Luke 6 Cross References - MNT

¹ It happened that on a Sabbath he was going through the wheat-fields. His disciples were picking the ears and eating the wheat, rubbing it out with their hands. ² And some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?" ³ "Have you never read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he and his followers were hungry? ⁴ "How he entered into God's house and took and ate the Presented Loaves, and gave some to his followers, loaves which none must eat but the priests? ⁵ "THE SON OF MAN," he told them, "IS LORD EVEN OVER THE SABBATH." ⁶ On another Sabbath he went into a synagogue and was teaching; and there was there a man whose right hand was withered. ⁷ Now the Scribes and Pharisees kept watching to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might be able to bring on accusations to him. ⁸ He was all along aware of their thoughts; and he said to the man with the withered hand, "Rise, and stand there in the midst." ⁹ So he rose and stood. Then Jesus said to them. "I ask you whether it is lawful on the Sabbath Day to do good or to do harm? To save a life or to destroy it?" ¹⁰ Then he looked round about on them in anger, and said to him, "Stretch out your hand!" ¹¹ He did so; and his hand was restored. But they were filled with fury, and they began to talk over together what they could do to Jesus. ¹² It happened about that time that he went out into the mountain to pray. He continued all night in prayer to God. ¹³ And when day dawned he called his disciples, and from among them he selected twelve, whom also he called Apostles missionaries. ¹⁴ They were Simon, whom he had also called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James and John; ¹⁵ Philip and Bartholomew; Mathew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon called the Zealot; ¹⁶ Jude the son of James, and Judas Iscariot who was the traitor. ¹⁷ With these he came down till he reached a level place, where there was a great crowd of his disciples and a great many people from all Judea and Jerusalem and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon. These came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases. ¹⁸ Those who were tormented by unclean spirits were healed also. ¹⁹ The whole crowd were trying to touch him, because power emanated from him and cured them all. ²⁰ Then raising his eyes upon his disciples he began to say to them. "Blessed are you poor, For the kingdom of God is yours. ²¹ "Blessed are you who are hungry now, For you shall be filled. "Blessed are you who are wailing now, For you shall laugh. ²² "Blessed are you when men shall hate you, And excommunicate you and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of man. ²³ "Rejoice in that day and exult, For your reward is great in heaven; For even so did their fathers to the prophets. ²⁴ "But woe to you rich! For you already have received your consolation. ²⁵ "Woe unto you who are full now! For you shall suffer hunger. "Woe to you who are laughing now! For you shall wail and weep. ²⁶ "Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you! For even so did their fathers to the false prophets. ²⁷ "But to you who are listening to me I say, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, ²⁸ Bless those who curse you, pray for those who calumniate you. ²⁹ To him who gives you a blow on the jaw Turn the other jaw also; And from him who is robbing you of your cloak Withhold not your coat also. ³⁰ Give to every one who asks you; And do not demand your goods back from him who is taking them away. ³¹ And as you would like men to do to you, So do you also to them. ³² "If you love those who love you what credit is it to you? Why even sinners love those who love them. ³³ "And if you are kind to those who are kind to you, what credit is it to you? Even sinners do the same. ³⁴ "And if you lend to those from whom you are hoping to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so as to get as much back. ³⁵ "But you must love even your enemies and be kind to them, And lend, despairing of no man. Then your reward will be great, And you will be the sons of the Most High; For he is kind even to the ungrateful and to the evil. ³⁶ "Do you therefore be merciful, As your Father is merciful. ³⁷ "Do not judge, and you shall not be judged; Do not condemn, and you shall not be condemned; ³⁸ "Pardon, and you shall be pardoned; Give, and gifts shall be given to you; Full measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, they shall pour into your bosom. For with what measure you measure, they will measure back to you." ³⁹ He also told them a parable. "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? ⁴⁰ "There is no disciple who is above his master; But every one when he is completely trained will be like his master. ⁴¹ "And why do you look at the splinter that is in your brother's eye, but never consider the beam that is in your own eye? ⁴² "Or how can you say to your brother. "Brother, allow me to pull that splinter out of your eye," when you do not see the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite! Take out first the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the splinter from your brother's eye. ⁴³ "For there is not good tree which bears worthless fruit, nor again any worthless tree which bears good fruit; for each tree is known by its own fruit. ⁴⁴ "You do not gather figs from thorns, and grapes are not plucked from a bramble-bush. ⁴⁵ "The good man out of the good treasure-house of his heart brings forth good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure-house of his heart brings forth evil; for the mouth speaks out of the abundance of the heart. ⁴⁶ "And why are you calling me Lord, Lord, and not doing what I tell you? ⁴⁷ "I will show whom the man that comes to me, and listens to my works, and does them, is like. ⁴⁸ "He is like a man who is building a house who digged and went deep and laid a foundation upon rock. And, when a flood came, the torrent dashed against that house, but could not move, because it had been founded upon rock. ⁴⁹ "But he who listens but does not do, is like a man who built a house upon the soil, without foundations, against which the torrent burst, and at once it fell in, and the ruin of that house was great."

¹⁰ And already the axe is lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree, therefore, that does not bear good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

¹⁸ And as he was walking by the see of Galilee, he saw two brothers—Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother—casting their net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

²¹ As he went farther on he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.

²³ Then Jesus went about through Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and infirmity among the people.

²³ Then Jesus went about through Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and infirmity among the people. ²⁴ And his fame spread throughout all Syria. They brought all the sick to him, those who were suffering from various diseases and troubles—demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics—and he healed them. ²⁵ Great crowds followed him from Galilee, from the ten towns, from Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond Jordan.

² and opening his lips he began to teach them, saying. ³ "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. ⁴ "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

⁴ "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. ⁵ "Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth." ⁶ "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for the righteousness, for they shall be completely satisfied.

⁶ "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for the righteousness, for they shall be completely satisfied. ⁷ "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

⁷ "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. ⁸ "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. ⁹ "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. 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.

¹² "Rejoice and exult in it, because your reward was great in the heavens; for so did they persecute the prophets before you.

³⁹ "But I tell you not to retaliate the injury; but whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him also; ⁴⁰ "and if any one wants to go to law with you and takes away your coat, let him take your cloak also. ⁴¹ "Whoever impresses you to go one mile, go two miles with him. ⁴² "Give to him who asks, and from him who wants to borrow from you, do not turn away.

⁴² "Give to him who asks, and from him who wants to borrow from you, do not turn away.

⁴² "Give to him who asks, and from him who wants to borrow from you, do not turn away. ⁴³ "You have heard that it was said, "You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy."

⁴³ "You have heard that it was said, "You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy." ⁴⁴ "But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.

⁴⁴ "But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.

⁴⁴ "But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you. ⁴⁵ "So you will become sons of your heavenly Father; for he makes his sun to rise upon sinners as well as saints, and sends rain upon the unjust and the just.

⁴⁵ "So you will become sons of your heavenly Father; for he makes his sun to rise upon sinners as well as saints, and sends rain upon the unjust and the just. ⁴⁶ "For if you love only those who love you, what reward have you?

⁴⁶ "For if you love only those who love you, what reward have you? ⁴⁷ "Even the tax-gatherers do that, do they not? And if you show courtesy to your brother only, what are you doing more than others? Even the Gentiles do that, do they not?

⁴⁷ "Even the tax-gatherers do that, do they not? And if you show courtesy to your brother only, what are you doing more than others? Even the Gentiles do that, do they not? ⁴⁸ "You then must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."

⁴⁸ "You then must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."

¹ "Be careful not to do your good deeds in the sight of men, in order to be observed by them. If you do, you have no reward with your heavenly Father. ² "And whatever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and streets, in order that men may praise them. In solemn truth I tell you they already have their reward in full.

² "And whatever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and streets, in order that men may praise them. In solemn truth I tell you they already have their reward in full.

⁵ "And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the corners of the avenues, in order that men may see them. In solemn truth I tell you that they have their reward in full. ⁶ "But you, when you pray, go into your own room and shut your door; pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

¹² And forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors;

¹⁴ "For if you forgive men their offenses against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you also; ¹⁵ "but if you do not forgive men your offenses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive you your offenses. ¹⁶ "When you fast, do not look downcast like the hypocrites; for they disfigure their faces so that it may be apparent to men that they are fasting. In solemn truth I tell you, they already have received their reward.

²² "The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body will be well lighted; ²³ "but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be darkened. If then the very light within you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!

¹ "Judge not, that you may be judged, yourselves; ² "for with what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and in what measure you measure, others will measure to you.

² "for with what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and in what measure you measure, others will measure to you. ³ "And why do you look at the mote in your brother's eye, and fail to notice the beam which is in your own eye? ⁴ "Or how will you say to your brother, 'Permit me to remove the mote from your eye,' when, behold, the beam is in your own eye? ⁵ "Hypocrite! First cast out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to cast the mote out of your brother's eye.

¹² "Therefore everything that you would have men do to you, do you also the same to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.

¹⁵ "Beware of the false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but within they are ravening wolves. ¹⁶ "By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes gathered of thorns, or figs of thistles? ¹⁷ "No, every good tree bears good fruit, but a worthless tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ "A good tree cannot bear bad fruit; neither can a worthless tree bear good fruit. ¹⁹ "Every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. ²⁰ "Hence it is by their fruit you will know them. ²¹ "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 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.' ²⁴ "Every one who hears my words and does them I will liken to a wise man who built his house upon the rock. ²⁵ "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon the house, but it fell not, for it was founded upon the rock.

²⁵ "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon the house, but it fell not, for it was founded upon the rock. ²⁶ "And every one who hears these words of mine and does them not, I will liken to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.

²⁶ "And every one who hears these words of mine and does them not, I will liken to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. ²⁷ "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it."

