John 15 Cross References - MSTC

¹ I am the true vine, and my father is a husbandman. ² Every branch that beareth not fruit in me, he will take away. And every branch that beareth fruit will he purge, that it may bring more fruit. ³ Now are ye clean, through the words which I have spoken unto you. ⁴ Abide in me, and let me abide in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine: no more can ye, except ye abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine, and ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me can ye do nothing. ⁶ If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered: and men gather it and cast it into the fire, and it burneth. ⁷ If ye abide in me, and my words also abide in you: ask what ye will, and it shall be done to you. ⁸ Herein is my father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and be made my disciples. ⁹ "AS the father hath loved me, even so have I loved you. Continue in my love. ¹⁰ If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love: even as I have kept my father's commandments, and abide in his love. ¹¹ These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. ¹² This is my commandment: that ye love together as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love than this hath no man, than that a man bestow his life for his friends. ¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. ¹⁵ Henceforth, call I you not servants: For the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth. But you have I called friends: For all things that I have heard of my father, I have opened to you. ¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that ye go, and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit remain, that whatsoever ye shall ask of the father in my name he should give it you. ¹⁷ This command I you, that ye love together. ¹⁸ "If the world hate you, ye know that he hated me before he hated you. ¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love his own. Howbeit, because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore hateth you the world. ²⁰ Remember the saying, that I said unto you, 'The servant is not greater than the Lord.' If they have persecuted me, so will they persecute you. If they have kept my saying, so will they keep yours. ²¹ But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they have not known him that sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken unto them, they should not have had sin: but now have they nothing to cloak their sin withal. ²³ He that hateth me, hateth my father. ²⁴ If I had not done works among them which none other man did, they had not had sin. But now have they seen, and yet have hated both me and my father: ²⁵ Even that the saying might be fulfilled that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.' ²⁶ "But when the comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the father, which is the spirit of truth which proceedeth of the father, he shall testify of me. ²⁷ And ye shall bear witness also, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a ruler from between his legs, until Shiloh come, unto whom the people shall hearken. ¹¹ He shall bind his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the vine branch, and shall wash his garment in wine and his mantle in the blood of grapes:

⁸ Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. ⁹ Thou madest room for it, and caused it to take root, so that it filled the land. ¹⁰ The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees. ¹¹ She stretched out her branches unto the sea, and her boughs unto the river. ¹² Why hast thou then broken down her hedge, that all they which go by, pluck off her grapes? ¹³ The wild boar out of the wood hath rooted it up, and the beasts of the field have devoured it. ¹⁴ Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven, behold and visit this vine, ¹⁵ and the place of the vineyard that thy righthand hath planted, and the son whom thou madest so strong for thyself. ¹⁶ It is burnt with fire, and cut down; O let them perish at the rebuke of thy wrath. ¹⁷ Let thy hand be upon the man of thy righthand, and upon the son of man, whom thou madest so strong for thine own self. ¹⁸ And so will not we go back from thee; O let us live, and we shall call upon thy name. ¹⁹ Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts; show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

¹² In the morning will we rise betimes, and go see the vineyard: if it be sprung forth, if the grapes be grown, and if the pomegranates be shot out. There will I give thee my breasts;

¹¹ Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; this vineyard delivered he unto the keepers, that every one for the fruit thereof should give him a thousand pieces of silver. ¹² But my vineyard, O Solomon, giveth thee a thousand, and two hundred to the keepers of the fruit.

² After that time shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and mighty, and the fruit of the earth shall be fair and pleasant for those Israelites that shall spring thereof.

¹ Now will I sing my beloved friend a song of his vineyard. My beloved friend hath a vineyard in a very fruitful plenteous ground. ² This he hedged, this he walled round about, and planted it with goodly grapes. In the midst of it builded he a tower, and made a wine press therein. And afterward when he looked that it should bring him grapes, it brought forth thorns. ³ I show you now my cause, O ye Citizens of Jerusalem and whole Judah: Judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. ⁴ What more could have been done for it, that I have not done? Wherefore than hath it given thorns, where I looked to have had grapes of it? ⁵ Well, now I shall tell you how I will do with my vineyard: I will take the hedge from it, that it may perish, and break down the wall, that it may be trodden under foot. ⁶ I will lay it waste, that it shall neither be twisted nor cut, but bear thorns and briers. I will also forbid the clouds, that they shall not rain upon it. ⁷ As for the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts, it is the house of Israel, and whole Judah his fair planting. Of these he looked for equity, but see there is wrong; for righteousness, lo, it is but misery.

² At the same time shall men sing of the vineyard of Muscatel. ³ I the LORD keep it, and water it in due season. I watch day and night, that no man break into it.

²¹ Thy people shall be all godly and possess the land forever: the flower of my planting, the work of my hands whereof I will rejoice.

³ That I might give unto them that mourn in Zion, beauty in the stead of ashes, joyful ointment for sighing, pleasant raiment for a heavy mind; That they might be called excellent in righteousness, a planting of the LORD for him to rejoice in.

²¹ and among all green trees. Whereas I planted thee out of noble grapes and good roots. How art thou turned then into a bitter, unfruitful, and strange grape?

¹⁰ Divers herdsmen have broken down my vineyard, and trodden upon my portion. Of my pleasant portion, they have made a wilderness and desert.

² "Thou son of man: What cometh of the vine among all other trees? And of the vine stock among all other timber of the grove? ³ Do men take wood of it, to make any work withal? Or may there a nail be made of it, to hang anything upon? ⁴ Behold, it is cast into the fire to be burnt; the fire consumeth both the ends of it, the midst is burnt to ashes. Is it mete then for any work? No. ⁵ Seeing then, that it was mete for no work, being whole: much less may there anything be made of it, when the fire hath consumed and burnt it. ⁶ And therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Like as I cast the vine into the fire for to be burnt, as other trees of the wood: Even so will I do with them that dwell in Jerusalem,

¹ Israel was a goodly vine, but he hath brought forth unprofitable fruit: yea, the more fruit he had the more altars he made; the more good I did to their land, the more friendship showed they to their Images.

⁸ "'Hear O Joshua thou high priest: thou and thy friends that dwell before thee, for they are wondrous people. Behold, I will bring forth the branch of my servant:

¹ For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a householder which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.

³³ "Hearken another similitude. There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and made a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange country:

¹ And he began to speak unto them in similitudes. "A certain man planted a vineyard, and compassed it with a hedge, and ordained a winepress, and built a tower in it, and let it out to hire unto husbandmen, and went into a strange country.

⁶ He put forth this similitude, "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.

⁹ That was a true light, which lighteneth all men that come into the world.

¹⁷ For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

³² Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily I say unto you, Moses gave you bread from heaven: but my father giveth you the true bread from heaven.

⁵⁵ For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.

⁹ We are God's laborers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

⁸ Again, a new commandment I write unto you, a thing which is true in him, and also in you: for the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

⁹ The righteous also will keep his way, and he that hath clean hands, will ever be stronger and stronger.

⁷ Thou shalt purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. ⁸ Oh let me hear of joy and gladness, that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. ⁹ Turn thy face from my sins, and put out all my misdeeds. ¹⁰ Make in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. ¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy spirit from me. ¹² O give me the comfort of thy help again, and establish me with thy free spirit. ¹³ Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked, that sinners may be converted unto thee.

¹⁸ The path of the righteous shineth as the light, and is ever brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.

⁹ And therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be thus reconciled. And so shall he take away all the fruit of his sins. As for altar stones, he shall make them all as stones beaten to powder: the groves and Idols shall not stand.

¹⁹ The meek-spirited shall hold a merry feast in the LORD, and the poor among them that be lowly shall rejoice in the holy one of Israel.

³ Then shall we have understanding, and endeavor ourselves to know the LORD. He shall go forth as the spring of the day, and come unto us as the evening and morning rain upon the earth."

³ And he shall sit trying and purging silver, and shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall fine them as gold and silver. And they shall bring offering unto the LORD of righteousness.

¹⁰ Even now is the axe put unto the root of the trees: so that every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

¹² Which hath also his fan in his hand, and will purge his floor, and gather the wheat into His garner; and will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire."

¹² For whosoever hath, to him shall be given: and he shall have abundance. But whosoever hath not: from him shall be taken away even that same that he hath.

³³ Another similitude said he to them, "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven which a woman taketh and hideth in three pecks of meal, till all be leavened."

¹³ He answered, and said, "All plants which my heavenly father hath not planted, shall be plucked up by the roots.

¹⁹ and spied a fig tree in the way, and came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said to it, "Never fruit grow on thee hence forwards." And anon the fig tree withered away.

¹³ They on the stones, are they which, when they hear, receive the word with joy. But these have no roots, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation go away.

⁷ Then said he to the dresser of his vineyard, 'Behold, this three years have I come and sought fruit in this fig tree, and find none. Cut it down. Why cumbereth it the ground?' ⁸ And he answered and said unto him, 'Lord let it alone this year also, till I dig round about it, and dung it, ⁹ to see whether it will bear fruit: and if it bear not, then after that, cut it down.'"

