Romans 13 Cross References - MNT

¹ Every one should be in the higher authorities; for there is no authority apart from God. The authorities that now exist have been appointed by God. ² Therefore the man who rebels against authority is opposing the divine ordinances; and those who withstand will bring judgment on themselves. ³ For rulers are no terror to good deeds, but to evil. Would you be fearless of the ruler's authority? Do what is good, and you will have his praise. ⁴ For the ruler is God's minister appointed for your good. But if you are a wrong-doer, be afraid; he does not carry the sword to no purpose; he is God's servant, appointed to vengeance upon the guilty. ⁵ Wherefore you must needs be in subjection, not only because of fear, but also for conscience sake. ⁶ This too, is the reason why you pay taxes; because the authorities are ministers of God's service, attending continually upon this very thing. ⁷ Render to all their dues; taxes to whom taxes, customs to whom customs, respect to whom respect, and homage to whom homage is due. ⁸ Never owe any one anything save the debt of brotherly love; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law. ⁹ For the Law which says, Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt do no murder, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet, and whatever other commandment there be—is all summed up in this one saying, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. ¹⁰ Love never wrongs his neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilment of the Law. ¹¹ Carry out these injunctions because you know the crisis that we are in, that now it is high time for you to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed. ¹² The night is far spent; The day is at hand. Let is therefore take off the deeds of darkness, Let us put on the armor of light. ¹³ Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy; ¹⁴ But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, And make no provisions for your earthly nature And the gratification of its lusts.

¹³ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the Evil One; For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory. Amen.

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.

³ and at dawn you say, 'It will storm today, for the sky is red and lowering.' You know how to discern the look of the sky, but the signs of the times you cannot read.

²⁴ As they came into Capernaum the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and asked, "Does not your Teacher pay the temple tax?" ²⁵ "Indeed he does," answered Peter. But on Peter's entering the house, Jesus forestalled him, saying. "How does it seem to you, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect customs or taxes—from their own people, or from aliens?"

²⁵ "Indeed he does," answered Peter. But on Peter's entering the house, Jesus forestalled him, saying. "How does it seem to you, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect customs or taxes—from their own people, or from aliens?" ²⁶ And when he replied, "From aliens," Jesus said: "Then their people go free. ²⁷ "Nevertheless, that we may not give offense, go to the seaside, throw in your hook; take the first fish that rises, and when you have opened its mouth, you will find a shekel in it. Take it and give it to them for us both."

¹⁸ "Which commandments?" asked the man. Jesus replied. "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt not commit adultery; Thou shalt not steal; Thou shalt not bear false witness; ¹⁹ "Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

¹⁷ "Give us your advice, then. Is it allowable to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" ¹⁸ And Jesus, because he knew their malice, said: ¹⁹ "Hypocrites! Why are you tempting me? Show me the tribute money." So they brought him a shilling. ²⁰ "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" he asked. ²¹ "Caesar's," they answered. Then he said to them, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."

²¹ "Caesar's," they answered. Then he said to them, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."

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

³⁹ "The second, which is like it, is this, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. ⁴⁰ "On those two commandments hang the whole law and the prophets."

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.

⁴² Keep guard then, for you do not know the day on which your Master is coming. ⁴³ But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have been on his guard, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁴ Therefore you also must be ready, for in an hour when you do not expect him, the Son of man is coming.

⁴⁸ But if, because he is a bad slave, he should say to himself, 'My Master is a long time in coming,' ⁴⁹ and if he begins to beat his fellow slaves, and to eat or drink with the drunkards, ⁵⁰ on a day when he is not expecting him, and at an hour which he does not know, the Master of that servant will arrive ⁵¹ and will scourge him severely, and allot him a place among hypocrites, where will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

⁵ Now because the bridegroom tarried, they all fell to nodding and went on sleeping. ⁶ But at midnight there arose a cry, "'Behold, the bridegroom! Go out to meet him!' ⁷ "Then all those maidens rose and trimmed their lamps;

⁴⁰ Then he came to his disciples, and found them asleep, and said to Peter. "So you were none of you strong enough to watch with me even one hour! ⁴¹ "Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

¹⁹ You know the commandments. Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat, honor your father and mother."

¹⁴ So when they came, they said: "Teacher, we know that you are sincere and are not afraid of any one, for you do not regard the face of men; nay, but you reach the way of God in truth. Is it right to pay poll-tax to Caesar or not? ¹⁵ Shall we pay, or not pay?" But he, knowing well their hypocrisy, said to them. "Why are you testing me? Bring me a dollar for me to look at." ¹⁶ And they brought it. "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" "Caesar's," they answered. ¹⁷ And Jesus said, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God, the things that are God's." They were amazed at him.

¹⁷ And Jesus said, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God, the things that are God's." They were amazed at him.

