We who are dead to sin, how shall we still live therein?

²¹ Hath not the potter power over the clay, from the same mass to make one vessel for an honourable use, and another for a dishonourable? ²² But what if God, willing to display his wrath, and to make known what is possible with him, hath borne with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted for perdition:

⁴ but this I did because of false brethren artfully introduced, who came to pry into our liberty which we hold in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

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.

¹⁴ that we should be no longer infants, floating on the waves, and carried about with every wind of novel doctrine, by the juggling of men, by their craftiness after the delusive wiles of error;

¹⁵ which in his own appointed times he will shew forth, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; ¹⁶ who alone possesseth immortality, inhabiting light inaccessible, whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and glory eternal. Amen.

⁶ For such are they who insinuate themselves into houses, and captivate weak women laden with accumulated sins, and actuated by a variety of passions,

¹⁵ All things indeed are clean to the clean: but to the defiled and to the unbelievers there is nothing clean; but their very mind and conscience are defiled. ¹⁶ They profess to know God; but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

¹¹ For the grace of God which leads to salvation hath appeared unto all men, ¹² instructing us, that denying ungodliness and worldly affections, we should live soberly and righteously, and godly in the present day;

¹⁵ carefully observing lest any of you fail of attaining the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and by it many be defiled; ¹⁶ lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of bread parted with his birthrights.

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

¹⁶ as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for wicked practices; but as being servants of God.

¹⁸ And if the righteous man is hardly saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

¹ BUT there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers also among you, who wickedly introduce damnable heresies, and deny the sovereign Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. ² And many will go out of the way after their fatal errors; by means of whom the way of truth will be injuriously reviled. 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.

⁵ and spared not the old world, but guarded safely Noah the eighth person, the preacher of righteousness, when he brought a deluge on the world of the ungodly: ⁶ and reducing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes, condemned them to final destruction, making them an example for all who in future should live ungodly;

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.

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. ¹⁹ Preaching liberty to them, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for by whatever a man is overcome, by that also he is enslaved. ²⁰ For if having escaped from the defilements of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again enveloped by them and overcome, their last deeds are worse than the first. ²¹ For it had been better for them never to have been acquainted with the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to have turned aside from the holy commandment delivered unto them. ²² But the true proverb is verified in them, The dog hath returned to his own vomit; and the sow which was washed to its wallowing in the mire.

⁷ but the present heavens and earth by the same word are treasured up, reserved for fire at the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

²² Who is the liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Messiah? This man is the antichrist, who denieth the Father and the Son.

¹⁵ to execute judgment against all men, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have impiously committed, and of all the bitter words which impious offenders have spoken against him.

⁴ Who should not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? because thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee, because thy righteous judgments are made evident.

¹⁵ But I have written to you, my brethren, in part, with greater freedom, as refreshing your memory through the grace which is given to me of God;

¹ BUT I would not that you should be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; ² and were all baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; ³ and did all eat the same spiritual meat; ⁴ and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual rock which followed them; but that rock was Christ. ⁵ Nevertheless with the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were destroyed in the wilderness. ⁶ Now these things were examples for us, that we might not be coveters of evil things, as they also coveted. ⁷ Neither be ye idolaters as some of them; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to sport themselves." ⁸ Neither let us commit whoredom, as some of them also committed, and in one day fell twenty-three thousand. ⁹ Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents. ¹⁰ Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and perished by the destroyer. ¹¹ Now all these things happened unto them as examples, but they are written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages are come. ¹² Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall.

¹⁶ For some, though they had heard, provoked him; yet not all who came out of Egypt by Moses.

¹² Wherefore I will not be negligent continually to remind you of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the present truth. ¹³ Indeed, I think it right, as long as I am in this frail tabernacle, to rouse up your attention by reminding you:

¹ THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I rouse up your sincere mind by awakening your recollection

²⁹ And lo! they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither before the time to torment us?

⁴¹ Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

⁴⁴ Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will practise. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not fast in the truth, because truth was not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh what is peculiarly his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

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.

²⁷ but a certain terrible expectation of judgment, and a burning indignation, ready to devour these enemies.

