Philippians Cross References - MLV

¹ Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Jesus Christ, to all the holy-ones in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons : ² grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
³ I am giving-thanks to my God upon every remembrance of you, ⁴ always in my every supplication on behalf of all of you, making the supplication with joy, ⁵ on your fellowship in the good-news from the first day till now. ⁶ I have confidence of this same thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will be completing it till the day of Jesus Christ; ⁷ just-as it is a righteous thing for me to be mindful of this on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the good-news, all of you being joint partners with me of the grace. ⁸ For God is my witness, how I am longing-for all of you in the affections of Christ Jesus. ⁹ And I am praying for this: in order that your love may abound still more and more in full knowledge and all comprehension; ¹⁰ that you may approve the things which are carrying more-value; in order that you may be sincere and guilt-free in the day of Christ; ¹¹ having been filled with the fruits of righteousness, which is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
¹² Now brethren, I am planning for you to know, that the things against me have come rather for the progress of the good-news; ¹³ so-that my bonds became apparent in Christ in the whole palace guard and to all the rest; ¹⁴ and that most of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence because of my bonds, are even-more daring to speak fearlessly the word of God. ¹⁵ Some indeed are preaching the Christ even because of envy and strife, but some also through their delight. ¹⁶ Those are indeed proclaiming the Christ out of selfish ambition, not purely, assuming to bring affliction to my bonds. ¹⁷ But the latter ones do it out of love, knowing that I am destined for the defense of the good-news. ¹⁸ For what then? Except that in every manner, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and I am rejoicing in this, but also, I will be rejoicing again. ¹⁹ For I know that this will be transpiring for my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, ²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will be shamed in nothing, but as always, now Christ will also be magnified in my body in all boldness, whether through life or through death. ²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. ²² But if to live in the flesh–this is the fruit of work to me, and what will I select for myself? I do not know. ²³ But I am troubled from the two ends, having the desire, that I should vacate and be together with Christ, but it is much better rather ²⁴ now to remain in the flesh is necessary because of you. ²⁵ And having confidence of this, I know that I will remain, and I will be abiding together with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith; ²⁶ in order that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me, through my presence with you again. ²⁷ Only behave-as citizens worthy of the good-news of the Christ; in order that, whether I come and see you, or am absent, I may hear about the things concerning you, that you are standing-firm in one spirit, with one soul contending together with us in the faith of the good-news. ²⁸ And being terrified in nothing by those who lay in opposition to you; which to them indeed is an example of destruction, but to you is an example of salvation and this thing is from God, ²⁹ because it was granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf; ³⁰ having the same struggle such-as you saw in me, and now are hearing to be in me.

³⁴ It is like a man, going-abroad, having left his house and given authority to his bondservants, and his work to each one, and he commanded the doorkeeper in order that he should watch.

²⁶ If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, my servant will also be there. And if anyone serves me, the Father will be honoring him.

²⁰ For it has been written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation become desolate and do not let there be one dwelling in it’and, ‘Let a different one take his overseership.’

¹ Now in the days when the disciples were multiplying, there became a murmuring from the Grecian Jews aimed toward the Hebrews, because their widows were being left unattended in the daily service. ² Now the twelve called the multitude of the disciples to them and said, It is not pleasing to God for us to have left the word of God to serve tables. ³ Therefore brethren, elect out of you seven men well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we might designate over this need. ⁴ But we will be persevering in prayer and in the service of the word. ⁵ And the speech pleased the whole multitude and they themselves chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolaus a Jewish-convert from Antioch; ⁶ whom they stood in the sight of the apostles and having prayed, they laid their hands upon them.
⁷ And the word of God was growing, and the number of the disciples were extremely multiplying in Jerusalem, and a large crowd of the priests were obedient to the faith.

¹³ But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many concerning this man and how-much evil he did to your holy-ones in Jerusalem,

¹ Now he arrived in Derbe and Lystra, and behold, a certain disciple was there, Timothy by name, the son of a certain believing Jewess and a Greek father. ² He was being testified of by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium. ³ This one, Paul wished to go forth together with him, and he took Timothy and circumcised him because of the Jews who are in those places; for they all knew that his father was Greek.

¹² and from there to Philippi, which is the first city of that part of Macedonia, a Roman colony. Now we were staying in the city for some days. ¹³ And on the Sabbath day, we went forth outside the city beside a river, where we supposed it to be a place of prayer, and having sat down and we were speaking to the women who had come together. ¹⁴ And a certain woman, Lydia by name, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira was hearing us and worshiping God, whose heart the Lord opened to take-heed to the things being spoken from Paul. ¹⁵ Now as she and her household were immersed, she pleaded with us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, abide here, having entered into my house. And she constrained us.

²⁸ Therefore, take-heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit placed you as overseers, to shepherd the congregation of the Lord and God, which the Lord acquired through his own blood.

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Paul, bondservant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good-news of God,

⁷ To all those who are in Rome, beloved of God, called holy-ones: grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother, ² to the congregation of God which is in Corinth–those who have been made holy in Christ Jesus, called ones, holy-ones, together with all who are calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

¹⁰ Now if Timothy comes, see to it, in order that he may become fearless toward you; for he is working the work of the Lord, as I also am.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will be of God and Timothy our brother, to the congregation of God who are in Corinth, together with all the holy-ones who are in the whole of Achaia:

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the holy-ones who are in Ephesus and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

¹⁵ Because of this, I, also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is in you and the love which you have toward all the holy-ones,

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, ² to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ who are in Colosse: grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the congregation of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

² But having suffered before, and having been abused in Philippi, just-as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the good-news of God, even in our large struggle.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the congregation of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

¹⁰ whenever he may come to be glorified in his holy-ones, and to be marveled at in that day in all those who have believed, (because our testimony to you was believed).

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

¹ Faithful is the word: if a any man is aspiring to the overseership, he is desiring a good work. ² Therefore, it is essential for the overseer to be: unimpeachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, orderly, hospitable, skilled in teaching;

⁸ Deacons likewise must be honorable, not double-tongued, not taking-heed to much wine, not covetous;

¹⁰ But let these also first be tested; thereafter let them serve, being irreproachable.
¹¹ Women likewise must be honorable, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.
¹² Let deacons be husbands of one wife, governing their children and their own houses well. ¹³ For those who have served well are acquiring for themselves a good rank and much boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

¹ Paul, a bondservant of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen and the full knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

⁷ For it is essential for the overseer to be irreproachable as God’s steward; not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not a drunkard, not a bully, not covetous;

²³ Do you know that our brother Timothy has been released? With whom, I will be seeing you if he comes shortly.

¹ James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes, those who are in the dispersion. Hail to you!

²⁵ For you were being misled like sheep, but now were returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

¹ Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are allotted an equally precious faith with us, in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

¹ Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to the called one, those who have been made holy in God the Father and have been kept in Jesus Christ:

¹ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his bondservants; the things which are essential to happen shortly and he signified it, having sent it through his messenger to his bondservant John;

²⁰ The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lamp-stands is this : the seven stars are the messengers of the seven congregations and the seven lamp-stands are seven congregations.

⁸ And write to the messenger of the congregation in Smyrna:
The first and the last, who became dead and lived again says these things:

¹² And write to the messenger of the congregation in Pergamus:
He who has the sharp two edged long-sword says these things:

¹⁰ And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he says to me, See that you do not do that. I am a fellow bondservant of you and of your brethren who are holding the testimony of Jesus. Worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

⁹ And he says to me, See that you do not do that. I am your fellow bondservant and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who are keeping the words of this book. Worship God.

² grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

² according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the holiness of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: grace to you and may peace be multiplied.

⁸ First indeed, I am giving-thanks to my God through Jesus Christ on behalf of all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world. ⁹ For God is my witness, to whom I am giving-divine service in my spirit in the good-news of his Son, as I constantly make a remembrance of you.

¹⁷ But gratitude to God, that, though you were bondservants of sin, you obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were given;

⁴ I am always giving-thanks to my God concerning you, on the basis of the grace of God which was given to you in Christ Jesus;

¹⁵ Because of this, I, also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is in you and the love which you have toward all the holy-ones, ¹⁶ am not ceasing giving-thanks on your behalf, making a remembrance of you in my prayers;

³ We are giving-thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying concerning you, ⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the holy-ones,

² We are always giving-thanks to God concerning all of you, making a remembrance of you in our prayers; ³ constantly remembering your work of the faith, and labor of love, and of the endurance of the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father,

⁹ For what thanksgiving are we able to repay to God concerning you? Over all the joy in which we are rejoicing before our God is because of you,

³ Brethren, we always ought to thank God concerning you, just-as it is worthy, because your faith is growing substantially, and the love of each one of you all toward one another is increasing;

³ I have gratitude to God, to whom I am giving-divine service from my ancestors in a clean conscience, as I have constant remembrance concerning you in my supplications, night and day. ⁴ I am always giving-thanks to my God, making a remembrance of you in my prayers, ⁵ hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the holy-ones;

⁷ I say to you thus, that there will be joy in heaven over one repenting sinner, more than over ninety nine righteous ones, who have no need of repentance.

¹⁰ Even so, I say to you, There becomes joy in the sight of the messengers of God over one repenting sinner.

⁹ For God is my witness, to whom I am giving-divine service in my spirit in the good-news of his Son, as I constantly make a remembrance of you.

¹⁴ which is a down-payment of our inheritance, to the redemption of the ownership of God to the praise of his glory.
¹⁵ Because of this, I, also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is in you and the love which you have toward all the holy-ones, ¹⁶ am not ceasing giving-thanks on your behalf, making a remembrance of you in my prayers; ¹⁷ in order that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him, ¹⁸ the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the holy-ones, ¹⁹ and what is the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his strength, ²⁰ which he worked in the Christ, having raised him up from the dead and seated him by his right hand in the heavenly places, ²¹ up above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name that is being named, not only in this age, but also in the future age. \ulnone\nosupersub ²² And he subjected all things under his feet and gave him to be head above all things to the congregation of believers, ²³ which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all in all.

⁹ And I am praying for this: in order that your love may abound still more and more in full knowledge and all comprehension; ¹⁰ that you may approve the things which are carrying more-value; in order that you may be sincere and guilt-free in the day of Christ; ¹¹ having been filled with the fruits of righteousness, which is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

² fulfill my joy, in order that you may be mindful of the same thing, having the same love, fellowship in spirit, being mindful of the one thing,

¹⁸ For many are walking, (of whom I was speaking to you often about them; now I am also telling you, weeping), who are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

¹ So-then my brethren, beloved and longed-for, my joy and crown, so stand-firm in the Lord, my beloved.