⁸ Herein is my father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and be made my disciples.

¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that ye go, and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit remain, that whatsoever ye shall ask of the father in my name he should give it you.

¹² While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name. Those that thou gavest me, have I kept, and none of them is lost, but that lost child: that the scripture might be fulfilled.

³ Neither do we so, only: but also we rejoice in tribulation: For we know that tribulation bringeth patience, ⁴ patience bringeth experience, experience bringeth hope, ⁵ and hope maketh not ashamed: for the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the holy ghost, which is given unto us.

²⁸ For we know well that all things work for the best unto them that love God, which also are called of purpose.

¹ Though I spake with the tongues of men and angels, and yet had no love, I were even as sounding brass: or as a tinkling cymbal.

¹⁷ For our exceeding tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepareth an exceeding and eternal weight of glory unto us, ¹⁸ while we look not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen. For things which are seen, are temporal: but things which are not seen are eternal.

²² But the fruit of the spirit is: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance. ²³ Against such there is no law.

⁹ And this I pray, that your love may increase more and more in knowledge, and in all feeling, ¹⁰ that ye might accept things most excellent, that ye might be pure and such as should hurt no man's conscience, until the day of Christ; ¹¹ filled with the fruits of righteousness, which fruits come by Jesus Christ unto the glory and laud of God.

⁵ for the hope's sake which is laid up in store for you in heaven, of which hope ye have heard before by the true word of the gospel, ⁶ which is come unto you, even as it is into all the world, and is fruitful as it is among you, from the first day in the which ye heard of it, and had experience in the grace of God in the truth, ⁷ as ye learned of Epaphras our dear fellow servant, which is for you a faithful minister of Christ, ⁸ which also declared unto us your love, which ye have in the spirit. ⁹ For this cause we also, since the day we heard of it have not ceased praying for you, and desiring that ye might be fulfilled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, ¹⁰ that ye might walk worthy of the Lord in all things that please, being fruitful in all good works and increasing in the knowledge of God

²³ The very God of peace sanctify you throughout. And I pray God that your whole spirit, soul, and body, be kept faultless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ Faithful is he, which called you: which will also do it.

¹⁴ which gave himself for us, to redeem us from all unrighteousness, and to purge us a peculiar people unto himself, fervently given unto good works.

⁷ For that earth which drinketh in the rain which cometh often upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them that dress it, receiveth blessing of God: ⁸ but that ground, which beareth thorns and briars, is reproved, and is nigh unto cursing: whose end is to be burned.

¹⁰ And they verily for a few days nurtured us after their own pleasure; but he learneth us unto that which is profitable, that we might receive of his holiness. ¹¹ No manner chastising for the present time seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it bringeth the quiet fruit of righteousness unto them which are therein exercised.

¹⁵ And look to, that no man be destitute of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness spring up and trouble; and thereby many be defiled:

¹⁹ They went out of us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. But that fortuned, that it might appear that they were not of us.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be fervent therefore and repent.

¹⁰ Jesus said to him, "He that is washed needeth not, save to wash his feet, and is clean every whit. And ye are clean: but not all."

¹⁷ "Sanctify them with thy truth. Thy saying is truth.

²⁶ to sanctify it, and cleansed it in the fountain of water through the word,

²² And forasmuch as ye have purified your souls through the spirit, in obeying the truth for to love brotherly without feigning, see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently:

⁵ I am the same that waked thee up among the apple trees, where thy mother bare thee, where thy mother brought thee in to the world.

¹⁰ The strong cities shall be desolate, and the fair cities shall be left like a wilderness. The cattle shall feed and lie there, and the sheep shall eat it up. ¹¹ Their harvest shall be burnt; their wives, which were their beauty when they came forth, shall be defiled. For it is a people without understanding, and therefore he that created them, shall not favour them; and he that made them, shall not be merciful to them.

² "Thou son of man: What cometh of the vine among all other trees? And of the vine stock among all other timber of the grove? ³ Do men take wood of it, to make any work withal? Or may there a nail be made of it, to hang anything upon? ⁴ Behold, it is cast into the fire to be burnt; the fire consumeth both the ends of it, the midst is burnt to ashes. Is it mete then for any work? No. ⁵ Seeing then, that it was mete for no work, being whole: much less may there anything be made of it, when the fire hath consumed and burnt it.

⁸ Ephraim, what have ye any more to do with idols? I have healed him and looked on him. I will be as a great fir tree, and of me shall thy fruit be found.

¹⁵ That in the good ground, are they which with a good and pure heart, hear the word, and keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

⁵⁶ He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me: and I in him.

⁶⁸ Then Simon Peter answered him, "Master, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life; ⁶⁹ And we have believed, and known, that thou art Christ, the son of the living God."

³¹ Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, "If ye continue in my words, then are ye my very disciples:

²⁰ That day shall ye know that I am in my father, and you in me, and I in you.

⁵ I am the vine, and ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me can ye do nothing. ⁶ If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered: and men gather it and cast it into the fire, and it burneth. ⁷ If ye abide in me, and my words also abide in you: ask what ye will, and it shall be done to you.

²³ I am in them, and thou art in me: that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

²³ Which when he was come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad: and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would continually cleave unto the Lord.

²² and strengthened the disciples souls: exhorting them to continue in the faith, affirming that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

⁹ But ye are not given to the flesh; But to the spirit: If so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. If there be any man that hath not the spirit of Christ, the same is none of his. ¹⁰ If Christ be in you: the body is dead, because of sin; But the spirit is life for righteousness' sake.

⁸ For this thing besought I the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me, ⁹ and he said unto me, "My grace is sufficient for thee. For my strength is made perfect through weakness." Very gladly therefore will I rejoice of my weakness, that the strength of Christ may dwell in me. ¹⁰ Therefore have I delectation in infirmities, in rebukes, in need, in persecutions, in anguish, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

⁵ Prove yourselves whether ye are in the faith or not. Examine your own selves: know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be castaways?

²⁰ I am crucified with Christ. I live verily, yet now not I, but Christ liveth in me. For the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the son of God, which loved me, and gave himself for me.

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

¹¹ filled with the fruits of righteousness, which fruits come by Jesus Christ unto the glory and laud of God.

²³ if ye continue grounded and established in the faith, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, whereof ye have heard, how that it is preached among all creatures, which are under heaven, whereof I, Paul, am made a minister.

²⁷ to whom God would make known the glorious riches of this mystery among the gentiles, which riches is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

⁶ As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, even so walk rooted and built in him,

⁵ For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent that I might have knowledge of your faith, lest haply the tempter had tempted you, and that our labour had been bestowed in vain.

³⁹ We are not which withdraw ourselves unto damnation, but pertain to faith, to the winning of the soul.

⁶ He that saith he bideth in him, ought to walk even as he walked.

²⁴ Let therefore abide in you that same which ye heard at the beginning. If that which ye heard at the beginning shall remain in you, then ye also shall continue in the son, and in the father. ²⁵ And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. ²⁶ These things have I written unto you, as concerning them that deceive you. ²⁷ And the anointing which ye have received of him dwelleth in you. And ye need not that any man teach you: but as the anointing teacheth you all things, and is true, and is no lie: and as it taught you, even so bide therein. ²⁸ And now babes, abide in him, that when he shall appear, we may have confidence and not be made ashamed of him at his coming.

⁹ Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that endureth in the doctrine of Christ, hath both the father, and the son.

²⁰ But ye, dearly beloved, edify yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the holy ghost, ²¹ and keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto eternal life.

³⁰ The fruit of the righteous is as the tree of life; a wise man also winneth men's souls.

⁸ They eat up the sins of my people, and courage them in their wickedness.

⁶ He put forth this similitude, "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.

¹⁹ Then answered Jesus and said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The son can do no thing of himself: but that he seeth the father do. For whatsoever he doeth, that doeth the son also.

³³ If this man were not of God, he could have done nothing."

²⁴ Verily, verily I say unto you, except the wheat corn fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone. If it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

¹² Neither is there salvation in any other. Nor yet also is there any other name given to men wherein we must be saved."

²² But now are ye delivered from sin, and made the servants of God, and have your fruit that ye should be sanctified; and the end: everlasting life.

⁴ Even so, ye my brethren; ye also are made dead as concerning the law by the body of Christ, that ye should be coupled to another — I mean to him that is risen again from death — that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

⁵ So we, being many, are one body in Christ — and every man, among ourselves, one another's members.

¹⁶ Is not the cup of blessing which we bless, partaking of the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break, partaking of the body of Christ?

¹² For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of one body though they be many, yet are but one body: even so is Christ.

²⁷ Ye are the body of Christ, and members one of another.

¹⁰ He that findeth the sower seed, shall minister bread for food, and shall multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness — that on all parts

⁸ We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

²² But the fruit of the spirit is: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance.

⁹ For the fruit of the spirit is, in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

¹³ I can do all things through the help of Christ, which strengtheneth me.

¹⁷ not that I desire gifts: but I desire abundant fruit on your part.