⁴ And because Jesus knew well their thought, he said:

⁹ As Jesus was passing thence, he saw a man called Mathew sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, "Follow me."

²⁰ But a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him, and touched the tassel of his cloak. ²¹ For she said to herself, "If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured."

³⁶ And when he saw the crowds he had compassion on them because they were distressed and fainting, like sheep without a shepherd.

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

³ Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew, the tax-gatherer; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname is Thaddeus; ⁴ Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.

¹⁸ "And you will be taken before governors and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

²² "You will be hated by all men because of my name; and he who endures to the end shall be saved.

²⁴ "A pupil is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his masters. ²⁵ "It is enough for the pupil to fare like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more, the members of his household.

³⁹ "He who has saved his life shall lose it; and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.

⁴² "And whoever gives to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, because he is a disciple, I tell you in solemn truth, he shall not lose his reward.

⁵ "the lame are walking, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised up, and the gospel is being preached to the poor.

⁵ "the lame are walking, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised up, and the gospel is being preached to the poor. ⁶ "And blessed is the man who finds no cause of stumbling in me." ⁷ As these men started to go away, Jesus began to speak to the throngs, about John. ⁸ "What did you go out into the desert to behold?" he asked; "A reed shaken by the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, those who wear soft raiment dwell in kings' palaces!

²¹ "Woe unto you, Chorazin! Woe unto you, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented, long ago, in sackcloth and ashes.

²⁸ "Come unto me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ "Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

¹ At that time Jesus walked through the wheat fields one Sabbath Day; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck some ears of wheat and to eat them. ² But the Pharisees, when they perceived it, said to him. "Look! Your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!"

² But the Pharisees, when they perceived it, said to him. "Look! Your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!" ³ "Have you not read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was hungry, and his men, too?

³ "Have you not read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was hungry, and his men, too? ⁴ "How he went into the House of God, and there they ate the loaves of the Presence, which neither he nor his men were permitted to eat, but the priests only?

⁴ "How he went into the House of God, and there they ate the loaves of the Presence, which neither he nor his men were permitted to eat, but the priests only? ⁵ "Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless?

⁵ "Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless? ⁶ "But I tell you that One is here who is greater than the temple. ⁷ "And if you knew what this means, "It is mercy I desire, not sacrifice, ⁸ "you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath." ⁹ As he passed along he went into their synagogue, and there he saw a man with a withered hand. ¹⁰ And in order to get a charge against him they asked him, "Is it permitted to heal on the Sabbath?" (So that they might have something to accuse him.) ¹¹ "Is there a man of you," he replied, "who has but a single sheep, who will not lay hold of it and lift it out, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath Day? ¹² "And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Therefore it is right to do good on the Sabbath."

¹² "And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Therefore it is right to do good on the Sabbath." ¹³ Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand."

¹³ Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." ¹⁴ The man stretched it out, and it had become sound like the other. But when the Pharisees came out, they consulted together how they might destroy him.

¹⁴ The man stretched it out, and it had become sound like the other. But when the Pharisees came out, they consulted together how they might destroy him. ¹⁵ So when Jesus knew it, he withdrew from that place, and numbers of people followed him.

¹⁵ So when Jesus knew it, he withdrew from that place, and numbers of people followed him.

³³ "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for by its fruit the tree is known. ³⁴ "You generation of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. "When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the vine-dressers seized to get his fruit. ³⁵ "A good man out of his good treasure brings forth good; and from his evil treasure a bad man brings out evil. ³⁶ "I tell you that for every careless word that men speak they shall give account on the day of judgment. ³⁷ "For by your words you will each be justified, and by your words be condemned."

⁴³ "Whenever an unclean spirit leaves a man, it wanders through waterless places, seeking rest but finding none. ⁴⁴ "Then it says, "'I will go back to my house which I left'; and on arrival finds it empty, swept, and garnished. ⁴⁵ "Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits worse than itself; and they enter in and dwell there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it be with this wicked generation."

⁴⁹ And stretching his hand toward his disciples, he said, ⁵⁰ "Behold my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, is my brother and sister and mother."

⁵⁰ "Behold my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, is my brother and sister and mother."

²⁰ "This is the seed sown by the wayside. And the word, and at once receives it with joy. ²¹ "But he has no root in himself; he continues for a time, but when trouble arises, or persecutions, on account of the word, at once he stumbles and falls. ²² "And the seed sown among thorns is he who hears the word, but the anxieties of the age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

¹⁴ So when he landed he saw a great multitude, and felt compassion for them, and healed their sick.

²³ After he had sent the crowds away, he went up into the mountain alone, to pray. When night came he was there alone. ²⁴ But the boat was already a long way from shore, buffeted by the waves, for the wind was contrary. ²⁵ And in the fourth watch of the night he came toward them, walking upon the sea,

³⁶ and kept begging him to let them touch the tassel of his cloak—and all who touched were completely cured.

² "Why do your disciples keep transgressing the tradition of the elders by not washing their hands before eating?"

¹⁴ "Let them alone. They are blind men leading the blind; and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a ditch."

²¹ Jesus then left that place, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon. ²² Behold, there came to him a Canaanite woman of those parts. She wailed loudly, saying. "Pity me, Lord, thou Son of David! My daughter is possessed of an evil spirit."

⁵ While he was yet speaking, behold! a luminous cloud overshadowed them; and a voice out of the cloud, saying. "This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom is my delight. Listen to him."

¹⁵ "Master, take pity on my son, for he is an epileptic and sore distressed. Often he falls into the fire and often into the water.

²⁷ "So then the master pitied his slave, and let him go, and forgave him his debt. ²⁸ "But on his way out, that slave met a fellow slave who owed him fifty dollars. Seizing him by the throat, and nearly choking him, he exclaimed, "'Pay me what you owe me!' ²⁹ "Then his fellow slave fell at his feet, and besought him, saying, "'Be patient with me, and I will pay you.' ³⁰ "But he would not; on the contrary he went and threw him into prison until he should pay the debt.

³⁰ "But he would not; on the contrary he went and threw him into prison until he should pay the debt.

³⁴ "Then in hot anger his master handed him over to the torturers, until he should pay him all his debt. ³⁵ "So will my heavenly Father do to you also, unless from your heart each one of you forgive his brother."

³⁵ "So will my heavenly Father do to you also, unless from your heart each one of you forgive his brother."

⁴ "Have you not read." he answered, "that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said,

²⁸ "In solemn truth I tell you," Jesus answered, "that in the New Creation, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you also who have followed me shall sit on twelve thrones, to govern the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹⁶ they asked him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Surely," said Jesus, "and have you never read, Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?"

²⁹ "'I will go, sir,' he answered; yet he did not go. ³⁰ "Then he went to the second, and said the same thing to him. "'I will not,' he answered; but afterward he changed his mind and went.

³⁵ And the vine-dressers seized his slaves, flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third. ³⁶ Again he sent other slaves, a larger number than at first, and they treated them in the same way.

⁴² "Have you never read in the Scriptures," Jesus answered, "how The stone that the builders rejected Has been made the corner-stone; This is the Lord's doing, It is wonderful in our eyes?

⁴⁵ As they listened to his parables, the chief priests and the Pharisees recognized that he was speaking about them;

¹¹ "Then the king came in to inspect his guests, and he discovered there a man who had not put on a wedding-garment. He said to him, ¹² "'Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding-garment?' "The man was speechless. 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.'

³¹ "But concerning the resurrection of the dead, did you never read what was spoken to you by God,

³⁹ "The second, which is like it, is this, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

³ "therefore do and observe whatever they bid you; but do not do as they do, for they preach, but do not practise.

¹³ "But woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces; for you do not enter, yourselves, nor do you permit those who are about to come in, to enter. ¹⁴ OMITTED TEXT. ¹⁵ "Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you scour sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is gained, you make him twofold more a son of hell than you are, yourselves.

¹⁵ "Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you scour sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is gained, you make him twofold more a son of hell than you are, yourselves. ¹⁶ "Woe unto you, blind guides, who say, If any one swears by the Sanctuary, it is nothing, but if any one swears by the gold of the Sanctuary, the oath is binding. ¹⁷ "You fools and blind; for which is greater, the gold, or the Sanctuary which hallows the gold? ¹⁸ "You say, too, that whoever swears by the offering that is upon it, his oath is binding. ¹⁹ "You blind! Which is greater, the offering or the altar which hallows the offering? ²⁰ "He then, who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it; ²¹ "and he who swears by the Sanctuary swears by it and by Him who dwells therein; ²² "and he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits thereon. ²³ "Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and anise and cummin, and neglect the weightier matters of the Law—justice and mercy and good faith; these latter you ought to have done, and not to have left the former undone.

²³ "Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and anise and cummin, and neglect the weightier matters of the Law—justice and mercy and good faith; these latter you ought to have done, and not to have left the former undone. ²⁴ "You blind guides! who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!

²⁴ "You blind guides! who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel! ²⁵ "Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but within they are filled with extortion and excess. ²⁶ "You blind Pharisees, first clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside of it may be clean also.

³¹ "So you bear witness against yourselves, that you are the descendants of those who slew the prophets! ³² "Fill up then the measure of your fathers! ³³ "You serpents! You vipers brood! How shall you escape the judgment of hell?

³³ "You serpents! You vipers brood! How shall you escape the judgment of hell? ³⁴ "For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city; ³⁵ "that upon your heads may come every drop of innocent blood spilt upon the earth, from the blood of Abel, the just, to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ "In solemn truth I tell you that all these things will come upon this generation. ³⁷ "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

¹⁰ And then many will stumble and fall, and will betray one another, and hate one another.

¹¹ "Afterwards the other maidens came and cried, "'Lord, Lord, open unto us!'