⁵ For even if I am absent in the flesh, but yet I am together with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

² We are always giving-thanks to God concerning all of you, making a remembrance of you in our prayers;

¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting, or is it not also you, which is before our Lord Jesus Christ at his presence? ²⁰ For you are our glory and our joy.

⁷ For we have much gratitude and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the holy-ones have been given-rest through you, brother.

⁴ I rejoice exceedingly that I have found some out of your children walking in truth, just-as we received commandment from the Father.

⁴² Now they were persevering in the apostles’teaching and in fellowship and in the breaking of the bread and in prayers.

¹² and from there to Philippi, which is the first city of that part of Macedonia, a Roman colony. Now we were staying in the city for some days. ¹³ And on the Sabbath day, we went forth outside the city beside a river, where we supposed it to be a place of prayer, and having sat down and we were speaking to the women who had come together. ¹⁴ And a certain woman, Lydia by name, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira was hearing us and worshiping God, whose heart the Lord opened to take-heed to the things being spoken from Paul. ¹⁵ Now as she and her household were immersed, she pleaded with us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, abide here, having entered into my house. And she constrained us.

¹⁶ Now it happened, while traveling to the place of prayer, that a certain maidservant encountered us, having a spirit of divination, who was providing her lords much business by fortune-telling. ¹⁷ This maidservant was crying out, having followed after Paul and us, saying, These men are bondservants of the Highest God, who are proclaiming to us the way of salvation. ¹⁸ Now she was doing this for many days. But Paul, also being pained, turned and said to the spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come forth away from her. And it came out in the same hour.
¹⁹ But when her lords saw that the hope of their business was gone, grabbing Paul and Silas, they dragged them into the marketplace in front of the rulers. ²⁰ Having led them to the magistrates, they said, These men, being Jews, are disturbing our city, ²¹ and are proclaiming customs which it is not legal for us to accept, or to do, being Romans. ²² And the crowd stood up together against them, and the magistrates, having ripped off their garments, were commanding the sergeants to lash them with rods. ²³ And having laid many lashes on them, they cast them into prison, after having commanded the jailor to securely guard them. ²⁴ Having received such a command, he cast them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the wood stocks.


²⁵ But toward midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were their audience; ²⁶ and suddenly there became a great earthquake, so-that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and instantly all the doors were opened and everyone’s bonds were lax. ²⁷ But the jailor, came out of sleep and saw the doors of the prison had been open, drew his sword and was about to assassinate himself, supposing the prisoners to have fled. ²⁸ But Paul shouted with a loud voice, saying, Do nothing evil to yourself; for we are all here.
²⁹ Now when he asked for lights, he dashed in and came in trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, ³⁰ and having led them out, he said, Lords, what is essential for me to do in order that I might be saved?
³¹ Now they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your house. ³² And they spoke the word of the Lord to him, to all who were in his house. ³³ And having taken them in that same hour of the night, he fully-washed their lashes, and he and all his household were instantly immersed^*. \ulnone\nosupersub ³⁴ And he led them up into his house and placed a table before them, and was glad with all his household, all having believed in God.
³⁵ But when it became day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Release those men.
³⁶ Now the jailor reported these words to Paul, saying, The magistrates have sent me in order that you should be released. Therefore when you come out now, travel in peace.
³⁷ But Paul said to them, They have whipped us in public, uncondemned men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison, and are they now casting us out secretly? No, but when they come, let them lead us outside.
³⁸ Now the sergeants reported these words to the magistrates and they feared, having heard that they were Romans. ³⁹ And when they came, they pleaded with them, and having led them outside, they asked them to go out away from the city.
⁴⁰ Now when they came out of the prison and they entered into the house of Lydia, and having seen the brethren, they encouraged them and went out.

¹⁷ But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a fellow partner of the root and of the plumpness of the olive tree among them.

¹³ sharing in the needs of the holy-ones; pursuing your hospitality.

²⁶ For Macedonia and Achaia were delighted to make a certain generosity to the poor of the holy-ones in Jerusalem.

⁹ God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹ Now brethren, we are making known to you the grace of God which has been given in the congregations of Macedonia;

¹⁹ Therefore consequently, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens of the holy-ones and members of the household of God, ²⁰ having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ himself being the cornerstone; ²¹ in whom all the building, fitly framed together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; ²² in whom you are also built together into a residence of God in the Spirit.

⁶ The mystery is that the Gentiles are to be joint heirs and a joint body and joint partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good-news,

⁷ just-as it is a righteous thing for me to be mindful of this on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the good-news, all of you being joint partners with me of the grace.

¹² So-then my beloved, just-as you have always obeyed, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

¹⁴ However you did well, having shared together with my affliction. ¹⁵ Now you also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the good-news, when I went out from Macedonia, no congregation shared with me in the word of the giving and receiving, except you only.

²¹ And you were previously alienated and were enemies in mind, in evil works, but yet he reconciled you\super\'b0 ²² in the body of his flesh through his death, to present you holy and unblemished and irreproachable in his sight; ²³ if you actually are remaining in the faith, having been founded and grounded and not being moved away from the hope of the good-news which you heard, which was preached in all creation which is under heaven; of which I, Paul, became a servant.

¹⁷ Therefore, if you have me like a partner, receive him like myself.

¹⁴ For we have become companions of the Christ, if indeed we hold-onto the beginning of our firmness steadfast till the end;

³ What we have seen and have heard, we report to you, in order that you may also have fellowship with us, but also our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ;

⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son is cleansing us from every sin.

⁸ Jehovah will perfect what is on my behalf. Your loving kindness, O Jehovah, is everlasting. Do not forsake the works of your own hands.

²⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, in order that you might believe in the one whom that one has sent.

¹⁸ But having heard these things, they were quiet and glorifying God, saying, Consequently, God has also given repentance to the Gentiles into life.

{40-41 AD. Antioch, Phoenicia, Cyprus, etc. The Good-news extended to all the Gentiles. Jan., 41 AD Claudius becomes Emperor.}

¹⁴ And a certain woman, Lydia by name, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira was hearing us and worshiping God, whose heart the Lord opened to take-heed to the things being spoken from Paul.

²⁸ Now we know that all things work together toward good, to those who love God, to those who are an invited one according to his purpose. ²⁹ Because, whom he knew beforehand, he also predetermined, one transformed to the image of his Son, that he himself might be the firstborn among many brethren; ³⁰ and whom he predetermined, he also invited these and whom he invited, he also made these righteous and whom he made righteous, he also glorified these.

⁸ who will also confirm you until the end, so that you are irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ And in this confidence, I was planning to come to you beforehand, in order that you might have a second favor from me;

³ And I wrote this same thing to you, in order that, having come to you, I might not have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in all of you, that my joy is the joy of all of you.

¹⁶ I rejoice that in everything I have courage in you.

⁴ lest, if some Macedonians come together with me and might find you unprepared, we (that we should not say, you) should be ashamed in this firmness of boasting.

¹⁰ I have confidence in you in the Lord, that you will not be mindful of another person and he who is disturbing you will be bearing his judgment, whoever he is.

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of his much love with which he loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead through our trespasses, he made us alive together with the Christ; you are saved in his grace. ⁶ And God raised us up together with him and seated us together with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus; ⁷ in order that in the coming ages, he might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For you are saved by the grace through the faith, and this thing, the gift of God, is not from you; ⁹ not from works, in order that not anyone should boast. ¹⁰ For we are his product, created in Christ Jesus toward good works, in which God prepared beforehand in order that we should walk in them.

¹² for the equipping of the holy-ones, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of the Christ,

¹⁰ that you may approve the things which are carrying more-value; in order that you may be sincere and guilt-free in the day of Christ;

²⁹ because it was granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf;

¹³ For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work, on behalf of his delight.

¹² having been buried together with him in the immersion, in which you were also raised up together with him through the faith from the working of God, who raised him up from the dead.

³ constantly remembering your work of the faith, and labor of love, and of the endurance of the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father,

²³ Now may the God of peace himself make you entirely holy, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ He is faithful who calls you, who will also do it.

¹¹ For which, we are also always praying concerning you, in order that our God might deem you worthy of your calling, and might fulfill every delight of goodness, and every work of faith in power,

¹³ But we ought to thank God always concerning you brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God himself selected you from the beginning to salvation in holiness of the Spirit and in faith of the truth; ¹⁴ to which he called you through our good-news, for the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ Now we have confidence in the Lord on the basis of you, that you are both practicing and will be practicing the things which we command you.

⁴ But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love of mankind had appeared: ⁵ he saved us (not from any works done in righteousness, which we practiced), but according to his mercy, through the full-washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

²¹ I wrote to you, having confidence in your obedience, knowing that you will be doing even beyond what I am saying.

³⁵ Therefore do not cast away your boldness, which has great reward.

² Looking away from things, look toward Jesus, the author and completer of the faith, who endured the cross having despised shame, in exchange-for the joy laying before him, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought up the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, from the dead in the blood of an everlasting covenant, ²¹ may he complete you in every good work, that you should practice his will, doing what is well pleasing in his sight in you, through Jesus Christ in whom is the glory, forevermore. Amen.

¹⁶ Do not be misled, my beloved brethren!
¹⁷ Every good act of giving, and every complete gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor a shadow of turning. ¹⁸ Having willed it, he gave-birth to us with the word of truth, that we might be a certain first-fruit of his created things.

² according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the holiness of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: grace to you and may peace be multiplied.
³ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is gracious, who according to his much mercy has born us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

¹⁰ But the God of all grace, who called you to his everlasting glory in Christ Jesus, when you have suffered a small time, he himself may frame you up, will establish, will strengthen and will found you.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will be coming like a thief in the night; in which the heavens will be passing away with a crashing-sound, and the elements will be dissolved, being burnt with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it will be burned up.

²³ And having laid many lashes on them, they cast them into prison, after having commanded the jailor to securely guard them. ²⁴ Having received such a command, he cast them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the wood stocks.


²⁵ But toward midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were their audience;

²³ except that the Holy Spirit is thoroughly testifying to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions are remaining for me.

³³ Now the commander drew near and grabbed him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he might be, and what he is doing.

²³ But I am doing this because of the good-news, in order that I might become a fellow partner of it.

⁷ It is forbearing all things, is believing all things, is hoping for all things, is enduring all things.

² You are our letter, having been inscribed in our hearts, being known and read by all men;

³ I am not saying this toward your condemnation; for I have said before, that you are in our hearts, that we may die together with you and we may live together with you.

⁶ For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails over anything in Christ Jesus, but faith working through love.