⁶ which is come unto you, even as it is into all the world, and is fruitful as it is among you, from the first day in the which ye heard of it, and had experience in the grace of God in the truth,

¹⁰ that ye might walk worthy of the Lord in all things that please, being fruitful in all good works and increasing in the knowledge of God

¹⁷ Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above and cometh down from the father of light, with whom is no variableness, neither is he changed unto darkness.

⁴ to whom ye come as unto a living stone, disallowed of men, but chosen of God and precious:

² Grace with you, and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord. ³ According as his godly power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us by virtue and glory: ⁴ by the means whereof are given unto us excellent and most great promises; that by the help of them ye should be partakers of the godly nature, in that ye flee the corruption of worldly lust. ⁵ And hereunto, give all diligence: In your faith, minister virtue; and in virtue, knowledge; ⁶ and in knowledge, temperance; and in temperance, patience; in patience, godliness; ⁷ in godliness, brotherly kindness; in brotherly kindness, love. ⁸ For if these things be among you, and are plenteous, they will make you that ye neither shall be idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of the our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ But he that lacketh these things is blind and gropeth for the way with his hand, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. ¹⁰ Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence for to make your calling and election sure. For if ye do such things, ye shall never err. ¹¹ Yea, and by this means an entering-in shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. ¹² Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of such things, though that ye know them yourselves and be also established in the present truth. ¹³ Notwithstanding, I think it mete, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; ¹⁴ forasmuch as I am sure how that the time is at hand that I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me. ¹⁵ I will enforce, therefore, that on every side ye might have wherewith to stir up the remembrance of these things after my departing. ¹⁶ For we followed not deceitful fables when we opened unto you the power, and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but with our eyes we saw his majesty: ¹⁷ Even then, verily, when he received of God the father honour and glory, and when there came such a voice to him from that excellent glory. "This is my dear beloved son, in whom I have delight" - ¹⁸ This voice we heard when it came from heaven, being with him in the holy mount.

¹⁸ but grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord, and saviour Jesus Christ. To whom be glory both now and forever. Amen. {Here ends the Second General Epistle of Peter}

³⁰ He shall never come out of darkness, the flame shall dry up his branches, with the blast of the mouth of God shall he be taken away.

¹⁵ and the place of the vineyard that thy righthand hath planted, and the son whom thou madest so strong for thyself.

¹⁹ and thou art cast out of thy grave like a wild branch - like as dead men's raiment that are shot through with the sword, as they that go down to the stones of the deep, as a dead corpse that is trodden under feet -

¹⁰ The strong cities shall be desolate, and the fair cities shall be left like a wilderness. The cattle shall feed and lie there, and the sheep shall eat it up.

³ Do men take wood of it, to make any work withal? Or may there a nail be made of it, to hang anything upon? ⁴ Behold, it is cast into the fire to be burnt; the fire consumeth both the ends of it, the midst is burnt to ashes. Is it mete then for any work? No. ⁵ Seeing then, that it was mete for no work, being whole: much less may there anything be made of it, when the fire hath consumed and burnt it. ⁶ And therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Like as I cast the vine into the fire for to be burnt, as other trees of the wood: Even so will I do with them that dwell in Jerusalem, ⁷ and set my face against them: they shall go out from the fire, and yet the fire shall consume them. Then shall ye know that I am the LORD: when I set my face against them,

⁹ Speak thou therefore, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Shall this vine prosper? Shall not his roots be plucked out, his fruit be broken off, his green branches wither and fade away? Yea without either strong armies or many people, shall it be plucked up by the roots.

¹² she was rooted out in displeasure, and cast down to the ground. The East wind dried up her fruit; her strong stalks were broken off, withered, and burnt in the fire. ¹³ But now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. ¹⁴ And there is a fire gone out of her stalks, which hath burnt up her branches and her fruit: so that she hath no more strong stalks, to be staves for officers. This is a piteous and miserable thing."

¹⁹ Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn down, and cast into the fire.

⁴¹ The son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that do offend, and all them which do iniquity,

⁵ And he cast down the silver plates in the temple, and departed, and went and hung himself.

² Every branch that beareth not fruit in me, he will take away. And every branch that beareth fruit will he purge, that it may bring more fruit.

²⁷ but a fearful looking for judgment, and violent fire, which shall devour the adversaries.

²⁰ For if they, after they have escaped from the filthiness of the world through the knowledge of the Lord, and of the saviour Jesus Christ, they are yet tangled again therein and overcome: then is the latter end worse with them than the beginning.

¹² These are spots which of your kindness feast together, without fear, feeding themselves. Clouds they are without water, carried about of winds: and trees without fruit at gathering time, twice dead, and plucked up by the roots. ¹³ They are raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. They are wandering stars, to whom is reserved the mist of darkness forever.

¹⁵ And whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire.

⁸ But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

⁶ And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart.

²⁶ Then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and lift up thy face unto God.

¹² I have not forsaken the commandment of his lips; but look, what he charged me with his mouth, that have I shut up in my heart.

⁴ Delight thou in the LORD, and he shall give thee thy heart's desire.

¹¹ Thy words have I hid within my heart, that I should not sin against thee.

⁴ he taught me also, saying, "Let thine heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.

²⁴ The thing that the ungodly are afraid of, shall come upon them; but the righteous shall have their desire.

⁸ Then should the light break out as doth the dayspring, and then health should shortly bud out. And thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of the LORD would come upon thee.

¹⁶ When I had found thy words, I ate them up greedily: they have made my heart joyful and glad, for I call upon thy name, O LORD God of Hosts.

⁷ "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

³⁷ I know that ye are Abraham's seed: but ye seek means to kill me because my sayings have no place in you.

¹³ And whatsoever ye ask in my name, that will I do, that the father might be glorified by the son.

²³ "And in that day shall ye ask me no question. Verily, verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the father in my name, he will give it you.

² but is under tutors and governors, until the time appointed of the father.

¹⁶ I say, walk in the spirit, and fulfil not the lusts of the flesh.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you plenteously in all wisdom. Teach and exhort your own selves, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs which have favour with them, singing in your hearts to the Lord.

¹⁴ I write unto you fathers, how that ye have known him that was from the beginning. I write unto you young men, how that ye be strong; and the word of God dwelleth in you, that ye have overcome the wicked.

²⁷ And the anointing which ye have received of him dwelleth in you. And ye need not that any man teach you: but as the anointing teacheth you all things, and is true, and is no lie: and as it taught you, even so bide therein.

²² and whatsoever we ask, that we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.

¹⁴ And this is the confidence that we have in him: that if we ask ought, according to his will, he heareth us.

¹ The elder, to the elect lady and her children which I love in the truth: And not I only, but also all that have known the truth, ² for the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be in us for ever.

¹² The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. ¹³ Such as be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God. ¹⁴ They shall also bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well liking, ¹⁵ that they may show how true the LORD my strength is, and that there is no unrighteousness in him.

⁸ get you up to the mountain, fetch wood, and build up the house: that it may be acceptable unto me, and that I may show mine honour, sayeth the LORD.

¹⁶ Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven.

⁴⁴ But I say unto you, Love your enemies. Bless them that curse you. Do good to them that hate you. Pray for them which do you wrong and persecute you;

³⁵ Wherefore, love ye your enemies, do good, and lend, looking for nothing again: and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the highest: for he is kind unto the unkind, and to the evil.

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

⁵ I am the vine, and ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me can ye do nothing.

²⁰ For ye are dearly bought. Therefore glorify ye God in your bodies and in your spirits, for they are God's.

³¹ Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the praise of God.

¹⁰ He that findeth the sower seed, shall minister bread for food, and shall multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness — that on all parts ¹¹ ye may be made rich in all singleness, which causeth through us, thanksgiving unto God. ¹² For the office of this ministration, not only supplieth the need of the saints: but also is abundant herein, that for this laudable ministering, thanks might be given to God of many, ¹³ which praise God for the obedience of your professing the gospel of Christ, and for your singleness, in distributing to them, and to all men. ¹⁴ And in their prayers to God for you, long after you, for the abundant grace of God given unto you. ¹⁵ Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

⁵ to be of discreet, chaste, housewifely, good, and obedient unto their own husbands, that the word of God be not evil spoken of.

¹⁰ neither be pickers, but that they show all good faithfulness, that they may do worship to the doctrine of God our saviour in all things.

¹² and see that ye have honest conversation among the gentiles, that they which backbite you as evil doers, may see your good works and praise God in the day of visitation.

¹¹ If any man speak, let him talk as though he spake the words of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God ministereth unto him. That God, in all things, may be glorified through Jesus Christ: to whom be praise and dominion forever and while the world standeth. Amen.

¹¹ These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

¹³ Greater love than this hath no man, than that a man bestow his life for his friends.

²³ I am in them, and thou art in me: that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. ²⁴ "Father, I will that they, which thou hast given me, be with me where I am: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me. For thou lovedest me before the making of the world.

²⁶ And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it, that the love wherewith thou hast loved me, be in them, and that I be in them."

¹⁸ might be able to comprehend with all saints, what is that breadth and length, depth and height:

²⁸ And now babes, abide in him, that when he shall appear, we may have confidence and not be made ashamed of him at his coming.