²⁴ "Then the man who had received the one talent came up and said: "'Master, I knew you were a hard man, reaping where you had not sown, and gathering where you had not scattered;

³⁴ "Then he, the King will say to those on his right hand. "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

⁴⁴ "Then will they also answer, 'Master, when did we ever see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you?'

¹⁴ It was then that one of the Twelve, he who was called Judas Iscariot, ¹⁵ went to the chief priests and said, "What are you ready to give me for betraying him to you?" So they weighed him thirty pieces of silver; ¹⁶ and from that time he kept looking for a chance to betray him.

⁵⁹ And the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were trying to get false evidence against Jesus, in order that they might have him executed; ⁶⁰ but they found none, although many false witnesses came forward.

⁶⁷ Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and some struck him with the palms of their hands, and cried.

⁷⁵ Then Peter recalled the word that Jesus had spoken, "Before the cock crow, you shall three times deny me"—and he went out and broke out into bitter weeping.

³ Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that he was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders. ⁴ "I have sinned," he said, "in betraying innocent blood!" "What is that to us?" they answered; "you must see to that." ⁵ And flinging down the silver into the Sanctuary, he rushed out, and went and hanged himself.

¹⁹ As he went a little farther on he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in their boat mending the nets.

²⁹ On leaving the synagogue they went at once with James and John to the house of Simon and Andrew.

³⁵ In the morning he rose a great while before day and went out to a desert place, and there prayed.

¹⁴ As he was passing by he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting in the tax-office; and he said to him, "Follow me." So he rose and followed him.

²³ One Sabbath he was walking along through the wheat-fields, and his disciples, as they began to make their way across, were pulling the heads of wheat. ²⁴ "Look," said the Pharisees to him, "Why are they doing on the Sabbath Day what is against the law?"

²⁴ "Look," said the Pharisees to him, "Why are they doing on the Sabbath Day what is against the law?" ²⁵ He answered them. "Have you never read what David did when he was needy and hungry, he and his men?

²⁵ He answered them. "Have you never read what David did when he was needy and hungry, he and his men? ²⁶ How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which none but priests may eat, and gave some to his men?

²⁶ How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which none but priests may eat, and gave some to his men? ²⁷ "The Sabbath," he told them, "was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;

²⁷ "The Sabbath," he told them, "was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath; ²⁸ so the Son of man is Master even of the Sabbath."

¹ Again he went into a synagogue where there was a man with his hand withered. ² And they kept watching Jesus to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath; so as to have some charge to bring against him.

² And they kept watching Jesus to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath; so as to have some charge to bring against him. ³ "Stand up," Jesus said to the man with the withered hand, "and come forward." ⁴ Then he asked them. "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath Day, or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it?"

⁴ Then he asked them. "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath Day, or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it?" ⁵ They were silent. Then looking around upon them with anger, and deeply grieved by the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand!" He stretched it out, and the hand was at once completely restored.

⁵ They were silent. Then looking around upon them with anger, and deeply grieved by the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand!" He stretched it out, and the hand was at once completely restored. ⁶ As soon as they came out, the Pharisees plotted against him with the Herodians, in order to destroy him. ⁷ Then Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples; and a great crowd of people from Galilee followed. ⁸ From Judea, too, and Jerusalem, and Idumea, and from beyond Jordan, and from the district of Tyre and Sidon, they came to him a vast multitude, because they heard what he was doing. ⁹ So he directed his disciples to keep a little boat in readiness for him, because of the crowd, to prevent their crushing him. ¹⁰ For he had healed so many that all the people who had ailments pressed upon him so as to touch him.

¹⁰ For he had healed so many that all the people who had ailments pressed upon him so as to touch him. ¹¹ And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him, they threw themselves down at his feet, screaming out, "You are the Son of God." ¹² But over and over, he strictly forbade them to make him known. ¹³ Then he went up the hillside and called to him those whom he chose, and they came to him. ¹⁴ Twelve of them whom he also called "Apostles," he appointed to be with him, and also that he might send them out to preach, ¹⁵ and to have authority to cast out demons. ¹⁶ There was Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, ¹⁷ and James(them he surnamed Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder), ¹⁸ and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Zealot,

¹⁸ and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Zealot, ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.

³⁴ Then, with a glance at those who were in the circle sitting around him, he added. ³⁵ "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God, that one is my brother and sister and mother."

¹⁷ but because they have no root in themselves they last for a time; but when suffering or persecution ensues because of the Word, they at once fall away.

²⁴ And he said to them. "Take heed what you hear. With what measure you measure it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you.

⁷ and with a shriek he cried out in a loud voice. "Jesus, son of God most high, what business have you with me? I adjure you by God, torment me not!"

³⁰ Jesus, instantly conscious that the power within him had gone forth, turned about in the crowd, and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

³⁷ He would not permit any one to go with him, except Peter and James and John, the brother of James.

⁷ Then summoning the Twelve to him, he began to send them out two by two, giving them authority over unclean spirits.

³⁰ When the apostles had come back to Jesus, they told him all the things they had done, and all they had taught.

⁴⁶ After he had taken leave of them, he went away into the mountain to pray.

⁵⁶ And whenever he entered into villages or cities or the fields they would lay the sick in the market-places and beseech him to let them touch even the tassel of his cloak, and all who touched him were made well.

²⁴ After he rose and left that place, he went away into the region of Tyre and Sidon. Here he went into a house and wished no one to know it but he could not be hid. ²⁵ Forthwith a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet ²⁶ (the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by race), and again and again she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷ "Let the children be filled first," he said to her. "It is unseemly to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." ²⁸ "True, Master," she answered, "but the dogs under the table do pick up the children's crumbs." ²⁹ "For that saying of yours, go home," he replied; "the demon has departed from your daughter." ³⁰ So she went home, and found the child lying in her bed and the demon departed. ³¹ Again he left the region of Tyre, and passed through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, crossing the District of the Ten Towns.

²² Then they came to Bethsaida, where some people brought a blind man to Jesus, and begged him to touch him.

² Six days later Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and brought them by themselves up a high mountain apart from the rest.

⁷ Then there came a cloud overshadowing them; and there came a voice out of the cloud. "This is my Son, my beloved. Listen to him."

²⁵ And whenever you stand up to pray, forgive, if you have anything against any one, that so your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

¹⁰ "Have you not read this Scripture?" (he continued) "The very stone which the builders rejected Has now become the corner-stone;

²⁶ But in regard to the rising again of the dead, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

⁹ "You yourselves must be on your guard. They will hand you over to the courts, and you will be flogged on the synagogues; and you will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, to witness to them for me. ¹⁰ But the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations. ¹¹ When, however, they are leading you all to trial, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say, but whatever is given you in that hour, that say, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. ¹² "And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise up against their parents, and have them put to death. ¹³ You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

³³ Then he took Peter and James and John with him, and began to be full of terror and distress; ³⁴ and he said to them. "My soul is full of anguish, even unto death; wait here, and keep watch." ³⁵ So he went a little farther, and throwing himself upon the ground, he prayed repeatedly that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him. ³⁶ "Abba, Father," he said, "all things are possible with thee. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I will, but what thou wilt."

³² "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High. "And the Lord God will give him the throne of his forefather David,

⁴¹ And when Elizabeth heard her salutation, the babe leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth herself was filled with the Holy Spirit,

⁴⁴ "For behold when the sound of your salutation reached my ears, the babe leaped with joy within my womb.

⁵³ "The hungry he has filled with good things, But the rich he has sent empty away.

¹⁶ Then he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. and, as was his custom, he entered into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day, and stood up to read.

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to the prisoners, And recovery of sight to the blind; To set at liberty those that are bruised,

²⁸ When they had heard these words, those in the synagogue were filled with fury;

³¹ Then he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and continued to teach the people on the Sabbath Days.

⁸ When Simon Peter saw this he fell down at the knees of Jesus, exclaiming, "Depart from me, O Lord, for I am a sinful man!"

¹⁰ and so were Simon's partners, James and John, sons of Zebedee.) But Jesus answered Simon. "Fear not; from this time on, you will be catching men."

¹⁵ But all the more the report about him continued to spread; and great crowds began to come together to hear him, and to be healed of their infirmities.

¹⁷ One day he was teaching, and near to him were seated Pharisees and teachers of the Law, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.

²² Conscious of their cavilings, Jesus answered, saying.

²⁷ After this he went forth and noticed a tax-gatherer, named Levi, sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, "Follow me."

³³ Again they said unto him. "Why do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make supplications, as also do the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples are eating and drinking?"

¹ It happened that on a Sabbath he was going through the wheat-fields. His disciples were picking the ears and eating the wheat, rubbing it out with their hands.

⁷ Now the Scribes and Pharisees kept watching to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might be able to bring on accusations to him. ⁸ He was all along aware of their thoughts; and he said to the man with the withered hand, "Rise, and stand there in the midst." ⁹ So he rose and stood. Then Jesus said to them. "I ask you whether it is lawful on the Sabbath Day to do good or to do harm? To save a life or to destroy it?"

¹² It happened about that time that he went out into the mountain to pray. He continued all night in prayer to God.

²⁰ Then raising his eyes upon his disciples he began to say to them. "Blessed are you poor, For the kingdom of God is yours. ²¹ "Blessed are you who are hungry now, For you shall be filled. "Blessed are you who are wailing now, For you shall laugh. ²² "Blessed are you when men shall hate you, And excommunicate you and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of man.

²² "Blessed are you when men shall hate you, And excommunicate you and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of man. ²³ "Rejoice in that day and exult, For your reward is great in heaven; For even so did their fathers to the prophets. ²⁴ "But woe to you rich! For you already have received your consolation. ²⁵ "Woe unto you who are full now! For you shall suffer hunger. "Woe to you who are laughing now! For you shall wail and weep.

