2 Thessalonians Cross References - MNT

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy. To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ² Grace to you, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another. ⁴ So that I myself am boasting about you among the churches of God, boasting of the stedfastness and faith which you are displaying in all the troubles and afflictions which you are enduring. ⁵ They are an evidence of the righteous judgment of God, who will count you worthy of his kingdom, in behalf of which you are even now suffering. ⁶ For truly God's justice must render back trouble to those who are troubling you, ⁷ and give to you, who are now troubled, rest, along with me at the unveiling "apocalypse" of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with his mighty angels, ⁸ in flaming fire. Then shall he take vengeance on those who know not God, even on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. ⁹ They shall suffer punishment, even an eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the brightness of his glorious majesty, ¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all believers, on that Day; (for you also believed our testimony). ¹¹ To this end I am making my constant prayer for you, beseeching God to make you worthy of your calling, and to fulfil mightily every desire of goodness and effort of faith; ¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in him, according to the grace of our God and of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ "Blessed are those who have been persecuted in the cause of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ "Blessed are you when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my name's sake. ¹² "Rejoice and exult in it, because your reward was great in the heavens; for so did they persecute the prophets before you.

²² "Many in that day will say to me, "'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name done many mighty works?' ²³ "Then I will tell them plainly, "'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of iniquity.'

³⁹ "The enemy who sows the weeds is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age. The reapers are the angels. ⁴⁰ "Just as the weeds are collected together and burnt with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. ⁴¹ "The son of man will send forth his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all hindrances, and whoever practices iniquity, ⁴² "and will throw them into the fiery furnace. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ "And then shall the just shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him who has ears to hear, listen!

²⁷ For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father, and his angels with him, and then will he reward each one in accordance with his actions.

¹³ "'Bind him hand and foot, 'said the king to his officers, 'and cast him into the outer darkness; there will be the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.'

³⁰ "Then the signs of the Son of man will appear in the sky; and then all the tribes of the earth will lament, when they see the Son of man coming upon the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.

³⁶ "But no one knows about that day and hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

³¹ "But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he take his seat on the throne of his glory;

⁴¹ "Then he will say to those also at his left hand. 'Depart from me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels;

⁴⁶ "And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the righteous into eternal life."

²⁴ "The Son of man is indeed to go as it is written concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were good for that man if he had never been born."

⁶⁴ "I am He," Jesus answered; "yet I tell you that from this time on you will see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming upon the clouds of heaven."

²⁸ Of its own accord the earth bears its crops; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

³⁸ Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this unfaithful and wicked generation, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

⁴³ "If your hand cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to be maimed and to enter into life than to have two hands and go away into hell, into the fire that cannot be put out. ⁴⁴ OMITTED TEXT. ⁴⁵ If your foot cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to enter into the life a cripple, than to have two feet and be cast into hell. ⁴⁶ OMITTED TEXT. ⁴⁷ If your eye cause you to stumble, tear it out! It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God one-eyed that to keep both your eyes and be cast into hell, ⁴⁸ where their worm never dies and the fire does not go out. ⁴⁹ For by fire every one will be salted;

⁶² "I am," Jesus answered, "and you all shall see the Son of man seated on the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven."

¹² "For I tell you that it will be mare tolerable for Sodom in that day than for that town.

³² "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

²⁷ "But he will answer. "'I tell you I do not know were you came from;

³² "'But it was fitting that we should make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive; he was lost and is found.'"

²⁵ "'Remember my son.' said Abraham, 'that you had in your lifetime all your good things, and in the same way Lazarus his evil things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish.

²⁵ "'Remember my son.' said Abraham, 'that you had in your lifetime all your good things, and in the same way Lazarus his evil things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish. ²⁶ "But besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who want to cross from here to you cannot, nor can those who would cross from you to us.'

⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"

³⁰ "In the same manner it shall be in the day that the Son of man shall be revealed.

³⁵ "but those who are counted worthy to reach that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

³⁶ "So be on your guard at all times, praying that you may be worthy to escape these things that shall come to pass, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of man."

³ All things came into being through him, and apart from him nothing that exists came into being.

⁵¹ You shall see greater things than that! Believe me," he added, "you all shall see heaven opened wide, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

¹⁴ Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him. "Look! You have become well. Do not go on sinning, lest a worse thing befall you."