¹ Because of this, I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

¹ Therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, am encouraging you to walk worthily of the calling in which you were called,

²⁰ on behalf of which, I am an ambassador in a chain; in order that I should speak boldly in it, as it is essential for me to speak.

⁵ on your fellowship in the good-news from the first day till now.

¹⁶ Those are indeed proclaiming the Christ out of selfish ambition, not purely, assuming to bring affliction to my bonds. ¹⁷ But the latter ones do it out of love, knowing that I am destined for the defense of the good-news.

¹⁴ However you did well, having shared together with my affliction.

³ praying at the same time concerning us also, in order that God may open a door of the word to us, to speak the mystery of the Christ, because of which I have also been bound;

¹⁸ The greeting from me, Paul, with my own hand. Remember my bonds. Grace is with you. Amen.

² We are always giving-thanks to God concerning all of you, making a remembrance of you in our prayers; ³ constantly remembering your work of the faith, and labor of love, and of the endurance of the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father, ⁴ knowing beloved brethren your choice by God. ⁵ You know because our good-news did not happened to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much full assurance; just-as you know what manner of men we became among you, because of you.

⁵ You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night, nor of darkness;

⁸ Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor me, his prisoner, but suffer-hardship together with the good-news according to the power of God,

⁹ in which I am suffering evil treatment, even as far as bonds, like a criminal, but the word of God has not been bound.

¹ Hence, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus Christ, the Apostle and High-Priest of our confession;

⁹ But, beloved, we have confidence of the better things concerning you and better things holding salvation, even if we speak so. ¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the labor of the love which you showed toward his name, having served the holy-ones and still serving them.

³³ in this thing indeed, makes you a spectacle both by reproaches and afflictions, but in this thing, you became partners of those who conducted themselves so. ³⁴ For you also sympathized together with me in my bonds, and you accepted the plunder of your possessions with joy, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession in the heavens and an abiding one.

¹³ But accordingly you are sharing in the sufferings of the Christ with us, rejoice, in order that you may also rejoice in the revelation of his glory, being glad.

¹ I am encouraging the elders the ones among you, (the fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, also the partner of the glory which is about to be revealed).

¹³ But I am deeming it righteous, inasmuch as I am in this tabernacle, to arouse you with a reminder;

¹⁴ We know that we have stepped out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother is abiding in death.

¹¹ Therefore my heart roars like a harp for Moab and my inward parts for Kir-heres.

¹⁵ Look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassions are restrained toward me.

²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says Jehovah.

⁷⁸ through the heart of mercy of our God, in which the rising of light from on high has visited us,

¹ I say the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience is testifying together with me in the Holy Spirit,

¹² You are not distressed by us, but you are distressed by your own affections,

¹⁵ And his affections is even-more toward you, while he is remembering the obedience of all of you, how with fear and trembling you accepted him.

⁹ For we rejoice, whenever we are weak, but you may be mighty. We are also praying for this: your completion.

²⁰ Now concerning the things which I write to you, behold, in God’s sight, I am not lying.

¹⁹ My little-children, of whom I am in travail again till whenever Christ has been formed in you.

¹ Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affections and mercies,

²⁶ since he was longing-for you all, and was disheartened because you had heard that he was sick.

¹ For I wish you to know how-vast a struggle I have concerning you and those in Laodicea and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

¹² Therefore as chosen ones of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with a heart of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, patience,

⁵ For just-as you know, (God being witness), we neither previously came in words of flattery, nor in a pretext of greed,

⁸ So having kindly-feelings of you, we were delighted to have given to you not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us.

⁴ I am longing to see you, having been reminded of your tears, in order that I may be filled from joy;

¹² But you, receive him, this is my heart;

²⁰ Yes, brother, let me derive benefit from you in the Lord. Give-rest to my heart in the Lord.

¹⁷ But whoever has the world’s good life and should view his brother having need and then should lock his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

⁹ Yet the righteous will hold on his way. And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.

³¹ He placed another parable before them, saying: The kingdom of the heavens is similar to a kernel of a mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed in his field; ³² which indeed is least compared to all of the other seeds, but whenever it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so-that the birds of the heaven come and nest in its branches.
³³ He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is similar to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three three-gallon containers of flour, until it was entirely leavened.

²⁰ Brethren, do not become children in your mindsets, (but be infants in malice), but become mature in your mindsets.

⁷ But just-as you are abounding in everything, in faith and in word and in knowledge and in all diligence and in the love from you to us, see that you also may abound in this favor.

¹⁷ Because of this, do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

¹⁵ Therefore, as many as are mature, we should be mindful of this, and if you are mindful of anyone differently, God will also be revealing this to you; ¹⁶ however in what we have attained, we are to march by the same standard, to be mindful of the same things.

⁹ Because of this, we also do not cease praying and asking on your behalf from the day we heard it, in order that you may be filled with the full knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and intelligence,

¹⁰ and have clothed yourselves with the new man, who is being renewed to the full knowledge according to the image of the one who created him;

¹² And may the Lord increase in you and this increase to abound in love toward one another and toward all men, just-as we also do toward you;

¹ Therefore furthermore brethren, we request and are encouraging you in the Lord Jesus, just-as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, in order that you might abound even more.

⁹ Now concerning brotherly-love, you have no need for someone to write to you; for you yourselves are taught by God, that you should love one another; ¹⁰ for you are also practicing it toward all the brethren who are in the whole of Macedonia. But brethren, we encourage you, that you abound even more,

⁶ that the fellowship of your faith might become effective in the full knowledge of every good thing, which is in you, to Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ But solid nourishment is for the mature ones, from those who, through their habit, have had their senses exercised to the discerning of both good and evil.

²² Having purified your souls in the obedience to the truth through the Spirit toward non-pretended brotherly-love, intensely love^*\'b0 one another from a clean heart;

⁵ Now also for this same thing, besides having entered in all diligence, supply in your faith, virtue, and in your virtue, knowledge ⁶ and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, endurance, and in your endurance, godliness;

¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory is to him, both now and toward the final day of this world. Amen.

⁵ Did he not himself say to me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.

¹⁴ Now therefore fear Jehovah and serve him in sincerity and in truth. And put away the gods which your* fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt and serve you* Jehovah.

¹¹ Does not the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

³ For the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.

¹⁵ Butter and honey will he eat, when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good. ¹⁶ For before the child will know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor will be forsaken.

¹⁴ Seek good and not evil, that you* may live and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you*, as you* say. ¹⁵ Hate the evil and love the good and establish justice in the gate. It may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

² You* who hate the good and love the evil, who pluck off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones,

²³ But he turned and said to Peter, Go behind me, adversary! You are an offense to me, because you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.

⁶ But whoever offends one of these little ones who believes in me, it is more advantageous for him that a millstone, the ones rotated by a donkey, should be hung at his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.
⁷ Woe to the world from the coming offenses! For it is a necessity for the offenses to come; however, woe to that man through whom the offense comes!

³³ But Peter answered and said to him, If all will be offended at you; but I will never be offended.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and says concerning him, Behold, an Israelite in whom there truly is no treachery!

²⁰ For everyone who is practicing evil, hates the light, and is not coming to the light, in order that his works should not convict him.

¹⁶ But I apply myself in this, having a guilt-free conscience always toward God and men.

¹⁸ and know God’s will and approve the things which carry more-value, being instructed out of the law,

¹⁶ But if I am practicing this thing which I do not will, I assent together with the law; that it is good.

²² For I delight-inwardly in the law of God according to the inward man.

⁷ because the mindset of the flesh is hostility toward God; for it is not subject to the law of God, for neither is it able to be;

² And not to fashion yourselves to this age, but be transfigured by the renewal of your mind, that you may be proving in you what is the will of God: the good and acceptable and mature.

⁹ Let the love be non-pretended, abhorring evil things, joining yourselves to what is the good thing.

²⁰ Do not tear-down the work of God because of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is evil to the man who eats through a stumbling block. ²¹ It is good not to eat meats, nor to drink wine, nor anything in which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weak.

¹⁷ Now brethren, I am encouraging you, to note those making the dissensions and the offenses contrary to the teaching which you learned and are practicing, and shun away from them.

¹³ Hence, if food is offending my brother, I should never eat idol’s meat forever, in order that I may not offend my brother.

³² Do not become a stumbling block, either to Jews or to Greeks, or to the congregation of God;

¹² For this is our boasting, the testimony of our conscience, that in clarity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world and even-more toward you.

¹⁷ For we are not as the rest who are peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, in God’s sight, we speak in Christ.

³ giving no one a stumbling block in anything, in order that the service from us might not be blamed.

⁸ I do not speak according to commandment, but I am testing the genuineness of your love through the diligence of others.

¹³ For such men are false apostles, workers of treachery, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And it is not a marvelous thing; for even the Adversary fashions himself into a messenger of light. ¹⁵ Therefore, it is no great thing if his servants are also fashioned like servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

¹¹ But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Consequently, has the offense of the cross been done-away?

¹⁵ But telling the truth in love, that we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, the Christ;

¹⁰ testing what is well pleasing to the Lord.

²⁷ in order that he might present her to himself, the glorious congregation, not having stain or wrinkle or any such things, but in order that she should be holy and unblemished.

²⁴ Grace is with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption. Amen.

⁶ I have confidence of this same thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will be completing it till the day of Jesus Christ;

¹⁶ Those are indeed proclaiming the Christ out of selfish ambition, not purely, assuming to bring affliction to my bonds.

¹³ that he might establish your hearts, blameless in holiness before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his holy-ones.

²¹ Test all things. Hold-onto the good things.

²³ Now may the God of peace himself make you entirely holy, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹² For you also ought to be teachers by now because of the time, but you again have need of one to teach you what are the fundamental principles of the beginning oracles of God, and have become ones having need of milk and not of solid nourishment. ¹³ For everyone who partakes of milk is inexperienced of the word of righteousness; for he is an infant. ¹⁴ But solid nourishment is for the mature ones, from those who, through their habit, have had their senses exercised to the discerning of both good and evil.

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

² I know your works and your labor and endurance and that you are not able to bear evil men and you tested those who are saying about themselves, They are apostles and are not and you have found them false;

³ And he will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. And whatever he does will prosper.

¹² A righteous man will flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. ¹³ Men who are planted in the house of Jehovah will flourish in the courts of our God.
¹⁴ They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green ¹⁵ to show that Jehovah is upright. He is my rock and there is no unrighteousness in him.

² And he dug it and gathered out the stones of it and planted it with the choicest vine and built a tower in the midst of it and also hewed out a winepress in it. And he looked that it should bring forth grapes and it brought out wild grapes.