²⁷ "But to you who are listening to me I say, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

²⁷ "But to you who are listening to me I say, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, ²⁸ Bless those who curse you, pray for those who calumniate you. ²⁹ To him who gives you a blow on the jaw Turn the other jaw also; And from him who is robbing you of your cloak Withhold not your coat also. ³⁰ Give to every one who asks you; And do not demand your goods back from him who is taking them away.

³⁰ Give to every one who asks you; And do not demand your goods back from him who is taking them away. ³¹ And as you would like men to do to you, So do you also to them.

³⁵ "But you must love even your enemies and be kind to them, And lend, despairing of no man. Then your reward will be great, And you will be the sons of the Most High; For he is kind even to the ungrateful and to the evil.

³⁸ "Pardon, and you shall be pardoned; Give, and gifts shall be given to you; Full measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, they shall pour into your bosom. For with what measure you measure, they will measure back to you."

⁴⁶ "And why are you calling me Lord, Lord, and not doing what I tell you?

⁵ "A sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed some fell by the wayside, and was trodden under foot, and the wild birds ate it up. ⁶ "Some other seed dropped on the rock, as soon as it grew it withered away, because it had no moisture. ⁷ "Another part fell among the thorns; and the thorns grew with it and choked it. ⁸ "But some fell on good soil, and grew up, and brought forth fruit, a hundredfold." When he said this, he called out, "Whoever has ears to hear with, let him listen."

¹³ "Those on the rock are people who, upon hearing, receive the word with joy; but they have no root. For a time indeed they all believe, but in time of temptation they fall away.

¹⁵ "And that in the good soil is those who have listened to the message and, in an honest and good heart, hold fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

¹⁸ "Take heed, then, how you listen. for he who has, to him shall it be given, but from him who has not, shall be taken away even what he has."

⁴⁵ "Who is that touched me?" said Jesus and when everybody denied it, Peter said, "Master, the crowds are hemming you in and pressing upon you." ⁴⁶ But Jesus said: "Some one did touch me; for I perceived that the power was proceeding out of me."

⁵³ They began to laugh him to scorn, because they knew well that she was dead.

¹ Then he called the Twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to heal; ² and sent them out to preach the kingdom of God, and heal the sick.

⁵⁶ "You know not what kind of spirit you share, for the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them." And they went to another village.

¹² "For I tell you that it will be mare tolerable for Sodom in that day than for that town. ¹³ "Woe unto you, Chorazin! Woe unto you, Bethsaida! For had the mighty been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ "However, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. ¹⁵ "And you Capernaum, shall you be exalted to heaven? No! you shall be brought down to Hades! ¹⁶ "He who listens to you listens to me. and he who rejects you, rejects me; he who rejects me, rejects him who sent me."

²⁴ "Whenever a foul spirit is gone out of a man, it roams through waterless places, in search of rest; but when it can find none, it says, 'I will go back to the house which I have left.' ²⁵ When it comes and finds the house completely swept and garnished. ²⁶ "Then it goes off and fetches seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first."

²⁸ "No, rather," he answered, "blessed are those who listen to the word of God, and keep it."

⁴¹ "Better cleanse what is within, and nothing will be unclean for you.

⁴⁹ "For this reason also said the Wisdom of God. 'I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and some they will persecute;

⁵³ After he had gone away, the Scribes and the Pharisee began to set themselves vehemently against him, and to cross-question him upon many points, ⁵⁴ laying in wait for him, in order to catch a word from his lips.

¹⁵ And to the people he said, "Take heed and guard yourselves from all covetousness, for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesses." ¹⁶ Then he spoke to them in a parable. "The ground of a certain rich man bore heavy crops. ¹⁷ "So he debated with himself saying, 'What shall I do? for I have no place in which to store my crops.' ¹⁸ "And he said to himself. 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns and build larger ones in which I will store all my wheat and my goods. ¹⁹ "'And I will say to my soul, "'Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years! Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.' ²⁰ "But God said to him. 'Foolish man! This very night your soul is wanted! And these things you have prepared, whose shall they be?

²⁰ "But God said to him. 'Foolish man! This very night your soul is wanted! And these things you have prepared, whose shall they be? ²¹ "So is he that lays up treasures for himself and is not rich toward God."

³² "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. ³³ "Sell what you have and give alms. Provide yourselves with purses which do not grow old, a treasure inexhaustible in the heavens, where no thief draws near, nor does moth destroy.

⁴⁷ "The slave who knew his Lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, will be beaten with many lashes,

¹⁰ Once he was teaching in one of the synagogues, on the Sabbath,

¹³ Then he placed his hand on her, and she instantly stood upright and began to give glory to God. ¹⁴ But the ruler of the synagogue was indignant at Jesus for healing her on the Sabbath, and said to the crowd. "There are six days of the week on which men ought to work. Therefore come during those, and get cured, but not on the Sabbath Day."

¹⁴ But the ruler of the synagogue was indignant at Jesus for healing her on the Sabbath, and said to the crowd. "There are six days of the week on which men ought to work. Therefore come during those, and get cured, but not on the Sabbath Day." ¹⁵ But the Lord answered him. "Hypocrites!" he said, "does not each one of you loose his ox or his ass from the stall on the Sabbath Day, and lead it to water,

²⁵ "when once the master of the house is risen up and has shut the door. You will begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, crying, "'Lord, open to us.' "'I do not know were you came from,' he will reply. ²⁶ "Then you will begin saying, 'But we have eaten and drunk in your presence, and you have taught in our streets.' ²⁷ "But he will answer. "'I tell you I do not know were you came from; ²⁸ "'depart from me, all of you, you evil-doers.' There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves cast out.

¹ It happened on the Sabbath Day when he went into the house of a certain ruler among Pharisees to take a meal, that they were watching him. ² And lo! there was in front of him a man who had dropsy. ³ So Jesus questioned the lawyers and the Pharisees, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath Day or not?"

³ So Jesus questioned the lawyers and the Pharisees, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath Day or not?" ⁴ They kept silent. Then Jesus took him and healed him and let him go. ⁵ And to them he said, "Which of you when an ox or ass has fallen into a well, will at once pull him out on the Sabbath Day?" ⁶ They could not answer this.

¹² Also to his host who had invited him, he continued, saying. "When you are making a dinner-party or a supper, do not invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, lest it chance that they invite you in return, and a recompense be made by you. ¹³ "But when you make a reception, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind. ¹⁴ "Then you will be blessed, because they have no means to repay you, but you shall be paid in the Resurrection of the Just." ¹⁵ One of his fellow guest who was listening to him, said to him, "Blessed are those who eat bread in the kingdom of God."

²⁶ "If any one comes to me and does not hate father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, and his own very life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

¹⁴ Now the Pharisees who loved money listened to all this and they jeered at him. ¹⁵ He said to them. "You are those that justify themselves in the eyes of men; but God knows you hearts; for that which is lofty in the eyes of men is abomination in the eyes of God.

¹⁹ "Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and made merry every day in splendor. ²⁰ "And a certain beggar named Lazarus was thrown at his door. ²¹ "He was full of sores, and longingly desired to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes! even the dogs came and licked his sores. ²² "But in the course of time the beggar died; and he was carried by angels into Abraham's bosom. ²³ "The rich man also died, and was buried. And as he was tormented in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴ "And he cried out and said, 'Father Abraham have mercy on me; and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.' 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.

³ "Be on you guard! "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents forgive him. ⁴ "And if he sins against you seven times a day, and seven times a day turns to you saying 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."

²² And receiving this reply, Jesus said to him. "One thing you are still lacking. Sell all that you have and give it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me." ²³ But when he heard these words he became deeply grieved, for he was exceedingly rich. ²⁴ Jesus looked at him and said: "How hard it is for those who have money to enter into the kingdom of God! ²⁵ Why, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."

¹⁴ "But this fellow citizens hated him, and sent a deputation after him to say, 'We do not wish this man to become our king.'

²⁷ "'Howbeit these enemies of mine who were not willing for me to become their King, bring them here, and slay them in my presence.'"

¹⁵ "So they turned him out of the vineyard and killed him. "What will the master of the vineyard do to them?

²⁰ So they watched him, and sent spies who pretended to be honest men, in order to seize on his speech, and to deliver him up to authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

¹⁷ "Some of you they will put to death. And you shall be hated by all men for the sake of my name.

³⁰ "so that you shall eat and drink in my kingdom, and you shall sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

³² "But I made supplication for you that your own faith may not fail. And you, when you have turned again, must strengthen your brothers."

⁶⁴ They would blindfold him and ask him. "Prophesy! Tell who struck you!"

³⁴ Jesus kept saying, "Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided his garments among them, casting lots for them,

⁴⁰ One of the two men who heard what John said and followed Jesus, was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter. ⁴¹ In the morning he found his brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (a word which means Christ, the Anointed One). ⁴² He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked intently at him and said: "You are Simon, son of John; you shall be called Cephas" (or 'Peter,' which means 'Rock').

⁴⁵ Then Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found him about whom Moses wrote in the Law, as did the prophets—Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph's son."

²⁵ and did not need any one's testimony concerning man, for he himself knew what was in man.

¹⁴ And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, ¹⁵ in order that every one who believes in him may have eternal life.

¹⁰ "If you had known the free gift of God," Jesus answered, "and who it is that says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water."

³ It has five colonnades. In these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people—blind, lame, paralyzed.

⁸ "Rise," said Jesus, "take up your bed and go walking away." ⁹ Instantly the man became well, and he took up his bed and started to walk. Now it was Sabbath on that day; ¹⁰ so the Jews kept saying to the man who had been cured. "It is the Sabbath Day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."

¹⁰ so the Jews kept saying to the man who had been cured. "It is the Sabbath Day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed." ¹¹ He replied, "The man who healed me told me to take up my bed and walk."