²⁷ "Labor not for food which perishes, but for the food that endures eternal life—that which the Son of man will give you; for on the Father—God—has set his seal." ²⁸ "What are we to do habitually," they asked him, "that we may keep working the words of God?" ²⁹ "This is the work of God," answered Jesus, "that you believe on him whom He has sent you."

¹⁹ "Where is your Father?" they asked him. "You have neither known me nor my Father," answered Jesus. "If you had known me, you would have known my father also."

⁴ When Jesus heard it he said, "This illness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that through it the Son of God may be glorified."

² "He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more.

¹⁰ and all thine are mine, and mine are thine; and I am glorified in them.

²¹ that they may all be one, even as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be in us; in order that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. ²² And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one even as we are one, ²³ I in them and thou in me; that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou didst send me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me. ²⁴ "Father, it is my will that wherever I am these also, thy gift to me, may be with me, that they may see the glory, my glory which thou hast given me, because thou didst love me before the foundations of the world. ²⁵ O righteous Father, though the world knew thee not, I have known thee, and these have known that though didst send me. ²⁶ And I have declared—and will declare—thy name unto them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."

¹¹ and they said: "Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into the sky will come back in just the same way as you have seen him going into the sky."

⁷ And the word of the Lord continued to spread; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was increasing exceedingly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith.

⁴⁶ So Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly. "It was necessary," they said, "first to proclaim the word of God to you. But since you push it away from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

²² Everywhere they strengthened the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold to the faith. "It is through many tribulations," they said, "that we must enter into the kingdom of God."

¹ And he came also to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a certain disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewess, and of a Greek father.

⁵ It is through him, even Jesus Christ our Lord, that I received grace and apostleship to promote obedience to the faith among all the Gentiles, for his name's sake;

⁷ To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. May God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, bless you, and give you peace. ⁸ First I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout all the world. ⁹ God is my witness, to whom I render holy service in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I am ever making mention of you in my prayers,

²⁸ And just as they refused to continue to retain God in their knowledge, so did God cast them out to an outcast mind, to do those things which were indecent.

⁵ In your hardness and impenitence of heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath on the Day of Wrath, when the righteous judgment of God is revealed.

⁷ eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;

⁷ eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality; ⁸ but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness.

³ And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude, ⁴ and fortitude character, and character, hope— ⁵ a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

¹⁶ Do you not know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to any one to obey him, you are his slaves whom you obey; whether it be sin, whose end is death, or obedience, whose end is righteousness?

¹⁷ and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; but to share his glory, we must now be sharing his sufferings.

²⁵ Who hopes for what he clearly sees? But if we hope for something that we do not see, we then patiently wait for it.

³⁰ and whom he foreordained, those he also called; and whom he called, those he also justified; and whom he justified, those he also glorified.

²³ And what if he thus purposed to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory? ²⁴ Now such are we whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the Gentiles.

¹⁶ And yet they did not all hearken to the good news; for Isaiah said, Lord, who hath believed our message?

¹² Rejoice in hope; be patient under affliction; continue stedfast in prayer.

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of any thing except that which Christ has done through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

²⁶ but now has been brought to light, and by command of the eternal God made known to the Gentiles by the scriptures of the Prophets, so that the Gentiles might hold obedience of the faith.

³ Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴ I am always thanking God on your behalf, for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus;

⁶ (for thus my witness for Christ was confirmed among you);

⁸ He will also keep you perfectly stedfast unto the end, so that you will be unreproveable in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ The Day will disclose it, for it dawns in fire, and the fire will test each man's work, of what quality it is.

¹⁷ Only whatever be the lot in life to which God has assigned each one—and whatever the condition in which he was living when God called him—in that let him continue. Such is the rule I give in all the churches.

³⁴ Wake up, do justly, cease from sin; for I say to your shame that some of you have no acquaintance with God.

¹⁹ For Jesus Christ, Son of God, who was proclaimed among you by us, that is, by Silvanus and Timothy and me, was not wavering between "Yes" and "No," but in him is the everlasting "Yes."

¹⁷ For my light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

¹⁴ Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, I have not been put to shame. But as in every matter I have spoken the truth to you, so also my boast to Titus has been proved to be the truth.

⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

² for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority of them.

⁴ For if any Macedonians come with me and find you not ready, shame would come upon me (not to speak of you) in respect to this confidence.