²⁰ But ye, dearly beloved, edify yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the holy ghost,

⁵ and from Jesus Christ which is a faithful witness, and first begotten of the dead: and Lord over the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

¹ Behold now therefore, this is my servant whom I will keep to myself: mine elect; In whom my soul shall be pacified. I will give him my spirit, that he may show forth judgment and equity among the Gentiles. ² He shall not be an out-crier, nor a high-minded person. His voice shall not be heard in the streets. ³ A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: but faithfully and truly shall he give judgment. ⁴ He shall neither be overseen nor hasty, that he may restore righteousness unto the earth: and the Gentiles also shall keep his laws.

¹⁵ Jesus answered and said to him, "Let it be so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he suffered him. ¹⁶ And Jesus, as soon as he was baptized, came straight out of the water: And, lo, heaven was opened over him, and John saw the spirit of God descend, like a dove, and light upon him: ¹⁷ And, lo, there came a voice from heaven, saying, "This is that, my beloved son, in whom is my delight."

³⁴ Jesus said unto them, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me. And to finish his work.

²⁹ And he that sent me is with me. The father hath not left me alone; For I do always those things that please him."

⁴⁹ For I have not spoken of myself: but the father which sent me, he gave me a commandment what I should say, and what I should speak.

¹⁵ "If ye love me, keep my commandments,

²¹ He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, the same is he that loveth me: and he shall be loved of my father, and I will love him, and will show mine own self unto him."

³¹ But that the world may know that I love the father; Therefore as the father gave me commandment, even so do I. Rise, let us go hence."

⁴ I have glorified thee on the earth. I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, uncircumcision is nothing: but the keeping of the commandments of God is altogether.

¹ Furthermore, we beseech you brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that ye increase more and more, even as ye have received of us, how ye ought to walk and to please God.

²⁶ Such a high priest it becometh us to have, which is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than heaven.

⁵ Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, "Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not have: but a body hast thou ordained me. ⁶ In sacrifices and sin offerings thou hast no lust. ⁷ Then I said, 'Lo I come.' In the chiefest of the book it is written of me, that I should do thy will, o God." ⁸ Above when he had said, "sacrifice, and offering, and burnt sacrifices, and sin offerings thou wouldest not have, neither hast allowed" — which yet are offered by the law - ⁹ And then he said, "Lo I am come to do thy will o God." He taketh away the first to establish the latter. ¹⁰ By the which will we are sanctified, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

²¹ For it had been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness, then after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment given unto them.

¹ My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye should sin not: if, though, any man sin, yet we have an Advocate with the father, even Jesus Christ, which is righteous. ² And he it is that obtaineth grace for our sins; and not for our sins only, but also for the sins of all the world.

⁵ He that keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfect, indeed. And hereby know we that we are in him.

²¹ Dearly beloved, if our hearts condemn us not, then have we trust to God ward; ²² and whatsoever we ask, that we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight. ²³ And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of his son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave commandment. ²⁴ And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And thereby we know that there dwelleth in us of his spirit, which he gave us.

³ This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous.

¹⁴ Blessed are they that do his commandments, that their power may be in the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

¹¹ Because of the labour of his soul, he shall see and be satisfied. With his knowledge, he, being just, shall justify my servants: and that a great number. And he shall bear their iniquities.

⁴ From this time forth thou shalt never be called the forsaken, and thy land shall no more be called the wilderness. But thou shalt be called Hephzibah, that is, my beloved; and thy land Beulah, that is, a married woman: for the LORD loveth thee, and thy land shall be inhabited.

⁴¹ Yea I will have a lust and pleasure to do them good, and faithfully to plant them in this land, with my whole heart, and with all my soul.

⁹ And this shall get me a name, and praise and honour, among all people of the earth, which shall hear all the good, that I will show unto them: Yea, they shall be afraid and astonished at all the good deeds and benefits that I will do for them.

¹⁷ for the LORD thy God is with thee. It is he that hath power to save: he hath a special pleasure in thee, and a marvelous love toward thee: yea he rejoiceth over thee with gladness."

⁵ And when he hath found him, he putteth him on his shoulders with joy:

⁹ And when she hath found it she calleth her lovers, and her neighbours saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the groat which I had lost.'

²³ And bring hither that fatted calf, and kill him, and let us eat and be merry:

³² it was mete that we should make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again: and was lost, and is found.'"

²⁹ He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: But the friend of the bridegroom which standeth by and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this, my joy, is fulfilled.

²⁴ Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name. Ask and ye shall receive it: that our joy may be full.

³³ These words have I spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. For in the world shall ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

¹³ Now come I to thee, and these words speak I in the world, that they might have my joy full in them.

¹³ The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may be rich in hope through the power of the holy ghost.

²⁴ Not that we be lords over your faith: but helpers of your joy. For by faith ye stand.

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess: but be fulfilled with the spirit,

²⁵ And this am I sure of, that I shall abide, and with you all continue, for the furtherance and joy of your faith,

¹⁶ Rejoice ever.

⁸ whom ye have not seen and yet love him, in whom even now, though ye see him not, yet ye believe, and rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorious:

⁴ And these things we write unto you, that your joy may be full.

¹² I had many things to write unto you, nevertheless I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak with you mouth to mouth, that our joy may be full.

³⁴ A new commandment give I unto you: that ye love together: as I have loved you, that even so ye love one another.

¹⁰ Be kind one to another, with brotherly love. In giving honour go one before another.

² and walk in love even as Christ loved us, and gave himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet savour to God.

¹² and the Lord increase you, and make you flow over in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you,

⁹ But as touching brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto you. For ye are taught of God to love one another.

³ We are bound to thank God always for you brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and every one of you swimmeth in love toward another between yourselves,

⁸ In conclusion, be ye all of one mind, one suffer with another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous,

⁸ But above all things, have fervent love among you. For love covereth the multitude of sins.

⁷ Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you: but an old commandment which ye had at the beginning. For an old commandment is the word which ye heard from the beginning. ⁸ Again, a new commandment I write unto you, a thing which is true in him, and also in you: for the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. ⁹ He that saith how that he is in the light, and yet hateth his brother, is in darkness even until this time. ¹⁰ He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of offending in him.

¹¹ For this is the tidings, that ye heard at the beginning, that we should love one another: ¹² and not be as Cain, which was of the devil and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? For his own deeds were evil, and his brother's righteous. ¹³ Marvel not, my brethren, though the world hate you. ¹⁴ We know that we are translated from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother, abideth in death. ¹⁵ Whosoever hateth his brother, is a man slayer. And ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. ¹⁶ Hereby are we assured of love: because he left his life for us: And therefore we ought also to give our lives for our brethren. ¹⁷ He, then, that hath the substance of the world, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him: how dwelleth the love of God in him? ¹⁸ My little children, let us not love in word, nor with the tongue: but with the deed, and of a truth:

²³ And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of his son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave commandment.

²¹ And this commandment have we of him: that he which loveth God, should love his brother also.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

¹⁵ As my father knoweth me: even so know I my father. And I give my life for the sheep,

⁶ For when we were yet weak according to the time: Christ died for us which were ungodly. ⁷ Yet scarce will any man die for a righteous man. Peradventure for a good man durst a man die. ⁸ But God setteth out his love that he hath to us; Seeing that while we were yet sinners; Christ died for us.

⁷ Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God. And all that love are born of God, and knoweth God. ⁸ And he that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is love. ⁹ Herein appeared the love of God to us ward, because that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we should live through him. ¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to make a satisfaction for our sins. ¹¹ Dearly beloved, if God so loved us, then we ought also to love one another.

⁷ Art not thou our God which didst cast out the inhabiters of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy lover forever?

¹ Come into my garden O my sister, my Spouse: I have gathered my Myrrh with my spice. I will eat my honey and my honeycomb, I will drink my wine and my milk. Eat, O ye friends, drink and be merry, O ye beloved.

⁸ And thou Israel, my servant; Jacob, my elect seed of Abraham my beloved,

⁵⁰ For whosoever doth my father's will which is in heaven, the same is my brother, my sister, and my mother."

⁴ I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

⁵ His mother said unto the ministers, "Whatsoever he sayeth unto you, do it."

¹⁷ If ye understand these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

²⁸ "Ye have heard how I said unto you, 'I go and come again unto you.' If ye loved me, ye would verily rejoice, because I said I go unto the father. For the father is greater than I.

²³ And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, "Abraham believed God, and it was reputed unto him for righteousness," and he was called the friend of God.

¹⁷ And the LORD said, "Can I hide from Abraham that thing which I am about to do, ¹⁸ seeing that Abraham shall be a great and a mighty people, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? ¹⁹ For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do after right and conscience, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that he hath promised him."

⁸ And the king of Syria fought against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, "In such a place and in such a place will I pitch." ⁹ And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, "Beware thou go not by such a place, for there are the Syrians gone down." ¹⁰ And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there more than once or twice. ¹¹ And the heart of the king of Syria was troubled therewith, that he sent for his servants and said to them, "Will ye not show me which of us telleth the king of Israel?" ¹² And one of his servants said, "Nay, my lord king: Elisha the prophet that is in Israel, he telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy sleeping chamber."