¹¹ He replied, "The man who healed me told me to take up my bed and walk." ¹² "Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'take up your bed and go walking away'?" ¹³ But he who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had moved away, as there was a crowd in that place. 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." ¹⁵ The man went to and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well; ¹⁶ and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he had done it on the Sabbath.

¹⁶ and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he had done it on the Sabbath.

⁴⁰ "you will not come to me that you may have life.

⁵ he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?"

⁸ One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon, said to him.

³⁵ "I myself am the bread of life," answered Jesus; "he who comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst again.

³⁷ "Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will never reject.

⁴⁴ answered Jesus; "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him; then I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵ "It is written in the Prophets, "And they shall all of them be taught of God. Every one who has listened to the father and learns from him, comes to me.

⁷⁰ In reply Jesus said to them. "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? And yet even of you one is an enemy." ⁷¹ Now Jesus was speaking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot; for Judas was to betray him, although he was one of the Twelve.

¹ After these things Jesus continued to travel about in Galilee, for he did not wish to go about in Judea, because the Jews kept trying to kill him.

⁷ "The world cannot hate you, but me it does hate, because I am bearing testimony against it, that its ways are wicked.

¹⁹ "Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?" ²⁰ The crowd answered. "You have a demon! Who is trying kill you?" ²¹ Jesus answered them. "There was one thing I did, and you are all amazed. ²² "Consider, therefore, Moses has given you circumcision—not that Moses originated it, but the fathers—and you are accustomed to circumcise a child even on the Sabbath. ²³ "If a child receives circumcision on the Sabbath, in order that the Law of Moses may not be broken, how can you be angry with me because I made a man sound and well on the Sabbath?

³⁷ Now the last day, that the great day of the feast, Jesus stood up and cried in a loud voice. ³⁸ "If any man thirst let him come to me and drink. From the heart of him who believes in me will flow, as the Scripture said, rivers of living water."

³⁸ "If any man thirst let him come to me and drink. From the heart of him who believes in me will flow, as the Scripture said, rivers of living water."

⁴⁸ "Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ "As for this mob who do not understand the Law, they are accursed!"

⁷ But Jesus stooped down, and began to write on the ground with his finger. When they continued to question him, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent man among you be the first to throw the stone at her."

⁴⁰ "But now you are seeking to kill me—a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do that. ⁴¹ "You are doing the deeds of your father." "We were not born of adultery," they said; "we have one Father, God." ⁴² Jesus said to them. "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and am now come from God. I did not come on my own authority, but God himself sent me. ⁴³ "How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to my message. ⁴⁴ "You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

⁵² "Now we know that you have a demon," exclaimed the Jews. Abraham died, and so did the prophets; and yet you say, 'If any man obeys my teaching he shall never taste death.'

⁴ "I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.

¹⁴ Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes; ¹⁵ so the Pharisees again began to ask him questions about how he had regained his sight; and he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I see." ¹⁶ Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"

¹⁶ Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"

²² This his parents said because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess that he was the Christ, he should be expelled from the synagogue. ²³ It was because this that his parents said: "He is of age. Ask him, himself." ²⁴ So the Jews a second time summoned the man who had been blind, and said to him. ²⁵ "Give glory to God! we know that this man is a sinner." Upon this the blind man answered. "I do not know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that once I was blind, and know I can see." ²⁶ "What was it he did to you?" they asked him; "How did he open your eyes?"

²⁶ "What was it he did to you?" they asked him; "How did he open your eyes?" ²⁷ He answered. "I have told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you wish to hear it again? Can it be that you, too, wish to become his disciples?"

²⁷ He answered. "I have told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you wish to hear it again? Can it be that you, too, wish to become his disciples?" ²⁸ Then they stormed at him. "You are his disciple. We are Moses' disciples.

²⁸ Then they stormed at him. "You are his disciple. We are Moses' disciples. ²⁹ "We know that God spoke to Moses. But this fellow! We do not know where he comes from."

³⁴ They answered, "You were wholly born in sins, and do you teach us?" Then they cast him out.

²⁷ "My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me.

¹⁶ Upon this Thomas, who was called "The Twin," said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too, that we may die with him."

³⁵ Jesus burst into tears.

⁴⁷ So the chief priests and Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.

⁴² Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed on him, but did not confess in on account of the Pharisees, for fear lest they be put out of the Synagogue.

¹³ "Do you understand what I have been doing to you? You call me 'Teacher' and 'Master', and you say well, for such I am. ¹⁴ If then I have washed your feet, I the 'Master' and the 'Teacher', you also ought to wash one another's feet, ¹⁵ for I have given you an example, that you also should do what I have done to you. ¹⁶ In solemn truth I tell you that a slave is not greater than his master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends him.

¹⁶ In solemn truth I tell you that a slave is not greater than his master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends him. ¹⁷ If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.

¹⁷ If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.

³⁵ By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

⁸ "Lord," said Philip, "cause us to see the Father, and we shall be satisfied."

¹⁵ "If you love me, you will obey my commandments,

²¹ "It is he who has my commands and obeys them that loves me; and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him." ²² "How is it, Lord," said Judas (not Iscariot) "that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?"

²² "How is it, Lord," said Judas (not Iscariot) "that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus replied. "If any loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. ²⁴ "He that loves me not does not obey words, and yet the words to which you are listening are not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

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

⁸ "By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples. ⁹ "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ "If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love. ¹¹ "I have told you these things that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. ¹² "This is my command, Love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ "You are my friends if you do what I command you.

¹⁸ "do not forget that it hated me first. ¹⁹ "If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.

¹⁹ "If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you. ²⁰ "Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.

²⁰ "Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also. ²¹ "But they will do all these things to you for my name's sake, because they know not Him who sent me.

² "They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God's service.

²⁰ I tell you solemnly that you will be weeping and wailing while the world is rejoicing; you will be grief-stricken, but your grief shall be turned into gladness. ²¹ A woman in labor has grief because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the babe she no longer remembers her anguish, because of joy that a child has been born into the world.

³³ I have said all this to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be courageous; I have overcome the world."

¹⁴ I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

²² When he had spoken these words, one of the police standing by gave him a blow with his hand, saying as he did so, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"

²⁴ But Thomas, one of the Twelve, who was called "The Twin." was not with them when Jesus came.

¹⁵ When they were through breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these others do?" "Yes, Lord, you know that you are dear to me." he answered. Jesus said to him, "Feed my lambs." ¹⁶ He said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He answered, "Yes, Lord, you know that you are dear to me." "Be a shepherd to my sheep," said Jesus. ¹⁷ The third time Jesus asked him, "Am I really dear to you?" Peter was grieved because the third time he asked, "Am I really dear to you?" and he answered, "Master, you know all things, you know that you are dear to me."

¹⁷ The third time Jesus asked him, "Am I really dear to you?" Peter was grieved because the third time he asked, "Am I really dear to you?" and he answered, "Master, you know all things, you know that you are dear to me." ¹⁸ "Feed my sheep," said Jesus. "In solemn truth I tell you that when you were young, you used to put on your own girdle, and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old you will stretch out your hands for some one to gird you, and carry you where you do not wish to go." ¹⁹ This he said to show by what kind of death Peter was to glorify God. After speaking thus, he said to him, "Follow me." ²⁰ Peter turned around and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following—he who at the supper leaned back upon his breast and said, "Lord, who is to betray you?" ²¹ On catching sight of him, Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, what about him?" ²² "If I choose that he remain until I come," said Jesus, "what is that to you? Do you follow me." ²³ Accordingly the report spread among the brothers that this disciple should not die; but Jesus did not say that he was not to die, but said, "If I choose that he remain until I come, what is that to you?" ²⁴ It is this disciple who bears testimony to these facts and who recorded them; and we know that his testimony is true.

¹³ On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were accustomed to meet. They were Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

¹⁶ "Men and brothers, it was necessary for the Scripture to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David in regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus. ¹⁷ "For he was numbered among us, and he did get his allotted share of this ministry. ¹⁸ "Now this man bought a plot of ground with the price of his treachery, and falling there headlong he burst asunder and all his bowels gushed out. ¹⁹ "This fact became known to the people of Jerusalem so that the place was called in their language, Acheldamach, The Field of Blood. ²⁰ "For it is written in the Book of Psalms, Let his dwelling-place be desolate; Let no man dwell there, also, Let another take his work.

²⁵ "in this ministry of this apostles from which Judas went out to go to his own place."

³⁸ "Repent," answered Peter, "and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

⁸ and leaping forth he stood on his feet, and began to walk, and went with them into the Temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

¹⁵ So they bade them withdraw from the Sanhedrin, while they conferred together.

¹⁹ But Peter and John said in reply. "Do you decide whether in the sight of God it is right to obey you rather than God;

³ "Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan so filled your heart that you are lying to the Holy Spirit, and keeping back part of the price of the land?

¹⁵ In consequence people would even bring out their sick into the streets, and place them upon beds and pallets as Peter was passing, that at least his shadow might fall upon some of them. ¹⁶ The people of the towns near Jerusalem also continued to come in crowds, bringing their sick and those who were harried by unclean spirits, and all of them were healed.

¹⁶ The people of the towns near Jerusalem also continued to come in crowds, bringing their sick and those who were harried by unclean spirits, and all of them were healed.

³³ When they heard this they were infuriated, and were minded to kill the apostles;

⁴¹ So they left Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been deemed worthy to suffer disgrace for the sake of the Name;

⁵¹ "Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Ghost! As your fathers did, so do you. ⁵² "Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become—

⁵⁴ As they heard these words they became furious and gnashed their teeth at him.

⁶⁰ Then he knelt down and cried aloud, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge."