⁵ For I pull down imaginations and every crag that lifts itself against the knowledge of God. And I carry every thought away into captivity and subjection to Christ;

⁴ For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he now lives through the power of God. I also am weak, sharing in his weakness, but I shall live with him by the power of God.

²⁴ And they were giving glory to God on my account.

¹ O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!

⁸ But once, when you Gentiles had no knowledge of God, you were slaves to gods which have no real being.

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

⁵ For in his love he predestined us (such was the good pleasure of his will) to adoption for himself as sons through Jesus Christ, ⁶ and to the praise of his glorious grace which he graciously bestowed upon us in the Beloved.

⁹ when he made known to us, I say, that good pleasure which he purposed in himself

¹² that we who first hoped in Christ should be for the praise of his glory.

¹⁴ who for the praise of his glory is the pledge of our common heritage, unto the complete redemption of his purchased property.

¹⁶ do not cease to praise God for you, whenever I mention you in my prayers.

¹⁸ and that the eyes of your heart may be flooded with light so that you may understand what is the hope of his calling, what the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and what the surpassing greatness of his might in us who believe, as seen in the energy of that resistless might ²⁰ which he exercised in raising Christ from the dead, and in seating him at his right hand in the heavenly heights,

⁷ in order that he might show to the ages to come the amazing riches of his grace by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus.

¹⁰ in order that now his manifold wisdom should, through the church, be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly sphere,

¹⁴ For this cause I bend my knees before the Father, ¹⁵ from whom every fatherhood in heaven and earth is named, ¹⁶ praying him to grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in your inmost being;

¹⁶ praying him to grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in your inmost being; ¹⁷ that Christ may make his home in your hearts through your faith; that you may be so deeply rooted and so firmly grounded in love, ¹⁸ that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is "the breadth," "the length," "the depth," and "the height," ¹⁹ and may know the love of Christ which transcends all knowing, so that you may be filled with all the "plenitude" of God. ²⁰ Now unto him who, according to his might that is at work within us, is able to do infinitely more than all we ask or even think, ²¹ to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, to all generations, world without end, Amen.

¹ I summon you then, I the prisoner in the Lord, to live lives worthy of the calling to which you were called.

²⁰ and at all times for all things give thanks to God, the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁶ Of this I am fully persuaded, that He who has begun a good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ. ⁷ It is but just that I should be thus mindful of you all, because I have you in my heart, and because in these fetters of mine and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel you are all my fellow partners in the privilege.

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may abound yet more and more in intelligence and insight

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may abound yet more and more in intelligence and insight ¹⁰ for testing things that differ, so that you may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, ¹¹ being filled with the fruit of righteousness through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

²⁸ and in no way terrorized by its enemies. For you fearlessness is a clear indication of coming ruin for them, but of salvation for you at the hands of God.

⁹ And for this God highly exalted him, and graciously bestowed upon him the name which is above every name; ¹⁰ that in the name of Jesus every knee in heaven, on earth, and under the earth should bend, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that "Jesus Christ is Lord," to the glory of God the Father.

¹³ for it is God who, in his good-will is ever working in you both will and deed.

⁹ and be found in him; not having my own righteousness of the Law, but that alone which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which comes from God, founded upon faith.

¹⁴ I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

¹⁹ Their end is destruction, their belly is their god, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are set on earthly things.

⁹ For this reason from the day I heard of it I have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will with every kind of wisdom and spiritual insight; ¹⁰ that you may walk worthy of the Lord in every kind of pleasing; that you may be fruitful in every kind of good work, and may increase in the knowledge of God; ¹¹ that you may be strengthened in every kind of strength by the might of his glory for every kind of patience and fortitude with good cheer. ¹² I ask that you may give thanks to the Father who has made us fit to receive our share of the heritage of the saints in the light.

¹² I ask that you may give thanks to the Father who has made us fit to receive our share of the heritage of the saints in the light. ¹³ For he has delivered us out of the dominion of the darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of his dear Son,

¹⁶ for in him was the universe created, things in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; by him and for him all have been created;

⁹ For it is in Christ that all the fullness of deity dwells bodily, ¹⁰ and in him you have your fulness, and he is the Lord of all the principalities and powers.

²⁵ For he who wrongs another will be paid back for his wrong-doing, and there will be no favoritism.