²¹ Your people also will all be righteous. They will inherit the land everlasting, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

³ to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.

¹¹ For as the earth brings forth its bud and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so the lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

¹⁶ So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and may glorify your Father, the one in the heavens.

⁶ Now he spoke this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it and found none. ⁷ Now he said to the vine-dresser, Behold three years, I come seeking fruit and find none in this fig tree. Cut it down. Why does it also do-away-with the good soil?
⁸ But he answered and says to him, Lord, Also leave it this year, until I should dig around it and put in manure; ⁹ and if it indeed produces fruit, good; otherwise you will be cutting it down in the future.

² Every branch which is not bringing forth fruit in me, he takes it away and every branch which is bringing forth fruit, he prunes it, in order that it may bring forth more fruit.

⁴ Abide in me and I in you. Just-as the branch is not able to bring forth fruit from itself, if it does not abide in the vine; so neither can you if you do not abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, this one is bringing forth much fruit, because you are not able to do anything separate from me.

⁸ My Father is glorified in this, in order that you may bring forth much fruit and will become my disciples.

¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, in order that you should go and should bring forth fruit and in order that your fruit should abide, that if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he should give it to you.

²² But now, having been made free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit leading to holiness and the end everlasting life.

²⁸ Therefore, having completed this thing and having sealed this fruit for them, I will be going away into Spain through you.

³¹ Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or if you are doing anything, do all to the glory of God.

¹⁰ Now he who is supplying seed to the sower and bread for food, may supply and may multiply your seed and may cause the growth of the fruits of your righteousness.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ meekness and self-control. There is no law against such.

¹² That we should be for the praise of his glory, we who have hoped before in the Christ,

¹⁴ which is a down-payment of our inheritance, to the redemption of the ownership of God to the praise of his glory.

¹⁰ For we are his product, created in Christ Jesus toward good works, in which God prepared beforehand in order that we should walk in them.

⁹ (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

¹⁷ Not that I am seeking after the present, but I am seeking after the fruit that increases to your account.

⁶ This good-news which is present for you; just-as it also is in all the world. And is bearing-fruit and growing, just-as it also does in you, from the day you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth;

¹⁰ for you to walk worthy of the Lord for pleasing him in everything, bearing-fruit in every good work and growing into the full knowledge of God;

¹² that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ might be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹¹ Now indeed all disciplining does not seem to be a thing of joy for the present, but of sorrow; now later it gives peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised because of it.

¹⁵ Therefore, let us always offer up a sacrifice of praising through him to God, that is, the fruit of our lips confessing in his name. ¹⁶ But do not forget the practice of good and fellowship; for God is well pleased with such sacrifices.

¹⁷ But the wisdom which is from above is indeed first pure, thereafter is peaceful, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-pretended. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who are making peace.

⁵ You, yourselves, like living stones, are also built up as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s ownership, that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light;

¹² having your good conduct seen among the Gentiles; in order that, in what they are speaking against you, as evildoers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, having eye-witnessed things from your good works.

¹⁰ just-as each has received a gift, serving it for yourselves, as good stewards of the various favor s of God. ¹¹ If anyone is speaking, speak as the oracles of God; if anyone is serving, serve as from the strength which God is supplying; in order that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ to whom is the glory and the dominion forevermore. Amen.

¹⁴ If you are reproached in the name of Christ, you are fortunate, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. He is indeed blasphemed according to their manner, but he is glorified according to your manner.

¹¹ Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods, yes, in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them.

¹ Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have rule over them (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over those who hated them),

¹⁰ Surely the inward thought of man will praise you, even the residue of inward thought will observe a festival to you.

⁴ Therefore indeed, those who were dispersed went through out the land, proclaiming the good-news of the word.

¹⁹ Therefore indeed, those who were dispersed from the affliction which happened upon Stephen, went to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except only to the Jews. ²⁰ Now there were some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, having come into Antioch, were also speaking to the Grecian Jews, proclaiming the good-news of the Lord Jesus. ²¹ And the hand of the Lord was with them and a large number who believed turned to the Lord.

²⁸ crying out, Men, Israelites, help! This one is the man who is teaching all people everywhere, against the Jewish people and the law and this place, and even more, he led Greeks into the temple and has desecrated this holy place. ²⁹ For they were seeing Trophimus the Ephesian together with him among the city, whom they were supposing that Paul had led into the temple.
³⁰ Now the whole city was moved and there happened to be a running of the people together, and grabbing Paul, they were dragging him outside the temple and immediately the doors were locked.
³¹ But while seeking to kill him, information came up to the commander of the cohort, that the whole Jerusalem has been incited to riot. ³² Who promptly, having taken soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them. And those who saw the commander and the soldiers, ceased beating Paul. ³³ Now the commander drew near and grabbed him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he might be, and what he is doing. ³⁴ But some in the crowd were crying one thing, some another thing, and when he was not able to know the certainty of who he was because of the uproar, he commanded him to be led into the encampment. ³⁵ But when he came upon the steps, it befell him to be bore by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd; ³⁶ for the multitude of the people was following after, crying out, Take him away.

¹ Brethren and fathers! Hear my defense which I now make to you. ² But when they heard that he was shouting to them in the Hebrew language, this provided even more quietness, and he says, ³ I Indeed am a Jew, and having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been reared in this city beside the feet of Gamaliel, having been educated according to the exactness of the Law of our forefathers, being a zealous one of God, just-as you all are today; ⁴ and I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and giving into prisons both men and women. ⁵ As also the high-priest and all the eldership can testify of me; from whom I also accepted letters to the brethren, and I was traveling to Damascus and would be leading also the ones there who were bound to Jerusalem in order that they might be punished.


⁶ Now it happened to me, while traveling and drawing near to Damascus, around midday, a considerable light from heaven suddenly flashed around me. ⁷ And I fell to the solid-ground and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?
⁸ But I answered, Who are you, Lord?
And he said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.
⁹ But those who were together with me indeed saw the light and became fearful, but they did not hear with understanding the voice of the one who spoke to me. ¹⁰ But I said, What should I do, Lord?
But the Lord said to me, When you stand up, travel into Damascus, and it will be spoken to you there concerning all things which have been appointed for you to do.
¹¹ Now as I was not seeing anything apart from the glory of that light, I came into Damascus, being led by the hand by those who were together with me. ¹² Now a certain one named Ananias, a devout man according to the law, being testified of by all the Jews dwelling there, ¹³ came to me, and standing by me said to me, Brother Saul, recover your sight! And I looked up at him in the same hour. ¹⁴ Now he said, The God of our fathers has assigned you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth. ¹⁵ Because you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now, why are you hesitating? When you stand up, be immersed and fully-wash away your sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.
¹⁷ Now it happened to me, having returned to Jerusalem, and in my praying in the temple, I came to be in a trance, ¹⁸ and saw him saying to me, Hurry, and go forth quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not be accepting the testimony from you concerning me.
¹⁹ And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I was imprisoning and whipping them in every synagogue, those who believe on you; ²⁰ and when the blood of Stephen, your witness, was being shed, I was also standing by and was consenting to the his assassination, guarding the garments of those assassinating him.
²¹ And he said to me, Travel on, because I will be sending you forth to the Gentiles who are afar.
²² Now they were hearing him till this speech, and they lifted up their voice, saying, Take such a one away from the earth; for it was not proper for him to live.
²³ Now when they were crying out and tossing off their garments and casting dust into the air, ²⁴ the commander commanded him to be led into the encampment, saying, He is to be interrogated by scourges, in order that he might fully know because of what crime they were shouting out against him so.
²⁵ But as they stretched him out with the straps, Paul said to the centurion who is standing there, Is it legal for you to scourge a Roman man and uncondemned?
²⁶ But when the centurion heard it, he went to the commander and reported to him, saying, Behold, what are you about to do? For this man is a Roman.
²⁷ Now the commander came and said to him, Tell me if you are a Roman.
Now he said, Yes.
²⁸ And the commander answered, I procured this citizenship of a large sum.
But Paul said, But I have even been Roman born.
²⁹ Therefore those who are about to interrogate him immediately withdrew from him. The commander was also afraid, having recognized that he is a Roman, and because he was binding him.
³⁰ But on the next-day, planning to know the certainty of why he is accused of something from the Jews, he loosed him from the bonds, and commanded the high-priests and their whole council to come and having led Paul there he stood him toward them.

¹ And having been saved, then we recognized that the island is called Malta. ² Now the barbarians were providing for us and we obtained not just kindliness; for having lit a fire, they took us all in, because of the standing rainfall and because of the cold. ³ But when Paul twisted together a bunch of brush and having laid it upon the fire, a viper attached to his hand, having come out through the brush from the warmth. ⁴ Now as the barbarians saw the snake hanging from his hand, they were saying to one another, This man is certainly a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, justice did not permit him to live. ⁵ Therefore indeed, he shook-off the snake into the fire and suffered no evil. ⁶ But they were expecting that he is about to swell up or to suddenly fall down dead. But expecting it for a long time and viewing nothing improper happening to him, having a turnabout, they were saying that he was a god.
⁷ Now in the regions around that place, were farms possessed by the foremost one of the island, Publius by name, who accepted us and lodged us courteously three days. ⁸ Now it happened, that the father of Publius lay sick, being troubled with fevers and dysentery; to whom Paul having entered and prayed and laid his hands on him, healed him. ⁹ Therefore, when this happened, the rest who have any sicknesses in the island were also coming near and were being healed, ¹⁰ who also honored us with many honors, and when we sailed, they placed on the ship the things for our need.
¹¹ Now after three months, we were led to a ship from Alexandria with an insignia of The Twin Brothers which had wintered in the island.