¹⁹ "Give me, too, this power, so that on whomever I lay my hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit." ²⁰ But Peter said to him. "Your money perish with you, because you have supposed that with money you can obtain God's free gift!" ²¹ "You have no part or lot in this matter." Your heart is not right in the sight of God.

²¹ "You have no part or lot in this matter." Your heart is not right in the sight of God. ²² Repent then of this your wickedness, and beseech the Lord to forgive you this purpose of your heart. ²³ "For I perceive that you still stand in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of unrighteousness."

⁹ And he remained there three days, seeing nothing, and without eating or drinking. ¹⁰ Now there was in Damascus a disciple named Ananias, and the Lord spoke to him in a vision, saying, "Ananias!" And he answered, "Lo, I am here, Lord." ¹¹ And the Lord said to him. "Arise, go into the street named 'Straight,' and make inquiries in the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus, one Saul. ¹² He is now praying, and has seen a man named Ananias enter and lay his hands on him to restore his sight." ¹³ "But, Lord," said Ananias, "I have heard from many about that man, and how much evil he did to the saints at Jerusalem! ¹⁴ "In this city, too, he has authority from the chief priests to arrest all those who call upon thy name." ¹⁵ "Go," answered the Lord, "this man is chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the nations and their kings, and before the Children of Israel also; ¹⁶ "for I am going to show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my name."

¹⁶ "for I am going to show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my name." ¹⁷ And so Ananias went and entered into the house, and laying his hands on him, said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, who appeared to you on your journey, has sent me that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit." ¹⁸ Instantly something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized. ¹⁹ Afterward he took food and was strengthened. And he remained for some time with the disciples at Damascus. ²⁰ And he began at once to proclaim in the synagogues Jesus as the Son of God.

³⁸ "how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about everywhere doing good, and curing all who were oppressed by the devil; for God was with him.

² and beheaded James, the brother of John, with the sword.

¹⁰ "O full of all craft and cunning, you son of the devil! You enemy of all goodness! Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

⁵ And when both the Gentiles and the Jews with their ruler made a hostile move to maltreat and to stone them,

¹⁰ said in a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet!"

¹⁷ and yet he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness."

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."

¹³ When they had finished speaking, James said:

¹² so much so, that handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick; and their diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.

²⁴ But I hold not my life of any account, as dear unto myself, if only I may run my race, and accomplish the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

²⁹ I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock;

³⁵ "In all things I have set you an example, how that so toiling, you ought to help the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

²² Until they heard this last statement, the people were listening to Paul, but now they roared out. "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He is not fit to live!"

² Then the High Priest Ananias ordered those who stood near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

⁵ "For we have found this fellow a pest, an inciter of insurrection among all the Jews of the empire, and a ringleader in the heresy of the Nazarenes.

¹¹ "In all the synagogues also I punished them oftentimes, and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my mad fury I was pursuing them even to foreign cities.

²⁶ "I am speaking words of sober truth. For the King, to whom I am speaking freely, knows of these matters. I am persuaded that not one of these things has escaped his notice; for these things were not done in a corner.

¹ You are therefore inexcusable, O man, whoever you are, that sits in judgment; for in judging another you are condemning yourself. You, the judge, are habitually practising the very same things.

¹ You are therefore inexcusable, O man, whoever you are, that sits in judgment; for in judging another you are condemning yourself. You, the judge, are habitually practising the very same things. ² "We know that God's judgment against those who practise such vices is in accord with the truth," you say?

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. ⁹ Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practices evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile; ¹⁰ but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

¹⁹ and are confident that you yourself are a darkness,

²¹ You who are preaching that a man should not steal, do you practise theft?

²¹ You who are preaching that a man should not steal, do you practise theft? ²² You who keep saying that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who hold idols in abhorrence, are you plundering their temples?

²² You who keep saying that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who hold idols in abhorrence, are you plundering their temples? ²³ You who are making your boast in the Law, do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of the Law?

²³ You who are making your boast in the Law, do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of the Law? ²⁴ For the name of God is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as the Scripture itself says.

²⁴ For the name of God is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as the Scripture itself says. ²⁵ Circumcision does indeed profit, if you are obedient to the Law; but if you habitually break the Law, your circumcision is become uncircumcision. ²⁶ So if the uncircumcised keeps the ordinance of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned equivalent to circumcision. ²⁷ And shall not those who are physically uncircumcised, but who keep the Law, condemn you who are a breaker of the Law, although you have a written law and circumcision? ²⁸ For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not outward in the flesh; ²⁹ but the real Jew is one inwardly, and real circumcision is heart—circumcision, spiritual, not literal, praised not by men, but by God.

¹³ Their throat is an open grave; With their tongues they have used deceit. The venom of asps is under their lips. ¹⁴ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

³ And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

⁸ But God gives proof of his love to us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹ By how much more, then, being now justified in his blood, shall we be saved through him from the wrath of God. ¹⁰ For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved in his life.

³⁵ What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ Even as it is written. For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. ³⁷ Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors Through Him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am fully persuaded that neither death nor life, Neither angels nor principalities, nor powers, Neither the present world nor the world to come, Nor the powers of Nature,

¹ I am speaking the truth in Christ, it is no lie. My conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit that I have deep sorrow ² and incessant anguish in my heart. ³ For I was on the point of praying to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

¹⁴ Bless your persecutors, bless, and curse not.

¹⁷ Do not pay back evil for evil. Aim to do what is honorable in the eyes of all. ¹⁸ If it be possible, so far as it lies with you, be at peace with all men. ¹⁹ Never revenge yourself, beloved, but leave the field clear for God's wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," says the Lord. ²⁰ On the contrary, therefore, If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by so doing you will be heaping burning coals on his head. ²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but be overcoming evil with good.

³ He who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains; and let not the man who abstains judge him who eats; for God has received him. ⁴ Who are you just that judges the household-servant of another? To his own lord he stands or falls. And stand he will, for his Master has power to make him stand.

¹⁰ But you the abstainer, why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you again the non-abstainer, why do you despise yours? For we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God. ¹¹ For it is written, "As I live," says the Lord, "to me every knee shall bow, And to God shall every tongue confess." ¹² So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God. ¹³ So let us no longer pass judgment on one another; rather let this be your judgment, that no one put a stumbling-block in his brother's way, nor any cause of falling. ¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is in itself unclean; but any food is "unclean" for one who considers it "unclean." ¹⁵ If your brother is continually pained because of your food, you are not conducting yourself any longer in love. Do not, by what you eat, persist in destroying a man for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Therefore do not let what is right, so far as you are concerned, be evil spoken of.

¹⁸ Turn away from them. For men of that stamp are not the slaves of Christ, but are slaves to their own appetites. By their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

²⁶ For consider your own calling, brothers, that not many wise in earthly wisdom, not many powerful, not many of noble birth, have been called. ²⁷ No, God has chosen the world's folly to confound its philosophy; and the world's weakness to confound its strength. ²⁸ The world's base things has God chosen, and the things that are not, to bring to naught the things that are; ²⁹ so that no mortal man should glory in his presence.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God vouchsafed me, like a skillful master-builder, I have laid a foundation; but another will be building upon it. Let each take heed how he builds on it. ¹¹ The foundation is already laid—Jesus Christ—and no man can lay another. ¹² On that foundation, if a man proceeds to build gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, each man's work will be made manifest. 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. ¹⁴ If any man's work—the building he has made—stands the test, he will be rewarded. ¹⁵ If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames.

²¹ So let no one make boast in men. For all things are yours; ²² Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, things present or things to come; all things are yours; ²³ and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

³ But to me it matters very little that I am judged by you, or by any earthly court. ⁴ Indeed I do not even judge myself; for though I know nothing against myself, yet that does not vindicate me; for he who judges me is the Lord. ⁵ So make no hasty judgment until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make plain the purpose of men's hearts. Then each man's due praise will come to him from God.

¹⁰ For Christ's sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast. ¹¹ Even to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows.

¹¹ Even to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows. ¹² Homeless men, we toil, working with our own hands.

⁷ Indeed, to say nothing more, the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is altogether a defect in you. Why not rather suffer injustice? Why not rather endure being cheated?

⁴ Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up, ⁵ is not rude, nor selfish, nor easily provoked. Love bears no malice, never rejoices over wrong-doing, ⁶ but rejoices when the truth rejoices. ⁷ It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring.

⁵⁵ Where, Death, is thy victory? Where, Death, is thy sting? ⁵⁶ Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law. ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵⁸ So, my brothers beloved, stand firm, immovable, always abounding in work for the Lord, because you know that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.

⁴ who ever comforts me in all my troubles, so that I may be continually able to comfort those who are in any trouble by the comfort with which God is ever comforting me. ⁵ For just as I have more than my share in the sufferings of the Christ, so also through the Christ I have more than my share of comfort. ⁶ If I am afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if I am receiving comfort, it is for your comfort—a comfort produced within you by your patient fortitude, under the same sufferings which I also am enduring.

⁶ For God who said, "Out of darkness light shall shine," is he who has shone in my heart, that the sunrise of the knowledge of God may shine forth in the face of Christ. ⁷ But I hold this treasure in an earthen vessel, in order that the surpassing greatness of the power may be from God, and not from myself.

¹⁸ And all this is from God, who through Christ reconciled me to himself, and gave me the ministry of reconciliation;

¹⁰ as grieved, but always glad; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.

¹⁰ For your pain came from God, and so you took no harm from me. For the pain which is from God works repentance leading to salvation, a repentance never to be regretted. But the world's pain works death. ¹¹ Note the results of this pain which God permitted; what earnestness it has called forth in you, what explanations, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what fervor, what punishment of wrong. In every way you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

² For although in heavy trial of affliction, their overbrimming happiness, even in spite of their deep poverty, abounded to the opulence of their unselfishness.

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.