¹ Paul and Silas and Timothy. To the church of the Thessalonians which is in God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be to you, and peace. ² I am continually thanking God for all, always making mention of you in my prayers,

² I am continually thanking God for all, always making mention of you in my prayers, ³ as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father.

³ as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father.

³ as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father. ⁴ For I know, O brothers, beloved of God, that he has chosen you; ⁵ for my gospel did not come to you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. For you know also the manner in which I behaved myself among you for your sakes.

⁵ for my gospel did not come to you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. For you know also the manner in which I behaved myself among you for your sakes. ⁶ Moreover, you began to follow the pattern I set you, and the Lord's also, receiving the word with joy in the Holy Spirit, although amid severe persecution. ⁷ Thus you became a pattern to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. ⁸ For the word of the Lord has been sounded forth from you, and its sound has been heard not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place where the tidings of your faith toward God have been spread abroad, so that I have no need to speak of it. ⁹ For others, of their own accord, tell about the welcome I had from you, and how you turned to God from your idols, to be slaved of a true and living God, ¹⁰ and to await for the coming of his Son from the heavens, the Son whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, our Deliverer from the wrath to come.

¹ For you yourselves know, brothers, that my visit to you did not fail of its purpose;

¹² exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory. ¹³ For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.

¹³ For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe. ¹⁴ For you, brothers, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus; and you in your turn suffered at the hands of your fellow citizens persecutions like to those which they endured from the Jews—

¹⁹ For what is my hope, or joy? What is the victor's wreath in which I exult? What but your own selves in the presence of our Lord Jesus, at his coming!

² I sent Timothy, my brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and to hearten you in your faith. ³ So that no one should be shaken by these troubles—for you know well that we are appointed to troubles. ⁴ For even when I was with you I used to tell you beforehand that I was to suffer affliction; and so it proved, as you know. ⁵ So, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that my labor had been in vain. ⁶ But now that Timothy has returned from you to me, and has brought good news of your faith and love, and that you are still holding me in affectionate remembrance, always longing to see me as I also am longing to see you.

⁶ But now that Timothy has returned from you to me, and has brought good news of your faith and love, and that you are still holding me in affectionate remembrance, always longing to see me as I also am longing to see you. ⁷ I have been comforted, my brothers, in regard to you, in spite of all my distress and affliction over your faith. ⁸ For now I am really living, if you are standing firm in the Lord. ⁹ For what thanksgiving can I render again to God in your behalf, in return for all the joy which you cause me in the presence of my God?

⁹ For what thanksgiving can I render again to God in your behalf, in return for all the joy which you cause me in the presence of my God? ¹⁰ Night and day I am praying earnestly that I may see you face to face, and may perfect whatever is yet lacking in your faith. ¹¹ Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct my path to you. ¹² Meanwhile, may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as I do toward you.

¹² Meanwhile, may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as I do toward you. ¹³ And so may he establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus, with all his saints.

¹ Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God—and you are actually doing so—that you abound in it yet more and more.

⁵ Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles who know not God.

⁹ It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another. ¹⁰ As indeed you do love all the brothers in Macedonia. But I exhort you, brothers, to abound in this yet more.

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

³ While men are saying "Peace and safety," then, like birth-pangs upon a woman with child, destruction will come upon them suddenly. In no wise will they escape.

⁵ They are an evidence of the righteous judgment of God, who will count you worthy of his kingdom, in behalf of which you are even now suffering. ⁶ For truly God's justice must render back trouble to those who are troubling you, ⁷ and give to you, who are now troubled, rest, along with me at the unveiling "apocalypse" of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with his mighty angels,

¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all believers, on that Day; (for you also believed our testimony). ¹¹ To this end I am making my constant prayer for you, beseeching God to make you worthy of your calling, and to fulfil mightily every desire of goodness and effort of faith; ¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in him, according to the grace of our God and of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ and then the lawless one will be revealed. Him the Lord will consume with the breath of his lips, and destroy with the brightness of his appearing;

¹³ But for you, brothers, whom the Lord loves, I ought to give thanks to God continually, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth. ¹⁴ For this he called you through my gospel, so that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ May the Lord incline your hearts to the love of God and to the stedfastness of Christ.

¹² But I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have fully believed, and I am thoroughly persuaded that he is able to keep what I have given him until the Day.

¹⁸ The Lord grant him to find mercy form the Lord in that Day! And you know better than I how many services he rendered in Ephesus.