¹² And having led the ship into Syracuse, we remained there three days. ¹³ From where we went around and arrived at Rhegium and after one day a south wind came upon us and on the second day we came to Puteoli; ¹⁴ where we found brethren and were encouraged to remain on with them seven days and so we came to Rome. ¹⁵ And the brethren from there, when they heard things concerning us, came to the encounter with us out to the Market of Appius and the Three Taverns; whom having seen, Paul thanked God and took courage.
¹⁶ Now when we came to Rome, the centurion gave the prisoners to the camp-commander, but Paul was permitted to abide by himself together with the soldier guarding him.
¹⁷ Now after three days Paul happened to call together those who are the foremost of the Jews and when they came together, he said to them, Brethren, I have done nothing adverse to the Jewish people or the customs of our forefathers. I, a prisoner from Jerusalem, was given up into the hands of the Romans. ¹⁸ The Romans who, having examined me, were planning to release me, because no crime exists worthy of death in me. ¹⁹ But the Jews were speaking against it, then I was urged to appeal to Caesar; not that I held anything of which to accuse my nation. ²⁰ Therefore, because of this accusation, I pleaded to see and to speak with you; for I am encompassed with this chain because of the hope of Israel.
²¹ But they said to him, We neither accepted writings from Judea concerning you, nor did anyone of the brethren come here and report or speak anything evil concerning you. ²² But we deem it worthy to hear from you what things you are mindful of; for indeed, concerning this sect, it is known to us that it is spoken against everywhere.
²³ Now having appointed him a day, they were coming to him, into the lodging in great number; to whom he was expounding the word, thoroughly testifying of the kingdom of God also persuading them with the things concerning Jesus, both from the Law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until dusk. ²⁴ And some were obeying and some were disbelieving the things which were spoken. ²⁵ But when they disagreed among themselves, they were dismissing themselves after Paul had spoken just one declaration, The Holy Spirit spoke well through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, ²⁶ saying, ‘Travel to this people and say, In hearing you will hear and yet may never understand, and seeing you will see and yet may never see; ²⁷ for the heart of this people has become-callous and they have selectively heard with the ir ears and they have closed their eyes. Lest, they should see with the ir eyes and should hear with the ir ears and should understand with the ir heart and should return and I will be healing them.’
²⁸ Therefore let it be known to you, that this salvation from God is sent to the Gentiles and they will be hearing it. ²⁹ And having said these things, the Jews went away, having much debate among themselves.
³⁰ Now Paul remained two whole years in his own rented-house and was accepting all who traveled to him, ³¹ preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, unforbidden by any.

²⁸ Now we know that all things work together toward good, to those who love God, to those who are an invited one according to his purpose.

³⁷ But we are victorious in all these things through the one who loved us.

²³ except that the Holy Spirit is thoroughly testifying to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions are remaining for me. ²⁴ But I make account of nothing, nor am I holding my life as precious to myself, as I desire to complete my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to thoroughly testify the good-news of the favor of God.

¹¹ And he came to us and took Paul’s belt, and having bound his own feet and hands, said, The Holy Spirit says these things, The Jews in Jerusalem will be binding thus the man whose belt this is, and will be giving him up into the hands of the Gentiles. ¹² Now as we heard these things, both we and those locally were pleading with him not to go into Jerusalem.
¹³ But Paul answered, What are you doing, weeping and crushing my heart? For I am not only ready to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem on behalf of the name of the Lord Jesus.

²⁹ But Paul said, I would pray to God, that both in a few words or in many words, not only you, but also all who hear me today, are to become such: what sort of person I am, except-for these bonds.

³¹ and having departed, they were speaking to one another, saying, This man is practicing nothing worthy of death or bonds.

¹⁷ Now after three days Paul happened to call together those who are the foremost of the Jews and when they came together, he said to them, Brethren, I have done nothing adverse to the Jewish people or the customs of our forefathers. I, a prisoner from Jerusalem, was given up into the hands of the Romans.

²⁰ Therefore, because of this accusation, I pleaded to see and to speak with you; for I am encompassed with this chain because of the hope of Israel.

³⁰ Now Paul remained two whole years in his own rented-house and was accepting all who traveled to him,

²² All the holy-ones greet you, especially those who are from Caesar’s household.

³ praying at the same time concerning us also, in order that God may open a door of the word to us, to speak the mystery of the Christ, because of which I have also been bound; ⁴ in order that I may manifest it, as it is essential for me to speak. ⁵ Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, buying up the time. ⁶ Let your speech always be in gratitude, having been seasoned in salt, that you may know how it is essential for you to answer each one.
⁷ Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant, and my fellow bondservant in the Lord will make all things known to you from me; ⁸ whom I have sent to you for this same thing, in order that he might know about the things concerning you and in order that he may comfort your hearts; ⁹ together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one from you. They will be making all things known to you which are done here.
¹⁰ Aristarchus my fellow captive greets you, and Mark, the cousin to Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments; if he comes to you, accept him), ¹¹ and Jesus who is called Justus, who is from the circumcision. These are my only fellow workers in the kingdom of God, those who became a comfort to me. ¹² Epaphras, a bondservant of Christ, the one from you, greets you. He is always fighting on your behalf in his prayers, in order that you might stand complete and having been fulfilled in all the will of God. ¹³ For I am testifying of him, that he has much zeal on your behalf, and those in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis. ¹⁴ Luke, the beloved physician and Demas greet you. ¹⁵ Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the congregation which is in his house.
¹⁶ And whenever this letter has been read before you, do forward it, in order that it should also be read in the congregation of the Laodiceans, and in order that you also should read the letter from Laodicea. ¹⁷ And say to Archippus, Beware that the service which you have received in the Lord, that you should fulfill it.
¹⁸ The greeting from me, Paul, with my own hand. Remember my bonds. Grace is with you. Amen.

⁸ For the word of the Lord has echoed forth from you, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth; so-that we do not need to say anything. ⁹ For they themselves are reporting concerning us, what sort of entrance we had toward you, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a living and true God,

¹² Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, happening to you for a test, as though a strange thing is befalling to you. ¹³ But accordingly you are sharing in the sufferings of the Christ with us, rejoice, in order that you may also rejoice in the revelation of his glory, being glad. ¹⁴ If you are reproached in the name of Christ, you are fortunate, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. He is indeed blasphemed according to their manner, but he is glorified according to your manner. ¹⁵ For let not anyone of you suffer like a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or like a meddler in the affairs of others. ¹⁶ But if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this respect.

⁷⁴ having been fearlessly rescued out of the hand of our enemies, to give-divine service to him

⁵ But I will be showing you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed you, has authority to cast you into hell. Yes, I say to you, Fear him.
⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one out of them has been forgotten in God’s sight. ⁷ But even the hairs of your head have all been numbered. Therefore do not fear. You carry more-value than many sparrows.

²³ Now having been released, they came to their own brethren and reported how-much the high-priests and the elders had said to them. ²⁴ Now they, having heard it, lifted up their voice to God united and said, O Lord, you are the God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them; ²⁵ who through the mouth of our father David your young-servant, said, ‘Why do the Gentiles rage and the peoples meditate on empty things? ²⁶ The kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were gathered in the same place, against the Lord and against his Christ.’ ²⁷ For against truth, against your holy young-servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together ²⁸ to do as many things as your hand and your council predetermined to happen. ²⁹ And hereafter, Lord, look upon their threats and give to your bondservants to speak your word with all boldness, ³⁰ in that you stretched out your hand for healing, and signs and wonders to happen through the name of your holy young-servant Jesus. ³¹ And having besought the Lord, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they were speaking the word of God with boldness.

³ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies and God of all encouragement is gracious; ⁴ who is encouraging us on our every affliction, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction, through the encouragement of which we ourselves are encouraged by God. ⁵ Because just-as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so our encouragement also abounds through the Christ. ⁶ But whether we are afflicted, it is on behalf of your encouragement and salvation; which is working in the endurance of the same sufferings which we also are suffering; and our hope is steadfast on your behalf. If whether we are encouraged, it is on behalf of your encouragement and salvation, ⁷ knowing that, just-as you are partners of the sufferings, so you^\'b0 are also of the comfort.

¹³ Hence I am asking you not to be depressed at my afflictions on your behalf, which are your glory.

¹⁹ And pray on my behalf, in order that the word may be given to me, in opening my mouth to make known the mystery of the good-news in boldness, ²⁰ on behalf of which, I am an ambassador in a chain; in order that I should speak boldly in it, as it is essential for me to speak.

⁴ in order that I may manifest it, as it is essential for me to speak.

⁷ Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant, and my fellow bondservant in the Lord will make all things known to you from me;

⁵ And they are practicing all their works to be seen by men. And they widen their phylacteries and magnify the hems of their garments,

⁴² And they were not ceasing, teaching and proclaiming the good-news of Jesus as the Christ every day both in the temple and in every house.

⁵ Now Philip went down to a city of Samaria and was preaching to them the Christ.

³⁵ Now Philip opened his mouth and beginning from this Scripture, proclaimed the good-news of Jesus to him.

²⁰ And immediately in the synagogues he was preaching the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

³⁶ The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming the good-news of peace through Jesus Christ (this one is Lord of all).

²⁰ Now there were some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, having come into Antioch, were also speaking to the Grecian Jews, proclaiming the good-news of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁷ Now brethren, I am encouraging you, to note those making the dissensions and the offenses contrary to the teaching which you learned and are practicing, and shun away from them. ¹⁸ For such are not serving our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and they are deceiving the hearts of the guiltless through their smooth-talk and blessings.

²³ but we preach Christ as having been crucified, indeed an offense to the Jews, but foolishness to the Greeks;

³ for you are still fleshly. For where there is jealousy and strife and dissensions among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking according to the manner of man?
⁴ For whenever someone says, I am indeed of Paul, but a different one, I am of Apollos, are you not fleshly?

³ And if I handout all my possessed things and if I give my body in order that I would be burned, but if I do not have love, it profits me nothing.

¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you through us, that is, through me and Silvanus and Timothy, did not become yes and no, but in him it has become yes.

⁵ For we are not preaching ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord and ourselves as your bondservants because of Jesus.

¹³ For such men are false apostles, workers of treachery, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.

²⁰ For I am fearing, lest, when I come, I should find you such-as I do not will and I myself might be found by you such-as you do not will; lest there should be strifes, jealousies, furies, selfish ambitions, slanderers, malicious whisperers, arrogant-people, unrests;

⁴ But it was because of false brethren who were smuggled in, who entered in beside us to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they might enslave us;

¹⁶ Those are indeed proclaiming the Christ out of selfish ambition, not purely, assuming to bring affliction to my bonds. ¹⁷ But the latter ones do it out of love, knowing that I am destined for the defense of the good-news. ¹⁸ For what then? Except that in every manner, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and I am rejoicing in this, but also, I will be rejoicing again.

³ (nothing according to selfish ambition or through empty conceit, but in humility): deeming one another superior to yourselves;

¹⁶ And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness : God was manifested in the flesh, was made righteous in the Spirit, was seen by messengers, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory.

⁵ Or are you thinking that the Scripture speaks with emptiness? Does the Spirit who dwells in us long to envy? ⁶ But he is giving greater grace. Hence the Scripture says, ‘God resists the haughty, but gives grace to the humble.’

² Shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising the oversight, not by compulsion, but willfully, nor covetously, but eagerly; ³ nor like one lording it over his inheritances, but by becoming examples to the flock. ⁴ And when the Chief-Shepherd is made manifest, you will be getting the unfading crown of glory.

¹⁴ To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be from his friend, even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

⁴ I also could speak as you* do, if your* soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you* and shake my head at you*.

