Matthew 13 Cross References - JuliaSmith

¹ And in that day Jesus, having come out of the house, sat by the sea. ² And many crowds were assembled together to him; therefore having entered into the ship, he sat down, and all the crowd stood upon the sea shore. ³ And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, he, the sower, went forth to sow. ⁴ And in his sowing some truly fell by the way, and the flying things came and swallowed them down. ⁵ And others fell upon rocky places where it had not much earth, and quickly it sprang forth, for it had no depth of earth. ⁶ And the sun having risen, it was parched up; and for the not having a root, it was dried up. ⁷ And others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them. ⁸ And others fell upon good earth and gave fruit, some truly a hundred, and some sixty, and some thirty. ⁹ He having ears to hear let him hear. ¹⁰ And the disciples having come near, said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables? ¹¹ And having answered, he said to them, For to you it was given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it was not given. ¹² For whoever has shall be given to him, and he shall have in excess; and whoever has not, also what he has shall be taken away from him. ¹³ For this I speak to them in parables: for seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. ¹⁴ And the prophecy of Esaias is filled up in them, saying, In hearing shall ye hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive. ¹⁵ For the heart of this people has been thickened, and with their ears have they heard heavily, and their eyes have they closed; lest perhaps they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I should heal them. ¹⁶ But happy your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. ¹⁷ For verily I say to you, that many prophets and just desired eagerly to see what ye see, and saw not; and to hear what ye hear, and heard not. ¹⁸ Therefore hear ye the parable of him sowing. ¹⁹ Every one hearing, and not understanding, the evil one comes, and carries off that sown in his heart. This is he having sown by the way. ²⁰ And he having sown upon rocky places, this is he hearing the word, and quickly with joy receiving it; ²¹ And has no root in himself, but is for a time; and there being pressure or expulsion for the word, straightly is he offended. ²² And he having sown among thorns, this is he hearing the word; and the care of this time, and the deceit of riches, choke the word, and it is unfruitful. ²³ But he having sown upon good earth is he hearing the word, and understanding; who indeed bears fruit, and who makes truly a hundred, and who sixty, and who thirty. ²⁴ Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens was made like a man sowing good seed in his field: ²⁵ And in men's sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares in the midst of the wheat, and went away. ²⁶ And when the grass sprouted up and made fruit, then appeared the tares also. ²⁷ And the servants of the master of the house having come, said to him, Lord, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field whence therefore has it tares? ²⁸ And he said to them, A man, an enemy, has done this: and his servants said to him, Wilt thou therefore we, having departed, should gather them ²⁹ And he said, No; lest gathering the tares, ye root up the wheat together with them. ³⁰ Suffer both to grow together till harvest; and in time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; and gather the wheat into my barn. ³¹ Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is like a kernel of mustard, which a man taking, sowed in his field: ³² Which truly is less than all seeds; but when it has grown, it is greater than vegetables, and becomes a tree, so that the flying things of heaven come and lodge in its young shoots. ³³ Another parable spake he to them; The kingdom of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, till the whole was leavened. ³⁴ All these things spake Jesus in parables to the crowds; and without a parable spake he not to them. ³⁵ So that that spoken by the prophet might be filled up; saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will declare things having been hid from the foundation of the world. ³⁶ Then Jesus having dismissed the crowds, went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field. ³⁷ And he having answered, said to them, He sowing the good seed is the Son of man: ³⁸ And the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one; ³⁹ And the enemy having sowed them is the devil; and the harvest is the end of time; and the reapers are the messengers. ⁴⁰ As therefore the tares are gathered together and burnt in fire; so shall it be in the end of this time. ⁴¹ The Son of man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and those doing iniquity; ⁴² And they shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall there be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ Then shall the just emit a brilliant light as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He having ears to hear, let him hear. ⁴⁴ Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a treasure hid in the field; which a man finding, concealed, and from his joy, he retires, and all things which he has he sells, and he purchases that field. ⁴⁵ Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a man, a wholesale merchant, seeking beautiful pearls: ⁴⁶ Who, finding one pearl of great value, having departed, he sold all things which he had, and purchased it. ⁴⁷ Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a large sweep-net, cast into the sea, and having gathered of every kind: ⁴⁸ Which, when it was filled, having raised up upon the shore, and having set down, they gathered the good things into vessels, and the rotten things they cast without. ⁴⁹ So shall it be in the end of time; the messengers shall come forth, and separate the evil from the midst of the just, ⁵⁰ And they shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall there be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ⁵¹ Jesus says to them, Have ye understood all these? They say to him, Yes, Lord. ⁵² And he said to them, Therefore every scribe, having been a disciple in the kingdom of the heavens, is like to a man, master of a house, who casts out from his treasure new things and old. ⁵³ And it was when Jesus finished these parables, he removed thence. ⁵⁴ And having come into his native land, he taught them in their assembly, so that they were struck with amazement, and said, Whence to him this wisdom, and powers? ⁵⁵ Is not this the son of the carpenter? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? ⁵⁶ And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then to him all these? ⁵⁷ And they were scandalized in him. And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not unhonoured, except in his native land, and in his house. ⁵⁸ And he did not many powers there, because of their unbelief.

²⁸ And having come into the house, the blind came to him: and Jesus says to them, Believe ye that I can do this? They say to him, Yes, Lord.

¹ And in that day Jesus, having come out of the house, sat by the sea. ² And many crowds were assembled together to him; therefore having entered into the ship, he sat down, and all the crowd stood upon the sea shore. ³ And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, he, the sower, went forth to sow. ⁴ And in his sowing some truly fell by the way, and the flying things came and swallowed them down. ⁵ And others fell upon rocky places where it had not much earth, and quickly it sprang forth, for it had no depth of earth. ⁶ And the sun having risen, it was parched up; and for the not having a root, it was dried up. ⁷ And others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them. ⁸ And others fell upon good earth and gave fruit, some truly a hundred, and some sixty, and some thirty. ⁹ He having ears to hear let him hear. ¹⁰ And the disciples having come near, said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables? ¹¹ And having answered, he said to them, For to you it was given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it was not given. ¹² For whoever has shall be given to him, and he shall have in excess; and whoever has not, also what he has shall be taken away from him. ¹³ For this I speak to them in parables: for seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. ¹⁴ And the prophecy of Esaias is filled up in them, saying, In hearing shall ye hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive. ¹⁵ For the heart of this people has been thickened, and with their ears have they heard heavily, and their eyes have they closed; lest perhaps they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I should heal them.

³⁶ Then Jesus having dismissed the crowds, went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.

¹³ And he went out again by the sea; and all the crowd came to him, and he taught them.

¹ And again he began to teach by the sea: and a great crowd was gathered together to him, so that he, having gone into the ship, sat in the sea; and all the crowd was by the sea upon land. ² And he taught them in parables many things, and said to them in his teaching, ³ Hear ye; behold, he sowing went out to sow: ⁴ And it was in sowing some truly fell by the way, and the flying things of heaven came and ate it down. ⁵ And other fell upon stony places, where it had not much earth; and quickly it sprang forth, for it had no deepness of earth: ⁶ And the sun having risen, it was parched up; and because it had no root, it was dried up. ⁷ And other fell in thorns, and the thorns came up, and choked it, and it gave no fruit. ⁸ And other fell in good earth, and gave fruit coming up and increasing; and one brought thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred. ⁹ And he said to them, He having ears to hear, let him hear. ¹⁰ And when he was alone, they about him with the twelve asked him of the parable. ¹¹ And he said to them, To you has it been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to those without, all are in parables: ¹² That seeing they might see, and not know; and hearing they might hear, and not understand; lest they turn back, and their sins be remitted to them.

⁴ And a great crowd being together, and coming to him in the city, he spake by a parable: ⁵ The sower went out to sow his seed; and in his sowing, some truly fell by the way, and was trodden down, and the fowls of heaven devoured it. ⁶ And other fell upon a rock; and having brought forth, was dried up, for it had no moisture. ⁷ And other fell in the midst of thorns; and the thorns grew together and choked it. ⁸ And other fell upon good earth; and having brought forth, made fruit, a hundredfold. Saying these, he called out, He having ears to hear, let him hear. ⁹ And his disciples asked him, saying, What may this parable be? ¹⁰ And he said, To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: and to the rest in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

¹⁰ The rod shall not depart from Judah, and a leader from between his feet, till that Shiloh shall come: and to him the obedience of the nations.

²⁵ And many crowds followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and beyond Jordan.

³⁰ And many crowds came to him, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they cast them at the feet of Jesus; and he cured them:

¹ And again he began to teach by the sea: and a great crowd was gathered together to him, so that he, having gone into the ship, sat in the sea; and all the crowd was by the sea upon land.

³ And having gone into one of the ships, which was Simon's, he asked him to sail out a little from land. And having sat down, he taught the crowds out of the ship.

⁴ And a great crowd being together, and coming to him in the city, he spake by a parable: ⁵ The sower went out to sow his seed; and in his sowing, some truly fell by the way, and was trodden down, and the fowls of heaven devoured it. ⁶ And other fell upon a rock; and having brought forth, was dried up, for it had no moisture. ⁷ And other fell in the midst of thorns; and the thorns grew together and choked it. ⁸ And other fell upon good earth; and having brought forth, made fruit, a hundredfold. Saying these, he called out, He having ears to hear, let him hear.

⁸ The trees going forth went to anoint over them a king; and they will say to the olive, Reign thou over us. ⁹ And the olive will say to them, Left I my fatness which by me they will honor God and men, and went I to wander about over the trees? ¹⁰ And the trees will say to the fig tree, Come thou, reign over us. ¹¹ And the fig tree will say to them, Left I my sweetness, and my good produce, and went I to wander about over the trees? ¹² And the trees will say to the vine, Come thou, and reign over us. ¹³ And the vine will say to them, Left I my new wine-making, rejoicing God and men, and went I to wander about over the trees? ¹⁴ And all the trees will say to the buckthorn. Come thou, reign over us. ¹⁵ And the buckthorn will say to the trees, If in truth ye anoint me for king over you, come, take refuge in my shadow: and if not, fire shall come forth from the buckthorn and shall consume the cedars of Lebanon. ¹⁶ And now if in truth and in uprightness ye did and ye shall make Abimelech king, and if ye did good with Jerubbaal and with his house, and if according to the desert of his hands ye did to him: ¹⁷ (For my father fought for you, and he will cast his soul away, and he will deliver you from the hand of Midian. ¹⁸ And ye rose up against the house of my father this day, and ye will kill his sons, seventy men, upon one stone; and ye will make Abimelech, son of his maid, king over the lords of Shechem, because he is your brother:) ¹⁹ And if in sincerity and uprightness ye did with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, rejoice ye in Abimelech, and he shall rejoice also in you. ²⁰ And if not, fire shall come forth from Abimelech and shall consume the lords of Shechem and the House of the Rampart; and fire shall come forth from the lords of Shechem and from the House of the Rampart, and shall consume Abimelech.

¹ And Jehovah will send Nathan to David. And he will come in to him and say to him, Two men were in one city.; one rich and one poor. ² To the rich was sheep and oxen exceeding many: ³ And to the poor, not anything except one little ewe lamb which he found, and he will save it alive: and it will grow with him and with his sons together; it will eat from his morsel and will drink from his cup, and will lie in his bosom, and be to him as a daughter. ⁴ And a traveler will come to the rich man, and he will spare to take from his sheep and from his oxen to do for the wayfarer coming to him; and he will take the poor man's ewe lamb and do for the man coming to him. ⁵ And David's anger will kindle against the man greatly, and he will say to Nathan, Jehovah lives, for the man doing this is the son of death. ⁶ And the ewe lamb he shall requite four-fold, because he did this word, and because he spared not ⁷ And Nathan will say to David, Thou the man. Thus said Jehovah the God of Israel, I anointed thee for king over Israel, and I delivered thee from the hand of Saul;

⁴ I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my enigma upon the harp.

² I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter enigmas from ancient time:

¹ I will sing now to my beloved a song of my love for his vineyard. There was a vineyard to my beloved in the horn of the son of oil: ² And he will dig it up, and he will free it from stones, and he will plant it with a vine of purple grapes, and build a tower in its midst, and he will also hew out a wine-vat in it: and he will wait for grapes to be made, and it will make wild grapes. ³ And now, ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge ye now, between me and between my vineyard ⁴ What to do more to my vineyard, and did I not in it? wherefore I waited for grapes to be made, and it will make wild grapes. ⁵ And now I will make known to you now what I do to my vineyard, taking away its hedge, and it was for consuming, breaking down its wall, and it was for a treading down. ⁶ And I will make it a desolation; it shall not be pruned and it shall not be dressed, and there came up sharp points and thorns: and upon the clouds I will command from raining rain upon it ⁷ For the vineyard of Jehovah of armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his pleasures: and he will wait for judgment, and behold bloodshed; for justice, and behold a cry.

² Son of man, propose an enigma and use a parable to the house of Israel;

⁴⁹ And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah, they say to me, Does he not use parables?

³ And use a parable against the house of contradiction and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Set on the pot, set on, and also pour water into it: ⁴ Gather its pieces into it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill with the choice of the bones. ⁵ Take the choice of the flock and also wheel the bones under it, boil its boilings; also they cooked the bones in the midst of it ⁶ For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo to the city of bloods! the pot which the rust in it, and her rust went not forth from it; bring it forth by its pieces, by its pieces; the lot fell not upon it ⁷ For her blood was in the midst of her; she set it upon a dry rock; she poured it not forth upon the earth to cover over it with dust; ⁸ To cause wrath to come up, to avenge vengeance; I gave her blood upon the dry rock not to be covered. ⁹ For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo to the city of bloods! I will make her pile great ¹⁰ Multiply the woods, kindle the fire, make ready the flesh, and spice with spicing, and the bones shall be burned. ¹¹ And cause it to stand upon its coals, empty, so that its brass shall be warm and burning, and its uncleanness was melted in the midst of it; its rust shall be consumed. ¹² She was wearied with labors, and her great rust shall not go forth from her: in the fire her rust ¹³ In thy uncleanness is wickedness: because I cleansed thee and thou wert not cleansed, thou shalt no more be cleansed from thy uncleanness till my causing my wrath to rest upon thee. ¹⁴ I Jehovah spake: it came, and I did; I will not let go loose, and I will not spare, and. I will not lament; according to thy ways and according to thy works they judged thee, says the Lord Jehovah.

⁴ In that day a parable shall be lifted up against you, and a wailing of a wailing was wailed, saying, Being laid waste, we shall be laid waste: he will exchange a portion of my people: how he will remove to me; for turning away, he will divide our fields.

⁶ Shall not these all of them lift up a parable against him, and an enigma of an oracle against him, and it shall be said, Wo! to him multiplying that not to him. how long making heavy upon him goods taken in pledge?

¹⁰ And the disciples having come near, said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables? ¹¹ And having answered, he said to them, For to you it was given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it was not given. ¹² For whoever has shall be given to him, and he shall have in excess; and whoever has not, also what he has shall be taken away from him. ¹³ For this I speak to them in parables: for seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

³⁴ All these things spake Jesus in parables to the crowds; and without a parable spake he not to them. ³⁵ So that that spoken by the prophet might be filled up; saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will declare things having been hid from the foundation of the world.

⁵³ And it was when Jesus finished these parables, he removed thence.

¹ And Jesus, having answered, spake to them in parables, saying,

³² And from the fig tree learn a parable; When already her young shoot should be tender, and the leaves should spring forth, ye know that summer is near:

²³ And having called them, in parables spake he to them, How can Satan cast out Satan

² And he taught them in parables many things, and said to them in his teaching, ³ Hear ye; behold, he sowing went out to sow: ⁴ And it was in sowing some truly fell by the way, and the flying things of heaven came and ate it down. ⁵ And other fell upon stony places, where it had not much earth; and quickly it sprang forth, for it had no deepness of earth: ⁶ And the sun having risen, it was parched up; and because it had no root, it was dried up. ⁷ And other fell in thorns, and the thorns came up, and choked it, and it gave no fruit. ⁸ And other fell in good earth, and gave fruit coming up and increasing; and one brought thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred. ⁹ And he said to them, He having ears to hear, let him hear.

¹³ And he says to them, Know ye not this parable? and how will ye know all parables?