³¹ "The second is this, "Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. Other command greater than these there is none."

⁴⁰ they who consume the property of widows and make long, pretentious prayers. The greater shall their condemnation be."

³⁵ keep watch then, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming—in the evening, at midnight, at cockcrow, or in the morning— ³⁶ lest he should come unexpectedly and find you sleeping; ³⁷ and what I say to you, I say to all. Be awake and on guard."

⁶ who was a descendant of Aaron. They were both righteous in the sight of the Lord, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the law, blameless.

²⁷ "You must love the Lord your God," he answered, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."

¹⁹ "Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and made merry every day in splendor.

²⁷ "Men were eating and drinking; they were marrying and being married, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ "The same was true in the time of Lot; they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building;

²⁰ "You know the commandments. "Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother."

²¹ So they put a question to him saying. "Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not regard any man's person, but teach the way of God honestly. ²² "Is it lawful for us to pay tribute to Caesar or not?" ²³ But he perceived their knavery and answered. ²⁴ "Show me a shilling. Whose image and superscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they replied. ²⁵ "Then give to Caesar what belongs to him," he said, "to God give what is God's."

²⁵ "Then give to Caesar what belongs to him," he said, "to God give what is God's." ²⁶ So they could not lay hold of his sayings before the people; and marveling at his answer, they held their peace.

⁴⁷ "but they devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive severer condemnation."

²⁸ "But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, lift your heads! for your redemption is drawing near."

³⁴ "But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be surcharged with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day catches you suddenly like a trap.

² and began to accuse him. "We have found this fellow perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and proclaiming that he is the Messiah and King."

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For every one who practices wrong hates light, and does not come to the light, lest his actions be exposed; ²¹ but he who does what is true, comes to the light, in order that his actions may be shown to have been wrought in God."

³⁴ I give you a new commandment, Love one another!

¹¹ "You would have no power over me," answered Jesus, "unless it had been given you from above. For this reason he who has betrayed me to you has the greater sin."

¹⁵ "These men are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only nine o'clock in the morning.

¹⁶ "Hence I too endeavor to have a conscience void of offense toward God and men alway.

⁷ What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not. On the contrary I should not have become acquainted with sin had it not been for the Law; for except the Law had repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not lust," I should never have known the sin of lust. ⁸ But when sin had gained a vantage-ground, by means of the commandment, it stirred up within me all manner of lust; for where there is no law, sin is dead.

¹² Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—but not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; ¹³ for if you go on living according to the flesh, you are on the road to die; but if by the Spirit you keep putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

⁸ Let the teacher give himself to his teaching; and he who exhorts others to his exhortation. He who gives, let him do it in singleness of mind. He who rules, let him rule with diligence; and he who shows mercy must be cheerful.

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.

⁴ For the ruler is God's minister appointed for your good. But if you are a wrong-doer, be afraid; he does not carry the sword to no purpose; he is God's servant, appointed to vengeance upon the guilty. ⁵ Wherefore you must needs be in subjection, not only because of fear, but also for conscience sake. ⁶ This too, is the reason why you pay taxes; because the authorities are ministers of God's service, attending continually upon this very thing. ⁷ Render to all their dues; taxes to whom taxes, customs to whom customs, respect to whom respect, and homage to whom homage is due. ⁸ Never owe any one anything save the debt of brotherly love; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law.

¹⁰ Love never wrongs his neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilment of the Law.

¹⁴ But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, And make no provisions for your earthly nature And the gratification of its lusts.

⁹ Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites, ¹⁰ or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

²⁹ Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none, ³⁰ let those who weep be as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, ³¹ and those who use the world as though using it sparingly. For the present phase of the world is passing away.

¹¹ Now these things were happening to them typically, but were written down for our admonition who stand at the meeting of the ages.

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.

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

⁷ by a true teaching and an energy divine; by the weapons of righteousness, for attack or for defense,

²⁷ For all of you who were baptized into Christ, have clothed yourselves with Christ.

¹³ For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another. ¹⁴ For the whole Law has been fulfilled in this one precept, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. ¹⁵ But if you are always biting and devouring one another, take heed lest you be utterly consumed one by another. ¹⁶ This is my meaning. Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

¹⁶ This is my meaning. Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the desire of the flesh is against that of the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against that of the flesh, for they two are antagonistic, so that you may not do those things that you wish.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,

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.

²⁴ And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and appetites. ²⁵ If we are living by the Spirit, let us also keep step in the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

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

¹⁷ This then I tell you and implore you in the Master's name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds;

²² You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive;

²⁴ and to put on the new self, created after God's likeness, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth.

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. ⁵ For be well assured that no one guilty of fornication or impurity or covetousness which is idolatry, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

⁸ For you were once darkness, but are now in the Lord.

¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness, but rather expose them.