¹⁴ The secret of the LORD is among them that fear him, and he showeth them his covenant.

⁷ Now doth the LORD God no manner of thing, but he telleth his secret before unto his servants the prophets.

¹¹ He answered, and said unto them, "It is given unto you to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

²³ And he turned to his disciples, and said, secretly, "Happy are the eyes, which see that ye see.

¹⁹ The woman said unto him, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

²⁶ I have many things to say, and to judge of you. But he that sent me is true. And I speak in the world, those things which I have heard of him."

²⁶ If any man minister unto me, let him follow me: and where I am, there shall also my minister be. And if any man minister unto me, him will my father honour.

¹⁶ Verily, verily I say unto you, the servant is not greater than his master; Neither the messenger greater than he that sent him.

²⁰ Remember the saying, that I said unto you, 'The servant is not greater than the Lord.' If they have persecuted me, so will they persecute you. If they have kept my saying, so will they keep yours.

⁶ "I have declared thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy sayings. ⁷ Now have they known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me, are of thee. ⁸ For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them, and know surely that I came out from thee: and do believe that thou didst send me.

¹⁷ Jesus said unto her, "Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my father. But go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my father, and your father: to my God and your God."

²⁷ For I have kept nothing back: but have showed you all the counsel of God.

²⁵ To him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel and preaching of Jesus Christ, in uttering of the mystery which was kept secret since the world began, ²⁶ but now is opened at this time and declared opened by the scriptures of prophecy, at the commandment of the everlasting God, to stir up obedience to the faith published among all nations:

⁹ But as it is written, "The eye hath not seen, and the ear hath not heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." ¹⁰ But God hath opened them unto us by his spirit. For the spirit searcheth all things, yea the bottom of God's secrets. ¹¹ For what man knoweth the things of a man: save the spirit of a man which is within him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the spirit of God. ¹² And we have not received the spirit of the world: but the spirit which cometh of God, for to know the things that are given to us of God,

⁶ Because ye are sons, God hath sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, which crieth "Abba, father."

⁹ And hath opened unto us the mystery of his will according to his pleasure, and purposed

⁵ which mystery in times past was not opened unto the sons of men as it is now declared unto his holy apostles and prophets by the spirit:

²⁶ that mystery, hid since the world began, and since the beginning of generations: But now is opened to his saints,

¹⁶ not now as a servant: but above a servant, I mean a brother beloved, specially to me: but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and also in the Lord?

¹ James, the servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sendeth greeting to the twelve tribes which are scattered here and there.

¹¹ searching when, or at what time, the spirit of Christ which was in them should signify — which spirit testified before — the passions that should come unto Christ, and the glory that should follow after.

¹ Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them which have obtained like precious faith with us in the righteousness that cometh of our God and saviour Jesus Christ.

¹ Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, the brother of James. To them which are called and sanctified in God the father, and preserved in Christ Jesus.

¹ The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, for to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass. And he sent and showed by his angel unto his servant John,

¹⁸ seeing that Abraham shall be a great and a mighty people, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

¹⁸ Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am grey-headed, until I have showed thy strength unto children's children, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

⁴ that we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come but to show the honour of the LORD, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done. ⁵ He made a covenant with Jacob, and gave Israel a law, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children, ⁶ that their posterity might know it, and the children which were yet unborn, to the intent that when they came up, they might show their children the same;

⁴ One generation shall praise thy works unto another, and declare thy power.

⁶ It will come to this point, that Jacob shall be rooted again, and Israel shall be green, and bear flowers, and they shall fill the whole world with their fruit.

¹ Hearken ye isles unto me, and give heed ye people that are afar. The LORD called me out of the womb and made mention of my name, when I was in my mother's bowels. ² And he made my mouth like a sharp sword. In the shadow he led me with his hand. And he made me as an excellent arrow, and hid in his quiver. ³ And he said to me, "Thou art my servant O Israel, in whom I will be glorified."

¹⁰ And like as the rain and snow cometh down from heaven, and returneth not thither again, but watereth the earth, maketh it fruitful and green, that it may give corn and bread unto the sower: ¹¹ So the word also that cometh out of my mouth shall not turn again void unto me, but shall accomplish my will and prosper in the thing, whereto I sent it. ¹² And so shall ye go forth with joy, and be lead with peace. The mountains and hills shall sing with you for joy, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. ¹³ For thorns, there shall grow Fir trees, and the Myrtle tree in the stead of briers. And this shall be done to the praise of the LORD, and for an everlasting token, that shall not be taken away.

⁵ "Before I fashioned thee in thy mother's womb, I did know thee: And before thou wast born, I sanctified thee and ordained thee, to be a Prophet unto the people." ⁶ Then said I, "Oh LORD God, I cannot speak, for I am yet but young." ⁷ And the LORD answered me thus, "Say not so, 'I am too young': For thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee unto, and whatsoever I command thee, that shalt thou speak.

⁷ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the multitude of people, as the dew of the LORD, and as the drops upon the grass, that tarrieth for no man, and waiteth of nobody.

⁴ Be not ye like your forefathers, unto whom the Prophets cried afore time, saying, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God of hosts: Turn you from your evil ways, and from your wicked imaginations.' But they would not hear, nor regard me, sayeth the LORD. ⁵ What is now become of your forefathers and the prophets? Are they yet still alive? ⁶ But did not my words and statutes, which I commanded by my servants the Prophets, touch your forefathers? Upon this, they gave answer and said, 'Like as the LORD of Hosts devised to do unto us, according to our ways and imaginations, even so hath he dealt with us.''"

²² And whatsoever thing ye shall ask in your prayers if ye believe, ye shall receive it."

¹⁸ And Jesus came, and spake unto them, saying, "All power is given unto me in heaven, and in earth. ¹⁹ Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and the son and the holy ghost;

¹⁵ And he said unto them, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the glad tidings to all creatures: ¹⁶ He that believeth and is baptised, shall be saved: But he that believeth not, shall be damned.

¹³ And as soon as it was day, he called his disciples, and of them he chose twelve, which also he called his apostles.

⁴⁷ And that repentance, and remission of sins, should be preached in his name among all nations. And must begin at Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ And ye are witnesses of these things. ⁴⁹ And behold, I will send the promise of my father upon you. But tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high."

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, "Have not I chosen you twelve? And yet one of you is the devil?"

¹⁸ "I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: But that the scripture be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.

¹³ And whatsoever ye ask in my name, that will I do, that the father might be glorified by the son. ¹⁴ If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.

⁷ If ye abide in me, and my words also abide in you: ask what ye will, and it shall be done to you. ⁸ Herein is my father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and be made my disciples.

¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love his own. Howbeit, because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore hateth you the world.

²³ "And in that day shall ye ask me no question. Verily, verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the father in my name, he will give it you. ²⁴ Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name. Ask and ye shall receive it: that our joy may be full.

²¹ Then Jesus said unto them again, "Peace be with you. As my father sent me, even so send I you." ²² And when he had said that, he breathed on them, and said unto them, "Receive the holy ghost. ²³ Whosoever's sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them: And whosoever's sins ye retain, they are retained."

¹⁵ When they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon the son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?" He said unto him, "Yea Lord, thou knowest, that I love thee." He said unto him, "Feed my lambs." ¹⁶ He said to him again the second time, "Simon the son of Jonas, lovest thou me?" He said unto him, "Yea Lord thou knowest that I love thee." He said unto him, "Feed my sheep." ¹⁷ He said unto him the third time, "Simon the son of Jonas, lovest thou me?" And Peter sorrowed because he said to him the third time, "Lovest thou me," and said unto him, "Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee." Jesus said unto him, "Feed my sheep.

⁸ but ye shall receive power of the holy ghost which shall come on you. And ye shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Jewry, and in Samaria, and even unto the world's end."

²⁴ And they prayed, saying, "Thou Lord which knowest the hearts of all men, show whether thou hast chosen of these two,

¹⁵ The Lord said unto him, "Go thy ways: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the gentiles, and kings and the children of Israel:

⁴¹ not to all the people, but unto us witnesses chosen before of God, which ate and drank with him, after he arose from death.

²⁵ And now behold, I am sure that henceforth ye all, through whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. ²⁶ Wherefore I take you to record this same day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. ²⁷ For I have kept nothing back: but have showed you all the counsel of God. ²⁸ Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, whereof the holy ghost hath made you overseers: to rule the congregation of God, which he hath purchased with his blood.

¹⁴ And he said unto me, 'The God of our fathers hath ordained thee before, that thou shouldest know his will, and shouldest see that which is rightful, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth:

⁵ by whom we have received grace and apostleship, to bring all manner heathen people unto obedience of the faith, that is in his name:

¹³ I would that ye should know, brethren, how that I have oftentimes purposed to come unto you, but have been let hitherto, to have some fruit among you, as I have among other of the gentiles.