³³ And with many such parables spake he the word to them, as they were able to hear.

¹ And be began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence round, and digged a winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

¹² And they sought to seize him, and they feared the crowd: for they knew that he spake this parable against them: and having let him go they went away.

¹⁰ And he said, To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: and to the rest in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

⁴¹ And Peter said to him, Lord, sayest thou this parable to us, or also to all?

³ And he spake this parable to them, saying, ⁴ What man of you, having one hundred. sheep, and having lost one of them, leaves not the ninety-nine in the desert, and goes for the one lost, till he find it ⁵ And having found, he puts upon his shoulders, rejoicing. ⁶ And having come into the house, he calls together friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me: for I have found my lost sheep. ⁷ I say to you, that so shall joy be in heaven over one sinful repenting, more than over ninety-nine just, which have no need of repentance.

²⁵ These have I spoken to you in proverbs: but the hour comes, when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs, but with freedom of speech will I announce to you of the Father.

¹⁸ Therefore hear ye the parable of him sowing. ¹⁹ Every one hearing, and not understanding, the evil one comes, and carries off that sown in his heart. This is he having sown by the way.

¹⁹ And I gave to them one heart, and a new spirit I will give in the midst of you; and I turned away the heart of stone from their flesh, and I gave to them a heart of flesh:

²⁶ And I gave to you a new heart, and a new spirit will I give in the midst of you: and I turned away your heart of stone from your flesh, and I gave to you an heart of flesh.

¹² Shall horses run upon the rock? will he plough with oxen? for ye turned judgment to poison and the fruit of justice to wormwood.

¹² And their heart they set a diamond from hearing the instruction and the words which Jehovah of armies sent by his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: and there will be great wrath from Jehovah of armies.

²⁰ And he having sown upon rocky places, this is he hearing the word, and quickly with joy receiving it;

¹⁰ They shall not hunger and they shall not thirst, and the heat shall not strike them, and the sun: for he pitying them shall lead them, and to fountains of water he shall conduct them.

²⁶ And every one hearing these my words and doing them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, which built his house upon sand. ²⁷ And the rain descended, and rivers came, and winds blew and struck upon that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.

²¹ And has no root in himself, but is for a time; and there being pressure or expulsion for the word, straightly is he offended.

¹³ And they upon the rock, who, when they hear, with joy receive the word; and they have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of trial fly away.

¹⁷ For Christ to dwell by faith in your hearts; in love being rendered firm, and the foundation laid,

²³ If indeed ye remain in the faith, founded and firmly fixed, and not moved aside from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I Paul was a servant;

⁷ Being rooted and built up in him, and rendered firm in the faith, as ye were taught, abounding in it with gratitude.

¹¹ For the sun sprang up with heat, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the decorum of its face was destroyed: so also shall the rich be dried up in his goings. ¹² Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him.

¹⁶ They shall hunger no more, nor thirst any more; nor should the sun fall upon them, neither any heat.

¹⁸ And thorns and weeds shall it cause to sprout forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the green herb of the field.

³ For thus said Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up to you the fallow ground, and ye shall not sow to thorns. ⁴ Be circumcised to Jehovah, and remove the uncircumcision of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath shall come forth as fire, and burn, and none quenching it from the face of the evil of your doings.

²² And he having sown among thorns, this is he hearing the word; and the care of this time, and the deceit of riches, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.

¹⁸ And these are they sown in thorns; these are they hearing the word. ¹⁹ And the cares of this time, and the deceit of riches, and eager desires about remaining things, coming in, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.

¹² And Isaak will sow in that land, and will find in that year a hundred measures; and Jehovah will praise him.

²³ But he having sown upon good earth is he hearing the word, and understanding; who indeed bears fruit, and who makes truly a hundred, and who sixty, and who thirty.

¹⁵ And that in the good earth, they are they which, in a fair and good heart, having heard, keep the word, and bring forth fruit with patience.

⁸ In this was my Father honoured, that ye should bear much fruit: and ye shall be disciples to me.

¹⁸ For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not.

²² And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ Meekness, temperance: against such is no law.

¹¹ Filled with the fruits of justice, by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

¹⁵ He having ears to hear, let him hear.

¹⁶ But happy your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

⁹ And he said to them, He having ears to hear, let him hear.

²³ Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.

¹⁴ And having called all the crowd, he said to them, Hear me, all ye, and do ye understand: ¹⁵ There is nothing from without a man, entering into him, which can defile him: but things coming out from him, these are the things polluting the man.

⁷ He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him conquering I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the pleasure garden of God.

¹¹ He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; He conquering should not be injured by the second death.

¹⁷ He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him conquering will I give to eat from the hidden manna, and I will give him a white small stone, and upon the small stone a new name written, which none knew except he receiving.

²⁹ He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

⁶ He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

¹³ He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

²² He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

⁸ And all they dwelling upon earth shall worship him, whose names have not been written in the book of life of the slain Lamb from the foundation of the world. ⁹ If any have an ear, let him hear.

¹⁰ And when he was alone, they about him with the twelve asked him of the parable.

³³ And with many such parables spake he the word to them, as they were able to hear. ³⁴ And without a parable spake he not to them: and apart, he solved all to his disciples.

⁸ Good and upright is Jehovah: for this he will teach the sinning in the way. ⁹ He will cause the humble to trend in judgment, and he will teach the humble the way.

¹⁴ The secret of Jehovah to them fearing him; and his covenant he will cause them to know.

¹⁰ For Jehovah poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and he will close your eyes: the prophets and your heads, the seeing he covered.

⁸ And a highway was there, and a way, and it shall be called to it, A way of holiness; the unclean one shall not pass through it; and it is for them; he going the way, and the foolish shall not err.

²⁵ In that time Jesus having answered, said, I acknowledge to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for thou hast hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to children. ²⁶ Yes, Father: for so was it benevolence before thee.

¹⁷ And Jesus, having answered, said to him, Happy art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed to thee, but my Father, he in the heavens.

¹¹ And he said to them, All have not room for this word, but to whom it is given.

¹¹ And he said to them, To you has it been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to those without, all are in parables:

³⁹ And also a sister was to her, called Mary; and she having sat at Jesus' feet, heard his word. ⁴⁰ And Martha was perplexed about much service, and having stood before, said, Lord, carest thou not that my sister left me to serve alone ? speak therefore to her that she may lay hold and assist with me. ⁴¹ And Jesus having answered, said to her, Martha, Martha, thou hast care, and art confused about many things ⁴² And of one thing there is need : and Mary has chosen the 'good part which shall not betaken away from her.

⁶⁵ And he said, Therefore have I said to you, that no one can come to me, except it be given him of my Father.

¹⁷ If any desire to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or I speak from myself.

¹⁴ And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a dealer in purple garments, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, heard: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to things spoken by Paul.

¹¹ And they were of more noble birth than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, and examined the writings daily, if these things might hold thus. ¹² Therefore truly many of them believed; and of the distinguished Grecian women, and of men, not few.

²⁵ And to him being able to support you according to my good news, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent from eternal times,

⁷ But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, hidden, which God determined beforehand, before the times to our glory:

⁹ But as has been written. Which the eye saw not, and the ear heard not, and upon the heart of man it came not up, what things God has prepared for them loving him. ¹⁰ And God has revealed to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, and the deep things of God.

¹⁴ And the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: and he cannot know, for they are spiritually examined.

¹ So let a man reckon us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

⁷ For who distinguishes thee? and what hast thou which thou didst not receive? and if thou also didst receive, why dost thou boast, as not having received?

² And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

⁵¹ Behold, I speak to you a mystery; We truly shall not all be laid asleep, but we shall all be changed,

⁹ Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his benevolence which he purposed in himself:

¹⁸ The eyes of your understanding enlightened; for you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the holy ones,

³ That by revelation he made Known to me the mystery; (as I before wrote briefly, ⁴ By which ye, reading, can perceive My understanding in the mystery of Christ,) ⁵ Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit: ⁶ For the nations to be co-heirs, and united in one body, and, participators of his solemn promise in Christ by the good news: ⁷ Of which I Became a servant, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me according to the energy of his power ⁸ To me, the least of all the holy ones, was this grace given, to announce the good news in the nations, the untraceable riches of Christ. ⁹ And to enlighten all what the distribution of the mystery, concealed from times immemorial in God, having created all things by Jesus Christ:

³² This is a great mystery: but I speak to Christ and to the church.

¹⁹ And for me, that the word might be given me, in the opening of my mouth in freedom of speech, to make known the mystery of the good news,

²⁶ The mystery hid from times immemorial, and from generations, and now has been manifested to his holy ones: ²⁷ To whom God would make known what the riches of the glory of this mystery in the nations; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

² That their hearts might be comforted, being joined together in love, and to all the riches of the complete certainty of the understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and the Father, and of Christ;

⁹ Having the mystery of faith in pure consciousness.

¹⁶ And manifestly great is the mystery of devotion: God was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed in the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory.

⁵ If any of you is forsaken of wisdom, let him ask of God, giving to all plainly, blaming not; and it shall be given him.

¹⁶ Be not led astray, my dearly beloved brethren. ¹⁷ Every good donation and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom not one change, or shadow of turning. ¹⁸ Having willed he brought forth by the word of truth, for us to be some first fruit of his creatures.

²⁰ And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and know all things.

²⁷ And the anointing which ye received from him remains in you, and ye have no need that any teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is true, and is no lie, and as it taught you, ye shall remain in him.

⁴³ For this I say to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation doing its fruits.

²⁹ For to every one having shall be given, and he shall be in abundance: and from him not having, also what he has shall be taken away from him.

²⁴ And he said to them, See ye how ye hear: with what measure ye measure, shall be measured to you: and to you hearing, shall be added. ²⁵ For whoever should have, to him shall be given: and whoever has not, also what he has shall be taken away from him.

⁹ Therefore what will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the hushandmen, and give the vineyard to others.

¹⁸ See therefore how ye hear: for whoever should have, shall be given him; and whoever should not have, and what he seems to have shall be taken away from him.

²⁶ For whoever should be ashamed of me and my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he should come in the glory of himself, and of the Father, and of the holy messengers.

⁴² And of one thing there is need : and Mary has chosen the 'good part which shall not betaken away from her.

²⁰ And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be? ²¹ So he treasuring up for himself, and not rich toward God.

² And having called him, he said to him, What is this I hear of thee give back the word of thy stewardship; for thou canst no more be steward.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus likewise evil things: and now here is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

²⁴ And to those standing by he said, Take away from him the coin, and give to him having the ten coins. ²⁵ (And they said to him, Lord, he has ten coins.) ²⁶ For I say to you, That to every one having shall be given; and from him not having, and what he has shall be taken away from him.

² Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away: and every one bearing fruit, he cleanses it, that it might bear more fruit. ³ Already are ye clean, through the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, if it remain not in the vine; so neither ye, if ye remain not in me. ⁵ I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

⁵ Therefore remember whence thou hest fallen, and repent, and do the first works; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and I will move the chandelier out of its place, except thou repent.

¹⁵ I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor boiling: I would thou shouldest be cold or boiling. ¹⁶ For so thou art tepid, and neither cold nor boiling, I am about to vomit thee out of my month.

³ The great temptations which thine eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders: ⁴ And Jehovah gave not to you an heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, even to this day.

¹⁸ Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, to see. ¹⁹ Who blind but my servant? and deaf as my messenger I shall send? who blind he being perfect? and blind as the servant of Jehovah? ²⁰ Seeing many things, and thou wilt not watch; opening the ears, and he will not bear.

¹⁸ They will not know, and they will not discern: he spread over their eyes from seeing; their heart from considering.

²¹ Hear now this, O foolish people, and no heart; eyes to them and they will not see; and ears to them, and they will not hear:

² Son of man, thou art dwelling in the midst of a house of contradiction, which to them eyes to see, and they saw not: ears to them to hear, and they heard not: for they are a house of contradiction.

¹⁷ And Jesus having known, says to them, Why reason ye with yourselves, because ye have no loaves? observe ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? ¹⁸ Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and remember ye not?

¹⁹ And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men rather loved darkness than light, for their works were evil. ²⁰ For every one doing bad things hates the light, and he comes not to the light, lest his works should be rebuked.

³⁹ And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they not seeing might see; and they seeing might be blind. ⁴⁰ And they being with him of the Pharisees heard these things, and said to him, ⁴¹ We are not also blind? Jesus said to them If ye were blind, ye had not sinned: and now ye say, That we see; therefore your sin remains.

³ And if also our good news is hid, in the lost is it hid: ⁴ In whom the God of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.

⁹ And he will say, Go, and say to this people, Hearing, hear ye, and ye shall not understand; and seeing, see ye, and ye shall not know. ¹⁰ Make the heart of this people fat and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes, lest they shall see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and their heart shall understand and turn back and be healed to them.

¹² That seeing they might see, and not know; and hearing they might hear, and not understand; lest they turn back, and their sins be remitted to them.

³⁹ Therefore they could not believe, for Esaias said again, ⁴⁰ He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart: lest they see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and should turn back, and I should heal them.

²⁵ And being at variance with one another, they were let go, Paul having said one word, That well spake the Holy Spirit by Esaias the prophet to our fathers, ²⁶ Saying, Go to this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and ye should not perceive: ²⁷ For the heart of this people was thickened, and with ears heard they heavily, and their eyes they closed; lest they should see with the eyes, and with ears should hear, and with the heart they should understand, and turn back, and I should heal them.

⁸ (As has been written, God gave them the spirit of mortal pain, eyes not to see, and earn not to hear;) even to this day. ⁹ And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for booty, and for a stumblingblock, and for a retribution to them: ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened not to see, and let them bend their back always.

¹⁴ But their minds were hardened: for until this day the same veil upon the reading of the old covenant. remains not uncovered;for in Christ it is left unemployed.

⁷⁰ Their heart was fat as fatness; I delighted in thy law.

¹⁰ Make the heart of this people fat and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes, lest they shall see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and their heart shall understand and turn back and be healed to them.

¹⁰ For Jehovah poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and he will close your eyes: the prophets and your heads, the seeing he covered. ¹¹ And the vision of all will be to you as the words of the book being sealed, which they shall give to him, to him knowing writing, saying, Read now, this: and he said, I shall not be able, for it was sealed. ¹² And the book was given to him not knowing writing, saying, Read now, this: and he said, I know not writing.

²⁰ He fed upon ashes: a deceived heart turned him away, and he shall not deliver his soul, and he shall not say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

¹⁸ I saw his ways, and I will heal him: and I will lead him and I will restore comforts to him, and to his mourners.

²² Turn back, ye sons turning away; I will heal your turnings-away. Behold, we came to thee; for thou Jehovah our God.

¹⁴ Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou my praise.

⁶ Behold me bringing up to it health and healing, and healing them, and I uncovered to them the abundance of peace and truth.

⁴ I will heal their turning away, I loved them largely: for mine anger turned away from him.

¹¹ And they will refuse to attend, and they will give a stubborn shoulder, and their ears they made heavy from hearing.

² And to you fearing my name the sun of justice arose, and healing in his wings; and ye went forth and spread as calves of the stall.

⁴³ Wherefore ye know not my speech, for ye cannot hear my word. ⁴⁴ Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him.

¹⁹ Therefore repent, and return, for your sins to be wiped out, so that times of refreshment might come from the face of the Lord;

⁵⁷ And having cried with a great voice, they held fast their ears, and rushed unanimously upon him,

¹⁰ And in all deceit of iniquity in the lost; because they received not the love of the truth, for them to be saved. ¹¹ And for this, God shall send them the energy of error, for them to believe in falsehood:

²⁵ In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth; ²⁶ That they may return to a state of sobriety from the snare of the devil, being taken alive by him at his will.

⁴ And truly from the truth will they turn away the hearing, and be turned aside to fictions.

¹¹ Of whom great is the word to us, and difficult of interpretation to speak, since ye have been sluggish in the hearing.

⁴ For impossible for them once enlightened, and having tasted of the heavenly gift, and having partaken of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ And tasted of the good word of God, and powers of the life about to be, ⁶ And having fallen, again to renew to repentance; crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and exposing to ignominy.

² In the midst of her broad way and of the river, hence and thence, the tree of life, making twelve fruits, in a month each one returning its fruit: and the leaves of the tree for the cure of the nations.