¹⁴ For this reason it is said, "Awake, thou sleeper! Arise from the dead; And Christ shall shine upon thee!" ¹⁵ See to it, then, that you carry on your life carefully; not as foolish, but as wise men.

¹⁸ Do not be drunk with wine, in which is riotous living, but drink deep in the Spirit,

²¹ Submit yourselves one to another out of reverence for Christ.

³³ But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.

² Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise attached), ³ that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

⁵ Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters, with reverence and humility, in singleness of heart as if to Christ himself;

¹¹ Put on all the panoply of God, so that you may be able to stand your ground against the stratagems of the devil. ¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm. ¹³ Therefore take up the panoply of God, so that when the evil day comes you may be able to withstand them, and having overthrown them all, to stand your ground. ¹⁴ Stand firm then, girt about with the belt of truth, and wearing the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having your feet shod with the stability of the gospel of peace. ¹⁶ And take up to cover you the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming darts of the Evil One. ¹⁷ Take likewise the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. ¹⁸ Continue to pray at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching for it with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

²⁷ Only do lead lives worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come to see you or hear reports concerning you in my absence, I may know that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul, enlisted in a common struggle for the faith of the gospel,

³ Do nothing out of strife, nothing out of vanity, but let each one in true humility consider the others to be of more account than himself.

¹⁶ if only we guide our steps by the standards we have already attained. ¹⁷ Brothers, be comrades in imitating me, and study those whose life and walk is according to the pattern I have set you. ¹⁸ For there are many—as I used often to tell you, and am now telling you even with tears—who live and walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ. ¹⁹ Their end is destruction, their belly is their god, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are set on earthly things. ²⁰ But commonwealth is in heaven; and it is from heaven also that we are anxiously awaiting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

⁸ Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if virtue is anything, if honor is anything, be always thinking about these. ⁹ Put in practise also what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me; and the God of peace shall be with you.

¹⁰ that you may walk worthy of the Lord in every kind of pleasing; that you may be fruitful in every kind of good work, and may increase in the knowledge of God;

⁵ So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

⁵ So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry. ⁶ These things are ever bringing down the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience, ⁷ among whom you once led your daily life when you lived in them. ⁸ But now you also must renounce them all. Anger, passion, and ill-will must be put away; slander, too, and foul talk, so that they may never soil your lips.

⁸ But now you also must renounce them all. Anger, passion, and ill-will must be put away; slander, too, and foul talk, so that they may never soil your lips. ⁹ Lie not one to another, but strip off the old self with its doings, ¹⁰ and put on that new self which is continually made over according to the likeness of its Creator, into full understanding.

¹⁰ and put on that new self which is continually made over according to the likeness of its Creator, into full understanding. ¹¹ In it that new creation there is no "Greek and Jew," "circumcised and uncircumcised," "barbarian," "Scythian," "slave," "free man," but Christ is all, and in us all.

¹¹ In it that new creation there is no "Greek and Jew," "circumcised and uncircumcised," "barbarian," "Scythian," "slave," "free man," but Christ is all, and in us all. ¹² Therefore, as God's chosen people, consecrated and beloved, clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, good temper;

¹² Therefore, as God's chosen people, consecrated and beloved, clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, good temper; 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. ¹⁴ Over them all bind on love, which is the girdle of completeness.

¹⁴ Over them all bind on love, which is the girdle of completeness. ¹⁵ Let the peace of Christ, to which also you were called in one body, rule in your hearts, and show yourselves thankful. 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. ¹⁷ And whatever you do, whether in word of in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God our Father through him.

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.

³ For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice. ⁴ That each one should learn how to take a wife in purity and honor. ⁵ Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles who know not God. ⁶ That no man overreach or take advantage of his brother in such matters, because "the Lord takes vengeance" in all these things, as also I repeatedly forewarned you and testified to you.

¹² So that your conduct may be seemly toward those that are without, and that you may not need help from any man.

¹ Now as to the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. ² You yourselves know perfectly that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. ³ While men are saying "Peace and safety," then, like birth-pangs upon a woman with child, destruction will come upon them suddenly. In no wise will they escape.

⁵ For you are all sons of light, and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness. ⁶ So then let us not be sleeping as do the rest, but let us be watchful and self-controlled. ⁷ For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night. ⁸ But let us who are of the day be self-controlled, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

¹⁷ Pray without ceasing.

⁵ Now the end of the exhortation is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and an undissembled faith.

¹³ Moreover, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and are not only idlers, but gossips also, and busybodies, repeating things they ought not.

¹⁷ Let the elders who fill their offices well, be held worthy of twofold honor; especially those who have the task of preaching and teaching.

¹ Let those who are under the yoke as slaves esteem their masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teachings be not blasphemed.

¹ Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; let them be obedient, ready for every good work;

¹ Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; let them be obedient, ready for every good work; ² they must speak evil of none, they must not be quarrelsome, but gentle, showing perfect meekness toward all.