¹² If we endure suffering, we shall also reign with him. If we disown him, he too will disown us.

⁸ Henceforth there is laid up for me the garland of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that Day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

¹¹ "For God's grace has shined forth bringing salvation to all men

¹³ While we look for the blessed hope and epiphany of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

⁴ But when the kindness of God our Saviour, And his love toward men shined forth, ⁵ He saved us, not because of any deeds that we had done in righteousness, But because of his own pity for us. He saved us by that washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour; ⁷ In order that being justified by his grace, We might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

³ Which having begun to be spoken by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him;

¹ Therefore, holy brothers, comrades of a heavenly calling, fix your thoughts then upon Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.

¹ Let us be on our guard, then, though there is a promise still standing of being admitted to his rest, lest any one of you should be found to have come short of it.

⁹ So there remains a Sabbath Rest for the people of God.

¹¹ Let us, then, be earnest to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall into the same example of disobedience.

⁹ and by being thus made perfect, he became the source of enduring salvation to all who obey him,

¹⁵ And so by patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the promise.

²⁸ so also the Christ, after being once for all offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who wait for him for salvation.

²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fiery indignation which is about to devour the adversaries.

²⁹ How much surer, think you, will be the punishment of one who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has profaned that covenant blood with which he was sanctified, and has done despite to the spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know Him who said, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, and again, The Lord will judge his people.

³² But ever call to mind the former days, in which, after having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings; ³³ partly by being made a public spectacle in reproaches and afflictions, and partly by sharing the fortunes of those that were so used.

³⁶ For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise,

⁸ By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

¹ Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, ² looking unto Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and has now taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

² looking unto Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and has now taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Compare yourselves with him who endured such hostility against himself at the hands of sinners, lest you grow weary, fainting in your souls.

²⁹ FOR INDEED OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.

³ because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance. ⁴ But let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, not lacking in anything.

⁷ Be patient, then, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it gets the early and the latter rains. ⁸ So you also must be patient. Stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is at hand!

¹¹ Remember we count those that were stedfast happy. You have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen how the Lord is full of tenderness.

² according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ; Grace and peace be multiplied to you.

⁷ These are in order that the test of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable and yet is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honor, at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ⁸ Him you love, though you have never seen him; in him you ever believe, though even now you see him not, and you are rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory,

²² Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your lives for a brotherly love without hypocrisy, you must love one another from your hearts, fervently.

⁹ But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you may show forth the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light—

⁶ thus, for example, Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are daughters of Sarah, if you do what is right, and permit nothing to make you afraid.

²² He is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; to Him angels and authorities and powers have been made subject.

¹⁴ If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God is resting upon you.

¹⁴ If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God is resting upon you. ¹⁵ But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as a spy upon other people's business. ¹⁶ But if any man is suffering as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him ever glorify God in this Name. ¹⁷ It is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it first begin with us, what shall be the end of those who are disobedient to the gospel?

¹⁷ It is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it first begin with us, what shall be the end of those who are disobedient to the gospel? ¹⁸ If the righteous man is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

¹⁰ But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

⁵ For this very reason do your best to add to your faith manliness, and to manliness knowledge, ⁶ and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety,

⁶ and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety, ⁷ and to piety brotherly love, and to brotherly love, love itself. ⁸ For if these virtues are yours in abounding measure, they render you not idle nor unfruitful, until you come into the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For the man who lacks these virtues is blind, short-sighted, forgetful of his cleansing from his old sins. ¹⁰ So, brothers, take diligent care to make your calling and election sure; for if you do this, you will never stumble.

¹³ So I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," to rouse you by way of reminding you,

¹⁷ Such men are like waterless springs, or mists storm-driven; for them the blackness of darkness has been reserved.

⁷ But the heavens and earth that now are, by the same word of God, have been reserved for fire, and are being kept for the Day of Judgment, and for the destruction of ungodly men.

¹⁰ But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief; and on that Day the heavens will vanish with a crash, the heavenly bodies will melt with fervent heat, and the earth and all its works will be burned up. ¹¹ Now since all things are in the process of dissolution, what kind of men ought you to be, in all holy living and piety; ¹² while you look for and hasten the coming of the Day of God. At its coming the heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt with fervent heat.

¹⁸ But grow continually in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the Day of Eternity, Amen.