³ Happy the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens. ⁴ Happy they suffering: for they shall be comforted. ⁵ Happy the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. ⁶ Happy they hungering and thirsting for Justice: for they shall be filled. ⁷ Happy the compasaionate: for they shall be commiserated. ⁸ Happy the pure in heart: tor they shall see God. ⁹ Happy they making peace: for they shall be called sons of God. ¹⁰ Happy they driven out for justice: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens. ¹¹ Happy are ye, when they shall upbraid you, and drive you out, and say every evil word against you, lying, for my sake.

²⁹ Now Lord, thou wilt loose thy servant, according to thy word, in peace : ³⁰ For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,

²³ And having turned to the disciples apart he said, Happy the eyes seeing what ye see: ²⁴ For I say to you, that many prophets and kings wished to behold what ye see, and saw not; and to hear what ye hear, and heard not.

²⁹ Jesus says to him, Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: happy they not having seen, and having believed.

¹⁸ To open their eyes, to turn them back from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, fur them to receive remission of sins, and inheritance with the consecrated by faith in me.

⁶ For God, having spoken light to shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts, to the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, might give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in his knowledge: ¹⁸ The eyes of your understanding enlightened; for you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the holy ones,

²⁴ For I say to you, that many prophets and kings wished to behold what ye see, and saw not; and to hear what ye hear, and heard not.

⁵⁶ Your father Abraham was overjoyed that he might see my day: and he saw, and rejoiced.

⁵ Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit: ⁶ For the nations to be co-heirs, and united in one body, and, participators of his solemn promise in Christ by the good news:

¹³ According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.

³⁹ And these all, having been testified of by faith, received not the promise: ⁴⁰ God having foreseen something better for us, that without us they should not be completed.

¹⁰ For which salvation the prophets sought and inquired anxiously, they having prophesied of the grace to you: ¹¹ Searching for whom or what time the Spirit of Christ which in them manifested, testifying beforehand the sufferings to Christ, and the glories after these. ¹² To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were serving these things, which now have been again proclaimed to you by them having announced the good news in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; into which angels eagerly desire to stoop and creep.

¹¹ And having answered, he said to them, For to you it was given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it was not given. ¹² For whoever has shall be given to him, and he shall have in excess; and whoever has not, also what he has shall be taken away from him.

¹³ And he says to them, Know ye not this parable? and how will ye know all parables? ¹⁴ He sowing sows the word. ¹⁵ And these are they by the way, where the word is sown; and when they hear, quickly comes Satan, and takes away the word sown in their hearts. ¹⁶ And these are likewise they sown upon stony places; who, when they hear, quickly with joy receive it; ¹⁷ And have no root in themselves, but are temporary; then pressure having been or expulsion for the word, quickly are they scandalized. ¹⁸ And these are they sown in thorns; these are they hearing the word. ¹⁹ And the cares of this time, and the deceit of riches, and eager desires about remaining things, coming in, choke the word, and it is unfruitful. ²⁰ And these are they sown on good earth; who hear the word, and receive, and bear fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.

¹¹ And this is the parable: The seed is the word of God. ¹² And they by the way are they hearing; then comes the devil, and takes away the word from their heart, lest having believed, they should be saved. ¹³ And they upon the rock, who, when they hear, with joy receive the word; and they have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of trial fly away. ¹⁴ And that having fallen into thorns, and they are they having heard, and with cares and riches, and pleasures of life going forth, are choked, and bring not to maturity. ¹⁵ And that in the good earth, they are they which, in a fair and good heart, having heard, keep the word, and bring forth fruit with patience.

⁷ The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: the foolish despised wisdom and instruction.

²⁰ Wisdom will cry without; in the broad places she will give her voice: ²¹ She will call in the head of sound, in the entrances of the gates: in the city she will say her words: ²² How long, ye simple, will ye love simplicity? and mockers delight to mock for them, and the foolish hate knowledge?

¹ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commands with thee; ² To attend to wisdom thou wilt incline thine ear, thy heart to understanding; ³ For if thou will call to understanding, wilt give thy voice to understanding ⁴ If thou wilt seek her as silver, and dig for her as hidden treasure; ⁵ Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, and thou shalt find the knowledge of God. ⁶ For Jehovah will give wisdom: from his mouth knowledge and understanding.

¹⁶ Wherefore this a price in the hand of the foolish one to obtain wisdom, and no heart?

¹ He separating himself will Seek according to desire; he will be irritated with every purpose. ² The foolish one will not delight in understanding, but in, the disclosings of his heart

²³ And Jesus went about the whole of Galilee, teaching in their assemblies, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing disease, and every weakness in the people.

³⁷ But let your word be Yea, yea, and No, no: but that above this is of evil.

³⁸ And the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one;

¹⁵ And these are they by the way, where the word is sown; and when they hear, quickly comes Satan, and takes away the word sown in their hearts.

² And he sent them to proclaim the kingdom of God, and heal the sick.

⁹ And cure the sick in it, and say to them, The kingdom of God has drawn near to you.

⁴³ Wherefore ye know not my speech, for ye cannot hear my word.

³⁸ Pilate says to him, What is truth? And having said this, again went he out to the Jews, and says to them, I find no fault in him.

³² And having heard of the rising up of the dead, they treated with mockery; and said, We will hear thee again concerning this.

¹⁵ But if it is a question of the word, and names, and law, according to you, see ye yourselves; for I will not be judge of these.

²⁵ And now, behold, I know that all ye shall see my face no more, among whom I passed through, proclaiming the kingdom of God.

²⁵ And he discoursing of justice, and temperance, and judgment about to be, Felix being terrified, answered, Having now, go; having taken time, I will recall thee. ²⁶ And at the same time also hoping that money should be given him by Paul, so that he might loose him: wherefore also sending for him more frequently, he conversed with him.

¹⁹ But had certain questions of their own superstition against him, and of a certain Jesus, having died, whom Paul declared living. ²⁰ And I doubting at the question concerting this, said, If he be willing to go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things.

³¹ And having withdrawn, they spake to one another, saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds. ³² And Agrippa said to Festus, This man could have been loosed, if he had not appealed to Caesar.

²³ And having appointed him a day, many came to him to the lodging; to whom testifying, he set forth the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morn to eve.

²⁸ And as they chose not to have God in knowledge, God delivered them to an adulterated purpose, to do things not fitting;

⁸ But to them of intrigue, and are truly disobedient to the truth, and yielding to injustice, anger and wrath,

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

² But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God. ³ And if also our good news is hid, in the lost is it hid:

⁸ To me, the least of all the holy ones, was this grace given, to announce the good news in the nations, the untraceable riches of Christ.

¹² That all might be judged not believing the truth but contented in iniquity.

¹ For this ought we to hold above measure to the things heard, lest we slip away.

¹³ I write to you, fathers, for ye have known him from the beginning. I write to you, young men, for ye have conquered the evil. I write to you, young children, for ye have known the Father. ¹⁴ I wrote to you, fathers, for ye have known him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, for ye are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and ye have conquered the evil.

¹² Not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And for what slew he him? Because his works were evil, and those of his brother just.

¹⁸ We know that every one born of God sins not; but he born of God keeps himself, and evil touches him not.

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, and we know him true, and we are in him true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

¹³ And Saul will say, A man shall not die in this day, for this day Jehovah made salvation in Israel. ¹⁴ And Samuel will say to the people, Go, and we will go to Gilgal, and we will renew there the kingdom. ¹⁵ And all the people will go to Gil-gal; and will sacrifice there sacrifices of peace before Jehovah: and Saul will rejoice there and all the men of Israel, even greatly.

² And Joash will do the straight in the eyes of Jehovah all the days of Jehoiada the priest

⁶ And the king will call for Jehoiada the head, and say to him, Wherefore didst thou not seek out for the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem the loan of Moses the servant of Jehovah, and of the convocation to Israel, to the tent of testimonies?

¹⁴ And in their finishing they brought before the king and Jehoiada the rest of the silver, and they will make vessels for the house of Jehovah, vessels to serve and to bring up, and dishes, and vessels of gold and silver. And they will be bringing up burnt-offerings in the house of Jehovah always all the days of Jehoiada.

³⁴ When he slew them and they sought him, and they turned back and sought for God. ³⁵ And they will remember that God is their Rock, and God the Most High redeemed them. ³⁶ And they will deceive with their mouth, and with their tongue they will lie to him. ³⁷ And their heart was not right with him, and they were not firm in his covenant

¹² And they will believe in his words, they will sing his praise. ¹³ They hastened; they forget his works; they waited not for his counsel.

² And day, day, they will seek me, and delight to know my way as a nation who did justice and forsook not the judgment of his God: they will ask me the judgments of justice, they will delight to draw near to Gad.

³¹ And they will come to thee, according to the coming of the people, and they will sit before thee my people, and they heard thy words, and they did them not: for they making loves with their mouth, their heart went after their plunder. ³² And behold thee to them as song of loves of a fair voice, playing well an instrument: and they heard thy words and did them not

⁵ And others fell upon rocky places where it had not much earth, and quickly it sprang forth, for it had no depth of earth. ⁶ And the sun having risen, it was parched up; and for the not having a root, it was dried up.

¹⁶ And these are likewise they sown upon stony places; who, when they hear, quickly with joy receive it; ¹⁷ And have no root in themselves, but are temporary; then pressure having been or expulsion for the word, quickly are they scandalized.

²⁰ For Herod feared John, knowing him a just and holy man, and he observed him: and having heard him, did many things, and heard him cheerfully.

³⁵ He was a burning and manifest light: and ye wished to rejoice for a time in his light.

¹³ And Simon also himself believed: and having been immersed, he was persovering with Philip, beholding the signs and great powers having been, they were astonished.

¹⁴ And my temptation in my flesh, ye counted not as nothing, nor spurned; but as an angel of God ye received me, as Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ What then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that, if possible, having plucked out your eyes, ye would have given to me.

²⁸ For ye shall say, Why shall we pursue after him and the root of the word was found in me?

⁸ For what the hope of the profane one if he shall plunder? for God shall draw out his soul. ⁹ Will God hear his cry when straits shall come upon him? ¹⁰ If he will delight himself upon the Almighty? will he call upon God in all time?

³ The words of his mouth vanity and deceit: he ceased to be circumspect, to do good.

³ A man shall not be prepared by injustice: and the root of the Just shall not be moved.

¹² The unjust one desired the net of the evil: and the root of the just will give.

⁴ What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? What shall I do to thee, O Judah? and your kindness as the cloud of the morning, and as the dew being early went away.

¹⁰ Happy they driven out for justice: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens. ¹¹ Happy are ye, when they shall upbraid you, and drive you out, and say every evil word against you, lying, for my sake. ¹² Rejoice and be transported with joy; for much your reward in the heavens for so they drove out the prophets which before you.

²² Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have we cast out evil spirits, and in thy name done many powers? ²³ And then shall I confess to them that I never knew you. Go away from me, ye working iniqnity.

²² And ye shall be hated by all for my name: and he having remained to the end shall be saved.

³⁷ He loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me; and he loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me. ³⁸ And whoever takes not his cross, and follows after me, is not worthy of me. ³⁹ He finding his soul shall lose it; and he having lost his soul for my sake shall find it.

⁶ And happy is he who shall not give cause of offence in me.

⁶ And the sun having risen, it was parched up; and for the not having a root, it was dried up.

⁵⁷ And they were scandalized in him. And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not unhonoured, except in his native land, and in his house.

²⁴ Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any wish to come after me, let him deny himself absolutely, and lift up his cross, and follow me. ²⁵ For whoever should wish to save his life shall lose it: and whoever shall lose his soul for my sake shall find it. ²⁶ For what is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world, and injure his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

⁹ Then shall they deliver you to pressure, and they shall kill you: and ye shall be hated by all nations, for my name. ¹⁰ And then shall many be offended, and they shall deliver up one another, and they shall hate one another.

¹³ But he having persevered to the end, this shall be saved.

³¹ Then says Jesus to them, All ye shall be scandalized in me this night; for it has been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered up and down.

³³ And Peter having answered, said to him, And if all men shall be scandalized in thee, I will never be scandalized.

¹⁷ And have no root in themselves, but are temporary; then pressure having been or expulsion for the word, quickly are they scandalized.

³⁴ And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever wills to come after me, let him absolutely deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ³⁵ For whoever wills to save his life shall lose it; and whoever should lose his life for my sake and the good news, the same shall save it. ³⁶ For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and injure his soul

¹² And brother shall deliver brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents, and kill them. ¹³ And ye shall be hated by all for my name's sake: and he having remained to the end, the same shall be saved.

²³ And he said to all, If any one wish to come after me, let him deny himself, and lift up his cross daily and let him follow me. ²⁴ For whoever would wish to save his soul shall lose it: and whoever should lose his soul for my sake, the same shall save it. ²⁵ For what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost himself, or having been damaged?

²⁶ If any come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, and yet also his own life, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁷ And whoever lifts not his cross, and comes after me, cannot be my disciple. ²⁸ For which of you, wishing to build a tower, not first, having sat down, calculates the expense, if he have things for completion? ²⁹ That lest, having set the foundation, and not able to finish, all seeing begin to mock him, ³⁰ Saying, That this man began to build, and was not able to finish. ³¹ Or what king, going to fight with another king in war, not, having sat down first, consults, if he be able with ten thousand to meet him coming with twenty thousand against him? ³² And if he, yet being far off, having sent an embassy, asks things for peace. ³³ So then, every one of you, who renounces not all of his possessions, cannot be my disciple.

¹² And before all these shall they cast their hands upon you, and drive out, delivering to assemblies, and prisons, being brought before kings and leaders for my name's sake. ¹³ And it shall turn out to you for a testimony. ¹⁴ Set therefore in your hearts, not to practise beforehand to justify yourselves: ¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all they opposed to you shall not be able to contradict nor withstand. ¹⁶ And ye shall also be delivered up by parents, and brethren, and kinsmen, and friends; and they shall put of you to death. ¹⁷ And ye shall be hated by all for my name's sake. ¹⁸ And there shall not a hair of your head perish.

²⁶ Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but for that ye ate of the loaves, and were satisfied.

⁶¹ And Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmur for this, said to them, Does this offend you? ⁶² If then ye see the Son of man going up where he was before ⁶³ It is the spirit making alive; the flesh profits nothing: the words which I speak to you are spirit, and are life. ⁶⁴ But there are some of you who believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they are not believing, and who he is going to deliver him up. ⁶⁵ And he said, Therefore have I said to you, that no one can come to me, except it be given him of my Father.

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, Have I not chosen you twelve, and of you one is a devil? ⁷¹ And he spake of Judas Iscariot, of Simon: for he was about to deliver him up, being one of the twelve.

²⁵ He loving his soul shall lose it; but he hating his soul in this world, shall guard it for life eternal. ²⁶ If any one would serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall be my servant: and if any one serve me, him will the Father honour.

⁵ I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. ⁶ If any remain not in me, he was cast forth as the branch, and was dried up; and they gather them together, and cast into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If ye remain in me, and my words remain in you, ye shall ask whatever ye wish, and it shall be to you.

²¹ No portion is to thee, nor lot, in this word: for thy heart is not upright before God. ²² Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray to God, if perhaps the thought of thy heart be remitted to thee. ²³ For I see thee being in the bile of bitterness, and bond of iniquity.

⁷ To them truly by perseverance of the good work they seek glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any power, nor uncircumcision; but faith being energetic through love.

¹² As many as: wish to have an agreeable demeanor in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only lest they should be driven out for the cross of Christ.

¹⁵ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any power, nor uncircumcision but a new creation.

⁶ Confident of this same, that he having begun a good work in you will complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

¹⁵ Thou knowest this, that all they dwelling in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

¹⁰ For Demas has forsaken me, having loved the time now, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

³⁵ Throw not away therefore your freedom of speech, which has great payment of reward. ³⁶ For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. ³⁷ For yet a little while only, he coming will come, and will not tarry. ³⁸ And the just one shall live by faith; but if he draw down, my soul is not contented in him. ³⁹ And we are not of drawing down to perdition; but of faith to the acquisition of the soul.

⁵ Who by the power of God watching ourselves by faith to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

⁸ For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For in whom these are not present, he is blind, being affected with shortness of sight, having taken 2Peter 1:forgetfulness of the cleansing formerly of his sins.