⁴ For if God spared not the angels when they sinned, but casting them bound in chains of darkness into hell, delivered them to be kept fast until the judgment;

⁹ the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, but to reserve the wicked unto the day of judgment to be punished:

¹⁰ And the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and they shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

²⁴ Wherefore I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee.

⁴³ And if thy hand cause thee to offend, cut it off: it were better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having both hands to go into hell, into the fire that never will be quenched: ⁴⁴ where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁵ And if thy foot cause thee to offend, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life halting, than having both feet to be cast into hell, into the fire which never can be quenched: ⁴⁶ where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁷ And if thine eye cause thee to offend, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into the fire of hell: ⁴⁸ where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁹ For every one shall be salted with fire, and every victim shall be sprinkled with salt.

²⁹ but the day Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

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.

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,

⁶ and reducing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes, condemned them to final destruction, making them an example for all who in future should live ungodly;

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not have this man to rule over us.

²⁷ Then he who did his neighbour wrong thrust him from him, saying, Who appointed thee a ruler and a judge over us?

³⁹ to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,

⁵ And Paul said, I had not observed, brethren, that he was high-priest: for it is written, "Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people."

¹⁷ If any man prophane the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

⁸ Therefore he that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit.

¹⁰ for whoremongers, for sodomites, for stealers of men, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing which is contrary to sound doctrine,

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.

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

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. ¹¹ Whereas the angels, though so much greater in might and power, bring not a reviling accusation against them before the Lord. ¹² But these men, as the naturally irrational brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of the things of which they are ignorant, will perish by their own corruption;

⁹ Though Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not to produce a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 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.

²⁹ And they who passed along, blasphemed him, shaking their heads, and saying, Aha! thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,

³⁹ Then one of the suspended malefactors blasphemed him, saying, If thou art the Messiah, save thyself and us. ⁴⁰ But the other addressing him, rebuked him, saying, Hast thou no fear of God, when thou art under the same condemnation?

¹⁶ For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

⁹ not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing; but, contrariwise, wishing men every blessing; knowing that hereunto ye have been called, that ye should inherit the [divine] benediction.

¹¹ Whereas the angels, though so much greater in might and power, bring not a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.

⁷ Then was there war in the heaven: Michael and his angels warred against the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels,

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. ²² Affecting to be sophists, they turned idiots,

¹² But these men, as the naturally irrational brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of the things of which they are ignorant, will perish by their own corruption;

²¹ Wo unto thee, Chorazin! wo unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the miracles which had been wrought in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, long since would they have repented in sack-cloth and ashes.

¹³ Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the kingdom of heaven from men; for ye yourselves enter not in, and those who were coming in, ye suffer not to enter. ¹⁴ Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: wherefore ye shall receive greater condemnation. ¹⁵ Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained, ye make him doubly more the child of hell than yourselves. ¹⁶ Wo unto you ye blind guides! who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, it is binding.

⁴² But wo to you, Pharisees, because ye tithe mint, and rue, and every herb, and pass by judgment and the love of God. These ought ye to have done, and not to have omitted the other. ⁴³ Wo unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the places of public concourse. ⁴⁴ Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves concealed, which men, while walking over them, see not. ⁴⁵ Then one of the doctors of the law addressing him, said, Master, thus speaking, thou reproachest us also. ⁴⁶ And he said, Wo also to you, teachers of the law! for ye load men with burdens hardly bearable, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ Wo unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

⁴ By faith Abel offered unto God a sacrifice of more excellence than Cain, by which he received a testimony that he was a righteous man, God bearing witness upon his gifts: and by this, though dead, he still speaketh.

¹⁵ who forsaking the strait road are gone out of the way, following the path of Balaam the son of Bosor who loved the wages of iniquity.

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.

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.

⁶ and when the sun arose, it was scorched up; and because it had no root, it withered away.

¹³ Then he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up.

¹⁹ and seeing a fig-tree at the road side, he went up to it, and found nothing on it but leaves only: and saith unto it, Let no fruit spring from thee henceforth for ever: and immediately the fig-tree withered entirely away. ²⁰ And when his disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How suddenly is the fig-tree withered away!