¹¹ yer the children were born, when they had neither done good neither bad — that the purpose of God, which is by election, might stand — it was said unto her, not by the reason of works, but by grace of the caller, ¹² "The elder shall serve the younger." ¹³ As it is written, "Jacob he loved, but Esau he hated." ¹⁴ What shall we say then? Is there any unrighteousness with God? God forbid. ¹⁵ For he saith to Moses, "I will show mercy to whom I show mercy: And will have compassion on whom I have compassion." ¹⁶ So lieth it not then in a man's will, or cunning, but in the mercy of God.

²¹ Hath not the potter power over the clay, even of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

⁴ Whatsoever things are written aforetime, are written for our learning: that we, through patience and comfort of the scripture, might have hope.

¹⁵ Nevertheless, brethren, I have somewhat boldly written unto you, as one that putteth you in remembrance, through the grace that is given me of God ¹⁶ for this purpose: that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ among the gentiles, and should minister the glad tidings of God, that the gentiles might be an acceptable offering, sanctified by the holy ghost. ¹⁷ I have, therefore, whereof I may rejoice in Christ Jesus, in those things which pertain to God. ¹⁸ For I dare not speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the gentiles obedient, with word and deed, ¹⁹ in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the spirit of God: so that from Jerusalem and the coasts round about, unto Illyricum, I have filled all countries with glad tidings of Christ.

⁶ I have planted. Apollos watered. But God gave increase. ⁷ So then, neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth: but God which gave the increase.

¹⁶ In that I preach the gospel, I have nothing to rejoice of. For necessity is put unto me. Woe is it unto me if I preach not the gospel. ¹⁷ If I do it with a good will, I have a reward. But if I do it against my will, an office is committed unto me. ¹⁸ What is my reward then? Verily that when I preach the gospel, I make the gospel of Christ free, that I misuse not mine authority in the gospel.

¹¹ All these things happened upon them for examples, and were written to put us in remembrance, whom the ends of the world are come upon.

¹⁵ But when it pleased God, which separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, unto the which God ordained us before, that we should walk in them.

⁷ whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle — I tell the truth in Christ and lie not — being the teacher of the gentiles in faith and verity.

¹¹ whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the gentiles:

² And what things thou hast heard of me, many bearing witness, the same deliver to faithful men, which are apt to teach others.

¹⁵ And forasmuch also as thou hast known holy scripture of a child, which is able to make thee wise unto salvation through the faith, which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ For all scripture given by inspiration of God, is profitable to teach, to improve, to amend, and to instruct in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be perfect, and prepared unto all good works.

⁵ For this cause left I thee in Crete: that thou shouldest perform that which was lacking and shouldest ordain elders in every city as I appointed thee.

⁴ By faith, Abel offered unto God a more plenteous sacrifice than Cain: by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: by which also he being dead, yet speaketh.

¹⁸ Yea, and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace, of them that maintain peace.

¹⁴ as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves unto your old lusts of ignorance: ¹⁵ But as he which called you is holy, even so be ye holy in all manner of conversation, ¹⁶ because it is written, "Be ye holy, for I am holy." ¹⁷ And if so be that ye call on the father, which without respect of person judgeth according to every man's works, see that ye pass the time of your pilgrimage in fear: ¹⁸ Forasmuch as ye know how that ye were not redeemed with corruptible gold and silver from your vain conversation, which ye received by the traditions of the fathers, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb undefiled, and without spot, ²⁰ which was ordained before the world was made: but was declared in the last times for your sakes. ²¹ Which, by his means, have believed on God that raised him from death, and glorified him, that your faith and hope might be in God.

² while they behold your pure conversation coupled with fear.

¹⁵ but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, and that with meekness and fear:

¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to make a satisfaction for our sins.

¹⁹ We love him, because he loved us first.

¹² This is my commandment: that ye love together as I have loved you.

¹⁷ See that ye honour all men. Love brotherly fellowship, fear God, and honour the King.

¹⁴ We know that we are translated from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother, abideth in death. ¹⁵ Whosoever hateth his brother, is a man slayer. And ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. ¹⁶ Hereby are we assured of love: because he left his life for us: And therefore we ought also to give our lives for our brethren. ¹⁷ He, then, that hath the substance of the world, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him: how dwelleth the love of God in him?

⁸ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one, by whom we may ask counsel of the LORD: one Micaiah the son of Imlah. But I hate him: for he never prophesieth good unto me, but evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so."

⁷ Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD the avenger and holy one of Israel, because of the abhorring and despising among the Gentiles, concerning the servant of all them that bear rule: Kings and Princes shall see, and arise and worship, because of the LORD that he is faithful: and because of the holy one of Israel, which hath chosen thee.

³ He was despised and cast out of men's company; and one that had suffered sorrow, and had experience of infirmity. And we were as one that had hid his face from him.

⁸ Three shepherds destroyed I in one month, for I might not away with them, neither had they any delight in me.

¹¹ Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall falsely say all manner of evil sayings against you for my sake.

²² and ye shall be hated of all men, for my name: but he that shall endureth unto the end, shall be saved.

⁹ Then shall they put you to trouble, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake:

¹³ And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. But whosoever shall endure unto the end, the same shall be safe.

²² Blessed are ye when men hate you, and thrust you out of their company, and rail on you, and abhor your name, as an evil thing, for the son of man's sake.

²⁰ For every man that evil doeth, hateth the light: neither cometh to light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

⁷ The world cannot hate you. Me it hateth: Because I testify of it, that the works of it are evil.

²³ He that hateth me, hateth my father. ²⁴ If I had not done works among them which none other man did, they had not had sin. But now have they seen, and yet have hated both me and my father: ²⁵ Even that the saying might be fulfilled that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'

² looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, which for the joy that was set before him, abode the cross, and despised the shame, and is set down on the righthand of the throne of God.

⁴ Ye adulterers, and women that break matrimony: know ye not how that the friendship of the world is enmity to Godward? Whosoever will be friend of the world, is made the enemy of God.

¹ Behold what love the father hath showed on us, that we should be called the sons of God. For this cause the world knoweth you not; because it knoweth not him.

³ And every man that hath this hope in him, purgeth himself, even as he is pure.

¹³ Marvel not, my brethren, though the world hate you.

³² If ye love them which love you: what thank are ye worthy of? For the very sinners love their lovers.

¹⁴ I have given them thy words, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I desire not that thou shouldest take them out of the world: but that thou keep them from evil. ¹⁶ They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

⁴ according as he had chosen us in him through love, before the foundation of the world was laid, that we should be saints, and without blame before him, through love. ⁵ And ordained us before unto himself that we should be chosen before, through Jesus Christ, to be heirs unto himself according to the pleasure of his will, ⁶ to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made us accepted in the beloved. ⁷ By whom we have redemption through his blood, that is to say, even the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace, ⁸ which grace he shed on us abundantly in all wisdom, and prudence. ⁹ And hath opened unto us the mystery of his will according to his pleasure, and purposed ¹⁰ the same in himself to have it declared when the time were full come: that all things, both the things which are in heaven, and also the things which are in earth, should be gathered together, even in Christ. That is to say, in him ¹¹ in whom we are made heirs, and were thereto predestinate according to the purpose of him which worketh all things after the purpose of his own will:

² in the which, in time past, ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the governor that ruleth in the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of unbelief, ³ among which we also had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of our flesh, and fulfilled the will of the flesh, and of the mind: and were naturally the children of wrath, even as well as others. ⁴ But God, which is rich in mercy through his great love wherewith he loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead by sin, hath quickened us together in Christ — for by grace are ye saved -

³ For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another. ⁴ But after that the kindness and love of our saviour God to man ward appeared, ⁵ not of the deeds of righteousness which we wrought, but of his mercy, he saved us, by the fountain of the new birth, and with the renewing of the holy ghost, ⁶ which he shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our saviour; ⁷ that we, once justified by his grace, should be heirs of eternal life, through hope.

⁹ But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people, that ye should show the virtues of him that called you out of darkness into his marvelous light, ¹⁰ which in time past were not a people, yet are now the people of God, which were not under mercy: but now have obtained mercy. ¹¹ Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers, and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which fight against the soul, ¹² and see that ye have honest conversation among the gentiles, that they which backbite you as evil doers, may see your good works and praise God in the day of visitation.

³ For it is sufficient for us that we have spent the time that is past of the life, after the will of the gentiles; walking in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, in eating, drinking, and in abominable idolatry.

¹² and not be as Cain, which was of the devil and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? For his own deeds were evil, and his brother's righteous.

⁴ Little children, ye are of God, and have overcome them: for greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. ⁵ They be of the world, and therefore speak they of the world, and the world attendeth unto them.

¹⁹ We know that we be of God, and that the world is altogether set on mischief. ²⁰ We know that the son of God is come, and hath given us understanding, to know him that is true: and we be in the truth through his son Jesus Christ. He is very God, and eternal life.

⁹ And the great dragon, that old serpent called the devil and Satan; Was cast out. Which deceiveth all the world. And he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out also.