¹³ wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. ¹⁴ It was to these, too, that Enoch, the "seventh in descent from Adam," prophesied, saying, "Lo! the Lord is come with myriads of his saints, ¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly deeds which in their ungodliness they have committed; and of all the hard things which they have spoken against Him, ungodly sinners that they are!"

⁴ From John to the seven churches that are in Asia the Roman Province. Grace to you, and peace from Him that is and was and is to be, and from the Seven Spirits that are before his throne,

⁷ Behold, he is about to come among the clouds; and every eye will see him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. So shall it be, Amen.

⁴ Yet you have a few names in Sardis that have not defiled their garment; and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

¹⁰ Thou hast made them kings and priests unto our God, And they shall reign on earth."

¹⁰ And with a loud voice they cried, saying, "O Master, holy and true, How long dost thou not judge And avenge our blood On those who dwell on the earth?"

¹⁶ And they began to say to the mountains and to the rocks. "Fall upon us and hide us From the face of him who is seated upon the throne, And from the wrath of the Lamb; ¹⁷ For the Great Day of their wrath has come, And who is able to stand?"

¹¹ And all the angels stood encircling the throne, and the Elders and the Living Creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne, worshiping God, ¹² and crying, "Even so! The blessing and the glory and the wisdom And the thanksgiving and the honor and the power and the might Be to our God forever and ever. Amen."

¹⁴ And I said to him, "You know, my Lord." And he said to me, "These are those who have come out of the great persecution, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ For this they are now before the throne of God, and are serving him day and night in his temple. "And He who sits on the throne Will spread his tabernacle over them. ¹⁶ They hunger no more, Neither thirst any more; Neither will the sun strike upon them, Nor any scorching heat; ¹⁷ For the Lamb in the midst of the throne Will shepherd them, And will lead them to fountains of living water; And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

¹⁸ The nations raged, and thy wrath came, And the time for the dead to be judged; The time for rewarding thy slaves, the prophets And the saints, and those who reverence thy name, Both small and great; And the time to destroy those who are destroying the earth."

¹⁰ He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, Poured out unmixed in the cup of his anger; And he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone In the presence of the holy angels, And in the presence of the Lamb, ¹¹ And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; And they have no rest day or night, Who worship the beast and his image, And all who receive the brand of his name." ¹² Here is the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. ¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, "Write, Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth! Yea, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, For their deeds do follow them."

⁴ Who shall not fear, O Lord, And glorify thy name? For thou only art holy. For all the nations shall come and worship before thee; For thy righteous acts have been made evident."

⁵ And I heard the angel of the waters saying. "Righteous art thou, thou who art and wast, The Holy One, Because thou didst inflict this judgment. ⁶ For men poured out the blood of thy saints and prophets, And thou hast given them blood to drink. And this they deserved." ⁷ And I heard the altar saying, "Yea, O Lord, the Almighty, True and righteous are thy judgments."

²⁰ Rejoice over her, O Heaven! Rejoice, ye saints, apostles, prophets! For God has now avenged you.

²⁴ And in you was found the blood of prophets and of saints, And of all who have been slain upon the earth."

² For true and righteous are his judgments; For he has judged the great harlot Who was corrupting the earth with her fornication. On her he has avenged the blood of his slaves."

¹⁰ and the devil who had been deceiving them was hurled into the lake of fire and brimstone, where lie also the beast and the false prophet. And they will be tortured day and night, forever and ever. ¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and One who sat thereon; from his presence fled earth and sky, and no place was found for them.

¹⁴ And all were judged according to their deeds. And Death and Hades were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

¹⁴ And all were judged according to their deeds. And Death and Hades were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵ And if any one was found who was not written in the Book of Life, he was hurled into the lake of fire.

⁴ And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more, Nor will there be mourning, Nor crying, nor pain any more. Because the first things have passed away."

⁸ But as for the cowards, the faithless, the abominable, And for the murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, Idolaters, and all liars, Their part will be in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. "This is the second death."

⁶ Then he said to me. "These words may be trusted, and are true. the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his slaves what must soon take place.

⁹ But he said to me. "See thou do it not. I am only a fellow slave with you and your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this Book. "WORSHIP GOD!"

¹⁵ Without are the dogs, the sorcerers, the immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who live and make a lie. ¹⁶ "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright and morning Star.