¹⁴ but burdens are to be equalized. Now your abundance at this present time present time is a supply for their want, in supply for your want; and so burdens be equalized, ¹⁵ even as it is written, He who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little did not lack.

⁶ Mark this; he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

⁶ Mark this; he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. ⁷ But let each give according to the purpose of his heart; not grudgingly of under compulsion. It is a cheerful giver that God loves.

⁷ But let each give according to the purpose of his heart; not grudgingly of under compulsion. It is a cheerful giver that God loves. ⁸ And God is able to give you an overflowing measure of every grace, so that all your wants of every kind may be supplied at all times, and you may give of your abundance to every good work;

⁸ And God is able to give you an overflowing measure of every grace, so that all your wants of every kind may be supplied at all times, and you may give of your abundance to every good work; ⁹ As it is written. He scattered broadcast, he gave to the poor; His almsgiving continues forever. ¹⁰ He who ever supplies seed to the sower, and bread for the food of man, will supply and make plentous your seed, and increase the harvest springing up from your almsgiving. ¹¹ You yourselves will be enriched with all good things, that you may give ungrudgingly; and your gifts, of which I am the agent, will make men give thanks to God. ¹² Because the ministry of this contribution not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also overflows in many a thanksgiving to God. ¹³ For this ministration proves you. On account of it men glorify God for your faithfulness to your professions of the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your gifts to them and to all. ¹⁴ Moreover, in their prayers for you they will be longing after you, because of the exceeding grace of God that is resting upon you.

²⁰ You put up with it, though they make slaves of you, live on you, seize your property, lord it over you, even strike you in the face, in the way of degradation!

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often. ²⁴ Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes. ²⁵ Three times I have been scourged by the Romans; once I have been stoned; three times have I been shipwrecked; a night and a day have I been adrift in the open sea. ²⁶ My journeys have been many; in perils of rivers, in perils of bandits; in perils from my countrymen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers; ²⁷ in toil and weariness, often in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst, often without anything to eat; in cold and in nakedness.

¹⁰ Most gladly therefore will I boast rather of my weakness, that over me like a tent may be pitched the power of Christ. That is why I rejoice in weakness, in ill-treatment, in troubles, in persecutions and calamities for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

¹⁹ I saw no other apostle except James, the Lord's brother.

⁹ and when they recognized the grace which had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, then thought to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and to me the right hand of fellowship. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the Jews.

¹⁴ For the whole Law has been fulfilled in this one precept, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ idol-worship, sorcery, quarrels, party-spirit, jealousy, passionate anger, intrigues, factions, sectarianism, ²¹ envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God. ²² But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control; ²³ against such there is no law.

⁷ Be not deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.

¹⁰ So then, as we have opportunity, let is do good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of faith.

²⁰ You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone.

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

¹¹ It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

²⁸ Let him who stole steal no more, but let him work, and in honest industry toil with his hands, so that he may have something to give to the needy. ²⁹ From your lips let no evil words come forth, but such as occasion warrants, such as are good for upbuilding and give a blessing to the hearers.

³¹ Banish from among you all bitterness and passion and anger and clamor and slander, as well as all malice; ³² and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ has forgiven you.

¹ Learn then to imitate God as his beloved children, ² and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness." ³ As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them; ⁴ so too with vulgarity and buffoonery and foolish jesting. Such words become you not, but rather thanksgiving.

⁴ so too with vulgarity and buffoonery and foolish jesting. Such words become you not, but rather thanksgiving.

¹⁹ when you talk together; with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and with all your hearts making music unto the Lord;

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.

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. ²⁹ For it has been granted you in Christ's behalf, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake, ³⁰ while you wage the same conflict which you once saw in me, and now hear that I maintain.

¹² I know how to live humbly, and I also know how to bear prosperity. In every place and under all circumstances I have been initiated into the secret of fulness and of hunger, of prosperity and of want. ¹³ I am strong for everything in Him who gives me strength.

¹⁷ It is not your gifts I am eager for, but I am eager for the abundant profit that accrues to your divine account. ¹⁸ But I give you a receipt in full for all things abound. I am amply supplied with what you sent by Epaphroditus—an odor of sweet fragrance, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God. ¹⁹ All your own needs my God will fully supply, according to his riches in glory, in Christ Jesus.

²⁴ I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

¹³ bearing with one another and forgiving each other, if any one has a grievance against another. Just as Christ the Lord forgave you, so must you forgive.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ have its home in you richly, in all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ever singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

² Be unwearied in prayer, and keep awake in it when giving thanks.

⁶ Let your speech be always gracious, with a savor of salt, and learn how to give every man a fitting answer.

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.

¹⁰ You are witnesses—and so is God—how pure and just and blameless was my behavior among you believers. ¹¹ You know how I was wont to treat each of you as a father treats his children, 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.

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— ¹⁵ The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out—they are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind.

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.

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.

¹⁵ Take care that none of you ever return evil for evil, but always pursue what is kind to one another and to all.

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.

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 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; ⁹ even he whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, in every power and sign and lying wonder, ¹⁰ and with all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth for their salvation. ¹¹ For this reason God is sending on them an energy of delusion, that they should put faith in a falsehood; ¹² so that they all should be condemned, who are faithless to the truth, but take pleasure in evil.

³ If any one teaches heterodoxy, and refuses to consent to the wholesome words of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teachings of religion, ⁴ he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions, ⁵ and wrangling between men whose minds are corrupt and destitute of the truth; who suppose that godliness is a source of gain.

¹⁷ Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, nor to trust in uncertain riches, but in God, who provides all things richly for our use.

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

¹⁹ Nevertheless God's firm foundation stands unshaken, bearing this inscription, THE LORD KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE HIS, and this also, LET EVERY ONE WHO NAMES THE NAME OF THE LORD RENOUNCE WICKEDNESS.

²¹ If then a man keeps himself clear of these latter, he will be a vessel for honor, consecrated, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

¹¹ as well as the persecutions and sufferings which befell me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know all the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all! ¹² Yes, and all who purpose to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. ¹³ But wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving others, and being themselves deceived.

⁷ I have fought in the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have kept the faith. 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 ¹² And schooling us to renounce impiety and evil passions, And to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age; ¹³ While we look for the blessed hope and epiphany of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ I beseech you for my son, Onesimus, whom I have begotten in these chains. ¹¹ Once you found him "unprofitable," but now he is "profitable" to you and to me.

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

¹³ And there is not a creature hidden form him, but all things are naked and laid prostrate before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

⁷ In the days of his flesh, with better cries and weeping Jesus offered up prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him out of death; and he was heard because of his devout submission.

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

¹⁰ "For this is the covenant which I will covenant with the house of Israel, After these days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their minds, And upon their hearts will I write them; And I will be their God, And they shall be my people;

²⁶ For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any other sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fiery indignation which is about to devour the adversaries. ²⁸ Any one who set at naught the law of Moses was put to death without pity, on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 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?

³⁴ For you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you did take joyfully the confiscation of your goods; conscious that you had for yourselves greater, even lasting possessions.

⁶ now without faith it is impossible to please him; for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he ever rewards those who are seeking.

²⁶ He accounted the obloquy of Christ to be greater than the treasures of Egypt; for he fixed his eyes on the reward.

³² And what more shall I say? for time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak, of Samson, and of Jeptha; of David and Samuel and the prophets, ³³ who through faith conquered kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, ³⁴ quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, proved valiant in warfare, and routed armies of aliens. ³⁵ Woman received their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were broken on the wheel, not accepting the offered deliverance, in order that they might obtain a better resurrection. ³⁶ Others again bore trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, even of chains and imprisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, persecuted, tormented— ³⁸ of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground. ³⁹ Yet, though these all had witness borne to them by their faith, they received not the promise;

¹ James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greeting to the twelve tribes that are scattered abroad. ² My brothers, when you are beset by various temptations, count it all joy,

² My brothers, when you are beset by various temptations, count it all joy, 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.

⁹ Let a brother in humble circumstances glory in his exaltation; ¹⁰ but a rich brother, in his humiliation; because like the flower of the grass the rich man will pass away.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

²² And become doers of the Word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves.

²² And become doers of the Word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves. ²³ Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

²³ Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ for after he has looked carefully at himself, he goes away, and at once forgets what he is like.

²⁴ for after he has looked carefully at himself, he goes away, and at once forgets what he is like.

²⁴ for after he has looked carefully at himself, he goes away, and at once forgets what he is like. ²⁵ But the man who looks closely into the perfect law—the law of liberty—and continues looking, this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who does.

²⁵ But the man who looks closely into the perfect law—the law of liberty—and continues looking, this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who does. ²⁶ If a man thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own religion,

⁵ Listen, my dear brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and to inherit the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him? ⁶ But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you to court?

⁸ If you are keeping the royal law, which says, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself, you are doing well. ⁹ If you have the spirit of caste you are committing sin, and are convicted by the Law as transgressors. ¹⁰ For if a man keeps the whole of the Law, and yet stumbles in one point, he is guilty of all. ¹¹ For he who said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not Kill. Now if you do not commit adultery, but if you do kill, you have transgressed the Law. ¹² So speak and act like men who are to be judged by the law of liberty. ¹³ For judgment is without mercy to the man who has showed no mercy. but mercy glories in the face of judgment.