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they had remained with us, but, that they might be manifested, that they are not all of us. ²⁰ And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and know all things.

¹³ I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, where the throne of Satan: and thou holdest my name, and hast not denied my faith, and in the days in which Antipas my faithful witness, who was slain with you, where Satan dwells.

¹⁰ And Lot will lift his eyes and will see all the environs of Jordan, that all was watered, before that Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, as the garden of Jehovah as the land of Egypt in thy coming to Zoar. ¹¹ And Lot shall choose to him all the environs of Jordan: and Lot will remove from the east and they shall be separated each from his brother. ¹² Abram shall dwell in the land of Canaan, and Lot shall dwell in the cities of the country round about, and will pitch the tent at Sodom. ¹³ And the men of Sodom were evil and sinful before Jehovah exceedingly.

²⁰ And Achan will answer Joshua and will say, Truly, I sinned against Jehovah the God of Israel, and according to this, and according to this I did. ²¹ And I shall see in the plunder a wide cloak of Shinar, a good one, and two hundred shekels of silver and one tongue of gold of fifty shekels from its weight, and I shall desire them, and shall take them, and behold them hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

²⁰ And Gehazi the boy of Elisha, the man of God, will say, Behold, my lord spared Naaman this Aramite from taking from his hand what he brought: Jehovah lives, for if I ran after him land book from him something. ²¹ And Gehazi will pursue after Naaman, and Naaman will see he ran after him, and will descend from his chariot to meet him, and he will say, Is it peace? ²² And he will say, Peace. My lord sent me, saying, Behold, now there came here to me two boys from mount Ephraim from the sons of the prophets: wilt thou give to them a talent of silver and two changes of garments? ²³ And Naaman will say, Be content, take two talents And he will press upon him, and he Will bind two talents of silver in two bags, and two changes of garments, and he will give to his two boys, and they will lift up before him. ²⁴ And he will come to the hill and; take from their hand and deposit in the house: and he will send away the men, said they will go. ²⁵ And he came in, and he will stand by his lord: and Elisha will say to him, From whence, Gehazi? And he will say, Thy servant wait not hence and thence. ²⁶ And he will say to him, Went not my heart when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to take silver, and to take garments, and olive trees, and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and servants and maids? ²⁷ And the leprosy of Naaman shall cleave upon thee and upon thy seed forever. And he will go forth from his face being leprous as snow.

⁷ Behold, the man will not set God his strength, and he will trust in the multitude of his riches he will be strengthened in his mischief.

¹⁰ Ye shall not trust in oppression, ye shall not become vain in plunder: if wealth shall increase ye shall not set the heart

²⁸ He trusting in his riches himself shall fall: and the just shall flourish as the foliage.

⁵ Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.

⁸ There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.

¹⁰ He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity. ¹¹ In the multitude of good they were multiplied eating it: and what the success to its possessors but seeing with his eyes?

¹³ There is an evil making sick I saw under the sun: riches watched to its owners for their evil. ¹⁴ And those riches shall perish by evil labor: and he begetting a son, and not anything in his hand.

³ For thus said Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up to you the fallow ground, and ye shall not sow to thorns.

²⁴ None can serve two lords: for either he will hate one and love the other; or hold firmly to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. ²⁵ For this I say to you, Be not anxious about your soul, what ye eat, and what ye drink; nor about your body, what ye put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body than dress?

⁷ And others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them.

¹⁶ And, behold, one having come said to him, Good teacher, what good shall I do, that I might have eternal life? ¹⁷ And he said to him, Why sayest thou me good? None is good except one, God; but if thou wouldst come into life, keep the commands. ¹⁸ He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, thus: Thou shalt not murder; Thou shalt not commit adultery; Thou shalt not steal; Thou shalt not bear false witness; ¹⁹ Honour thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. ²⁰ The young man says to him, All these have I watched from my youth; what yet do I want? ²¹ Jesus said to him, If thou wished to be perfected, retire, sell thy possessions, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. ²² And the young man having heard the word, departed, being grieved: for he was holding many possessions. ²³ And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, That with difficulty shall a rich one come into the kingdom of the heavens. ²⁴ And again I say to you, It is of easier labor for a camel to pass through the hole of a needle, than for a rich one to come into the kingdom of God.

²³ And Jesus having looked round, said to his disciples, With what difficulty shall they having property enter into the kingdom of God ²⁴ And his disciples were amazed at his words. And Jesus again having answered, says to them, How difficult, children, is it for those trusting in property to enter into the kingdom of God! ²⁵ It is easier labor for a camel to come through the hole of a needle, than for a rich one to come into the kingdom of God.

¹⁴ And that having fallen into thorns, and they are they having heard, and with cares and riches, and pleasures of life going forth, are choked, and bring not to maturity.

¹⁵ And he said to them, See, and watch yourselves from covetousness: for not in the abounding to any one of his possessions is his life.

²¹ So he treasuring up for himself, and not rich toward God.

²⁹ And ye, seek ye not what ye eat, or what ye drink, and keep not in anxiety. ³⁰ For all these things the nations of the world seek for: and your Father knows that ye have need of these.

¹⁶ And he said to him, A certain man made a great supper and called many; ¹⁷ And he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to the called, Come; for all things are already prepared. ¹⁸ And from one they all began to conciliate. The first said to him, I bought a field, and have necessity to go and see it: I ask thee, have me pardoned. ¹⁹ And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I ask thee, have me pardoned. ²⁰ And another said, I have married wife, and therefore I cannot come. ²¹ And approaching, that servant announced to his lord these things. Then the master of the house, angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly into the streets and quarters of the city, and bring in hither the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind. ²² And the servant said, Lord, it has been done as thou hest commanded, and yet there is place. ²³ And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the ways and hedges, and compel to come in, that my house may be filled up. ²⁴ For I say to you, That none of those men called shall taste of my supper.

²⁴ And Jesus having seen him being sorely grieved, said, With how much difficulty shall they having possessions come into the kingdom of God! ²⁵ For it is easier for a camel to come through the hole of a needle, than for a rich one to come into the kingdom of God.

³⁴ And attend to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be loaded with dizziness, caused by excess, and drunkenness, and cares of life, and that day come upon you unexpectedly.

¹ And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, ² And separated from the price, his wife also knowing; and having brought a certain part, laid at the feet of the sent. ³ And Peter said, Ananias, wherefore filled Satan thy heart, for thee to belie the Holy Spirit, and separate from the price of the farm ⁴ Remaining, did it not remain to thee? and sold, it was in thy power: for what hast thou put this thing in thy heart? thou hast not lied to men, but to God. ⁵ And Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, he expired: and great fear was upon all them hearing these things. ⁶ And the younger having risen up, drew him together, and having carried out, interred. ⁷ And there was an interval of about three hours, and his wife not knowing that done, came in. ⁸ And Peter answered to her, Tell me, if for so much ye sold the farm? And she said, Yes, for so much. ⁹ And Peter said to her, For what was it agreed by you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them having interred thy husband at the door, and they shall carry thee out. ¹⁰ And she fell immediately at his feet, and expired: and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried out, interred near her husband. ¹¹ And great fear was upon the whole church, and upon all having heard these things.

¹⁸ And Simon having seen that by putting on of hands of the sent the Holy Spirit is given, he brought money to them,

⁹ And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition. ¹⁰ For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.

¹⁷ To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit;

¹⁴ Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse: ¹⁵ Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice;

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

¹¹ Woe to them for they went in the way of Cain, and were poured out in the error of Balaam for a reward, and they were destroyed in the controversy of Core. ¹² These are spots in your loves, feasting together fearlessly, taking care of themselves: clouds wanting water, carried about by winds; decayed trees, unfruitful, twice dead, uprooted;

¹ Happy the man who went not in the counsel of the unjust, and he stood not in the way of the sinful, and sat not in the seat of those scoffing. ² But his delight is in the law of Jehovah, and in his law he will meditate day and night ³ And he was as a tree planted by the streams of water which will give its fruit in its time; his leaf shall not fall away, and all which he shall do shall be prospered.

¹³ Those being planted in the house of Jehovah, shall flourish in the enclosures of our God. ¹⁴ They shall yet sprout in old as; they shall be fat and green. ¹⁵ To announce that Jehovah is upright: my rock and no iniquity in him.

⁵ The wise one will hear and he will add learning: and he understanding, shall obtain guidance: ⁶ To understand a proverb, and an enigma: the words of the wise and their parables.

³¹ Cast away from you all your transgressions which ye transgressed against me, and make to you a new heart and a new spirit: and wherefore will ye die, O house of Israel?

⁸ Do ye therefore fruit worthy of repentance.

¹⁰ And now also the axe lies at the root of the trees; therefore every one not making good fruit is cut off and cast into fire.

³³ Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree rotten, and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.

⁸ And others fell upon good earth and gave fruit, some truly a hundred, and some sixty, and some thirty.

²⁰ And these are they sown on good earth; who hear the word, and receive, and bear fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.

¹⁵ Truly I say to you, Whoever should not receive the kingdom of God as a young child, should not come into it.

⁴³ For it is not a good tree making decayed fruit; neither a decayed tree making good fruit. ⁴⁴ For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns they gather not figs, nor of the bramble do they harvest the grape.

⁹ Whereas also it might bear fruit: and if not, afterwards thou shalt cut it off.

¹¹ He came to his own things, and his own received him not. ¹² And as many as received him, he gave them authority to be the children of God, to them believing on his name: ¹³ They were not born of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

⁴⁷ He being of God hears the words of God: therefore ye hear not, for ye are not of God.

²⁶ But ye believe not, for ye are not of my sheep, as I said to you. ²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

¹ I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. ² Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away: and every one bearing fruit, he cleanses it, that it might bear more fruit. ³ Already are ye clean, through the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, if it remain not in the vine; so neither ye, if ye remain not in me. ⁵ I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. ⁶ If any remain not in me, he was cast forth as the branch, and was dried up; and they gather them together, and cast into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If ye remain in me, and my words remain in you, ye shall ask whatever ye wish, and it shall be to you. ⁸ In this was my Father honoured, that ye should bear much fruit: and ye shall be disciples to me.

¹⁶ Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you.

⁷ Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. ⁸ For the words which thou hast given me, I have given them and they received, and knew in truth that I came out from thee, and they believed that thou sentest me.

¹¹ And they were of more noble birth than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, and examined the writings daily, if these things might hold thus.

¹ And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God given in the churches of Macedonia; ² That in much proof of pressure the abundance of their joy and their poverty according to depth abounded to the abundance of their simplicity.

¹⁰ And now he furnishing seed to him sowing, and bread for food, furnish and multiply your sowing-season, and increase the fruits of your justice;)

¹⁷ Not that I covet a gift: but I covet fruit abounding to your word.

⁶ Being present to you as also in all the world; and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth:

¹⁰ For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

¹ Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound.

¹⁰ And in all deceit of iniquity in the lost; because they received not the love of the truth, for them to be saved.

¹³ And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth: ¹⁴ To which he called you by our good news, to the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

² For we also were announced of the good news, as well as they: but the word of the report profited them not, not being mixed with faith to them having heard.

⁷ For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon it, and bringing forth the vegetable fitting well to them by whom it is cultivated, receives commendation from God:

¹⁰ For this the covenant which I will set to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; giving my laws into their mind, and upon their hearts will I write them: and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people:

¹⁵ By him therefore we should always bring up the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of the lips assenting to his name. ¹⁶ And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

²¹ Wherefore having put away all sordid avarice, and excess of wickedness, in meekness receive the implanted word, able to save your souls. ²² And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

¹ Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies, ² As new born babes, long for the sincere milk pertaining to the word, that ye might be nourished with it:

⁵ And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge; ⁶ And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion; ⁷ And in devotion brotherly love; and in brotherly love, love. ⁸ For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ And grow ye in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him the glory now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

¹² And Samson will say to them, I will propose to you an enigma: if announcing, ye shall announce it to me in seven days of the drinking, and ye find out, and I will give to you thirty wide garments and thirty exchanges of garments: ¹³ And if ye shall not be able to announce to me, and ye give me thirty wide garments and thirty exchanges of garments: and they will say to him, Propose thine enigma and we will hear it.

¹⁰ For precept to precept, precept to precept; line to line, line to line; a little there, a little there:

¹³ And the word of Jehovah was to them, precept to precept, precept to precept; line to line, line to line; a little there, a little there, so that they shall go and they stumbled backward, and were broken and snared and taken.

² And saying, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.

¹⁹ Every one hearing, and not understanding, the evil one comes, and carries off that sown in his heart. This is he having sown by the way.

³¹ Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is like a kernel of mustard, which a man taking, sowed in his field:

³³ Another parable spake he to them; The kingdom of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, till the whole was leavened.

³⁷ And he having answered, said to them, He sowing the good seed is the Son of man:

⁴⁴ Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a treasure hid in the field; which a man finding, concealed, and from his joy, he retires, and all things which he has he sells, and he purchases that field. ⁴⁵ Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a man, a wholesale merchant, seeking beautiful pearls:

⁴⁷ Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a large sweep-net, cast into the sea, and having gathered of every kind:

²³ Therefore the kingdom of the heavens was likened to a man, the king, who wished to lift up the word together with his servants.

¹ For the kingdom of the heavens is like to a man, master of a house, who went out as soon as morning to hire workmen for his vineyard.

³³ Hear another parable: A certain man was master of a house, who planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around it, and digged in it a winepress, and let it out to farmers, and went abroad:

² The kingdom of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made a nuptial feast for his son.

¹ Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who having taken their lanterns, went forth to the meeting of the bridegroom.

²⁶ And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth; ²⁷ And he sleep, and should rise night and day, and the seed should sprout, and be raised; how, he knows not. ²⁸ For the earth bears fruit spontaneously; first the grass, then the ear, then the full wheat in the ear. ²⁹ But when the fruit should yield, quickly he sends the sickle, for the harvest is brought forward. ³⁰ And he said, To what should we liken the kingdom of God? or in what parable should we hold it forth?

¹⁸ And he said, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it?

²⁰ And again he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?

⁵ By the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news;

²³ Begotten again, not of corrupted seed, but uncorrupted, by the word of God, living and remaining forever.

⁹ All ye beasts of the fields, come ye to eat; all ye beasts in the forest ¹⁰ Look about, ye blind; they all knew not, they all dumb dogs, they shall not be able to bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

³⁹ And the enemy having sowed them is the devil; and the harvest is the end of time; and the reapers are the messengers.

⁵ And the bridegroom delaying, they all slumbered and slept.

³⁰ And of yourselves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to tear away disciples after them. ³¹ Wherefore watch ye, remembering that the space of three years night and day I ceased not reminding each one with tears.

¹³ For such the falsely sent, crafty workers, being transformed into the sent of Christ. ¹⁴ And not wonderful; for Satan himself is transformed into a messenger of light. ¹⁵ No great thing therefore if also his servants are transformed as servants of justice; whose end shall be according to their works.

⁴ And through false brethren introduced privately, who came in privately to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might reduce us to slavery:

³ For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report; ⁴ And truly from the truth will they turn away the hearing, and be turned aside to fictions. ⁵ And thou be sober in all things, suffer ill treatment, do the work of the bearer of good news, render thy service perfectly certain.

¹⁵ Observing narrowly lest any be failing of the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing forth aloft give trouble, and by this many be defiled;

⁸ Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:

¹ And also were there false prophets among the people, as also among you shall be false teachers, who shall privately bring in doctrines of perdition, and denying the master having purchased them, having brought upon themselves swift destruction.

²⁰ But I have a few things against thee, for thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, calling herself a prophetess, to teach and to lead my servants astray to commit fornication, and to eat things offered to idols.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, he deceiving the whole habitable globe: he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

¹⁴ And he deceives them dwelling upon earth by the signs which were given him to do before the wild beast; saying to them dwelling upon earth, to make an image to the wild beast, who has the blow of the sword, and he lived.

²⁶ And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth; ²⁷ And he sleep, and should rise night and day, and the seed should sprout, and be raised; how, he knows not. ²⁸ For the earth bears fruit spontaneously; first the grass, then the ear, then the full wheat in the ear. ²⁹ But when the fruit should yield, quickly he sends the sickle, for the harvest is brought forward.

¹⁷ And I beseech you, brethren, to observe narrowly them having made divisions and scandals against the teaching which ye learned; and bend away from them.