⁶ and when the sun arose it was scorched up; and because it had not root, it withered away.

²⁰ And in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig-tree withered from the roots. ²¹ And Peter reminding him said, Rabbi, behold, the fig-tree which thou cursedst is withered away.

⁶ And other seed fell on a rock, and vegetating, withered because it had no moisture.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast a multitude of good things in store for many years, be at ease, eat, drink, and be merry! ²⁰ But God said to him, Thou fool! this night shall they demand thy life from thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

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;

¹⁹ Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making splendid entertainments every day:

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.

⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine: so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, this person beareth much fruit: because without me ye can do nothing. ⁶ If any man abide not in me, he is cast out as a branch, and withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

²⁰ When therefore ye assemble in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper. ²¹ For one in the eating it taketh before another his own supper: and one is hungry, and another drinks to excess. ²² What! have ye not houses to eat in and to drink? or despise ye the church of God, and make those ashamed who have none? What shall I say unto you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

¹⁹ whose end is perdition, whose God is their belly, and their glory in their shame, whose minds are occupied with earthly things.

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;

⁶ But she who lives voluptuously is dead, though she liveth.

⁴ For it is not possible to renew again unto repentance those who have been once illuminated, and have tasted the celestial gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost, ⁵ and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, ⁶ and yet have fallen away: for they crucify again to themselves the Son of God, and expose him to public infamy. ⁷ For the earth which imbibes the rain which often falls upon it, and bringeth forth herbage suitable for those by whom it is cultured, receiveth a blessing from God; ⁸ but if it produceth thorns and thistles, it is abandoned, and near the curse [of barrenness], whose end will be for burning.

⁵ Ye have gormandized upon the earth, and lived in every luxury: ye have pampered your hearts, as in a day of feasting on the victim slain.

¹³ receiving the recompence of iniquity, counting daily luxury their pleasure; spots and blemishes, when they feast together with you; riotously indulging in their own delusions: 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:

¹⁷ These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a hurricane; for whom the blackness of darkness for ever is reserved. 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. ¹⁹ Preaching liberty to them, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for by whatever a man is overcome, by that also he is enslaved. ²⁰ For if having escaped from the defilements of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again enveloped by them and overcome, their last deeds are worse than the first.

¹³ But wicked men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and deceived.

¹⁷ These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a hurricane; for whom the blackness of darkness for ever is reserved.

¹⁰ And the third angel blew the trumpet, and there fell from heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of water; ¹¹ and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters was turned into wormwood, and multitudes of men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

¹⁰ he also shall drink of the wine of the fury of God, which is mixed undiluted with water in the cup of his wrath; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: ¹¹ and the smoke of their torment ascendeth for ever and ever: and they have no respite day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the brand of his name.

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.

²⁷ For the Son of man shall hereafter come in the glory of his Father, with his angels, and then shall he recompense every man according to his practice.

³⁰ And then shall the sign of the Son of man appear in the heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth lament bitterly, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. ³¹ And he shall send forth his angels with a trumpet, and a great shout, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the extremities of the heavens to the extremities of the same.

³¹ But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory:

¹³ to the end that your hearts may be established blameless in holiness before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

⁷ and to you who are troubled, rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ from heaven with his mighty angels, ⁸ in a flame of fire, taking vengeance of them that know not God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

⁵ By faith Enoch was translated, so as not to see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he was recorded to have been acceptable to God. ⁶ But without faith it is impossible to be acceptable; for he must believe, who cometh unto God, that he exists, and is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

⁷ Behold! he is coming with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also who pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall lament bitterly, smiting their bosoms, because of him: even so! Amen.

³¹ Therefore I say unto you, All sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men; but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men. ³² And whosoever may speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in the world to come. ³³ Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by the fruit. 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 For the Father never judgeth any man, but hath committed all judgment to the Son: ²³ in order that all may honour the Son, just as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him.

²⁷ and hath given him authority also to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man.