¹⁸ Keep on praying for me. I am persuaded that I have a clear conscience, and I desire in every way to live nobly.

²¹ So strip off all filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, and in meekness receive the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls.

⁸ If you are keeping the royal law, which says, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself, you are doing well.

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.

¹ Do not become many teachers, my brothers, because you know well that we teachers shall be judged by a severer standard than others.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth. ¹⁵ Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike. ¹⁶ For wherever jealousy and faction exist, there is confusion and every evil deed.

⁵ Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the Scripture says, "The spirit which has its home in us yearns over us unto jealousy?"

¹ Therefore put away all malice, all deceit, insincerity, jealousy, and slander of every sort.

¹ Therefore put away all malice, all deceit, insincerity, jealousy, and slander of every sort. ² Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;

¹¹ I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.

¹¹ I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls. ¹² Let your manner of life before the Gentiles be honest; so that, although they are now slandering you as evil-doers, they may, by beholding your noble conduct, come to glorify God, in the day of visitation. ¹³ Submit yourselves, for the Lord's sake, to every human authority; whether it be to the Emperor as supreme ruler,

¹³ Submit yourselves, for the Lord's sake, to every human authority; whether it be to the Emperor as supreme ruler,

¹³ Submit yourselves, for the Lord's sake, to every human authority; whether it be to the Emperor as supreme ruler,

¹³ Submit yourselves, for the Lord's sake, to every human authority; whether it be to the Emperor as supreme ruler, ¹⁴ or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the encouragement of well-doers.

¹⁴ or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the encouragement of well-doers.

¹⁴ or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the encouragement of well-doers. ¹⁵ For it is the will of God that by well-doing you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.

¹⁵ For it is the will of God that by well-doing you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men. ¹⁶ Live like free men; and yet do not make your freedom a cloak for misconduct, but be the slaves of God. ¹⁷ Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Reverence God. Honor the Emperor.

¹⁷ Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Reverence God. Honor the Emperor. ¹⁸ Household slaves, submit yourselves to your masters in all reverence; not only to the kind and gentle, but also to the unreasonable. 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.

⁷ In the same way you husbands live with your wives, according to knowledge, honoring your wife as of the weaker sex, yet as an heir with yourself of the grace of life; so that your prayers may not be hindered.

¹³ Yet who will harm you if you become zealous for the good? ¹⁴ But even if you should suffer in behalf of righteousness, you are happy. Do not be afraid of their terror, neither be troubled.

¹⁶ See that you have a clear conscience, so that, although they speak of you as evil-doers, these libelers of your good Christian lives may be ashamed.

³ For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship. ⁴ They are astonished at this, that you do not run into the same excesses of profligacy as they do; and they speak evil of you. ⁵ But they must render account to Him who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.

⁷ But the end of all things is close at hand; so be sober, watch and pray.

¹⁰ especially those who spend their lives following the flesh in the lust of defilement, and in despising all authority. Audacious and willful, they feel no awe in railing against dignities; ¹¹ even where angels, though surpassing them in strength and might, do not bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

¹³ suffering wrong as the wage of wrong which they have done. These are men who count it pleasure to carouse in open daylight; they are spots and blemishes reveling in their deceit, even while they are feasting with you. ¹⁴ They have eyes full of harlots, eyes that cannot stop sinning. They entice unsteady souls. Their heart is trained in greed. They are an accursed generation.

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.

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. ¹⁵ Regard our Lord's longsuffering as salvation; even as our dear brother Paul also wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him.

⁵ This, then, is the message that we have heard from him, and are announcing to you, that God is light, and no darkness what ever is in him. ⁶ If we say, "We have partnership with Him," when we are passing our life in the darkness, we are lying and are not doing the truth. ⁷ But is we are passing our life in the light, as he is in the light, we ever have partnership with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ is cleansing us from every sin.

⁶ By who says he "remains in him" ought to spend his life as he spent his.

⁸ Yet again it is a new commandment which I am writing to you, which is true in him and is you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining. ⁹ He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.

¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the proud glory of life, is not from the Father, but from the world; ¹⁷ and the world and its lusts are passing away, but he who ever does the will of God abides forever.

⁴ I am greatly rejoiced to find some of your children leading their lives in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

⁸ Yet in just the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, while they set at naught dominion and scoff at dignities.

²³ others pity, but with caution, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

³ Blessed is he who reads, and they who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep what is written in it. For the crisis is at hand.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins in his own blood;

¹⁴ These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is the Lord of lords, and King of kings. And they who are with him are called and faithful and chosen."

¹⁶ And on his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS

¹⁰ And he said to me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book; for the crisis is near.

¹² Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, To give to each man what his actions merit.

²⁰ He who testifies this says, "Yea, I am coming quickly." Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!