²⁶ Because they persecute he whom you have struck and they tell of the sorrow of those whom you have wounded.

¹ Because of this, having this service, just-as we have been shown-mercy, we are not depressed. ² But we ourselves have scoffed at the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in God’s sight.

¹² Now brethren, I am planning for you to know, that the things against me have come rather for the progress of the good-news;

¹⁴ Therefore place it into your hearts, not to meditate beforehand how to make a defense.

¹ Brethren and fathers! Hear my defense which I now make to you.

¹ Now Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted for you to speak on behalf of yourself. Then Paul stretched out his hand and was making his defense.

²⁴ Now he made his defense with these things.
Festus says with a loud voice, Paul, you are insane; your much scholarship is turning you insane.

¹³ Now brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant that I often purposed to come to you (and I was prevented till presently), in order that I might also have some fruit among you, just-as among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁴ I am a debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. ¹⁵ So, as in me, I am eager to proclaim the good-news to you also who are in Rome.
¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the good-news of the Christ; for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes; both to the Jew first and to the Greek. ¹⁷ For the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to

¹⁶ For if I proclaim the good-news, it is not boasting to me; for necessity is laid upon me, but woe is to me, if I, myself, do not proclaim the good-news. ¹⁷ For if I am doing this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if I do so involuntarily, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

⁷ But instead, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the good-news of the uncircumcision, just-as Peter that of the circumcision ⁸ (for he who worked in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision also worked in me to the Gentiles).

⁷ to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle, (I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying), and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

¹¹ to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles. ¹² Because of which case, I also am suffering these things too, but I am not ashamed; for I know the one whom I have believed and I have confidence that he is able to guard my deposit consigned to him for that day.

⁶ For I am already a drink-offering and the time of my departure stands-ready. ⁷ I have fought the good fight. I have completed the course. I have kept the faith.

¹⁶ In my first defense no one came together for my defense, but all forsook me; may it not be counted against them.

¹³ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are devouring widows’houses, and praying long prayers for a pretext, because of this, you will be receiving even-more condemnation.

³⁸ Now John answered him, saying, Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, who is not following us, and we did forbid him because he is not following us.
³⁹ But Jesus said, Do not forbid him; for there is no one who will be doing a miracle in my name, and be able to speak evil of me quickly. ⁴⁰ For he who is not against you is working on your behalf.

⁴⁰ They are those who devour widows’houses and are praying long prayers for a pretext; these will be receiving even-more condemnation.

⁴⁵ But they were not considering this declaration, and it was hiding from them, in order that they might not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask him concerning this declaration.

⁵⁰ But Jesus said to him, Do not forbid him; for he who is not against us, is fighting on our behalf.

⁹ Therefore what? Are we, Jews special? Certainly not; for we accused beforehand, both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

¹⁵ Therefore what? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? Let it not happen!

¹⁹ Then what am I saying? That an idol is anything, or that an idol-sacrifice is anything?

¹⁵ Therefore what is it? I will pray with the spirit and I will also pray with the mind. I will sing-praise with the spirit and I will also sing-praise with the mind.

¹¹ Therefore whether it is I, or it is those men, so we preach and so you believed.

¹⁴ and that most of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence because of my bonds, are even-more daring to speak fearlessly the word of God. ¹⁵ Some indeed are preaching the Christ even because of envy and strife, but some also through their delight.

⁹ Everyone who transgresses and is not abiding in the teaching of the Christ, does not have God. He who abides in the teaching of Christ, this one has both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If anyone is coming to you and is not bringing this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not say hello to him; ¹¹ for he who says hello to him is sharing in his evil works.

⁷ and when they came down to Mysia, they were attempting to travel to Bithyna, and the Spirit did not permit them;

⁹ But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God is dwelling in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

¹⁷ Because of this, I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will be reminding you of my ways, the ones in Christ, just-as I am teaching everywhere in every congregation.

¹¹ You^\'b0 are also working together on our behalf by your supplication; in order that the gift to us from many faces might be a thanksgiving through many people on our behalf.

⁶ And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

¹⁸ through all prayer and supplication praying in all seasons in the Spirit and watching in this same thing in all perseverance and supplication concerning all the holy-ones. ¹⁹ And pray on my behalf, in order that the word may be given to me, in opening my mouth to make known the mystery of the good-news in boldness,

⁷ in order that the trial of your faith, ( being much more precious than gold, which perishes), even now being tested through fire, may be found for praise and honor and to glory in the revelation of Jesus Christ.
⁸ You love whom you have not seen; now you believe in whom you do not see; in both you are glad with unspeakable and glorified joy; ⁹ getting for yourselves the end of your faith, that is the salvation of your souls.

¹¹ searching what time or what sort of time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating, when testifying beforehand of the sufferings for Christ and the glories following after these things.

² O my God, in you I have trusted. Do not let me be put to shame. Do not let my enemies triumph over me.

⁵ My soul, wait in silence for God only, because my expectation is from him.

⁸⁰ Let my heart be perfect in your statutes that I am not put to shame.

¹¹⁶ Uphold me according to your word, that I may live and do not let me be ashamed of my hope.

²⁸ The hope of the righteous is gladness, but the expectation of the wicked will perish.

¹⁸ Because surely there is a reward and your hope will not be cut off.

¹⁷ But Israel will be saved by Jehovah with an everlasting salvation. You* will not be put to shame nor confounded world without end.

⁷ For the lord Jehovah will help me.
Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint and I know that I will not be put to shame.

⁴ Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed. Neither be confounded, for you will not be put to shame. For you will forget the shame of your youth. And the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

²⁷ Now my soul has been disturbed, and what should I say? Father, save me from this hour? But I came to this hour because of this. ²⁸ Father, glorify your name.
Therefore, a voice came from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it and will be glorifying it again.

¹⁹ Now he spoke this signifying by what sort of death he should glorify God. And having said this, he says to him, Follow me.

²⁴ But I make account of nothing, nor am I holding my life as precious to myself, as I desire to complete my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to thoroughly testify the good-news of the favor of God.

¹³ But Paul answered, What are you doing, weeping and crushing my heart? For I am not only ready to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem on behalf of the name of the Lord Jesus.

⁵ and hope does not shame one, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

¹³ nor present your members as weapons of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God, as living from the dead and your members as weapons of righteousness to God.

¹⁹ I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for just-as you presented your members as bondservants to uncleanness and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as bondservants to righteousness leading to holiness.

¹⁹ For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the revealing of the sons of God.

³³ just-as it has been written, ‘Behold, I place a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense in Zion and everyone who believes on him will not be ashamed.’

¹ Therefore brethren, I am encouraging you through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your logical divine service.

⁷ For none of us is living to himself, and none dies to himself. ⁸ For in both, if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord; therefore, in both, if we live or die, we are the Lord’s. ⁹ For Christ both died and rose up and lived for this, in order that he might have lordship over both the dead and the living.

²⁰ for you were bought with a price. Glorify God in your body and in your spirit which is God’s!

³⁴ He has been divided. The unmarried woman, (also the virgin), is anxious for the things is of the Lord, in order that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, but she who is married is anxious for the things of the world, how she will be pleasing the husband.

³¹ I die every day by my boasting of you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁴ Now gratitude to God, who always makes us to triumph in the Christ and the aroma of his knowledge in every place is manifest through us. ¹⁵ Because we are a sweet-fragrance of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who are perishing; ¹⁶ to the one an aroma from death to death, but to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient in these things?

¹⁰ always carrying around in the body the death of the Lord Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus should also be manifested in our body.

¹⁵ and he died on behalf of all, in order that those who are living should no longer live to themselves, but to the one who died and rose again on their behalf.

¹⁴ Because if I have boasted in anything on your behalf to him, I was not ashamed, but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also, our boasting in Titus became truth.

⁸ For even if I am boasting even-more of something concerning our authority (which the Lord gave to us for your building up and not for your demolition), I will not be shamed;

¹⁴ and that most of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence because of my bonds, are even-more daring to speak fearlessly the word of God.

²³ But I am troubled from the two ends, having the desire, that I should vacate and be together with Christ, but it is much better rather ²⁴ now to remain in the flesh is necessary because of you.

¹⁷ But even if I am a drink-offering upon the sacrifice and ministry of your faith, I am rejoicing, and even rejoicing together with you all.

²⁴ Now I am rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf and I am filling up in my flesh, the things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ on behalf of his body, which is the congregation of believers;

¹⁶ But if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this respect.

¹² Hence, I will habitually not be neglecting to remind you concerning these things, although you know them and are established in the present truth. ¹³ But I am deeming it righteous, inasmuch as I am in this tabernacle, to arouse you with a reminder; ¹⁴ knowing that the removal of my tabernacle is coming quickly, just-as our Lord Jesus Christ indicated to me. ¹⁵ But I will also be diligent, each-time, to have you in remembrance of these things, to practice them after my exodus.

²⁸ And now, abide in him, my little-children; in order that we should have boldness whenever he is manifested, and in his presence, we should not be shamed away from him.

¹ The righteous man perishes and no man lays it to heart. And merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil. ² He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

³⁵ Who will be separating us away from the love of Christ? Shall affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? ³⁶ Just-as it has been written, ‘Because of you we are slain the whole day. We were counted as sheep of the slaughter.’ ³⁷ But we are victorious in all these things through the one who loved us. ³⁸ For I have confidence, that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor present things, nor future things, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor some other created thing, will be able to separate us away from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

³⁰ But you are from him, in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom and righteousness and holiness and redemption from God;

²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things which are present, or future things. All things are yours,

¹ For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle should be torn-down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, everlasting in the heavens.

⁶ Therefore we are always courageous, and knowing that when we are at home in the body; we are away from home, that is away from the Lord

⁸ But we are courageous and are delighted rather to be away from home, away from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

²⁰ I have been crucified together with Christ. I am now no longer living, but Christ is living in me and that life which I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith, the faith which is of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up on my behalf.

¹⁴ But let it not happen for me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will be shamed in nothing, but as always, now Christ will also be magnified in my body in all boldness, whether through life or through death.

²³ But I am troubled from the two ends, having the desire, that I should vacate and be together with Christ, but it is much better rather

²¹ For they are all seeking their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

⁴ Whenever the Christ, who is the life of us, is manifested, then you will also be manifested together with him in glory.

¹³ But brethren, we do not wish you to be ignorant concerning those who have fallen-asleep; in order that you may not be sorrowful like the rest who have no hope. ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up again, so those who have fallen-asleep through Jesus, God will also be bringing together with him. ¹⁵ For this we are saying to you in the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who are left at the presence of the Lord, may never attain heaven before those who have fallen-asleep.