³¹ because he hath fixed the day in which he will judge the whole world in righteousness by the man whom he hath appointed; affording evidence of this to all, by raising him from the dead.

⁵ But after thy obdurate and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath at the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

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

¹⁹ Now we know that whatsoever things the law saith, it speaks to those who are under the law: that every mouth might be sealed up, and all the world become criminal before God. ²⁰ Wherefore by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before God: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

¹⁰ But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? And thou, why dost thou disparage thy brother? for we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ.

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 But those who are without God judgeth. Put then away that wicked man from among yourselves.

⁹ knowing this, that the law is not made for the just man, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for men-slayers,

⁶ and reducing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes, condemned them to final destruction, making them an example for all who in future should live ungodly; ⁷ but righteous Lot, afflicted grievously with the infamously impure conduct of those lawless men, he plucked out: ⁸ for by seeing and hearing, that righteous man whilst sojourning among them, suffered torment day by day in his righteous soul from their lawless doings; ⁹ the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, but to reserve the wicked unto the day of judgment to be punished:

¹⁶ These men are murmurers, complainers at their lot in life, walking after their own corrupt passions; and their mouth utters hyperbolically pompous expressions, pretending high personal admiration, in order to make their advantage.

⁵ And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to make war forty-two months. ⁶ And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.

¹¹ And I saw another beast rising up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, though he spake as the dragon.

¹² And behold, I come quickly: and my reward is with me, to give to every man as his work shall be. ¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. ¹⁴ Blessed are they who keep his commandments, that they may have authority to approach unto the tree of life, and that they may enter in by the gates into the city. ¹⁵ But without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one who loveth and maketh a lie.

²⁰ He that testifieth these things saith, Verily, I come quickly. Amen. Yea come, Lord Jesus!

³⁰ And their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

² And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man entertains sinners, and eateth with them.

⁷ And when they all saw it, they murmured, saying, That he is gone to lodge with a man, a notorious sinner.

⁴¹ Then the Jews murmured against him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

⁶¹ Then Jesus, conscious in himself that his disciples murmured concerning this discourse, said unto them, Doth this stumble you?

¹⁰ Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

¹⁶ But I say, Walk in the Spirit, and ye will not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

²⁴ But they who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and irregular appetites.

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings or disputes:

⁵ not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not God;

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

³ For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own inclinations will set up a herd of teachers for themselves, having the itch of hearing;

¹⁴ but every person is tempted, when by his own peculiar passion he is born away, and ensnared. ¹⁵ Then passion impregnated, bringeth forth sin, and sin reaching its consummation, bringeth forth death.

¹ MY brethren, hold not the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus shewing a respect for persons. ² For if there come into your congregation a man with a gold ring, and in splendid apparel, and there come in also a poor man in a sordid garb; ³ and ye fix your eyes upon him who bears the splendid robe, and say to him, Sit thou here in an honourable place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: ⁴ are you not thus partial among yourselves, and form your decision from bad reasonings? ⁵ Hear me, my beloved brethren. Hath not God elected the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to those who love him; ⁶ but ye have put contempt on the poor man? Do not the rich men tyrannize over you? and they drag you to the tribunals. ⁷ Do they not blaspheme that honourable name by which ye are called? ⁸ If indeed ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: ⁹ but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

¹⁴ as obedient children, not conformed to the former passions of the days of your ignorance:

¹¹ Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, Abstain from carnal lusts, which war against the soul;

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

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.

³ knowing this principally, that in the last of the days there will come scoffers, walking after their own lewd passions,

¹⁸ how they told you that in the last time there will be scoffers, walking after their own ungodly passions.

³⁵ In all things I have set you the example, that so labouring hard ye ought to help the infirm, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

²⁰ built up on the foundation of apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

¹¹ And he himself appointed, some indeed apostles, and some prophets; and others preachers of the Gospel; and others pastors and teachers;

² to remember the words, that have been spoken aforetime by the holy prophets, and the injunction of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

⁶ We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of delusion.