¹³ For judgment is without mercy to the man who has showed no mercy. but mercy glories in the face of judgment. ¹⁴ My brothers, what good is it if any one says that he has faith, if he has no deeds? Can such faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister be naked and in need of daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, find warmth and food for yourselves," but at the same time you do not give the necessaries of the body, what good would that do them? ¹⁷ In just the same way faith, if it have not deeds, is by itself a lifeless thing. ¹⁸ Some one indeed may say, "You have faith, and I have deeds." "Then show me your faith," I answer, "apart from any deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds." ¹⁹ You believe that God is one? You do well; even the demons believe, and they shudder. ²⁰ But do you want to be convinced, O foolish man, that faith apart from deeds is barren? ²¹ Was not Abraham our ancestor justified by deeds, in that he offered up Isaac, his son, upon the altar? ²² You see how faith was cooperating with deeds, and faith was made perfect by deeds. ²³ And the Scripture was fulfilled which said, And Abraham believed God, and this was imputed to him as righteousness, and he was called God's friend. ²⁴ You see, then, that it is by his deeds a man is justified, and not simply by his faith. ²⁵ In like manner was not Rahab, the harlot, justified by her deeds, in the fact that she received the messengers and sent them forth by another way? ²⁶ So just as the body without a spirit is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.

⁵ So also the tongue is a small member and makes great boasts. Behold, how great a forest is set on fire by a little spark! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire; it is a very world of iniquity among our members, defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the wheel of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. ⁷ For while every kind of beast and bird, and of reptiles and sea-creatures are tamable, and actually have been tamed by mankind, ⁸ no man can tame the tongue, restless evil that it is, full of deadly poison.

¹⁰ From out of the same mouth pour forth blessings and cursings! My brothers, this ought not to be so.

¹² Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives; or a grape-vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh water.

⁴ You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, then, desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself and enemy of God.

⁹ Lament and mourn, and weep aloud! Let your laughter be turned into mourning, And your joy into gloom!

¹¹ Do not be talking against each other, brothers. He who is talking against a brother and condemning his brothers is talking against the Law and condemning the Law. But if you are condemning the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge. ¹² But One is your Lawgiver and Judge—he who is able to save and to destroy. But you, who are you, to be condemning your neighbor?

¹⁷ So to him who knows how to do right and does not do it, to him it is sin.

¹ Go to now, you rich men! Weep aloud, howl for the miseries which are about to come upon you! ² For your riches lie rotting, and your clothing has become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and silver are rusted. and their rust will be for a testimony against you, and it will eat your flesh. For you have been storing up fire in these last days! ⁴ Look! the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have been keeping back by fraud, are crying aloud! And the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth! ⁵ You have lived luxuriously on earth, you have taken your pleasure, you have fattened your hearts for a day of slaughter. ⁶ You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous man unresisting!

⁹ Do not make complaints against each other, brothers, lest you yourselves be condemned. Behold the Judge is standing before the very door!

⁶ Exult in this, though now for a brief moment, if need be, you have suffered many hardships. 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,

¹⁵ but become yourselves holy in your whole manner of living, as He who has called you is holy, ¹⁶ as the Scripture says, You shall be holy, because I am holy.

⁴ Come to him then, that living Stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, and precious.

⁴ Come to him then, that living Stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, and precious. ⁵ And yourselves like living stones be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God, through Christ Jesus. ⁶ For, as Scripture says. Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him shall never be put to shame.

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—

¹⁹ For it is an acceptable thing to God, if from a sense of duty to him, a man endures a wrong, even suffering unjustly. ²⁰ For what credit is it if, when you are struck for a fault, you take it patiently? But if when you are doing well and suffer for it, you always take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

⁹ not paying back evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but on the contrary giving a blessing. Because for this you have been called—to inherit a blessing.

¹⁴ But even if you should suffer in behalf of righteousness, you are happy. Do not be afraid of their terror, neither be troubled.

¹ Since, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, do you also ever arm yourselves with the same mind (because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin),

¹² Do not think it strange, beloved, that a fiery ordeal has come to test you, as though some surprising thing had befallen you. ¹³ But be glad in the degree in which you share in the sufferings of Christ; so that when his glory shall be revealed, you too may be glad with triumphant gladness.

¹³ But be glad in the degree in which you share in the sufferings of Christ; so that when his glory shall be revealed, you too may be glad with triumphant gladness. 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.

¹ Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

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, 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.

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.

¹ But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves. ² Then there will be many who will follow their immorality, because of whom the Way of the Truth will be maligned. ³ In their covetousness, with cunning words, they will make merchandise of you; those whose doom has not been idle from of old, and whose destruction has not been slumbering.

¹⁸ For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they entangle, by their lasciviousness, in the lusts of the flesh, those who are just about to escape from the men that live in misconduct. ¹⁹ They promise them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of rottenness! (For indeed a man is the slave of anything which masters him.) ²⁰ For if, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them and overpowered, their last state is become worse than their first.

² I want you to recollect the words that were foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of your Lord and Saviour, given you through your apostles.

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. ¹³ But according to his promise, we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness makes her dwelling. ¹⁴ And so, beloved, since you are looking for these things, continually give diligence that you may be found in peace, unspotted and blameless in his sight.

³ This is how we may know that we have come to know Him, by always keeping his commandments. ⁴ He who says, "I know Him," but does no continue obeying his commandments, is a liar,

¹⁹ They came forth from us, but they did not belong to us. If they had belonged to us they would certainly have remained with us, but they went out that they might be manifest that they all are not of us.

²⁸ And now continue to abide in him, my children, so that when he shall appear we may have cheerful confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming. ²⁹ If you know that he is righteous you know also that every one who habitually practices righteousness has been born of him.

⁷ My children, let no one deceive you; he who is working righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.

¹⁰ In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. ¹¹ For this is the message that you have listened to from the beginning, "WE ARE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER." ¹² We are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? It was because his own deeds were evil, and his brother's, righteous. ¹³ Do not wonder, brothers, if the world continues to hate you. ¹⁴ We know that we have migrated, out of death into life, because we love our brothers. He who has no love is abiding in death.

⁵ They are of the world, and for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world listens to them. ⁶ But you are of God. He who is beginning to know God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we may distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of error. ⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of God. ⁸ He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love. ⁹ In this was the love of God clearly shown toward us, by his sending his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ If God so loved us, beloved, we also ought to love one another.

¹¹ Do not imitate what is evil, beloved, but that which is good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has never gazed on God.

¹ Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and a brother of James. To those who are in God, the Father beloved, kept for Jesus Christ, and called.

¹² These are they who are stains upon your love-feasts; when they feast sumptuously without scruple, looking after none but themselves. They are clouds without water, driven along by the winds; trees of autumn, fruitless, doubly dead, torn up by the roots,

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!"

²⁴ Now unto Him who has power to guard you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, faultless and exultant,

¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard a loud voice behind me, like a trumpet,

⁷ He who has an ear, let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him that overcomes, to him will I give to eat from the tree of life which is in the garden of God.

⁹ I know your persecution and your poverty—but you are rich! I know the reviling of those who say that they themselves are Jews, when they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. ¹⁰ Fear not what you are about to suffer! Behold, the devil is indeed going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested, and you will have persecution for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. ¹¹ Let him who has ears, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death.

¹⁷ He who has ears, let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him that overcomes I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no man knows, but he that receives it.

²³ And moreover, her children will I kill with pestilence. And all the churches shall know that I am he who searches the hearts and souls of men. I will give to each of you according to his works.

²⁶ To him that overcomes and perseveres in my works to the end, will I give authority over the nations.

⁵ He who overcomes shall thus be clad in white raiment; and I will in no wise blot out his name from the book of life, and I will own his name before my Father, and before his angels.

¹² He that overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall go out from it nevermore. And I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.

¹⁷ For you keep saying, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and do not know that you are the wretched one, and pitiable and beggared and blind and naked.

¹⁷ For you keep saying, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and do not know that you are the wretched one, and pitiable and beggared and blind and naked. ¹⁸ I advise you to buy of me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white raiment to clothe yourself, so that the shame of your nakedness may not be made manifest; and eye-salve to anoint your eyes, in order that you may see.

¹⁴ And the sky parted asunder like a rolled-up scroll; and every mountain and island was moved out of its place; ¹⁵ and the kings of the earth, and the princes, and the generals, the rich and the mighty, both slaves and freemen, every one of them hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 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?"

¹⁶ They hunger no more, Neither thirst any more; Neither will the sun strike upon them, Nor any scorching heat;

¹ And a great sign was seen in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a diadem of twelve stars.

³ And I saw that one of his heads seemed to have been mortally wounded, but its deadly wound had been healed. The whole earth was following the beast, wondering. ⁴ Men worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying. "Who is like the beast? Who can fight with him?"

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."

⁶ Render to her what she rendered; Yes, pay double what her deeds deserve. In the cup she mixed, mix double for her. ⁷ By so much as she glorified herself and waxed wanton, By so much give her of torture and tears, For she says in her heart, 'I sit here a queen, I am no widow. I shall in no wise see mourning.'

⁷ By so much as she glorified herself and waxed wanton, By so much give her of torture and tears, For she says in her heart, 'I sit here a queen, I am no widow. I shall in no wise see mourning.' ⁸ Therefore in one day shall these plagues come upon her, Death and mourning and famine, And she shall be burnt with fire; For mighty is the Lord God, her judge.

⁸ Therefore in one day shall these plagues come upon her, Death and mourning and famine, And she shall be burnt with fire; For mighty is the Lord God, her judge. ⁹ And the kings of the earth who committed fornication And lived wantonly with her, Will weep and wail over her, When they behold the smoke of her burning, ¹⁰ Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city Babylon, the strong city! In one hour is your judgment come!' ¹¹ "And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, For no one buys their merchandise any more—

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

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. ¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne; and books were opened, and another book—the Book of Life—was opened; and the dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the books. ¹³ The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in 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. ¹⁵ And if any one was found who was not written in the Book of Life, he was hurled into the lake of fire.

³ And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, crying. "Behold, God's tent is with men, And he will tent with them, And they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them,

⁷ He who overcomes will inherit these, And I will be his God, And he shall be my son.

¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁴ "Blessed are they who wash their robes, so that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in by the gates into the City.