¹⁷ And the dragon was wroth with the woman: and went and made war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

⁷ And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, ⁸ and shall go out to deceive the people which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle; whose number is as the sand of the sea. ⁹ And they went up on the plain of the earth, and compassed the tents of the saints about, and the beloved city. And fire came down from God, out of heaven, and devoured them:

⁷ And the LORD said unto Samuel, "Hear the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee. For they have not cast thee away, but me: that I should not reign over them.

¹ Who believeth our sayings? And the arm of the LORD, to whom is it opened? ² He came up as a spray before him, and as a root out of a dry land. There was neither fashion or beauty on him. And when we looked on him, there was no godliness that we should lust after him. ³ He was despised and cast out of men's company; and one that had suffered sorrow, and had experience of infirmity. And we were as one that had hid his face from him.

⁷ But the house of Israel will not follow thee, for they will not follow me. Yea, all the house of Israel have stiff foreheads, and hard hearts.

²⁴ The disciple is not above his Master, nor yet the servant above his Lord.

³⁴ And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, "Behold, this child shall be the fall, and resurrection, of many in Israel: And a sign which shall be spoken against.

⁴⁰ The disciple is not above his master. Every man shall be perfect, even as his master is.

¹⁶ And therefore the Jews did persecute Jesus, and sought the means to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.

³² The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things about him: Wherefore the Pharisees and high priests sent ministers forth to take him.

⁵¹ "Verily, verily I say unto you, if a man keep my sayings, he shall never see death."

⁵⁹ Then took they up stones, to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

³¹ Then the Jews again took up stones, to stone him withal.

⁵⁷ The high priests and Pharisees had given a commandment that if any man knew where he were, he should show it that they might take him.

²⁷ For of a truth, against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and also Pontius Pilate with the gentiles, and the people of Israel, gathered themselves together: ²⁸ for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. ²⁹ And now Lord behold their threatenings, and grant unto thy servants with all confidence to speak thy word. ³⁰ So that thou stretch forth thine hand, that healing, and signs, and wonders be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus."

⁵² Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them, which showed before of the coming of that Just, whom ye have betrayed and murdered. ⁵³ And ye also have received a law by the ordinance of angels, and have not kept it." ⁵⁴ When they heard these things, their hearts clave asunder, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. ⁵⁵ But he, being full of the holy ghost, looked up steadfastly with his eyes into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the righthand of God, ⁵⁶ and said, "Behold, I see the heavens open, and the son of man standing on the righthand of God." ⁵⁷ Then they gave a shout with a loud voice, and stopped their ears and all ran upon him at once, ⁵⁸ and cast him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, named Saul. ⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, calling on and saying, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit." ⁶⁰ And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. For they know not what they do." And when he had thus spoken he fell asleep.

¹² and labour working with our own hands. We are reviled, and yet we bless. We are persecuted, and suffer it.

⁹ We are persecuted: but are not forsaken. We are cast down: nevertheless we perish not.

¹⁵ which as they killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, even so have they persecuted us, and God they please not, and are contrary to all men:

¹² Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, must suffer persecutions.

⁷ And why? For thy sake have I suffered reproof; shame hath covered my face.

⁵ Hear the word of God, all ye that fear the thing which he speaketh. Your brethren that hate you, and cast you out for my name's sake, say "Let the LORD magnify himself, that we may see your gladness," and yet they shall be confounded.

¹⁸ And ye shall be brought to the head rulers and kings for my sake, in witness to them and to the Gentiles.

³⁹ He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it.

¹⁹ Then said they unto him, "Where is thy father?" Jesus answered, "Ye neither know me, nor yet my father. If ye had known me, ye should have known my father also."

⁵⁴ Jesus answered, "If I honour myself, mine honour is nothing worth. It is my father that honoureth me, which ye say is your God.

³ And such things will they do unto you, because they have not known the father, neither yet me.

¹⁷ And now, brethren, I know well that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your heads.

⁴¹ And they departed from the council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his name.

¹⁶ For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake."

²³ For as I passed by and beheld the manner how ye worship your gods, I found an altar wherein was written, Unto the unknown God. Whom ye then ignorantly worship, him show I unto you:

²⁵ When they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, "Well spake the holy ghost by Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers, ²⁶ saying, 'Go unto this people and say: with your ears shall ye hear, and shall not understand: and with your eyes shall ye see and shall not perceive. ²⁷ For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears were thick of hearing, and their eyes have they closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and should be converted, and I should heal them.'

²⁸ And as it seemed not good unto them to be a known of God, even so God delivered them up unto a lewd mind, that they should do those things which were not comely,

⁸ which wisdom none of the rulers of the world knew. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

³⁴ Awake truly out of sleep, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this unto your rebuke.

³ If our Gospel be yet hid, it is hid among them that are lost, ⁴ in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest should shine unto them the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, which is the image of God. ⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus to be the Lord, and preach ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. ⁶ For it is God that commanded the light to shine out of darkness, which hath shined in our hearts, for to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

⁸ in flaming fire, rendering vengeance unto them that know not God, and to them that obey not unto the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹³ but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's passions, that when his glory appeareth, ye may be merry and glad. ¹⁴ If ye be railed upon for the name of Christ; happy are ye. For the spirit of glory and the spirit of God resteth upon you. On their part he is evil spoken of: but on your part he is glorified.

³ And hereby we are sure that we know him: if we keep his commandments. ⁴ He that saith, "I know him," and yet keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the verity is not in him.

³ And didst wash thyself, and hast patience: and for my name's sake hast laboured and hast not fainted.

⁵ that whether they be obedient or no - for it is a froward household - they may know yet that there hath been a Prophet among them.

³¹ These come unto thee, after the manner of a great people: yea, my people sit down before thee, and hear thy words, but they do not thereafter: for in their mouths they show themselves, as though they were fervent, but their heart goeth after their own covetous lucre. ³² And as a ballad that hath a sweet tune, and is pleasant to sing, so shalt thou be unto them: thy words shall they hear, but they will not do thereafter. ³³ When this cometh to pass - for lo, it cometh indeed - then shall they know that there hath been a prophet among them."

⁴⁶ the Lord of that servant will come in a day, when he thinketh not, and at a hour when he is not aware, and will divide him, and will give him his reward, with the unbelievers.

¹⁸ He that believeth on him shall not be condemned. But he that believeth not, is condemned already, because he believeth not in the name of the only son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the condemnation: that light is come into the world, and the men have loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For every man that evil doeth, hateth the light: neither cometh to light, lest his deeds should be reproved. ²¹ But he that doth truth, cometh to the light, that his deeds might be known, how that they are wrought in God."

⁴¹ Jesus said unto them, "If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remaineth."

⁴⁸ He that refuseth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him. The words that I have spoken, they shall judge him in the last day.

¹¹ Jesus answered, "Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given unto thee from above. Therefore he that delivered me unto thee, is more in sin."

³⁰ And the time of this ignorance God regarded not: but now he biddeth all men everywhere to repent,

²⁰ So that his invisible things, that is to say, his eternal power and godhead, are understood and seen by the works from the creation of the world. So that they are without excuse,

¹ Therefore art thou inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou be that judgest. For in the same wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For thou that judgest doest even the same self things.

¹⁴ Thanks be unto God which always giveth us the victory in Christ, and openeth the savor of his knowledge by us in every place. ¹⁵ For we are unto God the sweet savor of Christ, both among them that are saved, and also among them which perish: ¹⁶ to the one part are we the savor of death unto death; and unto the other part are we the savor of life unto life. And who is mete unto these things?

⁴ For it is not possible that they which were once lighted, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were become partakers of the holy ghost, ⁵ and have tasted of the good word of God, and of the power of the world to come; ⁶ if they fall away, should be renewed again unto repentance: Forasmuch as they have, as concerning themselves, crucified the son of God afresh, making a mock of him.

¹⁷ Therefore to him that knoweth how to do good, and doth it not: to him, it is sin.

¹⁶ as free, and not as having the liberty for a cloak of maliciousness: but even as the servants of God.

⁴⁰ But now ye go about to kill me, a man that have told you the truth, which I have heard of God: This did not Abraham. ⁴¹ Ye do the deeds of your father." Then said they unto him, "We were not born of fornication. We have one father which is God." ⁴² Jesus said unto them, "If God were your father, then would ye have loved me. For I proceeded forth and come from God. Neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

²³ Whosoever denieth the son, the same hath not the father.

⁵ See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

⁹ Thou shalt neither bow thyself unto them nor serve them, for I the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the wickedness of the fathers upon the children, even in the third and the fourth generation, among them that hate me:

¹⁵ The haters of the LORD should have been found liars; but their time should have endured for ever.

³⁶ But whoso offendeth against me, hurteth his own soul. All they that hate me, are the lovers of death."

³³ And as soon as the devil was cast out, the dumb spake. And the people marveled, saying, "It was never so seen in Israel."

⁵ The blind see, the halt go, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are risen again, and the glad tidings is preached to the poor.

²⁰ Then began he to upbraid the cities, in which most of his miracles were done, because they repented not: ²¹ "Woe be to thee, Chorazsin! Woe be to thee, Bethsaida! for if the miracles, which were showed in you, had been done in Tyre and in Sidon: they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. ²² Nevertheless I say to you, it shall be easier for Tyre and Sidon, at the day of judgment, than for you. ²³ And thou, Capernaum, which art lift up unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the miracles, which have been done in thee, had been showed in Sodom, they had remained to this day. ²⁴ Nevertheless, I say unto you, It shall be easier for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee."