¹¹ For it was manifested to me concerning you, my brethren, by them of Chloe, that there are contentions with you. ¹² And this I say, that each of you says, I truly am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. ¹³ Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you? or in Paul's name were ye immersed

⁵ Who then is Paul, and who Apollos, but servants by whom ye believed, and to each as the Lord gave? ⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered; but God increased. ⁷ So that neither he planting is anything, neither he watering; but God increasing. ⁸ And he planting and he watering are one: and each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ For we are workers together with God: the agriculture of God, ye are the building of God.

²⁸ And whom truly God set in the church, first the sent, second the prophets, third teachers, then powers, then graces of healings, helps, directions, kinds of tongues. ²⁹ Not all sent: not all prophets: not all teachers: not all powers:

¹² And if Christ is proclaimed that he arose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no rising up of the dead? ¹³ And if there is no rising up of the dead, neither has Christ risen: ¹⁴ And if Christ has not risen, then our proclaiming vain, and also your faith vain. ¹⁵ And we are also found false witnesses of God; for we testified for God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not, if therefore the dead are not raised. ¹⁶ For if the dead are not raised, neither was Christ raised up: ¹⁷ And if Christ was not raised up, your faith is vain; yet are ye in your sins. ¹⁸ Then they also having died in Christ perished. ¹⁹ If in this life only we have been hoping in Christ, we are more to be compassionated than all men. ²⁰ And now Was Christ raised from the dead, he was the first fruits of those having died. ²¹ For since by man death, also by man the rising up of the dead. ²² For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. ²³ And each in his own order: the first fruit Christ; then they of Christ in his arrival. ²⁴ Then the end, when he should deliver up the kingdom to God, and the Father; when he should leave unemployed every beginning and every authority and power. ²⁵ For he must reign, till he put all enemies under his feet. ²⁶ The last enemy, death, is left unemployed. ²⁷ For he subjected all things under his feet. And when he said that all things have been subjected, it is manifest that without him having subjected all things to him. ²⁸ And when all things be subjected to him, then also shall the Son himself be subjected to him having made all things subject to him, that God might be all things in all. ²⁹ For what shall they do being immersed for the dead, if in fine the dead rise not? and why are they immersed for the dead? ³⁰ And why are we in peril every hour? ³¹ In the day I die by: your boasting which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. ³² If according to man I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what the profit to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. ³³ Be not deceived: evil intercourses corrupt good habits. ³⁴ Recover your senses rightly, and in not; for some have a want of knowledge of God: I speak to your confusion.

¹⁰ And if Timotheus come, see ye that he be with you fearlessly: for he works the work of the Lord, as I also.

¹⁸ And all things of God, having reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given us the service of reconciliation; ¹⁹ For as God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their faults; and having set in us the word of reconciliation. ²⁰ For Christ therefore are we ambassadors, as of God beseeching by us: we pray for the sake of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

¹ And working together, we also beseech, lest also ye receive the grace of God in vain.

⁴ But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities,

¹ O Unwise Galatians, who has cast a spell upon you, not to obey the truth, to whom before the eyes Jesus Christ was written beforehand, crucified in you? ² This only wish I to learn from you, Received ye the Spirit from the works of the law, or from the hearing of faith?. ³ Are ye so unwise? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now completed in the flesh?

¹¹ And truly he gave the sent; and the prophets; and the bearers of good tidings; and the shepherds, and the teachers; ¹² For the adjusting of the holy, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of Christ:

¹⁵ This is wisdom coming not down from above, but earthly, natural, resembling an evil spirit. ¹⁶ For where envy and intrigue, there confusion and every bad deed.

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God.

⁴⁹ And John having answered said, Ruler, we saw a certain one casting out demons in thy name; and we hindered him, because he follows not with us. ⁵⁰ And Jesus said, Hinder him not: for who is not against us is for us. ⁵¹ And it was in the days of his acceptation being completed, and he fixed his face to go into Jerusalem. ⁵² And he sent messengers before his face: and having gone, they came into a town of Samaritans, in order to prepare for him. ⁵³ And they received him not, for his face was going to Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ And his disciples James and John having seen, said, O Lord, wilt thou that we should speak fire to come down from heaven, and destroy them, as also did Elias?

³ For I truly, as being at a distance in body, and being present in spirit, have already, as being present, judged him having so worked this. ⁴ In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye, gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ To deliver such a one to Satan for the ruin of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ Your boasting not good. Know ye not that a little leaven may leaven the whole mixture? ⁷ Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, that ye may be a new mixture, as ye are unleavened. For also our pascha was sacrificed for us, Christ:

⁶ Sufficient to such a one this enjoyment of the esteem of the many. ⁷ So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness. ⁸ Wherefore I beseech you to confirm love to him. ⁹ For, for this I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, if ye are obedient for all things. ¹⁰ And to whom ye show any favor; I also: for also if I have shown any kindness, to whom I have shown kindness, through you in the face of Christ; ¹¹ That we might not be taken advantage of by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his inventions.

¹⁴ And we beseech you, brethren, remind the disorderly, encourage the timid, sustain the weak, and be slow to anger to all.

²² And truly compassionate some, discriminating: ²³ And some save in fear, snatching out of the fire; hating also the coat stained from the flesh.

²⁹ And a man will rise to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: and the soul of my lord was bound up in the bundle of lives with Jehovah thy God; and the soul of thine enemies he will sling out in the midst of the hand of the sling.

¹⁰ For the fortified city was separated, the habitation being cast out and forsaken as the desert: there shall the Isaiah 27:calf feed, and there he shall lie down, and there he finished its branches. ¹¹ In its harvest being dried up, women shall break it off in coming, illuminating it: for it is a people not understanding: for this he making them will not compassionate them, and he forming them will not have mercy upon them.

⁴ Behold, it was given to the fire to consume; the fire consumed its two ends, and the midst of it was burned. Will it succeed for work. ⁵ Behold, in its being whole, it will not do for work: but if the fire consumed it, and it was burnt, did it yet do for work? ⁶ For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: As the tree of the vine upon the tree of the forest which I gave it to the fire for consuming, thus I gave the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ⁷ And I gave my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, and the fire shall consume them; and they knew that I am Jehovah in my setting my face against them.

¹⁸ And ye turned back and saw between the just to the unjust, and between him serving God and to him serving him not

¹² Whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and gather his wheat into the store; but he will burn down the chaff in inextinguishable fire.

³⁹ And the enemy having sowed them is the devil; and the harvest is the end of time; and the reapers are the messengers. ⁴⁰ As therefore the tares are gathered together and burnt in fire; so shall it be in the end of this time. ⁴¹ The Son of man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and those doing iniquity; ⁴² And they shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall there be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ Then shall the just emit a brilliant light as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He having ears to hear, let him hear.

¹⁰ And those servants, having come to the ways, gathered together all, as many as they found, also both the evil and good, and the nuptial feast was filled with the reclining. ¹¹ And the king, having come in to behold the reclining, saw there a man not clad with the garment of the wedding: ¹² And he says to him, Friend, how camest thou in here, not having a garment of the nuptial feast? And he was muzzled. ¹³ Then said the king to his servants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him away, and cast ye him into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth. ¹⁴ For many are called, and few chosen.

⁶ And in the middle of the night there was a cry, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go ye forth to his meeting. ⁷ Then all these virgins were aroused, and put their lanterns in order. ⁸ And the foolish said to the discerning, Give us of your oil; for our lights are quenched. ⁹ And the discerning answered, saying, Lest it should not suffice us and you: but go ye rather to those selling, and buy for yourselves. ¹⁰ And they, going to buy, the bridegroom came; and they prepared, went in with him to the nuptials; and the door was locked. ¹¹ And afterwards came also the rest of the virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. ¹² And he having answered said, Truly I say to you, I know you not. ¹³ Watch, therefore, for ye know not the day, neither the hour, in which the Son of man comes.

³² And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the kids: .

⁴¹ Then shall he say to them from the left, Go away from me, the cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his messengers:

¹⁷ Whose winnowing fan in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor, and gather the wheat into his store; and the chaff he will burn down with inextinguishable fire.

⁶ If any remain not in me, he was cast forth as the branch, and was dried up; and they gather them together, and cast into the fire, and they are burned.

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

²⁴ Some men's sins are manifest, going before to judgment; and also to some they follow in the train.

²⁴ Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens was made like a man sowing good seed in his field:

²⁰ And Jesus said to them, For your unbelief: for truly I say to you, If ye have faith as a kernel of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Go away from thence, and it shall go away; and nothing shall be impossible to you.

³⁰ And he said, To what should we liken the kingdom of God? or in what parable should we hold it forth? ³¹ As a kernel of mustard, which, when it be sown in the earth, is smaller than all seeds upon the earth: ³² And when it be sown, it comes up and is greater than all vegetables, and makes great young shoots; so that the flying things of heaven can encamp under its shadow.

¹⁸ And he said, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it? ¹⁹ It is like a kernel of mustard, which a man having taken, cast into his garden; and it grew, and became into a great tree; and the fowls of heaven encamped in its young shoots.

⁶ And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a kernel of mustard, said ye to this mulberry-tree, Be thou rooted up, and planted in the sea; and it had listened to you.

¹¹ And they hearing these things, having added, he spake a parable, for he was near to Jerusalem, and they thought that immediately the kingdom of God is about to be rendered visible.

⁹ And he began to say to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it to farmers, and went abroad sufficient time.

¹⁶ There shall be diffusion of grain in the earth upon the head of the mountains; its fruit shall shake as Lebanon, and they shall blossom from the city as the grass of the earth. ¹⁷ His name shall be forever: his name shall flourish before the sun: and they shall be praised in him: all nations shall pronounce him happy. ¹⁸ Praised be Jehovah God, the God of Israel, doing wonders himself alone. ¹⁹ And praised be the name of his glory forever; and his glory shall fill all the earth. Amen and Amen.

¹² Upon them the birds of the heavens shall dwell, from between their boughs they shall give a voice.

² And it was in the last days, the mountain of the house of Jehovah shall be prepared upon the head of the mountains, and lifted up above the hills; and all nations flowed to it ³ And many people went and said, Come, and we will go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us from his ways, and we will go in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem. ⁴ And he judged between the nations, and he will decide for many peoples: and they shall beat down their swords to plough-shares and their spears to pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall no more learn war.

²³ In the mountain of the height of Israel I will plant it: and it bare a branch, and it made fruit, and it was for a great cedar: and there dwelt under it all fowls of every wing; in the shadow of its branches shall they dwell. ²⁴ And all the trees of the field knew that I Jehovah brought low the tree of height, made high the low tree, I dried up the green tree, and I caused the dry tree to flourish: I Jehovah spake and I did.

⁶ And all the birds of the heavens nested in his boughs, under his branches all the of the field brought forth, and in his shadow dwelt all the great nations.

¹ And he will turn me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters coming forth from under the threshold of the house to the east: for the face of the house eastward, and the waters coming down from under from the right shoulder of the house, from the south to the altar. ² And he will bring me forth the way of the gate of the north; and he will turn me round the way without to the gate without the way looking to the east; and behold, waters flowing from the right shoulder. ³ And in the going forth of the man eastward, and the line in his hand, and he will measure a thousand by the cubit, and he will cause me to pass through the waters; the waters of the soles. ⁴ And he will measure a thousand, and he will cause me to pass through the waters; the waters of the knees. And he will measure a thousand, and cause me to pass through; the Waters of the loins. ⁵ And he will measure a thousand, a torrent which I shall not be able to pass through: for the waters rose, waters of swimming, a torrent which shall not be passed through.

³⁴ Thou wert seeing even till a stone was cut out not with hands, and striking against the image upon the feet of iron and burnt clay, and breaking them in pieces. ³⁵ At that time were beaten small at once, the iron, the burnt clay, the brass, the silver and the gold, and they were as the chaff of the threshing-floor of summer; and the wind lifted them up and all place was not found for them: and the stone striking against the image was for a great rock, and filled all the earth.

⁴⁴ And in their days that they are kings, the God of the heavens shall set up a kingdom that shall not be destroyed forever: and its kingdom shall be left to another people; it shall beat small and destroy all these kingdoms, and this shall stand forever. ⁴⁵ Because that thou sawest that the stone being cut from the rock not with hands, and it beat small the iron, the brass, the burnt clay, the silver and the gold: the great God made known to the king what to be after this: and the dream certain, and its interpretation faithful.

¹² Its foliage beautiful, and its fruit great, and food for all in it: and the beasts of the open field will be shaded under it, the buds of the heavens will dwell in its boughs, and all flesh will be nourished from it

¹ And it was in the last of the days the mountain of the house of Jehovah will be prepared upon the head of the mountains, and it was lifted up above the hills, and peoples flowed to it. ² And many nations went and said, Come, and we will go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us from his ways, and we will go in his paths: from Zion will instruction go forth, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem. ³ And he judged between many peoples, and he admonished to strong nations even to far off; and they beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall no more learn war.

¹⁰ For who despised the day of small things? and they rejoiced, and they saw the stone of tin in the hand of Zerubbabel, these seven; they the eyes of Jehovah running to and fro in all the earth.

²⁰ Thus said Jehovah of armies: Yet that peoples shall come, and the inhabitants of many cities: ²¹ And the inhabitants of one went to one, saying, We will go, going to beseech the face of Jehovah, and to seek Jehovah of armies: I will go also. ²² And many peoples and strong nations came to seek Jehovah of armies in Jerusalem, and to beseech the face of Jehovah. ²³ Thus said Jehovah of armies: In those days, that ten men shall take hold from all tongues of the nations, and they took hold of the wing of a man a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we heard God is with you.

⁷ And it was one day it shall be known to Jehovah, not day, and not night: and it was at the time of evening it shall be light ⁸ And it was in that day living waters went forth from Jerusalem: half of them to the former sea, and half of them to the last sea: in summer and in autumn shall it be. ⁹ And Jehovah was for king over all the earth: in that day Jehovah shall be one, and his name one. ¹⁰ He shall surround all the land as the desert from the hill to the pomegranate south of Jerusalem: and it was high, and she dwelt in her place from the gate of Benjamin even to the place of the first gate, even to the gate of the corner, and the tower of Hananeel even to the wine-presses of the king.

¹⁵ And in these days Peter having risen in the midst of the disciples, said, (also the crowd of names together was about an hundred and twenty,)

²⁰ And they having heard, honoured the Lord, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many ten thousands of Jews there are having believed: and all are zealous of the law:

¹⁸ For I shall dare to speak nothing that Christ has not brought about by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and by work, ¹⁹ By power of signs and wonders, by power of the Spirit of God, so that I from Jerusalem, and round about even to Illyricum, have completed the good news of Christ.

¹⁵ And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet; and great voices were in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world were our Lord's, and his Christ's; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

⁶ And Abraham will hasten to the tent to Sarah, and will say, Hasten thou measures of the finest flour; knead and make cakes.

⁹ And the just shall hold on his way, and the clean one of hands shall add strength.

¹⁸ The path of the just as the light shining, going and shining even to the day prepared.

³ And we shall know, we shall pursue to know Jehovah: as the morning his going forth was prepared; and he shall come as the rain to us, as the latter rain, the early rain of the earth.

²⁰ And except the Lord shortened the days, no flesh should be saved: but for the chosen whom he chose, he shortened the days. ²¹ It is like leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, until the whole was leavened.

² Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away: and every one bearing fruit, he cleanses it, that it might bear more fruit.

¹² I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now. ¹³ And when he should come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he should hear, shall he speak: and he shall announce to you the things coming.

⁹ A little leaven leavens the whole mixture.

⁹ And this I prey, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all intelligence;

¹³ For God is working in you also to will and to work by benevolence. ¹⁴ Do ye all things without murmurings and discussions: ¹⁵ That ye be complete and pure, children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world;

²³ And the same God of peace consecrate you perfectly compete; and your whole spirit and soul and body be kept faultless to the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ Faithful he calling you, who also will do.

¹³ For this I speak to them in parables: for seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

⁹ The first things, behold, they came, and new things I announce: before they shall spring up I will cause you to hear.

⁷ For the Lord Jehovah will not do a word but he will uncover his secret to his servants the prophets.

¹⁴ And the prophecy of Esaias is filled up in them, saying, In hearing shall ye hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive.