²⁹ For this I know, that after my departure there will come among you grievous wolves, not sparing the flock:

¹ NOW the Spirit speaketh expresly, that in the latter days some will apostatise from the faith, giving heed to spirits of delusion, and doctrines of devils; ² men who teach lies with hypocrisy; and have their own consciences cauterised;

¹ BUT this know, that in the last days distressing times will come. ² For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ unnatural, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, inhuman, averse to goodness, ⁴ treacherous, wilful, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; ⁵ holding the form of godliness, but denying the power of it: from these men turn with aversion.

¹ BUT there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers also among you, who wickedly introduce damnable heresies, and deny the sovereign Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

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. ⁶ That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁹ But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

¹⁴ But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are folly to him: and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁹ Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

²⁵ not deserting the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom with some, but exhorting to it; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

¹⁵ This is not the wisdom which cometh from above, but is earthly, sensual, diabolical.

³¹ Then had the churches peace through all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, being edified; and walking in the fear of God, and in the consolation of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

⁹ and made no difference betwixt either us or them, purifying their hearts by faith.

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.

¹⁵ For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye have received a Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.

²⁶ In like manner also the Spirit affords assistance to our infirmities: for even this, what we should pray for as we ought, we know not: but the same Spirit more abundantly maketh intercession for us with groanings unutterable. ²⁷ Now he that trieth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, for he maketh intercession for the saints according to God's will.

² Let every one of us gratify his neighbour in that which is good for his edification.

⁸ who shall confirm you to the end blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²³ All things are lawful for me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

⁴ He that speaketh in an unknown tongue, edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth, edifieth the church. ⁵ Now I could wish that you all spake with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: for greater is he that prophesieth, than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret also, that the church may receive edification.

¹⁵ What then is my object? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms with the understanding also.

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.

⁶ But because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father!

¹² for the perfecting the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ:

¹⁶ From whom the whole body nicely joined together, and firmly connected by every joint of exact proportion, according to the energy exerted in the measure of every several part, causeth the increase of the body unto the edification of itself in love.

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.

¹⁸ praying at every opportunity with all prayer and supplication in Spirit, and watching for this very purpose with perseverance and intercession for all the saints;

⁷ rooted and built up on him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

¹¹ Wherefore comfort one another, and edify one another, as also ye do.

⁴ nor to attend to fables and endless genealogies, which give occasion to disputes rather than godly edification, which is by faith; [so do]. ⁵ recalling to my memory the unfeigned faith which was in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that [it is] in thee also.

¹ PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God, and the knowledge of truth which leads to godliness;

²² Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith consummated.

⁴ Because every one that is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith.

³ Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you concerning the common salvation, I held it necessary to write unto you, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered unto the saints.

¹⁰ If any person leads [others] into captivity, he shall be led into captivity; if any person kills with the sword, he must be slain by the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

⁴² Watch therefore: for ye know not at what hour your Master cometh. ⁴³ And this observe, that if the master of the family had known in which watch of the night the thief would have come, he would have watched, and not have suffered him to break into his house. ⁴⁴ Therefore be ye also prepared: for in an hour that ye think not, the Son of man cometh. ⁴⁵ Who then is the faithful and provident servant, whom his Lord hath appointed over his household, to give them meat in the proper time? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find thus occupied. ⁴⁷ Verily I say unto you, that he will place him over all his substance. ⁴⁸ But if that wicked servant say in his heart, My master will be a long while ere he comes; ⁴⁹ and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; ⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come in a day that he doth not expect him, and at an hour which he knoweth not. ⁵¹ And will cut him asunder, and give him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

³⁶ and ye like men, expecting their master, when he shall return from the marriage; that when he comes and knocks, they may instantly open the door for him. ³⁷ Blessed are those servants, whom the Master, when he cometh, shall find watchful: verily I say unto you, that he will gird up himself, and make them sit down at table, and come and wait upon them. ³⁸ And if he come in the second watch, or in the third watch, and find them so watchful, blessed are those servants. ³⁹ Now this be assured of, that if the master of the family had known at what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through. ⁴⁰ Therefore be ye also ready, for at an hour that ye think not of, the Son of man cometh.