¹³ And I heard the voice from heaven saying to me, Write, the dead ones who die in the Lord are fortunate from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, in order that they should rest themselves from their labors, and their works follow after them.

²⁶ And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing, neither did you tell me, nor yet did I hear of it, except today.

⁸ But he refused and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master does not know what is in the house with me and he has put all that he has into my hand.

¹ And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, Up, make gods for us, which will go before us. For as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

¹⁸ Yes, even when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not, until I have declared your strength to a generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

¹⁸ For Sheol cannot praise you, death cannot celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.
¹⁹ The living, the living, he will praise you, as I do this day. The father to the sons will make known your truth.

¹⁷ And I know now brethren that you did it according to ignorance, just-like also did your rulers.

² God did not thrust away his people which he knew beforehand. Or do you not know what the Scripture says by Elijah? How he petitions God against Israel, saying,

³ For although we are walking in the flesh, we are not warring according to the flesh.

²⁴ now to remain in the flesh is necessary because of you.

² that you should no longer have your life, (the rest of your time in the flesh), in the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

¹⁴ And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait. Let us fall now into the hand of Jehovah, for his mercies are great and do not let me fall into the hand of man.

²⁶ And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I will see God, ²⁷ whom I, even I, will see on my side and my eyes will behold and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

¹⁰ Because you will not leave my soul to Sheol, nor will you allow your holy man to see corruption.
¹¹ You made known to me the path of life. You will fill me of joy with your countenance.

¹⁵ As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness. I will be satisfied, when I awake, with your form.

¹⁵ But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, because he will receive me. Selah.

²⁴ You will guide me with your counsel and afterward receive me to glory.
²⁵ Whom have I in heaven? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides you. ²⁶ My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my everlasting portion.

²⁹ Now Master, dismiss your bondservant according to your word in peace, ³⁰ because my eyes have seen your salvation

³⁸ Now the man from whom the demons had gone out of, was beseeching to be together with him.
But Jesus dismissed him, saying,

⁵⁰ But I have an immersion to be immersed in, and how I am so troubled until it should be completed!

⁴³ And he said to him, Assuredly I am saying to you, You will be with me today in Paradise.

¹ Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his hour has come in order that he should proceed out of this world to his Father; having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

³ And if I travel on, I will be preparing a place for you. I am coming again and will be receiving you to myself; in order that where I am, you may also be there.

²⁴ Father, I wish that they, whom you have given me, may also be with me where I am, in order that they may view my glory, which you gave me, because you loved me before the conception of the world.

⁵⁹ And they were stoning Stephen, who was calling upon the Lord, saying, Lord Jesus, accept my spirit.

¹ For brethren, you yourselves know our entrance to you, that it has not become empty.

¹³ And we also are constantly giving-thanks to God because of this, because, when you accepted the word of God from our report, you accepted it not as the word of men, but just-as it truly is, the word of God, which is also working in you who believe.

¹⁷ thereafter we, the living, who are left, will be taken away at the same time together with them in the clouds, to the encounter of the Lord in the air, and so we will always be together with the Lord.

⁶ For I am already a drink-offering and the time of my departure stands-ready.

¹⁴ And I said to him, My lord, you know.
And he said to me, These are those who are coming out of the great affliction and they have rinsed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Because of this, they are in the sight of the throne of God, and they give-divine service to him day and night in his temple and he who sits upon the throne will be residing over them. ¹⁶ They will not be hungry anymore, nor thirsty anymore; nor should the heat of the sun fall upon them, nor any heat, ¹⁷ because the Lamb, who is in the midst of the throne, is shepherding them and is guiding them to the springs of waters of life and God will be wiping-away every tear from their eyes.

⁷ But I tell you the truth. It is advantageous for you that I should go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not be coming to you, but if I travel on, I will be sending him to you.

²⁹ I know this: after my goodbye, cruel wolves will be entering into you, not sparing the flock; ³⁰ and men will be standing up from among yourselves, speaking perverse things, to pull away the disciples after themselves. ³¹ Hence watch, remembering that for three years I ceased not from admonishing each one of you^\'b0 every day with tears.

²² But if to live in the flesh–this is the fruit of work to me, and what will I select for myself? I do not know.

²⁵ And having confidence of this, I know that I will remain, and I will be abiding together with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith; ²⁶ in order that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me, through my presence with you again.

⁶ God has spoken in his holiness. I will rejoice. I will divide Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth.

³² But I besought concerning you, in order that your faith may not fail, and someday having turned back again, establish your brethren.

¹⁵ Therefore when they had a meal, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, Son of Jonah, do you ^{F} love me more-than these things?
He says to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.
He says to him, Feed my lambs.
¹⁶ He says to him again a second-time, Simon, Son of Jonah, do you ^{F} love me?
He says to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.
He says to him, Shepherd my sheep.
¹⁷ He says to him the third-time, Simon, Son of Jonah, Do you ^{F} love me?
Peter was sorrowful because he said to him the third-time, Do you ^{F} love me like a friend? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you like a friend.
Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

²³ who, having come and having seen the favor of God, rejoiced and was encouraging all with purpose of heart to remain in the Lord,

²² further strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to remain in the faith, and that it is essential for us through many afflictions to enter into the kingdom of God.

²⁵ And now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went through preaching the kingdom of God, will be seeing my face no more,

¹¹ for I am longing to see you, in order that I may give to you some spiritual gift, that you may be established; ¹² and this is my prayer to be encouraged together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.

² through whom we also have had our access to this grace in the faith in which we are standing, and we are boasting in hope of the glory of God.

¹³ Now the God of hope may fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of anything of the things which Christ did not work through me, except for the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and works,

²⁹ Now I know while coming to you, I will be coming in the fullness of the blessing of the good-news of the Christ.

²⁴ Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers of your joy; for you are standing in the faith.

¹¹ And he gave some to be : the apostles, and the prophets, and the evangelists, and the shepherds and teachers ¹² for the equipping of the holy-ones, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of the Christ, ¹³ till we all might achieve to the unity of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ,

²⁴ but I have confidence in the Lord that I myself will also be coming shortly.

⁸ You love whom you have not seen; now you believe in whom you do not see; in both you are glad with unspeakable and glorified joy;

¹ I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey. I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends. Drink, yes. Drink abundantly, O beloved.

²² And therefore, you now indeed have sorrow, but I will see you again and your heart will be rejoicing and no one takes your joy away from you.

²⁴ Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, in order that your joy may be fulfilled.

¹⁴ as you also recognized us partially, that we are your boasting, just-as you are also ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

¹² For we are not again commending ourselves to you, but we are giving you a starting-point of boasting on our behalf, in order that you may have an answer toward those who boast in countenance and not in heart.

⁶ But God, who encourages the humble, encouraged us at the presence of Titus;

¹⁶ Keep holding onto the word of life, for a boast to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labored in vain. ¹⁷ But even if I am a drink-offering upon the sacrifice and ministry of your faith, I am rejoicing, and even rejoicing together with you all. ¹⁸ Now you also, rejoice and rejoice together with me in the same thing.

¹ Furthermore, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. Indeed, it is not tedious for me to write the same things to you, but a secure thing for you.

³ For we are the circumcision, who are giving-divine service in the spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, Rejoice.

¹⁰ But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at last, you have bloomed again the desire to be mindful of things on my behalf; in which, you were even mindful of me, but you had no opportunity.

³ Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together,

¹ Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!

²³ Because Jehovah will plead their cause and despoil of life those who despoil them.

³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them and of their sons after them.

²⁵ But Jesus knowing their contemplations said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is made desolate, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

²⁰ I am not requesting concerning these only, but concerning those who also believe in me through their word; ²¹ in order that they may all be one; just-as you, Father, are in me and I in you; in order that they may also be one in us; in order that the world may believe that you sent me.

⁴⁶ And persevering, united in the temple and breaking bread, house to house, they were taking their nourishment in gladness and simplicity of heart,

³² Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul and not one of them said that anything of his possessions was his own, but they had all things common.

²⁴ Now after some days, Felix came together with Drusilla, his wife, being a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

⁵ Through whom, we received grace and apostleship, into the obedience of the faith in all the nations, on behalf of his name;

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the good-news of the Christ; for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes; both to the Jew first and to the Greek.

⁸ But what does it say? ‘The declaration is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.’This is the declaration of the faith which we are preaching:

⁴ For just-as we have many members in one body, and all the members do not have the same function; ⁵ so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and every one members of one another.

¹⁶ that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, having done the sacred work of the good-news of God, in order that the offering up of the Gentiles might become acceptable, having been made holy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁰ Now brethren, I am pleading with you through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, in order that you all should speak the same thing and there should be no splits among you, but you should be framed together in the same mind and in the same viewpoint.

¹² For just-as the body is one and has many members and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body; so also is the Christ. ¹³ For also, we were all immersed into one body, in one Spirit, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondservants or free men, and all were made to drink into one Spirit. ¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many. ¹⁵ If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not from the body; contrary to this, is it not from the body? ¹⁶ And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not from the body; contrary to this, is it not from the body? ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where is the hearing? If the whole body were hearing, where is the sense of smell? ¹⁸ But now God has placed the members in the body, each one of them, just-as he willed. ¹⁹ Now if they were all one member, where is the body? ²⁰ But now they are indeed many members, but one body. ²¹ Now the eye is not able to say to the hand, I have no need of you; or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. ²² But much rather now, those members of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary; ²³ and those things of the body which we think to be more dishonored, we place even-more honor upon these, and our indecent parts have even-more decency; ²⁴ but our decent parts have no need. But God mixed the body together, having given even-more honor to the ones which are lacking; ²⁵ in order that no splits should be in the body, but in order that the members should have the same anxiety on behalf of one another. ²⁶ And if one member is suffering, all the members are suffering together with it. If one member is glorified, all the members are rejoicing together with it. ²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ and members individually. ²⁸ And indeed God placed some in the congregation of believers, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, thereafter miracles, thereafter gifts of healing, helps, those who pilot others, those with varieties of languages. ²⁹ All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not workers of miracles, are they? ³⁰ All do not have gifts of healing, do they? All do not speak with foreign languages, do they? All do not translate, do they? ³¹ But be zealous for the better gifts. And I will show to you still a surpassingly-better way.

⁵⁸ So-then my beloved brethren, become grounded, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not empty in the Lord.

¹³ Watch. Stand-firm in the faith. Be manly. Be powerful. ¹⁴ Let all your things happen in love.

⁴ in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the illumination of the good-news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn for them.