⁴ And the whole of this was, that that spoken by the prophet be completed; saying, ⁵ Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy king comes to thee, meek, and mounted upon an ass, and a colt, son of a beast of burthen.

³⁴ Then shall the king say to them from his right, Come, the praised of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

¹⁴ But for Tyre and Sidon shall it be more supportable in judgment, than for you.

²⁴ O Father, those thou hast given me, I will that where I am these also be with me: that they might behold my glory, which thou gavest me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

¹⁸ Known to God are all his works from eternity.

²⁵ And to him being able to support you according to my good news, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent from eternal times, ²⁶ And now made manifest, also by the prophetic writings according to the command of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith made known to all nations:

⁵ Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit:

⁹ And to enlighten all what the distribution of the mystery, concealed from times immemorial in God, having created all things by Jesus Christ:

²⁵ Of which I was a servant, according to the stewardship of God, given to me for you, to complete the word of God; ²⁶ The mystery hid from times immemorial, and from generations, and now has been manifested to his holy ones:

⁹ Who having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, given us in Christ Jesus before eternal times, ¹⁰ And now made manifest by the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, having truly left death unemployed, and having brought life and immortality to light by the good news:

² In hope of eternal life, (which God, not false, promised before eternal times; ³ And manifested his word in his own times, in the proclamation, which I was entrusted with according to the command of the Saviour our God;)

¹ God, formerly multifariously and abundantly having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,

²⁰ Known truly before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in the last times for you, ²¹ Who by him believing in God, having raised him from the dead, and having given him glory; that your faith and hope should be in God.

⁸ And all they dwelling upon earth shall worship him, whose names have not been written in the book of life of the slain Lamb from the foundation of the world.

⁸ The wild beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up from the abyss, and go forward to perdition: and they dwelling upon the earth shall wonder, whose names have not been written upon the book of life from the foundation of the world, seeing the wild beast that was, and is not, although he is.

¹ And in that day Jesus, having come out of the house, sat by the sea.

¹¹ And having answered, he said to them, For to you it was given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it was not given.

²² And quickly Jesus constrained his disciples to go into the ship, and to go before him to the other side, till he should loose the crowds.

¹⁵ And Peter, having answered, said to him, Explain to us this parable. ¹⁶ And Jesus said, Are ye also yet destitute of understanding?

³⁹ And having loosed the crowds, he went into a ship, and came into the bounds of Magdala.

³⁴ And without a parable spake he not to them: and apart, he solved all to his disciples.

⁴⁵ And quickly he constrained his disciples to go to the ship, and to lead before to the other side of Bethsaida, till he loose the crowd:

¹⁷ And when he came into the house from the crowd, his disciples asked him of the parable.

⁹ And they eating were about four thousand: and he loosed them.

¹⁷ Then said of his disciples to one another, What is this which he says to you, A little, and ye see me not: and again, a little, and ye shall see me: and, Because I retire to my Father? ¹⁸ Then said they, What is this which he says, A little we know not what he says. ¹⁹ Then knew Jesus that they wished to ask him, and he said to them, For this seek ye with one another that I said, A little while, and ye see me not; and again a little, and ye shall see me ²⁰ Truly, truly, I say to you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be grieved, but your grief shall be into joy.

²⁰ And Jesus says to him, The foxes have dens, and the fowls of heaven occupy nests; but the Son of man has not where he might recline the head.

⁴⁰ He receiving you, receives me; and he receiving me, receives him sending me.

²⁷ And the servants of the master of the house having come, said to him, Lord, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field whence therefore has it tares?

⁴¹ The Son of man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and those doing iniquity;

¹³ And Jesus, having come into the parts of Caesarea of Philippi, asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say me to be, the Son of Man? ¹⁴ And they said, Some, truly, John the Baptist: and others, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. ¹⁵ And he says to them, But whom say ye me to be? ¹⁶ And Simon Peter having answered, said, Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.

¹⁶ He hearing you hears me and he rejecting you rejects me; and he rejecting me rejects him having sent me.

²⁰ Truly, truly, I say to you, He receiving whomsoever I shall send receives me; and he receiving me receives him having sent me.

²¹ Then said Jesus again to them, Peace to you: as the Father has sent me, I also send you.

⁸ But ye shall receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses to me also in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the last of the earth.

¹⁸ For I shall dare to speak nothing that Christ has not brought about by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and by work,

⁵ Who then is Paul, and who Apollos, but servants by whom ye believed, and to each as the Lord gave? ⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered; but God increased. ⁷ So that neither he planting is anything, neither he watering; but God increasing.

³ How shall we escape, having neglected such great salvation; which at the beginning taken to be spoken by the Lord, by them having heard was made firm to us;

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and between the woman, and between thy seed and between her seed; it shall lie in wait for thee as to the head, and thou shalt lie in wait for him as to the heel.

³⁰ A seed shall serve him; it shall be numbered to Jehovah for a generation.

¹⁰ And Jehovah inclined to crash him; piercing him when his soul shall be set a sacrifice for sin, he shall see seed, he shall prolong the days, and the delight of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.

²³ And I sowed her to me in the earth; and I compassionated her Not being compassionated; and I said to Not my people, Thou my people; and they will say, My God.

⁸ I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I redeemed them: and they multiplied as they multiplied. ⁹ And I will sow them among the peoples, and in distant places shall they remember me: and they lived with their sons, and turned back.

¹⁴ And this good news of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in the whole habitable globe for a witness to all nations: and then shall the end come.

¹⁸ And Jesus, having come near, spake to them, saying, All power has been given me in heaven and upon earth: ¹⁹ Therefore, having gone, disciple all nations; immersing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: ²⁰ Teaching them to keep all things whatever I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you all the days, even to the end of time. Amen.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Having gone into all the world proclaim the good news to all creation. ¹⁶ And he having believed and having been immersed shall be saved; but he not having believed shall be condemned. ¹⁷ And these signs shall follow those having believed; In my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues; ¹⁸ They shall take up serpents; and should they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall put hands upon the sick, and they shall be well. ¹⁹ Truly therefore the Lord, after ho had spoken to them, was taken up into the heavens, and sat on the right hand of God. ²⁰ And they, having gone forth, proclaimed every where, the Lord performing together, and confirming the word by signs following. Amen.

⁴⁷ And repentance and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, having begun from Jerusalem.

⁴⁴ Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him.

²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, except a kernel of wheat, having fallen into the earth, should die, it remains alone: and if it should die, it brings forth much fruit.

¹⁰ O, full of deceit, and all dexterity, son of the devil, enemy of all justice, Wilt thou cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

¹⁷ And if children, also heirs; truly heirs of God, and coheirs of Christ; if indeed we suffer together, that we may be also glorified together.

¹⁸ But I say, Have they not heard? Surely, in all the earth went out their sound, and their words to the end of the habitable globe.

²⁶ And now made manifest, also by the prophetic writings according to the command of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith made known to all nations:

¹⁸ (For many walk, of whom I said to you often, and now also say weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ: ¹⁹ Whose end destruction, whose God the belly, and their glory in shame, having in mind earthly things.)

¹⁸ Having willed he brought forth by the word of truth, for us to be some first fruit of his creatures.

⁵ Hear, my dearly beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the beggars of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them loving him?

² Dearly beloved, now are we the children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we shall be: and we know that, if he be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

⁸ He doing sin is of the accuser; for the accuser sins from the beginning. For this was the Son of God manifested, that he might loose the works of the accuser. ⁹ Every one born of God does not sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, for he has been born of God. ¹⁰ In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the accuser: every one not doing justice is not of God, and he not loving his brother.

⁶ And I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the lasting good news to announce to them dwelling upon the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people,

¹⁰ A river of fire flowed and went out from before him: thousands of thousands will wait upon him, and myriads of myriads will stand before him: the tribunal sat, and the books were opened.

¹³ Send ye forth the sickle, for the harvest was ripened: come ye, go down, for the wine press was filled, the vats, overflowed; for their evil is great

²⁵ And in men's sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares in the midst of the wheat, and went away.

²⁸ And he said to them, A man, an enemy, has done this: and his servants said to him, Wilt thou therefore we, having departed, should gather them

⁴⁹ So shall it be in the end of time; the messengers shall come forth, and separate the evil from the midst of the just,

³ And sitting upon the mount of Olives, his disciples came to him apart, saying, Say to us when these shall be, and what the sign of thy arrival, and the termination of the time.

³¹ And when the Son of man should come in his glory, and all his holy messengers with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

²⁰ Teaching them to keep all things whatever I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you all the days, even to the end of time. Amen.

¹⁷ For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.

³ And I am afraid lest, as the serpent completely deceived Eve in his craft, so your thoughts be corrupted from the simplicity which in Christ.

² In which when ye walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, of the spirit now energetic in the sons of disobedience:

¹¹ Put on the complete armor of God, for you to be able to stand against the artifices of the accuser. ¹² For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things.

⁷ And to you being pressed a release with us, in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power, ⁸ In fire of flame giving vengeance to them not knowing God, and to them not listening to the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ: ⁹ Who shall undergo punishment, eternal ruin from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; ¹⁰ When he should come to be honoured in his holy ones, and to be admired in all the believing, (that our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

⁸ And then shall the Lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the spirit of his mouth, and leave unemployed in the splendor of his arrival: ⁹ Whose arrival is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,

²⁶ (Since he must have suffered many times from the foundation of the world:) but now once at the termination of the times for the annulling of sin by the sacrifice of himself has he been shown clearly.

¹⁴ And also of these prophesied Enoch, the seventh from Adam, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

¹⁵ And another angel went forth out of the temple, crying with a great voice to him sitting upon the cloud, Send thy sickle, and reap: for the hour has come to thee to reap; for the earth's harvest was dried up. ¹⁶ And he sitting upon the cloud cast his sickle upon the earth; and the earth was reaped. ¹⁷ And another angel came forth out of the temple which in heaven, the same also having a sharp sickle. ¹⁸ And another angel came forth from the altar, having power over fire; and he called with a great cry to him having the sharp sickle, saying, Send thy sharp sickle, and harvest the grapes of the vineyard of the earth; for her grapes were fully ripe. ¹⁹ And the angel cast his sickle into the earth, and harvested the earth's vineyard, and cast into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

²⁰ And the wild beast was seized, and with him the false prophet having done signs before him, with which he deceived them having received the stamp of the wild beast, and them worshipping his image. Living, were they two cast into the lake of fire burning with sulphur.

² And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, ³ And he cast him into the abyss, and shut him up, and affixed a seal above him, that he should no more deceive the nations, until the thousand years be finished: and after these things he must be loosed a little time.

⁷ And when the thousand years should be finished, Satan shall be loosed from his prison, ⁸ And he shall go forth to deceive the nations that in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for war: whose number as the sand of the sea. ⁹ And they went up upon the breadth of the earth, and they surrounded the camp of the holy, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. ¹⁰ And the devil deceiving them was cast into the lake of fire and sulphur, where are the wild beast and false prophet, and they shall be tortured day and night for ever and ever.

³ I will take away man and cattle; I will take away the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with. the unjust; and I cut off man from the face of the earth, says Jehovah.

⁷ Woe to the world for offences I for there is necessity for offences to come; but woe to that man by whom the offence comes!

³¹ And he shall send his messengers, with the great voice of the trumpet, and they shall bring together his chosen from the four winds, from the extremities of the heavens to the extremities.

²⁷ And then shall he send his messengers, and gather together his chosen from the four winds, from extremity of earth to extremity of heaven.

²⁶ Then will ye begin to say, We ate and drank before thee, and thou didst teach in our streets. ²⁷ And he will say, I say to you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workmen of iniquity.

⁸ But to them of intrigue, and are truly disobedient to the truth, and yielding to injustice, anger and wrath, ⁹ Affliction and distress, upon every soul of man working evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek;

¹⁶ In the day when God shall judge the concealed things of men according to my good news by Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ And I beseech you, brethren, to observe narrowly them having made divisions and scandals against the teaching which ye learned; and bend away from them. ¹⁸ For such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by specious language and praise completely deceive the hearts of the innocent.

⁶ And when again he should bring in the firstborn to the habitable globe, he says, And let all the angels of God worship him. ⁷ And truly to the angels of God he says, Who making his angels spirits, and his workmen flames of fire.

¹⁴ Are they not all spirits qualified for service, sent forth for service for them about to inherit salvation?

¹ And also were there false prophets among the people, as also among you shall be false teachers, who shall privately bring in doctrines of perdition, and denying the master having purchased them, having brought upon themselves swift destruction. ² (And many shall follow their licentiousness; by whom the way of truth shall be defamed.)

¹¹ And I saw, and heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders: and their number was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands; ¹² Saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and praise.

²⁷ And there came not into her anything common, and any doing abomination, and a lie: but they written in the book of life of the Lamb.

⁹ Thou wilt set them as a furnace of fire for the time of thy face: Jehovah in his anger will swallow them down, and the fire shall devour them.

⁶ And whoever shall not fall and prostrate himself in the same moment, he shall be cast into a furnace of flaming fire.

¹⁵ Now if ye being prepared that in the time that ye shall hear the voice of the horn, the pipe, the harp, the lyre, the psaltery, and the bagpipe, and all sorts of music, ye shall fall and prostrate yourselves to the image that I made; and if ye shall not prostrate yourselves in the same moment, ye shall be cast into the midst of the furnace of flaming fire; and who that God that shall deliver you from my hands? ¹⁶ Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego answered, and saying to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we need not to turn back to thee upon this word. ¹⁷ If it is, our God whom we served will be able to deliver us from the furnace of flaming fire, and from thy hand, O king, he will deliver us.

²¹ Then these men were bound in their wide trowsers, their tunics, and their mantles, and their clothing, and were cast into the midst of the furnace of flaming fire. ²² For this cause, as the word of the king being severe, and the furnace exceedingly heated, these men that took up to Shadrach, Meshach, and AbedNego, the flame of fire killed them.

¹² But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

⁵⁰ And they shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall there be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

¹³ Then said the king to his servants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him away, and cast ye him into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

⁴³ And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is good for thee rather to enter into life maimed, than having two hands, to go away into hell, into inextinguishable fire: ⁴⁴ Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁵ And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life lame, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into inextinguishable fire: ⁴⁶ Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁷ And if thine eye offend thee, cast it out: it is good for thee, one eyed, to come into the kingdom of God, than having two eyes to be cast into a hell of fire: ⁴⁸ Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁹ For all shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

²⁸ Weeping shall be there and gnashing of teeth, when ye see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you cast without.

²³ And in hades, having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham from far off, and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴ And he having called out, said, Father Abraham, pity me, and send Lazarus, that he might dip his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

² And he opened the well of the bottomless pit; and a smoke went up out of the well, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun was darkened, and the air, from the smoke of the well.

¹⁰ And the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, mingled pure in the cup of his anger; and he shall be tortured in fire and sulphur before the holy angels, and before the Lamb:

¹⁰ And the devil deceiving them was cast into the lake of fire and sulphur, where are the wild beast and false prophet, and they shall be tortured day and night for ever and ever.

¹⁴ And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. ¹⁵ And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

⁸ But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,

³ And those understanding shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and those justifying many, as the stars forever and ever.

³⁶ Naked, and ye put around me: I was sick, and ye reviewed me: I was in prison, and ye came to me.

²⁹ And I say to you, that I drink not from henceforth of this fruit of the vine, even till that day when I drink it new with you, in the kingdom of my Father.

³² Fear not, little flock; for your Father was contented to give you the kingdom.

²⁹ And I set to you, as my Father set to me, a kingdom;

⁴¹ One glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for star differs from star in glory. ⁴² So also the rising up of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: ⁴³ It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: ⁴⁴ It is sown an animated body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is an animated body, and there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ So also has been written, The first man Adam was born into a living soul; and the last Adam into a spirit making alive. ⁴⁶ But the first not spiritual, but animated; then the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man of earth, made of earth: the second man the Lord from heaven. ⁴⁸ As the made of earth, such also the made of earth: and as the celestial, such also the celestial. ⁴⁹ And as we have borne the image of the made of earth, we shall also bear the image of the celestial. ⁵⁰ And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption. ⁵¹ Behold, I speak to you a mystery; We truly shall not all be laid asleep, but we shall all be changed, ⁵² In an atom, in the twinkling of the eye, in the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this corrupted must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality. ⁵⁴ And when this corrupted shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be the word written, Death was swallowed down in victory.