¹⁷ For the law was given by Moses, but the grace and the reality came by Jesus Christ.

²¹ He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he is the person who loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

⁹ Just as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love. ¹⁰ If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and as I abide in his love.

⁵ and hope doth not make us ashamed; because the love of God is poured out into our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us.

²¹ that as sin had reigned by death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto life eternal by Jesus Christ our Lord.

²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is life eternal in Jesus Christ our Lord.

³⁹ nor exaltation, nor deepest depression, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁵ And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

² to Timothy, my genuine son in faith: grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.

² to Timothy, my beloved son: grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁶ The Lord grant mercy unto the household of Onesiphorus because he frequently was a refreshment to my soul, and was not ashamed of my chain:

¹⁸ The Lord grant that he may find mercy with the Lord in the great day; and how liberally he ministered to me at Ephesus, thou knowest better than any other person.

⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: yet not to me only, but also to all who have loved his appearing.

¹³ expecting the blessed hope, and glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ; 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.

²⁸ so Christ having been once offered in sacrifice to bear the sins of men, will appear the second time without sin, to those who expect him, for their salvation.

¹² expecting and hastening towards the coming of God's day, at which the heavens on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements in flames be melted as wax?

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. ¹⁷ But whosoever hath worldly abundance, and seeth his brother under necessity, and shutteth his bowels of compassion against him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us. God is love; and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.

¹⁰ He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he that believeth not God, hath made him a liar, because he hath not believed on the testimony which God testified of his Son. ¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God hath given life eternal to us; and this life is in his Son.

¹⁸ We know that every one who is born of God sinneth not; but he that is born of God preserveth himself, and the wicked one toucheth him not.

²¹ My dear children, guard yourselves against idols. Amen.

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,

²⁰ I wish I could be with you now, and change my address; for I am in doubt about you.

¹ BRETHREN, if a man also be surprised into any act of offence, ye that are spiritual, replace such a one in the spirit of meekness; keeping an attentive eye on thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

¹⁹ Brethren, if any man among you should have erred from the truth, and one convert him; ²⁰ let him know, that he that converteth a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.

¹⁶ If any person see his brother committing a sin not unto death, he shall request, and God will grant him life for those that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I say not that he should request for that. ¹⁷ All unrighteousness is sin; and there is sin not unto death. ¹⁸ We know that every one who is born of God sinneth not; but he that is born of God preserveth himself, and the wicked one toucheth him not.

⁴ For certain men have craftily introduced themselves, who were from of old proscribed for this condemnation, ungodly men, changing the grace of God into impurity, and denying our only sovereign God and Lord, Jesus Christ. ⁵ But I would remind you, though ye once knew this, that the Lord, though he delivered the people out of the land of Egypt, afterwards destroyed those who believed not. ⁶ And the angels who preserved not their own primitive state, but deserted their proper abode, hath he reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day. ⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrha and the surrounding cities, in like manner with them abandoned to whoredom, and going after other flesh, are set forth an example, suffering the judicial punishment of eternal fire. ⁸ In like manner also do these men, even when they dream, defile indeed the flesh, despise sovereignty, and revile dignities. ⁹ Though Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not to produce a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 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. ¹¹ Wo unto them! for they have walked in the way of Cain, and have eagerly run in Balaam's erroneous path of hire, and have perished in opposition, like Corah. ¹² These are in your feasts of love, as sunken rocks; though joining in your banquet, they feed themselves fearlessly; clouds without water carried about by the winds; trees untimely withering, fruitless, twice dead, rooted up; 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.

¹⁴ if by any means I might provoke to jealousy my flesh, and save some of them.

¹⁵ If any man's work be burnt up, he shall suffer loss: but himself shall be saved; yet so as through the fire.

³ For I indeed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as present, passed judgment on him who hath so done this thing; ⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye being assembled together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ to deliver such a one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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

³³ Be not deceived: evil conversations corrupt good manners.