¹³ because through the trial of you from this service they are glorifying God upon the subjection of your confession toward the good-news of the Christ and at the liberality of your generosity toward them and toward all;

¹¹ Furthermore brethren: rejoice; be completed; be comforted; be mindful of the same thing; be at peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

⁷ which is not another good-news, except now there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the good-news of the Christ.

¹³ in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the good-news of your salvation, in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

³ Be diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. ⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, just-as you were also called in one hope of your calling; ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one immersion, ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in us all.

¹ Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affections and mercies, ² fulfill my joy, in order that you may be mindful of the same thing, having the same love, fellowship in spirit, being mindful of the one thing,

¹⁸ For many are walking, (of whom I was speaking to you often about them; now I am also telling you, weeping), who are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the holy-ones,

¹¹ Just-as you know, as we became with each one of you, like a father with his own children, encouraging you and consoling you\super\'b0 ¹² and testifying, that you should walk worthy of God, who is calling you into his own kingdom and glory.

⁶ But now, when Timothy came to us from you, and proclaimed to us good-news about your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, just-as we also long to see you.

¹¹ according to the good-news of the glory of the blessed God, to which I was entrusted.

¹⁹ holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away, are shipwrecked concerning the faith;

⁷ I have fought the good fight. I have completed the course. I have kept the faith.

¹⁰ not pilfering things, but showing all good faith fulness; in order that they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior in all things.

⁵ hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the holy-ones;

¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who are making peace.

⁴ through which he has bestowed to us as a gift, his precious and greatest promises; in order that you might become partners of the divine nature through these things, having fled away from the corruption in the world among its lust.
⁵ Now also for this same thing, besides having entered in all diligence, supply in your faith, virtue, and in your virtue, knowledge ⁶ and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, endurance, and in your endurance, godliness; ⁷ and in your godliness, brotherly-love, and in your brotherly-love, love. ⁸ For if these things are existing and increasing in you, none will designate you idle or unfruitful toward the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For the one is blind in whom these things are not present, being short-sighted, having taken on himself the forgetfulness of the cleansing from his old sins.

¹¹ Therefore, with all these things being dissolved, see what sort of things you ought to possess in all holy conduct and godliness,

¹⁴ Hence, beloved, while expecting these things, be diligent that you may be found in peace, unstained and unblemished in his sight.

³ For I rejoiced exceedingly of brethren coming and testifying of your truth, just-as you are walking in truth. ⁴ I have no greater joy from these things, in order that I may hear my children are walking in the truth.

³ Beloved, making all diligence to write to you concerning our common salvation, I had a necessity to write to you encouraging you to fight earnestly for the faith which was given once for all to the holy-ones.

¹⁸ I have waited for your salvation, O Jehovah.

²³ Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me. And to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God.

¹⁹ Praise the Lord, who bears our burden daily, even the God who is our salvation. Selah.
²⁰ God is to us a God of deliverance and escape from death belongs to Jehovah the Lord.

² Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and will not be afraid, for Jehovah, even Jehovah, is my strength and song and he has become my salvation.

⁷ Listen to me, you* who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Do not fear the reproach of men, nor be you* dismayed at their revilings.

¹² I, even I, am he who comforts you*. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who will die and of the son of man who will be made as grass,

¹⁰ Those who have been persecuted because of righteousness are fortunate, because theirs is the kingdom of the heavens. ¹¹ You are fortunate whenever they reproach and persecute you and say every evil word against you–lying, because of me. ¹² Rejoice and be glad, because your reward is much in the heavens; for thus, they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

²⁸ And do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

⁶ And all flesh will be seeing the salvation of God.’

⁴ But I am saying to you my friends, Do not be afraid of those who kill the body and they do not have, after these things, anything more-than that to do against you.

¹² But before all these things, they will be putting their hands upon you and will be persecuting you, giving you up to the synagogues and prisons, leading you in front of kings and governors because of my name. ¹³ But it will be transpiring into a testimony for you. ¹⁴ Therefore place it into your hearts, not to meditate beforehand how to make a defense. ¹⁵ For I will be giving you a mouth and wisdom, which all who lay in opposition to you will not be able to stand against, nor to speak against. ¹⁶ But you will be given up even by parents and relatives and friends, and brethren, and they will be slaying some out of you. ¹⁷ And you will be hated by all men because of my name. ¹⁸ And a hair out of your head may never perish. ¹⁹ You^\'b0 will procure your souls in your endurance.

¹⁹ But Peter and John answered and said to them, Judge for yourselves if it is righteous in God’s sight to listen to you rather than to God. ²⁰ For we are not able to speak, but the things which we saw and heard. ²¹ But having additionally threatened them, they released them, finding nothing as to how they will punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for what has happened. ²² For the man was more-than forty years old, on whom this sign of healing had happened.

⁴⁰ Now they were persuaded by him, and having called the apostles to them, they whipped them, and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them. ⁴¹ Therefore indeed, they were traveling from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were deemed worthy to be dishonored on behalf of the name of Jesus. ⁴² And they were not ceasing, teaching and proclaiming the good-news of Jesus as the Christ every day both in the temple and in every house.

²⁸ Therefore let it be known to you, that this salvation from God is sent to the Gentiles and they will be hearing it.

¹⁷ and if children, then heirs; indeed, heirs of God and joint heirs of Christ; if indeed we are suffering together with him, in order that we might also be glorified together with him.

⁵ This is an example of the righteous judgment of God; that you may be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, on behalf of which you are also suffering; ⁶ if indeed it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who are afflicting you; ⁷ For God did not give to us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and love and self-discipline. ⁸ Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor me, his prisoner, but suffer-hardship together with the good-news according to the power of God,

¹¹ Faithful is the word: for if we died together with him, we will also be living together with him : ¹² if we endure, we will also be reigning together with him; if we are denying him, he will also be denying us;

⁶ So-that we, being courageous, may say, The Lord is my helper and I will not be fearing. What will man be doing for me?

¹² Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, happening to you for a test, as though a strange thing is befalling to you. ¹³ But accordingly you are sharing in the sufferings of the Christ with us, rejoice, in order that you may also rejoice in the revelation of his glory, being glad. ¹⁴ If you are reproached in the name of Christ, you are fortunate, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. He is indeed blasphemed according to their manner, but he is glorified according to your manner.

¹⁰ Let no one fear the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some from you into prison, in order that you may be tested and you will have affliction ten days. Become faithful to death and I will be giving you the crown of life.

¹⁷ And Jesus answered and said to him, You are fortunate, Simon, Son of Jonah, because flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father, the one in the heavens.

¹² But as many as received him, he gave to them the authority to become children of God, to the believing ones in his name, ¹³ who were born, not from bloods, nor from the will of the flesh, nor from the will of man, but from God.

⁴⁴ No one is able to come to me, if the Father who sent me does not attract him and I will raise him up in the last day. ⁴⁵ It has been written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught from God.’ Therefore, everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, is coming to me.

⁴¹ Therefore indeed, they were traveling from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were deemed worthy to be dishonored on behalf of the name of Jesus.

³⁹ and everyone who believes is made righteous in this one; you were not able to be made righteous from all the things of which were in the Law of Moses.

²⁷ Now when they came and gathered the congregation together, they reported how-much God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

³ But not only in this, but we are also boasting in our afflictions, knowing that affliction is working endurance;

⁸ For you are saved by the grace through the faith, and this thing, the gift of God, is not from you;

² My brethren, deem it with all joy, whenever you fall into various temptations,

³³ I have spoken to you these things, in order that you may have peace in me. You have affliction in the world, but have courage; I have overcome the world.

³⁵ Who will be separating us away from the love of Christ? Shall affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? ³⁶ Just-as it has been written, ‘Because of you we are slain the whole day. We were counted as sheep of the slaughter.’ ³⁷ But we are victorious in all these things through the one who loved us.

⁹ For I am thinking that God has showed us, the apostles, last of all, as men doomed to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to messengers and men. ¹⁰ We are foolish because of Christ, but you are prudent in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are glorious, but we are dishonored. ¹¹ We are both hungry and thirsty, till the current hour, and are naked and are battered and are homeless; ¹² and we are laboring, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we are speaking well of them; being persecuted, we are tolerating it; ¹³ being blasphemed, we are encouraging. We have become like the scums of the world, the garbage of all things, even until now.
¹⁴ I am not writing these things to be embarrassing you, but I am admonishing you as my beloved children.

³⁰ Why are we also in peril every hour? ³¹ I die every day by my boasting of you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. ³² If I quarreled with beasts in Ephesus according to the manner of man, what is the profit to me? If the dead are not raised up, ‘We should eat and drink, for the next-day we die.’

¹¹ Clothe yourselves with the full-armor of God, that you may be able to stand up to the schemes of the devil. ¹² Because the wrestling in us is not with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world dominions of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual ones of wickedness in the heavenly places. \ulnone\nosupersub ¹³ Because of this, take up the full-armor of God, in order that you may be able to stand against the devil in the evil day, and to stand straight, having worked against all things. ¹⁴ Therefore stand, having girded your loins in truth and having clothed yourselves with the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having tied the feet with the readiness of the good-news of peace. ¹⁶ Upon all these things, when you have taken up the shield of the faith, in which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one; \ulnone\nosupersub ¹⁷ also able to accept the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, ¹⁸ through all prayer and supplication praying in all seasons in the Spirit and watching in this same thing in all perseverance and supplication concerning all the holy-ones.

²⁹ for which I also labor, struggling according to his working, which works in power in me.

¹⁴ For brethren, you became imitators of the congregations of God, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you also suffered the same things by your own countrymen, just-as they did also by the Jews. ¹⁵ The Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and banished us, and were not pleasing to God, and are adverse to all men;

² And we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant and our fellow worker in the good-news of the Christ, that he might establish you and to encourage you concerning your faith; ³ that no one be shook up in these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are destined for this thing. ⁴ For even when we were with you, we were telling you beforehand that we are about to be afflicted; just-as it also happened and you know.

¹² Fight the good fight of the faith, grab the everlasting life, to which you were called and professed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

¹⁰ Because of this, I endure all things, because of the chosen, in order that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with everlasting glory.

³² But remind yourselves of the former days, when you were enlightened, in which you endured a large conflict of sufferings; ³³ in this thing indeed, makes you a spectacle both by reproaches and afflictions, but in this thing, you became partners of those who conducted themselves so.

⁴ You have not yet stood against this, as far as blood, in your struggle against sin.

¹⁰ Let no one fear the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some from you into prison, in order that you may be tested and you will have affliction ten days. Become faithful to death and I will be giving you the crown of life.
¹¹ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations. He who overcomes may never be hurt from the second death.

¹¹ And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even to death.