⁵⁸ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.

³ And I heard a great voice from heaven saying, Behold the tent of God with men, and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God. ⁴ And God shall wipe out every tear from their eyes; and death be no more, neither grief, neither crying, nor trouble shall be more: for the first things departed. ⁵ And he sitting upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he says to me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

²² And a temple saw I not in her: for the Lord God, the Omnipotent Ruler, is the temple and the Lamb ²³ And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they shine in her: for the glory of God enlightened her, and her light the Lamb.

² To attend to wisdom thou wilt incline thine ear, thy heart to understanding; ³ For if thou will call to understanding, wilt give thy voice to understanding ⁴ If thou wilt seek her as silver, and dig for her as hidden treasure; ⁵ Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, and thou shalt find the knowledge of God.

¹⁶ The obtaining of wisdom how good above gold and the obtaining of understanding to be chosen above silver.

¹ He separating himself will Seek according to desire; he will be irritated with every purpose.

²³ Buy the truth, and thou shalt not sell wisdom and instruction and understanding.

¹ Ho, every one thirsting, Come ye to the waters, and whom there is not to him silver, come ye, buy and eat; and come ye, and buy without silver and without price, wine and milk.

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

²¹ Jesus said to him, If thou wished to be perfected, retire, sell thy possessions, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

²⁷ Then Peter having answered, said to him, Behold, we have let go all things, and have followed thee; what therefore shall be to us?

²⁹ And every one who lets go houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for the sake of my name, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.

³³ So then, every one of you, who renounces not all of his possessions, cannot be my disciple.

²³ And he having heard these things, was sorely grieved: for he was very rich. ²⁴ And Jesus having seen him being sorely grieved, said, With how much difficulty shall they having possessions come into the kingdom of God!

⁶ And having hasted, he came down, and received him rejoicing. ⁷ And all they having seen, murmured, saying, That he entered in to rest with a sinful man. ⁸ And Zaccheus having stood, said to the Lord, Behold, the half of my possessions, Lord, I give to the poor; and if I have made any false accusation against any one, I give back fourfold.

³⁵ And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he coming to me should not hunger; and he believing in me should not thirst.

⁴⁴ And all believing were in one and the same place, and had all things common: ⁴⁵ And sold possessions and goods, and divided them to all, as any one had need ⁴⁶ And in the day persevering unanimously in the temple, and breaking bread in the house, they partook of food with lively joy and simplicity of heart, ⁴⁷ Praising God, and having favor with the whole people. And in the day the Lord added the saved to the church.

³² And the heart and soul of the multitude of them believing were one: and not one said any of the things being to him to be his own; but all were common to them. ³³ And in great power the sent gave back testimony of the rising up of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. ³⁴ For neither was any in want among them: for as many as were possessors of farms or houses, selling, brought the prices of things sold, ³⁵ And laid down at the feet of the sent: and it was distributed to each as any had need.

⁴ For whatever before was written before are for our instruction was before written that by patience and consolation able of the writings we might have hope.

⁷ But what things were gain to me, these I have thought loss for Christ. ⁸ But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ, ⁹ And be found in him, not having my justice, that of the law, but that by faith of Christ, the justice from God by faith:

³ In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

³ For ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ shall be manifested, our life, then also ye with him shall be made manifest in glory.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.

³⁴ For ye also suffered together with me in bonds, and received the pillage of your possessions with joy, knowing to have in yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.

²⁴ By faith Moses, having become great, refused to be reckoned the son of Pharaoh's daughter; ²⁵ Having chosen rather to be treated ill with the people of God, than to have the enjoyment of sin for a time; ²⁶ Having deemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than treasures in Egypt: for he looked to the payment of reward.

¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy gold of me refined by fire, that thou mightest be rich; and white garments, that thou mightest be surrounded, and that the shame of thy nakedness might not be made manifest; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou mightest see.

¹⁸ High things, and crystal, shall not be remembered: and the drawing out of wisdom above pearls.

⁶ Many saying, Who will cause us to see good? Lift up upon us the light of thy face, O Jehovah. ⁷ Thou gavest gladness in my heart, from the time their grain and their new wine increased.

⁶ Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them. ⁷ And now, what waited I for, O Jehovah? my hope it is to thee.

¹³ Happy the man finding wisdom; and the man shall bring forth understanding. ¹⁴ For good her gain above the gain of silver, and her increase above gold. ¹⁵ She is precious above red corals: and all thy delights shall not be equal with her. ¹⁶ Length of days in her right hand; in her left, riches and honor. ¹⁷ Her ways the ways of pleasantness, and all her beaten paths, peace. ¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all holding upon her: and happy he holding her fast

¹⁰ Receive my instruction and not silver and knowledge above tried gold. ¹¹ For wisdom is good above pearls, and all delights shall not be made equal with her.

¹⁸ Riches and honor are with me; splendid riches and justice. ¹⁹ My fruit is good above gold, and above pure gold; and my gain above tried silver. ²⁰ I shall go in the way of justice, in the midst of the beaten paths of judgment:

² To laughter I said, It is mad: and to gladness, What did this? ³ I examined in my heart to draw my flesh with wine, and my heart led in wisdom; and to lay hold upon folly till that I shall see what this good to the sons of man which they will do under the heavens the number of the days of their life. ⁴ I magnified my work; I builded to me houses; I planted to me vineyards: ⁵ I made to me gardens and pleasure grounds, and I planted in them a tree of all fruit ⁶ I made to me pools of waters to water from them the forest, causing trees to spring forth. ⁷ I obtained servants and maids, and sons of the house were to me; also obtaining cattle, and many sheep were to me more than all that were before me in Jerusalem. ⁸ I gathered to me also silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and the provinces: I made to me men singing and women singing, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and mistresses. ⁹ And I was magnified and increased more than all being before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom stood to me. ¹⁰ And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them, and I withheld not my heart from all gladness; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor: and this was my portion from all my labor. ¹¹ And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun. ¹² And I turned to see wisdom, madness, and folly: for what the man that shall come after the king? with those things they did already.

⁸ Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity.

¹³ We will hear the end of all the word: Fear thou God, and watch his commands: for this is all man.

²⁶ For what is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world, and injure his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

⁵ And they, not having heeded, departed, one truly to his own field, and one to his traffic:

⁴ If thou wilt seek her as silver, and dig for her as hidden treasure;

⁶ And the stability of thy times, the strength of salvation, was wisdom and knowledge: the fear of Jehovah this his treasure.

⁴⁴ Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a treasure hid in the field; which a man finding, concealed, and from his joy, he retires, and all things which he has he sells, and he purchases that field.

²⁸ And Peter began to say to him, Behold, we have left all things, and have followed thee. ²⁹ And Jesus having answered, said, Truly I say to you, There is none who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for sake of me, and the good news, ³⁰ Except he should receive a hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mother, and children, and fields, with expulsions; and in the time coming eternal life. ³¹ And many first shall be last; and the last first.

²⁸ And Peter said, Behold, we have left all, and followed thee. ²⁹ And he said to them, Truly I say to you, That there is none who has left home, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for sake of the kingdom of God, ³⁰ Who should not receive many fold in this time, and in life coming, eternal life.

²⁴ But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.

²¹ Therefore let none boast in men. For all things are yours; ²² Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or about to be; all are yours; ²³ And ye of Christ; and Christ of God.

¹⁴ And it may not be to me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² He having the Son has life; and he not having the Son of God has not life.

²¹ And the twelve gates twelve pearls; each one of the gates was of one pearl: and the broad way of the city pure gold, as transparent amber.

¹⁹ And he says to them, Come after me, and I will make you the fishermen of men.

²⁶ And when the grass sprouted up and made fruit, then appeared the tares also. ²⁷ And the servants of the master of the house having come, said to him, Lord, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field whence therefore has it tares? ²⁸ And he said to them, A man, an enemy, has done this: and his servants said to him, Wilt thou therefore we, having departed, should gather them ²⁹ And he said, No; lest gathering the tares, ye root up the wheat together with them. ³⁰ Suffer both to grow together till harvest; and in time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; and gather the wheat into my barn.

⁹ Go ye, therefore, to the passages of the ways, and as many as ye should find, call to the nuptial feast. ¹⁰ And those servants, having come to the ways, gathered together all, as many as they found, also both the evil and good, and the nuptial feast was filled with the reclining.

¹ Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who having taken their lanterns, went forth to the meeting of the bridegroom. ² And five of them were discerning, and five foolish. ³ Those foolish having taken their lanterns, took no oil with them. ⁴ And the discerning took oil in their vessels with their lanterns.

¹⁷ And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I will make you to become fishermen of men.

¹⁰ And likewise also James and John, Zebedee's sons, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Fear not; from now thou shalt be capturing men.

²¹ And approaching, that servant announced to his lord these things. Then the master of the house, angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly into the streets and quarters of the city, and bring in hither the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind. ²² And the servant said, Lord, it has been done as thou hest commanded, and yet there is place. ²³ And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the ways and hedges, and compel to come in, that my house may be filled up.

¹ And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, ² And separated from the price, his wife also knowing; and having brought a certain part, laid at the feet of the sent. ³ And Peter said, Ananias, wherefore filled Satan thy heart, for thee to belie the Holy Spirit, and separate from the price of the farm ⁴ Remaining, did it not remain to thee? and sold, it was in thy power: for what hast thou put this thing in thy heart? thou hast not lied to men, but to God. ⁵ And Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, he expired: and great fear was upon all them hearing these things. ⁶ And the younger having risen up, drew him together, and having carried out, interred. ⁷ And there was an interval of about three hours, and his wife not knowing that done, came in. ⁸ And Peter answered to her, Tell me, if for so much ye sold the farm? And she said, Yes, for so much. ⁹ And Peter said to her, For what was it agreed by you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them having interred thy husband at the door, and they shall carry thee out. ¹⁰ And she fell immediately at his feet, and expired: and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried out, interred near her husband.

¹⁸ And Simon having seen that by putting on of hands of the sent the Holy Spirit is given, he brought money to them, ¹⁹ Saying, Give me also this power, that upon whomsoever I put hands, he might receive the Holy Spirit. ²⁰ And Peter said to him, May thy silver be for ruin with thee, for thou thoughtest the gift of God to be purchased for money. ²¹ No portion is to thee, nor lot, in this word: for thy heart is not upright before God. ²² Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray to God, if perhaps the thought of thy heart be remitted to thee.

³⁰ And of yourselves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to tear away disciples after them.

¹ In general is fornication heard among you, and such fornication which is not named in the nations, for any to have his father's wife. ² And ye were puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he having done this work might be taken away from the midst of you. ³ For I truly, as being at a distance in body, and being present in spirit, have already, as being present, judged him having so worked this. ⁴ In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye, gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ To deliver such a one to Satan for the ruin of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ Your boasting not good. Know ye not that a little leaven may leaven the whole mixture?

¹ And I will not ye be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; ² And were all immersed into Moses in the cloud, and in the sea; ³ And they all ate the same spiritual food ⁴ And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual Rock following; and the Rock was Christ. ⁵ But God was not contented with the most of them: for they were overthrown in the desert. ⁶ And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired. ⁷ Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as has been written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. ⁸ Neither should we commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand. ⁹ Neither should we tempt Christ, as also some of them tempted, and were destroyed by serpents. ¹⁰ Neither do ye murmur, as also some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer. ¹¹ And all those happened types to them; and it was written for our reminding, to whom the ends of the times have arrived. ¹² Therefore let him seeming to stand see that he fall not.

¹⁹ For there must be also sects among you, that the tried might be made manifest among you.

²⁶ In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers of the family, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in solitude, in dangers in the sea, in dangers with false brethren;

²⁰ For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements: ²¹ Lest, coming again, my God should humble me with you, and I shall mourn for many of them having sinned before, and not having repented for uncleanness, and fornication, and licentiousness which they committed.

² For men shall be self-lovers, lovers of money, boastful, proud, slandering, disobedient to parents, unthankful, wicked, ³ Devoid of natural affection, not observing treaties, accusers, ungoverned, wild, not loving the good, ⁴ Traitors, rash, haughty, devoted to pleasure more than loving God; ⁵ Having a form of devotion, and having denied its power: and these renounce.

³ For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report; ⁴ And truly from the truth will they turn away the hearing, and be turned aside to fictions.

⁹ Holding firmly the faithful word according to instruction, that he may be able also to beseech in sound doctrine, and to refute those opposing. ¹⁰ For many also are disorderly, vain talkers and infatuates, especially they of the circumcision: ¹¹ Who must be restrained, who subvert whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.

¹ And also were there false prophets among the people, as also among you shall be false teachers, who shall privately bring in doctrines of perdition, and denying the master having purchased them, having brought upon themselves swift destruction. ² (And many shall follow their licentiousness; by whom the way of truth shall be defamed.) ³ And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.

¹³ Receiving the reward of injustice, deeming luxurious indulgence pleasure in the day. Spots and blemishes, rioting in their deceits, feasting together with you ¹⁴ Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse: ¹⁵ Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice; ¹⁶ And he had reprehension for his own iniquity: the dumb ass speaking in man's voice impeded the insanity of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are fountains wanting water, clouds impelled by a hurricane; for whom the obscurity of darkness has been kept forever. ¹⁸ For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error. ¹⁹ Promising them liberty, they being servants of corruption: for by whom any is conquered, by him has he been made to serve. ²⁰ For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first. ²¹ For it was better for them not to have known the way of justice, than, having known, to turn back from the holy command delivererd to them. ²² And that of the true proverb has happened to them, The dog having turned back to his own vomit; and the sow having been washed to the rolling of the mire.

¹⁸ Young children, it is the last hour: and as ye have heard that antichrist comes, and now many antichrists have come; whence we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they had remained with us, but, that they might be manifested, that they are not all of us.

¹ Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they are of God: for many false prophets have come out into the world. ² In this ye know the spirit of God: Every spirit which acknowledges Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is of God: ³ And every spirit which acknowledges not Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that of antichrist which ye have heard comes; and now is already in the world. ⁴ Ye are of God, little children, and have conquered them: for greater is he in you, than he in the world. ⁵ They are of the world: for this they speak of the world, and the world hears them. ⁶ We are of God: he knowing God hears us; he is not of God who hears us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

⁴ For certain men entered in by stealth, long ago written of beforehand for judgment, irreligious, having changed the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵ And I wish to remind you, ye having once known this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, the second time destroyed them not having believed.

¹ And to the messenger of the church in Sardis write: Thus says he having the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead:

¹⁵ I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor boiling: I would thou shouldest be cold or boiling. ¹⁶ For so thou art tepid, and neither cold nor boiling, I am about to vomit thee out of my month. ¹⁷ For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked;

³⁰ Suffer both to grow together till harvest; and in time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; and gather the wheat into my barn.

⁵ And the bridegroom delaying, they all slumbered and slept. ⁶ And in the middle of the night there was a cry, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go ye forth to his meeting. ⁷ Then all these virgins were aroused, and put their lanterns in order. ⁸ And the foolish said to the discerning, Give us of your oil; for our lights are quenched. ⁹ And the discerning answered, saying, Lest it should not suffice us and you: but go ye rather to those selling, and buy for yourselves. ¹⁰ And they, going to buy, the bridegroom came; and they prepared, went in with him to the nuptials; and the door was locked. ¹¹ And afterwards came also the rest of the virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. ¹² And he having answered said, Truly I say to you, I know you not.

¹⁹ And after much time the lord of these servants comes, and lifts up the word with them. ²⁰ And he having received the five talents, having come near, brought the other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst me five talents: and I have gained other five talents. ²¹ And his lord said to him, Well, good and faithful servant: thou west faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many; enter into the joy of thy lord. ²² And he also having received the two talents, having come near said, Lord, thou deliveredst me two talents; see, I gained two other talents to them. ²³ His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful servant; thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many; enter into the joy of thy lord. ²⁴ And he also having received one talent, having come near, said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou sowedst not, and gathering where thou scatteredst not: ²⁵ And having been afraid, having gone away, I concealed thy talent in the earth; see, thou hast thine own. ²⁶ And his lord having answered, said to him, O evil and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I scattered not: ²⁷ Thou therefore oughtest to have cast my silver to the money changers, and I having come, had received mine own, with interest ²⁸ Therefore take the talent away from him, and give him having ten talents. ²⁹ For to every one having shall be given, and he shall be in abundance: and from him not having, also what he has shall be taken away from him. ³⁰ And cast ye the useless servant into darkness without; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth. ³¹ And when the Son of man should come in his glory, and all his holy messengers with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: ³² And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the kids: . ³³ And he shall set the sheep from his right, and the kids from his left.