³² For John came unto you, in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not. But the publicans and the harlots believed him. And yet ye, though ye saw it, were not yet moved with repentance; that ye might afterward have believed him.

¹² And by and by he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all: insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God saying, "We never saw it on this fashion."

¹² Yea and I say unto you: that it shall be easier in that day, for Sodom than for that city. ¹³ "Woe be to thee Chorazsin: woe be to thee Bethsaida. For if the miracles had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while agone repented, sitting in hair and ashes. ¹⁴ Nevertheless it shall be easier for Tyre and Sidon, at the judgment, than for you. ¹⁵ And thou Capernaum which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell; ¹⁶ He that heareth you, heareth me: And he that despiseth you, despiseth me. And he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me."

³⁷ And when he was now come where he should go down from the Mount Olivet, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice, and to laud God with a loud voice, for all the miracles that they had seen, ³⁸ saying, "Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest." ³⁹ And some of the Pharisees of the company, said unto him, "Master, rebuke thy disciples." ⁴⁰ He answered, and said unto them, "I tell you, if these should hold their peace, the stones would cry."

¹⁹ To whom he said, "What things?" And they said unto him, "Of Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet, mighty in deed and word, before God and all the people.

² The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, "Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher which art come from God. For no man could do such miracles as thou doest, except God were with him."

³⁶ But I have greater witness than the witness of John. For the works which the father hath given me to finish: the same works that I do: bear witness of me, that the father sent me.

³⁶ But I said unto you, That ye have seen me, and yet believe ye not.

³¹ Many of the people believed on him, and said, "When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than this man hath done?"

³² Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.

³² Jesus answered them, "Many good works have I showed you from my father: for which of them will ye stone me?"

³⁷ If I do not the works of my father, believe me not.

⁴⁷ Then gathered the high priests and the Pharisees a council and said, "What do we? This man doeth many miracles. ⁴⁸ If we let him escape thus, all men will believe on him. And the Romans shall come and take away our country and the people." ⁴⁹ And one of them named Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year, said unto them, "Ye perceive nothing at all: ⁵⁰ nor yet consider that it is expedient for us, that one man die for the people, and not that all the people perish."

¹⁰ The high priests therefore held a council that they might put Lazarus to death also,

³⁷ And though he had done so many miracles before them, yet believed not they on him, ³⁸ that the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, that he spake, "Lord who shall believe our saying? And to whom is the arm of the Lord opened?" ³⁹ Therefore could they not believe, because that Isaiah saith again, ⁴⁰ "He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts: that they should not see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and should be converted and I should heal them."

⁴⁵ And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me.

⁹ Jesus said unto him, "Have I been so long time with you: and yet hast thou not known me? Philip, he that hath seen me, hath seen the father. And how sayest thou then, Show us the father?

²² "Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you with miracles and wonders, and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves know:

³⁸ How God had anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy ghost, and with power; which Jesus went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devils, for God was with him.

³⁰ backbiters, haters of God, doers of wrong, proud, boasters, bringers-up of evil things, disobedient to fathers and mothers,

⁷ because that the fleshly mind is enmity against God: For it is not obedient to the law of God, neither can be. ⁸ So then, they that are given to the flesh, cannot please God.

⁴ traitors, heady, high minded, greedy upon voluptuousness more than the lovers of God,

³ how shall we escape if we despise so great salvation? Which at the first began to be preached of the Lord himself, and afterward was confirmed unto us ward, by them that heard it; ⁴ God bearing witness thereto, both with signs and wonders also, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the holy ghost, according to his own will.

⁴ if I have rewarded evil unto him that dealt friendly with me, or hurt them that without any cause are mine enemies;

¹⁹ O let not them that are mine enemies triumph over me ungodly; neither let them wink with their eyes, that hate me without a cause.

⁴ They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that are mine enemies, and would destroy me guiltless, are mighty. I paid them the things that I never took.

³ They compass me about with words of hatred, and fight against me without a cause.

⁸ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out the devils: Freely ye have received, freely give again.

⁴⁴ And he said unto them, "These are the words, which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you: that all must be fulfilled which were written of me in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms."

³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I have say ye are gods?'

³⁶ These things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled, 'Ye shall not break a bone of him.'

¹⁹ Yea and we know that whatsoever the law saith, he saith it to them which are under the law: That all mouths may be stopped, and all the world be subdued to God,

²⁴ but are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus

⁷ Did I therein sin, because I submitted myself, that ye might be exalted? And because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely?

²¹ I despise not the grace of God: For if righteousness come of the law, then is Christ died in vain.

⁸ Neither took we bread of any man for nought: but wrought with labour and travail night and day, because we would not be grievous to any of you:

⁶ And he said unto me, "It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning, and the end. I will give to him that is athirst of the well of the water of life, free.

¹⁷ And the spirit and the bride said, "Come." And let him that heareth, say also "Come." And let him that is athirst come. And let whosoever will, take of the water of life free.

⁴⁹ And behold, I will send the promise of my father upon you. But tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high."

⁴² Jesus said unto them, "If God were your father, then would ye have loved me. For I proceeded forth and come from God. Neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

¹⁶ and I will pray the father: and he shall give you another comforter, that he may abide with you ever, ¹⁷ which is the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive; because the world seeth him not, neither knoweth him. But ye know him. For he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

²⁶ But that comforter, which is the holy ghost — whom my father will send in my name — he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have told you.

⁷ "Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is expedient for you that I go away. For if I go not away, that comforter will not come unto you. But if I depart, I will send him unto you.

¹³ Howbeit, when he is once come — I mean the spirit of truth — he will lead you into all truth. He shall not speak of himself: but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak; and he will show you things to come. ¹⁴ He shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine, and shall show unto you. ¹⁵ All things that the father hath are mine. Therefore said I unto you that he shall take of mine and show unto you.

³² This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. ³³ Since now that he by the righthand of God exalted is, and hath received of the father the promise of the holy ghost, he hath shed forth that which ye now see and hear.

³² And we are his records as concerning these things: and also the holy ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him."

⁸ And God which knoweth the heart, bare them witness, and gave unto them the holy ghost, even as he did unto us;

⁶ even as the testimony of Jesus Christ was confirmed in you:

⁴ God bearing witness thereto, both with signs and wonders also, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the holy ghost, according to his own will.

⁶ This Jesus Christ is he that came by water and blood, not by water only: but by water and blood. ⁷ And it is the spirit that beareth witness, because the spirit is truth. ⁸ For there are three that bear record: the spirit, and water, and blood: and these three are one. ⁹ If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God, that God hath born of his son. ¹⁰ He that believeth in the son of God hath the witness in himself. He that believeth not God, maketh him a liar, because he doth not believe the witness that God hath testified of his son.

¹ And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the seat of God and of the lamb.

¹ The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ the son of God. ² even as they declared them unto us, which from the beginning saw their selves, and were ministers at the doing: ³ I determined also, as soon as I had searched out diligently all things from the beginning, that then I would write unto thee, good Theophilus,

⁴⁸ And ye are witnesses of these things.

³⁵ And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true. And he knoweth that he saith true that ye might believe also.

²⁴ The same disciple is he, which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things. And we know, that his testimony is true.

²¹ Wherefore of these men which have companied with us — all the time that the Lord Jesus went out and in among us, ²² beginning at the baptism of John unto that same day that he was taken up from us — must one be ordained to bear witness with us of his resurrection."

¹⁵ and killed the Lord of life whom God hath raised from death, of the which we are witnesses:

²⁰ For we cannot but speak that which we have seen and heard."

³³ And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was with them all.

³⁹ And we are witnesses of all things which he did in the land of the Jews and at Jerusalem: whom they slew, and hung on tree. ⁴⁰ Him God raised up the third day, and showed him openly, ⁴¹ not to all the people, but unto us witnesses chosen before of God, which ate and drank with him, after he arose from death. ⁴² And he commanded unto us to preach unto the people and testify, that it is he that is ordained of God, a judge of quick and dead.

³¹ and he was seen many days of them, which came with him from Galilee to Jerusalem which are his witnesses unto the people.

⁵ When Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the spirit, to testify to the Jews that Jesus was very Christ.

¹¹ The night following God stood by him, and said, "Be of good cheer Paul: For as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness at Rome."

¹ The elders which are among you I exhort, which am also an elder and a witness of the afflictions of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be opened:

¹² By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, have I written briefly, exhorting and testifying how that this is the true grace of God, wherein ye stand.

¹ That which was from the beginning, declare we unto you; which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the word of life. ² For the life appeared: and we have seen, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the father, and appeared unto us.

¹⁴ And we have seen and do testify that the father hath sent his son, which is the saviour of the world.

² which bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

⁹ John, your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience which is in Jesus Christ, was in the isle of Patmos for the word of God, and for the witnessing of Jesus Christ.