¹⁰ For sorrow of a godly sort worketh repentance unto salvation never to be repented of, but worldly sorrow worketh death. ¹¹ For behold this very thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly manner, how great diligence did it produce in you! yea, what apologizing! yea, what indignation! yea, what fear! yea, what earnest desire! yea, what zeal! yea, what vengeance! In every step ye have approved yourselves as pure in this affair. ¹² And indeed though I wrote unto you, I did it not [merely] for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause who had suffered the injury, but that our diligent attention for you might be more abundantly manifested to you in the presence of God.

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.

¹⁶ Take heed unto thyself, and to thy doctrine; abide in them: for so doing thou shalt both save thyself, and those who hear thee.

⁴ Thou hast a few names even in Sardis, which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white robes, for they are worthy.

¹⁸ I advise thee to buy of me gold purified by the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white robes, that thou mayest be completely clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear; and anoint thine eyes with a collyrium, that thou mayest see.

¹² Rejoice and exult; for plenteous is your reward in the heavens: for just so they persecuted the prophets who went before you.

²⁸ Then said Jesus unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye who have followed me in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

²⁶ For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in his own glory, and his father's, and of the holy angels.

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who [shall be] against us?

⁴ Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own master he standeth or falleth; but he shall be established: for God is able to establish him.

²⁵ Now to him that is able to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, agreeable to the revelation of the mystery; which was concealed from all former ages, ²⁶ but is now made manifest, and by the prophetical scriptures, according to the commandment of the eternal God, notified to all the Gentiles to bring them to the obedience of faith: ²⁷ to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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

¹⁷ For our momentary light affliction worketh for us a transcendently far more exceeding eternal weight of glory;

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.

²⁰ Now to him that is able to do above all things, exceeding abundantly, beyond what we ask or think, according to the power which effectually worketh in us;

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.

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;

⁴ When Christ shall appear, who is our life, then shall you also with him be manifested in glory.

¹⁶ For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first: ¹⁷ then we who are alive, who remain, shall be caught up together with them into the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord.

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great pastor of the sheep, by the blood of the everlasting testament, ²¹ make you fit for every good work to do his will, producing in you that which is acceptable in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory unto the everlasting ages. Amen.

¹³ but as ye share in the sufferings of Christ rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory also ye may hail him with exultations.

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

⁵ And in their mouth no guile is found; for they are blameless before the throne of God.

¹³ And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen!

²² Ye worship ye know not what: we worship what we do know: for salvation cometh from the Jews.

⁴⁴ How can ye believe, who receiving honour one from another, seek not the honour which cometh from God alone?

³³ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and how incomprehensible his ways!

³⁶ Because by him, and through him, and for him, are all things, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

²⁷ to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

⁸ wherein he hath abounded towards us with all wisdom and intelligence,

¹⁰ that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly regions, the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church,

²¹ to him be glory in the church, in Christ Jesus, unto all generations for ever and ever. Amen.

¹⁷ Now to the king eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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

³ but hath manifested in his own appointed season his word by the preaching, with which I have been entrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God; ⁴ to Titus, my genuine son after the common faith, be grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

¹⁰ not embezzling their property, but demonstrating all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

¹³ expecting the blessed hope, and glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

⁴ But even then the kindness and love of God our Saviour to man shone forth,

⁸ Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.

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.

¹⁰ But the God of all grace, who hath called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered a little while, himself perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. ¹¹ To him be glory and might for ever and ever. Amen.

¹⁸ But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory now and unto the day of eternity. Amen.

⁶ and made us kings and priests to his God and Father; to him be glory and might for ever and ever. Amen.

⁹ And when these living beings give glory, and honour, and thanksgiving to him that sitteth on the throne, to him who liveth for ever and ever, ¹⁰ the four and twenty presbyters prostrate themselves before him who is Seated on the throne, and worship him who liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, ¹¹ Worthy art thou, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power; for thou hast created all things, and by thy will they exist, and were created.

¹³ And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and those who are on the sea, and all things which are therein, heard I, saying, To him who is seated on the throne, and to the lamb, be blessing, and honour, and glory, and might for ever and ever. ¹⁴ And the four living beings said, Amen. And the four and twenty presbyters prostrated themselves, and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.