¹² And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is of life: and the dead were judged from the things written in the books, according to their works. ¹³ And the sea gave the dead in it; and death and hades gave the dead in them: and they were judged each one according to their works.

⁴² And they shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall there be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

⁵⁰ The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he expects not, and in an hour which he knows not, ⁵¹ And he shall cut him in two equal parts, and he shall set his portion with the hypocrites: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

²⁷ And he will say, I say to you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workmen of iniquity. ²⁸ Weeping shall be there and gnashing of teeth, when ye see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you cast without.

¹⁰ And the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, mingled pure in the cup of his anger; and he shall be tortured in fire and sulphur before the holy angels, and before the Lamb: ¹¹ And the smoke of their torture goes up forever and ever: and they have no rest day and night, those worshipping the wild beast and his image, and if any receive the stamp of his name.

¹⁰ And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the wild beast; and his kingdom was darkened; and they pressed their tongues for pain, ¹¹ And they blasphemed the God of heaven for their pains and for their sores, and they repented not of their work.

¹⁷ Do ye not yet understand, that everything going into the mouth proceeds to the belly, and is cast out in the privy?

¹¹ How do ye not understand that I spake not to you concerning bread, to keep from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

¹⁵ Therefore, when ye see the abomination of devastation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, (let him reading, understand:)

¹⁸ And he says, So are ye also without understanding? Do ye not perceive, that anything from without entering into a man, cannot pollute him

⁴⁴ Put ye these words into your ears: for the Son of man is about to be delivered up into the bands of men. ⁴⁵ And they knew not this word, and it was hid from them, lest they should understand it: and they feared to ask him concerning this word.

³⁰ And Philip running near, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and he said, Truly knowest thou what thou readest? ³¹ And he said, How can I, except somebody guide me? And he called upon Philip coming up to sit with him.

⁶ This Ezra went up from Babel; and he a scribe skilled in the law of Moses which Jehovah God of Israel gave: and the king will give to him according to the hand of Jehovah upon him all his seeking.

¹⁰ For Ezra prepared his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and to do, and to teach in Israel the law and judgment.

²¹ And from me, I Arthasatha the king, a decree was set up to all the treasurers that are beyond the river, that all which Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of the heavens, shall ask of you, shall be done speedily'

²⁰ The tongue of the just is choice silver: the heart of the unjust is as little. ²¹ The lips of the just one shall feed many: and fools in wanting heart, shall die.

³⁰ The fruit of the just a tree of life; and he taking souls is wise.

⁷ The lips of the wise will disperse knowledge: and the heart of the foolish not so.

²⁰ He understanding in the word shall find good: and he trusting in Jehovah, he being happy. ²¹ He understanding shall call to the wise of heart: and sweetness of lips shall add knowledge ²² The understanding of him possessing it is a fountain of life: and the instruction of the foolish is folly. ²³ The heart of the wise shall attend to his mouth, and he shall add knowledge to his lips. ²⁴ Words of pleasantness an, honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and healing to the bones.

⁴ Deep waters are the words of man's mouth, the fountain of wisdom a gushing stream.

¹⁷ Incline thine ear and hear the words of the wise, and thou shalt set thy heart to my knowledge. ¹⁸ For pleasant things if thou shalt watch them in thy belly; they shall be prepared together for thy lips.

⁹ And besides, the preacher was wise; he yet taught the people knowledge; and he gave ear, and sought out, setting in order many parables. ¹⁰ The preacher sought to find words: of delight: and that written was straight, words of truth. ¹¹ The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails planted of the masters of the gatherings; they were given from one shepherd.

¹³ The mandrakes gave an odor, and upon our entrances all precious things, new also old, my beloved, I laid up for thee.

³⁵ The good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, casts forth good things: and the evil man, out of the evil treasure, casts forth evil things.

³⁴ Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, and the wise, and scribes: and of them shall ye kill and crucify; and of them shall ye chastise in your assemblies, and drive out from city to city,

⁴⁹ And for this said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and the sent, and of them shall they kill and drive out:

³⁴ A new command give I to you, That ye love one another: as I loved you, that ye also love one another.

⁴ And we have such confidence through Christ to God: ⁵ Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency of God; ⁶ Who rendered as fitting servants of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.

⁵ For we proclaim not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus. ⁶ For God, having spoken light to shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts, to the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. ⁷ And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the eminence of power be of God, and not of us.

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

⁴ By which ye, reading, can perceive My understanding in the mystery of Christ,)

⁷ As also ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellowservant, who is a faithful servant of Christ for you;

⁶ Not newly planted, lest rendered proud he fall into condemnation of the accuser.

¹⁵ And if I delay, that thou shouldest know how thou must be occupied in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth. ¹⁶ And manifestly great is the mystery of devotion: God was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed in the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory.

¹⁶ All writing divinely inspired, and profitable for doctrine, for refutation, for correction, for instruction in justice: ¹⁷ That the man of God might be perfect, finished for every good work.

⁹ Holding firmly the faithful word according to instruction, that he may be able also to beseech in sound doctrine, and to refute those opposing.

⁶ The younger men likewise beseech to be of sound mind. ⁷ Concerning all things hold thyself a type of good works: in doctrine, integrity, gravity, incorruptibility,

⁷ Brethren, I write no new command to you, but an old command which ye had from the beginning. The old command is the word which ye heard from the beginning. ⁸ Again, I write a new command to you, which is true in him and in you: for the darkness is passed away, and the true light already shines.

²⁸ And it was when Jesus finished these words, the crowds were struck with amazement at his teaching:

³³ And with many such parables spake he the word to them, as they were able to hear. ³⁴ And without a parable spake he not to them: and apart, he solved all to his disciples. ³⁵ And he says to them in that day, being evening, Let us go beyond.

²² I will recount thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the convocation I will praise thee.

⁹ I announced good news, justice in the great convocation: behold, my lips I will not shut up, O Jehovah, thou knewest ¹⁰ I hid not thy justice within my heart; I said thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I hid not thy mercy and thy truth to the great convocation.

²³ And having come, he dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be completed spoken by the prophets, That he shall be called a Nazarite.

¹ And he came out thence, and came to his native land; and his disciples follow him. ² And sabbath having come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing were struck with amazement, saying, Whence to this one these things? and what this wisdom given to him, that such powers are done by his hands? ³ Is not this the carpenter, son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Jude, and Simon and are not his sisters here with us? And they were scandalized in him. ⁴ And Jesus said to them, That a prophet Is not unhonoured, except in his native land, and in kinsmen, and in his house. ⁵ And he could do no power there, except having laid his hands upon a few sick, he cured. ⁶ And he wondered for their unbelief. And he went about the towns teaching.

¹⁶ And he came to Nazareth where he was brought up, and he went in, as was the custom to him in the day of the sabbaths, into the assembly, and stood up to read. ¹⁷ And the book of Esaias the prophet was given to him. And having unfolded the book, he found the place where it was written, ¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for which he anointed me to announce good news to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim a remission to the captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send away with remission the bruised, ¹⁹ To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. ²⁰ And having folded the book and given back to the servant, he sat down. And the eyes of all in the assembly were looking attentively upon him. ²¹ And he began to say to them, That this day has this writing been filled up in your ears. ²² And all bore him testimony and wondered at the words of grace going out of his mouth: and said, Is not this the son of Joseph ²³ And he said to them, Directly will ye say to me this proverb, Physician, cure thyself: what things we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. ²⁴ And he said; Truly I say to you, That not any prophet is acccepted in his country. ²⁵ And I tell you of a truth, many widows were in the days of Elias in Israel, When heaven was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine Was upon all the land; ²⁶ And to none of them was Elias sent, except to Sarepta, of Sidon, to a widow-woman. ²⁷ And many leprous were during Eliseus the prophet in Israel; and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian. ²⁸ And all in the assembly were filled with wrath, hearing these things, ²⁹ And having risen up, they cast him without the city, and they brought him to the brow of the mount upon which their city was built, to hurt him down. ³⁰ And he having passed through the midst of them, went away.

¹¹ He came to his own things, and his own received him not.

¹⁵ And the Jews wondered, saying, How knows he letters, not having learned ¹⁶ Jesus answered them, and said, My teaching is not mine, but his having sent me.

¹³ And seeing the freedom of speech of Peter and John, and comprehending that they are illiterate men, and private individuals, they wondered; and they knew them, that they were with Jesus.

⁴⁶ And Paul and Barnabas speaking freely, said, To you was it first necessary for the word of God to be spoken: but since ye reject it, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the nations.

¹⁷ And it was after three days Paul called together them being first of the Jews: and they having come together, he said to them, Men, brethren, I having done nothing against the people, or customs of the fathers, I was delivered in bonds from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. ¹⁸ Who, having examined me, wished to loose, for no cause of death was in me. ¹⁹ And the Jews saying against, I was forced to appeal to Caesar; as having nothing to accuse my nation. ²⁰ For this cause therefore I besought to see you, and to speak: for, for the hope of Israel am I surrounded by this chain. ²¹ And they said to him, We neither received letters concerning thee from Judea, nor any of the brethren having been present announced or spoke any evil of thee. ²² And we desire to hear from thee what thou thinkest: for truly of this sect it is known to us that it is everywhere spoken against. ²³ And having appointed him a day, many came to him to the lodging; to whom testifying, he set forth the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morn to eve. ²⁴ And some truly were persuaded by things spoken, and some disbelieved. ²⁵ And being at variance with one another, they were let go, Paul having said one word, That well spake the Holy Spirit by Esaias the prophet to our fathers, ²⁶ Saying, Go to this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and ye should not perceive: ²⁷ For the heart of this people was thickened, and with ears heard they heavily, and their eyes they closed; lest they should see with the eyes, and with ears should hear, and with the heart they should understand, and turn back, and I should heal them. ²⁸ Be it known to you therefore, that salvation of God was sent to the nations, and they shall hear.

⁶ And I a worm and not a man; a reproach of man, and the people despised me.

⁷ Thus said Jehovah redeeming Israel, his Holy One, to the despised of soul, to him being abhorred of the nations, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and princes arose, and they shall worship him for sake of Jehovah who was faithful, the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

² He shall come up as a sucking child before him, and as a root out of a land of dryness: no form to him and no decoration; and we shall see him, and no appearance and we shall desire him. ³ He was despised and forsaken of men; a man of griefs and knowing affliction: and as hiding the faces from him; he was despised and we regarded him not

¹⁸ And the generation of Jesus Christ was thus: for Mary his mother having been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child by the Holy Ghost. ¹⁹ And Joseph her husband being just, and not willing to expose her to disgrace, wished to let her go in secret. ²⁰ And reflecting upon these things, behold a messenger of the Lord appeared to him saying, Joseph, thou son of David, thou shouldest not fear to take to thyself Mary thy wife: for that begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit.

⁴⁶ And he yet speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him. ⁴⁷ And a certain one said to him, Behold, thy mother, and thy brethren stand without, seeking to speak to thee. ⁴⁸ And he having answered, said to him speaking to him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

⁵⁶ Among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.

³ Is not this the carpenter, son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Jude, and Simon and are not his sisters here with us? And they were scandalized in him.

⁴⁰ And women also were beholding from far: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary of James the small and the mother of Joses, and Salome;

⁴⁷ And Mary Magdalene and Mari of Joses were beholding where he is laid.

²⁷ To a virgin betrothed to a man to whom the name of Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name Mary.

⁵ To be enrolled with Mary his betrothed wife, being pregnant. ⁶ And it was in their being there, the days were completed for her to bring forth. ⁷ And she brought forth her firstborn son, and swathed him, and put him in a mangier; : for there was no place for them in the inn.

²³ And Jesus himself was beginning about thirty years, being, as was thought, the son of Joseph, of Eli,

²² And all bore him testimony and wondered at the words of grace going out of his mouth: and said, Is not this the son of Joseph

¹⁰ And they were Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and the rest with them, who said these things to the sent.

⁴⁵ And Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, Of whom Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets, we have found, Jesus, son of Joseph, him from Nazareth. ⁴⁶ And Nathanael said to him, Can any good be from Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.

⁴² And they said, Is not this Jesus, Joseph's son, whose father and mother we know? how then says he, That I have come down from heaven?

⁴¹ Others said, This is Christ: and others said, Yet Christ comes not out of Galilee. ⁴² Said not the writing, That of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the town where David was, Christ comes?

²⁹ We know that God has spoken to Moses; but this, we know not whence he is.

²⁵ And by the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

¹⁹ And other of the sect I saw not, except James the Lord's brother.

¹⁴ And he was for a holy place and for a stone of striking, and for a rock of falling to the two houses of Israel; for a trap net and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

³ He was despised and forsaken of men; a man of griefs and knowing affliction: and as hiding the faces from him; he was despised and we regarded him not

¹⁴ And king Herod heard his name; (for it was manifest:) and said, That John the Immerser was raised from the dead, and for this the powers were energetic in him.

³⁴ And Simeon praised them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, he is laid for the fall and rising up of many in Israel; and for a sign spoken against; ³⁵ (And also a spear shall pass through the soul of thyself,) so that the reasonings from many hearts might be revealed.

²⁴ And he said; Truly I say to you, That not any prophet is acccepted in his country.

²³ And happy is he, whoever should not be offended in me.

⁴⁴ For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honour in his own country.

⁶¹ And Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmur for this, said to them, Does this offend you?

²² For Moses truly said to the fathers, That a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you from your brethren, like me; him shall ye hear according to all whatever he speak to you. ²³ And it shall be, whoever hears not that prophet, shall be destroyed from the people.

³⁷ This is Moses, having said to the sons of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you of your brethren, like me; him shall ye hear. ³⁸ This is he having been in the church in the desert with the messenger speaking to him in Mount Sina, and our fathers: who received the living oracles to give to us: ³⁹ To whom our fathers would not be obedient, but rejected, and in their hearts they turned back into Egypt,

⁵¹ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers, also you. ⁵² Which of the prophets did not your fathers drive out and they slew them announcing beforehand of the coming of the Just; of whom ye have now been traitors and murderers:

²³ And we proclaim Christ crucified, to the Jews truly a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness; ²⁴ And to these the called, to both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and wisdom of God. ²⁵ For the foolish thing of God is wiser than men; and the weak thing of God is stronger than men. ²⁶ For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not, many well born: ²⁷ But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong; ²⁸ And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:

²⁵ And I tell you of a truth, many widows were in the days of Elias in Israel, When heaven was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine Was upon all the land; ²⁶ And to none of them was Elias sent, except to Sarepta, of Sidon, to a widow-woman. ²⁷ And many leprous were during Eliseus the prophet in Israel; and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian. ²⁸ And all in the assembly were filled with wrath, hearing these things, ²⁹ And having risen up, they cast him without the city, and they brought him to the brow of the mount upon which their city was built, to hurt him down.

²⁰ Well; for unbelief were they broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but do thou fear:

¹² See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God. ¹³ But beseech one another according to each day, as far as the day is called; lest any of you be hardened by deceit of sin. ¹⁴ For we have been partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our foundation firm to the end; ¹⁵ In that it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, ye should not harden your hearts, as in the exasperation. ¹⁶ For some, having heard, did exasperate: but not all they having come out of Egypt by Moses. ¹⁷ And with whom was he offended forty years? was it not with them having sinned, whose members fell in the desert? ¹⁸ And to whom sware he that they could not come into his rest, if not to them having been disobedient? ¹⁹ And we see they could not come in through unbelief.

⁶ Since therefore it remains for some to come into it, and they before announced of the good news came not in through unbelief: ⁷ Again he limits a certain day, saying in David, To day, after such time; as it is said, To day if ye would hear his voice, harden not your hearts. ⁸ For if Jesus had caused them to rest, he would not have spoken of another day after these things. ⁹ Therefore a celebration of a sabbath remains to the people of God. ¹⁰ For he having come into his rest, he also has ceased from his works, as God from his own. ¹¹ Therefore we should be earnest to come into that rest, lest any should fall in the same pattern of unbelief.